User talk:Tom Morris/Archive 105

• Discussions
• Open request for adminship: ZI Jony

• Events
• Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Wikidata+IRC+office+hour&iso=20190716T16&p1=%3A&ah=1 Tuesday, June 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time)], on the #wikimedia-office channel
• Past: Celtic Knot Conference 2019 - minority languages on Wikimedia projects. Slides to be added in the Commons category

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://addshore.com/2019/07/wikidata-map-july-2019/#more-3857 A new Wikidata map and comparison with previous maps], by Addshore
• [https://commonists.wordpress.com/2019/07/06/the-story-of-integraality-or-my-quest-to-make-it-at-the-wikimedia-hackathon/ The story of building the inteGraality tool at the Wikimedia Hackathon], by JeanFred
• [https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019.06.07-Note-orientation-Identifiants_pour_la_science_ouverte.pdf Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte] by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
• Lydia Pintscher submitted a chapter for the collaborative book Wikipedia@20, called [https://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/s2t6abfh Wikidata - Wikipedia’s not so little sister is finding its own way]. Feel free to have a look, review is open until July 19th
• You can also check out Denny Vrandečić's submission about [https://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/vyf7ksah Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata]

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Because of a server switch, Wikidata will be in read-only mode on July 30th from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC (phab:T227063)
• Change in the name pattern of new Wikidata RDF dumps: starting on July 15th, dumps will have a new name format (phab:T226153)
• Reminder for tool builders: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-July/013247.html Python tools should use a user-agent to access the Query Service]. If you recently encountered issues with the Query Service, please check that your tool is compliant to m:User-Agent policy.
• New user script for lexicographical data to add Forms on Lexemes that don't have any, by suggesting and filling out templates

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: animator, video system, announcement date, access status, literary motif, review of, middle family name
• External identifiers: FPBR person ID, PHI Latin Texts author ID, VG-lista artist ID, Bloodhound ID, Steam profile ID, Find & Connect ID, Goodreads series ID, Scandipop topic id, 2014 Commonwealth Games ID, El portal de Música artist ID, Balochistan Education Management Information System code, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Management Information System code, Punjab Education Management Information System code, Sindh Education Management Information System code, IMVDb artist ID, Institute-id in the BaFin company database, Musiikkituottajat artist (certyfication) ID, IFPI Austria artist ID, IFPI Danmark artist ID, SNEP artist ID, hitparade.ch artist (certyfication) ID, BVMI artist ID, Music Canada artist ID, IFPI Norge artist ID, Napster artist ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Retrosheet ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier ID, ACNP journal ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Rupa Publications author ID, OYO Hotel ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID, Hungarian National Namespace person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, Wikia Article URL 2, Wikispecies template for this work, imprimatur, periphrasis, terms of service, privacy policy, Musisque Deoque author ID, SAR Value, IAAF competition category, Academic rank, MPG ID, newspaper archive, unabbreviated text, identifiant Q-Codes, ft.dk politician identifier
• External identifiers: Biyografya ID, Magazine in BitArkivo.org, PharmGKB ID, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, identifiant Missions étrangères de Paris, DigitalNZ ID, Handball123 player ID, ScOT ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, номер российской организации, AtlasFor ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Adventure Gamers ID, Bebo profile numeric ID, MovieLens ID, WikiApiary, Scribd Book ID, Penguin India author ID, Spanish Catalogued Heritage

• Query examples:
• [https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/37426 762 people made edits on lexicographical data], [https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/35995 571 created at least one Lexeme] ([https://twitter.com/fagerving/status/1147568243537862657 source])
• [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fgeoshape%22%2C%22%3Frgb%22%2C%22%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage%22%5D%2C%22layer%22%3A%22%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage%22%7D%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%0A%3Farea%20%3FareaLabel%0A%3F2011%0A%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage%0A%3Fgeoshape%20%0A%3Frgb%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%0A%20%20%3Farea%20wdt%3AP3896%20%3Fgeoshape%20.%0A%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Farea%20%3F2011%20%3F2011_percent%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%222001%3A%20%22%2C%20%3F2011_Population%2C%20%22%20%3B%20%22%2C%20%3F2011_Speakers%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%3F2011_Percent%29%20as%20%3F2011%29%0A%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Farea%20%3F2011_Population%20%3F2011_Speakers%20%3F2011_Percent%20%3F2011_percent%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22Population%3A%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3F2011_population%29%29%20as%20%3F2011_Population%29%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22Welsh%20speakers%3A%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3F2011_speakers%29%29%20as%20%3F2011_Speakers%29%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22%28%22%2C%20SUBSTR%28STR%28%3F2011_percent%29%2C0%2C5%29%2C%20%22%25%29.%22%29%20as%20%3F2011_Percent%29%0A%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Farea%20%3F2011_speakers%20%3F2011_population%20%3F2011_percent%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28100%20%2a%20%3F2011_speakers%20%2F%20%3F2011_population%20AS%20%3F2011_percent%29%0A%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Farea%20%3F2011_speakers%20%3F2011_population%20WHERE%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Farea%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15979307%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2936%20%3F2011_SpeakersStatement%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1082%20%3F2011_PopulationStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3F2011_SpeakersStatement%20%3Fpq_qual%20%3Fpq_obj%20.%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fqual%20wikibase%3Aqualifier%20%3Fpq_qual%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3F2011_SpeakersStatement%20pq%3AP585%20%222011-00-00T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1098%20%3F2011_speakers%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3F2011_PopulationStatement%20%3Fpq_qual%20%3Fpq_obj%20.%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fqual%20wikibase%3Aqualifier%20%3Fpq_qual%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3F2011_PopulationStatement%20pq%3AP585%20%222011-00-00T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP1082%20%3F2011_population%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2010%2C%20%220-10%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2020%2C%20%2210-20%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2030%2C%20%2220-30%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2040%2C%20%2230-40%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2050%2C%20%2240-50%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2060%2C%20%2250-60%25%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2070%2C%20%2260-70%25%22%2C%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%2270%25%2B%22%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20AS%20%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage%29.%20%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2010%2C%20%22ffe6e6%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2020%2C%20%22ffb3b3%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2030%2C%20%22ff8080%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2040%2C%20%22ff4d4d%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2050%2C%20%22ff1a1a%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2060%2C%20%22e60000%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3F2011_percent%20%3C%2070%2C%20%22b30000%22%2C%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%22800000%22%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20AS%20%3Frgb%29.%0A%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FWelshSpeakerPercentage Map with percentage of Welsh speakers in the regions of Wales] ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Visualising_a_language_with_geoshapes.pdf&page=5 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5pP Publication dates of works used as usage example for Swedish Lexemes] ([https://twitter.com/fagerving/status/1147466712486481920 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5pQ Ratios of male/female organizers and speakers at conferences] ([https://twitter.com/fnielsen/status/1147197245676298241 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5pT World map of sign languages by country] ([https://twitter.com/RocHumet/status/1147163623380389890 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5pV Number of punk bands from Indonesia by region] ([https://twitter.com/hilmanassdf/status/1147066668067065856 source])
• [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsite%20%3FsiteLabel%20%3Fplace%20%3FplaceLabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fimage%20%3FunescoUrl%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%7B%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsite%20%3Fplace%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fimage%20%3FunescoUrl%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fcountry%20WHERE%20%7B%7B%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP463%20wd%3AQ7809%3Bwdt%3AP30%20wd%3AQ46%20.%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ1191549%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15304003%20%7D%7D%7D%0A%7BSELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsite%20%3Fprotection%20%3Fcountry%20%28group_concat%28DISTINCT%20%3FsiteType%29%20AS%20%3FsiteType%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%3Fsite%20p%3AP1435%20%3FprotectionStatement%20%3Bwdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20.%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fx%20wdt%3AP527%20%3Fsite%20.%20%3Fx%20wdt%3AP1435%20%3Fprotection%20%7D%0A%3FprotectionStatement%20ps%3AP1435%20%3Fprotection%20.%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3FprotectionStatement%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0AVALUES%20%3Fprotection%20%7B%20wd%3AQ9259%20wd%3AQ17278671%20wd%3AQ52683530%20wd%3AQ16617071%20wd%3AQ52683527%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP2614%20%3Fcriteria%20.%0ABIND%20%28IF%20%28%28%3Fcriteria%20in%20%28wd%3AQ23038972%2C%20wd%3AQ23038976%2C%20wd%3AQ23038977%2C%20wd%3AQ23038978%2C%20wd%3AQ23038979%2C%20wd%3AQ23038980%29%29%2C%20%22Cultural%22%2C%20%22Natural%22%29%20AS%20%3FsiteType%29%0A%7D%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fsite%20%3Fprotection%20%3Fcountry%0A%7D%0A%7B%0A%3Fsite%20p%3AP757%20%3FidStatement%20.%0A%3FidStatement%20ps%3AP757%20%3Fid%20.%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3FidStatement%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0Awd%3AP757%20p%3AP1630%20%3FformatterUrlStatement%20.%0A%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%3Fsite%20p%3AP4171%20%3FidStatement%20.%0A%3FidStatement%20ps%3AP4171%20%3Fid%20.%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3FidStatement%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0Awd%3AP4171%20p%3AP1630%20%3FformatterUrlStatement%20.%0A%7D%0A%3FformatterUrlStatement%20ps%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20%3B%0Apq%3AP407%20wd%3AQ1860%20.%0ABIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3FunescoUrl%29.%0A%7B%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP527%2B%20%3Fplace%20.%0A%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20%3B%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0AFILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP527%20%3Fx%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%7D%0ABIND%20%28IF%20%28%3Fprotection%20%3D%20wd%3AQ17278671%2C%20%22Tentative%20list%22%2C%20%22World%20heritage%22%29%20AS%20%3FsiteProtection%29%0ABIND%20%28IF%20%28%3FsiteType%20%21%3D%20%22%22%2C%20CONCAT%28%3FsiteProtection%2C%20%22%20-%20%22%2C%20IF%20%28%3FsiteType%20%3D%20%22Cultural%20Natural%22%20%7C%7C%20%3FsiteType%20%3D%20%22Natural%20Cultural%22%2C%20%22Mixed%22%2C%20%3FsiteType%29%29%2C%20%3FsiteProtection%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%7D%0A%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Flayer%29%20%3FsiteLabel%20%3FplaceLabel Map of World Heritage places in Europe] ([https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1146861289509199878 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5pW Map of parishes of New South Wales, Australia, colour-coded by county] ([https://twitter.com/tobyhudson/status/1145927691956183040 source])
• Newest database reports: Glasnevin Cemetery, Mount Jerome Cemetery

• Development
• Enabled JSONLD support for entity data ([https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q64.jsonld example])
• Fixed JSON dump issue (phabricator:T226601)
• Readded qualifier hashes in JSON output that accidentally got lost (phabricator:T227207)
• Made sure changes on Entity Schema pages by autoconfirmed users are autopatrolled (phabricator:T224495)
• Looked into issues with partial blocking on Wikidata entities (phabricator:T207893)
• Adding MediaInfo as an entity type that can be used in the "allowed entity types"-constraint (phabricator:T224362)
• Investigating an issue with the tours on Wikidata (phabricator:T223999)
• Initial work for the edit dialog that is needed for editing of Wikidata's data from Wikipedia (Wikidata Bridge)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:22, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

• Events
• Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Wikidata+IRC+office+hour&iso=20190716T16&p1=%3A&ah=1 Tuesday, July 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time)], on the #wikimedia-office channel
• Upcoming: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-July/013268.html Next LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting] on July 16th
• Upcoming: Structured Data on Commons IRC office hour for "other statements" on 18 July, 17:00-18:00 UTC on the #wikimedia-office channel
• Upcoming: The Wikidata Menu Challenge - Wikimania 2019 edition starts July 16 and goes on until August 11.

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://www.societybyte.swiss/2019/07/04/an-international-knowledge-base-for-all-heritage-institutions-part-1/ An International Knowledge Base for all Heritage Institutions] by Giovanna Fontenelle and Beat Estermann on SocietyByte
• [https://www.societybyte.swiss/2019/07/05/how-to-estimate-completeness-of-classes-in-wikidata/ How to estimate completeness of classes in Wikidata] by Michael Luggen et. al. on SocietyByte
• [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL66MRMNlLyR6PF2N-y8lDlYpMVdSir6O4 Videos of the presentations] given during the Wikidata + OSM workshop in London

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Structured Data on Commons: RDF output for MediaInfo is now available ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/M77405794.rdf example])
• Edits with the tag #suggestededit-add 1.0 come from the suggested edit feature on Wikipedia's Android app: see the FAQ for more information
• Property number 7000: DigitalNZ ID is live. This data aggregator has over 30 million records. The proposal was the first from Ambrosia10, a New Zealand editor.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: none
• External identifiers: IMFDB work ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, National Transportation Safety Board report ID, Epitafier.se ID, magazine in BitArkivo.org, iTunes movie collection ID, Musisque Deoque author ID, DigitalNZ ID, PharmGKB ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: Perseus ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, Typing discipline, video game mod, Arachne collection ID, NOTAM, begin and end of covered period ; covered period, periphrasis, Kerala state school code, The Latin Library author ID, type code, FEC campaign committee id, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, Ex æquo with, EU Publication office ID, Supreme Court docket number
• External identifiers: National Library of Luxembourg ID, Lebanese National Library ID, National Library of Morocco ID, National Library of Iceland ID, Syriaca person ID, Syriaca work ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Library of Chile ID, ACMI ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Hazardous Chemical Information System ID, ANZCTR ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, AICS Chemical ID, PBS Manufacturer ID, PBS Drug Code, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Arachne object ID, Gotlands museum, Indian Super League player ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Album of the Year artist ID, Album of the Year album ID, HOV-ID, Nosdéputés.fr identifiant, TikTok username, NosSénateurs.fr identifiant, eBay username, Jaxsta profile ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, Musixmatch writer ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/66x places in Canada with no English label]
• [https://w.wiki/678 Languages having the most usage examples in Wikidata's lexicographical data] ([https://twitter.com/fagerving/status/1150006013476646912 source])
• [https://w.wiki/679 Map of places of residence of accused witches in Scotland, colour-coded by gender] ([https://twitter.com/emcandre/status/1149712860211232768 source])
• [https://w.wiki/67A Symphonies written by Camille Saint-Saëns] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1150019980014100481 source])

• Development
• Create docker image for wdqs version 0.3.2 (phab:T226939)
• Fix an issue with JSON output lacking qualifier hashes (phab:T227207)
• Track number of links to schema pages (phab:T218903)
• Disable Wikidata sitelinks in ProofreadPage namespaces (thanks to Matěj Suchánek) (phab:T227201)
• Fix a cache issue with the language of the "check entities against this schema" link (phab:T224594)
• Add EntitySchema extension to wikibase-docker bundle image (phab:T226152)
• Enable JSON-LD support for Wikidata (phab:T220696)
• Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API module (phab:T225073)
• Extracting (and logging) Data Bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)
• Opening a modal with edit this link information (phab:T226996)
• Showing the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
• Disabling interactive elements while saving on mobile termbox (phab:T222886)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:37, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

• Discussions
• Open request for adminship: 1997kB

• Events
• Past: IRC office hour, July 16th (log)
• Upcoming: Wikidata Tainan Meetup in Taiwan, July 31st ([https://www.facebook.com/events/1165403496977594/ Facebook event])

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, [https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-read_only_banner&task=view&filter=%21translated&action=translate help translate the banner])
• You can nominate tools for the Coolest Tool Award until July 29th
• Wikimania's draft program has been published
• User:Bodhisattwa joined CIS-A2K as Wikidata Advisor
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-July/013278.html wbEntity config value to be dropped on July 24th] - if you use it, please consider replacing it

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: Wolfram Language unit code, unabbreviated text, extracted from, imprimitur granted by, terms of service, surface gravity, lexeme, chassis, enemy of
• External identifiers: PharmGKB ID, Handball123 player ID, ACMI web ID, AtlasFor ID, Adventure Gamers ID, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Russian organisation number, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, Anime Characters Database character ID, Anime Characters Database anime ID, ANZCTR ID, Arachne collection ID, Arachne object ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Biyografya ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, HCIS ID, Lebanese National Library ID, MPG ID, National Library of Luxembourg ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, Penguin India author ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Australian Educational Vocabulary ID, Syriaca work ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, COURAGE ID, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, National Library of Iceland ID, NosDéputés.fr identifiant, Perseus author ID, The Latin Library author ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, HOV-ID, PBS Drug Code, AICS Chemical ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: image of bone or fossil record, (de)evolution method, WeChat Official Account, Dose, hat Mitglied, Variété de la forme, value group number, orientation, Digital audio workstation, title geographic ref, location of point of view
• External identifiers: misas.org Catholic church ID, identificador de arte público de Zaragoza, Taxonomicon ID, Wayback ID, Common Sense Media ID, FFR fencer ID, Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID, ABBBS Taxon ID, AFCD PFKID, Plant Breeders Rights Database AID, WaterNSW Rivers and Streams Site No., Lens ID, LezWatch.TV actor ID, LezWatch.TV show ID, Grand Canyon Trust ID, LezWatch.TV character ID, Bossu ID, Textile Connect publication ID

• Query examples:
• [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20number%20of%20living%20people%20who%20have%20walked%20on%20the%20moon%2C%20over%20time%0A%0A%23defaultView%3ALineChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fdate%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20get%20all%20the%20dates%20where%20the%20number%20of%20living%20people%20who%20have%20walked%20on%20the%20moon%20changed%0A%20%20%23%20%28person%20walked%20on%20the%20moon%20or%20person%20died%29%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fdate%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20person%20walked%20on%20the%20moon%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP793%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP793%20wd%3AQ42882411%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fdate_%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20person%20died%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP793%2Fps%3AP793%20wd%3AQ42882411%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdate_.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20for%20each%20date%2C%20inject%20a%20second%20date%2C%20one%20day%20before%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20so%20that%20we%20get%20a%20straight%20line%20until%20that%20date%20and%20then%20a%20steep%20climb%2Fdrop%20for%20the%20real%20change%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20instead%20of%20a%20diagonal%20slope%20over%20the%20entire%20preceding%20period%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Ftoggle%20%7B%20true%20false%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Ftoggle%2C%20%3Fdate_%2C%20%3Fdate_%20-%20%22P1D%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25dates%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20inject%20the%20current%20time%20as%20another%20date%2C%20so%20that%20the%20chart%20continues%20until%20the%20present%20day%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25dates.%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20BIND%28NOW%28%29%20AS%20%3Fdate%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20main%20query%3A%20find%20all%20living%20people%20who%20have%20walked%20on%20the%20moon%20at%20each%20date%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP793%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20ps%3AP793%20wd%3AQ42882411%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fwalkdate%0A%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdate%20%3E%3D%20%3Fwalkdate%29%20%23%20must%20have%20walked%20on%20the%20moon%20already%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdied.%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%28%21BOUND%28%3Fdied%29%20%7C%7C%20%3Fdate%20%3C%20%3Fdied%29%20%23%20must%20not%20yet%20have%20died%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fdate%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdate Number of living people who have walked on the Moon] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1152587061347487747 source])
• [https://w.wiki/6M8 Artworks depicting the Moon] ([https://twitter.com/sukkoria/status/1152568755500802048 source])
• [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20persons%20that%20have%20been%20on%20spaceflights%20operated%20by%20at%20least%20two%20distinct%20%0A%23%20sovereign%20states%2C%20and%20the%20number%20of%20seconds%20they%20have%20spent%20in%20space%0ASELECT%0A%3Fperson%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20persons%20%E2%80%A6%0A%3FpersonLabel%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20their%20label%0A%3FsecondsInSpace%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20seconds%20spent%20in%20space%0A%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FcountryLabel%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20and%20all%20operating%20countries%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fcountries%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20this%20subquery%20finds%20all%20humans%20on%20spaceflights%20and%20their%20operators%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3Fflight%20%3Fcountry%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fflight%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ752783%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20human%20spaceflight%20%E2%80%A6%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP620%20%5B%5D%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20has%20landed%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP619%20%5B%5D%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20has%20launched%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP137%2Fwdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20sovereign%20state%20of%20operator%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1029%20%3Fperson%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20with%20%3Fperson%20as%20crew%20member%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25spaceflight%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20this%20subquery%20finds%20two%20distinct%20launch%20operators%20for%20humans%20on%0A%20%20%23%20spaceflights.%20we%20order%20countries%20A%20and%20B%20by%20their%20URI%2C%20so%20that%20we%0A%20%20%23%20can%20more%20easily%20filter%20out%20duplicates%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fperson%20%3FcountryA%20%3FcountryB%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FflightA%20%3FcountryA%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%23%20find%20a%20spaceflight%20for%20%3Fperson%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25spaceflight%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Fflight%20AS%20%3FflightA%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Fcountry%20AS%20%3FcountryA%29%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FflightB%20%3FcountryB%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%23%20find%20a%20second%20spaceflight%20for%20the%20%3Fperson%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25spaceflight%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Fflight%20AS%20%3FflightB%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Fcountry%20AS%20%3FcountryB%29%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28STR%28%3FflightA%29%20%3C%20STR%28%3FflightB%29%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20enforce%20that%20the%20launches%20are%20distinct%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28STR%28%3FcountryA%29%20%3C%20STR%28%3FcountryB%29%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20enforce%20that%20the%20operating%20countries%20are%20distinct%0A%20%20%7D%7D%20AS%20%25flightCountries%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3Fcountry%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20now%20get%20both%20results%20into%20the%20same%20column%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3Fcountry%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20%3FcountryA%20for%20%3Fperson%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25flightCountries%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FcountryA%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3Fcountry%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20%3FcountryB%20for%20%3Fperson%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25flightCountries%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FcountryB%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%7D%0A%20%20%7D%7D%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP2873%20%3FsecondsInSpace%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20also%20get%20the%20time%20spent%20in%20space%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20finally%2C%20get%20the%20labels%20%E2%80%A6%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpersonLabel%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20for%20person%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcountry%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20and%20for%20the%20country%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fperson%20%3FsecondsInSpace%20%3FpersonLabel%20%20%20%23%20group%20by%20%3Fperson%20%E2%80%A6%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FsecondsInSpace%29%20ASC%28%3FpersonLabel%29%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20and%20order%20by%20time%20in%20space%20and%20name People that have been on spaceflights operated by at least two different sovereign states, and their time in space] ([https://twitter.com/korenchkin/status/1152688694861664262 source])
• [https://w.wiki/6MA Temporal distribution of book editions in Swedish] ([https://twitter.com/fagerving/status/1151848898299944961 source])
• [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#select%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fleadership_start_time%20(MAX(%3Felec_date)%20AS%20%3Felec_date)%20(MIN(%3Fdays)%20AS%20%3Fdays)%20%0A%0Awith%20%7B%0A%20%20select%20%3Felec%20%3Felec_date%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3Felec%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15283424%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3Felec%20wdt%3AP585%20%3Felec_date%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%7D%20AS%20%25elections%0A%20%20%20%20%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%0A%20%20%3Frole%20wdt%3AP279%3F%20wd%3AQ1553195%20.%0A%20%20%3Fpos_stmt%20ps%3AP39%20%3Frole%20.%0A%20%20%3Fpos_stmt%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fleadership_start_time%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20(year(%3Fleadership_start_time)%20%3E%201945)%20.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%3Frole%20p%3AP279%2Fpq%3AP642%2Fwdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ848197%7D%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP39%20%3Fpos_stmt%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP39%2Fwdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ16707842%20.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25elections%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20(%3Felec_date%20%3C%20%3Fleadership_start_time).%0A%20%20BIND%20((%3Fleadership_start_time%20-%20%3Felec_date)%20AS%20%3Fdays)%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%20.%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fleadership_start_time%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC(%3Fdays)%0A%20%20%20%20 How long after a UK general election that a political party has appointed a new leader, since 1945] ([https://www.facebook.com/nicholas.whyte/posts/10161973875865228?comment_id=10161974589555228 source])
• Newest database reports: family names in Ireland

• Development
• Fix a bug that was preventing to add multiple glosses (phab:T228080)
• Show number of senses and forms on page information for WikibaseLexeme entities (phab:T224844)
• Show number of statements and external identifiers on page information for Wikibase entities (phab:T224842))
• Track number of external identifiers on Wikidata over time (phab:T224129)
• Fix a few queries on Grafana (phab:T227788)
• Update the query host for Grafana (phab:T218710)
• Add support for "MediaInfo" as value for "allowed entity types"-constraint (phab:T224362)
• Data bridge: open a modal with edit link information (phab:T226996)
• Show the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
• Extract data bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:53, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

• Discussions
• Closed request for adminship: 1997kB, welcome on board!
• Closed request for comments: Adopt a username policy

• Events
• Past: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E4OFIAqV8Cx4Uep19iRHfHXIr-f09j8G/view lecture on Wikidata and Mix'n'Match] at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, Oxford University, 24 June
• Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call discussing communication in Wikidata/Wikimedia communities, 30 July. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C8AzcrX0Jps6010d7FjUAqRY0aLdww885tZQsi_bUg8/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f6d1/6eaf975af03a172c73843ff506592c952a04.pdf?_ga=2.219429597.519115585.1564069475-426632157.1564069475 Technical usability of Wikidata’s linked data - Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability], by Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, [https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-read_only_banner&task=view&filter=%21translated&action=translate help translate the banner])
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-July/013283.html Scripts that use the Query Service need to be identified by user-agent header]
• Structured Data on Commons - testing statements other than Depicts is ongoing this week before release into production on Commons.
• [https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases/tag/3.2 OpenRefine 3.2] was released
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata//2019-July/013278.html The config value mw.config.get('wbEntity') has been dropped in order to improve the page load time]

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: IAAF competition category, video game mod of, typing discipline, shrinkage, specific absorption rate, quotation or excerpt, surface roughness, related category, start grade, inverse label item, end grade, privacy policy URL, start of covered period, end of covered period
• External identifiers: Album of the Year artist ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, Jaxsta profile ID, Indian Super League player ID, misas.org Catholic church ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, FEC Campaign Committee ID, National Library of Morocco ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, NosSénateurs.fr identifier, Supreme Court docket number, PBS Manufacturer ID, Kerala state school code, Taxonomicon ID, Album of the Year album ID, Gotlands museum, Musixmatch writer ID, Qobuz artist ID, wiki on WikiApiary, extension on WikiApiary, skin on WikiApiary, Zaragoza public art ID, Paris Foreign Missions Society ID, TikTok username, AFCD PFKID, Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID, Common Sense Media ID, FFR fencer ID, ABBBS Taxon ID, WaterNSW Rivers and Streams Site No., Lens ID, Grand Canyon Trust ID, LezWatch.TV actor ID, LezWatch.TV character ID, LezWatch.TV show ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: estimated IQ, Manner of torture, date of the first one & date of the last one, Glacier Status, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, bequest, Sells, Opinion joined by, ComingSoon.it film ID, Acknowledgments, copyright exemption, Subscribers, external georeferencer URL, 出演作品, Bar
• External identifiers: Media Art Database console games ID, Acharts artist ID, Acharts chart ID, Museu do Diamante ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Germany06.Ru person ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, AMPAS collections person ID, AMPAS collections film ID, Hiking Project ID, Douyin, Vidwan ID, AllTrails ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, identifier of french public Forest, Rijksmonument complex ID, Mojarto artist ID, located on street with OSM relation ID, muenchenwiki.de article ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/6cX Settlements along the Way of Saint James in Basque Country] ([https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1155762007301378051 source])
• [https://w.wiki/6cZ Map of places of residence of accused witches in Scotland] ([https://twitter.com/emcandre/status/1154777898647203843 source])
• [https://w.wiki/6ca List of regional languages of France] ([https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/1154339720660488193 source])

• Development
• Re-evaluate supporting dcatap namespace (feel free to give feedback)
• Data bridge: open modal with edit link information (phab:T226996)
• Show the current Wikidata value in the modal (phab:T226997)
• Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (phab:T226998)
• supporting baserevid request param in lexeme api endpoints (phab:T217245)
• Fix new store code in order to continue the terms migration (phab:T226008)
• Fix an issue with broken WikibaseQualityConstraints tests (phab:T228855)
• Fix issue that used to cause many fatals on production (phab:T227450)
• Drop wbEntity config in entity pages (phab:T85499)
• Fix an Internal error in Recent Changes for Lexeme (phab:T228996)
• Create better summaries for our wbeditentity endpoint (phab:T220696)
• Respect user's preference for thumbnail sizes on Wikidata (phab:T224189)
• Allow linking to Schemas in statements (phab:T214884)
• Fix a bug with Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
• Update accounting for WDQS lag in wikidata maxlag param (phab:T221774)
• More work on allowing accesing one wikibase instance from another (phab:T214557)
• Deploy the mobile termbox on test.wikidata.org and fix various bugs
• Show progress/activity on termbox mobile if a save request is still being processed (phab:T222890)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:18, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

• Events
• Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taipei Meetup, August 12nd - [https://www.facebook.com/events/2454549144584559/ Facebook event]
• Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/10886 Wikidata: From "an" Identifier to "the" Identifier], Theo van Veen , Information Technology and Libraries, 38(2), 72-81.
• ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-15200-0_27 Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata]', Adelheid Heftberger et al, in "Digital Cultural Heritage", pp 401-410.
• [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306437918302436?via%3Dihub Bridging the gap between linked open data-based recommender systems and distributed representations], Pierpaolo Basile, et al, Information Systems, Volume 86, December 2019, pp 1-8.
• [https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/OpenRefine+Beginners+Tutorial/0_y5bxsswq OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial], video tutorial by Emmacarroll3 demonstrating how to import a dataset with OpenRefine.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• [https://github.com/Wikidata/soweego soweego] version 1.0 is out: a machine learning system that links Wikidata to large-scale third-party catalogs
• New data type for EntitySchemas will be available on August 7th

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: location of the point of view, opinion joined by, date of the first one, date of the latest one, Mac OS type code, acknowledged
• External identifiers: Acharts.co artist ID, Textile Connect publication ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Hiking Project trail ID, Media Art Database console games ID, AMPAS collections film ID, AMPAS collections person ID, Douyin ID, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, AllTrails trail ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC park ID, Vidwan ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, ComingSoon.it film ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, Mojarto artist ID, Rijksmonument complex ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Acharts.co chart ID, ONF forest national ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: axis, Principal, Epigraph, contact area count, Cases consolidated, detail of painting, exonerated of, possibly reproduction of, Werke ohne Opuszahl, obituary of, significant place
• External identifiers: Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts album ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, CHESNO politician ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID, Plus Music artist ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, Empik author ID, merlin.pl author ID, The Top Tens ID, Raptekster.dk ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/6fP French female authors whose work is in the public domain] ([https://george2etexte.wordpress.com/2019/07/30/une-carte-de-france-des-autrices-dans-le-domaine-public/ source])
• [https://w.wiki/6oo Timeline of hypertext systems] ([https://twitter.com/nichtich/status/1158105666894082048 source])
• [https://w.wiki/6oq Megaliths in the Basque Country, color-coded by type] ([https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1157975728060870656 source])
• [https://w.wiki/6or Heavy metal bands from Finland with or without picture and date of the picture] ([https://twitter.com/sukkoria/status/1157969988898250752 source])
• [https://w.wiki/6or Types of GLAMs in Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/fagerving/status/1157248579330879488 source])

• Development
• Fix logging for errors on wbcontentlanguages requests (phab:T228888)
• Add request information to request timeout errors (phab:T228885)
• Show an error message when saving fails on mobile termbox (phab:T222884)
• Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (phab:T226998)
• Show the current Wikidata value in the Bridge modal (phab:T226997)
• EntitySchema datatype (phab:T214884)
• Reduce the number of ResourceLoader modules that WikibaseClient register: (phab:T203696)
• Reduce text returned by EntityContent::getTextForFilters (phab:T226216)
• Fixed a bug with PHP Warning (phab:T229482)
• Fixing a bug about value pickers being broken (phab:T229604)
• Fixed BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
• Investigate on Graphoid issues (phab:T229236)
• Fix issues on Wikidata Tours (phab:T214884)
• Make logging warning or info of not finding entity for revision configurable (phab:T229574)
• Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (phab:T214894)
• Move "Wikidata item" link outside of "toolbox" sidebar to "other projects" sidebar (phab:T66315)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:11, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

• Press, articles, blog posts
• Conclusion of 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana [https://www.goifoundation.org/2019-parliament-of-ghana-wikipedia-and-wikidata-edit-a-thons/ Wikidata Editathon] (grant report)
• [https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2019/oclcresearch-creating-library-linked-data-with-wikibase-project-passage.html "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage"] OCLC Research. DOI: 10.25333/faq3-ax08

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• The open source geocoder w:en:Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project is participating in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the [https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tchaddad/diary development blog].

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: musical bar, epigraph (literature), copyright exemption, significant place
• External identifiers: München Wiki article ID, Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts.co album ID, NOTAM (FAA), CHESNO politician ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: legend for number, does not have effect, word stem type, Voting system, Class, Peer-review-process properties for journals, Wikisource-Kategorie, line(s), Election called by, image or photo-making technique
• External identifiers: FGrHist ID, Acharts.co song ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Hacker News User ID, Swedish lighthouses, EPW author ID, Gaana.com album ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions job ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, PLIA ID, Planespotters.net ID, Awards & Winners artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, AccuRadio artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, CD Universe artist ID, Ex Libris author ID, Fishpond.co.nz author ID, YesAsia author ID, Supraphonline artist ID, Image-Line artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Register nehnuteľných NKP, deejay.de artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, GreatSong artist ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Getty Images topic ID, Tunefind artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, SongMeanings artist ID, Census of India ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/6qP Bands whose name is part of Tolkien's legendarium] ([https://twitter.com/Harmonia_Amanda/status/1158751061684867073 source])
• [https://w.wiki/726 Map of offshore windfarms] ([https://twitter.com/fnielsen/status/1159857815177048065 source])
• [https://w.wiki/728 Cities having more Wikipedia sitelinks than their country] ([https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/1159492457270317057 source])

• Development
• Fix a caching problem on termbox (phab:T228978)
• Investigate options for termbox load testing (phab:T229790)
• Use thumbnail preferences for thumbnail of Commons media file (phab:T224189)
• Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
• Move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox (phab:T66315)
• Create Maintenance Script to Remove Terms in a Language from Current Revision (phab:T222606)
• Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (phab:T214894)
• Add editing widget/input on Bridge (phab:T226998)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:33, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

• Discussions
• New request for comments: Improved instructions for translation admin

• Events
• Current: Wikimania in Stockholm and hackathon, August 14 to 18. Check out the list of all Wikidata-related events. Each session page should include notes, slides and streaming if available.

• Tool of the week
• In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
• NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• There is now a Wikiquote page for Wikidata
• [https://tools.wmflabs.org/isa/ ISA] is a new tool to easily add structured data to Commons files, including from mobile
• You can help improve the vandalism detection by [https://labels.wmflabs.org/ui/wikidatawiki completing a set of labels for ORES]
• QuickStatements won the Coolest Tool Award, category "editor", during the first ceremony at Wikimania 2019
• New Wikidata-related projects developed during the Wikimania hackathon:
• Documentation translation sprint: several people translated Wikidata help pages in their own language. Feel free to continue the efforts to make Wikidata more accessible!
• Item creation helpers helps create similar items, and link them together, with a simple form. Example with skating competitions

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: manner of inhumane treatment, cases consolidated, typically sells, noun class, does not have effect, substitute director/manager, school class
• External identifiers: Empik author ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, The Top Tens ID, merlin.pl author ID, Plus Music artist ID, Kinsky–Halm Catalogue, Raptekster.dk ID, Acharts.co song ID, FGrHist ID, register of real estate NKP, Hacker News User ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Gaana.com album ID, XING profile ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, job ID in Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions, Planespotters.net aircraft ID, PLIA ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, EPW author ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: graph radius, Belgian Species List ID, amino acid (start, end) position, ordeal by, protected region scheme, image revision-id, region within image, access restriction status, georeferencing data, number of processor threads, part number, CPUID, based on tabular data, Siddham script name, Number of active electronic terminals
• External identifiers: OpenWeatherMap city ID, Scribd Publication ID, moly.hu azonosító, Hungarian Movie Database film ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, jog.fm artist ID, Hype Machine artist ID, Liber Liber author ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Just Hear It artist ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Digitalt Museum ID, MTV UK artist ID, MTV Germany artist ID, MTV Polska artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, Eiga.com movie ID, GoodRx, BEACON ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/7EW Books in Bengali Wikisource that are validated] ([https://twitter.com/GerardMeijssen/status/1162015688111865856 source])
• [https://w.wiki/7ET Flightless birds of New Zealand] ([https://twitter.com/andrawaag/status/1163069740270727168 source])
• [https://w.wiki/7EX Islands in Germany] ([https://twitter.com/BerndWMDE/status/1160920192484040707 source])
• [https://w.wiki/7EZ Clandestine center of detention and torture in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina] ([https://twitter.com/OpenGLAM/status/1159901359392600065 source])
• [https://w.wiki/7Eb Same-sex married couples where neither partner has a sexual orientation] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1163072396930232320 source])
• Schema examples:
• Danish numerals
• Danish hyphenation

• Development
• Fix an issue with the pop up of Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
• Call WikibaseLexeme API with baserevid parameter from the UI (phab:T217245)
• Fix a bug with CheckConstraintsJob (phab:T227450)
• Fix a bug with wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
• Add editing widget/input to client edit modal: (phab:T226998)
• Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities: (phab:T229917)
• More work on the the production Termbox service
• tidying up our browser test suite (phab:T229910)
• adding browser tests for basic editing (phab:T230187)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:51, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

• Events
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikimania recap, 27 August. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ljx_0n8tjEeKk2sXoWqWQhDpfqC7k_MhdLSjaAkIJik/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://opensym.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/os19-paper-A17-piscopo.pdf What we talk about when we talk about Wikidata quality: a literature survey], by Alessandro Piscopo and Elena Simperl
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfS1qTKFQoI Introduction to OpenRefine in video by Emma (University of Edimburgh)] (12min)
• Old but gold: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24DOvuZWaD0short introduction to Wikidata by Asaf Bartov] (7min)

• Tool of the week
• In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
• Integraality generates tables to assess the completeness of properties on sets of items, such as properties on railway stations for instance. Tables are automatically updated and highly configurable.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?oldid=1000000000 Edit 1,000,000,000] - the one-billionth, or 10⁹ - was the creation of {{Q|Q66665412}} by User:Stevenliuyi
• New termbox interface on mobile is enabled - you can view and edit easily the labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile devices ([https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-August/013355.html full announcement])
• Random finds from WikiProject Random
• Starting from July 2019, Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team work together to create a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships. Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
• Wiki Loves Monuments and other Wikimedia Commons campaign organizers can now specify structured data fields in the campaign UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons.
• The [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-August/013355.html new termbox interface is now enabled on mobile], you can edit labels, descriptions and aliases from a mobile device

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: ordeal by, newspaper archive url, periphrastic definition, lexeme for periphrastic definition, link for periphrastic definition
• External identifiers: Awards & Winners artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Image-Line artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, Supraphonline artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, YesAsia author ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Scribd publication ID, SongMeanings artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, Belgian Species List ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Mafab.hu film ID, jog.fm artist ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, moly.hu book ID, Liber Liber author ID, GreatSong artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, MTV Polska artist ID, MTV UK artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Eiga.com movie ID, Transfermarkt team ID, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, BEACON ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: associated with, present on map, translated title, Wikia Article URL 2, position in sequence, color produced, Itch.io ID, mobile formatter, subscribers, Attribution text, difficulty
• External identifiers: RPGGeek, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, Estudanky ID, LongSwimsDB ID, L-number, Dove.org work ID, WTA ID, iTunes (gb) artist ID, Arnet Miner publication ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID, NLP ID, SCTrails ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, UN treaty reference, musicbrainz tag, Identification code for universities and colleges, Toons Mag, YouTube Music channel ID, The Independent topic ID, Pandora artist ID

• Query examples:
• https://w.wiki/7UY timeline of competitions of the 2019-2020 figure skating season]
• [https://w.wiki/7Ua Future figure skating competitions]
• [https://w.wiki/7Uc Currently happening figure skating competitions]
• [https://w.wiki/7Lz French ships whose name start with an A] ([https://twitter.com/Querybook/status/1164427144791019520 source])
• [https://w.wiki/7UW Map of birth places of delegates to the Alaska Constitutional Convention] ([https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1164619573129338887 source])
• Schema examples:
• human chromosome, built on chromosome, built on sequence assembly
• Lunar crater

• Development
• Deploy mobile termbox, follow-up and bug fixing
• Deploy then rollback the move of "Wikidata item" link on clients due to cache issues (phab:T66315)
• Work on adjusting the save button of the Entity Schema editor (phab:T230398)
• Work on the bridge emitting button (phab:T230326)
• Introduce a header for the bridge modal (phab:T230328)
• Produce initial statistics/indicators for the Wikidata Languages Landscape (phab:T223119)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:05, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/08/27/working-with-structured-data-on-commons-a-status-report/ Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report], by Lucas Werkmeister
• [https://peerj.com/articles/cs-214/ Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line], article in PeerJ Computer Science (Q27726596) by Lars Willighagen (Q45907528)
• [https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DTA-12-2018-0110/full/html A systematic literature review on Wikidata] (paywalled) - Marçal Mora-Cantallops et al.
• [https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/4-114/v1 GeneDB and Wikidata] - Magnus Manske, et al.
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.11153.pdf Wikidata from a Research Perspective -- A Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata] - Mariam Farda-Sarbas, Claudia Mueller-Birn
• [http://eprints.rclis.org/38628/ Enriquecimiento de entidades de Wikidata mediante un modelo de descomposición y mapeado de categorías de Wikipedia] ("Enrichment of Wikidata entities through a decomposition model and mapping of Wikipedia categories") - Tomás Saorín et al.; text in Spanish

• Tool of the week
• In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
• [https://coli-conc.gbv.de/cocoda/app/ Cocoda] is a web application to manage mappings between authority files. It supports editing Wikidata-mappings including GND, Basisklassifikation, Regensburg Classification, Iconclass, and Nomisma. Cocoda can be used like mix'n'match but for more complex mappings.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• The vision and strategy papers for Wikidata and Wikibase have been published - comments welcome on the talk page
• Follow-up from Wikimania: you can now give input about the language barrier on Wikidata and federating Wikibase instances with Wikidata
• New tool: a [https://github.com/Nudin/LexData/ Python library to create bots, scripts and tools for lexicographical data] by MichaelSchoenitzer
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-August/013392.html There is now a new API parameter to add tags on edits summaries]
• [https://soweego.readthedocs.io/ soweego] version 1.1 is on its way, thanks to a WMF Rapid Grant
• Several job offers related to Wikidata were published in the last few weeks:
• Scribe, a Wikimedia Foundation funded software and research project, is looking for a full-stack software engineer
• The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a [https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1768759 software engineer] for its Search Platform team, including work on Wikidata Query Service
• Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/3696022/UX-Designer-m-f-d-?jobDbPVId=13064858&l=en a UX designer] and [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/4361894/Full-Stack-Developer-m-f-d-?jobDbPVId=12124039&l=en a full-stack developer] for Wikidata

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: access restriction status, in defining formula
• External identifiers: RPGGeek ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, AccuRadio artist ID, eSTUDÁNKY ID, LongSwimsDB ID, WTA trail ID, Scribd Item ID, Dove.org work ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, SCTrails trail ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: Mediawiki Wiki, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, scope and content, Number of nodes, Performance, use restriction status, Significant number, FCC Product Code, Hardware Version Identification Number, amount cataloged, number of decimal digits, Gregorian calendar, food energy, pronunciation
• External identifiers: YouTube Music channel ID 2, Pandora artist ID 2, The Independent topic ID 2, NÖ Proposal ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Newspapers.com ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, WGA writer ID, WGA project ID, FCC Grantee Code, Spectrum Management System Company Number, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Prime Pages ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Peakbagger climber ID, Naver Music artist ID, Naver Music album ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, Slovo i Dilo person ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, FNL player ID, Peakbagger key col ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID

• Query examples:
• [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcreator%20%3FcreatorLabel%20WHERE%20%0A%7B%20%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ557141%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Fsub0%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fsub0%20%28wdt%3AP131%29%2A%20wd%3AQ23939248%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcreator%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcreator%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Public art in London by female artists]
• [https://w.wiki/7dV People used as examples in Wikidata properties] ([https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1167120966515920897 source])
• [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcountry1Label%20%3Fcountry2Label%20%3Fcapital1Label%20%3Fcapital2Label%20%3Fdistance%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcountry1%20%3Fcountry2%20%3Fcapital1%20%3Fcapital2%20%3Fdistance%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcountry1%20p%3AP463%20%3Fstatement1%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP36%20%3Fcapital1%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20ps%3AP463%20wd%3AQ1065%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fstatement1%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fcountry1%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3024240%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcountry2%20p%3AP463%20%3Fstatement2%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP36%20%3Fcapital2%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement2%20ps%3AP463%20wd%3AQ1065%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fstatement2%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fcountry2%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3024240%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcapital1%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords1%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcapital2%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords2%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28xsd%3Astring%28%3Fcountry1%29%20%3C%20xsd%3Astring%28%3Fcountry2%29%29%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcountry1%20p%3AP47%20%3FstatementBorder%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FstatementBorder%20ps%3AP47%20%3Fcountry2%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3FstatementBorder%20pq%3AP5102%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3FstatementBorder%20pq%3AP5102%20wd%3AQ15104814%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28ROUND%28geof%3Adistance%28%3Fcoords1%2C%20%3Fcoords2%29%29%20AS%20%3Fdistance%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fdistance%3C200%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdistance Closest capitals of non bordering countries (<200 km)] ([https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1167092693438259200 source])
• [https://w.wiki/7ij Hillforts mapped with their heritage designation/protection status]
• [https://w.wiki/7jD YouTubers without a YouTube channel]
• [https://w.wiki/7kF Racing automobile drivers who died in a car crash] ([https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1168159154395111424 source])
• Schema examples:
• [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E89 Public library branch in The Netherlands]
• Newest database reports: papers about Wikipedia

• Development
• Adjust label of save button of the Entity Schema and add accesskey for easier editing editor (phab:T230398)
• Get Grafana Datamodel References dashboard back up and running (phab:T214894)
• Fix an issue in EntitySchema tests that caused some CI failures (phab:T231065)
• Localize Wikibase API help links (phab:T231269)
• Support tags parameter on Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
• Add in Wikidata support for sitelinks to https://nap.wikisource.org (phab:T212886)
• Reading property terms from new store in production now (phab:T225053)
• Adding WDQS lag to maxlag info, to avoid stress on WDQS machines (phab:T221774)
• Implementing the fallback version of the new better edit summary messages on items through API (phab:T224010)
• Fixing the issue of an invisible quality constrain violation indicator (phab:T227866)
• Switching item terms to migration stage of writing to both wb_terms and the new store (phab:T225055)
• Preparing to run migration of item terms (phab:T219123)
• Allowing to access Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
• Hiding non-supported languages in old termbox (phab:T227083)
• Work on a new solution to move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox avoiding the cache issues (phab:T66315)
• Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
• Showing the current Wikidata value in the edit modal (phab:T226997)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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• Events
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: References in Wikidata, 10 September. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/14oW7DoEMRQ8hy2Rj7V1kjbeNiL2chGTsPrqf239N3sY/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2019.00058 Merging Open Data Sources to Plan Learning Activities for Online Students] - Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo, et al., in: 2019 23rd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)
• [http://blogs.harvard.edu/britton/2019/09/06/open-access-society-publishers-in-wikidata/ Open-Access Society Publishers in Wikidata] by A. Britton

• Tool of the week
• moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
• The first draft of the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
• Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (phab:T230762)
• Recent tool: [https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@WikidataBot @Wikidatabot], a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
• New game: [https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@WikidataMallBot Wikidata Mall], a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: mobile formatter URL, degree of difficulty, color produced, computer performance, use restriction status, FCC Product Code, Itch.io ID, Gregorian calendar start date
• External identifiers: Identification code for Japanese universities and colleges, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Toons Mag ID, Newspapers.com ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, Prime Pages ID, FCC Grantee Code, FNL player ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Naver Music album ID, Naver Music artist ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Pandora artist ID, Peakbagger climber ID, Peakbagger key col ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, Slovo i Dilo person ID, Spectrum Management System Company Number, The Independent topic ID, WGA project ID, WGA writer ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, CPUID, L-number, Arnet Miner publication ID, NLP ID (record)

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: IP Code, dénivelé cumulé positif, Supports qualifier, climbing route, madhhab, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID
• External identifiers: Auckland Museum ID, Al-Jazeera Topic ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, SNK ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, VAT identification number, TOP500 System ID, ACUF unique ID (UFI), Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier, Downdetector ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Behind the voice Actors short ID, Rate Your Music label ID, Labelcode, Maine Trail Finder ID, Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, WeChat ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/7vc UK Cabinet Ministers and their links in the UK National Archives] | ([http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?q=SELECT%20?person%20?personLabel%20?positionLabel%20?date%20?image%20(URI(CONCAT(%22https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/%22,?ukna))%20AS%20?url)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A?person%20wdt:P3029%20?ukna;%20%23%20person%20in%20UK%20National%20Archives%0A%20%20%20wdt:P39%20?position%20.%20?position%20wdt:P361%20wd:Q112014.%20%23%20held%20position%20in%20Cabinet%20of%20the%20UK%0A%20?person%20wdt:P570%20?date%20;%20%20%23%20death%20date%0A%20%20wdt:P18%20?image%0ASERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%20bd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D,en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D&l=url&t=personLabel&s=date&i=image&c=positionLabel&v=t Histropedia timeline])
• [https://w.wiki/87G Most common properties on Senses] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1170681272806576131 source])
• [https://w.wiki/87J Place of birth of actors in The Matrix] ([https://twitter.com/vrandezo/status/1170079436768563200 source])
• [https://w.wiki/87K Graph of all species in the Heron (Ardeidae) family with an IBP alpha code] ([https://twitter.com/ReaderMeter/status/1169368504325165056 source])

• Development
• Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to Odder (phab:T230120)
• New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
• Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (phab:T227866)
• Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (phab:T192462)
• Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (phab:T178745)
• Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
• Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
• Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (phab:T231833)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:50, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

• Events
• Past: Wikidata et Wiktionnaire session at the French-speaking WikiConvention by Pamputt (slides)
• Upcoming: WikidataWednesday in Vienna, September 18th
• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, September 20th
• Upcoming: [https://www.facebook.com/events/2456357704647897/ #4 Wikidata tea party/第4回 ウィキデータ茶話会], 20 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
• Upcoming: [https://peatix.com/event/1301388/ Wikibase Workshop/ウィキベースワークショップ], 28 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://magazine.multilingual.com/previewissue/sept-oct-2019/wikidata-gets-wordier/ Wikidata gets wordier], by Christian Lieske and Felix Sasaki on Multilingual
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.01109.pdf Non-Parametric Class Completeness Estimators for Collaborative Knowledge Graphs -- The Case of Wikidata] - Michael Luggen et al.

• Tool of the week
• Hauki lets you browse existing Lexemes, add Senses to them, and easily create new Lexemes for common languages and lexical categories.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• мир (L99999) (peace), мир (100000) (world/earth) and L166666 were created

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: cumulative elevation gain, climbing route
• External identifiers: Lower Austrian Museum ID, Auckland Museum ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID, Al-Jazeera topic ID, Digital Giza ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, Downdetector ID, TOP500 System ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Maine Trail Finder ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: Masters Thesis, OFLC classification (New Zealand), worn by, station type, interchange, status, first, last and so on, front and backside
• External identifiers: Archnet Site ID, Trail Finder ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, code DANE, ICD-11, SMHI drainage basin ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Mixer game ID, Vudu video ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/8Tb Number of times a Wikidata item for Carl von Linnaeus was created]
• [https://w.wiki/8TM Picture of species were the author(s) of the first scientific description is in WD and connected to Uppsala University Alvin database]
• [https://w.wiki/8TQ same query but where we miss a picture in Wikidata]
• [https://w.wiki/8TX Twins with different places of birth] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1172905478902505472 source])
• [https://w.wiki/8TY Places in Scottish local government areas] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1172506297985654784 source])
• [https://w.wiki/8Ta Libraries in Austria] ([https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1171748646980902912 source])
• Schema examples:
• [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E119 space probe]
• [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E115 Tsunami]
• Newest WikiProjects: Textile arts, Dark

• Development
• Started working on two new projects: improving the resource loader module and tainted references
• Wikidata Bridge: save the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
• Show the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
• Warn user about blank edit summary on EntitySchema (phab:T230399)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:25, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

• Events
• Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
• Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.
• Upcoming: [https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/abstracts/#29_a Wikidata as a hub for the Linked Data cloud] - tutorial (full day) at Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2019 conference, Seoul, on September 25.
• Past: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata - Awesome Together during State of the Map 2019 (slides of part one)

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3406623 Wikidata ist für alle (Bibliotheken) offen]. Presentation at 34. Austrian Librarian conference 2019 (Q67368932), September 11th. (in German)
• [https://wikiedu.org/blog/2019/09/17/opening-up-the-linked-data-world-of-wikidata-to-new-editors/ Opening up the linked data world of Wikidata to new editors], by Will Kent (WikiEdu)

• Tool of the week
• Namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of items about names, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Structured Data on Commons: Please help to build a basic data model for describing Wikimedia Commons file with structured data! Your help is welcome to solve different modeling challenges, including how to model dates, sources and authors. You can also look at current Wikimedia Commons infobox templates and discuss how the information in wikitext can be translated to structured data.
• Structured Data on Commons: the team is going to develop computer-aided tagging for depicts statements on Commons. You can read the project page and participate on the talk page.
• Your comments on the vision and strategy papers are still welcome on the associated talk page.
• WikidataCon Award 2019: you can nominate your favorite Wikidata or Wikibase project or tool! 🏆 Participation open until October 7th
• Wikidata passed 8B triples on the 19th September ([https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000489/wikidata-query-service?orgId=1&panelId=7&fullscreen&from=1568800306000&to=1569059506359 grafana])

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: IP Code, number of decimal digits, OFLC classification, amount cataloged, Hardware Version Identification Number
• External identifiers: Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, Rate Your Music label ID, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, Behind The Voice Actors short ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, Labelcode, Trail Finder ID, Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier (MRGID), Archnet site ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, DANE code, MobyGames genre ID, ICD-11 ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Vudu video ID, Mixer game ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: Peer review location, fineness, regnal ordinal, Wikinews coverage, educational stage, faculty, Kivid.info ID, Fossiilid.info ID, CITES Appendix, Content descriptor
• External identifiers: Wi-Fi Certification ID, GCF Reference, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power ID, IGNrando ID, ISSN-L, Skiddle artist ID, Juno Download album ID, See Tickets artist ID, Ticketmaster artist ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/8WU Library systems in California]
• [https://w.wiki/8dH Waterfalls without a drainage basin yet]
• [https://w.wiki/8m4 Works of art depicting kisses] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1174844824618446848 source])
• [https://w.wiki/8m6 Longest English word without a repeated letter] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1174053415447666689 source])
• [https://w.wiki/8m7 Longest alphabetically sorted words in English] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1174087986016935936 source])
• Newest WikiProjects: Q68235346

• Development
• Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (phab:T227003)
• Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (phab:T228259)
• More work on setting up the technical background to work on tainted references
• More work on reducing the resources needed to load pages
• Create a dependency graph of existing RessourceLoader modules (phab:T232728)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

• Discussions
• Open request for adminship: Catherine Laurence

• Events
• Past: [https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/20970 Using Wikidata to Provide Visibility to Women in STEM] during Dublin Core 2019
• Upcoming: WikiCon, meeting of the German speaking Community from 4th to 6th of October 2019 in Wuppertal (Germany)
• Upcoming: [https://www.facebook.com/events/975293739498295/ #5 Wikidata tea party/第5回 ウィキデータ茶話会], 18 Oct 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
• Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
• Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.

• Press, articles, blog posts
• Scottish witches [https://www.scotsman.com/heritage/map-of-scots-women-accused-of-witchcraft-published-for-first-time-1-5009814 in] [https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/interactive-map-gives-fascinating-insight-into-witches-in-aberdeen-and-aberdeenshire/ the] [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/map-visualizes-scale-16th-and-17th-century-scottish-witch-hunts-180973226 press] and [https://twitter.com/emcandre/status/1177372049884557313 on TV]
• [https://ammienoot.com/brain-fluff/some-witchy-history-and-a-very-smart-woman-in-data-science/ Some witchy history and a very smart woman in data science]
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11980.pdf Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge] - Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, et al.
• [https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/4-114 GeneDB and Wikidata], by Magnus Manske

• Tool of the week
• This [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/rech/ Recent changes tool] allows to get a list of unpatrolled Wikidata changes with enhanced filters that are more adapted to Wikidata than the standard Recent Changes page. Available actions include mass patroling and easier revert interface.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• The state library of Berlin is using Wikidata to display a map of pictures from their architecture journals: [https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/berlinfotos/ Berlin um 1900 - eine fotografische Zeitreise]
• Edit summaries coming from the wbeditentity API (for example from the mobile termbox) will be improved from October 2nd ([https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-September/013562.html announcement], ticket)
• You can nominate your favourite Wikidata and Wikibase projects for the WikidataCon Award until October 7th

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: regnal ordinal, peer review URL
• External identifiers: GCF Reference, Wi-Fi Certification ID, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata film ID, sixpackfilmdata person ID, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power farm ID, IGNrando' ID, Fossiilid.info ID, Kivid.info ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: bus, mwnf, Maximum number of playable characters, FIDAL team ID, candidate name string, IP range start, code (image), name in hiero markup, disputed by, name (image), style of karate
• External identifiers: NTS Radio artist ID, Gazetteer for Scotland ID, Gazetteer for Scotland person ID, FootballFacts.ru team ID, FootballDatabase.eu team ID, GENUKI ID, DC Books author ID, LaPreferente.com player ID, Ukrainian Premier League player ID, UEFA team ID, UEFA coach ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, FAIMER school ID, China Martyrs ID, JournalBase ID, PCEngine Catalog Project ID, PubPeer article ID, memoriademadrid publication ID, doujinshi.org author ID, Beatport label ID, Knesset Law Id, caves.4at.info ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Amazon Music album ID 2, Qobuz album ID, Plus Music album ID, eska.pl release ID, iHeartRadio album ID, Three Decks people ID, Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana ID, Empik e-book or album ID, identificador GENavarra, Oricon News artist ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Fortuna liga player ID

• Deleted properties: P5130 (island of location)
• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/98F Civil parishes of Scotland, revealed through their listed buildings] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1178500168313954304 source])
• [https://w.wiki/98G Scottish civil parishes by county and present-day council area] ([https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1177720382683566080 source])
• [https://tora.entryscape.net/snorql/?query=PREFIX+wd%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+wdt%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0D%0ASELECT+DISTINCT+%3Finstance+%3FTORA_label+%3FTORA_province_name+%3FwdLabel+%3FwdAdminLabel++%3FTORA_parishcode+%3FTORA_wd+%3FTORA_wd+%3FWD+%3FWDsame+%3Fitem+%3FWiki%0D%0AWHERE+%7B+%3Finstance+a+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fdata.riksarkivet.se%2Ftora%2Fschema%2FModernParish%3E.%0D%0A%3Finstance+skos%3AprefLabel+%3FTORA_label+.%0D%0AOPTIONAL+%7B%3Finstance+tora%3Aprovince_name+%3FTORA_province_name%7D%0D%0A%3Finstance+tora%3Aparishcode+%3FTORA_parishcode+.%0D%0A%3Finstance++rdfs%3AseeAlso+%3FTORA_wduri+.%0D%0ABIND+%28REPLACE%28str%28%3FTORA_wduri%29%2C%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2F%22%2C%22%22%29+AS+%3FTORA_wd%29.%0D%0ABIND+%28REPLACE%28str%28%3Fitem%29%2C%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%22%2C%22%22%29+AS+%3FWD%29.%0D%0A++BIND%28%0D%0A+++IF%28%3FWD+%3D+%3FTORA_wd%2C+%22Y%22%2C++%22N%22%29%0D%0A++++AS+%3FWDsame%29.%0D%0ASERVICE+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E+%7B+%0D%0A++++%3Fitem+wdt%3AP31+wd%3AQ1523821%3B+wdt%3AP777+%3FTORA_parishcode+.+%0D%0A%09OPTIONAL+%7B%0D%0A%09%09%3Fitem+rdfs%3Alabel+%3FwdLabel.%0D%0A%09%09FILTER%28LANG%28%3FwdLabel%29+%3D+%22sv%22%29.%0D%0A%09%7D%0D%0A+++++++OPTIONAL+%7B+%0D%0A+++++++++++++++%3Fitem+wdt%3AP131+%3FWDAdmin.%0D%0A+++++++++++++++%3FWDAdmin+wdt%3AP31+wd%3AQ193556.%0D%0A%09%09%3FWDAdmin+rdfs%3Alabel+%3FwdAdminLabel.%0D%0A%09%09FILTER%28LANG%28%3FwdAdminLabel%29+%3D+%22sv%22%29.%0D%0A%09%7D%0D%0A%7D%0D%0AFILTER+%28%28+STRSTARTS%28str%28%3FTORA_wduri%29%2C+%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2F%22%29%29+%26%26+%3FWDsame+%3D+%22N%22+%29%0D%0A%7D+order+by++%3FTORA_label Federated SPARQL query] from the Swedish National Archive TORA project to Wikidata
• [https://w.wiki/98L Librairies in Africa] ([https://twitter.com/fagerving/status/1177571656103055362 source])
• [https://w.wiki/98P Most recently dissolved enterprises that were over 200 years old] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1176999379112255493 source])
• Newest WikiProjects: Red pandas

• Development
• More work done on removing some resource loader modules in order to speed up the load of pages
• Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (phab:T227003)
• Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (phab:T228259)
• research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
• More preparation work for improving references

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:04, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

• Discussions
• New request for comments: Structured path for property definition changes, Import of item into wikidata private instance
• Closed requests for comments: Notability wording

• Events
• [https://jneubert.github.io/slides/wd-ak-archive-2019/#/ Wikidata (für Archive)] beim Herbsttreffen des [https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/infrastrukturen/forschungsinfrastrukturen-in-der-leibniz-gemeinschaft/informationsinfrastrukturen/archive-in-der-leibniz-gemeinschaft.html AK Archive der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft] (in German)
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Finding GLAMs campaign 08 October. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kpmf2ak1D34ApyGHWHe2mp4V8z-CYcNecy2HN_9Nrj0/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0678/beb055f681c73383c2e40fc9de0ca63c5b58.pdf Generating "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Questions Sets Automatically from Wikidata], Markus Wohlan, et al.
• [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046419302114?via%3Dihub Wikidata: A large-scale collaborative ontological medical database], Houcemeddine Turki et al.
• [https://pro.europeana.eu/post/wikidata-wikibase-for-national-libraries-the-inaugural-meeting Wikidata & Wikibase for National Libraries: the inaugural meeting] by Wendy Byrne and Liam Wyatt
• [https://medium.com/@giovanni.bergamin/una-lezione-di-biblioteconomia-8e78f75aed2 Una lezione di biblioteconomia, o Del nome corto dell’autore], {{Q|61727262}}

• Tool of the week
• [https://soweego.readthedocs.io/ soweego] links Wikidata to large third-party catalogs. Together with its friend [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ Mix'n'match], it helps Wikidata to become the universal linking hub of open data.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• The WikiProject India will send a quarterly newsletter, more info and subscribe here
• Two Wikidata users were nominated for a “WikiEule”, the German Wikipedia community’s annual awards: MisterSynergy (nomination) for an “EngagementEule” (special commitment to the wiki projects) and Tobias1984 (nomination) for an “OrgaEule” (organizational work).
• You can nominate projects for the WikidataCon award until October 7th at 23:59 UTC (today).
• During the summer, [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WikidataJS WikidataJS] became WikibaseJS! More specifically:
• wikidata-sdk became [https://github.com/maxlath/wikibase-sdk wikibase-sdk] ([https://github.com/maxlath/wikibase-sdk/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#700---2019-05-31 changelogs])
• wikidata-edit became [https://github.com/maxlath/wikibase-edit wikibase-edit] ([https://github.com/maxlath/wikibase-edit/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#300---2019-08-17 changelogs])
• wikidata-cli became [https://github.com/maxlath/wikibase-cli wikibase-cli] ([https://github.com/maxlath/wikibase-cli/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#800---2019-10-01 changelogs])

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: content descriptor, educational stage, MWNF ID, worn by, tussenvoegsel, item disputed by
• External identifiers: Gazetteer for Scotland person ID, Gazetteer for Scotland place ID, FootballDatabase.eu team ID, GENUKI ID, NTS Radio artist ID, Ticketmaster artist ID, See Tickets artist ID, DC Books author ID, Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana ID, FootballFacts.ru team ID, LaPreferente.com player ID, UEFA coach ID, UEFA team ID, Ukrainian Premier League player ID, ISSN-L, FIDAL team ID, China Martyrs ID, FAIMER school ID, JournalBase ID, National Library of Chile ID, PCEngine Catalog Project identifier, Beatport label ID, memoriademadrid publication ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: serving temperature, Ordained by, Main deity, image with frame, urn formatter, folio(s), minimum temperature record, venue of the grand final, Steam bundle ID
• External identifiers: Basis Wien, MIC, DynamoMania.com player ID, 247Sports ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database work ID, Beachsafe Beach Key, LibraryThing author ID, FutbolMe.com player ID, Pubs Galore ID, Publons publisher ID, EconBiz publication ID, ERIC publication ID, ForaDeJogo.net team ID, FreeBSD port, HCPCS Identifier, Ents24 artist ID, Eventim artist ID, Coast to Coast Tickets artist ID, ScoreBig artist ID, SeatGeek artist ID, MovieTickets person ID, Ticket Liquidator artist ID, TicketCity artist ID, Tickets.com artist ID, TickPick artist ID, Viagogo artist ID, Vivid Seats artist ID, StubHub artist ID, NAD topographic databas, Rotterdam City Archives name ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia museum ID, Professional Football League of Ukraine player ID, Ancient Tree Inventory ID, FantLab author ID, Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain ID

• Deleted properties:
• Query examples:
• Biographical entries in the Gazetteer for Scotland, with no article on English Wikipedia
• [https://w.wiki/9cX Map of medical facilities in Murshidabad district, India, color-coded by type] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1180007139785560065 source])
• [https://w.wiki/9cZ Map of flight connections between airports in India] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1179644751714254849 source])
• [https://w.wiki/9cb GLAMs institutions located north of Umeå] ([https://twitter.com/fagerving/status/1179003838021414913 source])
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Climate Change

• Development
• Continue work on removing and optimizing resource loader modules
• Wikidata Bridge: obey wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish (phab:T228260)
• Canceling the modal (phab:T231282)
• Research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
• Investigation to ensure editing with the same credentials (phab:T231887)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:06, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

• Events
• Upcoming: Monthly workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 17th
• Upcoming: [http://www.passages.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article737 Talk about connections between Wikidata, Wikipedia and OSM], Bordeaux, France, October 17th
• Upcoming: Monthly workshop in Paris, France, October 18th
• Upcoming: Wikidata goes Library, Talks and Workshops, Vienna, Austria, October 18th
• Upcoming: WikidataCon 2019 and side events: Wikibase workshop, iNaturalist workshop, October 24th to 27th, Berlin

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://commonists.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/my-message-to-video-game-databases-wekidata-come-in-peace/ My message to video game databases: We(kidata) come in peace], by Jean-Frédéric (the subject is broader than just video games)
• Lei (Nico) Zheng, et al. (2019) The Roles Bots Play in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 3, Issue CSCW, Article 215 (November 2019), 20 pages. DOI: [https://doi.org/10.1145/3359317 10.1145/3359317] (also [https://medium.com/@Nico9225/6e13270bf716 blog post]).
• Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, et al. (2019) Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge. Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-5914/ ACL Anthology ID: W19-5914] + arXiv:1909.11980

• Tool of the week
• ShowTalkLabels: with this script enabled, when a talk page is shown on your watchlist or similar pages, the label of the related entity is shown.

• Other noteworthy stuff
• We now have d:Q70000000 (3,5-dimethyl-3H-pyrazole, chemical compound) and Lexeme:L200000 (spiritualistically, English adverb)
• Your feedback is welcome about Computer-aided tagging designs for Structured data for Commons
• The next office hour will take place on November 5th on Telegram (see [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-October/013607.html full announcement])

• Did you know? =

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: fineness, identified in image by, name in hiero markup, graph radius, style of karate, name (image), code (image), folio(s)
• External identifiers: PubPeer article ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, geograph.org.uk image ID, Q-Codes ID, Great Encyclopedia of Navarre ID, Three Decks people ID, Knesset Law ID, DynamoMania.com player ID, Beachsafe Beach Key, 247Sports ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database work ID, FutbolMe.com player ID, LibraryThing author ID, SMHI drainage basin ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Publons publisher ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, EconBiz publication ID, ERIC publication ID, Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System Identifier, Pubs Galore ID, ForaDeJogo.net team ID, Ancient Tree Inventory ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia museum ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: pathway annotation, number of games, contains functional group, contains chemical element, relative count, electron configuration, reason for preferred rank, creator's signature, Wikimedia revision-id, pdf page, capital social, Source of file, gained territory from
• External identifiers: Soccerway referee ID, Eu-football.info referee ID, WorldReferee.com ID, Bluetooth Declaration ID, Bundle ID, Wolfram Language quantity ID, FantLab work ID, FantLab publisher ID, FantLab awar ID, FIG gymnast (no licence) identifier, Renaud Camus person ID, WorldFootball.net competition ID, academia.edu publication ID, Rijksmuseum Library ID, NARCIS researcher ID, Soccerbase team ID, 90minut.pl team ID, Transfermarkt.com match ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, AAAS keyword ID, Kinématoscope, CanadaSoccer.com person ID

• Query examples:
• [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20settlements%20in%20Scottish%20parishes%0A%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fpoint%22%2C%20%22%3Fline%22%2C%20%22%3Flayer%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fpoint%20%3Fline%20%3Fpar%20%3FparLabel%20%3Fsett%20%3FsettLabel%20%28%3FparLabel%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fpar%20%28AVG%28%3Flat%29%20AS%20%3Favg_lat%29%20%28AVG%28%3Flong%29%20AS%20%3Favg_long%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP709%20%5B%5D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP131%20%3Fadm_stmt%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadm_stmt%20pq%3AP3831%20wd%3AQ5124673%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fadm_stmt%20ps%3AP131%20%3Fpar%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%3Fcoord_stmt%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcoord_stmt%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcoord_stmt%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flong%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fpar%0A%7D%20AS%20%25par_data%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fpar%20%3Fpoint%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25par_data%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%27POINT%20%28%27%2C%20str%28%3Favg_long%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20str%28%3Favg_lat%29%2C%20%27%29%27%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fpoint%29%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25points%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fsett%20%3Fpar%20%3Fline%20%3Fpoint%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25par_data%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fpar%20wdt%3AP1383%20%3Fsett%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fsett%20p%3AP625%20%3Fsett_stmt%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fsett_stmt%20ps%3AP625%20%3Fpoint%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fsett_stmt%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fsett_lat%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fsett_stmt%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fsett_long%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%27LINESTRING%20%28%27%2C%20STR%28%3Fsett_long%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Fsett_lat%29%2C%20%27%2C%27%2C%20STR%28%3Favg_long%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Favg_lat%29%2C%20%27%29%27%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20%0A%7D%20AS%20%25lines%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25points%20%7D%20%20UNION%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25lines%20%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A Map of Scottish settlements linked to the average coordinates of Historic Scotland items within civil parishes] - demonstrating the use of map lines to highlight possible data quality issues ([https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1181609576279531523 source])
• [https://w.wiki/9i3 Bundesliga football results] - exemplar of a report predicated mainly on statement qualifiers ([https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Request_a_query&oldid=1028180747#Result_of_a_sports_match source])
• [https://w.wiki/9jk On which side of the road do cars drive?] - demonstrating the use of geoshapes to fill a map ([https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1181864751648911360 source])
• [https://w.wiki/9nX Map of the embassies to Belgium] ([https://twitter.com/Pymouss/status/1182021492596514817 source])
• [https://w.wiki/94v Graph showing direct descendants of Prithwiraj Kapoor] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1181094303222976512 source])
• [https://w.wiki/A5T Nobel laureates by award type and gender] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1182980356930244610 source])
• Newest database reports: Mersenne numbers

• Development
• Abuse filter has been improved so saving an edit should be a bit faster now. (phab:T156095)
• A new Lua function is providing the site's global ID of the wiki where this function is used (phab:T194023)
• Wikidata Bridge: test data for the demo system (phab:T224834)
• Research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
• Investigate of the purging strategy (phab:T227758)
• Restyling of mobile termbox (phab:T223452)
• Adding "fewer languages" button at the end of the expanded list of "all entered languages" (phab:T232595)
• More work on reducing the resource loader modules
• More work on tainted references

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:25, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

• Events
• Upcoming: WikidataCon 2019 on October 25-26. If you're not attending, you can follow most of the sessions remotely with live stream.
• Upcoming: Wikidata's seventh birthday, on October 29th. You can organize an event in your area and add it to the list!
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Finding GLAMs campaign cont. with OpenRefine demo, 22 October. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rxo5dF5q6AVJ4xvBkBwCsy2nXdSqYdGHudZxPmSqKfk/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
• Upcoming: Wikidata and Archival Metadata : opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon in [http://adochs.be/linking/ Study day on Linked Data], {{label|Q239}}, Friday November 22th, 2019.
• Past: Several sessions at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2019 (11–13 October):
• Wikidata content oriented projects, talk by Mārtiņš Bruņenieks ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKYdRUXNdtQ&t=8762 video])
• Using Wikidata as an Educational Platform, talk by Nebojša Ratković ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKYdRUXNdtQ&t=10608 video])
• Beyond the basics: Intermediate Wikidata tools, workshop by Asaf Bartov (not recorded)
• Your first Wikidata Lua infobox, workshop by Tobias Schönberg (not recorded)

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://medium.com/@david.prihoda/querying-wikidata-rdf-with-sql-using-rdf2x-324f18219adf?source=friends_link&sk=5f7c4155d5444c6c23b38f9d1ba1f7d7 Querying Wikidata RDF with SQL using RDF2X]
• [https://iphylo.blogspot.com/2019/08/ozymandias-in-canberra.html Ozymandias in Canberra] - how the Atlas of Living Australia could be enhanced using Wikidata
• [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-30793-6_16 Knowledge Graph Consolidation by Unifying Synonymous Relationships] - Jan-Christoph Kalo, et al.
• PhD thesis: Candela Romero, Gustavo (2019). [https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/97353/1/tesis_gustavo_candela_romero.pdf Publicación y enriquecimiento semántico de datos abiertos en bibliotecas digitales] (in Spanish).
• [https://esterpantaleo.github.io/wikidata_wordmap/ Wikidata Wordmap]

• Tool of the week
• The [https://esterpantaleo.github.io/wikidata_wordmap/ Wikidata Wor(l)dmap] is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels and the coordinate location property of the language.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Wikidata won an [https://openpublishingawards.org/ Open Publishing Award] ([https://openpublishingawards.org/index.php/wikidata/ description]).
• [https://pananda.sector4f.com/ Panandâ], a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), [https://www.facebook.com/gdgphilippines/posts/1659621320836459 was selected] as one of the five finalists in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. The final event will be held on November 16.
• Issue with Wikidata Query Service: aggregate variables can no longer reuse the names of other variables (T235540).
• You can translate labels in the background image of Wikidata front page by adding translation to this file

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: image backside, frontside image, gender educated, image with frame, line(s), minimum temperature record, glacier status, number of processor threads, reason for preferred rank, creator's signature
• External identifiers: Professional Football League of Ukraine player ID, Rotterdam City Archives actor ID, FreeBSD port, Bluetooth Declaration ID, Bundle ID, Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain ID, Wolfram Language quantity ID, Steam bundle ID, FantLab author ID, NAD place ID, Eu-football.info referee ID, WorldReferee.com referee ID, FantLab award ID, FantLab publisher ID, FantLab work ID, FIG gymnast (no licence) identifier, WorldFootball.net competition ID, Rijksmuseum Research Library authority ID, Basis Wien person ID, Basis Wien institution ID, Basis Wien event ID, Basis Wien object ID, NARCIS researcher ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Czech Fortuna liga player ID, 90minut.pl team ID, Soccerbase team ID, Transfermarkt.com match ID, AAAS keyword ID, Kinematoscope film ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: MOHW HospID, graph diameter, ICP filing, aspect, key col, key col of
• External identifiers: FlashScore.com match ID, GHR Conditions ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munchs correspondance person ID, Neliti Journal ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph Serviceperson ID, iNaturalist place ID, dp.ru persons ID, IISG ID, ifixit ID, Wolfram Language entity type, CinemaRx person ID, Kinématoscope - Literary work, Kinématoscope - Film director, Kinématoscope - Writer, Stathletics-ID, BDFutbol team ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/AQs Map of châteaux in the French world heritage site "the Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes"] ([https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1185636531433852929 source])
• [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem1%20%3Fimage1%20%3Fitem1Label%20%3Frgb%20%3Fitem2%20%3Fimage2%20%3Fitem2Label%20%3FedgeLabel%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem1%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fcharacter%20as%20%3Fitem1%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ7889.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP179%20wd%3AQ219623.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP674%20%3Fcharacter.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Find%20sport%20-%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fsport%20as%20%3Fitem1%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ7889.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP179%20wd%3AQ219623.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP674%20%3Fcharacter.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcharacter%20wdt%3AP641%20%3Fsport.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Find%20games%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fgame%20as%20%3Fitem1%29%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ7889.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP179%20wd%3AQ219623.%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%227FFF00%22%20as%20%3Frgb%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25item1%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fitem1%20AS%20%3Fitem2%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25item1.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25item2%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25item1%20.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25item2%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem1%20%3Fwdt%20%3Fitem2%20.%0A%20%20%3Fedge%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fwdt%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20a%20wikibase%3AProperty%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem1%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage1%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem2%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage2%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Graph of the personal relationships between Tekken characters and their fighting styles] ([https://twitter.com/JeanFred/status/1186197330468442112 source])
• [https://w.wiki/AWk Timeline of the chief ministers of Haryana and Maharashtra] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1186167733253074944 source])
• [https://w.wiki/AWn Language representation of descriptions in Wikidata for objects connected to Ksamsök] ([https://twitter.com/salgo60/status/1185827875850739717 source])
• [https://w.wiki/AWp Cricketers who have ever played on an Indian Super League team] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1185805345332973568 source])

• Development
• Fixed the DuplicateReferences gadget that was broken due to refactoring work needed to make pages load faster and development easier (phab:T234094)
• Wikidata Bridge: restricting the length of string value inputs (phab:T229241)
• research delayed kicking in of Bridge (phab:T233305)
• enable/disable save button depending on Bridge state (phab:T230342)
• More work on reducing the resource loader modules
• More work on tainted references

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:36, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

• Happy birthday, Wikidata!
• Today, on October 29th, it’s Wikidata’s 7th birthday. Time to reflect and celebrate and to look forward to see where we are going from here. Message from the Wikidata development team
• You can also write a birthday message or add a present to the list

• Events
• Past: Several sessions at Wikidata goes Library, Vienna, {{Q|1020347}} (18 October):
• Wikidata is amazing, talk by Jean-Fréd
• Uses of Wikidata and Wikibase in France, talk by Nicolas Vigneron
• [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3515882 Using Wikidata for Video Game Research], talk by Tracy Hoffmann
• Wikidata based extended search queries, talk by {{Q|67173261}}
• Past: WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin. You can see [https://media.ccc.de/c/wikidatacon2019 the videos of the sessions] and the list of slides and notes, also from the program. Among them, here are few suggestions of sessions to watch:
• [https://media.ccc.de/v/wikidatacon2019-3-glimpse_over_wikidata Glimpse over Wikidata] & [https://media.ccc.de/v/wikidatacon2019-2-wikidata_and_languages Wikidata and languages] (Lydia Pintscher)
• [https://media.ccc.de/v/wikidatacon2019-16-birthday_celebration_presents_demo Birthday presents demo] (various people presenting new tools and features)
• [https://media.ccc.de/v/wikidatacon2019-17-wikidatacon_award_ceremony WikidataCon awards ceremony] (Birgit Müller & Liam Wyatt)
• [https://media.ccc.de/v/wikidatacon2019-1060-new_usages_of_wikidata_to_support_underserved_language_communities New usages of Wikidata to support underserved language communities] (Lucie-Aimée Kaffee)
• [https://media.ccc.de/v/wikidatacon2019-1035-data_import_process_overview Overview of the data import process] (Navino Evans)
• A lot of interesting tools and projects presented [https://media.ccc.de/v/wikidatacon2019-18-lightning_talks_1 during the two] [https://media.ccc.de/v/wikidatacon2019-19-lightning_talks_2 lightning talks sessions]
• Upcoming: plenty of events taking place for Wikidata's seventh birthday! [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikidata-birthday-party-in-london-tickets-76951807929 In London on 29th], in Cape Town on 31st, a datathon organized in India, [https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Dimecres_de_dataf%C3%ADlia_2019 in Barcelona on November 13th], etc.

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://figshare.com/articles/Analysis_of_Urban_Information_of_Colombia_on_Wikidata/10032185 Analysis of Urban Information of Colombia on Wikidata], 2nd [http://www.catai.fr/catai2019/ CATAÏ Workshop], Bogota, Colombia, 23-24 October 2019 ([https://easychair.org/publications/preprint/DvhT Preprint])
• [https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/799684v1.full Wikidata as a FAIR knowledge graph for the life sciences] (preprint in Biorxiv)

• Tool of the week
• [https://tools.wmflabs.org/machtsinn/ MachtSinn] is a game to easily add Senses to Lexemes, based on suggestions from Items labels. It helps improving the data about languages in Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Open request for oversight permission: -revi
• [https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases/tag/3.3-beta OpenRefine 3.3 beta] was released
• The Community Wishlist Survey 2020 from Wikimedia Foundation started. This year, it is focused on small projects and Wikidata-related wishes will not be included.
• You can help [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mix'n'match/Catalogues expanding the list] of databases, encyclopedias, etc. which could be added to [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match Mix'n'match]. Can be used for property creation too.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: graph diameter, orientation, URN formatter, iFixit Repairability Score, key col, variety of form, source of file, grammatical aspect
• External identifiers: CanadaSoccer.com person ID, FlashScore.com match ID, Publons journals/conferences ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Genetics Home Reference Conditions ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munch's correspondance person ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, MOHW HospID, iNaturalist place ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Neliti Journal ID, Online Cenotaph ID, dp.ru person ID, ifixit ID, ICP license ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, CinemaRx person ID, Kinematoscope - Film director, Kinematoscope - Writer, Kinematoscope - Literary work, BDFutbol team ID, Stathletics ID, teams.by team ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: religion or world view, Comorbidity, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, XML namespace, Commons category for the interior of the item, statement is regarded as spoiler for, menu items
• External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 – 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, NZPCN ID, Women Film Pioneers ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Golden ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, startrek.com Database ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society game ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/AyX Tree map of members of the 16th Lok Sabha, grouped by state represented] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1189066836316475392 source])
• [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20pictures%20of%20animals%20with%20female%20grammatical%20gender%20in%20German%20but%20male%20grammatical%20gender%20in%20French%0A%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fanimal%20%3FdeLemmas%20%3FfrLemmas%20%3Fimage%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fanimal%20%28STRLANG%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3FdeLemma%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%2F%22%29%2C%20%22de%22%29%20AS%20%3FdeLemmas%29%20%28STRLANG%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3FfrLemma%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%2F%22%29%2C%20%22fr%22%29%20AS%20%3FfrLemmas%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fde%20dct%3Alanguage%20wd%3AQ188%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AlexicalCategory%20wd%3AQ1084%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Alemma%20%3FdeLemma%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP5185%20wd%3AQ1775415%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ontolex%3Asense%20%5B%20wdt%3AP5137%20%3Fanimal%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffr%20dct%3Alanguage%20wd%3AQ150%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AlexicalCategory%20wd%3AQ1084%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Alemma%20%3FfrLemma%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP5185%20wd%3AQ499327%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ontolex%3Asense%20%5B%20wdt%3AP5137%20%3Fanimal%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fanimal%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ729.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fanimal%0A%7D%20AS%20%25animals%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fanimal%20%3FanimalLabel%20%3FdeLemmas%20%3FfrLemmas%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25animals.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25animalsWithLabels%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25animalsWithLabels.%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22haswbstatement%3AP180%3D%22%2C%20STRAFTER%28STR%28%3Fanimal%29%2C%20STR%28wd%3A%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fsearch%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Search%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22commons.wikimedia.org%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Asrsearch%20%3Fsearch%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Asrnamespace%20%226%22%3B%20%23%20NS_FILE%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Asrlimit%20%22max%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftitle%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Atitle.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2F%22%2C%20STRAFTER%28%3Ftitle%2C%20%22File%3A%22%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%0A%7D Pictures of animals with female grammatical gender in German but male grammatical gender in French] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1188954285616353280 source])
• [https://w.wiki/AyZ Map of bus stops in Biscay] ([https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1188529112320745472 source])
• [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0APREFIX%20gas%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%2Fgas%23%3E%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3FlinkTo%20WHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20gas%3Aservice%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20gas%3Aprogram%20gas%3AgasClass%20%22com.bigdata.rdf.graph.analytics.SSSP%22%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20gas%3Ain%20wd%3AQ320578%3B%0A%20%20%20%20gas%3AtraversalDirection%20%22Forward%22%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout%20%3Fitem%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout1%20%3Fdepth%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20gas%3AmaxIterations%2010%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20gas%3AlinkType%20wdt%3AP184%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP184%20%3FlinkTo%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%0A%23 Tree graph of doctoral advisors going backward from Abhijit Banerjee] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1186892509114519553 source])

• Development
• Wikidata Bridge: Create progressive disabled version of save button (phab:T235055)
• Save original revision data in store (phab:T235052)
• Add interface for tracking/logging (phab:T236233)
• Make app change button attributes depending on state of store (phab:T235056)
• More work on reducing the resource loader modules
• More work on tainted references

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 09:54, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

• Events
• Past: Wikidata Zurich Training 2019
• Upcoming: Next Wikidata office hour on Tuesday, November 5th [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Wikidata+Telegram+office+hour&iso=20191105T18&p1=37&ah=1 at 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+1)] on the [https://t.me/joinchat/AZriqUj5Uag92TB4U9eBdQ the Wikidata Telegram channel]
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Martin Poulter on Wikidata projects at the University of Oxford, 05, November. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e09HBXcLQxGJggEjGiaurZPLt9V4DKA5jLbb9bmbFuA/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]

• Press, articles, blog posts
• ZBW Labs: [http://zbw.eu/labs/en/blog/20th-century-press-archives-data-donation-to-wikidata 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata]
• [https://www.lehir.net/the-wikidatacon-card-game/ The WikidataCon Card Game], Envel Le Hir
• [https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/11/the-greater-bear-using-wikidata-to-generate-better-artwork/ The Great(er) Bear - using Wikidata to generate better artwork]
• ''[https://2019.semantics.cc/language-related-linked-open-data-knowledge-solutions-artificial-intelligence-and-more/Language-related Linked (Open) Data for Knowledge Solutions, Artificial Intelligence and more] presentation touching amongst others Wikidata and schema.org at Semantics 2019 by Felix Sasaki and Christian Lieske
• [https://hal.telecom-paristech.fr/hal-02096356/file/2019-ESWC-wikidatahistory.pdf Querying the Edit History of Wikidata] - Thomas Pellissier Tanon & Fabian Suchanek
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.12596.pdf Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia] - Diego Saez-Trumper (WMF)

• Tool of the week
• [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/sparql_rc.php SPARQL RC] is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/5246357?jobDbPVId=14376022&l=de Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Product Manager for Wikibase]
• Live Wikidata editing videos: Jan Ainali makes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf76lM8FMQE&list=PLjMC1biQ0gMSb_mlBkf3bRFQURyhEqn_h&index=4 videos showing his process while editing Wikidata]. Magnus Sälgö also makes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QskooXZvbVE&list=UUyWx9F1ym3pDsS-VFz4E58Q&index=2 videos showing specific features and tools]
• {{query page}} is a new template that can be used to store SPARQL queries on a dedicated wiki page, to be transcluded in various styles (announcement)
• New feature on Mix'n'match: [https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1189921082825940992 job management]

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: comorbidity, audio system, election called by, XML namespace
• External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 - 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, NZPCN ID, Wolfram Language entity type, Women Film Pioneers ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, Golden ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, doujinshi.org author ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: food composition, landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, IP address or range, featured in, Room number, Jabber channel, lighting, Mentioned at
• External identifiers: Sega Retro ID, CA Prop 65 ID, Gaming-History company ID, dp.ru company ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, SK cinema film ID, SK cinema authority ID, ePSD ID, classicamiga ID, Czech cadastral area ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, Planète Aventure ID, AaRC person ID, fyyd podcast identifer, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, UEFA referee ID, Flowers of India ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, NBAIR pest ID, Reptiles of India ID, Odonata of India ID, Birds of India ID, Moths of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, ZSI author ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, askArt person ID

• Deleted properties: P2035 (LinkedIn personal profile URL), P1946 (N6I ID)
• Query examples:
• [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20distinct%20%3FpartyLabel%20%3FseatLabel%20%3FmpLabel%20%20%20%3Fimage%20%20%3Fcoords%20%3Frgb%20%28%3FpartyLabel%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%20%3Fcurrps%20.%20%3Fcurrps%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fcurrterm%20.%20%3Fcurrterm%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ16707842%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fcurrps%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fcurrend%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcurrps%20pq%3AP768%20%3Fseat%20.%20%3Fseat%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20.%20%3Fcurrps%20pq%3AP4100%20%3Fparty%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20optional%20%7B%20%3Fmp%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fparty%20wdt%3AP465%20%3Frgb%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fcoords%22%2C%20%22%3Flayer%22%2C%20%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D Map of UK MPs coloured by party] ([https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1190391516289753089 source]) - may change in the next few weeks
• [https://w.wiki/BGJ Maintenance query: items which have a value of "unknown" (Q24238356) rather than the "unknown" special value] ([https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1190604932761759746 source])
• [https://w.wiki/BNS 100 cities closest to the North pole with more than 200k inhabitants] ([https://twitter.com/liopic/status/1189252693166088194 source])
• [https://w.wiki/BNX Actors with whom Shah Rukh Khan collaborated, in a bubble chart showing how many times it happened] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1190516387858571264 source])
• New Integraality dashboards: Journals by publisher, Theses by institution
• Schema examples:
• Painting
• Member of parliament from Sweden
• Malayalam lexeme
• Newest WikiProjects: Sum of all Podcasts
• Newest database reports:
• Uniform Resource Name (URN) in Wikidata
• Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) constraint check

• Development
• Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
• Fix a bug on the mobile termbox (phab:T236677)
• Update Wikibase Lua documentation (phab:T225497)
• Highlight individual statements when selecting them in the URL (phab:T234079)
• Add monolingual language code "sa-Sidd", "pi-Sidd", tnq (Taíno), car (Kalinago) and bdr (phab:T230881, phab:T220284, phab:T234330)
• Make it possible to collapse the "All entered languages" section when at the end of the section (phab:T232595)
• Cache php.getEntityStatements in mw.wikibase (phab:T236491)
• Tracking Wikidata Bridge openings by Datatype in Grafana (phab:T231204)
• Not showing Bridge edit pens when the editor cannot edit the article (phab:T235152)
• A bugfix to only show scrollbars where they are supposed to be shown (phab:T235622)
• Enabling/Disabling the Save button depending on the bridge state (phab:T230342)
• More work on tainted references

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:35, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

• Discussions
• New request for comments: Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject

• Events
• Past: Wikidata office hour (notes)
• Past: "Using Wikidata to describe the structure of a book" Webinar by Martin Poulter for LD4P2 project [https://stanford.zoom.us/recording/play/D1VuJKF4stRiEysoXj0Q8h40T_-bVcAOMonncNCI_Ouq0WpC-642R0aXLoJJEeNE?startTime=1572972276000 (Video)], [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zPayHge1v-v_1_7c9kxrWYb3FM_-EmBO/view (Slides)], [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e09HBXcLQxGJggEjGiaurZPLt9V4DKA5jLbb9bmbFuA/view (Notes)]
• Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop OpenRefine in Prague on 12 November
• Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 17 November

• Tool of the week
• [https://tools.wmflabs.org/speedpatrolling/ Speedpatrolling] is a tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on mobile devices.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Wikipedia Personality Infobox in Catalan and French display now the Heritage Institution in charge of their archives via P485 (archives at).
• The Discord server [https://discord.gg/e8xxGMP Wikimedia Community] has now a Wikidata channel.
• [https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2019/11/wikipedia-talks-about-wikidata.html?fbclid=IwAR3dKqt8-kVXcB4pFz1zFhaaliEbwjv3SXU5Qo3Sn-p46IosHWHR3u9Nzmk @Wikipedia talks about @Wikidata] by GerardM

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, statement is regarded as spoiler for, room number, scope and content
• External identifiers: startrek.com Database ID, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society ID, Sega Retro ID, classicamiga ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, Gaming-History company ID, SK cinema authority ID, SK cinema film ID, CA PROP 65 ID, ePSD identifier, Czech cadastral area ID, dp.ru company ID, Fortuna liga player ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, AaRC person ID, MIC market code

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: general law, population rank, area rank, population density rank, references, territorial entity ranking context, mentions named entity, plot features event, Jyutping (2)
• External identifiers: National Health Portal hospital ID, IPC ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, UVL game ID, WikiTreeCategories, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, OGDB game title ID, common exchange code, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, CISCE school code, CBSE Affiliation No., JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/BYM Persons in the genealogy family tree WikiTree were WIkidata has a source from the Swedish National Archives Birth/Death records]
• [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20minimum%20temperatures%20on%20Earth%20%0A%23%20from%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty_talk%3AP7422%0ASELECT%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3FlocationLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcoor%20%3Flayer%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20p%3AP7422%20%3Fst%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP7422%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ25267%20%5D%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28%20ROUND%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2a%201.8%20%2B%2032%20%29%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%09%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP7422%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ42289%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20ROUND%28%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20-%2032%20%29%20%2F%201.8%20%2a%2010%29%2F10%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP276%20%3Flocation%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor0%20%7D%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor1%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20COALESCE%28%3Fcoor0%2C%20%3Fcoor1%29%20as%20%3Fcoor%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20CONCAT%28str%28Floor%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2F%2010%29%29%2C%220s%20%C2%B0C%22%29%20as%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%29%0ALIMIT%201000 Minimum temperature records on Earth]
• [https://w.wiki/Bqt Map of districts of India by ratio of illiterate to literate population in 2011] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1193415490485411840 source])
• [https://w.wiki/Bqv List of episodes of Detective Conan's Case Closed, with date and place of publication and series and season number, sorted by date of publication] ([https://twitter.com/rachmatwhd/status/1193081706728738816 source])
• [https://w.wiki/Bqw Parent and child who both had a governor mandate in the USA] ([https://twitter.com/iamlemec/status/1192210436726374400 source])
• [https://w.wiki/Bqy Belgian artists whose work will be in public domain starting in 2020] ([https://twitter.com/JolanWuyts/status/1192092099468046340 source])
• Newest WikiProjects: Wolfram Language, most frequent first names in Poland, Paintings and images of signatures of painters

• Development
• In order to decrease the size of what we store in caches we stopped storing the actual EntityUsage objects in ParserOutput and now just store minimal identifier strings (phabricator:T236749)
• Investigated why Termbox broke on an update (phabricator:T235261)
• Removed auto jump of focus from Property field to value field (phabricator:T234322 - thanks to Envlh for the patch)
• Removed non-functional site link groups for other Wikibase installations that don't need them (phabricator:T232248)
• Continued working on the migration of the wb_terms table to address scalability issues
• Continued working on the shortened version of edit summaries for edits made through the mobile termbox (phabricator:T224013)
• For the Wikidata Bridge we are not showing edit pens when the user can not edit the article anymore (phabricator:T235152)
• Working on viewing existing references in the Wikidata Bridge (phabricator:T233397)
• Worked on showing an information popup when clicking the tainted reference icon to tell you what went wrong and how to solve it.
• Worked on defining first version of Federation for wikis outside Wikimedia
• Commons search have stopped indexing statements (structured data) since 30 October 2019 (phabricator:T237849)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:54, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

• Events
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Recap of WikidataCon and WikiConference North America, 19 November. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/16AEiMlnyPCjLb_I4lPB39ktk1RG6DvF-S7jkGuWWSr0/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.12596.pdf Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia]

• Tool of the week
• The Mix'n'Match gadget displays on an item all unconfirmed matches on Mix'n'match, allowing to quickly add them.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• There are now over 2.5 million Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories.
• OpenRefine is awarded a USD 200,000 grant by the [https://chanzuckerberg.com Chan Zuckerberg Initiative] to fund [http://openrefine.org/blog/2019/11/14/czi-eoss.html its development in 2020].
• Autojump from a field to another will be removed
• [https://pananda.sector4f.com/ Panandâ], a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), [https://mobile.facebook.com/pananda.mobile/photos/a.182337685761331/435584870436610/ won the top prize] in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:seav Eugene], the app's developer, recently gave a [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Program/Sessions/Lightning_talks_2 lightning talk about the app] at WikidataCon 2019.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: Commons category for the interior of the item
• External identifiers: Birds of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Moths of India ID, NBAIR pest ID, Odonata of India ID, Planète Aventure ID, Reptiles of India ID, ZSI author ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, askArt person ID, Flowers of India ID, National Health Portal hospital ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete alphabetical ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, UVL game ID, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, OGDB game title ID, CISCE school code, JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: IAST transliteration, Hunterian transliteration, IFCO rating, stellar age, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 schedule, nominalisated form, date of assent, effective date, valid for, supervisor, Xmodmap keysym, Properties for Indian ragas
• External identifiers: Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, OGDB company ID, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, AboutTheArtists artist ID, Czech city district ID, Prague administrative district ID, NinDB game ID, DUC ID, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, Cinepub person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Cinept film ID, CinePT person ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Lutris platform ID, Beaux-arts ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, India PlayStation Store ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Czech municipality ID, Lutris genre ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/CGf Adaptations of The War of the Worlds] ([https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1195089562357444618 source])
• [https://w.wiki/CGq Graves at the Stockholm church Riddarholmskyrkan who use book Riddarholmskyrkan - inventories and graves (Q61765464) as a source], [https://twitter.com/salgo60/status/1195335657041907713?s=20 source]
• [https://w.wiki/CJK Map of sisterly relationships with cities in India] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1195589817720963073 source])
• [https://w.wiki/CJL Map of the languages without any Wikidata Lexemes yet] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1195021476694568961 source])
• Newest database reports: translations for port/starboard and windward/leeward

• Development
• Tainted references: Show warning icon if statement value is changed but reference is not changed in the same edit (phab:T231728)
• Make WikibaseQualityConstraints link using SpecialMyLanguage (phab:T233003)
• Work on the issue of property labels not showing up on some pages (phab:T237984)
• Track Bridge openings by property datatype (phab:T231204)
• Viewing existing references in the Bridge (phab:T233397)
• Attaching the link listener sooner, so the user gets a bit less often wrongly forwarded to wikidata (phab:T235765)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18:37, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

• Events
• Join the global m:WikiForHumanRights Campaign by participating with WikiProject Human rights. The campaigns is focused on increasing coverage of human rights topics on Wikimedia projects through January 30.
• Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 1 December
• Past: [http://prowd.id/ ProWD], a tool for PROfiling the multi-dimensional completeness of WikiData, was presented at [https://dblp.org/db/conf/kcap/kcap2019.html the K-CAP 2019 conference] on Nov 21, 2019 in Marina del Rey, USA. Using ProWD, one may compare, for example, [http://prowd.id/#/profile/compare/68 the completeness of computer scientists by nationality and sex]. The slides are available by clicking [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12aMPGVjUa8w1E8ckb_ErR8dEABEWrurKQMlelmjvbHw/edit?usp=sharing this link]. The ProWD developers are welcoming any feedback!
• Past: WikiTechStorm in Amsterdam. See the videos of the sessions, including a lot of Wikidata-related introductions
• Past: [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Wikidata_Zurich_Hackathon2019| Wikidata Zurich Hackathon]
• Past: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWqKyC7gt0s Wikimedia Tech Talk: Wikidata, behind the curtain], by Ladsgroup

• Press, articles, blog posts
• Die Datenlaube launched [https://diedatenlaube.github.io diedatenlaube.github.io] - a collection of blog posts, links and scripts around "wikidatafying" the big German Wikisource project [https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Die_Gartenlaube Die Gartenlaube] (in German).

• Tool of the week
• [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/cradle/#/ Cradle] enables editors to create a new item by completing a form. You can create a new form on the Cradle help page. Cradle forms can be used as templates to ensure that similar new items are structured the same way. This can be especially helpful for specific WikiProjects or datathons, and is a great timesaver if you are creating many similar items by hand.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• 570k VIAF identifiers have been added to Wikidata items in an effort of synchronisation between the two databases, thanks to Bargioni. In order to report errors in VIAF an apposite page has been created. More information here.
• Query Service lag now affects maxlag. You may need to retry/reset error multiple times when you run QuickStatement or OpenRefine in busy hours.
• Wikidata now documented more than six million people, more than the number of articles in English Wikipedia
• New documentation page: Wikidata:Map data

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: Wikimedia page-version URL, IFCO rating, IAST transliteration, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (India) schedule, age estimated by a dating method, effective date, date of assent, ascending scale, descending scale, primary note, secondary note, CITES Appendix, supervisor, Hunterian transliteration
• External identifiers: CBSE Affiliation No., OGDB company ID, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, Swedish Royal Theater Archive, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, Czech city district ID, DUC ID, Prague administrative district ID, AboutTheArtists artist ID, fyyd podcast ID, NinDB game ID, Cinepub person ID, eFloraSA ID, eBay username, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, CinePT film ID, CinePT person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Ratingraph MALE person ID, Czech municipality ID, WikiTreeCategories, P7608, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Taiwan Cinema company ID, Taiwan Cinema Film ID, Taiwan Cinema person ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: amends, syndicate, corporate domicile, Latvian transcription, implies, stargate-wiki.de article ID
• External identifiers: SciProfiles ID, Scilit journal ID, YVNG ID, TheGamesDB game ID, VLR ID, Archives Portal Europe ID, Church Heritage Cymru ID, NVE Powerplant ID, TheGamesDB platform ID, Artsdata ID, WPI ID, TheGamesDB developer ID, MPPDA Digital Archive person ID, MPPDA Digital Archive film ID, MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID, Czech municipality with authorized municipal office ID, Czech municipality with expanded powers ID, IDU theatre ID, Scienza a due voci ID, TheGamesDB publisher ID, OverDrive publisher ID, RomanianActors person ID, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID, Cochrane concept ID, Vectrex Game Database ID, OverDrive creator ID, OverDrive series ID, Hoopla series ID, Speiderhistorisk leksikon article, super-famicom.jp ID, Arolsen ID, Doctrine court decision ID, Juricaf decision ID, Riksdagen person guid, Places of Worship in Scotland ID, Museum of Family History ID, MovieGe person ID, GameFAQs credit ID, IMovies person ID, Ratingraph FEMALE person ID, Scilit publication ID, FMV World ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/Cno Paintings of people with cats] ([https://twitter.com/mmmenno/status/1197074711970271232 source])
• [https://w.wiki/Cnp Number of English Lexemes in Wikidata by first letter] ([https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1199266895792398337 source])
• [https://w.wiki/Cnq Tree map of 1990s National Film Award winners, sorted by specific award] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1198488920645885952 source])
• [https://w.wiki/CYU Map of world's disputed areas] ([https://twitter.com/planemad/status/1198058657767972864 source])
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Human Rights
• Newest database reports: poems by Emily Dickinson

• Development
• Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
• More work on tainted references and getting the feature ready to be tested
• Fix a bug with Wikibase test builds (phab:T238575)
• More work on improving the edit summaries (phab:T224013)
• Bridge: Viewing existing references (phab:T233397)
• Preserving native behavior on key+click (phab:T234060)
• Speeding up initialization, by attaching link listeners sooner (phab:T235765) and reducing the size of the init module (phab:T235771)
• Recording metrics for bridge opening performance (phab:T237368)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:18, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

• Events
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Gadgets, 3 December. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/160LGAHy5OGM19JX7VRshwAlscRRuXBVB7Kt2_zQpsks/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [http://blogs.harvard.edu/britton/2019/11/24/open-access-directorys-list-of-blogs-wikidata-ingest/ Open Access Directory’s List of Blogs: Wikidata Ingest] by A. Britton
• [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LinkingThePast_20191122-1_bdc.pdf Wikidata and Archival Metadata ; opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions] by Baptiste de Coulon, 22.11.2019, Linking the Past, {{label|Q383931}}, {{label|Q239}}.
• [https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/11/26/introducing-isa-a-cool-tool-for-adding-structured-data-on-commons/ Introducing ISA – a cool tool for adding structured data on Commons] by Isla Haddow-Flood
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgOj3u38GpU Video of live queries building] by [https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts WikidataFacts]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSb8QnBmZX4 Video of the Wikidata editathon in Swedish] with Jan Ainali, Magnus Sälgö and UncleCJ

• Tool of the week
• Alt Labels displays item labels in other languages when there is no label in your default language. You may click a label to add it as the label for your language. This tool is very helpful for labels for people, books, articles, or films that do not need their labels to be translated.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel and Special:EntitiesWithoutDescription will use ElasticSearch, improving display and ranking
• Edit summaries coming from wbeditentity API will have a new format

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: covered period
• External identifiers: Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Lutris genre ID, Lutris platform ID, VLR ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, Church Heritage Cymru ID, TheGamesDB game ID, TheGamesDB platform ID, YVNG ID, WPI ID, NVE Powerplant ID, Artsdata.ca ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID, MPPDA Digital Archive film ID, MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID, MPPDA Digital Archive person ID, administrative district of Czech municipality with authorized municipal office ID, administrative district of Czech municipality with expanded powers ID, IDU theatre ID, OverDrive creator ID, OverDrive publisher ID, MTV Germany artist ID, TheGamesDB publisher ID, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID, RomanianMaleActors person ID, IISG ID, Cochrane concept ID, OverDrive series ID, Vectrex Game Database ID, WeChat ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID, Prog Archives artist ID, www.gesetze-im-internet.de ID, quantity symbol, research status, Playstation Data Center ID, recombination author, superfamicom.org ID, commissioned for
• External identifiers: Code de l'autorité de l'aviation civile grecque, Flanders Architecture Institute ID, NEC Retro ID, Semion author ID, WorldCat Identities, Czech district ID, Czech region ID, Cinépolis KLIC ID, Vie publique person ID, Vie publique intervention ID, Wikimapia, OpenRetro Game Database ID, Vie publique report ID, Israel Museum Jerusalem artist id, Colorado Encyclopedia ID, National Library of New Zealand authority ID, Utah History Encyclopedia ID, Mississippi Encyclopedia ID, South Carolina Encyclopedia ID, The Oregon Encyclopedia ID, Online Nevada Encyclopedia ID, CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID, WyoHistory.org ID, Kansaspedia ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Quora topic ID (Spanish) 2, RomanianActresses person ID, Europeana Entity, Aberdeenshire HER ID, AncientFaces person ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, Français libres ID, Musée de la Résistance ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/D9X Graph of shared borders between regions of Myanmar] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1201025635923218433 source])
• [https://w.wiki/D9Y Plurals in German ending with only "n" (not "en")] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1199604655971545088 source])
• [https://w.wiki/D9Z Women's + Gender History Digital Humanities list] ([https://twitter.com/abritton1630/status/1199494434498502656 source])
• Newest database reports: descendants of Charlemagne

• Development
• Fix security issues impacting the Query Service GUI ([https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-November/013689.html more details])
• Work on a a new Parser function (commaSeparatedList) (phab:T224013)
• Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
• Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
• Add label and description collision detectors for new terms store (phab:T232040)
• Wikidata Bridge: showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)
• Showing an error dialog if users can’t edit on Wikidata (phab:T235154)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:27, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

• Events
• Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish, 15 December
• Upcoming: [https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sydney-wikimedia-meetup--tickets-82886619109 Sydney Wikidata Workshop], 16 December

• Press, articles, blog posts
• Use of Wikidata in GLAM institutions, research report done by the user experience team at Wikimedia Deutschland
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02761.pdf Measuring Social Bias in Knowledge Graph Embeddings]
• [http://wikimedia.eus/2019/11/letra-zopak-eta-scrabble-zein-da-euskarazko-letrarik-ohikoena/ Letra zopak, Scrabble eta euskarazko letrarik ohikoena], about the most common characters in Basque language, and how this should affect automatic letter-soups and Scrabble point-system.
• Two new blog posts about GLAM pilot projects for Structured Data on Commons:
• [https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/12/04/how-we-helped-a-small-art-museum-to-increase-the-impact-of-its-collections-with-wikimedia-projects-and-structured-data/ How we helped a small art museum to increase the impact of its collections, with Wikimedia projects and structured data] by Sandra Fauconnier
• [https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/12/07/how-can-structured-data-on-commons-wikidata-and-wikisource-walk-hand-in-hand-a-pilot-project-with-punjabi-qisse/ How can Structured Data on Commons, Wikidata, and Wikisource walk hand in hand? A pilot project with Punjabi Qisse] by Satdeep Gill

• Tool of the week
• overpass: Embeds a map displaying features tagged with the current item in OpenStreetMap. Powered by overpass turbo. It helps check if the Wikidata object is mapped in OSM and also if it's correct.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• A WikiCite event will take place in May 2020 in Cologne. Call for contributions is now open ([https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-December/013698.html more info])

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: file page
• External identifiers: Hoopla series ID, Germany06.Ru person ID, MovieGe person ID, Ratingraph FEMALE person ID, Speiderhistorisk leksikon article, Arolsen ID, Doctrine court decision ID, Juricaf decision ID, POWiS ID, super-famicom.jp ID, GameFAQs credit ID, Scilit journal ID, Scienza a due voci ID, FMV World ID, Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID, Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority airport code, NEC Retro ID, Prog Archives artist ID, Semion author ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Czech district ID, Czech region ID, Vie publique intervention ID, Vie publique person ID, www.gesetze-im-internet.de ID, Wikimapia ID, Cinépolis KLIC ID, Colorado Encyclopedia ID, Israel Museum Jerusalem artist id, National Library of New Zealand authority ID, OpenRetro Game Database ID, Vie publique report ID, CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID, Kansaspedia ID, Mississippi Encyclopedia ID, Online Nevada Encyclopedia ID, South Carolina Encyclopedia ID, The Oregon Encyclopedia ID, Utah History Encyclopedia ID, WyoHistory.org ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: Complex Portal accession, Cache, is supervisor of, Gazette of India notification, molecular model, SSNE person ID, sex, year of recombination (taxonomy), Text features
• External identifiers: Slovak National Library id, National Library of Lithuania id, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, e-WV ID, SNESmusic.org company ID, Våre falne person ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, tDAR creator ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, identifiant Auteurs - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Domaines - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Découverte - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Dénominations - Joconde du Service des musées de France, Beni Ecclesiastici in web ID, portable music history ID, Atlas Obscura identifier, identifiant Genèse - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Inscriptions - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Lieux - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Périodes - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Techniques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Epoques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia ID, Czech cohesion region ID, Czech territorial region ID, Prague territorial district ID, SPIE profile ID, console music history ID, Wikispore, DLE RAE ID, DEJ RAE ID, MarketScreener business leaders ID, VBProfiles person ID, garaph.info game ID, PubAg ID, Tubi movie ID, Tubi series ID, NTIS accession number, garaph.info group ID, Fossilworks ID for journal article, Littré ID, DES ID, DAF ID, Bob ID, TLFi ID, NES Cart Database ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/DYn Number of lexemes on Wikidata in Indian languages] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1203562350755950593 source])
• [https://w.wiki/DYo Collections of the National Gallery of Armenia imported into Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/wikimedia_am/status/1202928823551049729 source])
• [https://w.wiki/DYp Movie directors having the longest carrier] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1202588402253811712 source])

• Development
• Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
• Add monolingual language code WLS (Wallisian) (phab:T239411)
• DumpRDF for MediaInfo entities loads each page individually (phab:T222497)
• Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
• Wikidata Bridge: Showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:58, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

• Press, articles, blog posts
• More WikidataCon 2019 reports:
• WikidataCon 2019 report on the Latvian Wikipedia
• [https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/seav/diary/391594 Wikidata+OSM at State of the Map 2019 and WikidataCon 2019]

• Tool of the week
• Recoin displays information about the relative completeness of a Wikidata item by comparing its statements with those found on other similar items. Especially useful for editors working in a knowledge area that is new to them.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Following a discussion on generalizing P2572 to all hashtags and the rejections of Instagram hashtag, Flickr tag, and Gfycat tag properties propositions, the formerly 'Twitter hashtag' property is now a platform-agnostic hashtag (P2572) property. A tool was created to be used as formatter url and link to those different platforms regrouping content by hashtags: :toolforge:hashtags-hub.
• New tool: [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wdumps/ WDumper], generating customized Wikidata RDF dumps. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-December/013703.html More information]
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-December/013706.html Call for Proposals for grants to support WikiCite satellite events]
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-December/013708.html MediaWiki Technical Advice IRC Meetings will not continue in 2020]

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: superfamicom.org ID, nominalized form, PlayStation DataCenter ID, implies
• External identifiers: Aberdeenshire HER ID, e-WV ID, Français libres ID, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, Musée de la Résistance ID, National Library of Lithuania ID, Slovak National Library ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Spanish Quora topic ID, Europeana Entity, SNESmusic.org company ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Joconde author ID, Joconde domain ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, tDAR creator ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, Vaare falne ID, Complex Portal accession ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: Differential diagnosis, part of terminology, voice gender, verifiability of property, study type, NIPS Proceedings author ID, field of training, litter size, Copyright status of author, academic appointment, written at, legislative committee, Member of military unit, access status of contents, EAN-13, filename in archive
• External identifiers: Computer Emuzone ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PlanetMath, Natural Product Atlas ID, EEPS ID, screenscraper platform ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, ScreenScraper game ID, Nonfiction ID, ScreenScraper company ID, National September 11 Memorial ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID, PS photographer ID, deviantArt, Frick Art Reference Library Artist File Names ID, LiverTox ID, ScreenScraper group ID, ZX81 Collection ID, Netherlands Photo Museum photographer ID, Movie Walker person ID, ZX81 Collection publisher ID, IDFA film ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/Dx2 Wikidata properties] > 7000
• [https://w.wiki/Dx3 Wikidata External identifiers] > 4590
• [https://w.wiki/Dx4 Map of locations of "big cities"] ([https://twitter.com/danbri/status/1204718675720314881 source])
• [https://w.wiki/Dw3 Seats which changed party in the 2019 UK General Election] ([https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1206358563813236737 source]) ([https://w.wiki/Dvz mapped])
• [https://w.wiki/DyX artists in Wikidata mapped to the Swedish National museums but are not an entity in Europeana] ([https://w.wiki/Dya image view])
• Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Human Rights (created to support m:WikiForHumanRights)

• Development
• Work on deploying the first version of tainted references on test Wikidata
• Bridge: show an error dialog if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
• Set up a shared Vue component library for Wikibase (phab:T240329)
• More work on the new term store
• Add Wikidata support for mnwwiki" (phab:T235745)
• New languages for monolingual strings: mfa, ckt, abq-Latn, dag
• Help identifying an issue with QuickStatements when one user is blocked on Wikidata (phab:T240316)
• Hide non-supported languages in the termbox (phab:T227083)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18:24, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

• Discussions:
• New request for comments: Handle genealogical information, Sort identifiers

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/12/13/data-roundtripping-a-new-frontier-for-glam-wiki-collaborations/ Data Roundtripping: a new frontier for GLAM-Wiki collaborations], by Sandra Fauconnier
• [https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2019/12/leveraging-open-data-at-the-national-library-of-wales/ Leveraging open data at the National Library of Wales], by Jason Evans
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.06214.pdf Context-aware Entity Linking with Attentive Neural Networks on Wikidata Knowledge Graph], Isaiah Onando Mulang et al. (on Arxiv)
• [https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/1808 Celebrating FactGrid’s Q100000: Conrad Alexandre Gérard]
• [https://digitalscholarshipleiden.nl/articles/descartes-social-networks-and-popular-culture Descartes, social networks and popular culture: An excursion into digital scholarship]
• [https://synapta.it/blog/il-film-di-natale-sceglilo-con-sparql/ How to select your Christmas movie using SPARQL and Wikidata]

• Tool of the week
• The revised version of the very powerful [https://petscan.wmflabs.org/ PetScan] offers to edit or create items based on Wikipedia categories, search, SPARQL, links with filters by label or properties

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• New tool: [http://zone47.com/crotos/dwynwen/cosmos/?l=en&p=&nb=20&disp=0&s=&f=31&n=1 Dwynwen], adapted from [http://zone47.com/crotos/ Crotos], provides users with a search interface designed specifically for artworks and other visual digital content from Commons, using Wikidata.
• MichaelSchoenitzer is [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2019-December/001509.html looking for co-maintainers] for the tool [https://tools.wmflabs.org/machtsinn/ MachtSinn] and the [https://github.com/Nudin/LexData Lexeme Python library]
• We now have Q80000000
• Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/5681755/UX-Designer-Wikidata-Wikibase-m-f-d-?jobDbPVId=15549395&l=en UX designer to work on Wikidata and Wikibase] as well as a [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/5681080/Technical-Writer-m-f-d-?jobDbPVId=15546960&l=en technical writer]

• Did you know?
• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
• External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number
• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
• External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID
• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/ETK Map] showing objects named after a person represented in Europeana
• [https://w.wiki/DvJ Locations where paintings were made] ([https://twitter.com/mdammers/status/1206235751014420481 source])
• [https://w.wiki/E23 Swedish citizens who died in 1949 and whose works will enter the public domain on 1 January 2020 with profession and image, ordered by number of Wikimedia articles] ([https://twitter.com/Larissa_Borck/status/1206606722665787393 source])
• [https://w.wiki/E4k Oldest subways] ([https://twitter.com/liopic/status/1207067954011164676 source])
• [https://w.wiki/EfX Popes who were children of other popes] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1210551310942187520 source])
• [https://w.wiki/EfY Colorful flags] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1210551348317638656 source])

• Development
• Worked on better error dialogues for the Wikidata Bridge
• Investigated and fixed labels for some Properties not being shown (phabricator:T237984)
• Continued working on the new database tables that replace wb_terms
• Expanded documentation for 3rd party Wikibase installs
• Continued working on making sure components in different areas of Wikibase can easily be shared to make development easier (phabricator:T240329)
• Enjoying the holidays. Hope so are you :)

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 19:17, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

• Events
• New: you can Wikidata-related events in the calendar of Wikimedia Space
• Upcoming: next [https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/wikidata-office-hour/2898 Wikidata office hour], January 22nd, 18:00 (UTC+1), on the [https://t.me/joinchat/AZriqUj5UagVMHXYzfZFvA Wikidata Telegram channel]
• Upcoming: [https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/initiation-a-wikidata/2531 Wikidata workshop in Grenoble, France, January 16th]

• Tool of the week
• [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php Resolver] allows you to quickly find an item based on a property+value string pair. It is especially useful for checking whether an external identifier such as a VIAF ID (P214) or Getty AAT ID (P1014) is already in use in Wikidata.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: copyright status as a creator, serving temperature, egg incubation period, member of military unit
• External identifiers: ZX81 Collection publisher ID, ZX81 Collection ID, DAF ID, Computer Emuzone game ID, console music history ID, Czech cohesion region ID, Czech territorial region ID, deviantArt person ID, EEPS ID, garaph.info game ID, garaph.info group ID, IDFA film ID, Lithuanian Football Encyclopedia player ID, Microworld ID, Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia ID, Movie Walker person ID, Natural Product Atlas ID, NES Cart Database ID, NIPS Proceedings author ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, Nonfiction ID, portable music history ID, Prague territorial district ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PS photographer ID, ScreenScraper company ID, ScreenScraper game ID, ScreenScraper platform ID, SPIE profile ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Tubi movie ID, Tubi series ID, VBProfiles person ID, Archives Portal Europe ID, DES ID, Bob ID, Australian National Maritime Museum object ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Atlas Obscura identifier, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, The Good Old Days ID, RationalWiki ID, SSNE person ID, AdoroCinema film ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: literary form, HASC, Stairway To Hell ID, number of reviews or ratings, armament used, equipment used
• External identifiers: bauhaus.community, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, OpenBibArt ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, Saregama artist ID, openSUSE package, LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID, Orthodox Wiki ID, Wien Geschichte Wiki ID, What is the Apple IIGS? ID, BookBrainz work ID, NMVW id, David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base ID, FandangoNow ID, CPCWiki ID, Sarvavijnanakosam ID, Punjabipedia ID, Open Churches ID, Apple IIGS France ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/ErB Horses sorted by age of death] ([https://twitter.com/Tsaag/status/1213137942983725057 source])
• [https://w.wiki/E$J Affiliates of the USA organization Peace Action] ([https://twitter.com/abritton1630/status/1213577108548726786 source])
• [https://w.wiki/E$M 100 random paintings related to Haarlem] ([https://twitter.com/mdammers/status/1213501383468572672 source])
• [https://w.wiki/E$N Timeline of adaptations of Little Women and actresses who played Jo's character] ([https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1213216290757849088 source])
• [https://w.wiki/E$Q Indian people whose work is entering public domain in 2020] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1212078467963113472 source])

• Monthly Tasks
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:30, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

• Events
• Registration for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana (May 9-11) opened
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: getting started in Wikidata, labels, and aliases, 14 January. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19mZWIe_x3IAgBrOmt_InhZofjoCNflW_enKQ76ATGWU/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]

• Press, articles, blog posts
• [https://medium.com/@jsamwrites/wiki-techstorm-2019-a996d69c60a5 Report of Wiki Techstorm 2019 by Jsamwrites]
• [https://codethecity.org/2020/01/13/aberdeen-plaques-part-two/ Aberdeen Plaques – Part Two: Visualisations, calculations, and analysis using wikidata] by [https://twitter.com/watty62/status/1216657514445647872 Ian Watt]
• Overview of Wikidata gadgets and user scripts - slides from LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Meetings
• [https://dke.uni-wuppertal.de/en/news/view/artikel/2020/01/10/1558-wikipedia-rolls-out-our-research-on-providing-semantic-information-for-mathematical-formulae.html Wikipedia Rolls Out Our Research on Providing Semantic Information for Mathematical Formulae] - this feature uses Wikidata

• Tool of the week
• [https://tools.wmflabs.org/tabernacle/#/ Tabernacle] creates a tabular view of a set of data items from a SPARQL query, PagePile list, or manual list of items. You can select which languages and properties to display. The tool lets you drag-and-drop statements from one item to another, and manually add or edit statements without leaving the page. Tabernacle is great for harmonizing a set of related items or identifying items that need their labels and descriptions translated.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• You can test a new feature highlighting mismatched references
• The next Weekly Summary (January 20) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: exonerated of, Commons category for ship name, heading, filename in archive
• External identifiers: Russian PFL player ID, J-GLOBAL ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, Époques ID, openSUSE package, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, DLE RAE ID, NTIS accession number, PubAg ID, Games Database developer ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: Beta Masaheft ID, ordered by, university of the third age, period of lactation, position, grape variety, merged into, distribution map of taxon
• External identifiers: Ogólnopolska Baza Kolejowa - stacja ID, Livelib.ru person ID, ScummVM wiki ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Arcade PCB database game ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, eu-football team ID, Museen in OÖ ID, Voetbal International player ID, Museums in Salzburg (AT) ID, C64.COM ID, Museen in Burgenland (AT) ID, FlashScore.com team ID, Soccerdonna team ID, c64games.de ID, Museums in Austria Code, Canmore thesaurus ID, The Cutting Room Floor ID, NPDRIM record ID, EFIS person ID, coinop.org game ID, EFIS film ID, EFIS filmmaker ID, EFIS film festival ID, WeChangEd ID, marterl.at ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/F2h Locations depicted on album covers]
• [https://w.wiki/F9m Forts and heritage-scheduled sections of the Antonine Wall in Scotland] ([https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1214692311558479874 source])
• [https://w.wiki/FRz Number of Lexemes including recordings from Lingua Libre by language] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1215586598294892544 source])

• Development
• More work on finishing the migration of wb_terms table
• Don’t check constraints on “Wikidata property example for media” statements (phab:T227865)
• Warn users that they're not nogged-in before performing restore or undo (phab:T234430, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
• Remove edit link from Special:NewPages if page is not directly editable (phab:T240561, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
• Introduce MwEraParser and improve i18n of dates BCE (phab:T140541, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
• Bridge: show error dialog if the user isn't allowed to edit Wikidata (phab:T235154)
• Bridge: ask the user if the change is a fix or an update (phab:T237333)
• Enabled tainted references on test.wikidata.org

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