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Your BRFA, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Pi bot has been approved - this is limited to bot/operator user space at low volumes. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:53, 28 February 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-02-28T01:53:00.000Z","author":"Xaosflux","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Xaosflux-2017-02-28T01:53:00.000Z-Your_BRFA","replies":[]}}-->

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).

Administrator changes

Amortias • Deckiller • BU Rob13

Ronnotel • Islander • Chamal N • Isomorphic • Keeper76 • Lord Voldemort • Shereth • Bdesham • Pjacobi

Guideline and policy news

• A recent RfC has redefined how articles on schools are evaluated at AfD. Specifically, secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist.
• AfDs that receive little participation should now be closed like an expired proposed deletion, following a deletion process RfC.
• Defender, HakanIST, Matiia and Sjoerddebruin are our newest stewards, following the 2017 steward elections.
• The 2017 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Góngora, Krd, Lankiveil, Richwales and Vogone. They will serve for approximately 1 year.

Technical news

• A recent query shows that only 16% of administrators on the English Wikipedia have enabled two-factor authentication. If you haven't already enabled it please consider doing so.
• Cookie blocks should be deployed to the English Wikipedia soon. This will extend the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user after they switch accounts under a new IP.
• A bot will now automatically place a protection template on protected pages when admins forget to do so.

On 3 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton, was built in 1869 and was recently restored, only for its roof and interior to be destroyed by fire in February 2017? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton), 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.

Mifter (talk) 12:02, 3 March 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-03-03T12:02:00.000Z","author":"Mifter","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Mifter-2017-03-03T12:02:00.000Z-DYK_for_Church_of_the_Ascension,_Lower_Broughton","replies":[]}}-->

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • International Open Data Day was on Saturday, 4 March (tweets about Wikidata)
  • Wikidata documentation sprint during the Wikimedia hackathon (May 19-21): We need your help to improve Wikidata help pages!
  • Getting to know Wikidata (from Bob DuCharme, author of the book "learning SPARQL")
  • Tutorial to mashup Wikidata and government data with Dataiku DSS and Palladio (fr)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Library of Congress updated their inventory of Format Description Documents to include Wikidata URIs
  • Surfacing Wikidata objects with coordinates to match them with OSM
  • The Wikiproject Welcome has been created to work on welcoming the new editors, feel free to participate

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FIH player ID, seed dispersal, number of works, inflorescence, minimum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, maximum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, Eurovision Song Contest song ID, Ghetto Encyclopedia ID, category for value same as Wikidata, MOOMA artist ID, PhilPapers record, Serbia cadastral municipality ID, next higher rank, next lower rank, New Zealand Heritage List number, Serbia municipality ID, Eu-football.info player ID, CEV player ID, USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia ID, USCG Lighthouse ID, Commons maps category, public key fingerprint
  • Query examples:
    • Countries with similar populations (source)
    • Items that have "feminist art" as a value (source)
    • Books, incipits, concatenating a sentence to the incipit (source and inspiration)
    • Paintings by Vermeer depicting maps (source)
    • Painters sorted by the number of Wikipedia articles about their works (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Fashion

• Development
  • Finishing touches on the new geo shape data type. It is available on the first test wiki now (phabricator:T57549).
  • SetLabel, SetDescription, SetAliases, SetLabelDescriptionAliases, SetSiteLink have been migrated to ooUI. Thanks, Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T48248)
  • Making progress on integrating the new Lexeme entity type with the wbeditentity API (phabricator:T155699).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:34, 6 March 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-03-06T14:34:00.000Z","author":"Lea Lacroix (WMDE)","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Lea_Lacroix_(WMDE)-2017-03-06T14:34:00.000Z-Wikidata_weekly_summary_#250","replies":[]}}-->

On 8 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Viaduto do Chá, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Viaduto do Chá, São Paulo's first viaduct, was originally constructed from German iron before being replaced by a concrete span? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Viaduto do Chá. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Viaduto do Chá), 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.

Mifter (talk) 12:02, 8 March 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-03-08T12:02:00.000Z","author":"Mifter","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Mifter-2017-03-08T12:02:00.000Z-DYK_for_Viaduto_do_Ch\u00e1","replies":[]}}-->

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue II, February 2017 Headlines Argentina report: Images donation Australia and New Zealand report: #1lib1ref - what's next? Belgium report: Local heritage monuments Brazil report: Creating new articles on cultural heritage Bulgaria report: 2017 European GLAMwiki Coordinators meeting and Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group; New scanners for digitizing in BASA Côte d'Ivoire report: Providing sources for the BlackPower Edit-a-thon and more... France report: #1lib1ref and slate museum Germany report: Exhibition photography; WikiLibrary Barcamp Greece report: Memories+History & #1lib1ref workshop Italy report: WLM awards, #1Lib1Ref and seminars Macedonia report: Edit-a-thon and memorandum for collaboration with the Memorial House Of Mother Theresa Mexico report: 100 years of the Constitution of Mexico and Mexican flags: Edit-a-thon in the Center for the Study of Mexican History Netherlands report: Rare drawings of Brazilian animals; Wikimedian-in-Residence Erfgoed Gelderland Norway report: Linking Fotodugnad to Commons Serbia report: Content donation from an artist Davorin Dinić Spain report: #1Lib1Ref Sweden report: Swedish GLAM-WikiEdu project nominated for Pedagogy Award of the year; Connected Open Heritage UK report: Enlightenment comes to Wikidata USA report: Black Lunch Table + Black History Month Special story: European GLAMwiki Coordinators meeting Open Access report: Over 1000 new multimedia files, e.g. on predation, prediction and spying Wikidata report: Putting Wikidata on the Map (and on Quora, and on Facebook) WMF GLAM report: European Coordinators Meeting and Planning Calendar: March'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.

On 11 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Snugburys, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Snugburys, a British ice cream manufacturer, has constructed a series of large sculptures made of steel-reinforced straw, including one of the Lovell Telescope (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Snugburys. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Snugburys), 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.

Mifter (talk) 12:01, 11 March 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-03-11T12:01:00.000Z","author":"Mifter","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Mifter-2017-03-11T12:01:00.000Z-DYK_for_Snugburys","replies":[]}}-->

On 11 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Villa-Lobos State Park, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Villa-Lobos State Park in São Paulo, named after composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, was created on the site of a landfill in 1989 and now has around 37,000 trees? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Villa-Lobos State Park. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Villa-Lobos State Park), 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.

Mifter (talk) 12:02, 11 March 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-03-11T12:02:00.000Z","author":"Mifter","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Mifter-2017-03-11T12:02:00.000Z-DYK_for_Villa-Lobos_State_Park","replies":[]}}-->

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Ladies that FOSS, March 15th, 18:00, Berlin. Meetup dedicated to women who want to start coding for Wikidata, Mediawiki or other open source software
  • Wikidata workshop in Manchester, March 17th, 10:00, at the Manchester Central Library (information)
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 17th, 20:30. More questions about SPARQL and the Query Service (information and registration)
  • Would you like to attend to a Wikidata meetup in Berlin? You can choose the next date!
  • Wizards, Muggles and Wikidata: The Room of Requirements for structured knowledge by Jens Ohlig, John Cummings and Navino Evans
  • Wikidata for winners (in Economics) by Martin Poulter
  • Des Successions à Wikidata : vers un réseau social des philosophes antiques ? (fr) by Pierre-Carl Langlais

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Do you want to help watching the recent changes? Have a look at this useful collection of links by YMS
  • Watch the gender gap on Wikipedia and Wikidata with this tool by Envlh
  • Play Stadt, Fluss, Land with Wikidata! (by Knut)
  • Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
  • WMF is hiring a program manager, a product manager and a community liaison to work on the structured data project on Commons

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: pole position, MIMO instrument ID, openMLOL author ID, IPv4 range, Iditarod musher ID, SAHRA heritage site ID, DOCOMOMO Ibérico ID, average space complexity, best-case space complexity, worst-case space complexity, average performance, best-case performance, worst-case performance, Shoftim BeIsrael judge ID, KMDb documentary ID, Google Maps CID, Israel Football Association player ID, SSRN author ID, Wildflowers of Israel ID, World Rugby Sevens Series ID, number of subscribers, ITU/ISO/IEC object identifier
  • Query examples:
    • List of female bioinformaticians/computational biologists (source)
    • Most gender-imbalanced occupations in US citizens (source)
    • Awards received by more women than men (source)
    • Transgender characters played by trangender actors/actresses (source)
    • The most famous astronomical objects in Solar System according to Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
    • Natural arches around the globe (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Board Games
  • Newest external tools: official first release of WikidataIntegrator

• Development
  • Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test it here (phab:T134643).
  • Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (phab:T158772).
  • Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (phab:T160319).
  • Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
  • Finishing federation prototype.
  • We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (phab:T157965).
  • Removed unnecessary CSS on ooui special pages (phabricator:T159702)
  • Allowed example queries to be searched for SPARQL commands (phabricator:T154768)
  • Converted Wikibase interface for undoing/restoring a revision to OOUI (phabricator:T134643)
  • Converted image header user script to gadget (phabricator:T159929)
  • Started writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T150785)
  • Worked on providing API for constraint check (phabricator:T102757)

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 - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:27, 13 March 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-03-13T15:27:00.000Z","author":"Lea Lacroix (WMDE)","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Lea_Lacroix_(WMDE)-2017-03-13T15:27:00.000Z-Wikidata_weekly_summary_#251","replies":[]}}-->

I was trying to figure out how to correct the Italian description that shows up in the top infobox for Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex and discovered that to do so one has to edit a Wikidata entry. One of my pet complaints about Wikipedia is that the template editing process is so code-oriented and persnickety about sometimes-inconsistent syntax that it intimidates many editors. Outsourcing the entry to Wikidata compounds this rather than corrects this: nobody who's not very determined will take the time to figure out how to make a simple correction of this kind if they're sent to a separate project with its own editing context. I'm hardly unskilled and I find it fussy. How would an editor of less than ten years' standing understand this? Is there a better, more transparent way? It seems like ease of editing is being sacrificed for the benefit of Wikidata. Acroterion (talk) 15:59, 14 March 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-03-14T15:59:00.000Z","author":"Acroterion","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Acroterion-2017-03-14T15:59:00.000Z-Template:Observatory","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2017-03-14T20:56:00.000Z-Acroterion-2017-03-14T15:59:00.000Z"]}}-->

@Acroterion: On the Goldstone article, it looks like that's a bug in the code that's being used - @RexxS:, can you have a look? It seems that the media legend is present on Wikidata in Italian, but not English, so we shouldn't be showing one here.

On the ease of editing point: I actually started Wikidata-ifying infoboxes so that it becomes easier to edit articles - when you start editing an article, you're immediately presented with a lot of wikitext that makes the infobox rather than the content of the page, and I think most people will want to edit that text rather than the infobox contents. Then if you do want to edit the infobox, then you can do so using a nicer(-ish) interface on Wikidata. There is of course also the visual editor, and ideally it should be possible to edit the Wikidata information directly in there, but that support isn't in there yet. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:56, 14 March 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-03-14T20:56:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2017-03-14T20:56:00.000Z-Acroterion-2017-03-14T15:59:00.000Z","replies":["c-RexxS-2017-03-14T22:30:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2017-03-14T20:56:00.000Z","c-Acroterion-2017-03-14T23:35:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2017-03-14T20:56:00.000Z"]}}-->

Sorry Mike, I didn't write the function claim() that you're using in Template:Infobox observatory:

caption2 = {{{caption|{{#invoke:Wikidata|claim|P18|qualifier=P2096|FETCH_WIKIDATA}}}}}

It isn't language aware as far as I can tell, so I'm not surprised that it returns the first thing it finds. If you had used the function I wrote, getImageLegend(), you'd get the results you were looking for:

{{#invoke:Wikidata |getImageLegend | FETCH_WIKIDATA | lang=en |id=Q618630}} → The 70m antenna at Goldstone

{{#invoke:Wikidata |getImageLegend | FETCH_WIKIDATA | lang=it |id=Q618630}} → L'antenna di 70 m di diametro presente nell'Osservatorio Goldstone

{{#invoke:Wikidata |getImageLegend | FETCH_WIKIDATA |id=Q618630}} → The 70m antenna at Goldstone

The last one reads the local wiki's language code and should normally be the one used in infoboxes.

Nevertheless, I'd still recommend adding an English media legend (P2096) to Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (Q618630) and whenever you find it missing. HTH --RexxS (talk) 22:30, 14 March 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-03-14T22:30:00.000Z","author":"RexxS","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-RexxS-2017-03-14T22:30:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2017-03-14T20:56:00.000Z","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2017-03-14T22:40:00.000Z-RexxS-2017-03-14T22:30:00.000Z"]}}-->

Aah, thanks @RexxS - I should have checked that the template was using the latest code first! I've changed it in the infobox code, and it's now working properly in the article. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:40, 14 March 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-03-14T22:40:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2017-03-14T22:40:00.000Z-RexxS-2017-03-14T22:30:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

Thanks (both of you) for looking into this and fixing it. On the ease of use angle, I remain unconvinced. Obviously I have objections to Wikipedia's template format, so in principle I'm on board with circumventing that, and I agree that new users confronted with masses of curly and square brackets, pipes and dashes right at the beginning of an article are likely to give up. But I'm not convinced that sending them off to a different URL on another project and giving them yet another interface to figure out is a good thing. The arm's-length nature of Wikidata with respect to references and data fields seems awkward to me.

I admit I'm not a fan of Wikidata in its present form. It has great potential for stealthy BLP violations and outright vandalism that's not quickly findable or fixable with reverberations across multiple projects. I've seen a few (minor) cases of BLP violations via Wikidata that would be immediately rejected as unsourced or opinion if they'd occurred on WP. We've all gone on template and image vandalism hunts and had to flag down admins on other projects to fix some of them. With this format it's possible to have admins on Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata chasing vandals at the same time. Vandalism aside, referencing should be tightly-bound and transparent, and it's hard to do that on another screen on another site.

On the other hand, I like the reference field hints on WD and the interface shows promise. Given the WMF's abysmal record with user experience improvements I don't know how this might be incorporated into the main projects. <end rant> Thanks for your help! Acroterion (talk) 23:35, 14 March 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-03-14T23:35:00.000Z","author":"Acroterion","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Acroterion-2017-03-14T23:35:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2017-03-14T20:56:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

On 17 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article São Vicente Suspension Bridge, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the São Vicente Suspension Bridge (pictured), constructed 1911–1914, was one of the first suspension bridges in Brazil, and was originally conceived to carry a sewage pipeline? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/São Vicente Suspension Bridge. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, São Vicente Suspension Bridge), 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/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin on March 31st
  • Upcoming: Datensummit in Berlin, April 29th. We're looking for Wikidata editors to help :)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop in Rennes, March 22nd
  • A successful Wikidatathon about women's history in Puri, India
  • Wikidata as information source to support the Dutch elections
  • Quora: Adding Locations via Wikidata
  • Quora: Identifying Topics about People
  • How to quickly generate word analogy datasets with Wikidata by Finn Arup Nielsen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
  • SWAT4LS 2016 poster Linking Wikidata to the Semantic Web
  • Mix’n’match interface update

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FFA ID, European Athletics ID, All-Athletics.com ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of authors of scientific articles that have been published on this day of the year (source)
    • Scholarly articles that have Wikipedia articles about them (source)
    • False Vermeer works (source)
    • From Natalie Portman to Paul Erdös graph (source)

• Development
  • Fixing a bug on the save button (phab:T159244)
  • Fixing a bug with the link to the Query Service on an ember query (phab:T156013)
  • More work on Federation (phab:T157442, phab:T158169)
  • Fixing a bug on geoformats (phab:T158772)
  • Fixing a bug on the treemap view (phab:T160320) Thanks EdouardHue for the patch!
  • More groundwork on Lexemes (phab:T157791)
  • Show thumbnails in commons suggester (phab:T160319)
  • Fixing a bug on coordinate (phab:T153429)
  • Applying WikimediaUI color palette to Wikibase (phab:T151194)
  • Writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phab:T150785)
  • Working on providing API for constraint check (phab:T102757)

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 - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:28, 20 March 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-03-20T16:28:00.000Z","author":"Lea Lacroix (WMDE)","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Lea_Lacroix_(WMDE)-2017-03-20T16:28:00.000Z-Weekly_Summary_#252","replies":[]}}-->

The Original Barnstar

<grin> there should be a barnstar for good use of Wikidata information </grin> Thanks GerardM (talk) 13:59, 21 March 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-03-21T13:59:00.000Z","author":"GerardM","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-GerardM-2017-03-21T13:59:00.000Z-A_barnstar_for_you!","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2017-03-22T08:40:00.000Z-GerardM-2017-03-21T13:59:00.000Z"]}}-->

Thanks Gerard! Mike Peel (talk) 08:40, 22 March 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-03-22T08:40:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2017-03-22T08:40:00.000Z-GerardM-2017-03-21T13:59:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-03-27.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Friday, March 31st at 19:30 in Neukölln
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office ^connect
  • A tool to estimate gender gap on Wikidata and Wikipedia (source)
  • (fr) Odonymie rennaise : que nous apprend Wikidata sur les noms des voies de Rennes ? (source)
  • Wikidata's excellent sample SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
  • 10 steps to integrate CIViCdb with other public data in Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • RFC: Wikidata → OSM lookup table
  • Participate to the definition of the Wikimedia movement's strategy
  • The deadline for Wikimania talks submission has been extended to April 10th (check what we're planning around Wikidata)
  • Conceptual documentation for the Lexemes and examples (feel free to help translating)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FI WarSampo army unit ID, KMRB film rating, FI WarSampo person ID, film script, volcano observatory, BoF person ID, Bivouac.com pass ID, Elle.fr person ID, Evidence & Conclusion Ontology ID, Parks.it ID, YerelNET district ID, The Numbers movie ID, S2A3 Biographical Database ID, Mapa place ID, Tax-exempt heritage asset ID, TV Guide show ID, original film format, Launchpad.net project ID, INEGI municipality ID, Safsal coach ID, Safsal player ID, Star Wars Databank ID, autonomous system number, Bureau of Meteorology station ID, Flora of Israel plant ID, Dictionary of Sydney ID, IPv6 routing prefix, rate of fire, Art Renewal Center ID, AnimeCons.com ID, Telegram username, BNA author ID, danskefilm silent film ID, danskefilm person ID, danskefilm film ID, CiteSeerX ID, Christie's work ID, Artnet artist ID, has active ingredient, active ingredient in, negative allosteric modulator of, positive allosteric modulator of, antisense inhibitor of, inhibitor of, disrupting agent for, blocker of, antagonist of, agonist of, activator of, PeakFinder ID, It's Rugby ID, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Book ID
  • Query examples:
    • Time zones that are more than 12 hours away from UTC (source)
    • Countries which have the same name as their capital in their official language (source)
    • Roman amphitheatres on Wikidata (source)
    • Sluices on canals in Bretagne (France) (source)
  • Newest database reports: film scripts
  • Showcase items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764)

• Development
  • Fixing a bug that prevented users to edit descriptions in some non-latin alphabets (phab:T161263)
  • Worked on Special:NewLexeme which will be used to create new Lexemes for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T157973)
  • Aligned some more colors with Wikimedia color palete (phabricator:T151194)
  • Added more autocompletion for the Wikidata Query Service (phabricator:T150950)
  • Started working on support for Forms of words in the UI for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T160520)

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 - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).

Administrator changes

TheDJ

Xnuala • CJ • Oldelpaso • Berean Hunter • Jimbo Wales • Andrew c • Karanacs • Modemac • Scott

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion on the backlog of unpatrolled files, consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.
• The BLPPROD grandfather clause, which stated that unreferenced biographies of living persons were only eligible for proposed deletion if they were created after March 18, 2010, has been removed following an RfC.
• An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.
• After an unsuccessful proposal to automatically grant IP block exemption, consensus was found to relax the criteria for granting the user right from needing it to wanting it.

Technical news

• After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.
• Cookie blocks have been deployed. This extends the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user if they switch accounts, even under a new IP.

This Month in Education

Volume 6 | Issue 2 |March 2017

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The new issue of the newsletter is out! Thanks to everyone who submitted stories and helped with the publication. We hope you enjoy this issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using Saileshpat (talk) 19:07, 1 April 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-04-01T19:07:00.000Z","author":"Saileshpat","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Saileshpat-2017-04-01T19:07:00.000Z-This_Month_in_Education:_[March_2017]","replies":[],"displayName":"Sailesh Patnaik"}}-->

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), April 4th (more info)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office ^connect
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in London (UK), April 8th (more info)
  • Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content
  • Biocuration 2017
    • Talk: Repurpos.us: A fully open and expandable drug repurposing portal by Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD
    • Poster: Best practices for data provenance in Wikidata by Gregory S. Stupp et al.
    • Poster: Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to model, validate and curate Wikidata by Andra Waagmeester et al.
  • Five years ago, the development of Wikidata started

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
  • New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on April 11. (more info)
  • Data donation: Songkick have donated a datafile with 155K of their Songkick artist ID (P3478). ~45K are already matched, and the rest are in Mix'n'Match, awaiting your kind attention.
  • Query Service: you can now create a template to explain what your query is doing
  • new data type for geographical shapes will be enabled on April 24th
  • Several CC0 databases are now federated with the Query Service endpoint

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: located in present-day administrative territorial entity, Human Phenotype Ontology ID, slope rating, Tab4u artist ID, Tab4u song ID, United States Public Law, Pinterest username, Mendeley person ID, RTC film rating, diaspora, Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID, object has role, CueTracker player ID, Publons author ID, wears, JSTOR topic ID, Welsh Rugby Union player ID, United States Statutes at Large citation, VTJ-PRT building ID, Ethnologue language status, rules for classification, Bangla Movie Database ID, Flanders Arts Institute venue ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of the megaliths of the World, coloured by type (showing some nice paterns, source)
    • French people without a gender (source)
    • Eldest members of noble families (source)
    • Map of places with population “zero” (0) (source)

• External Tools News
  • wikidata-cli
    • new command: wd summary
    • improved support for custom Wikibase instances
  • wikidata-edit:
    • new function: remove claim
    • improved support for custom Wikibase instances
  • wikidata-sdk:
    • new function: simplify.entity
    • major documentation restructuration
  • wikidata-filter:
    • new filter criteria: sitelinks. Example of a query that times out on the SPARQL endpoint but that is now possible with wikidata-filter: Get all entities with a Chinese and a French Wikipedia article, keeping only id, labels, and sitelinks matching those languages
  • Monumental: brand new app for displaying heritage data

• Development
  • A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may now him for his work on queries as WikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
  • Attending to Wikimedia Conference, talking with Wikidata and Wiktionary users
  • Improving performance on Special:Entities pages (phab:T161631)
  • Tracking the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props (phab:T114617)
  • More work on Senses (phab:T161523) and Forms (phab:T160524)
  • Improving the autocompletions of Query Service (phab:T150950)

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 - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

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Just letting you know that FloNight contacted Functionaries list re the bot being IP-blocked. I've granted it IPBE here on enwiki, but you might want to ask for it globally or at least on Meta as well. Thanks for creating and operating the bot. Risker (talk) 00:16, 8 April 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-04-08T00:16:00.000Z","author":"Risker","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Risker-2017-04-08T00:16:00.000Z-Pi_bot","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2017-04-08T11:34:00.000Z-Risker-2017-04-08T00:16:00.000Z"]}}-->

That's great, thanks @Risker and @FloNight! Mike Peel (talk) 11:34, 8 April 2017 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2017-04-08T11:34:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2017-04-08T11:34:00.000Z-Risker-2017-04-08T00:16:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->