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The Signpost: 4 August 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information

• News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open

• In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias

• Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24

• Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary

• Featured content: Woman and Hawaii

• Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks

• Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most

• Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 2016. augusztus 5., 01:34 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #221

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Repository Fringe (slides)
  • Past: WikiConference India 2016
  • Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic is SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
  • Upcoming: SMWCon (call for contributions)
  • Visualizing the DNC vs RNC conventions with Wikipedia+Wikidata+BigQuery
  • Livin’ on the edge
  • Communes orphelines?
  • Paper: Getting the units right: inferring identifier units from a corpus of formulae in Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Paper: Querying Wikidata: Comparing SPARQL, Relational and Graph Databases
  • Paper: WIKIREADING: A Novel Large-scale Language Understanding Task over Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We now have two new pages to find property proposal discussions that need input: Property proposal/Overview, Property proposal/Attention needed
  • WSDM2017 Cup on knowledge base quality and search including tasks about vandalism detection in Wikidata (announcement)
  • Sitelinks for the new Tulu Wikipedia can be added
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.7.0 has been released
  • Several grant proposals that could use endorsements or discussion: Wikidata module, StrepHit IEG renewal, Librarybase, WikiFactMine
  • 15% of items connected to articles on Japanese Wikipedia have no statements (report with categories on these pages)
  • Wikidata descriptions on mobile web version of Wikipedia
  • Job opening at TIB
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: wheelbase, IWM memorial ID, spatial reference system, precipitation height, ISBN publisher prefix, Indonesian ethnicity code, package management system, adjacent building, EPPO Code, sheet music, UK National Archives ID, open period to, open period from, closed on, open days, ITU letter code, Legacies of British Slave-ownership person ID, flag bearer, Iranica ID
  • Query examples: places of worship in France (source), former capitals (source), Edinburgh-born authors and their notable works (source), movies by David Lynch by duration (source), descendants of Gustav Vasa, people sharing the same name, the other way around, Tony awards nominees and winners (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece
  • Newest database reports: List of Roman dictators
• Development
  • Glorian joins the team for 6 months as a product management intern
  • Example dialog on query.wikidata.org now shows categories (phabricator:T140576)
  • Map result view now allows layers and multi colored dots (preview)
  • Made the tatus bar messages in the Query Service translatable (phabricator:T140383)
  • Made it easier to notice that embedded Query Service results can be edited and are coming from Wikidata (phabricator:T138766)
  • Improved the way error messages are displayed while editing items (phabricator:T141880, phabricator:T141879)
  • Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (phabricator:T141862)
  • Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (phabricator:T142034)
  • Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T139977)
  • Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T124036)
  • Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T137933)
  • Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (phabricator:T141878)
  • Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (phabricator:T140760)
• 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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 2016. augusztus 9., 11:40 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #222

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic was SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
  • Upcoming: a Wikidata workshop in French will be conducted by Ash Crow and Harmonia Amanda during the French-speaking Wikiconvention on 21st August 2016 in Paris
  • History of Parliament and Wikidata – the first round complete
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Léa joins the team as Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
  • ArticlePlaceholder is now live on Welsh and Kannada Wikipedia
  • You can now render sparql queries using the Histropedia timeline engine. Example : Structures in London, colour coded by heritage status

    

    Structures in London on Histropedia

  • The Wikidata image search tool can now show Commons images around items (example)
  • Job offer : Textmining, Hochschule Hannover
  • New templates: {{Australia properties}}, {{Indonesia properties}}, {{United Kingdom properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
  • UK Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register has been added to Mix'n'Match
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: SIMBAD ID, destroyed, damaged, game artist, standard enthalpy of formation, Cineplex film ID, Open Beauty Facts category ID, official religion, Grace's Guide ID, CosIng number, Storting person ID, standard molar entropy, dynamic viscosity, UN document symbol, WIPO ST.3, GS1 country code, GLAM ID, RERO ID, LepIndex ID, gestation period, Basisregistratie Instellingen number, ButMoth ID, Architectuurgids building ID, Architectuurgids architect ID, Charity Commission no., Turner Classic Movies person ID, NAQ elected person ID, Ontario MPP ID, K League player ID, Bloomberg person ID, Kindred Britain ID, CMFS player ID, Scottish FA player ID, racing-reference driver ID, footballzz ID, Fora De Jogo player ID, HanCinema person ID, College Football HoF ID, scoresway soccer person id, CageMatch wrestling stable id, luminous intensity, SoundCloud ID
  • Query examples: 2016 Olympics flag bearers (source), Composer that scored more than 100 films (source), churches using the same image (source), Challenge: Find a class with more fictional instances than real ones (source), items on human genes with unreferenced statements (source), Women elected to the UK Paliament (via WD:RAQ), Treaties of Paris (source), fictional thoroughfares (source), map of sports teams, with layers for different sports (source), big cities grouped into map layers by population (source), Free software with/without license (source), treaties with/without a date (source), capitals that aren’t capitals (soure), works of art depicting many people (source)
• Development
  • mw:Wikibase/DataModel/JSON#time was revised, clarifying the use for dates before year 1.
  • Language code "non" for Old Norse is now available for monolingual text (phabricator:T137115)
  • Worked more on better visual layout of references (phabricator:T141862)
  • Fixed issue with references not being expanded in diff view (phabricator:T129836)
  • Added link to Wikidata item from ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T126873)
  • Enabled ArticlePlaceholder on knwiki and cywiki
  • Removed collapsing behaviour from error messages (phabricator:T141879)
  • Started writing out next steps for how to use Wikidata items and properties on Commons
  • Drafting interface stability policy (phabricator:T142084)
  • Worked more in making it possible to create mediainfo entities by adding a statement to a non-existing one (phabricator:T140760)
• 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) 2016. augusztus 16., 10:26 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #223

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Category commons P373 and "Other sites"
    • Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
    • Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties
    • Refining "part of"
    • Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
    • Wikidata:Notability overhaul
    • RfP voting eligibility
    • Standards for property proposal discussions
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • August 17-19 : VIVO conference, see also the keynote about collaboratively created, linked open knowledge.
  • August 20-21 : the Wikiconvention in Paris. Check the notes taken during the Wikidata workshop
  • Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM, on the Wikimedia Foundation blog
  • All your locations are belong to us on Magnus' blog
  • Paper: An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
  • Paper: Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata Using COOL-WD
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job offer : PHP software developer for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Wikidata has now a stable interface policy to guarantee the stability of the tools
  • Enabling Wikidata data access in user language
  • COOL-WD now includes a gadget to show completeness information in Wikidata
  • Mix'n'Match can list entries of some external databases, and allows users to match them against Wikidata items. A new catalogue for ContentMine has been added!
  • WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for Central Cambridge)
  • Extracting Wikidata annotations to create DBpedia mappings project during Google Summer of Code
• Did you know?

  

  Popular surnames among humans

  • Newest properties: develops from, recovered by, film crew member, mount, flight number, Flags of the World ID, ID of Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, fiscal/tax revenue, speed limit, qualifies for event, freedom of panorama
  • Query examples:
    • A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below"). This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
    • Common occupations of heads of state (source).
    • Murderers by region in France (source).
    • Authors with a known location and an ORCID (source).
    • Popular surnames among humans (source).
    • Movies that won all the Oscars they were nominated for (source).
    • Colors with multiple RGB statements (source)
    • Filmography of Jean Gabin (source)
    • Cities as big as Antwerp (source)
    • Cities connected by the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Siberian Railway (source)
    • Histropedia timeline of Europeana280 artworks (source)
  • Newest gadgets: Sort the statements on items, prefill "access date" with current date
  • New templates: {{Belgium properties}}, {{France properties}}, {{Italy properties}}, {{Spain properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
  • Newest database reports: list of riders and their horse
• Development
  • Continuing to work on the concepts for the automatic list generation
  • Enable allow data access in user language will come on Wikidata soon
  • Menus are now internationalised on the query service
  • Clarified error message when adding a URL without a protocol
  • Created a gadget to try out global sort order in items
  • Fixed a bug where the input field for a value was not loaded
  • Worked on the interface stability policy
  • Made possible to create mediainfo entity by adding a statement
  • Worked on showing from which items a given Wikipedia article uses data
• 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) 2016. augusztus 23., 18:29 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #224

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

• Discussions
  • We need your input about how you edit lists on Wikipedia

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, 3rd September, University of Pardubice
  • Past: Wikidata workshop by Asaf Bartov during the CEE WikiConv in Dilijan, Armenia
  • Past: Wikidata presentation during Django Girls in Berlin
  • GSoC at Wikimedia (Part 1 of 3), by Alangi Derick
  • Modeling books in Wikidata by Aubrey and Chiara Storti
  • Paper: Vandalism Detection in Wikidata, by Stefan Heindorf, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein and Gregor Engels

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
  • WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
  • The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
  • enabling data access in user language will be deployed on Wikidata on August 29

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Tela Botanica ID (Metropolitan France), Gare & Connexions ID, has tense, Plantarium ID, FloraBase ID, Flora of Australia ID, Internet Bird Collection species ID, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier, ISBN identifier group, KML file, practiced by
  • Query examples:
    • RADA alumni with a good or featured article on Wikipedia (source)
    • Historians with links to French Wikipedia or Wikisource, but missing VIAF ID (source)
    • Unicorn taxa, including the Indian rhinoceros (source)
    • Mithras shrines, as a map (source)
    • 2.300 Wikidata archaeological sites without coordinates (source)
    • All items on Wikidata whom we know we don't know their sex or gender: (source)
    • Drug-disease interactions (source)
    • Nicknames of serial killers (source)
    • Dynamic data map of all U-bahn lines in Berlin with colors (source)
    • Timeline of internet services by type to celebrate 25 yrs of the web (source)
    • Network of color (source)
    • Dynamic data map of all country by year of joining the United Nations (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Theatre
  • Newest gadgets:
  • Newest external tools: Wikidata Class Browser (includes subclass counts and instance counts)
  • Newest database reports:
  • New feature/gadget requests:
  • Showcase items:

• Development
  • Fixed a but where the text field doesn't always load when trying to add a statement (phabricator:T115267)
  • We're now also creating mediainfo entities when a statement is added to a non-existent media info entity (phabricator:T140760)
  • Fixed a but where the suggester would show information twice (phabricator:T143645)
  • The ArticlePlaceholder now also shows the links to other projects in the In Other Projects sidebar (phabricator:T141771)
  • Worked more in figuring out how to show usage tracking data (phabricator:T103091)
  • Made progress on Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add useful and complete references (phabricator:T141856)
  • Worked on restore "purge without confirm" user right (phabricator:T143435)

• 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) 2016. augusztus 29., 15:41 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #225

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

• Discussions
  • Remember that we would love to have your input about data quality on Wikidata and list generation on Wikipedia!
  • What would you like to organize for Wikidata's 4rth birthday?

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • “Ben Whishaw, Broadway, the RADA and Wikidata” (data integration in the era of semantic web) by Harmonia Amanda
  • Hands-on research about Wikidata: My time as a PhD student at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. by Alessandro Piscopo
  • 3 tutorial videos about Wikidata: an intro to Wikidata, how to edit Wikidata and Wikidata Sparql Query Tutorial by Ewan McAndrew, Navino Evans and Sean McBirnie
  • Past: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, Pardubice – imported much open data related to the Czech Republic
  • Past: Lydia and Jens from the Wikidata team were at the QTcon to talk about Wikidata and applications (see the slides)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The events page is now up to date. You want to join or organise a meetup with other Wikidata editors? Keep an eye on this page!
  • 30K entries from Kindred Britain added in Mix’n’Match
  • Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
  • Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
  • English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: parent peak, elCinema person ID, elCinema film ID, TripAdvisor ID, NSZL name authority ID, last line, Redalyc journal ID, NSW Flora ID, cine.gr film ID, CiNetMag film ID, Latindex ID, ALCUIN ID, EDRPOU code, Polish scientist ID, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, OpenDomesday person ID, Epguides ID, TOID, Code for China Reservoir Name, OpenDomesday settlement ID, DSSTOX substance identifier, ISzDb dub ID, ISzDb company ID, ISzDb person ID, does not have part, DistroWatch ID, FEI ID, ISzDb film ID, Peakbagger ID, Yelp ID, LdiF ID, Guardian topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • People convicted of regicide and their victims (source)
    • The most common birthday among US citizens (source)
    • Things named after Polish people (source)
    • Drama schools by number of students (source)
    • Average gestation period of genera (source)
    • Sir Christopher Lee's filmography (with film directors) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Armenia, Czech Republic

• Development
  • RDF exports now contain page properties, this allows to query by number of statements or sitelinks (T129046)
  • Working on unit conversion for RDF exports (T117031)
  • Enabling Wikidata data access in user language deployed (T122670)
  • Information about usage of entities in other projects will be visible and reusable (T103091)
  • Pasting full entity URLs into suggesters will be possible (T117763)
  • Added meta descriptions to allow for better snippets in external search engines (T88475)
  • We replaced the old parser limit report (an HTML comment) with the new format (T143423)
  • Ongoing refactoring of the frontend JavaScript, this may break user scripts accessing private properties (T142694)

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) 2016. szeptember 5., 16:19 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #226

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Keynote by Lydia Pintscher at DBpedia conference, September 15th, Leipzig.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for beginners, September 16, Paris
  • Upcoming: Semantic MediaWiki Conference, September 28-30, Frankfurt
  • Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
  • Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
  • Research on WikiProject Knowledge Organization Systems presented at 15th NKOS workshop at TPDL: Classification of Knowledge Organization Systems with Wikidata: Presentation and Paper.
  • Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Tpt
  • Sunday Query: The 200 Oldest Living French Actresses, query tutorial by Harmonia Amanda
  • How to prototype Wikidata entities (in French) by Poulpy

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have new graphic material to present Wikidata. Feel free to use these files in your slides/talks/documents :)
  • #SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
  • Researcher? You can participate in the WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
  • How to build a query by Pigsonthewing
  • Wikipedia gets Map links and Geoshapes service using Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Scottish Charity number, Rock Hall of Fame ID, has grammatical mood, Minnesota legislator ID, UGent Memorialis id, enclosure, event distance, Australian Classification, Runeberg book ID, Runeberg author ID, Crossref funder ID, Findsmiley ID, iNaturalist taxon ID, birthday, molecule conformation, repeals, United States Reports ID, CiNetMag person ID, YouTheater ID, elFilm person ID, elFilm film ID, EDb person ID, EDb film ID, SourehCinema person ID, SourehCinema film ID, OFDb ID
  • Query examples:
    • Posthumous marriages (source)
    • Communes of France with more than one railway station (source)
    • Languages and their grammatical cases they have in common (source)
    • Cocktails recipes (source)
    • People who died in the last seven days (source)
    • Places of birth of 20th century saints (source)
  • New templates: {{Denmark properties}}, {{Greece properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.

• Development
  • Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
  • Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
  • Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
  • A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
  • Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
  • Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
  • Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)

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) 2016. szeptember 13., 12:17 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #227

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

• Discussions
  • We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please read the proposal and give us your feedback :)
  • New request for comments: Merging male and female labels

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: State of the map, September 23 - 25, Brussels
  • Next Wikidata office hour: Tuesday September 27th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), in #wikimedia-office
  • Video of a SPARQL workshop (& materials) organized by Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams
  • Slides of Lydia's keynote about Wikidata at the DBpedia conference 2016
  • Slides of Andreas Thalhammer about Unified PageRank for DBpedia and Wikidata
  • #SundayQuery: ask for help on queries every Sunday on Twitter! This week, a tutorial about surnames by Harmonia Amanda, and how to use SPARQL and Python to fix typographical errors by Ash Crow

• Other Noteworthy Stuff

Quality process on Wikidata

• • The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
  • The RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs.
  • You can also activate ORES the review tool to watch damaging edits more easily!
  • There's an infographic on the quality process in Wikidata you can use and edit.
  • You can also use and translate this new datamodel representation.
  • How to fix taxon common names with Pywikibot, tutorial by TweetsFactsAndQueries and Tobias1984.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Visual Novel Database ID, territory overlaps, Zaragoza monument ID, Patrimonio Web JCyL ID, uses property, Statoids ID, art director, offers view on, World Bridge Federation ID, Olympic.org ID, Cultural Heritage Armenia ID, Harasire ID, Sporthorse data ID, Allbreedpedigree ID, Webpedigrees ID, Horsetelex ID
  • Query examples:
    • Embassies (source)
    • World map of water towers (source)
    • "Battles of the Middle Ages" without place or date (source)
    • Asteroids named after characters from works by Lewis Caroll (source)
    • Map of Austrian cultural heritage (source)
    • Statues in Paris depicting historical female figures (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of embassies

• Development
  • We're working on entity usage on Wikimedia projects, check our different features
  • The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (WikiCon, ViewSource, DPpedia, SoCraTes, Write the doc) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)

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) 2016. szeptember 19., 18:05 (CEST)