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- Kåre Thor Olsen (Kaare) 20. jun 2006 kl. 19:23 (CEST)

Flytninger

Når du vil en artikel til et nyt opslag, så skal du ikke bare kopiere indholdet over til det nye opslag. Du skal bruge funktionen "flyt" (fanebladet mellem "historik" og "overvåg"), så artiklens fulde historik bevares.

Jeg har gendannet Sankt Knuds Skole og flyttet den korrekt. --|EPO| 30. sep 2006 kl. 22:25 (CEST)

Adam Małysz

Hello. Would you like to write sth about Polish ski jumper, Adam Małysz in da.wiki? You can based it in en.wiki. I can write sth for you in pl.wiki (about your city etc.) I'll be really grateful. Best regards, Szoltys

GFDL

Når du bearbejder et værk, der er udgivet under GFDL, så skal det nye værk også udgives under GFDL. I modsat fald er det en overtrædelse af licensbetingelserne. Nu sørger jeg for at ændre licenserne på de foreløbigt to spillerdragter du har lagt op. Så bedes du huske ovenstående fremover. --|EPO| 12. apr 2007 kl. 13:35 (CEST)

Takker. Så skulle licensen også være korrekt for Billede:Kit right arm thinblacklower.png --Fr0ztbyt3 12. apr 2007 kl. 13:44 (CEST)

Marker mindre ændringer

Hej Fr0ztbyt3. Når du laver mange små redigeringer (som din masseretning af Hvidovre IF ⇒ Hvidovre Idrætsforening), vil det være rart hvis du markerer ændringen med checkboksen "Dette er en mindre ændring" (ved siden af/under gem-knappen). På den måde er det lettere at finde de ændringer der ikke er små på listen over seneste ændringer.

Du kan evt. benytte indstillingerne til at få hak i checkboksen fra starten - eller brug tastaturgenvejen (accelerator-i - hvor "accelerator" er alt i IE, skift-alt i Firefox og skift-escape i Opera) --JGC 25. apr 2007 kl. 02:02 (CEST)

Commons

Commons

Dine billeder kunne med fordel lægges op på Wikimedia Commons. Du kan se her hvor let det egentlig er.

Amager Rundt

Hej, jeg har lavet en infoboks skabelon til cykelløb, som du måske kunne bruge i Amager Rundt :) --Hejsa 17. jun 2007, 13:49 (CEST)

Så er den tilføjet :-) --Fr0ztbyt3 17. jun 2007, 14:11 (CEST)

Sejt!

Rock and roll, dude!

Væk med de måske forkerte henvisninger! :-) --Hockeyindustrien 20. jun 2007, 23:21 (CEST)

Bangsbo Freja

Jeg så, du havde rettet at Bangsbo Freja sidste år spillede i pulje 15 til pulje 1 - det stemmer ikke helt overens med de oplysninger, man kan læse på Jydsk Boldspils-Union: http://www.jbu.dk/sr/position.aspx?poolid=25534 - her fremgår det, at de sidste år spillede i pulje 15. Jeg skal indrømme, at jeg ikke aner en dyt om det, skønt jeg næsten er nabo til klubben. Så jeg kan ikke afvise, at du har ret, men hvor har du oplysningerne om pulje 1 fra ? - apw 18. jul 2007, 03:35 (CEST)

I 2006-sæsonen spillede klubben i Serie 3, pulje "15" (jf. http://www.dbu.dk/sr/pools.aspx?rowid=5194&year=2006), men set med JBUs såkaldte "nye nummereringssystem" spillede klubben sidste år i Serie 3, pulje "1" (http://www.dbu.dk/sr/position.aspx?poolid=37829). Bangsbo Freja spiller i 2007-sæsonen kort sagt i "samme pulje" som i 2006-sæsonen, hvilket man dog ikke får indtryk af ved at skrive hhv. pulje 15 og pulje 1. Jeg vil ikke protestere såfremt du ikke synes om min lille "konvertering" og ønsker at ændre pulje-nummeret tilbage til 15, men jeg mener det ville være mere gennemskueligt såfremt det samme logiske "nummereringssystem" blev anvendt på alle niveauer.

Hvis du ønsker at følge det gamle nummersystem i artiklen for Bangsbo Freja, kunne det dog være relevant at lægge en fodnote ud om at nummeringen af puljerne var anderledes sidste år i forhold til i år - hos JBU. Lokalunionerne anvender nemlig ikke alle samme nummereringssystem af puljerne i serierne. Nogle (KBU, tidligere JBU) giver hver enkelt pulje i serierne deres eget "unikke" nummer uden hensyntagen til hvilket niveau puljen befinder sig på (såsom S1P1, S1P2, S2P3, S2P4, S3P5 osv.), mens andre (DBU, LFBU, SBU, FBU og nu JBU) har en seperat nummerering af puljerne på hvert niveau (såsom S1P1, S1P2, S2P1, S2P2, S3P1 osv.). Tidligere har jeg også set kommaer anvendt i nummeringen, hvilket heller ikke bør nummereringen mere logisk. --Froztbyte 18. jul 2007, 05:33 (CEST)

Jeg tror, vi for overskuelighedens skyld lader din ændring stå - jeg har dog indsat lidt af din forklaring som note i artiklen. Derved kan vi undgå, at andre end mig studser over den nye puljefordeling. Tak for forklaringen. I løbet af den næste uges tid, vil jeg tage nogle billeder af klubhus og stadion til artiklen. Lige nu er der en gulklædt kylling på cykel, som tager opmærksomheden :-) apw 18. jul 2007, 14:15 (CEST)

Re: Navngivning

(svar på Brugerdiskussion:AB-me#Vedr. navngivning)
Dansk Sprognævn er umiddelbart uenig. Se Dansk Sprognævns FAQ - men jeg bøjer mig for § 1.1 - sprogligt forkert eller ej :) Sidenote: Fede skabeloner (fp og fs) du har lavet - godt arbejde! /AB-me (Diskussion) 14. aug 2007, 18:01 (CEST)

Jeg er splittet vedrørende "DBUs" vs. "DBU's", men her bør turneringens propositioner få lov til at bestemme :-) Tak for din kommentar vedr. skabelonerne :-) --Froztbyte 14. aug 2007, 18:22 (CEST)

Tak

for velkomsthilsen! · Michel 31. aug 2007, 21:19 (CEST)

fra meg også [1] Finn Rindahl 10. sep 2007, 15:24 (CEST)

Admin?

Hej Froztbyte. Du har ydet en prisværdig indsats mod hærværk på Wikipedia - det skal du have tak for. Jeg vil spørge om du har overvejet at blive administrator? Du behøver ikke gøre mere end du gør allerede - men dine hærværksoprydninger vil automatisk blive patruljeret, og du vil få mulighed for selv at blokere eller slette når det er nødvendigt. Hvis du har lyst og mod på admintjansen, kan du lægge en anmodning ind her. -- JGC 18. sep 2007, 13:18 (CEST)

Tak for opfordringen. Men jeg har desværre ikke været så aktiv i større diskussioner, som jeg kan forstå er et krav for at blive administrator? --Froztbyte 19. sep 2007, 00:26 (CEST)

Nej, der er ingen absolutte krav for at blive admin. Det er væsentligt at man har været med et stykke tid og har en rimelig mængde redigeringer - men det har du til overflod. Det er rigtigt at der er nogen der gerne vil se tegn på at man kan holde hovedet koldt en ophedet diskussion, inden der gives adminprivilegier, men det er ikke noget der er ultimativt. Jeg kan ikke forestille mig at der vil være vilde protester hvis du søger om adminstatus. -- JGC 19. sep 2007, 00:47 (CEST)

Horsens AC

Thank You Froztbyte for dine iagttagelser (og efterfølgende korrektion)! - det ligner rigtig meget en af de her idiotfejl med at glemme at bruge forhåndsvisning og bare have lidt for travlt osse bagefter ... tak skal du ha! - moeng 19. sep 2007, 21:23 (CEST)

uvenlighed?

Diskussion fortsat fra Brugerdiskussion:Foto#Vedr._Habeas_corpus

Som ikke helt ny, og ikke specielt følsom skribent kan jeg oplyse om at jeg stadigvæk opfattede din måde som særdeles uvenlig. Kritik er mere end velkommen, men den behøver ikke omfatte ord som nonsens eller hærværk. Jeg har iøvrigt selv påbegyndt artiklen, og håber således at der med tiden kan komme mere kød på. --Foto 20. sep 2007, 19:02 (CEST)

Hvordan mener du så, jeg skal opfatte og efterfølgende håndtere en nyoprettet artikel, som indeholder din personlige kommentar (Bruger:Foto skrev: Jeg opfordrer hermed til at nogen med forstand på emnet, skriver en artikel om dette. MVH --Foto 20. sep 2007, 17:32 ...), som på ingen måde har relevans for emnet i artiklen ? Bemærk i øvrigt, at nonsens blot er navnet på skabelonen jeg tilføjede øverst i artiklen - en sletningsskabelon jeg stadig mener var temmeligt dækkende for det daværende indhold i artiklen, der blev slettet kort tid efter. --Froztbyte 20. sep 2007, 20:16 (CEST)

En lille sidebemærkning: I situationer, hvor skabelon-navnet nonsens kan virke malplaceret findes der også skabelonen hurtigslet. Jeg bruger den som regel i de tilfælde, hvor jeg ikke føler, at der er tale om direkte nonsens, netop for at undgå at det bliver taget unødigt hårdt op. --Heelgrasper 23. sep 2007, 22:46 (CEST)

Selvom skabelonens navn hurtigslet ikke lyder så "hårdt" som nonsens, så er hurtigslet-skabelonens formulering (-da den er oprettet som følge af vandalisme eller hærværk.) desværre noget "hårdene" end nonsens-skabelonens indhold (- da dens indhold er noget vrøvl.). Det han reagerede specielt på (som jeg forstår), var Kategori: Sider der bør slettes pga. hærværk, som begge skabeloner ligger i. Jeg mener hurtigslet her ville have haft en forstærkende effekt med 2x"hærværk".--Froztbyte 23. sep 2007, 23:21 (CEST)

Administrator

Hej Froztbyte, du er hermed administrator. Vejledningen befinder sig på Wikipedia:Administratorer, men det ved du sikkert allerede. Har du spørgsmål kan anvende den tilhørende diskussionsside eller kigge forbi i chatkanalen #wikipedia-da, som besøges af wikipedianere både med og uden administratorstatus. - Kåre Thor Olsen (Kaare) 23. sep 2007, 17:06 (CEST)

Administratorhjælp

Hej, jeg kunne godt bruge en hånd fra en administrator til at sammenkøre Fantasia (tegnefilm) og Fantasia (1940), inkl. historikken. Alt indholdet i førstnævnte artikel kan så vidt jeg kan se slettes med sindsro, da det er indarbejdet i den anden artikel. På forhånd tak. --Sakkura 25. sep 2007, 12:49 (CEST)

Beklager det sene svar, men historikkerne er nu samlet under Fantasia (1940). Under Fantasia (tegnefilm) har jeg lavet en omdir. fra Fantasia (1940) til Fantasia i stedet for, da "Fantasia" jo sagtens kan hentyde til begge tegnefilm.--Froztbyte 25. sep 2007, 17:07 (CEST)

Smukt. Sakkura 25. sep 2007, 17:27 (CEST)

Blokering af Bruger:Hepe

Hej Froztbyte, jeg synes du er lige lovligt hurtig ude med fingeren på blokeringsknappen. Det Som Hepe har lavet er bestemt ikke nok til en blokering, og da slet ikke uden forudgående advarsel. Brugeren har ikke fået en eneste velkomstskabelon. Tag lige at tænke dig om en anden gang, og prøv at tale brugeren til fornuft inden du hovedløst blokerer. -- Danielle 29. sep 2007, 22:07 (CEST)

Jeg har i øvrigt ophævet blokeringen og i stedet skrevet en advarselsvelkomst og kommentar på Hepes diskussionsside. -- Danielle 29. sep 2007, 22:15 (CEST)

Som ny sysop tager jeg kritikken til efterretning og vil fremover være mere åbenmindet overfor gentagne tilføjelser af negativ ladede adjektiver/grov POV (redigeringerne i Jesper Worre-artiklen) fra nye brugere og så holde fingrene fra den nævnte funktionalitet det næste lange stykke tid.--Froztbyte 30. sep 2007, 01:52 (CEST)

Hvorfor det? Jeg siger ikke at du skal lade være med at blokere overhovedet, og du har, fuldt berettiget, blokeret en række vandal-IP'er. Men at blokere en bruger uden først at prøve på at tale ham/hende til fornuft eller som minimum en advarsel, og så i øvrigt med en lang blokeringstid (to timer ville have været nok i første omgang), er det der er med til at fremstille administratorerne som arrogante og magtsyge i nogle brugeres øjne. det vil vi helst undgå, fordi wikipedia er for alle, ikke kun administratorerne.

Du skal ikke være åbenmindet overfor indsættelse af POV, det skal naturligvis fjernes. Jeg er klar over at det var grov POV der blev indsat, men det var af en helt ny bruger, som måske ikke var bekendt med WP:NPOV.

-- Danielle 30. sep 2007, 08:25 (CEST)

Jeg kan anbefale at have Wikipedia:Politik for blokering og bandlysning og Wikipedia:Vejledning for administratorer ved hånden hvis man ikke er helt fortrolig med politikken for hærværksoprydning. Derudover vil jeg tilslutte mig Danielles opfordring - der er ingen grund til at du skal afholde dig fra at blokere når det er nødvendigt; du skal bare huske at der skal advares først. --JGC 30. sep 2007, 10:05 (CEST)

Det er ikke altid Wikipedia:Vejledning for administratorer er helt tilstrækkelig; I aftes blokerede jeg bruger:81.227.86.92‎ i 24 timer uden forudgående advarsler - efter 30 hærværksredigeringer på 5 minutter. Det er uden for alle regler, men jeg mener en så ekstrem adfærd kræver resolut handling - eller hva' ? -- Nico 30. sep 2007, 10:37 (CEST)

Korrekt, Nico. Det er en ret ekstrem adfærd i det tilfælde du nævner, i modsætning til 4 redigeringer med indsættelse af POV. Selvfølgelig kan man ikke have have fuldstændige regler, da ikke alle vandaler er ens. -- Danielle 30. sep 2007, 14:57 (CEST)

Enig - jeg mente heller ikke at de nævnte sider skal opfattes som en ufravigelig norm - blot at det kan være praktisk at have en nedskreven vejledning at forholde sig til. -- JGC 30. sep 2007, 21:59 (CEST)

One of your images has been nominated for deletion

Hi Froztbyte, unfortunately we had to nominate one of your pictures for deletion. The problem is that freedom of panorama in Denmark does not cover commercial use if the statue constitutes the main motive of a picture. The only way to save this image for Commons is to prove that the artist of this statue died 70 years ago. Regards, AFBorchert 1. okt 2007, 07:33 (CEST)

I'll have to get back to you on that. I know for a fact, that the statue was created sometime in 1903 and that the sculptor was not a 8-year old kid as [2] User:Fingalo had originally stated.--Froztbyte 1. okt 2007, 09:19 (CEST)

You can safely delete it :-/ The metal plate in front of the statue reads "En fodboldspiller - af Carl Mortensen - 1861-1945 - 1903", which can be confirmed at the central danish register "Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon" under Carl Mortensen (full name: Laurits Carl Nicolaj Mortensen). The statue, created in 1903 and relocated to Sundby Idrætspark in 1910, is also mentioned as one of his several artworks in the index. Having been born on 23. February 1861 in Copenhagen and died on 30. January 1945 in Hellerup, it turns out I was eight years too fast with my image upload according to the danish freedom of panorama. I will make a note in my Calender to upload it again on 31. January 2015 :-) --Froztbyte 2. okt 2007, 10:36 (CEST)

I artiklen Ophavsret står der: "Beskyttelsestiden for værker er 70 år regnet fra udgangen af ophavsmandens dødsår." Så du kommer lige til at flytte noten til 1. januar 2016! ;-) --Dannebrog Spy 2. okt 2007, 10:55 (CEST)

Slettet artikkel

Hey Froztbyte Tusind tak for din besked. Synes bare ikke, der er noget at diskutere med hensyn til ariklen, da den ikke er blevet rettet på i længere tid, og ødelægger muligeden for andre, der har interesse i at skriver om emnet. VH PhilZz

Jeg er skam ikke uenig med dig vedrørende Dogma-artiklen (håber dog en anden som rent faktisk har set filmen og/eller har en interesse i artiklens indhold vil være foranlediget til at udbygge den grundet den overhængende fare om sletning), men blot påpeget den normale fremgangsmåde ved sletning :-) --Froztbyte 11. okt 2007, 21:43 (CEST)

Tip

I stedet for at skrive efternavnet og fornavnet i hver eneste kategori, så er der lavet en skabelon til at gøre arbejdet:

Med {{DEFAULTSORT:Mortensen, Morten}} :-) --Hejsa 9. nov 2007, 14:13 (CET)

Man lærer noget nyt hver dag :-)--Froztbyte 9. nov 2007, 14:15 (CET)

Den er hurtig at finde nede under beskrivelsesfeltet  :) --Hejsa 9. nov 2007, 14:17 (CET)

Euro2008 venues en.svg on serbian

Hello. Do you speak English? When, yes, can you make another picture of the venues of euro 2008 on serbian language in cyrillic. Thank you.

Here the cities translate:

Venues for the 2008 European Football Championship Austria/Switzerland

translate on serbian language

Стадиони за Европско првенство у фудбалу 2008 Аустрија/Швајцарска

• Innsbruck Инсбрук
• Vienna Беч
• Salzburg Салцбург
• Klagenfurt Клагенфурт
• Bern Берн
• Basel Базел
• Zürich Цирих
• Geneve Женева

(Skrev 212.117.127.126 (diskussion • bidrag) . Husk at signere dine indlæg.)

I have uploaded a "Euro2008_venues_sr.svg"-version as requested. In order to prevent further translations and free up Hard Disk space on the Wikimedia servers, it would probably be more recommentable to use a blank .svg map together with a local language version of en:Template:Location map.--Froztbyte 15. dec 2007, 01:40 (CET)

Fortjenstmedalje

		Fodbold-Barnstar
		For dine mange bidrag omkring fodbold, tildeles du hermed en Fodbold-Barnstar :) --Mini Einstein (Allan) 30. dec 2007, 13:51 (CET)

Takker :) --Froztbyte 30. dec 2007, 13:56 (CET)

Bruger:Håkon Pedersen

Hvorfor er det IRRELEVANT at Benny Jensen har en fanklub? I så fald er artiklen med Benny Jensen da HØJST irrelevant alene i sig selv...

Begrund dig -eller slet hele artiklen!

Antifascistiske hilsner

--Håkon Pedersen 7. feb 2008, 01:20 (CET)

Jeg har fjernet informationen fra 80.162.242.24's usammenhængende tilføjelse om eksistensen af en uofficiel fanside for en fiktiv figur på et lukket socialt netværk website. Hvilket del af baggrunden for min ændring du rejser tvivl om er jeg fortsat fuldstændig uforstående overfor? Grovheden i din kommentar tyder ydermere på, at du ikke ligefrem har sat dig ordentligt ind i hvad Wikipedia er for en størrelse og hvordan man i det hele taget kommunikerer med hinanden herinde. Ønsker du selve artiklen slettet, har du rigelig med mulighed for selv at oprette en anmodning herom på WP:SDBS. Jeg er ikke særlig bekendt med persongalleriet i The Julekalender og derfor ikke i stand til at vurdere hvorvidt emnet i artiklen er for snævert til at have encyklopædisk relevans.--Froztbyte 9. feb 2008, 02:02 (CET)

Det må have taget sin tid at formulere svaret med alle de referencer og regler du har støvet op.

Som lettere velbevandret wikipedianer kan det bedrøve mig at en administrator stiller sig "fuldstændig uforstående overfor" et så relativt kort og velformuleret spørgsmål.

I f.eks. artiklen om Facebook kan man under Eksterne henvisninger ligeledes finde et link til selv samme "lukket socialt netværk website" hvor man også skal være registreret bruger for at deltage -Skal det link så ikke også fjernes!?

Tålmodigt ventende venlige hilsner

--Håkon Pedersen 9. feb 2008, 19:52 (CET)

Det er virkelig trist at læse, at du ikke kan se den afgørende forskel mellem at henvise til den officielle adresse: facebook.com fra en artikel omhandlende selve websitet Facebook og så henvise til et uofficielt fan-netværk under Facebook fra Benny Jensen-artiklen. Dette her nærmer sig den sorteste diskussion, jeg hidtidigt har deltaget i. Jeg begynder endvidere at betvivle, at du skriver fra et neutralt synspunkt og ikke har en personlig interesse i at reklamere for gruppen.--Froztbyte 9. feb 2008, 22:08 (CET)

Det må tage sin tid at liste alle de paragraffer og formaninger op som du efterhånden har smidt efter mig. (er der snart flere?)

Det er virkelig trist at nogle mennesker gør Wikipedia til deres eget univers hvor man som administrator kan rode og regere efter smag og behag eller for godt befindende.

Benny Jensen-artiklen står ikke mit hjerte nærmere end resten af det Wikipedia som er tiltænkt os alle sammen at skrive på, men nu er det jo altså tilfældigvis lige her at jeg tager mit udgangspunkt - der er desværre sikkert en del andre steder som lider samme skæbne.

Dette må jeg med stor ærgrelse konstatere er et hidtidigt lavpunkt for en hvem det af andre er blevet betroet at udføre hvervet som moderator og seriøst forgangsbillede for øvrige brugere.

Jeg begynder endvidere at føle mig nødsaget og forpligtet til at genoprette linket til gruppen hvis du ikke noget mere sagligt kan redegøre for din beslutning om at fjerne denne tilføjelse.

Med håbet om en gennemarbejdet og velskrevet encyklopædi til glæde og gavn for os alle.

--Håkon Pedersen 9. feb 2008, 23:58 (CET)

Tju-hej, hvor det går. Ikke overraskende har du på intet tidspunkt selv har argumenteret for på hvilken måde, at det er berigende for en artikel at have oplysningen om at der eksisterer en ukendt og uofficiel fanklub for en ikke-eksisterende person. Wikipedia er ikke en linksamling og der skal ikke henvises til en masse unødvendige (og især uofficielle) eksterne fansider, som på ingen måde beriger selve artiklens indhold, men blot fungerer som reklameplads for den eksterne side.

Hvis du tilsyneladende er så voldsom utilfreds med tingenes tilstand, så tag dog og gør noget ved det. Næste punkt på dagsordenen for en handlekraftig person som dig bør i så fald være din anmodning om at få administrator-privilegierne taget fra mig og få min forstyrrende personlighed blokeret, så du kan koncentrere dine kræfter om at bidrage konstruktivt til Wikipedia. Jeg kan simpelthen ikke tage dig seriøst længere, for du er tydeligvis kun ude på at miskreditere mig og fremprovokere en negativ reaktion fra mig. For mit vedkommende er denne diskussion færdig, eftersom du udelukkende har kastet din kærlighed på mig grundet en besynderlig utilfredshed med denne ene ubetydelige redigering og har slet ikke kunnet fremvise anden dokumentation for hvilkne "andre steder som lider samme skæbne". --Froztbyte 11. feb 2008, 14:34 (CET)

de gustibus non est disputandum --Håkon Pedersen 22. feb 2008, 05:08 (CET)

Vedr. Søde Stjerne

Vil lige sige at jeg er glad for at du giver dig tid til at svare på mine frustrationsspørgsmål omkring lukningen af Søde Stjerne :-)

Grunden til at jeg ikke var inde og forsvare artiklen i diskussions-forummet, var at jeg ik rigtig syntes at jeg fik nogle reelle argumenter på hvorfor siden skulle nedlægges + jeg var/er stadig nybegynder. Men jeg har taget dine argumenter til mig, og venter derfor til sæsonstart med at oprette siden igen. Og til den tid vil jeg forsvare sidens relevans med næb og klør ;-) Og sorry at mine frustrationer kom til at gå ud over Tårnby FF (som jeg i øvrigt hentede meget inspiration fra til Søde Stjerne. Jthventura 14. feb 2008, 15:36 (CET)

Alle nye brugere oplever irritationsmomenter på den ene eller anden måde :-) Som nævnt har det desværre ikke tidligere været nødvendigt at nedfælde nogle overordnede kriterier for hvilkne danske fodbold-relaterede artikler (herunder klubber, spillere og trænere), der er encyklopædisk relevante på Wikipedia. Så det er vist på tide, der oprettes et diskussionsindlæg på landsbybrønden (se Wikipedia:Landsbybrønden/Hvilkne danske fodboldklubber, spillere og trænere skal med), så andre kan give deres besyv med (i enten positiv eller negativ retning vedrørende din første artikel).--Froztbyte 15. feb 2008, 07:09 (CET)

2 x JBS

Fint arbejde med de to JBS-artikler! Og endda alt sammen udført i ét hug. Flot! --Fyldepennen 26. feb 2008, 22:20 (CET)

Advarsel

Hej. Jeg kiggede lige på 85.24.119.55's redigering af Paradise Hotel. Han skrev Ziyad Mehdi som en af deltagerne og det er løgn, der er slet ikke nogle med navn som har deltaget i programmet. Det er formentligt hans eget navn. Skal han ikke have en advarsel eller en blokering?--Man-U 2. apr 2008, 18:32 (CEST)

Jeg kan ej heller få bekræftet at "Ziyad Mehdi" skulle optræde på listen over deltagere og har derfor givet ham hans sidste advarsel. En blokering kan komme i tale som næste skridt. Hvis du er stensikker på, at en anden bruger på Wikipedia indsætter fejlagtige informationer, skal du selv være mere end velkommen til at gøre den pågældende bruger opmærksom på dette på dennes diskussionside.--Froztbyte 2. apr 2008, 18:54 (CEST)

Okay det er i orden. --Man-U 3. apr 2008, 15:22 (CEST)

Falklandskrigen

Hej Froztbyte

Du har anført et kritikpunkt på Wikipedia:Kandidater til gode artikler/Falklandskrigen (som jeg har løst), men du har ikke tilkendegivet om du støtter den nævnte nominering eller ej? --Broadbeer, Thomas 21. apr 2008, 19:48 (CEST)

Hermed gjort --Froztbyte 22. apr 2008, 21:41 (CEST)

Guild Wars

Hej, Kan se du har fjernet linket til de 2 meget inaktive fora. Jeg er administrator på http://www.guild-wars.dk og ville da blive glad for hvis vi kunne få linket op igen :) Da du slettede linket havde vi 50 brugere. Og vi havde været i luften i 8 dage. Nu har vi over 150 brugere, og vi har været i gang i lidt over 1 måned. Så syntes ikke helt at jeg vil kalde forumet inaktivt. Idi0t 24. apr 2008, 16:27 (CEST)

Wikipedia er ikke en linksamling, så jeg kan ikke gennemskue, hvorfor du mener Guild Wars-artiklen skal have en unødvendig ekstern henvisning til et uofficielt dansk fan-forum med en bunke irrelevante diskussioner (i forhold til artiklens indhold). Jeg vil, specielt efter du netop selv har afsløret at du sidder som administrator på den pågældende hjemmeside, personligt betragte det som en omgang linkspam for endnu et forum, hvis henvisningen tilføjes artiklen påny og vil derfor ikke tøve med at fjerne det igen. I mine øjne fungerer henvisningen p.t. udelukkende som reklameplads for din egen hjemmeside for at generere flere besøgende og opnå en højere placering på Google m.m. Du må komme med en langt bedre begrundelse end hjemmesidens 150 brugere (som i øvrigt ikke kan bekræftes af en uafhængig kilde) for siden besidder for mig at se intet reelt indhold (for at sige det mildt), som det ville være relevant at linke til og som ikke blot kan udbygges i artiklen uden at skulle nævne forummet. --Froztbyte 25. apr 2008, 16:29 (CEST)

Jeg skrev jo netop til dig fordi jeg ikke bare ville tilføje linket når du nu havde fjernet det. Hvis du som admin ikke mener det skal være der, er det grund nok for mig ;) Jeg undskylder ulejligheden. Idi0t 27. apr 2008, 12:20 (CEST)

Jeg bliver nødt til at lige skrive lidt mere til dit svar. Ja vi er et fan forum, men vi er listet på den officielle hjemmeside om det eneste danske site. Kan godt være du tror at jeg kun har tilføjet linket for at få flere besøgende, men det er nu ikke helt tilfældet. Jeg er faktisk totalt lige glad med hvor mange besøgende vi har, google skal nok finde os. Det jeg gerne vil, er at skabe et forum hvor vi har samlet så meget af det danske GW community som muligt. Så ja, jeg så gerne at der lå et link til siden her på wikipedia da jeg tror at nye spillere godt kan finde på at gå herind og læse lidt. Og hvis de så kan finde vores forum, så ville det være super, fordi vi er en masse spillere som kan hjælpe dem alt muligt. Og lige det der med at de 150 brugere ikke kan bekræftes af en uafhængig kilde? hva mener du med det? er det ikke nok at se på statistikken i bunden at forumet? Idi0t 28. apr 2008, 10:08 (CEST)

"Topklubber"

Se venligst min seneste tilføjelse på Diskussion:Fodbold. --DSS 26. maj 2008, 21:56 (CEST)

Blå firkant

Hej Froztbyte. Kan du muligvis fjerne den blå firkant med de stiblede linjer i bunden af Carlos Queiroz's infoboks?--Man-U 12. jun 2008, 12:24 (CEST)

Det skulle gerne blevet fikset nu sammen med nogle andre tilrettelser af infoboksens nederste sektion. Den "blå firkant" skyldtes en mindre fortolkningsfejl i noterne i bunden af skabelon:Fodboldspiller (der generer infoboksen), som kun dukkede op i de tilfælde hvor en fodboldtræner ikke har haft gang i en spillerkarriere på seniorniveau. Fejlen indsatte et unødvendigt ekstra mellemrum i starten af en ny linje, hvilket wiki-softwaren jo fortolker som ønsket om at benytte HTML-taggene <pre></pre> til eksempelvis indsættelse af algoritmebeskrivelser i en teknisk udseende skrifttype. --Froztbyte 12. jun 2008, 17:59 (CEST)

Okay det lyder godt. Tusind tak for det. :) --Man-U 12. jun 2008, 20:59 (CEST)

Hej igen. Kan du også hjælpe mig med at rette http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skabelon:Fodboldturnering for fejl og mangler?--Man-U 12. jun 2008, 21:06 (CEST)

Skabelonen Infoboks international fodboldturnering er hermed blevet oprettet ved at sakse det mest interessante layout og parametre direkte fra den engelske turneringsskabelon Template:Infobox International Football Competition, hvortil jeg har foretaget diverse tilpasninger til danske forhold. Håber det er tilfredsstillende. Skabelonen kan p.t. blandt andet ses i brug under artiklen for Europamesterskabet i fodbold 2008. Skabelonerne "Infoboks fodboldmesterskab", "Fodboldturnering" og "Infobox_International_Fodboldturnering" er derudover blevet samlet under den nye skabelon, da de alle indeholdt identiske informationer til samme type turnering.--Froztbyte 14. jun 2008, 15:03 (CEST)

Mange tak. --Man-U 14. jun 2008, 15:10 (CEST)

Foreningen af Små Teatre i Wikipedia

Kære Froztbyte.

Ang. dit spørgsmål om jeg har tilladelse til at bruge tekst fra FAST`s hjemmeside, kan jeg fortælle dig, at jeg er med til at administrere FAST i det daglige, og at indlægget er lavet efter aftale med foreningens formand Mogens Holm.

De bedste hilsner

Erling Weise ew@taastrupteater.dk

Hej. Du (og Mogens Holm) skal bare være klar over, at alle må rette i teksten. Alle må kopiere den, ændre den og udnytte den kommercielt. Alle må skrive kritiske afsnit ind i teksten og så videre. Dette skal i være klar over, når i tillader den på Wikipedia. --‎‎‎‎C•Thure 27. jun 2008, 11:27 (CEST)

Kære Erling Weise, mange tak for din hurtige tilbagemelding på min bemærkning på din egen diskussionsside. Eftersom der ingen steder ved oprettelsen af artiklen fremgik at der forelå en tilladelse fra foreningens bestyrelse/administration, måtte jeg som udgangspunkt betragte den første version af artiklen som et brud på ophavsretten (noget Wikipedia i visse perioder desværre oplever i et bekymrende stort omfang fra nye brugere). Det er dejligt at læse at det ikke var tilfældet her :-)

Hvis du planlægger at oprette yderligere artikler baseret på foreningens materiale, bør du dog i første omgang videresende en skriftlig tilladelse/udtalelse fra FAST's bestyrelse/administration/"forfatteren til teksten på hjemmesiden" pr. e-mail til OTRS. Her vil en anden administrator sikre sig at tilladelsen er 100% i orden og efterfølgende arkivere denne tilladelse et centralt sted til fremtidig dokumentation såfremt der skulle opstå tvivlsspørgsmål vedrørende ophavsretten til teksten. Dette er nødvendigt for at forhindre eventuelle fremtidige sagsanlæg mod Wikimedia Foundation (organisationen bag Wikipedia). Du kan eventuelt finde inspiration til udarbejdelsen af en hurtig forespørgsel til "anmodning om tilladelse til kopiering" på Wikipedia:Kilder eller Wikipedia:Standardbrev til indehavere af ophavsret. I forbindelse med oprettelse af nye artikler, behøver du fremover således blot henvise kort til tilladelsen, der er blevet sendt til OTRS, på artiklens tilhørende diskussionsside eller i selve Hjælp:Beskrivelsen redigeringen :-) --Froztbyte 28. jun 2008, 01:03 (CEST)

Skabelon:Virksomhed

Hej Froztbyte,

Jeg kan se du tidligere har haft fat i Skabelon:Virksomhed. Jeg forsøgte mig i også i aften - men uden held. Jeg synes det ville give god mening at ændre det noget underlige indtægt til omsætning, der er mere præcist (og også den betegnelse virksomhederne selv anvender i deres regnskab). Er det til at ændre? --Brandsen 1. jul 2008, 00:14 (CEST)

Du har skam foretaget de korrekte rettelser med hensyn til at indføre "Omsætning" i stedet for "Indtægt" i {{Virksomhed}}-skabelonen. Det der "blot" mangler at blive udført er en tilrettelse i hver enkel af de godt 150 artikler, hvor der p.t. refererer til parameternavnet vIndtægt, men som nu skal benytte parameter-navnet vOmsætning. Denne "korrekte, men tidskrævende" fremgangsmåde (om du vil :-)) skal desværre udføres manuelt med mindre du eller en anden kan opspore en specialiseret bot (har umiddelbart ikke lige selv kendskab til en ...) til at udgøre arbejdet for dig.

Den "mindre pæne, men hurtigste" fremgangsmåde (en enkelt redigering) går i alt sin enkelthed ud på kun at ændre i selve infoboks-skabelonens output-tekst, "Indtægt" til "Omsætning", og så ellers lade selve parameterens navn (dvs. vIndtægt i skabelonen) forblive uændret. I dette tilfælde vil sammenhængen mellem parameternavnet og slutresultatet i infoboksen dog ikke virke så åbenlys og overskuelig for alle og enhver.

Et tredje alternativ, hvis du ønsker at foretage endnu flere ændringer (eksempelvis bør det komplet unødvendige v'et foran alle parameternavnene fjernes) og/eller et mere gennemgribende redesign, er at konstruere en ny skabelon fra bunden af og så udskifte skabelon-henvisningen og koden i hver artikel lidt for hver dag. Jeg har netop selv gjort dette med oprettelsen af skabelonen {{Infoboks fodboldklub}} som erstatning for skabelon:Fodboldklub infoboks, der vil blive udfaset med tiden.--Froztbyte 5. jul 2008, 22:01 (CEST)

Hej igen! Tak for svaret. Puha - det er da en større operation. Jeg lader mig nu nok ikke skræmme af 150 redigeringer, men det må lige vente lidt :-) Tak for svar anyway.--Brandsen 9. jul 2008, 00:55 (CEST)

Skabelon:Dobbeltkamp

Hej Froztbyte! Kan jeg få dig til at fixe Skabelon:Dobbeltkamp start og Skabelon:Dobbeltkamp resultat, så de får faste længder ligesom en:Template:TwoLeg start og en:Template:TwoLegResult? Det er lidt irriterende at boksens længden skal variere efter klubbernes navne. --DSS 10. jul 2008, 16:01 (CEST)

Og kan skabelonen desuden laves sådan at et flag ved holdets navn ikke er nødvendigt? --DSS 11. jul 2008, 20:00 (CEST)

Hermed gjort. Skabelonerne {{Dobbeltkamp start}} og {{Dobbeltkamp resultat}} har nu nogenlunde samme opmarkering/opsætning som de tilsvarende subtemplates på enwiki. Bemærk dog, at der kun er blevet fastsat en min. længde (på 250px) på to af kolonnerne: "hold 1" og "hold 2". Hele den samlede bredde på tabellen har p.t. en mindre variation på et par pixels afhængig af hvad der benyttes som input i de resterende tre kolonner for "1. kamp", "2. kamp" og især "samlet", idet der ingen minimumsbredde er foruden bredden på kolonnens overskift. Eksempelvis er der en forskel på tekst-bredden mellem "1. maj" og "30. september". Jeg har derudover lavet nogle grafisk visuelle tilpasninger til skabelonerne udenom standard stylesheet'et "wikitable" (har gjort header-tekstens størrelse 15% mindre i forhold til resten af tabellens indhold og centreret hele tabellen) og inkluderet en lille introduktion samt eksempel på anvendelsen i hver skabelon. Meld endelig tilbage, såfremt dette ikke er i overensstemmelse med dine egne ønsker/forventninger. Flaget er ikke længere obligatorisk (se eksempel i skabelonen). --Froztbyte 13. jul 2008, 07:08 (CEST)

Det ser virkelig godt ud! Jeg vil dog foretrække, at den er venstrejusteret. --DSS 13. jul 2008, 12:27 (CEST)

No problemo, der anvendes nu venstrejustering. {{Dobbeltkamp slut}} og {{Dobbeltkamp gruppe}} er også blevet oprettet, så alting kan holdes indenfor brugen af skabeloner (virker mere overskueligt for mit vedkommende :-)). --Froztbyte 14. jul 2008, 01:32 (CEST)

Perfekt! :-) --DSS 14. jul 2008, 18:32 (CEST)

Ligatabeller

Hej igen Froztbyte. Jeg skriver angående skabeloner til ligatabeller. For længere tid siden blev Skabelon:Fodboldtabel start oprettet, men den ser ud til at have gået af mode. Typen "wikitable sortable" er den klart mest benyttede. Se f.eks. Superligaen 2007-08 og Superligaen 2008-09. Kan den laves som skabelon? Det ville nemlig være dejligt med en standard på dette område. --DSS 16. jul 2008, 16:03 (CEST)

Jeg er ved at se det. Havde ikke nok fritid i weekenden til konstruktionen af skabelonerne og dertilhørende tests. --Froztbyte 21. jul 2008, 06:26 (CEST)

Mit udkast til et nyere design af de outdated fodboldtabel-skabelonerne kan nærstuderes på Skabelon:Fodboldtabel start/doc (dokumentationen) og som du vil opdage, har jeg allerede foretaget udskiftningen af det gamle design. Den mere simple klasse "sortable" (se eventuelt meta:Help:Sorting) er benyttet i stedet for "wikitable sortable", da førstnævnte bedre egner sig til specifikke modifikationer i designet (finder ikke standard wiki-udseendet for tabeller, som bl.a. benyttes af henholdsvis en:Template:Fb cl header, en:Template:Fb cl team og en:Template:Fb cl footer, særlig appetitlig :-). Frem for at skulle være nødsaget til at oprette en ny skabelon for hver ny "række-farve", er der blevet oprettet en parameter F specifikt til dette formål under {{Fodboldtabel hold}}, samtidig med at man nu sparer et par sekunder på at indtaste total antal kampe spillet, måldifferencen og point (udregnes automatisk). Som nævnt i dokumentationen, tager udregningerne udgangspunkt i 3 point for en sejr, 1 point for en uafgjort kamp og 0 point for en tabt kamp, som det mest brugte pointsystem nu om dage. I parameteren Ps kan der dog angives 2 point for en sejr (det tidligere danske pointsystem i fodbold) og så skulle godt 95% af alle fodboldligaer være dækket ind (dog ikke det tidligere pointsystem for en:North American Soccer League, men det kan indføres, såfremt det bliver aktuelt).--Froztbyte 25. jul 2008, 00:00 (CEST)

Jeg må sige at jeg er positivt overrasket over resultatet. Jeg synes den nye tabel har et lækkert design, og det er dejligt med en automatisk udregningsfunktion. Så tusind tak fordi du ville kigge på det! Håber også de andre wikipedianere vil synes om den. :-) --DSS 25. jul 2008, 00:20 (CEST)

Det var da en lækker skabelon. Jeg har brugt den på Superligaen 2008-09, og det er da rart, at man ikke skal skrive antal kampe og selv skal udregne måldifference. --‎‎‎‎C•Thure 25. jul 2008, 10:38 (CEST)

Tak for hjælpen!

Hej Froztbyte.

Tak for hjælpen med den nye {{Infoboks bil/2}}. Kan du være så sød at slette den gamle {{Infoboks bil}}, så den nye Infoboks bil/2 kan flyttes til navnet "Infoboks bil"?

Hilsen Christian Giersing 24. aug 2008, 12:01 (CEST)

Historikken er blevet sammenflettet for den oprindelige {{Infoboks bil}} og skabelon:Infoboks bil/2. Test af (designet for) nye skabeloner bør helst foretages under dit eget navnerum (eksempelvis: Bruger:Christian Giersing/Skabelon:Sandkasse) eller under {{Sandkasse}} :-)

Jeg har dog valgt at genbruge nogle af de oprindelige parametrenavne fra det gamle design samt indsat en række manglende parametre såsom "producent", "andre navne", "facelist", "teknik", "produktionsland" og "produktionsperiode" så ingen informationer i artikler med skabelonen "forsvinder" med indførslen af det nye design. Bemærk dog, at jeg slet ikke har styr på, hvor vidt disse informationer er "udgået"/"irrelevante", men det regner jeg med du har styr på (du fjerner bare løs, hvilket jeg kan se du allerede har været inde og gøre :-). --Froztbyte 24. aug 2008, 12:47 (CEST)

Valrhona

Kære Froztbyte Tak for velkomsthilsen og gode kommentarer til min første lille artikel her på Wikipedia.

Jeg blev meget glad for at se, at artiklen om Valrhona var blevet så meget bedre i nattens løb. Jeg har selv skrevet artiklen om Valrhona til min hjemmeside www.emilschokolade.dk og derfor turde jeg godt overføre indholdet til Wiki. Det var et meget hurtigt forsøg på at oprette en ny artikel, og når jeg får sat mig bedre ind i Wiki, vil jeg gerne lægge flere artikler online.

Men jeg må indrømme at jeg er i tvivl om hvordan jeg bedst kan dele mit indhold med Wiki uden at få ballade. Jeg kommer nemlig til at skrive mange flere artikler i de kommende år til min hjemmeside, og de mest relevante vil jeg hellere end gerne dele med Wiki. Samtidig kunne jeg godt bruge et enkelt link til min hjemmeside i hver artikel for at få lidt flere indgående links og besøgende. Men jeg synes det skal gøres på en ordentlig måde, da jeg ikke ønsker problemer med ophavsretten og gerne vil bidrage til at holde Wiki neutral og fri for reklame. En kildehenvisning er nok til mig, men et eksternt link i hver artikel vil være bedre. Men du kender Wiki meget bedre end jeg og ved hvad der er acceptabelt, så jeg håber du vil give mig et godt råd (igen).

Mange hilsner og god weekend Emil (Skrev EmilNielsen (diskussion • bidrag) . Husk at signere dine indlæg.)

Først og fremmest har dine hidtidige bidrag selvfølgelig været værdsat og fortsatte bidrag vil skam stadig være mere end velkomne på den danske Wikipedia, da mange chokolade-relaterede artikler godt kunne gøres mere appetitlige (udvidelse med flere detaljer) specielt med hjælp fra en med specifik viden på området :-)

Desværre er dit ønske om at indkludere en henvisning til din hjemmeside for hver artikel du bidrager med temmelig problematisk, da, som du selv skriver, din eneste hensigt er at få "flere indgående links og besøgende" til gengæld. Den eneste relevante eksterne henvisning i artiklen om Valrhona bør være til virksomhedens officielle hjemmeside - alt andet vil blive opfattet som gratis reklame og selvpromovering snarere end encyklopædisk relevant indhold (se Wikipedia:Hvad Wikipedia ikke er). Hensigten med Wikipedia er ikke at bidragsydere skal reklamere for deres egne ting og/eller hjemmesider, men at man bidrager med det ene formål at dele ens viden/kendskab med andre uden nogen kommercielle bagtanker.

En kildehenvisning til din hjemmeside er også problematisk i denne sammenhæng, da ikke alle vil betragte de meget rosende udtalelser (salgstalen) om virksomhedens produkter som værende neutrale (grundet den personlige kommercielle interesse i at deres produkter kan sælges gennem jeres hjemmeside) eller fra en uafhængig objektiv kilde såsom en avisartikel, en anmeldelse i et madmagasin el.lign. (se eventuelt Wikipedia:Kildeangivelser), hvor der også kan være plads til en relevant kritisk omtale af produktet. At skrive en artikel på Wikipedia og benytte din egen hjemmeside som kilde, hvor du selv står som forfatter, frem for henvise til de oprindelige kilder til dine informationer, lyder lidt forkert for mig. Jeg har bl.a. savnet en mere neutral kilde til udtalelsen om at Valrhona regnes blandt et af verdens bedste chokolader, hvilket jeg dog nu har fundet og udbygget artiklen med. --Froztbyte 31. aug 2008, 19:06 (CEST)

Tak for hjælpen til at forstå principperne på Wikipedia. Jeg vil gerne lige understrege at "links og besøgende" ikke er hensigten for mig med at skrive på Wikipedia. Jeg skriver fordi jeg gerne vil bidrage, og desuden synes jeg at det er sjovt at se, hvordan artiklerne kan udvikle sig. Hvis det var acceptabelt at genbruge mit indhold eller lave en henvisning, kunne jeg forsvare at bruge en del af min arbejdstid på Wikipedia. Men det forstår og accepterer jeg at det ikke er, og at det er grundlaget for Wikipedias troværdighed. I stedet vil jeg glæde mig til at bidrage med neutralt indhold til den danske Wikipedia i min fritid ud fra de retningslinjer, som du henviser. --EmilNielsen 1. sep 2008, 09:49 (CEST)

...reklame i filnavne?

Hej Froztbyte ... jeg finder det problematisk og i strid med wikipedias ånd når du ved upload af billedfiler til commons (Commons:User:Froztbyte) navngiver dem med indirekte link til en ekstern website ... eks. //Billede:Kenneth Carlsen BogForum Forum Copenhagen by www.mysona.dk.JPG// Fil:Kenneth Carlsen BogForum Forum Copenhagen by www.mysona.dk.JPG ... på mig virker det som reklame ... osse selvom den pågældende website endnu ikke er oppe at køre ... Jeg skriver til dig på den danske wikipedia, fordi du også har lagt billederne ind på de danske sider de relaterer sig til (eks. Kenneth Carlsen) ... venlig hilsen moeng 19. nov 2008, 14:58 (CET)

Det kunne være interessant at få præciseret, hvad du mener jeg "reklamerer" for med en indholdsløs side med den eksakt samme besked påklistret de sidste otte år? Flere Commons-brugere (se eksempelvis Image:Synchiropus_splendidus_2_Luc_Viatour.jpg og Image:Svyato Mihailovsky Cathedral Izhevsk Russia Richard Bartz.jpg) har inkluderet deres (bruger)navne sidst i filnavnet, hvilket jeg i sin tid blev inspireret af, men valgte et lidt alternativ fremgangsmåde. Jeg var ikke den opfattelse, at det på nogen måde ville blive opfattet negativt, men der må unægteligt også være andre med samme synspunkt som dig, og så må jeg hellere gøre noget ved sagen før den bliver mere pustet op end du allerede har gjort. Jeg skal bruge en del tid på at indstille samtlige billeder til sletning på Commons og ville ønske du havde hevet fat i mig for flere måneder siden, så min sparsomme wiki-relaterede timer kunne være blevet brugt på andre ting! --Froztbyte 23. nov 2008, 22:28 (CET)

Hej Froztbyte ... tak for dit svar ... jeg vil blot lige bemærke at jeg godt nok ikke har pustet nogen sag op ... jeg har kritiseret DIN fremgangsmåde ... that's it! ... og jeg vil da til enhver tid også støtte en kritik af de to commons-brugere du nævner ... deres fremgangsmåde finder jeg også problematisk ... derudover laver du et glimrende stykke arbejde, og det er rigtig godt! ... venlig hilsen --moeng 24. nov 2008, 10:57 (CET)

Så er de sidste problematiske billedenavne endelig blevet omdøbt, universielt erstattet og efterfølgende slettet på Commons. --Froztbyte 13. dec 2008, 17:46 (CET)

Admaker slettet?

Admaker slettet? Jeg har tilladt mig at indføre en artikel med navnet Admaker, hvilket også er navnet på en virksomhed jeg ejer, hvilket ganske rigtigt let kan opfattes som utidig reklame. MEN: Artiklen var skrevet fuldstændigt neutralt, og omtalte foruden min egen virksomhed også en andet virksomheds produkt med samme navn. Dermed har artiklen bla. det formål at rette en almindelig misforståelse. Begge var forsynet med et internetlink, og ingen blev rost/fremhævet fremfor den anden. Artiklen lød:

"Admaker 1) Grafisk tegnestue på Frederiksberg (link) 2) Software til fremstilling af internetannoncer (link)"

Ergo kan reklame ikke være årsagen til at artiklen er blevet slettet. Er det fordi Wikipedia ikke omtaler virksomheder? Nej, jeg har lige søgt på Maersk, og fandt en lang artikel om firmaet. Så hvorfor blev artiklen slettet?

Bedste hilsner

Hasse Sørensen--Admaker 6. dec 2008, 18:17 (CET)

Du har jo allerede gjort det meste af arbejdet for mig og svaret på dit eget spørgsmål i den allerførste linje! Brug lidt mere tid på at læse din egen brugerdiskussion:Admaker igennem, hvor jeg har været venlig nok til at levere en lang række interne henvisninger, der fortæller dig hvad Wikipedia er for en størrelse (du har tydeligvis ikke læst retningslinjerne, når dine allerførste og eneste redigeringer er om dig selv). Særligt den del, der fortæller dig at Wikipedia ikke er ... et sted hvor du skal reklamere for dig selv, dine venner, din hjemmeside, arbejdsplads eller forening eller bare butikker og hjemmesider, du godt kan lide. Efter at have nærstuderet din forespørgsel ovenfor, burde der ikke herske endnu mindre tvivl om at du udøver selvpromovering med "Admaker"-artiklen, som efterhånden passer bedre og bedre ind i kategorien Wikipedia:Selvbiografier og længere er den diskussion ikke.

Jeg finder det højst besynderligt, at du vælger at foretage en sammenligning med et internationalt danskejet konsortium som A.P. Møller-Mærsk, som er af en helt ubegribelig anden størrelse end din egen lille, ukendte designervirksomhed. Jeg giver dig ret i, at en artikel skal beskrive sit emne faktuelt korrekt og ud fra et neutralt synspunkt, men det er vigtigt at bemærke at emnet skal have tilstrækkelig almen interesse til at en artikel kan blive accepteret på (den danske) Wikipedia. Og du kan næppe betragtes som værende særlig neutral i vurderingen af hvorvidt din egen lille virksomhed i det hele taget har encyklopædisk relevans nok til at være berettiget til en Wikipedia-artikel. At du skriver en masse (dokumenterbare?) fakta om sig selv, er ikke ensbetydende med at det er en artikel, som har encyklopædisk relevans. "Admaker"-artiklen blev slettet, fordi den er i strid med vores officielle politik, at man ikke skriver om sig selv, og i mindre grad omkring artiklens eksistensberettigelse, hvor jeg dog stadigvæk ikke selv har kunnet finde en valid begrundelse (såsom virksomhedens størrelse) og det lugter for mig mere af at du ønsker at skabe mere trafik til din egen hjemmeside ved at udnytte Wikipedias placering i Googles hierarki. Er man nødsaget til at skrive om sig selv, så har det aldrig en almen interesse. --Froztbyte 6. dec 2008, 21:26 (CET)

MediaWiki localisation in Danish

Hi Froztbyte. I see that you have been making some edits in the MediaWiki namespace in this Danish language Wikipedia for messages that had not been translated at all (edit summary "oversat" if I am correct). I was wondering if you knew about the MediaWiki localisation project that we are running on Betawiki:. If you make your translations there, they will not only be available for the Danish language Wikipedia, but also on all other projects of Wikimedia (like Wikimedia Commons and Meta), and in the standard product of MediaWiki. If you care about the localisation into the Danish language of software you and your community work with, please come and visit Betawiki: and consider making contributions. Thank you! Siebrand 17. dec 2008, 01:10 (CET)

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Bilde til artikkel

Hei. Jeg har store problemer med å forstå hvordan jeg skal legge inn bilde på en artikkel. Jeg er interessert i håndball, og har mange bilder av Bojana Popovic, og jeg har prøvd å legge inn. Men jeg får ikke til! Det er vanskelig å forstå fremgangsmåten!

Mvh slagelse77

Først og fremmest skal du starte med at lægge dine billeder op på enten den lokale danske Wikipedia via siden Special:Upload eller gennem søsterprojektet Wikimedia Commons via siden Commons:Upload (et fælles billedarkiv, hvor billedet tilmed også bliver tilgængeligt via alle andre sprogversioner af Wikipedia), hvorefter det blot gælder om at holde tungen lige i munden og gengive eksemplerne fra den (på nuværende tidspunkt) eneste tilgængelige vejledning vedrørende billeder (Husk!, at knappen Forhåndsvisning er din store hjælper). Såfremt du har uploadet dine billeder på den danske Wikipedia, finder du dem efterfølgende i listen over dine brugerbidrag eller i listen over alle eksisterende billeder/filer.

Bemærk dog venligst, at du skal lægge hver eneste af dine billeder op med oplysninger om den tilknyttede licens. Der skal således foreligge en tilladelse til uindskrænket kopiering, redigering og kommerciel brug af billedet du lægger op, og derfor er der stor forskel mellem billeder du selv har taget med dit eget kamera og billeder du har fundet andetsteds (såsom på internettet/aviser/magasiner etc.). Du bør således ikke lægge billederne op på den danske Wikipedia (eller Wikimedia Commons), som du ikke har taget og/eller har fået en utrykkelig skriftlig tilladelse til. Ydermere, som det allerede nævnes på oplægningssiden, kan du ikke nødvendigvis benytte dig af billeder fra en tilsvarende artikel om emnet fra den engelske Wikipedia, da man der gør brug af Fair Use-licensen (et begreb i USA's lovgivning), hvilket ikke tillades på den danske Wikipedia eller for den sags skyld på Commons.

Wikipedia er en åben encyklopædi.

Du indsætter et lille billede (thumbnail) til en artikel ved at skrive kommandoen: [[Billede:{Navnet på filen}|{Type}|{Vertikal placering}|{Bredde i pixels}|{Tekst}]]. Eksempelvis resulterer følgende kode: [[Billede:Wiki.png|thumb|right|75px|Wikipedia er en åben encyklopædi.]] i at der vises et billede med ramme, som placeres ud til højre dannes med bredden/størrelsen 75 pixels og med underteksten "Wikipedia er en åben encyklopædi.". De fleste billeder på den danske Wikipedia benytter sig dog af den simple version af syntaksen [[Billede:{Navnet på filen}|thumb|Tekst i ramme ...]]. Derudover benytter du blot klikke på rediger-knappen i en artikel med et billede og lade dig inspirere af hvordan billede indgår i en allerede eksisterende artikel. Tag for eksempel artiklen om "Københavns Hovedbibliotek", hvor du øverst oppe (de to første linjer) kan skimte, hvordan begge billeder i indgår som en del af artiklens øvrige indhold. Du kan passende øve dig i Wikipedia:Sandkassen :-) --Froztbyte 2. mar 2009, 03:21 (CET)

Omdirigeringer

Hej Froztbyte! Kan se at du laver en masse omdirigeringer. Jeg gætter på at det skyldes "Henvisninger der måske er stavet forkert". Hvis en henvisning er skrevet forkert, så bør de sider, der har den forkerte henvisning jo rettes. Ellers står det stadig forkert. Det udelukker selvfølgelig ikke, at der også skal være en omdirigering. --MGA73 1. mar 2009, 14:04 (CET)

Når man laver omdirigeringer fra navne som er skrevet forkert, kan man med fordel komme dem i Kategori:Omdirigeringer af fejlstavninger. Det vil muliggøre at man senere vil kunne finde alle links, inkl. evt. nye som endnu ikke findes i dag, som skal rettes. Måske vil det også være muligt at rette dem med bot-assistance (hvad siger du om det, MGA73?). I øvrigt tak fordi I kigger på Henvisninger som måske er skrevet forkert. Byrial 1. mar 2009, 14:22 (CET)

Det kan man sagtens rette Byrial. Om ikke andet så enkeltvist hvis man ikke kan finde ud af andet. Men hvis man havde en sådan kategori, så kunne du nok lave en liste over hvilken omdirigering, der havde flest indgående henvisnnger og dermed hvilken fejl, der optrådte oftest. --MGA73 1. mar 2009, 14:30 (CET)

Ja, det kunne jeg nemt (hvis jeg ellers kunne skaffe nye dumpdata bare nogenlunde regelmæssigt). Byrial 1. mar 2009, 14:36 (CET)

Baggrunden for oprettelsen af de seneste par omdirigeringer har været min opfattelse af at variationerne på de enkelte navne bør eksistere primært for at forhindre op til flere artikel-oprettelser over det eksakt samme emne. Ligesom jeg er stor tilhænger af, at flere afskygninger/variationer af eksempelvis "XYZ Idrætsforening" skal laves som omdirigeringer (såsom "XYZ Idræts Forening", "XYZ Idræts forening", "XYZ Idræts-Forening", "XYZ Idræts-forening", "XYZ I.F.", "XYZ IF" osv. osv.) til den egentlige artikel. I de gode gamle nybegynder dage (hvor jeg ville booste min edit count) ville jeg da også fluks have været inde og linkfixe alle de forkerte henvisninger på siderne til, men det gider jeg personligt ikke længere bruge min fritid på med mindre der er opstået en direkte flertydighed og/eller wikificeringen er lodret forkert og/eller dobbelt omdirigeringer og/eller jeg allerede er i gang med omskrive/udvide en artikel. Nu om dage vil det være yderst sjældent, at du ser mig rette et enkelt link i en artikel udelukkende pga. en enkel fejlstavning (såsom fra "Dansk kvindesamfund" til "Dansk Kvindesamfund"). Disse små trivielle linkfixes burde være blevet automatiseret for længe siden til at blive udført af en bot, så brugere kan bruge tiden på noget mere meningsfuldt og til større gavn for dawiki som helhed (dvs. oprette og udvide/forbedre artikler) :-) --Froztbyte 2. mar 2009, 03:23 (CET)

Botter skal ses, ikke høres...

Hej Froztbyte!

Din bot har ikke noget flag, så den spammer Speciel:Seneste ændringer. Det må den godt lade være med. En medvirkende grund til at den ikke har flag er måske at du ikke har svaret på Byrials spørgsmål. --Palnatoke 7. apr 2009, 07:41 (CEST)

Flot arbejde!

Din forbedring af Cecilie Frøkjær er imponerende. Godt arbejde! Måske skulle du kigge forbi hendes kollega også? --MGA73 16. maj 2009, 22:53 (CEST)

Mange tak for din kommentar vedrørende artiklen :-) Jeg fandt lidt mere fritid i slutningen af weekenden til at foretage en omskrivning og udvidelse af artiklen (med kildeangivelser!) omhandlende den anden noob, Anders Breinholt. Om det er en kvalitetsmæssig forbedring må jeg lade andre vurdere. Jeg er dog forbavset over hvordan andre wikipianere stadigvæk ønsker at bruge prioritere deres tid på at køre rundt i de samme argumenter på episodens hoveddiskussionsside og på at udbygge en komplet ligegyldig ikke-notabel side som Wikipedia:Tv2wikigate (som forhåbentlig bliver slettet snart) frem for at lægge kræfterne i at forbedre kvaliteten af de p.t. to artikler, som rent faktisk er i fokus i de få danske medier (der har valgt at omtale denne episode) og som er med til at tegne den danske Wikipedias ansigt udadtil. Alt respekt for at den nævnte diskussionsside har skabt en til en vis grad tiltrængt "positiv reklame", men det er i sidste ende indholdet i artiklerne i det egentlige navnerum, der tæller for omverdenen. --Froztbyte 18. maj 2009, 06:14 (CEST)

Jo da, det er en forbedring. Mon ikke TV2's berigtigelse her til morgen gør, at der falder ro på sagen? Jeg synes, at dine to udvidelser af artiklerne viser, at Wikipedia er i stand til at holde fokus og skrive neutralt of fair om personer, selvom vi ikke føler, at de har behandlet os fair.

Det eneste, der mangler, er et par billeder. Vi kan da håbe, at deres næste projekt om Wikipedia bliver at uploade gode billeder :-) --MGA73 18. maj 2009, 07:16 (CEST)

Vedr. sletning af "Fraugde kirke og landsby, Fraugdegaard, Hole Kilde og Munkestensmarken"-artiklen

Slet i den bare. Det er Ok! (Skrev Birkumborg (diskussion • bidrag) . Husk at signere dine indlæg.)

Tak for det hurtige svar på min henvendelse vedrørende det aktuelle forslag om sletning af "Fraugde kirke og landsby, Fraugdegaard, Hole Kilde og Munkestensmarken"-artiklen, hvor du netop var hovedforfatteren. Din velsignelse til en sletning af artiklen var dog imidlertidig ikke lige den reaktion fra dig, jeg fiskede efter. De (måske) lidt for mange visuelt meget fremtrædende politikbokse i toppen af artiklen skal du som sådan ikke tage særlig personligt, men snarere som en række forslag/opfordringer til (yderligere) forbedringer. Kritikken i den pågældende artikel har centreret sig om, at du har taget et alt for bredt emne under behandling uden at der fulgte en indledende introduktion med jævnfør Wikipedia:Gør artiklerne brugbare for læseren og lidt wikificering jævnfør Wikipedia:Stilmanualen, hvilket ville have gjort det mere tydeligt for den almene læser, hvad artiklen egentlig omhandler. Der skal ikke herske tvivl om at alle dine bidrag har været værdsatte, men det er dog ikke helt i orden at du ikke virker besynderlig interesseret i at bruge et par ekstra minutter på at tilpasse dine tilføjelser til den danske Wikipedia/det øvrige indhold, men lader andre stå for "oprydningen" (den såkaldte "post and run"-manøvre).

Uden at have den store specialviden om Fraugde og omegn, har jeg selv måttet gøre mig nogle anstrengelser for afkryptere indholdet og forsøge at filtrere det mest relevante indhold ud gennem en omskrivning med efterfølgende omdøbning af navnet på artiklen til Fraugde. Jeg har i denne forbindelse blevet opmærksom på at dele af artiklen allerede optræder i Hole Kilde-artiklen, som du i sin tid udvidede inden du oprettede dig som bruger. Artikler om byen Fraugde og omegn er som udgangspunkt ikke uinteressante, men som det også er tilfældet andre af dine tilføjelser (oprindeligt stillet til et kirkeblad), bærer den nævnte artikel tydeligt præg af at være skrevet med sigte på en anden målgruppe og/eller medie. Artiklen gav i dette tilfælde associationer til hvad man kunne forvente at finde i en "rejsevejledning" snarere end en decideret encyklopædisk artikel. Som tidligere nævnt er dine oprindelige rettelser ikke tabt, men kan graves frem fra artikelhistorikken. --Froztbyte 27. maj 2009, 00:20 (CEST)

Vedr. brug af skabelon til Det hemmelighedsfulde selskab

Det forstår jeg ikke? Men jeg har opdaget endnu en fejl ved Stuart Townsend i skemaet{{{}}}. I skemaet står der: Stuart, Townsend. Grunden er mit tastatur der ikke helt virker som det skal... :-) --Hesselb 7. jun 2009, 20:00 (CEST)

Jeg har nu oprettet (navigerings)skabelonen for dig, se Skabelon:Det hemmelighedsfulde selskab, hvorefter jeg har indsat den nye skabelon i en enkelt artikel ved hjælp af wiki-koden {{Det hemmelighedsfulde selskab}}. Kan du se en forskel i mængden af tekst i Sean Connery-artiklen (sammenlign eventuelt selv via historik-funktionen øverst i hver artikel)? Du (og andre wikipidianere) behøver blot at lave rettelser i navigationsskabelonen et enkelt sted (nemlig i skabelonen) frem for i hver artikel. Jeg har nu også fjernet wiki-koden fra Stuart Townsend-artiklen og indsat det korrekt kald til den nye skabelon, hvorefter jeg har lavet en enkel rettelse i skabelonen (denne rettelse kan herefter ses på alle de sider, hvor skabelonen kaldes). --Froztbyte 7. jun 2009, 20:15 (CEST)

-Okay. Takker :-) --Hesselb 7. jun 2009, 20:36 (CEST)

Sådan der...

Har stadigvæk lidt ondt bagi på grund af jeg faldte på halen over din nye artikel om F.C. Svendborg... smukt og imponerende! Sådan skal en artikel startes :-) Flot flot og god aften fra --Pusleogpixi 23. jun 2009, 21:38 (CEST) (Lars)
PS. Jeg vil straks lade mig inspirere, af de mange gode og nye ting der er lavet i forhold til fodboldklub-artikler. :-)

Tak for dine kommentarer :-) Det er sjovt nok efterhånden temmelig længe siden, jeg har modtaget nogen form for ros for fodbold-skriplerierne, i særdeleshed efter jeg er begyndt at bidrage til projektet Lovende artikler. Oprettelse af en masse substubs og one-liners (artikler bestående af en enkel eller få linjer med meget sparsom information) eventuelt pyntet med nogle interwiki-links og en detaljeret infoboks, der ofte er vældig disproportioneret i forhold til resten af artiklens indhold og uden en eneste kildeangivelse, finder jeg heldigvis? ikke så ophidsende længere. Det er dog lidt trist, at der ikke er endnu flere bidragsydere, der hopper med på vognen og skriver større og mere udtømmende artikler om bestemte emner, frem for at fokusere alt for meget på størrelsen af systemvariablen {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}. Ikke sagt på den måde, at kvantitet slet ikke kan have nogen positiv effekt, men det må i sidste ende unægteligt være artiklernes kvalitet, detajleringsgrad og omfattende angivelser af pålidelige kilder, der skal være et af Dansk Wikipedias stærkeste argumenter overfor de andre konkurrenter om de danske brugeres interesse for internet-baserede opslagsværker. --Froztbyte 20. jul 2009, 01:45 (CEST)

Vedr. flytning af artikel

Hej. Jeg skriver lige til dig fordi du lige var den admin jeg havde haft kontakt med før. Jeg tænker bare på om du kunne flytte artiklen Europa League til UEFA Europa League, så man kun have sammenhæng i titlerne, jf. UEFA Champions League. Er det helt ude i hampen? På forhånd tak, Askep 17. jul 2009, 06:41 (CEST)

Som ønsket er artiklen hermed blevet flyttet til UEFA Europa League. Husk fremover at fremlægge dine ønsker om ændring af artiklens/kategoriens/skabelonens m.m. navn på den pågældende diskussionsside for at undersøge om der er nogen protester imod flytningen og for at tilgodese alternative løsningsforslag :-) Medmindre du selvfølgelig er mere end 99% sikker i din sag om flytning, hvor så argumentationen for flytningen blot skal oplyses i beskrivelsen af ændringen. Der er (desværre) nogle wikipianere, der foretrækker det uofficielle kalde-/øgenavn, som anvendes i nyhedsmedierne, frem for det officielle korrekte navn givet af en arrangør/fodboldklub. I dette tilfælde er jeg grundlæggende enig med dig i, at artiklens navngivning bliver mere beskrivende med det fulde navn UEFA har givet fodboldturneringen i stedet for at anvende det temmeligt kønsløse "Europa League". Man kunne samtidig oprette en {{flertydig}} side over det ikke særlig unikke navn, der overordnet set også kan hentyde til flere ting såsom de forhenværende navne for NFL Europa (kaldet "NFL Europe League" i perioden 1996-2006) og EuroChallenge (kaldet "FIBA Europe League" i perioden 2002-2005) og sekundært til European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), European League for Economic Cooperation (ELEC), European Volleyball League (officielt blot "European League") m.v. --Froztbyte 20. jul 2009, 01:45 (CEST)

Dit indspark er ønsket ved Landsbybrønden

Mere specifikt her. --Palnatoke 9. aug 2009, 07:09 (CEST)

Smarte funktioner

Hej Froztbyte

På Wikipedia:Landsbybrønden/Infoboksproblem efterlyser du visse funktioner, der allerede findes.

Redigerknap til indledningsafsnittet kan fås via Gadgets i indstillinger, hvor den hedder "Indsætter et link til at redigér begyndelsen af en artikel" her kan du også finde wikiEd, der kan farvemarkere din wikikode. --Broadbeer 12. aug 2009, 19:47 (CEST)

Redigering af indledningsafsnittet alene viste jeg var muligt med tilføjelse af &action=edit&section=0 i sidens url selv om jeg til enhver tid har foretrukket at bruge redigér-knappen øverst på siden til ændringer af den sektion. Jeg har skam lagt mærke til at wikEd.js blev en mulighed under Gadget-oversigten på dawiki i maj 2008, men det er desværre ikke en tekst-editor, der er en standard del af MediaWiki-interfacet (hvilket var det jeg hentydede til) men en JavaScript-extension, der tilmed ikke supporteres i alle browserversioner (jeg tænker jeg på IE7 og IE8) eller med den nye toolbar i Beta-versionen fra Wikipedia Usability Initiative. --Froztbyte 13. aug 2009, 01:02 (CEST)

Indsætte koordinater i skabelon

Hej. Tak for dit indlæg ang. det med 2 sæt koordinater.

Jeg har prøvet at indsætte koordinater i din skabelon, men desværre fungerer det ikke rigtigt. Jeg er ret sikker på, jeg laver en/flere fejl. Vil du hjælpe mig ved at indsætte nedenstående koordinater i din nedenstående skabelon?

Koordinaterne er:

- Steinway & Sons' hovedkvarter i New York City: 40°46′45″N 73°53′59″WV

- Steinway & Sons' hovedkvarter i Hamborg: 53°34′27″N 9°55′31″Ø

Din skabelon:

<span id="coordinates" class="plainlinksneverexpand" style="position:absolute; z-index:1; border:none; background:none; right:30px; top:3.7em; float:right; margin:0.0em; padding:0.0em; line-height:1.5em; text-align:right; text-indent:0; font-size:85%; text-transform:none; white-space:nowrap">[[Wikipedia:Geografiske koordinater|Koordinater]]: [http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack/geohack.php?language=da&pagename={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}&params={{{1}}}{{#if:{{{2}}}{{{6}}}|_{{{2}}}{{#if:{{{3}}}{{{7}}}|_{{{3}}}}}}}_{{{4}}}_{{{5}}}{{#if:{{{2}}}{{{6}}}|_{{{6}}}{{#if:{{{3}}}{{{7}}}|_{{{7}}}}}}}_{{{8}}}_{{{9}}} {{{1}}}° {{#if:{{{2}}}{{{6}}}|{{{2}}}′ {{#if:{{{3}}}{{{7}}}|{{formatnum:{{{3}}}}}″}} }} {{{4}}}, {{{5}}}° {{#if:{{{2}}}{{{6}}}|{{{6}}}′ {{#if:{{{3}}}{{{7}}}|{{formatnum:{{{7}}}}}″}} }} {{#switch:{{{8}}}|E=Ø|W=V|?}}]</span> <span id="coordinates2" class="plainlinksneverexpand" style="position:absolute; z-index:1; border:none; background:none; right:30px; top:5.4em; float:right; margin:0.0em; padding:0.0em; line-height:1.5em; text-align:right; text-indent:0; font-size:85%; text-transform:none; white-space:nowrap">[[Wikipedia:Geografiske koordinater|Koordinater]]: [http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack/geohack.php?language=da&pagename={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}&params={{{10}}}{{#if:{{{11}}}{{{15}}}|_{{{11}}}{{#if:{{{12}}}{{{16}}}|_{{{12}}}}}}}_{{{13}}}_{{{14}}}{{#if:{{{11}}}{{{15}}}|_{{{15}}}{{#if:{{{12}}}{{{16}}}|_{{{16}}}}}}}_{{{17}}}_{{{18}}} {{{10}}}° {{#if:{{{11}}}{{{15}}}|{{{11}}}′ {{#if:{{{12}}}{{{16}}}|{{formatnum:{{{12}}}}}″}} }} {{{13}}}, {{{14}}}° {{#if:{{{11}}}{{{15}}}|{{{15}}}′ {{#if:{{{12}}}{{{16}}}|{{formatnum:{{{16}}}}}″}} }} {{#switch:{{{17}}}|E=Ø|W=V|?}}]</span>

Fanoftheworld 22. aug 2009, 17:49 (CEST)

Hej Fanoftheworld. Beklager mit lidt forsinkede svar. Wiki-koden herover skal først og fremmest placeres seperat i en skabelon eftersom koden jo kan genanvendes (blandt andet af hensyn til ensretning af layout) på ny i andre artikler/sider, hvor samme situation kunne være gældende. Det nedenstående kode-eksempel (der "blot" er en kombination af henholdsvis MediaWiki-syntaks samt XHTML / CSS opmærkninger) indsætter du (ved hjælp af en simpel copy-paste :-) i en til lejligheden nyoprettet skabelon (eksempelvis under navnet "Skabelon:Coor 2 title dms"). Hvis du eventuelt ønsker at eksperimentere lidt før oprettelsen (eller i en anden forbindelse), kan du enten benytte de eksistende test-sites "Skabelon:Sandkassen" og "Wikipedia:Sandkassen" eller benytte dig af muligheden for at oprette din egen sandkasse under dit eget navnerum (eksempelvis under navnet Bruger:Fanoftheworld/Skabelon:Sandkasse), hvor du selv er herre over indholdet og antallet/omfanget af test-forsøg :-) Koden, der skal placeres i skabelonen er følgende:

<span id="coordinates" class="plainlinksneverexpand" style="position:absolute; z-index:1; border:none; background:none; right:30px; top:3.7em; float:right; margin:0.0em; padding:0.0em; line-height:1.5em; text-align:right; text-indent:0; font-size:85%; text-transform:none; white-space:nowrap">[[Wikipedia:Geografiske koordinater|Koordinater]] for {{{1}}}: [http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack/geohack.php?language=da&pagename={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}&params={{{2}}}{{#if:{{{3}}}{{{7}}}|_{{{3}}}{{#if:{{{4}}}{{{8}}}|_{{{4}}}}}}}_{{{5}}}_{{{6}}}{{#if:{{{3}}}{{{7}}}|_{{{7}}}{{#if:{{{4}}}{{{8}}}|_{{{8}}}}}}}_{{{9}}}_{{{10}}} {{{2}}}° {{#if:{{{3}}}{{{7}}}|{{{3}}}′ {{#if:{{{4}}}{{{8}}}|{{formatnum:{{{4}}}}}″}} }} {{{5}}}, {{{6}}}° {{#if:{{{3}}}{{{7}}}|{{{7}}}′ {{#if:{{{4}}}{{{8}}}|{{formatnum:{{{8}}}}}″}} }} {{#switch:{{{9}}}|E=Ø|W=V|?}}]</span><span id="coordinates2" class="plainlinksneverexpand" style="position:absolute; z-index:1; border:none; background:none; right:30px; top:5.3em; float:right; margin:0.0em; padding:0.0em; line-height:1.5em; text-align:right; text-indent:0; font-size:85%; text-transform:none; white-space:nowrap">[[Wikipedia:Geografiske koordinater|Koordinater]] for {{{11}}}: [http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack/geohack.php?language=da&pagename={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}&params={{{12}}}{{#if:{{{13}}}{{{17}}}|_{{{13}}}{{#if:{{{14}}}{{{18}}}|_{{{14}}}}}}}_{{{15}}}_{{{16}}}{{#if:{{{13}}}{{{17}}}|_{{{17}}}{{#if:{{{14}}}{{{18}}}|_{{{18}}}}}}}_{{{19}}}_{{{20}}} {{{12}}}° {{#if:{{{13}}}{{{17}}}|{{{13}}}′ {{#if:{{{14}}}{{{18}}}|{{formatnum:{{{14}}}}}″}} }} {{{15}}}, {{{16}}}° {{#if:{{{13}}}{{{17}}}|{{{17}}}′ {{#if:{{{14}}}{{{18}}}|{{formatnum:{{{18}}}}}″}} }} {{#switch:{{{19}}}|E=Ø|W=V|?}}]</span><includeonly>[[Kategori:Geomærkede artikler]]</includeonly><noinclude>Angiver to geografiske koordinater for artiklen i formatet 1° 2′ 3,8″ N, 4° 5′ 6,9″ Ø. Find yderligere information under [[Wikipedia:Geografiske koordinater]].[[Kategori:Koordinatskabeloner|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>

For at kalde denne specielle skabelon (i dette tilfælde er Steinway & Sons-artiklen brugt som eksempel), skal nedenstående kode indsættes (helst nederst) i artiklen.

{{coor 2 title dms|Hovedkvarter i [[New York City]], [[USA]]|40|46|50.35|N|73|53|52.26|W|type:city|Hovedkvarter i [[Hamborg]], [[Tyskland]]|53|34|26.32|N|9|55|28.76|E|type:city}}

Grundlæggende er dette stykke wikikode udformet således at værdierne (adskilt af en lodret streg herover) man angiver i forbindelse med skabelonskaldet "udfylder" de angivne pladser i skabelonens kode (mere specifikt {{{...}}}). Når en artikel åbnes, vil koden blive fortolket af den bagvedliggende software, som returnerer et slutresultat (de to ikoner og links), der ender med at blive en del af den endelige artikel/webside (i HTML-format). Parameteren {{{1}}} erstattes derfor af værdien "Hovedkvarter i [[New York City]], [[USA]]" osv. osv. --Froztbyte 24. aug 2009, 04:07 (CEST)

Skabelon for 2 sæt koordinater

Hej Froztbyte.

Du skrev på nybegynderforummet, at "Jeg er dog (endnu) ikke stødt på en artikel, hvor to koordinatsæt er nødvendige, hvilket er grunden til at jeg ikke har oprettet skabelonen". Jeg har haft brug for to sæt koordinater i artiklen om Steinway & Sons, så hvis du vil, er der nu en grund til at oprette en skabelon for to sæt koordinater.

NB: PHansen har ændret en smule på skabelonen, så den skabelon, der er i Steinway-artiklen, er lidt anderledes, end den du foreslog.

Se evt. også disse to afsnit på nybegynderforummet:
Hjælp:Nybegynderforum#2 koordinater?
Hjælp:Nybegynderforum#Koordinater for punkter, som ikke er i Danmark?

Venlig hilsen Fanoftheworld 23. aug 2009, 22:03 (CEST)

Jeg har ikke oprettet skabelonen, men har givet dig den eneste vejledning, jeg mener, du behøver for at kunne oprette skabelonen selv (se mit svar til afsnittet ovenfor). Baggrunden for den manglende oprettelse er, at jeg personligt hellere så at denne type geografiske informationer blev flyttet til artiklernes individuelle infobokse som en forlængelse af parametre såsom "lokation" eller "hovedkvarter" (se eksempelvis under "Hovedstad" i artiklen "Danmark", som benytter Skabelon:Infoboks land eller i dette specifikke tilfælde "Headquarters" under den engelske version af Headquarters). At placere koordinaterne i infoboksen (indlejret) virker lidt mere præsentabelt og overskueligt ud i mine øjne, hvorimod lokationen lige over infoboksen virker unødvendig og malplaceret :-) Den begrænsede plads i øverste højre hjørne burde efter min mening (p.t. er der dog ikke nogen konsensus blandt brugere omkring områdets funktion/formål) være forbeholdt funktionalitet tilknyttet redigering/visning/læsning af artiklen (såsom "redigér begyndelse") eller informationer om en artikels status såsom når en særlig udsat artikel over længere tid er fuldt eller semi-beskyttet (illustreret med et hængelås-ikon på enwiki), om en artikel har fået en udmærkelse (illustreret med et stjerne-ikon) eller om der eksisterer en indtalt version af artiklen (illustreret med et lyd-ikon). Endvidere kommer koordinaternes placering (på nuværende tidspunkt) i konflikt med [redigér begyndelse]-knappen, såfremt man som bruger har aktiveret visning af knappen til at redigére begyndelsen af en artikel (se øverst under "Mine indstillinger > "Gadgets" > "Navigering og redigering"). Skulle der dukke endnu et ligeværdigt hovedkvarter op for Steinway & Sons, begynder der pludseligt at blive ret "crowded" deroppe :-)

Det ville være belejligt at rette Skabelon:Infoboks virksomhed til således at det bliver muligt at indkludere et koordinat uden at skulle kende til hele den korrekte opsætning af den eksterne henvisning eller andre skabeloner (sådan som det også kendes fra Skabelon:Infoboks land), men indtil videre har jeg besluttet at flytte koordinaterne ind under infoboksen i Steinway & Sons-artiklen med anvendelse af Skabelon:coor dms, da denne fremgangsmåde også giver mulighed for at indkludere op til flere koordinater og placere disse koordinater andre steder sådan som man selv ønsker det i forhold til den omkringliggende tekst. Jeg håber du stiller dig tilfreds med dette :-) --Froztbyte 24. aug 2009, 04:07 (CEST)

Er tilfreds :) Fanoftheworld 24. aug 2009, 16:32 (CEST)

Jeg har prøvet nogle gange at klikke på koordinaterne. Jeg kan ikke komme ind på siden med links til kort. Måske virker koordinat-skabelonen ikke, eller også er det måske bare midlertidigt siden er nede. Fanoftheworld 24. aug 2009, 17:50 (CEST)

Skabelonen på dawiki fejler skam ingenting. Jeg oplevede selv problemer med at benytte GeoHack-skabelonen (tilknyttet Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Kom til kort) på Wikimedia Toolserver her i eftermiddags, men det ser p.t. ud til at toolserver.org eller mere mere specifikt stable-serveren (hvor GeoHack-projektet er lokaliseret) skulle være delvist oppe i omdrejninger igen. --Froztbyte 24. aug 2009, 22:39 (CEST)

Det fungerer også for mig nu. Helt fint.

Jeg kan se, at koordinaterne er angivet på engelsk, altså med W i stedet for V og E i stedet for Ø, og med punktum i stedet for komma – fx 50.35 i stedet for 50,35. Kan dette ikke ændres, så det bliver mere dansk? Fanoftheworld 24. aug 2009, 23:52 (CEST)

Jo da, en tilnærmning mod det danske sprog kan skam godt indføres. Denne udvidelse af coor dms-skabelonen bevirker, at skabelonen nu — foruden dens oprindelige fortolkning af input-koordinaterne, som bibeholdes — også gives muligheden for at fortolke de danske geografiske forkortelser "Ø"/"ø" (oversættes til "E" i det endelige link) samt "V"/"v" (oversættes til "W" i det endelige link), der måtte forekomme samt anvendelsen af danske kommatal/decimalbrøkker udover de engelske talformat. Lidt til min overraskelse fandt jeg i denne forbindelse ud af at {{formatnum: }} og {{formatnum: |R}} (læs mere herom på Help:Magic_words#Formatting og Help:Extension:ParserFunctions på www.mediawiki.org) ikke giver det samme resultat på henholdsvis dawiki og enwiki (eller for den sags skyld andre sprog), så din forespørgsel har sjovt nok været lidt lærerig for mig :-) --Froztbyte 25. aug 2009, 03:17 (CEST)

Hej. Jeg har selv prøvet at ændre det ret mange gange, så det bliver mere dansk, men desværre kan jeg simpelthen ikke finde ud af det. Jeg vil derfor gerne spørge pænt, om jeg kan lokke dig til at gøre det. Det vil være en stor hjælp. Fanoftheworld 25. aug 2009, 21:43 (CEST)

Som jeg nævner ovenfor, er dette blevet ordnet for Skabelon:Coor dms, således at det er muligt at enten at fortsætte med at benytte de engelske geografiske betegnelser: 40°46′50.35″N 73°53′52.26″V og 53°34′26.32″N 9°55′28.76″Ø eller de begynde at benytte de danske geografiske betegnelser
og
. Slutresultatet (konstruktionen af hyperlinket, som jeg ikke har adgang til at ændre formattet på) bliver det samme. --Froztbyte 26. aug 2009, 03:39 (CEST)

Helt fint. Takker. Fanoftheworld 26. aug 2009, 18:27 (CEST)

Bandlysningsafstemning

Hej Froztbyte.

Du er listet som aktiv administrator, og jeg henviser derfor til [3].

Med venlig hilsen, --Hockeyindustrien 3. okt 2009, 22:35 (CEST)

Sletning vs. omdirrigering

Hejsa. Jeg kan se, at du her til morgen lynhurtigt har ændret to af mine sletningsforslag til omdirigeringer. Jeg må indrømme, at jeg ikke selv nåede at tænke dén tanke - takker! Spørgsmålet lyder såmænd blot, om du har erfaring for, at omdirigeringer virkelig nedsætter genoprettelses-/hærværksfrekvensen? Der bliver jo pænt gjort opmærksom på, at man er ved at oprette en tidligere slettet side, når man prøver... Godmorgen fra Medic (Lindblad) 20. dec 2009, 09:05 (CET)

Jeg vil ikke ligefrem påstå, at det på nogen mærkbar måde forhindrer hærværk. Men det er bestemt mit indtryk, at sandsynligheden for (gen)oprettelse af artikler om det eksakt samme emne reduceres betydeligt, såfremt der løbende bliver sørges for oprettelsen af et passende antal omdirigeringer ud for alternativer titler, forkortelser, mest almindeligt forekomne stave- og typografiske fejl, titler med blokbogstaver m.v., der i alle tilfælde sender bidragsyderen/læseren til den korrekte artikel frem for de to beskeder, der (fejlagtigt) informerer om at det pågældende emne endnu ikke eksisterer ("MediaWiki:Noarticletext" og "MediaWiki:Newarticletext"). Nybegyndere tager den type systemmeddelelser at face value, når de ikke bekendt med systemet og manøvre såsom at bruge søge-funktionen, lede igennem kategorierne eller google sig frem til en af-/bekræftelse af artiklens eksistens.

Foruden at tiden på at sammenskrive to eller flere artikler om det eksakt samme emne i stedet for kan blive anvendt på noget langt mere fornuftigt (eksempelvis med at bidrage med nyt indhold :-)), tager en omdirigering også hensyn til den irritation, man unægteligt mødes af, når man finder ud af ens arbejde de seneste par timer har været til ingen verdens nytte, når man opdager at der allerede er forfattet en (bedre) artikel om det samme emne. Selv om du og jeg måske snarere ser systembeskeden som ren informativ, er det mit indtryk, at en forholdsvis stor del af novicerne får en hel anden opfattelse af systembeskeden "MediaWiki:Recreate-moveddeleted-warn" og den underliggende sletningslog — i særdeleshed hvis loggens korte formuleringer ikke giver en fyldestgørende forklaring — og enten undlader eller ligefrem skræmmes fra at bidrage med en ny artikel. Hvor det nu virker fornuftigt (hvilket det gjorde i de to tilfælde, du nævner), foretrækker jeg derfor en omdirigering over en sletning. — Froztbyte 20. dec 2009, 11:02 (CET)

Takker. Jeg må indrømme, at der virker til at være en rimelig bæredygtig logik bag argumenterne, med en vinkel jeg ikke tidligere har overvejet. I stand educated :-) --Medic (Lindblad) 20. dec 2009, 18:00 (CET)

Her er lige et par højaktuelle eksempler i forbindelse med mine udvidelser af BogForum-artiklen, hvor jeg i teksten henviser til artiklerne for H.O. Lange-Prisen^{(p.t. rødt link)} og Skriverprisen^{(p.t. rødt link)}, som på nuværende tidspunkt figurerer under de "forkerte" navne H.O. Lange-prisen (lille p) og Skriver-prisen (med bindestreg). Der skal ikke megen fantasi fra min side af til at forestille mig, hvordan uerfarne brugere kunne blive inspireret til at starte en hel ny artikel om et emne, der allerede er skrevet om andetsteds :-) I min første tid på den danske Wikipedia, benyttede jeg mig også selv meget sjældent af den indlejrede søgefunktion i MediaWiki:Newarticletext-systembeskeden. Samtidig skal du bide mærke i, at en sletning skal tages temmelig bogstaveligt og ikke nødvendigvis opfattes som "midlertidig". — Froztbyte 21. dec 2009, 06:11 (CET)

Udkommenteret

Hej Froztbyte. Jeg har udkommenteret redigér-linket i ADM/A-skabelonen, da det virkelig var irriterende at kigge på indholdsfortegnelsen med et "[rediger]" foran brugernavnet. Kan du mon rette det? --Masz 20. dec 2009, 15:08 (CET)

Kan se du er i gang med at rette. Mange tak :-) --Masz 21. dec 2009, 14:15 (CET)

Jeg beklager, men den indholdsfortegnelse forbigik min systemtests helt og aldeles - TOC'en auto-genereres jo først på sider, hvor der optræder fire eller flere afsnit/HTML-header tags i teksten :-/ Lidt til min skuffelse bliver rækkefølgen af taggene i skabelonerne nu ikke længere identiske (eller nær så elegante) med den bagvedliggende kildekode på de enkelte sider, men det må jeg vel leve med :-) Der er til gengæld ikke så meget hokus pokus over rettelserne i de fire skabeloner (Skabelon:Anmodning om administratorstatus, Skabelon:Gendannelsesforslag, Skabelon:Sletteforslag og Skabelon:Administratorassistance), der benytter samme wiki-opsætning til afsnittets overskrift og redigeringslinket. Min work-around lader til at have løst problemet med indholdsfortegnelsen og forhåbentligvis dukker der ikke flere uregelmæssigheder op :-) — Froztbyte 21. dec 2009, 15:40 (CET)

Hmmm ... den korrekte skrifttype (for tilsvarende redigeringslinks) er nu indført og en unødvendig vandret scrollbar er blevet fjernet. Efterfølgende tests i henholdsvis Mozilla Firefox version 3.5.6, Windows Internet Explorer version 8.0.76, Google Chrome version 3.0.195.38, Opera version 10.10 samt Safari version 4.0.3 viser — af hvad jeg kan få øje på — ikke flere utilsigtede "fejl" som et resultat af mine seneste par rettelser i skabelonerne. — Froztbyte 30. dec 2009, 22:29 (CET)

Historik for brugerdiskussion

I den nedenstående diskussion er det tydeligt, at både Masz og Froztbyte ønsker at flytte fokusset til modificeringen af mit indlæg. Muligvis skyldes dette, at diskussionens tema er en ubekvem sandhed i forhold til deres administratorrolle. - Mvh. KNX 3. jan 2010, 18:05 (CET)

Kære Froztbyte. Jeg finder det noget uretfærdigt, at du - imod mit ønske og uden mit samtykke - har gendannet og samlet min brugerdiskussions historik, når JP-diskussionens historik uden videre kan forblive slettet permanent, fordi nogle admins åbenbart ikke kan stå ved deres redigeringsbeskrivelser. Og derfor har jeg på samme måde retten til ikke at kunne stå ved mine redigeringsbeskrivelser. - Mvh. KNX 31. dec 2009, 10:31 (CET)

Bemærk, at overstående indlæg blev modificeret af KNX den 2. januar 2010. For at de ændringerne, tryk her (Skrev Masz (diskussion • bidrag) . Husk at signere dine indlæg.)

Gentager lige pointen: Når du har gendannet min brugerdiskussions historik, så bør du i princippet også gendanne JP-diskussionens historik. - Mvh. KNX 2. jan 2010, 18:38 (CET)

Jeg ville her til morges have givet dig et svar på dit oprindelige indlæg, men kan se at du ikke er helt færdig med at tilføje og omformulere det. — Froztbyte 3. jan 2010, 09:16 (CET)

I forhåbning om et velbegrundet svar stiller jeg for tredje gang mit ubesvarede spørgsmål: Hvad er selve argumentet eller bevæggrunden for, at min brugerdiskussions historik skal gendannes, når JP-diskussionens historik åbenbart ikke skal gendannes? - Mvh. KNX 3. jan 2010, 18:05 (CET)

Jeg må lige bryde ind. Skån mig (og jeg går også ud fra at Froztbyte er af samme holdning) venligst for dine gule bokse. Du ved godt du ikke må rette diskussioner efter de blev læst, eller der er gået lang tid. Du har ikke fattet at du kunne have streget den, så jeg indsatte bare en lille bemærk. Det må du da tage. Hav et fortsat godt nytår. --Masz 3. jan 2010, 18:22 (CET)

I beskrivelsen ved denne redigering (manuelt kopiering af arkivet til diskussionssiden), ved denne redigering (Brugerdiskussion:Konnex/Arkiv 2 erstattes af {{hurtigslet}} og bemærkningen "OBS: Arkivet er flyttet til brugerdiskussionen forud for ændring af brugernavn."), ved Brugerdiskussion:Konnex/Arkiv 1, ved Brugerdiskussion:Konnex/Arkivering af velkomst og ved Brugerdiskussion:Konnex/Arkiv informerer du omverdenen at arkivet flyttes tilbage til diskussionssiden. Du anmoder om at få slettet dine undersider (hvilket en administrator reagerer på kort tid efter) og fjerner ligeledes henvisningerne til dine undersider. Havde det ikke været for din anmodning om ændring af brugernavn, ville det store hul i versionshistorikken være gået ubemærket hen i en rum tid endnu. Jeg ved fra tidligere ændringer af brugernavne, at slettede undersider ikke automatisk følger med under et nyt brugernavn og med det i mente ville den manglende versionshistorik slet ikke optræde under dit nye brugernavn.

Jeg forstår ikke beskyldningen om jeg har behandlet dig uretfærdigt i forsøget på at holde versionshistorikken for din diskussionsside samlet. Jeg mener nu snarere, jeg har gjort dig en kæmpe tjeneste, da din versionshistorik ikke længere optræder hullet. Den indeholder heller ikke versioner, som ikke allerede burde være til stede i historikken. Dine manøvre tolkede jeg som endnu et forsøg på historikforfalskning og på at skjule det, og det kræver ikke noget samtykke fra dig at tilbagerulle den slags ændringer - og i særdeleshed når du herover (lidt til min overraskelse) selv blankt erkender at en sletning af dele af din brugerdiskussion var det egentlige formål. At det lykkedes dig at "overbevise" en administrator til at slette 100+ bidrag fra versionshistorikken uden kontrollere historikken er beklageligt, men ikke noget som ikke kunne tilbagerulles, hvilket jeg netop gjorde. The bottom line: du skal ikke lave fundamentale rettelser/omformuleringer af tidligere diskussionsindlæg, og manipulation af den tilknyttede versionshistorik er ingen undtagelse. Jeg kan personligt tolerere, at du overstreger store sektioner, retter enkelte typografiske fejl/misforståelser, korrigerer afsnitsoverskrifter samt indsætter afsnitsindrykning i dine egne tidligere diskussionsindlæg - uden at den grundlæggende mening går tabt, men at omformulere et indlæg, så det stiller dig (og dine andre personligheder) i et bedre lys, er at gå over grænsen.

Rent principielt er jeg uenig i sletningen af Bruger:John Peters' og andre diskussionsider og jeg har på intet tidspunkt givet udtryk for det modsatte. Din egen diskussionsside og den bandlyste brugers diskussionsside kan du ikke sammenligne så overfladigt og firkantet, da situationen ikke er den samme. Bruger:John Peterss diskussionsside indeholder en række personlige oplysninger og krænkende personangreb, som det ikke har været muligt at fjerne sådan uden videre. Den bagvedliggende wiki-teknologi tillader ikke at vi bare hiver et bestemt indlæg (med personangrebet) ud af versionshistorikken, eftersom dette indlæg automatisk følger med i alle efterfølgende versioner af siden, indtil indlægget fjernes manuelt. En af baggrundene for bandlysningen var netop grundet de fortsatte paranoide personangreb, men modsat dig, insisterede brugeren ikke på historikforfalskning.

At du på det seneste er gået ind i en ny fase og har måttet ty til en uciviliseret opførsel ved indsættelse af store gule "info-bokse" (såsom i starten af denne diskussion, der ikke optræder i kronologisk rækkefølge i forhold til hvordan diskussionen har udartet sig) grænser sig til et personangreb på deltagerne i diskussionen (og mildest sagt blokeringsgrund) og giver dine synspunkter en uberettiget fremtrædende position i diskussionen. Derfor har jeg oprettet en anmodning Wikipedia:Anmodning om administratorassistance/Fremtrædende infobokse på diskussionssider for at få en anden administrator (du skulle jo nødig beskylde mig for inhabilitet) til at tage stilling til dine eskalerende visuelle tiltag på diskussionssider.

Jeg kan også se, at du ingen moralske skrupler har ved åbenlyst at forfalske en anden brugers signatur. En bruger forbeholder retten til ikke at vedlægge en signatur på sit indlæg og er ej heller forpligtet til at vedlægge en dato ud for sit bidrag. Signaturer anbefales for overblikkets skyld, men det er ilde set ved at bevidst at signere med en anden brugers specielle tilpasning af egen underskrift og få det til at se ud som om brugeren oprindeligt rent faktisk signerede sit diskussionsindlæg. Man kan gøre brugeren opmærksom på dette ved i stedet at benytte skabelonen {{usigneret}}, eksempelvis {{usigneret|brugernavn|tidspunkt}}. — Froztbyte 4. jan 2010, 00:40 (CET)

Selvom jeg er uenig i en række punkter, vil jeg alligevel gerne takke for den lange og fyldestgørende besvarelse. - Mvh. KNX 5. apr 2010, 17:43 (CEST)

Fyens Stiftstidende-logo

Hej Froztbyte. Kan jeg lokke dig til at lave en ny version af [Fil:Fyens Stiftstidende wordmark.svg|logoet], hvor stregen ikke indgår, men hvor 'Fyens' er skrevet med samme orange farve? Det er nemlig avisens nye logo. --Brandsen 3. apr 2010, 23:41 (CEST)

Ved disse typer af forespørgsler om vektoriseringer må der meget gerne vedlægges en skabelon, som der kan tages udgangspunkt i, så jeg ikke selv skal bruge tid på at lokalisere firmaets logo samt få avisens nye "designlinje" bekræftet. Hjemmesiden www.fyens.dk og andre skilter nemlig ikke ligefrem med det nye logo og jeg sidder ikke inde med avisen selv. I din beskrivelse undlader du desuden at nævne, at mellemrummet imellem "Fyens" og "Stiftstidende" er forsvundet, hvilket er tilfældet i de kilder, jeg har kunnet finde. Logoet i SVG-format (Fil:Fyens Stiftstidende 2010 wordmark.svg) er nu blevet lagt op på Commons og udskiftet i artiklen. — Froztbyte 7. apr 2010, 08:22 (CEST)

Det beklager jeg - det gik nok lidt stærkt der... Ikke desto mindre skal du have mange tak for hjælpen :-) --Brandsen 10. apr 2010, 22:40 (CEST)

Assistance til MediaWiki:Common.js mv

Har du mod på at prøve at reparere MediaWiki:Common.js OG samtidig (ellers virker det næppe) {{Collapsible list}}

Jeg har for nogen tid siden forsøgt at finde ud af hvordan problemet kunne løses, og har beskrevet det her: Wikipedia:Landsbybrønden/Bruger:Operators operaprojekt

Som du kan se laver Bruger Operator stadigt flere skabeloner (Kategori:Operaskabeloner efter komponist) hvor alle der kun har én {{Collapsible list}} lider af det samme: de åbner med "skjul" og ikke "vis" som de engelske gør (fx: en:Template:Gluck operas fra en:Category:Operas by composer templates)

Det var rart hvis de danske kunne komme til at virke på samme måde.

Selv om forklaringen er lang, er løsningen formentlig enkel og hurtig at udføre. Grunden til at jeg tror det kan komme til at virke, er den prøve jeg udførte i eget rum. Når du trykker på denne sandkasseprøve vil du næppe se den rigtigt. men det gør jeg fordi jeg har ændret min Bruger:PHansen/monobook.js OG koden til Collapsible list her Bruger:PHansen/Collapsible list. Da det skal gøres samtidigt, er det nødvendigt med hjælp fra en admnistrator.

Jeg håber du har mod på at forsøge. -- Mvh PHansen 25. jun 2010, 18:32 (CEST)

Jeg skal prøve og se, hvad jeg kan gøre ved problemet :) — Froztbyte 25. jun 2010, 20:10 (CEST)

En fjernelse af CSS display egenskaben ("display:none") fra div-tagget med klassen NavContent løser på meget simpel vis problematikken med den forkerte ordlyd på vis/skjul-knappen ved enkeltstående lister. Denne rettelse bevirker dog, at enlige lister optræder som udvidet til start, hvorimod flere samtidige lister (indenfor samme side) resulterer i aktivering af den skjulte tilstand og at en bestemt tilstand til start derfor ikke kan bestemmes. Jeg er ikke afvisende overfor din løsning på problemet (særlig vedrørende muligheden for skjult tilstand fra start), men jeg har hæftet mig ved at brugen af NavFrame siden september 2007 frarådes hele steder på både enwiki (hvor den danske side har sin oprindelse) og meta-wiki. Der bør ikke bruge en masse kræfter på yderligere fejlretning i den — i mine øjne — forældede brug af JavaScript/CSS-kode. Collapsible tables, der anbefales som erstatning, har en mere simpliceret JavaScript-del samt brug af stylesheet og svarer overordnet til hvad man også opnår med NavFrame — og fungerer allerede ubeklageligt på dawiki. Skabelon:Collapsible list har derfor fået udskiftet NavFrame med en Collapsible tables-opsætning (med lidt tilretning i {{Komponist navboks}}) og det uden at skulle foretage nogen ændringer til denne wikis MediaWiki:Common.js og MediaWiki:Common.css eller for den sags skyld det nyere Vector-skin. Den komplette overgang fra NavFrame til Collapsible tables trak lidt ud grundet en manglende newline/ny linie(!), der ødelagte boksens layout ved anvendelse af punktlister. — Froztbyte 22. jul 2010, 04:34 (CEST)

Jeg takker for den fine indsats. Nu kan {{Collapsible list}} bruges uden forvirringen med vis/skjul, og Operators projekt er nu uden denne lille mislyd.

Det resterende problem er nu formodentlig isoleret til Navframe, hvor der på den engelske side ganske vist står:

The use of NavFrame for tables has been deprecated in favor of collapsible tables since September 2007.

Men sidste del lyder:

NavFrame is still useful for non-table content.

Og det er vel grunden til at de dér har syntes at den dog burde virke.

Du kan se her at der stadig er et hængeparti på dansk Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Wikipediajournalen/Arkiv/juli 2010/Nyhedsbrev
Den siger "Skjul", hvor den burde sige "Vis"

Jeg har lavet to tests i den engelske sandkasse der viser at Bruger:Masz' kode virker fint dér:

Test i engelsk sandkasse af 1)

<div class="NavFrame" ...

1) (Test of [show] / [hide] - 2010-07-22 -- <div class="NavFrame" ..)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&oldid=374818760

Test i engelsk sandkasse af 2)

<div class="NavFrame collapsed" ...

2) (Test of [show] / [hide] - 2010-07-22 -- <div class="NavFrame collapsed" ..)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&oldid=374819252

Både <div class="NavFrame"...> og <div class="NavFrame collapsed" ...> giver i den engelske samme korrekte resultat med hensyn til vis/skjul - [show] / [hide] -

Så vidt jeg kan se, burde det kunne løses også på dansk Wikipedia ved korrektion af (her monobook.js) omkring dette sted under "// adds show/hide-button to navigation bars"

"... the new recommended way is to add the class "collapsed" to the NavFrame itself, just like with collapsible tables.

Hvis man scroller ned til punktet i den danske MediaWiki:Monobook.js, vil man se at det netop mangler. Det var det jeg havde med i min test i "eget rum" - hentet fra http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.js&oldid=355763676.

Mon ikke Bruger:Masz' nyhedsbrev kunne gøres lige så lydefri som nu {{Collapsible list}} ?

Jeg vil slutte med igen at takke for det fine og grundige optrævlingsarbejde.

-- Mvh PHansen 22. jul 2010, 11:32 (CEST)

Københavns Hovedbibliotek

Hej Frotzbyte. I afsnittet Bibliotekets historie' i artiklen Københavns Hovedbibliotek har du indsat nogle afsnit, der ser ud til at være kopieret direkte fra denne folder. Er det korrekt, og har du I givet fald fået tilladelse til det? Eller er det omvendt folderens forfatter, der har kopieret fra Wikipedia? --C960657 1. dec 2010, 23:17 (CET)

Mine bidrag til artiklen daterer sig til perioden 6. - 23. august 2007, mens brochuren er udgivet/trykt i juni 2010 (dvs. hele tre år efter). Hvad synes du selv lyder mest sandsynligt? Jeg kan godt afsløre en vis skuffelse hos mig over, at "juul & hansen arkitekter as/Bascon og JPE rådgivning" ikke har valgt at nævne Wikipedia som "medforfatter" eller væsentlig bidragsyder til det pågældende afsnit. — Froztbyte 5. dec 2010, 22:33 (CET)

Oh, jeg havde ikke lagt mærke til dateringen af hhv. dine ændringer og brochuren. Tak for svar. --C960657 7. dec 2010, 00:20 (CET)

Jydsk Boldspil-Union

Hej Frotzbyte

Den lokalunion FC Sydvest 05 og moderklubberne tilhører hedder stadig officielt Jydsk Boldspil-Union (JBU). DBU Jylland er kun et binavn jvf. Love for Jydsk Boldspil-Union. At de så bruger begge navne og forkortelsen indimellem på den officielle hjemmeside er så en anden side af sagen. Men tilsvarende gælder i øvrigt også for de andre lokalunioner.

Noget helt andet er i øvrigt at du nok alvorligt bør overveje at oprette en arkivside eller to til din brugerdiskussionsside. Den er efterhånden blevet temmelig lang. --Dannebrog Spy 5. dec 2010, 23:22 (CET)

Det kan godt være, at jeg har været lidt for tidlig ude hvad angår det officielle navneskifte, som først "officielt" finder sted den 1. februar 2011. Til den tid har jeg dog også en forventning om, at den nye fælles identitet vil medføre nogle ændringer til vedtægterne (sidst ajourført i januar 2010). Det fremtidige navn benyttes imidlertidig i et sådant omfang på deres hjemmeside (bl.a. omdirigeres besøgende fra www.jbu.dbu.dk til www.dbujylland.dk) og udsendte materiale, at man foranlediges til at tro, det jyske lokalforbund allerede havde skiftet navn samt logo. Jeg har nu foretaget de nødvendige rettelser fra "DBU Jylland" til "Jydsk Boldspil-Union" de relevante steder i henholdsvis artiklen og den nyoprettede kategori.

Jeg føler personligt ikke et kæmpe behov for at arkivere min brugerdiskussionsside endnu. — Froztbyte 11. dec 2010, 05:33 (CET)

Et fornuftigt spørgsmål om formateringskoder

Kære Froztbyte. Jeg ønsker af forskellige grunde at få overstreget visse tidligere debatindlæg - og gerne med en overstregning af dobbelt tykkelse. Jeg har desværre ikke kunne finde den korrekte formateringskode, selvom jeg i sandhed har søgt på mange hjemmesider. Derfor vil jeg gerne stille dig følgende fornuftige spørgsmål: Da denne formateringskode <span style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"></span> viser en given tekst med tyk understregning, så burde der også findes en tilsvarende kode til tyk overstregning af en tekst. Kender du i givet fald en sådan kode?

Med venlig hilsen Rosenquist 7. jan 2011, 16:42 (CET)

Hvorfor finder du den eneste humane overstregningstykkelse (såsom "eksempel") så utilstrækkelig? — Froztbyte 7. jan 2011, 22:49 (CET)

Såfremt jeg ikke kan få oplyst den pågældende formateringskode og derpå få overstreget visse tidligere debatindlæg, så vil jeg have varig ufred i min samvittighed. Jeg vil derfor gerne tildele dig en nydelig barnstar, hvis jeg altså kan få oplyst den ønskede kode til tyk overstregning af en tekst.

Med håb om forståelse og med venlig hilsen Rosenquist 8. jan 2011, 09:28 (CET)

På hvilken måde vil en afvigende formateringskode til overstregninger af diskussionsindlæg være løsningen for dig?

Min deltagelse baserer sig ikke på en forventning om, at der ligger en såkaldt kontant belønning og venter for mine bidrag. — Froztbyte 8. jan 2011, 21:18 (CET)

Det er i orden, hvis du ikke ønsker at modtage en belønning for opgaven. Jeg vil bare gerne have annulleret visse udtalelser - og af den grund få oplyst den ønskede formateringskode, da dansk Wikipedia ikke har retningslinjer for formen af overstregninger. Der er således mulighed for at anvende andre typer overstregninger som erstatning for sletning eller fortrydelse af eventuelle uheldige og ureflekterede indlæg i diskussioner. Jeg ønsker nemlig kort og godt at fremstå som en intelligent og fornuftig bruger.

Med venlig hilsen Rosenquist 10. jan 2011, 00:37 (CET)

At der ikke eksisterer en specifik nedskreven retningslinje på det pågældende område er mere en indikation på at ingen bidragsydere tidligere har bevæget sig så langt derud, at udarbejdelsen af nye politikker/normer har været nødvendig, snarere end at manglende retningslinjer indenfor området per automatik giver folk ret til at gøre ting, som det selv passer én. Er der blevet sikret opbakning til den ønskede udformning blandt en bredere kreds af brugere? — Froztbyte 15. jan 2011, 01:04 (CET)

Wikimedia Danmark

Kære Froztbyte.

Vi er mange, som sætter pris på dine bidrag til den dansksprogede Wikipedia. Men som bekendt kan projektet altid bruge flere kræfter til at udvikle encyklopædien og gøre den endnu bedre. Wikimedia Danmark arbejder bl.a. med at udbrede kendskabet til og forståelsen af Wikipedia - og de øvrige søsterprojekter. Dette sker bl.a. ved at deltage i lokale, regionale og nationale arrangementer, samt gennem erfaringsudveksling fra Wikimedia-foreningerne i hele verden.

Som bekendt vil en forening stå stærkere, hvis den er bredt repræsenteret blandt sine interessenter. Derfor håber jeg rigtig meget, at du har lyst til at støtte dette arbejde gennem at melde dig ind. Naturligvis bestemmer du selv, hvor meget arbejde du ønsker at lægge i foreningen. Foreningen skal bruge såvel passive støttemedlemmer som aktive fodfolk.

Hvis du har nogen som helst spørgsmål, er du naturligvis hjertelig velkommen til at kontakte enten mig eller skrive direkte til foreningen.

Med mange venlige søndagshilsener |EPO| ^COM: 13. feb 2011, 13:14 (CET)

Den arbejdende Wikipedianer-Barnstar

Hej Froztbyte - Jeg har givet dig Den arbejdende Wikipedianer-Barnstar nederst på din brugerside. Jeg synes det er bedre dér end på brugerdiskussionssiden. Du kan evt. læse om Wikipedia Barnstars her og her. --Glenn 9. okt 2011, 13:39 (CEST)

		Den arbejdende Wikipedianer-Barnstar
		Du fortjener dette for de mange bidrag til Wikipedia generelt. Glenn 9. okt 2011, 13:38 (CEST)

Takker :-) Altid rart med lidt påskønnelse for det man går og laver. Jeg har dog tilladt mig, at flytte din barnstar fra min brugerside til min brugerdiskussionsside, da jeg mener denne type kommentarer/ros som udgangspunkt hører til på denne side samt at det skal være brugerens eget valg hvad og hvordan han/hun udformer sin egen brugerside ;-) Jeg går og pønser med nogle andre designplaner for min brugerside. — Froztbyte 9. okt 2011, 23:14 (CEST)

QRpedia

I have received a request from Andy Mabbett concerning a multi-lingual project QRpedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Robertgreer/Archive_2011#QRpedia

I explained to him that most Nordic editors of Wikipedia have very good English skills such that the project does not need to be translated, but it does need to be publicized outside English Wikipedia.

Could you be so good as to do so? — Robertgreer 29. nov 2011, 16:14 (CET)

A translation of en:QRpedia (from the English Wikipedia) to Danish is currently not a priority for me, as I need to keep my focus on the other articles, I am writing right now. But I will put it on my TODO-list for the future. — Froztbyte 29. dec 2011, 06:55 (CET)

Flag-map

Hej, jeg skrev til dig at spørge. Du har oprettet SVG-flag kort over Montenegro, jeg kan godt lide SVG-flag map. Men problemet er, at jeg ikke kender SVG-grafik. Det er derfor, jeg spurgte dig, kan du oprette SVG-flag kort over Vojvodina og Gagauzia? Дмитрий-5-Аверин 7. dec 2011, 14:03 (CET)

Fil:Flag of Montenegro.svg blev rentegnet i vektor grafik (som SVG baserer sig på) på baggrund af nogle store og meget detaljerede skabeloner (i bitmap grafik). Mig bekendt eksisterer der allerede ret pæne SVG-versioner af File:Flag of Vojvodina.svg og File:Flag of Gagauzia.svg på Commons, men indeholder disse nogen fejl eller mangler, må du udpege dem for mig. Hvis du derimod mener, at du ønsker SVG-kort over Vojvodina og Gagauzia, så udpeg nogle skabeloner af høj kvalitet, som jeg kan benytte til vektoriseringsprocessen. — Froztbyte 29. dec 2011, 06:47 (CET)

Bydelsreform i København

Hej Froztbyte, Jeg kan se du har uploadet et fint kort med bydele i København (tilbage i 2008), desværre er det nu forældet Fil:Districts of Copenhagen municipality.svg Hvordan er det lavet? og har du mulighed for at uploade et opdateret kort? Jeg har netop været i gang med at rette bydelskategorierne. --Patchfinder 9. jan 2012, 00:40 (CET)

Jo, bydelskortet trænger til en opdatering :) Som nævnt under beskrivelsen af Fil:Districts of Copenhagen municipality.svg er kortet baseret på Københavns Kommunes og omegnskommunerne daværende optegnelser af bydelsinddelingerne tilsat en masse andre referencer og et opdateret detaljeret kort over København og omegn. Københavns Kommune har allerede temmelig detajlerede kort og optegnelser på www.kk.dk (her og her sammen med Google Maps), så det handler blot om minitiøst at gennemgå alle bydelsgrænserne igennem, gade for gade, og reproducere dem på et kort i vektor grafik. Kortet fik jeg vektoriseret ved brug af Adobe Illustrator. Jeg skal se om jeg ikke kan få klemt opgaven ind i min kalender i en af de kommende dage (det bliver formentlig først i weekenden). — Froztbyte 10. jan 2012, 01:28 (CET)

Det vil være meget fornemt, så vil jeg tilgengæld give artiklerne et eftersyn, nu hvor der er styr på kategorierne. Det bliver først engang i næste uge. --Patchfinder 10. jan 2012, 12:38 (CET)

Det tog lidt længere tid end jeg oprindeligt havde kalkuleret med, men illustrationen med bydelsgrænserne gældende fra 1. januar 2007 (ifølge Københavns Kommunes egen webside om distriktsinddelingerne) er netop blevet lagt op under navnet Fil:Districts of Copenhagen municipality 2007.svg. Bydelsgrænserne er gengivet efter bedste evne, og jeg skal ikke anvise at der er en enkel afvigelse eller to fra de officielle grænser, men som sagt drejer det sig blot om en simpel illustration og ikke et såkaldt juridisk bindende dokument. Nu skal jeg se om ikke den forrige illustration kan få tilføjet den korrekte periode "2002-2006" i sit filnavn på Commons. — Froztbyte 17. jan 2012, 04:25 (CET)

Det ser rigtig godt ud, jeg har netop tjekket det nye kort. Det er, som du siger, en simpel illustration, der har til formål at skabe et overblik, hvilket den klarer glimrende. --Patchfinder 17. jan 2012, 16:03 (CET)

Et projekt?

Hej! Kast et blik på Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Fodbold - jeg tror projektet kan have gavn af dig. :-) --Palnatoke (diskussion) 8. apr 2012, 09:24 (CEST)

FC Sydvest

Hej Froztbyte. Jeg kan se, at du var hovedansvarlig for at skabe en flot artikel om FC Sydvest 05. Problemet er, at artiklen ikke rigtig er opdateret; jeg har gjort en smule i starten i forbindelse med, at den blev udvalgt til Portal:Sport/Månedens artikel, men der er i den grad brug for en systematisk gennemgang. Jeg ved ikke, om du har en speciel interesse i klubben; så kunne du måske have lyst til at lave den opdatering. Hvis ikke, så må vi bare vente på, at en eller anden har lyst (jeg har ikke specielt lyst selv). Det er bare ærgerligt, at en LA nu står med {{forældet}}. Mvh. Arne (Amjaabc) (diskussion) 4. jul 2012, 22:45 (CEST)

Artiklen er nu sat på min (efterhånden lange) "to do" liste på dawiki ... Jeg vil prøve at afsætte lidt tid til en gennemgang af artiklens indhold engang efter det sønderjyske hold har været forbi det nordsjællandske område.

Der er ikke noget galt i, at der opsættes en {{forældet}}-skabelon på den pågældende artikel omhandlende en aktiv fodboldklub, men det ville pynte lidt med minimum en uddybning på artiklens diskussionsside, så andre uforstående bidragsydere inklusiv læsere har noget mere håndgribeligt at forholde sig til. En artikel for en aktiv klub vil (selvfølgelig afhængig af indholdets opbygning og formuleringerne) i princippet altid forblive uopdateret — ikke blot efter en halv/helsæson, men måske allerede efter blot en enkel spillerunde. At der i langt overvejende grad vil være opdaterede informationer i hovedparten af alle (aktive) sportsartikler er desværre en realitet, man som bidragsyder/læser må acceptere. Jeg ser dog ikke uopdaterede artikler som et særligt stort problem (de kan nemlig forholdsvis let opdateres af enhver med lidt viden på området ...), men det er derimod de mange (sub)stub-artikler med POV, stavefejl, unøjagtige/upassende formuleringer, forkerte oplysninger, manglende kildeangivelser, ingen illustrationer m.m., som har en demotiverende/afskrækkende effekt. Og det er netop sidstnævnte kategori af artikler, som jeg i højere grad har valgt at koncentrere mig om på dawiki i stedet for konstant at køre rundt i den samme rille og foretage små ubetydelige opdateringer (i det store helhedsbillede) til de eksakt samme artikler.

P.S. Forhåbentligvis kan du på artiklens diskussionsside fremhæve de "alvorlige mangler" i artiklen for det er jeg skam _ikke helt_ enig med dig i. — Froztbyte 11. jul 2012, 04:09 (CEST)

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Translation notification: Fundraising 2012/Translation/Jimmy Appeal

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Jimmy_Letter_002/en

Last years translation/El año pasado, traducción/العام الماضي ترجمة/Прошлогодний перевод

This letter is a new translation request, but re-uses large parts of the 2011 Jimmy Appeal, with slight modifications in the second version.

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Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, August 2012

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There is already a partially completed translation of the August 2012 "Wikimedia Highlights" in this language. It would be great if it could be finished, so that the earlier work is not lost, and the translation can be announced (alongside other finished ones) on the WikimediaAnnounce list on Wednesday.

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Translation notification: Fundraising 2012/Translation/Jimmy Appeal

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Translation notification: Fundraising 2012/Translation/Landing Page and Banner messages

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Testing for the 2012/13 international fundraiser will be picking back up again towards the end of January as part of the Foundations new all-year round fundraising strategy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro?banner=B12_5C_Control_BU

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Inaktiv administrator

Administratorkonto uden aktivitet Der er ikke foretaget nogen redigeringer fra denne administratorkonto i de sidste 180 dage. Du bedes derfor foretage en tilkendegivelse af, hvorvidt du fortsat ønsker at støtte den danske Wikipedia. Hvis du inden for 30 dage ikke foretager en redigering, vil din administratorstatus blive frataget jf. Wikipedia:Administratorer#Fratagelse ved inaktivitet. Alternativt kan du selv anmode om at få frataget administratorstatus. You haven't contributed to Wikipedia in over 180 days. If you don't make at least one contribution within the next 30 days (from when this template was put on your talkpage), your sysop-rights will be revoked per the rules regarding inactive administrators. Oversigt over hvornår admin-værktøjer sidst har været anvendt Med venlig hilsen, Simeondahl (diskussion) 20. feb 2013, 23:06 (CET)

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Wikidata weekly summary #53

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

• Development
  • Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
  • Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
  • Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
  • Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
  • Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
  • Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
• Events/Press
  • right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
• Discussions
  • The RFC about bureaucrats was closed
  • RfC about policy for translation admins
  • We need feedback from contributors working on references addition or having tried to add references to statements. Please comment about your problems or your trials at d:Help:Sources
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
  • Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
  • There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
  • If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
  • There is a new user right: property creators
  • There is now a page to request deletion of a property
  • We now have Bureaucrats
  • Reasonator was improved and extended (1 2)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Help draft the next weekly summary

Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.

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Wikidata weekly summary #54

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

• Development
  • Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
  • wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (bugzilla:45005)
  • Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (bugzilla:45140)
  • Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
  • Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
  • Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
  • Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
  • Work on the storage code for answering queries
• Events/Press
  • GLAM-WIKI 2013
  • upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
  • upcoming: Opensource Treffen
  • upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
• Discussions
  • RfC about references and sources
  • RfC about local oversighters
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 (infoboxes) on English Wikipedia is planned for April 22. All remaining Wikipedias are planned for April 24.
  • Qualifiers are available now. In the same update several bugs have been fixed mainly related to Internet Explorer 8. At the same time search has been made case-insensitive. More details here.
  • d:Wikidata:Notability has been completely rewritten
  • Cool task force page: d:Wikidata:Video games task force
  • List of Wikipedia articles that still have language links in the wiki text
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #55

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

• Development
  • Started working on support for the Time data type in the frontend (editing/displaying of time values)
  • Fixed copyright tooltip’s issues where it was not possible to dismiss it
  • Started work for making it possible to track where on the client a property is used
  • Work on dispatching changes to Wikipedias via the redis job queue
  • Introducing core hooks to allow us to avoid page re-rendering when language links are changed
  • Implemented automatic comments for setClaim (adding/setting claim, adding/removing/changing qualifiers)
  • Investigated issue where edit conflicts are detected in error
  • Fixed wrong revision shown in history-view
• Events/Press
  • A lot of articles about the deployment of phase 2 on all Wikipedias among them: Wikipedia-Datenfundus Wikidata geht in den Regelbetrieb, Wikidata goes live worldwide, Wikidata-revolutionen är här: Möjliggör strukturerade data på Wikipedia
  • Wikimedia switching to MariaDB in c'T (German): Wikipedia wechselt von MySQL auf MariaDB
  • Office hour about references (log)
  • Introduction to Wikidata - talk at the British Library
  • OpensourceTreffen in Munich
  • Upcoming: Hypertext 2013
• Discussions
  • RfC about vandalism
  • RfP for oversighters
  • RfC about interproject links interface
  • RfC about inactive administrators
  • RfC about permissions for rollbackers regarding vandalism
  • RfC about Kinship
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Phase 2 has been deployed on English Wikipedia and all remaining ones
  • Deployed a widget that makes it easier to add language links when there is only one language link on Wikidata so far
  • Page to collect information about phase 2 on the Wikipedias
  • Page edits have passed 31 million.
  • d:Help:Shortcut lists shortcuts for frequently used pages
  • Nice interaction of local data and data from Wikidata on English Wikipedias
• Did you know?
  • Item Q12000000 is is the Czech Wiki entry about "Výškové horolezectví" or "high altitude climbing"
  • Newest properties are: occupant, color (hex triplet), NOR, member of, color (item), opposite of, said to be the same as, IMO ship number, foundational text, Emporis ID, Structurae ID, industry, cohabitant, astronaut's missions, original network, launch site
  • Newest qualifiers are: determination method, role
  • Properties merged: sister and brother (discussion)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Translate the Table of properties into your language
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • If fixing a particular bug is especially important for you then please consider voting for it in Bugzilla to help the development team prioritize. A list of all of the currently open ones is here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #56

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

• Development
  • Worked with students on their Google Summer of Code proposals
  • Worked on time data type editing in the frontend
  • Worked on improving the DataTypes system
  • Working on better Continuous Integration strategy
  • Moving Selenium tests to Cloudbees & Saucelabs
  • Catching up with Selenium tests
• Events/Press
  • Hypertext 2013
  • upcoming: Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
• Discussions
  • RFC to enable the "flood flag"
  • RFC about "labels in uncommon language variants"
  • RFC to create "Items for Wikimedia projects besides Wikipedia"
  • 7 users requesting access to the oversight permission
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Bugfixes were deployed on wikidata.org. The ones you probably care about are:
    • when clicking "edit links" on a Wikipedia article the user is automatically taken to the language links part of the item. Hopefully it is now more obvious how to change the links.
    • fixed a few cases where edit conflicts where detected in error
    • added automatic edit summaries for adding qualifiers and claims
    • fixed wrong revision being shown in div history
  • Translators can now sign up to receive translation notifications at d:Special:TranslatorSignup
  • Visual query interface for Wikidata
  • 3 Wikimania submissions that could use your vote at the bottom: State of Wikidata, The Technology Behind Wikidata, Ask Us Anything About Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Recorded at (studio), Supporting actor/actress, Palissy identifier, Filmaffinity number, input device, Volume (collections), Historic Places identifier, CELEX number, country calling code, local dialing code, eight banner register, lakes on river, dan/kyu rank, legislated by
  • Newest task forces: Pokémon task force, Cultural heritage task force, Space task force
• Open Tasks for You
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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1864

Hejsa!

Jeg kan se at du har bidraget væsentligt til bl.a. Sophus Falck, som er et delemne i Edit-a-thon 1864, der afholdes lørdag den 8. juni på Rigsarkivet. Du er mere end velkommen til at deltage. Hvis du ikke kan den dag, kan du på arrangementets diskussionsside komme med forslag til områder, som fagfolk og wikipedianere kan uddybe. Hvis du har tid på dagen, men det er et problem at deltage fysisk, kan du deltage i snakken via IRC. --Palnatoke (diskussion) 7. maj 2013, 20:13 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: April 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue IV, April 2013 Headlines From the team: Some personal thoughts on GLAM Australia and New Zealand report: Wikipedia in academia and libraries in Australia Denmark report: Upcoming Edit-a-thon 1864 Finland report: WLPA; GLAM Sessions; Funding France report: Brest Germany report: Hamburg Museum; Museum August Kestner Hungary report: Article writing contest about statistics and related sciences Italy report: Wikipedia workshop; Editathon on women's biographies Mexico report: Fotofestín activities; DIY scanner project progress and Winners of the Holy Week in Mexico photo contest at ITESM Campus Ciudad de Mexico Netherlands report: GLAM WIKI UK; Wiki loves Sound; Wikipedian in Residence; Wiki loves Libraries; Wikipedia Training National Museum of Ethnology Spain report: Longest edit-a-thon ever at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona Sweden report: GLAM handbook version 3; conferences; hackathons and Wiki Loves Public Art Switzerland report: Swiss Federal Archives looking for a Wikipedian in Residence Taiwan report: Taiwan Government Data Portal Launched UK report: GLAM-Wiki; new and departing Wikipedians in Residence USA report: First GLAM Boot Camp; Consortium meeting; GLAMout; plus workshops and editathon Special story: Intersections between GLAM and Wikinews Open Access report: Featured content; Wikimania sessions Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #57

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

• Development
  • Implemented basic editing of Time values
  • Worked on advanced editing of Time values (having a preview, defining precision and calendar model while editing the value)
  • Work on RDF mapping/export
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Solving issues with WMF Jenkins
  • Migrating Selenium test from RSpec to Cucumber
• Events/Press
  • Interview on dradio.de
  • PHP Unconference Europe 2013
  • PHP Days 1013 Berlin
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
• Discussions
  • RfC: Bureaucrats' role in removal of permissions
  • RfC: Disambiguation pages guidelines
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Blog post by Magnus Manske about the Wikidata tool ecosystem
  • New mailing list for discussion of development of Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ISO 4217, CBDB ID, ORCID, country of origin, ICD-10, ICD-9, OMIM ID, orbit diagram, provisional designation (astronomy), currency symbol description, chairperson, Unicode character, MeSH ID, archives at, IMA Number
  • Newest task forces: Baseball
• Open Tasks for You
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #58

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

• Discussions
  • What should be done with the property stable Version?
  • Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
  • The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata
• Events/Press
  • A lot of Wikidata-related submissions have been accepted for Wikimania
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
  • upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Amsterdam
  • upcoming: Linked Data in Business
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • d:Help:Lua is now the place for all things Lua on Wikidata
  • Item d:Q13000000 is Devarakonda, a village in India.
  • The geographic relation "exclave of" is the property with the ID 500.
  • English Wikipedia discussion closes allowing for use of Wikidata
  • Template to display a tree based in Wikidata data
  • Deployed new bugfixes on wikidata.org including a fix for pages not being added to the watchlist automatically plus the first version of the RDF exort
  • The ability to include data using the property label is planned to be deployed on English Wikipedia on Monday and all others on Wednesday (You can then for example use {{#property:logo image}} in addition to {{#property:P154}}.)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: exclave of, enclave within, HURDAT identifier, ISO standard, home port, general manager, ISO 15924, Swedish county code, BNFC Thesaurus, cause of death, brother-in-law (sister's husband), honorific prefix, academic degree, birth name, interleaves with, state, phase, powerplant, interaction, part concerned, armament, scheduled service destination, type of orbit, temporal range start, temporal range end, Swedish municipality code, located on island, consists of
  • {{Property|123}} can be used on Wikidata to get the label of the given property (P123) in the readers language. {{label|Q123}} does the same for items.
• Development
  • Simplified the inclusion syntax (this is one way how you access data from Wikidata in a Wikipedia article - the other one is via Lua)
  • Result of the external codebase review has been published
  • Worked on implementation of editable time values in frontend
  • Selenium tests for false edit-conflicts and old-revision-view
  • Jenkins setup improvements
  • Made many improvements to the unit test configuration and bootstrapping code in Ask, Diff, DataValues, WikibaseQueryEngine and WikibaseDatabase
  • Automatic class loading based on PSR-0 convention in Ask, Diff and WikibaseQueryEngine
  • Added new array comparison code and started work on merging diffs together in Diff
  • Progress on the SQLStore
  • Improved many unit tests by removing unneeded dependencies they had
  • Bug fixing
  • Made property parser function code more robust
  • Worked on EntityPerPage rebuild script, to enable it to run for Wikidata to fill in missing entities in the wb_entity_per_page table
  • Making the Settings system more robust, preparing split of client and repo settings
  • Work on RDF mapping and serialization
  • Work on content negotiation for Special:EntityData
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Determine statements to add to Wikidata based on Wikipedia categories
  • Map a Wikipedia infobox to Wikidata properties (advanced sample)
  • Select a rarely used property and add values to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #59

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

• Events/Press
  • Linked Data in Business
  • currently: Hackathon in Amsterdam
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • It is now possible to access data from Wikidata on the Wikipedias by using the property's label.
  • The time datatype can now be tested on the demosystem and should become available on Wikidata next week.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: catalog code (P528), runway (P529), diplomatic relation (P530), diplomatic mission sent (P531), diplomatic mission sent (P531), port of registry (P532), target (P533), streak color (P534), Find a Grave (P535), ATP id (P536), twinning (P537), fracturing (P538), Museofile (P539)
  • Newest task forces: Ship task force
  • d:Template:Constraint:Item allows to check if items using a given property also have other properties. To find items to fix, it links to one of Magnus' tools and to a daily report. Sample: items with property mother should also have main type (GND) with value person.
• Development
  • A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
  • Worked on content negotiation for the RDF export
  • Bugfixing for editing of time datatype
  • Added validation in the api for claim guids. This also resolves bug 48473, an exception being thrown in production, whenever a bot or api user requested a claim with an invalid claim guid
  • Improved error message popup bubbles to show HTML and parse the links correctly
  • Fixed bug 48679, to hide the view source tab for item and property pages
  • Testing on Diff extension and SQLstore
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add statements to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, April 2013

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The Signpost: 27 May 2013

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

• Foundation elections: Candidates talk about the Meta problem, the nation-based chapter model, world languages, and value for money
• News and notes: First-ever community election for FDC positions
• In the media: Pagans complain about Qworty's anti-Pagan editing
• Featured content: Life of 2π
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Geographical Coordinates
• Technology report: Amsterdam hackathon: continuity, change, and stroopwafels
• Recent research: Motivations on the Persian Wikipedia; is science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than the English Wikipedia?

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Wikidata weekly summary #60

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

• Events/Press
  • Deutschlandfunk interview about Wikipedia, Wikidata and more
  • Hackathon in Amsterdam
  • Linked Data in Business
  • Upcoming: Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
  • Upcoming: SemTechBiz
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The time datatype is now available allowing you to enter dates in Wikidata (this also includes a short rundown of what the developers are going to work on next)
  • 5 students are working on projects related to Wikidata as part of Google Summer of Code 2013
  • prototype of a multilingual map using Wikidata
  • Many Wikimedia wikis got a new account creation and login page - among them Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: venue (P540), office contested (P541), officially opened by (P542), oath made by (P543), torch lit by (P545), docking port (P546), commemorates (P547), version type (P548), MGP ID (P549), chivalric order (P550), residence (P551), handedness (P552), social media account on (P553), social media address (P554), doubles record (P555), crystal system (P556), DiseasesDB (P557), unit symbol (P558), terminus (P559), direction (P560), NATO reporting name (P561), central bank/issuer (P562), ICD-O (P563), singles record (P564), crystal habit (P565)
  • Newest task forces: Tennis task force, Taxonomy task force, Iranian Persian task force, Medicine task force
• Development
  • Made good progress on moving the sitelinks on Wikidata too when a page on Wikipedia is moved (bugzilla:36729 - currently the bug with most votes)
  • Fixed some bugs in the time value user interface
  • Worked on coordinate value support
  • Worked together with Wikimedia Foundation ops staff on Apache configuration changes to enable “pretty urls” for item pages. (e.g. https://en.wikidata.org/wiki/New_York_City goes to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60 in the future)
  • Added MediaWiki setting wgLogAutopatrol to allow wikis the option to disable logging of autopatrol actions
  • Improved EntityPerPage rebuild script, which is needed to fix the situation where some Wikipedia articles can't access data from Wikidata (bugzilla:48506)
  • Fixed bug in SetQualifiers API module; Moved both SetQualifiers and RemoveQualifiers out of experimental mode
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 05 June 2013

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

• From the editor: Signpost developments
• News and notes: "Cease and desist", World Trade Organization says to Wikivoyage; Could WikiLang be the next WMF project?
• In the media: China blocks Wikipedia
• Discussion report: Return of the Discussion report
• Featured content: A week of portraits
• WikiProject report: Operation Normandy
• Technology report: Developers accused of making Toolserver fight 'pointless'

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Wikidata weekly summary #61

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

• Discussions
  • Please use the next week to review the discussions about sourcing of statements (d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources and Discussion on the Project Chat)
• Events/Press
  • Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
  • SemTechBiz
  • WMF metrics and activities meeting
  • "Exakter und aktueller" Bessere Daten für Wikipedia durch Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Large donation by Yandex for further development of Wikidata (press coverage here and here among others)
  • en:Template:Infobox road and simple:Template:Infobox road now have the ability to use Wikidata for the map field
  • Denny writes about Wikidata and the truth
  • Average edits per page has passed 4
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: basionym (P566), hangingwall (P567), footwall (P568), date of birth (P569), date of death (P570), foundation/creation date (P571), date of scientific description (P574), discovery date (P575), date of dissolution (P576), date of publication (P577), Sandbox-TimeValue (P578), IMA status (P579), start date (P580), end date (P582), as of (P585), IPNI author ID (P586), MMSI (P587), coolant (P588), point group (P589), GNIS (P590), EC Number (P591), ChEMBL (P592), Homologene ID (P593), Ensembl ID (P594), IUPHAR ID (P595), in the direction of (P596), WTA ID (P597), commands (P598), ITF ID (P599), Wine AppDB-ID (P600), MedlinePlus ID (P604), NUTS (P605), first flight (P606)
  • Newest task forces: Catalunya task force
• Development
  • Worked on globe coordinate editing
  • Reviewed and merged code for SetSiteLink special page
  • EditEntity API refactoring (Info: EditEntity API’s EXCLUDE parameter will be dropped - see here)
  • First steps towards being able to add sitelinks for the first sister-project (WikiVoyage)
  • Improved the Travis CI continuous integration setup
  • Made the DataValue component installable via Composer
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 12 June 2013

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

• Op-ed: The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons
• News and notes: How Wikimedia affiliates are spending $8.4 million; PRISM scandal
• Traffic report: Who holds the throne?
• In the media: VisualEditor will "change world history"
• Discussion report: VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more
• Featured content: Mixing Bowl Interchange
• Arbitration report: Two cases suspended; proposed decision posted in Argentine History
• WikiProject report: Processing WikiProject Computing

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Wikidata weekly summary #62

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

• Noteworthy Stuff
  • Geocoordinates can now be entered in Wikidata and language links can now be edited without JavaScript
  • The folks at OCLC did a great intro video to Wikidata and VIAF/authority files
  • And here's some interesting analysis on the most unique Wikipedias according to Wikidata
  • Magnus updated his tool to add missing properties to an item
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: battle/war (P607), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), highest point (P610), religious order (P611), mother house (P612), OS grid reference (P613), CHRC (P616), yard number (P617), source of energy (P618), spacecraft launch date (P619), spacecraft landing date (P620), spacecraft decay date (P621), spacecraft docking/undocking dates (P622), crew photo (P623), guidance system (P624), coordinate location (P625), Sandbox-GeoCoordinateValue (P626), IUCN-ID (P627)
  • If you're interested in a specific topic then the task forces are a good place to find like-minded people. Can't find one for your interest? Start one!
• Development
  • More progress on supporting links to sisterprojects
  • Fixing issues with geocoordinate datatype that popped up after deployment
  • Selenium tests for time and geocoordinate interface
  • EditEntity Refactoring (added parameter “new”)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 19 June 2013

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

• Op-ed: Two responses to the 'Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons'
• News and notes: Swedish Wikipedia's millionth article leads to protests; WMF elections—where are all the voters?
• In the media: South African learners want Wikipedia
• Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week
• Discussion report: Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting
• Featured content: Cheaper by the dozen
• WikiProject report: The Volunteer State: WikiProject Tennessee
• Arbitration report: The Farmbrough amendment request—automation and arbitration enforcement
• Technology report: VisualEditor set for early July rollout

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Wikidata weekly summary #63

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

• Discussions
  • Final vote on the "Guidelines for sourcing statements" till June 24.
  • Work started on a policy regarding information about living people
  • Feedback needed on a proposal by the development team for how to support Wiktionary
  • RfC about sockpuppetry guidelines
  • RfC about personal names
• Events/Press
  • Wikidata, le Wikipédia que vous utiliserez bientôt tous
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
• Development
  • Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
  • Further work on input validation
  • Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
  • Use Serializers for generating API results
  • Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
  • Changed globe coordinate value input to use backend coordinate parser
  • Fixed issues with data type definitions not being available in the frontend
  • Wrote a little hack so that on statements with a long list of values you will always be able to see the name of the property of the current section you are in (since the label moves when scrolling the page)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 26 June 2013

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

• News and notes: Election results released
• In the media: Daily Dot on Commons and porn; Jimmy Wales accused of breaking Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden
• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
• Discussion report: Privacy policy, X!'s edit counter, old rangeblocks, and the Article Incubator
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Fashion
• Featured content: Wikipedia in black + Adam Cuerden
• Arbitration report: Argentine History closed; two cases remain suspended
• Recent research: Controversial Wikipedia topics

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Wikidata weekly summary #64

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

• Discussions
  • Development team published a proposal how to make use of Wikidata for Commons
  • Community proposal for how Wikidata could support Wikisource
  • RfC on source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • d:User:Byrial is creating database reports that are useful to find issues in the current data
  • Denny created a map of all geocoordinates currently in Wikidata (normal and huge version - updated daily)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: RTECS number (P657), RefSeq (P656), translator (P655)
• Development
  • The Wikidata bug report with the most votes was closed (bugzilla:36729 - updating the link on Wikidata automatically when a page on Wikipedia is moved)
  • Wikipedia pages will soon have a link named "Data item" in the toolbox section of the sidebar that links to the Wikidata item that is connected to the page (bugzilla:49105 - You can already see it on the main page of test2.wikipedia.org for example.)
  • Calendar names displayed for time values can now be translated (bugzilla:49080)
  • Added serializers for the Ask query language
  • Buuuugfixes and testing
  • Refactoring
  • Worked on better handling of bad values (= values that don't fit the datatype they should have)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 03 July 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace
• In the media: Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing
• Traffic report: Yahoo! crushes the competition ... in Wikipedia views
• Discussion report: Snuggle, mainpage link to Wikinews, 3RR, and more
• WikiProject report: Puppies!
• Featured content: Queen of France
• Arbitration report: Tea Party movement reopened, new AUSC appointments
• Technology report: VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series

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Wikidata weekly summary #65

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

• Discussions
  • Alternative proposal for Wiktionary support
  • RfC on the sourcing requirements for bots
  • Project chat discussion about creating a new Requests for mergers page
  • One of our Google Summer of Code students is looking for feedback on mockups for Wikidata mobile
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MeSH Code (P672), Mouse Genome Informatics ID (P671), street number (P670)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 22nd, see the coordination page here
  • Addshore joins the Wikidata development team as an intern (project chat)
  • Byrial creates Statistics showing the namespaces used in item site links
  • Proposal for a new Wikimedia Foundation Sister project called 'Global Economic Map' that could use Wikidata at its core (on meta.)
• Development
  • Very rough and tentative timeline for the next month of development: mw:Roadmap#Wikidata deployment
  • Continued work on validation and handling of partially invalid data
  • Breaking change for 'wbeditentity' in the API fixing (bugzilla:49526) - when creating new items the 'new' parameter must now be given
  • Improved handling of broken UTF-8 encoding
  • Made it possible to enter the direction in a geocoordinate also at the beginning now (for example 52°31′N 13°23′E can soon also be entered as N 52°31′ E 13°23′)
  • Introduced PropertyInfoStore for quick access to meta-info about properties
  • Deserialization of Description objects in Ask
  • Lots of bugfixing
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 10 July 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikimedia Board appoints world expert in women's issues, global south
• Op-ed: It's time to stop pretending the English-language Wikinews is a viable project
• Dispatches: Infoboxes: time for a fresh look?
• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
• Discussion report: Featured article process governance, signature templates, and more
• WikiProject report: Not Jimbo: WikiProject Wales
• Featured content: The week of the birds

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Wikidata weekly summary #66

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

• Discussions
  • A request for comment on defining administrator activity
  • A request for comment on image properties
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A personal note and secret from Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)
  • Denny's map gets an upgrade, take a look at the amazing visualisations!
  • Browser search plugins for wikidata have beeen created.
  • Byrial's database reports have been updated from the 2013-07-10 dump! These can be seen here.
• Development
  • Support for badges in the process of being added to the DataModel.
  • Created further UI mockups for Wikidata Mobile.
  • Front end performance improvements in a few areas (including multiple edits on pages).
  • The bug in wbeditentity where aliases were removed has been fixed.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: eMedicine (P673), a list of (P674), Google Books identifier (P675), lyrics by (P676), ÚSOP code (P677), incertae sedis (P678), ZVG number (P679), molecular function (P680), cell component (P681), biological process (P682), ChEBI ID (P683), ortholog (P684), NCBI Taxonomy ID (P685), Gene Ontology ID (P686)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 17 July 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation's new plans announced
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Square Enix
• Featured content: Documents and sports
• Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case opens; July 22 deadline for checkuser and oversight applications
• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week

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Wikidata weekly summary #67

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

• Discussions
  • A request for comment for exclusion criteria in wikipedia namespace.
  • Images for the Main Page proposed and discussed on project chat.
  • Discussion on Wikivoyage notability and changes to WD:N.
  • Request for comment on sockpuppetry guidelines closes.
• Events/Press
  • Watson has received the Feigenbaum Prize which has been donated to Wikimedia and Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Kemler ID (P700), Disease Ontology ID (P699), Pubmed ID (PMID) (P698) , Ex taxon author(s) (P697)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in China, is created.
  • 239 Million language links removed from the Wikipedias, almost 5GB of text. (2012 vs 2013).
  • Saskia joins the Wikidata team to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata.
  • Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, see the coordination page here.
• Development
  • Wmf11 has been deployed to test.wikidata.org!
  • Wikidata is moving from a Squid to a Varnish cache system!
  • Search ranking has been improved ready for the next deployment where Wikivoyage support will also be added.
  • Optional title normalization added to 'wbgetentities'
  • Fixed broken XML result for wbeditentity.
  • Fixed broken link to anchor in sitelinks section.
  • Templates no longer parsed in labels.
  • Technical documentation improved for Ask and WikibaseQueryEngine.
  • Work started on EntitiesByPropertyValue API module.
  • Work on ChangeOps and API module edit summaries.
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 24 July 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikivoyage turns ten, but where to now?; Wikipedia Zero expands into India
• In the media: Wikipedia flamewars
• Discussion report: Partially disambiguated page names, page protection policy, and more
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Religion
• Featured content: Engineering and the arts
• Arbitration report: Infoboxes case opens
• Traffic report: Gleeless

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Wikidata weekly summary #68

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

• Discussions
  • New UI Mockup suggested for Wikidata Mobile. Please give feedback.
• Events/Press
  • Next office hour on August 26
  • upcoming: COSCUP
  • upcoming: Wikimania (including hackathon)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata learns to travel - language link support for Wikivoyage has been enabled and it was concluded that Wikivoyagers are pretty awesome
  • There is now a gadget you can use to see a map of a geocoordinate on Wikidata
  • Picture of the week could use some more input
  • Top 20 items on Wikidata that are covered in a lot of Wikipedias? Here you go.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Dodis (P701), encoded by (P702), found in taxon (P703), Ensembl Transcript ID (P704), Ensembl Protein ID (P705), located on terrain feature (P706), Satellite bus (P707), diocese (P708), Historic Scotland ID (P709), participant (P710), Strunz 8 (P711), Strunz 9 (P712), Strunz 10 (P713), Dana 8th edition (P714), Drugbank ID (P715), JPL Small-Body Database identifier (P716), Minor Planet Center observatory code (P717), Canmore ID (P718), Notable Incident (P719)
  • Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
• Development
  • When a page is moved on Wikipedia or Wikivoyage the link on Wikidata is now updated (bugzilla:36729)
  • Ranking of the search results has been improved
  • Worked on URL data type
  • Added coveralls.io support for most of our components (test coverage)
  • Fixed some minor bugs related to site-links editing
  • Fixed bugzilla:52023, where multiple anon warning bubbles are displayed at once
  • Worked on SpamBlacklist to filter URL values in Wikibase
  • Improved handling of corrupt data from the database
  • Made tests more reliable
  • Made regular undo via the API work with Wikibase
  • Worked on Time value formatter
  • Error handling for ByPropertyValue API module
  • Work on implementing QueryEntity
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 31 July 2013

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

• Op-ed: The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change
• News and notes: Gearing up for Wikimania 2013
• Featured content: Caterpillars, warblers, and frogs—oh my!
• Discussion report: Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles
• WikiProject report: Babel Series: Politics on the Turkish Wikipedia
• Arbitration report: Race and politics case closes
• Traffic report: Bouncing Baby Brouhaha
• Recent research: Napoleon, Michael Jackson and Srebrenica across cultures, 90% of Wikipedia better than Britannica, WikiSym preview

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Wikidata weekly summary #69

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

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on defining CheckUsers.
  • Request for comment on class ⇄ instance relationship in Wikidata
  • The d:Wikidata:Global Economic Map task force is starting its property list. Please go there to propose important properties about economics for countries, regions or companies.
• Events/Press
  • Next office hour on August 26
  • COSCUP this weekend, Taipei (August 3-4, 2013)
  • Wikimania is nearly here!, Hong Kong (August 7-11, 2013)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The list of interwiki links has been updated with more infomation and now also includes wikivoyage!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: removed feature, introduced feature, Parent company
  • Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
• Development
  • Custom edit-summaries added for the majority of API modules
  • Started working on implementation for ordering qualifiers in the JavaScript user interface
  • ChangeOps for wbsetclaimvalue, wbcreateclaim, wbremoveclaims and refactoring of wbremoveclaim
  • Fix handling of '0' value in API response
  • Solved bugs related to copyright notice
  • Some minor UI speed improvements
  • EditEntity refactored
  • Test cases improved
  • Further work on URLs
  • Work on implementing QueryEntity
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #70

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

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on Property proposal organisation reform to a more Model
  • Request for comment on VCards for Wikivoyage
  • Requests for bot approval has many requests that need further discussion!
  • Many property proposals still need input!
• Events/Press
  • Wikimania continues! If you are around make sure you come and say Hi!
  • Wikidata meetup in the chapters village on Saturday at 1 PM at Wikimania.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Following numerous discussions we are happy to present the new version of the proposal that would lead to Wikidata supporting structured data for the Wiktionaries.
  • There are now only an estimated 1,000,000 articles remaining with inter language links, down from the previous 26,000,000!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: LAU (local administrative unit), Sikart (identifier in SIKART), symptoms (the possible symptoms of a medical condition)
  • Frequently used for cities and other places, P17 ("country") indicates the sovereign state an item relates to. There now at least 100 items for most present day sovereign states. Leading is China (Q148) with 607,817 items, followed by Iran (!794) with 105,875 items and the United States of America (Q30) with 99,243 items. China rose from just 5266 items a month ago.
• Development
  • Changeops implemented for all Api modules
  • All Api modules now have better auto comments and custom summaries
  • Work on claim ordering started
  • Work on refactoring Api Tests
  • Bug Fixes!!
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 07 August 2013

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

• News and notes: Chapters Association self-destructs
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Freedom of Speech
• Featured content: The great Colorado River and the mysterious case of the grand duchess
• Discussion report: Civility policy, geographic names, CheckUser and Oversighter candidates, and more
• Arbitration report: Fourteen editors proposed for ban in Tea party movement case
• Traffic report: Greetings from the graveyard

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The Signpost: 14 August 2013

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

• Special report: Jimmy Wales: media favors entertainment over raising public awareness
• News and notes: "Beautifully smooth" Wikimania with few hitches
• In the media: Chinese censorship
• Discussion report: Wikivoyage, reliable sources, music bands, account creators, and OTRS
• WikiProject report: For the love of stamps
• Featured content: Wikipedia takes the cities
• Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case closes; invitation to comment on applicants for checkuser and oversight ends 16 August

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Wikidata weekly summary #71

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • COSCUP (Wikidata intro slides)
  • Wikimania (State of Wikidata presentation, Tech behind Wikidata presentation, Wiktionary discussion)
  • Wikidata babel multi-language easter egg
  • The Occitan Wikipedia and Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
  • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
  • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
  • Newest task forces: Physics task force
  • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
• Development
  • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
  • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
  • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
  • Started improving API and Special Page tests
  • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
  • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
  • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
  • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
  • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
• Open Tasks for You
  • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
  • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #72

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion started about improving the RfC process
  • d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources has been closed
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Report from Wikimania
  • Wikidata meets Incubator
  • Office hour on 26th
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Average edits per page is nearly 5 now.
  • Wikivoyage is still scheduled to get access to data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on August 26.
  • Developers are working hard to also make the URL datatype available by August 26 but there are factors that are not in their hands so it might have to be delayed until the next deployment in 2 weeks. URL as a datatype will soon be available on test.wikidata.org. Please give it some thorough testing and report bugs.
  • Outsch! (Help collect and fix paper cuts.)
• Did you know?
  • 20 undescribed monsters
  • Newest properties: separated from (P807), code Bien de Interés Cultural (P808), WPDA id (P809), academic minor (P811), academic major (P812), date retrieved (P813), IUCN protected areas category (P814), ITIS TSN (P815), decays to (P816), decay mode (P817)
• Development
  • Prepared deployment of phase 2 on Wikivoyage
  • Worked on ability to sort qualifiers and references inside a statement
  • Started work on an api module to merge items
  • Worked on special page to query for items with one specific property and value
  • Cleaned up code for handling recent change entries from Wikidata in the clients (Wikipedia/Wikivoyage)
  • Worked on generic script for populating sites table and better integration with WMF process for creating new wikis
  • Setup new git repo for WikibaseMobile skin and extension
  • Fixed SetClaim api module to properly mark bot edits in recent changes and advised pywikipedia maintainers about adding support for the module. SetClaim can be used to create claims with references in a single edit.
  • Reviewed code for Google Summer of Code students
  • Updated doxygen documentation
• Open Tasks for You
  • Report a paper cut (see above).
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 21 August 2013

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

• From the editor: Call for contributors
• WikiProject report: Today's article for improvement
• News and notes: Wikipedia's Manual of Style marches into Manning's sex change
• Traffic report: Bad Cat
• Discussion report: Skyscrapers, Gibraltar DYKs, Four Award, Secure login, and more
• Featured content: Afrobeat
• Technology report: Generating musical scores with LilyPond

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Wikidata weekly summary #73

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

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on Geo Coordinates for people
  • Request for comment on reuse of data from DBpedia
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map (September 6-8, 2013)
  • Recent office hour logs now availible.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Abraham, Denny and Lydia sat down for an evening trying to capture what Wikidata is about in a video.
  • Deployment! Wikivoyage now has access to the wikidata dataset and various other bugs have also been fixed (including the copyright warning)!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: interchange station (P833), public holiday (P832), parent club (P831), Encyclopedia of Life (P830), OEIS ID (P829), possible causes (P828), BBC programme identifier (P827), tonality (P826), dedicated to (P825), Meteoritical Bulletin Database ID (P824)
  • Newest task forces: Wikidata:País Valencià task force
• Development
  • Work on allowing API module editentities to edit claims
  • Work on entity / item redirects
  • Work on support for moving qualifiers in API and Frontend
  • Adding coordinates to diff display and improving diff display code
  • Allowing site groups for language links on clients to be configurable (needed for commons)
  • EntityId changes, we are now working on 0.5!
  • Show snaktype in summary for novalue and somevalue snaks
  • Further work on merge module for the API
  • Wrote missing tests for various jQuery widgets
  • Work on value formatters
  • Continue on moving tests to cucumber
  • Bug fixes for coordinates following the latest deployment
• Open Tasks for You
  • Report a paper cut (see above).
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 28 August 2013

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

• News and notes: Looking ahead to Wiki Loves Monuments
• In the media: Chelsea Manning, Box-office predictors, and 'Storming Wikipedia'
• Traffic report: Reddit creep
• WikiProject report: Loop-the-loop: Amusement Parks
• Featured content: WikiCup update, and the gardens of Finland
• Technology report: Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia
• Recent research: WikiSym 2013 retrospective

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The Signpost: 04 September 2013

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

• In the media: Manning "put back in the closet"; State involvement in the Azerbaijani Wikipedia
• News and notes: Privacy policy debate gears up
• WikiProject report: Writing on the frontier: Psychology on Wikipedia
• Traffic report: No accounting for the wisdom of crowds
• Discussion report: Arbcom election procedures, Wiki Loves Monuments, Privacy policy, FDC, and more
• Featured content: Bridging the way to a Peasants' Revolt
• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case opens; Tea Party case closes ; Infoboxes nears completion
• Technology report: Making Wikipedia more accessible

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Wikidata weekly summary #74

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

• Discussions
  • Saskia has finished her analysis of the different Wiktionary proposals and projects
  • Oversight nomination for Ajraddatz
  • Request for input by ontology experts
  • Help Sven compile a list of major accomplishments of Wikidata to date
  • RfC about the Guidelines for the RfC process
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map
  • Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
  • 10 questions about VIAF, Wikidata and the world
  • Wikidata quality and quantity
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Potentially useful Coursera course about metadata and information started
  • URL datatype needs more testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GSS code (2011) (P836), BioLib ID (P838), IMSLP ID (P839), narrative set in (P840), Paleobiology Database Identifier (P842), SIRUTA code (P843), UBIGEO code (P844). A set of properties to build calenders: public holiday (P832), day in year for periodic occurrence (P837) and feast day (P841). A proposal for "reoccurring date in machine readable format" is still under review.
• Development
  • mlazowik has put in more work to getting support for batches (featured article and so on) to Wikidata
  • Jeroen gave a presentation on clean functions
  • More work on the URL datatype to make it ready for deployment
  • Continuous work on cucumber & moving browser tests to saucelabs/cloudbees
  • Simple query special page
  • DataValues reorganization
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 11 September 2013

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

• News and notes: As deadline approaches, Individual Engagement Grants looks for ideas
• In the media: Lawyer goes to court to discover Wikipedian's identity; Storming Wikipedia; Wikimedia UK Secretary in conflict-of-interest controversy; Does Wikipedia need a "right to reply" box?
• WikiProject report: Traveling to Indonesia
• Traffic report: Syria, celebrities, and association football: oh my!

• Featured content: Tintin goes featured
• Arbitration report: Workshop phase opens in Manning naming dispute ; Infoboxes case closes

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Wikidata weekly summary #75

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map
  • Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
  • Slides for a Wikidata intro in French and English
  • Speaker needed for a Wikidata talk in Slovakia
  • Blog post by Denny: A categorical imperative?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The URL datatype is now available. Go and add all the sources ;-)
  • Sourcerer gadget by Magnus to help you add URLs from Wikipedia articles for claims
  • Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on 23rd of September
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
  • Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
• Development
  • Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
  • Started work on number data type
  • Worked on simple query special page
  • Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
  • Worked on JSON dumps
  • Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
  • Continued work on the merge items API module
  • Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
  • Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
  • Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
  • Continued moving to new browsertests framework
  • Bugfixes on autosummaries
  • Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
  • Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 18 September 2013

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

• News and notes: Third time's the charm: the FDC's newest round of funding requests
• Traffic report: Twerking, tragedy and TV
• WikiProject report: 18,464 Good Articles on the wall
• Featured content: Hurricane Diane and the Van Gogh
• Technology report: What can Wikidata do for Wikipedia?

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Wikidata weekly summary #76

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
  • Magnus blogged about the Wikidata Query tool
  • Gerard did an interview with Emw about the heady stuff of Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • 30 percent of all items are categorized in 6 large groups (main type (GND) (P107)). Most are items about geographic features (1.7 million items), some of these already have coordinates (0.5 million). Items about persons are fairly frequent too (1.3 million), many already with gender (0.9 million), a few with DOB (0.05 million) or DOD (0.04 million). Other groups include: creative works (305,000), terms, organizations, and events.
  • The first 2 Wikidata oversighters are elected, Ajraddatz and Rschen7754. Please contact the email at the above page, and do not post requests onwiki. Two more candidates are running: Stryn and Sven Manguard.
  • Neat new gadget to semi-automatically import labels, aliases and descriptions based on Wikipedia article introductions
  • New search backend on testwikidata needs testing
  • Commons is still scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on Monday and can also be tested on test.wikidata.org
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GSRR rating, filming location, USK rating, notation, facility, South African municipality code, topic's main category, Nova Scotia Register of Historic Places identifier, PEGI rating, AMG Game ID, Libris, PORT identifier
• Development
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a software developer with a focus on frontend development with Java Script to work on Wikidata among other things. Apply!
  • Paper Cut: Display the ID of an item or property page next to the label (bugzilla:53462)
  • Paper Cut: Fix value field not loading for some properties (bugzilla:53157)
  • Paper Cut: Work on supporting non-earth globes in the UI (bugzilla:54097)
  • Worked on quantity data type implementation in backend and frontend
  • Work on a build and release tool for the Wikidata software
  • More work on sorting of references and qualifiers
  • Work on database schema modification functionality to be used by the query store
  • Prepare deployment for Wikimedia Commons (including improving script for populating sites table, adding support for Wikimedia Commons)
  • Work on making entity data available in the Mobile Wikibase skin
  • new Cirrus Search (Elastic Search) backend enabled on test.wikidata.org
  • Finished up cucumber tests for sitelinks
  • Hotfixes for coordinates autosummaries
  • Worked on simplifying process of defining wb.fetchedEntities
  • Finished working on wbeditentity
  • Worked on MySQL and SQLite table definition readers
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 25 September 2013

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

• Op-ed: Q&A on Public Relations and Wikipedia
• News and notes: Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor
• Traffic report: Look on Walter's works
• In the media: Fox News: Wikipedia abandons efforts to purge porn from online encyclopedia
• WikiProject report: Babel Series: GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!
• Featured content: Wikipedia takes the stage
• Recent research: Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia?

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Wikidata weekly summary #77

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
  • What can Wikidata, the collaboratively edited knowledge base, do for Wikipedia?
  • “Allow me to reintroduce myself,” say those in Wikidata and VIAF
  • Importing data from the Polish Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Denny's last day on the development team was today. He has a few closing remarks in this blog post.
  • Wikimedia Commons now gets language links via Wikidata
  • Stryn's request for oversight flag
  • Individual Engagement Grants Proposal: Understanding Wikidata
  • Terminator now also has most linked-to items with no label in language X
  • Draft for Wikidata support of Wikiquote
  • Open position for a JavaScript developer to work on Wikidata - please spread the word
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: KSH code, FishBase species identifier, work location, Commons gallery, heritagefoundation.ca ID, PMCID, city served, type of electrification, color space, activating neurotransmitter, anatomical location, postsynaptic connection, presynaptic connection, possible treatments, possible examinations, magnetic ordering, main topic of creative work, Spanish subject headings for public libraries, SOC Occupation Code, NOC Occupation Code, GRAU index
• Development
  • Said Good Bye to Denny - *sob*
  • Improved layout for commons sitelink table
  • More work on sorting
  • Worked on statements UI tests
  • Fixed failing QUnit tests
  • Deployed new code and updated sites for Commons deployment
  • Fixed a number of small bugs
  • Code review for Google Summer of Code student projects
  • Work to automate creating deployment branches and builds of Wikibase with its dependencies
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #78

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

• Discussions
  • 3 Individual Engagement Grants related to Wikidata are looking for feedback and endorsements: Understanding Wikidata, Wikidata Toolkit and Wikintelligence
  • Request for Comments on linking Wikimedia Commons
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • UK Wikidata training
  • Pushing Wikidata to the Next Level
  • Hello, Good-bye at Wikidata
  • Google Summer of Code 2013 - Let's Mobilize Wikidata! - A Summary
  • Wikidata Query updates
  • Blog: Wikidata qualifiers
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Tempo-spatial display (events in Wikidata on a map)
  • Canned queries (for queries that help find missing information)
  • Wikidata Browse (pretty slideshow of random Wikidata items, their pictures, labels in various languages and statements)
  • Wikidata generic tree (displays a tree of data in Wikidata)
  • We've crossed ID 15000000: d:Q15000000 (Category:Sternorsidis)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Code of nomenclature, programmer, theme music, inspired by, GHS precautionary statements
• Development
  • Finished initial version of the build tool (= tool that creates one tarball/git repository from all our extensions and their dependencies for deployment)
  • Continued work on numbers data type
  • Continued work on Formatters (for autosummaries, diffs, etc)
  • Fixed RDF serialization issue
  • Merged merge API module
  • Finished up database schema updating code
  • Added validation for precision in globe coordinate value
  • Finished and released Diff extension version 0.9
  • Polishing work on Wikibase QueryEngine
  • Some cleanup of EntityView
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Hack on one of these.
• Note from Lydia about the future of the weekly summaries
  • I've been compiling the weekly summaries for Wikidata for the past 1.5 years. It is time to give this into the hands of a few capable community members now that I have moved on to product management. Starting next week I will not be compiling the weekly summaries anymore. I am happy to help anyone who wants to take over get up to speed of course. Please contact me if you'd like to take this over.

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The Signpost: 02 October 2013

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

• News and notes: WMF signals new grantmaking priorities
• Op-ed: Commons medical diagnostic images under threat from unresolved ownership
• Discussion report: References to individuals and groups, merging wikiprojects, portals on the Main page, and more
• WikiProject report: U2 Too
• Featured content: Bobby, Ben, Roger and a fantasia
• Arbitration report: Infoboxes: After the war

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The Signpost: 09 October 2013

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

• News and notes: Extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed
• Traffic report: Shutdown shenanigans
• In the media: College credit for editing Wikipedia
• WikiProject report: Australian Roads
• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute and Ebionites 3 cases continue; third arbitrator resigns
• Featured content: Under the sea

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Wikidata weekly summary #79

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over how Property metadata should be stored within Wikidata
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata sends goodies to Google Summer of Code 2013 volunteers
  • A Wikidata interview with Lydia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Statistics about sourcing on Wikidata
  • Help the development team prioritise!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Wikivoyage banner, RSL identifier, ISIN
• Development
  • Added index removal and addition support to Wikibase Database
  • Improved initialization code of Wikibase Query
  • Added database setup code to Wikibase Query
  • Added schema updating support to Wikibase QueryEngine
  • Added SimpleQuery special page to Wikibase Query. This page allows users to find entities by a property value pair
  • Formatters for snaks/values are now used throughtout Wikibase
  • Some progress on DecimalValues and QuantitiyValues
  • Started work to include the data type of snaks in the JSON dumps
  • Worked on cleaning up inconsistent handling of Claim GUIDs vs hashes.
  • Implemented more convenient user interface for Special:SimpleQuery.
  • MergeAPI module and claim editing from wbeditentity to be deployed
  • Further work on a build step to make deployment easier
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #80

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over the implementation of 'showcase items'
  • Requests for comment over restructuring user rights
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Lydia gives a talk at Latinoware about Wikidata
  • Talk at UCBerkeley about Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: street address, e-mail, guest of honor, MusicBrainz label ID, burial plot reference, Austrian municipality key, streaming media URL, MycoBank taxon name identifier, IPNI taxon name identifier, Tropicos taxon name identifier, MSW species identifier, section, verse, or paragraph, ISBN-10, IBNR identifier, full text available at, ISCO code, NSZL identifier, BNE identifier, NLI (Israel) identifier
  • Newest task forces: International relations task force
• Development
  • Further development on WikibaseDatabase
  • IE8 is working again
  • JSON socumentation created and merged
  • Lots of work carried out on the quantity datavalues
  • Papercut: mouseover input suggestions messes up input. Fixes bug 44896
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 16 October 2013

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

• News and notes: Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin
• WikiProject report: Heraldry and Vexillology
• Traffic report: Peaceful potpourri
• Discussion report: Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more
• Featured content: That's a lot of pictures
• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case closes

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Wikidata weekly summary #81

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over whether to split three properties into six more specific ones
  • Closed: Exclusion criteria for Wikipedia: namespace items
  • Closed:Place of property documentation
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Gerard wrote about Wikipedia's place as a source within Wikidata
  • Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) will be held next week, Monday to Wednesday, in Berlin.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Echo has been enabled on Wikidata
  • Magnus created some queries for Wikidata
  • Wikidata is 1 year on October 29th! Stay tuned for some 'surprises'
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Philippine Standard Geographic Code, IOC country code, MusicBrainz area ID, BAG-code for Dutch villages, code for weekend and holiday homes (Sweden), Pastoratkod (Sweden), code for parishes in the Church of Sweden, Civil parish code/ATA-code in Sweden, Minor urban area code in Sweden, Urban area code in Sweden, tributary, described in URL, catalogue, category combines topics, neurological function
• Development
  • Lazowik worked on API support for editing badges
  • Bene added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to the item it is connected to on Wikidata (bugzilla:46538)
  • Bene worked on a table of content for items (bugzilla:44876)
  • Bene improved Special:ItemDisambiguation (bugzilla:55466)
  • Bene added ftp as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (bugzilla:54103)
  • Linked sitelinks in diffs (bugzilla:53471)
  • Cleaned up and added tests in client that are necessary for improving the recent changes integration and for supporting enhanced changes
  • Worked on the user interface for simple queries
  • Worked on the user interface for the numbers datatype
  • Continued work on ordering statement groups in the user interface
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
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The Signpost: 23 October 2013

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

• News and notes: Grantmaking season—rumbling in the German-language Wikimedia
• In the media: The decline of Wikipedia; Sue Gardner releases statement on Wiki-PR; Australian minister relies on Wikipedia
• Featured content: Your worst nightmare as a child is now featured on Wikipedia
• Traffic report: Your average week... and a fish
• Discussion report: More discussion of paid advocacy, upcoming arbitrator elections, research hackathon, and more
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Elements

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Wikidata weekly summary #82

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata celebrates its first birthday!
  • Wikidata presentation at the Open Knowledge Workshop Day on November 4th by Wikimedia Suomi
  • Interview with Magnus, a Wikimedia tool creator
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • record held, the one-thousandth property, is created.
  • Wikidata could be a multilingual picture dictionary
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Lattes Platform number, NTA PPN identifier, PTBNP identifier, MusicBrainz Place ID, NLR (Romania) identifier, engine configuration, belongs to jurisdiction, record held, ARICNS, dmoz, scan file, NFPA Reactivity, NFPA Fire, NFPA Health, function/mission, elected holder, voice recording, spoken text audio
  • Newest task forces: Railways task force
• Development
  • Create and remove claim diffs will now show a diff for the WHOLE claim, bug 53142
  • Sitelinks in diffs now have a link to the article
  • ByPropertyLists now also accept lower case propertyids as keys instead of just uppercase
  • WikibaseDatabase extension released to version 0.1
  • Entity descriptions are now included in the search index text
  • Sitelink titles are also included in search index text
  • Further developments on Quantities
  • Fixed the hiding of the remove button when adding a new statement
  • Serialization options have been cleaned up
  • Escape titles on revision history and diff pages
  • Further work on Query and QueryEngine
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 30 October 2013

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

• News and notes: Sex and drug tourism—Wikivoyage's soft underbelly?
• Traffic report: 200 miles in 200 years
• In the media: Rand Paul plagiarizes Wikipedia?
• WikiProject report: Special: Lessons from the dead and dying
• Featured content: Wrestling with featured content
• Recent research: User influence on site policies: Wikipedia vs. Facebook vs. Youtube

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Wikidata weekly summary #83

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

• Discussions
  • Closed: Restructure of minor user rights
  • Lua enhancements discussion
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata IRC Office hour on Wednesday November 13th in #wikimedia-office
  • On November 10th, Gerard Meijssen will discuss Wikidata at the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
  • Lydia makes a guest appearance at the Metric and activities meeting to discuss Wikidata's growth
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource deployment planned to start January 13th, 2014, see the coordination page here
  • Magnus discusses Wikidata items and Wikipedia entries
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: BIBSYS identifier, Arts & Architecture Thesaurus ID, criterion used, including, excluding
  • Newest task forces: Athletics task force
  • You can now thank users for their contributions on Wikidata
• Development
  • Sitelinks in diff views now link to the article
  • Bene* worked on adding a table of contents to item pages (bugzilla:44876)
  • More work on badges by mlazowik
  • Creating and removing claims with references and qualifiers now show full diffs
  • Fixed invalid diffs which display 'diff=0' as a parameter (bugzilla:49434)
  • Fixed cases where diff pages arew caches and display in incorrect languages (bugzilla:55667)
  • Added ability to ignore conflicts in merge items API module
  • Worked on adding the datatype in the json output
  • Fix validation of wbsetreference
  • Wikibase Query now listens to entity changes of Wikibase Repo
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve biology, help out the Molecular biology task force.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 06 November 2013

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

• News and notes: Alleged 'outing' of an editor's personal information leads to Wikipedia ban
• Featured content: Five years of work leads to 63-article featured topic
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Accessibility
• Traffic report: Danse Macabre
• Discussion report: Sockpuppet investigations, VisualEditor, Wikidata's birthday, and more
• Arbitration report: Ebionites 3 case closed

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The Signpost: 13 November 2013

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

• Special report: FDC staff assessments raise the benchmarks for activities, impact, planning, and governance
• News and notes: Trademark at issue again with the Italian Wikipedia and wikipedia.it
• Traffic report: Google Doodlebugs bust the block
• Discussion report: Commas, Draft namespace proposal, education updates, and more
• WikiProject report: The world of soap operas
• Featured content: 1244 Chinese handscroll leads nine-strong picture contingent

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Wikidata weekly summary #84

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

• Discussions
  • Closed: Geocoordinates on people
  • Instances of human
  • Dimensions and units for the quantity datatype
  • Discussion started by Tom Morris over Wikidata and Wikinews
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Digitale Bibliothek 2013 is taking place, November 21st to November 22nd
  • Wikidata office hour logs are available here
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus creates a Wikidata search add-on for Wikipedia
  • Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google
  • The Wikidata IRC channel is moving from #wikimedia-wikidata to #wikidata.
  • Magnus and the Wikidata created redlink lists
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: feed URL, language regulatory body, BAV (Vatican Library) identifier, asteroid taxonomy
  • Newest task forces:
• Development
  • Added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to its associated item on Wikidata (bugzilla:bug 46538)
  • Fixed bugzilla:49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
  • Worked on Lua improvements including bugzilla:54324 (sequence in Lua should start with 1)
  • Started making improvements to the loading time of items
  • Started creating a special page to show the items with the most sitelinks (bugzilla:46217)
  • More work on ranks for statements
  • Worked on putting the datatype into the JSON output
  • Worked more on support for enhanced changes format in client
  • Cleaned up code that handles Wikibase entries in client recent changes
  • Added tests for recent changes formatting code in MediaWiki code
  • Updated Wikibase to maintain compatibility with changes in Universal Language Selector
  • Removed many deprecates method usages related to EntityId
  • Improved Special:SetSiteLink page
  • Removed obsolete EntityCache code from Wikibase Client
  • Removed obsolete SearchEntityArtefacts script from Wikibase Repo
  • Updated usages of EntityId to usages of ItemId and PropertyId where applicable
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new new statements today!
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #85

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

• Discussions
  • Improve handling of deleted items and labels in archives
  • Closed: Commons links
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • An interview with Denny Vrandečić
  • WikiCon 2013
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Reasonator now supports cities and locations
  • The quantities datatype is available for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: main food source, GHS signal word, Digital Rights Management system, legal citation, light characteristic of a lighthouse, crew member, donated by, awarded by, doctoral thesis, SUDOC catalog (editions only), SBFI occupation code, SBC-2010 occupation code, CNO-11 occupation code, KldB-2010 occupation code
• Development
  • Refactored Api output
  • Collect tasks for Google Code In
  • Make wbeditentity accept serialization with the id and type keys
  • Start setting up ‘automated’ part of the Wikidata build script
  • Released version 1.0 of the Ask library https://github.com/wmde/Ask
  • Fixed dependency injection issue in Wikibase Query
  • Started work on providing a new serialization library that does not have the design issues of the current data model serialization code and can be used as standalone PHP library
  • Moved quantity data type out of experimental and enabled on https://test.wikidata.org
  • Improved Wikibase Lua code
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 20 November 2013

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

• From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
• News and notes: Foundation to Wiki-PR: cease and desist; Arbitration Committee elections starting
• Book review: Peter Burke's Social History of Knowledge—ambitious, fascinating, and exhaustive
• Traffic report: Ill Winds
• WikiProject report: Score! American football on Wikipedia
• Featured content: Rockin' the featured pictures

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Wikidata weekly summary #86

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

• Discussions
  • Showcase items - take 2
  • Verified statements
  • Closed: VCards for Wikivoyage
  • Closed: Image properties
  • Closed: Proposals for the 'Place' related properties
  • Closed: Source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
  • Closed: Constraint violation technical bases
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • The Wikidata Concept Cloud
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Quantities datatype is available for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ZDB identifier, sockets supported, film editor, type of kinship, relative, manager/director, Dewey Decimal Classification, honorific suffix
  • Newest task forces: Sports results task force
• Development
  • Ranks are nearing completion (bugzilla:49120)
  • Quantities got some more love (improved diff, added scientific notation and simple localisation and made it possible to show/not show + for positive values - bugzilla:54318)
  • Ordering of statement groups is nearing completion
  • Avoid loading all referenced items in EntityView to improve loading time of items
  • Finalizing the inclusion of data types in JSON output
  • Fixed 2 XML errors on test.wikidata.org ready for deployment
  • Started work on a Wikibase-independent serialization component for DataValues
  • Worked on making Lua arrays start with 1 instead of 0 (bugzilla:54324)
  • Released the Datavalues library
  • Improved enhanced changes code in core, to better allow Wikibase (and Flow) to support that format
  • Defined permissions for Simple Queries
  • First Google Code-In task completed (meaning Special:SetSitelink now retains POSTed infomation after an error so you don't have to enter it again)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 04 December 2013

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

• News and notes: One decade of Wikisource; FDC recommendations raise serious questions
• Discussion report: Musical scores, diversity conference, Module:Convert, and more
• WikiProject report: Electronic Apple Pie
• Traffic report: Kennedy shot Who
• Featured content: F*&!
• Arbitration report: Ottoman Empire–Turkey naming dispute case opens; New discretionary sanctions draft proposal available for review
• Recent research: Reciprocity and reputation motivate contributions to Wikipedia; indigenous knowledge and "cultural imperialism"; how PR people see Wikipedia

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Wikidata weekly summary #87

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

• Discussions
  • Change the resysopping process
  • Inactive administrators
  • Open RfBs: The Anonymouse
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Gerard blogs about the Italian Wikipedia search updates (See the Polish Wikipedia's update too)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Italian and Polish Wikipedia now display Wikidata results in their searches
  • A few new features which require your testing!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NCL identifier, Catholic Hierarchy ID, discovery method, Sycomore ID, SWB editions, IDEO Job ID, ZDB identifier
  • Newest task forces: Periodicals task force
  • Showcase items: Douglas Adams, ethanol
• Development
  • Finalized localization of quantity values
  • Worked on support for scientific notation in quantities
  • More work on improving diffs
  • Worked on ranks and grouping of statements of the same rank
  • Improved performance of AuthorityControl gadget by a factor of 5
  • Finished work on initial version of ordering of statements
  • Bene* finished the API part of badges support (user interface part is still needed)
  • Database performance improvements
  • Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/
  • Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!

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The Signpost: 11 December 2013

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

• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments—winners announced
• In the media: Edward Snowden a "hero"; German Wikipedia court ruling
• Interview: Wikipedia's first Featured Article centurion
• Traffic report: Deaths of Mandela, Walker top the list
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Wine
• Featured content: Viewer discretion advised
• Technology report: MediaWiki 1.22 released

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Wikidata weekly summary #88

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

• Discussions
  • Guidelines about ordering
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Succu becomes the first non-bot user with more than 1000000 edits in Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ResearcherID, Portuguese Job Code CPP-2010, PSH id, medical condition
  • Newest task forces: Political geography task force
  • Showcase items: Barack Obama, Hubble Space Telescope
  • Fun Fact: Q12345 is Count von Count (ah ah ah)
• Development
  • Made improvements to lower database load
  • Deployed ordering, ranks and a table of contents and fixed issues with those after deployment (mainly performance-related)
  • Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
  • Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
  • Started working on a version of DataModel that works with the new DataValues components
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 18 December 2013

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

• News and notes: Nine new arbitrators announced
• WikiProject report: Babel Series: Tunisia on the French Wikipedia
• Discussion report: Usernames, template data and documentation, Main page, and more
• Traffic report: Hopper to the top
• Featured content: Triangulum, the world's most boring constellation
• Technology report: Introducing the GLAMWikiToolset

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Wikidata weekly summary #89

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over the notability of the new Draft namespace on the English Wikipedia
  • Discussion over the notability of template documentation items
  • RfC: Notability of item for all special pages
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource is still scheduled to get language links via Wikidata on January 14th
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NLM ID, NDL editions
  • Showcase items: Douglas Adams
  • Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.
• Development
  • Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome ;-)
  • Improved and added a lot of tests
  • Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
  • No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
  • Caching and database improvements
  • Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
  • More work on quantities UI
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #90

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over handling of items
  • RfC: Interwiki links for subpages (Notability based discussion)
  • Closed: Inactive administrators
  • Closed: Bot policy
  • Closed RfA: Matěj Suchánek (Successful)
  • Open RfA: GerardM
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Add the file and translate namespaces to the list of namespaces excluded from Wikibase Client's linking functionality and enable the "Add links" dialog for pages without language links on commons. (#58903)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: chromosome, produces
• Development
  • Redesign and improvement of toollabs:bene/itemsbycat/. You can also use short urls like toollabs:bene/itemsbycat/enwiki/Wikidata.
  • Worked on reorganizing our git repositories and splitting quite a few of them
  • Worked more on parser cache to be able to cache more content (this failed during the last deployment)
  • Some progress on redirects
  • Tests, tests, tests
  • Vacations \o/
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Help translate on of Bene*'s tools!

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The Signpost: 25 December 2013

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

• News and notes: IEG round 2 funding rewards diverse ambitions
• Discussion report: Draft namespace, VisualEditor meetings
• WikiProject report: More Great WikiProject Logos
• Featured content: Drunken birds and treasonous kings
• Technology report: OAuth: future of user designed tools
• Recent research: Cross-language editors, election predictions, vandalism experiments

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Administratorkonto uden aktivitet

Administratorkonto uden aktivitet Der er ikke foretaget nogen redigeringer fra denne administratorkonto i de sidste 180 dage. Du bedes derfor foretage en tilkendegivelse af, hvorvidt du fortsat ønsker at støtte den danske Wikipedia. Hvis du inden for 30 dage ikke foretager en redigering, vil din administratorstatus blive frataget jf. Wikipedia:Administratorer#Fratagelse ved inaktivitet. Alternativt kan du selv anmode om at få frataget administratorstatus. You haven't contributed to Wikipedia in over 180 days. If you don't make at least one contribution within the next 30 days (from when this template was put on your talkpage), your sysop-rights will be revoked per the rules regarding inactive administrators. Oversigt over hvornår admin-værktøjer sidst har været anvendt Med venlig hilsen, Asger (diskussion) 2. jan 2014, 21:02 (CET)

The Signpost: 01 January 2014

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

• News and notes: The year in review
• In the media: Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?
• Book review: Życie Wirtualnych Dzikich
• Discussion report: Article incubator, dates and fractions, medical disclaimer
• Traffic report: A year stuck in traffic
• WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition
• Featured content: 2013—the trends
• Technology report: 2013: Year in review

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Wikidata weekly summary #91

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about the RfD process
  • Discussion about Notability of Wikisource on Wikidata
  • Open RfAs: Lymantria, Lavallen
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata reached 100000000 edits
  • d:User:Dexbot is the first bot to reach 10000000 edits
  • Wikisource is due to receive Wikidata Phase 1 on January the 14th
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: none
  • Newest task forces: MediaWiki task force
  • Showcase items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988)
  • Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014)
• DevelopmentWord from John
  • To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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Wikidata weekly summary #92

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over Wikisource's notability within Wikidata
  • Make Symmetric & Inverse Property addition automatic and bidirectional
  • Closed RfAs: Lymantria (Successful), Lavallen (Successful)
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Presentation about Wikidata at Aldil, Lyon, France
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource is deployed to testwikidata
  • A group of students is working on suggestions to make it easier to add missing information. They published a status report and a rough first demo.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: track gauge, pathogen transmission process, CVR, ERA Journal ID
  • Newest task forces: Manga and Anime task force
  • Showcase items: Douglas Adams
  • Fun Fact: Does not exist (Q404)
  • Wikidata's presence: The Dutch Wikipedia have a category for coordinating coordinates on Wikidata (Categorie:Wikipedia:Coördinaten niet op Wikidata)
• Development
  • Adrian Lang joins the team
  • Cirrus Search is now the default search on Wikidata and should improve d:Special:Search's handlich of special characters for example
  • Made the “in other languages” box also show up for people who have not configured a babel box (bugzilla:49079)
  • No longer showing a table of content when it has less than 3 items in it to prevent it from showing up on property pages (bugzilla:58422)
  • More performance improvement work
  • Finishing touches on quantities datatype user interface
  • Display qualifiers in non-Java Script user interface
  • Prevented import of wikitext into the main namespace (bugzilla:47070)
  • Split the DataValues component into more clearly defined libraries and switched Wikibase over to use these
  • Switched Wikibase to use Wikibase DataModel 0.6
  • Changed development and installation workflows to make use of the dependency manager Composer (more details)
  • Made tests run with less warnings (especially in Firefox)
  • Started replacing wikibase.fetchedEntities with a proper entity store
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!

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Wikidata weekly summary #93

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

• Events
  • upcoming: FOSDEM
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource now gets its language links via Wikidata
  • Reasonator gets extended functionality
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: PlantList-ID, Danemark Job Code (DISCO-08), Instruction Set, Thailand central administrative unit code, student of, archive URL
  • Showcase items: ethanol
  • Fun Fact: A Space Odyssey (Q2001)
• Development
  • Enabled language links for Wikisource
  • Move more part of an item page from JS to HTML to improve performance and non-JS interface
  • Database performance improvements
  • Work on forward compatibility for new entity types
  • Introducing the EntityStore service to improve modularity
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!

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The Signpost: 15 January 2014

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

• Op-ed: Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Wikipedia articles
• News and notes: Wikimedia Germany asks for "reworking" of Funds Dissemination Committee; should MP4 be allowed on Wikimedia sites?
• In the media: Is Google hurting Wikipedia traffic?; "Wikipedia-Mania" in the New York Times
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Sociology
• Traffic report: The Hours are Ours
• Technology report: Architecture Summit schedule published

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Wikidata weekly summary #94

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about using 'instance of' specific for animals
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Next Wikidata IRC office hour on Monday, February 3rd
  • FOSDEM
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata Development Plan for 2014+ has been published
  • Wikidata stats now also includes statistics for ranks
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ICTV virus ID, rector, fictional analog of, writable file format, readable file format, place made
  • Showcase items: Cactaceae
• Development
  • Daniel and Katie took part in the MediaWiki Architecture Summit in San Francisco
  • Bugzilla:60027 Add language to label and description field to make it less likely that people enter a label or description in a wrong language
  • Bugzilla:58394 Avoid throwing out of bounds error when adding new claims
  • Bugzilla:50570 API now reveals qualifier hashes
  • Bugzilla:57213 API now reveals data type ids
  • Bugzilla:57754 Die if wbeditentity tries to clear from an old revision id
  • Bugzilla:55795 Add API option to show snaks in a list rather than grouped by property
  • Refactor of ChangeOp remove functionality
  • Continued to move parsing and validating of values from the frontend into the backend to improve performance and make the non-JS user interface more useful
  • Finished the Wikidata build script (We use it to pull together code from various git repositories into a single one for deployment)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The Signpost: 22 January 2014

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

• Book review: Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse
• Special report: The few who write Wikipedia
• News and notes: Modification of WMF protection brought to Arbcom
• Featured content: Dr. Watson, I presume with the Tramp* Traffic report: No show for the Globes
• Technology report: Architecting the future of MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #95

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over P31 as a qualifier
  • Open RfA: Sjoerddebruin
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata is at FOSDEM in Brussels, Februrary 1st-2nd
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Quantities released on Wikidata!
  • Wikisource phase 2 coming Februrary 25th.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: attendance, refractive index, electronegativity, proportion, sandbox-quantity, number of pages, number of platforms , flattening, floors above ground, number of cylinders, masts, number of speakers, g-factor, orbital eccentricity, gross tonnage, total produced, redshift, Mohs' hardness, ELO rating, atomic number, LibraryThing work identifier, EUL control number, capacity, population, Human Development Index, from narrative, launch contractor, valvetrain configuration, KOATUU identifier
• Development
  • Deployed quantities to Wikidata! :)
  • Made patch to make wbmergeitems more reliable Bugzilla::55960
  • Wikidata edit permissions now included in wikimedia OAuth edit groups
  • Moved Diff repo to Github
  • Work put into make the frontend use backend formatters through the api
  • Refactoring of the ValueView extension
  • MergeItems special page merged as an experimental feature
  • Our easy RDF fork is now included using composer
  • Fixed wbmergeitems issues
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The Signpost: 29 January 2014

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

• News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
• Traffic report: Six strikes out
• WikiProject report: Contesting Contests
• Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion
• Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years

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The Signpost: 29 January 2014

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

• News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
• Traffic report: Six strikes out
• WikiProject report: Contesting Contests
• Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion
• Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years

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Help with Danish translations

Hi Froztbyte,

I am contacting you as I would be most grateful for your help translating and proofreading a couple of short texts in Danish for WMFs' multilingual fundraiser. We are planning to run the campaign on Danish Wikipedia starting February 17th. You can find all information on how to translate and proofread texts on the Fundraising Translation Hub https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/Translation.

Below you can find direct links to the texts in Danish that are of our highest priority for the campaign.

• Banner message:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&language=da&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-FR2014_translations&action=proofread&filter=translated%7C%21reviewer%3A3969796%7C%21last-translator%3A3969796

• Email to past donors

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising%2FTranslation%2FEmail+1&language=da&filter=&action=proofread

• Unsubscribe page

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising%2FTranslation%2FEmail+unsubscribe&language=da&action=proofread&filter=translated

• Thank you email

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising%2FTranslation%2FThank+you+email+20131202&language=da&action=proofread&filter=translated

Thank you very much in advance for you help.

If you have any questions, please reach out to me on jrobell@wikimedia.org

Kind regards,

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Wikidata weekly summary #96

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over the naming of people
  • Discussion over population
  • Successful RfA: Sjoerddebruin
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • See the office hours logs at meta
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • See the FOSDEM slides
  • Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
• Development
  • More work on badges by Bene*
  • Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
  • Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
  • Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
  • Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
  • Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The Signpost: 12 February 2014

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

• News and notes: WMF bites the bullet on affiliation and FDC funding, elevates Wikimedia user groups
• In the media: WikiVIP; Art Feminism; Medical articles; PR manipulation; Azerbaijani Wikipedia
• Featured content: Space selfie
• Traffic report: Sports Day
• WikiProject report: Game Time in Russia
• Technology report: Left with no choice

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Wikidata weekly summary #97

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

• Discussions
  • Let's redesign Wikidata's interface
• Reasonator
  • By hovering over a wikilink you will see the first paragraph.
  • The "personal settings" allow you to import your Babel info from Wikidata. This can be used to restrict the random items you will get.
  • The first iteration of "on the fly" text generation for English. It works for "humans" and, is completely based on the available Wikidata information.
  • You can now add labels in your language from within Reasonator. Technically oAuth is used. It now takes just one click to add a label in your language.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: IAAF ID, Lagrangian point
  • Showcase items: Vesta (Q3030)
• Development
  • Wrote performance tests so we can track performance improvements better
  • Did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default in Wikidata. Found and fixed a performance bottleneck.
  • Work on making the interface more responsive, e. g. live preview when editing labels and updating the watchlist star when saving.
  • Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
  • Fixed an issue with OAuth on Wikidata because of permissions
  • Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
  • Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
  • Did a technical debt analysis and design review of Wikibase.git, with initial focus on WikibaseLib
  • Got (backend) EntityStore on the way, so we can test API modules without touching the database
  • Further work on TimeParsers move to the backend
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The Signpost: 15 February 2014

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

• News and notes: Foundation takes aim at undisclosed paid editing; Greek Wikipedia editor faces down legal challenge
• WikiProject report: Countering Systemic Bias
• Featured content: Holotype
• Traffic report: Chilly Valentines
• Technology report: ULS comeback

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Wikidata weekly summary #98

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

• Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource will receive access to the data in Wikidata on February 25th. Planning is taking place at d:Wikidata:Wikisource.
  • 1 week left to give initial input for the user interface redesign
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: impact factor, Municipality code (Denmark), USB ID, Home world, Cardinality of the group, Internet media type, Bluebook abbreviation, Z39.5 abbreviation, ISO 4 abbreviation, CODEN, landing site, US Congress Bio identifier, Scopus Source ID, Scopus Affiliation ID, Scopus EID, Scopus Author ID, IPTC Media Topic, topic's main portal, Regensburg Classification, Library of Congress Classification, neutron number
  • Fun Fact: Wikidata has reached 30 million statements
• Development
  • Refactored the suggestions drop-downs when entering properties for better performance
  • Fixed a misdirected arrow in left-to-right languages (bugzilla:61308)
  • Worked on an Apache redirect issue (bugzilla:54273)
  • Found and started fixing an issue that asked users for additional languages they don't want according to their Babel box (bugzilla:61446)
  • Table-of-contents link to the statements section of an item was broken
  • Kept poking TimeParsers
  • Made WikibaseDatabase feature complete for use with WikibaseQueryEngine
  • Work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
  • Investigate using ElasticSearch as term index backend to take some load of the most-used database table
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help develop the next summary here!

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The Signpost: 26 February 2014

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

• Special report: Diary of a protester—Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest
• Forum: Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?
• News and notes: Wikimedia chapters and communities challenge Commons' URAA policy
• Traffic report: Snow big deal
• WikiProject report: Racking brains with neuroscience
• Featured content: Odin salutes you
• Recent research: CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism

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Wikidata weekly summary #99

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about defining lists
  • Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט, Pamputt
  • Closed RfAs: Epìdosis (Successful)
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata scholarships for the Zürich Hackathon
  • Wikidata FOSS Outreach Program for Women
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: unemployment rate, manner of death, file extension, received signal, prevalence, connecting service, first performance, Universal Decimal Classification, Chinese Library Classification, Dharma Drum Buddhist College place ID, Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID, MEP directory identifier, Rodovid ID, handle, Gewässerkennzahl, LIBRIS editions, numeric value, visitors per year, Geokod, approximation algorithm, transmitted signal
  • Showcase item: Why not improve Kleinmachnow (Q104192) to showcase standard?
  • Wikidata's presence: vici.org are using Wikidata identifiers in their data storage
• Development
  • Made loading items a lot faster
  • Enabled access to the data on Wikidata for Wikisource
  • Fixed the diff view sometimes showing the wrong revision
  • Attended ConFoo and learned all of the things
  • Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 0.1
  • Continue work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
  • Started to make Wikidata even faster by removing StaticExpert and BifidExpert
  • Started reviewing interface animations. You should be able to disable them all by setting $.fx.off = true; in your Special:MyPage/common.js.
  • Fixed Wikidata looking a bit odd when enabling the Typography refresh Beta feature.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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Wikidata weekly summary #100

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about enabling GuidedTours on Wikidata
  • Open RfA: ElfjeTwaalfje
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikiquote will get language links via Wikidata on April 8th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: portal's main topic, Finnish municipality number, carries scientific instrument, upper stage booster, river basin category, mode of inheritance
• Development
  • Added more details to the diffs of time and geocoordinate values (will show which globe the coordinate is on and so on now as well)
  • More work on badges by Bene* - most work left is now in the GUI part of it
  • Removed unneeded and unused permissions/rights
  • Fixed a bug concerning spaces in quantities (bugzilla:61911)
  • Started work on taking ranks into account for queries, the property parser function and Lua. (By default only preferred values should be used if available. If not available then it should use values with rank normal.)
  • test2.wikipedia.org and test.wikipedia.org now use test.wikidata.org as their data repository, instead of wikidata.org
  • Started work on WikibaseInternalSerialization component
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7 - https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md
  • Added indexes to Wikibase QueryEngine
  • Improved SQLite support in Wikibase Database
  • Started moving virtual machine instances of various test systems to the new Wikimedia Datacenter
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the sport (P641) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The Signpost: 05 March 2014

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

• News and notes: Wikipedia Library finding success in matching contributors with sources
• Traffic report: Brinksmen on the brink
• Discussion report: Four paragraph lead, indefinitely blocked IPs, editor reviews broken?
• WikiProject report: Article Rescue Squadron
• Featured content: Full speed ahead for the WikiCup

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Wikidata weekly summary #101

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

• Discussions
  • Notability of items
  • Organisation of statements, sitelinks and external identifiers
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Media Hack Days, Berlin March 22nd-23rd
  • Ateliers Wikidata, Bordeaux, France March 22nd-23rd
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Happy Pi Day
  • paper by Denny Vrandečić and Markus Krötzsch
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NLC authorities, Atlas ID, fuel system, supercharger, ID (General Administration of Press and Publication), ISMN, NUKAT authorities
• Development
  • Changed the {{property}} parser function and Lua’s mw.wikibase.entity.formatPropertyValues to only return the statements ranked as preferred or if none are available the ones ranked as normal (This will probably go live on April 25th.)
  • Worked on improving page load time further by reducing the number of reloads during page loading
  • Made diffs for time and geocoordinates more complete and prettier
  • Continued research for user interface redesign
  • Tpt worked on optionally showing links to other sister projects in the client’s sidebar (bugzilla:54374)
  • Wrote a fix for Wikidata changes not showing up in the client’s watchlist (bugzilla:62149)
  • Updated a major chunk of our inline code documentation
  • Continued discussing technical details about how coordinates should be stored in Wikibase
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Léonore ID (P640) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 14. mar 2014, 23:29 (CET)

The Signpost: 12 March 2014

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

• Traffic report: War and awards
• News and notes: Wikimedians celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month
• WikiProject report: Examining the Russian Wikipedia's Entomology Project
• Featured content: Ukraine burns

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Wikidata weekly summary #102

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

• Discussions
  • Wikiquote notability
  • Belongs to jurisdiction
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Cambridge revisited II documents how you can query Wikidata and put the results on a map.
  • Cambridge revisited V shows that maps have popups with texts generated on Wikidata statements and labels.
  • The architecture of the Wikimedia storage of the meta data of media files discusses that integration of Commons is a subset of what we can achieve when we consider the whole of media files.
  • Spaghetti Open Data, Bologna. March 28th - 30th
  • GLAM Treffen, Bremen. March 29th - 30th
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Riksdagen person-id
• Development
  • Continued making the UI faster
  • Fixed Wikidata changes not showing up in the watchlist on the client (Wikipedia, etc.) (bugzilla:62149)
  • Decided to turn off the inoperable wikidata.org language subdomains for now to reduce confusion
  • Created initial version of Wikibase Internal Serialization component
  • wbEntity and wbUsedEntities JavaScript variables are now cached in the parser cache
  • Ongoing refactoring to get rid of the previously used numeric ID numbers in favor of prefixed IDs
  • Made wbsearchentities aware of previously unquoted percent characters
  • Put some time into fixing longstanding oddities that made the developers cry from time to time
  • Worked on reducing internal usage of EntityContent, in preparation for redirect support
  • Worked on performance issues with JSON dump generation (hopefully we can start generating dumps soon)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The Signpost: 19 March 2014

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

• Interview: Nate Ott: the writer behind 71 articles in the English Wikipedia's largest-ever good topic
• Forum: Wikimedia Commons mission: free media for the world or only Wikimedia projects?
• News and notes: Foundation-supported Wikipedian in residence faces scrutiny
• Traffic report: Into thin air
• WikiProject report: We have history
• Featured content: Spot the bulldozer
• Technology report: Wikimedia engineering report

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The Signpost: 26 March 2014

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

• Op-ed: Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia
• Comment: A foolish request
• News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced
• Traffic report: Down to a simmer
• WikiProject report: From the peak
• Featured content: Winter hath a beauty that is all his own
• Recent research: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates; analysis of "In the news" discussions; user hierarchy mapped
• Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?

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Wikidata weekly summary #103

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

• Discussions
• Wikiquote notability
  • Discussion relating to DBpedia
  • Discussion over Wikidata data
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Summary: The summaries will now be sent out on Saturday as opposed to Friday.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: astronomical filter, National Archives specific records type ID, National Archives topical subject ID, National Archives geographic ID, National Archives organization ID, National Archives person ID, compressor type, Internet Broadway Database person ID, Internet Broadway Database show ID, Internet Broadway Database production ID, Internet Broadway Database venue ID, English Heritage list number, apparent magnitude
• Newest task forces: Heraldry task force
• Development
  • Reduced page load time significantly once again. Page load time was cut to roughly 2/3. For now we’re happy with the resulting page load times. We’ll start concentrating on other areas of the user interface now.
  • Fixed faulty selection handling when adding a property using the keyboard (bugzilla:62868)
  • Worked on fixing issues with handling of spaces in quantities (bugzilla:62567)
  • Fixed miscount of Wikidata changes on the client watchlist (bugzilla:45812)
  • Wrote new browser tests for special pages using the Cucumber and Selenium frameworks
  • Improved error formatting, localisation and handling. We will work on error message wording next to make them more understandable.
  • Worked on the code which propagates page moves from the clients into Wikidata as a preparation for allowing page deletions to appear on Wikidata
  • Made the Wikibase extension work with the new “Compact language links” Beta feature and a bit more independent from the UniversalLanguageSelector in general
  • The student team working on the entity suggester has finished the first version of it. The code is being reviewed now and is hopefully ready for deployment soon. Once it is deployed it will show you what new properties you could add to an item.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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Wikidata weekly summary #104

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

• Discussions
  • Closed: Merge project chats
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.1.0 released!
  • Wikidata development has been going on for two years!
  • Wikiquote gets Phase I on Tuesdays (April 8th)
• Did you know?
• Newest properties: JSTOR journal code, Openpolis ID, Philippine Standard Geographic Code ID
  • Newest task forces: France task force, US legislation task force
• Development
  • Property of an existing claim can no longer be changed through API with wbeditentity (bugzilla:62425)
  • UI for simple query SpecialPage (bugzilla:55593)
  • minor fixes in the UI
  • UI for claims on property pages
  • worked on review of property suggester (review)
  • still looking for a working student/intern
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 6. apr 2014, 01:42 (CEST)

The Signpost: 02 April 2014

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

• Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference
• News and notes: Wikimedia conferences—soul-searching about costs, attendance, and future
• Traffic report: Regressing to the mean
• WikiProject report: Deutschland in English
• Featured content: April Fools

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Translation notification: Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Heartbleed

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This is the text of a just published blog post summarizing the actions taken to protect users of Wikimedia sites against the recently discovered "Heartbleed" security vulnerability. (The post explains that users will need to re-login the next time they use their accounts and suggests to change passwords as a standard precautionary measure, but it is currently not intended to enforce a password change for all users.) Completed translations will be added to the blog post.

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Wikidata weekly summary #105

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Quality is measurable
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Announcing ToolScript. With ToolScript can be used to get the output of all Magnus' tools
  • Feline mayors of the world or why Wikidata is awesome
  • A Rijksmuseum representative indicated what kind of information she hopes Wikidata will deliver
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikiquote now gets its sitelinks via Wikidata. Welcome, Wikiquote! Access to the other data will follow.
  • Do you want automatic sidebar links to other Wikimedia projects powered by Wikidata? Here you go: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-April/003690.html Thanks Tpt!
  • Use Wikidata for internationalization on any website! How awesome is this? Very!
  • Vote for some Wikidata talks for Wikimania
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: KulturNav-id, compression ratio, patent number, OmegaWiki Defined Meaning, phone number, International Standard Recording Code, Theatricalia play ID, Swiss Football Association Club Number, Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level, ISFDB publisher ID, Swedish Football Association ID, Box Office Mojo film ID, Parsons code, ISFDB series ID, ISFDB publication ID, ISFDB author ID, Linguist list code, NARA online catalogue
• Development
  • Still looking for an awesome intern. Do you know someone who'd fit?
  • Bene* continued working hard on making “badges” (the “featured” and “good article” stars) in Wikidata a reality
  • Finishing touches for Statements on properties
  • Worked on better error messages when parsing failed
  • Updated the translations to use much easier to manage JSON files for each language
  • Made a list of hard to understand messages that should be reworded
  • Implemented a usable interface for Special:SimpleQuery
  • Closed a backdoor that let you change the property of a snak via the API, sorry guys
  • Continuous refactoring and improving of the code base that defines what Wikidata and the Wikibase extensions are
  • Kept Wikidata up to date with the typography update
  • Started to redesign the Wikibase page on mediawiki.org
  • Investigated if standard spam prevention features of MediaWiki work as they should on Wikidata (Result: mostly yes but some fixes/tweaks are needed.)
  • Released version 1.0 of the Diff extension.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the movement (P135) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 12. apr 2014, 22:20 (CEST)

The Signpost: 09 April 2014

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

• Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz
• News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments
• Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes
• WikiProject report: Law
• Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep

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Wikidata weekly summary #106

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

• Discussions
  • Sources will be called references because of a discussion
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • List of items without images but possibly free images available
  • Any interested in another Wikidata office hour? (Say yes)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI) SNO/CNO, earliest written record
• Development
  • Lots of small little cleanups.
  • Sprintbreak as most people are taking a few days off.
  • Happy Q21196! Say Hi to the Q108636 ;-)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 20. apr 2014, 00:36 (CEST)

The Signpost: 23 April 2014

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

• Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?
• Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015
• News and notes: Wikimedian passes away
• WikiProject report: To the altar—Catholicism
• Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church
• Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane

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Wikidata weekly summary #107

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over property creation guidelines
  • Open RfA: JurgenNL
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Lydia will give an update on Wikidata at the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting
  • Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon is taking place to add labels for all members of the Lok Sabha.
  • In May, edit-a-thons hounouring Adrianne Wadewitz are taking place to add more gender related information to Wikidata.
  • Wikidata office hour on May 19th at 17:00 UTC.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Time and geocoordinates have been reworked and need some testing at test.wikidata.org. Found issues? Let Lydia know.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: coordinates of the point of view, Rotten Tomatoes ID, depicts Iconclass representation, Iconclass notation, Helveticarchives ID, Slovenska biografija ID, BCU Ecrivainsvd, AUSTLANG code, ABS ASCL code
• Development
  • Worked on making it possible to use languages not supported by MediaWiki in Wikidata
  • We now also display statements with "no value" or "unknown value" on the client (when using the parser function or Lua)
  • Created another maintenance script to fix data integrity issues
  • Finishing touches on the first version of the new entity suggester
  • Simple queries are starting to work (If you want to see a demo attend the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting)
  • Worked more on making error messages localizable
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7.4
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 26. apr 2014, 22:19 (CEST)

The Signpost: 30 April 2014

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

• News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal
• Interview: Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum
• Featured content: Browsing behaviours
• WikiProject report: Genetics
• Traffic report: Going to the Doggs
• Recent research: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google; 43% of academics have edited Wikipedia

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Wikidata weekly summary #108

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Lydia gave a first demo of simple queries and other cool stuff at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
  • ongoing this weekend: Youth Science Hack Day where a team is working on a Wikidata powered quiz app
  • upcoming: Data Science Day
  • upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Helen and Anjali join Wikidata as Outreach Program for Women interns
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: coordinates of the point of view, Rotten Tomatoes ID, depicts Iconclass representation, Iconclass notation, Helveticarchives ID, Slovenska biografija ID, BCU Ecrivainsvd, AUSTLANG code, ABS ASCL code
• Development
  • Got simple queries in shape for a first demo at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
  • Cleaned up constraints checks and input validation
  • Worked on requirements for the user interface redesign
  • Started work on monolingual text datatype
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 3. maj 2014, 20:51 (CEST)

The Signpost: 07 May 2014

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

• In focus: Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director
• News and notes: New system of discretionary sanctions; Buchenwald; is Pirelli 'Cracking Wikipedia'?
• WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three
• In the media: Google and the flu; Adrianne
• WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision
• Featured content: Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum
• Traffic report: TMZedia

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Wikidata weekly summary #109

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Developer user group
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • There will be a German handbook on Wikidata and authority control. Feedback and proofreading is very welcome until next week at https://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/2014-05-06.html
• Development
  • Attending the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
  • Work on finalizing the JSON dumps
  • More work on simple queries to get them ready for performance and security review and a first release
  • Legoktm created an API module to retrieve the current dispatch stats status
  • Fixed an issue with iferror when using the property parser function (bugzilla:55347)
  • Show correct data in the in other languages box for older revisions (bugzilla:63309)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 11. maj 2014, 01:01 (CEST)

The Signpost: 14 May 2014

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

• Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity
• News and notes: 'Ask a librarian': connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia
• Featured content: On the rocks
• Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and May 5th
• WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico
• Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look

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Wikidata weekly summary #110

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfCs: Clarifying the requirement for property creation, Quality is measurable, One vs. sereveral sitelink-item correspondence, Property documentation redux and DBpedia import process
  • Open RfA: Dexbot (adminbot)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • wrap-up blog post of the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
  • upcoming: SMWCon
  • upcoming: IRC office hour on Moday
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Data access for Wikiquote will be enabled on June 10th. Coordination and questions should go to d:Wikidata:Wikiquote.
  • Superclasses maps shows coordinates for a class of items on a map. Classes are coming from Wikidata.
  • The EditItem suggester was released. You give it a property and it will return a list of items likely missing that property.
  • The new duplicate item finder lists items that should potentially be merged.
• Did you know?
  • Newest task forces: Wikidata:WikiProject Mathematics
• Development
  • We're looking for a PHP developer to join the dev team and work on Wikidata. Apply!
  • Looking for a cool university project with impact? We have some of them around Wikidata - not just for computer science students. Get in touch with Lydia.
  • Had a lot to think about and recap from the Zürich Hackathon, e.g. things regarding search, suggestions as well as the user interface redesign
  • Started doing mockups of the new user interface (Nothing to show yet, sorry!)
  • Setup an autogenerating code documentation instance on labs at wbdoc.wmflabs.org. Hint: Submitting patches that make the inline code documentation even better is a good starting point to get involved in coding
  • Continued working on the wikiba.se site and FAQ
  • Worked on new datatype monolingual text (basically a string with an associated language)
  • Reworked a hell lot of “change operations” code that’s responsible for each and every edit as well as validating user input and API requests, for example denying empty descriptions and finding and blocking unnecessary duplications
  • Checked all the new Beta features that the teams in San Francisco are developing and made sure they work with Wikidata
  • Our efforts to make Wikidata faster broke some gadgets so we helped fixing them. Sorry for the breakage!
  • Dug into odd display bugs with the MonoBook skin and attempted to fix them (bugzilla:64741)
  • More testing on simple queries
  • Tpt worked on making inter-project links in the sidebar a beta-feature
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 17. maj 2014, 23:25 (CEST)

The Signpost: 21 May 2014

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

• News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution
• Traffic report: Doodles' dawn
• Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles

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Wikidata weekly summary #110

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about Draft articles
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata office hour log
  • Wikiconference USA in New York on May 30th and June 1st
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Editors may now include their ORCID identifiers (and others, such as VIAF) on their user pages, using the Authority control template. You can register for an ORCID at http://orcid.org
• Play the Wikidata Game
• Development
  • jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
  • More fixes for gadgets (authority control, preview gadget)
  • Improve formatting and handling of snak formatting errors
  • Continued working on monolingual text data type
  • Continued making messages easier to understand
  • Removed a bunch of unused code, interfaces and methods
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 25. maj 2014, 18:29 (CEST)

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Wikidata weekly summary #111

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfAs: FakirNL, Josve05a
  • Wikidata:Tours
  • RfC: Open datasets (Meta)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Slides from WikiConference USA
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The seventeenth million item is made then delete as a dupe. So seventeenth million plus 2 anyone?
• Development
  • More work on mockups for new user interface design. Hope to have something publishable soon.
  • More work on monolingual text datatype
  • Fixed lots of small bugs when editing statements like bugzilla:65398
  • Made progress on globe precision issues (bugzilla:65535 and bugzilla:64887)
  • Cleaned up installation instructions
  • Tagged version 1.0 of Wikibase Internal Serialisation and Wikibase Datamodel Serialisation
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 31. maj 2014, 23:28 (CEST)

The Signpost: 28 May 2014

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

• Interview: Casliber reaches one hundred featured articles
  Wikipedia's second featured article centurion
• News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video
• Recent research: Overview of research on Wikipedia's readers; predicting which article you will edit next
• Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon
• Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats

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Wikidata weekly summary #112

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfAs: FakirNL (Successful), Josve05a (Unsuccessful)
  • Open RfAs: Taketa, Jianhui67, 555
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Magnus Manske writes about how the Wikidata Game has developed over two weeks
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:Thepwnco is working on some Wikidata:Tours during for a FOSS project
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Italian Chamber of Deputies ID, eye color, number of injured, EPSG ID
• Development
  • Did a lot of cleanup in Wikibase.git
  • thePHPcc thinghy
  • Released DataValues Time 0.6
  • Add time support to QueryEngine
  • Release Wikibase DataModel 0.8
  • Worked on the way deleted items are formatted (= shown on other items)
  • Released ValueView 0.6, which includes refactoring of the entity suggester code, bug fixes.
  • Fix issue with entering strings (newline character sometimes got added and then cause api error)
  • Fix bug 64658 (date adjustment dialogue doesn't show up on Firefox with Monobook skin)
  • Fix bug 64887 (issue with display of globecoordinate when precision does not match predefined precisions)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 8. jun 2014, 01:09 (CEST)

The Signpost: 04 June 2014

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

• Special report: IEG funding for women's stories—a new approach to the gender gap
• Op-ed: "Hospitality, jerks, and what I learned"—the amazing keynote at WikiConference USA
• News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees
• In the media: Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia
• Traffic report: Autumn in summer
• Featured content: Ye stately homes of England

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The Signpost: 11 June 2014

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

• Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler
• Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees
• News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia
• Traffic report: The week the wired went weird
• Featured content: Politics, Ships, Art, and Cyclones

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Wikidata weekly summary #113

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

• Discussions
  • Wikidata participation in Wiki Loves Pride
  • Discussion: Delete as a new user group
  • RfC: Refining "part of"
  • Open RfAs: Calak, Andre Engels
  • Closed RfAs: Taketa (successful) Jiangui67 (successful) 555 (successful)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The preview gadget has been rewritten and now comes with a completely new user interface. You can enable it here.
  • Wikiquote received access to the data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on Tuesday.
  • Try out the new Wikidata Property Browser.
  • The Merge gadget has been updated. It is now faster and only one edit per merge is performed.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: original spelling, ranking, number of points/goals scored, number of matches played, ploidy, AlgaeBase URL, military casualty classification, winner, number of victims, participated in, described by source, number of seats
  • Newest task forces: Sports task forces
• Development
  • Continued with the implementation of redirects. There are a lot of corner cases to work out...
  • Created new data value handlers for quantities and geo coordinates, bringing queries closer
  • Moved browser tests to a new repository at https://github.com/wmde/WikidataBrowserTests to make the main Wikibase repo smaller and cleaner
  • Fixed a bunch of issues with the monobook skin
  • Made some more jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
  • More cleanup for the coming switch to WikibaseDataModel 1.0.
  • Icinga Dispatch Lag monitoring scripts, including IRC notifier bot, have been tested and are ready for Ops implementation. This should give us quicker notifications in case the notifications to Wikipedia and co about changes on Wikidata are slow again.
  • Enabled data access for Wikiquote
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 15. jun 2014, 00:17 (CEST)

The Signpost: 18 June 2014

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

• News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use
• Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey
• Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones
• WikiProject report: Visiting the city
• Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture

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Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

• Discussions
  • Idea collection: data quality and trust
  • Open RfAs: PMG, Dr Zimbu, 콩가루
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Several Wikipedias now have a template (d:Q17195970) for articles which have a related property in Wikidata.
  • User:Thepwnco is working on a documentation overhaul and updating Help pages for a FOSS project - leave feedback on suggested changes here
  • First concept designs of Wikidata's possible new interface
  • GenderCounter uses Wikidata to provide an accurate service with distinguishing male and female names
  • ca.wikipedia found a nice way to use Wikidata. They're comparing their living people to Wikidata to see if any of them have a date of death there. They're then put into a category for review: ca:Categoria:Persones vives a revisar
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: BBC Your Paintings, successor, predecessor, ITTF ID, points/goal scored by, TLS, Anime News Network ID, Monte Carlo Particle Number, Number of points/goals conceded, points for, matches/games drawn/tied, matches lost/games lost, matches won/games won
  • New task forces: LGBT task force
• Development
  • Created a script that provides the schema creation SQL for Wikibase Query
  • Releases Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.1
  • Made WikibaseDataModelJavascript a separate component at https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelJavascript.
  • Continued working on full redirect support for items. It touches a surprising big chunk of the code base.
  • Continued working on the QueryEngine code base and it’s data type support.
  • Fixed and updated the most recent implementation of the property and item selector widget, e.g. a MonoBook specific bug.
  • Pushed along reviews and deployment of the entity suggester code that will make suggestions for new properties to be added to items. Our hope is to have it through performance review for the next deployment.
  • Pushed along reviews of the “in other projects” sidebar: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
• Note from John
  • Hey everyone, it's rare these small sections come along but there is a bit of interesting news to get across which one line under 'noteworthy stuff' won't be the best for. For the next 6 summaries, they will be translatable at Wikidata. This is an interesting idea which was first proposed on the delivery page and on Wikidata-l by Base. This is purely a trial and if you all want the summaries to remain translatable, please participate! You can view the first translated summary (hopefully) here! Also sorry for this one being late :)

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 22. jun 2014, 15:29 (CEST)

The Signpost: 25 June 2014

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

• Exclusive: Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost
• News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan, plans to upload all holdings to Commons
• Featured content: Showing our Wörth
• WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true
• Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags
• Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?
• Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects, the "network of cultures" in multilingual Wikipedia biographies

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Wikidata weekly summary #115

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

• Discussions
  • Second UI designs are now up for comments
  • Discussion about predecessor and successor timelines
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata intro and QA, June 29th in Paris
  • Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: contains settlement, coincident with, bridgehunter.com ID, uglybridges.com ID, China railway TMIS station code, MTR station code, capital of, NSK identifier, daily ridership, binding of software library, ASI Monument ID, ihsi identifier, Iranian National Heritage registration number, LNB identifier, BBC Your Paintings, replaced by, replaced, ITTF ID, points/goal scored by, TLS, Anime News Network ID
• Development
  • Redirects are moving slow because they touch so much of our and the core code base, but they are coming closer!
  • Final touches on the monolingual data type and UI
  • Fixed some smaller but nasty bugs in the UI like not being able to change only the rank
  • Finally improved the most confusing error messages and hints you get to read when using the Wikibase client or repo
  • The Wikibase DataModel JavaScript component (which moved to it’s own repository) reached version 0.2.0
  • Continued working on the QueryEngine component (the foundation for queries)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 29. jun 2014, 13:49 (CEST)

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Wikidata weekly summary #116

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

• Discussions
  • A question from an intern
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata got 10 times easier to use with the entity suggester
  • Lydia needs your help with some selfies (already uploaded ones are at c:Category:Wikidata selfies)
  • Wikidata the Game has a new game: occupation
  • As part of the Outreach Program for Women d:User:User:Thepwnco is continuing improving all help pages to help new users understand Wikidata better. At the same time w:User:Discoveranjali is helping with social media outreach and creating presentations workshops about Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: replaced by structure, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Russia), Linguasphere code, NCI ID, Glottolog code, proxy, ComicBookDB ID, Index Fungorum ID
• Development
  • Upcoming API change (wblinktitle)
  • Deployed entity suggester.
  • More work on redirects. They are taking shape. Done with much of the groundwork. We've seen the first one! :D
  • Continued work on user interface redesign mockups
  • Monolingual text datatype is also taking shape but needs more user interface love to make it intuitive.
  • Investigated making Wikidata.org its own client so you can for example get access to better Lua functions for access to an item's label on a discussion page. Outcome: Should be possible but needs some more work.
  • Fixed bugs
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The Signpost: 02 July 2014

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

• News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award
• In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms
• WikiProject report: Indigenous peoples of North America
• Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.
• Featured content: Ship-shape
• Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)

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The Signpost: 09 July 2014

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

• Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?
• Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis
• News and notes: With echoes of the VisualEditor, conflict breaks out again over tech initiative
• Wikicup: Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more
• Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!
• Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week

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Wikidata weekly summary #117

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

• Discussions
  • Improving the FAQ
  • Should we link to restricted access databases?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Two new GuidedTours (aka interactive tutorials) have been released—we now have one on editing items and one on editing statements! Both tours are available from the Wikidata:Tours portal and feedback can be left on the talk page at Wikidata_talk:Tours. The work was a combined effort of User:Bene* and Outreach Program for Women intern User:Thepwnco.
  • We passed another milestone \o/ 10 million items now have an "instance of" or "subclass of" statement making it easy to tell what the item is about.
  • Last week to add some selfies. We need more!
  • Items with no image around you? Here you go! (change the number in the URL and click toggle markers) Thanks Magnus!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to, MusicBrainz series ID, script directionality, World Glacier Inventory ID, original combination, Foundational Model of Anatomy ID, bug report page, FCC Facility ID, convicted of
• Development
  • Bene* worked with the dev team this week. He pushed forward support for storing badges (eg featured article) on Wikidata and implemented the first two guided tours.
  • CTRL+ click and middle click on a search result in the entity selector now opens the result in a new tab.
  • Further progress on redirects
  • Fixed a number of annoyances with the entity selector
  • Continued work on mockups for new user interface
  • Investigated what issues come up if we make wikidata.org its own client. Things look good so we will probably enable it soonish. This will mean you can link Wikidata pages in items and access the data in them on other pages on Wikidata.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The Signpost: 16 July 2014

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

• Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors dismissed with help from WMF, but plaintiff intends to refile
• Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic
• News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles
• Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week
• Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun

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Wikidata weekly summary #118

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about removing person data
  • Discussion to increase the support votes required for successful RfAs
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Main Page redesign suggestions
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID, GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to
• Development
  • Finished setting up JSON dumps. If everything goes well, a first dump will be available on Monday evening
  • Worked on badges UI integration and made initial progress at making them editable
  • Did a lot of JavaScript refactoring in order to put Api related code into an own component
  • Made it possible to access data from Wikidata items on Wikidata itself using Lua (not yet enabled)
  • Fixed a bug that allowed creation of items with the same label+description of another item
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 20. jul 2014, 01:13 (CEST)

The Signpost: 23 July 2014

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

• Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform
• Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel
• News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier
• Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
• Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!

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Wikidata weekly summary #119

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

• Discussions
  • User conduct policies RfC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The first draft for the Main page redesign is ready for review (a summary of proposed changes can be found at Project Chat)
  • User:Thepwnco is working on updating Wikidata documentation for all sister projects, starting with Wikidata:Wikisource
  • Drop by the Wikidata Lounge, a new initiative to promote friendliness and civility started by d:User:Micru
  • Wikinews will get sitelink support on August 19th
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: b-side, executive producer, OpenPlaques identifier, pet, Lost Art-ID, journey origin
• Development
  • Published the first JSON dumps
  • Finishing touches on badges support
  • Finishing touches on redirects
  • Finishing touches on the "in other projects" beta feature that displays links to sister projects in the sidebar of Wikipedia for example
  • Tested and fixed issues with allowing sitelinks to Wikidata pages and accessing item data via Lua on Wikidata itself
  • Final tests before we can start switching to the new serialization format
  • The code for simple queries is being reviewed by the Foundation. This is hopefully the last step before we can deploy this too.
  • Worked on improving the code of the {{#property}} parser function in preparation of allowing arbitrary data access and allowing linked output.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 27. jul 2014, 00:47 (CEST)

The Signpost: 30 July 2014

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

• News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?
• Book review: Knowledge or unreality?
• Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab world
• Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons
• Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit
• Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate; cross-language bot detection

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Wikidata weekly summary #120

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfAs: Gabbe
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • List of Wikidata talks at Wikimania 2014
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's new Main page is almost ready to go live, but is still in need of a visually-appealing banner! Got an idea for an eye-catching design that represents what Wikidata's all about? Submit proposals before August 11 at d:Wikidata:Portal Redesign/Banner
  • Wikidata's tours are now translatable. You may help translating at d:Wikidata:Tours/Items and d:Wikidata:Tours/Statements.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: published in
  • Showcase items: Kleinmachnow
• Development
  • Created CLI script to import entities into the QueryEngine store (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jpg)
  • More work on redirects (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
  • More work on the monolingual datatype
  • Started work on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface (that’s the first coding steps of getting us a new user interface design)
  • Final touches on badges (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 3. aug 2014, 01:42 (CEST)

The Signpost: 06 August 2014

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

• Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico
• News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results
• Traffic report: Ebola drives reader interest* Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them
• Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview

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Wikidata weekly summary #121

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikimania \o/ It was amazing and Wikidata all over the place. Wikidata's true potential is starting to show.
  • Guided tours and Wikidata: How to explain a complex project and encourage new editors
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia
  • Histropedia now uses Wikidata to build timelines
  • Slides and videos of first Wikidata talks at Wikimania online: 1 2 3 (more slides and videos will follow))
  • First prototype screenshot of asking questions to Wikipedia mobile readers (similar to Wikidata the Game)
  • Userboxes
• Did you know?
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Interesting Content, WikiProject sum of all paintings
• Development
  • Attended Wikimania and Socrates
  • Worked on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface to make it ready for the new user interface design
  • Discussed Wikidata, structured data on Commons and a ton of other things with many people at Wikimania
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 12. aug 2014, 01:57 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #122

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfOS: John F. Lewis
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Help choose which banner will be featured on the new Main page! Click here to view the two banner candidates and leave your feedback before August 20th 16:00 UTC.
  • Wikidata Translate, a Wikidata-based Google translator open source clone.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: journey destination, score method, grave picture, present in work, Fide ID, Norsk filmografi ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, plea, collection size
  • New task forces: WikiProject Movies
• Development
  • Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email.
  • Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
  • Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
  • We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates.
  • Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design
  • Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 17. aug 2014, 15:25 (CEST)

The Signpost: 13 August 2014

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

• Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars
• Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia
• Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia
• News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia
• Wikimedia in education: Wikimedia Global Education: WMF's Perspective
• In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes
• Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week
• Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction

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The Signpost: 20 August 2014

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

• Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia
• Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
• WikiProject report: Bats and gloves
• Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan
• Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia

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Wikidata weekly summary #123

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London
  • "Growing items" by User:Micru, an essay about modelling concepts and understanding items
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The new Main page will go live early next week! Skabelon:Ll for more details and to leave any last comments
  • It will be possible to show the badges like "Featured Article" stored on Wikidata in the sidebar of the clients (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...) starting Tuesday. Wikipedia will follow on Thursday.
  • Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature on the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata.
  • Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick up speed. Get involved: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html Also maybe attend the office hour?
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: list of monuments, list of works, legal form, catholic.ru ID, motto, Sandbox Monolingual text, nickname, official name, Sports Reference ID, people missing, fictional universe described in
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Structured Data for Commons
• Development
  • Deployed lots of new features like badges, access to language links for Wikinews and Wikidata, the monolingual text data type and redirects!
  • Working hard on making the new UI a reality, mainly refactoring the UI widgets right now. Covers a lot of ground and will take some time.
  • More work on HHVM issues that need to be fixed before Wikidata can switch to it.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 24. aug 2014, 22:29 (CEST)

The Signpost: 27 August 2014

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

• Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!
• In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news
• News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster
• Traffic report: Viral

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Wikidata weekly summary #124

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • past: OpenSym
  • upcoming: IRC office hour about structured data for Wikimedia Commons
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New Main Page and other new features
  • Breaking changes for gadgets
  • Badges support via Wikidata has been rolled out to Wikipedia and other sister projects. If the icons shown are not the ones your project would like please request a change here.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NIEA building ID, Cadw Building ID, color index, absolute magnitude
• Development
  • Deployed more new stuff \o/ (in other projects sidebar; new internal serialization format; showing badges on the Wikipedias and other sister projects; Special:GoToLinkedPage)
  • Added a new “item-redirect” permission
  • Continuous work and reviews for the new JavaScript user interface
  • DataModel 1.0 will be more strict when adding Claims or Statements to Entities. Quite some tests needed to be made compatible
  • Adopted to recent API changes (getPossibleErrors and others got dropped)
  • Replaced hundreds of class name aliases in the code with the actual class names
  • Attended OpenSym
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 1. sep 2014, 02:18 (CEST)

The Signpost: 03 September 2014

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

• Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended
• Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more
• Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial
• Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies
• Traffic report: Holding Pattern
• WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)

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Wikidata weekly summary #125

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Why Wikidata is so important to Histropedia
  • Wikidata Outreach: What happened?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The new main page can now be translated.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: reporting mark, maximum glide ratio , FIFA player code, WALS family code, WALS genus code, WALS lect code, category for people died here, category for people born here, PRDL Author ID
• Development
  • Performance improvements for "in other projects sidebar" beta feature and bug fixes in the feature on wikis with sidebar cache enabled (e.g. zhwiki, commons)
  • Worked on performance improvements to badges feature
  • Fixing bug with xml format in the API, and added tests for it so hopefully this does not break again!
  • Worked more on enabling statements on properties
  • Further work on new user interface design groundwork - mostly refactoring and enabling editing of multiple sitelinks and label/alias/description at once
  • First pokes at usage tracking
  • Drafted an RfC to improve recent changes so we can show Wikidata changes also when enhanced recent changes is enabled
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 14. sep 2014, 20:42 (CEST)

The Signpost: 10 September 2014

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

• Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready
• Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
• WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
• Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity

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The Signpost: 17 September 2014

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

• News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third
• In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics
• WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland
• Featured content: Which is not like the others?
• Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack

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Lægge filer op, Vejviser til oplægning af filer?

Hello! Sorry for writing in English. As you're an administrator here, please check the message I left on MediaWiki talk:Licenses and the village pump. Thanks, Nemo 18. sep 2014, 21:23 (CEST)

Administratorkonto uden aktivitet

Administratorkonto uden aktivitet Der er ikke foretaget nogen redigeringer fra denne administratorkonto i de sidste 180 dage. Du bedes derfor foretage en tilkendegivelse af, hvorvidt du fortsat ønsker at støtte den danske Wikipedia. Hvis du inden for 30 dage ikke foretager en redigering, vil din administratorstatus blive frataget jf. Wikipedia:Administratorer#Fratagelse ved inaktivitet. Alternativt kan du selv anmode om at få frataget administratorstatus. You haven't contributed to Wikipedia in over 180 days. If you don't make at least one contribution within the next 30 days (from when this template was put on your talkpage), your sysop-rights will be revoked per the rules regarding inactive administrators. Oversigt over hvornår admin-værktøjer sidst har været anvendt Med venlig hilsen, Asger (diskussion • bidrag • e-mail) 23. sep 2014, 15:41 (CEST)

Fratagelse af administratorstatus Du har i en periode på 30 dage siden indsættelsen af skabelonen herover ikke bidraget til Wikipedia. Der vil blive oprettet en anmodning på Meta om fratagelsen af din administratorstatus jf. Wikipedia:Administratorer/Fratagelse af rettigheder. Med venlig hilsen Christian Giersing [ disk // bidrag // e-mail ] 22. okt 2014, 09:36 (CEST)

The Signpost: 24 September 2014

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

• In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii
• Featured content: Oil paintings galore
• Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the election in Scotland
• WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
• Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
• Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary

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Wikidata weekly summary #126

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

• Discussions
  • A new blocking policy has been accepted.
  • Proposal for an individual engagement grant to use Wikidata items for citations needs your input
  • RfC: redirect vs. deletion
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • past: Open Government WikiHack organized by Wikimedia DC in Washington, DC
  • upcoming: Wikidata training organized by Wikimedia UK with Magnus in London
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • With the deployment next Tuesday you will be able to edit all sitelinks at once as well as all fields of the "in other languages" box. This is an intermediate step towards the new user interface and will evolve further over the next weeks. You can see what is coming on Tuesday now already on test.wikidata.org.
  • WikiProject Names aims to improve name related data on Wikidata. Initial focus is on first names (given names). Half of items for first names still need cleaning up, but 15% of items for persons already have a given name defined.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Stack Exchange tag, vici.org ID, sourcing circumstances, has contributing factor, has immediate cause, birth name (Monolingual text), title, Nupill Literatura Digital - Document, Nupill Literatura Digital - Author, Commons Creator template, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID, male population, female population, number of households, contributing factor of, immediate cause of, used by, end cause, family name identical to this first name, country for sport, parents of hybrids, Glad identifier, kulturnoe-nasledie.ru identifier
  • Showcase items: Hessian Broadcasting Corporation, Fishing Creek
• Development
  • Jan Zerebecki has joined the Wikidata dev team.
  • Worked on supporting statements on properties in WikibaseDataModelSerialization (bugzilla:66425)
  • Fixed broken xml api output (bugzilla:70531), as well as some inconsistencies in the xml format and added tests that should help avoid future breakage in the xml format
  • Finished performance improvements for badges
  • Worked on entity usage tracking
  • Pietro from the EAGLE project came to visit us, one of the first 3rd party users of Wikibase. See http://www.eagle-network.eu
  • Added a hook point to allow 3rd party users (like the EAGLE project) of Wikibase to control what goes into the search index
  • Started work on a widget that lets you edit badges right in the item instead of going to the special page
  • Use checkboxes instead of a multiselect to edit badges on d:Special:SetSiteLink
  • Work on hhvm-related issues in Wikibase and temporarily disabled the beta feature on Wikidata until fixes are deployed for the issues.
  • Deployed new code on test.wikidata! (to be deployed on wikidata on Tuesday), see mw:Wikidata_deployment#wmf.2F1.25wmf1
  • Work on fixing empty maps in the JSON serialization, differentiate them from empty lists (fixed prerequisite bugzilla:70606)
  • Jeroen made a little video demonstrating how you can get a clone of Wikibase DataModel, set it up, and run it's tests: https://asciinema.org/a/12530
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 29. sep 2014, 14:13 (CEST)

The Signpost: 01 October 2014

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

• From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
• News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education
• Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
• Featured content: Brothers at War
• Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
• WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture

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Wikidata weekly summary #127

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

• Discussions
  • [[:d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/User conduct policies|Closed RfC: User conduct policies]
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.3.0 released - Wikidata Toolkit
  • ProteinBoxBot is making Wikidata the canonical resource for referencing and translating identifiers for genes and proteins from different species
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: depends on, motto, series ordinal, Federal Register Document Number, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID
• Development
  • Investigated and fixed issues with time values
  • Investigated issues with coordinate value precision
  • Fixed a number of issues related to HHVM
  • Further work on usage tracking
  • Created smoke tests for items and properties
  • Created a widget to edit badges directly on the item without going through the special page
  • Prepared for a week of work with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers next week to get more planning done for structured data support for Commons
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The Signpost: 08 October 2014

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

• In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian brushfire
• Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City
• Traffic report: Panic and denial
• Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread

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Wikidata weekly summary #128

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfA: Nikosguard
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming IRC office hour about structured data on Commons
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • All human genes are now wikidata items, for example: Here is one (of approximately 40,000) called "spinocerebellar ataxia 37" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18081265. Blog post about this to appear here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/
  • Want to be kept up-to-date on structured data on Commons? There is now a new newsletter you can subscribe to.
  • Interested in some statistics about the data on Wikidata? Check Wikidata Stats every now and then. (Thanks Magnus for moving it to the new dump format.)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: UBERON ID, Yandex.Music ID, has quality, Exceptionnal heritage of Wallonia ID, Orphanet ID, demonym (monoligual text), maximum Strahler number
• Development
  • Spent the week with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers to get more clarity about structured data on Commons. We'll be asking for feedback on a lot of stuff over the next weeks. The main info hub is taking shape at Commons:Structured data.
  • More fixes for the switch to HHVM
  • Looked into possible performance improvements. Some of them will be taken into the next sprint.
  • Battled a handful of nasty issues on the live-site
  • Wikibase DataModel 1.1 was released
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 12. okt 2014, 00:32 (CEST)

The Signpost: 15 October 2014

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

• Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
• Discussion report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-10-15/Discussion report
• Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace
• In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes
• Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?
• Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext
• Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
• WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest

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Wikidata weekly summary #129

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

• Discussions
  • Do you want to see constraint violation reports and referencing improved? Please provide input.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (log)
  • hackathon around scholarly articles on Wikidata (etherpad with notes)
  • Blog post about the meeting to discuss structured data on Commons in Berlin
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Clusters of humans and species on Wikidata
  • New parameter in the template Property documentation: subject item; see [this example edit] for how to use it
  • New tool: Linked Items. Returns sorted, de-duped list of Q values from a Wikipedia page, or chunk of wiki-text. Thank you, Magnus!
  • Wikidata annotation tool is looking for feedback
  • Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase by Denny and Markus has been published. It gives a very nice non-technical overview of Wikidata.
  • Magnus re-wrote Wiki ShootMe to now use Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Always wanted to know which topics have amazing articles on Wikimedia projects across many languages? Here you go!
  • Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
• Development
  • Improvements to sitelink editing usability
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 2.0
  • Profiling and performance improvements in Wikibase and Wikibase DataModel
  • Implementing LabelLookup, which is needed to improve performance of EntityId formatting. This will lead to improved item page loading times.
  • Added new featured list and recommended article badges.
  • Remove most usage of class aliases to be compatible with HHVM (dependencies of bugzilla:71295)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The Signpost: 22 October 2014

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

• In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator
• Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace
• Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest
• WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles - a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help
• Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV

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Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
• Development
  • Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
  • Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
  • When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
  • Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
  • Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
  • Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
  • Work on entity usage tracking
  • Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
  • Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
  • Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
  • Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The Signpost: 29 October 2014

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

• Featured content: Go West, young man (By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article)
• In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral
• Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
• Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
• Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles

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Wikidata weekly summary #131

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday! Have a look at the notes from the community and development team and add your note. Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)!
  • Wikidata II
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata is nominated for 2 Open Data Awards! \o/ Magnus and Lydia will attend the award ceremony next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
  • Wikidata as the central hub for open life science data
  • What is Wikipedia about? Great data viz based on Wikidata
  • Super Lachaise, a mobile app based on Wikidata for a cemetery in Paris
  • Random items without statements
  • Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata
  • Updated statistics on the topics with most highly-rated articles on Wikipedia
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID, Municipality code of Brazil, Pleiades identifier, MalaCards ID, natural product of taxon, official blog, University of Barcelona authority ID, Beilstein Registry Number, Gmelin Number
• Development
  • Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP
  • HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata
  • Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core
  • Work on language fall backs for new serialization code
  • Work on fixing XML dumps
  • Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions
  • Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further
  • Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries
  • Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties
  • Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink editing
  • Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 2. nov 2014, 15:24 (CET)

The Signpost: 05 November 2014

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

• In the media: Predicting the flu; MH17 conspiracy theories
• Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween

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Wikidata weekly summary #132

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

• Discussions
  • Zero error rate - help improve the quality of Wikidata's data

Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Lydia, Magnus and Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the ODI award gala

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata won the Open Data Award by the Open Data Institute in the category Publisher \o/ (blog post by ODI, blog post by WMDE)
  • Tutorial: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries
• Did you know?
  • Less than 23% of Wikidata items have no statement. Down from ~53% a year ago.
  • Newest properties: consecrator, Slovene Cultural Heritage designation, penalty, charge, judge, defender, prosecutor, defendant, number of casualties, deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID
• Development
  • Continued work on LabelLookup and related code to further improve performance
  • Made it possible to show references in statements on property pages. (Remaining bugs before roll-out are issues with adding/editing/removing statements on property pages.)
  • Further improvements to sitelink editing (The edit toolbar now floats so it doesn't scroll out of the page on a long list of sitelinks. An empty row for adding a new sitelink is shown by default when editing to make this faster and take less scrolling.)
  • Further adapting of simple query code so we can get it to review at the Foundation again.
  • Lots of bug fixes all over the place
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 10. nov 2014, 12:04 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #133

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page.
  • GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Help make sure these items have labels in your language
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NATO code for grade
• Development
  • Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
  • Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
  • Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage)
  • Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
  • Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance.
  • Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
  • Improved calendar model display
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 16. nov 2014, 01:00 (CET)

The Signpost: 12 November 2014

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

• In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
• Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania
• WikiProject report: Talking hospitals
• Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?

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Wikidata weekly summary #134

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Had a great hackathon for GLAM and Wikidata in Amsterdam last weekend
  • IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (logs)
  • Building a periodic table using Wikidata
  • Lydia will be speaking at internetdagarna in Stockholm on Monday
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Commons will get Phase 2 on December 2nd
  • The Sum of all Paintings - new app to nicely display data related to artwork
  • Institutions on Commons without an item on Wikidata
  • Wikidata descriptions being used to help clarify search results in the Wikipedia mobile app
  • WikidataTodo now shows you tasks to be done on Wikidata related to a specific country as well
  • VisualEditor coming as a beta feature
  • Statements on properties are getting closer to the finish line. You could help figure out which properties to use for describing and classifying properties.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MarineTraffic Port ID, MarineTraffic Ship ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer, SIREN number, CLARA-ID, History of Parliament ID, IRC channel, Commons Institution page
• Development
  • When a page is deleted on a client (Wikipedia, etc) its sitelink is now removed automatically from its Wikidata item
  • Reworked the automatic precision detection for coordinates
  • The long planned split of the code base into two independent Wikibase Repo and Client extensions is getting closer pretty fast these weeks
  • Made good progress on making the sitelinks section much more compact and moving it into the right-hand sidebar
  • While still reworking lots of details that slightly changed in DataModel 2.0 we already started working on a possible DataModel 3.0
  • More performance optimizations in the form of more advanced label lookup implementations
  • Implemented file-based cache of SiteStore to improve performance
  • Bug fixes
  • Updated the property suggester with new data! :)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23. nov 2014, 22:47 (CET)

The Signpost: 26 November 2014

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

• Featured content: Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions
• In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism
• Recent research: Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures
• Traffic report: Big in Japan
• WikiProject report: Back with the military historians

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Wikidata weekly summary #135

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm
  • Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin
  • Picture this!
  • Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next?
  • Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process
  • IRC office hour on Wednesday
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday
  • Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming
  • VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: China Vitae ID, Formatter URL, subject item, equivalent property, SIL code, Thai cultural heritage ID, has melody, MarineTraffic Port ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer
• Development
  • Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now)
  • Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance)
  • Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before
  • Fixed more issues with geocoordinates
  • Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access)
  • Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup)
  • Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix phabricator:T74348
  • Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing
  • JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on
  • Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar
  • Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs)
  • Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones
  • Fixed error in DataModel that was noticed by DataModelSerializer tests
  • Input on mw:Wikibase/Indexing
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 1. dec 2014, 17:14 (CET)

The Signpost: 03 December 2014

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

• Op-ed: Who edits health-related content on Wikipedia and why?
• In the media: Embroidery and cheese
• Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!
• Traffic report: Turkey and a movie
• WikiProject report: Today on the island

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Wikidata weekly summary #136

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • IRC office hour (log)
  • Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
  • Statements on properties are now live
  • Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
  • The Game has a new mode: alma mater
  • Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
  • Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
  • English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: working title, undercarriage
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Wikidata for research aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted.
• Development
  • Started work on units
  • More work on evaluating options for querying
  • Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
  • Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
  • Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
  • Work on improved label lookup performance
  • Wrapping up work on usage tracking
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 8. dec 2014, 17:48 (CET)

The Signpost: 10 December 2014

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

• Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!
• In the media: Wikipedia is "a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess"
• Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction
• Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.

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Wikidata weekly summary #137

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Running Wikidata queries on scientific publications
  • Finding ORCID identifiers used in Wikidata & Wikipedia
  • past: Wikidata workshop in NYC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Ancient philosopher communities visualized based on Wikidata data
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
• Development
  • More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
  • Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
  • Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
  • Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
  • Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
  • Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
  • Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
  • Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15. dec 2014, 14:00 (CET)

The Signpost: 17 December 2014

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

• In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders
• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results
• Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!
• Traffic report: A December Lull

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Wikidata weekly summary #138

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfAs: Petr Matas
  • Closed RfAs: Jared Preston (Successful)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Welcome Freebase!
    • Freebase announcement
    • Wikidata announcement
    • Wikiproject
    • Primary sources tool
    • Heise
    • Venturebeat
    • Gigaom
  • Wikidata for Research – presenting the team and a first sketch of the workplan
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New features! Language fallbacks, property data type and performance improvements
  • New tree of life based on Wikidata data
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: subproperty of, mandatory qualifier, NIST/CODATA ID, EgliseInfo ID
  • New task forces: Freebase, Sled dog racing
  • Showcase items: Lion
• Development
  • Happy holidays from the dev team, everyone :)
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Wikipedia
  • Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements, language fallback, and property data type
  • Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment
  • Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup)
  • Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign
  • Ongoing work on the WikibaseJavaScriptApi extension that was split from the Wikibase code base
  • Finished tree of life
  • Some more work on support for units
  • Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator
  • Wikidata Query has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a load balancer in front of it.
  • The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when adding new statements should be even better now.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 20. dec 2014, 18:49 (CET)

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The Signpost: 24 December 2014

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

• From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief
• In the media: Wales on GamerGate
• Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.
• WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost
• Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased

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The Signpost: 31 December 2014

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

• News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
• In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap
• Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation
• Featured content: A bit fruity
• Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide
• Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting

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Wikidata weekly summary #139

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

• Discussions
  • Provide your input on article placeholders based on Wikidata
  • new RfC: CoI editing
  • Anonymous artists at wiki project visual arts
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • We need to start talking about scaling Wikidata over the next months and years: Scaling Wikidata: success means making the pie bigger
  • The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
  • wikidata4research4all
  • There was a well-attended Wikidata meetup at 31C3
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Query now runs on multiple, load-balanced, self-restarting servers. Thanks to Yuvi for the help.
  • Vandals suck. Don't know how to help us fight them? Here are two pages to get you started: Wikidata:Vandalism and Wikidata:Abuse filter.
  • The Wikidata BEACON generator was updated by Magnus. It now uses all properties with “formatter URL”, so always up-to-date with target URLs. It is faster, too.
  • Number of visual artworks on Wikidata by institution
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Terminologia Histologica (TH), Terminologia Embryologica (TE), ICD-9-CM, operations and procedures key (OPS), ICD-10-PCS, central government debt as a percent of GDP, AniDB identifier, main property, awarded for work, Pokémon browser number, inscription, quote, subtitle, BBC Your Paintings artwork identifier, has vertex figure, index case of, number suspected, number probable, number confirmed, general formula, this taxon is source of, Route number, LAC identifier, CONA, ATCvet, TGN, Chess Club ID, Chess Games ID, Cycling Database ID, ProCyclingStats ID, DOI Prefix, Alexa rank, has index case, related property, number of faces, MPAA film rating, unveiled by, station number, wing configuration, TERYT municipality code, referee, YouTube video identifier, BBF identifier, Korean Movie Database ID, Dictionary of Welsh Biography ID
  • Showcase items: Iggy Azalea, Helsinki
• Development
  • Happy new year! :) It'll be a great one for Wikidata!
  • Have you filed bugs in the past? Awesome! It'd be super helpful if you have a look at your old bugs and see if they are still relevant. You can find them at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/authored/ (make sure you're logged in on Phabricator)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 4. jan 2015, 00:01 (CET)

The Signpost: 07 January 2015

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

• Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors
• In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints
• Featured content: Kock up
• Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne

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Wikidata weekly summary #140

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on Friday. You should come :)
  • Past: London Wikidata Meetup 2
    • We had a meetup with nine people:
    • set up Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland (sound recording of meeting available)
  • Upcoming: Open Data Day, 21st February 2015
    • For generic wiki, see International Open Data Day
    • Open Data Camp UK, Saturday/Sunday 21st/22nd February 2015
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We just crossed 14000 active users (over the last month). Thank you all!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Gray's Anatomy 1918 subject, Total valid votes, inverse of, NLP identifier
  • Newest WikiProjects: Food, UK and Ireland, Suisse
  • Newest gadgets: ExportClaims, Mark as patrolled from list of changes
• Development
  • The sitelink section has been reworked. This will go live on Wikidata on Tuesday. The sitelinks will then be slimmer and they will appear in a sidebar on the right side if there is enough space.
  • More performance improvements when parsing an item page, ~%15 faster for some pages :)
  • Titan was selected as the graph DB to implement a Wikidata query service running in production
  • Fixed adding links to ru.wikinews.org which was broken by its change to HTTPS-only
  • Worked on redesigning the header area (label, description, alias, in-other-languages box)
  • Polished d:Wikidata:Data access and d:Wikidata:Database download. Could still use some more work though if you have time.
  • Enabled PHP_CodeSniffer with Mediawiki rules and some additional ones to make us aware of more code issues
  • We no longer log some common 404 errors in the exception log
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11. jan 2015, 19:25 (CET)

The Signpost: 14 January 2015

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

• Featured content: Citations are needed
• In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors
• News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community
• Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you
• Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie
• WikiProject report: Articles for Creation: the Inside Story

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Wikidata weekly summary #141

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Speedy vs Regular deletion‎
  • Closed RfAs: George.Edward.C (successful)
  • Open RfAs: Petr Matas, Edoderoo
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • The Wikidata for research proposal was submitted to the European Union on January 14. Congrats to Daniel for spearheading that huge effort.
  • Blog post about how Wikidata can change the way citizen scientists contribute
  • IRC office hour happened (log)
  • Blog posts about gender inequality index based on Wikidata data by Max and Magnus
  • MediaWiki Developer Summit
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The development plan has been updated and expanded
  • Official Wikipedia app now uses Wikidata descriptions \o/ More to come!
  • Usage tracking will likely be deployed on February 2 on Wikidata. This will not be user-visible. It just means that pages using data from arbitrary items get updated/purged when the data changes. Arbitrary access is being tested at Test Wikidata and testwiki:Test Wiki. An example is at testwiki:Kitten on arbitrary page.
  • Assigning items on Mix'n'match will now make that change on Wikidata for you automatically
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: IGESPAR identifier, SIPA identifier, SkyscraperPage building id
• Development
  • Deployed new sitelinks interface design to Wikidata. It's not done yet but we're getting there. Tweaks are in progress.
  • Worked on redesign of header area
  • Fixed some bugs that popped up after deployment
  • Enabled usage tracking and arbitrary access on test.wikipedia.org and test.wikidata, and preparations for enabling it on Wikidata
  • Collecting Query examples for the new query functionality
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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The Signpost: 21 January 2015

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

• From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief
• Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost
• Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing
• Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better
• News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections
• In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers
• Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess
• Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens
• Technology report: The future of MediaWiki

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Wikidata weekly summary #142

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfAs: Petr Matas (unsuccessful), Edoderoo (successful)
  • Open RfAs: Eurodyne
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: MediaWiki Developer Summit
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: Wikidata for research meetup in February in Paris and Berlin
  • Past: Meetup in Cambridge
  • Brainstorming for Wikimania talks related to Wikidata is happening at phabricator:T87334 and you can apply for a scholarship
  • Wikidata - a year in numbers
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Want to help out mapping schema.org and Wikidata properties? There is now a ticket for coordination.
  • The new Content Translation tool uses Wikidata data to suggest the correct article to link to when translating a Wikipedia article to another language
  • Using GNOME Shell? There is a Wikidata search provider for you.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: award shared with, native label, pollenizer, pollination
  • You can influence the languages shown in the "in other languages box" by adding a bable box to your user page like here.
• Development
  • More work on header section redesign
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 2.5
  • Broke and fixed JSON dumps - sorry!
  • Implemented entity change subscription service
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 25. jan 2015, 12:08 (CET)

The Signpost: 28 January 2015

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

• From the editor: An editorial board that includes you

• Special report: Traffic in the fog—2014's most popular articles include death, Facebook, and Ebola

• In focus: Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case

• Forum: Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate

• In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia

• Featured content: Like Jack Kerouac's On The Road, this week's issue was written on amphetamines

• Traffic report: A sea of faces

• Recent research: Bot writes about theatre plays; "Renaissance editors" create better content

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Wikidata weekly summary #143

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfAs: Eurodyne (unsuccessful)
  • Open RfAs: BlackBeast
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: MediaWiki Developer Summit
  • Past: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: ArtBytes hackathon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • ATOM feeds for changes in Wikidata Query results. Define your own to keep an eye on changes in specific topics
  • Overview of the number of visual artworks items on Wikidata by creator (>5 items)
  • The Wikidata Free Image Search Tool can now also search Commons (not just follow language links)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: British Museum person-institution, Sächsische Biografie, equivalent class, LfDS object ID, DAAO identifier
  • Newest WikiProjects: Authority control
• Development
  • Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the left side (phabricator:T87096)
  • Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (phabricator:T87764)
  • Further work on header section redesign (phabricator:T75654)
  • Started redesign of statements section (phabricator:T87316)
  • Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is used on an item or property (phabricator:T85105)
  • Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase Repo code base
  • Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code quality
  • Released Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3 with language fallback support
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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The Signpost: 04 February 2015

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

• News and notes: No men beyond this point: the proposal to create a no-men space on Wikipedia
• Op-ed: Is Wikipedia for sale?
• In the media: Gamergate and Muhammad controversies continue
• Traffic report: The American Heartland
• Featured content: It's raining men!
• Arbitration report: Slamming shut the GamerGate
• WikiProject report: Dicing with death – on Wikipedia?
• Technology report: Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes
• Gallery: Langston Hughes

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Wikidata weekly summary #144

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfAs: BlackBeast
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Eurpeana Tech
  • Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata (slides)
  • Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship.
  • Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.
  • Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/
  • Mix'n'Match got a face lift
  • Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/
  • RStats client for Wikidata
  • Reasonator now also supports biography texts in French
• Did you know?
  • Showcase items: Lucy (first name)
• Development
  • Did more work on Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
  • Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
  • Further work on header section redesign
  • Tweaks to the sitelink section
  • Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
  • Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
  • Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes
  • Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (phabricator:T76213)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 7. feb 2015, 18:54 (CET)

The Signpost: 11 February 2015

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

• From the editors: We want to know what you think!
• News and notes: One editor faces likely ban for work on Wikipedia; another awarded $1 million
• In the media: Is Wikipedia eating itself?
• Traffic report: Bowled over
• WikiProject report: Brand new WikiProjects profiled
• Featured content: A grizzly bear, Operation Mascot, Freedom Planet & Liberty Island, cosmic dust clouds, a cricket five-wicket list, more fine art, & a terrible, terrible opera...
• Gallery: Feel the love

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Wikidata weekly summary #145

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Europeana Tech
  • Wir lieben Freie Software
  • Mapping resources using open knowledge: starting with books!
  • New recommendations outline ways to strengthen Europeana’s future relationship with Wikimedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Spiffy new project building on top of Wikidata: inventaire.io. Check out this example entry!
  • You will now see when a language fallback for a label is used on an item or property. The language name will be shown next to it.
  • Automatic descriptions for Wikidata items by Magnus
  • The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc) to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to be getting close.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Journalisted ID, Biography at the Bundestag of Germany, Metacritic ID
  • Newest WikiProjects: Identical Twins
• Development
  • <3
  • We are hiring! Passionate about Wikidata and know your way around Java Script and co? Apply!
  • We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move queries forward in Berlin
  • Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering. This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia infoboxes.
  • Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only)
  • Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code with the parser functions
  • Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding the actual input and not very useful there
  • Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data
  • Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install Wikibase
  • Fixed icinga notification that tests if dispatch lag gets high
  • Investigated several issues regarding storage of time values and started fixing them
  • Fixed editing of qualifiers
  • Fixed most browser tests after introduction of new header design
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14. feb 2015, 11:25 (CET)

The Signpost: 18 February 2015

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

• Editorial: Recent retirements typify problem of admin attrition
• In the media: Students' use and perception of Wikipedia
• Special report: Revision scoring as a service
• Traffic report: February is for lovers
• Gallery: Darwin Day
• Featured content: A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish
• Arbitration report: We've built the nuclear reactor; now what colour should we paint the bikeshed?

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Wikidata weekly summary #146

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Asking ever bigger questions with Wikidata
  • Wikidata4Research meetup in Berlin
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • As announced Wikibooks is getting access to Wikidata for their sitelinks on 24th. Coordination at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks
  • ViziData
  • Update on data quality project
  • Update on structured data for Commons
  • Using mw.wikibase.getEntity in a Lua module? Please read this.
  • Number of visual artworks items by property (type, genre, creator...) on Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: operty:P1721|pinyin transliteration]], posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, SANDRE ID, brand
  • Showcase items:Montblanc
• Development
  • Still looking for an awesome frontend developer to join the team
  • Met with Nik and Stas from WMF in Berlin for a week to move query functionality forward. Made good progress on evaluating backends and languages
  • Worked on RDF mapping/export
  • Introduced mw.wikibase.renderSnak(s) for rendering arbitrary Snaks in Lua. This can be used for rendering for example qualifiers or references.
  • Made it so that links in the “other projects” sidebar are alphabetically ordered
  • Made the diff views for dates easier to read
  • Continued work on the planned Wikibase View component
  • Continued work on header redesign
  • Worked on a new special page that lets you set label, description and aliases in one page
  • Fixed all browsertests to use new header section and adjusted them to use phantomjs
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • d:Wikidata:Glossary could use some serious simplification to make it easier to understand. Can you help?
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21. feb 2015, 21:45 (CET)

The Signpost: 25 February 2015

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

• News and notes: Did WMF "participate" in nefarious activity?
• Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
• In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
• Gallery: Far from home
• Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
• Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
• Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
• WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
• Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation

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The Signpost: 25 February 2015

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

• News and notes: Did WMF "participate" in nefarious activity?
• Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
• In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
• Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
• Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
• Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
• Gallery: Far from home
• WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
• Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation

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Wikidata weekly summary #147

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata
  • Past: Wikidata for Research meetup
  • Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: The Endless Story and a family tree)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits
  • Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well.
  • Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. Here are the Wikidata related ones.
  • New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff.
  • There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more?
  • Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Naturbase ID, Fach, AllMusic song ID, AllMusic album ID, AllMusic artist ID, Flora of North America ID, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID, beats per minute
  • Newest WikiProjects: Cheese, Filming Locations
  • Showcase items: None this week. Yours next week?
  • You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom)
• Development
  • Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject)
  • Updated the json documentation
  • Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. gerrit:168632
  • Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job
  • Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies
  • Fix for phabricator:T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients)
  • Final touches on new header design
  • Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements
  • More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype
  • Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface.
  • Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher 1. mar 2015, 13:45 (CET)

The Signpost: 04 March 2015

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

• From the editor: A sign of the times—the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier
• Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report
• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish quarterly reports, indicate operating changes
• Interview: Meet a paid editor
• Traffic report: Attack of the movies
• In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire
• Blog: Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
• Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur
• Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes

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Wikidata weekly summary #148

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfA: Haplology
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of March
  • upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Help flesh out landing pages for partners
  • Update on the Wikidata query service progress
  • The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
  • Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
  • Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
  • Showcase items:Symphony No. 7
• Development
  • Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
  • Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
  • Worked on updating the data model documentation
  • Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
  • Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
  • Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
  • Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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The Signpost: 11 March 2015

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

• Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey

• In focus: WMF to NSA: "stop spying on Wikipedia users"

• News and notes: WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign

• In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West

• Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time

• Featured content: Here they come, the couple plighted –

• Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters

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Wikidata weekly summary #149

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

• Discussions
  • Successful RfA: Haplology
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Pictures, reloaded
  • Improving data quality on Wikidata – checking what we have
  • Linkin mash
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Simple Wikidata graph generator
  • Please help test the next step for header redesign
  • Provide input about how to improve Wikidata watchlist integration on Wikipedia and other sister projects
  • Items without statements - help by adding "instance of" to some of them
  • Picture of current geocoordinate coverage on Wikidata
  • Query generator spreadsheet
  • Image search now allows the addition of the "grave image" property
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage ID, National Pipe Organ Register identifier, Hornbostel-Sachs classification, Watson & Dallwitz family ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase Occurrence, Aviation Safety Network accident description ID, category related to list, list related to category, scale, BBC Your Paintings collection identifier, name day, Parlement & Politiek ID, NCI Thesaurus ID, Flora of China, ZooBank nomenclatural act, VASCAN ID, Agassiz et al checklist number, Bradley and Fletcher checklist number, GTAA concept identifier, category for films shot at this location, CiNii book identifer, Merck Index monograph
• Development
  • Got next step for header redesign and other goodies ready for testing (see above)
  • Created gadget for displaying padlock indicators on protected items and properties
  • Preliminary support for statements in the RDF export
  • Fixed "page watched" icon not being updated after an edit that should trigger it
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 2.6
  • Wikidata builds are now prepared automatically each day
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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The Signpost: 18 March 2015

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

• From the editor: A salute to Pine

• Op-ed: Does the Wikimedia fundraising survey address community concerns?

• News and notes: SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation

• In the media: NYPD editing articles regarding allegations of police brutality and misconduct

• Featured content: A woman who loved kings, a king who loved angels ...

• Traffic report: It's not cricket

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Wikidata weekly summary #150

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Editathon at MACBA
  • Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne
  • Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin
  • Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ to answer their most common questions.
  • We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation and d:Wikidata:Data access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual.
  • Lots of improvements around MixNMatch. It has a new catalog overview page. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
  • There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata
  • First screenshot of the primary sources tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 and 2
  • DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology
  • Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: art-name, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, school of, possible creator, forgery after, manner of, circle of, follower of, workshop of, attributed to, USDA plant identifier, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier, LMI code, denkXweb identifier, place name sign
  • Newest WikiProjects: Municipalities of Germany
  • Newest gadgets: Image search supports the new "place name sign" property
• Development
  • Fixed property suggestions on empty items
  • Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions
  • Updated various documentation
  • Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality)
  • Polishing in the user interface
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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The Signpost: 25 March 2015

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

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy

• Op-ed: How my father's railroad image collection now benefits the world: the value of digitization

• Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude

• Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014

• Traffic report: Oddly familiar

• Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes

• Blog: The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program

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Wikidata weekly summary #151

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Sex and artists
  • VIAF is Moving to Wikidata
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour on Tuesday
  • Upcoming: Editathon in the pre-program of the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The next steps for the header redesign and bugfixes are live
  • New tool by Magnus that lets you add reference URLs with a single click
  • An update from Freebase (which is going read-only on Tuesday!)
  • The tours are working again thanks to Bene* and Lucie
  • Effort to define a biomedical relationship ontology for Wikidata
  • Eventzoom.net - displaying history from Wikidata on maps
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ABoK number, Word Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Danish National Filmography ID, Masaryk University person ID, EMLO person identifier, Commemorative plaque image, Wikimedia database name, Maltese Islands National Inventory of Cultural Property identifier, ISO 639-5, International Standard Industrial Classification code, Smithsonian American Art Museum: person/institution thesaurus id, bureau du patrimoine de Seine-Saint-Denis ID, format as a regular expression, category of associated people, category of people buried here, BioStor author identifier, chief operating officer, DVN identifier
• Newest WikiProjects:
• Newest gadgets: Image search can find photos for the new "commemorative plaque image" property
  • New task forces: Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
• There is a SpecialPage to easily get to the Wikidata item for a given Wikipedia article and another one to get to the Wikipedia article for a given Wikidata ID.
• Development
  • Deployed new code to Wikidata \o/ (and fixed a few issues that popped up)
  • Made good progress on RDF export (needed for example for queries)
  • Did more performance groundwork for arbitrary access
  • Students working on improved constraint reports and checking against 3rd party databases are making good progress
  • Looked into improving suggestions
  • Worked on making dispatching changes from Wikidata to Wikipedia and co more robust
  • Removed backwards compatibility from mw.wikibase.getEntity(), to be deployed April 7 and 8. See also here.
  • Improved support for right-to-left languages, e.g. in the sitelinks view
  • Created a unit test framework for special pages
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add multi-lingual labels for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 28. mar 2015, 21:29 (CET)

The Signpost, 1 April 2015

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

• News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base

• Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015

• Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

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The Signpost: 01 April 2015

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

• In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data
• In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism
• Traffic report: All over the place
• Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

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Wikidata weekly summary #152

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • WikiArabia takes place in Monastir, Tunisia, 3-5 April
  • The GLAM-WIKI 2015 conference in The Hague (10-12 April) features several presentations and tutorials about Wikidata for/with cultural institutions.
  • The Library world will use Wikidata to link its information to any and all Wikipedias. No longer English only, but every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way.
  • Freebase, SEO and Wikidata
  • Office hour on IRC covering overall status/development, Freebase and admin inactivity criteria RfC. You can read the log.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus wrote a short tour of Wikidata's tool ecosystem.
  • A first version of the Primary Sources Tool has been released. It'll help with migrating Freebase data and more.
  • Italian Wikipedia's quality festival is focusing on interwiki links and Wikidata this month. Help them out?
  • Lots of new databases have been added to Mix n Match.
  • Screenshots of the current state of new constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases have been posted.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: choreographer, senat.fr ID, Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
• Development
  • Wikidata development started 3 years ago. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
  • Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment
  • Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle-Beta dumps in place. All new Wikidata dumps will be in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for backwards compatibility).
  • Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to make the UI faster).
  • Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be cut short when quickly saving. (phabricator:T92831)
  • Fixed issues with setting focus after clicking edit.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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The Signpost: 08 April 2015

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

• Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam
• News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes
• In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity
• Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument
• Traffic report: Resurrection week
• Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments
• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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Wikidata weekly summary #153

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata by country, or: The Wealth of Nation's Data
  • Wikidata the Game - one year in
  • Ongoing: GLAM-Wiki 2015
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Build a RSS image feed based on a query
  • Periodic table based on Wikidata data by Ricordisamoa
  • ~8000 biographical items with dates in the description, but no birth/death date statements
  • Magnus says ~8% (~1.4M) of all Wikidata items do not have any site links to Wikipedia etc.; knowledge that exists exclusively on Wikidata
  • Bene* wrote a user script that adds a filter bar above the statement section and lets you filter it
  • Magnus wrote a quick user script to move identifiers into the right sidebar to show how a statement section without identifiers would look like. This came up as part of a longer discussion on the mailinglist about moving identifier statements into their own section. Progress is being tracked at phabricator:T95287.
  • Samsung releases Freebase-Wikidata mappings in CC0: 4.4M pairs generated from Wikipedia links and custom code
  • Thanks to Bene* hovercards now also work for items and properties
  • New tool by Magnus for Wikidata item labels
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: short name, list of episodes, named as
  • New task forces: Star Wars, Open Access
• Development
  • We are going to change the way value suggestions are ranked when entering a new statement. This will help with "male" and "female" not showing up among the top suggestions. Previously we ranked by number of sitelinks. We will change this to the maximum of sitelinks and labels. So if an item has labels in many languages but no sitelinks like "male" and "female" it will still show up high in the suggestions. (phabricator:T94404)
  • Discussed how to move forward with identifiers. Outcome: They should get their own datatype. (phabricator:T95287)
  • Implemented arbitrary access for the {{#property:…}} parser function. This can be invoked on the wikis that have arbitrary access enabled by using {{#property:P123|from=Q42}}. So far this is only Wikidata itself.
  • Did further performance work on the client (Wikipedia and co) in preparation for arbitrary access
  • Improved the performance of wbgetentities significantly when loading a large number of entities
  • Wrote more browser tests for different datavalues
  • Further work on RDF mapping and dumps
  • Fixed in other language box showing old data (phabricator:T90893)
  • Fixed language fallback on Special:Recent changes and Special:Contributions
  • Added language fallback for the tooltip on badge icons
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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The Signpost: 15 April 2015

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

• News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review
• In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax
• Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!
• Traffic report: Furious domination
• Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis

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Wikidata weekly summary #154

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfA: Aldnonymous
  • RfC: Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties, Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Redirects on Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Tool by Magnus to find wrong nationalities on Wikidata
  • Where am I? (figuring out your location based on geocoordinates in Wikidata)
  • Map of French national parks
  • Histropedia published 5 query generator spreadsheets
  • Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Baseball-Reference.com minor league player ID, Baseball-Reference.com major league player ID, road number, BAnQ ID, DSH object ID, Open Food Facts food category slug, Open Food Facts food additive slug, genealogics.org personID, Kaiserhof ID, addressee, National Portrait Gallery (London) person identifier, RSL book's identifier, name in kana
• Development
  • Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use
  • Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type
  • Expanded our set of automated browser tests
  • Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb.
  • Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release
  • Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support
  • Continued work on our RDF generator
  • Continued work on usage tracking for labels on multilingual sites
  • Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects
  • Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect
  • Work on showing entity labels in edit summaries on history pages
  • Implemented change dispatching based on the new usage tracking mechanism
  • Fixed issue with page deletions on some Wikipedias not being reported to Wikidata
  • More work on straightening out date formatting and parsing
  • Fixed handling of scientific notation for quantity values
  • Term box: fixed bug causing stale info to be show, and another bug causing babel languages to be ignored sometimes.
  • Implemented access to other arbitrary items via the #property parser function
  • Bene* implemented check to make sure two properties can not have the same alias only differing in capitalization
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 19. apr 2015, 11:52 (CEST)

The Signpost: 22 April 2015

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

• Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing
• News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections
• In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality
• In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway
• Featured content: Vanguard on guard
• Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes
• Gallery: The bitter end

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Wikidata weekly summary #155

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Opting out of Global sysops 2
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata emerges as central element of GLAM-WIKI 2015
  • ongoing: Coding DaVinci
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The question that started Wikidata has finally been answered! Thank you Markus! ;-)
  • Wikimedia Sverige adapted two brochures about Wikidata, one for GLAMs and one for researchers.
  • Bene* has been working on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile. You can check the current status on a demo system.
  • Amir could use your help with automatic transliteration of human names
  • Commons-WD: a tool to edit Wikidata based on a Commons category
  • Various improvements to the Primary Sources Tool including:
    • Edits made with it will now say so in the edit summary
    • It now uses the URL blacklist to not suggest low-quality references
    • Caching issues were fixed
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Kiev street code, blood type, Perry Index, input set, SSR Name ID, SSR WrittenForm ID, INPN Code, Nasjonalbiblioteket photographer ID, distribution map, anti-virus alias, HathiTrust id, common name, Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online identifier, Swedish district code, investigated by, US Federal Election Commission identifier, PSS-archi ID, Gaoloumi ID, draft pick number, GrassBase ID, electorate, owner of, Roud Folk Song Index, IPI Code, ISWC
  • There are a number of user boxes you can add to your user page to indicate interests and which wiki projects you belong to.
• Development
  • On Tuesday, we are deploying usage tracking (no arbitrary access yet) to Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource, and subscription tracking on Wikidata. There should be no noticeable changes for users. These are necessary steps towards enabling arbitrary access in clients.
  • Worked on making language fallback work in the suggester (when adding a new statement or searching for an item)
  • More work on RDF output and the query service
  • Added Special:RedirectEntity for redirecting items
  • Investigated and working to fix JS bug on items with “invalid” values (phabricator:92975)
  • Did work towards having entity ids in revision histories and in diffs linked with their label (like on watchlists or in the recentchanges)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 26. apr 2015, 15:59 (CEST)

The Signpost: 29 April 2015

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

• Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers
• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost
• In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance
• Featured content: Apartheid and related topics, awards and accolades, and a bunch of tough journeys
• Recent research: Popularity vs. quality, Wikipedia images show how copyright damages economy, bots as servants or policemen
• Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide
• Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates

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Wikidata weekly summary #156

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata was presented at a Swedish Linked Data Network Meet-up in Gothenburg.
  • The most important Wikipedia pages
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • P107 (main type) is finally orphaned and deleted, 20 months after deprecation. This was the first property used 1000000 times.
  • The royal baby was quickly updated on Wikidata. (her family tree)
  • New tool by Magnus: Find pictures on geography.co.uk, upload them to Commons and add them to Wikidata
  • All Van Gogh Museum paintings are now on Commons and Wikidata. Go go SumOfAllPaintings peeps!
  • List of topics with links in at least X Wikipedias
  • All French Senators matched using MixNMatch \o/
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: represented by, Netflix Identifier, maximum number of players, minimum number of players, CERL ID, Name Assigning Authority Number, Hall of Valor ID, ballots cast, eligible voters, catholic-hierarchy diocese ID, Wikidata example geographic coordinates, Wikidata example monolingual text, Wikidata example property, Wikidata example quantity, Wikidata example time, Wikidata example URL, Wikidata example item value, Wikidata example string, Wikidata example media file, Wikidata property example
• Development
  • We rolled out usage tracking on the first two wikis (French Wikisource and Dutch Wikipedia). Users should not notice anything. More wikis will follow in the next weeks. This is the remaining step for enabling arbitrary access on wikis other than Commons.
  • The students team is working hard to get a first release of the improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases out.
  • Ricordisamoa fixed the issue with long descriptions being cut off.
  • We fixed the focus flow in the property selector.
  • We improved the messages on Special:EntityData to make it more understandable.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 3. maj 2015, 16:13 (CEST)

The Signpost: 06 May 2015

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

• Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues
• News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced
• In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award
• Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes
• Traffic report: The grim ship reality
• Blog: How many women edit Wikipedia?

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Wikidata weekly summary #157

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Mbch331
  • New request for comments: Notability policy overhaul
  • Closed requests for comments: Conflict of Interest (no consensus), Speedy vs Regular deletion (stale)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • A study has been published about how Wikidata can help significantly improve the quality of medical content on Wikipedia. This is why we do Wikidata! \o/
  • MusicBrainz is migrating to Wikidata for Wikipedia links
  • Past: Open Data for Academics - some media available on Wikimedia Commons.
  • Upcoming: OuiShare Labs Camp in Paris
  • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata Visualization Challenge has started. You can enter your submission until June 1 (23:59 CEST).
  • Denny has published a proposed breakdown of tasks for Wiktionary support incl mockups. Please read and comment.
  • The Wikidata Menu Challenge has started and goes on to May 27. Add labels, images and pronunciation audio to a list of around 290 items to help show off the power of Wikidata at a food festival.
  • Dynamic lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data
  • The Frick Collection and the Brooklyn Museum both have their paintings on Wikidata now.
  • The most distant known galaxy EGS-zs8-1 (Q19860435) has been discovered and added to Wikidata.
  • Reasonator has been restyled, to work better on mobile devices. It also has an enhanced display on first names (exsample: Paul)
  • Woah! Volcanos! (Help match the Smithonian's volcano identifiers with Wikidata) ;-)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Smithsonian volcano identifier, cathedral, hair color, Declarator.org ID, Web Gallery of Art identifier, list of characters, measured by, income classification (Philippines), Vox-ATypI classification, after a work by, spacecraft
• Development
  • Access to data from arbitrary items is coming to the first wikis on Monday \o/ It'll be Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource.
  • Sneak peek at the current state of development for showing constraint violations on statements
  • Hovercards also show the target's label and ID now. (Try them by turning them on in the beta features section of your preferences.)
  • Continued working on RDF export
  • More work on making it possible to add a reference right away when adding a statement (and allowing the full statement incl references to be edited at the same time)
  • Did more work to make usage tracking possible on multilingual wikis (namely Commons)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 13 May 2015

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

• Foundation elections: WMF Board candidates share their views with the Signpost
• Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?
• In the media: Grant Shapps story continues; Wikipedia's "leftist ties"
• News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests
• Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way
• Traffic report: Round Two

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Wikidata weekly summary #158

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Mbch331
  • Closed request for comments: Opting out of Global sysops 2
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
  • Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
  • Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
  • Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
  • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Elections for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation are ongoing. Wikidata should be well represented among the voters. Go and vote!
  • Wikidata won another award by Land der Ideen! \o/ Thank you everyone who is making Wikidata awesome!
  • Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource now have the arbitrary access feature. Persian Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikipedia are following today. Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects are following on June 1st.
  • New manual for adding inventory numbers to paintings on Wikidata
  • English Wikipedia is running a bot to add authority control templates to many articles that are filled completely from Wikidata. Italian Wikipedia is doing so as well.
  • Wikidata won an Open Data award last year. Nominations for this year are open now. Who should win this year?
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources entry, vice-county
• Development
  • Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
  • Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
  • Improvements to calendar handling
  • More work on RDF export for query service
  • Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
  • Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 20 May 2015

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

• News and notes: The dark side of comedy: Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes
• In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts
• From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election
• In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize
• WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology
• Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases
• Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls
• Traffic report: Inner Core

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Wikidata weekly summary #159

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

• Events/Blogs/Press

Wikimedia Hackathon 2015

• • State of the Map US (OpenStreetMap's conference) in New York on 6-8 June
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 in Lyon from 23-25 May. Some of the activities and outcomes:
    • Wikidata descriptions can be soon be edited in the Wikipedia iOS app.
    • A early preview of the official SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata has been created to query Wikidata. Remember that it is not stable and still beta. A short introduction to SPARQL can be found in Lucie's slides.
    • If you are not familiar with SPARQL yet, a tool has been created by Tpt and Bene* to generate SPARQL queries from natural language questions.
    • To do SPARQL queries from the command line, a command line tool was crafted by Marius.
    • The special page to query for badges is within reach.
    • A feedback session on the architecture of Wikibase was held.
    • We got a cool presentation by Maxime about inventaire.io.
    • We figured out the next steps to make Wikidata more mobile friendly.
    • Pilot on the Hungarian Wikipedia to show diagrams based on Wikidata in their articles on Spanish villages
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New command line tool for mapping SKOS to Wikidata (video)
  • The Wikidata Visualization Challenge is ending soon. Please submit your entries. The Wikidata Menu Challenge is also ending soon.
  • The number of videos about Wikidata is growing and there is now a category on Wikimedia Commons for these.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: lowest note, highest note, source website, Fauna Europaea ID, Danish urban area code, OpenPlaques plaque identifier, signatory, BNC identifier, different from
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Elections
• Development
  • Got early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata live
  • The Graph extension is now live on Wikidata
  • Arbitrary access is rolled out on fawiki, hewiki and enwikivoyage now
  • Busy with the hackathon (see above)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 27 May 2015

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

• News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans
• In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history
• Recent research: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin
• Traffic report: Summer, summer, summertime
• Discussion report: A relic from the past that needs to be updated
• Featured content: When music was confined to a ribbon of rust
• Technology report: MediaWiki blows up printers

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Wikidata weekly summary #160

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • upcoming: State of the Map US
  • Visualizing history with automated event maps
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Final hours to make your vote count in the WMF board election
  • Now we have Q20000000 and P1900
  • Wikidata stats have been updated
  • Over 100 timeline of famous painters by Histropedia
  • WD-FIST can now take a manual item list and limit its search to JPEGs
  • Traveling this summer? Find items needing pictures around you with WikiShootMe
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: altered regulation leads to, posttranslational modification association with, gene substitution association with, gene inversion association with, gene insertion association with, gene duplication association with, deletion association with, increased expression in, decreased expression in, side effect, Commonwealth War Graves Commission person identifier, Australian Dictionary of Biography identifier, office held by head of state, FundRef registry name, Volcanic explosivity index, Spotify artist ID, BALaT person/organisation id, EAGLE id, Librivox author ID
• Development
  • Recovering from hackathon
  • Prepared rollout of usage tracking and arbitrary access to more wikis
  • Testing of the query service
  • Fixed styling issues with entity selector
  • Worked more on Capiunto to make it easier to create good infoboxes
  • Worked on making broken values editable to fix them (this for example happens when a property is deleted but some values are left over)
  • Made entity id an optional parameter in mw.wikibase.label and mw.wikibase.description lua methods. (default to use connected item)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 03 June 2015

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

• News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out
• Blog: How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
• Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia
• Special report: Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013
• In the media: Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim
• Traffic report: A rather ordinary week
• Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings
• Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier

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Wikidata weekly summary #161

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

• Discussions
  • RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more
  • Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides)
  • Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata in favour of Wikidata.
  • New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references
  • The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election. One name should sound familiar to you ;-)
  • Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata. More coming.
  • Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest Wikipedias have.
  • Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
  • Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
  • Zolo did a comparison of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
  • Connectivity statistics were updated.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: DMS V, Clinvar Accession Number, Vaccine Ontology ID, VIOLIN ID, vaccine for, participating team, first line, URI pattern for RDF resource, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID
  • Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled by User:Petr Matas
• Development
  • Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access.
  • The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
  • Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
  • Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by Wikibase: wikibase.resolvePropertyId and wikibase.entity:getBestStatements.
  • Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.)
  • Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps location there (/public/dumps).
  • Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the API.
  • Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.)
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 10 June 2015

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

• News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief
• Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity
• In the media: Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel
• Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma'am
• Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only
• Blog: Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese

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Wikidata weekly summary #162

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

• Discussions
  • Should we have a Wikidata User Group?
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Thanks to everyone who participated in the Wikidata:Menu Challenge which made Wikidata shine at A Taste of Stockholm. The live results are still up at https://wikimedia-sverige.github.io/tastydata .
  • Upcoming: Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
  • Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata in Paris
  • News about Wikidata FIST
  • Review of the big interwiki link migration
  • Timeline of Christopher Lee films
  • Wikidata map - 19 months on
  • A challenge was raised to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • ViziData has been improved significantly
  • Wikidata Visualization Challenge winners announced: first prize to ViziData.
  • New paper: Peer-production system or collaborative ontology development effort: what is Wikidata?
  • Jura1 posted some data around property usage on items about people
  • Tpt is interning at Google now to free up more content from Freebase for us. He's adding more data to the Primary Sources Tool.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: street key, relief location map, location map, McCune-Reischauer romanization, conifers.org ID, Dyntaxa ID, Project Gutenberg ID, UN/LOCODE, Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID, DBCS ID, Animator.ru ID, MobyGames ID, stated as, PGCH ID
• Development
  • Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access for more.
  • More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access)
  • Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (phabricator:T102148)
  • More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items
  • More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment.
  • The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile.
  • Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily
  • Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch
  • Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4
  • Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4
  • New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 17 June 2015

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

• Arbitration report: An election has consequences
• Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin
• Featured content: Great Dane hits 150
• In focus: Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe
• In the media: Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch
• Interview: A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars
• News and notes: Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief
• Op-ed: Making a difference in Wikipedia, one GA at a time
• Technology report: HTTPS-only rollout completed, proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts
• WikiProject report: We are back - Western Australia speaks

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Wikidata weekly summary #163

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

• Discussions
  • German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • en:South Pole Telescope is a nice example of an infobox completely filled from Wikidata.
  • Q20150617 was created on 2015-06-17
  • More data from Freebase have been added the Primary Sources Tool. There is also a page to help the mapping of Freebase properties.
  • Nice new manual for MixnMatch
  • The new nature.com/ontologies links to external ontologies and datasets; among them Wikidata.
  • National Gallery of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum now have entries for all their paintings on Wikidata thanks to wiki project Sum of all Paintings
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: takeoff and landing capability, Discogs label ID, Discogs master ID, Discogs artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum band id, investor, second surname in Spanish name, CulturaItalia ID, BerlPap identifier, Mapillary id, National Library of Ireland authority
  • Newest WikiProjects: Cross Items Interwikis
• Development
  • Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
  • Worked more on unit support
  • Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
  • Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
  • The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
  • The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
  • More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
  • Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
  • Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
  • Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
  • Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
  • Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 24 June 2015

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

• From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative
• Op-ed: Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia
• News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments
• In the media: Turkish Wikipedia censorship; "Can Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing
• Special report: Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia
• Recent research: How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles
• Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done
• Blog: 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
• Arbitration report: Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration
• Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced

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Wikidata weekly summary #164

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Ateliers Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
  • Reductionism
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Which geographic areas do different Wikipedias cover? How does it compare to Wikidata? Markus has a beautiful answer
  • Wikiproject Molecular Biology and AskPlatypus are shortlisted for the OpenData Award \o/ This is the award Wikidata won last year.
  • Paper on vandalism on Wikidata. Lydia is in touch with them to figure out how to best use the insights for us.
  • Reasonator got some updates: it is now using external ID formatter URLs, has monolingual string support and better social network links
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID, Foursquare venue ID, BoxRec ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile catalogue number, sortkey, properties for this type, patron, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Google Scholar ID, Dutch Senate person ID, Trismegistos ID, Wikisource index page
  • Newest External tools: Wikidata Compare
  • Showcase items: none. Yours next week?
• Development
  • Jonas joined the team and Adam is back \o/
  • Deployed arbitrary access to ruwiki and cswiki
  • Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (phabricator:T96298)
  • Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (phabricator:T94588)
  • More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
  • Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (phabricator:T103796)
  • Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
  • Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (phabricator:T103489)
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (phabricator:T103603)
  • Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 28. jun 2015, 20:15 (CEST)

The Signpost: 01 July 2015

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

• News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF
• In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology
• WikiProject report: Able to make a stand
• Featured content: Viva V.E.R.D.I.
• Traffic report: We're Baaaaack
• Technology report: Technical updates and improvements
• Blog: These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution

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Wikidata weekly summary #165

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about Atheism and the religion property.
  • Discussion about the Verifiability of data as a policy.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new database report lists people categorized as dead in Wikipedia, but lacking Property:P570 (date of death). It's updated several times during the day. There are about 20 to 30 new entries each day. There is currently some backlog from the Arabic, Marathi, and Thai Wikipedias. Items updated first in Wikidata wont appear in the report. They are listed directly in Wikidata's recent deaths report.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: RSL editions, Open Hub ID, number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID
• Development
  • Adam wrote a blog post on the improvement of the data after one year and GeneaWiki
  • After the next deployment, Special:ItemDisambiguation will match aliases and be case insensitive.
  • Improved details of matches in the entity suggester (wbsearchentities api module)
  • Deployed the WikibaseQuality and WikibaseQualityConstraints extensions to test.wikidata.org
  • Fixed the layout of long qualifier names
  • JSON dumps are now automatically copied to labs
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 4. jul 2015, 23:16 (CEST)

The Signpost: 08 July 2015

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

• Editorial: So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?
• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief
• In the media: Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved
• Traffic report: The Empire lobs back
• Featured content: Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #166

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Slides on Primary Sources Tool and Wikidata introduction (in Spanish) for the Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
  • Presentation about Wikidata at the Axel Springer Hack Day 2015
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikiresearch looked into the coverage of the moon by geotags in Wikidata
  • Wikiresearch published a visualization of the relationship between nationality and occupation based on Wikidata's data
  • Which zoo has polar bears? Wikidata attempts to answer the question here. Work in progress.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MCN code, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Anime News Network anime ID, Anime News Network manga ID, Anime News Network company ID, Anime News Network person ID, FSK film rating, PolSys ID, Righteous Among The Nations ID, USDA NDB number, lesarchivesduspectacle ID, INEGI locality identifier
• Development
  • The Wikidata Quality extension (constraint reports per item) was deployed. You can now use d:Special:ConstraintReport to see the result for different items. This is for example the constraint report for the item cat (Q142).
  • 8 million additional statements from Freebase were made available through the Primary sources tool
  • Moving towards having a single edit button to edit references along with the value they belong to.
  • Bene continued working on phasing out the deprecated Entity superclass and making more entity types possible.
  • More work on phasing out a deprecated serializer implementation we still use in certain places.
  • Further work on the new RDF export.
  • PHPCS is now used on each change in Wikibase to ensure the code fulfils certain code quality standards.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The Signpost: 15 July 2015

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

• Op-ed: On paid editing and advocacy: when the Bright Line fails to shine, and what we can do about it
• News and notes: The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania
• In the media: Shapps requests WMUK data; professor's plagiarism demotion
• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation releases third transparency report
• Traffic report: Belles of the ball
• WikiProject report: What happens when a country is no longer a country?
• Technology report: Tech news in brief
• Featured content: When angels and daemons interrupt the vicious and intemperate

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Wikidata weekly summary #167

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Nikki
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Right now: Wikimania
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus made some new tools:
    • list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no image, grouped by employer. Check your university!
    • list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no ORCID iD, grouped by employer. Ditto!
    • an InfoBitt replacement
    • a tool you can use to match up Wikipedia articles without an item to either an existing item or a create a new one if none exists
    • plus Mix'N'Match got new datasets you can help match up with Wikidata
  • P2000 was created.
  • Some presentations at Wikimania related to Wikidata have detailed slides online:
    • WikiProject Sum of All Paintings
    • Templates are dead! Long live templates!, technical presentation on the function and future of template syntax
    • Future of structured documents: VisualEditor, Citations and Wikidata, oh my!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID, parliament.uk bio link, medical specialty, AllMusic composition ID, TeX string, Plazi ID, LPSN URL, species kept, Encyclopaedia Metallum artist ID, Delarge ID
  • New task forces: Linguistics
• Development
  • Attending Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City right now, meeting awesome people that already use or want to know everything about Wikidata.
  • After the next deployment, redirects will be automatically created when merging items.
  • Special:UnconnectedPages can now be queried via the query API, thanks to Ladsgroup.
  • Migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
  • Worked on a new time parser that can parse formats like M/D/Y, Y M D and so on.
  • Fixed a bug where a value could not be edited when save failed.
  • Made the snak type, badge and rank selectors position themselves after resizing the browser window and introduced a possibility to collapse the sitelinks sections.
  • Worked on a change in editing to be able to edit a statement and it’s references in one step.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The Signpost: 22 July 2015

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

• From the editor: Change the world
• News and notes: Wikimanía 2016; Lightbreather ArbCom case
• Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015 report, part 1, the plenaries
• In the media: Novelists annotate Wikipedia; Wales promotes TPO; Working for free
• Traffic report: The Nerds, They Are A-Changin'
• WikiProject report: Some more politics
• Featured content: The sleep of reason produces monsters\
• Gallery: "One small step..."
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #168

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Nikki
  • Open request for oversightership: Sjoerddebruin
  • Closed request for comments: Administrative divisions and populated places, Given names and surnames
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you!
  • Past: Wikimania
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Upload of 4.2M new statements from Freebase in the Primary Sources tool.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NALT id, Instagram username, Twitter username, Revised Romanisation, CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID
• Development
  • Continued migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
  • Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.7.0
  • Depreacting the parameter ungroupedlist in the api modules GetClaims and GetEntities
  • Tweaking the sitelink input
  • Changing the display of item selector results
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 27. jul 2015, 01:49 (CEST)

The Signpost: 29 July 2015

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

• News and notes: BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate
• Op-ed: My life as an autistic Wikipedian
• Recent research: Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted
• In the media: Is Wikipedia a battleground in the culture wars?
• Featured content: Even mammoths get the Blues
• Traffic report: Namaste again, Reddit

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Wikidata weekly summary #169

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for Oversight: Sjoerddebruin
  • Enable Flow on Wikidata?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Early version of a reconcile API for Wikidata by Magnus
  • PagePile: a new tool by Magnus
  • Mix-n-Match got a number of new catalogs and now shows a thin red line in front of a catalog that does not yet have a property on Wikidata
  • 1.700 biographical items without gender, but with image. Go go go!
  • Interested in art movements? Check out this
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MoMA artwork id, Facebook ID, cuisine, Cooper-Hewitt Person ID, Exif make, Exif model, IPNI publication ID, ZooBank publication ID, ZooBank author ID, Catalogus Professorum Halensis, NALT id
  • Showcase items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062)
• Development
  • Minor fixes to property edit mode
  • Some fixes for the cucumber test errors
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 4.0
  • Released Wikibase DataModel Services 1.0
  • Continued work to migrate away from old serializers in Wikibase Lib to those in WikibaseDataModelSerialization.
  • Working on scripts for importing entities from another Wikibase instance (e.g. Wikidata), so that development instances can have some sample data.
  • Fixed the counting of references
  • Changed style of the Entitytermsview inputs
  • Entity Selector displays alias in brackets behind label
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 2. aug 2015, 21:29 (CEST)

The Signpost: 05 August 2015

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

• Editorial: Wikipedia better equipped to deal with systemic bias than traditional publishers
• Op-ed: Je ne suis pas Google
• News and notes: VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief
• WikiProject report: Meet the boilerplate makers
• In the media: Probe into Nehru edits launched; dangers of the right to be forgotten
• Traffic report: Mrityorma amritam gamaya...
• Featured content: Maya, Michigan, Medici, Médée, and Moul n'ga
• Blog: Get help editing Wikipedia with the new “Co-op” mentorship program

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Wikidata weekly summary #170

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for oversight rights: Sjoerddebruin
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikimedia UK is organizing a Wikidata training session. You can sign up here.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Talk pages on Wikidata can now be converted to use Flow. You can request migrating your talk page at d:Wikidata:Flow.
  • Mix-n-Match got a bunch of new catalogs for you to match up with Wikidata. Currently matching is happening at about 500 items per day. Pretty sweet :)
  • @happybirthdayauthors is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
  • Arbitrary access is rolling out to a large number of wikis over the next two weeks.
  • Duplicity can help you match up unlinked Wikipedia articles to a Wikidata item.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID, Teuchos ID, isomeric SMILES, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Groninganae id, Hansard ID
• Development
  • Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks so they are easier to notice and understand
  • Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
  • The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
  • The number of entities loaded via the {{#property:…}} parser function and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be found below a page preview or within the Html of a page)
  • Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
  • Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects is not too high.
  • Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
  • Moved two extensions (Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to Gerrit. More will follow.
  • We'd like to drop a database table. Discussion is ongoing.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 9. aug 2015, 20:20 (CEST)

The Signpost: 12 August 2015

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

• News and notes: Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA
• In the media: Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj
• Forum: Community voices on paid editing
• Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015, part 2, a community event
• Traffic report: Fighting from top to bottom
• Featured content: Fused lizards, giant mice, and Scottish demons
• Technology report: Tech news in brief
• Blog: The Hunt for Tirpitz

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Wikidata weekly summary #171

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

• Discussions
  • Reinforcement of data analysis before any modification of the DB
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • cooperation between free content projects
  • A case is made to concentrate our quality efforts on the differences between Wikidata and other sources
  • Ongoing: Several team members are attending the Chaos Communication Camp.
  • Upcoming: SmartDataConference
  • A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata needs your vote! It only takes a minute.
  • WikiProject Sum of all Paintings reached the milestone of 100.000 paintings. Congrats!
  • Arbitrary access is now available on another ~250 Wikipedias].
  • See d:Wikidata talk:Arbitrary access#Use cases: testing modules and templates for two general use cases for arbitrary access on Wikipedia's regression testing of Wikidata-related modules and templates and testing infoboxes with Wikidata content.
  • List of articles on English Wikipedia without a Wikidata item (also works for other projects)
  • You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases? Try relabel!
  • SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items.
  • Mix-n-Match has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia.
  • Deaths at Wikipedia are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack d:Property:P570 (date of death).
  • 93% of items about people have a gender set now.
  • Want to make both Wikidata and Inventaire better? You can help by finding those books' authors.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
  • Newest tools: Suggestor
• Development
  • Rolled out arbitrary access to about 250 Wikipedias including German, French and Japanese. More to come in a few days.
  • Worked more on quantities. Looks like we'll have it on a demo system for you to try a first version within the next two weeks.
  • Bene* is joining us for a month as an intern. Welcome!
  • References are now hidden while loading the page, speeding up page load time
  • First commit to the ArticlePlaceholder extension
  • Expensive parser functions now count each entity only once
  • Released a new version of the DataModelServices component and started using it
  • Started working on phasing out the wb_entity_per_page table. It will be kept around and updated for some time to allow tool owners to migrate.
  • The Wikibase code base now fullfills all of MediaWiki’s PHPCS coding standards
  • Added property IDs to Special:ListProperties
  • Did a lot of bug triage on Phabricator
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17. aug 2015, 13:03 (CEST)

The Signpost: 19 August 2015

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

• Op-ed: WP:THREATENING2MEN: The English Wikipedia's misogynist infopolitics and the hegemony of the asshole consensus
• In the media: Politically controversial science; "Wikipedia hates women"
• Featured content: Dead parrots, live frogs, a symbolic kiss and what do we get? Enrique Iglesias!
• Travelogue: Seeing is believing
• Traffic report: Straight Outta Connecticut
• Technology report: Tech news in brief
• Blog: How Wikipedia responds to breaking news

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Wikidata weekly summary #172

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: SmartData conference
  • Paper: Reifying RDF: What Works Well With Wikidata?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata made it into the top 10 of the Land der Ideen competition \o/ This means we're part of the final public voting starting on 9th of September. Thanks everyone who voted and spread the word.
  • Flow is being tested on selected talk pages.
  • New tool: Get new Wikidata items (now or before a given timestamp) as HTML or PagePile
  • New tool: Find Wikidata items without an image around a location, then find free images on Flickr taken nearby.
  • EventZoom.net extended with OpenStreetMap support, increasing the options for visualizing historical events from Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
• Development
  • Soon the edit summary for edits through the API will also contain the automatic edit summary that you are used to for edits done through the website. The summary given by the API user will be appended to the automatic summary. (phabricator:T97247)
  • Addressed performance issues in usage tracking updates and had to delay the latest round of rollouts because of it
  • Fixed a bug where suggestions would show up twice in item and property selectors (phabricator:T109697)
  • Improved performance of the mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua method
  • More work done on Unit Selector widget
  • Started working on the ArticlePlaceholder extension
  • Made final changes so we can redirect mobile users to the mobile version by default
  • Evaluated the remaining steps to get the extension deployed that lets you do checks against 3rd party databases. Not much left it seems and we'll tackle that in one of the next sprints. Getting the new features deployed for the constraints checks will still take a bit longer.
  • More work on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 24. aug 2015, 14:35 (CEST)

The Signpost: 26 August 2015

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

• In focus: An increase in active Wikipedia editors
• Op-ed: Wikimania – can volunteers organize conferences?
• News and notes: Re-imagining grants
• In the media: Russia temporarily blocks Wikipedia
• Recent research: OpenSym 2015 report; PageRank and wiki quality; news suggestions; the impact of open access
• Featured content: Out to stud, please call later
• Arbitration report: Reinforcing Arbitration

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Wikidata weekly summary #173

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Merging relationship properties
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Removing use of Mediawiki’s API ‘rawmode’ in Wikibase
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New page: Wikidata:OpenStreetMap to facilitate cooperation with our colleagues at OpenStreetMap
  • Inventaire now shows links to ProjectGutenberg ebooks based on Wikidata data (example)
  • First version of units is ready for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ResearchGate ID, GitHub username, African Plant Database, LinkedIn personal profile, Project Gutenberg ebook ID, Category for pictures taken with camera, work period end, work period start, NASA biographical ID, Dictionary of Ulster Biography ID, United States Armed Forces service number, Colour Index International constitution ID, Avibase ID
  • Newest WikiProjects: Reasoning
  • Newest gadgets: List of missing pairs queries, DuplicateReferences
  • Newest External tools: Commons:Database reports/Cameras
• Development
  • Lucie posted a sneak-peek of her work on the article placeholder extension
  • Optimized Wikidata for viewing on mobile devices. You will be redirected to m.wikidata.org automatically when using a mobile device soon the same way it already happens on Wikipedia. (Editing will only be possible via the special pages!)
  • Started working on a page to track how much Wikidata's data is used on each Wikimedia project
  • API breaking change coming soon
  • API custom summary will no longer override the autocomment (phabricator:T97247)
  • Paging and sorting has been added to Special:ListProperties and it now also shows the IDs of the properties
  • Worked more on making the edit summaries on the client more meaningful and readable
  • Introduced a limit of 250 different entities that can be used on a page in the client via arbitrary access. The limit does not apply to convenience functions in lua, such as mw.wikibase.label which use a TermLookup instead of loading a full entity to get labels. (phabricator:T93885)
  • Properties are now linked in the diff view (phabricator:T105411)
  • Ricordisamoa made several improvements to special pages (eg phabricator:T68744, phabricator:T48248, phabricator:T86647)
  • Fixed a bug that made aliases too prominent in entity selectors (phabricator:T110021)
  • Fixed a bug that made entries show up twice in the entity selector (phabricator:T109697)
  • Started working on a special page to list all pages on a wiki with a certain badge
  • Fixed remaining blockers for first rollout of unit support
  • Bene worked on a new feature for DuckDuckGo to show instant results from Wikidata on their site
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 02 September 2015

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

• Special report: Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia
• News and notes: Flow placed on ice
• Discussion report: WMF's sudden reversal on Wiki Loves Monuments
• Featured content: Brawny
• In the media: Orangemoody sockpuppet case sparks widespread coverage
• Traffic report: You didn't miss much
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #174

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikimedia Grafana graphs of Wikidata profiling information
  • Past: Wikimedia Science Conference (blog posts: Liberating Science Daily With, and To, Wikidata, Wikidata, Wikipedia, and #wikisci)
  • Past: Wikidata workshop in Rennes
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New date for the next Arbitrary access rollout has been set: 16th of September.
  • Support for units on Wikidata is coming on Wednesday (9th of September).
  • A new version of Kian has been released
  • The Wikidata Game has got a new mode: Books without author.
  • A new IEG proposal needs your review and support. You can also submit your own until the 29th of September.
  • >8K Fellows of the Royal Society have been added to mix’n’match
  • You can have a look at the spiffy new mobile view
  • Want to work with the data in Wikidata? There is a new release of the Wikidata Toolkit for you.
  • Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
  • A new noticeboard has been created to help with classification issues: d:Wikidata:Classification noticeboard
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Artsy artist, National Gallery of Victoria artist identifier, CITES Species+ ID
• Development
  • Worked on search on the mobile site
  • Started working on automatically linking identifiers without a gadget and the new datatype for identifiers
  • We have a new Special page to query badges (finally!) After the next update it will be at Special:PagesWithBadges on Wikipedia and others
  • Fixed some of the remaining known issues with unit support to make it ready for rollout on Wednesday
  • Continued with making it possible to show meaningful edit summaries in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and others
  • Made change dispatching faster (This is what makes Wikipedia and others aware of changes happening on Wikidata)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 09 September 2015

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

• Gallery: Being Welsh
• Op-ed: DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity
• News and notes: The Swedish Wikipedia's controversial two-millionth article
• In the media: Calling all scientists!; More Wikipedia editors in the Netherlands than all of Africa combined
• Featured content: Killed by flying debris
• Traffic report: Mass media production traffic
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #175

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikidata edit-a-thon at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
  • Upcoming: Office hour on IRC, 23 September
  • Upcoming: Mobilizing Open Cultural Data, Helsinki, 2 October
  • Upcoming: Wikidata tutorial at SWAT4LS, December
  • Un-deleting 500,000 Wikidata items
  • Wikimania 2015 report by Multichill
  • DSS Wikidata Editathon
  • A simple way to write Wikidata bots
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Please vote for Wikidata to win the people's choice award of Land der Ideen (voting instructions)
  • We passed 70M statements.
  • Stalagmites and stalactites visualizes items without statements, items with statements, and deleted/redirected items by batches of 100,000 QIDs
  • Mix n Match is now available for mobile, has an improved automatic matching algorithm, got speed improvements and new catalogs were added like the National Gallery of Victoria, World Heritage Sites and CulturaItalia
  • The annual Wikipedia editing competition organized by the International Society for Computational Biology will include a Wikidata component this year for the first time.
  • Matched birth and death days seeks to investigate all pairs of humans (in various subsets) that appear to have the same birth dates and death dates. De-duplication underway!
  • You can now use the new special page Special:PagesWithBadges to see which articles on that project have a badge like "featured article".
  • New tool by Magnus to suggest links to Wikidata items while you type
  • Meta, MediaWiki, Wikispecies and Wikibooks will get (more) access to Wikidata soon
  • Wikidata now has an official SPARQL endpoint so you can query the data
    • announcement
    • examples
    • How US Presidents Died According to Wikidata
  • Wikidata now supports units
    • announcement
    • properties with units already created
    • Properties with units waiting for creation
    • example
  • Prototype database to store all Wikipedia references
  • Duplicity can show you how many (and which) articles on a Wikipedia are not connected to an item on Wikidata (example for frwp)
  • Magnus wrote a user script to let you edit Listeria-powered lists on Wikipedia directly
  • Musicpedia has been released in beta and is using data from Wikidata
  • New tool by Magnus to create a Commons creator page from a Wikidata item
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: length, elevation above sea level, orbital inclination, area, duration, height, width, wingspan, M x sin i, speed, watershed area, density, electrical conductivity, heat capacity, HMDB ID, depositor, luminosity, aspect ratio, HSDB ID, LIPID MAPS ID, KNApSAcK ID, NIAID ChemDB ID, Fusion enthalpy, mass
• Development
  • Release of the query service and unit support (see above)
  • Made quantities not show URIs when editing a value but instead show the label
  • Worked on new datatype for identifiers to be able to split them from the other statements in the user interface, link them without the need for the authority control gadget and be able to link them in JSON/RDF
  • Worked more on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 16 September 2015

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

• Editorial: No access is no answer to closed access
• Traffic report: Another week
• News and notes: Byrd and notifications leave, but page views stay; was a terror suspect editing Wikipedia?
• In the media: Is there life on Mars?
• Featured content: Why did the emu cross the road?
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #176

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: WikiCon in Dresden
  • Upcoming: office hour on IRC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The grant proposal "StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via References" is looking for endorsements
  • Wikidata and it's dumps are now described according to the DCAT-AP standard. You can add your language by translating the general and the Wikidata specific messages.
  • A follow-up to the Wikidata for research proposal has begun to be drafted by the University of Haifa and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
  • Community page for the new SPARQL query service, including a subpage for interesting or illustrative queries, and a board for suggestions and discussions.
  • Wikibooks now has access to the data on Wikidata
  • English Wikipedia and a few more got arbitrary access
  • Mix'n'match got new catalogs including Open Library authors and AcademiaNet's excellent female authors
  • The LinkedWiki extension now supports Wikidata (demo)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FISA ID, Power of 10 athlete ID, Library of Congress JukeBox ID, CrunchBase organisation ID, CrunchBase person ID, CDD Public ID, Nikkaji, ZINC ID, Leadscope ID, M.49 code, BLDAM object ID, AcademiaNet, fabrication method, user manual link, pressure, temperature, speed of sound, internetmedicin.se ID, range, CDB Chemical ID, Mémoire des hommes, Fellow of the Royal Society, magnetic moment, thermal conductivity
• Development
  • Started writing default Lua modules for the Article Placeholder
  • Excluded the Topic namespace from Special:UnconnectedPages
  • Fixed a bug where an item link on normal wiki pages was sometimes prepended by a label (in a random language)
  • Worked on the remaining blockers for redirecting users on mobile devices to the mobile version of the site
  • Fixed an issue where people had login issues when trying to connect an article to an item on the client
  • Worked on removing some more places that don't have language fallback yet
  • Worked more on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the client watchlist and recent changes
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 23 September 2015

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

• Featured content: Inside Duke Humfrey's Library
• In the media: PETA makes "monkey selfie" a three-way copyright battle; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Op-ed: Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?
• Technology report: Tech news in brief
• Traffic report: ¡Viva la Revolución! Kinda.
• WikiProject report: Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?

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Wikidata weekly summary #177

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: IRC office hour (log with summary of past 3 months, OSM integration and more)
  • Upcoming: code.talks
  • Upcoming: Wikiconference USA
  • Wikidata-Items schnell auf der Kommandozeile nachschlagen? Mediawiki APIs hacken
  • A sea-change in science citation? The Wikipedia Science conference.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Great collaboration between a group of Flemish museums and art collections and Wikidata
  • Wikidata timeline is another tool that gives you nice timelines based in Wikidata's data (examples: American Sitcoms, Wars, Meryl Streep)
  • Cool new tool by Magnus for dynamic list generation
  • nlwiki has made great progress in getting down the number of articles not connected to Wikidata
  • The Museum of Modern Art website now includes Wikidata IDs (example)
  • 50.79% of all #Wikidata items have none, one or two statements now. Next month it is likely to be less than half. Good progress!
  • Some more examples to get you started with Wikidata's query service: 1, 2, 3
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Membership, YerelNet village ID, prize money, radius, vapor pressure, kinematic viscosity, combustion enthalpy, vaporization enthalpy, NDF-RT ID, Half-Life, sublimation temperature, wing area, power output, Kunstindex Danmark artwork, decomposition point, RXNO Ontology, size of team at finish, size of team at start, boiling point, melting point, Banque de noms de lieux du Québec id, BC Geographical Names ID, substitute/deputy/replacement of office/officeholder, term length of office, image legend, co-driver, qualifies for, short author name, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID
• Development
  • You can now find the Wikibase ontology at http://wikiba.se/ontology
  • Special:UnconnectedPages will have a namespace filter
  • Worked on a small birthday present (One month left!) and party organizing (more info coming in the next days)
  • Language fallbacks will be shown also when adding a new statement, in qualifiers and references as well as for badges
  • Fixed a long-standing login issue when adding a new language link from Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T50389)
  • Worked on RfC for multi-content revisions. This is groundwork for Commons support. (phabricator:T107595)
  • More work on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 30 September 2015

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

• In the media: Irish legislative editing; coffee quarrel; more sports vandalism
• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania
• Op-ed: Wikipedia needs more administrators
• Recent research: Wiktionary special; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?; newbies, conflict and tolerance
• Tech news: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #178

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: code.talks (slides on migrating Freebase to Wikidata)
  • Past: Wikidata:Mobilizing Open Cultural Data (videos, slides)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday. We will have a party and you should come! (announcement, program and other details, IMPORTANT: sign up so we know how many people to expect)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There are now almost 5000 articles in Czech Wikipedia which include an infobox without parameters, only with data from Wikidata.
  • Input request about editing Wikidata from clients like Wikipedia
  • Freebase to Wikidata: results of Tpt's internship have been published
  • Articles without a Wikidata item can now be filtered by category tree. (example for chemists on enwiki)
  • Wikidata:Units attempts to list available units and properties they can be used with
  • Constraint reports can now check if units are within a user defined list: e.g. report for mass (P2067)
  • WikiProject Economics needs more participants to organize all the new properties.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Georgian national system of romanization, Hepburn romanization, membership, YerelNet village ID, prize money, radius, vapor pressure, kinematic viscosity, combustion enthalpy, vaporization enthalpy, NDF-RT ID, half-life, sublimation temperature, wing area, power output, Kunstindex Danmark artwork, decomposition point, RXNO Ontology, size of team at finish, size of team at start, boiling point, melting point
• Development
  • Changed the default RDF flavor to include all statements (phabricator:T101837)
  • Started to work on creating new articles from scratch from the article placeholder
  • Continued work on the Lua libraries of the default Article Placeholder layout
  • Started the research on client editing with an input page
  • More work on making the mobile view fit for being enabled per default for mobile users
  • Changed our JavaScript coding style to be more in line with MediaWiki core’s
  • In edit mode, the label is now displayed for units instead of a URL
  • Added a new “YearMonthDay” date parser that supports many edge cases where all other date parsers fail
  • More work on passing full edit summaries to the client wikis.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 07 October 2015

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

• Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption
• In the media: Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?
• Traffic report: Reality is for losers
• Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
• Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs
• Technology report: Tech news in brief
• Gallery: Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan

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Wikidata weekly summary #179

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: WikiCon USA (slides)
  • Ongoing: World Health Summit (slides)
  • Upcoming: ODI Summit with a session on the gene-related efforts on Wikidata
  • Don't forget to sign up if you are coming to Wikidata's third birthday party.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Discussion has started on English WikiProject Football about using Wikidata for player squad templates (example) and player club history (example). Needs more input on best practices and commitment to update data.
  • A command line client to the SPARQL query service has been released
  • Query example: popularity of the given name Adolf
  • MoMa artists have been added to Mix'n'match
  • Books without authors on Wikidata are now down to 12.5K from 25K since drive began. You can help get it down even further.
  • Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Catalan Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
  • This Month in GLAM has Wikidata coverage
  • Interested in British politics? WikiProject British Politicians has some stats to show where you can help out
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: median lethal dose, first aid measures, official symbol, units used for this property, external subproperty, external superproperty, volume for quantity, semi-major axis, cash, explosive velocity, torque, Max TDP, maximum thrust, metallicity, market capitalization, discharge, spectral line, decay width, gyromagnetic ratio, flux, household wealth, real gross domestic product growth rate, net worth, cruise speed, radial velocity, proper motion, parallax, longitude of ascending node, angular distance, position angle, relative to, SourceForge project, average shot length, Spotify track ID, Discogs release ID, Spotify album ID, minimum explosive concentration, upper flammable limit, lower flammable limit, dipole moment, electric charge, autoignition temperature, (average) gradient, production volume, students count, Soccerbase manager id, PSS-Archi architect id, Soccerbase player id, endangeredlanguages.com ID, NILF author id, C-SPAN identifier of a person, BiblioNet publisher identifier, BiblioNet author identifier, BiblioNet publication identifier, Wiki Loves Monuments ID, DLI, history of topic, ISO 9:1995, Finnish Ministers database ID, Finnish MP ID, Kansallisbiografia ID, ACM Classification Code (2012), solvent, solubility, drug used for treatment, medical condition treated
• Development
  • You'll now get redirected to the mobile view automatically on mobile devices (example)
  • Made it possible to use more entities on a page via Lua without running into Lua's memory limit
  • Added the Article Placeholder extension’s results to the search result page (this is one of a few remaining blockers before we can put it on a testsystem for you to try out and give feedback)
  • Added option to create a new article from Article Placeholder
  • More work on the new datatype for properties
  • More work on making meaningful edit summaries on the client. Found a few remaining bugs during testing.
  • More work on a birthday present :D
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 14 October 2015

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

• Blog: Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid
• Editorial: Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence
• Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: Built on good faith
• Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death
• WikiConference Report: WikiConference USA 2015
• News and notes: Fundraising: 2015–2016 Q1 Update sparks mailing list debate
• Featured content: A fistful of dollars
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #180

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with SPARQL! (French)
  • Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint and the paintings of Goya (French)
  • Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register if you're coming to the party.)
  • More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: [24], [25]
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game! Sweeeeeet! Now includes one where you can match an author and a publication. And it has stats.
  • Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up for you.
  • Sitelinks and P569 compares various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth (Property:P569)
  • Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: periapsis, apoapsis, Florentine musea catalogue ID, reason for deprecation
• Development
  • Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query)
  • Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype string to upcoming datatype identifier
  • More work on birthday present
  • More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo
  • Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression
  • Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc
  • Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 21 October 2015

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

• Editorial: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
• News and notes: Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched
• In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"
• Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus
• Featured content: A more balanced week
• Op-ed: Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications
• Arbitration report: Four ArbCom cases ongoing
• Traffic report: Hiding under the covers of the Internet
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #181

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Derived properties, Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Poof it works - using wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes
  • Wikidata, SPARQL and huskies (French)
  • Wikidata, SPARQL and elected dynasties (French)
  • The birth and death of German playwrights
  • Distributed stats
  • Past: Wikidata training at Wikimedia UK
  • Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday \o/ (on 29th)
  • Upcoming: SemWeb.Pro in Paris
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There's a new Wikidata taxonomy browser
  • Meta, MediaWiki and Wikispecies now have access to sitelinks on Wikidata. Welcome to Wikidata, sisters!
  • Harvest templates. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata.
  • Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Italian Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
  • The Wikidata Game now has a primary sources game and one to match Wikispecies pages to Wikidata items
  • The National Gallery of Arts was added to Mix'n'match
  • Some more query examples: Dracula movies and their actors, movies with links to videos
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Debrett's People of Today ID, maximum operating altitude, DfE URN, NGA artist id, life expectancy, Refseq Genome ID, argument of periapsis, periapsis
• Development
  • ctrl-space now enables autocomplete for labels on http://query.wikidata.org . Should make it easier for you to find the right items and properties.
  • Worked on birthday present :)
  • From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the Wikidata json dumps will be published, along with the gzip compressed version.
  • Made it possible to get from the search results page to the article placeholder. This was one of the last holdups for a first demo version.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 28 October 2015

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

• From the editor: The Signpost‍‍ '​​s reorganization plan—we need your help
• News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles
• In the media: The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA
• Op-ed: It’s time to stop the bullying
• Arbitration report: A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement
• Traffic report: Canada, the most popular nation on Earth
• Recent research: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages
• Featured content: Birds, turtles, and other things
• Technology report: Tech news in brief
• Community letter: Five million articles

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Wikidata weekly summary #182

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

• Discussions
  • How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price.

    

    I love Wikidata because

    • Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
    • Images from the party
    • Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
    • Presents:
      • Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
      • Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
      • Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
      • Special:Nearby by the dev team
      • Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
      • Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
  • Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
  • Past: Open Access Week
  • Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
  • Past: Tehran SFD (video)
  • Upcoming: ODI Summit
  • Upcoming: SWAT4LS
  • Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
  • Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
  • Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
  • The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
  • Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
  • Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
  • Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
  • Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
  • Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
  • We passed 15M items.
  • Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
  • All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
  • Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
• Development
  • Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
  • Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
  • Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
  • Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 04 November 2015

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #183

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

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

Highlights of 3 years of Wikidata by Madgalena Wiegner

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

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The Signpost: 11 November 2015

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #184

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
  • Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
  • Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
  • Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
  • Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
  • Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
  • Newest WikiProjects: Education
  • Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
  • Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia
• Development
  • Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
  • Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (phabricator:T101694)
  • Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
  • Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
  • Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
  • Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
  • Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 18 November 2015

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #185

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris
  • Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales
  • More mixin’, more matches
  • Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
  • Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
  • Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
  • Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
  • Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
  • MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
  • What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
  • You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
  • Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
  • Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
• Development
  • Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
  • Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
  • Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
  • Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
  • Decreased size of html of item pages
  • Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
  • More work on making the search on mobile work
  • Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
  • Fixing size of table of content on mobile
  • Prevented merging of items which link to each other
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 25 November 2015

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

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

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The Signpost: 02 December 2015

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #187

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

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

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The Signpost: 09 December 2015

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #188

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
  • The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
  • Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
  • Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
  • Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
  • Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
  • query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
  • WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
  • Query example: Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?, places by elevation span, people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)
  • Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Wikipedia of the same language
• Development
  • Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
  • Further work on a separate section for identifiers
  • Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
  • Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
  • Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
  • Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
  • Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
  • Getting ready for the holidays :)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 16 December 2015

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #189

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #190

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: 32C3
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
  • Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
  • Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
  • Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
  • Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
  • Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
  • The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Paper: Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond
  • The Wikidata for Research proposal has now been published in a journal
  • New tool to turn string claims to monolingual claims
  • Johl built a card game about German politicians using Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: number of awards, Prosopographia Attica, Structurae person ID, stage classification, sports disciplines competed in, personal best, substrate of
• Development
  • Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
  • Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 30 December 2015

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

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

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The Signpost: 06 January 2016

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #191

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • The Reference Wars
  • Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
  • Wikidata references from Microdata
  • Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
  • From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
  • Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
  • Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
  • Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
  • The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. Get your talk proposals in!
  • IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
  • Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
  • Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
  • Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: BugGuide ID, elibrary.ru organisation ID, member of the deme, ComLaw ID, Persons of Ancient Athens, IBU biathlete identifier, Mackolik.com footballer ID, Australian National Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number, dblp identifier, Species Profile and Threats Database ID, KNAW past member identifier, nominee, GeoNames feature code, MAME ROM, Encyclopædia Britannica contributor identifier, Turkish Football Federation manager ID, Turkish Football Federation player ID, transfermarkt manager id, transfermarkt footballer id, metasubclass of, homoglyph, stage reached, conversion to standard unit, literal translation, transliteration, language, narrator, number of seasons, voltage, PORT person ID, Panarctic Flora ID, gender of a scientific name of a genus, J. Paul Getty Museum artist id, Thyssen-Bornemisza artist id, takeoff roll, expected completeness, RePEc Short-ID, grid global research id, Xeno-canto species ID, service ribbon image, Berlin cultural heritage ID, FIE identifier
  • Newest WikiProjects: Broadcasting
  • New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool, tool to move statements from one item to another
• Development
  • Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
  • Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia if interested.
  • More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them
  • Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (phabricator:T87263)
  • We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247)
  • Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (phabricator:T95419)
  • More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget
  • Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
  • References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
  • SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 13 January 2016

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #192

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

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

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The Signpost: 20 January 2016

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #193

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
  • Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
  • Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [26] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [27] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
  • Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
  • Wikidata Graph Builder
  • Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
  • You can give input on WMF's strategy
  • Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
  • Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
  • French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
  • Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
  • Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)
• Development
  • Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
  • Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
  • Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
  • Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
  • Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
  • Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
  • Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
  • Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
  • More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #194

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #195

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: HakanIST
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
  • Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
  • Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
  • How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
  • What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
  • We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
  • Andrew updated his maps
  • We crossed edit 300,000,000!
  • Graph example: matrices
  • Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
  • Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Box Office Mojo studio ID, Box Office Mojo franchise ID, ČSFD film ID, Richter magnitude scale, moment magnitude scale
• Development
  • Search now works on mobile
  • Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
  • Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
  • Investigated further options for performance improvement (phabricator:T125502)
  • Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500)
  • More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063, phabricator:T124757)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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The Signpost: 03 February 2016

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

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

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The Signpost: 10 February 2016

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

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

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

• News and notes: Another WMF departure

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

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: A river of revilement

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #196

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #196

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

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

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The Signpost: 17 February 2016

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #197

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

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

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The Signpost: 24 February 2016

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

• Special report: WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears

• Op-ed: Backward the Foundation

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges

• Arbitration report: Motion on CheckUser and Oversight inactivity

• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #198

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #199

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Oscars 2016: Movies that got the most attention on Wikipedia (followup with most famous cats)
  • Statements per item
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • COOL-WD has been announced to help assess the completeness of various parts of the knowledge base
  • You can apply for a grant as part of the Inspire Campaign around the topic of content review and curation
  • Wikimedia was accepted for Google Summer of Code. If you're a student this can be your chance to work on Wikidata code this summer.
  • A catalog of Uruguayan authors has been added to Mix'n'match
  • Listeria bot now has experimental support for references (example)
  • Self-portraits of women through the ages, powered by Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Québec cultural heritage directory people identifier, grammatical option indicates, Statistics Indonesia language code, Statistics Indonesia ethnicity code, village code of Indonesia, has phoneme, INSEE departement code, INSEE region code, Australian Wetlands Database Directory of Important Wetlands Reference Code, distance from Earth, J. Paul Getty Museum object id, BabelNet id, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital ID, studied by, studies, admissible rule in, UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID, measures, National-Football-Teams.com player ID, number of out of school children, Twitter hashtag, uncertainty corresponds to, Saros cycle of eclipse, contact times of eclipse, repealed by, amended by, ECHA InfoCard ID, global-warming potential
  • Query example: French heads of government by length of service, Metro stations in Paris
• Development
  • Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
  • More work on the first prototype for Commons support (phabricator:T125822)
  • Continued working on improving language support for monolingual text and labels/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T125066)
  • Conversion of properties from string to external identifier datatype is ongoing
  • Experimenting with putting query results on a map in query.wikidata.org (earthquakes, ski resorts)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 2 March 2016

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

• News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition

• Featured content: This week's featured content

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

• Traffic report: Brawling

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

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The Signpost: 09 March 2016

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #200

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: WikiArabia
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon
  • Upcoming: digikult.se
  • Wikidata Tour Down-Under
  • Open culture session at Open Belgium
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Coming to Wikimania? Consider submitting a Wikidata related poster, training or discussion! Deadline is on the 20th.
  • Wikidata has passed the milestone of 1 Billion Datapoints (Triples) on Wednesday, 9th of March.
  • Wikidata Graph Builder now supports arbitrary SPARQL queries (example)
  • ESWC 2016 has a new Wikidata Bonus Challenge
  • Playing with Wikidata in BigQuery
  • There will be server maintenance work next week on all Wikimedia servers that will prevent editing for a short time.
  • Wikidata external ID resolver now uses SPARQL and supports lookup of properties via English name (fragment)
  • iSpecies now has multilingual summaries and links to Wikidata (example)
  • Awarder lets you add awards to a biographical item, or use the Wikipedia text of the award to add all recipients]
  • A new version of the Wikidata nuclide chart is online
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: thickness, World Heritage criteria (2005), Valencian Property of Local Relevance id, BookBrainz creator ID, PlayStation ID, ČSFD person ID, Kinopoisk person ID, Kinopoisk film ID, Hockeydb.com player ID, Eurohockey.com player ID, Geni.com profile ID, block size, serial number, Gram staining, culture, maximum gradient, Latvian Olympic Committee athlete ID
  • Query examples: Number of museums by U. S. state on map, Film directors ranked by number of sitelinks multiplied by their number of films, all museums in Barcelona with coordinates, women mushers, women scientists, women artists, air accidents, Twitter accounts of biologists, torture devices, public art in Paris, Locations of Pablo Picasso works
• Development
  • We reduced the loading time of items significantly. Enjoy a faster Wikidata :)

    

    Faster!!!

  • Wikidata Query GUI now supports maps. Check it out with one of the example queries above. (Select Map under Display results menu).
  • Pywikibot now has SPARQL endpoint support.
  • We worked on getting the first pieces of Commons support on a test system. Nothing shiny to see yet but we're making progress.
  • Converted more identifier to the new identifier datatype. Still some to go but 450 properties have been converted by now.
  • Updated the data that generates suggestions when adding a new statement
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
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The Signpost: 16 March 2016

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

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

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

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

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

• Featured content: This week's featured content

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

• Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #201

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

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

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The Signpost: 23 March 2016

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

• Interview: Exclusive: interview with interim ED Katherine Maher

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

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

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

• Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March

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

• Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended

• Wikipedia_Weekly: Podcast #120: Status of Wikimania 2016

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Wikidata weekly summary #202

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

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

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The Signpost: 1 April 2016

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

• News and notes: Trump/Wales 2016

• In the media: Saskatoon police delete Wikipedia content about police brutality

• WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music

• Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil

• Featured content: A slow, slow week

• Technology report: Browse Wikipedia in safety? Use Telnet!

• Recent research: "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education, useing eyetracking to find out how readers read articles

• Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #121: How April fools went down

• Blog: Growing hashtags: Expanding outreach on Wikipedia

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Wikidata weekly summary #203

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

• Events/Blogs/Press

  

  slides for SPARQL and Wikidata intro by shonagon- École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes

  • Upcoming: WWW 2016
  • Upcoming: WikiCite 2016
  • Past: Wikimedia hackathon.
    • Some of the things that were worked on (but are not finished yet):
      • Easier referencing like it is done in VisualEditor
      • Data imports including National Library of Israel
      • Getting the ArticlePlaceholder ready for deployment on the first small Wikipedias
      • Updated maps of the geocoordinates in Wikidata (Adam will publish a blog post with them soon)
      • Improvements for Librarybase
      • Automated language links for Wiktionary
      • Cleanup of existing data import tools
    • partial group photo
  • Objetos culturales y metadatos: hacia la liberación de datos en Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Lucie published her thesis about supporting small Wikipedias through article placeholders based on Wikidata

    

    Lucie's thesis: Generating Article Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia - Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge

  • This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
  • If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a Facebook group for you.
  • There are 4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
  • There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
  • Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add yourself to interested attendees for the sessions.
  • PetScan now has item creator functionality.
  • The catalog of the National Library of Israel has been added to Mix'n'match
  • Great examples on French and Russian Wikipedia for infobox based on Wikidata: fr:Andrew Tanenbaum, ru:Таненбаум, Эндрю and references based on Wikidata: fr:Trappeur, ru:Доказательство с нулевым разглашением
• Did you know?
  • 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
• Development
  • 4 years ago we started coding on Wikidata. What a ride it has been and continues to be. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
  • We are going to make a change to the RDF format for geocoordinates.
  • Here is a preview of geospatial search on the query service.
  • The query service now has bubble charts as a visualization option (example)
  • Busy at the Wikimedia hackathon.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #204

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

• Discussion
  • Splitting a property to limit formatter URLs to one per property: Authority_control#DE-ISIL
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: digikult.se
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour
  • Upcoming: FOSSCOMM
  • A week of looking at women
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Document with lots of useful links around Wikidata for workshops etc
  • Nice list of species with sounds linked on Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • 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
  • Showcase items: Iron Man (film)
• Development
  • Lucie successfully defended her thesis about the ArticlePlaceholder. Congrats!
  • 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
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 14 April 2016

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

• Op-ed: Should prison inmates be permitted to edit Wikipedia?

• News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board

• In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: A welcome return to pop culture and death

• Arbitration report: The first case of 2016—Wikicology

• Gallery: A history lesson

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Wikidata weekly summary #205

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

• Discussion
  • Closed request for comments: Reforming the property creation process, Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: office hour on IRC (log)
  • Past: ISB2016 (slides)
  • Past: WWW2016 - Freebase to Wikidata migration (slides)
  • Past: CUNY Wikidata intro (slides)
  • National Library of Wales: Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
  • New TSRI Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
  • Yle <3 Wikidata - using Wikidata for concept tagging
• Other noteworthy stuff
  • ArticlePlaceholder is going live on the first small Wikipedias on May 11th and could use your help
  • Wikimedia Commons will get the arbitrary access feature on April 26th
  • The Europeana Art History Challenge has started
  • Magnus made a handy user-script for duplicating items, for when a new item has similar property values to an existing one. See for instance, this set of edits for a second version of an artwork.
  • Listeria now has a status page
  • PetScan has now the option "Has no statements" to find items without statements for a category at Wikipedia (sample: en:Category:United States geography stubs) or an entire language version (sample: "sowiki").
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: production statistics, DNZB, PASE name, this zoological name is coordinate with, Australian Geological Provinces Database Identifier, Tate artist identifier, ResearchGate institute ID
  • Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Museums
  • Query examples: items named after their shape, recent events, assemblies by number of seats, characters portrayed by most actors
• Development
  • 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
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 24 April 2016

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

• News and notes: Lunar project; steering group formed to search for next executive director

• Op-ed: Knowledge Engine and the Wales–Heilman emails

• Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot

• Featured content: The double-sized edition

• Traffic report: Two for the price of one

• Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case

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Wikidata weekly summary #206

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Writing a bachelor's thesis at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
  • Europeana Art History Challenge begins
  • TED is partnering with the Wikimedia community to add “ideas worth spreading” to Wikimedia projects
  • Wikidata meets world literature
  • Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes (conference poster)
  • Past: Wikimedia Conference
• Other noteworthy stuff
  • SQUID: a new class and property browser for Wikidata (background info)
  • Wikidata Graph Builder now can visualize graphs with different node sizes. See for instance, types of artists with number of people, occupied with each subclass item
  • List of items that have English, German, and French sitselinks, but no statements
  • List of articles on English Wikipedia with a video where the corresponding item has no video
  • Listeria bot (the one generating lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data) will now begin auto-replacing simple WDQ queries with SPARQL ones
  • Magnus is looking for a designer to help with a logo for PetScan
  • Arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons is coming as planned on the 26th
  • Wikidata surpassed English Wikipedia in items/articles using files from Wikimedia Commons
• Did you know?
  • 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)
• Development
  • There will be some maintenance on the query service in a few hours
  • Redesigned the rank selector as well as snak type selector icons (phab:T129033#2217402, gerrit:283968)
  • The snak type selector icon also has a tooltip now (gerrit:283945)
  • The term table header row as well as language column will now be marked as <th> instead of <td> (gerrit:283395)
  • Fixed an issue with newline characters in quantity values (phab:T110728)
  • Fixed the month-precision time parser ignoring the minus in "January -150" (phab:T132441)
  • Continued working on diffing and patching support for new entity types (phab:T132442)
  • Continued working on support for creating entities of new types as part of the work for Wikimedia Commons support (phab:T132964)
  • Rolled out a little query explanation field to query.wikidata.org to help you better understand a query if you don't understand SPARQL well
  • Fixed a bug where the map wouldn't show in the visualization of a query result (phabricator:T132669)
  • Fixed issues with the duplicate references gadget (phabricator:T131920)
  • Added basic support for more languages to the query service (phabricator:T132756)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 2 May 2016

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

• News and notes: Wikimedia Switzerland's board and paid-editing firm; passing of Ed Dravecky

• In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps

• Traffic report: Purple

• Featured content: The best... from the past two weeks

• Arbitration report: Two editors unbanned; Wikicology case enters workshop phase; Gamaliel restricted from Gamergate at his own request

• Recent research: The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors?

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Wikidata weekly summary #207

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

Wikidata's coverage as of April 2016

Difference of Wikidata's coverage between April 2016 and 6 month before

• Discussions
  • Wikidata, a stable source for disambiguation items?
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Find, Prioritize, and Recommend: An article recommendation system to fill knowledge gaps across Wikipedia
  • Upcoming: CSVconf
  • Upcoming: Open Tech Summit
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Commons now has arbitrary access
  • Work on ORES to make vandalism fighting easier is progressing well. "Damaging" and "goodfaith" models for Wikidata are now online.
  • Wikimind
  • New coverage maps have been created (see thumbnails)
  • We have new images you can use to indicate your website/app/service is using data from Wikidata. (2 of the files have a problem still. We're working on a fix and will reupload.)

    

    Show the rest of the world you're using data from Wikidata!

• Did you know?
  • 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 and dir parameters from the wikibase.api.RepoApi JavaScript module. This may break user JavaScript calling getEntitiesByPage (phab:T119856).
  • 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)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #208

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: OpenTechSummit

    

    slides for SPARQL intro at OpenTechSummit

  • Past: CSVConf
  • Past: Subscribe7 (slides)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Our Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
  • More constraint templates now generate SPARQL links
  • Europeana Art History Challenge is still going on until the end of the month
  • Freebase has been shut down
  • Wikiversity now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
  • The 24,000,000th item was created: Q24000000
  • The ArticlePlaceholder will go live on the first Wikipedias on Wednesday (Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan Wikipedia)
  • Quora: Why isn't Wikimedia Commons using structured data via Wikidata?
  • Newest trend on Twitter: annotating books with Wikidata statements ;-)
• Did you know?
  • 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)
• Development
  • 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)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #209

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

• Discussions
  • A few proposals for missing properties for Wikivoyage listings have been made
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Panama Papers and Wikidata made quite a splash online
    • Occupations of persons from Panama Papers
    • Panama Papers bubble chart shows politicians are most mentioned in document leak database
  • EveryPolitician: I use Wikidata for multilingual names
  • Random item: Q14829494
  • Lots of papers relevant to Wikidata or about Wikidata haven been published at ICWSM
  • Wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia
  • Wikidata Map May 2016 (Belarus & Uganda)
  • Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We made a huge step for small Wikipedias and small languages online by rolling out the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias
  • Geospatial search is now up and running on the query service. You can now search for items within a geographic area.
  • The Wikidata Graph Builder has a refreshed interface with even more controls
  • Sitelinks for the new Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia (in Jamaican Patois) are being added
  • Mapbox's Geocoder now uses Wikidata
  • PetScan now has query examples
  • d:Wikidata:Wikidata for authority control collects examples of usage of Wikidata for authority control
• Did you know?
  • 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)
• Development
  • Deployed the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias and worked on issues that were found
  • Incident report of issues with the query service
  • Worked on language fallback in the main header (screenshot, phabricator:T98014)
  • More work on Commons prototype
  • Worked on timeline as another visualization for the query service (phabricator:T135222)
  • Fixed missing message for translation for Wikibase repo - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T124766)
  • We are now generating translatable automatic comments for undo and restore operations - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T41134)
  • Fixed issue with autocompletion on the query service (phabricator:T133317)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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The Signpost: 17 May 2016

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

• News and notes: Affiliates' nomination of WMF trustees announced; FDC's straight talking to WMF

• Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil

• In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post

• Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one

• Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogss

• Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"

• Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!

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Wikidata weekly summary #210

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

• Discussions
  • Discussions about missing properties for Wikivoyage listings are progressing as enhancements are suggested
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Gotta catch 'em all if they are prime
  • Paper: Are Superstar Artworks also Digital Superstars? Online Popularity of Worldfamous Artworks
  • Upcoming: Wikicite (session proposals)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • In about 2 weeks we will get the ArticlePlaceholder to more Wikipedias. Let us know if yours wants to be in.
• Did you know?
  • 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)
• Development
  • 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)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 28 May 2016

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

• Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director

• News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting

• Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian

• In the media: The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax

• Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures

• Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride

• Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the committee

• Blog: Freely licensed magic at Eurovision

• Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies

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Wikidata weekly summary #211

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Standards for property proposal discussions, Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements
  • Import of Wiki Loves Monuments database
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: WikiCite (including links to documentation etherpads)
    • interview with Open Science Radio
  • Past: Gulaschprogrammiernacht (video)
  • Ben Whishaw, Broadway, La Rada et WWikidata
  • Meet TED’s Wikipedians-in-Residence
  • Orte, die mit 'ow' oder 'itz' enden
• Other Noteworthy Stuff

  

  • Charlie published her thesis about editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia and co
  • Learning pattern about using data of Wikipedia and Wikidata in Google spreadsheet
• Did you know?
  • 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)
• Development
  • 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)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #212

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: OpenData.ch
  • Upcoming: HackHPI
  • Upcoming: ELAG
  • Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
  • Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
  • wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
  • It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • 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)
• Development
  • Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (phabricator:T115792)
  • Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (phabricator:T136543)
  • Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
  • Worked on new visualization for the query service to visualize results with data on different dimensions
  • Improved build and deploy process for the query service. The site should load faster now.
  • Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
  • More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
  • Worked on a fix for the issue where sometimes an old label is shown in the main header of an item (phabricator:T135714)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #213

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements - feedback on the Primary Sources Tool
  • Others: Discussion about currency conversion rates, P2893_-_wrong_datatype
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimania - find all the Wikidata things happening here
  • Upcoming: Repo-Fringe 2016
  • Past: HackHPI
  • Past: ELAG (slides)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Passionate about Wikidata and a great communicator? We are looking to hire a community communications person.
  • Gujarati, Latvian and Nynorsk Wikipedia now have the ArticlePlaceholder as well.
  • Catalan and Polish Wikipedia will show Wikidata descriptions on the mobile website starting soon. More Wikipedias will follow. (phabricator:T135429)
  • Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
• Did you know?
  • 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
• Development
  • 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.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 05 June 2016

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

• News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens

• In the media: Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge

• Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures

• Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.

• Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games

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The Signpost: 15 June 2016

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

• News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov

• Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group

• Op-ed: Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing

• In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing

• Featured content: From the crème de la crème

• Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle

• Blog: Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource

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Wikidata weekly summary #214

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimania
  • Upcoming: WikiConvention francophone
  • Past: GLAM Wiki Boot Camp
  • Past: Silicon Mountain Conf
  • Past: OpenData.ch
  • Past: Semantic Web + Wikidata
  • Wikidata beim Hackathon HackHPI in Potsdam
  • Data Ex Machina
  • Op-ed in the Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • ORES is not available as a beta feature to make it easier to find bad edits
  • New user script to show the main image of an item is ready for testing
  • Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
  • Want to see Wikidata changes in the history of a Wikipedia article? There is a user script that needs your feedback.
  • We are looking for people who work on list articles.
  • You can test a gadget that lets you easily run a query for more items with the same statement.
  • Language fallback is now happening on Wikipedia and co
  • Maps are now enabled on Wikidata
  • First beta release of StrepHit
• Did you know?
  • 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)
• Development
  • 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.
• Monthly Tasks
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  • 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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #215

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Verifiability and living persons, RfP voting eligibility
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikimania! The Wikidata-related program parts including slides and notes can be found on the Wikidata Wikimania page.
  • TIB and HsH project approved: The replication of Open-Access images
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • 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.
• Did you know?
  • 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)
• Development
  • 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)
• 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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #216

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Europeana280 Art History Challenge has finished
    • Europeana blog post
    • video
    • Wikimedia blog post
  • The life and times of Mr Herbert Ellerby: Linking Llandudno, Lancashire, and Moggill, Australia
  • Wikidata auf der GPN
  • Past: PSESHSF (You can sign up to be notified about more Wikidata workshops in France)
  • Past: Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon
  • Upcoming: office hour on IRC
  • Upcoming: State of the Map US in Seattle - http://stateofthemap.us/
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia UK AGM with Wikidata training
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
  • Tobias started writing a tutorial on how to write infoboxes that make use of Wikidata's data and could use your help expanding it.
  • Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
• Did you know?
  • 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)
• 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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #217

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, blog post by Mapbox
  • Past: office hour on IRC (log)
  • Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon
  • Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull
  • Upcoming: OpenSym
  • Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
  • An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
  • Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The removal of Persondata from the English Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to Wikidata at KasparBot's tool.
  • Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias
  • Freebase API will be shut down on August 31
  • TXT Werk is now using Wikidata to identify entities (previously Freebase)
  • Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget
  • Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding? A project grant might be an option.
  • There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden with Markus including work on Wikidata
  • Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL
• Did you know?
  • 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)
• Monthly Tasks
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  • 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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #218

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • From Damascus to Berlin: A very special internship at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Wikidata als Universalbibliographie: ein Kommentar
  • First image, good image?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Since Pokémon is all the rage at the moment here is a short reminder that we have WikiProject Pokémon for them
  • TIB is looking for a Wikimedian in Residence in the Open Science Lab
  • The code for the Primary Sources Tool has been moved from the Google to the Wikidata organisation on github.
  • The ISCB competition for 2016 has been announced
  • Use Wikipedia “article main images” to find candidate images for Wikidata
  • StrepHit fact extraction agent v.1.1-beta has been released
• Did you know?
  • 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
• Development
  • Map layers are coming soon to the Query Service
  • A lot of clean-up under the hood for the user interface
  • More interviews with editors in preparation for automated list generation
  • Fixed a bug where forms on the mobile site looked broken (phabricator:T138413)
  • More work on Citoid integration for easier reference adding
  • Added Cape Verdean Creole (phabricator:T127435)
• 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.

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The Signpost: 21 July 2016

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

• News and notes: Board faces diversity and skill-base issues in new FDC appointments

• Discussion report: Busy month for discussions

• In the media: Women-in-science editathon gets national press; Wikipedia "shockingly biased"

• Featured content: A wide variety from the best

• Traffic report: Sports and esports

• Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks

• Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality; search engine helps schoolkids navigate Chinese Wikipedia; talk page sentiment

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Wikidata weekly summary #219

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Playing with Wikidata: communities over water
  • Interview with Lydia for her upcoming keynote at the DBpedia conference
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Olympic Games are coming up soon. Let's make Wikidata a good place to get open data about the Olympics!
  • StrepHit's grant is up for renewal and could use your endorsement
  • There is a sub-reddit for Wikidata
  • We now have P3000 and Q26000000!
• Did you know?
  • 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).
• Development
  • 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.
• 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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #220

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

• Discussions
  • Notability of items for templates
  • One or more property examples?
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: Repository Fringe
  • Ongoing: ICBO (slides)
  • Upcoming: CCBWIKI
  • Localités au fil de l'eau
  • WDQ, obsolete?
  • BigQuery, Wikidata & AgreeList — idea
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now see the very first steps towards structured data support for Wikimedia Commons.
  • You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
  • You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
  • There is a new command line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
  • Simple guide to help Wikipedia editors find Wikidata IDs. In English - please translate into other languages!
  • You can now use Wikidata to do cool things in Mapbox with the Mapbox iOS SDK
  • IPTC's NewsCodes Working Group has mapped the top two levels of hierarchical terms of Media Topics to Wikidata
  • WMDE's progress report for the annual plan grant with a focus on Wikidata has been published
  • Need to query Wikidata, but lack SPARQL skills? There is now Wikidata:Request a query for you!
• Did you know?
  • 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
• Development
  • 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)
• 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.

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The Signpost: 4 August 2016

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

• Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information

• News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open

• In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias

• Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24

• Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary

• Featured content: Woman and Hawaii

• Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks

• Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most

• Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)

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Wikidata weekly summary #221

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Repository Fringe (slides)
  • Past: WikiConference India 2016
  • Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic is SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
  • Upcoming: SMWCon (call for contributions)
  • Visualizing the DNC vs RNC conventions with Wikipedia+Wikidata+BigQuery
  • Livin’ on the edge
  • Communes orphelines?
  • Paper: Getting the units right: inferring identifier units from a corpus of formulae in Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Paper: Querying Wikidata: Comparing SPARQL, Relational and Graph Databases
  • Paper: WIKIREADING: A Novel Large-scale Language Understanding Task over Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We now have two new pages to find property proposal discussions that need input: Property proposal/Overview, Property proposal/Attention needed
  • WSDM2017 Cup on knowledge base quality and search including tasks about vandalism detection in Wikidata (announcement)
  • Sitelinks for the new Tulu Wikipedia can be added
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.7.0 has been released
  • Several grant proposals that could use endorsements or discussion: Wikidata module, StrepHit IEG renewal, Librarybase, WikiFactMine
  • 15% of items connected to articles on Japanese Wikipedia have no statements (report with categories on these pages)
  • Wikidata descriptions on mobile web version of Wikipedia
  • Job opening at TIB
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: wheelbase, IWM memorial ID, spatial reference system, precipitation height, ISBN publisher prefix, Indonesian ethnicity code, package management system, adjacent building, EPPO Code, sheet music, UK National Archives ID, open period to, open period from, closed on, open days, ITU letter code, Legacies of British Slave-ownership person ID, flag bearer, Iranica ID
  • Query examples: places of worship in France (source), former capitals (source), Edinburgh-born authors and their notable works (source), movies by David Lynch by duration (source), descendants of Gustav Vasa, people sharing the same name, the other way around, Tony awards nominees and winners (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece
  • Newest database reports: List of Roman dictators
• Development
  • Glorian joins the team for 6 months as a product management intern
  • Example dialog on query.wikidata.org now shows categories (phabricator:T140576)
  • Map result view now allows layers and multi colored dots (preview)
  • Made the tatus bar messages in the Query Service translatable (phabricator:T140383)
  • Made it easier to notice that embedded Query Service results can be edited and are coming from Wikidata (phabricator:T138766)
  • Improved the way error messages are displayed while editing items (phabricator:T141880, phabricator:T141879)
  • Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (phabricator:T141862)
  • Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (phabricator:T142034)
  • Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T139977)
  • Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T124036)
  • Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T137933)
  • Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (phabricator:T141878)
  • Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (phabricator:T140760)
• 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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #222

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic was SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
  • Upcoming: a Wikidata workshop in French will be conducted by Ash Crow and Harmonia Amanda during the French-speaking Wikiconvention on 21st August 2016 in Paris
  • History of Parliament and Wikidata – the first round complete
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Léa joins the team as Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
  • ArticlePlaceholder is now live on Welsh and Kannada Wikipedia
  • You can now render sparql queries using the Histropedia timeline engine. Example : Structures in London, colour coded by heritage status

    

    Structures in London on Histropedia

  • The Wikidata image search tool can now show Commons images around items (example)
  • Job offer : Textmining, Hochschule Hannover
  • New templates: {{Australia properties}}, {{Indonesia properties}}, {{United Kingdom properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
  • UK Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register has been added to Mix'n'Match
• Did you know?
  • 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
  • Query examples: 2016 Olympics flag bearers (source), Composer that scored more than 100 films (source), churches using the same image (source), Challenge: Find a class with more fictional instances than real ones (source), items on human genes with unreferenced statements (source), Women elected to the UK Paliament (via WD:RAQ), Treaties of Paris (source), fictional thoroughfares (source), map of sports teams, with layers for different sports (source), big cities grouped into map layers by population (source), Free software with/without license (source), treaties with/without a date (source), capitals that aren’t capitals (soure), works of art depicting many people (source)
• Development
  • mw:Wikibase/DataModel/JSON#time was revised, clarifying the use for dates before year 1.
  • Language code "non" for Old Norse is now available for monolingual text (phabricator:T137115)
  • Worked more on better visual layout of references (phabricator:T141862)
  • Fixed issue with references not being expanded in diff view (phabricator:T129836)
  • Added link to Wikidata item from ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T126873)
  • Enabled ArticlePlaceholder on knwiki and cywiki
  • Removed collapsing behaviour from error messages (phabricator:T141879)
  • Started writing out next steps for how to use Wikidata items and properties on Commons
  • Drafting interface stability policy (phabricator:T142084)
  • Worked more in making it possible to create mediainfo entities by adding a statement to a non-existing one (phabricator:T140760)
• 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

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Wikidata weekly summary #223

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
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Category commons P373 and "Other sites"
    • Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
    • Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties
    • Refining "part of"
    • Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
    • Wikidata:Notability overhaul
    • RfP voting eligibility
    • Standards for property proposal discussions
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • August 17-19 : VIVO conference, see also the keynote about collaboratively created, linked open knowledge.
  • August 20-21 : the Wikiconvention in Paris. Check the notes taken during the Wikidata workshop
  • Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM, on the Wikimedia Foundation blog
  • All your locations are belong to us on Magnus' blog
  • Paper: An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
  • Paper: Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata Using COOL-WD
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job offer : PHP software developer for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Wikidata has now a stable interface policy to guarantee the stability of the tools
  • Enabling Wikidata data access in user language
  • COOL-WD now includes a gadget to show completeness information in Wikidata
  • Mix'n'Match can list entries of some external databases, and allows users to match them against Wikidata items. A new catalogue for ContentMine has been added!
  • WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for Central Cambridge)
  • Extracting Wikidata annotations to create DBpedia mappings project during Google Summer of Code
• Did you know?

  

  Popular surnames among humans

  • Newest properties: develops from, recovered by, film crew member, mount, flight number, Flags of the World ID, ID of Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, fiscal/tax revenue, speed limit, qualifies for event, freedom of panorama
  • Query examples:
    • A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below"). This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
    • Common occupations of heads of state (source).
    • Murderers by region in France (source).
    • Authors with a known location and an ORCID (source).
    • Popular surnames among humans (source).
    • Movies that won all the Oscars they were nominated for (source).
    • Colors with multiple RGB statements (source)
    • Filmography of Jean Gabin (source)
    • Cities as big as Antwerp (source)
    • Cities connected by the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Siberian Railway (source)
    • Histropedia timeline of Europeana280 artworks (source)
  • Newest gadgets: Sort the statements on items, prefill "access date" with current date
  • New templates: {{Belgium properties}}, {{France properties}}, {{Italy properties}}, {{Spain properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
  • Newest database reports: list of riders and their horse
• Development
  • Continuing to work on the concepts for the automatic list generation
  • Enable allow data access in user language will come on Wikidata soon
  • Menus are now internationalised on the query service
  • Clarified error message when adding a URL without a protocol
  • Created a gadget to try out global sort order in items
  • Fixed a bug where the input field for a value was not loaded
  • Worked on the interface stability policy
  • Made possible to create mediainfo entity by adding a statement
  • Worked on showing from which items a given Wikipedia article uses data
• 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

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Wikidata weekly summary #224

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

• Discussions
  • We need your input about how you edit lists on Wikipedia

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, 3rd September, University of Pardubice
  • Past: Wikidata workshop by Asaf Bartov during the CEE WikiConv in Dilijan, Armenia
  • Past: Wikidata presentation during Django Girls in Berlin
  • GSoC at Wikimedia (Part 1 of 3), by Alangi Derick
  • Modeling books in Wikidata by Aubrey and Chiara Storti
  • Paper: Vandalism Detection in Wikidata, by Stefan Heindorf, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein and Gregor Engels

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
  • WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
  • The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
  • enabling data access in user language will be deployed on Wikidata on August 29

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Tela Botanica ID (Metropolitan France), Gare & Connexions ID, has tense, Plantarium ID, FloraBase ID, Flora of Australia ID, Internet Bird Collection species ID, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier, ISBN identifier group, KML file, practiced by
  • Query examples:
    • RADA alumni with a good or featured article on Wikipedia (source)
    • Historians with links to French Wikipedia or Wikisource, but missing VIAF ID (source)
    • Unicorn taxa, including the Indian rhinoceros (source)
    • Mithras shrines, as a map (source)
    • 2.300 Wikidata archaeological sites without coordinates (source)
    • All items on Wikidata whom we know we don't know their sex or gender: (source)
    • Drug-disease interactions (source)
    • Nicknames of serial killers (source)
    • Dynamic data map of all U-bahn lines in Berlin with colors (source)
    • Timeline of internet services by type to celebrate 25 yrs of the web (source)
    • Network of color (source)
    • Dynamic data map of all country by year of joining the United Nations (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Theatre
  • Newest gadgets:
  • Newest external tools: Wikidata Class Browser (includes subclass counts and instance counts)
  • Newest database reports:
  • New feature/gadget requests:
  • Showcase items:

• Development
  • Fixed a but where the text field doesn't always load when trying to add a statement (phabricator:T115267)
  • We're now also creating mediainfo entities when a statement is added to a non-existent media info entity (phabricator:T140760)
  • Fixed a but where the suggester would show information twice (phabricator:T143645)
  • The ArticlePlaceholder now also shows the links to other projects in the In Other Projects sidebar (phabricator:T141771)
  • Worked more in figuring out how to show usage tracking data (phabricator:T103091)
  • Made progress on Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add useful and complete references (phabricator:T141856)
  • Worked on restore "purge without confirm" user right (phabricator:T143435)

• 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

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Wikidata weekly summary #225

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

• Discussions
  • Remember that we would love to have your input about data quality on Wikidata and list generation on Wikipedia!
  • What would you like to organize for Wikidata's 4rth birthday?

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • “Ben Whishaw, Broadway, the RADA and Wikidata” (data integration in the era of semantic web) by Harmonia Amanda
  • Hands-on research about Wikidata: My time as a PhD student at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. by Alessandro Piscopo
  • 3 tutorial videos about Wikidata: an intro to Wikidata, how to edit Wikidata and Wikidata Sparql Query Tutorial by Ewan McAndrew, Navino Evans and Sean McBirnie
  • Past: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, Pardubice – imported much open data related to the Czech Republic
  • Past: Lydia and Jens from the Wikidata team were at the QTcon to talk about Wikidata and applications (see the slides)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The events page is now up to date. You want to join or organise a meetup with other Wikidata editors? Keep an eye on this page!
  • 30K entries from Kindred Britain added in Mix’n’Match
  • Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
  • Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
  • English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: parent peak, elCinema person ID, elCinema film ID, TripAdvisor ID, NSZL name authority ID, last line, Redalyc journal ID, NSW Flora ID, cine.gr film ID, CiNetMag film ID, Latindex ID, ALCUIN ID, EDRPOU code, Polish scientist ID, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, OpenDomesday person ID, Epguides ID, TOID, Code for China Reservoir Name, OpenDomesday settlement ID, DSSTOX substance identifier, ISzDb dub ID, ISzDb company ID, ISzDb person ID, does not have part, DistroWatch ID, FEI ID, ISzDb film ID, Peakbagger ID, Yelp ID, LdiF ID, Guardian topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • People convicted of regicide and their victims (source)
    • The most common birthday among US citizens (source)
    • Things named after Polish people (source)
    • Drama schools by number of students (source)
    • Average gestation period of genera (source)
    • Sir Christopher Lee's filmography (with film directors) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Armenia, Czech Republic

• Development
  • RDF exports now contain page properties, this allows to query by number of statements or sitelinks (T129046)
  • Working on unit conversion for RDF exports (T117031)
  • Enabling Wikidata data access in user language deployed (T122670)
  • Information about usage of entities in other projects will be visible and reusable (T103091)
  • Pasting full entity URLs into suggesters will be possible (T117763)
  • Added meta descriptions to allow for better snippets in external search engines (T88475)
  • We replaced the old parser limit report (an HTML comment) with the new format (T143423)
  • Ongoing refactoring of the frontend JavaScript, this may break user scripts accessing private properties (T142694)

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Wikidata weekly summary #226

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Keynote by Lydia Pintscher at DBpedia conference, September 15th, Leipzig.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for beginners, September 16, Paris
  • Upcoming: Semantic MediaWiki Conference, September 28-30, Frankfurt
  • Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
  • Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
  • Research on WikiProject Knowledge Organization Systems presented at 15th NKOS workshop at TPDL: Classification of Knowledge Organization Systems with Wikidata: Presentation and Paper.
  • Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Tpt
  • Sunday Query: The 200 Oldest Living French Actresses, query tutorial by Harmonia Amanda
  • How to prototype Wikidata entities (in French) by Poulpy

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have new graphic material to present Wikidata. Feel free to use these files in your slides/talks/documents :)
  • #SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
  • Researcher? You can participate in the WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
  • How to build a query by Pigsonthewing
  • Wikipedia gets Map links and Geoshapes service using Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Scottish Charity number, Rock Hall of Fame ID, has grammatical mood, Minnesota legislator ID, UGent Memorialis id, enclosure, event distance, Australian Classification, Runeberg book ID, Runeberg author ID, Crossref funder ID, Findsmiley ID, iNaturalist taxon ID, birthday, molecule conformation, repeals, United States Reports ID, CiNetMag person ID, YouTheater ID, elFilm person ID, elFilm film ID, EDb person ID, EDb film ID, SourehCinema person ID, SourehCinema film ID, OFDb ID
  • Query examples:
    • Posthumous marriages (source)
    • Communes of France with more than one railway station (source)
    • Languages and their grammatical cases they have in common (source)
    • Cocktails recipes (source)
    • People who died in the last seven days (source)
    • Places of birth of 20th century saints (source)
  • New templates: {{Denmark properties}}, {{Greece properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.

• Development
  • Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
  • Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
  • Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
  • A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
  • Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
  • Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
  • Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)

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Wikidata weekly summary #227

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

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

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

• Other Noteworthy Stuff

Quality process on Wikidata

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

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #228

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: WikiCon 2016
  • Past: OASPA conference (slides)
  • Past: State of the Map
  • Past: National Institute of Health: frontiers in data science lecture series (slides)
  • Upcoming: SMWCon
  • Upcoming: office hour on IRC
  • Blog post about Wikidata and data about Czech trees
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The query examples have been migrated from mediawiki.org to wikidata.org at d:Wikidata:SPARQL examples
  • HPI is doing a linked data engineering course online
  • TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
  • Andy has mapped most of the W3C's ontology for vCard to Wikidata properties.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Heritage Lighthouse of Canada ID, Heritage Railway Station of Canada ID, New General Catalogue ID, Vine user ID, data.gouv.fr ID, patient of, Ciné-Ressources person ID, Ciné-Ressources movie ID, UAI code, Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID, Northern Ireland charity number, charity number (Isle of Man), JewishGen Locality ID, Federal Heritage Buildings ID, USGS earthquake id, league points system, INA video ID, GS1 Manufacturer code, Last.FM music ID, IMIS person ID, innervates, innervated by, Nobel prize ID, Marburger Professorenkatalog ID, TAXREF ID, VKontakte username, Czech National Bibliography book ID, WSJ topic ID, FANTOIR code, OpenCitations bibliographic resource ID
  • Query examples: taxonomy of squirrels (source), good or featured articles about people on Wikipedia but with no picture on Wikidata (source), Nordic Cross flags (source)
• Development
  • mnc (for Manchu) will soon be available as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137808)
  • Worked on foreign EntityIds in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons in the future (phabricator:T145516, phabricator:T146030, phabricator:T146274)
  • More work on usage tracking UI (phabricator:T145965, phabricator:T143148, phabricator:T145189, phabricator:T144923)
  • RFC discussion about Multi-Content-Revisions - another big blocker for structured data on Commons (phabricator:E273)
  • Ran a bot to mark dates that need a check of their calendar model (phabricator:T105100)
  • Getting unit conversion into the query service soon. We'll start with units for length and then expand based on feedback. (phabricator:T117032)
  • Working on extension to automatically link pages between languages on Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
  • Added the value that is responsible for an error in the error message so it can be found and fixed more easily (phabricator:T144303)
  • Working on fix for issue with extremely large or small date values in RDF (phabricator:T146356)
  • Expanding references again in diffs (phabricator:T129836)
  • Unbroke CopyReferences gadget. More work is needed. (phabricator:T142203)
  • Fixed issue with 2 search suggestion boxes showing up instead of 1 (phabricator:T119492)
  • Worked on improving the query service documentation (phabricator:T133052)
• Monthly Tasks
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The Signpost: 29 September 2016

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

• News and notes: Case study of Wikimedia Education Program published; remembrance of departed colleague Ray Saintonge (Eclecticology)

• In the media: This edition's roundup of media coverage

• Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content

• Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens

• Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét: Four weeks of traffic

• Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters

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Wikidata weekly summary #229

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

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

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

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

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

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 3. okt 2016, 17:34 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #230

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

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

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

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

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

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The Signpost: 14 October 2016

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

• News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna

• Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input

• In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio

• Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017

• Traffic report: Debates and escapes

• Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report

• Featured content: Variety is the spice of life

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Wikidata weekly summary #231

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #232

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

• Wikidata's birthday is coming!

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

Birthday events

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

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

Online

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

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

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

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

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WikiCite 2016 report

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #233

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

• Wikidata's birthday: presents, stories and events

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

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

• News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending

• In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage

• Wikicup: Winners announced

• Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?

• Featured content: Cream of the crop

• Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content

• Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities

• Traffic report: Un-presidential politics

• Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia

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Wikidata weekly summary #234

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

• Fourth birthday: thank you!

Map of the birthday parties

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #235

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #236

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Signpost: 26 November 2016

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

• Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog

• News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence

• In the media: Roundup of news related to U.S. presidential election and more

• Op-ed: Fundraising data should be more transparent

• Traffic report: President-elect Trump

• Blog: The top fifteen winning photos from Wiki Loves Earth

• Gallery: Around the world with Wiki Loves Monuments 2016

• Featured content: Featured mix

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Wikidata weekly summary #237

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #238

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #239

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #240

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

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

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

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

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

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The Signpost: 22 December 2016

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

• Year in review: Looking back on Wikimedia's 2016

• Special report: German Wikipedia ArbCom implodes amid revelation of member's far-right political role

• In focus: Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment

• News and notes: English Wikipedia ArbCom election results; strategic planning update

• Op-ed: Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia

• In the media: In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more

• Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues

• Featured content: The pre-Christmas edition

• Blog: Wiki Loves Monuments contest winners announced

• Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results

• Recent research: One study and several abstracts

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Wikidata weekly summary #241

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: 33C3
  • Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
  • Scraping data from Wikipedia using Wikidata
  • Using cbimport to import Wikibase data to JSON documents
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Linked data fragment enabled on the Query Service
  • Quora topic IDs have been added to Mix'n'match
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Belvedere artist ID, Calflora ID, basic unit of settlement code (Czech/Slovak), Google Play Store ID, Quora topic ID, end period, start period
  • Query examples:
    • List of heads of state by Erdős number (source)
    • Airports named after people (source)
    • Graves with no grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
    • Graves with grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
    • Solidays occurring today (source)
    • Streets in Paris named after current countries (source)
    • Streets in Paris named after battles (source)
    • Wikipedia articles (in any language) of paintings by painter (source)
    • Sovereign state flags with no red, white, or blue (source)
    • Graph of number of compositions over age at first composition (source)
• Development
  • Worked more on the first entity type (Lexeme) for Wiktionary support
  • Worked more on federation in order to allow using Wikidata items and properties to describe images on Commons in the future
  • Fixed a bug with getLabelWithLang returning the wrong language (phabricator:T152241)
  • Fixed an issue where some coordinate values displayed 60 seconds instead of rounding to 1 minute (phabricator:T153429)
  • Adjusted language for simple English sitelinks (phabricator:T152915)
• Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #242

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק, Pyb

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Next IRC office hour on January 5th
  • Past: we were at 33c3
  • Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
  • 2016 – A busy year for Gene Wiki and WikiData

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
  • Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: INSEE arrondissement code, INSEE countries and foreign territories code
  • Query examples:
    • Filtered timeline of Spotify artists
    • Paintings of the Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay (source)
    • Ratio of “famous” (≥25 sitelinks) people’s deaths since 2000 (source)
    • Things with coordinates on globes other than Earth (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: US Virgin Islands
  • Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions batchwise
  • Newest database reports: Popular items without claims, Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese

• Development
  • When a {{#statements:…}} property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (phab:T50799)
  • Rewrote Special:NewItem and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (phab:T150205)
  • Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662)
  • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
  • Release version 1.0.0 of the DataTypes component
  • Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)

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Wikidata weekly summary #242

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Current: Wikimedia Dev summit in San Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers and volunteers!
  • Upcoming: WikiIndaba, January 20-22th, Accra, Ghana
  • Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history project at the computer history museum

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a cartoon
  • Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata on English Wikipedia
  • Mix'n'match encountered some problems with labels and descriptions, some of them are now fixed, cf post from Magnus
  • Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js
  • How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata
  • Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata (by Magnus Sälgö)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: eBird taxon ID, Victorian Heritage Database ID, Debian package, FIFA country code, time signature, angular resolution, vehicle normally used, people or cargo transported, AELG ID, VGMDb artist ID, ERIH PLUS ID, biological variant of, parent cell line, Publons Publication ID, Social Networks Archival Context ID, Electronic Enlightenment ID, INCAA film rating, as.com athlete ID, ArbetSam ID, Natura 2000 site ID, Polish cultural heritage register number
  • Query examples:
    • Birth place of Academy Award winners
    • Neujahrskonzert with conductor by country and age (source)
    • 9 species named after the President of the USA (source)
  • Newest external tools: R wrapper for WDQS API (by Mikhail Popov), Wikidata authority file mapping tool (by Jakob Voß)
  • Newest database reports: list of episodes of Desperate Housewives (in English and German)

• Development
  • Log of our last IRC office hour
  • This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit hacking stuff and doing great things!
  • Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
  • New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (phab:T150881)
  • Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester (phab:T115267)
  • Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays disabled, as reported in December
  • We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo, monolingual, and quantity experts (gerrit:330145). The preview popup may now cover parts of the page. Please try it at wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org and tell us what you think on our contact page.

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  • Add statements to items without
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The Signpost: 17 January 2017

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

• From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost

• News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?

• In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more

• Featured content: One year ends, and another begins

• Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases

• Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new

• Technology report: Tech present, past, and future

• Recent research: Female Wikipedians aren't more likely to edit women biographies; Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia

• Interview: What is it like to edit Wikipedia when you're blind?

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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!

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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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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
  • Query examples:
    • Most articles about films in each Wikipedia
    • Largest companies by revenue in USD
    • Characters whose actors died recently (source)
    • Stock-listed US companies with founders who (or whose parents) were born outside the US (source)
    • 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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The Signpost: 6 February 2017

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

• Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy

• Special report: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

• News and notes: Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds

• In focus: WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"

• WikiProject report: For the birds!

• Op-ed: How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around

• In the media: Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates

• Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes

• Traffic report: Cool It Now

• Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles

• Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration

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The Signpost: 6 February 2017

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

• Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy

• Special report: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

• News and notes: Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds

• In focus: WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"

• WikiProject report: For the birds!

• Op-ed: How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around

• In the media: Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates

• Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes

• Traffic report: Cool It Now

• Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles

• Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration

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Wikidata weekly summary #246

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

• Discussions
  • We need your input about quality criteria for building a tool to evaluate item quality

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: WSDM Cup 2017
  • Upcoming: WikiCite 2017, Vienna, May 23-25, 2017
  • Upcoming: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners, by Asaf Bartov, February 9th, 19:00 UTC (livestream on Youtube)
  • Scaling the matching of Wikidata to OpenStreetMap with wikimama
  • Software product management as an internship in the Wikidata development team
  • Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Greta Doçi

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Inspire Campaign on outside knowledge networks launched
  • What would you like to talk about during Wikimania Montreal?
  • Join the Wikimania program committee!
  • OpenStreetMap uses several wikidata-related tags in its database. See also the related documentation
  • Dutch is now the most used language for descriptions on Wikidata (56,7%), leaving English (55,8%) and German (34,7%) behind.
  • An OpenRefine service for Wikidata is waiting for testing: https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/
  • WMDE looking for a data analyst to work mostly on Wikidata
  • WMF looking for a project manager to work on structured data for Commons

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Saros cycle of eclipse, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families ID, Relations Ontology ID, GCD series ID, WNBA player ID, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ID, CricketArchive playing ground ID, UltraSignup runner ID, ITRA runner ID, Surfline ID, SunshineTour ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, SIPCA code, Sina Weibo id, autologous cell line, Croatian Football Federation player ID, TLG author ID, data size, Fangraphs ID, European Handball Federation ID, ESPNcricinfo playing ground ID, ESPN MLB player ID, European Case Law Identifier, Cultureel Woordenboek identifier, OWGR ID, Legends of Hockey ID, Just Sports Stats ID, J.League Data Site ID, Global Poker Index ID, NGA Lighthouse ID, Admiralty number, pro-football-reference ID, College Football Data Warehouse ID, maximum size or capacity, USCF ID, World Curling Federation ID, World Curling Tour ID, World Guide to Covered Bridges ID, World Series of Poker ID, Zhihu topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • Places of worship south of 48°S(source)
    • Fictional items named after real items(source)

• Development
  • You can now download query results as SVG images
  • When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (phabricator:T51859)
  • We published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on Commons?
  • Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons)
  • Setting up test system for lexemes
  • Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
  • Doing more groundwork for lexemes
  • Working on better integration with Elastic
  • More work on Federation
  • Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
  • Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
  • Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)
  • Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (phabricator:T151329)
  • Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (phabricator:T154993)

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 7. feb 2017, 14:25 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #247

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: P171 (property "parent taxon"), changing the label of property "has role"

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Probing Parliament(s) with Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
  • Jan Dittrich and Charlie Kritschmar gave a talk at FOSDEM on finding user needs and gave some examples from their work.
  • A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners by Asaf Bartov: video and slides
  • Validating Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap
  • Reminder: the deadline for Wikimania's scholarship is February 20 (and you can discuss about your ideas for Wikidata here)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The satisfaction survey concerning Flow has been published (and Wikidata is the community which prefers Flow the most)
  • Module Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and report any problems (already reported one).
  • Experimental c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
  • ContentMine looking for a Wikimedian in Residence to work on Wikidata and WikiFactMine in Cambridge
  • It is now possible to edit the Wikidata description from the Wikipedia app in some languages in beta

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: base salary, Visions of Britain place ID, Visions of Britain unit ID, DigDag ID, Sweden Nature Reserve ID, Le Monde diplomatique subject ID, Borden Code, fare zone, Recreation.gov area ID, EU VAT number, Booking.com hotel ID, BOLD Systems taxon ID, 90minut player ID, ITU triathlete ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art Constituent ID, candidacy in election, MarineTraffic Lighthouse ID, protected heritage site in Brussels ID, Archives nationales producer record, Hockey-reference player ID, F-Droid package, Danish ancient monument ID, BLF article ID, Araneae Spider ID, AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID
  • Query examples:
    • Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
    • Office-holders convicted of crimes (source)
    • Monarchs convicted of regicide (source)
    • Timeline of antipopes (source)
    • Battles etc of the U.S. Civil War, that have maps (source) -- but the results are a bit patchy.
    • Grade I listed buildings in Bedfordshire (source: Commons "category contains" template)
  • Newest external tools: new reconciliation for OpenRefine

• Development
  • Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
  • Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
  • Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
  • Further work on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14. feb 2017, 09:41 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #248

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: GLAMwiki meeting in Paris, February 16-17th
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), March 7th
  • If Voltaire had used Wikipedia… using Wikidata to share knowledge about an author

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WMF open call for Project Grant proposals (Feb 13-Mar 14)
  • Wikimania: the deadline for applying for scholarships is 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC. Submissions are running until end of March (see our discussions about Wikidata-related topics)
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a fullstack developer and an engineering manager to work on Wikidata
  • Editing Wikidata descriptions from Wikipedia app (beta)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: USA Gymnastics athlete ID, Tennis Archives player ID, Swimming Australia swimmer ID, Sambafoot player ID, International Weightlifting Federation ID, EPCR player ID, L'Équipe football player ID, Futsal Planet player ID, Fotbal DNES player ID, Football Federation of Ukraine player ID, Fora De Jogo manager ID, FootballFacts.ru player ID, Estonian Football Association player ID, DZFoot.com player ID, Croatian Football Statistics ID, Cross-tables.com Scrabble player ID, BDFutbol player ID, Chess.com player ID, ARRS runner ID, Kontinental Hockey League player ID, American Hockey League player ID, JMK film rating, IDEAS person ID, NatureServe conservation status, NBA player ID, Basketball Hall of Fame ID, All Blacks player ID, FFR player ID, significant environmental impact, ARCHON code, Uniform Type Identifier, National Drug Code, Key to English Place-Names (KEPN) ID, Oorlogsmonument ID, European Medicines Agency product number, PDB ligand ID, Peakbagger area ID, The Met object ID, British Museum place ID, British Museum thesaurus ID, Babelio work ID, Babelio author ID, stated age at event, British History Online VCH ID, Historical Gazetteer of England's Place Names ID, Australian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Kirshenbaum, Common Weakness Enumeration ID, BadmintonLink player ID, rusbandy player ID, Darts Database player ID, Bwfbadminton.com player ID, ski-db.com skier ID
  • Query examples:
    • People born at the sea (source)
    • Persons buried in Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris (source)
    • Paintings by women painters in the Louvre (source)
    • People born on Valentine's day, colour coded by country of citizenship (source)
  • Newest external tools: wikidata-cli can now edit Wikidata, edit Wikidata from NodeJS

• Development
  • Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
  • More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
  • Fixed an error on d:Special:ConstraintReport (phabricator:T158183)
  • Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Wikidata weekly summary #249

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Proposal to include command line arguments to Command line tool
  • We need your input on SPARQL federation

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Describing Wikidata items with OpenStreetMap tags
  • Deadline for applying to Wikicite 2017 is February 27th
  • Quora blog post about their collaboration with Wikidata. They are now displaying links to Wikidata items in their topic management pages - about 88K of them, so far.
  • Community Digest: Using data to visualize Wikipedia knowledge gaps; news in brief

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a Community for Wikidata editors on Facebook
  • You can now make your Harvest Templates tasks run automatically. After you have generated a permalink to your task, add &run= to the url. When you open it next time, it will load and then run automatically. Alternatively, you can use &load= which will only prepare the task for running.
  • Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app for Hebrew, Russian and Catalan

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GPnotebook ID, regulated by, NCMEC person ID, MEROPS enzyme ID, social classification, NISH Hall of Fame ID, Recreation.gov facility ID, category for value not in Wikidata, objective of a project or mission, Vanderkrogt.net Statues ID, Jewish Encyclopedia Daat ID, category for value different from Wikidata, PhDTree person ID, Gridabase glacier ID, RITVA Person ID, RITVA Program ID, KMDb film ID, JMDb person ID, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts ID, incarnation of, NHF player ID, Transfermarkt referee ID, Tennis Australia player ID, SRCFB player ID, SRCBB player ID, SpeedSkatingStats speed skater ID, SpeedSkatingNews speed skater ID, ShorttrackOnLine speed skater ID, NCAA sports team ID, ISHOF swimmer ID, IFSC climber ID, ICF slalom canoer ID, ICF sprint canoer ID, ESPN NHL player ID, ESPN NFL player ID, ESPN NBA player ID, DriverDB driver ID, LFP.fr player ID, AOC athlete ID, ESPN FC player ID, statement supported by, stock market index, SA Rugby player ID, Wereld van Oranje player ID, National Bridge Inventory Number, Hans Christian Andersen Centre's work ID, Mutopia composer ID, film-documentaire.fr film ID, International Orienteering Federation athlete ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of cheese by milk used (source)
    • The many flags of Afghanistan (source)
    • Real works written by fictional authors (source)
    • Maps of churches in Pyrénées-Orientales (France) (source)
    • Cities with millions of inhabitants that not a single person in Wikidata was born, has lived, or died in (source)

• Development
  • Continued to finalize the initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
  • More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support

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Wikidata weekly summary #250

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • International Open Data Day was on Saturday, 4 March (tweets about Wikidata)
  • Wikidata documentation sprint during the Wikimedia hackathon (May 19-21): We need your help to improve Wikidata help pages!
  • Getting to know Wikidata (from Bob DuCharme, author of the book "learning SPARQL")
  • Tutorial to mashup Wikidata and government data with Dataiku DSS and Palladio (fr)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Library of Congress updated their inventory of Format Description Documents to include Wikidata URIs
  • Surfacing Wikidata objects with coordinates to match them with OSM
  • The Wikiproject Welcome has been created to work on welcoming the new editors, feel free to participate

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FIH player ID, seed dispersal, number of works, inflorescence, minimum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, maximum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, Eurovision Song Contest song ID, Ghetto Encyclopedia ID, category for value same as Wikidata, MOOMA artist ID, PhilPapers record, Serbia cadastral municipality ID, next higher rank, next lower rank, New Zealand Heritage List number, Serbia municipality ID, Eu-football.info player ID, CEV player ID, USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia ID, USCG Lighthouse ID, Commons maps category, public key fingerprint
  • Query examples:
    • Countries with similar populations (source)
    • Items that have "feminist art" as a value (source)
    • Books, incipits, concatenating a sentence to the incipit (source and inspiration)
    • Paintings by Vermeer depicting maps (source)
    • Painters sorted by the number of Wikipedia articles about their works (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Fashion

• Development
  • Finishing touches on the new geo shape data type. It is available on the first test wiki now (phabricator:T57549).
  • SetLabel, SetDescription, SetAliases, SetLabelDescriptionAliases, SetSiteLink have been migrated to ooUI. Thanks, Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T48248)
  • Making progress on integrating the new Lexeme entity type with the wbeditentity API (phabricator:T155699).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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  • Hack on one of these.
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Wikidata weekly summary #251

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Ladies that FOSS, March 15th, 18:00, Berlin. Meetup dedicated to women who want to start coding for Wikidata, Mediawiki or other open source software
  • Wikidata workshop in Manchester, March 17th, 10:00, at the Manchester Central Library (information)
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 17th, 20:30. More questions about SPARQL and the Query Service (information and registration)
  • Would you like to attend to a Wikidata meetup in Berlin? You can choose the next date!
  • Wizards, Muggles and Wikidata: The Room of Requirements for structured knowledge by Jens Ohlig, John Cummings and Navino Evans
  • Wikidata for winners (in Economics) by Martin Poulter
  • Des Successions à Wikidata : vers un réseau social des philosophes antiques ? (fr) by Pierre-Carl Langlais

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Do you want to help watching the recent changes? Have a look at this useful collection of links by YMS
  • Watch the gender gap on Wikipedia and Wikidata with this tool by Envlh
  • Play Stadt, Fluss, Land with Wikidata! (by Knut)
  • Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
  • WMF is hiring a program manager, a product manager and a community liaison to work on the structured data project on Commons

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: pole position, MIMO instrument ID, openMLOL author ID, IPv4 range, Iditarod musher ID, SAHRA heritage site ID, DOCOMOMO Ibérico ID, average space complexity, best-case space complexity, worst-case space complexity, average performance, best-case performance, worst-case performance, Shoftim BeIsrael judge ID, KMDb documentary ID, Google Maps CID, Israel Football Association player ID, SSRN author ID, Wildflowers of Israel ID, World Rugby Sevens Series ID, number of subscribers, ITU/ISO/IEC object identifier
  • Query examples:
    • List of female bioinformaticians/computational biologists (source)
    • Most gender-imbalanced occupations in US citizens (source)
    • Awards received by more women than men (source)
    • Transgender characters played by trangender actors/actresses (source)
    • The most famous astronomical objects in Solar System according to Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
    • Natural arches around the globe (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Board Games
  • Newest external tools: official first release of WikidataIntegrator

• Development
  • Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test it here (phab:T134643).
  • Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (phab:T158772).
  • Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (phab:T160319).
  • Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
  • Finishing federation prototype.
  • We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (phab:T157965).
  • Removed unnecessary CSS on ooui special pages (phabricator:T159702)
  • Allowed example queries to be searched for SPARQL commands (phabricator:T154768)
  • Converted Wikibase interface for undoing/restoring a revision to OOUI (phabricator:T134643)
  • Converted image header user script to gadget (phabricator:T159929)
  • Started writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T150785)
  • Worked on providing API for constraint check (phabricator:T102757)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • 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.
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Weekly Summary #252

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin on March 31st
  • Upcoming: Datensummit in Berlin, April 29th. We're looking for Wikidata editors to help :)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop in Rennes, March 22nd
  • A successful Wikidatathon about women's history in Puri, India
  • Wikidata as information source to support the Dutch elections
  • Quora: Adding Locations via Wikidata
  • Quora: Identifying Topics about People
  • How to quickly generate word analogy datasets with Wikidata by Finn Arup Nielsen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
  • SWAT4LS 2016 poster Linking Wikidata to the Semantic Web
  • Mix’n’match interface update

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FFA ID, European Athletics ID, All-Athletics.com ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of authors of scientific articles that have been published on this day of the year (source)
    • Scholarly articles that have Wikipedia articles about them (source)
    • False Vermeer works (source)
    • From Natalie Portman to Paul Erdös graph (source)

• Development
  • Fixing a bug on the save button (phab:T159244)
  • Fixing a bug with the link to the Query Service on an ember query (phab:T156013)
  • More work on Federation (phab:T157442, phab:T158169)
  • Fixing a bug on geoformats (phab:T158772)
  • Fixing a bug on the treemap view (phab:T160320) Thanks EdouardHue for the patch!
  • More groundwork on Lexemes (phab:T157791)
  • Show thumbnails in commons suggester (phab:T160319)
  • Fixing a bug on coordinate (phab:T153429)
  • Applying WikimediaUI color palette to Wikibase (phab:T151194)
  • Writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phab:T150785)
  • Working on providing API for constraint check (phab:T102757)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #253

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-03-27.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Friday, March 31st at 19:30 in Neukölln
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office^connect
  • A tool to estimate gender gap on Wikidata and Wikipedia (source)
  • (fr) Odonymie rennaise : que nous apprend Wikidata sur les noms des voies de Rennes ? (source)
  • Wikidata's excellent sample SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
  • 10 steps to integrate CIViCdb with other public data in Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • RFC: Wikidata → OSM lookup table
  • Participate to the definition of the Wikimedia movement's strategy
  • The deadline for Wikimania talks submission has been extended to April 10th (check what we're planning around Wikidata)
  • Conceptual documentation for the Lexemes and examples (feel free to help translating)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FI WarSampo army unit ID, KMRB film rating, FI WarSampo person ID, film script, volcano observatory, BoF person ID, Bivouac.com pass ID, Elle.fr person ID, Evidence & Conclusion Ontology ID, Parks.it ID, YerelNET district ID, The Numbers movie ID, S2A3 Biographical Database ID, Mapa place ID, Tax-exempt heritage asset ID, TV Guide show ID, original film format, Launchpad.net project ID, INEGI municipality ID, Safsal coach ID, Safsal player ID, Star Wars Databank ID, autonomous system number, Bureau of Meteorology station ID, Flora of Israel plant ID, Dictionary of Sydney ID, IPv6 routing prefix, rate of fire, Art Renewal Center ID, AnimeCons.com ID, Telegram username, BNA author ID, danskefilm silent film ID, danskefilm person ID, danskefilm film ID, CiteSeerX ID, Christie's work ID, Artnet artist ID, has active ingredient, active ingredient in, negative allosteric modulator of, positive allosteric modulator of, antisense inhibitor of, inhibitor of, disrupting agent for, blocker of, antagonist of, agonist of, activator of, PeakFinder ID, It's Rugby ID, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Book ID
  • Query examples:
    • Time zones that are more than 12 hours away from UTC (source)
    • Countries which have the same name as their capital in their official language (source)
    • Roman amphitheatres on Wikidata (source)
    • Sluices on canals in Bretagne (France) (source)
  • Newest database reports: film scripts
  • Showcase items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764)

• Development
  • Fixing a bug that prevented users to edit descriptions in some non-latin alphabets (phab:T161263)
  • Worked on Special:NewLexeme which will be used to create new Lexemes for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T157973)
  • Aligned some more colors with Wikimedia color palete (phabricator:T151194)
  • Added more autocompletion for the Wikidata Query Service (phabricator:T150950)
  • Started working on support for Forms of words in the UI for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T160520)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • 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) 27. mar 2017, 16:39 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #254

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), April 4th (more info)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office^connect
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in London (UK), April 8th (more info)
  • Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content
  • Biocuration 2017
    • Talk: Repurpos.us: A fully open and expandable drug repurposing portal by Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD
    • Poster: Best practices for data provenance in Wikidata by Gregory S. Stupp et al.
    • Poster: Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to model, validate and curate Wikidata by Andra Waagmeester et al.
  • Five years ago, the development of Wikidata started

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
  • New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on April 11. (more info)
  • Data donation: Songkick have donated a datafile with 155K of their Songkick artist ID (P3478). ~45K are already matched, and the rest are in Mix'n'Match, awaiting your kind attention.
  • Query Service: you can now create a template to explain what your query is doing
  • new data type for geographical shapes will be enabled on April 24th
  • Several CC0 databases are now federated with the Query Service endpoint

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: located in present-day administrative territorial entity, Human Phenotype Ontology ID, slope rating, Tab4u artist ID, Tab4u song ID, United States Public Law, Pinterest username, Mendeley person ID, RTC film rating, diaspora, Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID, object has role, CueTracker player ID, Publons author ID, wears, JSTOR topic ID, Welsh Rugby Union player ID, United States Statutes at Large citation, VTJ-PRT building ID, Ethnologue language status, rules for classification, Bangla Movie Database ID, Flanders Arts Institute venue ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of the megaliths of the World, coloured by type (showing some nice paterns, source)
    • French people without a gender (source)
    • Eldest members of noble families (source)
    • Map of places with population “zero” (0) (source)

• External Tools News
  • wikidata-cli
    • new command: wd summary
    • improved support for custom Wikibase instances
  • wikidata-edit:
    • new function: remove claim
    • improved support for custom Wikibase instances
  • wikidata-sdk:
    • new function: simplify.entity
    • major documentation restructuration
  • wikidata-filter:
    • new filter criteria: sitelinks. Example of a query that times out on the SPARQL endpoint but that is now possible with wikidata-filter: Get all entities with a Chinese and a French Wikipedia article, keeping only id, labels, and sitelinks matching those languages
  • Monumental: brand new app for displaying heritage data

• Development
  • A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may now him for his work on queries as WikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
  • Attending to Wikimedia Conference, talking with Wikidata and Wiktionary users
  • Improving performance on Special:Entities pages (phab:T161631)
  • Tracking the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props (phab:T114617)
  • More work on Senses (phab:T161523) and Forms (phab:T160524)
  • Improving the autocompletions of Query Service (phab:T150950)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • 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) 3. apr 2017, 15:35 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #255

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Zolo
  • New request for comments: Proposed client side disambiguation page

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research, on WMF blog, by Dario Taborelli
  • Le canal de Nantes à Brest sur Wikidata (fr) by Édouard Hue
  • Comprende!, a quiz interface on top of MediaWiki/WikiBase by Magnus Manske
  • Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: April 26th, 18:00 in WMDE's office

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deadline for submitting a talk, workshop or roundtable for Wikimania is today, April 10th, at midnight (UTC)!
  • There's now also a #100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named #100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
  • New filters for Recent Changes: the beta deployment is rescheduled on May 9th
  • Grant application to extend the work of John Commings at UNESCO
  • New MapRoulette challenges: Add missing Wikidata ids to cities and capitals on OpenStreetMap
  • You can be a candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees
  • Log of the last IRC office hour with Wikidata development team
  • Help us translating this short message in your language

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: TV Guide person ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID, DLV athlete ID
  • Query examples:
    • Notable integers
    • Longest streets of Moscow
    • Top 20 of heaviest humans in Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of Paris marathons (source)
    • Countries not involved in any world war (source)
    • People whose place of birth is named after them (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Figure skating
  • Newest external tools: Sistercities, an overview of sister cities of German cities on Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Newest database reports: list of duos

• Development
  • Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (phab:T162244)
  • Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
  • Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • 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.
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10. apr 2017, 14:26 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #256

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

Events/Press/Blogs

• Wikidata workshop in Paris, Friday, April 21st, about external tools
• "Wikidata pour la science" training day in Paris, April 24th
• Heritage in Flanders and Crowd-Sourced Projects - featuring Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap
• The ACS Spring disclosures of 2017 #1 - about news drug compounds entering Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
• Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app to be deployed on several Wikipedias
• More federated endpoints have been added (DBpedia, INSEE, UK Office for National Statistics...)
• All UNESCO sites in Wikishootme
• You can now cheat Stadt Fluss Land game with a query ;)
• To be deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries

Did you know?

• Newest properties: type of reference, suicide rate, Italian Navy Lighthouses and Beacons ID, MyDramaList name ID, iTunes app ID, Wormbase Gene ID, Environment Ontology ID, route diagram, cinenacional.com person ID, Quebec municipalities geographical code, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork ID, Soundtrack Collector ID, Rat Genome Database ID, FlyBase Gene ID, cinenacional.com movie ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali toponym ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali institution ID, Irish Rugby Football Union ID, Open Library subject ID, DBC author ID
• Query examples:
  • The 500 most important paintings, according to Wikidata sitelinks (source)
  • The most important works in German by Wiki* articles (source)
  • Cities in France starting with the letter W (source)
• Newest external tools: Wikinity displays a map of items near any given place
• Newest database reports: list of anthology films

Development

• More work on support for Forms and Lexemes (phab:T160052)
• Adding monolingual language code UMU (phab:T160531)
• Fixing a bug about Commons gallery and category (phab:T161826)
• Improving header image gadget (phab:T160530)
• Provide a special page to list all available badges (phab:T114473)
• Show supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
• Track the number of identifier properties on an item (phab:T114617)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
• 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. apr 2017, 12:26 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #257

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
  • Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Wednesday, April 26th in WMDE's office
  • Datensummit by OKFN, April 29th, in Berlin

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Editing will be disabled during parts of May 3rd, to allow a server switch
  • Deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: PictoRight ID-Droit de suite, observing time available, MetaboLights Compound ID, Swiss Federal Archives ID, Boijmans artist ID, KVAB member ID, number of perpetrators, History of Modern Biomedicine ID, Tilastopaja male athlete ID, Red Bull athlete ID, Tilastopaja female athlete ID, National Track & Field Hall of Fame athlete ID, Caverphone, Cologne phonetics, Soundex, HappyCow restaurant ID, category for alumni of educational institution, Justia Patents company ID, Justia Patents inventor ID, daily patronage, patronage, tributary orientation, ZFIN gene ID, IAFD female-born performer ID, MyDramaList title ID, Israel Chess Federation player ID, LAWA waterbody ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place of birth of the candidates to French presidency since 1958 (source)
    • Oldest given names on Wikidata (source)
    • Cocktails and their ingredients (source)
    • Cities in UK named after a patron saint (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject Terrorism
  • New template: d:Template:Film festivals

• Development
  • Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (phab:T138295)
  • Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (phab:T163144)
  • Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (phab:T110604)
  • Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (phab:T159710)
  • Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (phab:T160530)
  • Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (phab:T162342)
  • Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (phab:T160048)
  • Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
  • Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (phab:T157466)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • 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.
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Wikidata weekly summary #258

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
  • Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
  • Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
  • Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - by Songkick, about their data donation
  • Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Attention: Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
  • New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
  • new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
  • Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
  • Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
  • Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service? Give us your feedbacks
  • Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work, Répertoire national des associations identifier, IPA number order, UNESCO Thesaurus ID, Athletics Australia athlete ID, GuideStar Israel organization ID, MobyGames developer ID, newspaper format, STW Thesaurus for Economics ID, Bollywood Hungama ID, last words, Reprezentacija ID, LoJ peak ID, Ishim ID, GINCO ID, VIVC grape variety ID, column, had as last meal, ADAGP artist ID, CONICET person ID, Medium username
  • Query examples:
    • 15415 people who died in 2016
    • Maps of statues of Jeanne d'Arc on a horse (source)
    • Families who’ve had the same occupation for five generations (source)
    • Couples of capitals more than 19,000 km away from each other (source)
    • A ten-persons “surname = given name” chain on Wikidata (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of newspapers by newspaper format

• Development
  • Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
  • Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
  • The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
  • Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (phabricator:T107595)
  • Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
  • Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #259

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Updating References for External Data

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Registration is open for the Celtic Knot Conference 2017 (July 6th, Edinburgh)
  • Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Vote in the board election (see also Voter guides and rationales
  • Sitelinks for the new Doteli Wikipedia (dtywiki) can be added
  • You can now track the number of identifier properties for an item
  • We provide weekly a new type of database dumps: nt truthy dumps
  • Wikipedia article-draft-generator developed by Pharos for Met Museum project
  • Schema.org proposes to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common entity base for the target of the sameAs relation

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: light sector, Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent, Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work
  • Query examples:
    • All places (with coordinates) that gave its name to something (source)
    • Paintings depicting monkeys (source)
    • Artworks with presumably depicted persons (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of oldest lighthouses

• Development
  • Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
  • Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
  • Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
  • Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #260

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

• Discussions
  • Development input: Client editing prototype

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague (see a video of the Wikidata and SPARQL training)
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
  • Upcoming: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
  • Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: June 7th in WikiBÄR
  • You can still register for the Wikidata/election data hackathon in Ulm, Germany (June 23-25)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Discuss the movement strategy on Wikidata. The Cycle 2 started on May, 11.
  • WikidataCon: join the program committee and other teams!
  • TwoColConflict is now enabled on Wikidata
  • OSMgadget is a tool to help Wikipedia editors find objects in OpenStreetMap, and tag them with their Wikidata IDs
  • The OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher tool
  • Two language properties will be merged but the discussion still needs to go on
  • Tabular data files datatype is now enabled
  • The constraint table has been updated

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NLL player ID, Italian Senate ID, ALPG golfer ID, Stereo Ve Mono artist ID, BioRxiv ID, narrower external class, Juwra.com ID, MLL player ID, Directorio Grierson ID, RANM member ID, Old Bailey Proceedings ID, Tumblr ID, Bmx-results.com rider ID, Israel Antiquities Authority ID, OlimpBase Chess Olympiad player ID, ESTC citation number, named by, Reactome pathway ID, NFF person profile ID, Chamber of Deputies of Italy ID, face value, Cinema ID, Digital Valencian Library author ID, copyright owner, Rallye-info.com driver or co-driver ID, V&A item ID, MotoGP racer ID, eWRC-results.com athlete ID, USATF athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics male athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics female athlete ID, Diamond League athlete ID
  • Query examples:
    • Paintings in the Louvre Museum, with heights and widths (source)
    • Chart of USA cities founded per year (source)
    • Country flags including a symbol of sun (source)
    • Birthplace of Spanish Queen Consorts (source)

• Development
  • More work on Special:NewLexeme page (Phab:T164582)
  • Correctly compare time values on constraints (Phab:T164279)
  • Check wording of messages/constraint check results (Phab:T164354)
  • Creating grammatical features for Forms (Phab:T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Help adding missing statements to properties
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • 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. maj 2017, 21:48 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #261

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wahlsalon (event Codefor.de about election data): Kickoff on May 24th in Berlin
  • Upcoming: Open Science: the National Plan and you meeting for Dutch researchers: May 29th in Delft, The Netherlands
  • Current: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
  • Current: Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (May 15th-June 30th) help improving the data about the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
  • Past: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna
  • Paper: Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base (Alessandro Piscopo, Christopher Phethean, Elena Simperl)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The extension RevisionSlider is now available by default on Wikidata. Try it on a talk or project page!
  • Check out some updates about the WikidataCon
  • We reached Q30,000,000! Help us improve it and make a showcase item out of it.
  • An additional 10k article placeholders on Welsh Wikipedia will be made indexable in search engines

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, Nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID, channel number, signed form, CETS no., final event, programming paradigm, Bridgeman artist ID, BDCYL authority ID, Clochers de France ID, Global Trade Item Number, Unifrance film ID, Base biographique AUTOR ID, NNL work ID
  • Query examples:
    • Websites but without an official website
  • Plants with associated emoji (source)
    • Languages ordered by number of speakers (source)
    • HMDB identifiers with more than one item (source)
    • Painters with a lot of identifiers on Wikidata, but few Wikipedia articles (source)
    • Buildings with the greatest numbers of elevators (source)
    • Map of female writers on Wikidata by birthplace- generated by SPARQL query (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Counter-Vandalism, WikiProject Documentation

• Development
  • Participating to the Wikimedia hackathon 2017, having a lot of interesting talks with users, designers, developers...
  • Helping improving the documentation for the property constraints, the beginner documentation about Wikidata, how to install Wikibase
  • Rewriting most constraint violation messages to include more useful information (phab:T164354, help update translations)
  • Working on a tree view for the Query Service (phab:T152676)
  • Setting up a constraints development/testing wiki
  • Moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
  • Working on performance of change dispatching so database of wikidata goes read-only in lower rate (phab:T162557)
  • Reducing number of duplicates rows in our database table for labels, descriptions and aliases to make it faster (phab:T163551)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • 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) 23. maj 2017, 13:57 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #262

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl (all successful)
  • New request for comments: Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check on Twitter and the video streams to see what happened
  • Six degrees on Wikidata, by Andrew Gray
  • Some statistics on scholarly data in Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Wikidata for librarians, by Dan Scott

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Eurowings app uses Wikidata
  • Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM map? Alex-7 created a web app.
  • Breaking change: sitelink encoding changing in RDF export/WDQS

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Filmweb.pl ID, racon signal, Vitaskrá ID, SSB urban settlement number, Austrian Textbook ID, EKATTE place ID, members have occupation, National Library Board Singapore ID, SHARE Catalogue author ID, Sequence Ontology ID, supports programming language, subreddit, sports league level, TA98 Latin term, Misjonsarkiv person ID, Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of subreddits associated to a place on Earth (source)
    • Potential reviewers for papers in computer science (source)
    • Paintings with 'portrait' in the name that lack P180 / depicts (source)
    • Publications and presentations about WikiCite (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Zika Corpus
  • Newest external tools: Wikidata to CSV
  • Newest database reports: Roger Moore filmography

• Development
  • Attending WikiCite
  • Showing badges on other projects (phab:T73887)
  • Improving label tracking (phab:T151717)
  • Working more on statements on forms in order to support lexicographical data

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • 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) 29. maj 2017, 17:22 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #263

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for bureaucrat: Lymantria

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, June 7th, 18:00, in the WikiBÄR local room
  • Upcoming: An introduction to Wikidata for GLAMs, Berlin, June 9th (more info in German)
  • Upcoming: Hackathon cartographie des logiciels libres in Paris on June 10th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during HackZurich, September 14th (registration opening on June 9th)
  • Wikidata, WikiCite, and the "bibliography of life" by Rod Page (Q7356570)
  • MySociety (Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
    1. Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
    2. Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
    3. Linking back in the other direction
    4. Check that the data is consistent
  • Wikicite 2017, and the 7 features Wikidata needs most

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
  • Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at DBLP (Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (P214), GND ID (P227), ORCID iD (P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (P864), zbMATH author ID (P1556), & Google Scholar ID (P1960).
  • Sitelinks of Wiktionary will be enabled on June 20th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI musical work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID, ADW taxon ID, DFB datacenter player ID, danskefilm TV series ID, danskefilm animated film ID, dimension, USL player ID, The Arabidopsis Information Resource Accession, Ustream username, SlideShare username, Vimeo username, Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID, Giphy username, Semantic Scholar author ID, Semantic Scholar paper ID, GDP (PPP), RKY national built heritage environment ID, Early Aviators people ID, DBS ID, overrules, Bavarikon ID, shield image, official Facebook page, WFD Ecological status, Latvian Protected Nature Territory URL
  • Query examples:
    • Number of citizens with “blood type” statements per country (source)
    • Works with most citations (running time 20-45s) (source)
    • Female recipients of the Palme d'Or award (source)
    • Timeline of albums by Manu Chao and Mano Negra (source)
    • Female given names ending in "o" (source)
  • Newest external tools: Wikidata Diff (compares two items; proof-of-concept, doesn't yet include qualifiers, etc.), Wikidata Recent Changes livestream
  • Newest database reports: list of items with the property "has fruit type"

• Development
  • Removing some config variables (phab:T93773)
  • Fixing a conflict with Language Converter (phab:T166429)
  • Showing badges in the sidebar (phab:T73887)
  • Fixing a bug on Query Service (phab:T166762)
  • Adjusting code reading from wb_terms (phab:T162673)
  • Adding an accesskey to the undo button (phab:T165078)
  • Fixing preferences settings for the new Echo notification (phab:T166657)
  • Adding Rangi language (lag) to Wikidata (phab:T161983)
  • Working on moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
  • More work on usage tracking (phab:T151717)
  • More work on Lexemes (phab:T157974)
  • More work on statements (phab:T165480)
  • More work on constraints (phab:T167107)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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) 6. jun 2017, 16:42 (CEST)

The Signpost: 9 June 2017

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

• From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, Help wanted!

• News and notes: Global Elections

• Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis

• Op-ed: Wikipedia's lead sentence problem

• Featured content: Three months in the land of the featured

• In the media: Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?

• Recent research: Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press

• Technology report: Tech news catch-up

• Traffic report: Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10

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Wikidata weekly summary #264

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion: Convert UBERON ID to external-id

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th
  • Querying OSM + Wikidata from a single RDF database intro (YouTube video) by Yuri Astrakhan
  • The Role of Librarians in Wikidata and WikiCite, by Katie Mika
  • MySociety (Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
    1. Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
    2. Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
    3. Linking back in the other direction
    4. Check that the data is consistent
    5. Conclusion: So, what is the gender breakdown of heads of government?

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The call for submissions for the WikidataCon program is now open! Submit your projects to share your experience with the community until July 31st
  • You can also apply for a scholarship for the WikidataCon
  • Breaking change: improving the schema of wb_terms table
  • Wikidata Diff, a tool to compare the basic properties (no qualifiers/ ranks, yet) of two Wikidata items
  • OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher, new tool for OpenStreetMap mappers, to match objects in OSM to Wikidata items, using the wikidata= tag in OSM
    • Announcement & guide

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: EspritBleu athlete ID, J.League manager ID, Sandbox-Geographic shape, SIMC place ID, Sandbox-Tabular data, therapeutic area, emulates, ESBL athlete ID, Rock.com.ar album ID, Rock.com.ar artist ID, Rock.com.ar biography ID, Danish List of Lights and Fog signals ID, South Australian Heritage Register Database ID, field of view, Shironet song ID, Shironet artist ID, Mastodon address, reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Coordinates of parallels and meridians according to Wikidata (source)
    • Uses of the property "IPv6 routing prefix" (source)
    • Non-politician jobs that UK Prime Ministers had (source)
  • Newest external tools: matching things in OSM with Wikidata (more information)
  • Newest database reports: new people gallery

• Development
  • Updating wording re associated Wikidata item following move (phab:T158842)
  • More work on Forms (phab:T163723)
  • Fixing rank icon (phab:T85388)
  • Add monolingual code fkv (phab:T167259)
  • Add monolingual code lag (phab:T161983)
  • More work on property constraints (phab:T167126)
  • Script for populating term_full_entity_id column in wb_terms table (phab:T162533)
  • Full support for wikibase edits in enhanced changes format (phab:T46874)
  • Adding Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link (phab:T74815)
  • New datatype for referencing Lexemes (phab:T165578)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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) 12. jun 2017, 15:24 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #265

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for comments:
    • How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel?
    • Findagrave removed as a source for information

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, Germany, June 23-25th
  • Upcoming: Peer-to-peer Wikidata workshop 2017, June 24th, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
  • Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel wikimedia-office
  • Wikidata as authority linking hub (PDF). Presentation by Joachim Neubert (ZBW) and Jakob Voß (GBV) at ELAG 2017 conference in Athens
  • Facto Post newsletter, first issue and comments on Wikidata at Wikidata:Project chat#Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017. Contains a number of blog links, particularly about WikiCite.

• WikidataCon
  • Registration is now open! Check the information and fill the form to register.
  • Let's build the program by proposing a project until July 31st
  • Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have reached 500,000,000 edits.
  • You can now query the Mediawiki API from the Query Service (documentation)
  • Your feedback is still welcome on the prototype for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia
  • beaTunes 5’s new Album Info pane is powered by Wikidata

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: Zemereshet song ID, Zemereshet artist ID, identifier shared with, CONI athlete ID, CIS Chinese Athletes Database ID, COSR athlete ID, MOB athlete ID, COA athlete ID, Team USA athlete ID, ČOV athlete ID, LTOK athlete ID, COB athlete ID, Irish National Monument ID, FINESS medical facility ID, Irish Sites and Monuments Record ID, NZOC athlete ID, Norwegian List of Lights ID, Team Canada athlete ID, Deutsche Olympiamannschaft athlete ID, Academia.edu institutional ID, Ukrainian regulations base ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of monsters of the Japanese folklore
    • Lang by number of label (with quarry.wmflabs.org)
    • The 10 smallest countries with some kind of urban rail transit system (source)
    • Occupations with highest rate of deaths by homicide (source)
    • Software titles ranked by number of readable file formats (source)
  • Newest external tools: Causegraph, a tool to visualize and analyze cause/influence relationships using Wikidata

• Development
  • Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI
  • Continued work on importing property constraints from statements (phab:T102759)
  • Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (phab:T160053)
  • More experimenting with the new front-end framework
  • Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (phab:T167951)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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) 19. jun 2017, 15:30 (CEST)

The Signpost: 23 June 2017

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

• News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)

• In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill

• Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take

• Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues

• Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth

• Recent research: Utopian bubbles: Can Wikipedians create value outside of the capitalist system?

• Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all

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Wikidata weekly summary #266

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, June 26th
  • Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel wikimedia-office
  • Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some documentation in German)
  • Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata, by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project
  • ORCID Mania (in response to this call for a tool to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata)
  • I use Wikidata for multilingual names, by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot'
  • Resource discovery and Wikidata
  • Where the streets have known names - Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata
  • Extracting scientists from Wikipedia - Academic paper
  • ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es) by the Cervantes virtual library

Cheat sheet about Wikidata Query Service (de)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • What are your favorite tools using Wikidata?
  • Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata
  • New Wikidata Game: Wikidata Guessr guess the locations of random Wikidata items
  • OpenRefine 2.7 has been released, including the Wikidata Reconcile service
  • Nice graphics about Wikidata and the Query Service (in German) by Bleeptrack
  • New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed to match the catalogue
  • Some help needed to map the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger and the Glottolog catalogue

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID, MyAnimeList manga ID, MyAnimeList anime ID, MyAnimeList character ID, MyAnimeList people ID, HFC NPS unit ID, image captured with, Biodiversity Heritage Library creator ID, number of houses, Theatres Trust Database ID, SKIP code, Pizmonet ID, WorldSBK.com racer identifier, Czech Monument Catalogue Number, FFN swimmer ID, Wikia wiki ID
  • Query examples:
    • BubbleChart of Metal band by country (source)
    • Viennese composers and their compositions by tonality (source)
    • Most prolific authors of scientific articles on Wikidata, who are still alive, without ORCID (source)
    • Average age of members of the Landtag of Thuringia (source)
  • Newest external tools: VizQuery

• Development
  • Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example)
  • Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (phab:T167870)
  • More work on constraints checks (phab:T168629)
  • Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (phab:T46874)
  • Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (phab:T167625)
  • Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (phab:T163923)
  • Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (phab:T165567)
  • Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (phab:T163119)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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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Wikidata weekly summary #267

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comment: When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour (read the full log here)
  • Past: Online Wikidata workshop in French (Wikipédia:Soirées Wiki en ligne)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata and SPARQL workshop and Celtic Knot Conference in Edinburgh
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during the Africa Open Data Conference, in Accra, Ghana, July 17-21
  • A Wikidata workshop conducted in Bangalore
  • Blog report about the second Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic (in Czech)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Join the Cycle 3 of the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions, and debate about the challenges identified by the research
  • Sitelinks for the new Kabiye Wikipedia (kbpwiki) can be added
  • We reached Q31000000
  • a dataset of 48,000 English questions have been mapped to Wikidata
  • New Mix’n’match catalog: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • COH Challenge: in July, add pictures from the Connected Open Heritage in Wikidata
  • We asked the followers of the Wikidata Twitter account if they know about SPARQL
  • The constraint check script has been turned into a gadget, and other news
  • Platypus has started to learn Spanish
  • WikidataCon: We reached 100 registrations, the event is complete for now. More tickets will be released in September. You can still register on the waitlist.
  • WikidataCon scholarships applications are open until July 16th
  • MySociety is hiring a community manager to work on EveryPolitician with Wikidata and SPARQL

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: parliamentary group, metrically compatible typeface, BVMC place id, MuseScore ID, RePEc institute ID, Principal Galaxies Catalogue ID, Australian Standard Geographic Classification 2006 ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2016 ID, checksum, Irish Grid Reference, Biodiversity Repository ID, Global Terrorism Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place of birth of the authors on Wikimammenn, the breton Wikisource
    • First names of current French members of Parliament (source)
    • Timeline of the births of current members of the French National Assembly (source)
    • Family tree of Harry Potter characters (source)
    • Map of mountains located in the Basque Country (source)
    • Items with higher number of child statements than number of children (source)
    • Pictures of Pharaos (source)
    • Map of departemental archives in France (source)
  • Newest gadgets: Units converter converts from 20 currencies to a selected currency. Converts metric units (mass, dimensions, area, temperature, speed) to/from United States units. The currency amounts are inflation adjusted if data is available.

• Development
  • Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
  • Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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.
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Wikidata weekly summary #268

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Africa Open Data Conference in Accra, including a Wikidata editathon on July 17th
  • Past: Celtic Knot Conference, Edinburgh, including several presentations related to Wikidata (tweets about Wikidata during the conference)
  • Past: WikiWomenCamp (including a Wikidata presentation by Harmonia Amanda)
  • A visual exploration of musical bands on Wikidata, by RAW Graphs team

• WikidataCon
  • Last days of the scholarship process! If you need to be funded for the WikidataCon, please fill the form before July 16th
  • Which discussions, workshops, demos should be covered during the WikidataCon?

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have some real Meta data!
  • The StrepHit team has submitted an official uplift proposal for the primary sources tool
  • Migration of constraint definitions to property statements around July 12th
  • Sitelinks for the new Atikamekw Wikipedia (atjwiki) can be added
  • Citation management tool Zotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata via QuickStatements. See Wikidata:Zotero for details.
  • New step towards structured data for Commons is now available
  • One week after Q31000000 we have Q32000000

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: PalDat plant ID, openAIP ID, Ontario Heritage Act Register ID, NLS Geographic Names Place ID, NLS-FI Geographic Name ID, National Record of the Historic Environment ID, JewAge person ID, INSPIRE ID, ADK member ID, FRED time-series ID, danskfilmogtv person, danskefilm TV Christmas calendar, Crunchyroll ID, URN-NBN, Gedbas genealogy person ID, Framalibre ID, Finnish archaeological heritage ID, EGF rating, Carnegie Hall agent ID, assets under management, Atlas of Hillforts ID, dissertation submitted to
  • Query examples:
    • Scientific articles from PubMed that mention what version of STATA was used (source)
    • 1000 places in UK that have no label in Welsh (source)
    • Wikivoyage banners for French municipalities (source)
    • Paintings with musical instruments from Spain or related to Spain (source)
    • Images of things or persons in Wikidata with a Github account (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of women who were educated in Edinburgh university (source)
  • Newest database reports: reports with items that only have a P641-statement (sport)

• Development
  • Search results will not only show labels but also descriptions with language fallbacks (gerrit:362215). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
  • Fixed link to the file description page in the Image Header gadget (phab:T169558)
  • Forms of the Lexeme are multi-variant (phab:T165575)
  • Preparing a demonstration of referencing Forms and Sense of a Lexeme in statements (phab:T169716)
  • Property constraint definitions will be migrated to statements (phab:T169647, Project chat)
  • Implemented “Format” constraint (phab:T102752, help page)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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. jul 2017, 16:16 (CEST)

The Signpost: 15 July 2017

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

• News and notes: French chapter woes, new affiliates and more WMF team changes

• Featured content: Spectacular animals, Pine Trees screens, and more

• In the media: Concern about access and fairness, Foundation expenditures, and relationship to real-world politics and commerce

• Recent research: The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers

• Op-ed: Why Task Forces are Dying in 2017

• Gallery: A mix of patterns

• Humour: The Infobox Game

• Traffic report: Film, television and Internet phenomena reign with some room left over for America's birthday

• Technology report: New features in development; more breaking changes for scripts

• Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up

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Wikidata weekly summary #269

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: talk about Wikidata at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing by Lydia
  • Past: Wikidata hackathon during Africa Open Data Conference in Accra
  • Upcoming: Café OpenStreetMap e Wikidata, July 22nd, in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Report of the workshop about election data (in German)
  • Integrating Wikidata and other linked data sources – Federated SPARQL queries, on The SuLab

• WikidataCon
  • The scholarship process is now closed. Recipients will be informed around July 25th.
  • You can still suggest ideas for the program, or submit a project until July 31st. The program of the conference is made by the attendees, only what you bring will be in there :)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We now have a page describing our use of RDF
  • We now have Q33000000
  • The database reports about items without statements are updated again. English Wikipedia is up at 4.8% (from 4.6%). Dutch Wikipedia remains low at 0.8%.
  • Check out some improvements to the Query Service, and a new prototype for the Query Helper
  • New Wikidata maps with a comparison between October 2016 and July 2017
  • Help improving Wikidata documentation during the Wikimania hackathon

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: NPSN Indonesian school ID, EmbassyPages.com ID, ESEC person ID, Titan ID, Who's Who in France biography ID, French National Assembly ID
  • Query examples:
    • Graph of operating systems (source)
    • Couples of Members of Parliament in UK (source)
    • People who have the same person listed as both their parent and their child (source)
    • Map of “railway things” in Berlin, as classified by LinkedGeoData.org (source)
    • Map of discovery locations of the objects stored in the Musée Saint-Raymond (source)
    • metro stations in Germany with public domain images on Commons (source)
    • UK Members of Parliament who are born out of the UK (source)

• Development
  • Preparing Lexemes demo for Wikimania
  • Fixing links to non-entity namespaces (phab:T169221) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
  • Tracking labels of quantity units in parser and Lua functions (phab:T170167) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
  • Fixing checking of constraints on deprecated statements (phab:T170391)
  • Improving the Query Service UI (phab:T170279)
  • Improving wbsearchentities (phab:T103875)
  • Removing links from printable version (phab:T87108)
  • Adding customizable fallback to Special:GoToLinkedPage (phab:T166473)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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) 17. jul 2017, 15:33 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #270

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata SPARQL workshop, July 25th in Rennes (France)
  • Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS, July 26th in Berlin
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Montreal, August 14th (in French). We're looking for trainers!
  • Using Wikidata as an open, community-maintained database of biomedical knowledge, by Andrew Su

• WikidataCon
  • You can submit projects for the program until July 31st. See the list of ideas, existing submissions, and submit!
  • Special tickets for scholarship recipients will be released on July 25th. The last 50 tickets will be released on September 1st.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wbEntity config variable will be deprecated
  • Scores in ORES will be more accurate
  • A new version of the Query Helper will be deployed
  • Sitelinks for the new Dinka Wikipedia (dinwiki) have been added
  • On Wikidata:Usability and usefulness you can see an overview of the work done by the UX people in the Wikidata team on usability
  • There's a brand new newsletter about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can subscribe to receive next updates.
  • Ma Commune Wikipédia is a website developed by Wikimedia France to give information about the state of the Wikipedia articles for every French municipality and encourage people to edit the Wikimedia projects. It uses Wikidata to identify the communes.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Patrimonioculturale-ER ID, linguistic typology, annual energy output, USHMM person ID, Cinema Treasures ID
  • Query examples:
    • Properties with most “statement disputed by” qualifiers (source)
    • Last meals of people (source)
    • Colors on national flags (source)
    • images of all winners of Free Software Foundation's Free Software Awards (source)
  • lib.reviews now allows searching Wikidata directly to choose subjects to review. (more info)

• Development
  • The wbEntity JavaScript variable will not miss elements any more but contain empty arrays instead (gerrit:365604). Please check if this affects your scripts, and have a look at the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook as a possible replacement.
  • Fire-fighting dispatch backlog: phab:T171263.
  • Slowly making progress on wb_terms migration to full entity IDs: phab:T114903.
  • Constraint statements have been enabled (announcement).
  • Distinguish between non-mandatory and mandatory constraints: phab:T164254.
  • Work on supporting unit conversion for more units: phab:T168582

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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) 24. jul 2017, 17:21 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #271

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikimania is coming! Check out all the things related to Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon during Repository Fringe 2017, in Edinburgh, August 4th
  • Data Partnerships with Wikidata: beaTunes (version in German)
  • Wikidata visualizes SMILES strings with John Mayfield's CDK Depict
  • Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community

• WikidataCon
  • Today is the very last day to submit projects in the program! (deadline: July 31th)
  • You can also subscribe to the existing submissions to show your interest and support your favorites

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wbsearchentities with ElasticSearch test
  • Quantities with units are now supported in the new QuickStatements.
  • Property talk pages now include queries for items with the property and most sitelinks, statements or identifiers.
  • We now have Q34000000
  • Wikidata Constraint Violations tool visualizes changes in constraint violations for last few weeks. Some of constraints produce millions of violations (marked as red).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: maximum age, WIGOS station ID
  • Query examples:
    • Which White House chief of staff had the shortest tenure? (source)
    • Total number of sister city statements per country (source)
    • Pictures of tube stations in London (source)
    • Works created with the software Maya (source)
    • Do I cite works from Nobel Prize winners? (source)
    • ...or do Nobel prize winners cite me? (source)
    • Timeline of Humanitarian personality of the year (source)
  • New feature/gadget requests: Gadget for changing property

• Development
  • Added Special:NewItem to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T169456) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek
  • Making possible to check constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
  • Working on showing non-mandatory and mandatory constraints differently (phab:T164254)
  • Improving Special:PagesWithProp for Wikidata use cases (phab:T66950)
  • Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania
  • Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to delays in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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  • 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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The Signpost: 5 August 2017

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

• News and notes: Non-English special edition! 99% no news about English-based wiki communities!

• Recent research: Wikipedia can increase local tourism by +9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality

• WikiProject report: Comic relief

• In the media: Wikipedia used to judge death penalty, arms smuggling, Indonesian governance, and HOTTEST celebrity

• Traffic report: Swedish countess tops the list

• Blog: Canadian Supreme Court rules against Google in favor of worldwide court orders

• Special report: Sharing Wikipedia offline medical information in the Dominican Republic

• Featured content: Everywhere in the lead

• Technology report: Introducing TechCom

• Humour: WWASOHs and ETCSSs

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Wikidata weekly summary #272

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikimania hackathon and documentation sprint, August 9-10, Montreal
  • Upcoming: Wikimania, August 10-13, Montreal. Check out all the things related to Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in French, August 14, Montreal

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • w:en:Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata has now more than 1000 articles
  • Wikidata passed 6 average statements per item

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: offset, File format magic numbers, game mechanics, weather history, conjugate base, conjugate acid, Atheneum museum ID, Atheneum person ID, Atheneum artwork ID, Finnish List of Lights ID, RIWAQ Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine ID, Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID, energy storage capacity, National Assembly of Nigeria ID, Treasury of Lives ID, muzzle velocity, WIGOS station ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the programming languages created in the past 10 years (source)
    • Countries where no european language has official or national status (source)
    • Gallery of Star Trek characters (source)
    • Timeline of female medieval writers (source)
  • Newest script: moveClaim.js allows moving claims across items. Try it and give feedback to Matěj Suchánek
  • Newest external tools: d3-sparql allows you to query a SPARQL endpoint and get the data in a d3js-useful format

• Development
  • Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component.
  • Released the DataValues Interfaces component in version 0.2.3.
  • Released the ValueView component in version 0.20.0
  • Fixed a problem with suggestions of P279 (phab:T169060)
  • Preparing everything for Wikimania and the hackathon

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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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Wikidata weekly summary #273

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

• Discussions
  • Restrict merging rights to autoconfirmed users
  • Change "Nearby" link to list items nearby the item?
  • New request for comments: P31 or P279 for geo-objects

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikifying Westminster: Wikidata workshop around UK political data, August 19th, London
  • Past: Wikimania, Wikimedia hackathon. A lot of things happened during these events, reports and news should be published in the next days.
  • Exploring the world with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, by Mapbox
  • Enriching catalogue pages in Evergreen with Wikidata by Dan Scott
  • Why data partners should link their vocabulary to Wikidata: a new case study on Europeana blog

• Wikimania
  • You can try the demo system for lexicographical data
  • Talk: Structured Commons: what changes are coming? by Sandra Fauconnier
  • Talk: New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons by Jarekt
  • List of wishes during the "Wikidata pink pony session"
  • Talk: the (Wiki)data (R)evolution, by Lydia Pintscher
  • Talk: Wikidata and performing arts by Beat Estermann during Wikimania
  • Talk: How to use Wikidata in infoboxes (panel)
  • New template: A fully automated template system was presented: Oh!WTFs
  • Talk: WikiCite: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge
  • Notes about the Wikispecies & Wikidata session
  • Documents to organize a Wikidata translathon: level 1, level 2, level 3 (by Kvardek_du) and the translathon tool (by Envel)
  • Talk: Sum of all paintings is just the start, by Multichill

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Share your feedback on the draft strategic direction, a basis on which strategic plans will be built.
  • Wikidata reached d:Q36000000. The number of items has been increased by 20% in less than three months

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: YCBA agent ID, IEDB Epitope ID, Dagens Næringsliv topic ID, Georgian National Register of Monuments ID, CODECS ID, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ID, magnification, AUR package, Michelin Voyages ID, Michelin Restaurants ID, WeRelate person ID, autores.ar id, MEG ID, Czech Registration ID, separator, National Forest Foundation ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most-depicted musical instruments (source)
    • People who died in 2017 without a French label (source)
    • Moar goats (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Goats, WikiProject Torture
  • Newest external tools: WD edits stats counting edits mades on a certain dataset between two dates

• Development

Most of the team was at Wikimania, talking to people, getting meaningful input from the editors, giving talks, hacking around :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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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Wikidata weekly summary #274

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Open Source Ladies, meetup for women who want to start coding for Mediawiki and other open source projects, August 22nd, Berlin
  • Data Partnerships in Wikidata: Project Durchblick with Humboldt University by Jens Ohlig (in German)
  • What do Wikidata and Wikipedia have in common? An analysis of their use of external references by Alessandro Piscoppo et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New documentation page: How to use Wikidata data on Wikimedia projects (feel free to help improving it)
  • The growth of items continues: we have Q37000000 and even Q37500000; Scientific article (Q13442814) becomes the most used Wikidata item (source)
  • More than 80K locations in Belgium added to Mix'n'Match

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: World Heritage Tentative List ID, eParks unit ID
  • Query examples:
    • Surnames, similar to Muller, according to Cologne phonetics, Caverphone and Soundex algorithms
    • Shortest streets in Moscow
    • A timeline of theologians with a connection to Berlin (source)
    • Timeline of the life of Honoré de Balzac (source)
    • Twin cities of places in South Africa (source)
    • 51st UK parliament (1992) was the first one with more women than Johns (source)
    • All places that are named "earth" in at least one language (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Parliaments

• Development
  • Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (phabricator:T170531)
  • Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
  • Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T172592)
  • Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
  • Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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Wikidata weekly summary #275

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: علاء
  • New request for comments: How to capture negative results in Wikidata?
  • Comment about approach on items about pages in cebwiki created by Lsjbot
  • Comment about whether to have a "Wikimedia username" property

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: WikiArabia, in Cairo, Egypt, on 23-25 October. They're looking for a volunteer to give a Wikidata workshop. Please contact them if you're interested!
  • A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al. (Q37859976)
  • The Gene Wiki: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to organize biomedical knowledge August Wikimedia Research Showcase (second half), presented by Andrew Su, about how GeneWiki is using Wikidata. Video on YouTube
  • Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit shows a demo REST API to convert Wikidata entries into BibTeX, Bib.TXT, citations, and CSL-JSON.
  • Video of 3 Wikimania 2017 sessions: Wikidata Revolution, Performing arts in Wikidata, and Sum of all paintings. Others videos can be found on Andrew's channel.

• WikidataCon
  • The organization team is still looking for sponsors to support the event and provide even more awesome stuff to the attendees. If your company can support the WikidataCon, please get in touch with Lydia.
  • Seeing the enthusiasm of the community for the WikidataCon, we raised our attendees limit from 150 to 200 persons. The last tickets will be released on September 1st. People who registered on the waitlist will be notified when a ticket is available.
  • The program committee is currently reviewing and organizing the submissions. We will contact the speakers soon, and publish the program in the beginning of September (around 6th).
  • We're looking for a keynote speaker who could bring an external point of view on ontologies. If you know interesting people, feel free to help

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Q38000000 was created
  • Language fallback indicators hidden on variant fallback languages

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: National Natural Landmarks site ID, GujLit Book ID, GujLit Person ID, tabular population, Beazley Archive Pottery Database ID, Finnish National Gallery person ID, effective firing range, Patreon person ID, Wikimedia username, Instagram location ID, America's Byways road ID
  • Query examples:
    • number of persons per QID (using P735=Q4925477) (source)
    • QID milestones by date
    • Timeline for biochemist and Nobel Laureate Hans Adolf Krebs (source)
    • Canadian actors who twice played a US president (source)
    • Duration of Steven Spielberg's films (source)
  • Newest external tools: Metaphacts, a feature to search in Wikidata via Alexa

• Development
  • Worked on fixing the technical glitch in the UI (phabricator:T173543)
  • Did polishing on the Constraint Checks gadget (for example phabricator:T173738)
  • Worked on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
  • Made progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Worked more on making it easier to see when input in a property or value input field is not recognized (phabricator:T170531)
  • Fighting with load issues in the job queue (phabricator:T173710)
  • Looking into not showing language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
  • Wrapping up our experiments with the new front-end technologies

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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!
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  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #276

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10
  • Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties, by Simon Razniewski et al.
  • ctj rdf: Part One, showing linking text minded data to Wikidata with SPARQL.
  • Creating parliament charts with Wikidata by Knut
  • The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse by Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog
  • When Westminster Was Wikified, by Luca Martinelli

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New admin: congrats to علاء
  • Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
  • With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
  • The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription, Tibetan pinyin, Wylie transliteration, Australian Women's Register ID, iconographic symbol, slope, angle from vertical
  • Query examples:
    • The most famous painting from each country (source)
    • Ranking universities according to PageRank (source)
    • Actors who were casted in two different films with the same name (source)
  • Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
  • Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography, given names by soundex

• Development
  • Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
  • Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
  • Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
  • Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
  • Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (phabricator:T170531)
  • Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (phabricator:T151186)
  • Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (phabricator:T172987)
  • The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (phabricator:T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.
    • Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (phabricator:T171725)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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The Signpost: 6 September 2017

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

• From the editors: What happened at Wikimania?

• News and notes: Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments

• Featured content: Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies

• Traffic report: A fortnight of conflicts

• Special report: Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future

• Recent research: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia

• In the media: Google's Ideological Echo Chamber; What makes someone successful?

• WikiProject report: WikiProject YouTube

• Technology report: Latest tech news

• Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up

• Humour: Bots

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Wikidata weekly summary #277

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • RDFIO: extending Semantic MediaWiki for interoperable biomedical data management - Paper demonstrating interoperatility between WikiData and Semantic MediaWiki, among other things.
  • Données structurées, la puissance de Wikidata au service de Wikimedia Commons - French-language article by Rama about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons.
  • Europeana is interested in linking its new Entity Collection to Wikidata, and will talk about this at the WikidataCon.
  • Upcoming (21.9.2017): "Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mapping". Presentation by Joachim Neubert at the 17th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, TPDL 2017 Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich, one day dedicated to Wikidata and the Query Service in Zurich, Switzerland, September 14th
  • Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Paris, France, September 15th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India, September 16th and 17th
  • Past: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India

• WikidataCon
  • The program of the WikidataCon is now published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
  • The official visuals have also be released! Check out the conference logo and the volunteers visual, both designed by Bleeptrack under CC-BY-SA.
  • The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Q39000000 was created
  • Wikidata passed 7 average statements per item
  • The ArticlePlaceholder is now deployed on Albanian Wikipedia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: danskfilmogtv title ID, Billboard artist ID, Italian National Earthquake Center ID, Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage person ID, Foursquare username, The Times of India Topic ID, ROARMAP ID, WFD Chemical status, PagesJaunes ID, Christie's creator id, Google Play Music album ID, Google Play Music artist ID, Graphic character set global ID, cytogenetic location, category for employees of the organization, CNPS taxon ID, Familypedia person ID, LNH player ID, Alljudo athlete ID, Rivers.gov river ID
  • Query examples:
    • Places of education of the UK members of Parliament (source)
    • Pairs of churches in the UK that are within 25 metres of each other (source)
    • National parks in India (source)
    • Persons buried more than 13000 km away from their death place (warning: some errors needing correction)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject India
  • Newest user scripts: Overpass (adds a map showing features tagged, in OpenStreetMap, with the ID of the current Wikidata item, if any)

• Development
  • The new Echo notification is now deployed on all wikis
  • Looked into further possible improvements for change dispatching
  • Worked on persistently storing edits in more parts of a Lexeme
  • Worked on getting expanded URIs for identifiers into the RDF exports (phabricator:T121274)
  • Continued work on caching constraints results so we can roll it out for more users (phabricator:T173696)
  • Fixing a bug that highlights input in value fields as not recognized when it shouldn't be (phabricator:T175525)
  • Released version 2.1.0 of the Serialization JavaScript component (phabricator:T174011)
  • Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component (phabricator:T168681)
  • Released version 0.9.0 of the DataValues JavaScript component (phabricator:T172916)
  • Released version 0.8.6 of the DataValues Time component (phabricator:T151088)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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!
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  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11. sep 2017, 16:49 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #278

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Wahldaten Workshop 2017 – 30 September 2017 in Vienna, Austria
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Research Showcase
  • Past: Wikidata workshop in Zurich (the slides of the speakers are linked on the page)
  • Past: GLAMhack Wikidata workshop in Lausanne (see the slides of the Query Service introduction)
  • Past: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India
  • Bridging real and fictional worlds in Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
  • Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany), by Envel Le Hir
  • Wiki Loves Monuments und Wikidata, by SW
  • The French Connection at the Wikimania 2017 Hackathon, by Envel Le Hir

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata ontology explorer: creates a tree of a class or property, shows common properties and statements
  • Join the mysterious group of Wikidata:Flashmob who improve labels, or summon them on an item
  • A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced
  • Q40000000 was created
  • Improvements coming soon to Recent Changes
  • Several new catalogs in Mix'n'Match incl. Encyclopædia Britannica, National Gallery artists and ArtCyclopedia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: United Nations Treaty Series Registration Number, Sefaria ID, ICD-10-CM, Encyclopedia of Australian Science ID, Indonesian Small Islands Directory ID, Cyworld ID, IPA Braille, category contains, Enciclopedia Italiana ID, United Nations Treaty Series Volume Number, National Criminal Justice ID, order of battle, Tyrolean Art Cadastre inventory ID, shelf life, UK Electoral Commission ID, LNB Pro A player ID, nLab ID, highest observed lifespan, Unicode hex codepoint, PACTOLS thesaurus ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Russian version) ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Bashkir version) ID
  • Query examples:
    • Algorithms and the problems they solve (source)
    • Swiss items with article in exactly one of German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-language Wikipedias (source)
    • Popular gender-neutral given names (source)
    • Computer network protocols and their ports (source)
    • Software developers by number of software titles (source)
    • Spacecraft and what they were named after (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject property constraints

• Development
  • Worked more on the constraints gadget in order to make it also qork for references and qualifiers
  • Made progress on persistently storing edits for the new Lexeme entity type (next to items and properties)
  • Worked on the RDF mapping for full URIs of external identifiers (phabricator:T121274)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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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The Signpost: 25 September 2017

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

• News and notes: Chapter updates; ACTRIAL

• In the media: Monkey settlement; Wikipedia used to give AI context clues

• Humour: Chickenz

• Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe

• Technology report: Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications

• Gallery: Chicken mania

• Special report: Two steps forward, one step backward: The Sustainability Initiative

• Traffic report: Fights and frights

• Featured content: Flying high

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Wikidata weekly summary #279

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikimedia Research Showcase - A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop about the Austrian election data, September 30th, Vienna
  • Upcoming: The next IRC office hour will take place on November 14th, 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2) on the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's 5th birthday is about 1 month away. Time to think about birthday presents? ;-)
  • Siri shows more information based on Wikidata in iOS 11
  • 2 funding proposals are looking for comments and support: soweego and CrossWikiFact
  • Quick graph of the relation of the number of labels in a given language on Wikidata and the number of first language speakers of that language

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: candidate number, maximal rate of climb, refine date, regular expression syntax, vocalized name, webcam page URL, Heritage Building in Finland ID, PatientLikeMe symptom ID, PatientLikeMe treatment ID, PatientLikeMe condition ID, Figshare author ID
  • Query examples: standards bodies by number of standards they are connected to (source)

• Development
  • Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (phabricator:T151717)
  • Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (phabricator:T55619)
  • Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (phabricator:T176062)
  • Fixed an error message on Special:GoToLinkedPage (phabricator:T176327)
  • Finishing touches on including full URIs for external IDs in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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) 25. sep 2017, 22:52 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #280

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags, by Mateusz Konieczny
  • One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co
  • Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata
  • Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings (Paper and presentation), by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017 at TPDL
  • Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The ArticlePlaceholder has been enabled on Bengali Wikipedia (example)
  • There is a new page with information around Wikidata:Wikidata in Wikimedia projects. You can help expand and improve it.
  • New Wikidata Game to help you evaluate merge candidates based on projectmerge.
  • A reading tip from Spinster (not mentioning Wikidata, but interesting general background knowledge): Indigenous peoples and responsible data: an introductory reading list from responsibledata.io
  • Where's Wally (aka Waldo)? Right here on Wikidata, of course!
  • Wikidata passed 8 average statements per item
  • Statement 300.000.000 was created
  • 20 million edits were done in September 2017

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: TSE number, defined daily dose, Vincoli in Rete ID, The Black Book ID, Tagesschau election ID, LfD-HB object ID, cultural heritage monument in Serbia ID, Bavarian monument authority ID
  • Query examples: What exists in the "... as a service" genre? (source)

• Development
  • Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
  • Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to support lexicographical data (phabricator:T173742, phabricator:T173744)
  • Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (phabricator:T121274)
  • Added a new mw.wikibase.getAllStatements Lua function in addition to the existing getBestStatements, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (phabricator:T176124)
  • Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (phabricator:T174794)
  • Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component

• 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) 2. okt 2017, 19:53 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #281

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
    • We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base YAGO. The second keynote speaker is Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
    • Please volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop at XLDB, October 12th, Clermont-Ferrand, France
  • Rebuild the map of famous artwork with Wikidata by Poulpy (in French)
  • Research libraries and Wikimedia: A shared commitment to diversity, open knowledge, and community participation

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a good start for documentation for QuickStatements. Feel free to help improve it!
  • New Mix’n’match mode to show just the entries with multiple matches (example)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Lega Pallavolo Serie A player ID, KNAU ID, PfaF id, YouTube Playlist ID, Wheelchair ITF player ID, VBL player ID, MIL-STD-2525 Symbol Identification Code, stellar rotational velocity, readership, PROSPERO ID, PM20 folder ID, possessed by spirit, panorama view, official app, LFH player ID, UK National Fruit Collection ID, Riigikogu ID, Nominis saint ID, Theses.fr person ID, Nominis given name ID, LUMIERE director ID, LUMIERE film ID, LNV player ID, International Standard Text Code, hydrological order number, FCI rider ID, Daum movie ID, Cinémathèque québécoise work identifier, Japanese Database of National important cultural properties, Tunisian geographic code, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ID, DPLA subject ID, rating, Daum TV series ID, half maximal effective concentration, half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50), Landtag of Liechtenstein ID, Bavarian geotope ID, Reddit user name, LinkedIn company ID, THW Kiel player ID, Footoféminin.fr player ID, FFVoile sailor ID, NPB player ID, Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile player ID, Gallica ID, National Museums of Japan e-museum ID, Spanish "Boletín Oficial del Estado" ID, Banglapedia (English version) ID, Banglapedia (Bengali version) ID, number of constituencies, All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID
  • Query examples:
    • Women who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (source)
    • For each award, percentage of women who received it (source)
    • Intelligent personal assistants described in Wikidata (source)
    • Units of measurement named after German people (source)
    • Buildings constructed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Delhi Metro
  • Newest database reports: television series by camera setup

• Development
  • Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
  • A mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang Lua function will be added (phabricator:T173262)
  • The mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (phabricator:T142903)
  • Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
  • Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
  • Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
  • Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (phabricator:T174794)
  • Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)

• 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) 9. okt 2017, 22:27 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #282

Wikidata weekly summary #282

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Association Football Matches
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
  • If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the events page and the birthday page
  • A blog post describing Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
  • Slides of the presentation "Wikidata Query Service: The State of the Engine" by Stas Malyshev
  • Slides of the presentation "Wikidata and structured data initiatives at Wikimedia. Current trends and priorities" by Dario Taborelli
  • Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings by Joachim Neubert
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you are interested in Structured Data on Commons, and helping out as a Wikidata contributor, please consider joining the new Structured Commons community focus group!
  • Participate to the Global Legislative Openness Week with MySociety and organize a Wikidata workshop in your country, from 20th to 30th November 2017
  • Inventaire now has a News section where you can follow ongoing discussions and developments of the project
  • wikidata-cli added bot support and new commands (wd search, wd aliases, wd add-alias, wd remove-alias, wd set-alias)
  • wikidata-edit added bot edits support and new functions (alias.add, alias.remove, alias.set)
  • HarvestTemplates has a new collaboration platform
  • You can now use reCh to patrol items from your PagePile
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Women's Sports Foundation ID, Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame ID, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame ID, New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame ID, National Trust Collections ID, Infopatrimônio ID, KBO pitcher ID, KBO hitter ID, Cairn author ID, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame ID, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame ID, Kansas Sports Hall of Fame ID, Hawai‘i Sports Hall of Fame ID, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame ID, DSMHOF athlete ID, ASHOF athlete ID, ExecutedToday ID, Monumentos de São Paulo ID, gravsted.dk ID, Dutch lost building register ID, Musikverket person ID, Megalithic Portal ID, PROSITE documentation ID, Search formatter URL, nominated by, BillionGraves cemetery ID, Cravo Albin artist ID, salinity, Lotsawa House Indian author ID, Lotsawa House Tibetan author ID, Florida Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, T4T35 megalith ID, excavation director, QEdu ID, WBPLN author ID, Store norske leksikon ID, synodic period, PubsHistory pub ID, Organization ID on Radio Radicale, LOINC ID, digitised page from Lloyd's Register of Ships from 1930 to 1945, Lloyd's Register Ship ID, IDESCAT territorial code in Catalonia, Heritage Conservation District of Ontario ID, GenBank Assembly accession, Deutsche Synchronkartei actor-ID, Department of Education and Skills roll number, contains, Wikimedia template, Brueckenweb id, BHL bibliography ID, BFI-Filmography person ID, APA phoneme code, combination classification, young rider classification, best sprinter classification, best combative classification, mountains classification, Elite Prospects staff ID, Scottish Sports HoF athlete ID, GARD rare disease ID, kinship equivalent in SPARQL at Wikidata, SwimSwam ID, SpeedskatingResults.com speed skater ID, musée de Bretagne identifiant collections ID, camera setup, FOIH taxon ID, FOIH decree types ID, FOIH event types ID, FOIH value types ID, FOIH heritage types ID, FOIH periods ID, FOIH styles and cultures ID, FOIH materials ID
  • Query examples:
    • Flags with more than 5 stars (source)
    • Timeline of programming languages (source)
    • Female scientists sorted by number of citations of their work (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Women
  • Newest database reports: Jean Rochefort Filmography
• Development
  • Continued working on persistently storing edits on Lexeme pages (specifically Forms)
  • Dealt with issues caused by too many edits being injected into recent changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia
  • Constraint checks will also be done on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T176863)
  • Fixed a regression with the focus not automatically being set after a property was selected (phabricator:T177485)
  • Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)
  • The secondary wb_entity_per_page table got removed now (phabricator:T140890)
  • The secondary wb_terms table does have a term_full_entity_id column now (phabricator:T167114)
  • Released version 4.0.0 of the Wikibase DataModel JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177476)
  • Released version 3.0.0 of the Wikibase Serialization JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177613)
  • Released version 0.10.0 of the DataValues JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177232)
• 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) 16. okt 2017, 23:39 (CEST)

The Signpost: 23 October 2017

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

• News and notes: Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!

• Featured content: Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables

• Humour: Guys named Ralph

• In focus: Offline Wikipedia developed at OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon

• Blog: The future of offline access to Wikipedia: The Kiwix example

• In the media: Facebook and poetry

• Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK

• Traffic report: Death, disaster, and entertainment

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Wikidata weekly summary #283

Wikidata weekly summary #282

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Zugang Gestalten (slides by multichill)
  • Past: Coding Da Vinci (slides by Jonas)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Tokyo, 27 October from 12:00 to 14:00 in Roppongi Hills
  • Upcoming: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
  • Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Seoul, 29 October from 15:00 to 18:00
  • Upcoming: Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017 6-7 November 2017 (in cooperation with Wikimedia Austria)
  • COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata (tool website)
  • Provenance Information in a Collaborative Knowledge Graph: an Evaluation of Wikidata External References
  • Question Answering Benchmarks for Wikidata
  • Using Word Embeddings for Search in Linked Data with Ontodia (tool website)
  • Unlocking the human potential of Wikidata
  • Textes d’Affiches, des films à lire sur Gallica
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you have a present or organize an event for the Wikidata's fifth birthday, feel free to add link and pictures here
  • New version of the Alexa skill for Wikidata by metaphacts
  • Nice short gif tutorial for writing a Wikidata query
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID, Baseball Almanac ID, sports.ru player ID, Opera Vivra singer ID, Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame ID, NLBPA ID, MusicBrainz recording ID, caliber, Women's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame ID, Museus.br ID, Memória Globo, Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural ID, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum athlete ID, BrainInfo ID (hierarchical), NeuroNames ID (plain mode), Anvisa drug ID, BC Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, TheSports.org athlete ID, mapping relation type, Science Museum people ID, Mappy place ID, update method, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame ID, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame ID, DAMIT asteroid ID, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, LFB player ID, Soccerdonna player ID, Sandrart.net artwork ID, youth wing
  • Query examples:
    • Average age of members of the 19th German Bundestag (source)
    • Mountains in CH by height (topographic prominence) (source)
    • Mountains in CH by height (elevation above sea level) (source)
    • Monuments in Berlin for which Berlin cultural heritage ID and geolocation are known in Wikidata (source)
    • Initial characters of names of free software (source)
    • Initial characters of names of nonfree software (source)
    • First World Heritage site per country (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of kinship types
• Development
  • Query Service throttling has been tweaked, to block a type of abusive client
  • Adding diff support for Lexeme-related edits
  • More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
  • Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
  • Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (phabricator:T48329, phabricator:T50684) Thanks Matej!
  • Released the Wikibase DataModel component in version 7.2.0 (phabricator:T177486)
• 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) 24. okt 2017, 10:53 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #284

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Defining account creators

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
  • Past: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October. You can find the slides, notes and video recordings for most of the sessions
  • Past: Wikidata's fifth birthday in Tokyo, Seoul, Munich
  • Upcoming: Using Wikidata to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects in the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2017), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, 30 October-3 November.
  • Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact MB-one

• Wikidata's birthday
• The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.
  • Birthday presents
    • Search index now contains statements with {{Property|P31}} and {{P|P279}}. These can be used to influence search rankings and in the future also for matching.
    • inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
    • You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
    • Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
    • Wikidata becomes a proper citizen of the linked open data web
    • graves.wiki – visualization of grave locations stored in Wikidata
    • Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM) - Wikidata semantic topics and usage statistics
    • Happy Birthday to You, Dear Wikidata – recording and improvisation (Lucas Werkmeister)
    • You can now create items from the command-line
    • Crochet your own cute structured data bee to express your appreciation for structured data in the Wikimedia movement! And ask her/him/it to join the Wikimedia Cuteness Association (Q29169245).
    • Wikidata Query Service UI: Geoshapes from Commons are now displayed in the Map view: Constituencies for the election to the German Bundestag 2017, with winning candidate and party
    • Wikidata Query Service UI: The query service now shows you code examples for how to use your query in many programming languages (example query)
    • Dungeon of Knowledge (source), a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon full of bits of Wikidata wisdom
    • Simple WD an experiment of a simple frontend API on top of Wikidata using JSON-LD and schema.org.
    • mapview widget/user script on Wikidata
    • Images fragments for an item depicted on several artworks
    • Histropedia Query Timeline tool - Demo of cool new features launched today for WikidataCon
    • Q42395533 - the first item about a notable item!
    • SQID now suggests statements that we are missing (example page, log in to see suggestions) -- more on Wikidata:WikiProject_Reasoning soon
    • From labs VM to Wikibase Query Service in 2 minutes (using Docker images and docker-compose)
  • Stories and reflections
    • Wishes for the year to come, by Tpt
    • Happy Birthday Wikidata! by the Gene Wiki Team
    • Some random thoughts on the occasion of Wikidata's fifth birthday, by PKM
    • Wishes and a personal story, by Spinster
    • Happy Birthday, Wikidata by RolandUnger from Wikivoyage
    • Happy Birthday, Wikidata by Katherine Maher
    • Two years of Wikidata experience from ArthurPSmith
    • Happy Birthday wishes from Wikimedia Deutschland
    • Message from the development team

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Biblioteca Nacional de México ID, MNCARS artist ID, BFI Film and TV ID, FPB rating, The Coptic Library ID, snap package, LesBiographies.com ID, Indian Foundation for Butterflies ID, AKL Online Artist ID, Google Doodle, New York City Parks Monument ID, Pro14 player ID, implementation of, GACS ID, Y-DNA Haplogroup, mtDNA haplogroup, mandates, Portuguese lighthouse ID, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame athlete ID, Sportbox.ru ID, VNDB ID, Videolectures ID, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame ID, rfpl.org player ID, Panthéon des sports du Québec ID, Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee ID, New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID
  • Query examples:
    • Organic acids with images (source)
    • People who are their father's father (source)
    • 2017 German federal election results by district with geoshapes and color depending on the % of votes (source)
    • Cities with most first performances of works (source)
    • Count of women Vs. guys names “John” in the UK parliament (source)
    • Percentage of popes who died in Rome (source)
    • First sites registered at Unesco for each country (source)

• Development
  • Continued working on persistent storage of edits on Lexeme pages
  • Fixed an encoding problem in the SVG download of query results in the query service (phabricator:T178564)
  • Fixed a problem with change dispatching changes to Wikipedia and co, that sometimes lead to single wikis falling way behind. (T179060)
  • Added full URIs for external identifiers to the RDF export
  • You can leave feedback on how improved fulltext search result page should look like

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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) 30. okt 2017, 16:29 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #286

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, November 14th, 19:00 (UTC+2) in the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Review of the WikidataCon by Sean McBirnie (Histropedia)
  • Blogpost on workflow co-documentation with community members during the WikidataCon, by Jan Dittrich
  • Completeness and the Age of Abundance of free tools, in Basque language, by Theklan
  • Report about the first WikidataCon in Hungarian language, by Texaner
  • Report of the WikidataCon 2017 in German, by MB-one
  • Visualising Wikidata on Interactive Timelines using HistropediaJS by Sean McBirnie
  • Wikidata: A growing community behind open data by John Samuel
  • Report about the 2017 WikidataCon in Polish, by Yarl
  • Report about WikidataCon 2017 for WMAM community in Armenian, by Kareyac
  • WikidataCon - my résumé by Ahoerstemeier

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata training material and sample SPARQL queries by Geertivp
  • A new version of Unicode CLDR was released, including data about languages from Wikidata
  • research article where Wikidata is used to unify metabolite identifiers: WikiPathways

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: vertical depth, describes a project that uses, National Monuments of Namibia Site Reference, CycleBase cyclist ID, California Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Formal Public Identifier, IAFD male performer ID, IWRP athlete ID, Wimbledon player ID, Snooker.org ID, albedo, family relationship degree, World Snooker athlete ID, Microsoft Store artist ID, NACE code, Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson (source)
    • Canals within 800 kilometres of Glasgow (source)
    • File systems by developer, date, and OS (source)
    • Map of metro stations of Bilbao (source)
    • Highest point of each department of France (source)
• Newest database reports: properties count by datatype, Mayflower voyage participants, film archives

• Development
  • Fixed a series of smaller regressions after switching to Cirrus based search backend (phabricator:T179045, phabricator:T179061, phabricator:T179130)
  • Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (phabricator:T179228)
  • Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
  • Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (phab:T176417)
  • Add wikibase-snakview-indicators area where gadgets and user scripts can safely add indicators instead of directly appending to the value (phab:T95403, d:WD:PC#Gadget / userscript editor feedback wanted)
  • Accessing mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' ) will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook instead (phabricator:T169771)
  • Work on caching constraint check results (phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (phab:T179844)
  • Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (gerrit:379669)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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) 13. nov 2017, 15:36 (CET)

Rikken Fodbold Club indstillet til sletning

Der er blevet stillet spørgsmålstegn ved notabiliteten på din artikel om Rikken Fodbold Club, og jeg har derfor oprettet et sletningsforslag, hvor vi kan diskutere det. Mvh. Toxophilus (diskussion) 11. jun 2019, 14:31 (CEST)