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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: Alternate disclosure policy

• Events
  • Past: The Workshop On Open Citations And Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 took place in Bologna and online on September 9 and included a talk State of WikiCite in 2020, available on Zenodo via doi:10.5281/zenodo.4019954.
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 15 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, September 16th at 13:00 UTC/GMT
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20: Facebook, YouTube, September 19
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #30, September 20

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: Youtuber Tom Scott tries to answer the question What Is The Best Thing?, using Wikidata to curate a collection of "things", and an online poll for people to vote on those things.
  • "Our admiration for Wikidata and for the people who work with it knows no bounds. Having a single source of well modelled, massively interlinked, well managed data that anyone can query at the press of a button is a real thing of wonder." - says the UK Parliament data team
  • Houcemeddine Turki, et al. (2020). Using logical constraints to validate information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of COVID-19 on Wikidata (Zenodo Preprint).
  • Video: Wikidata basics short videos by Wikimedian in Residence at University of Edinburgh (YouTube)
    • A brief intro to Wikidata and how to set up an account
    • How to add a new item to Wikidata
    • How to add an image to Wikidata
  • Video: Creating a Mix'n'Match set for Queensland Biota on Wikidata - YouTube
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19: Cradle and colours in queries. Facebook, YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Mbabel is a tool that simplifies article creation by providing pre-made sentences based on Wikidata statements.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The consultation phase for the Wikimedia movement Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is in progress until 6 October 2020. The UCoC drafting committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?
  • All the lists of languages used on Wikidata: feel free to improve this draft documentation page.
  • The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30^th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
  • WikiMap, a tool by User:DB111 that maps geocoded images from Commons and Wikipedia articles, now supports Wikidata items as well (Q99232292)
  • Wikidata QID's are approaching 9 digits. Now is the time to fix any code or schemas that assume that Q numbers are smaller than 9 characters.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: aerial view, ride height, category for the exterior of the item, axle track
    • External identifiers: Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, Grove Music Online ID, Hikr waypoint ID, DIL ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: expansion of, Oakeshott typology, Slack URL, TDD number, Hill size, K point, number of negative votes, number of support votes
    • External identifiers: Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, KinoWiki ID, BD Gest' series ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, Discord username, China Treaty Database ID, Discord channel, Bollywood Hungama movie, NMC Heritage ID, identifiant d'un artiste département des arts graphiques du musée du Louvre, SPoT skater ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Lambiek Special pages, Lambiek comic magazines, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID
  • Query examples:
    • Shortest path of descent from Charlemagne to George Washington, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Elizabeth II
    • List of most recent common ancestors (ordered by number of total degrees separated) between George Washington and George W. Bush (9th cousin 8 times removed), George Washington and Barack Obama (12th cousin 9 times removed), George Washington and Elizabeth II (2th consin 7 times removed), George W. Bush and Barack Obama (11th cousin), George W. Bush and Elizabeth II (14th cousin once removed), Barack Obama and Elizabeth II (19th cousin 3 times removed)
    • Artists that have recorded songs in several languages, by number of different languages used (Source)
    • Average age of companies listed on major indices (Source)
    • Basque Country sister cities with world municipalities (Source)
    • Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial (Source)
    • Map of mountains in Austria showing their heights; from red for the lowest through green to black for the highest (Source)
    • Top World Heritage sites by number of paintings depicting them (Source)
    • Map of sports pitches for team sports that require between 10 and 20 players on the field - Wikidata/OSM query

• Development
  • Fixing an error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an Item instead of just one. (phabricator:T260869)
  • Development of version one of Federated Properties has concluded! Expect an announcement with timing of the release of this feature soon. Wikibase users who want an early look at the feature are invited to reach out to participate in the pre-release testing round.
  • Development of the WikibaseManifest extension has continued into its second sprint; we focused on determining a product specification for the Manifest output.
  • Finishing a draft documentation for a REST API to get it ready for a feedback round before implementation.
  • Finished improvements to the automated scoring of the quality of Items with ORES. Still need to retrain ORES and deploy the changes before the scores are actually different though.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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Module:Wikidata Infobox has been nominated for merging with Module:WikidataIB. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Gonnym (talk) 12:22, 15 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-15T12:22:00.000Z","author":"Gonnym","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Gonnym-2020-09-15T12:22:00.000Z-Nomination_for_merging_of_Module:Wikidata_Infobox","replies":[]}}-->

Hi, I saw your edit to Vernon, Nevada, where you removed the Commons category template that linked to Tunnel Camp, Nevada. I'm the editor that redirected Tunnel Camp, Nevada to Vernon because Tunnel Camp was not particularly notable. Tunnel Camp and Vernon are located quite close to each other. It would be great if the Vernon page had a link to the Tunnel Camp Commons images. What are your thoughts? 21:43, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

@Cxbrx: I've looked again at this. Personally I think it would have been better to keep two separate articles here, given that they seem to be distinct settlements. However, there are also other images from the area that are available on Commons, so I've started commons:Category:Vernon, Nevada and linked to that from the article, with the Tunnel Camp category as a subcategory. Probably more images can also be added to the new category, see [1] (the blue dots are photos). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:59, 21 August 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-08-21T21:59:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T21:59:00.000Z-Vernon,_Nevada","replies":["c-Philafrenzy-2020-08-21T22:01:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T21:59:00.000Z","c-Cxbrx-2020-08-22T17:26:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T21:59:00.000Z","c-Evrik-2020-09-13T00:15:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T21:59:00.000Z","c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-13T08:34:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T21:59:00.000Z"]}}-->

What happened about the poll you were going to take on this matter Mike? Philafrenzy (talk) 22:01, 21 August 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-08-21T22:01:00.000Z","author":"Philafrenzy","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Philafrenzy-2020-08-21T22:01:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T21:59:00.000Z","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T22:07:00.000Z-Philafrenzy-2020-08-21T22:01:00.000Z"]}}-->

@Philafrenzy: The discussion with @Evrik: at User_talk:Mike_Peel/Archive_56#Commons_templates_in_EL_are_"misplaced"? petered out and was archived. I'm happy to co-author a poll, but I'm not going to start one on my own. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:07, 21 August 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-08-21T22:07:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T22:07:00.000Z-Philafrenzy-2020-08-21T22:01:00.000Z","replies":["c-Evrik-2020-08-21T22:09:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T22:07:00.000Z"]}}-->

I like the idea of hashing this out. --evrik ^(talk) 22:09, 21 August 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-08-21T22:09:00.000Z","author":"Evrik","type":"comment","level":5,"id":"c-Evrik-2020-08-21T22:09:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T22:07:00.000Z","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T22:20:00.000Z-Evrik-2020-08-21T22:09:00.000Z"]}}-->

@Evrik: Perhaps you could start a draft proposal? Or I'm happy to chat about this by Zoom/Skype etc. at some point if that would help. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:20, 21 August 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-08-21T22:20:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":6,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T22:20:00.000Z-Evrik-2020-08-21T22:09:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

@Mike Peel: Adding the Vernon Commons category seems reasonable to me. Tunnel Camp was at best a mining camp, see Talk:Tunnel Camp, Nevada. Recently I've been participating in the AfDs in Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Geography and I don't feel that Tunnel Camp as a geographic location nor as a mine would pass. See the last version of Tunnel Camp before the redirect. Cxbrx (talk) 17:26, 22 August 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-08-22T17:26:00.000Z","author":"Cxbrx","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Cxbrx-2020-08-22T17:26:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T21:59:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

• This disappeared off my watchlist ... in any case, please remind me under what authority are you removing all these templates? --evrik ^(talk) 00:15, 13 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-13T00:15:00.000Z","author":"Evrik","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Evrik-2020-09-13T00:15:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T21:59:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

The past discussion is at User talk:Mike Peel/Archive 56. I am only removing some templates in cases where the commons link does not match the category/article. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:34, 13 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-13T08:34:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-13T08:34:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-08-21T21:59:00.000Z","replies":["c-Philafrenzy-2020-09-13T12:11:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-13T08:34:00.000Z"]}}-->

As we established, policy, such as it is, merely states the link has to be useful. It doesn't have to use the exact same words, making some of your removals just plain wrong. Philafrenzy (talk) 12:11, 13 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-13T12:11:00.000Z","author":"Philafrenzy","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Philafrenzy-2020-09-13T12:11:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-13T08:34:00.000Z","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-13T12:16:00.000Z-Philafrenzy-2020-09-13T12:11:00.000Z"]}}-->

In the cases I've removed the link I didn't think the link was useful. I'm happy to discuss examples if you want. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 12:16, 13 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-13T12:16:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":5,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-13T12:16:00.000Z-Philafrenzy-2020-09-13T12:11:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

I'm removing some more this evening. If you object to them, please give an example and a reason why it is useful. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:52, 18 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-18T21:52:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T21:52:00.000Z-Vernon,_Nevada","replies":["c-Evrik-2020-09-18T22:36:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T21:52:00.000Z","c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T22:38:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T21:52:00.000Z"]}}-->

Remind me the policy that you do this under? --evrik ^(talk) 22:36, 18 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-18T22:36:00.000Z","author":"Evrik","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Evrik-2020-09-18T22:36:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T21:52:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

WP:BOLD, remind me why you think that the links I'm removing are useful? Examples, please. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:38, 18 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-18T22:38:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T22:38:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T21:52:00.000Z","replies":["c-Philafrenzy-2020-09-18T22:56:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T22:38:00.000Z"]}}-->

Category:Berkshire from the Berkshire Record Society. Salisbury from MPs for Salisbury. In what sense are these "misplaced"? Philafrenzy (talk) 22:56, 18 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-18T22:56:00.000Z","author":"Philafrenzy","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Philafrenzy-2020-09-18T22:56:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T22:38:00.000Z","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T22:57:00.000Z-Philafrenzy-2020-09-18T22:56:00.000Z"]}}-->

@Philafrenzy: The Commons categories don't seem to contain *any* content related to those articles. Or am I missing something? Mike Peel (talk) 22:57, 18 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-18T22:57:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T22:57:00.000Z-Philafrenzy-2020-09-18T22:56:00.000Z","replies":["c-Philafrenzy-2020-09-19T06:41:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T22:57:00.000Z","c-Evrik-2020-09-19T03:09:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T22:57:00.000Z"]}}-->

This isn't Bold, it's Rash. Also Brown's Town, Jamaica was removed from Hamilton Brown. He founded the town. How is it not related to him? Philafrenzy (talk) 06:41, 19 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-19T06:41:00.000Z","author":"Philafrenzy","type":"comment","level":6,"id":"c-Philafrenzy-2020-09-19T06:41:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T22:57:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

Commons:Category:Berkshire should really have been, Commons:Category:History of Berkshire. Your edits are not productive. --evrik ^(talk) 03:09, 19 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-19T03:09:00.000Z","author":"Evrik","type":"comment","level":5,"id":"c-Evrik-2020-09-19T03:09:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-18T22:57:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

I started a discussion about the removal of the {{commonscat}} links from scores, maybe hundreds of articles. It can be found here: Category talk:Commons category Wikidata tracking categories. --evrik ^(talk) 03:44, 19 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-19T03:44:00.000Z","author":"Evrik","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Evrik-2020-09-19T03:44:00.000Z-Removal_of_Commons_cat_templates","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-19T10:26:00.000Z-Evrik-2020-09-19T03:44:00.000Z"]}}-->

I have responded there. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:26, 19 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-19T10:26:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-19T10:26:00.000Z-Evrik-2020-09-19T03:44:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata Introduction Workshop (German) (September 29)
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 21 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: A starting point for newer institutions to think through what is involved in coordinating a Wikidata project, including shared infrastructure, training, and documentation, 22 September. Agenda
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 WikiDojo: Facebook, YouTube, September 25

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • "Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of Wikidata"
  • ProWD: Detecting Knowledge Imbalances on Wikidata on blog.wikimedia.de
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20 WLM: Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata Training Workshop 3, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association (YouTube)
    • Wikidata Query Service - (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
    • Wikidata Query Service (in French) - (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

• Tool of the week
  • copy-qid is a user script by Abbe98 that allows you to copy the Qid with one click.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30^th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
  • WDQS/WCQS Status update (September 2): "We are planning to spend more time doing some analytics on our data. (1) What are the most expensive queries, what are they trying to achieve and is that reasonable? (2) Do we have performant subgraphs that we could expose independently?"

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: category for the exterior of the item, axle track, Stairway To Hell ID, Oakeshott typology, construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography
    • External identifiers: Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID, TV Maze series ID, Barcelona Public art ID, University of Ghana Digital Collections (UGSpace) ID, Istrapedia ID, OnlyFans person ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, The Cutting Room Floor ID, Fatcat ID, China Treaty Database ID, e-GOV law ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Slack organization ID, Kansas Historic Resources Inventory ID, Historic Montana ID, ITF player ID 2020, BD Gest' series ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, P8624
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: defining mutations, nombre d'essais marqués, Netflix maturity rating, held event, number of paying subscribers, has census
    • External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID, identificativo Ministero dell'interno, Dallas Museum of Art ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Energy Identification Code, Wikimedia Chat channel, Symptom Ontology ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, monumentsauxmorts.fr ID, monumentsdememoire.fr ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Museen Dresden article ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NPS place ID, SSYK 2012
  • Query examples:
    • Map of anything that memorializes or is named after a Whig Party member - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Map of every railway station presently connected directly or indirectly to St Pancras on Wikidata
    • Age of the winners of the Tour de France (Source)
    • Location and date of death of Danish rulers (Source)
    • Map of the places & causes of death of Roman Emperors (Source)
    • Images of members of the 16th Odisha Assembly (2019-24) (Source)
    • Star signs of Japanese Prime Ministers (Source)
    • Video game series with the longest time gap between a game and its direct sequel (Source)

• Development
  • WQS now supports mwapi service request for Wikibooks (phab:T261125)
  • The language codes lij-mc, ja-Hira, ja-Kana, ja-Hrkt, ja-Hani, ojp, ojp-Hira and ojp-Hani" have been added for use in monolingual text property values (phab:T254968, phab:T195816)
  • The language codes de-1901, eo-hsistemo and eo-xsistemo, ja-hira, ja-kana and ja-hrkt have been added for Lexemes (phab:T262330,phab:T257422, phab:T250559)
  • P1438 has been converted from string to external ID datatype (phab:T262198)
  • Worked on fixing an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
  • Investigating what work would be needed to get the new termbox that's available on mobile to also work on desktop
  • Fixing several issues with Special:Undelete (phab:T261747)
  • Fixing an error message being shown twice (phab:T260869)
  • Starting the coding work on the Query Builder
  • Continuing to write a draft for a REST API specification
  • Finishing the remaining work needed to get the improved quality scoring for Items deployed to ORES
  • Continuing work on WikibaseManifest: Determined the essential metadata that will be included in the WikibaseManifest file, added some new features (mostly MediaWiki metadata) to the Manifest that were requested by the OpenRefine team (phab:T262805 and phab:T262804) and set up a test system that will soon be ready for tool builders to use for testing the integration of their tools with WikibaseManifest

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Linking the 20th century paper history to the sum of all knowledge (Best practice presentation at DCMI Virtual 2020)
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 29 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: WikiNeocomensia: Wikidata + OpenRefine, workshop in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and in French, October 3
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #32, October 4

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions [IFLA] have published a series of six videos "discussions with professionals in order to discuss projects, issues, progress of Wikidata, Wikibase and bibliographic data in the field of libraries." Currently available as a playlist on YouTube under CC-By (Wikimedia Commons upload soon), with subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French (Arabic and Chinese coming soon). The production was made by the IFLA Wikidata Working Group and funded by a WikiCite grant.
  • Sidestepping the limitations of collection catalogues with machine learning and Wikidata
  • Navigating the maze of Wikidata query logs by Angela Bonifati, Wim Martens, Thomas Timm
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 - WikiDojo on the Global Climate Strike: Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata tutorial for lecturers (in Czech) - YouTube
  • Video: Creating and enriching linked data with Wikidata - YouTube
  • Video: Mix'n'Match Tutorial - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata for librarians (in Portuguese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • omeka-s-wikidata is an Omeka-S module for auto-suggesting Wikidata URIs and labels.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30^th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
  • Nominate your favorite tools for the Coolest Tool Award 2020 before October 14th.
  • Wikidata Walkabout is a new site that lets you browse and drill down through different "classes" of data on Wikidata: wikidatawalkabout.org
  • Como is a new Android app, that uses Wikidata lexemes and senses to create a word-guessing game. It let's players create new senses and tests them on other players to finally save them in Wikidata. The app is developed as part of a BA thesis, to determine if this concept is useful to create more lexicographical data, and testers would be very welcome.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography, opening time, closing time, engine displacement, expansion of, Netflix maturity rating, TDD number
    • External identifiers: American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust ID (person), Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Book Marks ID, Re-Member ID, SPoT skater ID, NDL law ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Dallas Museum of Art ID, FBref.com squad ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID, Lambiek comic magazines ID, Energy Identification Code, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Ministry of the Interior of Italy ID, National Park Service place ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, Open Civic Data Division ID, Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Regional Council of Tuscany ID, level of professionalness, defined in terms of, form of property constraint, Attraction to, group identity, analog television standard, ritual object, number of rooms
    • External identifiers: USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Indonesian prison database ID, LinkedIn group ID, Naver movie ID, CINE21 film ID, Movist film ID, KOBIS-ID, Max Movie film ID, The Boardr profile ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID, Google Play developer slug, Passion Patrimoine ID, FVLB work ID, BBC Sound Effects Asset ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID
  • Query examples:
    • Table of the 100 most recent additions of interactive OpenStreetMap maps to English Wikipedia articles - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Map of the birthplace of persons with an ELEM id on Wikidata (Source)

• Development
  • A long-standing bug has been fixed (T217144) where Items and Lexemes created via OAuth would not be added to the user’s watchlist even if the user had the Add pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist setting enabled. (The Add pages and files I edit to my watchlist setting was probably likewise ineffective, but this was not tested specifically.) Affected tools include QuickStatements, Mix'n'Match, and Wikidata Lexeme Forms; users of these and other tools may see more pages being added to their watchlists now. (This only applies to new edits and page creations; previously created or edited pages will not be automatically added to the watchlist retroactively.)
  • Working on the basic building blocks of the Query Builder towards making it possible to create the first very simple query with it
  • Talking to people about comparing Wikidata's data against other databases and flagging mismatches
  • Fixing an issue with Item creations via the API by blocked users leading to skipped entity IDs (phab:T232620)
  • Fixed an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
  • Finishing the draft of the REST API spec to get it ready for feedback
  • WikibaseManifest: created a separate key for local entities and decided what we do about non-local entity sources based on tool-builder feedback (phab:T263527) and specifying the API in OpenApi format (phab:T262919)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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 · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:01, 28 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-28T15:01:00.000Z","author":"Mohammed Sadat (WMDE)","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Mohammed_Sadat_(WMDE)-2020-09-28T15:01:00.000Z-Wikidata_weekly_summary_#435","replies":[]}}-->

Per our discussion at the Village Pump, I've added the tracking category logic from Template:Commons category to Module:Commons link, and turned it on for Template:Commons. I decided to make a parallel tracking category structure: you can watch the tracking categories gradually fill in here.

Now that I've implemented the tracking categories, it is possible to simplify Template:Commons category. It would look very similar to the current implementation of Template:Commons, but would call getCategory() instead of getGalleryOrCategory(). This would make a uniform implementation for every Commons-related template. I'm curious what you think of this idea? — hike395 (talk) 17:59, 27 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-27T17:59:00.000Z","author":"Hike395","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Hike395-2020-09-27T17:59:00.000Z-Tracking_categories_now_live_for_Template:Commons","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-28T19:27:00.000Z-Hike395-2020-09-27T17:59:00.000Z"]}}-->

@Hike395: Thanks for doing that. I need to reply to you more generally about the links, but I'm currently trying some of my semi-automated code through the new tracking categories. One oddity I've found is Category:Nauvoo Temple - I've added the Commons category link, but it's still linking to the gallery. Maybe it's just a caching issue though, but the tracking category updated. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:27, 28 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-28T19:27:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-28T19:27:00.000Z-Hike395-2020-09-27T17:59:00.000Z","replies":["c-Hike395-2020-09-29T02:12:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-28T19:27:00.000Z"]}}-->

Oops, I think you found a bug in my tracking logic :-(. The template on Category:Nauvoo Temple is {{Commons|Nauvoo Temple}}, so it's hardwired to looked for Commons:Nauvoo Temple. So it won't update to use the commonscat. {{Commons}} with no argument will do that. However, it is being placed into Category:Commons link is on Wikidata incorrectly, because the gallery shouldn't match the category in this case. I have to recheck the logic.

Could you pause any semi-automated edits based on my categories while I debug this? Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for letting me know! — hike395 (talk) 02:12, 29 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-29T02:12:00.000Z","author":"Hike395","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Hike395-2020-09-29T02:12:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-28T19:27:00.000Z","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-29T06:59:00.000Z-Hike395-2020-09-29T02:12:00.000Z"]}}-->

OK. Just to let you know that the edits I'm making are adding commons category links on Wikidata, and creating categories for 'phantom' categories on Commons (where the categories already have media but don't actually exist). These shouldn't be affected if the tracking categories are a bit off, they just use the template as a pointer to cases to look at. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 06:59, 29 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-29T06:59:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-29T06:59:00.000Z-Hike395-2020-09-29T02:12:00.000Z","replies":["c-Hike395-2020-09-29T22:02:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-29T06:59:00.000Z"]}}-->

The bug is now fixed: the code now does not match the first positional argument to the found wikidata commons item if they are in different namespaces.

I'm really glad that you (and PiBot) maintain Wikidata links: I suspect they would quickly spiral into bad quality without your vigilance and work. — hike395 (talk) 22:02, 29 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-29T22:02:00.000Z","author":"Hike395","type":"comment","level":5,"id":"c-Hike395-2020-09-29T22:02:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-29T06:59:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

Hi. I have no clue about Wiki's inner workings, but apply logic whenever needed, and it usually works. Now, why is
commonscat|Pioneers of photography
not suitable for
Category:Early photographers in Palestine
? There are photos from Jerusalem starting from 1844, 22 years after the first photo ever taken. Thank you for explaining it to me, Arminden (talk) 14:05, 30 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-30T14:05:00.000Z","author":"Arminden","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Arminden-2020-09-30T14:05:00.000Z-Why?","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-30T14:08:00.000Z-Arminden-2020-09-30T14:05:00.000Z"]}}-->

@Arminden: How is that commons category relevant? It's a much wider scope than the category. The remaining two links in Category:Early photographers in Palestine also aren't directly related, it might be better to create commons:Category:Early photographers in Palestine if there is media that corresponds to the category. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:08, 30 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-30T14:08:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-30T14:08:00.000Z-Arminden-2020-09-30T14:05:00.000Z","replies":["c-Arminden-2020-09-30T16:45:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-30T14:08:00.000Z"]}}-->

The Grand Tour including Jerusalem & the Holy Land were among the first topics for the pioneers of daguerreotypy. Daguerre invented his process of photography, the first practical one developed, in 1839. The very same year, photographers using his technology came to Jerusalem, but it seems that what's left of their work are etchings made based on their daguerreotypes. Joseph de Pranguy learned it (possibly directly from Daguerre) and left for his own Grand Tour already in 1841, bringing back the by far largest corpus of images still preserved today. Jerusalem was one of his topics. His 1844 images are all preserved. Then from 1900 on came the photographic service of the American Colony, many of their images preserved at the US Library of Congress, and there are photos from the pre-WWI years and the war collected and preserved at national libraries & collections in Turkey, Germany, the UK and Australia. And so on, w/o intermission, with several big names of the earliest and the following waves of photographers, including Magnum members etc. So yes, if you removed it for reasons other than strictly Wiki-technical ones, please undo it, or let me do it. Thanks, Arminden (talk) 16:45, 30 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-30T16:45:00.000Z","author":"Arminden","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Arminden-2020-09-30T16:45:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-30T14:08:00.000Z","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-30T16:48:00.000Z-Arminden-2020-09-30T16:45:00.000Z","c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-30T16:57:00.000Z-Arminden-2020-09-30T16:45:00.000Z"]}}-->

I changed the category here [2]. Again, I suggest creating commons:Category:Early photographers in Palestine if you want, that would be the best solution here. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:48, 30 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-30T16:48:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-30T16:48:00.000Z-Arminden-2020-09-30T16:45:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

@Arminden: commons:Category:Early photographers in Palestine now exists, and is linked to from Category:Early photographers in Palestine. How does that look? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:57, 30 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-30T16:57:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-09-30T16:57:00.000Z-Arminden-2020-09-30T16:45:00.000Z","replies":["c-Arminden-2020-09-30T17:08:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-30T16:57:00.000Z"]}}-->

Thanks a lot! I was writing, and you were doing :) I think I misunderstood you, I mixed up Wikipedia with Wikicommons. Is that what you've been doing from the beginning, dealing with Commons categories, while I was babbling on about Wikipedia? Ouch :) Arminden (talk) 17:08, 30 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-30T17:08:00.000Z","author":"Arminden","type":"comment","level":5,"id":"c-Arminden-2020-09-30T17:08:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-09-30T16:57:00.000Z","replies":["c-Arminden-2020-09-30T17:10:00.000Z-Arminden-2020-09-30T17:08:00.000Z"]}}-->

Mike, it looks perfect, thank you! Arminden (talk) 17:10, 30 September 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-09-30T17:10:00.000Z","author":"Arminden","type":"comment","level":6,"id":"c-Arminden-2020-09-30T17:10:00.000Z-Arminden-2020-09-30T17:08:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).

Administrator changes

Ajpolino • LuK3

Jackmcbarn

Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM

There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
• Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

Sorry, but you've been so efficient yesterday and I guess it would take you less than a minute.

There's a county name in the West Bank, Har Hevron Regional Council. "Har Hevron" is Hebrew (good for admin. unit), Mount Hebron is English (good for geogr. description). People sometimes mix them and you get "Har Hebron" - that's inadmissable Henglish. I've changed all I could to the correct version (Har Hevron Regional Council for the admin. unit, Mount Hebron for geography) in several articles, but my stumbling block are again the "categories": see the Har Hevron Regional Council - at the bottom it had the wrong version twice: "Har Hevron Regional Council" between double braces/curly brackets, and "Category:Har Hevron Regional Council| " between double straight brackets. I went ahead and just changed the names inside the brackets. I don't know if the second one went well, at least it didn't "protest", but the first one, "Har Hevron Regional Council" between curly brackets, now shows up everywhere in red, as a template mistake. See them both here below:

{{Har Hevron Regional Council}}

Could you please fix that? Thank you so much! Arminden (talk) 16:20, 1 October 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-10-01T16:20:00.000Z","author":"Arminden","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Arminden-2020-10-01T16:20:00.000Z-May_I_bother_you_again?","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2020-10-01T16:36:00.000Z-Arminden-2020-10-01T16:20:00.000Z"]}}-->

@Arminden: I've moved the template, that should have sorted it out. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:36, 1 October 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-10-01T16:36:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-10-01T16:36:00.000Z-Arminden-2020-10-01T16:20:00.000Z","replies":["c-Arminden-2020-10-01T16:42:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-10-01T16:36:00.000Z"]}}-->

@Mike Peel: Mike, the other way 'round: I thank you! Arminden (talk) 16:42, 1 October 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-10-01T16:42:00.000Z","author":"Arminden","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Arminden-2020-10-01T16:42:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2020-10-01T16:36:00.000Z","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2020-10-01T16:53:00.000Z-Arminden-2020-10-01T16:42:00.000Z"]}}-->

Ah, I missed the category point. That's also now fixed, at Category:Har Hevron Regional Council. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:53, 1 October 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-10-01T16:53:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-10-01T16:53:00.000Z-Arminden-2020-10-01T16:42:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Fuzheado

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Toby Hudson on Entity Explosion, a browser extension which allows you to get information about entities on the web page you’re visiting, 06 October. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT)
  • Upcoming: plenty of events for the Wikidata birthday, check the calendar and feel free to organise one!

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • What does/doesn’t follow Benford’s law: An analysis of hundreds of sets of numbers from Wikidata.
  • Video: How to create and edit items on Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata and wikiprojects of interest to librarians (in Spanish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • IllWill.js is a userscript that searches Wikidata for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate Template:ill and replace plain red links on other Wikimedia projects.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • omeka-s-wikidata is a new module for the open source GLAM collection management software Omeka, that allows cataloguers to use Wikidata as a vocabulary for persons, places, subjects, etc.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: TDD number, twin town sign, character designer, Deutsche Bahn station code
    • External identifiers: Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID, Native Plants Database ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Maniadb album ID, USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Présence Compositrices work ID, Regional Council of Tuscany ID, Indonesian prison database ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Twitter topics ID, Naver movie ID, Bollywood Hungama movie ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, London Stock Exchange company ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Infobox based on, CompositionToday composers showcase ID, parallel street, World Factbook country code, port calls, described at Wikipedia page, erected by, PIM award ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
    • External identifiers: Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID, CompositionToday composer ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, ACER code, Dictionnaire biographique du fouriérisme ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, SwissLipids identifier, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Minecraft UUID, Minecraft username, Science Museum Group ID, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), RNACentral ID, NPS people ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers-ID, Dresden Street ID, Spotify playlist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Birthplace of people named Michael or any other variant of the name (Source)
    • Map of outdoor warning sirens, color-coded by manufacturer. A layer selector lets you toggle individual manufacturers on and off. Clicking a siren shows its make and model if available. - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Soviet cartoons in descending order of popularity in the world (Source)
    • List of ISO countries showing each country's synonyms, labels, etc. (Source)
    • Norwegian politicians who have been members of at least 3 parties (Source)
    • Streets in Leiden named after people/things (Source)
    • Maps of arts and humanities research grants funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council in UK between 2013-2019. Sorted by year, Sorted by budget (Source)
  • Newest database reports:
    • EntitySchema directory - feedback welcome on the report talk page.

• Development
  • First pieces of the Query Builder are coming together and we are working towards making it generate the first dumb query
  • Talking to people about their thoughts on checking Wikidata's data against other databases. If you're interested reach out to Mohammed.
  • Got some first internal feedback for the REST API specification draft. We'll publish it for feedback in the next days.
  • Fixing an issue with certain language codes no longer being available (phab:T264294)
  • Working on making sure blocked bots don't waste Item IDs when trying to create new Items (phab:T232620)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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 · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:06, 5 October 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-10-05T16:06:00.000Z","author":"Mohammed Sadat (WMDE)","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Mohammed_Sadat_(WMDE)-2020-10-05T16:06:00.000Z-Wikidata_weekly_summary_#436","replies":[]}}-->

From looking over your work, you don't understand the difference between Unalaska and Dutch Harbor and/or don't care, because you left a lot of work for someone else to straighten out. Commons is its own website with its own conventions. It's tiring to watch people from Wikidata and/or Wikipedia come along and force their conventions on Commons in the name of some false notion of "consistency". RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 14:15, 10 October 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-10-10T14:15:00.000Z","author":"RadioKAOS","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-RadioKAOS-2020-10-10T14:15:00.000Z-\"let's_sort_this_out_properly\",_huh?","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2020-10-10T19:32:00.000Z-RadioKAOS-2020-10-10T14:15:00.000Z"]}}-->

@RadioKAOS: I'm happy to try to improve things if you can be more specific in your feedback. I'm equally active here, on Wikidata, and on Commons. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:32, 10 October 2020 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2020-10-10T19:32:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2020-10-10T19:32:00.000Z-RadioKAOS-2020-10-10T14:15:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: MsynABot
  • Closed request for adminship: Fuzheado (successful)

• Events
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 13 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, October 14 at 12:00 GMT
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #34, October 18
  • Search Platform Office Hours happens first Wednesday of each month. Come with questions related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata reaches Q100000000, by Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić
  • A new extension can add support for linking to local media files in Statements (and not just files on Wikimedia Commons) to a Wikibase instance (Demo video, developed by Professional.Wiki)
  • LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group presentation: How Entity Explosion fits into the Wikidata ecosystem, by Toby Hudson
  • Video: Wikidata and COVID-19: Creating a collaborative knowledge graph from CORD-19, by Csisc

• Tool of the week
  • OD2WD automatically converts CSV files from Open Data portals into QuickStatements for Wikidata republishing. Demo video

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • noratelimit for bots to be removed on October 20th
  • The new Wikibase/Consultants and Support Providers' directory on Meta lists people/companies that provide professional help with Wikibase -- be it technical support (installation and setup), custom development, or data modeling services.
  • The 2020 Coolest Tool Award is still accepting nominations until October 14th. Please use this form to recommend tools. You can nominate as many tools as you want by filling out the form multiple times.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of negative votes, number of support votes, x-offset, y-offset, social media followers, fandom, has census, parallel street, entry in abbreviations table
    • External identifiers: Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), FVLB work ID, Passion Patrimoine ID, Biographical dictionary of Fourierism ID, CompositionToday composer ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, SwissLipids identifier, ACER code, Science Museum Group ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers ID, RNACentral ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ship's captain, planetary coordinates, Date of signature, Unicode name
    • External identifiers: CPV Supplementary, PeoplePill person ID, O*NET OnLine code, Emojipedia ID, GADM ID, CTAN package ID, MinDat taxon ID, AniList anime ID, AniList manga and light novel ID, Normattiva ID, ILO Thesaurus ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of trees whose species is categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Women actress less than 70 years old who are descendants of the first king of Navarre, ordered by number of sitelinks
    • Dead Social Democratic Party members who have been ministers in 1992 or later (Source)
    • Artworks with an image in Wikidata by year of creation (Source)
    • Map of mountains in Switzerland (Source)
    • Map of markets in the city of Surabaya (Source)
    • National Anthems by tonality (Source)

• Development
  • The RFC to semi-protect all property pages has been implemented, all properties now require the “autoconfirmed” right to edit (T254280)
  • Working on enabling JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T220883)
  • Finishing preventing blocked users from making us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
  • Continuing work on the Wikibase Manifest extension that allows toolbuilders to easily access configurations of a specific Wikibase instance so it is easier for them to make their tools work with not just Wikidata but also other Wikibase instances
  • Started analyzing what we consider a mismatch for our work around checking Wikidata's data against other databases
  • Continued work on the Query Builder to get it to create the first very simple query. It can do that now but not yet visualize the result.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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