This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
Congratulations to Siobhan Leachman (
d:User:Ambrosia10), awarded the "Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum" medal for her volunteer work, including contributions to Wikidata:
[1].
Creative Commons has
a proposal for tool development with Wikidata's copyright metadata for the 2019 edition of Google Summer of Code. Interested student developers are invited to apply.
A new beta version of the Daty Wikidata Editor has been released,
check out the changelog. You can also show your endorsement to the project
over here.
Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements or the #statements parser function will now have it displayed using
a Kartographer <maplink> if available. In case of bug or question, feel free to ask in
phab:T210926. Thanks to Tpt for the change!
A Google Summer of Code/Outreachy
project seeks to add structure to the
Commons app. Photographers will be able to pick Wikidata items that are depicted by the picture they upload.
The WMF
has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the
content translation tool. This may result in an increase in
machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per
WP:TFOLWP.
Discussions of interest
Two elements of
CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria:
R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (
Discussion), and
G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (
Discussion).
NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The
deletion policy and its associated
guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See
a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the
R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.
NPP Tools Report
Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828 Looking for inspiration? There are approximately
1000 female biographies to review.
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On
Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (
slides,
video)
The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised:
Twitter thread
While editing OpenStreetMap from the iD editor,
it will now be possible to match map data with Wikidata by typing in names and getting an autocompleted label.
OpenStreetMap is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code, and
quite a few of the project ideas involve Wikidata integration.
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
Congratulations to Siobhan Leachman (
d:User:Ambrosia10), awarded the "Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum" medal for her volunteer work, including contributions to Wikidata:
[1].
Creative Commons has
a proposal for tool development with Wikidata's copyright metadata for the 2019 edition of Google Summer of Code. Interested student developers are invited to apply.
A new beta version of the Daty Wikidata Editor has been released,
check out the changelog. You can also show your endorsement to the project
over here.
Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements or the #statements parser function will now have it displayed using
a Kartographer <maplink> if available. In case of bug or question, feel free to ask in
phab:T210926. Thanks to Tpt for the change!
A Google Summer of Code/Outreachy
project seeks to add structure to the
Commons app. Photographers will be able to pick Wikidata items that are depicted by the picture they upload.
The WMF
has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the
content translation tool. This may result in an increase in
machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per
WP:TFOLWP.
Discussions of interest
Two elements of
CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria:
R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (
Discussion), and
G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (
Discussion).
NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The
deletion policy and its associated
guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See
a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the
R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.
NPP Tools Report
Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828 Looking for inspiration? There are approximately
1000 female biographies to review.
Stay up to date with even more news –
subscribe to The Signpost.
Go
here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings.
On
Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (
slides,
video)
The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised:
Twitter thread
While editing OpenStreetMap from the iD editor,
it will now be possible to match map data with Wikidata by typing in names and getting an autocompleted label.
OpenStreetMap is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code, and
quite a few of the project ideas involve Wikidata integration.