User talk:Curtaintoad/Archive 7

The Signpost: 04 November 2015[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey
News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone
In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?
Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad
Featured content: Christianity, music, and cricket
Gallery: Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #183[change source]

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Lakokat
Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
- Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
- Semantic Cities
- Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
- Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
- Past: semwebpro (slides)
- Past: ODI Summit
- Past: MozFest (etherpad)
- Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
- Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
- Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
Did you know?
- Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
- Ever noticed ranks?
Development
- Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
- From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
- Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
- Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
- Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
- Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
- Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184)
- Worked more on making search work on mobile
- Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:24, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 11 November 2015[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed
Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee
Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review
Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling
In the media: Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys
Traffic report: Doodles of popularity
Gallery: Paris

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Wikidata weekly summary #184[change source]

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

Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
- Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
- Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
- Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
- Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
Did you know?
Development
- Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
- Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (phabricator:T101694)
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
- Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
- Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
- Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
- Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:04, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 18 November 2015[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Special report: ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed
In the media: Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing
Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world
Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running
Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales
Traffic report: Darkness and light

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Wikidata weekly summary #185[change source]

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

Discussions
- New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
Events/Blogs/Press
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
- Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
- MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
- What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
- You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
- Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
- Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
Development
- Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
- Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
- Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
- Decreased size of html of item pages
- Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
- More work on making the search on mobile work
- Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
- Fixing size of table of content on mobile
- Prevented merging of items which link to each other
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 19:28, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 25 November 2015[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art
Op-ed: Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone
Traffic report: J'en ai ras le bol
News and notes: Fundraising update; FDC recommendations
In the media: Erasmus Prize awarded to Wikipedia; trouble on the Russian Wikipedia
Recent research: Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films
Featured content: Caves and stuff
Arbitration report: Third Palestine-Israel case closes; Voting begins
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #186[change source]

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Koavf
Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
- Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
- Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
- Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
- Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
- WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
- Workshop i Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
- New daily report on Mix'n'match
- Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
- French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
- New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
- A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
- Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
- Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
- example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
Development
- Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
- Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
- Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
- Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
- Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:02, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 02 December 2015[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?
Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes
News and notes: Online harassment consultation; High voter turnout at ArbCom elections
In the media: Is Wikidata as transparent as it seems?; Wikimedia Fund-raising drive launches
Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #187[change source]

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
- Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam, 8 December 2015
- Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
- Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016
- Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
- Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
- Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
- Open Science Prize is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
- The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
- Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
- We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content
- I dreamed of a perfect database - Wikidata? ;-)
- Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
- Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
- Map of narrative locations in Denmark
- Experimental REST API for Wikidata
Did you know?
- Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
- Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
- Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
Development
- Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
- Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
- Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
- Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
- Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
- Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co
- Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
- Worked on PHP7 support
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:48, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 09 December 2015[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: ArbCom election results announced
Op-ed: Wikidata: Knowledge from different points of view
In the media: Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries
Traffic report: So do you laugh, or does it cry?
Featured content: Sports, ships, arts... and some other things
Technology report: Tech news in brief
Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 winners

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Wikidata weekly summary #188[change source]

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
- The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
- Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
- Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
- Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
- Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
- query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
- WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
Did you know?
Development
- Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
- Further work on a separate section for identifiers
- Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
- Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
- Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
- Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
- Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Getting ready for the holidays :)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:30, 14 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 16 December 2015[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

In the media: Wales in China; #Edit2015
In focus: Drone photography: New possibilities and new challenges
Arbitration report: GMO case decided
WikiProject report: Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations
Traffic report: A feast of Spam
Featured content: An unusually slow week
Gallery: WikiConference USA 2015: images, slide decks, and videos

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Wikidata weekly summary #189[change source]

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:59, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #190[change source]

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: 32C3
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
- Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
- Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
- Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
- Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
- The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Did you know?
- Newest properties: number of awards, Prosopographia Attica, Structurae person ID, stage classification, sports disciplines competed in, personal best, substrate of
Development
- Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
- Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
Monthly Tasks
- 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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:07, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 December 2015[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: WMF Board dismisses community-elected trustee
Year in review: The top ten Wikipedia stories of 2015
Arbitration report: Second Arbitration Enforcement case concludes as another case is suspended
In the media: Wikipedia plagued by a "Basket of Deception"
Traffic report: The Force we expected
Featured content: The post-Christmas edition
Gallery: It's that time of year again

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The Signpost: 06 January 2016[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: The WMF's age of discontent
In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE
Arbitration report: Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided
Featured content: Featured menagerie
Recent research: Teaching Wikipedia, Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia?
WikiProject report: Try-ing to become informed - WikiProject Rugby League
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #191[change source]

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

Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
Events/Blogs/Press
- The Reference Wars
- Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
- Wikidata references from Microdata
- Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
- From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
- Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
- Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
- Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
- The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. Get your talk proposals in!
- IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
- Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
- Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
- Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
Did you know?
Development
- Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia if interested.
- More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them
- Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (phabricator:T87263)
- We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247)
- Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (phabricator:T95419)
- More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget
- Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
- References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
- SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:50, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 13 January 2016[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee
In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street
Editorial: We need a culture of verification
Op-ed: Transparency (by James Heilman)
Blog: Inside the game of sports vandalism on Wikipedia
Community view: Strategy and controversy
In the media: War and peace; WMF board changes; Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias
Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report
Special report: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
Arbitration report: Interview: outgoing and incumbent arbitrators 2016
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #192[change source]

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
- Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym.
- Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester)
- Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video, slides)
- Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Module:Cycling race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
- Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
- Wikidata-lang - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
- Live-stream of Wikidata edits by Magnus
- Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet now has a Wikidata function
- Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Theatricalia person ID, Theatricalia theatre ID, Global Geoparks Network ID, judicial sentence, allcinema film identifier
Development
- Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (phabricator:T67397)
- Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
- Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (phabricator:T123234)
- Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (phabricator:T123233)
- Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (phabricator:T119493)
- Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (phabricator:T120196)
- Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (phabricator:T94989)
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:21, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 20 January 2016[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out
Op-ed: Not a pretty picture: Thoughts on the "monkey selfie" debacle
In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up
Traffic report: Danse Macabre
Featured content: This week's featured content
Blog: Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske

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Wikidata weekly summary #193[change source]

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
- Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
- Upcoming: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
- Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [1] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [2] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
- Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
- Wikidata Graph Builder
- Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
- You can give input on WMF's strategy
- Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
- Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
- Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
- French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
Did you know?
Development
- Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
- Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
- Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
- Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
- Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
- Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
- Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
- Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
- More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #194[change source]

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Replicator: Wikidata import tool
- The Facebook of German Playwrights
- Language usage on Wikidata
- Past: FOSDEM (slides of talk by Lucie)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
- Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
- some visualizations:
- KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
- Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
- Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
- WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
Did you know?
- Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
- Query example: horses, French sculptors by year of birth
- Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
- Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
- New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
Development
- und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
- Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
- Final touches on making search work on mobile
- Finishing identifier datatype and section
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #195[change source]

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: HakanIST
Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
- Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
- Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
- How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
- What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
- We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
- Andrew updated his maps
- We crossed edit 300,000,000!
- Graph example: matrices
- Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
- Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Box Office Mojo studio ID, Box Office Mojo franchise ID, ČSFD film ID, Richter magnitude scale, moment magnitude scale
Development
- Search now works on mobile
- Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
- Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
- Investigated further options for performance improvement (phabricator:T125502)
- Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500)
- More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063, phabricator:T124757)
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 03 February 2016[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

From the editors: Help wanted
In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board
Op-ed: So, what’s a knowledge engine anyway?
Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost
Traffic report: Bowled
News and notes: Harassment survey 2015; Luis Villa to leave WMF; knowledge engine background
Featured content: This week's featured content
Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration

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The Signpost: 10 February 2016[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Special report: New leaked internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine

In focus: An in-depth look at the special report's newly revealed documents

News and notes: Another WMF departure

In the media: Jeb Bush takes a swing at Wikipedia, and connects

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: A river of revilement

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements

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Wikidata weekly summary #196[change source]

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
- WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
- Hay created a new property browser
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #196[change source]

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
- WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
- Hay created a new property browser
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 17 February 2016[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Blog: Antonin Scalia and the editor tracking his legacy
Featured content: This week's featured content
Op-ed: Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month
Special report: Search and destroy: the Knowledge Engine and the undoing of Lila Tretikov
Technology report: Tech news in brief
Traffic report: Super Bowling

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Wikidata weekly summary #197[change source]

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
- Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
- Timeline of Zika papers
- A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
- The museum map now works for all countries
- Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
- Wikidata BEACON has been switched to use SPARQL
- Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
- Reasonator has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Strand orientation, perimeter, sidekick of, bowling style, acceptable daily intake, operating area, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID, Free Software Directory entry, Sandbox-External identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Religions, Award
- Query example: natural numbers
Development
- The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (phabricator:T2708)
- The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
- Input needed on caching for the query service
- Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
- We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
- Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095)
- More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
- Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
- wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 24 February 2016[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Special report: WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears

Op-ed: Backward the Foundation

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges

Arbitration report: Motion on CheckUser and Oversight inactivity

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Blog: Wiki Loves Africa brings the continent's fashion to the world

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Wikidata weekly summary #198[change source]

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

Events/Blogs/Press
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
- Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
- A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
- Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism.
- Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
- The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site.
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Köppen climate classification, superhuman feature or ability, married name, name, GPU, Wikidata usage instructions, autores.uy database id, stroke, bore, fee, production designer, in work, quantitative metrical pattern, used metre, recording or performance of, Italian Senate of the Republic ID
- Query example: battles
Development
- Wikidata Query Service has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0
- Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
- More groundwork for Commons support
- Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (phabricator:T128078)
- Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (phabricator:T128075)
- More performance work
- In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (phabricator:T125712)
- More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #199[change source]

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Oscars 2016: Movies that got the most attention on Wikipedia (followup with most famous cats)
- Statements per item
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Québec cultural heritage directory people identifier, grammatical option indicates, Statistics Indonesia language code, Statistics Indonesia ethnicity code, village code of Indonesia, has phoneme, INSEE departement code, INSEE region code, Australian Wetlands Database Directory of Important Wetlands Reference Code, distance from Earth, J. Paul Getty Museum object id, BabelNet id, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital ID, studied by, studies, admissible rule in, UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID, measures, National-Football-Teams.com player ID, number of out of school children, Twitter hashtag, uncertainty corresponds to, Saros cycle of eclipse, contact times of eclipse, repealed by, amended by, ECHA InfoCard ID, global-warming potential
- Query example: French heads of government by length of service, Metro stations in Paris
Development
- Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
- More work on the first prototype for Commons support (phabricator:T125822)
- Continued working on improving language support for monolingual text and labels/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T125066)
- Conversion of properties from string to external identifier datatype is ongoing
- Experimenting with putting query results on a map in query.wikidata.org (earthquakes, ski resorts)
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 2 March 2016[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition

Featured content: This week's featured content

Recent research: Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is "verifiable"?

Traffic report: Brawling

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation details requests to alter or remove content in new transparency report

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The Signpost: 09 March 2016[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Blog: The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists
Featured content: This week's featured content
In the media: Wikipedian is break-out star of International Women's Day; dinosaur art; Wikipedia's new iOS app and its fight for market share
News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted
Op-ed: A modest proposal for Wikimedia’s future
Systemic bias: Revenge of "I can’t believe we didn’t have an article on ..."
Technology report: Wikimedia wikis will temporarily go into read-only mode on several occasions in the coming weeks
Traffic report: All business like show business
WikiCup report: First round of the WikiCup finishes

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Wikidata weekly summary #200[change source]

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: WikiArabia
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon
- Upcoming: digikult.se
- Wikidata Tour Down-Under
- Open culture session at Open Belgium
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Coming to Wikimania? Consider submitting a Wikidata related poster, training or discussion! Deadline is on the 20th.
- Wikidata has passed the milestone of 1 Billion Datapoints (Triples) on Wednesday, 9th of March.
- Wikidata Graph Builder now supports arbitrary SPARQL queries (example)
- ESWC 2016 has a new Wikidata Bonus Challenge
- Playing with Wikidata in BigQuery
- There will be server maintenance work next week on all Wikimedia servers that will prevent editing for a short time.
- Wikidata external ID resolver now uses SPARQL and supports lookup of properties via English name (fragment)
- iSpecies now has multilingual summaries and links to Wikidata (example)
- Awarder lets you add awards to a biographical item, or use the Wikipedia text of the award to add all recipients]
- A new version of the Wikidata nuclide chart is online
Did you know?
- Newest properties: thickness, World Heritage criteria (2005), Valencian Property of Local Relevance id, BookBrainz creator ID, PlayStation ID, ČSFD person ID, Kinopoisk person ID, Kinopoisk film ID, Hockeydb.com player ID, Eurohockey.com player ID, Geni.com profile ID, block size, serial number, Gram staining, culture, maximum gradient, Latvian Olympic Committee athlete ID
- Query examples: Number of museums by U. S. state on map, Film directors ranked by number of sitelinks multiplied by their number of films, all museums in Barcelona with coordinates, women mushers, women scientists, women artists, air accidents, Twitter accounts of biologists, torture devices, public art in Paris, Locations of Pablo Picasso works
Development
- We reduced the loading time of items significantly. Enjoy a faster Wikidata :)
  Faster!!!
- Wikidata Query GUI now supports maps. Check it out with one of the example queries above. (Select Map under Display results menu).
- Pywikibot now has SPARQL endpoint support.
- We worked on getting the first pieces of Commons support on a test system. Nothing shiny to see yet but we're making progress.
- Converted more identifier to the new identifier datatype. Still some to go but 450 properties have been converted by now.
- Updated the data that generates suggestions when adding a new statement
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 16 March 2016[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Wikipedia Zero: Orange mobile partnership in Africa ends; the evolution of privacy loss in Wikipedia

In the media: Wales at SXSW; lawsuit over Wikipedia PR editing

Op-ed: Hard work needed to address Wikimedia’s leadership challenges

Discussion report: Is an interim WMF executive director inherently notable?

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States

Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!

Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #119: The Foundation and the departure of Lila Tretikov

Blog: It “revolutionized the way German-speaking people inform themselves about the world”: Fifteen years of the German Wikipedia

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Wikidata weekly summary #201[change source]

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

Discussions
- New request for comments: Reforming the property creation process
Events/Blogs/Press
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Dutch language Wikipedia has a consistently low number of articles unconnected to Wikidata: Duplicity statistics for nlwiki
- MusicBrainz now uses Wikidata to fetch images for their entities
- The query service is now linked in the sidebar
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs among them TED speakers
- Maarten made some reports to make it easier to connect paintings on Wikidata with images on Wikimedia Commons
Did you know?
- Newest properties: BBFC rating, German tax authority ID, ISO 9362 SWIFT/BIC code, DNF person ID, PASE ID, MetroLyrics ID, MEK ID, Companies House ID, Site of Special Scientific Interest (England) ID, ISO 15924 numeric code, Hungarian company ID, SHOWA ID, formatterURL for Wikidata ID, World Heritage criteria (2005), TED talk ID, TED topic ID, TED speaker ID
- Query examples: distribution of public art by place
Development
- The query service now has Ctrl+enter as a shortcut to run a query
- Started working on improving input for geocoordinates and dates (changing the advanced settings)
- Worked on database performance improvements for the client (Wikipedia and co) (phabricator:T125838)
- Experimenting with arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons on http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org
- Converted more identifiers from string datatype to identifier datatype
- Worked on improved localization of dates that are very far in the past or future (phabricator:T127820)
- Fixed undo actions going through abuse filter (phabricator:T126861)
- Fixed issues in the query service with Internet Explorer 11
- Improved query service display on small screens
- Improved autocompletion in the query service
- Fixed a bug with an add button for qualifiers being shown when it shouldn't (phabricator:T128317)
- Further work on Wikimedia Commons support (Special Pages, API)
- You can now add a default view to a query like here. This then shows the defined view (map, table, image grid) when executing the query.
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 23 March 2016[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Interview: Exclusive: interview with interim ED Katherine Maher

News_and_notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks

In_the_media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil

Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March

Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot and a crested serpent awaits!

Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended

Wikipedia_Weekly: Podcast #120: Status of Wikimania 2016

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Wikidata weekly summary #202[change source]

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikidata intro at the École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes (slides)
- Upcoming: IRC office hour
- Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon
- Migrating pKa data from DrugMet to Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A little Easter present for the WikiVerse from Magnus
- The page for institutions, companies, etc who want to donate data to Wikidata has been reworked and expanded by John and Jens
- WMDE is looking for a product management intern to work with Lydia
- Arbitrary access for Commons is getting ready and needs testing
Did you know?
- Newest properties: next crossing downstream, next crossing upstream, SOATO ID, Google Knowledge Graph identifier, has parts of the class, discontinued date, variability of property value, corresponding template, Datahub page, alcohol by volume, units sold, tier 1 capital ratio (CETI), consumption rate per capita, target interest rate, topographic prominence, topographic isolation, Scoville grade, EU transparency register ID, FIFA World Ranking, Estyn ID, partnership with, CRICOS Provider Code, interested in, Cycling Quotient url (mens team), Cycling Quotient identifier (races for men), source of material, mirTarBase ID, mean lifetime, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, FedCup player ID, Davis Cup player ID, Swimrankings.net swimmer ID, Filmportal ID, TV.com ID, RARS rating, Minkultury Film ID, number of parts of a work of art, model, geography, place of detention, Turner Classic Movies film ID, cost of damage
- Query examples: Library and Information Science journals, number of statements backed by a reference with a DOI
Development
- You see that you can now show labels/descriptions/aliases for all languages that have been added to an item by clicking "more languages"
- Preparation for arbitrary access on Commons
- Getting ready for the hackathon in Israel
- More work on making the extended input for geocoordinates and dates less complicated to understand
- Worked on making scrolling of large items less laggy
- Made the query service map visualization no longer show coordinates that are not on earth
- Fixed a bug where the removal of a sitelink couldn't be done (phabricator:T129450)
- Query service no longer restores previous query as requested
- Fixed a bug where adding a statement would leave a stray "add qualifier" link (phabricator:T128317)
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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