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Wikidata weekly summary #243

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:Badge for templates that work with Wikidata?

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to work on structured data for Commons
  • EPA CompTox Dashboard IDs in Wikidata
  • Data donation:128K of Social Networks Archival Context IDs, matched to Wikipedia articles, and imported usingP3430.Thanks,University of Virginia!
  • Past:Wikipedia Day 2017, NYC

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Discussion aboutthe use of values from Wikidata in the English Wikipedia

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:legal status (medicine),basic reproduction number,muscle insertion,muscle origin,pregnancy category,minimal incubation period in humans,maximal incubation period in humans,normal respiratory rate,bite force quotient,name shares origin with,VGMDb album ID,Europeana Fashion creator ID,Parks & Gardens UK Record ID,base Mémoire reference,Aftonbladet topic ID,Songkick Artist ID,Nihon Tarento Meikan ID,PSA Worldtour ID,SANU member ID,Ubuntu 16.10 package,VICNAMES Place ID,wikiskripta id,Woodland Trust wood ID,WTA tennis tournament ID,National Inventors Hall of Fame ID,Inventario Sculture - Polo Museale Fiorentino,Israeli CBS municipal ID,maximum frequency of audible sound,medicine marketing authorisation,Fedora package,FAMA work ID,designated as terrorist by,colonel-in-chief,Euring number,CNC authorization number,case fatality rate,ATP tennis tournament ID,CircleID,Arch package,IPI base code,inferred from,nighttime view,season of,NSW Heritage database ID,stepparent,mirrors data from,FIDAL ID,Cinema of Israel ID
  • Query examples:
    • People without gender, but with photo (~2500 items)
    • Gallery of cheese varieties and origin
    • Taxa with more female than male individuals(source)
    • Scatter chart of river watershed area (in km²) over length (in km), now using normalized unit support(source)
  • Newest database reports:lighthouses at night

• Development
  • Attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit to talk about a lot of things (including editing Wikidata from Wikipedia directly, back-end work for structured data support for Commons - specifically Multi Content Revisions, ideas for improvements to the query service)
  • Final touches to get ArticlePlaceholder pages ready for search engine indexing
  • Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
  • Clickable prototype forclient editingis finally in the works!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one ofthese.
  • Help develop the next summaryhere!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item
  • Helptranslateor proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help fixing themost important constraint violations
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals-proposals needing attention

Read the full report·Unsubscribe·Lea Lacroix (WMDE)15:46, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 20

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 20, November-December 2016
byNikkimaria(talk·contribs),Ocaasi(talk·contribs),UY Scuti(talk·contribs),Samwalton9(talk·contribs)

• Partner resource expansions
• New search tool for finding TWL resources
• #1lib1ref 2017
• Wikidata Visiting Scholar

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This week'sarticle for improvement(week 4, 2017)

Ghanaian nationalists celebrating the 50th anniversary of national independence in 2007 Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProjectToday's articles for improvement's weekly selection: African nationalism Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections:Organ (anatomy)•Professional audio Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article•Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:09, 23 January 2017 (UTC)usingMediaWiki message delivery(talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #244

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

• Discussions
  • New administrator:Pybis now admin on Wikidata!

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata: the new hub for cultural heritage
  • Past:WikiIndaba, Ghana
  • Upcoming:FOSDEM, Brussels, February 4-5th

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with theKartographer extension.The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example:w:ru:Зальцбург(click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, usingkey:wikidata=(here'show to contribute to OSM).
  • QuickStatements V2can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore
  • List of churches generated from Wikidata on Cymraeg Wikipedia

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:ZNIEFF Code,teams classification by time,cycling teams classification by points,FilmPolski.pl ID,points classification,legal status (medicine),basic reproduction number,muscle insertion,muscle origin
  • Query examples:
    • Tide mills in France(source)
    • Wind mills in Paris(source)
    • Mathematical formulae containing HTML escapes(source)
    • Fire stations in Paris(source)

• Development
  • Created a new Special:EntityPage, needed for federation (phabricator:T153499)
  • Sitelink "name" and "badges" in diffs are now translated (phabricator:T111016)
  • Worked on finalizing mockups for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia and co. Now working on the click-dummy for it so we can try it with you.
  • Last touches for automated sitelinks for Wiktionary.
  • A ton of refactoring needed for Wiktionary support.
  • More research on improving our input widgets (for example URL and date).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one ofthese.
  • Help develop the next summaryhere!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item
  • Helptranslateor proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical itemsacross Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals-proposals needing attention

Read the full report·Unsubscribe·Lea Lacroix (WMDE)15:55, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox person/Wikidata

Template:Infobox person/Wikidatahas beennominated for deletion.You are invited to comment on the discussion atthe template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.Fram(talk)12:53, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

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This week'sarticle for improvement(week 5, 2017)

Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProjectToday's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Nvidia Shadowplay Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections:African nationalism•Organ (anatomy) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article•Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:07, 30 January 2017 (UTC)usingMediaWiki message delivery(talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #245

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2

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

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

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:FIBA player ID,MLB ID,NFL.com ID,fussballdaten.de ID,FootballDatabase.eu ID,euroleague.net ID,JapanTour ID,Australian Government Organisations Register ID,draftexpress.com ID,databaseFootball.com ID,AZBilliards ID,par,median income,Luding game ID,eurobasket.com ID,wisdenindia.com ID,acb.com ID,Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool ID,Rfam ID,NHL.com ID,EuroTour ID,databaseOlympics.com ID,Pfam ID,Smithsonian trinomial,Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID,National Park Foundation ID,NPCA ID,U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID,peakware ID,means of locomotion,VGMDb label ID,Dagens Nyheter topic ID,Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID,Luding designer ID,BoardGameGeek designer ID,Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID,LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID,Ameblo username,Catholic rite,Ringgold identifier,Gentoo package
  • Query examples:
    • Most articles about films in each Wikipedia
    • Largest companies by revenue in USD
    • Characters whose actors died recently(source)
    • Stock-listed US companies with founders who (or whose parents) were born outside the US(source)
    • Wizards from Harry Potter and their houses/groups(source)
  • NewestWikiProjects:Wikidata:WikiProject Companies
  • Newest database reports:film festivals this month

• Development
  • RDF exports will contain sitelink page names as strings in addition to the URLs (phab:T148923)
  • Switching the remaining special pages for labels, descriptions and aliases to the OOUI design (phab:T48248)
  • Finalizing the security review of the Cognate extension for Wiktionary (phab:T149082)
  • We plan to provideog:imageOpen Graph tags for sharing Item pages in social networks (phab:T51859)
  • Introducing a new test framework for special pages (phab:T69122)
  • Refactoring the wbeditentity API to work with the new Lexeme entity type (phab:T154288)
  • Addeddocs/change-op-serializations.wikidocumenting how to use the wbeditentity API
  • Added aCREDITSfile to the Wikibase code base, listing all authors

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one ofthese.
  • Help develop the next summaryhere!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item
  • Helptranslateor proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical itemsacross Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals-proposals needing attention

Read the full report·Unsubscribe·Lea Lacroix (WMDE)13:42, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administratorsfrom the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it pleasesubscribe.Yourfeedbackis welcomed.

Administrator changes

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• Adiscussionto workshop proposals to amend theadministrator inactivity policyatWikipedia talk:Administratorshas been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016closed with no consensus for implementingPending changes level 2with new criteria for use.
• Followingan RfC,an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, anRfCclosed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation hasannounceda newcommunity health initiativeto combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee releaseda responseto the Wikimedia Foundation'sstatement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD(John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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This week'sarticle for improvement(week 6, 2017)

A high school in Malaysia Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProjectToday's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Secondary school Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections:Nvidia Shadowplay•African nationalism Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article•Review nominations Posted by:MusikBottalk00:09, 6 February 2017 (UTC)usingMediaWiki message delivery(talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #246

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

• Discussions
  • We need your input aboutquality criteria for building a tool to evaluate item quality

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

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

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:Saros cycle of eclipse,World Checklist of Selected Plant Families ID,Relations Ontology ID,GCD series ID,WNBA player ID,Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ID,CricketArchive playing ground ID,UltraSignup runner ID,ITRA runner ID,Surfline ID,SunshineTour ID,Pro Football Hall of Fame ID,SIPCA code,Sina Weibo id,autologous cell line,Croatian Football Federation player ID,TLG author ID,data size,Fangraphs ID,European Handball Federation ID,ESPNcricinfo playing ground ID,ESPN MLB player ID,European Case Law Identifier,Cultureel Woordenboek identifier,OWGR ID,Legends of Hockey ID,Just Sports Stats ID,J.League Data Site ID,Global Poker Index ID,NGA Lighthouse ID,Admiralty number,pro-football-reference ID,College Football Data Warehouse ID,maximum size or capacity,USCF ID,World Curling Federation ID,World Curling Tour ID,World Guide to Covered Bridges ID,World Series of Poker ID,Zhihu topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • Places of worship south of 48°S(source)
    • Fictional items named after real items(source)

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

Seeall open tickets related to Wikidata.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one ofthese.
  • Help develop the next summaryhere!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item
  • Helptranslateor proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical itemsacross Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals-proposals needing attention
  • The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is bychecking constraint violationsfor propertyGeoNames ID.

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