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Wikidata weekly summary #457
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber (unsussesful)
 * New request for comments: P155/P156 as qualifiers only, rather than as main statements


 * Events
 * Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 2 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #34 Open Data Day - YouTube, Facebook, March 6
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #52, March 7
 * Upcoming: Wikidata bug triage hour about Lexemes, March 22nd
 * Upcoming: Wikidata-based Data Sprint hosted by the University of New Brunswick. One Wikidata data set will be provided on 11th March 2021 and various teams will have 2 hours to run a set of SPARQL queries against the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and showcase their results.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogpost: Wikidata and Correspondence Archives (Enriching basic metadata with a knowledge graph)
 * Blogpost: The promise of Wikidata - How journalists can use the crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data source (at DataJournalism.com)
 * Video: Accra Archive Wikidata and Wikipedia Workshop (GLAMS Campaign Ghana) - YouTube
 * Video: COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Video: Identify and describe items of bibliographic interest (articles, monographs, authors) on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Video: Visualizing the global research ecosystem via Wikidata and Scholia - YouTube
 * Video: Demo: How to upload new bibliography and create dashboards on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Video: Reconciliation Open Refine Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
 * Video: Reconciling researchers to Wikidata via Google Sheets - YouTube
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Video: How to create new Wikidata item (in Dutch) - YouTube
 * Video: Merging Wikidata items (in Dutch) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * EditSum, a new user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js, is a userscript that adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on Lexeme pages. (It links to pages corresponding to the first lemma and puts the lexeme language's Wiktionary first, followed by languages in the user's Babel box).
 * User:Lucas Werkmeister/addStatementCountsToCategories.js, is a userscript that shows the number of statements of the linked item for all pages in a category.
 * Shared Citations, a proposal arising from the WikiCite project, for a central reference management database supporting all Wikimedia projects, with significant relationship to Wikidata. Seeking feedback.
 * Modèle:Indice de diversité de genre (Template:Gender diversity index) is a new template in the French Wikipedia which use P21 (gender property) to count the number of people by gender mentioned in an article. It helps to find articles which "forget" to cite women.
 * Lexeme JSON dumps are now available as a collection of individual lexeme data in the regular JSON format, separate from the regular Wikidata dumps containing Items and Properties. T264883
 * We found a way to improve the performance of scrolling on the Item page by changing how we move the Property labels as you scroll through the page. You should see the effect after the next deployment.
 * BBC Things includes links to Wikidata to provide a single reference for the growing collection of entities that matter to the BBC and their audiences.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of at bats, number of hits, bases on balls, runs batted in, letterer, sensors, FAQ URL, set during recurring event, stolen bases, doubles hit, triples hit
 * External identifiers: Germanistenverzeichnis ID, uta-net.com song ID, uta-net.com artist ID, AllMusic genre/style ID, DicoPolHiS ID, EuroBabeIndex.com ID, Sauvons nos tombes cemetery ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer person ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer organization ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer family ID, BookBub author ID, TlF artist ID, Encyclopédie berbère article ID, Protagonisti della storia delle scienze della mente ID, English Placenames MADS ID, Norwegian State Administration Database ID, teatral.ro play/theater ID, CineFAN.ro title ID, CinemaRX title ID, Sinemalar title ID, Swissvote ID, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté inventory identifier, Île-de-France inventory identifier, Normandie inventory identifier, Pays de la Loire inventory identifier, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, Swedish Literature Bank place ID, Opera Online conductor ID, Discogs genre ID, Discogs style ID, Danmarks Adresseregister named street ID, bashenc.online ID, Provenio UUID, JedeSchule.de ID, ARAE ID, Encyclopedia Titanica ID, U.S. Masters Swimming ID, DzygaMDB person ID, NLS place type ID, Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: demographics of topic, strikeouts, district heating, number of signatories, opt-out, payer, secondary topic, grant number, Future Salaries ID, Index égalité professionnelle F/H, Commons incompatible image URL, verbal ability
 * External identifiers: Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID, ANPI person ID, ANPI person numeric ID, APS author ID, EEVA author ID, Archives West finding aid ID, BiographySampo person ID, Discord server numeric ID, Discord user numeric ID, CUT ID, Amathus ID, EUC ID, UPSA ID, RePEc EconPapers ID, Dark Horse contributor ID, ComiXology publisher ID, Austrian Newspapers Online ID, Cyprus Library ID, MyMusic artist ID, LFCHistory.net player ID, MeSH qualifier ID


 * Query examples:
 * Hungarian church buildings sorted by confessions (Source)
 * Where Czechs most died if not in their place of birth (Source)
 * Most popular tonalities (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Templates for templates in Wikidata

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
 * Working on first version of small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items and find the lowest-quality Items in the batch so it's easier to improve them.
 * Taking a closer look at what larger improvements we want to make to Lexemes later this year.
 * Thinking through different ways how we can technically get mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases so we can later expose them.
 * Thinking through what the first version of the REST API should contain and what should come later.
 * Fixed an issue with whitespaces when editing Lexemes (T250550)
 * Made sure all languages show up in the language selector for monolingual text Properties at least with their language code because them not showing up was very confusing (T124758)
 * Fixed an issue with generating correct links for external IDs with + (T271126)
 * Fixing an issue with Property selector not falling back from language variant to major language (T272712)
 * Continuing to build out the Query Builder and focusing on input for quantity and date queries (T268942 and T272697)
 * Due to the planned delay of the release of MediaWiki 1.36, the Wikibase team has been working on preparing a Wikibase update that includes new functionality (such as the “Federated Properties” feature) based on v1.35. To that end, we started backporting certain features and fixes into the Wikibase 1.35 release. Follow our progress here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * 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!

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Growth team newsletter #17


Welcome to the seventeenth 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.

Structured tasks
Add a link: the team is continuing to engineer on our first "structured task", which will break down the workflow of adding wikilinks to articles, and assist newcomers with an algorithm to identify words and phrases that could be made into links.

Add an image: even as we build our first structured task, we have been thinking about the next one. "Add an image" is a structured task in which newcomers would be recommended images from Wikimedia Commons to add to unillustrated articles. This is an ambitious idea with many details to consider. We have already learned a lot from community members, and we encourage everyone to look at the project page and join the discussion.

Moving forward: more wikis to get the features
Last November, our team published the analysis of the impact of newcomer tasks. We announced that we found that the Growth features, and particularly newcomer tasks, lead to increased editing from newcomers. Because of these results, we believe all Wikipedias should implement these features.

We have started to contact more wikis to deploy the features, including Wikipedias of all sizes. Bengali Wikipedia recently began using Growth features, and Danish, Thai, Indonesian, and Romanian Wikipedias will be coming soon. Please contact us if you have questions regarding deployment.

We are looking for translators who can help by translating the interface. Translating is done on Translatewiki.net (it requires a different account that your Wikimedia one). Communities that already have the Growth features being deployed are invited to check on the translations. Access translations here.

Variant testing
As mentioned in our previous newsletter, we ran a test of two variants of the newcomer homepage, meant to find a version that increases users completing suggested edits. We have completed the experiment, and learned that one of the variants leads to more edits on desktop while the other leads to more edits on mobile. Therefore, we will deploy the strongest variants for each platform to all newcomers.

News for mentors
Mentor dashboard: we have interviewed mentors from several communities as we plan a mentor dashboard feature, which would help mentors track the progress of their mentees. We encourage all mentors to share their thoughts on tools that would help them.

Magic word for mentors: it is now possible to use a magic word, , to display the name of a given newcomer's mentor. This can be used on welcome messages, userboxes, etc.

Help panel questions going to mentors: in most wikis, newcomers using the help panel ask questions to the help desk. On Czech Wikipedia, we have experimented with sending these questions to mentors instead. This simplifies the newcomer experience, and only led to a increase in mentorship questions of about 30%. We tried this in Arabic, Bengali, French and Vietnamese Wikipedias, and we are making it the default experience.

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Wikidata weekly summary #458
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: SORSE - Wikidata as a research tool for data modelling and integration in the humanities (replay on YouTube)
 * Past: Open Data Day Taiwan 2021 2021-03-06, , , and online stream (FB and Youtube)
 * Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Meetup 2021-03-08
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: OCLC Research’s CONTENTdm Wikibase data model for pilot project to improve collection discoverability, Tuesday, March 9th.
 * Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 9 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube, Facebook, March 13
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #53, March 14


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * "Giving knowledge back to Wikipedia: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync Factual Data across Wikipedia, Wikidata and External Data Sources" (by DBPedia)
 * Papers
 * Open Natural Products Research: Curation and Dissemination of Biological Occurrences of Chemical Structures through Wikidata
 * A paper describing COVIWD: COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard
 * Videos
 * Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
 * Working hour on items of bibliographic interest in Wikidata (in Italian) -YouTube
 * Open Data Day Taiwan 2021 -Youtube Live
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #34 Open Data Day - YouTube, Facebook


 * Tool of the week
 * Panoviewer.js inserts an iframe from the Panoviewer tool to photosphere image (P4640) statements.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata has now items about nine million people: 99,991,000,000 to do (project chat)
 * A new browser for Wikidata is available: the SLING knowledge base browser by User:Mringgaard. It is lightning fast and entirely based on modern Web components.
 * Help choose focus languages for improvements to the lexicographic extension of Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia. Nominations should be submitted by April 7, and the decision will be made by April 14 by the teams taking your comments into account.
 * Help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting ends before Monday March 15th 23:59 UTC.
 * PetScan can now generate KML map overlay data. E.g. University towns in Germany. (Map view)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: supplement to, seismic classification, reissue of, staking percentage, affiliated worker organisation, demographics of topic, assessment outcome, notation writer
 * External identifiers: Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID, Obituaries Australia ID, XXXBios female performer ID, RDA value vocabularies ID, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID, Whiskybase distillery ID, NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID, Women Australia ID, Labour Australia ID, Indigenous Australia ID, Pontifical University of Salamanca ID, EEVA author ID, Nauvoo Community Project ID, Cyprus Library ID, Cyprus University of Technology ID, Amathus ID, European University Cyprus ID, Museo Nacional de la Estampa ID, Resident Advisor club ID, Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID, CPC-PR ID, Austrian Newspapers Online ID, Oklahoma's NRHP ID, ChemRxiv ID, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Inventory ID, FFF player ID (new scheme), Physics Magazine author ID, Ligue 1 player ID, ANPI person numeric ID, Science Magazine author ID, Odnoklassniki user numeric ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: verbal ability, 易玩應用程序標識符, earned run average, named place on map, inhabitants of topic, consequence of text, writing style, applicant, co-applicant, Cantonese romanisation, repairability
 * External identifiers: MeSH qualifier ID, Encyclopedia of Ostrava person ID, Encyclopedia of Plzeň person ID, Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe, Museum of the jewish people ID, Encyclopaedia Herder concept ID, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia ID, Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona author ID, Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico, PorcelanaBrasil ID, Eesti entsüklopeedia ID, Encyclopedia of Melbourne ID, Cyprus Bibliography ID, JaneladaHistoria ID, OsobnostiRegionu.cz ID, Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America ID, Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française ID, Inforegister ID, Terezín Memorial Database ID, AWB lemma ID, MWB lemma ID, MHDBDB lemma ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for Middle High German, Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for modern German, Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet ID


 * Query examples:
 * Deceased people with verified Twitter accounts (source)
 * members of Ludlamshöhle, a society in Vienna (1819-1826) (source)
 * Things discovered or invented by women (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Early Modern England and Wales (WD:WP EMEW)
 * Newest database reports:
 * Gadget usage statistics - Includes gadgets enabled in preferences or common.js


 * Development
 * Fixed an issue where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language (T272712)
 * Working on support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity (T199896)
 * Continuing to work on the Query Builder and making it possible to query for quantities and dates with it.
 * Putting finishing touches on a small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items as well as the individual scores for each of the Items

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
 * 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!

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