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BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

New Page Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 7 December 2016 (UTC))

BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

AfC Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #239

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

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume for this message.

• Discussions
  • New development input: Avoiding breaking gadgets when developing UI
  • Closed request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
  • Wishlist at What government data is of best interest?

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Open Gov Partnership conference in Paris, where Ash_Crow and other editors presented Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Have a look at PAWS, a tool to create Wikidata bots (and a cheat sheet from WikidataFacts)
  • Item Q 28 000 000 is about to be created.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: CNC film rating (Romania), Wilderness.net ID, CORDIS Project ID, JTWC tropical cyclone ID, Butterflies and Moths of North America ID, Guide of the French Church person ID, Guide of the French Church structure ID, heart rate, Järviwiki ID, LittleSis organisation ID, Surman ID, Verkhovna Rada MP id, Consolidated code of the electronic catalog of libraries of Belarus, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters member ID, LittleSis people ID, minimum frequency of audible sound
  • Query examples:
    • Map of people buried in the cemetery of Norra Begravningsplatsen (Stockholm, Sweden)
    • Works of Musée Saint-Raymond (Toulouse, France) on Wikidata (source)
    • Communes of France named after a river
    • People awarded by a Theater World Award in 2016
    • Upcoming creative works: films, TV series, video games… (source)
    • Number of demonstrations per country (source)
  • Newest database reports: Spanish-language films without an article in Spanish Wikipedia

• Development
  • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
  • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
  • Rework translation/article creation UI (phab:T151858)
  • Creating OOUI mockups as preparation for the dev summit
  • Finishing touches on the extension for automatic generation of inter-wiktionary links (preparatory work for lexicographic data in Wikidata)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Help with one of the bot requests
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:47, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Reference errors on 13 December

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Wikidata weekly summary #240

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

• Discussions
  • Voting on Make family member properties gender neutral: replacement of mother/father with a new "parent" properties
  • Switch Wikidata entities from http to https: T153563

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Blog post about the Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany (de)
  • Wikidata people will be at the Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg, December 27th-30th) on the Open Knowledge Assembly stand

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Basque language Wikipedia develops a most prominent basque and worlwide person born/death in this day for all the day related articles. For example, eu:Abenduaren 19. It also displays interesting red links for people born and dead that day that are not represented in eu:wp.
  • WDQ about to be shut down (you can add sub-tasks for remaining uses to T153439)
  • SQID now supports PrimarySources
  • Project Grants program will fund 12 community-led projects, several of them directly related to Wikidata
  • Citoid, a script for editing references that can automatically populate parts of the reference, is now available for testing!
  • New parser function has been enabled
  • Histropedia added new features to the Wikidata query timeline

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Yle Areena ID, Leopoldina member ID, Protected areas of Canada ID, Saxon Academy of Sciences member ID, Clergy of the Church of England database ID, Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis ID, FINA Athlete ID, Klosterdatenbank, Saccharomyces Genome Database ID, Nederlands Soortenregister ID, The Vogue List ID, coextensive with
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
    • All Theatre World Award winners, in a timeline with pictures (source)
    • Birthplaces of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
    • Planets, their moons, and the things they are named after (source)
    • Items with no father or no mother (source)
    • People born on Christmas day (source)
  • Newest external tools: “short author name” resolver tool
  • Newest database reports: hospital lists
• Development
  • Statements will soon be ordered as specified in MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties (phab:T150788)
  • Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
  • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
  • We removed the page property wb-status, old entries will not be updated any more (phab:T146792)
  • Removed a visible jump while an entity page loads (gerrit:325924)
  • Fixed a formatting issue in which the geo coordinate formatter may output "60 seconds" (phab:T153429)
  • Fixed a bug in Special:NewProperty where it was not possible to provide the property type as part of the URL (phab:327496)
  • Working on a major rewrite of Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel/Description, one of many steps to phase numeric entity IDs out (phab:T140891)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Help with one of the bot requests
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:19, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #241

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: 33C3
  • Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
  • Scraping data from Wikipedia using Wikidata
  • Using cbimport to import Wikibase data to JSON documents
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Linked data fragment enabled on the Query Service
  • Quora topic IDs have been added to Mix'n'match
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Belvedere artist ID, Calflora ID, basic unit of settlement code (Czech/Slovak), Google Play Store ID, Quora topic ID, end period, start period
  • Query examples:
    • List of heads of state by Erdős number (source)
    • Airports named after people (source)
    • Graves with no grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
    • Graves with grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
    • Solidays occurring today (source)
    • Streets in Paris named after current countries (source)
    • Streets in Paris named after battles (source)
    • Wikipedia articles (in any language) of paintings by painter (source)
    • Sovereign state flags with no red, white, or blue (source)
    • Graph of number of compositions over age at first composition (source)
• Development
  • Worked more on the first entity type (Lexeme) for Wiktionary support
  • Worked more on federation in order to allow using Wikidata items and properties to describe images on Commons in the future
  • Fixed a bug with getLabelWithLang returning the wrong language (phabricator:T152241)
  • Fixed an issue where some coordinate values displayed 60 seconds instead of rounding to 1 minute (phabricator:T153429)
  • Adjusted language for simple English sitelinks (phabricator:T152915)
• 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!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:30, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Frances

Could you please hold back for half an hour or so, while I finish writing the page. Two edit conflicts so far, which wastes time.Bmcln1 (talk) 17:33, 27 December 2016 (UTC) Bmcln1Of course. Have you considered using Template:In creation for Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley while you work on it? Mduvekot (talk) 17:43, 27 December 2016 (UTC) I'll look into that, thanks. Nearly done, by the way. Bmcln1 (talk) 18:04, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Mduvekot

(Charles R. Knight, 1922)

Thank you for all you did for this project in 2016, Mduvekot. May your house be safe, and may you and those having the privilege of your company enjoy good health in a Happy New Year 2017! Kind regards, — Sam Sailor 01:56, 2 January 2017 (UTC) Pass on! Send this greeting by adding {{subst:User:Sam Sailor/Templates/HappyNewYear}} to user talk pages. Automatic level-2 heading and auto-signing included.

Wikidata weekly summary #242

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק, Pyb

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Next IRC office hour on January 5th
  • Past: we were at 33c3
  • Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
  • 2016 – A busy year for Gene Wiki and WikiData

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
  • Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: INSEE arrondissement code, INSEE countries and foreign territories code
  • Query examples:
    • Filtered timeline of Spotify artists
    • Paintings of the Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay (source)
    • Ratio of “famous” (≥25 sitelinks) people’s deaths since 2000 (source)
    • Things with coordinates on globes other than Earth (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: US Virgin Islands
  • Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions batchwise
  • Newest database reports: Popular items without claims, Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese

• Development
  • When a {{#statements:…}} property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (phab:T50799)
  • Rewrote Special:NewItem and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (phab:T150205)
  • Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662)
  • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
  • Release version 1.0.0 of the DataTypes component
  • Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:55, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

suggested changes to Eric Hollreiser Wikipedia entry

Hello. Thanks for the guidance on proper citations, and format, for the new Wikipedia entry on Eric Hollreiser. I believe I've made all the necessary changes. Please let me know if there's anything else I need to do. Appreciate your help, Babingtoncharles (talk) 20:04, 3 January 2017 (UTC) Charles Babington

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thank you for reviewing my new article. Your keen patroller eye is appreciated. Netherzone (talk) 15:38, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Maxinquaye

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Maxinquaye. Legobot (talk) 04:31, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #242

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Current: Wikimedia Dev summit in San Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers and volunteers!
  • Upcoming: WikiIndaba, January 20-22th, Accra, Ghana
  • Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history project at the computer history museum

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a cartoon
  • Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata on English Wikipedia
  • Mix'n'match encountered some problems with labels and descriptions, some of them are now fixed, cf post from Magnus
  • Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js
  • How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata
  • Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata (by Magnus Sälgö)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: eBird taxon ID, Victorian Heritage Database ID, Debian package, FIFA country code, time signature, angular resolution, vehicle normally used, people or cargo transported, AELG ID, VGMDb artist ID, ERIH PLUS ID, biological variant of, parent cell line, Publons Publication ID, Social Networks Archival Context ID, Electronic Enlightenment ID, INCAA film rating, as.com athlete ID, ArbetSam ID, Natura 2000 site ID, Polish cultural heritage register number
  • Query examples:
    • Birth place of Academy Award winners
    • Neujahrskonzert with conductor by country and age (source)
    • 9 species named after the President of the USA (source)
  • Newest external tools: R wrapper for WDQS API (by Mikhail Popov), Wikidata authority file mapping tool (by Jakob Voß)
  • Newest database reports: list of episodes of Desperate Housewives (in English and German)

• Development
  • Log of our last IRC office hour
  • This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit hacking stuff and doing great things!
  • Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
  • New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (phab:T150881)
  • Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester (phab:T115267)
  • Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays disabled, as reported in December
  • We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo, monolingual, and quantity experts (gerrit:330145). The preview popup may now cover parts of the page. Please try it at wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org and tell us what you think on our contact page.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Add statements to items without
  • Help with one of the bot requests
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:00, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

oops

probably should have been csd 7 JarrahTree 14:37, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: Probably. I noted the German article has sources, but they're very good ones. Mduvekot (talk) 14:45, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Explanation

Ok I don't get what you mean. There are other translations of this, I don't see why mine can't exist.

--IAMHELPFUL (talk) 03:45, 10 January 2017 (UTC)IAMHELPFUL

@-IAMHELPFUL: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. We do not provide a place to publish bible translations. If you think there are bible translations on wikipedia, please provide a link to those articles. Mduvekot (talk) 03:50, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Greetings on January 11

Glad you were here this eve! Artchivist1 (talk) 23:13, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Michael,

I like cookies too. My name is Marie-Jo. Archimarie (talk) 23:13, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Black Arts/History Reading Group

Hi Michael, thanks for your offer for support and guidance tonight! I'll stay in touch. Best, Deanna

Please comment on Talk:Unknown Pleasures

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Unknown Pleasures. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #243

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Badge for templates that work with Wikidata?

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to work on structured data for Commons
  • EPA CompTox Dashboard IDs in Wikidata
  • Data donation: 128K of Social Networks Archival Context IDs, matched to Wikipedia articles, and imported using P3430. Thanks, University of Virginia!
  • Past: Wikipedia Day 2017, NYC

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Discussion about the use of values from Wikidata in the English Wikipedia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin, pregnancy category, minimal incubation period in humans, maximal incubation period in humans, normal respiratory rate, bite force quotient, name shares origin with, VGMDb album ID, Europeana Fashion creator ID, Parks & Gardens UK Record ID, base Mémoire reference, Aftonbladet topic ID, Songkick Artist ID, Nihon Tarento Meikan ID, PSA Worldtour ID, SANU member ID, Ubuntu 16.10 package, VICNAMES Place ID, wikiskripta id, Woodland Trust wood ID, WTA tennis tournament ID, National Inventors Hall of Fame ID, Inventario Sculture - Polo Museale Fiorentino, Israeli CBS municipal ID, maximum frequency of audible sound, medicine marketing authorisation, Fedora package, FAMA work ID, designated as terrorist by, colonel-in-chief, Euring number, CNC authorization number, case fatality rate, ATP tennis tournament ID, CircleID, Arch package, IPI base code, inferred from, nighttime view, season of, NSW Heritage database ID, stepparent, mirrors data from, FIDAL ID, Cinema of Israel ID
  • Query examples:
    • People without gender, but with photo (~2500 items)
    • Gallery of cheese varieties and origin
    • Taxa with more female than male individuals (source)
    • Scatter chart of river watershed area (in km²) over length (in km), now using normalized unit support (source)
  • Newest database reports: lighthouses at night

• Development
  • Attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit to talk about a lot of things (including editing Wikidata from Wikipedia directly, back-end work for structured data support for Commons - specifically Multi Content Revisions, ideas for improvements to the query service)
  • Final touches to get ArticlePlaceholder pages ready for search engine indexing
  • Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
  • Clickable prototype for client editing is finally in the works!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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!
  • Help fixing the most important constraint violations
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:46, 17 January 2017 (UTC)