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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2022)

Hello, Marek69. The article for improvement of the week is:

Social equality

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Television ratings • Workstation

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Wikidata weekly summary #505

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Basque version of Wordle using Wikidata's lexicographic data. Check it out!
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • WDQS scaling update for Jan 2022 available here. We will be trying to do monthly updates starting this month.
  • Development
    • Continuing work on adding the mul language code for labels, descriptions and aliases. (phab:T297393)
    • Enabled statement usage tracking for Cebuano, Armenian and Warai Warai to ensure fine-grained notifications about edits on Wikidata on those Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab:T296384)
    • Continuing work on fixing a bug where Wikidata changes do not get sent to Wikipedia and co for the first sitelink adding leading to missing information in the page_props table (phab:T233520)
    • Continuing work on making sure the Wikidata search box works with the new Vector skin improvements (phab:T296202)
    • Mismatch Finder: Debugging some issues with the first files we got with mismatches that we can load into the Mismatch Finder


You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:44, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2022)

Hello, Marek69. The article for improvement of the week is:

Joseph Lelyveld

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Social equality • Television ratings

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Wikidata weekly summary #506

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andy Mabbett on the "Cite Q" template that uses data from Wikidata in Wikipedia citations and Crystal Clements on setting the framework for a future discussion on addressing ethical concerns surrounding representation of gender for living persons in Wikidata, February 8th. Agenda
      • Wikidata Query Service scaling: You can join 2 calls and provide feedback at the 2 WDQS scaling community meetings on Thursday, 17 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC, and Monday 21 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC. Full details here.
      • Live on Twitch and in French about Academic bibliographical data and Scholia by Vigneron and Jsamwrites, February 8 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
      • LIVE Wikidata editing #70 - YouTube, Facebook, February 12 at 19:00 UTC
      • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #95, February 13 at 13.00 UTC
    • Ongoing:
    • Past:
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • January 1st as date
    • Wikidata has 2,540,891 items for people with both date of birth and date of death. There are 9 redirects for every 100 such items. (source). 2000 people share dates of birth and death with another person.
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: Tracking down one last issue with the upload of mismatch files. Once that is fixed we are ready to release the tool.
    • Lexicographical data: Started coding on the rewrite of Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand and use.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:26, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2022



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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2022)

Hello, Marek69. The article for improvement of the week is:

Cult of personality

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Joseph Lelyveld • Social equality

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Wikidata weekly summary #507

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Continuing work on the basics of the new Special:NewLexeme page. Nothing to see yet though.
    • Fixed a bug where sitelinks where added for wikis that shouldn't get them. (phab:T301247)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:41, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks

… for the welcome cookies. (That’s all.) Anothername (talk) 21:08, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2022)

Isabella I of Castile in the Rimado de la Conquista de Granada, by Pedro Marcuello
Hello, Marek69. The article for improvement of the week is:

Isabella I of Castile

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Cult of personality • Joseph Lelyveld

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Wikidata weekly summary #508

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
  • Development
    • We started coding on the Wikibase Rest API based on the proposal we published a while ago.
    • We are continuing to work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. The first input fields are in place but not pretty or usable yet.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:42, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2022)

Google's corporate headquarters is named Googleplex, and is also the headquarters of its parent company, Alphabet Inc.
Hello, Marek69. The article for improvement of the week is:

Google

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Isabella I of Castile • Cult of personality

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Wikidata weekly summary #509

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: work is continuing on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are working on the basic input fields and permission handling.
    • Mismatch Finder: Released the tool and working through feedback now and getting additional mismatches from organizations using our data.
    • REST API: Starting to build the initial Wikibase REST API. We are starting with the endpoint to read Item data first.
    • Data Reuse Days: Continuing event preparation
    • Published new security release updates for Wikibase suite wmde.6 (1.35)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:03, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2022)

Hello, Marek69. The article for improvement of the week is:

First Sudanese Civil War

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Google • Isabella I of Castile

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Wikidata weekly summary #510

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3. Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot: IndoBot (Approved). Task/s: I would like to import all Indonesian schools, more than 100000. The data includes school type, location, and coordinates as well as external identifiers
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikxhibit is a tool that allows anyone, even non-programmers, to create cool presentations of Wikidata, and other sources of data on the web, only using HTML and without any additional programming. Are you interested in creating presentations of Wikidata? We would like to understand your experience with Wikidata to better improve our tool. It would help if you can fill out our survey https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvZKKlRu2S7C9Fk
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikidata dumps: Due to technical issues the JSON and RDF dumps for the week of March 1st couldn't be properly generated (phab:T300255#7746418). The situation is expected to get back to normal this week.
    • Item with QID 111,111,111 was created
    • Job openings:
      • The development team at WMDE is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop and improve the software behind the Wikidata project. Apply here!
      • The WMF Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop Wikidata Query Service. Apply here!
      • Natural History Museum, Berlin (Q233098) is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)
  • Development
    • Data Reuse Days: Preparing for the upcoming Data Reuse Days. Join us! A lot of exciting sessions are coming together.
    • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are getting close to the point where it can create a Lexeme.
    • REST API: Continuing to work on the first endpoint to read Item data.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:22, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2022



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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2022)

A letter is a segmental symbol of a phonemic writing system. Pictured are uppercase and lowercase Z with stroke letters.
Hello, Marek69. The article for improvement of the week is:

Letter (alphabet)

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: First Sudanese Civil War • Google

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Wikidata weekly summary #511

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • WDQS outage on 06 March: users may have unexpectedly had requests blocked. Incident report here.
  • Development
    • Getting ready for Data Reuse Days
    • 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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:42, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2022)

Tomba is a drink of Sikkimese cuisine made from fermented millet: warm water is added to the millet and the liquid is consumed.
Hello, Marek69. The article for improvement of the week is:

Sikkimese cuisine

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Previous selections: Letter (alphabet) • First Sudanese Civil War

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Wikidata weekly summary #512

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
  • 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.
  • Development
    • 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.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:15, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2022)

Pumpkin pie is a dessert pie with a spiced, pumpkin-based custard filling.
Hello, Marek69. The article for improvement of the week is:

Pumpkin pie

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Sikkimese cuisine • Letter (alphabet)

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Wikidata weekly summary #513

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above).
    • WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque.
  • Development
    • [Significant Change]: wbsearchentities changed to explicitly return display terms and matched term
    • Lexicographical data: Working on the lookup for language and lexical category and displaying potential errors during Lexeme creation
    • Improved the API response of the wbsearchentities endpoint by adding the language to the labels and descriptions in the API response (phab:T104344)
    • Data Reuse Days: Second and final week - organized, attended and held a few sessions incl. bug triage hour and pink pony session
    • REST API: Continuing work on getting the the data of an Item, we almost have filtering of the data returned by the API and basic error handling is in place. Next up: not returning the data if the client already has the most recent data, and authentication

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:00, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2022)

Paddle ball is a one-person game played with a paddle and an attached ball.
Hello, Marek69. The article for improvement of the week is:

Paddle ball

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Pumpkin pie • Sikkimese cuisine

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Wikidata weekly summary #514

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: APSbot 4: Task/s: Regularly create organizations from the Research Organization Registry (ROR - https://ror.org/) that are missing in Wikidata.
  • Tool of the week
    • Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
    • QAnswer is a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects. Who was the first to create liquid helium? Try it!
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page and focused on displaying sensible error messages if an error occurs during Lexeme creation. We're also working on adding a dropdown for the language variant.
    • REST API: Continued work on conditional requests and authorization
    • Made use of the new fields added in the wbsearchentities API and added language information to the markup of entity searches that you see when editing a statement or searching with the little searchbox at the top of the page on Wikidata. Now these search results should make a bit more sense to people who use screen readers.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 12:33, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

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