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Wikidata weekly summary #375 modifier

Dernier commentaire : il y a 4 ans1 commentaire1 participant à la discussion

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?

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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #376 modifier

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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:

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 5 août 2019 à 17:11 (CEST)Répondre

Wikidata weekly summary #377 modifier

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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:

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 modifier

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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:
- 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 modifier

Dernier commentaire : il y a 4 ans1 commentaire1 participant à la discussion

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
  - Lire la suite
  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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 26 août 2019 à 17:05 (CEST)Répondre

Wikidata weekly summary #380 modifier

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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?

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 modifier

Dernier commentaire : il y a 4 ans1 commentaire1 participant à la discussion

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?

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 septembre 2019 à 17:50 (CEST)Répondre

Wikidata weekly summary #382 modifier

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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:
- 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #383 modifier

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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:
- 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #384 modifier

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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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #385 modifier

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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,
  - Lire la suite

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?

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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #386 modifier

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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!

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Modèle:Libellé Wikidata modifier

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Bonjour, je ne sais pas si c'est de mon côté mais, comme on peut le constater dans la documentation du modèle {{Libellé Wikidata}}, le paramètre capitalisation ne fonctionne pas. --Yanik ^B 17 octobre 2019 à 13:15 (CEST)Répondre

Wikidata weekly summary #387 modifier

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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, Label inconnu « Q239 », 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?

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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #388 & Wikidata Birthday modifier

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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,
  - Lire la suite
  (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
    - Lire la suite
- 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?

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!

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