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The English Wikiquote of the day for 8 August is from American poet Sara Teasdale <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sara_Teasdale>. The quote is a poem, "Alchemy <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rivers_to_the_Sea_(Collection)/Alchemy>," from her collection *Rivers to the Sea* that was published in 1915. A few years later and for another poetry collection, Teasdale received a Pulitzer prize <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize>. The Commons picture of the day for 2 August was of a butterfly, a Spotted fritillary (Melitaea didyma <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spotted_fritillary_(Melitaea_didyma)_underside_Macedonia.jpg>), in Galichica National Park, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia), by photographer Charles J. Sharp from Scotland. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/August_3> *Products and technologies* The oldest “unbreak now” task on Phabricator as of 1 August was 0 days <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-August/092369.html>. (This could mean that there were no unbreak now tasks at the time that the Phabricator report was generated, which would be good news.) Cross-posting thanks from Legoktm on Wikitech-l <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-July/092346.html>: - “Daimona, bawolff, and sbassett for their work on v2.0 of the phan-taint-check-plugin, which has been instrumental in catching real security issues. - “James_F for picking up a lot of CI maintenance - “MatmaRex for seeing through a patch to allow skins to have custom OOUI themes, 2 years after beginning work on it!” *Wikidata* A summary of interesting links, adapted from Wikidata Weekly Summary #376 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-August/013313.html>: - "Wikidata: From "an" Identifier to "the" Identifier" <https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/10886>, Theo van Veen, *Information Technology and Libraries*, 38(2), 72-81. - "Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata" <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-15200-0_27>, Adelheid Heftberger et al, in *Digital Cultural Heritage*, pp 401-410. - "Bridging the gap between linked open data-based recommender systems and distributed representations" <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306437918302436?via%3Dihub>, Pierpaolo Basile, et al, *Information Systems*, Volume 86, December 2019, pp 1-8. - "Open Refine Beginners Tutorial" <https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/OpenRefine+Beginners+Tutorial/0_y5bxsswq>, video tutorial by Emmacarroll3 demonstrating how to import a dataset with OpenRefine. *Affiliate organizations* - Wikimedia Medicine <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Medicine> was elevated from User Group to Thematic Organization. - Wikimedia Colombia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Colombia> was elevated from User Group to Chapter. - User group recognitions: Hausa Wikimedians User Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Hausa_Wikimedians_User_Group>, Wikipedians of Goa User Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikipedians_of_Goa_User_Group>, Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedians_of_the_Caribbean_User_Group>, and Yoruba Wikimedians User Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Yoruba_Wikimedians_User_Group> . - Wikimedia Portugal has signed a new chapter agreement with WMF <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-July/093119.html> . *Legal topics* "The European Commission chooses truly free licenses for its content <https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/01/the-european-commission-chooses-truly-free-licenses-for-its-content/>", by Dimitar Dimitrov, Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy> *Closing comments* What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any language. Translations of the subject line of this email would be appreciated on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations>. Yours in service, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
