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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:48, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Hello Andy

We had a meeting about the Primary School project during Wikimania, during which I expressed my wish to find solutions so that a bunch of articles considered of prime importance to primary school in South Africa, be improved in the next few months. Discott suggested that I contact editors involved in the various meetings, either in UK, or in New York or in Washington to see if some articles in my list could be the object of attention during locally held edit-a-thons. He particularly outlined that the London meetings were very well attended and quite frequent. Indeed, UK seems to organize meetings quite often. About half of the articles are pretty specific to South Africa but the other half are very generic articles. Various topics are covered, sometimes very well, sometimes not. For example Fire safety or gangster or Home safety requires much attention. Some are rather good articles, currently rated start such as Map. Do you think you could help us to improve some of the articles on the list ? Thanks Anthere ( talk)

@ Anthere: Great project! I'll raise it at the Wikimedia UK AGM, next month. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:20, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Andy. Feel free to ask if you have any questions. Cheers. Anthere ( talk)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:51, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D on the Australian Imperial Force Op-ed: TomStar81 looks at the Battle of the Somme Timeline: This month in World War I

Took only 300 years to restore a good name. - Thank you for your work on the article. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:27, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi Andy; we met at the Wikimania lunch table in Esino Lario. Just a quick note that I didn't forget you asking about the status of ORCID in German-language Wikipedia; will check there and probably start a new discussion. It seems that the last ORCID discussion at de:Vorlage Diskussion:Normdaten was in 2014, started by you, with not a lot of participants (maybe because it was in English). Well, that was two years ago, there are now more Wikidata items with ORCID (but still not that many, it seems - 1152?)... we certainly can bring it up again. Gestumblindi ( talk) 10:38, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

@ Gestumblindi: Thank you - please do (and let me know when it's done). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:30, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Posted a proposal right now, see here (in German) :-) Gestumblindi ( talk) 22:17, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Response is rather negative. I tried summarizing the contra points brought up in English here, maybe you want to chime in... Gestumblindi ( talk) 23:07, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

@ Gestumblindi: Thank you again. I have replied there, but it's the same few objectors as last time, perhaps it needs a more widely-publicised discussion? There are now over 1200 ORCID iDs in Wikidata (and we know there are many still to be added). The last tome we discussed this in de.Wikipedia, I was told "try again when there are 1,000"! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:57, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Hallo Andy,

may I use your sandbox tutorial as presented in Esio Lario? -- GOABahnmoeller ( talk) 19:50, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

@ GOABahnmoeller: It seems you already have done! Do feel free, but please change the name in the infobox. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:04, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi Andy, We obviously both heard Woman's Hour re Kofoworola Abeni Pratt ... sorry for the Edit conflicts, have replaced some of your bits which I lost when I boldly added my version... got to go out now (village library closes shortly), so (a) no time to finish tidying up, but (b) I won't be conflicting with you for a while now. Together we're vastly improving her. Was going to look at using {{ Post-nominals}}. Wonder if there's an image of her anywhere? Cheers. Pam D 11:06, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

But then the heavens opened and the library can wait till afternoon ... found a full death date which disagrees with previous source! Trustee notice in Times, authoritative. Will add. Hope not to conflict. Looks as if she had an obit in Guardian - mentioned here. Pam D 11:34, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

@ PamD: No problem - edit conflicts are a part of Wikipedia's rich tapestry! You've found some good sources which I hadn't, so I'm glad you pitched in. I hope to have a copy of the Bell paper later today, so that should move things forward. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:49, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Guardian obit is tantalising, as it's too late for BL Newspapers (to 1950) and too early for Newsbank (1998- for Guardian) there's a 1950-1998 gap in access. Just discovered that Newsbank also has some Nigerian newspapers ... but only 2012-. Ah well. Pam D 12:04, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi Andy,
It was good to chat to you yesterday. I've now been looking at the Environment Agency river levels data in more detail. Each monitoring station (usually measuring flow and/or level) has an ID, and there are parameters for the station's river and catchment. But as I feared, the river and catchment references in that dataset are just names without proper identifiers, so we probably can't use them in the rivers' Wikidata. See [3].
Do you think there should be a Wikidata item for each monitoring station (perhaps linked to wikidata:stream gauge), which can then reference the rivers' Wikidata? I guess linking these would be a semi-manual task. And then we can maybe start to think about how to link through to the actual level data, and incorporate that into the rivers' articles. It might be beyond me, and I'm starting to think that I'm trying to sprint before I can crawl.
Perhaps a simpler task to start me off would be to update river Wikidata with the WFD Waterbody ID. This is the reference number used by the EA for reporting under the Water Framework Directive (of course it's not used in the monitoring station dataset...). I think I'd need to create a new property for this, but I'm not quite sure how to do that.
Can you give me some pointers please? Thanks, Bazonka ( talk) 09:06, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

@ Bazonka: The first thing to try would be to ask the EA to start using their unique identifiers in their data sets! I can see us possibly having a Wikidata item for each monitoring station - but how many are there? I'd be happy to draft a proposal for a 'WFD Waterbody ID' property - is there a list online? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:28, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

@ Bazonka: Postscript: We already have wikidata:Property:P2856. Is this the same thing? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:48, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Yes, that's it! At least for the moment while we're still in the EU... I'm not sure whether they'll still be used when we leave. I'll put in a request for the IDs to be used but I'm not hopeful that anything will happen any time soon. I'll see what I can do though. There are about 2000 stations for monitoring river levels. Cheers, Bazonka ( talk) 18:52, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

@ Bazonka: Well that's good - one less job to do ;-) We now need to work out how best to model a single recording station - what properties, etc. We can then put the data together in a spreadsheet. So you have a list of the stations? And/or a single example in detail? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:57, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

There's an API containing near real-time data about and from the stations. See [4]. A JSON file listing all flow level stations can be generated with [5], so I guess it would be possible to do something with that. I think the (first) tricky part would be to link the stations to the rivers, and without the waterbody IDs in the data it could be a huge job to sort out.

Meanwhile, I've populated the Wikidata for the rivers on the Isle of Wight with the WFD Waterbody IDs. Some rivers are classed as more than one waterbody, e.g. Eastern Yar. Have I done this right? I did this manually, so it'll be another huge job to do the whole country like that. Bazonka ( talk) 20:50, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

@ Bazonka: As is so often the case with Wikidata, there is more then one way to do something, and neither is right or wrong. Yours is one way, the other is to create a Wikidata item for each thing that has a WFD ID, and mark them as "part of" the whole river. As you say this is too big to do manually (either way) and we may need a bot, or to use something like Mix'n'Match. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:32, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

15:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:33, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VI, June 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thons and contest in Buenos Aires Belgium report: Just For The Record; Wiki Loves Art preparations Brazil report: New steps for the GLAM movement in Brazil France report: « Veni, vidi, wiki ! » Germany report: GLAM on Tour is a format, is a statement, is a tag Italy report: Contemporary art images from BEIC Macedonia report: National library collaboration and Contemporary art on Wikidata Mexico report: 3 continuous days of art; Efforts against the Wikipedia Gender Gap Netherlands report: Image donation by the Museum Catharijneconvent; 1300 Dutch underground newspapers from WW2; Collaboration with public libraries Spain report: Involving libraries in Wikimedia projects Sweden report: World Wide Wikipedia; Royal Library; Monuments database to Wikidata migration; Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon 2016 UK report: Wellcome USA report: June is busting out all over Open Access report: Open Science Fellows Program; OA Signalling Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes Wikidata report: Wikidatamania WMF GLAM report: A Wikimania Reflection, GLAM Phabricator Queues, and a WMF Update Calendar: July'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.

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