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Growth team updates #9
Welcome to the ninth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Opening Growth features to more wikis
The Growth team has existed for about one year. During that time, we have developed several features that we think can help increase retention. Though we are still gathering data to detect scientifically whether the features increase retention, we think that some of the features are ready to be deployed on more wikis that want to experiment with them. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together if your wiki is eligible.

Then, go through the checklist to start the process of getting these features:


 * Help panel: allow newcomers to find help and ask questions while they edit.
 * Welcome survey: learn what topics and types of edits newcomers are interested in.
 * EditorJourney: learn what workflows newcomers go through on their first day.

General news

 * A new quarter of the year has started, and the team has set our goals for the next three months. The most important goals are:
 * Newcomer homepage: increase activity through a task recommendations module. Now that we have seen several weeks of positive activity on the newcomer homepage, we think that the most important thing to add is a way for newcomers to find tasks to work on. The challenge will be recommending the right kind of tasks at the right point of their journey.
 * Newcomer homepage: increase feature discovery rate by 100%. Right now, only 20% - 30% of newcomers ever visit their homepage. We want to double that number by making sure all newcomers know how to find it.
 * Help panel: increase usefulness through improvements to affordance, search, and UX flow. We have looked closely at data and anecdotes from the usage of the help panel, and we plan to pursue specific improvements to increase its effectiveness (see accompanying image of a feature that helps newcomers find responses to their questions).
 * Wikimania is coming up next month, which includes a "Community Growth" space. We hope to see people from all communities there to talk about how to bring newcomers into our movement.
 * We have started to deploy features to our team's fourth target wiki: Arabic Wikipedia. That wiki is the biggest one we target, it has a high percentage of mobile users, and also is our first right-to-left language.  This will help us make sure that our features are valuable for as many types of users as possible.

Mobile homepage and early analysis

 * The mobile version of the newcomer homepage was deployed to Czech, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Now, newcomers can access their homepage from both desktop and mobile devices.
 * We have published our first set of data about the performance of the newcomer homepage. In summary, we are happy with the homepage's performance so far. We see about half of visitors clicking on something, and the majority of them returning to the homepage multiple times.
 * Because we see positive usage of the homepage, we will deploy several small features in the next two weeks that help more newcomers discover their homepage (see accompanying image of a feature that helps newcomers discover their homepage from their empty Contributions page).
 * As listed in our goals above, we'll be starting to focus on adding task recommendations to the newcomer homepage. We'll be publishing early thoughts on this feature so that community members can give their thoughts and advice.

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Wikidata weekly summary #375
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: 1997kB, welcome on board!
 * Closed request for comments: Adopt a username policy


 * Events
 * Past: lecture on Wikidata and Mix'n'Match at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, Oxford University, 24 June
 * Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call discussing communication in Wikidata/Wikimedia communities, 30 July. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Technical usability of Wikidata’s linked data - Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability, by Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, help translate the banner)
 * Scripts that use the Query Service need to be identified by user-agent header
 * Structured Data on Commons - testing statements other than Depicts is ongoing this week before release into production on Commons.
 * OpenRefine 3.2 was released
 * The config value mw.config.get('wbEntity') has been dropped in order to improve the page load time


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: IAAF competition category, video game mod of, typing discipline, shrinkage, specific absorption rate, quotation or excerpt, surface roughness, related category, start grade, inverse label item, end grade, privacy policy URL, start of covered period, end of covered period
 * External identifiers: Album of the Year artist ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, Jaxsta profile ID, Indian Super League player ID, misas.org Catholic church ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, FEC Campaign Committee ID, National Library of Morocco ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, NosSénateurs.fr identifier, Supreme Court docket number, PBS Manufacturer ID, Kerala state school code, Taxonomicon ID, Album of the Year album ID, Gotlands museum, Musixmatch writer ID, Qobuz artist ID, wiki on WikiApiary, extension on WikiApiary, skin on WikiApiary, Zaragoza public art ID, Paris Foreign Missions Society ID, TikTok username, AFCD PFKID, Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID, Common Sense Media ID, FFR fencer ID, ABBBS Taxon ID, WaterNSW Rivers and Streams Site No., Lens ID, Grand Canyon Trust ID, LezWatch.TV actor ID, LezWatch.TV character ID, LezWatch.TV show ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: estimated IQ, Manner of torture, date of the first one & date of the last one, Glacier Status, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, bequest, Sells, Opinion joined by, ComingSoon.it film ID, Acknowledgments, copyright exemption, Subscribers, external georeferencer URL, 出演作品, Bar
 * External identifiers: Media Art Database console games ID, Acharts artist ID, Acharts chart ID, Museu do Diamante ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Germany06.Ru person ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, AMPAS collections person ID, AMPAS collections film ID, Hiking Project ID, Douyin, Vidwan ID, AllTrails ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, identifier of french public Forest, Rijksmonument complex ID, Mojarto artist ID, located on street with OSM relation ID, muenchenwiki.de article ID


 * Query examples:
 * Settlements along the Way of Saint James in Basque Country (source)
 * Map of places of residence of accused witches in Scotland (source)
 * List of regional languages of France (source)

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.
 * Development
 * Re-evaluate supporting dcatap namespace (feel free to give feedback)
 * Data bridge: open modal with edit link information (T226996)
 * Show the current Wikidata value in the modal (T226997)
 * Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (T226998)
 * supporting baserevid request param in lexeme api endpoints (T217245)
 * Fix new store code in order to continue the terms migration (T226008)
 * Fix an issue with broken WikibaseQualityConstraints tests (T228855)
 * Fix issue that used to cause many fatals on production (T227450)
 * Drop wbEntity config in entity pages (T85499)
 * Fix an Internal error in Recent Changes for Lexeme (T228996)
 * Create better summaries for our wbeditentity endpoint (T220696)
 * Respect user's preference for thumbnail sizes on Wikidata (T224189)
 * Allow linking to Schemas in statements (T214884)
 * Fix a bug with Wikidata Tours (T223999)
 * Update accounting for WDQS lag in wikidata maxlag param (T221774)
 * More work on allowing accesing one wikibase instance from another (T214557)
 * Deploy the mobile termbox on test.wikidata.org and fix various bugs
 * Show progress/activity on termbox mobile if a save request is still being processed (T222890)

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:18, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

This Month in Education: July 2019
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The Signpost: 31 July 2019
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White blood cell differential
Hi there, and thanks for reviewing my article White blood cell differential. I saw that you tagged it with, and I'd like to know what specific issues with the article led you to add this tag so that I can improve it. I'm a medical laboratory technologist myself and I do white blood cell differentials all day so I'm familiar with the topic, but I'm quite new to Wikipedia so I'm sure the article is not as good as it could be. :) Please let me know how I can improve it. Thanks, SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 20:32, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , Thanks for your question and all the efforts you did while writing that article itself. I added that tag in part because I was confident in reviewing the article, but given it is on a medical topic and Wikimedia Medicine has oversight on the articles within that area, I wanted to tag it so that another editor with more subject matter could offer additional feedback. There was nothing in mind about the content, other than it was more technical than my own level of expertise can really speak to. FULBERT (talk) 17:45, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. :) I thought it might have been something like that, but I wasn't sure. I posted about it on WikiProject Medicine and another project member decided to remove the tag. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 17:48, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
 * , Excellent! Thus, the process itself works with all we actors playing our roles. Nice work! FULBERT (talk) 21:29, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #376
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taipei Meetup, August 12nd - Facebook event
 * Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata: From "an" Identifier to "the" Identifier, 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', Adelheid Heftberger et al, in "Digital Cultural Heritage", pp 401-410.
 * Bridging the gap between linked open data-based recommender systems and distributed representations, Pierpaolo Basile, et al, Information Systems, Volume 86, December 2019, pp 1-8.
 * OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial, video tutorial by Emmacarroll3 demonstrating how to import a dataset with OpenRefine.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * soweego version 1.0 is out: a machine learning system that links Wikidata to large-scale third-party catalogs
 * New data type for EntitySchemas will be available on August 7th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: location of the point of view, opinion joined by, date of the first one, date of the latest one, Mac OS type code, acknowledged
 * External identifiers: Acharts.co artist ID, Textile Connect publication ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Hiking Project trail ID, Media Art Database console games ID, AMPAS collections film ID, AMPAS collections person ID, Douyin ID, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, AllTrails trail ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC park ID, Vidwan ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, ComingSoon.it film ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, Mojarto artist ID, Rijksmonument complex ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Acharts.co chart ID, ONF forest national ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: axis, Principal, Epigraph, contact area count, Cases consolidated, detail of painting, exonerated of, possibly reproduction of, Werke ohne Opuszahl, obituary of, significant place
 * External identifiers: Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts album ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, CHESNO politician ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID, Plus Music artist ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, Empik author ID, merlin.pl author ID, The Top Tens ID, Raptekster.dk ID


 * Query examples:
 * French female authors whose work is in the public domain (source)
 * Timeline of hypertext systems (source)
 * Megaliths in the Basque Country, color-coded by type (source)
 * Heavy metal bands from Finland with or without picture and date of the picture (source)
 * Types of GLAMs in Wikidata (source)


 * Development
 * Fix logging for errors on wbcontentlanguages requests (T228888)
 * Add request information to request timeout errors (T228885)
 * Show an error message when saving fails on mobile termbox (T222884)
 * Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (T226998)
 * Show the current Wikidata value in the Bridge modal (T226997)
 * EntitySchema datatype (T214884)
 * Reduce the number of ResourceLoader modules that WikibaseClient register: (T203696)
 * Reduce text returned by EntityContent::getTextForFilters (T226216)
 * Fixed a bug with PHP Warning (T229482)
 * Fixing a bug about value pickers being broken (T229604)
 * Fixed BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (T223995)
 * Investigate on Graphoid issues (T229236)
 * Fix issues on Wikidata Tours (T214884)
 * Make logging warning or info of not finding entity for revision configurable (T229574)
 * Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (T214894)
 * Move "Wikidata item" link outside of "toolbox" sidebar to "other projects" sidebar (T66315)

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 &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:11, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

This Month in GLAM: July 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #377
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Conclusion of 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana Wikidata Editathon (grant report)
 * "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" OCLC Research. DOI: 10.25333/faq3-ax08


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The open source geocoder Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project is participating in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the development blog.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: musical bar, epigraph (literature), copyright exemption, significant place
 * External identifiers: München Wiki article ID, Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts.co album ID, NOTAM (FAA), CHESNO politician ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: legend for number, does not have effect, word stem type, Voting system, Class, Peer-review-process properties for journals, Wikisource-Kategorie, line(s), Election called by, image or photo-making technique
 * External identifiers: FGrHist ID, Acharts.co song ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Hacker News User ID, Swedish lighthouses, EPW author ID, Gaana.com album ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions job ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, PLIA ID, Planespotters.net ID, Awards & Winners artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, AccuRadio artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, CD Universe artist ID, Ex Libris author ID, Fishpond.co.nz author ID, YesAsia author ID, Supraphonline artist ID, Image-Line artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Register nehnuteľných NKP, deejay.de artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, GreatSong artist ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Getty Images topic ID, Tunefind artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, SongMeanings artist ID, Census of India ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID


 * Query examples:
 * Bands whose name is part of Tolkien's legendarium (source)
 * Map of offshore windfarms (source)
 * Cities having more Wikipedia sitelinks than their country (source)


 * Development
 * Fix a caching problem on termbox (T228978)
 * Investigate options for termbox load testing (T229790)
 * Use thumbnail preferences for thumbnail of Commons media file (T224189)
 * Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities (T229917)
 * Move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox (T66315)
 * Create Maintenance Script to Remove Terms in a Language from Current Revision (T222606)
 * Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (T214894)
 * Add editing widget/input on Bridge (T226998)

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.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:33, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #378
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Improved instructions for translation admin


 * Events
 * Current: Wikimania in Stockholm and hackathon, August 14 to 18. Check out the list of all Wikidata-related events. Each session page should include notes, slides and streaming if available.


 * Tool of the week
 * In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
 * NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is now a Wikiquote page for Wikidata
 * ISA is a new tool to easily add structured data to Commons files, including from mobile
 * You can help improve the vandalism detection by completing a set of labels for ORES
 * QuickStatements won the Coolest Tool Award, category "editor", during the first ceremony at Wikimania 2019
 * New Wikidata-related projects developed during the Wikimania hackathon:
 * Documentation translation sprint: several people translated Wikidata help pages in their own language. Feel free to continue the efforts to make Wikidata more accessible!
 * Item creation helpers helps create similar items, and link them together, with a simple form. Example with skating competitions


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: manner of inhumane treatment, cases consolidated, typically sells, noun class, does not have effect, substitute director/manager, school class
 * External identifiers: Empik author ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, The Top Tens ID, merlin.pl author ID, Plus Music artist ID, Kinsky–Halm Catalogue, Raptekster.dk ID, Acharts.co song ID, FGrHist ID, register of real estate NKP, Hacker News User ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Gaana.com album ID, XING profile ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, job ID in Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions, Planespotters.net aircraft ID, PLIA ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, EPW author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: graph radius, Belgian Species List ID, amino acid (start, end) position, ordeal by, protected region scheme, image revision-id, region within image, access restriction status, georeferencing data, number of processor threads, part number, CPUID, based on tabular data, Siddham script name, Number of active electronic terminals
 * External identifiers: OpenWeatherMap city ID, Scribd Publication ID, moly.hu azonosító, Hungarian Movie Database film ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, jog.fm artist ID, Hype Machine artist ID, Liber Liber author ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Just Hear It artist ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Digitalt Museum ID, MTV UK artist ID, MTV Germany artist ID, MTV Polska artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, Eiga.com movie ID, GoodRx, BEACON ID


 * Query examples:
 * Books in Bengali Wikisource that are validated (source)
 * Flightless birds of New Zealand (source)
 * Islands in Germany (source)
 * Clandestine center of detention and torture in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina (source)
 * Same-sex married couples where neither partner has a sexual orientation (source)
 * Schema examples:
 * Danish numerals
 * Danish hyphenation


 * Development
 * Fix an issue with the pop up of Wikidata Tours (T223999)
 * Call WikibaseLexeme API with baserevid parameter from the UI (T217245)
 * Fix a bug with CheckConstraintsJob (T227450)
 * Fix a bug with wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (T223995)
 * Add editing widget/input to client edit modal: (T226998)
 * Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities: (T229917)
 * More work on the the production Termbox service
 * tidying up our browser test suite (T229910)
 * adding browser tests for basic editing (T230187)

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.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:50, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

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