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Wikidata weekly summary #186
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Koavf
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
- Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
- Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
- Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
- Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
- WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
- Workshop i Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
- New daily report on Mix'n'match
- Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
- French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
- New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
- A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
- Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
- Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
- example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
- Development
- Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
- Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
- Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
- Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
- Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
- 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.
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Problems
- On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [1]
- Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [2]
Changes this week
- Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [3][4]
- There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).
Meetings
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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 1 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. 
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the <figure>tag for media. The meeting will be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [5]
- Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [6]
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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Survivor Zero listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Survivor Zero. Since you had some involvement with the Survivor Zero redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Tavix (talk) 20:14, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
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
- Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [7]
Problems
- Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [8]
Changes this week
- You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [9]
- IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [10]
- You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [11]
- It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [12]
- You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [13]
- UploadWizard will look a bit different. [14]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
- New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [15]
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 8 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [16]
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17:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Wikimedia Education Newsletter: December 2015
Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.
- Arab World: Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015
- Argentina: Wikimedia Argentina, about the global and local in the digital and academic communities
- Argentina: The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer?
- Armenia: Armenian students inspire their teachers to join Wikipedia
- Armenia: Wikipedia Education Program participants commemorated the creation/discovery of the Armenian alphabet in Beirut
- Bangladesh: Wikimedia Bangladesh's new secondary school education program aims to increase Bangla Wikipedia readers
- Bulgaria: First Wiki Education Workshop in Bulgaria
- Central and Eastern Europe: Education Program at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
- Czech Republic: Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official
- Egypt: Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content
- France: A portal for teachers and education institutions on the French Wikipedia
- Greece: Two Wikimedian adult educators and an adult student present paper on Wikimedia editing at CIE2015 in Greece
- Hong Kong: The very first Wikipedia Education Program of Wikimedia Hong Kong
- Israel: Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University
- Israel: Dozens of articles were created by dint of a structured teaching process that incorporates new training tools and involvement of scientists
- Mexico: Wiki expeditions, animation clips about alebrijes and more at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico
- Norway: Norwegian Masters students in History and Archeology twists their brains on Wikipedia
- Serbia: What I Learned: Wiki Photo School in Serbia
- Serbia: Teachers in Serbia professionally trained to use Wikipedia in the classroom by Wikimedians
- Sweden: Science Outreach on Wikipedia has impact on the Education Program in Sweden
- Uruguay: Education students in Uruguay reflect on Wikipedia as a learning tool
- Global: The Wikipedia Education Program now on Twitter
- Global: Recent improvements to the Wikipedia Education Collaborative bear fruit
- Global: Articles of interest in other publications
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Wikidata weekly summary #187
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
- Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam, 8 December 2015
- Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
- Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016
- Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
- Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
- Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
- Open Science Prize is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
- The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
- Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
- We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content
- I dreamed of a perfect database - Wikidata? ;-)
- Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
- Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
- Map of narrative locations in Denmark
- Experimental REST API for Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
- Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
- Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
- Development
- Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
- Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
- Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
- Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
- Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
- Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co
- Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
- Worked on PHP7 support
- 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.
Books and Bytes - Issue 14
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 14, October-November 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)
- New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
- Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
- Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians
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Wikidata weekly summary #188
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
- The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
- Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
- Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
- Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
- Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
- query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
- WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
- Query example: Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?, places by elevation span, people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)
- Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Wikipedia of the same language
- Development
- Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
- Further work on a separate section for identifiers
- Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
- Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
- Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
- Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
- Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Getting ready for the holidays :)
- 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.