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Wikidata weekly summary #337

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

• Events
  • Lots of parties and get-togethers for Wikidata's 6th birthday
  • GLAM Wiki 2018, 3-5 November 2018 in Tel Aviv, had a number of sessions about Wikidata

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • "Wikidata and GLAM catalogues: another round-up" by Martin Poulter
  • What Dutch GLAMs want from Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's Sixth Birthday \o/ Check out the well wishes and presents.
  • The Community Wishlist Survey is now open, including a Wikidata category. Proposal phase is running until November 11th.
  • New designs posted for structured copyright and licensing based off of Wikidata for Structured Data on Commons. Please visit the page on Commons and leave your feedback.
  • CompareIT a new comparison tool, driven by Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: INEP IGC continuous score, demonstrates sense, permeation, embodied energy, biobased content weight percentage
    • External identifiers: ResearchGate author ID, Clé des langues ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, CMS ID, Plant Finder ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, ProsopoMaths ID, AFAS author ID, AFD ID, BirdLife Australia ID, John J. Audubon's Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, FEIS ID, Global Raptor Information Network ID, MNHN taxon ID, Neotropical Birds ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, OSF Online ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Larousse ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, MoEML ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, ARD Mediathek ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, Polish Olympic Committee ID, British Museum bioID, GameFAQs platform ID, Discogs track ID, Discogs composition ID, RIA Novosti reference
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: dramaturg, DEFAULTSORT, billed artist, also display sitelinks for, Objektnummer, Winterthur Glossar URL, Mushroom Observer ID, IIIF manifest, Category for players of a club, Notable print, Observation.org ID, maintenance tag, chord progression, music album, volunteers
    • External identifiers: Who's on First ID (WOFID), MGG Online ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, Map of Life ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, Info Flora ID, FLOW ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Sotheby's ID, Michigan Flora ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of companies acquired by Red Hat (source)
    • Video game characters named after humans (source)
    • People who received an award on the day of their death (source)
    • Things named after Tux, as described in (source)

• Development
  • Helped get MediaInfo deployed on Commons
  • Reduced load on the query service from the constraint checks (phabricator:T204469)
  • Worked on getting constraints checks run regularly in the background so their results are complete in the query service (phabricator:T204714)
  • Enabled access to arbitrary items and properties for Wiktionaries
  • Working on infrastructure parts of the new termbox (the one showing labels, descriptions and aliases) on mobile

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 6 nov 2018 00:37 (CET)

Growth team updates #3

Welcome to the third newsletter for the new Growth team!  

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Two Growth team projects to be deployed in next two weeks

We will be deploying the "Understanding first day" and "Personalized first day" projects on Czech and Korean Wikipedias in the coming weeks. See the new project pages below for full details on the projects, and our project updates page for their progress.

• Understanding first day: learn about the actions new editors take right after creating their accounts. We will be careful with user privacy, and we hope to share initial results in December.
• Personalized first day: learn about new editors' objectives by adding some optional questions to the new editor’s registration process, and personalizing their onboarding. We hope to share initial results in December.

Third Growth team project begins

• Focus on help desk: direct newcomers to the local help desks where they can ask questions to help them make their first edits. We hope to have an initial experiment running in December.

Best practices for helping newcomers

We are going to direct newcomers to help desks. But what's the best way to reply to a newcomer there? We have gathered some best practices for successful interactions, based on community experiences and some external documentation. The page has also been reviewed by some experienced community members who suggested some changes. That page is now open for translations. Comments and suggestions are still welcome!

We are still looking for volunteers

Do you want to participate to our experiments? We are looking for new communities to work with us (especially a new mid-size wiki), and people to become ambassadors to help us to communicate with the different communities. Discover how you can involve yourself or your community.

Also, please share this update with your community and interested people!

Learn more about us

You can visit our team page to find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, and our project page for detailed updates on the projects we'll work on.

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This Month in GLAM: October 2018

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue X, October 2018 Headlines Belgium report: Erbstuecke edit-a-thon; Women in Tech edit-a-thon; Wiki Club Brussels; Wikidata workshop + party Brazil report: "There is no reason not to participate in a GLAM-Wiki initiative": an interview with the director of the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy Estonia report: Estonian art and geoscience collections finding their way to Commons Finland report: (RE)Photographic autumn France report: GLAMWiki 2018 Tel Aviv; City of Grenoble Germany report: GLAMorous Conferences Netherlands report: ‘More Gelders Heritage available via Wikimedia’ by Erfgoed Gelderland; Writing week Friesland; Wiki Techstorm Norway report: Wiki Loves Monuments and wikinobel Poland report: Heirlooms - locally and internationally Serbia report: The growing GLAM Sweden report: Roundtripping Project, Books Import and Wikidata Imported to SOCH Switzerland report: Built heritage conservation on Commons; les sans pagEs at a Modern art museum UK report: Wikidata in Oxford USA report: Wikiconference North America Culture Crawl WMF GLAM report: Documentation survey, Structured Data on Commons consultations, blog posts and conferences Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 9 nov 2018 09:16 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #338

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Political alliance vs P4100, Changes to P2737 and P2738, Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?, start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode, Mapping and improving the data import process, Familypedia links removed for "described at URL", Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata

• Events
  • Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at International Data Week from November 5-8 in Gaborone:
    • Wikidata and Wikibase as global platforms for democratizing data publishing
    • WikiCite and Scholia - a Linked Open Data approach to exploring the scholarly literature and related resources
    • A wiki approach to collecting, curating and managing citizen science data
    • A wiki perspective on an Open Science Commons
  • Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at GLAMWiki conference, including:
    • Wikidata — what's new?
    • Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata
  • Incoming: a new Illuminatis Data Mining workshop on 16-17 November in Gotha
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
  • Incoming: Wikidata train the trainers in Cologne, Berlin and Vienna (in German)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Incoming partnership with the German National Library by Jens Ohlig (in German)
  • How Wikidata Is Solving Its Chicken-or-Egg-Problem in the Field of Cultural Heritage, by Beat Eastermann

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wikitable.info is a visualization of Wikidata items in HTML tables in many languages, easy to print and export. Feedback goes to Germartin1
  • OpenRefine 3.1 beta is out, with many fixes and improvements to the Wikidata integration suggested by the community.
  • There's a new Wikidata game: Commons category matches

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: location of sense usage, dramaturge, head coach of sports team, beer bitterness, beer color, INEP IGC discrete grade, clinical trial phase, maintained by WikiProject, uses capitalization for
    • External identifiers: NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, The Guardian article ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, MGG Online ID, Map of Life ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, FLOW ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, Info Flora ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Mushroom Observer ID, Schleswig-Holstein object ID, Michigan Flora ID, Observation.org ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Vice, sense associated with form, declared patrimony, season ends, inscription mentions, DanNet 2.2 word ID, Study fees, HASC, exchange rate, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID
    • External identifiers: AllMusic release ID, DBU profile, MusicNotes product ID, MusicNotes song ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Code de l'Autorité de l'Aviation Civile argentine, Playbill venue ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, B3Kat Joint Union Catalogue, Santiebeati ID, Soccerway team ID, identifiant Littera, Letterboxd actor ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, VD 18 ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, Playbill person ID, SWH Release ID, APA ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, identifiant À nos grands hommes, BioOne ID, Academy Awards Database film ID
  • Query examples:
    • Currently happening figure skating competitions (source)
    • Software developed by groups within Google (source)
    • Knowledge organization systems (source)
    • Most common election days by country (source)

• Development
  • Displaying Senses before Forms (phab:T208592)
  • Making quality constraints play nicer with the Query Service
  • Putting in the ground work to have quality checks run in jobs
  • Enabling arbritrary access on oldwikisource
  • Allowing configuration of the licence in .ttl output
  • Configuration of more string limits, such as URL and mono / multilingual texts
  • Moving wdqs frontend to a blubber deployment (phab:T192006)
  • Asserting a users name so they can't edit when accidently logged out (phab:T124451)
  • Showcase a termbox placeholder in the mobile frontend of m.wikidata.org (phab:T206200)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12 nov 2018 16:23 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #339

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

• Events
  • Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council Conference in Tallinn, Estonia - November 7, 2018. Sandra F. gave a keynote on GLAM-Wiki projects, Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons.
  • Museum Computer Network conference in Denver, Colorado - November 14, 2018. - Andrew Lih gave a presentation, A First Date with Wikidata
  • Wikicite on 27-29 November 2018: the program is published

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new tool to display Wikimedia Commons categories (and Wikipedia/Wikidata tags) with coordinates on the OSM map
  • The Association of Research Libraries published the draft of a Wikidata Task Force White Paper on how libraries and Wikidata/ Wikibase con join forces aroud linked open data for both library discovery systems and Wikipedia, and advancing a diversity and inclusion agenda in the cultures of both libraries and Wikimedia. The draft is open for public comment until 30 November.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Winterthur Glossar URL, IIIF manifest, category for members of a team, chord progression, season ends, number of volunteers
    • External identifiers: DBU playerprofile, AllMusic release ID, MusicNotes product ID, Playbill venue ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, Letterboxd actor ID, Argentinean NCAA Airport code, MusicNotes song ID, B3Kat dataset ID, Sotheby's person ID, Santiebeati ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, Littera ID, Soccerway team ID, Playbill person ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, VD 18 ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, APA ID, SWH Release ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, DanNet 2.2 word ID, À nos grands hommes ID, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID, BioOne journal ID, ortsnamen.ch ID, Academy Awards Database film ID, The Hendon Mob ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: work quoted textually, verbally or lyrically, work whose melody is quoted, excerpt, exonym, Danmarks Statistiks filmkode, text features, mission statement, number of lines, number of stations, funding scheme, noun class, eponymous category, taxa protected, river bank, tautomer of, Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking, proper name of astronomical object, research site
    • External identifiers: Corpus typographique français ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, World Poker Tour ID, ANICA ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, Académie d'Arles member ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA ID, Luding editor ID, BoardGeekGame editor ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, British Executions ID, System16 identifier, BLR ID, LEGO set ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, NAS ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, Sega Saturn game ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga author ID, Bitraga work ID, EUNIS ID, Cal-IPC ID, eFloraSA id, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Dimensions Author ID, Microsoft Academic Work ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, Microsoft Academic Author ID, Microsoft Academic Institution ID
  • Query examples:
    • Battles with location and date in Wikidata (source)
    • Pictures depicting a kiss with IIIF manifest (source)
    • Software-related companies founded by women (source)
    • Films based on video games (source)
  • Newest database reports: Vasily
  • Showcase items: Fugger

• Development
  • Fixed a bug that was saving the statement too early when trying to add a qualifier with the keyboard (phab:T154869)
  • Made changes to disallow edits (until the user reloads) if they accidentally get logged out. (phab:T124451)
  • Turn the new change tag back on wikidatawiki (phab:T208846)
  • Better linting against things that don't work in IE11
  • Fixed the wdqs-frontend docker image (phab:T208681, phab:T209206)
  • Fixed html elements in the table result of wdqs (phab:T207257, thanks to user:Frog23)
  • Getting ontology changes deployed to wikiba.se
  • Using maplink or mapframe to view coords on wikidata (phab:T184933)
  • Consistent capitalization of Lexeme/Form/Sense/Item/Property in UI messages
  • Make Lexemes appear in global usage of Commons files (phab:T204066)
  • Work on a new interface for the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 20 nov 2018 12:18 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #340

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?, Many surname items had been un merged because of failure to communicate.

• Events
  • Past: women editathon in Mexico City, November 24th
  • Past: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Berlin, November 23th-25th
  • Running: WikiCite 2018, November 27th-29th, Berkeley, California, USA. Some livestream will be provided on Youtube
  • Upcoming: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Vienna, November 30th-December 2nd
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, with a focus on Open Refine, January 15th

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata-related videos during GLAMwiki conference:
    • Wikidata — What's new - Jens Ohlig
    • A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners - Asaf Bartov
    • SPARQL workshop - Maarten Dammers
    • Engaging GLAM institutions with Wikidata - Sharing Experiences and Techniques - Andrew Lih
    • Sum of all Paintings and Open Data - Maarten Dammers
    • Wikidata’s role in metadata creation and reuse workflows in libraries - Michelle Futornick
    • Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata - Jens Ohlig
    • Impact and potential of structured data on Wikimedia projects for the GLAM sector - Sandra Fauconnier
    • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons - Introduction and panel of Wikimedia pilots
  • Introduction to Wikidata in 7min by Asaf Bartov
  • Introduction to Wikidata by Lydia Pintscher in 20min, during Shani Evenstein's university course about Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Senses (documentation), new tool by User:Vesihiisi to add senses to lexemes
  • The Swedish National Heritage Board has started working on a project, related to Structured Data on Commons, that focuses on ways to feed back improved (crowdsourced) metadata to cultural institutions who contribute media files to Wikimedia Commons.
    • Please alert your GLAM partners to a new survey about crowdsourcing, metadata and Wikimedia Commons, which informs the research for this project!
  • Scribe, a project to support under-resourced Wikipedias based on Wikidata's content, has been proposed for a grant
  • Tool to convert Wikibase JSON to RDF without storing it in a repository
  • Call for paper for the data quality workshop in Berlin on January 18th. Open until December 3rd

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: running mate, research site, quotes work
    • External identifiers: World Poker Tour player ID, GLAMOS glacier ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, ANICA ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, MNAV artist ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA author ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, BoardGeekGame game publisher ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Luding game publisher ID, NAS ID, Depósito Legal ID, Corpus typographique français ID, British Executions ID, Bantu Lexical Reconstructions ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, System16 identifier, Académie d'Arles member ID, Sega Saturn game ID, Bitraga author ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga work ID, Cal-IPC ID, EUNIS ID, Dimensions Author ID, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Disney A to Z ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: language use, has variant, has version, rationale text, HABS ID, Wikia Article URL, CNPJ
    • External identifiers: AJOL ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, GameFAQs company ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Guida al fumetto italiano ID, Bygdeband location, OeBL 1815-1950 ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, defined term ID, Wikia Article ID, Female mexican soccer players ID, Geolex ID, OBV editions, BBC News topic id, member of the Portuguese parliament ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place and century of discovery of the archaeological objects of St Raymond museum (France) (source)
    • Location of city halls in Spain (source)
    • Timeline of famous pirates (source)
    • Authors who are the most cited in Nature Chemistry (source)
    • Scholarly articles published about Wikidata (adapted from here)
    • The world's 200 tallest mountains, and whether Wikidata knows they've been climbed (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Kākāpō, WikiProject Scholia
  • Newest database reports: Fugger

• Development
  • Fix an error when entering an incomplete filename (phab:T199420)
  • Fix the unreadable references for unpriviledged users (phab:T186006)
  • Create new page properties for number of Forms and Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199611)
  • Adapt the API to efficiently format large numbers of entity IDs (phab:T207484)
  • Switch "save" to "publish" in the Lexeme interface (phab:T203354)
  • Fix a bug showing outdated link formats in the history of Lexemes (phab:T208423)
  • Add Special:MergeLexemes to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T204397)
  • Add Wikipedia link in the other projects sidebar of Wikisource (phab:T180303, thanks to Tpt)
  • Work on displaying the language of the gloss with the language name, both in reading and editing mode (phab:T203457, phab:T209931)
  • More work on improving the interface of the termbox on mobile

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 27 nov 2018 12:39 (CET)

Nieuwsbrief 77 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van november WikiconNL | Wikimedia Nederland krijgt legaat | Wiki Loves Monuments Aruba... WikiconNL Wikimedia Nederland krijgt legaat Wiki Loves Monuments Aruba Terugblik Wikidata workshop voor erfgoed professionals #100wikiwomen Bezoekersrecords voor WikiWoordenboek WikiZaterdagen 2019 Publiek domein dag 2019 Terugblik Wiki Techstorm Feestelijke WikiZaterdagen Zien wij jou binnenkort? Oude versies vindt u hier

Info over nieuwsbrief · Inschrijven/Uitschrijven · Global message delivery · Germien Cox (WMNL) (overleg) 4 dec 2018 11:34 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #341

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: How to handle heat treating as a qualifier for material properties ?
  • New development input: Identify problems with adding new languages into Wikidata

• Events
  • Upcoming: "Researcher meets Curator", with a subquestion: "What are the consequences of collecting born digital sources, working with digital network analysis and engaging with linked open data initiatives such as Wikidata", in Maastricht on 22 March 2019. Call for papers
  • Upcoming: Advanced Wikidata Training in India, December 15-16
  • Past: "Wikibase: configure, customize, and collaborate" workshop at SWIB 18 in Bonn, Germany on November 26, 2018. Workshop materials
  • Past: EveryPolitician event to identify political data sources for Wikidata in Madrid, Spain, on December 1, 2018.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Author Disambiguator (github source), new tool by d:User:ArthurPSmith (based on SourceMD) for linking author items to their works.
  • OpenRefine 3.1 was released
  • New API module to format multiple entity IDs
  • You can now access the number of Forms and Senses of Lexemes through API and special page

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: reference has role, tautomer of, eponymous category, language style, ratified by, funding scheme
    • External identifiers: GameFAQs company ID, AJOL journal ID, LEGO set ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet journal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Bygdeband location ID, Austrian Biographical Encylopedia ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, Mexican female soccer players ID, member of the Portuguese parliament ID, BBC News topic ID, OBV editions ID, Geolex ID, CNPJ, Defined Term ID, Guida al Fumetto Italiano ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: gained independence from, nachgewiesen mittels, measured by (KPI), OpenTrials ID, administrated by the administrative territorial entity, level of description, stored as lexeme, taxon author citation, Astronomical coordinates, catchphrase, real estate developer, Danske Taler speaker
    • External identifiers: TrENSmissions person ID, LIGA profile, SEINet ID, BIBSYS work ID, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, UK Parliament Identifier, HAER ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, DIR3 ID, NooSFere story ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, RegiowikiAT ID, Discord Store game SKU, kohanimeregister, ARLLFB member ID, ARB person ID, Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, protected area authority ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, identifiant Monument aux morts
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of early Western movies (source)
    • Species represented in the exhibition "Espèces en voies d'illumination" in the natural history museum of Paris (source)
    • Properties most used to describe cats in Wikidata (source)
    • List of UK embassies (source)
    • Map of places of residence for accused witches in Scotland with a layer for occupations (source)

• Development
  • Add Lexeme to Wikibase's ontology.owl (phab:T195368)
  • Prepare to drop change_tag.ct_tag column (phab:T194163)
  • Create Federated Wikibase instance on Beta Commons (phab:T204748)
  • More work on preparing a new termbox for the mobile version of Wikidata

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 4 dec 2018 14:35 (CET)

Survey bewerkers Nederlandstalige Wikipedia 2018

Dit jaar organiseert Wikimedia Nederland voor de derde keer een survey onder de bewerkers van de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia. Misschien heb je de banner al voorbij zien komen. Er zijn in 2013 en 2015 soortgelijke surveys gehouden. Doel van de survey is om meningen van de bewerkers te peilen (bijvoorbeeld over de werksfeer) en inzicht te krijgen in de samenstelling van de gemeenschap.

Naar aanleiding van suggesties in De Kroeg benaderen we de meest actieve bewerkers persoonlijk om te vragen mee te doen. We zijn erg geïnteresseerd in je mening. Meedoen kan tot 17 december. Hier vind je de link naar de survey.

Sandra Rientjes - Wikimedia Nederland 7 dec 2018 05:33 (CET)

Growth team updates #4

Welcome to the fourth newsletter for the new Growth team!  

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

We need your feedback!

We have two requests for community members:

1. Now that data is coming in for the welcome survey, we are planning how to use that data to personalize the newcomer's first day. See our current thoughts here, and join the conversation here.
2. Try out the help panel's interactive prototype, and read about how we're planning to roll it out, and post any thoughts or reactions here.

Two Growth team projects have been deployed (detailed updates here)

• Personalized first day (welcome survey) was deployed on November 20 on both Czech and Korean Wikipedias.
  • The survey is now being shown to half of new users (A/B test). Responses are being recorded in the database. We'll report on initial results during December.
  • We are planning to test a second version of the survey, called "Variation C", which we think will maximize the number of users who complete the survey and stay on the wiki.
  • The original objective of this project was to give newcomers the materials they need to achieve their goals, and so now we are currently planning how we will use the information collected in the welcome survey to personalize the newcomer's experience. We hope community members will read our current thinking and join the conversation here. Some of the plans we are considering include:
    • Making it easy for newcomers to see editing activity around the topic areas in which they indicated that they're interested.
    • Connecting interested newcomers to experienced editors.
    • Surfacing the help content most relevant to the reason for which the newcomers created their accounts.

• Understanding first day (EditorJourney) was deployed on November 15 on both Czech and Korean Wikipedias. It has been done after a longer security review and final testing than expected. Data is now being recorded for all new users on those wikis, and we've been auditing the data and preparing to make initial reports during December. Stay tuned for the next newsletter!

Help panel is under construction

• Focus on help desk (help panel) is planned to be deployed during the week of January 7 on both Czech and Korean Wikipedias.
• This interactive prototype is the best way to see the design and wording in the feature.
• We ran live user tests on the prototype, with results posted here.
• In addition to giving the ability to ask a question, the help panel will also contain a set of links to existing help content. Our ambassadors on Czech and Korean Wikipedias are determining the right initial set of most helpful links in this task.
• We encourage community members to try out the prototype and read about the rules for who will get the feature, and add any thoughts to this discussion.

We are still looking for volunteers

Do you want to participate to our experiments? We are looking for new communities to work with us (especially a new mid-size wiki), and people to become ambassadors to help us to communicate with the different communities. Discover how you can involve yourself or your community.

Also, please share this update with your community and interested people!

Learn more about us

You can visit our team page to find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, and our project updates page for detailed updates on the projects we work on.

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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Fall 2018 edition

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• Multilingual Captions, the first feature release for Structured Data, is coming in January of 2019
  • Be on the lookout for the beta testing announcement
  • Help using captions has been set up, if you'd like to go ahead and see the workflow
• Two IRC office hours were held since the last newsletter
  • Log for 4 October
  • Log for 1 November
• Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat

Things to do / input and feedback requests

Current:

• Help determine and propose properties on Wikidata for Commons
• Review designs for structured licensing and copyright
• Join the community focus group!

Since the last newsletter:

• Review a prototype for searching structured Commons (October 2018)
• "Good coverage" for depicts tagging (Sept. 2018)
• Review and discuss mockups for displaying the new metadata section of the file page (18 September - 9 October 2018)
• Depicts statements draft requirements (14 August - 31 August 2018)
• Identify Wikidata properties that Commons will need (26 June - 14 August 2018)

Presentations / Press / Events

• Presentation by Keegan on the first features to be released for Structured Data, presented at Wikiconference North America, Columbus, Ohio, October 2018.
• Sandra presented a project update at the GLAM-Wiki conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, November 2018, as part of an update and panel discussion.
• Structured Data on Commons was the subject of a keynote presentation by Sandra (see slides) at the Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council conference in Tallinn, Estonia, November 2018.

Partners and allies

• The info portal on Structured Commons now includes a section on GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).
• We are currently planning the first GLAM pilot projects that will use structured data on Wikimedia Commons. One project has already started: the Swedish Heritage Board researches and develops a prototype tool to provide improved metadata (translations, data additions...) from Wikimedia Commons back to the source institution. Read the project brief.
• The documentation for batch uploads of files to Wikimedia Commons will be improved in 2019, as part of preparing for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. To prepare, the GLAM team at the Wikimedia Foundation wants to understand better which types of documentation you already use, and how you like to learn new GLAM-Wiki skills and knowledge. Fill in a short survey to provide input!

Stay up to date!

• Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
• Subscribe to this newsletter to receive it on a talk page of your own choice.

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Wikidata weekly summary #342

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Scholarly articles that are book reviews

• Events
  • Past: SWAT4HCLS in Antwerp Belgium December 3:
    • Wikibase tutorial
    • "Wikidata as an intuitive resource towards semantic data modeling in data FAIRification" short paper
    • "WikiCite, Wikidata, and Scholia: Linking Publications to Topics" (demo /food/ aspect)
  • Past: Workshop "Wikidata - what is that and why it's relevant in the field of geospatial information technologies?"? at Latvia's Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) conference (slides)
  • Past: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Stokholm, Sweden, December 4th
  • Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Göteborg, Sweden, December 10th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • "Detailed depictions with IIIF, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons" by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
  • Report of the GNDCon in the Kurier (in German)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • iD, the default OSM editor at openstreetmap.org has recently had an update which pulls data from Wikidata.
  • WikidataCon 2019, the conference for open data enthusiasts, will take place on 25-26 October 2019 in Berlin
  • Miniature map will be displayed for coordinate properties
  • New passwords requirements will apply on all wikis to new accounts and privileged accounts starting on December 13th
  • New grant request by MySociety: Wikidata post-election updating toolkit

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: award rationale, heat treating, copyright status, level of description
    • External identifiers: SEINet ID, LIGA profile, BIBSYS work ID, UK Parliament identifier, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, OpenTrials ID, NooSFere story ID, DIR3 ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, TrENSmissions person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: creator, WordLift ID, Specific age inside fictional universe, type of rear suspensions, type of front suspensions, ride height, approach angle, departure angle, Drag coefficient, related category, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Nombre annuel de passagers
    • External identifiers: BDEL ID, ZVR, NARA record group number, MMLO, IEC database ID commemorative monument of Catalonia, Meteorological Service of Canada climate ID, PomBase systematic ID, Volksbund ID, iTunes music movie ID, Paris Musées ID, Beachsoccer.ru player ID, BSRussia player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of fountains in Zürich (source)
    • Timeline of famous bryologists (source)
    • Percentage of people member of the Swedish church per Church parish (source)
    • Musical genres with the most bands and musicians on Wikidata, per sovereign country of origin/citizenship (source)

• Development
  • We are now showing the language name instead of the language code of a Gloss (phabricator:T203457, phabricator:T209931)
  • We added a Page property for easier programmatic access to the number of Senses and Forms of a Lexeme (phabricator:T199611)
  • The code samples in the query service have been improved (phabricator:T207749, thanks abian!)
  • We're working on tracking how often the different Lua functions that Wikibase provides are used in the Wikimedia project to see how that changes over time (phabricator:T191416)
  • We worked on and fixed a security incident related to blocking (phabricator:T210953)
  • We are continuing to bring the termbox (showing labels, descriptions, aliases) to mobile viewers

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10 dec 2018 17:05 (CET)

This Month in GLAM: November 2018

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue XI, November 2018 Headlines Albania report: Wiki Photo Walk Albania 2018; Wiki Loves Monuments Albania Armenia report: Singing Wikipedia; Photographs by Vahan Kochar Brazil report: Diverse milestones for the Brazilian community Denmark report: Intercontinental digitisation efforts Estonia report: Making contacts both internationally and in Estonia Finland report: Art and edit-a-thons France report: Bibliothèque publique d’information; 3D museum collections on Wikimedia Commons Indonesia report: Conserving and digitizing texts in West Sumatra Macedonia report: Wiki Training at National and University Library "St. Clement of Ohrid" New Zealand report: Equity, Wikidata, and the New York Times Norway report: Collaboration with The National Archives of Norway Philippines report: Wiki Loves Art Poland report: Archival image uploads, student collaborations and international projects Serbia report: Photo finish of the WIR's Sweden report: The Swedish Performing Arts Agency; Library data starts to take shape; Learning Wikipedia at the Archives; Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping UK report: Sum of All Astrolabes USA report: Wikidata Workshop at Pratt School of Information; Wikidata Presentation for the New York Technical Services Librarians; Wikipedia Asian Month; Cleveland Park Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; Historic Ivy Hill Cemetery Workshop Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes–Issue 31, October–November 2018 WMF GLAM report: Welcoming Satdeep Gill; Structured Data on Commons; WikiCite Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #343

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Split identifier into KEGG Drug Identifier, KEGG Compound Identifier, etc?
  • Closed request for comments: Clarifying rights and responsibilities of Property Creators

• Events
  • Past: 26 November 2018: Adding your own stuff to Wikidata. Workshop at SWIB18, Bonn, Germany
  • Past: 04 December 2018: Chancen und Risiken einer komplementären Nutzung von GND und Wikidata. Präsentation auf der GNDCon in Frankfurt Main, Germany
  • Past: 11–12 December 2018 in Namburu, India: Wiki Advanced Training 2018 (with special focus on Wikidata) by Asaf Bartov
  • Upcoming: 35th Chaos Communication Congress, December 27-30, Leipzig. There will be Wikidata staff and volunteers and Wikidata-related sessions

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • 6 "inside-out" activities librarians are doing — numbers 4 and 5 involve Wikidata
  • From the "Annalen der Pharmacie" to the "European Journal of Organic Chemistry" about using Wikidata for capturing (some of) the history of chemistry
  • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, by Sandra Fauconnier, in EuropeanaTech 10 Insight Issue 10: Innovation Agenda
  • Many faces of Wikibase: Lingua Libre makes languages audible, by Jens Ohlig (also available in German)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Call for contribution for the WikiWorkshop, forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects, held in May 2019 in San Francisco, is now open until January 31st
  • Research questionnaire about Wikidata as a learning platform by Shani Evenstein as part of her PhD research.
  • Interactive map of the Sibthorp & Bauer Expedition, produced by the Bodleian Libraries, powered by Wikidata
  • Scholia's "missing" pages (example) now link to the new Author Disambiguator tool, and a Listeria list is available to help prioritize co-author disambiguation for authors with sitelinks.
  • Draft of behavior norms policy, feel free to leave comments
  • Wikimedia hackathon in Prague: apply for a scholarship until January 4th
  • Discuss if you can edit your own item, and vote here on the proposed policy.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: real estate developer, collection creator, digital representation of, specific age inside fictional universe, catchphrase, subject lexeme, right ascension, declination, epoch, galactic longitude, galactic latitude
    • External identifiers: ARLLFB member ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, RegiowikiAT identifier, Discord Store game SKU, Bavarian protected area ID, BDEL ID, Danske Taler speaker ID, Place Names Register ID (Estonia), Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, ARB person ID, Monument aux morts ID, IEC commemorative monument of Catalonia ID, MMLO, Meteorological Service of Canada climate site ID, Volksbund ID, PomBase systematic ID, Paris Musées work ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, iTunes music movie ID, BSRussia player ID, Beachsoccer.ru person ID, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Wikia article ID, MinDat mineral ID, Harvard Index of Botanists ID, MinDat Locality ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Garzanti Linguistica, Buried in this place, specific rotation, Data interval, Minimum wage, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, friend of, copyright representative, rights statement, co-director, Berliner Schutzgebiets-ID, preparation instructions
    • External identifiers: SVT Open archive, Hymnary.org page, Anbytarforum, Multiplayer ID, Amazon Music artist ID, Parliament of South Africa ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, Hymnary author ID, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, OTRS ticket number 2, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, ICCD IDs, Weeds in Ontario ID, AllMusic performance ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID
  • Query examples:
    • (UK) Ambassador by country list - Listeria report which writes 240 by-country reports on UK Ambassadors - h/t NavinoEvans for the approach
    • Presidents of the United States ranked by the number of species named after them (source)
    • Communes of France whose name starts with "Saint" (source)
    • Italian toponyms with suffixes of Celtic origin (-ago, -ate, -asco) (source)
    • List of ABBA songs in A major (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Policies
  • Newest database reports: Nicolas Cage filmography
  • expanded list of Christmas films

• Development
• Test that the issue with blocked users will not happen anymore (phab:T211120)
• Finish up on showing Language and Language codes when editing glosses (phab:T209931)
• Work towards having QualityContraints on Beta (phab:T209957)
• Work on tracking usage of Wikibase Lua Functions (phab:T191416)
• Some more work on string length limits (phab:T154660)
• Work on some Wikidata toolkit improvements (phab:T209399)
• Fix some errors happening in production (phab:T208924)
• More under-the-hood work for the termbox on mobile

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 19 dec 2018 12:28 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #344

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667, How to capture negative results in Wikidata?

• Events
  • Current: Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) where several Wikidata people are present and related sessions happening
  • Next Wikidata IRC office hour: January 8th, 18:00 (UTC+1) on the channel wikimedia-office

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata architecture overview by Addshore
  • Créer une carte avec Wikidata, OpenRefine et uMap (in French) by Jean-Baptiste Pressac

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured data on Commons: Multilingual captions beta testing
  • Lingua Libre now adds audio pronunciation on Forms
  • Check out the roadmap for the development of Wikidata and Wikibase for 2019

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: API endpoint, demonym of, specific rotation, concentration, copyright representative, Berlin protected area ID, advertises
    • External identifiers: Garzanti Linguistica ID, Multiplayer ID, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, Boobpedia article, Amazon Music artist ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, ZVR-Number, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, Weeds in Ontario ID, ICCD ID - S form, ICCD ID - CF form, ICCD ID - CG form, ODNR Division of Wildlife ID, Penthouse ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID, ARTIC exhibition ID, ARTIC artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: maintenance method, second family name in Scandinavian names, organizational unit, story by, Code of Natura 2000 FFH habitats, century fl., adjective of, holonym 2, meronym 2, has contraction 2, yield, colorist, distinguishing property, Wikispecies template for this work, affiliation string
    • External identifiers: bgm.tv person identifier, bgm.tv character identifier, PC-9801DB ID, ACB.com coach ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile URL, Scoresway tennis person ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Muséosphère ID, Historical RNA ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, teams.by player ID, pressball.by player ID, AMFR player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, RusTeam player ID, Critique d'art ID, Centre Pompidou ID, Agence photo RMN ID, INE ID (Portugal), Agence photo RMN package ID, Wikiapiary entry, England Football Online player profile, England Football Online manager profile, DVR Number, Politika topic, Goodreads character ID
  • Deleted properties: P4570 (Wikidata project)
  • Query examples:
    • Catchphrases in Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of Indian mathematicians (source)
    • Painting part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections (source)
    • Types of pasta in Wikidata with pictures (source)

• Development
  • Writing a maintenance script to make configuring WikibaseQualityConstraints easier (phab:T209958)
  • Working on new ID generator using different SQL to attempt to stop lock errors when creating lots of items (phab:T194299)
  • Making more parts of the Query Service UI more configurable such as the copyright page, title, and started work on the favicon / logos (phab:T194175)
  • Adding tracking for Wikibase Lua functions so we can see how they are used on various different projects (phab:T191416)
  • Working on fixing alignment issues with glosses (phab:T207401)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 27 dec 2018 14:04 (CET)

Bedankje

Het is vandaag sterrendag, de dag waarop we elkaar nog even extra bedanken voor een jaar vol enthousiasme en prachtige bijdragen. Herintroductie sterrendag: Uit te reiken aan iemand die u afgelopen jaar positief opviel. Dat kan een hele serie bewerkingen of initiatieven zijn, maar ook één bijzondere bewerking. Het idee is laagdrempelig; de ster hoeft niet ergens op een lijst ingeschreven te worden, slechts uitdelen ter waardering. Leuk zou zijn om daar een kleine persoonlijke motivatie aan toe te voegen, maar niets is verplicht. Het gaat om het gebaar. Het uitdelen ervan vindt plaats op 31 december, deelt u er ook eentje uit vandaag?

Je deed vaak al goede/nuttige bijdragen, wie weet ga je dit in 2019 weer voortzetten? Hoe dan ook bedankt! Mvg, Encycloon (overleg) 31 dec 2018 19:56 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #345

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Do we want automatic inverse property creation and if so, how should they happen?

• Events
  • Video of Lydia's keynote at GNDCon

• Press/Blogs
  • Introduction to Wikidata as a platform and data source
  • Europeana Innovation Agenda
  • The Hand-editor’s Tale
  • mySociety 2018 report including their work on Wikidata
  • Using WikiData API to get the sense of words
  • The Evolution of Power and Standard Wikidata Editors: Comparing Editing Behavior over Time to Predict Lifespan and Volume of Edits

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • In Pywikibot, you can now add a new statement with qualifiers and/or references in a single edit (phab:T112577, phab:T170432)
  • A couple of gran proposals under review need your input and endorsement
  • There are now over 2 million Wikidata infoboxes on Commons!
  • Happy New Year! ^(L40653)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: bgm.tv character identifier, ACB.com coach ID, bgm.tv person identifier, PC-9801DB ID, Hymnary author ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Swedish Anbytarforum, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile ID, Wikimedia OTRS ticket number, AllMusic performance ID, Wikibase Registry ID, Scoresway tennis person ID, Historical RNA ID, Muséosphère work ID, pressball.by player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, RusTeam player ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, AMFR player ID, teams.by player ID, vehicle identification number, Centre Pompidou ID, INE ID (Portugal)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: agglomerative, urban population, rural population, Linear reference, located in urban area
    • External identifiers: SHARE-VDE author ID, Panorama de l'art ID, PCGamingWiki ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, Uppsala General Catalogue ID
  • Query examples:
    • Graph of student-master relationship of Christian Thielemann #Neujahrskonzert (source)
    • Cricket teams in the world by number of players and their gender (source)
    • Buildings designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
    • Species have been named after Donald Trump (source)
    • Catchphrases (source)

• Development
  • Not much happened this week because we took some time off over the holidays. Getting back to full speed again in the next days.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 1 jan 2019 23:42 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #346

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?

• Events
  • Past: 35th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched in replay:
    • Introduction to Wikidata and the Query Service by Lucas Werkmeister and Amir Sarabadani
    • AI in Wikipedia by Amir Sarabadani
    • How to become a Mediawiki hacker by Andre Klapper
    • Live-coding: building a Wikidata tool by Lucas Werkmeister
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, at 18:00 (UTC+1, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
  • Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, by Lars G. Willighagen (preprint)
  • Toward an abstract Wikipedia, by Denny Vrandečić
  • Wikidata and the sum of all video games, by Jean-Fred
  • Building a Wikidata Tool – Behind the Scenes by Lucas Werkmeister (follow-up from the "Building a Wikidata tool" live-coding session, see above)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • >1000 sitelinks to the new Shan Wikipedia (shnwiki) have been added since November
  • Swiss foundation MY-D has published a call for projects for Wikidata showcase applications
  • Reminder: you can give your input on issues when requesting a new language for Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: title of broader work, colorist, data interval
    • External identifiers: Critique d'art ID, DVR Number, Goodreads character ID, Politika topic, SHARE-VDE author ID, England Football Online manager profile, England Football Online player profile, Panorama de l'art ID, Agence photo RMN package ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, PCGamingWiki ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IFPNI species ID, corporate purpose, Lace bugs database ID, Катэгорыя членаў, The White-files species ID, at distance, representative image, Wikia Article URL 2
    • External identifiers: Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, Hymnary text ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, OSGS-Number, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, De Agostini ID, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon Digital ID (new scheme), MNAM ID, IHOI ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Genius album numeric ID, Musée Picasso ID, Genius song numeric ID, Crew united Titel, Crew united Name
  • Query examples:
    • Articles about obituaries (source)
    • Map of Slovenian cultural monuments coloured by type (source)
    • French settlements with more than one word in the name (source)
    • People after which a state is named (source)
    • "official name" statements including a slash punctuation mark (source)
    • Streets in the Netherlands named after a woman described in Els Kloek's book (source)
    • Map of parts of the wall of Philip II Augustus in Paris (source)

• Development
  • Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (phabricator:T204031)
  • Fixed alignment issues with Glosses on Lexeme pages (phabricator:T207401)
  • Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (phabricator:T207150)
  • Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 7 jan 2019 16:29 (CET)

Captions in January

The previous message from today says captions will be released in November in the text. January is the correct month. My apologies for the potential confusion. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 7 jan 2019 21:43 (CET)

Structured Data - file captions coming this week (January 2019)

My apologies if this is a duplicate message for you, it is being sent to multiple lists which you may be signed up for.

Hi all, following up on last month's announcement...

Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:

1. Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons.
2. Test out using captions on Beta Commons.
3. Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you have anything you'd like to say prior to release.

Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as well as a link to join, are on Meta.

Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to the IRC office hour on Thursday. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 7 jan 2019 22:09 (CET)

This Month in GLAM: December 2018

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue XII, December 2018 Headlines Armenia report: Cooperation with Yerevan Drama Theatre Named After Hrachia Ghaplanian; Singing Wikipedia (continuation); Photographs by Vahan Kochar (continuation) Australia report: 2019 Australia's Year of the Public Domain Belgium report: Writing weeks German-speaking Community; End of year drink; Wiki Loves Heritage photo contest Brazil report: Google Art and GLAM initiatives in Brazil India report: Collaboration with RJVD Municipal Public Library Italy report: Challenges and alliances with libraries, WLM and more Macedonia report: Exhibition:"Poland through photographs" & Wikipedia lectures with children in social risk Malaysia report: Technology Talk and Update on Wikipedia @ National Library of Malaysia Portugal report: Glam Days '18 at the National Library of Portugal Sweden report: Hats 🎩🧢👒🎓 UK report: Oxford USA report: Holiday gatherings and visit to Internet Archive Wikidata report: Wikidata reports WMF GLAM report: Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: pilot projects and multilingual captions Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #347

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

• Events
  • Past: IRC office hour, January 8th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
  • Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm, Germany, on February 22-24. The organization team is looking for people who can give introduction to Wikidata, QuickStatements or gadgets (in German).

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Connecting PCGamingWiki and Wikidata by Connor Shea
  • VOSviewer supports large number of new data sources (including Wikidata)
  • Interview of Denny Vrandečić on the podcast Between the Brackets, about Wikidata and plenty of other things

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (documentation)
  • The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check the current ticket for more updates.
  • New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
  • Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: urban population, rural population, corporate purpose, closest approach
    • External identifiers: Uppsala General Catalogue ID, IFPNI species ID, Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, The White-files species ID, Hymnary text ID, Lace bugs database ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, OSGS-Number, MNAM artwork ID, IHOI work ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Musée Picasso artwork ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official color, euler characteristic, REDIZO, number of articles, property for implied values, BNP Catalog ID, Psyl'list species ID, charter URL, works in collection, precedes word-initial, WordLift ID
    • External identifiers: Litchfield Ledger ID, NicoNicoPedia, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, Interpol WOA ID, MAMVP ID, VectorBase Taxonomy ID, Köztaurusz azonosító, TV Spielfilm, Norwegian silvertax 1816 contributor ID, Krugosvet article, infosport.ru person ID, Viperson ID, iTunes TV season ID, sportufo.ru person ID, RBU person ID, biathlon.com.ua person ID, skiresort.info ID, AiF dossier, JORFSearch organization ID, ELNET ID, U-DISE code, AISHE code, EIIN number
  • Query examples:
    • Schools of magic by numbers of students (source)
    • Members of the Association for Computing Machinery who also gave TED talks (source)
    • Languages where some lexemes have more than one grammatical gender entered in Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of early French aviation pioneers (source)
    • Map of schools where virtual twins were educated (source)
    • Most cited Magnuses in Wikidata (source)

• Development
  • Solving an issue that blocked deployments over the past weeks (phab:T212427)
  • Improved the visual appearance of glosses (phab:T207401)
  • Fixing problems with reverting Sense addition (phab:T211438)
  • Improving our Javascript to be more standard (phab:T210744)
  • Working on performing more constraint type checks in PHP before falling back to SPARQL (phab:T209504)
  • Making the query service logo and favicon configurable in one's own Wikibase (phab:T212210)
  • More work on displaying the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #348

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

• Events
  • Past: Workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata, 18 January, Berlin. You can check the collaborative documentation
    • Keynote by Amrapali Zaveri (video)
    • Keynote by Daniel Mietchen (slides, video)
  • Upcoming: free software workshop (including Wikidata) in Lyon, France, January 23rd
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Côte d'Ivoire, February 9th
  • Upcoming: Library data camp, a training for librairies about open data and Wikidata, Manchester, UK, March 11th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: WordLift ID, official color, member category, located at street address, charter URL, works in collection
    • External identifiers: Crew united title ID, Genius album numeric ID, Genius song numeric ID, Litchfield Ledger ID, Microsoft Academic ID, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, REDIZO, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, Interpol WOA artwork ID, Online Catalog of Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal ID, MAMVP artwork ID, Psyl'list species ID, VectorBase taxonomy ID, iTunes TV season ID, Hungarian public thesaurus ID, TV Spielfilm film ID, Viperson ID, Krugosvet article, biathlon.com.ua person ID, RBU person ID, sportufo.ru person ID, Skiresort.info ID, Educational Institution Identification Number, U-DISE code, AISHE code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: inverse label, tussenvoegsel, Linked to profession, chassis, Swedish Organization Number, COOL species ID, Trading name, funk channel ID, personal pronoun
    • External identifiers: Skimap.org ID, Gault et Millau ID, ID theatreonline.com, Swiss Films, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, sports.md athlete ID, iTunes movie ID, iTunes book ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, Smarthistory ID, World Cube Association ID, CORE (Connecting Repositories) ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, Homosaurus identifier, DIZIE ID, identificador Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música
  • Query examples:
    • Images of exoplanets (source)
    • Types of protected historical objects in Loire-Atlantique, France (source)
    • Common long words in scholarly article titles (source)
    • Timeline of writing systems and alphabets (source)
    • Image grid of synthesizers produced by ARP Instruments (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Data Quality

• Development
  • Fixed a small bug that we introduced with editing badges on wd.org (phab:T213998)
  • Finished collecting data about the user of the termbox (phab:T211015)
  • Fixed an i18n message (phab:T206416)
  • Created some maintenance scripts for creating and approving oauth consumers (phab:T211568)
  • Checked for possible data coruptions due to an issue with change tags (phab:T213281)
  • Fixed an issue with restoring merge revisions in Lexeme (phab:T204041)
  • Configured WikibaseQualityConstraints on test.wikidata (phab:T209922)
  • Turned on the new entity id formatting for properties (phab:T201838)
  • Continued work on glosses, displaying the language name also in edit mode (phab:T209931)
  • Starting investigating on Shape Expressions
  • Mobile termbox: showing language, description and aliases (phab:T207150)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #349

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: Deror avi, Wildly boy

• Events
  • February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
  • Incoming: Wikidata Lab XII in São Paulo, Brazil, February 14th.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Making Wikidata visible, by Martin Poulter on Bodleian Digital Library's blog
  • How to query Wikidata using R, by Envel Le Hir
  • Inventory of the Cleveland Museum of Art images, by Magnus Manske

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a tool to validate mappings between Wikidata and external RDF vocabularies done with the properties equivalent property and equivalent class.
  • Topic matcher, a tool to help you adding a "main topic" or "depicts" statement to items about streets, articles, painting, etc.
  • Editing Wikidata - Swedish Cuisine by JanAinali on Twitch
  • City-Country-Shapes visualization based on Wikidata: how many of a country's largest cities do you need to put on a map to be able to recognise the country?

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ELNET ID, iTunes book ID, iTunes movie ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, Skimap ID, sports.md athlete ID, Gault et Millau ID, Theatreonline.com ID, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Smarthistory ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, World Cube Association ID, COOL species ID, CORE ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID, JORFSearch organization ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: journal series, has alt-text, has lyrics, day of regular release, CBFC rating, full work on commons
    • External identifiers: sport-strana.ru article ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, NMSRCP reference number, AKB48 member ID, TV Spielfilm Series ID, MCULE ID, Global Species ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis company ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis person ID, Musicbrainz Event ID, ManualsLib brand ID, LGD local body code, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary tune ID, Hymnary instance ID, Getty Images ID, Amsterdam code
  • Query examples:
    • Things depicted in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Ashmolean Museum (source)
    • Stradivari(us) instruments (source)
    • Rivers whose names in Spanish start with "Guad" (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Protected areas in Germany

• Development
  • Started development on Shape Expressions
  • Termbox: show an expanded-by-default section for the user's preferred languages (phab:T211865)
  • Provide visualization LUA usage on a dashboard (phab:T211768)
  • Fixed issues with sense ID wrapping (phab:T210502)
  • Background work to support the deployment of the next pieces for Structured Data on Commons

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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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Nieuwsbrief 78 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van januari 2019 Inschrijving WikiconNL geopend | Wikimedia Hackathon Praag | Schrijfweken Zeeland... Inschrijving WikiconNL geopend! Wikimedia Hackathon in Praag Organisatoren gezocht voor schrijfweken Zeeland Terugblik Nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst Doe mee aan de Wiki-a-thon bij Amnesty International WikiVrijdagen bij Atria in 2019 Wat vinden de bewerkers? Wiki goes Caribbean schrijfmiddag Terugblik Publiek Domeindag Zomer BBQ Fotowedstrijd natuur levert veel op! Facebookgroep WikiVragen! Wiki Loves… Zien wij jou in februari? Oude versies vindt u hier

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Wikidata weekly summary #350

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

• Events
  • Next Wikidata workshop/meetup in Paris: February 15th
  • Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: March 12th
  • The conference grant proposal for WikidataCon was submitted and could use endorsements.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • „Eisberg voraus!“ – Sächsische Landeskunde mit SXRM, Wikisource und Wikidata by Jens Bemme (in German)
  • Linking the OLAC Video Game Vocabulary with Wikidata by Tracy Hoffmann and Peter Chan
  • Adam blogged about how to update an existing Wikibase docker instance

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Got some time? SpeedPatrolling, a tool to simplify patrolling of recent changes on Wikidata (documentation), has been announced and you can use it to help fight vandalism.
  • Got some time? Match some streets and the humans they are named after.
  • Got some time? Help link OpenStreetMap and Wikidata Items with the new OSM <-> Wikidata matcher.
  • Wikidata Query Service now has over 7 billion triples.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: affiliation string, RightsStatement status according to source website, trading name, Alexander–Briggs notation
    • External identifiers: DIZIE ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, sport-strana.ru article ID, Homosaurus ID, funk channel ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, infosport.ru person ID, ManualsLib brand ID, MusicBrainz event ID, LGD local body code, HAER ID, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary instance ID, Hymnary tune ID, Global Species ID, Amsterdam code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: does not have quality (2), Den Digitale Byport-ID, expression of, calendar feed url, Total goals in career, Strepsiptera database species ID, Brentidae of the world species ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID, WBCHSE code
    • External identifiers: Douban Book ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Author ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili user ID, QQ number, Bilibili video ID, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Mtime movie ID, Mtime people ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, Eventa Servo ID, Rocks Backpages author ID, Rocks Backpages artist ID, Rocks Backpages publication ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, Democracy Club ID, ISA ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schutzgebiete-ID, DALFAN ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Bildarchiv, Herder-Institut, IEEEXplore document ID, IEEEXplore author ID, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Twitter user ID, Australian Antarctic Data Center, Enciclopedia delle donne ID
  • Deleted properties: P1112 (Pokédex number)
  • Query examples:
    • Common topics of publications by people affiliated with a given organization
    • World __ days and other awareness days in calendar order (Source)
    • timeline of writing systems (source)
    • family tree of Donald Duck (source)
    • Common long words in titles of scholarly articles (source)
    • schools of magic by number of students (source)

• Development
  • Making progress towards first showable version of basic Shape Expression support
  • Layout polishing for the mobile termbox (the box that shows labels, desctiptions and aliases) and continuing work on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" sections in it
  • Added tracking for the number of Senses and Forms to our graph for tracking the number of Items, Properties and Lexemes
  • Worked more on making it easier to set up Quickstatements in other Wikibase instances
  • Preventing an entity to redirect to itself (phabricator:T214919)
  • Working on making Federation (reusing Wikidata's Items and Properties to make statements) work for Wikimedia Commons to get the rollout of the next stage (support for depicts statements) unstuck
  • Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Commons (phabricator:T213975)
  • Fixing Cognate support for yue Wiktionary (phabricator:T214400)

• 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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This Month in GLAM: January 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue I, January 2019 Headlines Armenia report: Photographs by Vahan Kochar (continuation) Belgium report: Public domain day edit-a-thon; Hack The Gender Gap edit-a-thon Brazil report: GLAM Wiki at the Digital Collections Conference and new partnership with Casa de Rui Barbosa Colombia report: First report from GLAM in Wikimedia Colombia Czech Republic report: Prachatice Museum France report: #1lib1ref; Museum of Brittany Indonesia report: Indonesian Wikisource meetup; more documents from Museum Tamansiswa Italy report: Celebrating Wikipedia and remembering the Holocaust Norway report: Diversity in Glam projects Serbia report: GLAM Winter in Serbia Sweden report: Hackathon with the National Library of Sweden UK report: Wales and Oxford USA report: Snowdays/Shutdowns but Lots of Open Access Wikidata report: New year, new newsletter format WMF GLAM report: Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #351

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

• Events
  • Past: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata at FOSDEM

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Paper: Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now an experimental SPARQL service to query Wikidata history

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: day of regular release, Euler characteristic, has lyrics, maintenance method, CBFC rating, does not have quality
    • External identifiers: Code of Natura 2000/FFH habitat, Douban Author ID, Douban Book ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Bilibili username, Bilibili video ID, Eventa Servo ID, Mtime movie ID, QQ number, Swedish Organization Number, Rock's Backpages artist ID, Rock's Backpages author ID, Rock's Backpages publication ID, Mtime people ID, Democracy Club ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, ISA ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, DALFAN ID, Den Digitale Byport ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, NMSRCP reference number, Swiss Films ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern protected area ID, IEEEXplore author ID, IEEEXplore document ID, Strepsiptera database species ID, Image Archive, Herder-Institut, WBCHSE code, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Brentidae of the world species ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: creator name string, Literate population, Illiterate population, designated survivor, stall speed, maintain, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, solar eclipse type, student organization of
    • External identifiers: BibliotecaVirtualAndalucia authority ID, BIDICAM authority ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE ID, identifiant sur l'annuaire du service public, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Board Game Atlas ID, LSE article ID, JWF Wrestlers Database, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, Indian census area code (1991), AICTE Permanent ID, German School ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number
  • Query examples:
    • Counts of Indian films directed and written by the same person, sorted by film language (source)
    • Sovereign states that have more than one capital city (source)
    • Decreases in sex ratio for mandals of West Godavari district between 2001 and 2011 (source)
    • Counts of articles published in different Indian medical journals, sorted by year/journal (source)
    • Forms to Lexeme ratio per language (source)
    • Airports and railway stations named after fictional people or works of fiction (source)
    • Species of hummingbirds, their genus, and image (source)

• Development
  • Working on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" parts of the termbox on mobile
  • Working on making undo, revert, edit summaries and more work for Shape Expressions
  • Fixed an error when detecting the same label and description in another Item (phabricator:T194770, thanks Matěj)
  • Making Lemma input on Lexeme pages save your input when you press enter (phabricator:T206140)
  • Making QuickStatements work more easily for other Docker-powered Wikibase instances (phabricator:T205606)
  • Worked more on making Federation work for making Statements on Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T214557)
  • Working on stripping whitespaces at the beginning and end of Glosses when saving them (phabricator:T212019)
  • Looking into adding more signals to ORES' vandalism detection model so we can detect bad edits more accurately (phabricator:T194737)
  • Preventing a redirect of an Entity onto itself (phabricator:T214775)
  • Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T213975)
  • Unified the separators between language and lexical category in different places (phabricator:T201808)

• 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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Growth team updates #5

Welcome to the fifth newsletter for the new Growth team!  

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

New projects for discussion

We began the "Personalized first day" project with the welcome survey so that we could gather information about what newcomers are trying to accomplish. The next step is to use that information to create experiences that help the newcomers accomplish their goal – actually personalizing their first day. We asked for community thoughts in the previous newsletter, and after discussing with community members and amongst our team, we are now planning two projects as next steps: "engagement emails" and "newcomer homepage".

• Engagement emails: this project was first discussed positively by community members here back in September 2018, and the team how has bandwidth to pursue it. The idea is that newcomers who leave the wiki don't get encouraged to return to the wiki and edit. We can engage them through emails that send them the specific information they need to be successful – such as contact from a mentor, the impact of their edits, or task recommendations. Please read over the project page, and comment on its discussion page with any ideas, questions, or concerns. Do you think this is a good idea? Where could we go wrong?
• Newcomer homepage: we developed the idea for this project after analyzing the data from the welcome survey and EditorJourney datasets. We saw that many newcomers seem to be looking for a place to get started – a place that collects their past work, options for future work, and ways to learn more. We can build this place, and it can connect to the engagement emails. The content of both could be guided by what newcomers say they need during their welcome survey, and contain things like contact from a mentor, impact of their edits, or task recommendations. Please read over the project page, and comment on its discussion page with any ideas, questions, or concerns. Do you think this is a good idea? Where could we go wrong?

Initial reports on newcomer activity

We have published initial reports on each of the team's first two projects. These reports give the basic numbers from each project, and there are many more questions we will continue to answer in future reports. We're excited about these initial findings. They have already helped us define and design parts of our future projects.

• Welcome survey: the initial report on welcome survey responses is available here. Some of the main findings:
  • Most users respond to the survey, giving it high response rates of 67% and 62% in Czech and Korean Wikipedias, respectively.
  • The survey does not cause newcomers to be less likely to edit.
  • The most common reason for creating an account in Korean Wikipedia is to read articles—not for editing—with 29% of Korean users giving that responses.
  • Large numbers of respondents said they are interested in being contacted to get help with editing: 36% in Czech and 53% in Korean.
• Understanding first day: the initial report on what newcomers do on their first day is available here. Some of the main findings:
  • Large numbers of users view help or policy pages on their first day: 42% in Czech and 28% in Korean.
  • Large numbers of users view their own User or User Talk page on their first day: 34% in Czech and 39% in Korean.
  • A majority of new users open an editor on their first day – but about a quarter of them do not go on to save an edit during that time.

Help panel deployment

The help panel was deployed in Czech and Korean Wikipedias on January 10. Over the past four weeks:

• About 400 newcomers in each wiki have seen the help panel button.
• About 20% of them open up the help panel.
• About 50% of those who open it up click on one of the links.
• About 5% of Czech users ask questions, and about 1% of Korean users ask questions.

We think that the 20% open rate and 50% click rate are strong numbers, showing that a lot of people are looking for help, and many want to help themselves by looking at help pages. The somewhat lower numbers of asking questions (especially in Korean Wikipedia) has caused us to consider new features to allow people to help themselves. We're going to be adding a search bar to the help panel next, which will allow users to type a search that only looks for pages in the Help and Wikipedia namespaces.

How to create a good feedback page?

What is the way to built a good help page? What blocks you when writing an help page? Your replies will help to create better help contents to newcomers, that would be used on Help panel.

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Wikidata weekly summary #352

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: NewDataB
  • New request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items, Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion)

• Events
  • February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
  • February 21st to 24th: International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon
  • February 23rd: editathon about Parliament of Ghana in Accra - Registration
  • March 28th: GLAM & Wikidata day in Switzerland (registration running until March 18th)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Let’s Tango: Computational Musicology Using Wikidata, MusicBrainz and the Wolfram Language, by Toni Schindler

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Got some time? Add QIDs to the tools on Edit items, Query data, Enhance user interface, Visualize data, Lexicographical data, For programmers and List of properties. If some tools don't have their own Items, feel free to create them.
  • Hardware issues at Toolforge and CloudVPS affect lots of tools and coincide with changes in the statement stats dynamics
  • WikibaseCirrusSearch will become a Mediawiki extension
  • You can still help Shani Evenstein with her research: Wikidata as a Learning Platform

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: drag coefficient, illiterate population, literate population, non-free artwork image URL, taxon author citation, total goals in career, stall speed
    • External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle donne ID, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, BIDICAM authority ID, Board Game Atlas ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE publication ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Biblioteca Virtual Andalucía authority ID, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, JWF Wrestlers Database person ID, Indian census area code (1991), Lithuanian Sport Encyclopedia (LSE) article ID, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, UN/CEFACT common code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ScaleNet ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Identifiant itch.io, approach angle, departure angle, ride height, type of front suspensions, type of rear suspensions, Football Money League rank, is model of, constraint clarification, has phenotype, observed in, replacement property, evidenční číslo domu, Stack Exchange site
    • External identifiers: WhoSampled artist, äriregister, ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Queerly Represent Me identifier, V.League player ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Google Play Movies & TV id, Fondation Maeght ID, identifiant d'un jeu de données sur data.gouv.fr, BHL part ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Yandex.Music genre ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bubble chart of Indian universities with the most people ever employed by them (source)
    • Graph of shared borders between certain West Bengal community development blocks (source)
    • Tree map of ambassadors to India (source)
    • Fictional swords (source)
    • Taxa named after women scientists (source)
    • Timeline of red pandas (source)

• Development
  • Improve the tools dropdown on query.wikidata.org, which now links Tools categories and the Toolforge (phabricator:T214577)
  • Implement the diff view for Schemas (phabricator:T214396, phabricator:T215514)
  • Implement undo for Schemas (phabricator:T214914)
  • Prevent redirecting an entity to itself (phabricator:T214775)
  • Make pressing enter when editing a lemma save the lemma (phabricator:T206140)
  • Strip whitespace around sense glosses (phabricator:T212019)
  • Create LilyPond datatype (phabricator:T215284)
  • More work to get the new version of the termbox readable on mobile

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #353

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019 (feel free to add more sub-sections)

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm with Open Knowledge Foundation. Video of the presentation of the projects (in German)
  • Running until March 2nd: International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon
  • Upcoming: Wikidata and the Diversity of Knowledge workshop in Graz, Austria, on March 3rd
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, March 12th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, March 15th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata, by Tom Simonite on Wired
  • Align BNF's video games and Wikidata with Dataiku DSS (in French) by Envel Le Hir

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you're using Wikidata's data dumps, you may want to give feedback on a potential change about when those dumps are generated (ticket)
  • Some games and tools developed during the Wikidata hackathon in Ulm:
    • Card game generator
    • Multiplayer game Guess the (German) Politician
    • Telegram bot @WikidataMisfitBot, sending pictures with one wrong label
    • WikiProjekt offeneregister.de
  • If you're developing new tools or hear about new tools, please add them to Wikidata:Tools so other people can find them :)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: expression of, provisional house number in the Czech Republic, has role in modeling, observed in, has phenotype, type of front suspension, type of rear suspension
    • External identifiers: AICTE Permanent ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number, ScaleNet ID, WhoSampled artist ID, Business Registry code (Estonia), ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Crew united person ID, Fondation Maeght artist ID, data.gouv.fr dataset ID, V.League men's player ID, V.League women's player ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Total assists in career, Total points in career, Career plus-minus rating, Penalty minutes in career, Total power play goals in career, Total power play assists in career, Total shots in career, MeSH Descriptor, Former street name
    • External identifiers: NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, PCAD firm ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, SICRIS researcher ID, Physics History Network ID, Sachsen-Anhalt Schutzgebiete-ID, Amis du Louvre ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'un lutteur, Brillant Wiki ID, Official Charts artist ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'une équipe universitaire, Dimensions.guide ID, SensaCine movie ID, SensaCine series ID, Bilibili channel ID
  • Query examples:
    • Women having a good or featured article on Russian Wikipedia but no article on French Wikipedia (source)
    • Timeline of Renaissance humanists (source)
    • Map of cities from the Hanseatic League (source)
    • Image gallery of musicians who have a software title named after them (source)
    • Frequency of first letter in Breton words in Wikidata (source)
    • Items about buildings with coordinates and at least one sitelink, but no image (source)

• Development
  • Updated some icons with the new WikimediaUI icon set (phab:T209259)
  • Fixed an issue that was causing occasional failures when creating new Items (phab:T194299)
  • Investigated Wikidata Tours not loading correctly (phab:T215919)
  • Adjusted spacing between Sense ID, bar and Gloss (phab:T215502)
  • Fixing a long time issue with introducing new data types in production (phab:T216728)
  • Fixing docs for backup of wikibase container images (phab:T214941)
  • Making undo, rollback and restore work on schema content pages (phab:T214399)
  • Improving edit summaries for schema content pages (phab:T213724)
  • Tightening up the process for editing "identifying information" for Schemas (phab:T214466)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #354

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Esteban16
  • Closed request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikiConNL in Utrecht (Netherlands), on March 8-9th (in Dutch and English)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
  • Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Matching BnF and Wikidata video games using Dataiku DSS (in English) by Envel Le Hir

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Congratulations to Siobhan Leachman (d:User:Ambrosia10), awarded the "Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum" medal for her volunteer work, including contributions to Wikidata: [1].
  • You can now try Shape Expressions on a test system
  • Creative Commons has a proposal for tool development with Wikidata's copyright metadata for the 2019 edition of Google Summer of Code. Interested student developers are invited to apply.
  • Tpt's Wikidata history query service stores and allows querying metadata about Wikidata's edit history
  • A new beta version of the Daty Wikidata Editor has been released, check out the changelog. You can also show your endorsement to the project over here.
  • Scholarship application phase for Wikimania 2019 is now open until March 15th. The call for track leaders is also open.
  • OpenRefine 3.2 beta was released, with a collection of new features and bug fixes, many of which improve the Wikidata integration.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: multi-channel network, Stack Exchange site, total shots in career, total points in career, total assists in career, penalty minutes in career, career plus-minus rating, preferred pronoun
    • External identifiers: BHL part ID, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music genre ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database firm ID, Physics History Network ID, Twitter user ID, identifier of games on Queerly Represent Me, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, SICRIS researcher ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Location specifics, Mountain chain, temperature record, stroke order, Höchstes Break, Dutch Instrument Makers ID, Lucerna person ID, Endowment, Guggenheim fellows ID, Downloads page, is a synonym of taxon name
    • External identifiers: Académie de Rouen member ID, Sistem Registrasi Nasional Cagar Budaya ID, Musenor ID, ProQuest document ID, Florida Historical Marker List ID, Klexikon-Article-ID, Federal-State Cooperative System ID, identifikátor v Adresáři knihoven a informačních institucí v ČR, Cour des comptes report ID, Directorio Legislativo ID, Deportation Database transport-ID, Art Fund ID, Scripts.com script, National Book Foundation author ID, National Book Foundation book ID, DFD-ID, Mutual Art artist ID, a-tremasov.ru biography ID, Project Drawdown solution ID, Paintings by Salvador Dalí ID, HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts ID, flgr-results.ru athlete ID, Resident Advisor artist ID, Resident Advisor record label ID, ACA ID
  • Query examples:
    • Average distance between a French museum and its hosted artists' place of birth (source)
    • Persons with a surname that matches the past participle form of a Danish verb (source)
    • Town halls of communes bordering Paris (source)
    • Literary awards with 0–2 recipients (source)
    • Female Howard medical grads before 1900 (source)
    • items including the property "preferred pronoun" (source)
    • Map of tram service in Ulm (source)

• Development
  • Added monolingual language code tlb (Tobelo), thanks User:Mbch331! (T216798, will be deployed next week)
  • Integrating the termbox with Wikibase (phab:T214679)
  • Viewing historic revisions and fetching the termbox data from Special:EntityData (phab:T210615)
  • Fixing emoji breaking the termbox (phab:T217244)
  • Renamed special pages under Wikibase to avoid confusion with Schemas special pages (phab:T216719)
  • Removed unsupported php 7 constant in production, causing a notice and potential undefined behavior ([[phab:T217241
  • Investigated wb_term normalization solution (phab:T215902)
  • Fix for outdated cached WB datatypes on client-side (phab:T216728 (blocks enabling new datatypes, e.g. phab:T216730))
  • Allowing access to wikibase entities from multiple (wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
  • Allowing to return a proper API error on 'wbformatvalue' action (phab:T207479)
  • Providing open-graph title and discretion meta-tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
  • Allowing quickstatements to work out-of-the-box in wikibase-quickstatments docker image (phab:T205606)
  • Implementing “undo” for Schemass (phab:T214914, making it work via the API (phab:T217250)
  • Implementing “restore” for Schemas (phab:T214915)
  • Adding created and edited Schemas to the watchlist according to the user’s preferences (phab:T213725)
  • Splitting edit parts on Schemas (phab:T215395, phab:T215393, phab:T215392, phab:T215394)
  • Improving support for multilingual edit comments in MediaWiki (phab:T215637)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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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This Month in GLAM: February 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue II, February 2019 Headlines Albania report: Gjirokastra reads about Musinenë Australia report: International Digital Curation Conference 2019 Belgium report: Wiki Loves Heritage; Wikipedian in Residence at the King Baudouin Foundation Brazil report: "Our experience with Wikimedians has brought collaborative principles of Wikipedia to our work with archival curation": an interview with the coordinator of the GLAM-Wiki initiative with the Brazilian National Archives Canada report: Canada report Côte d'Ivoire report: Improving 135 articles during #1Lib1Ref at the Goethe-Institut Denmark report: Mass uploading and educational materials France report: Cinémathèque de Grenoble Italy report: Regional coordinators and Wikidata Mexico report: Wiki Loves Mexico, Editathon at Museo Nacional de Historia and Art and Feminism Netherlands report: January - February 2019 activities: Public Domain Day, Wiki Goes Caribbean, Wiki Fridays, Wikimedians in Residence Poland report: Art, feminism, rituals and historical portraits Serbia report: Domination of librarians Sweden report: More Library cooperation Switzerland report: Professional day «GLAM & Wikimedia: review of projects in Switzerland and perspectives with Wikidata (2019)» UK report: Teaching SPARQL with Wikidata USA report: Black History Month, Wikidata Game & Women's History Month Special story: Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes–Issue 32, January–February 2019 Wikidata report: Wired for Sound Wikimedia and Libraries User Group report: Steering committee election 2019 WMF GLAM report: Structured Data on Commons: GLAM pilots; Wikimania 2019 Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #355

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Dimon2711
  • Closed request for adminship: Esteban16, welcome onboard!

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
  • Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
  • Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki (Invasive plants) April 16th, Meise, Belgium
  • Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics? Biodivesity Next (Leiden, the Netherlands), October 19th-25th 2019

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Combining AI and Human Judgment to Build Knowledge about Art on a Global Scale by Andrew Lih
  • Data Quality Management in Wikidata – Workshop write-up, by Cristina Sarasua, Claudia Müller-Birn, and Mariam Farda-Sarbas
  • Museum Collections on Wikipedia: Opening Up to Open Data Initiatives by Elena Villaespesa and Trilce Navarrete

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements or the #statements parser function will now have it displayed using a Kartographer <maplink> if available. In case of bug or question, feel free to ask in phab:T210926. Thanks to Tpt for the change!
  • A Google Summer of Code/Outreachy project seeks to add structure to the Commons app. Photographers will be able to pick Wikidata items that are depicted by the picture they upload.
  • Suggestions based on constraints can be enabled for all users

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: key performance indicator, inscription mentions, taxa especially protected in area, number of words, collective noun for animals, Cook Partisan Voting Index, league system, endowment, highest break, maximum temperature record, OSM zoom level, hyperonym
    • External identifiers: Dimensions.guide ID, National Wrestling Hall of Fame University Team ID, Official Charts artist ID, Saxony-Anhalt protected area ID, AiF dossier ID, Google Play Movies & TV id, Brilliant Wiki ID, Musenor artwork ID, Indonesian Cultural Heritage Registration System ID, Florida Historical Marker List ID, ProQuest document ID, Klexikon-Article-ID, Libraries & Information Centers in the Czech Republic ID, Académie de Rouen member ID, Art Fund artwork ID, Cour des comptes report ID, MutualArt artist ID, National Book Foundation author ID, National Book Foundation book ID, Deportation Database transport ID, Dutch Instrument Makers ID, Lucerna person ID, Scripts.com script, Directorio Legislativo ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: located in the constituency, feed-in tariff, General Material Designation, CDEC ID, Family progenitor, solar irradiance
    • External identifiers: film-documentaire.fr author ID, theatre-contemporain.net ID, SNISB ID, Rheinland-Pfalz Schutzgebiete-ID, Zagat, Zomato, Libreflix ID, JMdictDB ID, Bibliography of the History of the Czech Lands ID, EmacsWiki ID, FFS athlete ID, FSkate.ru skater ID, Plant Illustrations artist ID, FaroeSoccer coach ID, FaroeSoccer player ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query examples:
    • Calendar of Saints' feast days and other calendar queries
    • A bunch of new GLAM-related queries including image gallery of the most notable libraries and map of museums colour-coded by type.
    • the number of songs in Wikidata named after days of the week by day
    • Map of preserved Concorde aircrafts
    • Timeline of video games having at least 42 Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
    • Timeline of Microscopists (source)
    • Map of all the libraries in the world present on Wikidata (source)
    • People with songs named after them (source)
    • Animals most frequently depicted in artworks (source)
    • Field of work of the Austrian scientists with an Orcid ID (source)
  • Women from Africa sorted by number of sitelinks (source)

• Development
  • Work page to get the Schema Text by subpage syntax (phab:T214383)
  • Set up a page to set label, description and aliases for Schema (phab:T215392, phab:T217313)
  • Remove edit tab from Schema pages (phab:T215394)
  • Disable possibility to enter duplicate aliases for the same Schema (phab:T217634, phab:T217749)
  • Add ULS, Babel and CLDR support on wikidata-shex.wmflabs.org (phab:T216146)
  • Add the option to restore Schemas! (phab:T214915)
  • Undo edit on Schemas through API (phab:T217250)
  • Multilingual support on Special:NewSchema (phab:T216154)
  • Work on Termbox SSR integration (phab:T214679)
  • Provide meta tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
  • Make Quickstatements work out of the box in wikibase docker image (phab:T205606)
  • Disabling RDF for Media Info (phab:T213483)
  • Add tooltips for statements linking to a lexeme form (phab:T205279)
  • Allowing multiple wikibase DBs access (phab:T214557)
  • Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API (phab:T217243)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:

• Kinige – Primarily Indian-language ebooks - 10 books per month
• Gale – Times Digital Archive collection added (covering 1785-2013)
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Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Taylor & Francis, Cairn, Annual Reviews and Bloomsbury. You can request new partnerships on our Suggestions page.

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Wikidata weekly summary #356

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
  • Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
  • Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
  • Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • What Wikidata offers Oxford’s GLAM Digital Strategy

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new data type is available : musical notation
  • A research report is now available for the project Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping. The research investigates which (updated) metadata cultural institutions would like to retrieve back from (Structured) Wikimedia Commons, and what the main barriers are. Research summary / presentation slides / full report
  • If you're using Wikidata dumps, please note that the update schedule may change from fixed weekday to fixed day of the month. More info in this ticket
  • Slides of the Wikidata presentation during UNESCO's Mobile Learning Week by Shani Evenstein now available on Commons.
  • A project to link branded businesses in Open Street Maps to Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Guggenheim fellows ID, Sandbox-Musical Notation
    • External identifiers: Paintings by Salvador Dalí ID, a-tremasov.ru biography ID, Digital Dictionary of Surnames in Germany ID, flgr-results.ru athlete ID, HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts ID, Resident Advisor artist ID, Resident Advisor label ID, Rhineland-Palatinate protected area ID, film-documentaire.fr author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: average speed, Digital Author Identifier, date of the latest value change, chữ Nôm, capacity factor, study or design for, motif (music), chess position
    • External identifiers: Salvador Dali Museum ID, Tainacan MHN ID, AWARE ID, Cini Foundation ID, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, Artcurial ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Index to American Botanical Literature ID, Periscope pscp.tv, LinkedIn personal profile ID, Library of Parliament Person ID, Gamepedia Article ID, 100 bombardirov person ID, JRC Names id, Fandango theater ID, Epitafier.se
  • Query examples:
    • Color associations in national flags (source)
    • List of German-language female science fiction authors (source)
    • List of the Wikimedia projects in French and languages of France (source)

• Development
  • Prepare new constraint icons (phab:T191322)
  • View history revisions of entities on new termbox mobile (phab:T210615)
  • Caching termbox output on the Wikibase side (phab:T214679)
  • Fix emojis breaking the termbox layout in Chrome (phab:T217244)
  • Work on multilingual support for schemas (phab:T215387)
  • Implement a length limit for the schema text (phab:T216148)
  • Replace the heading/title for schema pages similar to what Wikibase does (phab:T215759)
  • Deploy the shex-simple website, which can be used to check entities against a schema in the browser, on Toolforge (phab:T217333)
  • Deploy the score data type to production

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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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Growth team updates #6

Welcome to the sixth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Plans for the next three months

The Growth team has been working on features to increase new editor retention for the last seven months. We have made a lot of progress and learned a lot, and we've just finished planning for our next three months. During the next three months, we're going to focus on iterations of the help panel and the newcomer homepage. We have decided not to start the engagement emails project, because we think that we will be able to do better work by improving the projects we have already started. Specifically, these are our team goals:

• Deploy and iterate on newcomer homepage
• Continued iteration on help panel
• Make the help panel available to more wikis
• Add a fourth Wikipedia to our set of target wikis
• Publish in-depth quantitative reporting on the data from this year
• Assemble a report on what our team has learned so far about newcomers

Newcomer homepage

Mockup of potential design for newcomer homepage

The newcomer homepage is our current major project. We hope that community members can read over the project page, and comment on its discussion page with any ideas, questions, or concerns. You can see in the accompanying mockup how we are thinking about the homepage.

We have recently decided on the specifications for an initial version that we can deploy and iterate on:

• Shown in the User space
• Desktop only (mobile comes next)
• Four modules
  • Help module: help links and ability to ask help desk questions
  • Mentorship module: all newcomers assigned a mentor to whom they can ask questions
  • Impact module: shows the number of pageviews for pages the newcomer edited
  • Account completion module: gives some very simple recommendations of how to get started (add an email, start your user page)
• Layout not yet personalized for each user

We're currently running live user tests on this configuration. Future work will include adapting the homepage for mobile, working on a task recommendation module, and considering how to encourage newcomers to visit their homepage.

Help panel

Screenshot from Vietnamese Wikipedia showing the help panel open on the Community Portal, including the "search" bar.

During the last month, the help panel was deployed on Vietnamese Wikipedia, adding it to Czech and Korean Wikipedias.As of 2019-03-14:

• 2,425 newcomers have seen the help panel
• 422 of them have opened it
• 175 have clicked links
• 27 have run searches
• 40 have asked questions

We have been analyzing the data around usage, and we'll be publishing numbers in the coming weeks. At a high level, we see at least some users are being helped by the panel, with many clicking on links, running searches, and asking questions. We do not yet see any problems that have arisen from the help panel. Therefore, we think that the help panel is generally a positive feature – though data is still coming that will allow us to see its numerical impact. If other wikis are interested in using the help panel, please contact us on our team's talk page, in the language of your choice.

Over the past month, we have iterated on the help panel to take into account the usage patterns we are seeing. You can see in the accompanying image how the help panel currently looks.

• We added a search capability, in which users can search the Help and Wikipedia namespaces.
• The help panel was previously available whenever a newcomer was in "edit" mode. We are now also showing the help panel when a newcomer is in "read" mode on a page in the Help, Wikipedia, or User namespaces.

We want to see whether users find the "search" useful. If so, we may spend time on improving search results. We're also looking forward to learning whether exposing the help panel in "read" mode in more namespaces will increase usage.

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Wikidata weekly summary #357

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Stanglavine
  • An open discussion on how to model one-way train routes is now taking place, and everyone is welcome to pitch in

• Events
  • Past: Researcher meets Curator, 22 March 2019, Maastricht: meeting about biographies, where Wikidata was mentioned in many talks, eg. Visual Biographies of Scholars and the Topics they Studied, Egon Willighagen
  • Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
  • Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French)
  • Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires
  • Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • SPARQL via WDQS (very basic introduction for archivist) (in French).
  • "Build your own Digital Bodleian with IIIF and SPARQL", Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
  • A call to action: Wikidata-fy your Commons photos, Martin Poukter, Wikimedia UK blog
  • On Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (slides, video)
  • The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised: Twitter thread
  • Lexicographical data on Wikidata: Words, words, words by Jens Ohlig

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • It is now possible to filter by property in EditGroups. For instance, you can get an overview of the author disambiguation efforts by filtering on auteur (P50).
  • Related Wikidata Properties: new tool to explore Wikidata properties and find properties used together (example: external id properties used in conjunction with Elo rating (P1087)).
  • New tool: BNF Scrapper generates content ready for QuickStatement from an author file from the French National Library
  • Tips for Wikidata SPARQL query optimization

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: study or design for, constraint clarification, General Material Designation, value hierarchy property
    • External identifiers: Plant Illustrations artist ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, FFS athlete ID, CSKA person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: quotation or excerpt (music), Classification RCQ, CHVRS Classification
    • External identifiers: Kicker.de player ID, XING company ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, L'Express tag ID, Orlando person ID, Identifier, Sumo Reference, SA Rugby Player ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Japan Search name ID, FIS telemark skier ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID
  • Query examples:
    • Maximum temperatures on Earth (°F/°C) (source)
    • People with social media accounts that are identical but differently capitalised (source)

• Development
  • Update property suggester data (phab:T216270)
  • Add a link to the shex-simple tool to make it easier to check entities against a Schema (phab:T217331)
  • Make the placeholders on Special:NewSchema now match the ones on Special:NewItem (phab:T215386)
  • Check for edit conflicts when editing schemas (phab:T217338, phab:T218300)
  • Enable the parser cache for Schema pages (phab:T218459, phab:T218769)
  • Use the FormatAutocomments hook for Schemas to implement translatable edit summaries (phab:T218889)
  • Implement a proper Wikibase-Termbox-Integration according to the ADR (phab:T214679)
  • Fix the emoji breaking the termbox column layout (phab:T217244)
  • Correctly showing revisions with the new termbox (phab:T210615)
  • Correctly handle user-specific language settings in the new termbox (phab:T218111)
  • Fix an issue for score extension (phab:T218535)
  • Turn off RDF support for entity types that doesn't support it (phab:T213483)
  • Respect nofollow config on wikidata identifier links (phab:T175230)
  • Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 25 mrt 2019 16:20 (CET)

Nieuwsbrief 80 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van maart 2019 Kennisbijeenkomst WMNL bibliotheken | Schrijven over Zeeland | Terugblik WikiconNL... Kennisbijeenkomst samenwerking tussen Wikimedia en bibliotheken in Nederland Schrijven over Zeeland Terugblik WikiconNL Lezing Linda Duits op WikiZaterdag 6 april WikiZaterdag 6 april presentatie Linda Duits Prachtige nieuwe natuurfoto’s op Wikimedia Algemene Ledenvergadering 13 april Zintuiglijke overbelasting bij Wikimedia-evenementen vermijden Link investigator Zien we jou in april? Oude versies vindt u hier

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Wikidata weekly summary #358

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata meetup during the Wikimedia Summit, March 29th in Berlin (collaborative notes)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for archives in Saint-Etienne, France, on April 3rd and 5th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin in Wikibär on April 14th
  • Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WikidataCon 2019 application, program submission and scholarship processes are now open until April 29th
  • Structured Data on Commons: You can now test creating depicts statements
  • While editing OpenStreetMap from the iD editor, it will now be possible to match map data with Wikidata by typing in names and getting an autocompleted label.
  • OpenStreetMap is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code, and quite a few of the project ideas involve Wikidata integration.
  • Discussion going on in W3C SPARQL 1.2 Community Group about the improvements in SPARQL language

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: capacity factor, position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation
    • External identifiers: Libreflix ID, Kicker.de player ID, Library of Parliament of Canada person ID, RoMEO publisher ID, Federal-State Cooperative System ID, XING company ID, L'Express person ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, Gamepedia article ID, FSkate.ru skater ID, Salvador Dali Museum ID, Index to American Botanical Literature ID, FaroeSoccer player ID, FaroeSoccer coach ID, Artcurial lot ID, SNISB ID, Tainacan MHN ID, 100 bombardirov person ID, Cini Foundation ID, LinkedIn personal profile ID, ACA author ID, CDEC ID, AWARE ID, JRC Names id, Zomato ID, TV Spielfilm series ID, Fandango theater ID, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID, JMdictDB ID, Zagat ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: First attestation, match interval, réédité par, calligrapher, Ordained by, code produit, Wikidata property example for media
    • External identifiers: Baden-Württemberg Schutzgebiete-ID, K10plus editions, Utpictura18 ID, Le Vif tag ID, Common Sense Media review ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, Democracy Club Election ID, MARGS ID, Kobo author ID, WoRMS source ID, Kobo narrator ID, NGMDb Prod ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, AntWiki, MESH Concept ID, MESH Term ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID
  • Query examples:
    • Siblings who have won the Israel Prize (source)
    • British female engineers, 1919-2019 (source)
    • Female scientific illustrators (source)
    • French archivists with a picture (source)
    • Archive institutions in Switzerland and how much they hold (source)
    • Graph of open source research software by field (source)
    • Groups of characters in the Marvel universe (source)
    • In what type of places are ancient Greek potteries stored? (source)

• Development
  • Work on a dashboard for external identifiers (phab:T204440)
  • Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API modules (phab:T217243)
  • Add tests for embed.html (phab:T212649)
  • Improve features for wikibase vandalism detection model (phab:T194737)
  • Improve Property Info cache performance (phab:T218115, phab:T218197)
  • Adding nofollow to external identifiers links (phab:T175230)
  • Hide query helper by default in Query Service (phab:T217886)
  • More work on wb_terms normalization (Phab board)
  • Enable trimming whitespace around Label/Description/Aliases and Schema text (phab:T215761)
  • Prevent moving Schemas between namespaces (and generally) (phab:T219313)
  • Limit the length of Schema labels, descriptions, aliases, and schema text in the frontend (phab:T218867)
  • Add tracking for clicks on the “check entities against this Schema” link (phab:T218899)
  • Disallow importing of Schemas from another wiki or XML files to avoid ID conflicts (phab:T218181)
  • Make sure RTL text is being handled correctly in the Schema labels, descriptions and aliases table (phab:T219136)
  • Add a publish button on mobile termbox: (phab:T218573)
  • Building the wbeditentity request to be fired on save request: (phab:T218577)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 1 apr 2019 16:42 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #359

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Stanglavine (welcome onboard!)
  • New request for comments: Countries, subdivisions, and disputed territories
  • Closed request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 9th at 16:30 UTC (18:30 in Berlin)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 14th in Wikibär
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
  • Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to languages on the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Cornwall on July 4-5. Call for submissions is now open

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Using Wikidata’s entities and ontology to measure how much attention content receives, by Conrad Lee on Parse.ly

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [Breaking change] Empty containers in JSON outputs will be serialized as empty object "{}"
  • [Breaking change] A new status of constraint will be enabled, causing some changes in the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API
  • The Wikimedia URL shortener will be launched on 11 April; see Wikidata:URLShortener. It will not be immediately incorporated into the Query Service but the feature is planned.
  • The Library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden compiled an experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata.
  • The gender gap tool Delenezh is online again and now hosted by Wikimedia France
  • New tool: Related Properties, exploring Wikidata properties by the similarity of their use (see blog post by Envlh)
  • Property statistics on Wikiprojects: sum of all paintings, video games

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: stroke order, CHVRS Classification, Classification RCQ, musical quotation or excerpt
    • External identifiers: Democracy Club Election ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Sumo Reference ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Periscope pscp.tv, BHCL ID, Baden-Württemberg protected area ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Springboks Rugby Player ID, Utpictura18 artwork ID, Le Vif tag ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, MARGS ID, theatre-contemporain.net ID, FIS telemark skier ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Arcade system, Audio system, IANA time zone identifier, has sequenced genome, WMF short URL, translated to (language translation)
    • External identifiers: OpenEdition books ID, OpenEdition ID, MassBank Accession ID, identyfikator sztuki w e-teatr.pl, identifiant GameFAQs d'un jeu, CIN ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, DCMI metadata term, CroRec ID, Radio Courtoisie program ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, LNB Coach id, Sachsen Schutzgebiete-ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID, Trainline ID
  • Query examples:
    • Public art in London (source)
    • Software titles that have their own mascot (source)
    • Wikipedia articles using a transgender person’s deadname in the title (source)
    • Entities linked to a 3d model (source)
    • Graph of parties at the Feb 1974 general election in the UK (source)
  • Newest database reports: first names of Italians

• Development
  • More work on documenting and preparing the announcement for the Wikidata External Landscape dashboard (phab:T204440)
  • Improved the documentation of WMDE analytic documents (phab:T219844)
  • Set up translatable schema edit summaries using the FormatAutocomments hook (phab:T218893)
  • Improved right-to-left support on schema pages (phab:T219298)
  • Protected schemas against imports (phab:T218181) and page moves (phab:T219313) and disabled the useless “move” and “create” protections for them (phab:T219980)
  • Improved schema edit conflict detection to allow merging of non-conflicting edits (phab:T218300, phab:T219173)
  • Improved the Extension:WikibaseSchema documentation on mediawiki.org (phab:T219979)
  • Fixed a bug on Lexicographical Data when editing existing grammatical features (phab:T219318)
  • Increased musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
  • Got ready for the last steps of new constraint level for suggestions (phab:T204439)
  • More work on allowing editing of mobile termbox fields (phab:T216987)
  • Let term value fields grow with their content (phab:T220185)
  • More work on migrating away from wb_terms

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 8 apr 2019 16:49 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: March 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue III, March 2019 Headlines Albania report: WikiFilmat SQ - new articles about the Albanian movie industry! Armenia report: Art+Feminism+GLAM, Collaboration with Hovhannes Toumanian museum Australia report: Art+Feminism 2019 in Australia Brazil report: The GLAM at USP Museum of Veterinary Anatomy: a history of learnings and improvements Colombia report: Moving GLAM institutions inside and outside Colombia Czech Republic report: Edit-a-thon Prachatice France report: Wiki day at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art; Age of wiki at the Musée Saint-Raymond India report: Gujarat Vishw Kosh Trust content donation to Wikimedia Italy report: Italian librarians in Milan Macedonia report: WikiLeague: Edit-a-thon on German Literature Netherlands report: WikiconNL, International Womens Day and working together with Amnesty, Field study Dutch Libraries and Wikimedia Serbia report: Spring residences and a wiki competition Sweden report: UNESCO; Working life museums; Swedish Performing Arts Agency shares historic music; Upload of glass plates photographs UK report: Wiki-people and Wiki-museum-data USA report: Women's History Month and The Met has two Wikimedians in the house Wikidata report: Go Siobhan! WMF GLAM report: Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons; Bengali Wikisource case study Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #360

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Non-free content

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata IRC office hour, on April 9th (read the log)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XIV, April 25th in São Paulo, Brazil

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata at work on tcworld.info
  • Searching News Articles Using an Event Knowledge Graph Leveraged by Wikidata (pdf) (search engine demonstration)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool: qwikidata, a Python package to process Wikidata entities and dumps
  • New dashboard: visualisations of external identifiers on Wikidata
  • Several Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF Project Grants
  • The page Wikidata:Wikimania 2019 is here to help you coordinating with other people regarding your submissions for Wikimania 2019. The opening of submissions is planned for late April.
  • Reminder: you can apply to participate to the WikidataCon 2019 before April 29th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: first attested from, Wikidata property example for media, musical motif
    • External identifiers: French public service directory ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID, OpenEdition book ID, OpenEdition Books author ID, WoRMS source ID, e-teatr.pl play ID, MESH Term ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, IANA timezone ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, job title, military unit size, business partner, microarchitecture, Video system, Mesh Qualifier ID, cache l1-l2-l3, text features, Software development model, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, SIUSA ID, FTP server
    • External identifiers: Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, IMTL.org id, CNV-SP ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, identifiant Projet de recherche en littérature de langue bretonne, SportSport.ba player ID, SportSport.ba club ID, SportSport.ba news ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya, FoodOn ID, Finnish Trade Register ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gender balance of art prizes and Gender balance of literary awards (source)
    • Images used on more than one item about a person (source)
    • Map of public libraries in Wales coloured by county (source)
    • Artworks by street artist Invader in Versailles (source)
    • American Sign Language signs for the letters of the English alphabet
    • French Sign Language signs for the letters of the French alphabet

• Development
  • Added Sámi monolingual language codes sia (Akkala), sjk (Kemi) and sjt (Ter), thanks to Jon Harald Søby (phab:T217521)
  • Moving forward with enabling constraints suggestions for everyone and remove beta feature (phab:T220609)
  • Fixing an issue with displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client (phab:T220122)
  • Make it impossible to set the same content in the same language for label and description (phab:T212869)
  • Catch Exceptions where the entity can not be serialized due to being too big (phab:T217741)
  • Fix the order of value suggestions based on constraint (phab:T220587)
  • Add links on entity suggestions from constraint definitions (phab:T207363)
  • Increase musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
  • More work on making the new mobile termbox editable (phab:T216987)
  • More work on migrating away from wb_terms

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15 apr 2019 16:58 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #361

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

• Events
  • Past: Editathon Where iNaturalist meets Wiki, on April 16th in Meise, Belgium
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Argentina, April 25th
  • Upcoming; Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Association of Research Libraries White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations
  • Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs and the example of Wikidata, on AI Facebook blog
  • OpenTapioca: Lightweight Entity Linking for Wikidata (paper by Antonin Delpeuch)
  • Update on the Factgrid project with Wikibase and GND by Olaf Simons

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Plenty of documentation pages have been translated into Spanish: Wikidata in one page, Query Service in one page, a new data model example based on Marie Curie, and the flyer "Wikidata for developers". Thanks a lot to Mlemusrojas and the Wikidata group in Argentina!
  • Depicts statements were due to arrive on Commons on April 23rd
  • The Wikimedia URL Shortener is live and now included in the Query Service to create short links to queries or direct results (announcement)
  • Reminder: the application phase for the WikidataCon is open until April 29th: if you want to attend to the conference, don't forget to participate!
  • Wikidata Sign Languages Browser
  • You can help by training ORES, the machine learning system, to better judge if edits are good or bad. We need another 7000 edits judged

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of sentences, Football Money League rank
    • External identifiers: National Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler ID, MassBank Accession ID, CNV-SP ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, NGMDb Prod ID, MESH Concept ID, PRELIB organization ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: supported metadata, expansion, CatholicSaints.info ID, Musixmatch track ID, transfer speed, KeyWiki page ID, художник-мультипликатор, Number of polling stations, music video
    • External identifiers: The Atlas of African Frogs, Ming Qing Archive authority ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, RGALI ID, Referee.ru person ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Australian War Memorial ID, Flora of Australia (new) ID, Drobné památky ID, Identifiant IndieDB for video game, Whitney Museum of American Art ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, CanLII ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, interwiki, Identifiant Mod DB for video game, OBIS ID, Alvin, FemBio ID
  • Query examples:
    • All deaths in Game of Thrones (source)
    • Wikidata knows of at least 5263 buildings started before Notre Dame de Paris (query based on this discussion)
    • Timeline for the History of Telecommunications (source)
    • Graph of London Tube stations that are on at least three lines (source)
    • Map of churches in Sri Lanka (source)

• Development
  • Improved the external identifiers landscape (phab:T204440)
  • Prepare process and announcement for the wb_terms migration to come
  • Allow configuring WDQS UI without changes to files under version control (phab:T194179)
  • Configure suggestion constraint level on Beta (phab:T221107)
  • Graduate suggestions based on constraints beta feature out of beta features (phab:T209879)
  • Editing of labels and descriptions on mobile (phab:T216987)
  • Editing aliases on mobile (phab:T218690)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 24 apr 2019 11:11 (CEST)

Nieuwsbrief 81 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van april Zien wij elkaar in mei? Waarom ik schrijf voor WikiWoordenboek Reminder: Kennisbijeenkomst samenwerking tussen Wikimedia en bibliotheken in Nederland Zeeland Introductieworkshop Wikidata Creative Commons Global Summit Wiki goes Caribbean Projectleider gezocht Algemene Ledenvergadering Zien we jou in mei? Oude versies vindt u hier

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Wikidata weekly summary #362

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: BRPever

• Events
  • Past: WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
    • Wikidata I: Intro to Wikidata by Raisha Abdillah from WMID
    • Wikidata II: Advancements for Wikidata by Adila Krisnadhi, Ph.D. and Dr. Fariz Darari from Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London on May 2nd
  • Upcoming: Ghent University Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop, 3 - 5 July 2019

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata is mentioned in Mozilla's Internet Health report

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change - Important for Wikidata tools maintainers: wb_terms table to be dropped at the end of May
  • The ability to add structured depicts (P180) statements to file pages is live on Commons.
  • Suggestions based on the on-of constraints are now enabled for all users
  • New tool: Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: approach angle, departure angle, Løøv classification, linear reference, data transfer speed
    • External identifiers: Japan Search name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, Saxony protected area ID, Referee.ru person ID, Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, FrogMAP ID, Ming Qing Archive ID, De Agostini ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: specifying descriptor, SciGraph IDs, era name, moved by, seconded by, debated by, Commons quality assessment, National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, OBO Gazetteer ID
    • External identifiers: FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Arabic Ontology ID
  • Query examples:
    • A map of the Rio de Janeiro light rail network
    • Nigerian women with Wikipedia article and pictures (source)
    • Map of places of residence for accused witches with a layer for occupations (source)
    • Map of Wikidata items that are dedicated to, named after or depict etc, St George. (source)
    • Partigiani color-coded by year of death (source)

• Development
  • Displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client requires preprocessing by the user (phab:T220122)
  • Fixing cursor jumping to next field and overlapping of menus (phab:T172937)
  • Wikidata a focus issue on grammatical features field (phab:T218229)
  • Add language codes rm-rumgr, rm-sursilv, rm-surmiran, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter for Lexemes (phab:T210293)
  • Align RTL languages in glosses to right (phab:T203081)
  • Add new monolingual codes: qya + sjn, el-cy, syc, abq, hbo) (phab:)
  • Fix a bug with NewLexeme suggester menu (phab:T199409)
  • Created a dedicated Phab board to help tool builders with the changes on wb_terms
  • More internal work to get the first version of mobile termbox ready for deployment

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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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Growth team updates #7

Welcome to the seventh newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Newcomer homepage release this week

Screenshot of newcomer homepage in Test Wikipedia, in English.

The main feature that the team has been working on over the last month is the newcomer homepage. This feature gives newcomers a place on the wiki to get oriented, learn about editing, and see their impact (see the accompanying screenshot from Test Wikipedia). We intend to release this feature to Czech, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias on May 2nd.

Like the other Growth team features, this will be deployed in a controlled experiment, in which half of newcomers will have access to their homepage and half will not. Users with the feature will be able to access it by clicking their username at the top of their browser, and it will only be available on desktop -- not mobile. Experienced users who want to see their homepage will be able to turn it on in their preferences.

Wikis receiving the newcomer homepage can expect these things:

• Additional questions will come to the help desk from the "help module" on the homepage.
• Mentors who have signed up for the "mentorship module" will start to receive questions on their user talk pages.
• More users may create and edit user pages through the "start module".

Mockups for potential designs of mobile homepage

Recent and future homepage development

The most important piece developed for the homepage over the last month is the "start module", which gives newcomers clear actions to take when they are new: add/confirm their email, go through a tutorial, start their user page. We learned about the need for this module from user tests last month. The next priorities for the newcomer homepage are:

• Mobile design: to work well in mobile browsers, the homepage needs a separate design and engineering. See the accompanying mockups for potential mobile designs.
• Features for discovery: only about 15% - 30% of newcomers will discover their homepage by clicking their username at the top of their browser. We are going to be designing additional ways for newcomers to find out about it.
• Additional modules: the initial version contains some of the simpler modules. Potential upcoming modules include task recommendations and a feed of activity on the wiki.

Other updates

• Help panel leading indicators: our team published data on the help panel's initial performance. The evaluation exposes some areas for improvement, but we think the help panel's behavior so far is healthy and that it is not having a negative impact on the wikis. We will be publishing additional data, making plans, and asking for community thoughts around the future of the help panel over the course of the next two weeks. If you are interested in trying out the help panel on your wiki, please let us know on our team's talk page.
• Long term plans: the team had a week of planning meetings, in which we talked about some longer-term ideas for Growth work. Some of the top ideas are: to extend the newcomer homepage to help user's build their identity through a user profile, and to revisit the "engagement emails" project that the team put on hold. Over the next month, we will be asking for community conversation around how the team can spend our time in the next fiscal year, that starts in July.

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Wikidata weekly summary #363

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: BRPever, welcome on board!

• Events
  • Upcoming: Adding structured and machine-readable data for copyright and licensing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, workshop by Sandra Fauconnier about modelling copyright statuses on Wikidata, 10 May, at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Lisbon
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Utrecht, Netherlands, on May 11th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XV about lexicographical data, May 23th in São Paulo, Brazil

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Kennisverrijking via Wikidata (in Dutch), by Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen, Hanno Lans and Janneke Jorna
  • Solving Art's Data Problem - Part One, Museums. Interview with Neil Stimler by Jason Bailey, mentioning Wikidata quite a few times
  • Technical usability of Wikidata's linked data: Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability - Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac.
  • Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition using ELMo and Wikidata - C. Deha Doğan, et al.
  • Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata (PDF), Stefan Heindorf et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Scholia receiving a grant from the Sloan Foundation
  • An upcoming version of the iD OpenStreetMap editor will prevent users from accidentally removing notable features if they have a link to Wikidata QIDs
  • New status of constraint, "suggestion", is now enabled

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: precedes word-initial, music video, specifying descriptor
    • External identifiers: Australian War Memorial ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artist ID, SIUSA ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, IndieDB video game ID, interwiki prefix at Wikimedia, K10plus editions, FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, Trainline ID, CatholicSaints.info ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: gene sequence, Has written for, Rigging, Guix Variable Name, review of, NSF FICE Code ID
    • External identifiers: Watercolour World artist ID, VTB United League player ID, GNU ELPA package ID, MELPA package ID, Paměť národa ID, FragDenStaat public body ID, MobyGames genre ID, Interactive Fiction Database ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, HAL institution ID, Swedish Royal Theater
  • Query examples:
    • Some people are named after the strangest sorts of things (source)
    • Commons categories for a set of books, that have categories for people other than those 'explained' by statements on Wikidata for author, contributor, etc. (source)
    • Timeline for members of the Illuminati Order (source)
    • Newspapers founded before 1900 with their Twitter hashtag (source)

• Development
  • Remove heading elements in Wikibase diffs (phab:T220772)
  • Fix several issues on the Query Service interface (phab:T222182, phab:T222133, phab:T222129)
  • Rename the Schema extension to EntitySchema (phab:T221942)
  • Add data value type to Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T210598)
  • Investigate surprising rise in mobile page views (phab:T220977)
  • Show placeholders for label, description and alias on mobile termbox (phab:T217000)
  • Show each alias in a separate line in edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T218690)
  • Cancel edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T215951)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 6 mei 2019 16:30 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: April 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue IV, April 2019 Headlines Albania report: Museum of Kosovo Armenia report: Collaboration with Hovhannes Toumanian museum; Art+Feminism+GLAM Brazil report: Research activity and GLAM-Wiki initiatives Côte d'Ivoire report: Edit-a-thon with 15 librarians and ICT professionals, and a new Wikiclub France report: Nancy Museums Indonesia report: Wikisource meetup and letter translations Italy report: All over Italy Netherlands report: The Near East: from Leiden to Wikipedia; Wikipedia Workshop at Zeeuws Museum; Wiki Goes Caribbean Norway report: Oslo Freedom Forum, Riddu Riđđu, and Márkomeannu Poland report: Outcomes of A+F, new uploads, GLAM conference Serbia report: Serbian Ministry of Culture supporting GLAM Spain report: Edit-a-thons in Madrid and Brasilia, Wiki Loves Falles and Club Wikipedia Sweden report: FindingGLAMs; Sheet music from Musikverket; The first pilot of the Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping project is out!; Digikult UK report: Wikidata and Oxford GLAMs USA report: Women's History Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Upcoming releases, and GLAM pilot projects Wikidata report: Just call us u4 Wikimania report: Updates on the Wikimania conference in Stockholm (Aug 14–18) WMF GLAM report: OpenGLAM Principles, ARL and Wikidata, CC Summit Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #364

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia hackathon in Prague, that will include many Wikidata-related sessions and projects, May 17-19
  • Upcoming: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019, by Julie Birkholz, 3 - 5 July 2019 Ghent, Belgium
  • Upcoming: DC-2019 Hack Day on Wikidata, Wikibase, Application Profiles and FAIR data at DC19 in Seoul, South Korea 23rd - 26th September 2019, Hackathon by Tom Baker and Andra Waagmeester
  • Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics, Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, 20-25 October

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • How to use a Wikidata full json dump, requirements, steps and script, by Aliakbar Akbaritabar
  • New testing ground for Wikibase: A federal agency goes on an expedition in the Wiki universe, by Barbara Fischer and Jens ohlig

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, number of polling stations
    • External identifiers: VTB United League player ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, Watercolour World artist ID, Drobné památky ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, Musixmatch track ID, LNB Coach id, FragDenStaat public body ID, Orlando author ID, Paměť národa ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, tads.org Unique Identifier, CanLII ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya ID, RGALI ID, OBIS ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Xikao School ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, langue d'écriture, nominalised item for this sense, copyright clarification, WMI Code, archevêque, langue liturgique, date d'élévation, province ecclésiastique, diocèse suffragant, f-number, paroisse, prêtre, religieux, religieuse, diacre
    • External identifiers: Victoria and Albert Museum name ID, Campendium ID, ROR ID, MEMORIA ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, Prazdne Domy architect ID, Know Your Meme entry, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, Harper's author ID, The Atlantic author ID, Character entry on LGBT fans deserve better database, Igromania ID, Pro-Football-Reference coach ID, Keybase username, RFGS person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Street signs in Rennes (source)
    • Lines linking UK MPs' place of birth and their constituency with colour-coded layers for each political party (source)
    • Map of birthplaces for Members of Scottisch Parliament born outside Scotland (source)
    • Global map of dams and reservoirs (source)
    • Lexemes language overlap tree map (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Limits of Wikidata

• Development
  • Finish renaming WikibaseSchema to EntitySchema
  • Investigate how to port Wikibase Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js (phab:T221638)
  • Include a clear two step process in shex simple tool (phab:T221612)
  • Fix the "edit visually" on the Query Service interface (phab:T222181)
  • More work on wb_terms redesign (see documentation on phab:T221764)
  • More work on mobile termbox
  • Investigate on a bug found on wbeditentity not removing all aliases (phab:T203337)
  • Getting ready for the Wikimedia hackathon

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13 mei 2019 17:08 (CEST)

Call for submissions for the Community Growth space at Wikimania 2019

Welcome to a special newsletter from the Growth team! This special newsletter is not about Wikimedia Foundation Growth team projects. Instead, it is a call for submissions for the Community Growth space at Wikimania 2019. We think that many people who receive this newsletter may have something valuable to contribute to this space at Wikimania. We haven't translated the newsletter, because Wikimania's language is English.

Please see below for the message from the organizers of the Community Growth space at Wikimania.

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Wikimania 2019 is organized into 19 “spaces”, which are all accepting proposals for sessions. This message comes from the team organizing the Community Growth space.

Since you are interested b Growth team projects, and potentially involved in welcoming newcomers initiatives on your wiki, we would like to invite you to submit a proposal to the Community Growth space because of the actions you’ve done around newcomers on wikis. The deadline for submission is June 1. See below for Community Growth submission topics and session formats. Topics and sessions have to be in English.

In the Community Growth space, we will come together for discussions, presentations, and workshops that address these questions:

• What is and is not working around attracting and retaining newcomers?
• How should Wikimedia activities evolve to help communities grow and flourish?
• How should our technology and culture evolve to help new populations to come online, participate and become community members?

Recommended topics: please see this link for the list for the list of recommended topics. If you do not plan to submit a proposal, you can also suggest additional topics here. If your topic does not fit into our space, remember that there are 18 other spaces that could welcome you sharing your knowledge and perspective.

Types of session. We prefer sessions that are participatory, interactive, promote conversations, and give a voice to parts of our movement that are heard less often. Please see this link for the list of recommended session formats.

Poster submissions. Posters are also a good way to introduce a topic, or show some results of an action. Please consider submitting one!

More information about the Community Growth space, topics, and submission formats is available on the proposal page.

Please submit your proposal. The reviews will happen at the beginning of June.

If you have questions about Wikimania in general, please ask them on the Wikimania wiki.

On behalf of the Community Growth leadership team, Trizek (WMF), 16 mei 2019 13:45 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #365

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019, phase 2

• Events
  • Past: Wikimedia hackathon 2019 in Prague, where plenty of people worked on Wikidata and Wikibase related projects (see list below)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting, 21 May 2019
  • Upcoming: Hacknowledge 2019 hackathon, where you can make a project that uses or improves Wikidata. Moscow, Russia, May 25-26
  • Upcoming: Let's start Wikidata!/ウィキデータを始めよう！, 25 May 2019@Tokyo

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Papers on Rust by Magnus Manske
  • Building Knowledge Base through Deep Learning Relation Extraction and Wikidata (Published in AAAI Spring Symposium: Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge Engineering, 2019)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [Breaking Change] wbeditentity including empty alias set will remove all aliases
  • Update: change of dates regarding wb_terms redesign. More information in this ticket
  • Support for shape expressions will be enabled on Wikidata on May 28th
  • Reminder: the program submission phase for Wikimania runs until June 1st
  • QAnswer, a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects, now supports lexicographical data
  • Wikidata-related projects presented during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (see all documented projects)
    • Integraality/Template:Property dashboard, to generate property statistics tables for Wikiprojects like the ones made for Sum of all Paintings, hospitals and video games
    • BlockQuery: Prototype of a graphical QueryBuilder to click and drag.
    • Prototype of an Alexa Skill of Voice assisted editing of Wikidata Source Code Screenshot
    • Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
    • Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new Creative Commons Search catalog.
    • GPS-friendly download of query result & Download of RDF Formats
    • Some documentation about shape expressions was prepared
    • Improvements on Namescript (documentation, descriptions for kanji names)
    • Wiki loves iNaturalist, a tool to look for images in iNaturalist, matching them with Wikidata
    • Mortar: easily upload GLAM collections in Wikidata and Commons
    • Fixing the URL shorteners on the Query Service interface
    • AddQuickClaim.js: pass the property and target item you want to add to an item into the url so you can quickly add a statement
    • ExternalItemSuggester.js: a gadget that provides autocomplete for selected external ID properties
    • Localization for the Saami and Romani languages was improved.
    • All of the copyright-negative pictures and metadata of the digital image repository of the National Archive of Curaçao were scraped. They will possibly be batch-uploaded later on.
    • Wikidata Stream: A nice view of the Wikidata edit stream to use as an eye-catcher for people interested in Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: exposure time, supported sports team
    • External identifiers: Flora of Australia ID (new), NARA record group number, Know Your Meme ID, NARA collection identifier, FilmFreeway ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, V&A artist ID, Guix Variable Name, Who's on First ID, FoodOn ID, SportSport.ba news ID, CNKI article ID, Swiss National Sound Archives ID, Arabic Ontology ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Seating chart properties, Arachne Bauwerk ID, ISO speed, target muscle, Pinakes author ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID
    • External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, ITF women's tournament ID, Digital Giza ID, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, NooSFere edition ID, TV Tropes identifier, Find New Zealand Artists iD, Kobo author ID, Malaysia company number, GLIMS ID, Gamepedia Wiki id, ProofWiki ID, Mediapart tag ID, abART ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, speedrun.com game ID, JIS standard, Hoopla artist ID, OSZMI ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Repology, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Elhuyar Dictionary ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most common properties for maps, with their top 5 values (source)
    • Timeline of pioneers of photography, via Wikidata and DBpedia (source)
    • Maps of synagogues in Czech Republic (source)
    • Lexemes that lack Senses but have at least one usage example (source)

• Development
  • Added lastrevid of entities to JSON dumps – thanks Pintoch!
  • Working to scale the Wikidata Concepts Monitor system (phab:T203366)
  • Imrpove logging in on mobile (phab:T215913)
  • More work on mobile termbox
  • Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 21 mei 2019 12:26 (CEST)

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Wikidata weekly summary #366

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides)
  • Past: Workshop for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Using contemporary constraints to ensure data consistency. David Abián, Jorge Bernad, Raquel Trillo LadoPublished in SAC 2019. DOI:10.1145/3297280.3297509 (Paywalled)
  • Published in WWW 2019
    • Fast Interval Joins for Temporal SPARQL Queries. Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Giuseppe Pirrò, Heiner Stuckenschmidt. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3314997
    • QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between a considerable part of the LOD cloud and end-users. Ronan Cummins, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308558.3314124
    • Implicit Bias in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs. Gianluca Demartini. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3317307
    • Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics. Preeti Bhargava, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3316749
  • Citation.js: Wikidata Update, by Lars Willighagen
  • Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing, by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, HAL structure ID, Mod DB video game ID, Finnish Trade Register ID, IMTL.org ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, OBO Gazetteer ID, (speedy delete me), LGBTFansDB character ID, ProofWiki ID, ROR ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: title qualifiers, goodwill ambassador of, UPA transcription, hospital beds, Courage ID, bibliography url
    • External identifiers: Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The DRAGON Archive id, racing-reference track ID, racing-reference race ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR) ID, MSX Games World ID, Coco Game List ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, Ask.fm ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier
  • Query examples:
    • European countries that have a street named after them in Rennes
    • Map of meteor impact craters (source)
    • Bubble chart of all instances of color which have an sRGB color hex triplet (source)
    • Number of riots per country (source)
    • European country having the most female politicians (source)

• Development
  • Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
  • Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (phab:T220609)
  • Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (phab:T217245)
  • Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (phab:T223995)
  • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
  • Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (phab:T214557)
  • More work to get termbox ready for deployment
  • Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221831)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 27 mei 2019 17:14 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #367

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) - Slideset link - Press release
  • Past: OSM x Wikidata workshop, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Days 2019, June 7-8th in Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVI, June 13th in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-thon during Atla 2019, June 13th, Vancouver, Canada

• Press, articles, blog posts

• • Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property P6426.
  • Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata
  • At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
  • Hauki is a new tool by d:User:Vesihiisi to browse lexicographical data.
  • Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians by WikiEdu

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ISO speed, f-number, WMI Code, minimum wage, UPA transcription
    • External identifiers: speedrun.com game ID, Harper's author ID, Pakistan Railways station code, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, Arachne building ID, Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The Atlantic author ID, Find NZ Artists ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, OSZMI ID, MSX Games World ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: motif represents, Shape Expression for class, Album Academicum-identificatiecode, gender educated, ABA League ID, start grade, end grade, digilibLT author ID, IntraText author ID, in defining formula, PHI Latin Texts author ID, associated shape, comparison image, emergency services, Married by
    • External identifiers: Rugby League Project ID (general), Hungarian National Namespace, Pakistan EMIS code(s), CCDC Number, swMATH work ID, Czech parliament ID, Tainacan MAI ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID (new), euroleague.net coach ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books, PCE Daisakusen ID, Musixmatch artist ID, eBiodiversity ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gay parades in Italy in 2019
    • Map of communes of the French area "Ille-et-Vilaine" which share borders (source)
    • Connections between the subject and printing location of Welsh landscape prints (source)
    • Dunes in Wikidata (source)
    • Co-author network of Journal of Cheminformatics authors (source)
    • Map of archives in the world (source)
  • Newest database reports: frequent first names in Spain

• Development
  • Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology (phab:T216842)
  • Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223300)
  • Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if alias is too short (phab:T223311)
  • More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character (phab:T223270)
  • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
  • Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (forms, senses) (phab:T223995)
  • Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (phab:T203366)
  • Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (phab:T217994)
  • WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (phab:T217994, phab:T214586, phab:T217997)
  • Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (phab:T221965)
  • More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
  • Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (phab:T221831)
  • Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (phab:T221833)

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This Month in GLAM: May 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue V, May 2019 Headlines From the team: Your help is needed Armenia report: Cooperation with Central Bank of Armenia Australia report: Festivals of history, heritage and #1Lib1Ref Brazil report: Full catalog of Impressionist painter Eliseu Visconti into Wikidata and Commons Canada report: New partnership with Library and Archives Canada, and a GLAM Wiki Summit in Toronto Colombia report: Free Software Festival Finland report: Starting to work with the Saami languages Indonesia report: More Kajawen on Commons Italy report: Open air, artistic and historical edit-a-thons North Macedonia report: WikiScout Poland report: 30 years on: Free elections, free market Serbia report: Wikipedian in Residence at Serbian National Theatre Spain report: International Museum Day and FESABID19 Sweden report: Runic Recordings UK report: Data Week and Data Joy USA report: Asian Pacific American History Month Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Updates on development; GLAM pilot projects; Wikimania Hackathon with GLAM focus are Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes–Issue 33, March–April 2019 Wikidata report: Library of Congress recognition; Hackathon results Wikimedia and Libraries User Group report: Hangout with Wikimedia and Libraries User Group WMF GLAM report: Creative Commons Global Summit 2019 Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #368

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-Thon in Atla, Canada, 13 June 2019
  • Upcoming: the Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to minority languages in the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Penryn, Cornwall, on July 4-5. The program is published and will contain several Wikidata-related sessions. The registration is open

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Batches of Rust - Magnus' improvements to QuickStatements
  • Robustifying Scholia — Developing a Wikipedia interface for exploring the research ecosystem

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The W3C Entity Reconciliation Community Group has launched

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: sequenced genome URL, number of hospital beds, related image, taxa found at location, calendar feed URL, calligrapher, replacement property, feed-in tariff
    • External identifiers: GLIMS ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, racing-reference race ID, racing-reference track ID, SportSport.ba player ID, Xikao History ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, Prazdne Domy architect ID, AntWiki article ID, Mediapart tag ID, NWBib ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID, The Dragon Archive ID, SVT Open archive ID, Australian bank branch ID, Alvin ID, Tainacan MAI ID, GNU ELPA package ID, RFGS person ID, Igromania ID, Czech parliament ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, swMATH work ID, Pinakes author ID, IndicePA ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Married by, Access status, Musixmatch album ID, Antecedent anatomical structure, effective temperature, aperture, surface gravity, historic first
    • External identifiers: ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, DR.dk Tag ID, Réunionnais du monde ID, Planilla Códigos Únicos Territoriales (CUT), Doximity ID, dbSNP ID, Bloodhound ID, Xing profile ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, Den Store Danske Encyklopædi ID, MAHG ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, Ciência ID
  • Query examples:
    • Items in Japanese museums by British sculptors (federated query with Japan Search) (source)
    • Number of items about Australia created over time (source)
    • Federated query comparing Wikidata and UK Parliament database, to show differences of more than 10km in locations of UK parliamentary constituencies (source)

• Development
  • When typing an item ID on Special:Search, labels are now shown in the suggestion menu
  • More work on preparing the migration of wb_terms to the new design
  • Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
  • Add "You are not logged in" overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221831)
  • Add the "Remember my choice" checkbox to the "You are not logged in" popup on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221833)
  • Add EntitySchema in the license footer (phab:T224536)
  • Several improvements to shex simple tools (phab:T221604, phab:T221606)
  • Work on an issue with a deleted constraint still appearing on Lexemes (phab:T223372)
  • Work on normalistation in the Lua API mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (phab:T224593)
  • Improved tests and fixed failing tests

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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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Growth team updates #8

Welcome to the eighth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

May was a busy month, and we apologize for a slightly late newsletter.

General news

• The Growth team will begin to work with the Arabic Wikipedia community as a new target wiki. This is in addition to Korean, Czech, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
• Several members of the Growth team attended Wikimedia Hackathon. To see what we worked on and learned, read this update (in English).
• Wikimania 2019 is coming up in August. The conference will include a "Community Growth" space, for sessions about how our communities expand through software and programs.

Early results from newcomer homepage release

A newcomer homepage on Czech Wikipedia (displayed in English language)

• The newcomer homepage was deployed in Czech and Korean Wikipedias on May 6 for desktop users. It is deployed in an A/B test, so that half of newcomers have access to the homepage and half do not. They access it by clicking on their username in their personal tools along the top of the window.
• After about a month of usage, we see a few interesting trends. We think that the usage is going well so far, as we continue to work on the feature
  • About half of users who visit the homepage click on a link or button.
  • About half of users visit the homepage more than once, with about a fifth of users visiting on multiple days.
  • Users are interacting with all the different modules on the page -- there is no clear favorite.
  • Users have been asking questions to their mentors -- but not on the help desk.

Next steps for homepage

Mockup of mobile newcomer homepage

• Because we are seeing good reactions to the homepage from the first users, we are prioritizing work that helps more users find their homepage:
  • Mobile homepage: the team is currently building the mobile version of the homepage. We tested this design with five users, giving us confidence that the design is strong.
  • Features to aid discovery: only a minority of newcomers who have a homepage will find their homepage on their own. The team is designing features that help newcomers learn where to find their homepage. The most important feature will point to the homepage link using a GuidedTour.
• User tests showed that the most important thing to add to the homepage are clear task recommendations to help newcomers get started with editing right away. This is the module that we will be working on next.

Future of team in the next year

• The Growth team has been working since September 2018, and we're now planning for the work we'll be doing for the next fiscal year, which begins in July.
• Though we have not yet developed a feature that clearly increases growth in our target wikis, we believe that the features we have been developing have high potential to increase growth if we continue to work on them.
• Therefore, the team will continue to work on the features we have started, and we will develop related features that improve the overall newcomer experience. These features may include:
  • Improvements to how newcomers can build their user pages and develop their on-wiki identity. See initial notes here.
  • Improvements to how newcomers receive notifications on-wiki and through email, so that they quickly find out if other users are contacting them.
  • Processes that help newcomers get awards or recognition for good work.
  • Ways for newcomers to see the activity on the wiki and find others who share their interests.
• We will start discussions with communities to help us define these ideas before we work on them.

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Wikidata weekly summary #369

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Unifying GO activities and enzyme articles

• Events
  • Upcoming: ld4-Wikidata Affinity Group call on June 18th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, France, on June 21st
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Wellington, New Zealand, on June 22nd

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • EventKG - the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web - and Biographical Timeline Generation - Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova (in ArXiv)
  • Assessing The Factual Accuracy of Generated Text Ben Goodrich, et al. (in ArXiv)
  • Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International Research Collaboration Xuan Nguyen, et al. (in ArXiv)
  • Treasured Manuscript collection gets the Wikidata Treatment, on the National Library of Wales' blog
  • On the road to joint embedding with Wikidata lexemes? by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Wikipedia and Wikidata user contributions as part of Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna 2019

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata-Toolkit 0.10.0 was released
  • New Grafana board: number of edits per namespace

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: title in HTML, title in LaTeX, student organization of, emergency services, average speed
    • External identifiers: Pro Football Reference coach ID, Keybase username, Elhuyar Dictionary ID, TV Tropes identifier, ITF tournament ID, Campendium ID, Malaysia company number, abART person ID, abART document ID, abART exhibition ID, abART group ID, abART institution ID, DR.dk topic ID, ABA League ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, CCDC Number, Coco Game List ID, Dimensions grant ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: text of verse, literary motif, scribe.amanuensis or copyist.illuminator, distribution format, phosphorylates, RogerEbert.com film ID, literacy rate, Retrosheets ID
    • External identifiers: 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Metacritic person ID, Nacionālā enciklopēdija, IMVDb artist ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Charts in France artist ID, VG-lista artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Djshop artist ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Juno Download artist ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Napster artist ID, Qobuz artist ID, YouTube Music channel ID, Bebo profile ID, Steam profile ID, Pandora artist ID, SNBP ID, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, EMIS codes for Pakistani provinces, RIAA artist ID, Gambay ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Cameo ID, Amburger database ID, BVLarramendi, Equipboard artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Table of counts of distinct MPs, legislative terms and per constituency P39s for UK parliamentary constituencies, with links to per constituency reports (source)
    • Reverse taxon names of 100 mosquitoes (source)
    • Five-letter words beginning with "f", from wikidata's lexeme collection (source)
    • Péniches in Lyon
    • Lexemes ordered according to compound parts (source)
    • Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
    • Timeline of the Chief Mousers of 10 Downing Street, with photographs when available
  • Newest WikiProjects: European Colonialism

• Development
  • Grafana now tracks the number of edits per namespace (phab:T218901) and the EntitySchemas on the entity by type board (phab:T216835)
  • Fixed a bug Special:MobileDiff for an EntitySchema Revision (phab:T224545)
  • Make possible to edit items via wbeditentity when they have same label and description, if the edit is about making them different (phab:T222621)
  • Fix a bug on ArticlePlaceholder hook on SpecialSearch (phab:T207235)
  • Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
  • More maintainance on the WDCM dashboards T214586 (phab:T217997)
  • Maintain the WDCM Biases Dashboard to make it fully client-side dependent

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #370

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items

• Events
  • Upcoming: 1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference keynote on Wikidata by José E. Labra Villa Clara, Cuba 24-28 June
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meeting for researchers in Sfax University, Tunisia, 25-27 June 2019
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London, June 29th
  • Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System, Yuhan Sun, et al (in 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering)
  • Comparing DBpedia, Wikidata, and YAGO for Web Information Retrieval, Sini Govinda Pillai, et al.
  • WikiDataSets: Standardized sub-graphs from WikiData, Armand Boschin, in ArXiv
  • Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Combining embedding methods for a word intrusion task Finn Årup Nielsen, et al
  • Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values Sarah Dahir, Abderrahim et al., in ICCWCS'19
  • Automatic Question Generation based on MOOC Video Subtitles and Knowledge Graph Lin Ma, Yuchun Ma, in ICIET 2019
  • Wikidata as a linked-data hub for Biodiversity data, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
  • Using Crowd-curation to Improve Taxon Annotations on the Wikimedia Infrastructure, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
  • Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to Share RDF Data Models and to Guide Curation with Rigorous Validation, et al. Best in-use paper award ESWC
  • From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier, Theo van Veen
  • Developing workflows for local authority file conversion from MARC to Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: qualifiers for depicts support have been enabled on June 20th
  • Result format change for Query Service JSON query output
  • Filename scheme for Wikidata RDF entity dumps will change
  • The development of Wikidata Bridge (editing Wikidata's data from Wikipedia) started
  • CheckShex userscript adds an in-page way of checking if an item fits an Entityschema

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: has written for, motif represents, solar irradiance, effective temperature
    • External identifiers: JIS standard, Réunionnais du monde ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), dbSNP ID, digilibIT author ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic ID, eBiodiversity ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, euroleague.net coach ID, Gamepedia Wiki ID, Hoopla artist ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID, ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, IntraText author ID, Musixmatch artist ID, MAHG ID, Amburger database ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, Rugby League Project ID (general), RIAA artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: extracted from, Instagram hashtag, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, number of pins, number of pin positions, Representative in legislature, subscribers
    • External identifiers: nchdb asset id, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Goodreads series ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Retrosheet ID, The DJ List artist ID, BBC artist ID, The Independent topic ID, NME artist ID, Metro topic ID, MangaSeek person ID, Soccerway coach ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase ID, Find & Connect ID, SA Flora ID, ATRF ID, geograph, ArtBrokerage artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Scandipop topic ID, iTunes movie collection ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier, FPBR person ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Roskomnadzor media license number, 2014 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Music certifictions ID, El portal de Música artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most commonly used qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata, with top 10 classes or items that each one is used on (source)
    • Most commonly used properties connecting military people to military organisations (source)
    • Bubblechart of most frequent WMF import sources
    • French male first names ending with "ée" (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Australia
  • Newest database reports: Property completion by country leaderboard

• Development
  • Beginning of wb_terms migration (phab:T221764)
  • Fixed a bug with phan on Wikibase (phab:T226083)
  • Enable bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223303)
  • Fix an issue with pipe character on some special pages (phab:T223270)
  • Fix an issue with removed constraint still displayed on Lexeme (phab:T223372)
  • Make edits to EntitySchema pages autopatrolled (phab:T224495)
  • Work on creating better edit summaries for wbeditentity API endpoint (phab:T224010)
  • Deploy the work environment for new mobile termbox
  • Start setting up the technical environment for Wikidata bridge

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #371

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata TW Meetup, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan - Facebook event
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVII in São Paulo, Brazil, July 11th
  • Upcoming: Inventaire & OpenData Week 2019 in Wurzen, Germany, July 18th-25th
  • State of the Map 2019: early bird tickets are available until July 7th. The program will include a Wikidata workshop

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Placing EveryPolitician on hold by MySociety ("it's clear that Wikidata should be the natural global home for this type of data")
  • Celebrity Profiling by Matti Wiegmann et al.,
  • Published in ArXiv:
    • DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset by Yuan Yao et al.
    • ConTrOn: Continuously Trained Ontology based on Technical Data Sheets and Wikidata by Kobkaew Opasjumruskit et al.
  • Wikidata as opportunity for special collections: the 20th Century Press Archives use case. Presentation at LIBER 2019 (LOD working group of the Association of European Research Libraries), by Joachim Neubert

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikibase community Telegram group has been recreated, here's the invitation link

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: LilyPond notation, target muscle, historical region, writing language, match interval, microarchitecture, literacy rate, era name, seconded by, moved by
    • External identifiers: MELPA package ID, Nchdb asset ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Djshop artist ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, NicoNicoPedia, NooSFere edition ID, ArtBrokerage artist ID, ATRF ID, Bebo profile ID, National Library of Aruba ID, BVLarramendi ID, Cameo ID, Charts in France artist ID, CIN ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, Equipboard artist ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Gambay ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Juno Download artist ID, MangaSeek person ID, Metro topic ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Musicalics composer ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, NME artist ID, PCE Daisakusen ID, CUT code, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, Repology project name, Rogerebert.com film ID, SA Flora ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, The DJ List artist ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books ID, SNBP ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: double major, Poster, Throwing handedness, Batting handedness, Institut-ID in der Unternehmensdatenbank der BaFin, Wolfram Language unit code, National Transportation Safety Board report, enemy of, PHI Latin Texts author ID, default description for instances
    • External identifiers: ACNP journal ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, etrain.info station ID, Rupa Publications author ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, OYO Hotel ID, Anime Characters Database, IMFDB work ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Ident.Nr., Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Radio Courtoisie show ID, Biyografya ID
  • Query examples:
    • Nouns without grammatical gender in a chosen language (source)
    • Current UK Members of Parliament ranked by number of Wikimedia sitelinks (source)
  • Architectural drawings depicting cathedrals in France (source)
    • Music bands named after Tolkien's universe, by genre (source)
  • Newest database reports: education by country

• Development
  • More work on preparing the technical setup for Wikidata Bridge development
  • Implement Feature Flag for Wikidata Bridge (phab:T225935)
  • Discuss the best way to connect template parameter to corresponding Wikidata property (phab:T224832)
  • Improve the documentation for Wikibase sites setup (phab:T218282)
  • Prepare the last steps for reading from new term store implementation (phab:T225603) according to the migration plan (phab:T221765)
  • Fixed a bug and reduced significantly the amount of addUsagesForPage jobs in our jobs queue (phab:T205045)
  • Removed feature flag for the bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223305)
  • Decreased EntityUsageTable addUsage batch size to 100 (phab:T225500)
  • Configured query service lag for Wikidata maxlag (phab:T222193)
  • Helped fixing an issue with moving files on Commons (phab:T226672)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 1 jul 2019 17:36 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #372

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: ZI Jony

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, June 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
  • Past: Celtic Knot Conference 2019 - minority languages on Wikimedia projects. Slides to be added in the Commons category

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • A new Wikidata map and comparison with previous maps, by Addshore
  • The story of building the inteGraality tool at the Wikimedia Hackathon, by JeanFred
  • Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
  • Lydia Pintscher submitted a chapter for the collaborative book Wikipedia@20, called Wikidata - Wikipedia’s not so little sister is finding its own way. Feel free to have a look, review is open until July 19th
  • You can also check out Denny Vrandečić's submission about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Because of a server switch, Wikidata will be in read-only mode on July 30th from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC (phab:T227063)
  • Change in the name pattern of new Wikidata RDF dumps: starting on July 15th, dumps will have a new name format (phab:T226153)
  • Reminder for tool builders: Python tools should use a user-agent to access the Query Service. If you recently encountered issues with the Query Service, please check that your tool is compliant to m:User-Agent policy.
  • New user script for lexicographical data to add Forms on Lexemes that don't have any, by suggesting and filling out templates

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: animator, video system, announcement date, access status, literary motif, review of, middle family name
    • External identifiers: FPBR person ID, PHI Latin Texts author ID, VG-lista artist ID, Bloodhound ID, Steam profile ID, Find & Connect ID, Goodreads series ID, Scandipop topic id, 2014 Commonwealth Games ID, El portal de Música artist ID, Balochistan Education Management Information System code, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Management Information System code, Punjab Education Management Information System code, Sindh Education Management Information System code, IMVDb artist ID, Institute-id in the BaFin company database, Musiikkituottajat artist (certyfication) ID, IFPI Austria artist ID, IFPI Danmark artist ID, SNEP artist ID, hitparade.ch artist (certyfication) ID, BVMI artist ID, Music Canada artist ID, IFPI Norge artist ID, Napster artist ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Retrosheet ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier ID, ACNP journal ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Rupa Publications author ID, OYO Hotel ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID, Hungarian National Namespace person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, Wikia Article URL 2, Wikispecies template for this work, imprimatur, periphrasis, terms of service, privacy policy, Musisque Deoque author ID, SAR Value, IAAF competition category, Academic rank, MPG ID, newspaper archive, unabbreviated text, identifiant Q-Codes, ft.dk politician identifier
    • External identifiers: Biyografya ID, Magazine in BitArkivo.org, PharmGKB ID, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, identifiant Missions étrangères de Paris, DigitalNZ ID, Handball123 player ID, ScOT ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, номер российской организации, AtlasFor ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Adventure Gamers ID, Bebo profile numeric ID, MovieLens ID, WikiApiary, Scribd Book ID, Penguin India author ID, Spanish Catalogued Heritage
  • Query examples:
    • 762 people made edits on lexicographical data, 571 created at least one Lexeme (source)
    • Map with percentage of Welsh speakers in the regions of Wales (source)
    • Publication dates of works used as usage example for Swedish Lexemes (source)
    • Ratios of male/female organizers and speakers at conferences (source)
    • World map of sign languages by country (source)
    • Number of punk bands from Indonesia by region (source)
    • Map of World Heritage places in Europe (source)
    • Map of parishes of New South Wales, Australia, colour-coded by county (source)
  • Newest database reports: Glasnevin Cemetery, Mount Jerome Cemetery

• Development
  • Enabled JSONLD support for entity data (example)
  • Fixed JSON dump issue (phabricator:T226601)
  • Readded qualifier hashes in JSON output that accidentally got lost (phabricator:T227207)
  • Made sure changes on Entity Schema pages by autoconfirmed users are autopatrolled (phabricator:T224495)
  • Looked into issues with partial blocking on Wikidata entities (phabricator:T207893)
  • Adding MediaInfo as an entity type that can be used in the "allowed entity types"-constraint (phabricator:T224362)
  • Investigating an issue with the tours on Wikidata (phabricator:T223999)
  • Initial work for the edit dialog that is needed for editing of Wikidata's data from Wikipedia (Wikidata Bridge)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 8 jul 2019 17:22 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: June 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue VI, June 2019 Headlines Armenia report: Third round of cooperation with Hovhannes Toumanian Museum Australia report: Toodyaypedia, City of Canning, WoW2019, and the Pilbara Brazil report: Partnership with Football Museum brings visibility to entries about women’s soccer on Wikipedia Côte d'Ivoire report: #1Lib1Ref edit-athons and restrospective of +190 articles improved France report: Regular workshops Indonesia report: Introduction to Wikimedia Commons and Structured data Mexico report: Wiki Loves Mexico Netherlands report: Image donation; Wiki goes Caribbean meeting on slavery and plantations in Suriname; Dutch open public library data; Field study collaboration Wikimedia and Libraries Norway report: The International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019 Poland report: Documentary photographs from National Archives and WikiPlato Serbia report: Continuation of residences Sweden report: Wikidata imports; Data roundtripping project UK report: Oxford and Coventry Updates USA report: LGBTQ+ Pride Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Development updates; GLAM focus area at the Wikimania Hackathon Wikidata report: Want new tools? We've got 'em! Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #373

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, July 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
  • Upcoming: Next LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting on July 16th
  • Upcoming: Structured Data on Commons IRC office hour for "other statements" on 18 July, 17:00-18:00 UTC on the #wikimedia-office channel
  • Upcoming: The Wikidata Menu Challenge - Wikimania 2019 edition starts July 16 and goes on until August 11.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • An International Knowledge Base for all Heritage Institutions by Giovanna Fontenelle and Beat Estermann on SocietyByte
  • How to estimate completeness of classes in Wikidata by Michael Luggen et. al. on SocietyByte
  • Videos of the presentations given during the Wikidata + OSM workshop in London

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: RDF output for MediaInfo is now available (example)
  • Edits with the tag #suggestededit-add 1.0 come from the suggested edit feature on Wikipedia's Android app: see the FAQ for more information
  • Property number 7000: DigitalNZ ID is live. This data aggregator has over 30 million records. The proposal was the first from Ambrosia10, a New Zealand editor.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: IMFDB work ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, National Transportation Safety Board report ID, Epitafier.se ID, magazine in BitArkivo.org, iTunes movie collection ID, Musisque Deoque author ID, DigitalNZ ID, PharmGKB ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Perseus ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, Typing discipline, video game mod, Arachne collection ID, NOTAM, begin and end of covered period ; covered period, periphrasis, Kerala state school code, The Latin Library author ID, type code, FEC campaign committee id, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, Ex æquo with, EU Publication office ID, Supreme Court docket number
    • External identifiers: National Library of Luxembourg ID, Lebanese National Library ID, National Library of Morocco ID, National Library of Iceland ID, Syriaca person ID, Syriaca work ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Library of Chile ID, ACMI ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Hazardous Chemical Information System ID, ANZCTR ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, AICS Chemical ID, PBS Manufacturer ID, PBS Drug Code, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Arachne object ID, Gotlands museum, Indian Super League player ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Album of the Year artist ID, Album of the Year album ID, HOV-ID, Nosdéputés.fr identifiant, TikTok username, NosSénateurs.fr identifiant, eBay username, Jaxsta profile ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, Musixmatch writer ID
  • Query examples:
    • places in Canada with no English label
    • Languages having the most usage examples in Wikidata's lexicographical data (source)
    • Map of places of residence of accused witches in Scotland, colour-coded by gender (source)
    • Symphonies written by Camille Saint-Saëns (source)

• Development
  • Create docker image for wdqs version 0.3.2 (phab:T226939)
  • Fix an issue with JSON output lacking qualifier hashes (phab:T227207)
  • Track number of links to schema pages (phab:T218903)
  • Disable Wikidata sitelinks in ProofreadPage namespaces (thanks to Matěj Suchánek) (phab:T227201)
  • Fix a cache issue with the language of the "check entities against this schema" link (phab:T224594)
  • Add EntitySchema extension to wikibase-docker bundle image (phab:T226152)
  • Enable JSON-LD support for Wikidata (phab:T220696)
  • Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API module (phab:T225073)
  • Extracting (and logging) Data Bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)
  • Opening a modal with edit this link information (phab:T226996)
  • Showing the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
  • Disabling interactive elements while saving on mobile termbox (phab:T222886)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15 jul 2019 17:37 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #374

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: 1997kB

• Events
  • Past: IRC office hour, July 16th (log)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Tainan Meetup in Taiwan, July 31st (Facebook event)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, help translate the banner)
  • You can nominate tools for the Coolest Tool Award until July 29th
  • Wikimania's draft program has been published
  • User:Bodhisattwa joined CIS-A2K as Wikidata Advisor
  • wbEntity config value to be dropped on July 24th - if you use it, please consider replacing it

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wolfram Language unit code, unabbreviated text, extracted from, imprimitur granted by, terms of service, surface gravity, lexeme, chassis, enemy of
    • External identifiers: PharmGKB ID, Handball123 player ID, ACMI web ID, AtlasFor ID, Adventure Gamers ID, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Russian organisation number, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, Anime Characters Database character ID, Anime Characters Database anime ID, ANZCTR ID, Arachne collection ID, Arachne object ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Biyografya ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, HCIS ID, Lebanese National Library ID, MPG ID, National Library of Luxembourg ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, Penguin India author ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Australian Educational Vocabulary ID, Syriaca work ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, COURAGE ID, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, National Library of Iceland ID, NosDéputés.fr identifiant, Perseus author ID, The Latin Library author ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, HOV-ID, PBS Drug Code, AICS Chemical ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: image of bone or fossil record, (de)evolution method, WeChat Official Account, Dose, hat Mitglied, Variété de la forme, value group number, orientation, Digital audio workstation, title geographic ref, location of point of view
    • External identifiers: misas.org Catholic church ID, identificador de arte público de Zaragoza, Taxonomicon ID, Wayback ID, Common Sense Media ID, FFR fencer ID, Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID, ABBBS Taxon ID, AFCD PFKID, Plant Breeders Rights Database AID, WaterNSW Rivers and Streams Site No., Lens ID, LezWatch.TV actor ID, LezWatch.TV show ID, Grand Canyon Trust ID, LezWatch.TV character ID, Bossu ID, Textile Connect publication ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of living people who have walked on the Moon (source)
    • Artworks depicting the Moon (source)
    • People that have been on spaceflights operated by at least two different sovereign states, and their time in space (source)
    • Temporal distribution of book editions in Swedish (source)
    • How long after a UK general election that a political party has appointed a new leader, since 1945 (source)
  • Newest database reports: family names in Ireland

• Development
  • Fix a bug that was preventing to add multiple glosses (phab:T228080)
  • Show number of senses and forms on page information for WikibaseLexeme entities (phab:T224844)
  • Show number of statements and external identifiers on page information for Wikibase entities (phab:T224842))
  • Track number of external identifiers on Wikidata over time (phab:T224129)
  • Fix a few queries on Grafana (phab:T227788)
  • Update the query host for Grafana (phab:T218710)
  • Add support for "MediaInfo" as value for "allowed entity types"-constraint (phab:T224362)
  • Data bridge: open a modal with edit link information (phab:T226996)
  • Show the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
  • Extract data bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 22 jul 2019 12:53 (CEST)

Growth team updates #9

Welcome to the ninth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Opening Growth features to more wikis

The Growth team has existed for about one year. During that time, we have developed several features that we think can help increase retention. Though we are still gathering data to detect scientifically whether the features increase retention, we think that some of the features are ready to be deployed on more wikis that want to experiment with them. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together if your wiki is eligible.

Then, go through the checklist to start the process of getting these features:

• Help panel: allow newcomers to find help and ask questions while they edit.
• Welcome survey: learn what topics and types of edits newcomers are interested in.
• EditorJourney: learn what workflows newcomers go through on their first day.

General news

Indicator that encourages users to look at their Notifications for responses to their questions

• A new quarter of the year has started, and the team has set our goals for the next three months. The most important goals are:
  • Newcomer homepage: increase activity through a task recommendations module. Now that we have seen several weeks of positive activity on the newcomer homepage, we think that the most important thing to add is a way for newcomers to find tasks to work on. The challenge will be recommending the right kind of tasks at the right point of their journey.
  • Newcomer homepage: increase feature discovery rate by 100%. Right now, only 20% - 30% of newcomers ever visit their homepage. We want to double that number by making sure all newcomers know how to find it.
  • Help panel: increase usefulness through improvements to affordance, search, and UX flow. We have looked closely at data and anecdotes from the usage of the help panel, and we plan to pursue specific improvements to increase its effectiveness (see accompanying image of a feature that helps newcomers find responses to their questions).
• Wikimania is coming up next month, which includes a "Community Growth" space. We hope to see people from all communities there to talk about how to bring newcomers into our movement.
• We have started to deploy features to our team's fourth target wiki: Arabic Wikipedia. That wiki is the biggest one we target, it has a high percentage of mobile users, and also is our first right-to-left language. This will help us make sure that our features are valuable for as many types of users as possible.

Mobile homepage and early analysis

Button to help newcomers find their homepage from their empty Contributions page

• The mobile version of the newcomer homepage was deployed to Czech, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Now, newcomers can access their homepage from both desktop and mobile devices.
• We have published our first set of data about the performance of the newcomer homepage. In summary, we are happy with the homepage's performance so far. We see about half of visitors clicking on something, and the majority of them returning to the homepage multiple times.
• Because we see positive usage of the homepage, we will deploy several small features in the next two weeks that help more newcomers discover their homepage (see accompanying image of a feature that helps newcomers discover their homepage from their empty Contributions page).
• As listed in our goals above, we'll be starting to focus on adding task recommendations to the newcomer homepage. We'll be publishing early thoughts on this feature so that community members can give their thoughts and advice.

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23 jul 2019 16:26 (CEST)

Wikimedia Nederland nieuwsbrief 84

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Wikidata weekly summary #375

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: 1997kB, welcome on board!
  • Closed request for comments: Adopt a username policy

• Events
  • Past: lecture on Wikidata and Mix'n'Match at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, Oxford University, 24 June
  • Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call discussing communication in Wikidata/Wikimedia communities, 30 July. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Technical usability of Wikidata’s linked data - Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability, by Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, help translate the banner)
  • Scripts that use the Query Service need to be identified by user-agent header
  • Structured Data on Commons - testing statements other than Depicts is ongoing this week before release into production on Commons.
  • OpenRefine 3.2 was released
  • The config value mw.config.get('wbEntity') has been dropped in order to improve the page load time

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: IAAF competition category, video game mod of, typing discipline, shrinkage, specific absorption rate, quotation or excerpt, surface roughness, related category, start grade, inverse label item, end grade, privacy policy URL, start of covered period, end of covered period
    • External identifiers: Album of the Year artist ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, Jaxsta profile ID, Indian Super League player ID, misas.org Catholic church ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, FEC Campaign Committee ID, National Library of Morocco ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, NosSénateurs.fr identifier, Supreme Court docket number, PBS Manufacturer ID, Kerala state school code, Taxonomicon ID, Album of the Year album ID, Gotlands museum, Musixmatch writer ID, Qobuz artist ID, wiki on WikiApiary, extension on WikiApiary, skin on WikiApiary, Zaragoza public art ID, Paris Foreign Missions Society ID, TikTok username, AFCD PFKID, Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID, Common Sense Media ID, FFR fencer ID, ABBBS Taxon ID, WaterNSW Rivers and Streams Site No., Lens ID, Grand Canyon Trust ID, LezWatch.TV actor ID, LezWatch.TV character ID, LezWatch.TV show ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: estimated IQ, Manner of torture, date of the first one & date of the last one, Glacier Status, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, bequest, Sells, Opinion joined by, ComingSoon.it film ID, Acknowledgments, copyright exemption, Subscribers, external georeferencer URL, 出演作品, Bar
    • External identifiers: Media Art Database console games ID, Acharts artist ID, Acharts chart ID, Museu do Diamante ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Germany06.Ru person ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, AMPAS collections person ID, AMPAS collections film ID, Hiking Project ID, Douyin, Vidwan ID, AllTrails ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, identifier of french public Forest, Rijksmonument complex ID, Mojarto artist ID, located on street with OSM relation ID, muenchenwiki.de article ID
  • Query examples:
    • Settlements along the Way of Saint James in Basque Country (source)
    • Map of places of residence of accused witches in Scotland (source)
    • List of regional languages of France (source)

• Development
  • Re-evaluate supporting dcatap namespace (feel free to give feedback)
  • Data bridge: open modal with edit link information (phab:T226996)
  • Show the current Wikidata value in the modal (phab:T226997)
  • Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (phab:T226998)
  • supporting baserevid request param in lexeme api endpoints (phab:T217245)
  • Fix new store code in order to continue the terms migration (phab:T226008)
  • Fix an issue with broken WikibaseQualityConstraints tests (phab:T228855)
  • Fix issue that used to cause many fatals on production (phab:T227450)
  • Drop wbEntity config in entity pages (phab:T85499)
  • Fix an Internal error in Recent Changes for Lexeme (phab:T228996)
  • Create better summaries for our wbeditentity endpoint (phab:T220696)
  • Respect user's preference for thumbnail sizes on Wikidata (phab:T224189)
  • Allow linking to Schemas in statements (phab:T214884)
  • Fix a bug with Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
  • Update accounting for WDQS lag in wikidata maxlag param (phab:T221774)
  • More work on allowing accesing one wikibase instance from another (phab:T214557)
  • Deploy the mobile termbox on test.wikidata.org and fix various bugs
  • Show progress/activity on termbox mobile if a save request is still being processed (phab:T222890)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 29 jul 2019 17:18 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #376

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taipei Meetup, August 12nd - Facebook event
  • Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata: From "an" Identifier to "the" Identifier, Theo van Veen , Information Technology and Libraries, 38(2), 72-81.
  • Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata', Adelheid Heftberger et al, in "Digital Cultural Heritage", pp 401-410.
  • Bridging the gap between linked open data-based recommender systems and distributed representations, Pierpaolo Basile, et al, Information Systems, Volume 86, December 2019, pp 1-8.
  • OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial, video tutorial by Emmacarroll3 demonstrating how to import a dataset with OpenRefine.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • soweego version 1.0 is out: a machine learning system that links Wikidata to large-scale third-party catalogs
  • New data type for EntitySchemas will be available on August 7th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: location of the point of view, opinion joined by, date of the first one, date of the latest one, Mac OS type code, acknowledged
    • External identifiers: Acharts.co artist ID, Textile Connect publication ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Hiking Project trail ID, Media Art Database console games ID, AMPAS collections film ID, AMPAS collections person ID, Douyin ID, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, AllTrails trail ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC park ID, Vidwan ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, ComingSoon.it film ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, Mojarto artist ID, Rijksmonument complex ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Acharts.co chart ID, ONF forest national ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: axis, Principal, Epigraph, contact area count, Cases consolidated, detail of painting, exonerated of, possibly reproduction of, Werke ohne Opuszahl, obituary of, significant place
    • External identifiers: Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts album ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, CHESNO politician ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID, Plus Music artist ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, Empik author ID, merlin.pl author ID, The Top Tens ID, Raptekster.dk ID
  • Query examples:
    • French female authors whose work is in the public domain (source)
    • Timeline of hypertext systems (source)
    • Megaliths in the Basque Country, color-coded by type (source)
    • Heavy metal bands from Finland with or without picture and date of the picture (source)
    • Types of GLAMs in Wikidata (source)

• Development
  • Fix logging for errors on wbcontentlanguages requests (phab:T228888)
  • Add request information to request timeout errors (phab:T228885)
  • Show an error message when saving fails on mobile termbox (phab:T222884)
  • Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (phab:T226998)
  • Show the current Wikidata value in the Bridge modal (phab:T226997)
  • EntitySchema datatype (phab:T214884)
  • Reduce the number of ResourceLoader modules that WikibaseClient register: (phab:T203696)
  • Reduce text returned by EntityContent::getTextForFilters (phab:T226216)
  • Fixed a bug with PHP Warning (phab:T229482)
  • Fixing a bug about value pickers being broken (phab:T229604)
  • Fixed BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
  • Investigate on Graphoid issues (phab:T229236)
  • Fix issues on Wikidata Tours (phab:T214884)
  • Make logging warning or info of not finding entity for revision configurable (phab:T229574)
  • Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (phab:T214894)
  • Move "Wikidata item" link outside of "toolbox" sidebar to "other projects" sidebar (phab:T66315)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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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This Month in GLAM: July 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue VII, July 2019 Headlines Armenia report: Members of the National Assembly of Armenia Australia report: Staying warm over winter Germany report: Heidelberg symposium Indonesia report: Cultural Gardener Summer Project in Indonesia Ireland report: Collaboration with the PhotoIreland Foundation Italy report: Archeology in alpine valleys Norway report: Sámi place names – collaboration with the Sámi Várdobáiki Language Center Sweden report: More bibliographic data on Wikidata; National Library of Sweden; GLAM activities Wikimania UK report: Oxford and Coventry Updates Uganda report: #1Lib1Ref Uganda 2019 USA report: Summer meetups and Picnics Map the GLAM report: Visualising the status and the spread of a cultural collection in Wikipedia Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Other statements; Wikimania; blog posts on SDC Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes–Issue 34, May–June 2019 Wikidata report: I ain't no square with my corkscrew hair WMF GLAM report: OpenGLAM, Wikimania and Structured Commons Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #377

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

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Conclusion of 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana Wikidata Editathon (grant report)
  • "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" OCLC Research. DOI: 10.25333/faq3-ax08

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The open source geocoder w:en:Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project is participating in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the development blog.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: musical bar, epigraph (literature), copyright exemption, significant place
    • External identifiers: München Wiki article ID, Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts.co album ID, NOTAM (FAA), CHESNO politician ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: legend for number, does not have effect, word stem type, Voting system, Class, Peer-review-process properties for journals, Wikisource-Kategorie, line(s), Election called by, image or photo-making technique
    • External identifiers: FGrHist ID, Acharts.co song ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Hacker News User ID, Swedish lighthouses, EPW author ID, Gaana.com album ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions job ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, PLIA ID, Planespotters.net ID, Awards & Winners artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, AccuRadio artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, CD Universe artist ID, Ex Libris author ID, Fishpond.co.nz author ID, YesAsia author ID, Supraphonline artist ID, Image-Line artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Register nehnuteľných NKP, deejay.de artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, GreatSong artist ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Getty Images topic ID, Tunefind artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, SongMeanings artist ID, Census of India ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bands whose name is part of Tolkien's legendarium (source)
    • Map of offshore windfarms (source)
    • Cities having more Wikipedia sitelinks than their country (source)

• Development
  • Fix a caching problem on termbox (phab:T228978)
  • Investigate options for termbox load testing (phab:T229790)
  • Use thumbnail preferences for thumbnail of Commons media file (phab:T224189)
  • Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
  • Move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox (phab:T66315)
  • Create Maintenance Script to Remove Terms in a Language from Current Revision (phab:T222606)
  • Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (phab:T214894)
  • Add editing widget/input on Bridge (phab:T226998)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #378

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Improved instructions for translation admin

• Events
  • Current: Wikimania in Stockholm and hackathon, August 14 to 18. Check out the list of all Wikidata-related events. Each session page should include notes, slides and streaming if available.

• Tool of the week
  • In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
  • NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a Wikiquote page for Wikidata
  • ISA is a new tool to easily add structured data to Commons files, including from mobile
  • You can help improve the vandalism detection by completing a set of labels for ORES
  • QuickStatements won the Coolest Tool Award, category "editor", during the first ceremony at Wikimania 2019
  • New Wikidata-related projects developed during the Wikimania hackathon:
    • Documentation translation sprint: several people translated Wikidata help pages in their own language. Feel free to continue the efforts to make Wikidata more accessible!
    • Item creation helpers helps create similar items, and link them together, with a simple form. Example with skating competitions

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: manner of inhumane treatment, cases consolidated, typically sells, noun class, does not have effect, substitute director/manager, school class
    • External identifiers: Empik author ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, The Top Tens ID, merlin.pl author ID, Plus Music artist ID, Kinsky–Halm Catalogue, Raptekster.dk ID, Acharts.co song ID, FGrHist ID, register of real estate NKP, Hacker News User ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Gaana.com album ID, XING profile ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, job ID in Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions, Planespotters.net aircraft ID, PLIA ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, EPW author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: graph radius, Belgian Species List ID, amino acid (start, end) position, ordeal by, protected region scheme, image revision-id, region within image, access restriction status, georeferencing data, number of processor threads, part number, CPUID, based on tabular data, Siddham script name, Number of active electronic terminals
    • External identifiers: OpenWeatherMap city ID, Scribd Publication ID, moly.hu azonosító, Hungarian Movie Database film ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, jog.fm artist ID, Hype Machine artist ID, Liber Liber author ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Just Hear It artist ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Digitalt Museum ID, MTV UK artist ID, MTV Germany artist ID, MTV Polska artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, Eiga.com movie ID, GoodRx, BEACON ID
  • Query examples:
    • Books in Bengali Wikisource that are validated (source)
    • Flightless birds of New Zealand (source)
    • Islands in Germany (source)
    • Clandestine center of detention and torture in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina (source)
    • Same-sex married couples where neither partner has a sexual orientation (source)
  • Schema examples:
    • Danish numerals
    • Danish hyphenation

• Development
  • Fix an issue with the pop up of Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
  • Call WikibaseLexeme API with baserevid parameter from the UI (phab:T217245)
  • Fix a bug with CheckConstraintsJob (phab:T227450)
  • Fix a bug with wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
  • Add editing widget/input to client edit modal: (phab:T226998)
  • Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities: (phab:T229917)
  • More work on the the production Termbox service
  • tidying up our browser test suite (phab:T229910)
  • adding browser tests for basic editing (phab:T230187)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #379

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikimania recap, 27 August. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • What we talk about when we talk about Wikidata quality: a literature survey, by Alessandro Piscopo and Elena Simperl
  • Introduction to OpenRefine in video by Emma (University of Edimburgh) (12min)
  • Old but gold: introduction to Wikidata by Asaf Bartov (7min)

• Tool of the week
  • In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
  • Integraality generates tables to assess the completeness of properties on sets of items, such as properties on railway stations for instance. Tables are automatically updated and highly configurable.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Edit 1,000,000,000 - the one-billionth, or 10⁹ - was the creation of The band structure in microwave frequency for quasi-1-D coaxial photonic crystals (Q66665412) by User:Stevenliuyi
  • New termbox interface on mobile is enabled - you can view and edit easily the labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile devices (full announcement)
  • Random finds from WikiProject Random
  • Starting from July 2019, Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team work together to create a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships. Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
  • Wiki Loves Monuments and other Wikimedia Commons campaign organizers can now specify structured data fields in the campaign UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons.
  • The new termbox interface is now enabled on mobile, you can edit labels, descriptions and aliases from a mobile device

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ordeal by, newspaper archive url, periphrastic definition, lexeme for periphrastic definition, link for periphrastic definition
    • External identifiers: Awards & Winners artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Image-Line artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, Supraphonline artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, YesAsia author ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Scribd publication ID, SongMeanings artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, Belgian Species List ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Mafab.hu film ID, jog.fm artist ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, moly.hu book ID, Liber Liber author ID, GreatSong artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, MTV Polska artist ID, MTV UK artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Eiga.com movie ID, Transfermarkt team ID, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, BEACON ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: associated with, present on map, translated title, Wikia Article URL 2, position in sequence, color produced, Itch.io ID, mobile formatter, subscribers, Attribution text, difficulty
    • External identifiers: RPGGeek, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, Estudanky ID, LongSwimsDB ID, L-number, Dove.org work ID, WTA ID, iTunes (gb) artist ID, Arnet Miner publication ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID, NLP ID, SCTrails ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, UN treaty reference, musicbrainz tag, Identification code for universities and colleges, Toons Mag, YouTube Music channel ID, The Independent topic ID, Pandora artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • https://w.wiki/7UY timeline of competitions of the 2019-2020 figure skating season]
    • Future figure skating competitions
    • Currently happening figure skating competitions
    • French ships whose name start with an A (source)
    • Map of birth places of delegates to the Alaska Constitutional Convention (source)
  • Schema examples:
    • human chromosome, built on chromosome, built on sequence assembly
    • Lunar crater

• Development
  • Deploy mobile termbox, follow-up and bug fixing
  • Deploy then rollback the move of "Wikidata item" link on clients due to cache issues (phab:T66315)
  • Work on adjusting the save button of the Entity Schema editor (phab:T230398)
  • Work on the bridge emitting button (phab:T230326)
  • Introduce a header for the bridge modal (phab:T230328)
  • Produce initial statistics/indicators for the Wikidata Languages Landscape (phab:T223119)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #380

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

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister
  • Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, article in PeerJ Computer Science (Q27726596) by Lars Willighagen (Q45907528)
  • A systematic literature review on Wikidata (paywalled) - Marçal Mora-Cantallops et al.
  • GeneDB and Wikidata - Magnus Manske, et al.
  • Wikidata from a Research Perspective -- A Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata - Mariam Farda-Sarbas, Claudia Mueller-Birn
  • Enriquecimiento de entidades de Wikidata mediante un modelo de descomposición y mapeado de categorías de Wikipedia ("Enrichment of Wikidata entities through a decomposition model and mapping of Wikipedia categories") - Tomás Saorín et al.; text in Spanish

• Tool of the week
  • In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
  • Cocoda is a web application to manage mappings between authority files. It supports editing Wikidata-mappings including GND, Basisklassifikation, Regensburg Classification, Iconclass, and Nomisma. Cocoda can be used like mix'n'match but for more complex mappings.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The vision and strategy papers for Wikidata and Wikibase have been published - comments welcome on the talk page
  • Follow-up from Wikimania: you can now give input about the language barrier on Wikidata and federating Wikibase instances with Wikidata
  • New tool: a Python library to create bots, scripts and tools for lexicographical data by MichaelSchoenitzer
  • There is now a new API parameter to add tags on edits summaries
  • soweego version 1.1 is on its way, thanks to a WMF Rapid Grant
  • Several job offers related to Wikidata were published in the last few weeks:
    • Scribe, a Wikimedia Foundation funded software and research project, is looking for a full-stack software engineer
    • The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a software engineer for its Search Platform team, including work on Wikidata Query Service
    • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer and a full-stack developer for Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: access restriction status, in defining formula
    • External identifiers: RPGGeek ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, AccuRadio artist ID, eSTUDÁNKY ID, LongSwimsDB ID, WTA trail ID, Scribd Item ID, Dove.org work ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, SCTrails trail ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Mediawiki Wiki, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, scope and content, Number of nodes, Performance, use restriction status, Significant number, FCC Product Code, Hardware Version Identification Number, amount cataloged, number of decimal digits, Gregorian calendar, food energy, pronunciation
    • External identifiers: YouTube Music channel ID 2, Pandora artist ID 2, The Independent topic ID 2, NÖ Proposal ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Newspapers.com ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, WGA writer ID, WGA project ID, FCC Grantee Code, Spectrum Management System Company Number, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Prime Pages ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Peakbagger climber ID, Naver Music artist ID, Naver Music album ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, Slovo i Dilo person ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, FNL player ID, Peakbagger key col ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Public art in London by female artists
    • People used as examples in Wikidata properties (source)
    • Closest capitals of non bordering countries (<200 km) (source)
    • Hillforts mapped with their heritage designation/protection status
    • YouTubers without a YouTube channel
    • Racing automobile drivers who died in a car crash (source)
  • Schema examples:
    • Public library branch in The Netherlands
  • Newest database reports: papers about Wikipedia

• Development
  • Adjust label of save button of the Entity Schema and add accesskey for easier editing editor (phab:T230398)
  • Get Grafana Datamodel References dashboard back up and running (phab:T214894)
  • Fix an issue in EntitySchema tests that caused some CI failures (phab:T231065)
  • Localize Wikibase API help links (phab:T231269)
  • Support tags parameter on Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
  • Add in Wikidata support for sitelinks to https://nap.wikisource.org (phab:T212886)
  • Reading property terms from new store in production now (phab:T225053)
  • Adding WDQS lag to maxlag info, to avoid stress on WDQS machines (phab:T221774)
  • Implementing the fallback version of the new better edit summary messages on items through API (phab:T224010)
  • Fixing the issue of an invisible quality constrain violation indicator (phab:T227866)
  • Switching item terms to migration stage of writing to both wb_terms and the new store (phab:T225055)
  • Preparing to run migration of item terms (phab:T219123)
  • Allowing to access Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
  • Hiding non-supported languages in old termbox (phab:T227083)
  • Work on a new solution to move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox avoiding the cache issues (phab:T66315)
  • Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
  • Showing the current Wikidata value in the edit modal (phab:T226997)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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 #381

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: References in Wikidata, 10 September. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Merging Open Data Sources to Plan Learning Activities for Online Students - Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo, et al., in: 2019 23rd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)
  • Open-Access Society Publishers in Wikidata by A. Britton

• Tool of the week
  • moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
  • The first draft of the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
  • Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (phab:T230762)
  • Recent tool: @Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
  • New game: Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: mobile formatter URL, degree of difficulty, color produced, computer performance, use restriction status, FCC Product Code, Itch.io ID, Gregorian calendar start date
    • External identifiers: Identification code for Japanese universities and colleges, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Toons Mag ID, Newspapers.com ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, Prime Pages ID, FCC Grantee Code, FNL player ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Naver Music album ID, Naver Music artist ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Pandora artist ID, Peakbagger climber ID, Peakbagger key col ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, Slovo i Dilo person ID, Spectrum Management System Company Number, The Independent topic ID, WGA project ID, WGA writer ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, CPUID, L-number, Arnet Miner publication ID, NLP ID (record)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IP Code, dénivelé cumulé positif, Supports qualifier, climbing route, madhhab, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID
    • External identifiers: Auckland Museum ID, Al-Jazeera Topic ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, SNK ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, VAT identification number, TOP500 System ID, ACUF unique ID (UFI), Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier, Downdetector ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Behind the voice Actors short ID, Rate Your Music label ID, Labelcode, Maine Trail Finder ID, Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, WeChat ID
  • Query examples:
    • UK Cabinet Ministers and their links in the UK National Archives | (Histropedia timeline)
    • Most common properties on Senses (source)
    • Place of birth of actors in The Matrix (source)
    • Graph of all species in the Heron (Ardeidae) family with an IBP alpha code (source)

• Development
  • Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to Odder (phab:T230120)
  • New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
  • Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (phab:T227866)
  • Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (phab:T192462)
  • Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (phab:T178745)
  • Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
  • Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
  • Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (phab:T231833)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 9 sep 2019 17:50 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: August 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue VIII, August 2019 Headlines Côte d'Ivoire report: Strategic salon around GLAM perspectives Finland report: Continuing our work with the Saami communities Indonesia report: Digitization of banknotes and introduction to structured data on Commons (continued) Netherlands report: Wikidata map making workshop Norway report: Women in Red: collaboration with The National Library in Norway and Oslo Metropolitan University Sweden report: GLAM communities of practice; Problematic data UK report: New and old collaborations USA report: Wikimania 2019 Special story: Wikimania GLAM Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Recent presentations, workshops and blog posts Wikidata report: Work for us, or just tell us what you think of us WMF GLAM report: Updates on OpenGLAM Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 11 sep 2019 09:20 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #382

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata et Wiktionnaire session at the French-speaking WikiConvention by Pamputt (slides)
  • Upcoming: WikidataWednesday in Vienna, September 18th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, September 20th
  • Upcoming: #4 Wikidata tea party/第4回 ウィキデータ茶話会, 20 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
  • Upcoming: Wikibase Workshop/ウィキベースワークショップ, 28 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata gets wordier, by Christian Lieske and Felix Sasaki on Multilingual
  • Non-Parametric Class Completeness Estimators for Collaborative Knowledge Graphs -- The Case of Wikidata - Michael Luggen et al.

• Tool of the week
  • Hauki lets you browse existing Lexemes, add Senses to them, and easily create new Lexemes for common languages and lexical categories.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • мир (L99999) (peace), мир (100000) (world/earth) and L166666 were created

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: cumulative elevation gain, climbing route
    • External identifiers: Lower Austrian Museum ID, Auckland Museum ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID, Al-Jazeera topic ID, Digital Giza ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, Downdetector ID, TOP500 System ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Maine Trail Finder ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Masters Thesis, OFLC classification (New Zealand), worn by, station type, interchange, status, first, last and so on, front and backside
    • External identifiers: Archnet Site ID, Trail Finder ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, code DANE, ICD-11, SMHI drainage basin ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Mixer game ID, Vudu video ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of times a Wikidata item for Carl von Linnaeus was created
    • Picture of species were the author(s) of the first scientific description is in WD and connected to Uppsala University Alvin database
    • same query but where we miss a picture in Wikidata
    • Twins with different places of birth (source)
    • Places in Scottish local government areas (source)
    • Libraries in Austria (source)
  • Schema examples:
    • space probe
    • Tsunami
  • Newest WikiProjects: Textile arts, Dark

• Development
  • Started working on two new projects: improving the resource loader module and tainted references
  • Wikidata Bridge: save the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
  • Show the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
  • Warn user about blank edit summary on EntitySchema (phab:T230399)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16 sep 2019 17:25 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #383

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata as a hub for the Linked Data cloud - tutorial (full day) at Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2019 conference, Seoul, on September 25.
  • Past: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata - Awesome Together during State of the Map 2019 (slides of part one)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata ist für alle (Bibliotheken) offen. Presentation at 34. Austrian Librarian conference 2019 (Q67368932), September 11th. (in German)
  • Opening up the linked data world of Wikidata to new editors, by Will Kent (WikiEdu)

• Tool of the week
  • Namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of items about names, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: Please help to build a basic data model for describing Wikimedia Commons file with structured data! Your help is welcome to solve different modeling challenges, including how to model dates, sources and authors. You can also look at current Wikimedia Commons infobox templates and discuss how the information in wikitext can be translated to structured data.
  • Structured Data on Commons: the team is going to develop computer-aided tagging for depicts statements on Commons. You can read the project page and participate on the talk page.
  • Your comments on the vision and strategy papers are still welcome on the associated talk page.
  • WikidataCon Award 2019: you can nominate your favorite Wikidata or Wikibase project or tool! 🏆 Participation open until October 7th
  • Wikidata passed 8B triples on the 19th September (grafana)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: IP Code, number of decimal digits, OFLC classification, amount cataloged, Hardware Version Identification Number
    • External identifiers: Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, Rate Your Music label ID, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, Behind The Voice Actors short ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, Labelcode, Trail Finder ID, Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier (MRGID), Archnet site ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, DANE code, MobyGames genre ID, ICD-11 ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Vudu video ID, Mixer game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Peer review location, fineness, regnal ordinal, Wikinews coverage, educational stage, faculty, Kivid.info ID, Fossiilid.info ID, CITES Appendix, Content descriptor
    • External identifiers: Wi-Fi Certification ID, GCF Reference, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power ID, IGNrando ID, ISSN-L, Skiddle artist ID, Juno Download album ID, See Tickets artist ID, Ticketmaster artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Library systems in California
    • Waterfalls without a drainage basin yet
    • Works of art depicting kisses (source)
    • Longest English word without a repeated letter (source)
    • Longest alphabetically sorted words in English (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Q68235346

• Development
  • Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (phab:T227003)
  • Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (phab:T228259)
  • More work on setting up the technical background to work on tainted references
  • More work on reducing the resources needed to load pages
  • Create a dependency graph of existing RessourceLoader modules (phab:T232728)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 23 sep 2019 17:23 (CEST)

Structured Data - blogs posted in Wikimedia Space

There are two separate blog entries for Structured Data on Commons posted to Wikimedia Space that are of interest:

• Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister, discusses some ways that editors can work with structured data. Topics include tools that have been written or modified for structured data, in addition to future plans for tools and querying services.
• Structured Data on Commons - A Blog Series, written by me, is a five-part posting that covers the basics of the software and features that were built to make structured data happen. The series is meant to be friendly to those who may have some knowledge of Commons, but may not know much about the structured data project.

I hope these are informative and useful, comments and questions are welcome. All the blogs offer a comment feature, and you can log in with your Wikimedia account using oAuth. I look forward to seeing some posts over there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 23 sep 2019 23:33 (CEST)

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Wikidata weekly summary #384

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Catherine Laurence

• Events
  • Past: Using Wikidata to Provide Visibility to Women in STEM during Dublin Core 2019
  • Upcoming: WikiCon, meeting of the German speaking Community from 4th to 6th of October 2019 in Wuppertal (Germany)
  • Upcoming: #5 Wikidata tea party/第5回 ウィキデータ茶話会, 18 Oct 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Scottish witches in the press and on TV
  • Some witchy history and a very smart woman in data science
  • Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge - Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, et al.
  • GeneDB and Wikidata, by Magnus Manske

• Tool of the week
  • This Recent changes tool allows to get a list of unpatrolled Wikidata changes with enhanced filters that are more adapted to Wikidata than the standard Recent Changes page. Available actions include mass patroling and easier revert interface.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The state library of Berlin is using Wikidata to display a map of pictures from their architecture journals: Berlin um 1900 - eine fotografische Zeitreise
  • Edit summaries coming from the wbeditentity API (for example from the mobile termbox) will be improved from October 2nd (announcement, ticket)
  • You can nominate your favourite Wikidata and Wikibase projects for the WikidataCon Award until October 7th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: regnal ordinal, peer review URL
    • External identifiers: GCF Reference, Wi-Fi Certification ID, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata film ID, sixpackfilmdata person ID, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power farm ID, IGNrando' ID, Fossiilid.info ID, Kivid.info ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: bus, mwnf, Maximum number of playable characters, FIDAL team ID, candidate name string, IP range start, code (image), name in hiero markup, disputed by, name (image), style of karate
    • External identifiers: NTS Radio artist ID, Gazetteer for Scotland ID, Gazetteer for Scotland person ID, FootballFacts.ru team ID, FootballDatabase.eu team ID, GENUKI ID, DC Books author ID, LaPreferente.com player ID, Ukrainian Premier League player ID, UEFA team ID, UEFA coach ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, FAIMER school ID, China Martyrs ID, JournalBase ID, PCEngine Catalog Project ID, PubPeer article ID, memoriademadrid publication ID, doujinshi.org author ID, Beatport label ID, Knesset Law Id, caves.4at.info ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Amazon Music album ID 2, Qobuz album ID, Plus Music album ID, eska.pl release ID, iHeartRadio album ID, Three Decks people ID, Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana ID, Empik e-book or album ID, identificador GENavarra, Oricon News artist ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Fortuna liga player ID
  • Deleted properties: P5130 (island of location)
  • Query examples:
    • Civil parishes of Scotland, revealed through their listed buildings (source)
    • Scottish civil parishes by county and present-day council area (source)
    • Federated SPARQL query from the Swedish National Archive TORA project to Wikidata
    • Librairies in Africa (source)
    • Most recently dissolved enterprises that were over 200 years old (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Red pandas

• Development
  • More work done on removing some resource loader modules in order to speed up the load of pages
  • Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (phab:T227003)
  • Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (phab:T228259)
  • research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
  • More preparation work for improving references

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 30 sep 2019 17:04 (CEST)

Growth team updates #10

Welcome to the tenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

General news

• Growth team features are now fully deployed in Arabic Wikipedia and Basque Wikipedia (along with Czech, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias). If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together if your wiki is eligible. Then, go through the checklist to start the process of configuring the features.
• We have deployed features that help newcomers find their newcomer homepage. These features were successful, and more than doubled the number of newcomers who find their homepage. In Czech Wikipedia, 72% of newcomers visit their homepage and in Korean Wikipedia, 49% of newcomers visit their homepage.
• You can now join the Growth discussion space on the Wikimedia Space. This space has been created during Wikimania, to coordinate initiatives around welcoming newcomers. Please come and say hello!

Growth at Wikimania

Opening panel in the Community Growth space

• Several members of the Growth team attended Wikimania in Stockholm. We helped organize a conference track around Community Growth, presented about our team's work, and had many conversations with community members from around the world.
• Here are the most important links:
  • Notes and learnings from Wikimania
  • Video of Growth team presentation about our work and learnings from the past year
  • Slides from Growth team presentation
• These are some of our topline notes:
  • Alignment on newcomer retention: It seems like Wikimania attendees generally believe that newcomer retention is an important problem.
  • Connecting offline to online: Enthusiasm for ideas that connect our features better to offline events, such as making homepage mentors correspond to offline mentors.
  • Mentor dashboard: Experienced users requested a dashboard with which they could monitor newcomers who may need help.

Newcomer tasks -- feedback needed!

Mockup of newcomer tasks

• The Growth team's main project right now is newcomer tasks, which will suggest easy edits for newcomers. It will be built as a new module for the newcomer homepage.
• We hope that this project will help newcomers build their skills before attempting more difficult edits, such as creating new articles or adding images.
• These are the three main challenges we've been working on:
  • Where to find the tasks? After considering many different sources for tasks, we've decided to start by using maintenance templates, which are applied by editors on most wikis, and including tasks like copy editing, adding links, and adding references.
  • How to match to interests? Research shows that users are more likely to work on articles that are related to their interests. We are currently prototyping methods to ask newcomers their interests and then find articles that match.
  • How to guide the newcomer? Once a newcomer has selected a recommended article, they will need guidance on how to complete the edit. We have decided to use the help panel to provide that guidance while the newcomer edits.
• We are currently engineering on this feature, and we recently published notes from user tests that give mostly positive feedback.
• You can explore the design for newcomer tasks in these interactive mockups. We hope to hear from you about your thoughts on the project talk page. Do you think this could be helpful for newcomers? What are we missing?

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2 okt 2019 20:49 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #385

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Structured path for property definition changes, Import of item into wikidata private instance
  • Closed requests for comments: Notability wording

• Events
  • Wikidata (für Archive) beim Herbsttreffen des AK Archive der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (in German)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Finding GLAMs campaign 08 October. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Generating "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Questions Sets Automatically from Wikidata, Markus Wohlan, et al.
  • Wikidata: A large-scale collaborative ontological medical database, Houcemeddine Turki et al.
  • Wikidata & Wikibase for National Libraries: the inaugural meeting by Wendy Byrne and Liam Wyatt
  • Una lezione di biblioteconomia, o Del nome corto dell’autore, Giovanni Bergamin (Q61727262)

• Tool of the week
  • soweego links Wikidata to large third-party catalogs. Together with its friend Mix'n'match, it helps Wikidata to become the universal linking hub of open data.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The WikiProject India will send a quarterly newsletter, more info and subscribe here
  • Two Wikidata users were nominated for a “WikiEule”, the German Wikipedia community’s annual awards: MisterSynergy (nomination) for an “EngagementEule” (special commitment to the wiki projects) and Tobias1984 (nomination) for an “OrgaEule” (organizational work).
  • You can nominate projects for the WikidataCon award until October 7th at 23:59 UTC (today).
  • During the summer, WikidataJS became WikibaseJS! More specifically:
    • wikidata-sdk became wikibase-sdk (changelogs)
    • wikidata-edit became wikibase-edit (changelogs)
    • wikidata-cli became wikibase-cli (changelogs)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: content descriptor, educational stage, MWNF ID, worn by, tussenvoegsel, item disputed by
    • External identifiers: Gazetteer for Scotland person ID, Gazetteer for Scotland place ID, FootballDatabase.eu team ID, GENUKI ID, NTS Radio artist ID, Ticketmaster artist ID, See Tickets artist ID, DC Books author ID, Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana ID, FootballFacts.ru team ID, LaPreferente.com player ID, UEFA coach ID, UEFA team ID, Ukrainian Premier League player ID, ISSN-L, FIDAL team ID, China Martyrs ID, FAIMER school ID, JournalBase ID, National Library of Chile ID, PCEngine Catalog Project identifier, Beatport label ID, memoriademadrid publication ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: serving temperature, Ordained by, Main deity, image with frame, urn formatter, folio(s), minimum temperature record, venue of the grand final, Steam bundle ID
    • External identifiers: Basis Wien, MIC, DynamoMania.com player ID, 247Sports ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database work ID, Beachsafe Beach Key, LibraryThing author ID, FutbolMe.com player ID, Pubs Galore ID, Publons publisher ID, EconBiz publication ID, ERIC publication ID, ForaDeJogo.net team ID, FreeBSD port, HCPCS Identifier, Ents24 artist ID, Eventim artist ID, Coast to Coast Tickets artist ID, ScoreBig artist ID, SeatGeek artist ID, MovieTickets person ID, Ticket Liquidator artist ID, TicketCity artist ID, Tickets.com artist ID, TickPick artist ID, Viagogo artist ID, Vivid Seats artist ID, StubHub artist ID, NAD topographic databas, Rotterdam City Archives name ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia museum ID, Professional Football League of Ukraine player ID, Ancient Tree Inventory ID, FantLab author ID, Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query examples:
    • Biographical entries in the Gazetteer for Scotland, with no article on English Wikipedia
  • Map of medical facilities in Murshidabad district, India, color-coded by type (source)
  • Map of flight connections between airports in India (source)
  • GLAMs institutions located north of Umeå (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Climate Change

• Development
  • Continue work on removing and optimizing resource loader modules
  • Wikidata Bridge: obey wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish (phab:T228260)
  • Canceling the modal (phab:T231282)
  • Research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
  • Investigation to ensure editing with the same credentials (phab:T231887)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 7 okt 2019 17:06 (CEST)

This Month in GLAM: September 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue IX, September 2019 Headlines Colombia report: The GLAM team from Wikimedia Colombia in OpenConLatAm Finland report: Photographs and events France report: European Heritage Days Indonesia report: Image donation by Indonesian Air Force Italy report: Wikimedia Italia Summer School Sweden report: Open cultural heritage; More libraries in Africa on Wikidata; Global MIL Week 2019 Feature Conference; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Wiki Loves Monuments UK report: Oxford, Khalili Collections and Endangered Archives USA report: Hispanic Heritage and Disability Awareness Month Special story: Help the Movement Learn about Content Campaigns & Supporting newcomers in Wikidata training courses! Wikidata report: Tie a knot in your handkerchief WMF GLAM report: GLAM Manager Role Announced! Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #386

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Monthly workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 17th
  • Upcoming: Talk about connections between Wikidata, Wikipedia and OSM, Bordeaux, France, October 17th
  • Upcoming: Monthly workshop in Paris, France, October 18th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata goes Library, Talks and Workshops, Vienna, Austria, October 18th
  • Upcoming: WikidataCon 2019 and side events: Wikibase workshop, iNaturalist workshop, October 24th to 27th, Berlin

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • My message to video game databases: We(kidata) come in peace, by Jean-Frédéric (the subject is broader than just video games)
  • Lei (Nico) Zheng, et al. (2019) The Roles Bots Play in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 3, Issue CSCW, Article 215 (November 2019), 20 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3359317 (also blog post).
  • Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, et al. (2019) Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge. Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. ACL Anthology ID: W19-5914 + arXiv:1909.11980

• Tool of the week
  • ShowTalkLabels: with this script enabled, when a talk page is shown on your watchlist or similar pages, the label of the related entity is shown.

• Other noteworthy stuff
  • We now have d:Q70000000 (3,5-dimethyl-3H-pyrazole, chemical compound) and Lexeme:L200000 (spiritualistically, English adverb)
  • Your feedback is welcome about Computer-aided tagging designs for Structured data for Commons
  • The next office hour will take place on November 5th on Telegram (see full announcement)

• Did you know? =
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: fineness, identified in image by, name in hiero markup, graph radius, style of karate, name (image), code (image), folio(s)
    • External identifiers: PubPeer article ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, geograph.org.uk image ID, Q-Codes ID, Great Encyclopedia of Navarre ID, Three Decks people ID, Knesset Law ID, DynamoMania.com player ID, Beachsafe Beach Key, 247Sports ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database work ID, FutbolMe.com player ID, LibraryThing author ID, SMHI drainage basin ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Publons publisher ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, EconBiz publication ID, ERIC publication ID, Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System Identifier, Pubs Galore ID, ForaDeJogo.net team ID, Ancient Tree Inventory ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia museum ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: pathway annotation, number of games, contains functional group, contains chemical element, relative count, electron configuration, reason for preferred rank, creator's signature, Wikimedia revision-id, pdf page, capital social, Source of file, gained territory from
    • External identifiers: Soccerway referee ID, Eu-football.info referee ID, WorldReferee.com ID, Bluetooth Declaration ID, Bundle ID, Wolfram Language quantity ID, FantLab work ID, FantLab publisher ID, FantLab awar ID, FIG gymnast (no licence) identifier, Renaud Camus person ID, WorldFootball.net competition ID, academia.edu publication ID, Rijksmuseum Library ID, NARCIS researcher ID, Soccerbase team ID, 90minut.pl team ID, Transfermarkt.com match ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, AAAS keyword ID, Kinématoscope, CanadaSoccer.com person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of Scottish settlements linked to the average coordinates of Historic Scotland items within civil parishes - demonstrating the use of map lines to highlight possible data quality issues (source)
    • Bundesliga football results - exemplar of a report predicated mainly on statement qualifiers (source)
    • On which side of the road do cars drive? - demonstrating the use of geoshapes to fill a map (source)
    • Map of the embassies to Belgium (source)
    • Graph showing direct descendants of Prithwiraj Kapoor (source)
    • Nobel laureates by award type and gender (source)
  • Newest database reports: Mersenne numbers

• Development
  • Abuse filter has been improved so saving an edit should be a bit faster now. (phab:T156095)
  • A new Lua function is providing the site's global ID of the wiki where this function is used (phab:T194023)
  • Wikidata Bridge: test data for the demo system (phab:T224834)
  • Research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
  • Investigate of the purging strategy (phab:T227758)
  • Restyling of mobile termbox (phab:T223452)
  • Adding "fewer languages" button at the end of the expanded list of "all entered languages" (phab:T232595)
  • More work on reducing the resource loader modules
  • More work on tainted references

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14 okt 2019 17:25 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #387

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikidataCon 2019 on October 25-26. If you're not attending, you can follow most of the sessions remotely with live stream.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata's seventh birthday, on October 29th. You can organize an event in your area and add it to the list!
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Finding GLAMs campaign cont. with OpenRefine demo, 22 October. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Wikidata and Archival Metadata : opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon in Study day on Linked Data, Stad Brussel, Friday November 22th, 2019.
  • Past: Several sessions at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2019 (11–13 October):
    • Wikidata content oriented projects, talk by Mārtiņš Bruņenieks (video)
    • Using Wikidata as an Educational Platform, talk by Nebojša Ratković (video)
    • Beyond the basics: Intermediate Wikidata tools, workshop by Asaf Bartov (not recorded)
    • Your first Wikidata Lua infobox, workshop by Tobias Schönberg (not recorded)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Querying Wikidata RDF with SQL using RDF2X
  • Ozymandias in Canberra - how the Atlas of Living Australia could be enhanced using Wikidata
  • Knowledge Graph Consolidation by Unifying Synonymous Relationships - Jan-Christoph Kalo, et al.
  • PhD thesis: Candela Romero, Gustavo (2019). Publicación y enriquecimiento semántico de datos abiertos en bibliotecas digitales (in Spanish).
  • Wikidata Wordmap

• Tool of the week
  • The Wikidata Wor(l)dmap is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels and the coordinate location property of the language.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata won an Open Publishing Award (description).
  • Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), was selected as one of the five finalists in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. The final event will be held on November 16.
  • Issue with Wikidata Query Service: aggregate variables can no longer reuse the names of other variables (T235540).
  • You can translate labels in the background image of Wikidata front page by adding translation to this file

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: image backside, frontside image, gender educated, image with frame, line(s), minimum temperature record, glacier status, number of processor threads, reason for preferred rank, creator's signature
    • External identifiers: Professional Football League of Ukraine player ID, Rotterdam City Archives actor ID, FreeBSD port, Bluetooth Declaration ID, Bundle ID, Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain ID, Wolfram Language quantity ID, Steam bundle ID, FantLab author ID, NAD place ID, Eu-football.info referee ID, WorldReferee.com referee ID, FantLab award ID, FantLab publisher ID, FantLab work ID, FIG gymnast (no licence) identifier, WorldFootball.net competition ID, Rijksmuseum Research Library authority ID, Basis Wien person ID, Basis Wien institution ID, Basis Wien event ID, Basis Wien object ID, NARCIS researcher ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Czech Fortuna liga player ID, 90minut.pl team ID, Soccerbase team ID, Transfermarkt.com match ID, AAAS keyword ID, Kinematoscope film ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: MOHW HospID, graph diameter, ICP filing, aspect, key col, key col of
    • External identifiers: FlashScore.com match ID, GHR Conditions ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munchs correspondance person ID, Neliti Journal ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph Serviceperson ID, iNaturalist place ID, dp.ru persons ID, IISG ID, ifixit ID, Wolfram Language entity type, CinemaRx person ID, Kinématoscope - Literary work, Kinématoscope - Film director, Kinématoscope - Writer, Stathletics-ID, BDFutbol team ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of châteaux in the French world heritage site "the Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes" (source)
    • Graph of the personal relationships between Tekken characters and their fighting styles (source)
    • Timeline of the chief ministers of Haryana and Maharashtra (source)
    • Language representation of descriptions in Wikidata for objects connected to Ksamsök (source)
    • Cricketers who have ever played on an Indian Super League team (source)

• Development
  • Fixed the DuplicateReferences gadget that was broken due to refactoring work needed to make pages load faster and development easier (phab:T234094)
  • Wikidata Bridge: restricting the length of string value inputs (phab:T229241)
  • research delayed kicking in of Bridge (phab:T233305)
  • enable/disable save button depending on Bridge state (phab:T230342)
  • More work on reducing the resource loader modules
  • More work on tainted references

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 21 okt 2019 17:36 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #388 & Wikidata Birthday

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

• Happy birthday, Wikidata!
  • Today, on October 29th, it’s Wikidata’s 7th birthday. Time to reflect and celebrate and to look forward to see where we are going from here. Message from the Wikidata development team
  • You can also write a birthday message or add a present to the list

• Events
  • Past: Several sessions at Wikidata goes Library, Vienna, (Q1020347) (18 October):
    • Wikidata is amazing, talk by Jean-Fréd
    • Uses of Wikidata and Wikibase in France, talk by Nicolas Vigneron
    • Using Wikidata for Video Game Research, talk by Tracy Hoffmann
    • Wikidata based extended search queries, talk by Christian Erlinger (Q67173261)
  • Past: WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin. You can see the videos of the sessions and the list of slides and notes, also from the program. Among them, here are few suggestions of sessions to watch:
    • Glimpse over Wikidata & Wikidata and languages (Lydia Pintscher)
    • Birthday presents demo (various people presenting new tools and features)
    • WikidataCon awards ceremony (Birgit Müller & Liam Wyatt)
    • New usages of Wikidata to support underserved language communities (Lucie-Aimée Kaffee)
    • Overview of the data import process (Navino Evans)
    • A lot of interesting tools and projects presented during the two lightning talks sessions
  • Upcoming: plenty of events taking place for Wikidata's seventh birthday! In London on 29th, in Cape Town on 31st, a datathon organized in India, in Barcelona on November 13th, etc.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Analysis of Urban Information of Colombia on Wikidata, 2nd CATAÏ Workshop, Bogota, Colombia, 23-24 October 2019 (Preprint)
  • Wikidata as a FAIR knowledge graph for the life sciences (preprint in Biorxiv)

• Tool of the week
  • MachtSinn is a game to easily add Senses to Lexemes, based on suggestions from Items labels. It helps improving the data about languages in Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Open request for oversight permission: -revi
  • OpenRefine 3.3 beta was released
  • The Community Wishlist Survey 2020 from Wikimedia Foundation started. This year, it is focused on small projects and Wikidata-related wishes will not be included.
  • You can help expanding the list of databases, encyclopedias, etc. which could be added to Mix'n'match. Can be used for property creation too.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: graph diameter, orientation, URN formatter, iFixit Repairability Score, key col, variety of form, source of file, grammatical aspect
    • External identifiers: CanadaSoccer.com person ID, FlashScore.com match ID, Publons journals/conferences ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Genetics Home Reference Conditions ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munch's correspondance person ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, MOHW HospID, iNaturalist place ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Neliti Journal ID, Online Cenotaph ID, dp.ru person ID, ifixit ID, ICP license ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, CinemaRx person ID, Kinematoscope - Film director, Kinematoscope - Writer, Kinematoscope - Literary work, BDFutbol team ID, Stathletics ID, teams.by team ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: religion or world view, Comorbidity, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, XML namespace, Commons category for the interior of the item, statement is regarded as spoiler for, menu items
    • External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 – 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, NZPCN ID, Women Film Pioneers ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Golden ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, startrek.com Database ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society game ID
  • Query examples:
    • Tree map of members of the 16th Lok Sabha, grouped by state represented (source)
    • Pictures of animals with female grammatical gender in German but male grammatical gender in French (source)
    • Map of bus stops in Biscay (source)
    • Tree graph of doctoral advisors going backward from Abhijit Banerjee (source)

• Development
  • Wikidata Bridge: Create progressive disabled version of save button (phab:T235055)
  • Save original revision data in store (phab:T235052)
  • Add interface for tracking/logging (phab:T236233)
  • Make app change button attributes depending on state of store (phab:T235056)
  • More work on reducing the resource loader modules
  • More work on tainted references

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 29 okt 2019 10:54 (CET)

Nieuwsbrief 86 Wikimedia Nederland

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