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This Month in GLAM: October 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue X, October 2017 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Adding Australian women in research to Wikipedia Brazil report: Integrating Wikimedia projects into the Brazilian National Archives GLAM Bulgaria report: Botevgrad became the first wikitown in Bulgaria France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Opérations Libres Germany report: GLAMorous activities in October Italy report: Experts training on GLAM projects Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence at Historical Archives of Subotica; Model of a grain of wheat exlusivly digitized for Wikimedia Commons; Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture and Information and Wikimedia Serbia - GLAM presentations and workshops for museums, archives and libraries Spain report: Women Writers Day Sweden report: Swedish Performing Arts Agency; Connected Open Heritage; Internetmuseum; More Working life museums UK report: Scotland's Libraries & Hidden Gems Ukraine report: Wikitraining for Librarians; Library Donation USA report: trick or treat Wikidata report: WikidataCon & Birthday WMF GLAM report: News about Structured Commons! 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 02:18, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2017)

An optical illusion. Square A is exactly the same shade of grey as Square B. (See Checker shadow illusion.) Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Illusion Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Price ceiling • Choreography Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 13 November 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #286

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, November 14th, 19:00 (UTC+2) in the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Review of the WikidataCon by Sean McBirnie (Histropedia)
  • Blogpost on workflow co-documentation with community members during the WikidataCon, by Jan Dittrich
  • Completeness and the Age of Abundance of free tools, in Basque language, by Theklan
  • Report about the first WikidataCon in Hungarian language, by Texaner
  • Report of the WikidataCon 2017 in German, by MB-one
  • Visualising Wikidata on Interactive Timelines using HistropediaJS by Sean McBirnie
  • Wikidata: A growing community behind open data by John Samuel
  • Report about the 2017 WikidataCon in Polish, by Yarl
  • Report about WikidataCon 2017 for WMAM community in Armenian, by Kareyac
  • WikidataCon - my résumé by Ahoerstemeier

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata training material and sample SPARQL queries by Geertivp
  • A new version of Unicode CLDR was released, including data about languages from Wikidata
  • research article where Wikidata is used to unify metabolite identifiers: WikiPathways

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: vertical depth, describes a project that uses, National Monuments of Namibia Site Reference, CycleBase cyclist ID, California Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Formal Public Identifier, IAFD male performer ID, IWRP athlete ID, Wimbledon player ID, Snooker.org ID, albedo, family relationship degree, World Snooker athlete ID, Microsoft Store artist ID, NACE code, Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson (source)
    • Canals within 800 kilometres of Glasgow (source)
    • File systems by developer, date, and OS (source)
    • Map of metro stations of Bilbao (source)
    • Highest point of each department of France (source)
• Newest database reports: properties count by datatype, Mayflower voyage participants, film archives

• Development
  • Fixed a series of smaller regressions after switching to Cirrus based search backend (phabricator:T179045, phabricator:T179061, phabricator:T179130)
  • Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (phabricator:T179228)
  • Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
  • Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (phab:T176417)
  • Add wikibase-snakview-indicators area where gadgets and user scripts can safely add indicators instead of directly appending to the value (phab:T95403, d:WD:PC#Gadget / userscript editor feedback wanted)
  • Accessing mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' ) will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook instead (phabricator:T169771)
  • Work on caching constraint check results (phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (phab:T179844)
  • Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (gerrit:379669)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:36, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2017)

Gervase Markham's recipe for banbury cake in The English Huswife, 1615 Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Recipe Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Illusion • Price ceiling Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 20 November 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #287

Wikidata weekly summary #287 Global message delivery/Targets/Wikidata

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

• Discussions
  • Monolingual language code creation process

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour (log)
  • Past: Wikidata Lab II, a workshop to teach users how to create lists using Wikidata in São Paulo (images from the event)
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Commons, November 21, 18:00 UTC in the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Upcoming: WLM-Wikidata-Editathon 2017 in Berlin, November 24-26
  • Upcoming: Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon - II edition (with Wikidata track) in Sofia, November 27
  • Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon at WikiMUC in Munich, November 30
  • WikidataCon 2017
  • Fünf Jahre Wikidata at Chaosradio
  • "Turning a historical book into a data set"
  • "Creating Wikipedia articles from research data"

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool by Magnus: Wikidata SPARQL Recent Changes - get diffs for all items matching a SPARQL query, for a date range
  • New tool by Magnus: WD edit stats - get edit stats for all items matching a SPARQL query
  • Wikidata coverage for 'place' in OpenStreetMap (as of October 2017)
  • OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible. Let's write tutorials for it.
  • Mix'n'match now shows for a catalog which user originally imported it and if it is updated regularly (example)
  • A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: CGF athlete ID, OKS athlete ID, Gymn Forum athlete ID, sexually homologous with, Tennis Temple player ID, has listed ingredient, World of O athlete ID, HOO athlete ID, IBTrACS cyclone ID, Collective Biographies of Women ID, Snooker Database player ID, Spider Ontology ID, EThOS thesis ID, EUTA theatre ID, EUTA person ID, Czech Street ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Trial ID, ChinesePosters artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code, Douban movie ID, REGINE water system number, UK Parliament thesaurus ID, ABA bird ID, MuIS ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Person ID, Vermont Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Alaska Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Radio Radicale person ID, SUNCAT ID, payload mass, Melon album ID, ctext work ID, Mémoire du cyclisme cyclist ID, Prisma ID, Africultures person ID, Africultures movie ID, Scottish Cemetery Kolkata ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of subclasses of Matrices
    • Works of art in which the artists depicts their spouse (source)
    • locations Van Gogh depicted in his paintings (source)
    • Gender split of past Google Doodles (source)
  • Newest database reports: expeditions

• Development
  • Fixed Commons media suggester not loading all preview thumbnails (phabricator:T160528)
  • RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (phabricator:T161592)
  • Worked on making statements on Forms editable and persistent (phabricator:T163724)
  • Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library (phabricator:T172914)
  • Worked on caching constraint check results (phabricator:T179849) and indicating when constraint check results are cached (phabricator:T179844)
  • Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia

• 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) 10:29, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2017)

A student performing schoolwork Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Schoolwork Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Recipe • Illusion Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 27 November 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #288

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode
  • Proposal to add some order and structure to the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata (mailing list post)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can read the log on meta.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Prague, December 1st
  • Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best?
  • Spatial-based Topic Modelling using Wikidata Knowledge Base (in Wikidata as Q43662744)
  • Cleaning BNF identifier in Wikidata by Envlh (in French)
  • Monitoring changes to Wikidata pages of your interest by Egon Willighagen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Sandra is co-ordinating an inventory of crucial volunteer tools for Wikimedia Commons, GLAM, and structured data in general. You can provide input and prioritize your favorite tools in this Google spreadsheet.
  • Q43649390 is an item about our concept of "QID"s
  • OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: type foundry, Accademia della Crusca ID, first appearance, USGHOF athlete ID, Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID, Städel Museum artist ID, Berlinische Galerie artist ID, Tidal video ID, Tidal track ID, Tidal album ID, Tidal artist ID, HTML entity, Norwegian historical register of persons ID, Merchant Category Code, SS KL Auschwitz Garrison ID, West Australian Football League player ID, Wikidata project, BPH journal ID, SNCZI-IPE reservoir ID, BTO five-letter code, awarded for period, electoral district number, Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID, Art Museum of Estonia artist ID, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA ID, National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame ID, IJF ID, SNCZI-IPE dam ID, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame ID, FAI ID, Canada Games ID, ICRC PoW ID, RA Collections ID, mountain range, Everyone Remembered ID, CNRS research group ID, ARLIMA ID
  • Query examples:
    • People who were Time Person of the Year in two consecutive years (source)
    • Fictional characters “said to be the same as” other fictional characters from the same fictional universe (source)
    • Map of places of birth of deceased sociologists (source)
    • Map of libraries in India (source)
    • Train and subway stations in Basque Country (source)
  • Newest database reports: Decameron editions and translations

• Development
  • Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (phabricator:T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
  • Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
  • Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:44, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

Hello, Marek69. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2017)

Agriculture in Saudi Arabia: Agricultural fields in the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin, Saudi Arabia. Taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Agriculture in Saudi Arabia Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Schoolwork • Recipe Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 4 December 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #289

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: Part II (Wikidata Workshop), Washington, D.C., November 2, 2017 with Andrew Lih and Alex Stinson
  • Past: Wikidata Clinic (slides) in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017, with Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
  • Past: Wikikonference in Prague with a Wikidata workshop in Czech and a introduction of Wikidata and its community
  • Wikipedia Weekly audio podcast coverage of Wikidata:
    • Episode 126 - Introduction to Wikidata, with Andrew Lih and Rob Fernandez
    • Episode 127 - WikidataCon 2017 roundtable discussion, with Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, Stacy Allison-Cassin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Rob Fernandez
  • Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers by Joachim Neubert
  • Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
  • The Wikidata map in November 2017 and what changed during the last four months, by Addshore

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey. The voting phase is open until December 10th.
  • If you run any functionality on Wikimedia sites that uses queries to the Wikidata Query Service, please add it here (more information)
  • The 600,000,000th edit has been made.
  • The first content made specifically for Wikimedia projects in space has been added to Wikidata (see Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind)
  • The Aaron Swartz Fellowship at OSA, Budapest, Hungary, is open for applications (deadline Dec. 31). The second focus area of the fellowship may be of interest to Wikidata folks.

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: set designer, Swedish Musical Heritage composer ID, National Film Board of Canada movie ID, South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame ID, World Rugby Hall of Fame ID, Microsoft Store album ID, date of burial or cremation, Lives of WWI ID, polymer of, monomer of, FAPESP researcher ID, FAPESP institution ID, NIOSH Publication Number, post town, arXiv author ID, CPE athlete ID, Mountain Project ID, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID, Atomic Heritage Foundation ID, Dreadnought Project page, IWGA athlete ID, Argentinian Historic Heritage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline for the writer Robert Louis Stephenson (source)
    • Movies with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill (source)
    • Photographers born before the inception of the earliest photograph (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Stolpersteine, Jasmerah
  • Newest database reports: Q5 with identical P18

• Development
  • Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9th January 2018 (phabricator:T181645)
  • There were no RDF dumps last week due to problems generating them, investigation is still going on (phabricator:T181385)
  • Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata (phabricator:T180450)
  • Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (phabricator:T181807)
  • More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically phabricator:T180467)
  • Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (phabricator:T113468)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:31, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

2017 Military Historian of the Year and Newcomer of the Year nominations and voting

As we approach the end of the year, the Military History project is looking to recognise editors who have made a real difference. Each year we do this by bestowing two awards: the Military Historian of the Year and the Military History Newcomer of the Year. The co-ordinators invite all project members to get involved by nominating any editor they feel merits recognition for their contributions to the project. Nominations for both awards are open between 00:01 on 2 December 2017 and 23:59 on 15 December 2017. After this, a 14-day voting period will follow commencing at 00:01 on 16 December 2017. Nominations and voting will take place on the main project talkpage: here and here. Thank you for your time. For the co-ordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:35, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue XI, November 2017 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: GLAM Peak digital collections workshops Brazil report: Can you hear this GLAM?; Glam activities at I IWSC and 3D reconstruction project Côte d'Ivoire report: Training 10 librarians, partnering with APSID-CI Czech Republic report: Edit-a-thon in Regional museum in Slaný 2017 Estonia report: Digital Humanities Conference held as Part of Estonian Presidency of Council of the EU France report: Edit-a-thons in Saint-Brieuc and Montpellier Germany report: A new archive building is born and more GLAM on Tour Stations Ireland report: Digital Preservation Community Workshop Macedonia report: Edit-a-thon related to WWII; Wiki Loves Food 2017 Netherlands report: Photographs of Africa & KB-Wiki partnership Serbia report: Two Wikipedians in residence and one edit-a-thon Spain report: Working with libraries Sweden report: Nordiska museet; Internetmuseum; Statens maritima museer; Nationalmuseum; Swedish Performing Arts Agency workshop Tunisia report: Upload Book UK report: Libraries gave us power Ukraine report: Volunteers cooperate with GLAMers USA report: remember November Special story: Out of This World! Wikidata report: Onwards and Upwards WMF GLAM report: Conferences, case studies, Structured Commons, #1lib1ref 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.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 20:47, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

hi marek

Hi marek

you helped me a few years ago as i was learning about wikipedia and contributing to its knowledge base.

I wanted to write and see if you could help me with a couple of things.

1. I would like to Add Ven to the List of Cryptocurrencies page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies but its a really complicated page and i don't want to mess it up or have a bad edit.

Is there any way you could help me add this?

Release: July 4, 2007 Status: Active Currency: Ven ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ven_(currency)) Symbol: VEN, XVN Founder: Stan Stalnaker Hash algorithm: SHA-256 Cryptocurrency Blockchain: OAI Notes: The first P2P digital currency. Asset backed and engineered for stability. Uses a public audit function (http://oai.io).

I'd appreciate your help to get his included there. let me know how i can thank you if you are able to help.

This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2017)

Cover page of the Wikimedia Deutschland 2015 Impact Report Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Report Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Agriculture in Saudi Arabia • Schoolwork Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 December 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #290

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, France, December 12th
  • Incoming:Next Structured Commons IRC office hour will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 18:00 UTC.
  • Past: Tech-talk about knowledge technologies, featuring Wikidata, DBpedia, and Histropedia at Jakarta Digital Valley, Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec 8, 2017. Slides are available at Slideshare link.
  • My vision of a possible strategy. How could we change Wikidata’s core infrastructure to be able to scale better in the future? by ChristianKl.
  • Using WikiData as a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects - conference paper
  • WikiCite 2017 report by Dario Taborelli and the organization team

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: Participate in this survey to help the team understand which tools and functionalities are most important to the Commons and Wikidata communities
  • QuickStatements now has a CSV-like import function (under "import commands")
  • wikidata-cli now support dynamic SPARQL requests using JS files
  • New wikidata-sdk function: wdk.getSitelinkUrl, a function to easily build URLs from Wikidata API sitelinks data
  • Musik Lovers (de) is a project created during Coding da Vinci 2017 and reuses data from Wikidata about composers played in the Koncerthaus of Berlin

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: premiere type, name of the character role, Bechdel Test Movie List ID, Iowa Sports Hall of Fame ID, DORIS ID, Online Books Page author ID, ICTV virus genome composition, EK number, identity of object in context, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston object ID, squadron embarked, South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID, trophy awarded, Württembergische Kirchengeschichte person ID, Merkelstiftung person ID, National Library of Brazil ID, AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID, DVV player ID, UniProt journal ID, WAFL FootyFacts ID, watershed, Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID, LKL player ID, LACMA ID, Art Institute of Chicago artwork ID, Queensland Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place of birth of author with pages on the French Wikisource (source)
    • Number of movies passing or failing the Bechdel test by year (source)
    • 100 of the earliest 1000 works created by women on Wikidata with an image on Commons (source)
    • Chemical entities, whom discovered them, and when (source)
    • Sister-city and twin-city relationships of the largest cities (source)
    • Cast age at date of film publication (source)
    • Male saints that are the most used to name French cities after them (source)

• Development
  • Add anchors to Special:ListDatatypes (phabricator:T181371)
  • Data Types library has been integrated to Wikibase (phabricator:T180454)
  • Investigate on the slow problems encountered on Wikidata (phabricator:T182322)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:06, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2017)

A mechanic at steam pump in an electric power house, 1920, (from a photo study for the WPA). Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Mechanic Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Report • Agriculture in Saudi Arabia Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 18 December 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #291

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Mapping and improving the data import process

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for local OpenStreetMap community & others, Riga, Latvia, December 19th
  • Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
  • Wikidata in Collections: Building a Universal Language for Connecting GLAM Catalogs
  • A purposeful #strategy for #Wikidata
  • WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge by Peter Kraker
  • Review of the Global Legislative Openness Week by MySociety

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A script to add links to Wikidata on Twitter by Envlh
  • Resolver can now open an item in tools/third-party sites listed on Q43649390#3303, using the ?project= attribute - for example https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php?prop=P496&value=0000-0003-4402-5296&project=scholia
  • New edition of the Structured Data on Commons newsletter

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Wiki Aves bird ID, DACS ID, SAN ID, reservoir, CPDOC ID, Musée d'Orsay artwork ID, Coflein ID, The Numbers person ID, Wikimedia import URL, Flathub ID, partition type identifier, partition table type, ESCO Occupation ID, Welsh assembly ID, BSD Portal athlete ID, identity of subject in context, location of first performance, representation of, RCR number, ESCO skill ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art ID, Colorado Sports Hall of Fame ID, Welsh Chapels ID, photosphere image, Estonian Football Association team ID, The Peerage person ID, FoodEx2 code, Sherpa Juliet ID, Indian Financial System Code
  • Query examples:
    • Number of disasters by date and day of the week (source)
    • Map with buildings by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
    • Properties most used for “no value” statements/qualifiers/references (source)
    • Scientific papers with an animal credited as co-author (source)
    • Image grid of what different cryptocurrencies are named after (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Narration
  • Newest database reports: Brigata del Decameron

• Development
  • Additional languages for monolingual values got approved by the language committee: ami (Amis), bnn (Bunun), fos (Siraya), ppu (Papora / Hoanya), pwn (Paiwan), pyu (Puyuma), ssf (Thao), trv (Seediq / Taroko), uun (Pazeh) (see gerrit:374052, phab:T144272)
  • More work on caching constraint results so we can enable the constraints checks for all logged-in users by default
  • Fixed a bug when edit links showed up in diff views (phabricator:T181807)
  • Final step towards being able to store statements on Forms of a Lexeme
  • Disabled RDF support for Lexemes as the mapping isn't defined yet (phabricator:T182660)
  • Adding some more smart tracking for Lua usage so we better know which properties from an item are used on a Wikipedia article even when the whole item is loaded (phabricator:T179923)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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

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User group for Military Historians

Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:29, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2017 News

Guild of Copy Editors December 2017 News Hello copy editors! Welcome to the December 2017 GOCE newsletter, which contains nine months(!) of updates. The Guild has been busy and successful; your diligent efforts in 2017 has brought the backlog of articles requiring copy edit to below 1,000 articles for the first time. Thanks to all editors who have contributed their time and energy to help make this happen. >>> Sign up for the January Drive! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator Elections! <<< Our copy-editing drives (month-long backlog-reduction drives held in odd-numbered months) and blitzes (week-long themed editing in even-numbered months) have been very successful this year. March drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2016 from our backlog and all February 2017 Requests (a total of 304 articles). By the end of the month, all but 22 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 28 who signed up, 22 editors recorded 257 copy edits (439,952 words). (These numbers do not always make sense when you compare them to the overall reduction in the backlog, because not all editors record every copy edit on the drive page.) April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 April; the theme was Requests. Of the 15 who signed up, 9 editors completed 43 articles (81,822 words). May drive: The goals were to remove July, August, and September 2016 from the backlog and to complete all March 2017 Requests (a total of 300 articles). By the end of the month, we had reduced our overall backlog to an all-time low of 1,388 articles. Of the 28 who signed up, 17 editors completed 187 articles (321,810 words). June blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 18 through 24 June; the theme was Requests. Of the 16 who signed up, 9 editors completed 28 copy edits (117,089 words). 2017 Coordinator elections: In June, coordinators for the second half of 2017 were elected. Jonesey95 moved back into the lead coordinator position, with Miniapolis stepping down to remain as coordinator; Tdslk and Corinne returned as coordinators, and Keira1996 rejoined after an extended absence. Thanks to all who participated! July drive: We set out to remove August, September, October, and November 2016 from the backlog and to complete all May and June 2017 Requests (a total of 242 articles). The drive was an enormous success, and the target was nearly achieved within three weeks, so that December 2016 was added to the "old articles" list used as a goal for the drive. By the end of the month, only three articles from 2016 remained, and for the second drive in a row, the backlog was reduced to a new all-time low, this time to 1,363 articles. Of the 33 who signed up, 21 editors completed 337 articles (556,482 words). August blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 20 through 26 August; the theme was biographical articles tagged for copy editing for more than six months (47 articles). Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors completed 38 copy edits (42,589 words). September drive: The goals were to remove January, February, and March 2017 from the backlog and to complete all August 2017 Requests (a total of 338 articles). Of the 19 who signed up, 14 editors completed 121 copy edits (267,227 words). October blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 22 through 28 October; the theme was Requests. Of the 14 who signed up, 8 editors completed 20 articles (55,642 words). November drive: We set out again to remove January, February, and March 2017 from the backlog and to complete all October 2017 Requests (a total of 207 articles). By the end of the month, these goals were reached and the backlog shrank to its lowest total ever, 997 articles, the first time it had fallen under one thousand (click on the graph above to see this amazing feat in graphical form). It was also the first time that the oldest copy-edit tag was less than eight months old. Of the 25 who signed up, 16 editors completed 159 articles (285,929 words). 2018 Coordinator elections: Voting is open for the election of coordinators for the first half of 2018. Please visit the election page to vote between now and December 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Thanks for participating! Housekeeping note: We do not send a newsletter before (or after) every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your watchlist. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Keira1996. >>> Sign up for the January Drive! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator Elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:04, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2017)

George Lazenby at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in 2014 Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: George Lazenby Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Spelling • Pond hockey Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 16:16, 25 September 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Seasons' Greetings

...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 16:18, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2017)

A nutrient is a component in foods that an organism uses to survive and grow. Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Nutrient Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Mechanic • Report Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 December 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #292

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
  • WikiCite 2018
  • Get your vocabularies in Wikidata... so Europeana and others can get them
  • Moths and me
  • Quality and collaboration in Wikidata
  • The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata
  • GLOWing the extra mile
  • Seven translation tools you can use to work in multiple languages across Wikimedia projects

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool by YMS to help with vandalism fighting. Give it a try and catch some vandals?
  • Version 0.8.0 of the Wikidata Toolkit have been released. There is a short survey to figure out in which directions to move the library.
  • You can try the Wikidata fulltext search prototype and give feedback
  • You can also tell us what could be improved with the entity suggester
  • The Geo dashboard shows a map on the most used items in Wikipedia and co in a given category
  • Consultation on Blocking tools and improvements
  • New documentation page with information about publishing open data that we can use when talking to institutions about why they should publish their data openly
  • Cou can try the prototype to improve the term box and give feedback

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: OpenSecrets organization ID, Oireachtas member ID, Environmental Register code (Estonia), geomorphological unit, Dictionnaire des peintres belges ID, Carnegie Museum of Art ID, Nintendo Game Store ID, National Gallery of Victoria artwork ID, National Gallery of Art artwork ID, Eldoblaje original actor ID, Eldoblaje dubbing actor ID, constraint scope, MAVISE company ID, MAVISE competent authority ID, MAVISE on-demand audiovisual service ID, MAVISE TV channel ID, appears in the form of, Indianapolis Museum of Art artwork ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston object ID, EMLO location ID, Hall of Light Amiga database ID, Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID, tabular software version, USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame athlete ID, Buenos Aires legislator ID, Cinemagia actor ID, Cinemagia film ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map with radio telescopes around the world (source)
    • People born on the same day their mother died (source)
    • Largest first-level administrative subdivision by country (source)
    • Data sets released under a Creative Commons NoDerivatives license (source)
    • Type foundries and their typefaces (source)
    • Map of Christmas traditions (source)
    • Movies that are Christmas traditions (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of Christmas films

• Development
  • Due to the Christmas and New Year's Eve holidays, no deployment will happen before January 3rd.
  • Monolingual language codes for Old French (fro) and Middle French (frm) added (phabricator:T181823)
  • Finishing touches on storing statements on Forms
  • No longer checking constraints on the property example statements (phabricator:T183267)
  • More work on caching constraint check results so we can roll out constraint checking for all logged in users

• 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) 11:54, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2018)

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Wikidata weekly summary #330

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: Dan Koehl, Joalpe

• Events
  • Continuing through September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
  • New events added for the sixth birthday of Wikidata: Berlin, Oslo, Tehran, Beijing

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow, subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
    • Brazilian Wikimedians develop tools for mass contributions: Mbabel and Import-500px
    • A report about the Wikidata workshop held at the International Federation of Library Associations Conference in Kuala Lampur
    • A report discussing increasing interest for mapping the Portugeuse National Library data with Wikidata
    • More information on the recently funded WMSE Projects
    • And, of course, the Wikidata Report highlights
  • Crotos: a project on visual artworks powered by Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikidata Query Service recipe: qualifiers and the Greek alphabet

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Linking knowledge organization systems via Wikidata Presentation at DCMI conference in Porto, by Jneubert
  • Senses for lexicographical data will be deployed on October 18th
  • The final release of OpenRefine 3.0 is out.
  • Collection Explorer, a Wikidata-driven tool bringing together collection data from the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the Pitt Rivers Museum.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: state of conservation, state of use, admission rate, is retracted by, ISO 15919 transliteration, majority opinion by, seed, demonstrates form, usage example, political coalition, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, item inherits value from
    • External identifiers: BGCI garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID, Film Indonesia ID, ArhivX LOD, Belvedere object ID, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, Playbill production ID, LHW hotel ID, World Travel Awards ID, Relais & Châteaux ID, Nintendo GameID, Académie de Marseille member ID, NPR podcast ID, iTunes podcast ID, Gynopedia place ID, Vocabolario Treccani ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick novel ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick person ID, AnimeClick manga ID, Ex-USSR internal airport code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cook Partisan Voting Index, ONS Community codes, Implies (necessary condition), Index herbariorum code, limiting oxygen index, Model item for, Model item, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, Place of devotion, Stadtteilnummer, restriction of, blazon, ENI number, parties, term of venery, root, unicode range, Ġabra lexeme ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, inflection class
    • External identifiers: ResearchGate publication ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, AnimeClick drama ID, MobyGames platform ID, Adelphi author ID, UOL Eleições ID, Tourisme et Handicap ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, SJPXVII ID, Microsoft Store app ID, CharacTour character ID, re3data repository ID, IGN film ID, Arkivportalen aktor ID, Arkivportalen arkiv ID, Muziekweb performer ID, SPXVI ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, LakeNet ID, Álgu ID, Uralonet ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, Comic Vine ID, Shazam track ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, ASCE ID, Dxomark ID, PlayStation Store ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of caves with prehistoric art (source)
    • Most cited works with Swedish first author (source)
    • Map of events for Wikidata's 6th Birthday (source)
    • Heads of the same state whose family names share the first four letters but are not identical (source)
    • Map of caves containing prehistoric art (source)

• Development
  • Fix a problem with the language of the lemma (phab:T194347)
  • Improving the diffs for Lexemes (phab:T185481)
  • Exclude es-formal and hu-formal from monolingual text codes (phab:T203311, thanks to MarcoAurelio)
  • Implement the contemporary constraint (phab:T141859, thanks to Abiàn)

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) 14:51, 17 September 2018 (UTC)