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Hi, I'm beginning an article on my sandbox on the Citizen Science Association (CSA). This is a recently-formed association (2013), but it does have a history when tied in with other organisations. The CSA has just last week started a peer-reviewed open access journal 'Citizen Science: Theory and Practice' (CSTP). In the upcoming second issue, a history of the CSA will be featured in a peer-reviewed article. Am I able to use this history as a source in a WP article on the CSA?

http://citizenscience.org/

To be frank, I'll need a lot of help getting an article together on the CSA. Having worked with you briefly at a Zooniverse Wikithon, you seem to be a good bet for giving overview and such. A look at the Board of Directors shows that this is a serious association that needs a top quality article. But I am worried about having enough 3rd party sources to make this article. While there is a comprehensive website run with the help of Cornell University, can I use this at all?

https://citizenscienceassociation.org/overview/board-of-directors/

So, it would be good of you to help me. I'm also a member of the CSA, as are over 4000 others. Does this matter? If we could get a conversation going it would help a lot and also mean that the co-editors of CSTP could view some Q's and A's. Thanks for your time... Richard Nowell (talk) 19:55, 24 May 2016 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-05-24T19:55:00.000Z","author":"Richard Nowell","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Richard_Nowell-2016-05-24T19:55:00.000Z-New_article_on_the_Citizen_Science_Association","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2016-05-25T19:44:00.000Z-Richard_Nowell-2016-05-24T19:55:00.000Z"]}}-->

Hi @Richard Nowell: It's good to hear from you, how are things? I think that the article on the history of the CSA should be a fine source to use for factual information, as well as their website. However, you do need those third party sources to demonstrate notability - and if you don't have you may run into problems when you move the article from your sandbox to user space. Has the organisation had significant news articles about it yet? With regards being a member, I'd encourage you to have a look at WP:COI, and you may want to declare your membership (e.g. on your user page or the article talk page), but I don't think it's an unmanageable COI. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:44, 25 May 2016 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-05-25T19:44:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2016-05-25T19:44:00.000Z-Richard_Nowell-2016-05-24T19:55:00.000Z","replies":["c-Richard_Nowell-2016-05-26T06:36:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2016-05-25T19:44:00.000Z"]}}-->

Thanks for reply. I'm struggling on but better for it. Third party sources need to be found. COI is manageable. Have a nice bank holiday. Richard Nowell (talk) 06:36, 26 May 2016 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-05-26T06:36:00.000Z","author":"Richard Nowell","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Richard_Nowell-2016-05-26T06:36:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2016-05-25T19:44:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

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    • interview with Open Science Radio
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  • Worked on fix for issue with language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T135714)
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Hi Mike, thanks for getting the Royal Oak started. I've tarted up the infobox a bit, but would also like to improve the referencing. Have a look at Stoneacre, Kent and see how {{sfn}} is used in the text and {{NHLE}} (the precursor of {{National Heritage List for England}} is used. I've not seen <ref name=xxx> ... </ref> used in reference sections before, it adds an additional link. Is there a good reason for this? If not I'll have a go later this evening. Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 18:40, 5 June 2016 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-06-05T18:40:00.000Z","author":"Martin of Sheffield","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Martin_of_Sheffield-2016-06-05T18:40:00.000Z-Royal_Oak","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2016-06-05T18:47:00.000Z-Martin_of_Sheffield-2016-06-05T18:40:00.000Z"]}}-->

Hi @Martin of Sheffield: thanks for improving the infobox! I'm really not a fan of the sfn style of referencing - you can read the detailed reasons why at Talk:Croome_Court#Citation_system, but to cut a long story short: I don't like the two-part reference format that requires readers to click twice to see the full reference, as opposed to the simpler inline reference system. Moving the ref code to the end is just a way to keep the wikitext a bit cleaner and easier to edit.

I'm planning on nominating the article for DYK shortly - any suggestions for the hook? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:47, 5 June 2016 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-06-05T18:47:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2016-06-05T18:47:00.000Z-Martin_of_Sheffield-2016-06-05T18:40:00.000Z","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2016-06-05T18:56:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2016-06-05T18:47:00.000Z"]}}-->

DYK nomination now at Template:Did you know nominations/Royal Oak, Frindsbury. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:56, 5 June 2016 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-06-05T18:56:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2016-06-05T18:56:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2016-06-05T18:47:00.000Z","replies":["c-Martin_of_Sheffield-2016-06-05T19:08:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2016-06-05T18:56:00.000Z"]}}-->

We'll have to disagree then, but possibly less than you think. I too like keeping the text clean and easier to edit, that's why I prefer the sfn system. It seems logical to me to have a bibliographic list (essentially a database), and then keep the page references in a minimised form. It may not a problem repeating the citation or giving a large range for a two or three page reference, but when you are citing pages all over a full sized book it becomes a bit meaningless. I've twigged what you are up to now with the list-defined references, I'd just not seen them used before. Anyhow, all this is beside the point, you established the style first and I'm not about to waste our time trying to seek consensus (from two people) for a change! Martin of Sheffield (talk) 19:08, 5 June 2016 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-06-05T19:08:00.000Z","author":"Martin of Sheffield","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Martin_of_Sheffield-2016-06-05T19:08:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2016-06-05T18:56:00.000Z","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2016-06-05T19:16:00.000Z-Martin_of_Sheffield-2016-06-05T19:08:00.000Z"]}}-->

Thanks. :-) Just to say: the sfn system does make sense when you're doing multi-page book references, but we don't have any of those refs in this article (yet?). Personally I would love to see a proper database of refs behind an article, Wikidata-esque perhaps - something for the future hopefully. :-) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:16, 5 June 2016 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-06-05T19:16:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":5,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2016-06-05T19:16:00.000Z-Martin_of_Sheffield-2016-06-05T19:08:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

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  • Upcoming: HackHPI
  • Upcoming: ELAG
  • Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
  • Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
  • wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
  • It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: exact match, reserve number (Canada), Shakeosphere person ID, mains voltage, HKMDb film ID, relegated, promoted, NIOSHTIC-2 ID
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• Development
  • Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (phabricator:T115792)
  • Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (phabricator:T136543)
  • Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
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  • Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
  • More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
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This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue V, May 2016 Headlines Africa report: Joburg, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana Brazil report: Immigration Museum of Sao Paulo: first steps towards an open access policy France report: Photography, a true hobby! Germany report: "Licence hint generator" at WMDEs event series about legal issues Italy report: A full month of activities Latvia report: Edit-a-thon in Latvian Academy of Culture Macedonia report: 1963 Skopje earthquake 300 photos Mexico report: Forestry and the Longest Edit-a-thon in history Netherlands report: Colonial images; Coutinho collection; Open Cultural Data; Netherlands and the world; NL Art History challenge Norway report: International Memory of the world register; Speak Norwegian? Access to The National Library's bokhylla.no? Spain report: Wiki Loves Earth; free resources; Pentathlon Wikimedia Sweden report: LSH upload; World Wide Wikipedia; Nationalmuseum Switzerland report: ETH-Bibliothek commences mass uploading campaign for photographs from the Image Archive UK report: Oxford and Scotland USA report: Archivist Award Special story: Ted Speakers Challenge - Win Books! Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves report: UNESCO and Wiki Loves Earth partner to run Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves in 120 countries throughout June Open Access report: WikiCite; Fluorescent vertebrates; Insights into a singer's head WMF GLAM report: WMF GLAM report Wikidata report: We feel used (and that makes us happy) OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey report: Survey results presented at conferences in Hong Kong and Montreal Wikimania report: GLAM at Wikimania Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Hello! Your submission of Royal Oak, Frindsbury at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! — Maile (talk) 21:36, 12 June 2016 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-06-12T21:36:00.000Z","author":"Maile66","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Maile66-2016-06-12T21:36:00.000Z-DYK_nomination_of_Royal_Oak,_Frindsbury","replies":["c-Maile66-2016-06-12T21:36:00.000Z-Maile66-2016-06-12T21:36:00.000Z"],"displayName":"\u2014 Maile"}}-->

QPQ needed. — Maile (talk) 21:36, 12 June 2016 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-06-12T21:36:00.000Z","author":"Maile66","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Maile66-2016-06-12T21:36:00.000Z-Maile66-2016-06-12T21:36:00.000Z","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2014 Maile"}}-->

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements - feedback on the Primary Sources Tool
  • Others: Discussion about currency conversion rates, P2893_-_wrong_datatype
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimania - find all the Wikidata things happening here
  • Upcoming: Repo-Fringe 2016
  • Past: HackHPI
  • Past: ELAG (slides)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Passionate about Wikidata and a great communicator? We are looking to hire a community communications person.
  • Gujarati, Latvian and Nynorsk Wikipedia now have the ArticlePlaceholder as well.
  • Catalan and Polish Wikipedia will show Wikidata descriptions on the mobile website starting soon. More Wikipedias will follow. (phabricator:T135429)
  • Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: RateBeer brewery ID, Beer Advocate brewery ID, Molendatabase verdwenen molens ID, fax number, minimum age, Swedish county letter, Eldoblaje Movie ID, publication interval, maximum sustained winds, day of week, Skype, UMLS CUI, FamilySearch ID
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• Development
  • Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons.
  • Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at https://jonaskress.github.io
  • Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service.
  • Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari.
  • Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias.
  • Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates.
• You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (phabricator:T137061)
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Hello Mike I plan to make a paper for a french scientific magazine, "astrosurf magazine". The subject will be the observation campaign of the variable SS Cyg made by myself and others via the AAVSO but also the Swift satellite and the eMerlin system. To illustrate this paper I wolud be very happy if I can add some pictures from your base such as : - Defford Radio Telescope, part of eMerlin - Model of the Swift satellite. I plan to add the following text license : Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). Is that enough ? Another question, did you get any information about the first results of this campaign? I got no news yet. Thank you for your help, much appreciated. Kind Regards Michel Deconinck Aquarellia (talk) 06:39, 14 June 2016 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-06-14T06:39:00.000Z","author":"Aquarellia","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Aquarellia-2016-06-14T06:39:00.000Z-Request_for_picture_use","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2016-06-14T22:26:00.000Z-Aquarellia-2016-06-14T06:39:00.000Z"]}}-->

Thanks for getting in touch - I've replied by email. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:26, 14 June 2016 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-06-14T22:26:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2016-06-14T22:26:00.000Z-Aquarellia-2016-06-14T06:39:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

Wikimania 2016 is almost here! Mjohnson (WMF) and I are running two workshops for IdeaLab during the conference, and you are invited to join us for either (or both!)

If you have a proposal or idea you are thinking about, and would like a space to work on it on your own or with others, please consider joining us for either the Thursday or Saturday sessions. We'll discuss a little about IdeaLab and how it works, and the rest of the time is space for idea building. You can also use this session to ask questions about Wikimedia Foundation grants that are available if your proposal or idea may need funding. Thanks, and see you at the conference! I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 20:45, 19 June 2016 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-06-19T20:45:00.000Z","author":"I JethroBT(WMF)","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-I_JethroBT(WMF)-2016-06-19T20:45:00.000Z-Wikimania_2016:_IdeaLab_Workshops","replies":[]}}-->

On 20 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Royal Oak, Frindsbury, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Royal Oak (pictured), a 17th-century public house in Frindsbury, is rumoured to contain a timber from the HMS Royal Oak? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Royal Oak, Frindsbury. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Royal Oak, Frindsbury), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimania
  • Upcoming: WikiConvention francophone
  • Past: GLAM Wiki Boot Camp
  • Past: Silicon Mountain Conf
  • Past: OpenData.ch
  • Past: Semantic Web + Wikidata
  • Wikidata beim Hackathon HackHPI in Potsdam
  • Data Ex Machina
  • Op-ed in the Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • ORES is not available as a beta feature to make it easier to find bad edits
  • New user script to show the main image of an item is ready for testing
  • Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
  • Want to see Wikidata changes in the history of a Wikipedia article? There is a user script that needs your feedback.
  • We are looking for people who work on list articles.
  • You can test a gadget that lets you easily run a query for more items with the same statement.
  • Language fallback is now happening on Wikipedia and co
  • Maps are now enabled on Wikidata
  • First beta release of StrepHit
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID, focal height, month of the year, label in sign language, PO Box, COAM ID, syntax clarification, ECARTICO person ID, MSBI person ID, date depicted, distinctive jersey, time gap, icon, SecondHandSongs artist ID, SecondHandSongs song ID, timezone offset
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  • Newest WikiProjects: Professional Wrestling
  • ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (source)
• Development
  • Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
  • More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (phabricator:T134259)
  • Fixed a but with suggestions not showing up (phabricator:T138059)
  • Improved display of query examples (phabricator:T137589) and cleaned them up
  • Improved database access (phabricator:T137539)
  • Fixed a but with the rank selector (phabricator:T109583)
  • Started concept work for automated list generation
  • Discussed the proposal for Wiktionary with a linguist to get more detailed feedback on it. Very positive.
• Monthly Tasks
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  • Help develop the next summary here!
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  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Verifiability and living persons, RfP voting eligibility
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikimania! The Wikidata-related program parts including slides and notes can be found on the Wikidata Wikimania page.
  • TIB and HsH project approved: The replication of Open-Access images
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
  • Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
  • SQID now shows references (example)
  • INSPIRE HEP has been added to Mix'n'match
  • PAWS is now available. It lets you easily run a Jupyter notebook and much more.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: language used, connector, Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers identifier, INSPIRE-HEP author ID, lighthouse range, memory capacity, water as percent of area, InterPro ID, domain of saint or deity
  • Query examples: sandwich ingredients (source), inventors killed by their own invention (source), objects with most mass (source), music genres (source), number of jurisdictions by driving side (source)
• Development
  • The majority of the Wikidata developers team atteded Wikimania
  • You can now embed query results from query.wikidata.org in other websites (example)
  • Linking MediaInfo entities to media files in the "MediaInfo for Commons" prototype (phabricator:T134473)
  • Tracking more statistics for the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T138500)
  • Adding support for quantity values with unknown uncertainty (phabricator:T115269)
  • Worked on fix for bug where new entities can be created with wrong language (phabricator:T138725)
• 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.

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Europeana280 Art History Challenge has finished
    • Europeana blog post
    • video
    • Wikimedia blog post
  • The life and times of Mr Herbert Ellerby: Linking Llandudno, Lancashire, and Moggill, Australia
  • Wikidata auf der GPN
  • Past: PSESHSF (You can sign up to be notified about more Wikidata workshops in France)
  • Past: Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon
  • Upcoming: office hour on IRC
  • Upcoming: State of the Map US in Seattle - http://stateofthemap.us/
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia UK AGM with Wikidata training
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
  • Tobias started writing a tutorial on how to write infoboxes that make use of Wikidata's data and could use your help expanding it.
  • Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: British Book Trade Index ID, Plarr ID, warheroes.ru ID, Dailymotion channel ID, Munk's Roll ID, Catalogus Professorum Rostochensium ID, CageMatch tag team ID, Pleiades place type identifier, parliamentary term
  • Query examples: Ancestors of Guðni Jóhannesson (note the last names), movies with Bud Spencer (source), largest cities per country (source), longest river of each continent (source), rivers in Antarctica (source), continents (source), and some other continents (source), places with continent Antarctica more than 3000 km north of south pole (source), files used as “image” in more than 10 items (source), monuments historiques in Loire-Atlantique (source), music composers by birth place (source), places of whorship (source), teachers with most students (source), buildings in more than one country (source), sandwiches (source), composers and their most-used tonality (source), former capitals (source), list of suicide attacks (source), birthplaces of people named Antoine (source), places that are below 10 meters above sea level (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Etymology, Knowledge Organization Systems
  • Newest external tools: Navel Gazer (users statement addition counts)
• Development
  • More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
  • Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (phabricator:T89663)
  • Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (phabricator:T127056 and gerrit:294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
  • Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long, medium, short
  • Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (phabricator:T138974)
  • Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (phabricator:T139284)
• 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.

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, blog post by Mapbox
  • Past: office hour on IRC (log)
  • Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon
  • Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull
  • Upcoming: OpenSym
  • Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
  • An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
  • Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The removal of Persondata from the English Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to Wikidata at KasparBot's tool.
  • Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias
  • Freebase API will be shut down on August 31
  • TXT Werk is now using Wikidata to identify entities (previously Freebase)
  • Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget
  • Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding? A project grant might be an option.
  • There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden with Markus including work on Wikidata
  • Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: archive date, permanent duplicated item, throughput, NAIF ID, point of penalty, Transferred Account Data Interchange Group Code, Estonian Research Portal person ID, bateau d'intérêt patrimonial, Cultural heritage database in Austria ObjektID, Nomisma ID, WikiTree ID, Estonian cultural monument ID, BacDive ID
  • Query examples: timeline of space probes (source), countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites (source), places in America named after places in England (source), emergency number by country size (source)
• Development
  • Working on an infographic to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
  • Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (phabricator:T107595)
  • Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
  • Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (phabricator:T139509)
  • Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137115)
  • Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (phabricator:T133973)
  • Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (phabricator:T138413)
  • Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (phabricator:T136814)
  • Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set (phabricator:T115270)
• 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.

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