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Short description case issue
The bot has added {{Short description|None}} to many articles but none it needs to be lower case to work correctly ({{Short description|none}}), particularly with {{annotated link}}. Compare the following:
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Problems
There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (
calendar).
Hello, please can you advise how to make our page a regular page? It says 'transclusion' and has zero SEO pick up despite having many active links. --
Cinemanolita1 (
talk)
17:56, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
If you are not sure, follow the POWO link in the taxonbar; there will be a map as well as a list of native distribution units.
Peter coxhead (
talk)
19:13, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
There's a quirk in using
Flora of Malta: "Malta" here, as in all flora distributions, is what is meant in the
WGSRPD, not necessarily the political unit. The WGSRPD includes its "Malta" within Sicily, so you would only use "Flora of Malta" if a plant is native to Malta but not to Sicily. I suspect there's a lot of miscategorization!
Peter coxhead (
talk)
16:37, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
@
Qwerfjkl: suppose a species, call it X, occurs as a native in both Malta and an area that includes Malta in the WGSRPD. Then X should appear in the "Flora of Malta" article, but the article on X should not be placed in the category "Flora of Malta", but in the category for the largest unit in which it occurs that includes Malta. It's a nice example to illustrate the difference between list articles and categories – sometimes it has been wrongly argued that you don't need the article "Flora of X" because of the existence of "Category:Flora of X". But you can't just automatically put every article about a species listed in
Flora of Malta into
Category:Flora of Malta – you have to check that it isn't (or shouldn't be) in a category for the flora of a unit that includes Malta.
Peter coxhead (
talk)
20:52, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
I could just rollback all my edits, but if it only affects a small proportion of the pages, then it might be better to check manually. ―
Qwerfjkltalk21:50, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
So I noticed – great work! I fixed a few more that were also in other categories of which
Category:Flora of Malta is a subcategory (based on Cat-a-lot's overcategorization check), and some species that I recognized as non-native. As I indicated above, I find myself not very bothered about categorization errors; the entire system is riddled with inconsistencies, as far as I can see, and I'm doubtful as to how useful it is. So that's as much as I'm going to do.
Peter coxhead (
talk)
11:01, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Different case: in the WGSRPD, "Turkey" is not in Europe – the first part of the category description at
Category:Flora of Turkey was wrong as was the categorization. "Turkey" means only the part in Western Asia; "European Turkey" has its own flora category.
Peter coxhead (
talk)
17:31, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions
in the schedule. You can also look at
a selection of sessions based on your areas of interest.
LIVE Wikidata editing #75 -
YouTube,
Facebook, March 19th at 19:00 UTC
Mismatch Finder: Discussing the next batches of potential mismatches with MusicBrainz data and some remaining Freebase data
Lexicographical data: Continuing work on the basic version of the new Special:NewLexeme page, focusing on putting in the base data about the new Lexeme
REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint
disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a
primary topic);
disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
is an
orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.
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Shhhnotsoloud (
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15:45, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Recent changes
In the Wikipedia Android app
it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode.
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Problems
There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can
read more on Meta-wiki.
There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (
calendar).
Access to
Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page.
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On the
Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions.
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Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The
announcement can be read here.
The
Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.
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Welcome to the twentieth newsletter from the
Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.
Suggested edits
As of February, 300,000 suggested edits have been completed since the feature was first deployed in December 2019.
Add a link is the team's first structured task, deployed in May 2021. It has improved outcomes for newcomers. The team is now working on a second iteration based on community feedback and data analysis. Improvements will include: improved algorithmic suggestions, guardrails to prevent too many similar links to be added, and clearer encouragement for users to continue making edits. After adding these improvements, we will deploy this task to more Wikipedias.
Add an image is the second structured task built by our team. It was deployed in November 2021 to four pilot Wikipedias. This is a more challenging task for newcomers. However, it adds more value to articles (so far, over 1,000 images have been added). We are currently learning from communities and from the data on what is working well and what needs improvements. The project page contains
links to interactive prototypes. We are very interested to
hear your thoughts on this idea as we build and test the early versions. We will soon deploy this task to more Wikipedias as a test.
"Add a link" and "Add an image" now both have a limitation on how many of these tasks newcomers can do per day. It is meant to discourage careless newcomers from making too many problematic edits.
Positive reinforcement
Over the last two years, the Growth team has focused on building suggested edits: easy tasks for newcomers to start with. We have learned with this experience that these tasks help many newcomers to make their first edits. Now, the team is starting a new project : "
positive reinforcement". Its goal is to make newcomers proud of their editing and to make them want to come back for more of them. With the positive reinforcement project, we are considering three kinds of features:
Impact stats: give newcomers the ability to see how many people read the articles they edit.
Leveling up: encourage newcomers to progress from easier tasks to harder tasks.
Personalized praise: encourage mentors and other editors to "thank" and award newcomers for good work.
This project is just beginning, and we hope for community thoughts on the direction. We know that things can wrong if we offer the wrong incentives to newcomers, so we want to be careful. Please visit
the talk page to help guide the project!
News for mentors
The
mentor dashboard is available at all wikis. It helps mentors see who their mentees are and keep track of their activity. It is automatically activated
where a list of mentors has been created. If you need assistance to create a list of mentors, please
contact us.
The mentor dashboard has a new module: settings. It is now possible for mentors to define their status (active or away). They can specify the volume of questions they want to receive, and they can claim mentees in an easier way. It is also possible for mentors to quit, which will automatically reassign their mentees to other mentors.
We are
working on an ability for a mentee to opt-out (and back in) to having a mentor.
Previously, in the table that displays mentees activity, the filters displayed all mentees, even the ones with zero edits or lots of edits.
We have changed this so that only mentees with between 1 and 500 edits are visible by default. Mentors can change this value in their filters.
Some wikis have created userboxes that mentors can display on the user pages. If your wiki has one, please link it
to Wikidata!
Scaling
Previously, at most Wikipedias, only 80% of newcomers were getting the Growth features. This was done for experimentation, to have a control group. We have changed this setting. Now 100% of new accounts at all Wikipedias get the Growth features (
except a few, kept as test wikis). We invite communities to update their onboarding documentation and tutorials. Please include the Growth features in it. To help you,
we have created an help page that can be translated and adapted to your wiki.
How to help
Do you have questions about the Growth features?
This translatable FAQ contains answers to the most common questions about the Growth team work. We regularly update it.
Interface translations are important for newcomers. Please help for your language, by
translating or copyediting interface translations for the Growth features.
Would you be willing to change timeline colors for tropical cyclone articles per the consensus achieved at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather#Infobox & Template colors (either by bot or AWB)? I listed the first set below. If you are willing to make these changes I will calculate the RGB values for the other basins and add them + the appropriate categories.
NoahTalk22:25, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
Actually, I went ahead and added all of them below. The new color text is listed below for each basin.
NoahTalk23:00, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
Timeline background needs to be changed to the new color for season articles at
Category:European windstorms (nothing else besides that)
@
Noah: I'm up for this. From what I can tell, you want to make a bunch of edits like
this one, to improve accessibility? Can you see anything wrong with this edit that I should fix? ―
Qwerfjkltalk23:27, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
PodcastBot. Task/s: Upload new podcast episodes, extract: title, part of the series, has quality (explicit episode), full work available at (mp3), production code, apple podcast episode id, spotify episode ID. Regex extraction: talk show guest, recording date (from description)
AradglBot. Task/s: Create between 100,000 and 200,000 new lexemes in Aragonese language Q8765
Closed request for permissions/Bot:
EnvlhBot 3 (approved). Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions
in the schedule. For a recap of the event so far:
a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the
videos here or
below
speakers will progressively add their slides in this
Commons category
Cartographier des données de Wikidata avec Umap (in French) -
YouTube
Mapping Einstein Researchers on Wikidata (in Portuguese) -
YouTube
Tool of the week
Linked People project let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata.
Gene of the Day (gene-wordle) uses Wikidata for gene names and crafting an answer list by number of sitelinks.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
There are Rapid Grants available for local meetups during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 from May 20-May 22.
Apply to host a social for your local community. The deadline to apply is March 27, 2022.
The
proposed config change to remove the changetags right from users – so that they can apply change tags to their own actions as they are made, but not change the tags of other actions after the fact anymore – has been deployed.
Lexicographical data: We're continuing with the work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on saving a valid new Lexeme with the new page. We are now focusing on the suggesters for language and lexical category so editors can select the right Item for them.
Data Reuse Days: We ran sessions on how to use Wikidata's data programmatically and the best practices around it. Slides and videos are available already (see above).
REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint. We have the very initial version of the get item endpoint ready and are now adding more parameters to it.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
New code release schedule for this week
There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can
read more about this project.
The Jupyter notebooks tool
PAWS has been updated to a new interface.
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Future changes
Interactive maps via
Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the
FlaggedRevisions extension.
Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English.
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wow, you must have a really hard job I'd imagine.
you must have a good salary and a lot of friends
thank you, for the service you provide --
Wikiip9750n (
talk)
17:34, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
I have added an article in the sandbox. Wonder what I can do in order to get it published? does it go automatically to someone for review? or do I need to add/tag people to comment/advice on it? --
Unbridled.Horse (
talk)
19:58, 25 March 2022 (UTC)