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Wikidata weekly summary #401

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Tool of the week
    • VizQuery allows you to use the Wikidata Query Service without having to know SPARQL. Simply use a couple of autocomplete input boxes and you can do most basic queries.
  • Development
    • Enable the first version of tainted/mismatched references on wikidata.org
    • Work on adding a button to hide the notification (phab:T234789)
    • Show the icon after canceling editing if the icon was shown before (phab:T234790)
    • More work on Wikidata Bridge (restrict editing based on user rights or data types)
    • More work on wb_terms migration

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.

Growth team updates #12

Welcome to the twelfth 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.

General news

  • A training for mentors has been published. The training was first tried with the Czech community, and went well.
  • Growth team features have been deployed to Hungarian, Ukrainian, and Armenian Wikipedias. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together whether your wiki is eligible. Then you can go through the checklist to start the process of configuring the features.

Productive edits from newcomer tasks

We deployed the basic workflow for newcomer tasks to our target wikis on November 20, and the early results are exciting.

Suggested edits by type of edit.
Graph captions (top to bottom):
■ Copyedits
■ Add links
■ Expand article
■ Add reference
■ Advanced edits
  • About 1.5% of newcomers who visit their homepage complete the workflow and save a suggested edit. So far, this has amounted to over 450 edits, on all wikis, coming from both desktop and mobile users.
  • When we look at the edits that newcomers make, we see that they are largely positive! We are pleased to see that this feature does not appear to encourage vandals.
    • 75% of the edits are productive and unreverted.
    • 95% of the edits appear to be in good faith.
  • Most of the edits include copyedits and adding links, with some newcomers also adding content and references. Copyedits are suggested most strongly.
  • Click here to learn more specifics about the results so far.

Topic matching deployed

The results from our user tests showed us that newcomers are likely to do more suggested edits if they can choose articles related to a topic that they're interested in, such as "science", "music", or "sports".

  • On January 21, we deployed topic matching on our pilot wikis. Newcomers are now using it. We expect it to cause more newcomers to try suggested edits, and to keep making more of them.
  • In the coming weeks, we will be making improvements to the accuracy of the algorithm used to topic matching, which is part of the ORES project.

Next steps for newcomer tasks

Prototype of how the help panel will "peek" from the bottom of the page to offer guidance on mobile.

Because we are seeing positive results from newcomer tasks, the Growth team plans to concentrate our efforts on improving the workflow and encouraging more newcomers to use it.

  • Guidance: next, we will be using the help panel to provide guidance to newcomers as they do suggested edits, and to prompt them to do another edit after completing their first one. In user tests for this feature, demo videos were one of the favorite features, and we will think about how these might be added.
  • Starting the workflow: only about 20% of newcomer who visit their homepage begin the newcomer tasks workflow. We are going to be trying out different layouts of the homepage to encourage more newcomers to try newcomer tasks.
  • Additional task types: we are researching methods to recommend more specific tasks to newcomers, such as specific links to add, or images that could be added to articles from Commons.

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17:39, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Sabrina's British Accent in Filmation

I saw the cartoon, and while nobody says she was an immigrant, she for some reason has an English accent, so the cartoon is reliable for proof on the accent. Watch the cartoon and you'll totally see what I mean. [User talk:Iamcool34234|Iamcool34234 (talk)]] 11:16, 6 February 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iamcool34234 (talk • contribs)

The statement of I reverted was "In this version, she and her aunts are English immigrants due to their British accents," and your claim Iamcool34234 of her being an English immigrant was presented without credible evidence. --- FULBERT (talk) 17:39, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2020)

The Pyramid Texts are the oldest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts dating to the Old Kingdom.
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Religious text

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Wikidata weekly summary #402

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Reasonator offers a visual formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.
  • Development
    • Wikidata Bridge: more work on enabling error messages for various cases (datatype not supported, user can't edit on client or repo, etc.)
    • Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
    • Mismatched references: follow-up of the deployment in production, adding the "remove warning" button
    • Monitoring the number of times the feature reference warnings are being triggered and opened (phab:T231731)
    • Fixing some issues connected to the train deployment
    • Fixing an issue with new edit summaries not being displayed on client wikis (phab:T244129)
    • Fixing an issue with ittem having label conflict with itself (phab:T243158)

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.


This Month in GLAM: January 2020



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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello FULBERT,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources
Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

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16:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Feb 19: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

February 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2020)

The metric length of one kilometre is equivalent to the imperial measurement of 0.62137 miles.
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Length

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Religious text • Barbershop quartet

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Wikidata weekly summary #403

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Looking for one of the 7000+ Wikidata properties? Try Propbrowse to search and browse all properties.
  • Development
    • Wikidata Bridge: more work on unsupported edit cases (unsupported datatypes phab:T235753, ambiguous statements phab:T240212, deprecated statements phab:T238660, unknown value or no value statements phab:T242747)
    • Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
    • Making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
    • Style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
    • Create Grafana boards to track the results of the tainted references feature
    • Increase factor for query service that is taken into account for maxlag (later reverted) (phab:T244722)
    • Fix edit summaries not displayed on client wikis (phab:T244129)
    • Fixed some issues causes by the wb_terms migration

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.

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2020)

Hello, FULBERT.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Nature reserve

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Length • Religious text

Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations

Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 24 February 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

Thank you

I appreciate your having looked over my most recent article, the American Banjo Museum and for   assessing its importance for the various Wikiprojects. You pointed it out as the work of a fan, and I would have to say, "You’re right." It was enthusiasm for the place who got me to write the article, and I doubt my ability to be impartial enough to take a razor to it today. Looking at it, I’m thinking too much info about the museum's origins. That is as far as I'm getting right now. Can you make any suggestions as to how to modify it? Thank you, Jacqke (talk) 22:10, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Jacqke, Thanks for your work on this article. In that comment, what I intended to focus on included the removal or revision of some language that seemed more conversational rather than encyclopedic in tone. For example, the article states "The tour starts off with a walking tour through a still-life scene inspired by the painting The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner, in which an elderly African-American man teaches a young boy to play the banjo. . . . The tour covers the Minstrel Era, when the banjo began to be appropriated by Anglo-American culture. The museum tries to show the transition from a folk instrument of slaves to an instrument considered "American" today..." All this is accurate, though it seems a little more conversational, as if you were telling me about this museum, than objective and the facts alone. Minor point, though I believe this will strengthen this article overall by shortening some of the claims that are made and focusing on what is actually there, rather than how an individual experiences it. Thanks for asking about this, which is something I wish more people who write articles and want to engage in conversation to help to make them even stronger would consider doing. FULBERT (talk) 16:20, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
I will work on revisions this week. Thanks again, Jacqke (talk) 11:01, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #404

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  • Development
    • Provide better redirect for statement nodes (phab:T203397)
    • Wikidata Bridge: style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
    • making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
    • research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)
    • showing the loading bar while saving (phab:T237433)
    • More work on wb_terms table and fixing various issues
    • Removing all of pre-entity source based federation code
    • Fixing various issues causing errors in production
    • Investigate on an issue with pasting exact Commons file title (phab:T196165)
    • Update the APIs to specify an errorformat and a uselang parameter (phab:T242769)

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.


WikiLoop Battlefield Champion Barnstar

The WikiLoop Battlefield Barnstar
Congratulations, FULBERT

You have been recognized as the yearly champion of counter-vandalism of WikiLoop Battlefieldseeking new name,
a crowdsource counter-vandalism patrol and label tool (http://battlefield.wikiloop.org)
for the year ending at 2019-12-31.


On behalf of the team and community of WikiLoop Battlefield and as Wikipedians, we like to appreciate your contributions, and look forward for more in the future. Also don't forget to bring your Wikipedian friends who you think are also passionate of keeping Wikipedia protected.
Cheers, xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 22:55, 26 February 2020 (UTC)




The WikiLoop Battlefield weekly barnstar

The WikiLoop Battlefield Barnstar
Congratulations, FULBERT

You have been recognized as the weekly champion of counter-vandalism of WikiLoop Battlefieldseeking new name,
a crowdsource counter-vandalism patrol and label tool (http://battlefield.wikiloop.org)
for the week ending at 2020-02-23.


On behalf of the team and community of WikiLoop Battlefield and as Wikipedians, we like to appreciate your contributions, and look forward for more in the future. Also don't forget to bring your Wikipedian friends who you think are also passionate of keeping Wikipedia protected.
Cheers, xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 00:41, 28 February 2020 (UTC)



:( I guess for someone who is already an annual champion, it would be a bit too easy to get a weekly champion? xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 00:45, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2020)

A company is a legal entity made up of an association of people, be they natural, legal, or a mixture of both, for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise.
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Company

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Previous selections: Nature reserve • Length

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