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Wikidata weekly summary #523
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * June 6th and 8th: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
 * June 9th (Thursday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine e Structured Data on Commons
 * July 8-10: Data Quality Days, online event focusing on data quality processes on Wikidata. You can submit sessions or discussion topics until June 19th.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Travailler avec les épigraphes littéraires dans Wikidata
 * Were more plant genera really named for nymphs than women who actually lived?
 * Papers
 * "SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models": Infusing structured knowledge from Wikidata into language models improves performance (Moiseev et al, 2022)
 * Videos
 * Live Wikidata editing #82 by Ainali and Abbe98


 * Tool of the week
 * Article's wikilinks inspector takes all entities linked in a Wikipedia article and compute insights about those entities using Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The May 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
 * There will be a new online community meeting for the Wikidata Query Service backend update on Monday June 20, 2022 at 19:00 UTC (link to the meeting).
 * Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss and PangolinMexico, working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata, and LennardHofmann, working on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua. Feel free to greet them and follow their work on Phabricator!
 * A new Mix'n'match page to query entries across catalogs, by various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: date of incorporation, in operation on service, coordination number
 * External identifiers: ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, JBIS horse ID, FactGrid property ID, Lithuania Minor Encyclopedia ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Macaulay Library taxon ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies government ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies parliamentary group ID, Midi libre journalist ID, Heiligen.net ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: COR lemma-id, niveau 1, embargoed until, electric charge capacity, COR form ID, level 1, феноритмотип, type of artefact(s)
 * External identifiers: Russia.travel object ID, AdoroCinema series ID, FirstCycling (riderID), snookerscores.net player ID, OVO-code, CEU author ID, Chaoxing Journal ID, Springer Nature Person ID, Springer Nature Article ID, Springer Nature Journal ID, MUI Icon, UK Beetles ID


 * Deleted properties:
 * Query examples:
 * Which are the most popular natural products based on the number of statements on their corresponding QID? (from the Telegram Wikidata group)
 * Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Elisabeth or Élisabeth (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (T290733, T30535).
 * REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (T307031, T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (T306667).

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) 08:25, 7 June 2022 (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!

Wikidata weekly summary #524
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * William Avery Bot 6. Task/s: Increment Shakeosphere person ID by 24638, as discussed at WD:RBOT § Shakeosphere person ID
 * Crystal-bot. Task/s: Add MediaWiki page ID (P9675) and language of work or name (P407) qualifiers to items using Moegirlpedia ID (P5737) identifier.
 * William Avery Bot 5. References to facts stated in The Database of Victims of the Nazi Persecution (Q104074149) that use reference URL (P854) will be changed to to use Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109), as requested at d:Wikidata:Bot requests
 * OJSOptimetaCitationsBot. Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in Open Journal Systems.


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. Agenda
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #46, Cartography
 * Past
 * 'Mind Your Manors' Medieval Hack Weekend (UK National Archives / York Centre for Medieval Studies), June 11-12. Included some useful Wikidata linkage.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikibase.cloud: a new project at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * 50,000 video games on Wikidata by Jean-Frédéric
 * The Current Version of Popular Browsers API (powered by Wikidata)
 * Wikidata, a free collaborative knowledge database (in Basque)
 * Papers
 * A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD
 * WikidataComplete – An easy-to-use method for rapid validation of text-extracted new facts applied to the Wikidata knowledge graph
 * Videos
 * Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 5: Introduction to Wikidata (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #83 - YouTube
 * Wikiba.se ... an Free and Open Source Software, originally developed to run on Wikipedia - YouTube
 * Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons - YouTube
 * Generating Gene Sets for Transcriptomics Analysis Using Wikidata - Part 2 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * A walk through Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Demographic profiling in Wikipedia Wikidata WikiCite & Scholia - YouTube
 * DSI Webinar - Basic training on Wikidata as a complementary tool to enrich metadata - YouTube
 * How does Wikidata store data? How to contribute Data to Wikidata? - YouTube
 * Generate MindMap from Wikidata using SPARQL query - YouTube (En, [De)
 * FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
 * The Italian libraries magazines on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Wikidata Testimonials
 * Giovanna Fontenelle (Wikimedia Foundation)
 * Frédéric Julien (Director of Research and Development CAPACOA)) (in French)
 * Nathalie Thibault (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ)) (in French)
 * Michael Gasser (ETH Bibliothek Zürich) (in German)


 * Tool of the week
 * ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New Wikibase.cloud project status update page has been created!
 * Qichwabase is a Wikibase instance curating Quechua lexicographical data, for later integration into Wikidata
 * Using Wikidata search API in Observable by PAC2
 * Explore Wikidata using Observable, a collection of notebooks in Observable to explore Wikidata, by PAC2.
 * Programming languages on Wikidata in Observable by Jsamwrites, based on examples by PAC2 (see above)
 * New Mix'n'match function: Unmatched biographical entries grouped by exact birth and death date. Currently ~33k "groups" available


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: orchestrator
 * External identifiers: Championat ID, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Twitter list ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: inker, penciller, KFCB classification (Kenya), Miljørapporter File ID, plural forms
 * External identifiers: ifwizz ID, IRIS Abruzzo IDs, Great Plant Picks ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Kultboy, Atom Package Manager name, ZineWiki ID, Broadway World person ID, Yamaha Artists ID


 * Query examples:
 * Thomas Telford's different alleged associations with buildings, according to wikidata statements (source)
 * Averages of coordinates of depicted place (P9149) positions for Commons categories (useful as help in matching them to wikidata items) (source)
 * items with senses in the most languages on Wikidata, with a sample language and lexeme in that language.
 * Graph of the characters present in Mario franchise games (source)
 * A & B roads carried on Scottish bridges (source)
 * Timeline of Rafael Nadal awards and nominations (source)
 * Articles studying chemicals from the oceans (source)
 * Municipalities of France, by their population and their altitude (source)
 * In cousin marriages (born 1800 and later) (source)
 * Actors who played the same real politician the most times (source)
 * Most famous heritage locations (measured by sitelinks) (source)


 * Development
 * Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (T306214)
 * Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (T290733), improving error messages for the new page (T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (T307869)
 * REST API: continued work on creating statements (T306667)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:28, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #425
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Integration of POTD template
 * Closed request for comments:
 * How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ? has been closed. Property labels in French should now includes both male and female or a verbal form if relevant (see P50).


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Featuring speaker Barbara Fischer, Liaison Counsel at the German National Library’s Agency for Standardization (DNB). On behalf of the DNB, Fischer initiated the WikiLibrary Manifesto. Fischer works to increase the quality of metadata through Authority Control to foster retrieval and linked data. Where: Zoom (Registration link). When: 30 June 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter)
 * Data Quality Days (July 8-10): you can propose discussion topics or sessions until June 19th.
 * Small wiki toolkits: Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, June 30th, 16:00 UTC "This workshop will introduce participants to Toolforge, how to create a developer account, access to Toolforge via ssh, and run bots and scripts on Toolforge and in background mode."
 * (Tutorial) OpenRefine - A fundamental tool for every librarian's toolbox. Thursday 23 June - 17: 00-19: 30. Write to laz-corsi@undefinedaib.it to book and receive the link of the event.
 * Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa 3rd edition - Creating tools on Wikimedia Toolforge using Python and Flask. Friday 24th June and Sunday 26th June 2022 - 16:00 - 17:00 (UTC)
 * Collect, archive and provide games - a "panel about video game metadata". Fri. 24.6.2022 – Sat. June 25, 2022
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #47, Numbers (3/n)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts
 * Using Wikidata Identifiers to Enhance Agent Discovery
 * Videos
 * Wikidata editing tools (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 6: Creating Wikidata items from scratch (in Dagbani) - YouTube
 * Fun with lexemes in some language! by Mahir256 - Twitch


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Card Game Generator: generate card games from Wikidata!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job opening: UX Researcher - Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Wikimedia Deutschland welcomes new Wikibase.cloud Product Manager, Evelien Zandbergen
 * Developer Portal is launched! Discover Wikimedia’s technical areas and how to contribute
 * Starting on June 21, all Wikimedia wikis can use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua (discussions welcome on the project talk page)
 * Deutschland looking for a partner affiliate to organize the WikidataCon 2023


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: preceding halt on service, following station on service, number of housing units, last entry, homophone form, fastest laps
 * External identifiers: HaBama person ID, Shopee shop ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Proza.ru author ID, neftegaz.ru person ID, National Union Catalog ID, MAYA site company ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Ethereum token address, BelTA dossier ID, Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: opus number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, U.S. vaccine status, theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer
 * External identifiers: Theatrical Index person ID, National Archives of Australia Entity ID, Mozilla Hacks author ID, CVX vaccine code, BVMC Corporate Body, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID, Teresianum authority ID, GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID


 * Query examples:
 * Islands with at least 1 spring or freshwater body (source)
 * Notable people who you share a birthday with (find the string "1966-08-25" and replace it with your date of birth) (source)
 * List of filmmakers with whom Jean-Louis Trintignant has played (source)
 * Cemeteries in France near churches (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data:
 * Enabled Lua access to Lexemes for all Wikimedia projects
 * Continued work on improving the language search for Lexeme languages on the new Special:NewLexeme page (T307869)
 * Improving the accessibility of a design system component and the new Special:NewLexeme page (T290733)
 * Making it easier to understand what to do when the spelling variant isn't available on the new Special:NewLexeme page (T298146)
 * REST API: Continuing work on making it possible to add a statement to an Item

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:57, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #426
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * William Avery Bot 7. Task/s: Merge multiple references on the same claim citing Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 30th June 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 28, 2022: Andrew McAllister will introduce us to Scribe, an app that provides keyboards for second-language learners, and its use of Wikidata. This presentation should appeal to anyone who has worked on or is interested in learning more about the applications of lexicographical data in Wikidata as well as anyone who has an interest in language, open information, data and programming. Agenda
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 28 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
 * July 8-10: Data Quality Days (see the first version of the program and the list of participants)
 * The Third Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: Friday, 29 July 2022
 * Celtic Knot Conference 2022: presentations from 12 projects communities working on minoritized languages on the Wikimedia projects - YouTube
 * Past:
 * 21 June: Presentation Wikidata as a data collaboration across multiple boundaries at SciDataCon


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers
 * Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata
 * Practices of Linked Open Data in Archaeology and Their Realisation in Wikidata
 * What Can Tweets and Knowledge Graphs Tell Us About Eating Disorders?
 * Videos
 * Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 7: Adding references and qualifiers to Wikidata items (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
 * The Joys of Connecting Your Collections to Wikidata - YouTube
 * Using Wikidata to Enhance Discovery & Faculty Interest in Rapid Publishing - YouTube
 * Podcasts
 * Data Quality Days Discussion With Lydia Pintscher & Lèa Lacroix
 * Other
 * Documented queries: a proposal, feedback is welcome here


 * Tool of the week
 * IsisCB Explore - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Template Item documentation now includes a query to the corresponding lexemes. This is an attempt to make navigation between lexemes and items easier. For the record, Item documentation is available in the header of the talk page for each item.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: inker, penciller
 * External identifiers: Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID, Great Plant Picks ID, BVMC organization ID, UK Beetles ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer, foliage type
 * External identifiers: GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID, Copains d'avant ID, P. League+ ID, WO2 Thesaurus ID, Super Basketball League ID, DeSmog ID, Met Constituent ID, IRFA ID, Adequat agency person ID, Israeli Company Registration Number, UKAT term ID, TGbus game ID, TGbus franchise ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, VocaDB Artist ID, VocaDB Album ID, VocaDB Song ID, Moepedia ID


 * Query examples:
 * "Queries of the week" archive (sources)
 * Graph of fictional wars and their participants (source)
 * The 100 most common species as subjects of publications known to Wikidata (source)
 * Map of birthplaces of ASM Clermont Auvergne players (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: We are wrapping up the coding on the new Special:NewLexeme page. Testing and rolll-out will follow soon. We are still working on making it easier to find languages in the language selector on the Special:NewLexeme page. (T307869)
 * REST API: We are continuing to code on the ability to create statements on an Item (T306667)
 * Investigating an issue with labels not being shown after merges (T309445)
 * Preparation for upcoming work: We are planning the next work on the Mismatch Finder to address feedback we have received so far as well as EntitySchemas to make them more integrated with other areas of 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.


 * 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:08, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #522
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * ListedBuildingsUKBot. Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g. should have a wiki commons link to  since they both refer to.


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, July 5 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Wikidata Data Quality Days, online, on July 8-10
 * Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #48, Human rights
 * Past
 * Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * Making Wiki work for Wales - YouTube
 * Session on Wikibase - Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikipedians of Goa User Group (WGUG) - YouTube
 * Scribe: Wikidata-powered keyboard app for second language learners - YouTube
 * Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata A semi automated, user assisted editing tool - YouTube
 * Wikidata MOOC (in French) by Wikimedia France - 19 videos on YouTube
 * Wikidata Tutorials (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - 7 videos on YouTube
 * Report
 * User:LennardHofmann/GSoC 2022/Report 2 - rewriting the WikiCommons and Wikidata Infobox in Lua


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Lectrician1/AddStatement.js is a userscript that can add values to properties that already exist on an item and new statements.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland will be joining forces with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata. The goal of this collaboration is "to make our software more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of the Global South and speakers of minority languages".
 * Job openings in the software development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Junior Product Manager Wikidata - "In this role you will be part of a cross-functional team, and be the product manager of product initiatives for Wikidata, the largest knowledge base of free and open data in the world."
 * Product Manager Wikibase Suite - In this role "you will be part of an interdisciplinary team and the product team, and work closely with a broad variety of stakeholders in the Wikibase Ecosystem."


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, Russia.travel object ID, Yamaha Artists ID, ifwizz ID, IRFA ID, DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Gitee username, Punjabi tone, spoken by, recordist, part of molecular family, official definition
 * External identifiers: Anghami artist ID, Boomplay artist ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, MUSE publisher ID, EU Knowledge Graph ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, identifiant organisation Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique, Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of albums in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)
 * Occupation about musicians in Wales (source)
 * Map of tram depots in France
 * Mountains higher than 2,500 meters in France (source)
 * List of all Tour de France's stage winners by nationality from 1903 to 2022 (source)
 * French rugby teams according to the year of creation (source)
 * French members of parliament that were on the same legislature and are or have been married (source)
 * Number of countries on Wikidata where at least one pride parade has been held (source)
 * Football players whose birthday is today (different every day) (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data:
 * We have finished most of the development on the new Special:NewLexeme page. You can try it at https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewLexemeAlpha. We will make this available on Wikidata for testing with real-world data on July 14th.
 * We are continuing to work on the new search profile for languages to make setting the language of a new Lexeme easier (T307869)
 * REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the first version of the API route to add statements to an Item. It is still lacking support for automated edit summaries.
 * We are working on word-level diffs to make it easier to see what changed in an edit (T303317)
 * We are investigating the issue of labels not being shown after some merges (T309445)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:23, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #21
Welcome to the twenty-first newsletter from the Growth team!

New project: Positive reinforcement

 * The Growth team started a new project: Positive reinforcement. We want newcomers to understand there is an interest in regularly editing Wikipedia, and we want to improve new editor retention.
 * We asked users from Arabic, Bangla, Czech and French Wikipedia about their feedback. Some people participated at mediawiki.org as well.
 * We summarized the initial feedback gathered from these community discussions, along with how we plan to iterate based on that feedback.
 * The first Positive Reinforcement idea is a redesign of the impact module: incorporating stats, graphs, and other contribution information. This idea received the widest support, and we plan to start our work based on the design illustrated on the side.
 * Please let us know what you think of this project, in any language.

For mentors

 * We have worked on two new features, to inform them about the mentorship:
 * In the Mentor module, we now provide more information about the public nature of the mentors/newcomer relationship and the fact that talk pages are public.
 * We now allow newcomers to opt-in and opt-out of mentorship.

Scaling

 * "Add a link" available at more wikis ― Add a link feature has been deployed to more wikis: . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure locally how this feature works.
 * "Add an image" available at more wikis ― Add an image feature will be deployed to more wikis: . These communities will be able to configure locally how this feature works.

Suggested edits

 * Selecting topics ― We have created an "AND" filter to the list of topics at Special:Homepage. This way, newcomers can decide to select very specific topics ("Transportation" AND "Asia") or to have a broader selection ("Transportation" OR "Asia"). At the moment this feature is tested at pilot wikis.
 * Changes for Add a link ― We have built several improvements that came from community discussion and from data analysis. They will be available soon at the wikis.
 * Algorithm improvements ― The algorithm now avoids recommending links in sections that usually don't have links and for first names. Also, it now limits each article to only having three link suggestions by default (limited to the highest accuracy suggestions of all the available ones in the article).
 * User experience improvements ―   We added a confirmation dialog when a user exits out of suggestion mode prior to making changes. We also improved post-edit dialog experience and allow newcomers to browse through task suggestions from the post-edit dialog.
 * Community configuration ― We allow communities to set a maximum number of links per article via Special:EditGrowthConfig.
 * Future change for Add a link feature ― We will suggest underlinked articles in priority.
 * Patrolling suggested edits ― Some users at Arabic Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, and Russian Wikipedia told us that "Add a link" and "Add an image" edits can be challenging to patrol. We are now brainstorming improvements to help address this challenge. We have already some ideas and we started some work to address this challenge. If you have any thoughts to add about the challenges of reviewing these tasks or how we should improve these tasks further, please let us know, in any language.

Community configuration
Communities can configure how the features work, using Special:EditGrowthConfig.
 * Communities can set the maximum number of "add an image" suggested tasks a newcomer can complete daily.
 * Future change: allow communities to customize the "add a link" quality gate threshold easily, using Special:EditGrowthConfig.

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