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Newest properties : next crossing downstream , next crossing upstream , SOATO ID , Google Knowledge Graph identifier , has parts of the class , discontinued date , variability of property value , corresponding template , Datahub page , alcohol by volume , units sold , tier 1 capital ratio (CETI) , consumption rate per capita , target interest rate , topographic prominence , topographic isolation , Scoville grade , EU transparency register ID , FIFA World Ranking , Estyn ID , partnership with , CRICOS Provider Code , interested in , Cycling Quotient url (mens team) , Cycling Quotient identifier (races for men) , source of material , mirTarBase ID , mean lifetime , Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education , FedCup player ID , Davis Cup player ID , Swimrankings.net swimmer ID , Filmportal ID , TV.com ID , RARS rating , Minkultury Film ID , number of parts of a work of art , model , geography , place of detention , Turner Classic Movies film ID , cost of damage
Query examples: Library and Information Science journals , number of statements backed by a reference with a DOI
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You see that you can now show labels/descriptions/aliases for all languages that have been added to an item by clicking "more languages"
Preparation for arbitrary access on Commons
Getting ready for the hackathon in Israel
More work on making the extended input for geocoordinates and dates less complicated to understand
Worked on making scrolling of large items less laggy
Made the query service map visualization no longer show coordinates that are not on earth
Fixed a bug where the removal of a sitelink couldn't be done (phabricator:T129450 )
Query service no longer restores previous query as requested
Fixed a bug where adding a statement would leave a stray "add qualifier" link (phabricator:T128317 )
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Newest properties : dataset distribution , file format , protocol , URL , CricketArchive player ID , ESPNcricinfo player ID , FIG gymnast identifier , type locality , ISU figure skater identifier , New York Times Semantic Concept: Descriptor , New York Times Semantic Concept: Location , New York Times Semantic Concept: Organization , New York Times Semantic Concept: Person , BARTOC ID , Box Office Mojo person ID , NDL JPNO , Opensecrets Identifier , Basketball-Reference.com NBA player ID , Kijkwijzer rating , Bekker Number , is verso of , is recto of , author of afterword , author of foreword , Russiancinema.ru film ID , relative position within image , rating certificate ID , reply to
Newest WikiProjects : Historical Place
Query examples: phrases , Redewendungen , most commons eponyms
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Newest properties : typeface/font , disjoint union of , union of , Biographical Directory of Federal Judges id , UNZ journal identifier , UNZ author identifier , Persée journal ID , Persée author ID , Projeto Excelências ID , ISSF ID , Badminton World Federation ID , CageMatch worker ID , United World Wrestling ID , UIPM ID , GOG application ID , Deezer track ID , Deezer album ID , Deezer artist ID , Encyclopaedia Metallum release ID , embed URL , Hungarian-style transcription , lowest-observed-adverse-effect level , no-observed-adverse-effect level , collage image , elected in , sectional view , median lethal concentration , minimal lethal concentration , Cycling Quotient identifier (cyclist, woman) , Cycling Quotient identifier (women races) , Karate Records ID , EIDR identifier , British Film Institute identifier
Query examples: women with most sitelinks and no image born in 1921 or later , what is depicted in artwork , most eponymous mathematicians
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Worked more on the first version of the user interface for structured data for multimedia files
Worked on simplifying input of queries for people who do not know SPARQL
Improved localizability of the sitelink and reference counters
Allow input and output of localized dates with precision smaller than years (phab:T95532 and phab:T127820 )
More string properties have been converted to external id ones, so that we have over 850 external id properties now
Experimenting with Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add complete references in the way Visual Editor does it
Improved performance of sticky property labels (phab:T103485 )
Released DataValues JavaScript 0.8.1
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Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60 seconds (phabricator:T126730 )
Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak peek )
Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel - should go live later today)
Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily
Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
More work on first prototype for structured data support for Wikimedia Commons
Cleaned up icons for selecting rank and value type
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Newest properties : Danish listed buildings case ID , Models.com client ID , Race time , IAT diver ID , IAT weightlifter ID , IAT triathlete ID , FIS snowboarder ID , FIS Nordic combined skier ID , FIS ski jumper ID , FIS freestyle skier ID , FIS cross-country skier ID , FIS alpine skier ID , D-U-N-S , source of income , budget , BNE journal ID , JudoInside.com ID , ISO 4063 process number , blue-style.com ID , Wrestlingdata person id , Danish protected area ID , Skyscraper Center building complex ID , Research Papers in Economics Series handle , NUTTAB Food Identifier , AUSNUT Food Identifier , CNC film rating , EIRIN film rating , exploitation visa number , production date , Dictionary of Canadian Biography ID , New Zealand Organisms Register ID , Roller Coaster Database ID , Photographers' Identities Catalog ID , PRONOM software identifier , PRONOM file format identifier , Filmiroda rating
Newest WikiProjects : Olympics
Query examples: songs with longest melody (source ), subjects with most art dedicated to them (source ), versions of The Scream (source )
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Newest properties : Loop ID , sound power , 3DMet ID , locality or place , Index Hepaticarum ID , clearance , ASF KID Cave Tag Number , power consumed , net tonnage , connects with , Czech neighbourhood ID code , longest span , aerodrome reference point , Mercalli intensity scale
Category reports on without claims by site now link to PetScan's fast "has no statements"-option. A report for your preferred Wikipedia can be added.
Query examples: software with most versions (source ), oldest software (source ), map of U1 stations in Berlin (source )
Development
Created the first MediaInfo entity through the API (screenshot , a bit more background )
Substantially reduced server load for item and property displaying (phab:T132662 )
There are currently some issues with the order of latitude/longitude inn coordinates in the query service map visualization. It will be fixed tonight.
Removed unsupported sort
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Worked on new flyers for institutions that want to cooperate with Wikidata and developers wanting to use our data (will be published on Commons once they're done)
Moved forward with internationalization of the query service interface (not on translatewiki.net yet but being worked on)
Worked on making it possible to extend SPARQL queries in simplified natural language version. It will also no longer add query prefixes when editing the query. Those are not live yet.
Fixed a bug where admins got a blank page when trying to view deleted revisions (phabricator:T132645 )
Investigating issues with bad suggestions for properties when adding new statements (phabricator:T132839 )
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Newest properties : flower color , Megogo ID , via , Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID , Belgian Football ID , by-product of , by-product , cardinality of this set , Yandex.Music album ID , Sherdog ID , appears in the heritage monument list , HowLongToBeat identifier , ESR station code , P-number , mouthpiece , MathWorld identifier , PGA Tour ID , LPGA Tour ID , Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas Code , wavelength , molar volume , vibration , goratings ID , International Sailing Federation ID , Wikidata time precision , fleet or registration number , FIVB beach volleyball player ID , Beach Volleyball Database ID , BVMC person ID
Query examples: most frequent occupations without a label in a given language , map of places of birth of economists (source ), map of all the paintings for which we know a location with the count per location (source ), scientists who have worked together but whose Erdős numbers don’t reflect that (source ), members of the French National Assembly born out of France (source ), mathematical proofs (source ), items that depict most things (source )
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Finished remaining blockers for deploying the ArticlePlaceholder on the first Wikipedias
More work on initial Commons prototype
Further work on textual representation of SPARQL queries to allow you to read/edit more of an existing query without having to touch SPARQL
Show label instead of URI for globes in coordinate diffs - thanks Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T110193 )
Improve recent changes entries formatting on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T52893 )
No longer showing a restore link for inaccessible revdel'ed entity revisions - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T55496 )
Investigated and worked around issues with the suggestions for new statements - needs more work (phabricator:T132839 )
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Newest properties : professional name (Japan) , month number , highest income threshold , lowest income threshold , individual tax rate , ARKive ID , Joint Electronics Type Designation Automated System designation , totem , Online World of Wrestling ID , Internet Wrestling Database ID , corporate officer
Query examples: longest rivers (source ), map of places mentioned in travel stories with text in French accessible online (source ), things located where the equator meets the prime meridian (source ), people who acted with Brad Pitt (source ), Italian mountains higher than 4000mt (source ), who died by burning (source ), age at date of death for musicians (source ), universities of main programming language authors (source ), hashtags (source ), Pokemon! (source )
Showcase items : Iron Man 2 (Q205028)
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Newest properties : produced by , Wi-Fi , Google+ , wheelchair accessibility , RAN ID , incidence , Benezit ID , place of marriage , age of onset , NSC number , gait
Query examples: given names with most variations (source with links to graphs ), papers about Wikidata (source ), memes (source ), cathedrals in Paris (source ), highest mountains in the universe (source ), Law & Order episodes (source ), things/people with most children (source )
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Performance improvements in query service map display.
Fixed a focus issue in the suggester (phabricator:T135008 )
Further groundwork on Commons support
Fixed first issues that popped up after ArticlePlaceholder deployment based on feedback
Investigated and prepared fix for issue where files on Commons couldn't be deleted (phabricator:T135485 )
Finished work on language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T98014 )
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Newest properties : Library of the National Congress of Argentina ID , Minitel , SureChEMBL ID , type of unit for this property , property usage tracking category , PubChem BioAssay ID (AID) , time in space , tourist office , miRBase mature miRNA ID , miRBase pre-miRNA ID , record or record progression , has role , Molenecho's ID , Hollandsche Molen ID , Band number , OpenCritic ID , Nederlandse Molendatabase ID , Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID , Leidse Hoogleraren ID , cites , X-SAMPA Code , KLOV ID , WWE.com superstar ID , EU Surface Water Body Code , VAT-rate , disease burden , electrical plug type , emergency phone number , payment types accepted , iTunes artist ID
Query examples: Fictional universes with most fictional planets (source ), main subject of West Wing episodes (source ), places with free wifi (source ), citation network of paper about Zika (source ), taxons and what they are named after (source ), billionaires (source ), animals that were executed (source ), chemical elements and their isotopes by number of neutrons (min/max) (source ), popes with children (source ), birthplaces of astronauts (source )
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Worked on fix for issue with language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T135714 )
More work on support for Commons - main focus right now is on making it possible to actually store a new entity without jumping through hoops
Fixing a bug in Internet Explorer with prevents editing (phabricator:T136543 )
Worked on more blockers for next deployment of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T135624 )
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Newest properties : exact match , reserve number (Canada) , Shakeosphere person ID , mains voltage , HKMDb film ID , relegated , promoted , NIOSHTIC-2 ID
Query examples: body of water with the most watercourses ending in it (source ), French communes with names ending in ac (source ), birthplaces of Europeana280 artists (source ), popular eye colors (source )
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Newest properties : RateBeer brewery ID , Beer Advocate brewery ID , Molendatabase verdwenen molens ID , fax number , minimum age , Swedish county letter , Eldoblaje Movie ID , publication interval , maximum sustained winds , day of week , Skype , UMLS CUI , FamilySearch ID
Query examples: Eiffel Tower in art (source ), popular surnames among humans (source ), popular surnames among fictional characters (source ), average lifespan by occupation (source ), German breweries (source ), years with 3 popes (source ), people who died by burning - on a timeline (source )
Newest WikiProjects : Lighthouses , Roller Coasters
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Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons.
Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at https://jonaskress.github.io
Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service.
Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari.
Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias.
Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates.
You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (phabricator:T137061 )
Fixed a bug with terms sometimes not showing up, language fallback not working correctly in Lua modules and connection to master database
Fixed a bug with URL encoding in the query service.
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Newest properties : Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID , focal height , month of the year , label in sign language , PO Box , COAM ID , syntax clarification , ECARTICO person ID , MSBI person ID , date depicted , distinctive jersey , time gap , icon , SecondHandSongs artist ID , SecondHandSongs song ID , timezone offset
Query examples: colors of chemical compounds (source ), map of braodway venues (source ), sculptures by Max Bill (source ), works of art where the name might be a rhyme (source ), works of art where the title is an alliteration (source )
Newest WikiProjects : Professional Wrestling
ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (source )
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Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (phabricator:T134259 )
Fixed a but with suggestions not showing up (phabricator:T138059 )
Improved display of query examples (phabricator:T137589 ) and cleaned them up
Improved database access (phabricator:T137539 )
Fixed a but with the rank selector (phabricator:T109583 )
Started concept work for automated list generation
Discussed the proposal for Wiktionary with a linguist to get more detailed feedback on it. Very positive.
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EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
SQID now shows references (example )
INSPIRE HEP has been added to Mix'n'match
PAWS is now available. It lets you easily run a Jupyter notebook and much more.
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Newest properties : language used , connector , Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers identifier , INSPIRE-HEP author ID , lighthouse range , memory capacity , water as percent of area , InterPro ID , domain of saint or deity
Query examples: sandwich ingredients (source ), inventors killed by their own invention (source ), objects with most mass (source ), music genres (source ), number of jurisdictions by driving side (source )
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The majority of the Wikidata developers team atteded Wikimania
You can now embed query results from query.wikidata.org in other websites (example )
Linking MediaInfo entities to media files in the "MediaInfo for Commons" prototype (phabricator:T134473 )
Tracking more statistics for the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T138500 )
Adding support for quantity values with unknown uncertainty (phabricator:T115269 )
Worked on fix for bug where new entities can be created with wrong language (phabricator:T138725 )
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Newest properties : British Book Trade Index ID , Plarr ID , warheroes.ru ID , Dailymotion channel ID , Munk's Roll ID , Catalogus Professorum Rostochensium ID , CageMatch tag team ID , Pleiades place type identifier , parliamentary term
Query examples: Ancestors of Guðni Jóhannesson (note the last names), movies with Bud Spencer (source ), largest cities per country (source ), longest river of each continent (source ), rivers in Antarctica (source ), continents (source ), and some other continents (source ), places with continent Antarctica more than 3000 km north of south pole (source ), files used as “image” in more than 10 items (source ), monuments historiques in Loire-Atlantique (source ), music composers by birth place (source ), places of whorship (source ), teachers with most students (source ), buildings in more than one country (source ), sandwiches (source ), composers and their most-used tonality (source ), former capitals (source ), list of suicide attacks (source ), birthplaces of people named Antoine (source ), places that are below 10 meters above sea level (source )
Newest WikiProjects : Etymology , Knowledge Organization Systems
Newest external tools: Navel Gazer (users statement addition counts)
Development
More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (phabricator:T89663 )
Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (phabricator:T127056 and gerrit:294687 . This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long , medium , short
Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (phabricator:T138974 )
Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (phabricator:T139284 )
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Newest properties : archive date , permanent duplicated item , throughput , NAIF ID , point of penalty , Transferred Account Data Interchange Group Code , Estonian Research Portal person ID , bateau d'intérêt patrimonial , Cultural heritage database in Austria ObjektID , Nomisma ID , WikiTree ID , Estonian cultural monument ID , BacDive ID
Query examples: timeline of space probes (source ), countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites (source ), places in America named after places in England (source ), emergency number by country size (source )
Development
Working on an infographic to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (phabricator:T107595 )
Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (phabricator:T139509 )
Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137115 )
Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (phabricator:T133973 )
Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (phabricator:T138413 )
Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (phabricator:T136814 )
Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set (phabricator:T115270 )
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Newest properties : GCatholic church ID , GoodReads book ID , QUDT unit ID , Queensland Heritage Register ID , National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts , EU River Basin District code , right to vote , GoodReads author ID , title of chess player , BVPH ID
Query examples: letters with more than two forms (source ), metro stations (source ), railway incidents (source ), pyramids in Egypt (source ), women described as wife and men described as husband (source ), neuroinformatics coauthor network (source ), nationalities of people with an article in the Bavarian Wikipedia (source ), Irish general elections and their winners (source ), types of historical monuments (source ), Alpine four-thousanders (source ), Alpine peaks (source ), language statements that point to a country instead of a language (source )
Newest database reports: list of people who died on their birthday
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Newest properties : marriageable age , age of consent , age of candidacy , age of majority , partition coefficient water/octanol , software quality assurance , IBSF ID , FIL ID , has grammatical case , GOST 7.67 cyrillic , Taekwondo Data ID , aircraft registration prefix , DSBE ID , Snapchat username , UNDP country code , UIC numerical country code , UIC alphabetical country code , ARLHS Lighthouse ID , Maritime identification digits , wheel arrangement , LBT person ID , patronym or matronym , host , habitat , Spenserians person ID , SNAP ID
Query examples: most cited Danish people (source ), most self-citing authors (source ), topics of series (source ), human settlements, north of the Arctic Circle (source ), poles of inaccessibility (source ), people with the same family and given name (source ), compositions for organ and orchestra /compositions for organ and anything else (source ), people with a statement with start time / end time qualifiers over 100 years apart (source ), causes of death for noble people (source ), long-running noble families (source )
Numbers on Wikidata:Database reports/without claims by site for some projects decreased (e.g. dewiki), remained consistently low (e.g. nlwiki), or recently increased to new highs (e.g. enwiki).
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Finished first rough prototype for structured data on Commons. Wanted to sent out announcement on Friday but one configuration issue is still unsolved. Should be solved in the next 1 or 2 days.
We are adding a "no match found" message to the suggester that you get when selecting an item or property while adding a new statement for example (phabricator:T140085 )
When a query result contains a mathematical expression it will soon be rendered correctly (phabricator:T137784 )
Added support for Haida (hai) for monolingual text values (phabricator:T138131 )
Finalized the infographic on data flow. For off-wiki usage and For on- wiki usage .
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Newest properties : residence time of water , railway signalling system , located in protected area , Rolling Stone artist ID , French national research structure identifier , backup or reserve team or crew , laws applied , surface tension , Standard Geographical Classification code , World Archery ID , Conservatoire du littoral ID , Australian Heritage Database Place ID , Cadw Monument ID , Marine Regions Geographic ID , valid in place , Galiciana ID , zanikleobce.cz abandoned objects ID , Untappd brewery ID , retirement age
Query examples: frequency of Romans' praenomen (source ), movies by number of actors who studied at RADA (source ), actors directed by Tony Scott + number of appearances (source ), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director (source ), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director with years (source )
Newest database reports: list of Romans , minimum ages by country
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Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above)
Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (phabricator:T110604 )
Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities (phabricator:T115269 )
Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (phabricator:T140085 )
Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (phabricator:T138131 )
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Newest properties : SIMBAD ID , destroyed , damaged , game artist , standard enthalpy of formation , Cineplex film ID , Open Beauty Facts category ID , official religion , Grace's Guide ID , CosIng number , Storting person ID , standard molar entropy , dynamic viscosity , UN document symbol , WIPO ST.3 , GS1 country code , GLAM ID , RERO ID , LepIndex ID , gestation period , Basisregistratie Instellingen number , ButMoth ID , Architectuurgids building ID , Architectuurgids architect ID , Charity Commission no. , Turner Classic Movies person ID , NAQ elected person ID , Ontario MPP ID , K League player ID , Bloomberg person ID , Kindred Britain ID , CMFS player ID , Scottish FA player ID , racing-reference driver ID , footballzz ID , Fora De Jogo player ID , HanCinema person ID , College Football HoF ID , scoresway soccer person id , CageMatch wrestling stable id , luminous intensity , SoundCloud ID
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