*Content*

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:

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“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.

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“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:

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"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*

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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.

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Yours in service,

Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )