Circumstances in my life mean that I will have signifigantly less time to edit Wikipedia starting next month. This is not a retirement. This is me stepping back to engage in oppertunities that have been presented to me. I will be back at some point, just not sure when that will be. Consider me semi-retired for now. NW1223<
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the
Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher.
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IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers.
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The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
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RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in
right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (
calendar).
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All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at
14:00 UTC.
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The table indicating tributaries oof the Arkansas includes “Bear Creek”. The mouth of Bear Creek must therefore be the Arkansas River, but the table indicates the mouth is in south Tx. I believe that is a different Bear Creek, as the Arkansas River flows nowhere within Texas. I have no idea how to correct this. --
Spgmilkman (
talk) 16:05, 19 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #148 is out: On the way to internationalizing numbers
There is
a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we discuss our progresses with the implementation of renderers and parsers for natural numbers, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check
our archive!
2024 Women's Wiki Month Datathon (Indonesian) Between 24 - 26 March 2024, Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting a competitive Data-thon with Prizes available for editing and enriching Wikidata items on the topic of Women's Health. Full details on the project page.
Levelling Up Days 2024 is an online event designed to welcome new people to Wikidata, upgrade their editing skills and find out about useful tools and apps. Join us for a series of videos and discussions regarding Wikidata and its uses in and outside of the Wikimedia projects.
Program - the live portions of the event take place across the weekends 5-7 and 12-14 April
Ontology Explorer, also an Observable notebook, explore the subclasses in front or behind a Wikidata Item.
Tool of the week
Members of European Parliament by pac02. Explore visualisations of MEP's in the European Parliament. Country of origin, gender, political alignment and other properties from Wikidata can be explored.
Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year 2023 - We encourage you to nominate and vote for research papers published in 2023 that focused on or benefited the Wikimedia projects (we're not biased but hope you vote for Wikidata-based Papers). Please submit your nominations by April 18, 2024.
In preparation for the Research Track of the 11th Wiki Workshop, there is now a Call for Contributions for the event scheduled virtually on June 20, 2024 (tentatively 12:00-19:00 UTC). The Wiki Workshop aims to bring together researchers who study all aspects of the Wikimedia Projects. We hope Wikidata and Wikibase are well represented! Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
Showcase Lexemes:
अग्नि -the Sanskrit word for 'fire' and also the Hindu God of fire 'Agni'
Development
Wikibase REST API:
We worked on the ability to create Items via POST /entities/items (
phab:T342990)
We worked on making it possible to modify the data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (
phab:T347394)
EntitySchemas: We are getting back to making architecture improvements to enable the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP masking changes.
Query Service: We added the ability to stop a query in the UI in order to not have to wait for a broken query to finish or run into a time-out. You can find the stop button below the run button in the query UI now.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in
Vector 2022 skin. A
checklist is provided for site admins to follow.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (
calendar).
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Hi, why did you close it so early? Discussion was started only a week ago. Please restore it, I'm pretty sure we can wait a while for more people to join the discussion.
Marcelus (
talk) 14:51, 30 March 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Marcelus You opened the discussion on 14 March. That was more than 2 weeks ago. @
Robertsky then relisted the discussion on 22 March. Requested moves can be closed at minimum 7 days after the request was opened. NW1223<
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My hunts> 14:56, 30 March 2024 (UTC)reply
@
NightWolf1223, stil I think we need more team, please be so kind and keep it open
Marcelus (
talk) 17:19, 30 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I still think there was no consesus in the discussion. But, since you insist, I will relist it for you. NW1223<
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RM Closure for Snowy Mountains Airport
Hello NightWolf. I am just querying your rationale for the closure of the RM at
Talk:Snowy Mountains Airport as not moved. Per the discussion, this RM proposed to move the article back to the stable title that existed for years prior to a bold edit. Rather than immediately revert this, I discussed with the editor who made the change and we agreed to take the article to an RM to gain Editcon. I note there is no consensus either way based on the responses - 2 in favour, 2 opposed, with detailed arguments only provided by myself and one other editor (who moved the page).
I also note the procedural comment from an uninvolved user who suggested that a lack of consensus would most likely result in the title reverting back to the stable title. I am now aware I should have reverted the title prior to raising the RM, but did not know this at the time as the user who made the bold edit suggested an RM to seek
WP:EDITCON to determine if the title was to stay or not, otherwise move it back to the stable title if no consensus achieved.
In the absence of consensus, could you please expand on why have you closed this as not moved?
Dfadden (
talk) 11:20, 1 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Just wanted to add, the procedural comment of 16 February is from an Administrator
user:Dekimasu who states The stable title for this page is Cooma–Snowy Mountains Airport, so a "no consensus" close here would result in reverting the article to the proposed title. I appreciate that the initial challenge would have been better handled by reverting per
WP:RMUM which would have made the stable title more obvious. If you are indeed agreeing that this should be closed due to a lack of consensus, wouldnt that mean the result should be the name reverts back to Cooma–Snowy Mountains Airport per Dekimasu instead of remaining in the current namespace?
Dfadden (
talk) 12:39, 1 April 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Dfadden Sorry to leave you hanging. I have been busy over the past couple of days. I will go ahead and revert back to the old title. @
User:Gibbsyspin, if you want to move the page, please open a new request. NW1223<
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My hunts> 22:38, 3 April 2024 (UTC)reply
That's quite ok! I understand life can be busy. Would much rather address with you directly. I also apologise for not being more articulate in my explanation, but was a learning experience for me reading the policies about page moves etc. Appreciate you following up!
Dfadden (
talk) 22:56, 3 April 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Dfadden If you still feel the need to go to MRV to challenge my closure, then go right ahead. NW1223<
Howl at me•
My hunts> 00:37, 4 April 2024 (UTC)reply
@
NightWolf1223 I don't think it is necessary, as you have reverted back to the original title per policy. I have no doubt you were acting in good faith when closing and likely just missed the full context of the original RM. I'm happy that its resolved, unless @
Gibbsyspin feels strongly either way or believes that relisting it would generate further discussion (I doubt it given 6 weeks of listing only resulted in 2 submissions from the community).
Dfadden (
talk) 00:56, 4 April 2024 (UTC)reply
I mean I obviously still have a preference but I don't care enough to put it to another RM. Let's revisit in a few years when the case for
WP:COMMONNAME could be made again. Cheers Gibbsyspin 10:06, 7 April 2024 (UTC)reply
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (
T313405)
Arbitration
An
arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
Editors are invited to sign up for
The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve
vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
Users of the
reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (
calendar).
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Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read
the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can
comment on the talk page.
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-11.
Translations are available.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
MONA.artpublic.bot (Task: The bot's function is to add information about artists specializing in public artwork in Québec, Canada. The bot will initially only add that an artist's genre of work is public art for a set of known public artists in Québec compiled by MONA Montréal from open data sets.)
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 2, 2024: Come join us for fun data modeling discussions! We'll create breakout rooms in Zoom for people to discuss 4 examples of cultural heritage items to contribute to Wikidata. Each group will choose categories, brainstorm properties for basic and enhanced description, and discuss challenges. Then we'll have some quality time at the end to compare notes and discuss our processes!
Agenda
Wikidata Leveling Up Days, everything you need to know about Wikidata: 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 April. The event is taking place online and the videos are already available on the program page.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs:
Galerij der Groten op Wikidata (Dutch) - Wikimedia NL hosted an Edit-A-Thon on the Baroeg project, the task was to document and archive on Wikidata all of the bands that have played at the live music venue, the idea born from a stack of band flyers and posters hung in the bathroom(!) Join the next one Sunday April 14th.
Papers:
Understanding Wikidata - Wikidata is extremely valuable as a data source to supplement, validate and extend existing knowledge bases and applications. To effectively utilize Wikidata in a Semantic Web application, one must understand its design, terminology and correspondence with ontological concepts (especially RDF and OWL). This paper attempts to explain and position this information. (by
AWesterinen)
Videos
Wikipedia Weekly: Ep. 255 (Swedish) - Hosted by Jan Ainali and Magnus. This week covers scarcely clicked sources, API uses and wave at beautiful images.
Mapping Linguistic territories using Wikidata and SPARQL - a topic presented by Camilo Fique, shows how to use Wikidata and the WDQS as tools for mapping linguistics. In this example, Camilo uses toponyms, specifically Human Settlements.
Wikidatalite : Search, browse, and navigate Wikidata items with a mobile-friendly, simplified user interface.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
MEPs: Sitelinks and Gender differences - this Notebook by PAC explores the completeness or lack of content differentiated by gender of MEP's in the Wikimedia Projects, helping highlight lack of representation and information.
Azerbaijan - aims to organize data related to Azerbaijan.
WikiProject Paralympics - The goal of WikiProject Paralympics is to improve items about Paralympic Games, Paralympians, and Paralympic events.
Lieder - This project aims to collect all Lieder, Lieder cycles and Poems as well as Composers and Poets related to them.
Cultural venues - The aim of the present project is to create the world’s most complete high-quality database of cultural venues, such as theatres, concert halls, etc.
Cal State University Building/San Bernardino - Aims to document and lists guidelines for the California State University San Bernardino's participation in the California State University Wikidata Building Project.
Epigraphy - Aims to create Items of epigraphs on Wikidata.
Newest
database reports:
This query shows that there are 8000 botanists with a standard botanical abbreviation, IPNI code, and little else. Help expand, merge, and otherwise help us know who these folks are! (
source)
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Wikidata weekly summary #623
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-04-08.
Translations are available.
Did you manage to see the first weekend and sessions of the
Leveling Up Days 2024, well fret not as there is another weekend of Wikidata-related sessions to come. Day 4 begins Friday April 12, join via
Jitsi - see you there!
Wikidata - collect and use open data (Italian) - April 19 at the University of Catania,
Léa Lacroix and Luca Martinelli (WMIT) will give an overview of Wikidata's use for sharing data, querying data and some of its main applications.
Build Open Data through Wikidata: a database integration model (Taiwanese) - April 9 19:00 - 20:00. Wang Wenyue (WMTW) will lead this discussion on how Wikidata can re-connect and index a topic that may be documented in multiple various places online.
Wikidata editing #113 (English) at Wikidata Leveling Up Days.
Ainali and
Abbe98 do some live editing on biographies of climate scientists and glaciologists.
Anti-Pattern Analyzer is a static website capable of checking the existence of 'anti-pattern 1' (AP1) occurrences given an entity from Wikidata. It can also check if a new statement would introduce new violations.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Only
13 more days to go! The deadline to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's
Open Call for Software Contributions is coming closer and closer. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.
API formatter URL (URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data)
Type of representation (Property to indicate the '''type of representation''' as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image).)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
Web browsers can use tools called
extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called
Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
A new
Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a
user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the
project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
Readers using the
Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (
calendar).
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New accounts and logged-out users will get the
visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia.
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Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since
December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing.
Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year
Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC).
Drive: 46 editors signed up for our
January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are
here.
Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our
February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are
here.
Drive: 53 editors signed up for our
March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are
here.
Blitz: Sign up for our
April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 14 to 20 April. Barnstars will be awarded
here.
Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 articles.
Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki,
Miniapolis and
Wracking.
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our mailing list.
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #151 is out: New API for calling Wikifunctions and celebrating 1000 functions
There is
a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we discuss the new API for calling Wikifunctions, we celebrate our first 1,000 functions, and we take a look at the latest software developments. Also, there's
a job opening for joining our team!
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check
our archive.
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from
gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-04-15. Translations are available.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
AzBot - Task: adding a space in over 7k malformed Dutch descriptions per this request.
DifoolBot 3 - Task: fill in empty English/French/German labels and basic statements for persons with VIAF ID
(P214) and a VIAF authority source GND ID
(P227), IdRef ID
(P269), Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
(P268) or Library of Congress authority ID
(P244)
The
Leveling Up Days 2024 was concluded, you can watch the videos available on the program page and contribute to the captions on Wikimedia Commons.
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 16, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 16 April, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is, amazingly, 5 years old this month, and we are planning a very Zoomy celebration befitting our virtual community. We are hoping you can join and share some reflections. Feel free to
sign our anniversary card and
update your Zoom background to something festive!Agenda
Documenting Nigeria's Supreme Court Cases - this online event is a contest to enrich and connect the verdicts and sitting Judges of Nigerian Supreme Court cases. Points will be awarded for contributions. Event ends: 28 April 00:00 UTC.
Working towards a Brazilian History Knowledge Graph - Mike Young describes the progress towards building a KG on Brazilian history and how Wikidata supported this endeavour, especially for linking poiticians, movements, constitutions, laws and events that may not be notable for individual Wikipedia articles.
Reimagining cultural heritage data - this article by Jason Evans documents the efforts of the Llyfgrell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales) to open their archives and datasets to Wikidata and the creation of their Wikibase-powered
SNARC Tool (Semantic Name Authority Repository Cymru).
Wikidata: your friendly (University's) knowledge graph - Christian Erlinger on behalf of the University of Innsbruck has produced this slidedeck showing how Wikidata can be used for science and research communication.
Demonstration of the XML-TEI Wikidata Geocoder Tool (French) - This tool from PhilippGam will showcase how the Wikidata Geocoder tool can extract information such as PersName, PlaceName, geographic coordinates and images from XML-TEI files.
Try it here.
Wikidata for open museum data sharing - Rhonda Yearwood explains how Wikidata can facilitate and provide a platform for the open sharing of Museum and Gallery datasets.
Join the Wikidata Open Online Course starting April 22, 2024! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here:
Wikidata:Open Online Course
Only 6 more days to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's
Open Call for Software Contributions. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.
RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
API formatter URL (URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data)
Type of representation (Property to indicate the '''representation type''' as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image).)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Problems
Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using
Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (
calendar).
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Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in
footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked).
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A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to
abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made.
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Future changes
Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle
temporary accounts.
Learn more.
Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including
Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated.
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Hi! Just wanted to say hello! I didn’t know I’d be getting a mentor, so that’s pretty cool!
I probably won’t start editing right away, but will check back in when I do with any questions (I’m sure I’ll have some)! --
Solara Aranel (
talk) 16:09, 17 April 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Solara Aranel Welcome to Wikipedia! I am busy right now but later today I will leave some helpful links on your talkpage. Keep an eye out for that. Again, welcome. NW1223<
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My hunts> 16:24, 17 April 2024 (UTC)reply
I'm here to make my own page about myself or maybe create my own wiki. I'm trying to make my own website, but it's a bit hard.
I'll be waiting for your reply. Thanks. --
JayAndrewBoy (
talk) 05:49, 22 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Wikidata weekly summary #624
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-04-22. Translations are available.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
OpeninfoBot - Task: Importing financial data (assets, equity, revenue, EBIT, net profit) from openinfo.uz to entries on public Uzbek companies in Wikidata.
IntegrationBot - Task: retrieve information from Wikidata and contribute data back
Mishramilan (মিশ্রমিলন), a tool listing words/phrases in different language catalogs and allowing users to match the entries in those catalogs to existing Wikidata lexemes or to create new lexemes based on those entries.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
It's not too late to join the Wikidata Open Online Course, open from April 22 to May 31! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here:
Wikidata:Open Online Course
There is
a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A
new proposal for the split has also been published, feedback will be open until May 15th 2024.
RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
API formatter URL (URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data)
leaf morphology (characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves)
Type of representation (Property to indicate the '''representation type''' as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image).)
is fake of (the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for)
image decay (image decay suffered by an old photograph)
risk group (risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification defined by the WHO laboratory biosafety manual)
tartan (item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group.)
hasFeldpostNumber (Property to link German military units to their respective Feldpost numbers, referencing the specific identifier used during the military communications in the world wars.)
total deposits (total value of deposits held by a bank or financial institution)
Total loans (total value of loans given out by a bank or financial institution)
source of transfer & destination of transfer (entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity (the destination of transfer) [aliases: source / sender])
type of deterioration (to indicate types of deterioration presented by an artwork, building, artifact, etc.)
rythme narratif (video game mechanic based on the rhythm of the player's actions)
event role (item that describes a role in an event class)
WikiProject NZThesisProject Wikidata library training Christchurch 2024 - The aim is to organize an event to show participants how adding New Zealand collections to Wikidata can be useful, and to train participants to improve Wikidata Items so that tools such as Scholia, which builds academic profiles, will be demonstrated.
WikiProject Algerian History - The goal of this project is to ensure the completeness of the history of Algeria (Q473761) during its historic period to modern time in Wikidata.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
You can
nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (
calendar).
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Future changes
This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of
Special:MyPage/vector.js to
Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are
more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia.
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The Growth team will now send quarterly reports to keep you in the loop. Growth team weekly updates
are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work.
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Community Configuration
Growth features are currently configurable at Special:EditGrowthConfig. This quarter we are working on making
Community Configuration accessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.
An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at
Spanish Beta Wikipedia. We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will be
Automoderator.
In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.
The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “
Add an Image” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:
The likelihood that mobile web newcomers make their first article edit (+17.0% over baseline)
The likelihood that they are retained as newcomers (+24.3% over baseline)
The number of edits they make during their first two weeks on the wiki (+21.8% over baseline)
A lower probability of the newcomers' edits will be reverted (-3.3% over baseline).
This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's
Positive Reinforcement project. When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we found no significant impact on retention, but we found a significant positive impact on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. (
T361763)
As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation (
example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to a
unique account creation page. From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. (
T352900)
Future work
Annual Plan
The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the
WE1.2 Key Result in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. (
T361657)
We plan to A/B test adding a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We are early in the planning phase of this project that will take place first at our pilot wikis and wikis volunteering. We welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at
our project talk page.