Wikidata talk:Status updates/Next/Archive 2

Tool of the week section

Hello all! Based on popular demand, let's open a "tool of the week" section in the newsletter. The idea is simple: present a tool in a few sentences, explain quickly what it does and why it is useful / why it would interest other people.

We will present only one tool per week, but you can already prepare content here, so we can just pick one every week :)

Template: the paragraph could have the following form:

• X (name of the tool with a link) allows you to ... (short description of the features). It is especially interesting for ... (type of people who could use it, eg "people making lists for their wikiprojects")

When you add links, please don't forget to add the prefix, eg d:..., as the Weekly Summary is displayed across wikis.

Thanks a lot for your help!  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk • contribs).

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE): Great! We already have a "tool of the week" at Wikidata:Tools, which has not been updated for months. Could this be updated with the tool selected here every week? (feel free to move my comment anywhere, I am not sure if this is the right place) − Pintoch (talk) 08:42, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed that :) To be honest, I can't commit on updating both every week. The "tool of the week" section on Wikidata:Tools requires a bit more research (links to examples, screenshot, source code, etc.) and I don't think I'll have time to update it myself. So I will focus on the Weekly Summary. However, any help is welcome of course :) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:01, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Well, the old tool of the week has been dead for rather longer than “months” – three years, in fact (I wrote four years in Special:Diff/1003600590 because I’m an idiot) – so I was bold and killed it. If anyone wants to keep it up to date, they’re free to revert me, but for now Wikidata:Tools#Tool of the week points to the weekly summary. --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 17:09, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE), Pintoch, Lucas Werkmeister: Ideally we should have a complete Item for each tool (phab:T229404) so that we can manage everything easily and efficiently. But there is no agreement on which properties to use for certain information about the tools (e.g., the authors). There is the option to create a template that contains a {{#switch:{{#expr:{{CURRENTWEEK}} mod N}} | ... }}, where N is the number of tools listed, to automatically show a tool description each week, but the best option is to read that information from Items anyway. --abián 17:22, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Noteworthy stuff

• Might be added: Raymond's and my data and photo research project, and map visualization with federated license query from Structured Commons (great SPARQL help from @Dipsacus fullonum, Jura1, Lockal:) – erinnerungshort.de/kap/. --Elya (talk) 21:04, 19 March 2021 (UTC) (2021-03-22)
• ~7500 person items have been enriched with the new property GEPRIS person ID (P4872), imported from a high quality dataset from the German Research Foundation (Q707283) --Elya (talk) 12:27, 22 March 2021 (UTC) (2021-03-22)

April 1 is over

As we are way past April 1, can we try to not include random stuff in the sparql query section? e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/Next&diff=prev&oldid=1413220308 adds https://w.wiki/3FNJ presenting it as "Databases with a SPARQL endpoint, sorted by number of ids known by Wikidata" which leads to https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3 . Maybe it's better to stop using redirects entirely. Let's list queries and not redirects as "queries". --- Jura 11:04, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Web feed

is there a way to subscribe to the status updates via rss or atom? ---Shisma (talk) 16:17, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello @Shisma, the current locations we share the weekly summary is via social media, mailing list, and on-wiki on project chat and massmessage delivery. I'm not familiar with how rss or atom work. If you're able to figure out how, please let me know, so we can add them to our delivery mediums. -Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (talk) 08:10, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) I just discovered mediawiki-feeds.toolforge.org. One can actually subscribe to wikidata status updates using this link. 🎉 --Shisma (talk) 19:17, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

@Shisma Thanks for letting me know. -Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (talk) 07:13, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Include new bot requests?

Hi, it might be nice if new Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot could be included in this newsletter - that way they would get a bit more exposure and input before approval/rejection. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:07, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Agreed. I think we could add new bot request under Discussion. -Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (talk) 15:08, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

I saw them in this week's update, very nice, many thanks! Mike Peel (talk) 15:48, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Outreachy and GSoC projects linked to Wikidata

Hi @Mohammed Sadat (WMDE), Lea Lacroix (WMDE): I'm (co-)supervising two Outreachy students and one GSoC student working on Wikidata-related projects, who just started. The Outreachy one is phab:T300207, "What's in a name? Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata", and the students wrote introductory blog posts in the last week, see [1] for Feliciss and [2] for PangolinMexico. The other is phab:T305869, "Rewrite the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua", which Lennard Hofmann is working on, also see his first report. Maybe worth a mention / request to welcome them to the community? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:21, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Mike Peel:, thanks a lot for letting us know and providing all the convenient links! I added a mention in this week's newsletter. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 07:53, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Perfect, thank you! Mike Peel (talk) 08:27, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Incorrect newsletter numbering

Please see de:Wikipedia:Wikidata/Newsletter. The weekly summary numbers went from 521, (522 missing), 523, 524 then all the way down to 425 & 426. Somehow the archive did not receive the 522nd edition. And somehow every newsletter sent to any project suddenly went down a 100 numbers from 5xx to 4xx. Thanks! CX Zoom (talk) 15:40, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Good catch! Thanks, CX Zoom. This should be fixed in the coming edition. I'll send the next one as 522. The repeated 425 & 426 should have been 525 & 526 respectively. -—M@sssly^✉ 18:29, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Looking at the archive again, 522 was actually sent. It was only the 100th numbers that went down. -Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (talk) 17:04, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Showcase Item of the week Archived

• University of Konstanz (Q835440): University in Konstanz, Germany (2023-11-20)
• Nelson Mandela (Q8023): First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013) (2023-11-27)
• Alexander the Great (Q8409): king of Macedonia and conqueror of Achaemenid Persia (356–323 BC) (2023-12-11)
• lion (Q140): species of big cat (2023-12-18)
• Esperanto (Q143): international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof (2023-12-25)
• Team Fortress 2 (Q382108): team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game (2024-01-02)
• Helsinki (Q1757): capital and most populous city of Finland (2024-01-08)
• January 15, 2018 (Q45919591): Monday in January 2018 (2024-01-15)
• Mona Lisa (Q12418): oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci (2024-01-22)
• Hubble Space Telescope (Q2513): NASA and ESA space telescope (launched 1990) (2024-01-29)
• Airbus (Q67): European aircraft manufacturer (2024-02-05)
• Cactaceae (Q14560): family of mostly succulent plants, adapted to dry environments (2024-02-12)

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