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Wikidata weekly summary #227

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

• Discussions
  • We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please read the proposal and give us your feedback :)
  • New request for comments: Merging male and female labels

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: State of the map, September 23 - 25, Brussels
  • Next Wikidata office hour: Tuesday September 27th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), in #wikimedia-office
  • Video of a SPARQL workshop (& materials) organized by Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams
  • Slides of Lydia's keynote about Wikidata at the DBpedia conference 2016
  • Slides of Andreas Thalhammer about Unified PageRank for DBpedia and Wikidata
  • #SundayQuery: ask for help on queries every Sunday on Twitter! This week, a tutorial about surnames by Harmonia Amanda, and how to use SPARQL and Python to fix typographical errors by Ash Crow

• Other Noteworthy Stuff

Quality process on Wikidata

• • The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
  • The RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs.
  • You can also activate ORES the review tool to watch damaging edits more easily!
  • There's an infographic on the quality process in Wikidata you can use and edit.
  • You can also use and translate this new datamodel representation.
  • How to fix taxon common names with Pywikibot, tutorial by TweetsFactsAndQueries and Tobias1984.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Visual Novel Database ID, territory overlaps, Zaragoza monument ID, Patrimonio Web JCyL ID, uses property, Statoids ID, art director, offers view on, World Bridge Federation ID, Olympic.org ID, Cultural Heritage Armenia ID, Harasire ID, Sporthorse data ID, Allbreedpedigree ID, Webpedigrees ID, Horsetelex ID
  • Query examples:
    • Embassies (source)
    • World map of water towers (source)
    • "Battles of the Middle Ages" without place or date (source)
    • Asteroids named after characters from works by Lewis Caroll (source)
    • Map of Austrian cultural heritage (source)
    • Statues in Paris depicting historical female figures (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of embassies

• Development
  • We're working on entity usage on Wikimedia projects, check our different features
  • The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (WikiCon, ViewSource, DPpedia, SoCraTes, Write the doc) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across 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) 18:05, 19 set 2016 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #228

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: WikiCon 2016
  • Past: OASPA conference (slides)
  • Past: State of the Map
  • Past: National Institute of Health: frontiers in data science lecture series (slides)
  • Upcoming: SMWCon
  • Upcoming: office hour on IRC
  • Blog post about Wikidata and data about Czech trees
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The query examples have been migrated from mediawiki.org to wikidata.org at d:Wikidata:SPARQL examples
  • HPI is doing a linked data engineering course online
  • TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
  • Andy has mapped most of the W3C's ontology for vCard to Wikidata properties.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Heritage Lighthouse of Canada ID, Heritage Railway Station of Canada ID, New General Catalogue ID, Vine user ID, data.gouv.fr ID, patient of, Ciné-Ressources person ID, Ciné-Ressources movie ID, UAI code, Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID, Northern Ireland charity number, charity number (Isle of Man), JewishGen Locality ID, Federal Heritage Buildings ID, USGS earthquake id, league points system, INA video ID, GS1 Manufacturer code, Last.FM music ID, IMIS person ID, innervates, innervated by, Nobel prize ID, Marburger Professorenkatalog ID, TAXREF ID, VKontakte username, Czech National Bibliography book ID, WSJ topic ID, FANTOIR code, OpenCitations bibliographic resource ID
  • Query examples: taxonomy of squirrels (source), good or featured articles about people on Wikipedia but with no picture on Wikidata (source), Nordic Cross flags (source)
• Development
  • mnc (for Manchu) will soon be available as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137808)
  • Worked on foreign EntityIds in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons in the future (phabricator:T145516, phabricator:T146030, phabricator:T146274)
  • More work on usage tracking UI (phabricator:T145965, phabricator:T143148, phabricator:T145189, phabricator:T144923)
  • RFC discussion about Multi-Content-Revisions - another big blocker for structured data on Commons (phabricator:E273)
  • Ran a bot to mark dates that need a check of their calendar model (phabricator:T105100)
  • Getting unit conversion into the query service soon. We'll start with units for length and then expand based on feedback. (phabricator:T117032)
  • Working on extension to automatically link pages between languages on Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
  • Added the value that is responsible for an error in the error message so it can be found and fixed more easily (phabricator:T144303)
  • Working on fix for issue with extremely large or small date values in RDF (phabricator:T146356)
  • Expanding references again in diffs (phabricator:T129836)
  • Unbroke CopyReferences gadget. More work is needed. (phabricator:T142203)
  • Fixed issue with 2 search suggestion boxes showing up instead of 1 (phabricator:T119492)
  • Worked on improving the query service documentation (phabricator:T133052)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across 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 · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23:31, 26 set 2016 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #229

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Expanding Wikidata’s Parenthood Information by 178%, or How To Mine Relation Cardinalities, by Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt (Q27038095)
  • Extracting Scientists from Wikipedia, by Gustaf Harari Ekenstierna and Victor Shu-Ming Lam (Q27037451)
  • Comparison of Wikidata and DBpedia projects as spatial data sources (cs), by Jan Macura (Q27042632)
  • Wikidata challenge to take on language obstacles in medical analysis on Warriors Planet
  • The Wikidata scholarly profile page on Finn Årup Nielsen's blog
  • Wikidata as a digital preservation knowledgebase on Open Preservation Foundation

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We need you for Wikidata's birthday! Organize an event or tell us your story about Wikidata
  • Item Q27000000 was created, about Stakihnúkur, a hill in Iceland
  • Log of our last office hour discussion
  • The first WikiCite newsletter has been published
  • You can help a research project to understand the use of the SPARQL query service

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: OKPD2 code of the good or service, OKP ID of the good or service, OKP Code, OKVED 2 code of the economic activity, OKPD code of the good or service, OKVED 1.1 code of the economic activity, SIC code, Catholic Encyclopedia ID, NBN System Key, trunk prefix, KU Leuven person ID, PhilPapers publication, PhilPapers topic, Library of Congress Cultural Heritage Organizations, PhilPapers profile, PhilPapers author, Mediaarts-DB ID, SCAR Composite Gazetteer, South Dakota legislator ID, Schläfli symbol, Cultural Heritage Kosovo ID, HAS member ID, Corporate Number (Japan), NAICS code, List of lights id, Nationalencyklopedin Online ID, NYT topic ID, KvK company ID, Encyclopædia Universalis Online ID, Auñamendi ID, Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, ClassInd rating, SIRET number, Onisep occupation ID, Indian census area code, ISAN
  • Query examples:
    • Most populous commune of France whose name begins by a certain letter (source)
    • Works mentioning #Wikidata properties (source)
    • Places where people born in Brittany died (source)
    • trees grown from seeds that went around the Moon (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Virtual Twins
  • Newest external tools: Free Software Directory plugin with a bot
  • Newest database reports: list of articles with "uses property" (P3176)

• Development
  • Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
  • Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
  • More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
  • Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (phabricator:T144687)
  • Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (phabricator:T146318)
  • Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (phabricator:T144037).
  • Made it possible to use the bzr and cvs protocols in URL data types (phabricator:T146692)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help merge items of people with the same name and dates.
  • 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) 17:34, 3 ott 2016 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #230

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • During the British wildlife edit-a-thon 2016, attendees added bird sounds from Europeana Sounds to Wikidata and over 60 Wikipedias
  • Past: WikiConference in San Diego, USA
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop by Wikimedia Nederland, October 20, Utrecht
  • Wikidata & Wikipedia edit-athon about Ramon Llull by Amical Wikimedia (ca)
  • A Natural Language Query Engine without Machine Learning, on A Young Programmer's blog
  • The Wikimedia Foundation will now directly fund basic expenses for Wikidata software development, on WMF blog
  • People buried on cemetery and if they have a picture of the grave or not by Magnus Sälgö
  • Sunday Query : où meurent les Bretons ? (fr) by Ash_Crow
  • Charts and data about Brexit & US Elections, by Hector Perez

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Proposition for upgrading the default copyright license for Wikimedia projects to CC-by-SA 4.0 (does not affect the structured data part of Wikidata, which uses CC0).
  • 3 Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF grants : Librarybase, Lua module and WikiFactMine
  • Query service analysis: What kind of things are people doing with WDQS? and Who are our WDQS users and where are they from?
  • chemical compounds in Wikipedia and Wikidata, talk by Sebastian Burgstaller
  • PetScan tool past half a million queries since April (source)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: KANTL member ID, Angel List ID, storyboard artist, content deliverer, Actorenregister ID, Zeri image ID, compulsory education (maximum age), compulsory education (minimum age), Fotografen.nl ID, PORT organization URL, Flickr user ID, LocFDD ID, MySpace ID, radix, base, has anatomical branch, anatomical branch of, points awarded, intangible cultural heritage status, LiveJournal ID, Queensland place ID, Cave E-Cadastre ID, Property proposal discussion, optimum viable temperature, maximum viable temperature, minimum viable temperature
  • Query examples:
    • Chemistry Nobel prizes through time (source)
    • Former countries without continent (P30) (source)
    • Rivers without any mouth specified (source)
    • Interesting items near you (source)
  • Newest external tools: new Wikidata game, Alias Candidates (by MagnusManske)
  • Newest database reports: List of embassies has now summaries by host country and by country represented

• Development
  • The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (phabricator:T146271)
  • More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
  • More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (phabricator:T76007)
  • Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
  • Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (phabricator:T142940)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across 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) 18:13, 10 ott 2016 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: September 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue IX, September 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Workshop: ONU Mujeres; Case study: Digitization Project Belgium report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg Brazil report: A GLAM ostrich makes the day; Wiki Loves Monuments boost in Brazil Czech Republic report: Edit-a-thon in the Research Library in Olomouc Germany report: Presenting four years of GLAM activities in Germany at WikiCon 2016 Italy report: Wikipedians at Tridentine Diocesan Museum; Alpine Botanical Garden Viote Macedonia report: Statistics and news Mexico report: Towards reducing gender gap in Wikipedia: "Editatona" Female writers Netherlands report: Workshop for Dutch WW2 underground newspapers; Project Netherlands and the world; A report on the Iconclass expert Meeting Norway report: Wiki Loves Monuments editing contest; Wikinobel Serbia report: Content donation by an art photograph Maja Stošić Spain report: Wiki Takes Sweden report: A month full of projects Ukraine report: Writing Week Around Content Donation USA report: Edit-a-thons, Wiki Loves Monuments, and Wikiconference Open Access report: WikiCite at OASPA; 3D printing biology Wikidata report: Properties are Deft! Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 17:01, 13 ott 2016 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #231

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Connected Data London meetup with Navino Evans
  • Upcoming: Andy Mabbett & Liam Wyatt speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) at Muzeum Cyfrowe in Warsaw, 19 October.
  • Upcoming: Andy Mabbett speaking about Wikidata & running a GLAM-Wiki workshop at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
  • Past: CCBWIKI
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • World Spider Catalog has been added to Mix'n'match
  • Mix’n’match can now limit auto-matches to instances of a specific item and its subclasses
  • Sitelinks for the new Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia (olowiki) can be added
  • There is now a "userbox" for Wikidatans wishing to mark Wikidata's fourth birthday on their user pages
  • myMuseum was created at the hack4heritage hackathon and won a prize
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II
  • Query examples:
    • first Nobel Prize winner who was born after Alfred Nobel’s death (source)
    • streets in Paris named after doctors (source)
    • international land tripoints (source)
    • national flags depicting stars or constellations (source)
    • national flags with inscriptions (source)
    • people who died the furthest away from where they were born (source)
    • closest pairs of capitals (of UN member states, <500km) (source)
    • people who received military decorations from two different countries (source)
    • volcanoes and earthquakes (source)
    • height/width ratios of paintings (source)
    • birthplaces of Members of the European Parliament (source)
    • birthplaces of US Senators (source)
  • New template: d:Template:Poland properties. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
• Development
  • Worked further on automatic linking of pages between Wiktionary language editions
  • Worked further on making it possible to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons
  • Reviewed error messages and made them easier to understand
  • Added tooltips in some places in the UI to make them more understandable (e.g. ranks, special values)
  • Made the loading animation clearer in embedded query results (phabricator:T148042)
  • Making it possible to paste the full URL of an image on Commons into image properties (phabricator:T147917)
  • Worked on a small birthday present
  • Fixed run button not being reenabled after some queries (phabricator:T147114)
  • More work on better parser function and Lua functions that return formatted values (phabricator:T142940)
  • Undoing the last edit to an item will now show a undo summary, not a restore one (phabricator:T147631) Thanks Matěj!
  • Lule Sami and Pite Sami are now supported languages in Wikidata (phabricator:T146707)
  • Brainstormed about how to make it easier to write queries without knowing SPARQL
  • Fixed a bug with spaces in language codes in queries (phabricator:T147729)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across 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 · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23:55, 17 ott 2016 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #232

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

• Wikidata's birthday is coming!

Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date, a lot of events will happen online and offline.

Birthday events

Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday. You can join one of them or create an event in your own town!

• San Francisco (USA), October 26th
• Torino (Italy), October 26th
• Tokyo (Japan), October 28th
• Paris (France), October 29th
• Utrecht (NL), October 29th
• Berlin (Germany), November 4th
• Rennes (France), November 5th

Online

A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat or the mailing-list every day to see what happens!

You can also participate by posting a story (more info here), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present on the birthday page.

If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add this template to your user page.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata workshops in Paris : every month, Wikimédia France and editors organize a workshop about Wikidata and related tools. Check out the schedule
  • Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS October 29th in Berlin, organized by Lucie and Julia from the Wikidata team

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WikiCite 2016 report

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by, musical conductor, Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID, Belgian Senate person ID, Flemish Parliament person ID, DRÚSOP ID
  • Query examples:
    • places of birth of living US senators (compare with last week's)
    • Wikidata map of filming locations (source)
    • Streets in Paris named after a physician (source)
    • Moons of trans-Neptunian objects (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Chess

• Development
  • Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see GitHub). Thanks, 0x686578!
  • Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when editing a Commons media statement (phabricator:T141880).
  • Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted statements.
  • Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across 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) 12:37, 24 ott 2016 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #233

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

• Wikidata's birthday: presents, stories and events

The birthday week started and already a lot of events happened, presents have been shared, stories have been told! Here's what you may have missed:

• • a word from the development team by Lydia
  • a new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation, by Addshore, who explains how he generated it in a blog post
  • The 4th birthday logo by Incabell
  • A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users, by Tomayac
  • A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service, by TweetsFactsAndQueries
  • Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart (read more and try examples in the documentation) by Jonas
  • {{#statements:…}}, a new parser function is currently in development with better features that you can try on beta by the Wikidata dev team and volunteers
  • Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles, by fnielsen
  • 10 cool queries for Wikidata that will blow your mind. Number 7 will shock you, by Jens and Cornelius
  • 4 years of Wikidata by Stryn
  • A lot of people celebrating and posting pictures on Twitter or on Commons!

The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata birthday in Kanpur (India), November 3rd
  • Wikidata birthday in Berlin (Germany), November 4th
  • Wikidata birthday in Rennes (France), November 5th
  • OKlab Berlin hacknights, October 31st and November 7th
  • Pidapalooza, Reykjavik, November 9-10
  • Past: Ladies that FOSS (livetweet report)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: SummitPost ID, lib.reviews ID, Galiciana Author ID, ICAA rating, KINENOTE person ID, NGS pumping station ID, third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by
  • Query examples:
    • Deities and their families
    • Most frequently variants of given names (source)
    • Cheese made with cow milk (source)
    • Abandoned villages in the Czech Republic (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Informatics: File Formats
  • Newest database reports: Liam Neeson filmography

• Development
  • We proposed a meaningful initial order for the statementSort gadget (phabricator:T147062)
  • Commons media file properties now support pasting full Wikimedia Commons URLs (phabricator:T147917)
  • Added distinct hover tooltips to rank and snak type selectors, as well as some of the "add" buttons (phabricator:T139356)
  • Our concept base URI will be exposed as part of the meta=siteinfo API (phabricator:T143910). Thanks, user Lokal Profil!
  • Progress on the list=wbsubscribers API module to query entity usage information (phabricator:T145880)
  • Progress on the new parser function for rich, formatted statements (phabricator:T142940)
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 6.2.0
  • Released ValueView 0.18.0

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across 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) 16:05, 31 ott 2016 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #234

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

• Fourth birthday: thank you!

Map of the birthday parties

Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!

Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:

• d:Template:User Wikidata birthday 2016 (Pigsonthewing)
• A new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation (Addshore)
• Wikidata's 4th birthday logo (Incabell)
• A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users. (Tomayac)
• A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
• Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart! Read more and try examples in the documentation (Jonas)
• {{#statements:…}}, a new parser function is currently in development with better features: try it here! (Thiemo, Wikidata dev team and volunteers)
• Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles (fnielsen)
• Technical documentation about Wikibase for PHP and JS scripts (Ladsgroup and Jonas)
• new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse the properties of items. see in the video (Jonas)
• graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (demo video) (Jonas, [[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
• d:Module:PropertyPath and d:Template:Show Path Items (TomT0m)
• Everything is connected, a knowledge game based on Wikidata and Commons (list of levels) (Denny)

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Histropedia: “The power of data visualisation combined with free knowledge” on WMF's blog
  • Presenting the Wikidata Human Gender Indicators by Max Klein
  • How the world’s first Wikidata Visiting Scholar created linked open data for five thousand works of art on WMF's blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Music in Canada at 150 Wikipedia Project, a multifaceted campaign to increase the amount and quality of content about Canadian music in Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • 400,000,000th edit was made.
  • The average amount of statements per item became higher than five and is still growing.
  • Wikidata entities usage on Wikimedia projects

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II
  • Query examples:
    • Continents on Wikidata (All eleven of them) (source)
    • Sluices on the river "Vilaine" in Brittany (source)
    • Countries with most cities named after saints (source)
    • Disney characters who share name with their actors (source)
    • 204 items that cite themselves (source)
    • Statements with two references where one source cites the other (source)

• Development
  • Stable interface policy update
  • More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (phabricator:T149580)
  • Worked on first version of Lexeme entity type (phabricator:T148139)
  • Worked more on linking values in Lua and the property parser function instead of just returning the label (phabricator:T142940) You can test it here: https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements
  • Improved map layer colors in the query service (phabricator:T148022)
  • Improved size of map markers in the query service (phabricator:T148496)
  • Upcoming: quantity changes
  • Worked more on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987) Test system is coming in the next days.

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This Month in GLAM: October 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue X, October 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Workshops and online course Basque Country report: Libraries and Wikimedia meet in Donostiapedia Belgium report: BeMuseum; upcoming prize ceremony Wiki Loves Brazil report: GLAM news in October Bulgaria report: Bulgarian Archives State Agency; Archives Challenge Côte d'Ivoire report: Collaborating with Parliament, editing with Women Germany report: GLAM on Tour at Heidelberg University Macedonia report: Wikiexperiments project continues: Chemistry experiments in glorious HD! Mexico report: Women in Cinema, LGBT rights, WikiArte, Donation from the Cervantine Library and WikiConNA Netherlands report: Wikipedian in Residence; Heritage Leiden; Public libraries Norway report: Maps! Poland report: Digitisation, modern museums and ancient Nubia Serbia report: Wikipedian in Residence and Wiki Librarian workshops Spain report: Wiki Takes and libraries Sweden report: Nationalmuseum's Paintings; Maritime edit-a-thon; Connected Open Heritage; Swedish National Archive UK report: Beautiful birds, and back to the Bodleian USA report: WikiConference North America 2016 and edit-a-thons Open Access report: Open Access Week; 7,000 new audiovisual media; 2 Requests for Comment & 1 bot WMF GLAM report: Digitization, Travel, Structured Data on Commons, and WMF updates Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #235

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.

• Discussions
  • Current request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata and the Chain of Death, by Karl Beecher
  • Scaling multilingual name tags with Wikidata OpenStreetMap contributor blog post
  • Wikidata and Persistent Identifiers was presented at PIDapalooza November 9th.
  • Wikidata in OpenStreetMap
  • Wikidata and the Semantic Web of Food

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
  • Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: generation time, hazard on site, ACM Digital Library event ID, ACM Digital Library citation ID, HGVS nomenclature, Supermodels.nl ID, CIViC variant ID, wurvoc.org measure ID, Réserves Naturelles de France ID, World Waterfall Database ID, Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899 ID, ID petit-patrimoine.com, opponent during disputation, Vlindernet ID, male form of label, board member, Patrimonio Inmueble de Andalucía ID, BDI ID, ICCF ID, chesstempo ID, 365chess player ID, plan image, muscle action, SummitPost ID, lib.reviews ID, Galiciana Author ID, ICAA rating, KINENOTE person ID, NGS pumping station ID, third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by, musical conductor, Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID, Belgian Senate person ID, Flemish Parliament person ID

• • Query examples:
    • Map of educational institutes from all over the world (source)
    • Current US Supreme Court justices by their date of birth (source)
    • Death dates of people with Wikidata items (source)
    • French towns that a street in Paris is name after(source)
    • Statements with “reason for deprecation” rank that aren’t deprecated(source)

• Development
  • More work on federation (phabricator:T76007)
  • Worked on first basic version of Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T148139)
  • Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
  • Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
  • Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
  • Analysed queries used with Listeria
  • More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines (phabricator:T117693)
  • More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages (phabricator:T124036)
  • Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders (phabricator:T113955)
  • Fix for bug that prevented editing (phabricator:T150401)
  • Experimented with improvements for property suggestions (phabricator:T132839)

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Wikidata weekly summary #236

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: How to make new languages enabled on Wikidata

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Problematizing and Addressing the Article as Concept Assumption in Wikipedia (Q27827559)
  • schema.org, Wikidata, Knowledge Graph: strands of the modern semantic web by Dan Scott

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Parlement & Politiek ID (P1749) has been completed in Mix'n'match. Over 5000 politicians from the Netherlands (and also Belgium) now have a link to this resource
  • Two policies about abandoned tools on Tool Labs are currently voted on
  • The Community Wishlist Survey is now closed and the vote phase will start on November 28. Here's the category for Wikidata
  • Data import hub and Data import guide: feel free to give feedbacks on these documents!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: musipedia tune ID, Adult Film Database person ID, WHO international non-proprietary names ID, designed to carry, National Library of Greece ID, PermID, HKMDb person ID, RxNorm CUI, Vote Smart ID, legislation.gov.uk ID, significant person, Kvikmyndir person ID, Kvikmyndir film ID, World Surf League ID, Encyclopedia of Surfing ID
  • Query examples:
    • Occupations of women, with French female-form labels (source, database report)
    • Documents with most signatories (source)
    • Filming locations of James Bond films (source)
    • United States National Historic Landmarks not actually located in the United States (source)
    • Items with VIAF, but no P31/279 (source)
  • Newest database reports: List of Italian language films without articles in Italian Wikipedia

• Development
  • Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
  • Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
  • Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
  • Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
  • Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (phabricator:T149598)
  • Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
  • Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (phabricator:T151129)
  • Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T113955)
  • ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (phabricator:T124036)
  • Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (phabricator:T142087)
  • Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
  • Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing

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Wikidata weekly summary #237

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikidata introduction by Pigsonthewing at DJUK 2016

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Items without statements is down to 5% for enwiki (source)
  • Wikidata:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Auckland Art Gallery artist ID, Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux ID, Géopatronyme ID, Prabook ID, GECD film ID, GECD person ID, Enciclopedia Treccani, stereoisomer of, Tennishof ID, operating income, PictoRight ID code, Nobel Prize People Nomination ID, negative prognostic predictor, positive prognostic predictor, negative diagnostic predictor, positive diagnostic predictor, negative therapeutic predictor, positive therapeutic predictor, National Recreation Trails Database ID
  • Query example : List of sovereign state flags by proportion (source)
  • Newest tool: Display the link to Wikiversity in the title of Wikipedia using Wikidata
  • Newest database report: Unique films: film items with a link to a single Wikipedia

• Development
  • Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. phab:T111023

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Wikidata weekly summary #238

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany with OKLabs, Jens and WikidataFacts. You can read a blog post by Riedelwerk (in German) More documentation to come soon
  • How Wikidata could be used for biomedical knowledge (Benjamin Good)
  • The Fossasia Opentech Submit in Singapore is looking for speakers. If you're in the area and want to introduce attendees to Wikidata, feel free to send your application!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Sitelinks for the new Finnish Wikivoyage can be added

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: French Sculpture Census work ID, Japan Sumo Association ID, film poster, GeneDB ID, File Format Wiki page ID, FAO 2007 genetic resource ID, Model Manual ID, Merck Index reaction ID, Bloomberg private company ID, Belgian Enterprise number, GECD Firmen-ID, endianness, sibling
  • Query examples:
    • Bridges named after women (source)
    • Network of brands of some big food/drink companies (source, help improve it)
    • Cities located next to most rivers (source)
    • Nobel Prize winners on Twitter (source)
    • French deputies who died during their mandate (source)
    • Streets in the Netherlands named after people
    • People burried in the cemetery of La Croix Rousse (Lyon, France) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Politicians in France
  • Newest database reports: list of films with multiple-language versions (Italian labels)

• Development
  • Special:EntityUsage and Special:PagesWithBadges now are using OOjs UI (phab:T152046)
  • RFC discussion on ways to allow visitors to choose a language without logging in (phab:T149419 and phab:T114662)
  • Investigating performance issues with change dispatching (phab:T151681)
  • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), refining the Lexeme data model (phab:T151582)
  • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
  • Some discussion on tracking usage of statements or statement groups on clients (phab:T151717, see mailing list)
  • Investigating support for Linked Data Fragments (phab:T136358)
  • We're participating in this year's Google Code-In with a couple of Wikidata related tasks
  • Research for Wikidata for Commons and Wiktionary continues
  • Added olo (Livvinkarjala), mai and tcy to interwiki sorting order. (phab:T151449)

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This Month in GLAM: November 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue XI, November 2016 Headlines Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg Brazil report: Opening the Mathematics box in a context of widespread innumeracy Côte d'Ivoire report: Outcomes from the Parliament's collaboration and more France report: GLAM in northern France Germany report: WikiLibrary Barcamp and Wikimedia-Salon Mexico report: 2nd edit-a-thon WikiUNAM; 2 other edit-a-thons Netherlands report: Temminck Groll Collection; WW2 underground newspaper project presented in Bonn; Stained glass in the picture Norway report: #faktajakt and Armenia contest Spain report: Edit-a-thons in museums Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Craft; Wikipedia training; Uppsala stadsarkiv; Brunnsmuseet; Debate; LSH Upload Ukraine report: Ukrainian Museums Issued Additional Awards for Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 USA report: Holiday season events with new partners Open Access report: Open access on the 2016 Community Wishlist; Over 1k new video uploads Wikidata report: Birthday Bonanza WMF GLAM report: Digitization, #1lib1ref, and Tech Updates Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #239

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

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume for this message.

• Discussions
  • New development input: Avoiding breaking gadgets when developing UI
  • Closed request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
  • Wishlist at What government data is of best interest?

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Open Gov Partnership conference in Paris, where Ash_Crow and other editors presented Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Have a look at PAWS, a tool to create Wikidata bots (and a cheat sheet from WikidataFacts)
  • Item Q 28 000 000 is about to be created.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: CNC film rating (Romania), Wilderness.net ID, CORDIS Project ID, JTWC tropical cyclone ID, Butterflies and Moths of North America ID, Guide of the French Church person ID, Guide of the French Church structure ID, heart rate, Järviwiki ID, LittleSis organisation ID, Surman ID, Verkhovna Rada MP id, Consolidated code of the electronic catalog of libraries of Belarus, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters member ID, LittleSis people ID, minimum frequency of audible sound
  • Query examples:
    • Map of people buried in the cemetery of Norra Begravningsplatsen (Stockholm, Sweden)
    • Works of Musée Saint-Raymond (Toulouse, France) on Wikidata (source)
    • Communes of France named after a river
    • People awarded by a Theater World Award in 2016
    • Upcoming creative works: films, TV series, video games… (source)
    • Number of demonstrations per country (source)
  • Newest database reports: Spanish-language films without an article in Spanish Wikipedia

• Development
  • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
  • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
  • Rework translation/article creation UI (phab:T151858)
  • Creating OOUI mockups as preparation for the dev summit
  • Finishing touches on the extension for automatic generation of inter-wiktionary links (preparatory work for lexicographic data in Wikidata)

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Wikidata weekly summary #240

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

• Discussions
  • Voting on Make family member properties gender neutral: replacement of mother/father with a new "parent" properties
  • Switch Wikidata entities from http to https: T153563

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Blog post about the Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany (de)
  • Wikidata people will be at the Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg, December 27th-30th) on the Open Knowledge Assembly stand

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Basque language Wikipedia develops a most prominent basque and worlwide person born/death in this day for all the day related articles. For example, eu:Abenduaren 19. It also displays interesting red links for people born and dead that day that are not represented in eu:wp.
  • WDQ about to be shut down (you can add sub-tasks for remaining uses to T153439)
  • SQID now supports PrimarySources
  • Project Grants program will fund 12 community-led projects, several of them directly related to Wikidata
  • Citoid, a script for editing references that can automatically populate parts of the reference, is now available for testing!
  • New parser function has been enabled
  • Histropedia added new features to the Wikidata query timeline

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Yle Areena ID, Leopoldina member ID, Protected areas of Canada ID, Saxon Academy of Sciences member ID, Clergy of the Church of England database ID, Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis ID, FINA Athlete ID, Klosterdatenbank, Saccharomyces Genome Database ID, Nederlands Soortenregister ID, The Vogue List ID, coextensive with
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
    • All Theatre World Award winners, in a timeline with pictures (source)
    • Birthplaces of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
    • Planets, their moons, and the things they are named after (source)
    • Items with no father or no mother (source)
    • People born on Christmas day (source)
  • Newest external tools: “short author name” resolver tool
  • Newest database reports: hospital lists
• Development
  • Statements will soon be ordered as specified in MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties (phab:T150788)
  • Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
  • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
  • We removed the page property wb-status, old entries will not be updated any more (phab:T146792)
  • Removed a visible jump while an entity page loads (gerrit:325924)
  • Fixed a formatting issue in which the geo coordinate formatter may output "60 seconds" (phab:T153429)
  • Fixed a bug in Special:NewProperty where it was not possible to provide the property type as part of the URL (phab:327496)
  • Working on a major rewrite of Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel/Description, one of many steps to phase numeric entity IDs out (phab:T140891)

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  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

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