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Scholarships application process for Wikimania 2020 (Bangkok) is now open until 17 March. More information, FAQ, apply
Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open until 30 March.

New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2020
Wikidata has an entry in Google's new data search tool
"Status of Wikidata Query Service" update from WMF, on Wikidata mailing list
Swiss newspaper Le Temps built a new front-end to interact with a Wikibase backend developed by nonprofit PersonalData.IO to power its citizen-led investigation of personal data flows.
There are now 100,000 people with the name "John" in Wikidata. "Elizabeth" is now the most frequent female given name.
Science Stories by Kat Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt, an application that tells stories about underrepresented people in STEM using Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, is the winner of the LODLAM 2020 Challenge!

The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing (NLP) research
Knowledge Grapher is a new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. It is currently in early testing mode. Feedback is appreciated.
Cradle tool can now generate forms based on Schemas (example for human)

New gadget added to Preferences, "Show UnpatrolledEdits" (see discussion): it shows if the last edit to the item has not been patrolled
Pywikibot deprecates Python 2 support. Any scripts running via Python 2 should be migrated soon, see more at [1]
Mismatched reference: first version deployed
Loading time of pages on Wikidata and Commons has been improved. You can learn more about page load performance and developing with ResourceLoader.
soweego is an artificial intelligence that links Wikidata to large external catalogs. The proposal for version 2 is out for consideration. review of version 1 is open for discussion.