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Wikidata weekly summary #243

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

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to work on structured data for Commons
  • EPA CompTox Dashboard IDs in Wikidata
  • Data donation: 128K of Social Networks Archival Context IDs, matched to Wikipedia articles, and imported using P3430. Thanks, University of Virginia!
  • Past: Wikipedia Day 2017, NYC

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

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

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help fixing the most important constraint violations
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Wikidata weekly summary #244

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

• Discussions
  • New administrator: Pyb is now admin on Wikidata!

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

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example: w:ru:Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using key:wikidata= (here's how to contribute to OSM).
  • QuickStatements V2 can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore
  • List of churches generated from Wikidata on Cymraeg Wikipedia

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

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

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• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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

Tech News: 2017-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [1]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).

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Wikidata weekly summary #245

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

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

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

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

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FIBA player ID, MLB ID, NFL.com ID, fussballdaten.de ID, FootballDatabase.eu ID, euroleague.net ID, JapanTour ID, Australian Government Organisations Register ID, draftexpress.com ID, databaseFootball.com ID, AZBilliards ID, par, median income, Luding game ID, eurobasket.com ID, wisdenindia.com ID, acb.com ID, Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool ID, Rfam ID, NHL.com ID, EuroTour ID, databaseOlympics.com ID, Pfam ID, Smithsonian trinomial, Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID, National Park Foundation ID, NPCA ID, U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID, peakware ID, means of locomotion, VGMDb label ID, Dagens Nyheter topic ID, Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID, Luding designer ID, BoardGameGeek designer ID, Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID, Ameblo username, Catholic rite, Ringgold identifier, Gentoo package
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    • Characters whose actors died recently (source)
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    • Wizards from Harry Potter and their houses/groups (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Companies
  • Newest database reports: film festivals this month

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

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• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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

Tech News: 2017-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [2]

Changes this week

• ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [3]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [4][5]
• The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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