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RE: Roper v. Simmons, Thanks for the correction. Vaoverland 18:22, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)

Hey. Good job on the Roper v. Simmons article; the references section is particularly impressive - it's rare that people bother with footnotes in their article. Kudos!

I've posted a question about the current status of the PAC sub-project on the SCOTUS Cases discussion page. I don't know that anyone is still actively working on it - it's been some time, and I have not heard back from any of the members listed on the project page. Is the PAC project something that you would be willing to work on along with me?

Thanks for reverting the New Jersey Devils article back to the way I had left it. I'm not sure why it was changed in the first place. I did offer the person who changed it a chance to explain himself, but it's just as well you changed it back. -- Cholmes75 18:17, 21 July 2005 (UTC) reply

-- Bash 22:02, 20 September 2005 (UTC) reply

See Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2005_September_20

delete - This image is not linked to any article; therefore this image can be delete.

However, I would consider other FBI alert/most wanted images fair use, if not within the scope of this information may be copied and distributed, as specified on the FBI most wanted website.

The FBI most wanted website [1] specifically says:

Notice: The official FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list is maintained on the FBI World Wide Web Site. This information may be copied and distributed, however, any unauthorized alteration of any portion of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives posters is a violation of federal law (18 U.S.C., Section 709).

This cites 18 U.S.C. Sec. 709 [2], referring to the following:

Whoever, except with the written permission of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, knowingly uses the words Federal Bureau of Investigation or the initials F.B.I., or any colorable imitation of such words or initials, in connection with any advertisement, circular, book, pamphlet or other publication, play, motion picture, broadcast, telecast, or other production, in a manner reasonably calculated to convey the impression that such advertisement, circular, book, pamphlet or other publication, play, motion picture, broadcast, telecast, or other production, is approved, endorsed, or authorized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation;

-- -- Aude 01:30, 21 September 2005 (UTC) reply

Started up WikiProject Washington Metro to help improve the articles on the Metro, and hope you'll join us. Schuminweb 01:08, 9 October 2005 (UTC) reply

Can you source the Miers things? I haven't seen any news on it yet... and it's not on Google news. gren グレン 13:24, 27 October 2005 (UTC) reply

Thanks, I hadn't seen it on the NYTimes... but, it's front and center in the post. Thanks :) gren グレン 13:27, 27 October 2005 (UTC) reply

Please see my edit note on the page history here. Oldsoul 15:55, 27 October 2005 (UTC) reply

Furthermore, please note, "... don't try to promote your product or business. Please don't insert external links to your commercial website unless a neutral party would judge that the link truly belongs in the article; we do have articles about products like Kleenex or Sharpies, or notable businesses like Wal-Mart, but if you are writing about a product or business be sure you write from a neutral point of view." (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article ).

Demosphere.net is not currently a commercial website. Instead of blanche carte afd why not improve the NPOV if you think that it can be cleaned up? Thank you. Oldsoul 16:01, 27 October 2005 (UTC) reply

A direct quote by the Dr, who treated Kerry uses the same three words I use" "injury", "superficial" and "small". Did you bother to read the Dr.'s statement? Rex071404 ^{216.153.214.94} 00:07, 29 October 2005 (UTC) reply

Good luck with your proposed wikiproject. I've recently run into confusion regarding 'source spam' involving books listed in Further reading sections ( WP:CITE#External_links/Further_reading). I think Further reading as opposed to External links are important as used in places like Green Tortoise, but want to make sure to formalize a policy to combat spam. My efforts are elsewhere at the moment... but I'll keep an eye on! ;) ∴ here… ♠ 00:39, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply

The project sounds like a great idea, and I like your stringent guidelines for links in your subpage. Note however that if the project gets off the ground, we need to make sure that there's no double standard between Wikipedia:External links and the project criteria. -- DDerby- (talk) 07:02, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply

I've registered. This has been my pet peeve for over a year. Perhaps we should try to rewrite policy as part of the project. For example: a good external link (1) elaborates on content, but does not present a radically different version that could have been mentioned in the article, (2) has a clear POV that can be described, (3) does not violate standards for taste, (4) is not primarily trying to sell a product (unless this product is the subject of the article linked from), (5) has a reasonably high Alexa count to be termed "significant", (6) is not a bizarre fringe view that nobody has heard of (see WP:NPOV) etc etc. Such a policy would massively streamline the otherwise onerous discussions whether links are suitable for inclusion or not. JFW |  T@lk 11:22, 30 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Hi. I'm not sure I agree with putting all the mountains of the Canadian Rockies in this category. Eventually, this category will be mostly filled with mountain articles (hundreds at least) which will obscure the other articles. I might suggest creating a "list" article and just have that in the category. May want to consider discussing this on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mountains before adding more mountains. RedWolf 06:28, 30 November 2005 (UTC) reply

I think that many of the Canadian Rockies-related articles severely lack in quality and substance. Categorizing helps inventory what's there, and can be further subcategorized into mountains, lakes, or whatever. Or, sort the mountains by park. Stub-sorting can be done, prioritize, and I can help out with improving the articles, create maps, add/organize photos, etc. Right now, there is nothing that groups these articles together. --- Aude 06:37, 30 November 2005 (UTC) reply

I'll leave the mountain articles, as is, and work on other park-related articles. The mountain articles look good and consistent, with the templates. However, the main park articles (e.g. Jasper National Park) need more about their history, geography, ecology, tourist info, etc, as has been done for US parks like Glacier National Park (US), and Yellowstone National Park. I think maps would also be useful — something I can help with. --- Aude 08:01, 30 November 2005 (UTC) reply

on (I think the URL is) Talk:WikiProject Usability/Main Page/Draft. :) 64.231.254.54 13:37, 7 December 2005 (UTC) reply

This video examines public videos of the several attacks on 9/11. It demonstrates substantially different facts from the article. This IS important and deserves your review before deletion. Consider the contents of this video:

* [View this Video Documentary of WTC Collapse including the first building strike.] ^{(I have removed the linkspam, though it's still in the edit history --- Aude 04:18, 28 December 2005 (UTC))} reply

This link is accessible, it is proper (ie. useful), it is entered correctly AND is in the external link section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.165.243.38 ( talk • contribs) 00:13, 9 December 2005

Hi there:

I've noticed that you've taken to renaming articles such as "Logan Circle (Washington, D.C.)" to "Logan Circle, Washington, D.C.". Is there a reason why you're doing this? My understanding of Wikipedia is that, in general, article titles should take the form of a name one would use in text, with a disambiguator in parentheses if this is non-unique. WikiMedia even has a special syntax for this: if you type in "[[Logan Circle (Washington, D.C.)|]]", it automatically substitutes to "[[Logan Circle (Washington, D.C.)|Logan Circle]]" upon save. Most people write "Logan Circle" in their articles; almost none write "Logan Circle, Washington, D.C."

Please reply to me here. I will leave this page watchlisted for the next three days.

— DLJessup ( talk) 14:44, 12 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Please see Category:Washington, D.C. neighborhoods, where Logan Circle (Washington, D.C.) stands out from all the other neighborhoods in the way it's formatted. Please also see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (city names) and it's talk page, where there is discussion on how to format neighborhoods and disambiguation. If you want to weigh in on the discussions, please do.

In all, there needs to be some consistency in how we format Washington, D.C. neighborhoods. If you want to format Logan Circle in the way you suggest, then I think we need to do the same for all the other neighborhoods. --- Aude 14:52, 12 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Also, see Category:Manhattan neighborhoods, Category:Los Angeles neighborhoods, and Category:Neighborhoods of the United States. Thanks. --- Aude 14:54, 12 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Bludie hell. Yeah, you're right; I was thrown off by Logan Circle, which references Logan Circle (Philadelphia) and by the fact that this is Yet Another Exception to a Wikipedia General Rule. I'll try to fix what damage I've wrought.

— DLJessup ( talk) 23:43, 12 December 2005 (UTC) reply

No problem. How to format neighborhoods hasn't yet made it into the official guidelines. There are still many inconsistencies (e.g. The Financial District (Manhattan) or Category:Pittsburgh neighborhoods). Personally, I like using the parenthesis — looks better, but consistency is more important. --- Aude 00:20, 13 December 2005 (UTC) reply

I saw on the Washington page you were looking for DC GIS data. Check out dcgis.dc.gov, then Dataset Search, there is a lot available on there for free. Awiseman 20:57, 13 December 2005 (UTC) reply

First, please see my entry on the Savannah talk page.

Do you have any source that Savannah is called "the hostess city?" My family has lived here for generations and I've lived here my whole life and I have never heard of either nickname currently on that page. The only one that's used that everybody has knowledge of in this area is the "Coastal Empire." -- BWD 21:55, 14 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Welcome to Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas! As I mentioned in the other discussion, I am slowly working on various "minor" areas of the National Park System. Right now I have three tasks:

1. Creating stubs for red links on the list of areas in the National Park System of the United States (A new article I just created, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, is an example of what I now consider an ideal stub.)
2. Updating infobox templates on articles that have the old table-based box (such as Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site).
3. Cleaning up, and adding infoboxes to, existing articles, stubs, and sub-stubs (such as Wright Brothers National Memorial).

If you are interested in helping out, or have any questions, just drop me a line. — Eoghanacht ^talk 17:14, 16 December 2005 (UTC) reply

If you know how to edit SVG files, there is one task outstanding: The U.S. Locator Map is shown with the international boundary along the coast of the Great Lakes rather than within them. I don't know how to edit the file, and the original creator has not contributed to Wikipedia in almost a month. You should be able to find details at: http://www.nationalatlas.gov/

Also, if you make an SVG map of Canada in a similar style as the U.S. locator map, please drop a not at the protected area wikiproject site. I would like it for Roosevelt Campobello International Park. Thanks. — Eoghanacht ^talk 20:12, 16 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Hi, yes. It is a template {{subst:anon vandal}}. It's best if you give this to persistent vandals who have been blocked on previous occasions. For vandals who have never been blocked before, it's best to give them the usual test1, 2, 3 and 4. Remember, this template is for anon vandals only, as it extends an invitation to open an account. Keep up the good work :-) Izehar ( talk) 16:37, 19 December 2005 (UTC) reply

I left you a note on the hybrid talk page. uriah923^{( talk)} 15:02, 20 December 2005 (UTC) And another. uriah923^{( talk)} 17:58, 20 December 2005 (UTC) Yet again. uriah923^{( talk)} 23:05, 20 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Thank you, I see what u meant. buenosdiers

Too late, I blocked him already. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:52, 20 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Why the heck are you vandalizing my edits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.42.7.170 ( talk • contribs)

What does this one think of the movement? -- Kin Khan 02:01, 22 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Nice use of test 2; Perhaps you should have used "Hello. Before making potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Otherwise, people might consider your edits to be vandalism. Thank you. " or maybe even "Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. ". I don't think it is vandalism: everything is internal (i.e. talk pages and a NPOV Wikipedia class article) You are more than free to voice your opinion on this matter here. Thanks for your time.-- Kin Khan 02:14, 22 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Hey Kmf164! Thanks for your support on my RfA. The final outcome was an unanimous (45/0/0), so I am now an administrator. If you need help, or have a question, please don't hesitate to let me know! Again, thanks! :D -- Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 03:37, 22 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Hi, I noticed on Grand Canyon you changed the pics. I spent 5 hours getting those pics right, and because of the pics the article was even nominated as an FA. I saw that you started tampering with the pics today. Before you did, they were as good as can be. I think you had good intentions, but I had to revert. Tobyk777 22:29, 22 December 2005 (UTC) reply

I see your point. I also got similar criticism from another guy. I will unrevert the reverts. I think I overdid the pics sorry. Tobyk777 03:08, 23 December 2005 (UTC) reply

I would really like to use Image:Chetwynd BC Road Network.JPG in the Chetwynd article. Was it that I was using the wrong tag or is just not permitted. What about the unaltered version straight from the source: www.hellonorth.com (the pdf tourist magazine)? Is there a tag that would allow me to use that? Also, I think that BC and Canada are the same for copyrights. At my work we have a license to use the geo-referenced data on these airphotos, but we can do what we please with the images (give them away, publish them - once we publish an agenda they are public property, etc.). maclean25 16:36, 23 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Thanks for fixing the major copyedits on this page. It was indeed copied directly off the Corner Bakery site and I did it. I was planning on rewriting the article with original content. I understand the seriousness of copyright violations and I apologize for them. At the time I made this page I did not fully understand Wikipedia's copyright and other policies. Thank you for fixing this page! Dustimagic 23:41, 26 December 2005 (UTC) reply

Thanks for letting me know about the link policy. The videos I put up, however, were pretty unique: how often do you get to hear from a hostage negotiator about ongoing events in Iraq? The show has a rather large collection of video, some of which (but not all) has relevance to the ongoing coverage of topics at Wikipedia. My intent is merely to share the content, not to spam the site; do you have any advice regarding how to balance (the positive) "contribution" with (the negative) "spam" for non-text material? JTBurman 20:18, 28 December 2005 (UTC) reply

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Fralambert, Kostas20142, welcome on board!
  • New request for comments: Restrictions on making items

• Events
  • WikiGap Challenge, online editing challenge to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia and Wikidata, from March 8th to April 8th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Knowledge Graphs on the Web -- an Overview - Nicolas Heist, et al.
    • Some issues with this paper's reporting of Wikidata are identified in this Twitter thread
  • The List Revolution: Creating dynamic lists using linked data, by Alex Stinson

• Tool of the week
  • wikibase-cli ( Q87194660) now (>= v9.2.0) has a batch mode, and EditGroups support (auto-activated for batch edits targeting Wikidata): ready to make some mass edit, and open for feedback!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The WikidataCon 2019 grant report has been published
  • EqualStreetNames.Brussels shows streets in Brussels named after men and women, visualized with data from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: The Washington Post contributor ID, DoME artist ID, ArchiWebture ID, Museu de Memes ID, WeChangEd ID, GreatSchools ID, Czech War Graves Register, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, RealGM basketball coach ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, Directory of Maîtres d'art, Chicago Landmarks ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: SIUSA archive conservator ID, ToposText IDs, content partnership category, eligible award recipient, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, Number of recoveries, footedness, HTML autocomplete attribute, SoloTutes, see talk page discussion at
    • External identifiers: BC Register of Historic Places ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID, RFI Musique ID, Moravian Lives, EL, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Google Scholar case ID, TaDiRAH ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, SkiMo Stats ID
  • Query examples:
    • Subjects and panelists of the BBC radio programme In Our Time ( source)
    • People affected by COVID-19
    • Map of hillforts in the UK ( source)
    • Images for language items ( source)

• Development
  • Querying the URL datatype with haswbstatement is now possible ( phab:T243693). It will take two to three months before URLs are indexed for all Wikidata items.
  • Wikidata Bridge: more style fixes, preparing a prototype to show how we will display references
  • Fixing various production errors
  • Monitoring the run of wb_terms migration
  • Fixing an issue with the Commons files search field ( phab:T196165)

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Wikidata:Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject

• Events
• Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most meetups, including all those funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants, have been cancelled, or moved online, for the foreseeable future.
  • Past: Wikidata workshop at the central library of Göttingen. Slides: connecting Wikidata and other databases (in German)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 20th, will take place online starting at 20:00 on IRC ( freenode:wikidata-fr)
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #5, March 22
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende in Ulm, June 12-14
  • Postponed:
    • Wikidata Days 2020 (July, Portugal) will be postponed ( more information)
    • WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 (May, Germany) is postponed until "late 2020"
  • Cancelled:
    • Wikimedia Hackathon (9-11 May, Tirana) is cancelled due to COVID-19.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • People First: Wikimedia’s Response to COVID-19 - Update from Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Foundation CEO
  • Wikimedia Foundation’s Knowledge Infrastructure with Grant Ingersoll, CTO of Wikimedia Foundation
  • Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers - "describes how to generate gazetteers from the Wikidata knowledge graph"
  • Introduction to Wikidata video by Jason Evans and Aaron Morris, available both in English and in Welsh
  • Video of the live Wikidata Querying, March 15th, by WikidataFacts

• Tool of the week
  • TabulistBot, a tool to generate and update tabular data on Commons, based on Wikidata SPARQL queries. Sample: earthquakes.tab

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New help page: Suggesters and selectors
  • All identifiers are now sorted mostly alphabetically according to the RfC regarding the sorting of identifiers, which remains open if you have improvement proposals. Feel free to comment here!
  • Maximilian Klein applied for a project grant to merge and improve WHGI and Denelezh, tools that heavily rely on Wikidata to provide statistics about gender gap and biographical content in Wikimedia projects.
  • QuickStatements change ( 4 March). QuickStatements is now executing "run in background" batches with the same priority as direct batches run from the browser. Background batches may now run many times faster than they previously did ( discussion), when the WDQS updater can handle this.
  • News and discussions about Structured Data on Commons SPARQL endpoint

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: historic county, corresponding HTML autocomplete attribute
    • External identifiers: Joconde Discovery ID, Joconde Genèse ID, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Cell Ontology ID, Scilit work ID, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, VR GameCritic ID, DAR ancestor ID, FandangoNow ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: descriptive solubility, Unicode character (item), Donations, endorsed by, countermeasure, Venue of the final, Tournament format, tilt
    • External identifiers: Social Blade YouTube channel ID, Dizionario di Filosofia ID, re:publica speaker ID, ACM Conference ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, ACM Journal ID, m3db.com film ID, m3db.com person ID, TripAdvisor ID 2
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of films about pandemics
    • World map of hospitals ( source)
    • English and Scottish health trusts & boards ( source)
    • Videogames nominated at the Pégases award ( source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject COVID-19
  • Newest database reports: COVID-19 deaths

• Development
  • Add monolingual codes nrf-gg (Guernésiais), nrf-je (Jèrriais), thanks to Mbch331! ( phab:T165648)
  • Article Placeholder: make the entity field required ( phab:T247478)
  • Remove legacy Wikibase service containers ( phab:T245865)
  • Fix an error UnresolvedEntityRedirectException when viewing certain Wikidata item pages ( phab:T243779)
  • Fix an issue with new edit summaries not always showing what expected ( phab:T246873)
  • Federated properties: enable search with remote properties (wbsearchentities) ( phab:T246349)
  • showing the updated Wikipedia article after changing a value via Bridge ( phab:T235208)
  • research how to do reference rendering ( phab:T244987)

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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March 18, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. This month, as part of Wikimedia NYC's commitment to the well-being of members, we will hold WikiWednesday online via Zoom videoconferencing! To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Wednesday March 18 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC ( optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm online via Zoom We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Wikimedia New York City Team 04:36, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7th, 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+2) in the Wikidata Telegram group
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #6, March 29
  • Postponed: Wikimania Bangkok is postponed until 2021

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences, Andra Waagmeester et.al.
  • Tensor Decompositions for Temporal Knowledge Base Completion ("Additionally, we propose a new dataset for knowledge base completion constructed from Wikidata ... for evaluating temporal and non-temporal link prediction methods.")

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A task force is formed under WikiProject India to work on 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India (Q84055514)
  • Important for tool maintainers: last steps of wb_terms table migration (wb_terms is not updated anymore and will be renamed next week)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: food energy, quantity symbol, depicted format, electron configuration, endorsed by, ordered by, research subject recruitment status, footedness, IM channel, number of recoveries, number of clinical tests
    • External identifiers: FandangoNow ID, CVR person ID, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, Filmfront film ID, stargate-wiki.de article, AncientFaces person ID, Decine21 ID, ACM Conference ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, ExoticA ID, Hrvatska enciklopedija ID, ACM Journal ID, Kanopy ID, Mirabile author ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Mirabile saint ID, Mirabile title ID, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, Treccani Dizionario di Filosofia ID, Colecovision Zone ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, Gry Online company ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Haz-Map ID, Social Security Death Index entry, ColecoVision.dk ID, US Bureau of Prisons Inmate Register Number, Google Scholar case ID, Adventure Games series ID, Trakt.tv ID, Compendium heroicum ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development English ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: tilt, Dog and cat breed registries, terminology, perpetrator, virtual tour, victims, décès, subpopulation 2, Institutionskennzeichen (IK), ODMP person ID, is metaclass for, correct spelling
    • External identifiers: Unified registration number, AGROVOC ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, PIV Online ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Curran Index Contributor ID, Curran Index Periodical ID, Artprice artist ID, Reta Vortaro, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, identifiant co-optimus.com, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, CIRIS author ID, motorsportstats.com series, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com team ID, CAB ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, curlingzone.com ID, Visit Tuscany ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most recent common ancestors of George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth II
    • Notable people with COVID-19 by number of sitelinks
    • COVID-19 case statistics for India:
      • State-level map
      • State-level line graph
    • Lakes spanning at least 3 countries ( source)
    • Michelin starred restaurants in Luxembourg ( source)

• Development
  • Federated properties: set up a test system ( phab:T247734)
  • ore work on search for remote properties ( phab:T246349)
  • Bridge: more work on messages about the license ( phab:T238728)

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
  • 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) 16:24, 23 March 2020 (UTC) reply

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

• Events
  • Today: Edit tools for Wikidata, on-line workshop in Polish, access link, March 30, 17:00 GMT (7pm Warsaw time)
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #7, April 5
  • Upcoming: Wikidata for beginners, April 1
  • Upcoming: Wiki Workshop, researchers forum (fully remote), on April 21. More information, registration
  • Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place fully remotely in July 2020. Call for submissions with remote formats is open until April 30th.
  • Upcoming: the Wikidata Wochenende (previously in Ulm) will take place fully remote on June 12-14

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: How can Wikimedia projects help fight the pandemic, by Susanna Ånäs
  • Investigating Software Usage in the Social Sciences: A Knowledge Graph Approach ("we linked the entities of the knowledge graph to other knowledge bases such as the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, the Software Ontology, and Wikidata")
  • Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (free eBook)
  • Video: Live SPARQL editing in French by Vigneron
  • Video: Live editing in English by Ainali and Abbe98: Youtube, Twitch, Periscope, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • About Wikidata dumps:
    • No second XML dump in March
    • RDF and JSON dumps generation is broken (no new dump since March 11th, fix in progress)
  • Wikidata knowledge imbalance dashboard - Alpha release
  • Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library and would like to work together with WikiCite
  • wb_terms migration: a temporary table has been created, the current wb_terms table will be emptied on April 6th ( more details)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: generational suffix, LiverTox likelihood score, size designation, perpetrator, victim
    • External identifiers: IGCD game ID, Kickstarter project ID, Gram.pl game ID, Kooora/Goalzz player ID, RFI Musique artist ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Nobel Laureate API ID, VGMRips system ID, VGMRips company ID, GameRevolution game ID, PIV Online ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, VcBA ID, m3db.com film ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, donated to, number of hospitalized cases, number of home cases, ARK formatter, Filceolaire, viability on surface, entry receptor, birth rate
    • External identifiers: SAN archive producer ID, SAR ancestor ID, National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, identifiant Geneastar, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, Women of Scotland ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, World Biographical Information System ID, COTREX trail ID, Natural Atlas ID, Apache Project ID, Amazon Prime Video ID, Archival Resource Key, UM-BBD compound ID, BitterDB Compound ID, FooDB compound ID, ModelSEED compound ID, Hopital.fr ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, FHF hospital group ID, FHF establishment ID, Ameli ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, Elephind.com, What Do They Know organisation ID, Papers Past, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, I-Revues ID, BDSP ID
  • Query examples:
    • People born more than a year after one of their parents
    • UK MPs who were born after their father's death ( source)
    • National flags representing mountains ( source)
    • Map of Umgebindehäuser (Upper Lusatian houses) ( source)
    • Map of megaliths in Morbihan (Bretagne) ( source)

• Development
  • Fix an issue with the Wikidata dumps ( phab:T248612)
  • Migrate to and read from new store for item terms ( phab:T219123)
  • Create wb_terms_no_longer_updated to ease the transition to the new tables
  • Bridge: improve the rendering of references ( phab:T238661)
  • More work on editing references ( phab:T240333)
  • Continue setting up a test system to work on federated properties
  • More research on suggesting references

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
  • Create a scraper for Mix'n'match from the catalogue list.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:22, 30 March 2020 (UTC) reply