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Wikidata weekly summary #293

Here's your first Wikidata Weekly Summary of the year 2018 (Calendar: Gregorian)!

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikidata team and volunteers were at 34C3. Check the videos, the tweets, a new design made by Bleeptrack for a cake. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
  • Upcoming: Cultural heritage Wikidata workshop in Prague, 13th January 2018
  • Using Scholia as Open Notebook Science tool to support literature searching

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool that allow users to fill labels and descriptions to Wikidata items en masse
  • Change on the editing interface: save becomes publish. Please help translating in your language and update documentation

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Minneapolis Institute of Art ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID, HATVP ID, Google Arts & Culture partner ID, Google Arts & Culture asset ID, Cairn journal ID, Canal-U channel ID, Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID, Historic Place Names of Wales ID, CIQUAL2017 ID, GEMS Code, Arquivo Arq ID, Argentine deputy ID, American Art Collaborative object ID
  • Query examples:
    • Landlocked countries bordering coastal countries (source)
    • Most common years of birth in Wikidata (source)
    • Map of lighthouses around the world (source)
    • Bubble chart showing countries with the highest number of children out of school in 2013 (source)
    • Playwright dead in 1947 (whose works are now in Public Domain) (source)

• Development
  • Fixed a problem with references in history of items (phab:T182767) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek who helped providing a workaround
  • Make statements on forms persistent for lexicographical data (phab:T163724)
  • Fix a bug that removed the collapse button (phab:T175492)
  • Remove cache constraint check results on purge (phab:T182107)
  • Add sitelinks to hif.wiktionary (phab:T180785)
  • Read constraint check results from cache and check freshness (phab:T182106)
  • Re-label the "Save" links to "Publish" (phab:T161367)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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Administrators' newsletter – January 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

Muboshgu

Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned

None

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
• The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration

• Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned.

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Wikidata weekly summary #294

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Jarekt
  • New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738, Privacy and Living People

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can share ideas for topics to discuss
  • Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open
  • Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open
  • Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon
  • Paper submission deadline for Wiki Workshop (part of The Web Conference) is closing later this month
  • The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata - Mita Williams
  • Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations - Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC)
  • There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety, perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects by Léna
  • Up2date software versions for Wikidata by Michi

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata will be in read-only mode on January 9th from 06:00 to 06:30 UTC
  • The WikidataCon 2017 report has been published
  • Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons have just been published:
    • Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions: an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and which issues they encounter there
    • Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons, against which the effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future
  • You can start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday in October 2018
  • A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati has been published at Wikidata:FactGrid
  • How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects?
  • New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Rolling Stone artist]
  • New tool: Hub

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MuBE Virtual ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA coach ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBA coach ID, Académie française member ID, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID, Guide to North American Birds ID, title page number, Walters Art Museum ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art artwork ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID
  • Query examples:
    • Events starting in 2017 and ending in 2018, shortest duration first (source)
  • Newest database reports: days of 2018

• Development
  • Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester
  • Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms (phabricator:T163724)
  • Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the demo system for lexicographical data
  • Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes (phabricator:T182424)
  • Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (phabricator:T183267)
  • Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (phabricator:T164351)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:34, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

This Sunday! Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference (updated speakers + schedule)

Sunday January 14: Wikipedia Day NYC 2018

Part of Wikipedia's global 17th birthday celebration, Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 at Ace Hotel will include a mini-conference of scheduled panels as well as unconference style talks and discussions proposed by attendees on the day of the event. We are very excited to announce speakers such as Jason Scott (Internet Archive), Jackie Koerner (Visiting Scholar, Wiki Ed), and Andrew Lih (Wikimedia DC), as well as a fantastic line-up of panels that highlight projects and issues of relevance to the Wikimedia NYC community. See Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 speakers + schedule And there will be cake. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. Sunday January 14 Wikipedia Day NYC 2018 (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 10:00am - 6:30 pm at Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th Street in Manhattan We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk) 02:22, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

RFC

Hi Liz, I see that you've previously edited The Satanic Temple page, there's several discussions going on on the talk page including an RfC for how to describe things and it would benefit from some other voices. If you have the time, of course. Thank you. Seanbonner (talk) 07:24, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #295

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Mahir256
  • Closed request for adminship: Jarekt (as successful)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
  • WikiJabber podcast with Andy Mabbett

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • GraFa, a new faceted browser for Wikidata is looking for feedback.
  • Analysis: How much are items about scientific articles, genes and chemical entities used on the Wikimedia projects?
  • New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Nobel Prize People Nomination (More than 600 properties now have a corresponding catalog in Mix'n'match.)
  • Next round of Projects Grants is open for applications until the end of January (see also this blog post)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: National Historic Ships certificate no., Dictionnaire des auteurs luxembourgeois ID, Line Music album ID, Line Music artist ID, Elhuyar ZTH ID, is proceedings from, Basketball-Reference.com NBDL player ID, animal breed, Uniform Resource Identifier Scheme, OpenEdition journal ID, Brooklyn Museum artwork ID, Musée des Augustins artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork ID, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum artwork ID, IBM graphic character global identifier, IBM coded character set ID, IBM code page identifier, produced sound, IUPAC GoldBook ID, The Baseball Cube player ID, Mir@bel journal ID, INRAN Italian Food ID, uBio ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei dubbing voice actor ID, Sign@l journal ID, C-SPAN organization ID, Le Maitron person ID, GSMArena phone ID, Érudit journal ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of photography techniques
    • Street names that exist several times in Berlin (source)
    • Average length of movie by genre and year (source)
    • Inventions by Republicans (source)
    • Celebrities born in January of a leap year (source)
    • Countries with no rivers (source)
    • Female aviation pioneers born before 1900 (source)
    • People who died on K2 (source)
  • Showcase items: 15 January 2018

• Development
  • Wikidata moved to a new and bigger server.
  • Added support for a constraint scope in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T183542)
  • Now ignoring deprecated constraints in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T180874)
  • Added new Lua function getAllStatements (phabricator:T166056 - thanks Eran!)
  • Worked on diff support and edit summaries for edits on Forms (phabricator:T182424)
  • Worked on persistent editing of the grammatical features of a Form (phabricator:T173742)
  • Google Code-In 2017 work on the Wikidata Query Service UI:
    • add highlight and selection for query result table, by Anpans (phabricator:T183807)
    • keyboard accessibility, by eflyjason (phabricator:T173213 and subtasks)
    • make more areas translatable, by Albert221 (phabricator:T171636)
    • mobile / responsive menus, by eflyjason (phabricator:T154890)
    • lazy loading in ImageGrid, by Sydney (phabricator:T166216)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:47, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 January 2018

• News and notes: Communication is key

• In the media: The Paris Review, British Crown and British Media

• Featured content: History, gaming and multifarious topics

• Interview: Interview with Ser Amantio di Nicolao, the top contributor to English Wikipedia by edit count

• Technology report: Dedicated Wikidata database servers

• Humour: Why don't we have an article about _________?

• Arbitration report: Mister Wiki is first arbitration committee decision of 2018

• Traffic report: The best and worst of 2017

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Wikidata weekly summary #296

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Mahir256 (as successful)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Getting data from Wikidata into WordPress custom taxonomy
  • PIDapalooza - Girona, 23-24 January,with a session on PIDs in Wikidata by Andy Mabbett
  • The EuropeanaTech Call for Proposals is open till February 7. Themes are Data, Discovery, Delivery. The conference will take place in Rotterdam, NL, May 15-16, 2018.
  • Call for papers for Celtic Knot conference is open

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Nominations for the Steward elections are open
  • Grant proposal for GlobalFactSync
  • repology is a nice new project about software packages with the help of Wikidata. They have a list of potentially outdated packages on Wikidata that might need updating or fixing.
  • Painters gives you a list of paintings that don't have a creator statement but "painting by" in the description
  • Big City Lights: where are the cities whose items are most used across the Wikimedia projects?

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Commons compatible image available at URL, is a hydrated form of, biological phase, lot number, MAC Address Block Large ID, has boundary
    • External identifiers: SRCBB coach ID, Manus Online ID, Ecocrop ID, Harvard botanical journal ID, UK railway station code, V Live channel ID, Songwriters Hall of Fame ID, MONA ID, Luminous-Lint ID, LTI Korea Library ID, Images d'Art artwork ID, Common Database on Designated Areas ID, crates.io ID, Arcade artwork ID, Australian honours ID, cinematografo company ID, cinematografo name ID, GameRankings game ID, compArt institution ID, compArt person ID, MobyGames company ID, USA Rugby player ID, MYmovies actor ID, MYmovies movie ID, MYmovies director ID, Movieplayer characters ID, Movieplayer film ID, Movieplayer TV-series ID, MYmovies name ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of nuclear tests (source)
    • Languages with more than one writing system (source)
    • Subclasses of malware (source)
    • Male actors who starred in a trilogy of movies when they were in their 20s and then no fewer than 40 years later played the same character again(source - see whole thread for more)
    • Bands from the UK whose member's average age is at least 70 (source)
    • Disney movie narrative locations (source)

• Development
  • Worked on persistent editing of grammatical features of a lexeme’s form (phab:T173742)
  • Made diffs for statements, grammatical features and representations of a form work (phab:T182424)
  • Turned off access to lexicographical data from the clients for now (phab:T178904)
  • Started logging warning on pages that use too many items (phab:T184319)
  • Added support for relation instance or subclass of in the constraint checks (phab:T169858)
  • Now also checking single value and multi value constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175566)
  • Now also checking difference within range constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175565)
  • Fixed a bug with duplicate items in “distinct values” violation message in the constraint checks gadget (phab:T184705)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 08:10, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #297

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Defining account creators

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour on the channel #wikimedia-office, January 30th, at 18:00 (UTC+1). Special topic: how to address the growth of Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in London, February 3rd
  • Past: PIDapalooza 2018 - Slides on FigShare
  • Mapping Wikidata to Bibframe (representation of books)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change: wbcheckconstraints status parameter
  • Wikidata-driven infoboxes, with multilingual labels, are now available on Wikimedia Commons category pages
  • Wikidata vandalism dashboard for Wikipedians
  • Grant proposals looking for review: WikidataJS, GlobalFactSync

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: cinematografo film ID, CiNii author ID (articles)
  • Query examples:
    • Buildings higher than the Eiffel Tower (source)
    • Descendants of Charlemagne by year of birth (source)
    • Cinemas in Berlin (source)
    • Things (or people) depicted in the xkcd webcomic (source)
    • Image grid of inductees to WITI Hall of Fame (source)
    • Movies filmed in Austria (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Newest gadgets: Mix'n'Match gadget: loads all Mix’m’match entries about an item, shows descriptions, lets you drag’n’drop entries as references

• • Newest database reports: tennis federations, Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams
  • Showcase items:

• Development
  • Constraint violations can now be checked on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
  • Implemented usage tracking deduplication to reduce database load (phab:T178079). This should not have any effect on what users see on recent changes and watchlists.
  • Redirects on client wikis that are connected to a Wikidata item can have a tracking category, if set up (phab:T185743). Thanks, Matěj!
  • Improved documentation of the pageterms query module (gerrit:406240). Thanks, Niedzielski!
  • Improved empty "content was:" in deletion logs for entities (phab:T184025)
  • Fixed links to external user pages in recent changes (phab:T183019)
  • Fixed user names beginning with a star sometimes being rendered as a list (phab:T182800)
  • Fixed constraint check results possibly showing up in the wrong language (phab:T185688)
  • Fixed ArticlePlaceholders possibly not showing up in search results (gerrit:406168)
  • Some of the developers attended to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018. You can find some notes on the Phabricator board

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:27, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 26

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 26, December – January 2018

• #1Lib1Ref
• User Group update
• Global branches update
• Spotlight: What can we glean from OCLC’s experience with library staff learning Wikipedia?
• Bytes in brief

Arabic and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
Read the full newsletter

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
• Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

• A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

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The Signpost: 5 February 2018

• Op-ed: Do editors have the right to be forgotten?

• Featured content: Wars, sieges, disasters and everything black possible

• Recent research: Automated Q&A from Wikipedia articles; Who succeeds in talk page discussions?

• Blog: New monthly dataset shows where people fall into Wikipedia rabbit holes

• Interview: Interview with The Rambling Man, Wikipedia's top contributor of Featured Lists

• Traffic report: TV, death, sports, and doodles

• Special report: Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative

• Arbitration report: New cases requested for inter-editor hostility and other collaboration issues

• In the media: Solving crime; editing out violence allegations

• Humour: You really are in Wonderland

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Wikidata weekly summary #298

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

• Discussions
  • AICAT grants proposal
  • ScienceSource grants renewal
  • Open request for adminship: Kostas20142

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • From the life of Wikidata: with the Wikidata Concepts Monitor we can now begin to discover how our communities use knowledge across the Wikimedia projects, by Goran S. Milovanović
  • See also: WDCM Journal, several examples of the use of Wikidata on the Wikimedia projects
  • What GLAM can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
  • Wikidata and the German handball player nicknames by k-nut

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We are saddened to report that Polish Wikimedian Krzysztof Machocki (who was also active on Wikidata) died on 31 January 2018, aged 36, after a couple of weeks of illness. Our condolences to his family and friends.
  • Notes of the IRC office hour of January 30th
  • The call for submissions for Wikimania (Cape Town, July 2018) is now open. Deadline is March 18th. Ideas of submissions related to Wikidata can be discussed here
  • Based on community discussions, the ArticlePlaceholder will soon be deployed on Urdu and Estonian Wikipedias.
  • Statistics
    • January 2018 brought us 9,770,248 edits, 445,027 new items were created.
    • The number of users that edited Wikidata per day grew in 2017 from 2439 to 2672 users, 9,6% more compared to 2016. The number of edits by them grew with 18% to 190k edits per day. We also get edited by 542 IP adresses per day, 50% more than in 2016.
    • In 2017, Wikidata got edited by 46 various bots per day, executing 334k edits per day (63% more than in 2016). The most active bot in 2017 was Emijrpbot, who added 18 million edits to Wikidata.
    • 284 million statements now contain references, compared to 67 million at the start of 2017. The average number of statements per item grew from 5 to almost 9. 73 million qualifiers are now used to provide more details for statements, 13 million in early 2017.
  • New tool based on Wikidata: Random TV episodes

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: uses data storage type, commanded by, dam
    • External identifiers: Who's Who UK ID, Basketball-Reference.com euro player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Items that have or will have been gone for as long as they were there this month (source)
    • Members of the current UK Parliament who have ancestors in Wikidata who are identified as possibly mythical (source)
    • Older siblings who died less than a month before their younger sibling entered an office (source)
    • List of tram lines in Vienna (source)
    • Adjacent districts in Vienna that have no tram line connecting them (source)
    • Places of birth, death and burial of the artists hosted in the Sweden’s museum of art and design (source)
  • Newest gadgets and scripts: a script for semi-automated import of information from Commons categories is waiting for feedback

• Development
  • Diffs now show the entity ID in the page title (phab:T181077)
  • Improved handling of translations in the Query Service UI (gerrit:406301, gerrit:406996), thanks to Li Song
  • Continued working on diffs for forms on Lexemes (eg. phab:T186317)
  • Added summaries for edits on representations or grammatical features of a form (phab:T184702)
  • Worked on showing links to Lexemes and statements (phab:T185332)
  • Rolling out fine grain usage tracking on more wikis, so only relevant changes are shown in the watchlist and recent changes (phab:T185032)
  • Improved scalability of fine grain usage tracking (phab:T185693)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #299

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata workshop in Paris, February 16th
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil promotes the 4th Wikdata Lab: How to add a lot of data, 22th February 2018
  • Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
  • Discovering Types for Entity Disambiguation, on OpenAI blog
  • The File (Dis)connect, by Magnus Manske
  • WDCM Journal: What is Love (Q316)? Accessing Wikidata P279 and P31 paths from WDCM by Goran Milovanović

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 13 February from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information available on Meta.
  • mySociety is looking for a vacancy for a WikiData-experienced Community Manager for their Democratic Commons project
  • The next Weekly Summary (February 19th) will be the 300th edition of the newsletter! To help making it special, you can share your favorite Wikidata tool, so the other readers discover nice tools

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: identifiers.org prefix, season starts, make-up artist, sets environment variable, reads environment variable, Technical Element Score, deductions (in figure skating), Program Component Score
    • External identifiers: Basketball-Reference.com referee ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID, member of the Assembly of Madrid ID, BTO Birds of Britain ID, Rugby Australia ID, EUAP ID, LoC and MARC vocabularies ID, BVPB authority ID, Amtrak station code, Compagnon de la Libération ID, Gaming-History identifier, Fauna Europaea New ID, Royal Academy new identifier, BWSA ID, Statistical Service of Cyprus Geocode, PARES ID, Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number, Lemon 64 ID, Panoptikum identifier, Swedish portrait archive, TORA ID, Cour des comptes magistrate ID, La Poste personality ID, American National Biography ID, org-id.guide ID, Swimrankings meet ID, JORFsearch person ID, Swiss Enterprise Identification Number, Landslagsdatabasen ID, Bandysidan player ID, World Sailing regatta ID, Sailboatdata ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei series ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the Soviet Space Program (source)
    • Countries with the most sister cities with French towns (source)
    • JO2018: all 108 French competitors at the 2018 Winter Olympics by year of birth (source)
    • Languages used by poeple in Austria, other than German (source)
    • Biologists with Twitter accounts (source)
    • Feed readers by license and operating system (source)
    • List of female UK MPs who were descended from UK MPs (source)

• Development
  • Make grammatical forms persistent (phab:T173742)
  • Improve the edit summary of Forms (phab:T184702)
  • Handle adding and/or removing forms in lexeme diffs (phab:T186317)
  • Improve formatting of the Lexemes(phab:T185332)
  • Enable Lua fine grained usage tracking on more wikis (phab:T186645)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 11

Newsletter • February 2018

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!

-— Isarra ༆ 21:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

February 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday February 21, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday December 13 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk) 22:19, 16 February 2018 (UTC) P.S. You are also invited to Africa and the Diaspora Edit-a-thon @ Schomburg Center for Black Culture on Saturday February 24!

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Wikidata weekly summary #300

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

• Welcome to the 300th Weekly Summary!

The weekly newsletter was started by Lydia at the very beginning of the Wikidata project, even before the first deployment, to keep the community informed about the developments, the new projects and tools. More than five years later, the newsletter is still there, its content powered by the community, and sent every week all along the years. I wanted to say a warm "thank you!" to each person who helped filling the Weekly Summary <3

Over the past years, as you know, Wikidata has grown a lot. More data, more tools, more editors and reusers, more exciting projects led by the community. The Weekly Summary has evolved with us, and the 300th edition seems a good moment to ask you all your suggestions about the newsletter, how it could continue evolving, and how you would like to improve it.

On that purpose, you can find a feedback page to express all your ideas about the Weekly Summary. We're very interested to know more about your reading habits, the parts you're more or less interested in, the new topics you would like to share with the community. Thanks in advance for filling it.

I stay available anytime to discuss with you, feel free to contact me if you have any question or concern! Cheers, Léa

• A selection of cool tools on Wikidata

Here are a few tools that are recommended by some Wikidata community members. External websites, gadgets or scripts, they are very useful for Wikidata editors or users!

• • The Wikidata Query Service is an infinite source of amazing data and one of the best ways to explore and use Wikidata. (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
  • QuickStatements is a powerful tool that can edit or add Wikidata item en masse, via a text editor or importing a spreadsheet. (Éder Porto via Facebook)
  • Mix'n'match (manual), which helps us to interlink Wikidata with the rest of the web and the world :-) (Spinster, Siobhan via Twitter)
  • WikiShootMe! allows you to see Wikidata items plotted out on a map and shows you whether they have images or not. (Ham II)
  • Yair Rand's WikidataInfo script adds the QID of the equivalent Wikidata item to the page being viewed (on sister projects), along with its Wikidata label and description. (Andy Mabbett)
  • Recoin measures the degree of completeness of relevant properties of a Wikidata item and suggests any relevant statements that can be added to the item. (Rachmat04)
  • Template:Wikidata list ("Listeria") Self-updating lists on wiki pages, to drive projects and show results. Over 14,000 now live. (Jheald)
  • DuplicateReferences gadget adds a link to copy references and add them to other statements on the same item. (PKM)
  • checkConstraints gadget adds notifications on the interface to easily notice the violation of constraints and help people fixing them (Léa)
  • Resolve authors lists scientific articles with the property author name string (P2093) and groups them on the basis of co-authors and topic, which helps to distinguish people referred to by identical name strings. (Daniel Mietchen)
  • The Wiki Loves Monuments map is powered by Wikidata. You can look for a city and find the monuments around. (Stefano Sabatini via Facebook)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: How to add a lot of data, São Paulo, February 22th
  • Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata seminar, Oxford e-Research Centre, February 28th
  • Ongoing: Fourth Annual month wide d:Wikidata:Events/Nepal#Datathon_2018
  • Past: Wikidata doathon, 14-15 February 2018, Göttingen
  • A Reconciliation Recipe for Wikidata by Martin Poulter
  • Some ways Wikidata can improve search and discovery by Martin Poulter
  • From Wikidata to Scholia: creating structured linked data to generate scholarly profiles
  • Querying Wikidata about Vienna tram lines, by Stefan Daschek
  • Using wikidata for linked data WordPress indexes, by Phil Barker
  • Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• There are now over 100,000 ORCID iDs in Wikidata.
• The usage history graph that is being linked to on property talk pages now shows usage since the end of August 2016. This used to be 50 days. Thanks Lockal!
• Feedback needed: ontology for structured data on Commons

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: has command line option, Wolfram Language entity code, total fertility rate, development of anatomical structure, research intervention, permitted food additive, maximum food additive use level
    • External identifiers: TheTVDB.com ID, Irish Women Rugby Football Union ID, CATO ID, Directory of Czech publishers ID, ASHRAE refrigerant number, Bulbapedia article, Lemon Amiga identifier, CPC-Power identifier, Libraries.org ID, International Numbering System number, JECFA database ID, JMPR database ID, Uppslagsverket Finland ID, Phasmida Species File ID
  • Query examples:
    • Women with an Erdős number
    • Classes that are subclass of both physical object and abstract object (thread)
    • Countries sharing land borders only with larger countries (source)
    • Alive actors and actresses without an image, ordered by number of films they appear in (source)
    • Beast species in the Harry Potter universe (source)
    • Places that have been indicated as the topic of scientific articles indexed in Wikidata (source)
    • Scientists whose cause of death was "death by burning" (source)
    • Women who have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (source)
    • Wikidata:WikiProject ShEx
  • Newest database reports: winter sport disciplines, people and equipment

• Development
  • Fixed incomplete "Label:", "Description:" and "Statement:" entity usage messages in various places (phab:T178090). Thanks, Matěj!
  • Improved violation messages for ranges involving the current date (e. g. “should not be in the future”).
  • Continued work on caching constraint check results.
  • Enabled Lua fine-grained usage tracking for better performance on several more wikis: hywiki, frwiki, svwiki, itwiki, zhwiki, bewiki, nlwiki, glwiki, and Wikimedia Commons (phab:T187265 phab:T186714)
  • Representation and grammatical features of the form can be changed using the UI (WikibaseLexeme) (phab:T173743, phab:T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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The Signpost: 20 February 2018

• News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators

• Recent research: Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back

• Arbitration report: Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases

• Traffic report: Addicted to sports and pain

• Featured content: Entertainment, sports and history

• Technology report: Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks

• Humour: Impossible and unexplained traffic report

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GOCE February 2018 news

Guild of Copy Editors February 2018 News Welcome to the February 2018 GOCE newsletter in which you will find Guild updates since the December edition. We got to a great start for the year, holding the backlog at nine months. 100 requests were submitted in the first 6 weeks of the year and were swiftly handled with an average completion time of 9 days. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< Coordinator elections: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2018 were elected. Jonesey95 remained as lead coordinator and Corrine, Miniapolis and Tdslk as assistant coordinators. Keira1996 stepped down as assistant coordinator and was replaced by Reidgreg. Thanks to all who participated! End of year reports were prepared for 2016 and 2017, providing a detailed look at the Guild's long-term progress. January drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2017 from our backlog and all December 2017 Requests (a total of 275 articles). As with previous years, the January drive was an outstanding success and by the end of the month all but 57 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 38 who signed up, 21 editors recorded 259 copy edits (490,256 words). February blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 February, focusing on Requests and the last articles tagged in May 2017. At the end of the week there were only 14 pending requests, with none older than 20 days. Of the 11 who signed up, 10 editors completed 35 copy edits (98,538 words). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Reidgreg. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Wikidata weekly summary #301

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IMLD-ODD 2018 Wikidata India Edit-a-thon, February 21st to March 3rd
  • Upcoming: presentation of the paper "Knowledge Graphs and Pluralism on Wikidata", February 27th, Luxembourg
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Hyderabad, India, March 2nd

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Stewards election is running until February 28th
  • Structured data on Commons ontology discussion continues until March 1st.
  • Decision about the licensing of Lexeme namespace
  • It's been possible for a while (but not previously reported here) to include Wikidata IDs in Wikivoyage listings, like this example edit.
  • Q50000000 was created on February 23rd.
  • You can give feedback about this newsletter
  • Constraint checks will be integrated in the interface of Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: conscription number, recognition sequence, cutting site of restriction enzyme, RFE symbol, isoschizomer, neoschizomer, number of records, P4877, symbolizes, segmental innervation
    • External identifiers: AtariAge identifier, Atari Legend identifier, Atarimania identifier, BMI Work ID, Charity Navigator ID, Amazon author page, REBASE Enzyme Number, Hispania Nostra Red List of Endangered Heritage ID, Operabase ID, GEPRIS project ID, GEPRIS organization ID, GEPRIS person ID, World Rugby Women's Sevens Series player ID, FFR Sevens player ID, Maison d'écrivain ID
  • Query examples:
    • Actors who have starred in at least three Oscar Best Picture-nominated films in the same year (Inspired by this Vulture article)
    • Items in the part of the Getty AAT thesaurus (P1014) below costume accessory (Q1065579) where the upward relationship in the thesaurus cannot as yet be 'explained' by our existing subclass (P279) relations (thread1;thread2;thread3)
    • Where were people who went to space born? (source)
    • National flags featuring the Union Jack as a canton (the top inner corner of a flag) (source)
    • Number of mass shootings by country since 1990 (source)
  • Newest database reports: sleds, sleighs and sledges

• Development
  • Make it possible to link to Lexemes and Statements (phab:T1854997)
  • Disabling senses for the first release of Lexemes (phab:T186995)
  • Caching for constraints check

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

• The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
• Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
• A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
• A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

• CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
• The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

• Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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WikiCup 2018 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:

• Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
• FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
• Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
• Ceranthor, Numerounovedant, Carbrera, Farang Rak Tham and Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #302

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikidata workshops in different places in the world for Open Data Day
  • WikiCite presentation (video) as part of Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting - February 2018
  • Wikidata: Knowledge as a Service, by martin Poulter

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Global preferences are available for testing
  • Statement 400.000.000 was created
  • You can now use a SPARQL query to match the result labels against Mix’n’match entries

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: court, time index, 3D model, broader concept, season, number of players in region, century breaks, dialect of, produces cohesive end, isocaudomer
    • External identifiers: FFF male player ID, AFL Tables coach ID, FFF female player ID, Webumenia creator ID, AFL Tables umpire ID, MuIS person or group ID, EPHE ID, Patrons de France ID, Siprojuris ID, ESPN X Games athlete ID, ACE work ID, AICTE institute ID, Chronicling America newspaper ID, Brooklyn Museum Exhibition ID, Zenodo ID, CONABIO ID, New Georgia Encyclopedia ID, Tropicos publication ID, KMSKA work PID, Bargeton ID, Guide Nicaise ID, AlloCiné company ID, Annuaire des fondations ID
  • Query examples:
    • 3D models on Commons (source)
    • Timeline of programming languages (source)
    • Date of birth of computer scientists (source)
    • Women born in Latin America without an article on Spanish Wikipedia (source)
    • Timeline of Düsseldorf mayors (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Energy, Motorsports
  • Newest database reports: nomes de países em português

• Development
  • Re-enable Wikidata Recent Changes integration on Russian Wikipedia (phab:T179012)
  • Investigate on the size of logging table (phab:T188635)
  • Fix issues with graph vizualisation UI (phab:T186467)
  • Work on results of security review for the deployment of Wikibase-Lexeme (phab:T186726)
  • Enable constraint result caching on Wikidata (phab:T184812)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #303

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Notability and Commons

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikiIndaba in Tunis, 16-18 March. There will be several Wikidata-related sessions
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 16th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia's usability, by John Lubbock
  • Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata, by John Lubbock
  • German Wikidata Workshop on "Wikidata: Potential uses and application examples for digital cultural heritage" during the conference DHd 2018
  • Automatically Generating Wikipedia Info-boxes from Wikidata, by Tomás Sáez and Aidan Hogan
  • Linking ImageNet WordNet Synsets with Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Towards a Question Answering System over the Semantic Web, by Dennis Diefenbach et al.
  • Practical Linked Data Access via SPARQL: The Case of Wikidata, by Markus Krötzsch et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS updater switched to Kafka
  • First version of Lexicographical Data will be released in April
  • Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations updated
  • "autopatrolled" entries to be removed from the logging table
  • You can have a look at the Europeana migration campaign and help with translations in your languages
  • Mix'n'Match new features: Creation Candidates and Top missing entries
  • WDCM Journal: gender equity in Wikidata usage

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: calculated from
    • External identifiers: Ready64 identifier, GameBase 64 identifier, Plus/4 World identifier, Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Snooker.org tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, CueTracker tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's player ID, PRotein Ontology ID, Invaluable.com artist ID, Ricorso author ID, AINM ID, Julien ID, Todotango.com artist ID, Todotango.com work ID, The Big Cartoon DataBase ID, Small Monuments of Plzeň Catalogue ID, SFMOMA artist ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's player ID, BFMTV.com director ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Societe.com director ID, Dominicains ID, Premiers préfets ID
  • Query examples:
    • Some costume items ending in 'us'
    • Women on Wikidata without article in any Wikipedia, ordered by number of statements (source)
    • WikiProjects about women (source)
    • Software of the KDE community (source)
    • Films starring more than one future head of government (source)
    • Timeline of prominent Women Computer Scientists (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of episodes of Borgen

• Development
  • Significantly (on average to 1/4th) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects. This way changes that do not affect an article should no longer show up. We're still holding off roll-out to Commons, Cebuano, Waray-Waray and Armenian Wikipedia because of scalability concerns.
  • Working on optimizing one of the largest database tables (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
  • Fixing a bug on how Wikidata changes are shown on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
  • Continued addressing security review issues for Wikibase-Lexeme extension (phab:T186726)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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!

Final note from Léa: thanks to people who participated to the feedback page! Today's Weekly Summary is already improved thanks to your suggestions. Feel free to add more comments, and feel free to edit the newsletter yourself: all small contributions are welcome :)

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:46, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

March 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday March 21, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday March 21 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk) P.S. You are also invited to Art + Feminism Events in the New York Metropolitan Area continuing this month!

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Wikidata weekly summary #304

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: Putnik, Okkn

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Eindhoven, NL, March 24th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Mind the (Language) Gap: Generation of Multilingual Wikipedia Summaries from Wikidata for ArticlePlaceholders by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al.
  • Semantic labeling for quantitative data using Wikidata, by Phuc Nguyen and Hideaki Takeda
  • OpenStreetMap Interview: Andy Mabbett, Wikidata and OSM - The OpenCage Geocoder blog
  • How we’re using machine learning to visually enrich Wikidata, by Miriam Redi on WMF's blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The property suggestions were updated last week, the last update was in December 2017. The most noticable effect is the higher ranking of "family name" (P734) on items about people. Input about the suggester is still welcome.
  • There is an early conversation about structured licensing and copyright on Wikimedia Commons.
  • George, le deuxième texte (fr), a website querying Wikidata to find French female authors, in order to bring more diversity in the literature school programs
  • New, configurable download page for Mix’n’match catalogs (example)
  • The Su Lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on Wikidata in the Gene Wiki team
  • Help:Conflation of 2 persons

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: download link, INCI name, safety classification and labelling, may prevent, classification of the best at metas volantes
    • External identifiers: Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms ID, TMDb movie ID, DDB ID, Irish Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Irish Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID, MR Author ID, BDH edition ID, AIDA freediver ID, equipement.paris.fr place ID, Generation MSX identifier, Sega8bit.com identifier, Abandonia identifier
  • New property proposals to review: Norwegian war sailor register ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, ruchess ID, UK Provider Reference Number, Hungarian public body ID, medical evacuation to, hearing date, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, RKDlibrary ID, IDA place ID, Kinoliste ID, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID
  • Query examples:
    • Megalithic sites in Spain (source)
    • Major periods of Japanese history and what they were named after (source)
    • Islandic names that are not ending in "son" or "dottir (source)
    • In what language does Q137 and Q12518 have the same label? (source)
    • Timeline of Earth's artificial satellites (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Indigenous peoples of North America
  • Newest database reports: Friends episodes list

• Development
  • Looking into current Lua usage to see where we can improve the Lua functions we provide (phab:T189506)
  • When there is a constraint violation in a reference, the reference is now automatically expanded to make it more visible (phab:T177970)
  • Looked into issues around notifying the Wikipedias about changes happening on Wikidata (sometimes delayed due to too quick bot editing) (phab:T189772)
  • Fixed some translation issues in the embeded part of the Query Service (phab:T188990)
  • Fixed an issue with usernames being broken for Wikidata changes in watchlist and RC on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
  • Optimizing a heavily used database table (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
  • Polishing a lot of things for lexicographical data first deployment
  • Make it possible to remove a Form (phab:T173332)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
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CANCELLED: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

CANCELLED: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
Due to the winter storm warning, the WikiWednesday Salon & Skillshare scheduled for March 21st has been cancelled. Please consider attending one of the many edit-a-thons scheduled for this week. We look forward to editing with you soon! --Megs (talk)

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Wikidata weekly summary #305

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Putnik, Okkn. Welcome on board!
  • Closed request for comments: Former ATE

• Events
  • Upcoming: 1st Workshop on Quality of Open Data, Berlin, July 18–20 (submission deadline May 27)
  • Upcoming: EuropeanaTech and Wikidata Workshop Day for GLAMs, Rotterdam (NL), Monday 14 May. A day of GLAM-related workshops around Wikidata and Structured Commons, for beginners and advanced users.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • SPLASHes in Wikidata, by Egon Willighagen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • report about items with identical birth and death dates updated
  • Relator, a tool to improve family relations in Wikidata
  • Descendants check: consistency across multiple generations
  • Due to Easter Monday, the next issue of the Weekly Summary will be sent on Tuesday, April 3rd. Until that day, feel free to add information in there

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: prerequisite, relevant qualification, derivative work, alternate names, test method
    • External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women, SPLASH, Behind the voice Actors video games ID, Hungarian MP identifier, UK Provider Reference Number, Norwegian war sailor register ID, Wikitribune category, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, IDA place ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Kinoliste ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID, TMDb TV series id, TMDb person id, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, RKDlibrary ID, Statistics Canada Geographic code, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: had part, METAR code, Zulassungszahlen, Analog or derivative of, GHS labelling elements, en opposition à, output method
    • External identifiers: Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, Orthodox Encyclopedia Online ID, National Thesis Number, Deutsche Biographie Identifikator, Welsh Rugby Union IDs (women's XV and men's 7s)
  • Query examples:
    • Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
    • Movies that Wikidata knows about and that have a German title that implies that someone or something doesn't answer (source)
    • Software developed by people/organizations that have archival material at the ComputerHistory museum (source)
    • Most common eponyms of French departments (source)
  • Newest database reports: HOLBY CI⁺Y episode list, list of 2-part episodes

• Development
  • New search code for Wikidata merged. You may notice the improvement in the search results output for Wikidata item. However, new code for search is not enabled, only new results format. The search code will be enabled next week.
  • Improving formatting of language and lexical category in diff for Lexemes (phab:T189679)
  • Allow to remove a Form (phab:T189675)
  • Translate the grammatical feature properly on Lexemes (phab:T189143)
  • Investigate and fix a bug on Lexemes when undoing an edit (phab:T187215)
  • Progress on refactoring the table wb_terms (phab:T189777, phab:T188993, phab:T188279)
  • Fixing an error on the caching of the constraint checks (phab:T189842)
  • Improving the performance of a table in the database (phab:T180834)
  • Improving the way we're building dumps (phab:T177550)
  • Investigate on improving Lua functions (phab:T143970)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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.
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Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

• Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost?

• News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.

• Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.

• In the media: The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good

• Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers

• Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs

• Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.

• Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.

• Humour: WikiWorld Reruns

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

• Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
• Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
• The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
• The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

• A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

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Wikidata weekly summary #306

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

• Events
  • Talk by Morane Gruenpeter and Katherine Thornton, presented at LibrePlanet 2018 about software metadata in Software Heritage and Wikidata. Video of the talk. Slides for the talk.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools by Sandra Fauconnier on WMF's blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • if you're working with Lua modules, you can give input here about new functions
  • you can still fill this page if you encounter a problem with suggester ranking

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: National Governors Association biography URL, key press, number of clubs, analog or derivative of, in opposition to
    • External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID, World Para Snowboard athlete ID, METAR code, Orthodox Encyclopedia ID, Amphibians of India ID, National Thesis Number (France)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: maximum operating temperature, minimum operating temperature, maximum non-operating temperature, minimum non-operating temperature, Специальное звание или классный чин, member of the crew of, service life, Gens, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System, Wikipedia glossary entry, assistant director, choral conductor, lighting designer, sound designer, projection designer, video designer, stage crew member, number of representations, talk show guest, adaptation or arrangement of, revival or touring version of
    • External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Identifier of object at prazdnedomy.cz, Digital Typhoon ID, Territographie ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Researchmap ID, OpenEdition Books ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Animated Knots ID
  • Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
    • Spider Ontology ID (P4537), has listed ingredient (P4543), sexually homologous with (P4545), Everyone Remembered ID (P4551), ICRC PoW ID (P4554), SNCZI-IPE dam ID (P4558), Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID (P4564), electoral district number (P4565), awarded for period (P4566), BPH journal ID (P4569)
  • Deleted properties: P1124 (teu), P3484 (name shares origin with), P4990 (Statistics Canada Geographic code)
  • Query examples:
    • Most common title of paintings in English
    • Timeline for German author Heinrich Mann (source)
    • Density in kilograms per cubicmeter for books (source)
    • Books by weight (source)
    • Train stations in the UK (source)
    • Map of megaliths in Portugal and Spain (source)
  • Newest database reports: pilot and first episodes of television series

• Development
  • Work on a script to generate MassMessage target lists (phab:T190812)
  • Test validity of Wikidata IDs in Lua modules (phab:T143970)
  • Rename Lua functions in old naming scheme (phab:T190382)
  • More work on wb_terms table (phab:T188992)
  • More work on logging autopatrol actions (phab:T184485)
  • Include checksums in dumps (phab:T190457)
  • Add mobile edits to Grafana (phab:T191111)
  • Allowing to remove a Form from a Lexeme (phab:T173332)
  • Fixing bugs on Lexemes (phab:T189185)
  • Checking permissions for actions on Lexemes

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #307

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

• Events
  • Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th
  • Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
  • Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
  • Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Some improvements have been made on the search results
  • The administrative territorial entities of the Ottoman Empire are now largely complete. They include the elayets, vilayets and their sanjaks.
  • A new version of Denelezh, a tool to monitor the gender gap in Wikidata, has been released, including a new methodology to produce the data (explained at the top of the main page and in the documentation), and an overview of the gender gap by Wikimedia project.
  • Items now contain an average of 9 statements.
  • Item Q2937606, created 5 years ago, got its first statement
  • New tool: The property explorer sorts and displays properties per category (developed by Stevenliuyi based on a suggestion from Micru)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wikimedia project focus list, complies with, special rank, last update, test taken, test score, activity policy in this place, choral conductor, gens, lighting designer, number of representations, sound designer
    • External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Territographie ID, Prazdne Domy building ID, Welsh Rugby Union women's player ID, Welsh Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Digital Typhoon typhoon ID, Digital Typhoon cyclone ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System (Taiwan)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: majority opinion, KMC Heritage Building Grade, accreditation, Number of spoilt votes, Number of blank votes, Number of abstentions, greater than (2), subdomain URL, International Classification for Standards, Wind speed, Wikimedia outline, list combines topics
    • External identifiers: Authorea Author ID, Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, FOGIS ID, Behind the voice Actors character ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Harvard designation, Yahoo Answers category, UMAC ID, Internet Adult Film Database film ID, Adult Film Database film ID
  • Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
    • Berlinische Galerie artist ID (P4580), Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID (P4582), Argentinian Historic Heritage ID (P4587), National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID (P4591), Mountain Project ID (P4592), arXiv author ID (P4594), post town (P4595), NIOSH Publication Number (P4596), monomer of (P4599), Lives of WWI ID (P4601)
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of weather satellites (source)
    • Map with lighthouses all over the world (source)
    • Number of articles about humans by gender on Welsh Wikipedia (source)
    • List of French rivers with different names and SANDRE ids on Sophox (SPARQL endpoint querying OpenStreetMap and Wikidata) (source)

• Development
  • Differences between range constraints now work only if both properties are present (phab:T185480)
  • Work on a new constraint unit which defines which units are alowed for a given property (phab:T164372)
  • Make the Special:ConstraintReport easier to understand (phab:T188728)
  • Work on a Lua function which checks if an item is a subclass of or instance of another item (phab:T179155)
  • Started deleting old autopatrolled from the loggin table (phab:T190447, phab:T184791)
  • More work on setting up permissions for Lexeme (phab:T189480)
  • Fixing a bug about removing the last Lemma (phab:T189185)
  • Disabling the possibility to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #308

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

• Events
  • Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th (slides of Andy Mabbett's keynote)
  • Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
  • Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
  • Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Writing a Wikidata Query: Discovering Women Writers from North Africa by Alex Stinson

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • GLAM wiki Conference (November 2018 in Tel Aviv): you can now apply for a scholarship. You can still make submissions for the program until end of April.
  • Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link: mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (thanks Tpt!) (ticket)
  • Wikidata:FactGrid#Problems and more, a brief status report of the FactGrid Project on Friday 13, April 2018
  • Should OpenStreetMap use Wikibase to store data on tags? (Discussion on OSM wiki)
  • Prop explorer UI can now be translated using Tool Translate.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: talk show guest, GHS hazard pictogram, GHS hazard statement, GHS precautionary statement, number of abstentions, number of spoilt votes, number of blank votes, International Classification for Standards, towards, supervisory board member
    • External identifiers: Researchmap ID, Animated Knots ID, Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, National Library of Korea Identifier (KRNLK), Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, AmphibiaWeb Species ID, Plants of the World online ID, FOGIS ID, Authorea author ID, Rosetta Code ID, Church of Sweden ID, Harvard designation, UMAC ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: French standard sizes for oil paintings, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, reference value, ILI ID, Portable Game Notation, SNOMED CT identifier, Mercalli intensity, fault type, fault, areas affected
    • External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, e-teatr.pl ID, World of Physics identifier, Kunstenpunt people, DOAB publisher ID, aviation-safety.net ID, IAFD company ID, JAAF ID, Athletics Canada ID, Russian Athletics ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Pschyrembel Online ID, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, ISC event, USGS-ANSS event page, HanCinema drama, ARRS race ID, hpip
  • Barely used properties created >3 months:
    • National Film Board of Canada movie ID (P4606), AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID (P4618), squadron embarked (P4624), trophy awarded (P4622), EK number (P4627), premiere type (P4634), identity of object in context (P4626), photosphere image (P4640), FoodEx2 code (P4637), Estonian Football Association team ID (P4639)
  • Query examples:
    • Longest chain of mutual murders (source)
    • 6 couples killed each other (source)
    • All things named after Leonardo da Vinci (source)
    • German municipality pairs with the name pattern -ing/-ingen (source)
    • Timeline of early silent movies produced before 1900 (source)
    • French citizens with at least 5 Wikipedia pages but not in French (source)
  • Newest database reports: family names by soundex, définitions de ville

• Development
  • Disable Senses in the API for the initial version of the WikibaseLexeme extension (phab:T187198)
  • Create a new data type to allow linking to Forms (phab:T165579)
  • Fix a bug happening when editing a Form (phab:T187215)
  • Enforce permission checks when editing Lexeme (phab:T189480)
  • Make not possible to remove the last lemma (phab:T189185)
  • Make not possible to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)
  • Implement “Units” constraint (phab:T164372)
  • More work on the possibility to pick an item's parent in Lua (phab:T179155)
  • Show a thumbnail for image/video/audio properties in statements (phab:T46727)
  • Add “no bounds” constraint (phab:T170610)
  • Make the “difference within range” constraint not requiring “item requires claim” constraint (phab:T185480)
  • New Lua function to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs (phab:T143970)
  • Include checksums in dumps (phab:T190457)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday April 25th, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly WikiWednesday evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda! After the main meeting, pizza and video games in the gallery. Wednesday April 25th WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our agenda, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk)

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Category:Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa has been nominated for discussion

Category:Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. --woodensuperman 07:58, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 27

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 27, February – March 2018

• #1Lib1Ref
• New collections
  • Alexander Street (expansion)
  • Cambridge University Press (expansion)
• User Group
• Global branches update
  • Wiki Indaba Wikipedia + Library Discussions
• Spotlight: Using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: LGBTQ+ advocacy as a wiki-librarian
• Bytes in brief

Arabic, Chinese and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
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Wikidata weekly summary #309

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
    • Wikidata meetup
    • how to train new Wikidata trainers
    • Structured Data on Commons and GLAM pilots session
  • Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
  • WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects the Wikimedia projects, in Lyon, April 24th. Seven papers related to Wikidata will be presented.
  • Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
  • DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Old Periodicals, a New Datatype and Spiderfied Query Results in Wikidata by Simon Cobb (National Library of Wales)
  • Wikimedia and The Met: A Shared Digital Vision by Katherine Maher and Loic Tallon

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata:Tools has been reorganized and updated, thanks to Pasleim! Feel free to help keeping this page up to date.
  • Wikidata:List of properties has also been reorganized and updated.
  • Lexicographical data on Wikidata will start at the end of May. Some property proposals are already discussed
  • A rate limit for edits and page creation has been set up
  • Please give feedback on a first proposal on GLAM metadata and ontology mapping for Structured Data on Commons. This feedback round runs until 4 May.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: fastest lap, cabinet, patronym or matronym for this person, modified version of, unit symbol, wind speed, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, service life, French standard size for oil paintings, boiler pressure, presented in
    • External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, Handball Bundesliga ID, e-teatr.pl ID, DOAB publisher ID, ILI ID, World of Physics identifier, Flanders Arts Institute person ID, JAAF ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Russian Athletics ID, Athletics Canada ID, NVE lake ID, Norsk biografisk leksikon ID, Norsk kunstnerleksikon ID, Store medisinske leksikon ID, Adult Film Database film ID, Yahoo Answers category, Pschyrembel Online ID, FIPS string code for US states, FIPS numeric code for US states, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, USGS-ANSS event page, ARRS race ID, HanCinema drama ID, ISC event ID, road number (Estonia), Heritage of Portuguese Influence ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Commercialized from, synonym, translation, antonym, demonym of, item for this sense, pronunciation variety, grammatical gender, grammatical number, etymology, person, areas affected, award category, nature of statement, donation platform, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Phonetic pronunciation, medical finding model, landmass, accessed from, research measurement, hyperonym, hyponym, meronym, holonym, troponym
    • External identifiers: Swedish Literature Bank, Logainm ID, Wikipedia glossary entry, Réunion des musées nationaux id, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, FIS speed skier ID, cryptocurrency address, New Zealand Gazetteer ID, Bridge number, HanCinema film, Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID
  • Scarcely used properties created >3 months:
    • Indian Financial System Code (P4635), RCR number (P4645), partition type identifier (P4654), partition table type (P4653), Wiki Aves bird ID (P4664), Buenos Aires legislator ID (P4667), Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID (P4670), tabular software version (P4669), constraint scope (P4680), GEMS Code (P4695)
  • Query examples:
    • Historical monuments in Wales (source)
    • Software titles ranked by the number of dependencies listed for them (source)
    • National parks around the world (source)
    • Narrative locations of TV series and episodes (source)
  • Newest database reports: Sports equipment: balls

• Development
  • Track the number of constraints by type (phab:T191891)
  • Include thumbnails in image statements (phab:T46727)
  • Install Query Service on Factgrid (phab:T189863)
  • Page creation and edit rates (phab:T184948)
  • Implement unit constraint (phab:T164372)
  • Implement no bounds constraint (phab:T170610)
  • Started working on the constraint violation type to restrict to indicate that certain properties can only be used on items or lexemes (phab:T164744)
  • Creating a Docker container for QuickStatements (phab:T192079)
  • Removed hardcoded demo data in Wikibase Lexeme (phab:T188899)
  • New data type for linking to Forms (phab:T165579)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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The Signpost: 26 April 2018

• From the editors: The Signpost's presses roll again

• Signpost: Future directions for The Signpost

• News and notes: Photo of Kim Jong-un. Stephen Hawking death tops hits on many Wikipedias.

• In the media: The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop

• In focus: Admin reports board under criticism

• Special report: ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide

• Opinion: Guideline for Organization Notability revised

• Op-ed: World War II Myth-making and Wikipedia

• Community view: It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias

• Discussion report: The future of portals

• Arbitration report: No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Military History

• Blog: Why the world reads Wikipedia

• Humour: Our Favorite Places to Whine About Stuff

• Traffic report: A quiet place to wrestle with the articles of March

• Technology report: Coming soon: Books-to-PDF, interactive maps, rollback confirmation

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

• Gallery: A look at some famous and not as well-known border tripoints

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Category:Danse avec les stars winners has been nominated for discussion

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Wikidata weekly summary #310

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

• Events
  • Past:
    • Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
      • Phabricator workboard
      • Wikibase registry
    • WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects
    • Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
    • DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27
    • Daten in Wikidata einbringen (Bringing data into Wikidata) - Hands-on tutorial within the DINI KIM Workshop 2018
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata workshop in Köln, Germany, on May 5th and 6th
    • Wikidata workshop in Vienna, Austria, on May 5th
    • Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic, on May 5th

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New badge available for sitelinks: good list
  • Sitelinks for the new Ingush Wikipedia (inhwiki) can be added
  • Support for the second new Gorontalo Wikipedia (gorwiki) is here
  • Articles of the third new Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia (lfnwiki) may be connected
  • A Wikidata Telegram group has been created by volunteers
  • Constraint Summary script is showing the total amount of constraints reports on the top of an item page
  • Contexto is a Wordpress plugin displaying Wikidata info in a hovercard. See demo, you can also let feedback to the developer
  • Sixth months before Wikidata's sixth birthday: you can organize a local event

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: fault, member of the crew of, nature of statement
    • External identifiers: Logainm ID, IAFD film ID, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, Réunion des musées nationaux ID, Swedish Literature Bank AuthorID, FIS speed skier ID, New Zealand Gazetteer place ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: crop, date of first attestation, place of first attestation, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, Wikidata property example for senses, false-friend, demonym (Lexeme), Allaboutjazz musician ID, homonym, paronym, streetViewUrl, constraint, WikiCFP eventID, WikiCFP conference series ID, Mascot of, program committee member, applies to name, values for this type, items for this type, Maintained by Wikiproject, Amateur Radio Callsign
    • External identifiers: Ontario public library ID, Italian School ID, TFRRS athlete ID, Linux Game Database properties, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID, OnsOranje player ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, OnsOranje match ID
  • Infrequently used properties created >3 months:
    • Historic Place Names of Wales ID (P4697), American Art Collaborative object ID (P4692), Arquivo Arq ID (P4694), Argentine deputy ID (P4693), HATVP person ID (P4703), Ent'revues ID (P4706), VOGRIPA ID (P4708), Rugby Canada ID (P4707), title page number (P4714), Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID (P4698)
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of Wikibase instances and WikidataCon events (federated query)
    • User-friendly list of news articles by Kim Wall, as linked from the German and English Wikipedia (based on work of fnielsen)
    • Places of birth of the European Parliament members (source)
    • Obelisks in Rome (source)
    • Artists from Cameroon and their places of birth (source)
    • Place of birth of people with an ORCID ID (source)
    • History of Milano metro stations on a map (source)
    • Number of versions, editions and translations by language of work (source)

• Development
  • More work on the internal API for Wikibase-Lexeme (phab:T190906)
  • Fix some errors happening when editing Lexemes (phab:T192766, phab:T192264)
  • Use language code validation for forms representations (phab:T193010, phab:T193011)
  • Add badge for good lists to Wikidata (phab:T190976)
  • Fix bugs regarding the thumbnails on media statements (phab:T192910, phab:T192601, phab:T192869)
  • Investigate on dispatch lag problems (phab:T193349)
  • Fix a bug on the watchlist on Wikipedia (phab:T192673)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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WikiCup 2018 May newsletter

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
• Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
• Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
• Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
• Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
• Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

• The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

• AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
• When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
• The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

• Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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Wikidata weekly summary #311

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Sort identifier statements on items that are instances of human
    • Make "developer" and "programmer" properties clearer

• Events
  • Wikidata and GLAM workshop day in the context of the EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, Monday 14 May 2018
  • Wikidata access methods, slides by Dan Scott

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • More than 850 living people' articles from the English Wikipedia which have date of death or place of death on their Wikidata item: manual checks needed. You can also check Category:P570 missing in Wikipedia
  • Florian will be improving Wikidata support in the Wikipedia plugin for OpenStreetMap's JOSM editor, for the Google Summer of Code 2018
  • Prssanna Desai will work on improvements for the Query Service during Google Summer of Code

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Deutsche Bahn station category, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Wikimedia outline, assistant director, island of location, possible medical findings, suggests the existence of, has evaluation, evaluation of, greater than, less than
    • External identifiers: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID, Behind The Voice Actors character ID, HanCinema film ID, Italian School ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, LGDB game ID, LGDB emulator ID, LGDB tool ID, LGDB engine ID, TFRRS athlete ID, All About Jazz musician ID, Ontario public library ID, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, WikiCFP event ID, WikiCFP conference series ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IMDA rating, is program committee member of, officialized by, KAVI rating, topographic map, child monotypic taxon, Köppens klimaklassifisering, Möllendorff transliteration, attested, geographic center, season of club or team, sports competition competed at, factorizsation, coastline, forest cover, vehicles per capita, audio transcription
    • External identifiers: e-MEC entry, Norwegian war sailor register ship ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials, GNOME Wiki ID, Israel Film Fund ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Cinema Project ID, Chinese Political Elites Database ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Person ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Movie ID, JMA Seismic Intensity Database ID, Portale della Canzone italiana IDs, Trustpilot company ID, Ester ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators
  • Properties lacking use created > 3 months:
    • Sign@l journal ID (P4726), INRAN Italian Food ID (P4729), produced sound (P4733), IBM code page ID (P4734), IBM graphic character global ID (P4736), Line Music album ID (P4748), Line Music artist ID (P4747), is proceedings from (P4745), National Historic Ships certificate no. (P4750), Manus Online ID (P4752)
  • Deleted properties: Réunion des musées nationaux ID (P5100)
  • Query examples:
    • Map of birth places of authors in the Portuguese Wikisource
    • Video games that are set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe by game mode (source)
    • Timeline of Programming Languages (source)
    • Timeline of people named Karl born in Karlsruhe (source)

• Development
  • Allow continuing Wikidata entity dumps (phab:T193688)
  • Make sure Wikidata entity dump scripts run for a short amount of time (phab:T190513)
  • Add monolingual language code shy (phab:T184783)
  • More work on preparing QuickStatements to be run by other parties (phab:T193606, phab:T192079, phab:T192365)
  • Expand references with constraint violations (phab:T177970)
  • Improving validation of Form representations on WikibaseLexeme (phab:T193011)
  • Fixing a bug that replaces a representation by another (phab:T192264)
  • Enable finding forms using wbsearchentities API (phab:T191981)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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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)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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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)
  • Query examples:
    • Most populous first-level country subdivisions without legislatures (source)
    • Prisoners of Conscience by place of birth (source)
    • 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)
  • Add a "mis" code language to enable uncoded languages in Wikibase Lexeme (phab:T194754)
  • Improve the different language fields in the interface of editing a Lexeme (phab:T191504)
  • Finish work to edit Forms via the web API (phab:T190906)
  • Include special Lexeme IDs (phab:T187060)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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May 23: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday May 23, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday May 23 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 03:13, 23 May 2018 (UTC) P.S. You are also invited to Action = History: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for Asian American Literature on Sunday May 27!

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The Signpost: 24 May 2018

• From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline

• Op-ed: Has the wind gone out of the AdminShip's sails?

• Opinion: Integrating my many lives on Wikipedia

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals

• Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

• Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics

• News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia

• In the media: Wikipedia in Turkish politics; COI politics in Wikipedia; most cited work

• Traffic report: We love our superheroes

• Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies

• Blog: Why I write about women on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues

• Humour: Play with your food

• Gallery: Wine not?

• From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost

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Wikidata weekly summary #314

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Pintoch, Addshore (both successful)
  • New request for comments: Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?

• Events
  • IRC office hour, on May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office. Special topic: Lexemes on Wikidata

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Paper on Cellosaurus, with mappings to Wikidata, by Amos Bairoch
  • Blog post from Galder Gonzalez announcing the Lexemes (in Basque)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Ongoing: On 24 May, there was a significant outage affecting Wikidata and sister projects that use Wikidata. As a result, some features of are temporarily disabled: Wikidata's property suggester, Lua modules and parser functions calling by label instead of ID, search for the ArticlePlaceholder. We apologize for the inconvenience, we're working to get them back as soon as possible. For technical details, see: phab:T195520 & Incident documentation/20180524-wikidata.
  • As announced last week, the “integer” constraint type and the “separators” parameter for the “single value” and “single best value” constraint types are now supported in WikibaseQualityConstraints.
  • Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata! Check the announcement for more details. Feel free to try adding words and give feedback
  • Structured Data on Commons has designs for displaying and using multilingual captions on the file page. Feedback is welcome on the talk page.
  • You can try the new Drag&Drop gadget developed by Yarl and give feedback
  • The European Commission announces a review of the Database Directive.
  • OpenRefine 3.0 beta was released. You can get an overview of the new Wikidata-related features with tutorials and videos.
  • TextRazor is a web service which analyses text and identifies the entities and concepts discussed, giving the corresponding Wikidata QIDs.

• Did you know?
• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: grammatical gender, conjugation class, word stem, Sandbox-Lexeme, Sandbox-Form, synonym, derived from, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, officialized by, Wikidata dataset import page, output method, IMDA rating, adapted by, topographic map, date of commercialization, stroke count, has conjugation class
    • External identifiers: CIVICUS Monitor country entry, Relationship Science organization ID, JMA Seismic Intensity Database ID, Eurohockey.com club ID, Daum Encyclopedia ID, Melon song ID, ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID, British Library system number, eBird hotspot ID, BAG public space ID, BAG building ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Vocalized form, display technology, compound of, Chromosome number, Vietnamese character reading pattern, fanqie, evokes, homograph lexeme, homograph form, prime factor, classifier, Accomplice, Slavic Alphabet, signum
    • External identifiers: BMRB ID, ICSC ID, Baidu Baike ID, Tree of Life Web Project ID, Argentine biography deputy ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. ID, Chromosome numbers of the flora of Germany database ID, Filmow ID, Cité de la musique ID, Giant Bomb ID, OpenCorporates corporate grouping, Artists in Canada record number, RollDaBeats ID, Songfacts ID, ARWU ID
  • Properties not really used, created >3 months:
    • Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number (P4814), Amtrak station code (P4803), make-up artist (P4805), sets environment variable (P4809), Technical Element Score (P4815), Rugby Australia ID (P4799), TORA ID (P4820), Panoptikum identifier (P4818), Cour des comptes magistrate ID (P4821), La Poste personality ID (P4822)
  • Query examples:
    • Map of places of birth of Liverpool's football players (source)
    • Areas of Malaysia states (source)
    • People and the distance between their place of birth and place of death (source)
    • Grammatical cases of languages (source)

• Development
  • Deployed and activate WikibaseLexeme on wikidata.org so you can now store the first lexicographical data on Wikidata (phab:T191457)
  • Fixing the encoding issues on labels of items linked on Lexemes (phab:T195470, phab:T195359)
  • Fixed an issue that was preventing adding Forms and Lexemes in statements (phab:T195402)
  • Suppressed the browser's autocomplete that covers WikibaseLexeme's suggestion on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T195383, phab:T191526)
  • Worked on a bug about representation overwriting other representation with the same language code (phab:T193636)
  • Changed title of the field of a lemma language to make it less likely for people to add a translation as a second Lemma (phab:T193603)
  • Working on the RDF mapping of WikibaseLexeme (phab:T160260)
  • Working on implementing fulltext search for Lexemes (phab:T189739)
  • Working on showing Lemmas for linked Lexemes instead of just their ID on special pages like Special:AllPages (phab:T195382)
  • Fixing issues that happened after dropping an index from the wb_terms table (phab:T194270, phab:T195642, phab:T195611)
  • Made constraint check result appear directly after adding a new statement (phab:T194247)
  • Working on looking up entities by external identifiers on Special:Search (phab:T99899)
  • Added Docker image to Wikibase website (phab:T189936)
  • Added WikibaseImport script to Docker images to make it easier for people to start their own Wikibase install with some data imported from Wikidata (phab:T192080)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
• Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

• A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

• In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

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Wikidata weekly summary #315

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata IRC office hour, May 29th
  • Past: slides of "Wikidata in GLAM, how and why" by Jason Evans during EuropeanaTech conference
  • Figsharefest: "(Personal) use-cases for Figshare in a Wikidata narrative", June 4th, Brussels (slides)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Using the Hive Mind: WikiData Integration and Artist Pages on the blog of the National Galleries of Scotland
  • Tools for Wikipedians: Keeping track of what’s going on on Wikidata from Wikipedia by Jens Ohlig (also available in German)
  • Wikidata and Scholia as a hub linking chemical knowledge poster presented at 11th International Conference on Chemical Structures (PDF)
  • A complete video walkthrough to learn how to use OpenRefine: how to match, clean up and import data into Wikidata
  • Lexicographical data: number of existing lemmas per language

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now search for values of a statement in Special:Search (P31, external-ids and strings)
  • You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki.
  • Country geoshape data have been added to Commons and linked to the corresponding Wikidata items. These geoshapes can be used to visualise query results e.g. World map showing population of each country.
  • Concordances: mappings between Wikidata and other knowledge organization systems

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: chromosome count, prime factor, pronunciation variety, compound of
    • External identifiers: ISO 3950 code, National Gallery of Armenia work ID, GONIAT author ID, Armenian National Academy of Sciences ID, Armenian Parliamentary ID, GONIAT paper ID, GONIAT place ID, GONIAT taxon ID, Spyur ID, Armenian Cinema ID, BMRB ID, ICSC ID, Tree of Life Web Project ID, NWSL player ID, Information Center for Israeli Art artwork ID, OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiad player ID, Argentine biography deputy ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. ID, Carnegie Hall event ID, Carnegie Hall work ID, Chromosome numbers of the Flora of Germany database ID, D&B Hoovers company profile, Filmow ID, SpectraBase Compound ID, Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris work ID, Artists in Canada record number, RollDaBeats artist ID, Songfacts song ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: grammatical category, IAB code, title number, chữ Nôm, noun, gender inflection, winter view, of, alternative form, lexical category, spelling variant, hyphenation
    • External identifiers: myschool ID, IPTC subject code, Canal-U person ID, FilmTv.it movie ID, FilmTv.it TV series ID, FilmTv.it person ID, Corago ID, Les Enfoirés participant ID, Les Enfoirés song ID, iTunes App Store developer ID, NDOP taxon ID, BirdLife International ID, Relationship Science person ID, Czech Geomorphological Unit Code, Swedish Gravestone ID, OED Online ID, Dordrechts Museum, Finnish national bibliography corporate name ID, SJP Online ID, Contemporary Music Portal ID, Web umenia work ID, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales Work ID, Cdmc ID, Monarch Disease Ontology ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ID, Saint Louis Art Museum ID, Strava ID of a professional sport person, StadiumDB identifier, Songfacts artist ID, World Stadium Database identifier, Douban Movie Celebrity ID, Firmenbuchnummer
  • Properties waiting to be used, created >3 months:
    • Program Component Score (P4826), deductions (in figure skating) (P4825), Swimrankings meet ID (P4827), Sailboatdata ID (P4833), World Sailing regatta ID (P4832), Landslagsdatabasen ID (P4830), Irish Rugby Football Union women's player ID (P4836), Wolfram Language entity code (P4839), Directory of Czech publishers ID (P4840), development of anatomical structure (P4843)
  • Query examples:
    • List of Danish female athletes (source)
    • Battles within 100km of Edinburgh (source)
    • Grammatical features graph (source)
    • 10 items having the biggest number of sitelinks (source)
    • Writers and their signatures (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Eurovision
  • Newest database reports: verb categories

• Development
  • The API respond for maxlag will in the future also include the dispach lag (phab:T194950)
  • Add Elastic and CirrusSearch in the Wikibase Docker image (phab:T192813)
  • Add OAuth extension to wikibase bundle container (phab:TT192364)
  • Work on showing constraints in the QueryService (phab:T194762)
  • Make the PropertySuggester use CirrusSearch (phab:T195490)
  • Add integer constraint in the constraint checks (phab:T167989)
  • Add “citation needed” constraint type (phab:T195052)
  • Make Special:EntityData should handle form IDs (phab:T192149)
  • Fix encoding problems for labels displayed in Lexemes (phab:T195359)
  • Improve the text in the grammatical feature field (phab:T193604)
  • Work on showing Lemma on Special:AllPages and other pages (phab:T195382)
  • Work on better handling use of statements linking to Lexemes on client (phab:T195615)
  • Fix a bug that breaks Lexeme when language or lexical category items don't have a label (phab:)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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June 2018 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2018 News Welcome to the June 2018 GOCE newsletter, in which you will find Guild updates since the February edition. Progress continues to be made on the copyediting backlog, which has been reduced to 7 months and reached a new all-time low. Requests continue to be handled efficiently this year, with 272 completed by the end of May (an average completion time of 10.5 days). Fewer than 10% of these waited longer than 20 days, and the longest wait time was 29 days. Wikipedia in general, and the Guild in particular, experienced a deep loss with the death on 20 March of Corinne. Corinne (a GOCE coordinator since 1 July 2016) was a tireless aide on the requests page, and her peerless copyediting is a part of innumerable GAs and FAs. Her good cheer, courtesy and tact are very much missed. March drive: The goal was to remove June, July and August 2017 from our backlog and all February 2018 Requests (a total of 219 articles). This drive was an outstanding success, and by the end of the month all but eight of these articles were cleared. Of the 33 editors who signed up, 19 recorded 277 copy edits (425,758 words). April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 15 through 21 April, focusing on Requests and the last eight articles tagged in August 2017. At the end of the week there were only 17 pending requests, with none older than 17 days. Of the nine editors who signed up, eight editors completed 22 copy edits (62,412 words). May drive: We set out to remove September, October and November 2017 from our backlog and all April 2018 Requests (a total of 298 articles). There was great success this month with the backlog more than halved from 1,449 articles at the beginning of the month to a record low of 716 articles. Officially, of the 20 who signed up, 15 editors recorded 151 copy edits (248,813 words). Coordinator elections: It's election time again. Nominations for Guild coordinators (who will serve a six-month term for the second half of 2018) have begun, and will close at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible, and self-nominations are encouraged. Voting will take place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. June blitz: Stay tuned for this one-week copy-editing blitz, which will take place in mid-June. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Corinne, Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tdslk. >>> Participate in the June elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Wikidata weekly summary #316

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

• Events
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, June 15
  • Wikidata Datathon on June 16 in Zurich
  • Wikibase meetup on June 17-19 in Berlin

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Learning to Generate Wikipedia Summaries for Underserved Languages from Wikidata, presented at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics by Lucie Kaffee and Hady Elsahar (see the poster and the paper)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A proposal for using Wikidata for PeerTube.
  • New constraint type: citation needed constraint
  • Sitelinks can be:
    • added for Bengali Wikivoyage ^{(bnwikivoyage)}
    • defined for Piedmontese Wikisource ^{(pmswikisource)}
    • completed for Pashto Wikivoyage ^{(pswikivoyage)}
    • entered to Sakha Wikiquote ^{(sahwikiquote)}
  • A template listing the new Lexicographical properties is available
  • Draft of consultation about creating separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JavaScript
  • Wikidata now appears in the LOD cloud and you can help improving it

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: reading pattern of Han character, medical evacuation to, sports competition competed at, winter view, Slavic Alphabet, grade of kanji, gender inflection of surname, hyphenation, radical, residual stroke count, ground level 360 degree view, Portable Game Notation
    • External identifiers: ARWU university ID, Canal-U person ID, myschool ID, Pornhub ID, Giant Bomb ID, IAB code, Corago opera ID, FilmTv.it movie ID, FilmTv.it person ID, FilmTv.it TV series ID, OpenCorporates corporate grouping, BirdLife International ID, Czech Geomorphological Unit Code, Swedish Gravestone ID, iTunes App Store developer ID, Les Enfoirés participant ID, Les Enfoirés song ID, Czech NDOP taxon ID, Relationship Science person ID, Dordrechts Museum artwork ID, Finnish national bibliography corporate name ID, YouPorn performer ID, MNAV work ID, Web umenia work ID, MonDO ID, Saint Louis Art Museum person ID, CDMC musician ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art person ID, SJP Online ID, OED Online ID, Strava ID of a professional sport person, Douban Movie Celebrity ID, Firmenbuchnummer, Songfacts artist ID, StadiumDB identifier, World Stadium Database identifier
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: permanent resident of, type locality, SPARQL endpoint, property scope, Romanization of Belarusian, factorizsation, Jones polynomial, Alexander polynomial, Conway polynomial, number of videos, Han character in this lexeme, número de etapas, Angular size, Red List status of species, United Kingdom railway station category, reference has role, mathematical concept defining formula, mathematical concept definition, subject facet
    • External identifiers: Redump.org, Church of Norway building ID, Taratata ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. work ID, NRJ ID, Akout ID, Lafonoteca ID, Swedish Academy member, Party Number (Taiwan), DLCM ID, AntWeb, Webb-site person ID, Webb-site organization ID, Companies House officer ID, France Culture ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects ID, LONSEA people ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland Building ID, Kino-teatr.ua film ID, Drouot ID, Kino-teatr.ua person ID, Swedish Signaturer.se, BioStor work ID, César Award film ID, César Award person ID, National Archive of Sweden, Libris-URI, IUF member ID, Museo del Prado artist ID, fernsehserien.de ID, ARMB member ID, OCLC work id
  • Properties awaiting widespread use, created >3 months:
    • research intervention (P4844), International Numbering System number (P4849), BMI Work ID (P4860), Atarimania identifier (P4859), AtariAge identifier (P4857), RFE symbol (P4867), Operabase ID (P4869), GEPRIS person ID (P4872), GEPRIS organization ID (P4871), GEPRIS project ID (P4870)
  • Deleted properties: Property:P2439 ("language"), Property:P2237 ("units used for this property"), Property:P883 ("FIPS 5-2 (code for US states)"), Property:P5190 ("synonym")
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of discoveries in the Solar System (source)
    • Map of Suffragettes around the world (source)
    • Female ministers in African countries (source)
    • References with only a quote but no other properties (source)
    • Islands in capital cities (source)
    • Map of titles in the Welsh Journals & Welsh Newspapers (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject BHL (books etc from the Biodiversity Heritage Library)
  • Newest gadgets: derivedstatements.js adds at the end of all item pages a new button to load inverse statements
  • Newest database reports: list of films (चलचित्र) from Nepal

• Development
  • Developing a prototype for usability testing for how the term box (labels, descriptions, aliases) could work on mobile
  • Investigating how we can do the display of items (their label and sometimes description when linked to in a statement or in listings like Recent Changes) in a way that is less of an issue for the database
  • Working on including the dispatch lag in the maxlag API to make it easier for bots to see when they should stop editing because of performance reasons (phabricator:T194950)
  • Working on adding a Lua function to check if an item is a subclass/instance of another one (phabricator:T179155)
  • Created an API that returns constraint violations for an item in TTL format in preparation for making constraint violations queryable in the query service (phabricator:T194762)
  • Started planning for support for Senses
  • Added more helpful text on Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand what information is required (phabricator:T193602)
  • Working on pre-filling the spelling variant for a new Form's representation (phabricator:T195708)
  • Worked on showing the Lemma of a Lexeme instead of just its ID in Special:AllPages, Recent Changes and diffs (phabricator:T191600, phabricator:T195382, phabricator:T195511)
  • Made the representation of a Form in a diff link to the Form (phabricator:T195512)
  • Fixed an issue on the Wikipedias and co when a statement in an item that was used there linked to a Form or Lexeme (phabricator:T195615)
  • Made the "publish" button stay disabled for a Lexeme's header when there is nothing to save (phabricator:T196342)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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June 20: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (and Pratt Women Wikipedia Design this Saturday June 16)

Wednesday June 20, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. Wednesday June 20 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 19:12, 14 June 2018 (UTC) P.S. You are also invited to Wikiproject Women Wikipedia Design @ Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Saturday, June 16!

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Wikidata weekly summary #317

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Clarifying rights and responsibilities of Property Creators

• Events
  • Wikibase meetup on June 17-19 in Berlin
  • Past: Wikidata Lab VIII in São Paulo
    • Images, metadata, and gamification of Wikidata by Magnus Manske (video, slides)
    • Discovering and modeling knowledge in Wikidata by Andrew Lih (video, slides)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • WDAqua: Question Answering over Wikidata, by Dennis Diefenbach
  • CyTargetLinker app update: A flexible solution for network extension in Cytoscape, showing citation data in Cytoscape, by Martina Summer-Kutmon et al.
  • Harnessing the power of structured data: a Wikidata workshop, report of the Wikidata workshop day and Wikidata presence at EuropeanaTech 2018 last May in Rotterdam, Europeana Blog.
  • The new This Month in GLAM newsletter has, as always, a lot of Wikidata-related news!
  • Making Wikidata fit as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems. Lightning talk at ELAG 2018 in Prague by Jneubert

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The program of Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town is out, and here's a summary of all the Wikidata-related sessions
  • If you're building a tool using wb_terms database table, please give us input about it

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: type locality (biology), SPARQL endpoint, display technology, property scope, jockey, attested in, publication in which this taxon name was established, revival or touring version of, United Kingdom railway station category
    • External identifiers: Redump.org ID, Taratata artist ID, NRJ artist ID, Akout ID, Church of Norway building ID, Lafonoteca artist ID, Party Number (Taiwan), Companies House officer ID, Webb-site person ID, AntWeb ID, Webb-site organization ID, France Culture person ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. work ID, DLCM ID, LONSEA people ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects ID, Drouot artist ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland ID, Kino-teatr.ua film ID, Kino-teatr.ua person ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland Building ID, BioStor work ID, Swedish Signaturer.se ID, César Award film ID, César Award person ID, IUF member ID, Museo del Prado artist ID, Swedish National Archive ID, Swedish Academy member ID, fernsehserien.de ID, ARMB member ID, OCLC work ID, OpenDOAR ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: runner-up, laps completed, load limit, abgeordnetenwatch.de ID for German politicians, API endpoint, type of water, ranking order, JMA Seismic Intensity Scale
    • External identifiers: Rom Galil settlement ID, Or Movement settlement ID, Bérose ID, AFI person ID, Google News ID, Legaseriea.it ID, Silentera.com movie ID, PC Engine Software Bible identifier, CAGE code, Printemps des poètes ID, Poetry Foundation ID, Poets.org ID, Playmates ID, SGJP Online ID, Laut.de ID, Amphibian Species of World ID, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID, BNB person ID, MobyGames group ID, Operone composer ID, Operone opera ID, Encyclopædia Universalis author ID, YouTube Gaming game ID, National Gallery of Canada artist ID, GAMECIP platform ID, GAMECIP media format ID, Operissimo artist ID, British Council writer ID, IBDOF ID, Entomologists of the World ID, ASMP member ID, Académie des beaux-arts member ID, Dictionnaire critique des historiens de l’art ID, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer ID, Artcyclopedia ID, École normale alumnus ID, BIU Santé ID, Étonnants voyageurs ID, hoopla, Medicina ID, Akadem person ID, IGN video game ID, National Academy of Sciences ID, EGROKN ID
  • Low use properties, created >3 months ago:

    FAPESP institution ID (P4597), title page number (P4714), symbolizes (P4878), World Rugby Women's Sevens Series player ID (P4879), FFR Sevens player ID (P4880), AFL Tables coach ID (P4885), AFL Tables umpire ID (P4888), ACE work ID (P4894), Patrons de France ID (P4891), segmental innervation (P4882)

  • Query examples:
    • Artworks and rooms of The Louvre museum shown in the latest Beyoncé video (source)
    • Goalscorers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup (source)
    • Female dancers and choregraphs having a picture and a Wikipedia article in English but not in French (source)
    • Nudes with cats (source)
    • Museums in Italy colored by number of Wikipedia articles (source)
    • Countries and their official languages, ISO codes and Wikimedia language codes (source)
  • Newest database reports: number of sitelinks to new WMF projects

• Development
  • Prototype for mobile termbox
  • Moving away from wb_terms table
  • Continued work on making WikibaseLexeme compatible with Wikibase clients (T195615)
  • Error handling and usability for entering lemmas was improved (T196342, T197453)
  • Lexemes no longer randomly pop up in rdf dumps (T194627)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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Books & Bytes – Issue 28

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 28, April – May 2018

• #1Bib1Ref
• New partners
  • Rock's Backpages
  • Invaluable
  • Termsoup
• User Group update
• Global branches update
  • Wikipedia Library global coordinators' meeting
• Spotlight: What are the ten most cited sources on Wikipedia? Let's ask the data
• Bytes in brief

Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Italian and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
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Wikidata weekly summary #318

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

• Events
  • Wikidata LGBT group at the Pride march in Paris, June 30th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Archives and Wikidata (in French) by Baptiste de Coulon
  • Share cultural data in Wikidata (in French) video workshop by La cinématèque québécoise

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Try the new prototype of the termbox on mobile and give feedback
  • There will be an IRC Office Hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 26 June from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information, including time and date conversion, is available on Meta. There is no set topic, you are welcome to bring any discussion that you would like to the office hour.
  • Edit #700,000,000 happened on June 21th
  • Magnus Manske released a new interface for QuickStatements V2. Among other changes, it now include links to EditGroups, a tool that allows people to discuss about or revert batch edits
  • WikiCite 2018 will take place in the San Francisco Bay Area on November 27-29

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: angular diameter, laps completed, Alexander polynomial, Conway polynomial, Jones polynomial, school district
    • External identifiers: Bérose ID, Rom Galil settlement ID, Or Movement settlement ID, Or Movement regional council ID, Google News ID, SilentEra.com film ID, Lega Serie A soccer player ID, AFI person ID, Poetry Foundation ID, Poets.org poet ID, Printemps des poètes poet ID, PC Engine Software Bible ID, Playmates Playmate ID, Amphibian Species of World ID, abgeordnetenwatch.de politician ID, Laut.de artist ID, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID, Operone opera ID, Operone composer ID, MobyGames group ID, BNB person ID, ASMP member ID, Académie des beaux-arts member ID, British Council writer ID, Internet Book Database of Fiction writer ID, Operissimo artist ID, YouTube Gaming game ID, National Gallery of Canada artist ID, Encyclopædia Universalis author ID, Entomologists of the World ID, GAMECIP media format ID, Dictionnaire critique des historiens de l'art ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: auxiliary verb, Number of works accessible online, model year, CETAF specimen ID, floor number, has pattern
    • External identifiers: MobyGames game group ID, Amazon.com ID, Behind the voice Actors tv show ID, Behind the voice Actors movie ID, Behind the voice Actors franchise ID, Radio Courtoisie host ID, archINFORM project ID, Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Classiques des sciences sociales ID, cipM ID, Poets & Writers ID, Poetry Archive ID, Norwegian Polar Institute place name ID, VIN, GeoNLP ID, Online Books Page publication ID, Tierstimmenarchiv ID, The Canadian Encyclopedia article ID, TDKIV term ID, Gfycat tag, Gfycat user ID, RYM ID, Identifient pour artistes du Centre national des arts plastiques, Whonamedit? ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of scientists dying a non natural death before 1900 (source)
    • Most P2860-cited surname (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Research projects

• Development
  • Include Wikibase dispatch lag in API "maxlag" enforcing (phab:T194950)
  • Run full constraint check when saving a statement (phab:T194760)
  • Show map on items to preview coordinates (phab:T184933)
  • Implement property scope constraint to say if a property should be used on main snak qualifiers or references (phab:T197473)
  • Investigate on replacements for some parts of wb_terms table (phab:T197161)
  • Fix a UI glitch on Lexeme editing interface (phab:T195298)
  • Add names and descriptions for Lexeme, Form and Sense datatypes on Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T189935)
  • Display a warning message and prevent entering of lemmas with the same spelling variant (phab:T195372)
  • Work on showing description in Item selector in Special:NewLexeme (phab:T165597)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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