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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events/Press/Blogs
Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - by Songkick, about their data donation
Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Attention: Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service? Give us your feedbacks
Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata
Did you know?
Newest properties: Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work, Répertoire national des associations identifier, IPA number order, UNESCO Thesaurus ID, Athletics Australia athlete ID, GuideStar Israel organization ID, MobyGames developer ID, newspaper format, STW Thesaurus for Economics ID, Bollywood Hungama ID, last words, Reprezentacija ID, LoJ peak ID, Ishim ID, GINCO ID, VIVC grape variety ID, column, had as last meal, ADAGP artist ID, CONICET person ID, Medium username
Query examples:
15415 people who died in 2016
Maps of statues of Jeanne d'Arc on a horse (source)
Families who’ve had the same occupation for five generations (source)
Couples of capitals more than 19,000 km away from each other (source)
A ten-persons “surname = given name” chain on Wikidata (source)
Newest database reports: list of newspapers by newspaper format
Development
Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (phabricator:T107595)
Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table
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 - proposals needing attention
Suggested and open tasks!
Contribute to a Showcase item.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:09, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.
There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user's ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.
Please email me to tell me where to email the spreadsheet. Thanks for offering to help with this. PMML's Summer Wikipedia interns are scheduled to start at the end of the month. TeriEmbrey (talk) 13:57, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
New request for comments: Updating References for External Data
Events/Press/Blogs
Registration is open for the Celtic Knot Conference 2017 (July 6th, Edinburgh)
Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague
Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Vote in the board election (see also Voter guides and rationales
Sitelinks for the new Doteli Wikipedia (dtywiki) can be added
You can now track the number of identifier properties for an item
We provide weekly a new type of database dumps: nt truthy dumps
Wikipedia article-draft-generator developed by Pharos for Met Museum project
Schema.org proposes to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common entity base for the target of the sameAs relation
Did you know?
Newest properties: light sector, Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent, Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work
Query examples:
All places (with coordinates) that gave its name to something (source)
Paintings depicting monkeys (source)
Artworks with presumably depicted persons (source)
Newest database reports: list of oldest lighthouses
Development
Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)
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 - proposals needing attention
Suggested and open tasks!
Contribute to a Showcase item.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:57, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Failed verification
Hi. I thought I had done away with my earlier challenge before you revived it. However, I still fail to see any verification of the sentence "The team had until July 2016 to excavate the site before the quarry owners required the land back." The citation's final sentence says "The team is just over halfway through the eight-month dig to uncover the secrets of the site and the people who lived there". So, where does it say the owners (who were partners in the dig) "wanted the land back"? My understanding is that a change of soil moisture content imposed a time limit related to speedy degradation of preserved timber, etc. Bjenks (talk) 16:50, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Tech News: 2017-19
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on Hide categorization of pages in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw. [1]
There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May. [2]
Changes this week
When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say Visual editing and Source editing instead of Switch to visual editing and Switch to code editing. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users. [4][5]
Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{ in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. [6][7]
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02:25, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Thank you
For altering the small text to large, at my User page. Apologies if use of small text was inconsiderate. Otherwise, having reviewed your User page, would note that I collaborate with academicians that study WP, and would be glad for a chat sometime. Remainder to come via email, cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 18:49, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: April 2017
This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue IV, April 2017
Headlines
Argentina report: End of contest, new heritaged donated and digitizing workshop
Basque Country report: Students working on literature with new Wikipedian in Residence
Belgium report: Brussels writing weeks; Dutch Language Union workshop; Civic Lab Brussels start; Edit-a-thon Leuven
Brazil report: Wikimedia Conference, gender and International collaboration
Germany report: You may only harvest after putting a grain
Ghana report: GLAM Ghana duly launched
Italy report: Open Data for Cultural Heritage
Macedonia report: 12 Peaks hiking challenge
Netherlands report: The Netherlands and the World: Photo hunt Chinsurah; Photohunt public library Tilburg; Wikipedian in Residence for UNESCO's Memory of the World programme in the Netherlands; Picture books from Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Spain report: Management and dissemination of cultural heritage
Sweden report: GLAM-EduWiki collaboration awarded Pedagogy Award of the year at Swedish museums; Connected Open Heritage
UK report: Bio-Medical History Residences
USA report: New connections at the Library of Congress and Smithsonian
Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes
Wikidata report: Federation and new datatypes
WMF GLAM report: DPLAFest and Beyond
Calendar: May's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #260
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Development input: Client editing prototype
Events/Press/Blogs
Past: Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague (see a video of the Wikidata and SPARQL training)
Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
Upcoming: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: June 7th in WikiBÄR
You can still register for the Wikidata/election data hackathon in Ulm, Germany (June 23-25)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Discuss the movement strategy on Wikidata. The Cycle 2 started on May, 11.
WikidataCon: join the program committee and other teams!
TwoColConflict is now enabled on Wikidata
OSMgadget is a tool to help Wikipedia editors find objects in OpenStreetMap, and tag them with their Wikidata IDs
The OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher tool
Two language properties will be merged but the discussion still needs to go on
Tabular data files datatype is now enabled
The constraint table has been updated
Did you know?
Newest properties: NLL player ID, Italian Senate ID, ALPG golfer ID, Stereo Ve Mono artist ID, BioRxiv ID, narrower external class, Juwra.com ID, MLL player ID, Directorio Grierson ID, RANM member ID, Old Bailey Proceedings ID, Tumblr ID, Bmx-results.com rider ID, Israel Antiquities Authority ID, OlimpBase Chess Olympiad player ID, ESTC citation number, named by, Reactome pathway ID, NFF person profile ID, Chamber of Deputies of Italy ID, face value, Cinema ID, Digital Valencian Library author ID, copyright owner, Rallye-info.com driver or co-driver ID, V&A item ID, MotoGP racer ID, eWRC-results.com athlete ID, USATF athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics male athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics female athlete ID, Diamond League athlete ID
Query examples:
Paintings in the Louvre Museum, with heights and widths (source)
Chart of USA cities founded per year (source)
Country flags including a symbol of sun (source)
Birthplace of Spanish Queen Consorts (source)
Development
More work on Special:NewLexeme page (Phab:T164582)
Correctly compare time values on constraints (Phab:T164279)
Check wording of messages/constraint check results (Phab:T164354)
Creating grammatical features for Forms (Phab:T160525)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
Monthly Tasks
Help adding missing statements to properties
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Suggested and open tasks!
Contribute to a Showcase item.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 19:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Tech News: 2017-20
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now use ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid. [8]
The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. [9]
Problems
The mediawiki.util library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using('mediawiki.util').done(function(){ as the first line in the file and }); as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue. [10]
Changes this week
The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. [11]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages. [12][13]
Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix. [14][15]
Older unreported changes
Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word __NOGLOBAL__ to your Meta user page to stop this. [16][17]
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21:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Proposed merger of Ikon Eastside into Ikon Gallery
An article that you have been involved in editing—Ikon Gallery —has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. CarlDurose (talk) 13:48, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
New Page Review - Newsletter No.4
Hello Pigsonthewing,
Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 811 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!
But do remember: Rather than speed, quality and depth of patrolling and the use of correct CSD criteria are essential to good reviewing. Do not over-tag. Make use of the message feature to let the creator know about your maintenance tags. See the tutorial again HERE. Get help HERE.
Stay up to date with recent new page developments and have your say, read THIS PAGE.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
There will be a <div> tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this. [18]
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22:15, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #261
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Open request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl
Events/Press/Blogs
Upcoming: Wahlsalon (event Codefor.de about election data): Kickoff on May 24th in Berlin
Upcoming: Open Science: the National Plan and you meeting for Dutch researchers: May 29th in Delft, The Netherlands
Current: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
Current: Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (May 15th-June 30th) help improving the data about the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
Past: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna
Paper: Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base (Alessandro Piscopo, Christopher Phethean, Elena Simperl)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The extension RevisionSlider is now available by default on Wikidata. Try it on a talk or project page!
Check out some updates about the WikidataCon
We reached Q30,000,000! Help us improve it and make a showcase item out of it.
An additional 10k article placeholders on Welsh Wikipedia will be made indexable in search engines
Did you know?
Newest properties: Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, Nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID, channel number, signed form, CETS no., final event, programming paradigm, Bridgeman artist ID, BDCYL authority ID, Clochers de France ID, Global Trade Item Number, Unifrance film ID, Base biographique AUTOR ID, NNL work ID
Query examples:
Websites but without an official website
Plants with associated emoji (source)
Languages ordered by number of speakers (source)
HMDB identifiers with more than one item (source)
Painters with a lot of identifiers on Wikidata, but few Wikipedia articles (source)
Buildings with the greatest numbers of elevators (source)
Map of female writers on Wikidata by birthplace- generated by SPARQL query (source)
In keeping with the Highest Traditions of 1212, and Her Majesties Yard. . .the Big (U.S. Measuring) Stick says. . .Job Well Done. And On behalf of Pink Inc, The Master of Music, Dr. Happy Gilmour...May you be well and Have a Nice Day. Respectfully, THE MASTER BREWMASTER OF PUBLICAN FARMERS. Publican Farmer (talk) 20:50, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
Bronze star and Notablilty for WPMILHST removing Daniel Klem again
Hi Pig, I am removing Daniel Klem from WPMILHIST again. He fails notability for Wikipedia:SOLDIER Military service does not in and of itself place an individual within the scope of the project—particularly in the case of service in modern militaries. To qualify them, an individual's military service must have been somehow noteworthy or have contributed—directly or indirectly—to their notability. A bronze star is not a notable award. To put into perspective with 170,626 BSMs with valor and 549,343 for Achievement/Service Bronze Stars were awarded during the Vietnam War alone. --Molestash (talk) 23:32, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Closed request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl (all successful)
New request for comments: Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata
Events/Press/Blogs
Past: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check on Twitter and the video streams to see what happened
Six degrees on Wikidata, by Andrew Gray
Some statistics on scholarly data in Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
Wikidata for librarians, by Dan Scott
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Eurowings app uses Wikidata
Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM map? Alex-7 created a web app.
Breaking change: sitelink encoding changing in RDF export/WDQS
Did you know?
Newest properties: Filmweb.pl ID, racon signal, Vitaskrá ID, SSB urban settlement number, Austrian Textbook ID, EKATTE place ID, members have occupation, National Library Board Singapore ID, SHARE Catalogue author ID, Sequence Ontology ID, supports programming language, subreddit, sports league level, TA98 Latin term, Misjonsarkiv person ID, Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID
Query examples:
Map of subreddits associated to a place on Earth (source)
Potential reviewers for papers in computer science (source)
Paintings with 'portrait' in the name that lack P180 / depicts (source)
Publications and presentations about WikiCite (source)
Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Zika Corpus
Newest external tools: Wikidata to CSV
Newest database reports: Roger Moore filmography
Development
Attending WikiCite
Showing badges on other projects (phab:T73887)
Improving label tracking (phab:T151717)
Working more on statements on forms in order to support lexicographical data
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 - proposals needing attention
Suggested and open tasks!
Contribute to a Showcase item.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:22, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
Tech News: 2017-22
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen. [19]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a notification when they mention you. You can test this on Beta Wikipedia. You can read more and give feedback on Meta. [20]
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12:18, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
The Seven Princesses
Lovely to see you last week. I discovered The Seven Princesses at the MAK, one of the greatest works of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, but there is almost no information about it online. Despite its amazing story of rediscovery in 1995... Have you come across any good sources about it? I will check German language sources. – SJ + 15:16, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
@Sj: Great to see you, too. I'm sorry to have missed that; but then there is so much in Vienna I want to go back and see. Still, I enjoyed visiting the Leopold Museum, and seeing much of the art nouveau architecture I'd read about. I don't know of any sources for The Seven Princesses, other than what Google finds, but will keep a look out. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:56, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
Administrator changes
Karanacs • Berean Hunter • GoldenRing • Dlohcierekim
Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight
Guideline and policy news
Technical news
Miscellaneous
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If 
