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Wikidata weekly summary #260

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

• Discussions
  • Development input: Client editing prototype

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague (see a video of the Wikidata and SPARQL training)
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
  • Upcoming: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
  • Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: June 7th in WikiBÄR
  • You can still register for the Wikidata/election data hackathon in Ulm, Germany (June 23-25)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Discuss the movement strategy on Wikidata. The Cycle 2 started on May, 11.
  • WikidataCon: join the program committee and other teams!
  • TwoColConflict is now enabled on Wikidata
  • OSMgadget is a tool to help Wikipedia editors find objects in OpenStreetMap, and tag them with their Wikidata IDs
  • The OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher tool
  • Two language properties will be merged but the discussion still needs to go on
  • Tabular data files datatype is now enabled
  • The constraint table has been updated

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NLL player ID, Italian Senate ID, ALPG golfer ID, Stereo Ve Mono artist ID, BioRxiv ID, narrower external class, Juwra.com ID, MLL player ID, Directorio Grierson ID, RANM member ID, Old Bailey Proceedings ID, Tumblr ID, Bmx-results.com rider ID, Israel Antiquities Authority ID, OlimpBase Chess Olympiad player ID, ESTC citation number, named by, Reactome pathway ID, NFF person profile ID, Chamber of Deputies of Italy ID, face value, Cinema ID, Digital Valencian Library author ID, copyright owner, Rallye-info.com driver or co-driver ID, V&A item ID, MotoGP racer ID, eWRC-results.com athlete ID, USATF athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics male athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics female athlete ID, Diamond League athlete ID
  • Query examples:
    • Paintings in the Louvre Museum, with heights and widths (source)
    • Chart of USA cities founded per year (source)
    • Country flags including a symbol of sun (source)
    • Birthplace of Spanish Queen Consorts (source)

• Development
  • More work on Special:NewLexeme page (Phab:T164582)
  • Correctly compare time values on constraints (Phab:T164279)
  • Check wording of messages/constraint check results (Phab:T164354)
  • Creating grammatical features for Forms (Phab:T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 19:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

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378		Abortion in the United Kingdom (talk)	Add sources
960		Tahrir al-Sham (talk)	Add sources
371		Page layout (talk)	Add sources
69		Portuguese Wikipedia (talk)	Add sources
39		Cantonese Wikipedia (talk)	Add sources
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228		Misuse of statistics (talk)	Cleanup
55		Khalistan Liberation Force (talk)	Expand
159		Spanish Wikipedia (talk)	Expand
26		Kesennuma (talk)	Expand
216		Chinese Wikipedia (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
326		Le Pen (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
171		Evangelicalism in the United States (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
55		Common English usage misconceptions (talk)	Merge
435		Kanban board (talk)	Merge
165		Birmingham City University (talk)	Merge
43,691		Get Out (film) (talk)	Wikify
24		Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (Unit 2 Reactor) (talk)	Wikify
48		Criticisms of anarcho-capitalism (talk)	Wikify
18		Enterprise cognitive system (talk)	Orphan
4		Paula Szalit (talk)	Orphan
3		Knight Crew (talk)	Orphan
216		ISO 639-6 (talk)	Stub
12		WHMT (talk)	Stub
51		Dave Thomas (programmer) (talk)	Stub
28		Elizabeth Benjamin (journalist) (talk)	Stub
4		Michałówka, Janów Lubelski County (talk)	Stub
363		Joon H. Kim (talk)	Stub

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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2017)

People enjoying some leisure time swimming at an oasis Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Leisure Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Yolanda Saldívar • Lars von Trier Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 22 May 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #261

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wahlsalon (event Codefor.de about election data): Kickoff on May 24th in Berlin
  • Upcoming: Open Science: the National Plan and you meeting for Dutch researchers: May 29th in Delft, The Netherlands
  • Current: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
  • Current: Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (May 15th-June 30th) help improving the data about the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
  • Past: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna
  • Paper: Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base (Alessandro Piscopo, Christopher Phethean, Elena Simperl)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The extension RevisionSlider is now available by default on Wikidata. Try it on a talk or project page!
  • Check out some updates about the WikidataCon
  • We reached Q30,000,000! Help us improve it and make a showcase item out of it.
  • An additional 10k article placeholders on Welsh Wikipedia will be made indexable in search engines

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, Nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID, channel number, signed form, CETS no., final event, programming paradigm, Bridgeman artist ID, BDCYL authority ID, Clochers de France ID, Global Trade Item Number, Unifrance film ID, Base biographique AUTOR ID, NNL work ID
  • Query examples:
    • Websites but without an official website
  • Plants with associated emoji (source)
    • Languages ordered by number of speakers (source)
    • HMDB identifiers with more than one item (source)
    • Painters with a lot of identifiers on Wikidata, but few Wikipedia articles (source)
    • Buildings with the greatest numbers of elevators (source)
    • Map of female writers on Wikidata by birthplace- generated by SPARQL query (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Counter-Vandalism, WikiProject Documentation

• Development
  • Participating to the Wikimedia hackathon 2017, having a lot of interesting talks with users, designers, developers...
  • Helping improving the documentation for the property constraints, the beginner documentation about Wikidata, how to install Wikibase
  • Rewriting most constraint violation messages to include more useful information (phab:T164354, help update translations)
  • Working on a tree view for the Query Service (phab:T152676)
  • Setting up a constraints development/testing wiki
  • Moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
  • Working on performance of change dispatching so database of wikidata goes read-only in lower rate (phab:T162557)
  • Reducing number of duplicates rows in our database table for labels, descriptions and aliases to make it faster (phab:T163551)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:57, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2017)

Karl Pearson (27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was a statistician who has been credited for establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Statistician Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Leisure • Yolanda Saldívar Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 May 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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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8		Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (talk)	Add sources
31		The Apprentice (UK series eight) (talk)	Add sources
57		Hassan Al-Turabi (talk)	Add sources
8,105		Huma Abedin (talk)	Add sources
3,109		Kentucky (talk)	Add sources
554		Kurukshetra (talk)	Add sources
451		Average White Band (talk)	Cleanup
50		Reading education in the United States (talk)	Cleanup
74		Plain language (talk)	Cleanup
71		Palatine German language (talk)	Expand
2,586		En Marche! (talk)	Expand
24,060		Wiki (talk)	Expand
145		Baidu Baike (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
440		Member of the European Parliament (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
120		Business process outsourcing to India (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
19		British Influence (talk)	Merge
27,526		WannaCry ransomware attack (talk)	Merge
101		Central Kurdish (talk)	Merge
9		Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office (talk)	Wikify
20		Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (Unit 1 Reactor) (talk)	Wikify
132		Fukushima disaster cleanup (talk)	Wikify
9		Perpetration-induced traumatic stress (talk)	Orphan
25		Bilateral stimulation (talk)	Orphan
5		Eugênia Anna Santos (talk)	Orphan
34		Government Legal Department (talk)	Stub
104		Heartbeat (computing) (talk)	Stub
34		V Graham Norton (talk)	Stub
21		Dusunic languages (talk)	Stub
101		Aladdin, Wyoming (talk)	Stub
5		Lev Chugaev (talk)	Stub

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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2017)

Beverage vending machines in Japan Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Vending machine Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Statistician • Leisure Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 5 June 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •