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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).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help 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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Tech News: 2017-04

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

Recent changes

• You can see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [১]

Changes this week

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #245

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

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

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

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

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FIBA player ID, MLB ID, NFL.com ID, fussballdaten.de ID, FootballDatabase.eu ID, euroleague.net ID, JapanTour ID, Australian Government Organisations Register ID, draftexpress.com ID, databaseFootball.com ID, AZBilliards ID, par, median income, Luding game ID, eurobasket.com ID, wisdenindia.com ID, acb.com ID, Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool ID, Rfam ID, NHL.com ID, EuroTour ID, databaseOlympics.com ID, Pfam ID, Smithsonian trinomial, Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID, National Park Foundation ID, NPCA ID, U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID, peakware ID, means of locomotion, VGMDb label ID, Dagens Nyheter topic ID, Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID, Luding designer ID, BoardGameGeek designer ID, Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID, Ameblo username, Catholic rite, Ringgold identifier, Gentoo package
  • 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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help 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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Tech News: 2017-05

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

Recent changes

• The OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [২]

Changes this week

• ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [৩]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [৪][৫]
• The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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Tech News: 2017-06

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

Problems

• The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [৬]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [৭]
• There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [৮]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [৯][১০]

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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)

See all open tickets related to 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!
  • 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
  • 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.

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Tech News: 2017-07

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

Recent changes

• EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [১১]

Problems

• The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [১২]
• Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [১৩]

Changes this week

• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [১৪]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring. [১৫]
• The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review

• You can read the 2016 product summary from the Wikimedia Foundation Product group to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the annual plan.

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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)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help 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 #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.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help 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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Tech News: 2017-08

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

Recent changes

• The edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide. [১৬]

Changes this week

• Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [১৭]
• There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [১৮]
• OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [১৯]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. These other tasks need a volunteer.

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Tech News: 2017-09

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

Problems

• On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [২০]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [২১]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [২২]
• The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [২৩][২৪]

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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.

• 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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Tech News: 2017-10

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

Recent changes

• You can now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [২৫]
• When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [২৬]

Problems

• Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [২৭]
• Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [২৮]

Changes this week

• The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [২৯]
• The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [৩০]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Clarification

• The 2017/09 issue of Tech News mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The AMF format will be available later.

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Tech News: 2017-11

উইকিমিডিয়া কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকরীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।

এই সপ্তাহের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• আপনি আপনার উইকিতে একের অধিক কলামে <references /> ট্যাগ দ্বারা তথ্যসূত্র দেখাতে সক্ষম হতে হবেন। এই ট্যাগটি নিবন্ধের পাদটীকায় সূত্র দেখাতে প্রয়োজন হবে। কলামের সংখ্যা আপনার ডিভাইসের পর্দার আকারের উপর নির্ভর করবে। যেসব টেমপ্লেট <references /> ট্যাগ ব্যবহার করে সেগুলি হালনাগাদ করার প্রয়োজন হবে, এবং পরে সকল তথ্যসূত্রের তালিকার জন্য এটি পরিবর্তন করা যেতে পারে। [৩১][৩২]
• মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ১৪ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ১৫ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ১৬ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।

সভা

• আপনি দৃশ্যমান সম্পাদক দলের সঙ্গে পরবর্তী সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, আপনি যে সমস্যাটি সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বলে মনে করেন তা উন্নয়নকারীদেরকে জানাতে পারেন। সভাটি ১৪ মার্চ তারিখে ১৯:০০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।

ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• কিছু পুরাতন ওয়েব ব্রাউজার ভবিষ্যতে উইকিমিডিয়ার উইকিসমূহে জাভাস্ক্রিপ্ট ব্যবহার করতে সক্ষম হবে না। যদি আপনার কম্পিউটারে একটি পুরানো ওয়েব ব্রাউজার থাকে তাহলে আপনি একটি নতুন সংস্করণে হালনাগাদ করতে পারেন। [৩৩]
• ভবিষ্যতে টেমপ্লেটসমূহের সিএসএস একটি পৃথক পৃষ্ঠায় সংরক্ষণ করা হবে। [৩৪][৩৫]

প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।

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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.
  • Help write the next summary!

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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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Tech News: 2017-12

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

Recent changes

• The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [৩৬]
• DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage. [৩৭]
• You can see monthly page views when you click on Page information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [৩৮]
• The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [৩৯]
• The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [৪০]

Problems

• On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it. [৪১]

Changes this week

• When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X on PCs or Cmd+Shift+X on Macs. [৪২]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on ২১ মার্চ at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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উইকিমিডিয়ার ভবিষ্যৎ নির্ধারণী প্রক্রিয়ায় আপনার মন্তব্য প্রয়োজন :)

সুপ্রিয় Nasirkhan,
আগামী ১৫ বছরে আমাদের লক্ষ্য কী হওয়া উচিত, আমরা নিজেদের কোথায় দেখতে চাই এবং আমাদের সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ কাজ কী হতে পারে - এই প্রশ্নগুলোর উত্তর নির্ণয় করতে উইকিপিডিয়া/উইকিমিডিয়ার সাথে জড়িত সবার (পাঠক, সম্পাদক, স্বেচ্ছাসেবক ও অন্যান্য অবদানকারী) সার্বিক মতামত প্রয়োজন। দয়া করে কৌশল নির্ধারণী আলোচনায় আপনার মত প্রকাশ করুন। উইকিপিডিয়া বা উইকিমিডিয়ার বাংলা প্রকল্পগুলোর ব্যাপারে আপনার যেকোন মতামতকে আমরা স্বাগত জানাই। ধন্যবাদ।

কৌশল নির্ধারণী আলোচনার সমন্বয়কদের পক্ষে,
নাহিদ (আলাপ), তানভির (আলাপ) ও জয়ন্ত (আলাপ)
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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^{সংযোগ}
  • 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!

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Tech News: 2017-13

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

Recent changes

• When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [৪৩]

Problems

• Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [৪৪][৪৫]

Changes this week

• New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28. Other wikis will get it progressively. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (calendar).

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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^{সংযোগ}
  • 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!

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Tech News: 2017-14

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

Recent changes

• The পাতা সংরক্ষণ করুন button now says পাতা প্রকাশ করুন or পরিবর্তন প্রকাশ করুন on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. পাতা প্রকাশ করুন is when you save a new page and পরিবর্তন প্রকাশ করুন when you edit an existing page. [৪৬]
• The tracking category বিষয়শ্রেণী:টেমপ্লেট লুপসহ পাতা is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [৪৭]
• English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [৪৮]

Problems

• Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [৪৯]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [৫০]

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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.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-15

উইকিমিডিয়া কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকরীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।

সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• Tidy কে HTML5 পার্সিং অ্যালগরিদম দ্বারা প্রতিস্থাপন করা হবে। ফলে উইকিপাঠ্যে খারাপ এইচটিএমএল অনেক উইকিতে একটি সমস্যার কারণ হবে। এখন সব উইকিতে একটি পার্সার মাইগ্রেশন এক্সটেনশন রয়েছে যা আপনি এই পরিষ্কারে সাহায্যের জন্য ব্যবহার করতে পারেন। কিভাবে আপনি এটি ব্যবহার করতে পারেন সে সম্পর্কে আরও পড়ুন। [৫১]

এই সপ্তাহের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• কিছু পুরাতন ওয়েব ব্রাউজার এই সপ্তাহ থেকে উইকিমিডিয়ার উইকিসমূহে জাভাস্ক্রিপ্ট ব্যবহার করতে সক্ষম হবে না। যদি আপনার কম্পিউটারে একটি পুরানো ওয়েব ব্রাউজার থাকে তাহলে আপনি একটি নতুন সংস্করণে হালনাগাদ করতে পারেন। [৫২]
• সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনের জন্য নতুন ছাঁকনি ১১ এপ্রিলে উইকিউপাত্ত এবং ফার্সী, রুশ, তুর্কি ও ফরাসি উইকিতে আসবে। কিছু উইকির জন্য ব্যবহারকারী অভিপ্রায় ভবিষ্যদ্বাণী ছাঁকনি ঠিক করার জন্য এর সময়সূচী পরিবর্তন করা হয়েছিল। ব্যবহারকারী অভিপ্রায় ভবিষ্যদ্বাণী মানে ছাঁকনিটি একটি সম্পাদিত সম্পাদনা খারাপ না ভালো তা সম্পাদকদের নির্ধারণ করতে সহজ করবে। অন্যান্য উইকিতে এটি পরে আসবে। [৫৩]
• উইকিপাঠ্য সম্পাদক এবং দৃশ্যমান সম্পাদকের বিশেষ অক্ষরের তালিকায় এখন কানাডীয় আদিবাসী অক্ষরের একটি গ্রুপ থাকবে। [৫৪]
• মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ১১ এপ্রিল থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ১২ এপ্রিল থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ১৩ এপ্রিল থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।

সভা

• আপনি দৃশ্যমান সম্পাদক দলের সঙ্গে পরবর্তী সভায় যোগ দিতে পারেন। সভাকালীন, আপনি যে সমস্যাটি সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বলে মনে করেন তা উন্নয়নকারীদেরকে জানাতে পারেন। সভাটি ১১ এপ্রিল তারিখে ১৯:০০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। জানুন কিভাবে যোগ দিতে হয়।

ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ

• উপাত্ত কেন্দ্রের পরীক্ষার কারণে আপনি আপনি ১৯ এপ্রিল, বুধবার ও ৩ মে, বুধবারে প্রায় ২০ থেকে ৩০ মিনিট সম্পাদনা করতে পারবেন না কিন্তু আপনি পড়তে পারবেন। পরীক্ষাটি শুরু হবে বাংলাদেশ সময় রাত ৮টায় (১৪:০০ ইউটিসি)। এই সময়ে আপনি সম্পাদনাগুলি হারাতে পারেন যদি আপনি সংরক্ষণ করার চেষ্টা করেন। এ সম্পর্কে আরও পড়ুন।
• RevisionSlider এখন কিভাবে আপনি সংশোধনের মধ্যে স্থানান্তর করেন সেই অনুযায়ী পরিবর্তিত হবে। এটি টেস্ট উইকিতে ১১ এপ্রিল থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। পরে এটি অন্যান্য উইকিগুলোতেও আসবে যদি ব্যবহারকারীগণ এই পরিবর্তন পছন্দ করেন। আপনি এটি পরীক্ষা করতে পারেন ও প্রতিক্রিয়া জানাতে পারেন।

প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।

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আপনার জন্য একটি পদক!

	পরিশ্রমী পদক
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Tech News: 2017-16

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

Recent changes

• You can add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [৫৫]
• You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [৫৬]
• The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from [[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way. [৫৭]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week

• There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on ১৮ এপ্রিল at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback. [৫৮]
• From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. [৫৯][৬০]

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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!

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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.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-17

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

Recent changes

• New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May. [৬১]
• When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups. [৬২]

Problems

• Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved. [৬৩]

Changes this week

• The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [৬৪]
• Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this. [৬৫]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2017-18

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

Recent changes

• The content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem. [৬৬]
• Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ) block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. [৬৭][৬৮]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [৬৯]
• The পরিবর্তন প্রকাশ করুন, প্রাকদর্শন and পরিবর্তনসমূহ buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1 to the URL. [৭০]

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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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Tech News: 2017-19

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

Problems

• Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on পাতার শ্রেণীবদ্ধকরণ লুকিয়ে রাখা হোক in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off শুধু সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনই নয়, সকল পরিবর্তন দেখতে নজরতালিকা সম্প্রসারণ করা হোক in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw. [৭১]
• There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May. [৭২]

Changes this week

• When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say Visual editing and Source editing instead of Switch to visual editing and Switch to code editing. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using. [৭৩]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users. [৭৪][৭৫]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{ in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. [৭৬][৭৭]

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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!

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Tech News: 2017-20

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

Recent changes

• You can now use ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid. [৭৮]
• The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. [৭৯]

Problems

• The mediawiki.util library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){ as the first line in the file and }); as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue. [৮০]

Changes this week

• The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. [৮১]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages. [৮২][৮৩]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix. [৮৪][৮৫]

Older unreported changes

• Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word __NOGLOBAL__ to your Meta user page to stop this. [৮৬][৮৭]

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Tech News: 2017-21

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
• There will be a <div> tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this. [৮৮]

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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!

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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!

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Tech News: 2017-22

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

Problems

• Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen. [৮৯]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a notification when they mention you. You can test this on Beta Wikipedia. You can read more and give feedback on Meta. [৯০]

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Tech News: 2017-23

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

Recent changes

• You can see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [৯১]
• When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [৯২]
• You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [৯৩]
• New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [৯৪]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [৯৫]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [৯৬]
• You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [৯৭]
• When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [৯৮]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
• String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [৯৯]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [১০০][১০১]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [১০২]
• The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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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!

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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!

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Tech News: 2017-24

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

Recent changes

• Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [১০৩]
• When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [১০৪]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [১০৫]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [১০৬]
• Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [১০৭][১০৮]

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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!

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Tech News: 2017-25

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

Problems

• ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed. [১০৯]

Changes this week

• irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [১১০]
• Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [১১১]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.

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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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Tech News: 2017-26

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

Recent changes

• The <inputbox> has a new searchfilter parameter. You can add values like searchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query. [১১২]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
• Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [১১৩]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [১১৪]

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