This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-11-26.

• New request for comments:Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?,Many surname items had been un merged because of failure to communicate.

• Past:women editathon in Mexico City, November 24th
• Past: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Berlin, November 23th-25th
• Running:WikiCite 2018, November 27th-29th, Berkeley, California, USA. Some livestream will be providedon Youtube
• Upcoming: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Vienna, November 30th-December 2nd
• Upcoming:Wikidata meetup in Berlin, with a focus on Open Refine, January 15th

• Wikidata-related videos during GLAMwiki conference:
  • Wikidata — What's new - Jens Ohlig
  • A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners - Asaf Bartov
  • A set of tutorials on importing data to wikidata and queries in German language (Michael Cieslik)
  • SPARQL workshop - Maarten Dammers
  • Engaging GLAM institutions with Wikidata - Sharing Experiences and Techniques - Andrew Lih
  • Sum of all Paintings and Open Data - Maarten Dammers
  • Wikidata’s role in metadata creation and reuse workflows in libraries - Michelle Futornick
  • Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata - Jens Ohlig
  • Impact and potential of structured data on Wikimedia projects for the GLAM sector - Sandra Fauconnier
  • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons - Introduction and panel of Wikimedia pilots
• Introduction to Wikidata in 7min by Asaf Bartov
• Introduction to Wikidata by Lydia Pintscher in 20min, during Shani Evenstein's university course about Wikidata

• Wikidata Senses (documentation), new tool byUser:Vesihiisi to add senses to lexemes
• The Swedish National Heritage Board hasstarted working on a project, related to Structured Data on Commons, that focuses on ways to feed back improved (crowdsourced) metadata to cultural institutions who contribute media files to Wikimedia Commons.
  • Please alert your GLAM partners to anew survey about crowdsourcing, metadata and Wikimedia Commons, which informs the research for this project!
• Scribe,a project to support under-resourced Wikipedias based on Wikidata's content, has been proposed for a grant
• Tool to convert Wikibase JSON to RDF without storing it in a repository
• Call for paper for the data quality workshop in Berlin on January 18th. Open until December 6th

• Newestproperties:
  • General datatypes:running mate,research site,quotes work
  • External identifiers:World Poker Tour player ID,GLAMOS glacier ID,Academy Awards Database nominee ID,ANICA ID,National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID,r-hockey.ru person ID,Sotheby's Museum Network ID,MNAV artist ID,Google News publication ID,ALCA author ID,Atlas of Florida Plants ID,BoardGeekGame game publisher ID,Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID,Luding game publisher ID,NAS ID,Depósito Legal ID,Corpus typographique français ID,British Executions ID,Bantu Lexical Reconstructions ID,Welsh Book Trade Info ID,System16 identifier,Académie d'Arles member ID,Sega Saturn game ID,Bitraga author ID,TWAS Fellow ID,Bitraga work ID,Cal-IPC ID,EUNIS ID,Dimensions Author ID,Dimensions Publication ID,Dimensions Source ID,Disney A to Z ID
• Newproperty proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:language use,has variant,has version,rationale text,HABS ID,Wikia Article URL,CNPJ
  • External identifiers:AJOL ID,Microsoft Academic Source ID,GameFAQs company ID,BDFA player ID,Sabinet ID,NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID,Guida al fumetto italiano ID,Bygdeband location,OeBL 1815-1950 ID,Badtaste ID,Badgames ID,defined term ID,Wikia Article ID,Female mexican soccer players ID,Geolex ID,OBV editions,BBC News topic id,member of the Portuguese parliament ID
• Query examples:
  • Place and century of discovery of the archaeological objects of St Raymond museum (France) (source)
  • Location of city halls in Spain (source)
  • Timeline of famous pirates (source)
  • Authors who are the most cited in Nature Chemistry (source)
  • Scholarly articles published about Wikidata (adapted fromhere)
  • The world's 200 tallest mountains, and whether Wikidata knows they've been climbed (source)
• NewestWikiProjects:WikiProject Kākāpō,WikiProject Scholia
• Newest database reports:Fugger

• Fix an error when entering an incomplete filename (phab:T199420)
• Fix the unreadable references for unpriviledged users (phab:T186006)
• Create new page properties for number of Forms and Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199611)
• Adapt the API to efficiently format large numbers of entity IDs (phab:T207484)
• Switch "save" to "publish" in the Lexeme interface (phab:T203354)
• Fix a bug showing outdated link formats in the history of Lexemes (phab:T208423)
• Add Special:MergeLexemes to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T204397)
• Add Wikipedia link in the other projects sidebar of Wikisource (phab:T180303, thanks to Tpt)
• Work on displaying the language of the gloss with the language name, both in reading and editing mode (phab:T203457,phab:T209931)
• More work on improving the interface of the termbox on mobile

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

• 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 aShowcase item.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

• Wikidata status updates