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A cup of coffee for you!
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Elsewhere you mentioned getting a letter from someone. Would you be willing to ask the sender if they would make an OTRS release to post the text of the letter on wiki? If now is not the time then I understand. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:34, 1 June 2017 (UTC) |
- @Bluerasberry:I did? Please remind me of the context (by email, if discretion is necessary). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:38, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).
Administrator changes
Doug Bell • Dennis Brown • Clpo13 • ONUnicorn
ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC proposing an off-wiki LTA database has been closed. The proposal was broadly supported, with further discussion required regarding what to do with the existing LTA database and defining access requirements. Such a tool/database formed part of the Community health initiative's successful grant proposal.
- Some clarifications have been made to the community banning and unblocking policies that effectively sync them with current practice. Specifically, the community has reached a consensus that when blocking a user at WP:AN or WP:ANI, it is considered a "community sanction", and administrators cannot unblock unilaterally if the user has not successfully appealed the sanction to the community.
- An RfC regarding the bot policy has closed with changes to the section describing restrictions on cosmetic changes.
Technical news
- Users will soon be able to blacklist specific users from sending them notifications.
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2017 elections, the new members of the Board of Trustees include Raystorm, Pundit and Doc James. They will serve three-year terms.
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 see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [1]
- When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [2]
- You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [3]
- New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [4]
Problems
- The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [5]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [6]
- You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [7]
- When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [8]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [9]
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 6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [10][11]
- Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [12]
- The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.
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19:04, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #263
- Discussions
- Open request for bureaucrat: Lymantria
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, June 7th, 18:00, in the WikiBÄR local room
- Upcoming: An introduction to Wikidata for GLAMs, Berlin, June 9th (more info in German)
- Upcoming: Hackathon cartographie des logiciels libres in Paris on June 10th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during HackZurich, September 14th (registration opening on June 9th)
- Wikidata, WikiCite, and the "bibliography of life" by Rod Page (Q7356570)
- MySociety (Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
- Wikicite 2017, and the 7 features Wikidata needs most
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
- Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at DBLP (Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (P214), GND ID (P227), ORCID iD (P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (P864), zbMATH author ID (P1556), & Google Scholar ID (P1960).
- Sitelinks of Wiktionary will be enabled on June 20th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI musical work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID, ADW taxon ID, DFB datacenter player ID, danskefilm TV series ID, danskefilm animated film ID, dimension, USL player ID, The Arabidopsis Information Resource Accession, Ustream username, SlideShare username, Vimeo username, Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID, Giphy username, Semantic Scholar author ID, Semantic Scholar paper ID, GDP (PPP), RKY national built heritage environment ID, Early Aviators people ID, DBS ID, overrules, Bavarikon ID, shield image, official Facebook page, WFD Ecological status, Latvian Protected Nature Territory URL
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: Wikidata Diff (compares two items; proof-of-concept, doesn't yet include qualifiers, etc.), Wikidata Recent Changes livestream
- Newest database reports: list of items with the property "has fruit type"
- Development
- Removing some config variables (phab:T93773)
- Fixing a conflict with Language Converter (phab:T166429)
- Showing badges in the sidebar (phab:T73887)
- Fixing a bug on Query Service (phab:T166762)
- Adjusting code reading from wb_terms (phab:T162673)
- Adding an accesskey to the undo button (phab:T165078)
- Fixing preferences settings for the new Echo notification (phab:T166657)
- Adding Rangi language (lag) to Wikidata (phab:T161983)
- Working on moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
- More work on usage tracking (phab:T151717)
- More work on Lexemes (phab:T157974)
- More work on statements (phab:T165480)
- More work on constraints (phab:T167107)
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!
The Bugle: Issue CXXXIV, June 2017
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The Signpost: 9 June 2017
- From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, help wanted!
- News and notes: Global Elections
- Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis
- Featured content: Three months in the land of the featured
- In the media: Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?
- Recent research: Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press
- Technology report: Tech news catch-up
- Traffic report: Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10
Thank you, Andy, and a question about categroy: aposematic species
Hi Andy, This is Joseph Jordania, from the University of Melbourne, great fan and supporter of Wikipedia.
Thank you very much for your numerous contributions to Wikipedia - the greatest pool of knowledge of humankind!
People like you, open-minded and altruistic, make this world a better place to live! Thank you!
I searched your talk page as I wanted to write you about the page that you added (category: aposematic species). Aposematism is a relatively unknown phenomenon, and this page is doing a great work, thank you!
I have couple of questions about this page (I will fully understand if you do not have time to answer my questions!):
- the actual number of aposematic species is much bigger than it is represented in this page. for example, most of the poisonous snakes and spiders, sporting bright colors, are also aposematic (some of them are already mentioned on your page).
- Besides, there are species, that are considered by some scholars as aposematic species - they could be added to the list as possible candidates. (there are also strange suggestions, for example, this August I will have a paper at the ISBE Conference in Portugal arguing that humans are also aposematic species...)
- There is a species on this list (peacock-pheasant) which might not be a clear case of aposematic species, as most of the time the peacock-pheasant tries to stay unnoticed (clear sign of cryptic species), and only when disturbed, turns to aposematic display. Aposematic animals are those who constantly try to be seen, heard and smelt, not only when they are spotted by predators.
Once again, thank you! Joseph — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.136.22.133 (talk) 10:27, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you for your kind words. You can edit Wikipedia! Feel free to add the category to any other articles where it applies. In the case of the pheasant I added the category because the article says it is aposematic. You could remove the category, but please update the article, too. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:15, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: May 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #264
- Discussions
- Discussion: Convert UBERON ID to external-id
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th
- Querying OSM + Wikidata from a single RDF database intro (YouTube video) by Yuri Astrakhan
- The Role of Librarians in Wikidata and WikiCite, by Katie Mika
- MySociety (Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The call for submissions for the WikidataCon program is now open! Submit your projects to share your experience with the community until July 31st
- You can also apply for a scholarship for the WikidataCon
- Breaking change: improving the schema of wb_terms table
- Wikidata Diff, a tool to compare the basic properties (no qualifiers/ ranks, yet) of two Wikidata items
- OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher, new tool for OpenStreetMap mappers, to match objects in OSM to Wikidata items, using the wikidata= tag in OSM
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: EspritBleu athlete ID, J.League manager ID, Sandbox-Geographic shape, SIMC place ID, Sandbox-Tabular data, therapeutic area, emulates, ESBL athlete ID, Rock.com.ar album ID, Rock.com.ar artist ID, Rock.com.ar biography ID, Danish List of Lights and Fog signals ID, South Australian Heritage Register Database ID, field of view, Shironet song ID, Shironet artist ID, Mastodon address, reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: matching things in OSM with Wikidata (more information)
- Newest database reports: new people gallery
- Development
- Updating wording re associated Wikidata item following move (phab:T158842)
- More work on Forms (phab:T163723)
- Fixing rank icon (phab:T85388)
- Add monolingual code fkv (phab:T167259)
- Add monolingual code lag (phab:T161983)
- More work on property constraints (phab:T167126)
- Script for populating term_full_entity_id column in wb_terms table (phab:T162533)
- Full support for wikibase edits in enhanced changes format (phab:T46874)
- Adding Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link (phab:T74815)
- New datatype for referencing Lexemes (phab:T165578)
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!
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
- Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [13]
- When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [14]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [15]
- Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [16]
- Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding
&fuzzy=1to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [17][18]
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15:29, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Template:FJC Bio
The FJC website has been revamped, the {{FJC Bio}} template no longer works in its current form. See Template talk:FJC Bio#Revamped site. --bender235 (talk) 08:02, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
- @Bender235:} I've made a temporary fix; see the template's talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:24, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017
Editorial
This newsletter starts with the motto "common endeavour for 21st century content". To unpack that slogan somewhat, we are particularly interested in the new, post-Wikidata collection of techniques that are flourishing under the Wikimedia collaborative umbrella. To linked data, SPARQL queries and WikiCite, add gamified participation, text mining and new holding areas, with bots, tech and humans working harmoniously.
Scientists, librarians and Wikimedians are coming together and providing a more unified view of an emerging area. Further integration of both its community and its technical aspects can be anticipated.
While Wikipedia will remain the discursive heart of Wikimedia, data-rich and semantic content will support it. We'll aim to be both broad and selective in our coverage. This publication Facto Post (the very opposite of retroactive) and call to action are brought to you monthly by ContentMine.
Links
- Engaging with Data blogposts around WikiFactMine
- Carly Strasser talks to Open Science Radio
- Thoughtful WikiCite blogs including discussion of data models on Wikidata:
- Fact mining in the digital humanities: Andrew Gray, Introducing: Six Degrees on Wikidata
- A predecessor: Project X newsletter archive
Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery
Template for Find a grave
Hi Pigsonthewing, IMHO, the Template for Find a grave section on unreliable should include a write up. Some users are deleting Find a Grave ref and External links from wikipedia article... See my talk. Need your opinion. I think Find a grave is a reliable source but subject to use with a slight risk. My request is not have the 'removal' part on the template page. SWP13 (talk) 21:39, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Many thanks
Dear Pigsonthewing, Many thanks indeed for starting the article on Osmund Reynolds - I see you have done a lot of work on it. It is good to know that some articles suggested at Wikipedia: Requested Articles get answered! Once again, thanks for creation of this page, it is appreciated. Vorbee (talk) 18:22, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Robert Steiner
Do you intend to fix all the broken links since your page move or...? GiantSnowman 20:17, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #265
- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, Germany, June 23-25th
- Upcoming: Peer-to-peer Wikidata workshop 2017, June 24th, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
- Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
wikimedia-office - Wikidata as authority linking hub (PDF). Presentation by Joachim Neubert (ZBW) and Jakob Voß (GBV) at ELAG 2017 conference in Athens
- Facto Post newsletter, first issue and comments on Wikidata at Wikidata:Project chat#Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017. Contains a number of blog links, particularly about WikiCite.
- WikidataCon
- Registration is now open! Check the information and fill the form to register.
- Let's build the program by proposing a project until July 31st
- Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We have reached 500,000,000 edits.
- You can now query the Mediawiki API from the Query Service (documentation)
- Your feedback is still welcome on the prototype for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia
- beaTunes 5’s new Album Info pane is powered by Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Zemereshet song ID, Zemereshet artist ID, identifier shared with, CONI athlete ID, CIS Chinese Athletes Database ID, COSR athlete ID, MOB athlete ID, COA athlete ID, Team USA athlete ID, ČOV athlete ID, LTOK athlete ID, COB athlete ID, Irish National Monument ID, FINESS medical facility ID, Irish Sites and Monuments Record ID, NZOC athlete ID, Norwegian List of Lights ID, Team Canada athlete ID, Deutsche Olympiamannschaft athlete ID, Academia.edu institutional ID, Ukrainian regulations base ID
- Query examples:
- Gallery of monsters of the Japanese folklore
- Lang by number of label (with quarry.wmflabs.org)
- The 10 smallest countries with some kind of urban rail transit system (source)
- Occupations with highest rate of deaths by homicide (source)
- Software titles ranked by number of readable file formats (source)
- Newest external tools: Causegraph, a tool to visualize and analyze cause/influence relationships using Wikidata
- Query examples:
- Development
- Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI
- Continued work on importing property constraints from statements (phab:T102759)
- Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (phab:T160053)
- More experimenting with the new front-end framework
- Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (phab:T167951)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Changes this week
irc.wikimedia.orghas to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [20]-
Special:PageDatawill be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [21] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.
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15:44, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 22
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 22, April-May 2017
- New and expanded research accounts
- Global branches update
- Spotlight: OCLC Partnership
- Bytes in brief
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:35, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 23 June 2017
- News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)
- In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill
- Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take
- Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues
- Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth
- Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all
Template:GeoGroup
Hi, could you help me a little to fix Template:GeoGroup at gl.wiki. I have posted the problem at discussion page. Bye, --Elisardojm (talk) 00:43, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you voted on
This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you voted on (2 RfCs, actually, one less than six months ago and another a year ago). The new RfC is at:
Specifically, it asks that "religion = none" be allowed in the infobox.
The first RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:
- 15 June 2015 RfC: RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion.
The result of that RfC was "unambiguously in favour of omitting the parameter altogether for 'none' " and despite the RfC title, additionally found that "There's no obvious reason why this would not apply to historical or fictional characters, institutions etc.", and that nonreligions listed in the religion entry should be removed when found "in any article".
The second RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:
- 31 December 2015 RfC: RfC: Religion in infoboxes.
The result of that RfC was that the "in all Wikipedia articles, without exception, nonreligions should not be listed in the Religion= parameter of the infobox.".
Note: I am informing everyone who commented on the above RfCs, whether they supported or opposed the final consensus. --Guy Macon (talk) 03:39, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Pigsonthewing. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Archie Norman (disambiguation), for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:
- edit the page
- remove the text that looks like this:
{{proposed deletion/dated...}} - save the page
Also, be sure to explain why you think the article should be kept in your edit summary or on the article's talk page. If you don't do so, it may be deleted later anyway.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.
Nomination of Archie Norman (disambiguation) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Archie Norman (disambiguation) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archie Norman (disambiguation) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 14:06, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #266
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, June 26th
- Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
wikimedia-office - Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some documentation in German)
- Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata, by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project
- ORCID Mania (in response to this call for a tool to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata)
- I use Wikidata for multilingual names, by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot'
- Resource discovery and Wikidata
- Where the streets have known names - Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata
- Extracting scientists from Wikipedia - Academic paper
- ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es) by the Cervantes virtual library
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- What are your favorite tools using Wikidata?
- Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata
- New Wikidata Game: Wikidata Guessr guess the locations of random Wikidata items
- OpenRefine 2.7 has been released, including the Wikidata Reconcile service
- Nice graphics about Wikidata and the Query Service (in German) by Bleeptrack
- New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed to match the catalogue
- Some help needed to map the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger and the Glottolog catalogue
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID, MyAnimeList manga ID, MyAnimeList anime ID, MyAnimeList character ID, MyAnimeList people ID, HFC NPS unit ID, image captured with, Biodiversity Heritage Library creator ID, number of houses, Theatres Trust Database ID, SKIP code, Pizmonet ID, WorldSBK.com racer identifier, Czech Monument Catalogue Number, FFN swimmer ID, Wikia wiki ID
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: VizQuery
- Development
- Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example)
- Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (phab:T167870)
- More work on constraints checks (phab:T168629)
- Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (phab:T46874)
- Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (phab:T167625)
- Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (phab:T163923)
- Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (phab:T165567)
- Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (phab:T163119)
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!