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Wikidata weekly summary #182

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

• Discussions
  • How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price.

    

    I love Wikidata because

    • Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
    • Images from the party
    • Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
    • Presents:
      • Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
      • Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
      • Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
      • Special:Nearby by the dev team
      • Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
      • Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
  • Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
  • Past: Open Access Week
  • Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
  • Past: Tehran SFD (video)
  • Upcoming: ODI Summit
  • Upcoming: SWAT4LS
  • Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
  • Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
  • Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
  • The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
  • Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
  • Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
  • Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
  • Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
  • Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
  • We passed 15M items.
  • Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
  • All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
  • Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
• Development
  • Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
  • Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
  • Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
  • Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:55, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-45

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

Recent changes

• You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [1]
• If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [2]
• Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [3]

Problems

• On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [4]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter.

Future changes

• A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [5]
• Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [6]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Intifada

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Intifada. Legobot (talk) 00:02, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

New Companies delsort category

Hi Sanskari: Just a heads up that a new deletion sorting page was created on 16 October 2015 for companies, located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Companies. Thanks for your work in performing deletion sorting on Wikipedia. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:13, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Thank you! For notifying. Cheers! — Sanskari ^Hangout 19:14, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Request for Comment

I found your username listed under editors available for comments and picked you random. Please see Jehovah's Witnesses#RfC: Jehovah's Witnesses vs Watchtower SocietyRoller958 (talk) 21:22, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

New Disability delsort category

Hi: Just a heads up that a new deletion sorting page was created on 19 October 2015 for Disability-related articles, located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Disability. Thanks for your work in performing deletion sorting on Wikipedia. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:14, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Inventions and Sinfonias (Bach)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Inventions and Sinfonias (Bach). Legobot (talk) 00:03, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 November 2015

• Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone

• In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?

• Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad

• Featured content: Christianity, music, and cricket

• Gallery: Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony

• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Please comment on Talk:Electronic cigarette

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Electronic cigarette. Legobot (talk) 00:04, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2015)

Marie Serneholt at the 48th Guldbagge Awards. Hello, Sanskari. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Marie Serneholt Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Allegra Versace • Comedy horror Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:33, 9 November 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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TAFI talk

• Hello Sanskari:

You are invited to participate in this discussion at the TAFI talk page regarding improving the automation of project processes and management of the project. Your input is appreciated.

Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 15:11, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #183

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Lakokat
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
  • Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
  • Semantic Cities
  • Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
  • Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
  • Past: semwebpro (slides)
  • Past: ODI Summit
  • Past: MozFest (etherpad)
  • Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul

Highlights of 3 years of Wikidata by Madgalena Wiegner

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
  • Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
  • Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
  • Ever noticed ranks?
• Development
  • Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
  • From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
  • Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
  • Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
  • Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
  • Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
  • Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184)
  • Worked more on making search work on mobile
  • Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:25, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2017)

Växjö surrounded by lakes, as seen from an airplane Hello, Sanskari. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Växjö Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Astronomical object • Secondary school Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 20 February 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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