Hello everyone,
The eighth workshop on the topic of "How to interact with Wikidata via
Pywikibot" is coming up - it will take place on Friday, October 7th at
16:00 UTC. You can find more details on the workshop and a link to join
here: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_intera…>
[1].
This workshop will summarise how to access and save information to
Wikidata, including through page generators and queries*, using Pywikibot.
It will also cover the Wikidata conventions about the bot editing,
including the bot approvals process (*queries not included, please bring
your own!). This session will be run by Mike Peel.
To participate in this workshop, you would need basic familiarity with
Wikidata and Pywikibot installation.
We look forward to your participation!
Best,
Srishti
On behalf of the SWT Workshops Organization team
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_intera…
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all-
It’s time for the fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award!
Tools play an essential role at Wikimedia, and so do the many volunteer
developers who experiment with new ideas, develop & maintain local & global
solutions and enhance the experience for Wikimedia communities.
We’d like to invite you all to nominate your favorite & most used tools and
help us celebrate the people who create them!
Please go to: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award
to recommend tools by October 12, 2022. You can nominate as many tools as
you want by filling out the form multiple times.
Thanks a lot for your ideas and recommendation(s)!
The award is organized & selected by the Coolest Tool Academy 2022
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award/2022>[0]. We plan to
award the coolest tools in a variety of categories (see last year’s
categories <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award/2021>[1] for
an example). The award ceremony will take place virtually again this year
and we will provide more details about the specific logistics and dates
when we get closer to the event :-)
We’ll continue to spread the word over the next days and weeks, but any
help sharing this information with others is much appreciated :-)
[0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award/2022
[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award/2021
Thanks-
Komla, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2022
--
Seyram Komla Sapaty
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Cloud Services
Hello everyone,
Join us in congratulating 11 interns who successfully completed a project
via GSoC 2022 & Outreachy Round 24 with support and guidance from 20
mentors:
- Wikidata infobox rewrite in Lua for Commons by Lennard Hofmann.
Mentors: Mike Peel
- Edit request wizard by Ankit Gupta. Mentors: Enterprisey, SD0001
- Javascript build process and dependencies modernization for Wiki
Education Dashboard by Shashwat Khanna. Mentors: Sage Ross, Dhruvdutt Jadhav
- Custom picture selector improvements for Commons Android app by Ayan
Sarkar. Mentors: Nicolas Raoul, Aditya Srivastav
- Canasta CLI and Kubernetes template stack by Amal Paul. Mentors:
Jeffrey Wang, Yaron Koren
- WikidataComplete plugin extension for enabling data donations,
recommendations, and gamification by Lalit Suthar. Mentors: Andreas Both,
Dennis Diefenbach, Aleksandr Perevalov, Kunpeng GUO.
- Campaigns retention metrics dashboard by Nivas Ramisetty. Mentors: Jay
Prakash, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, Alex Stinson
- Tracking support for specific namespaces for Programs & Events
Dashboard by Vaidehi Atpadkar. Mentors: Sage Ross
- Python library to work with html-dumps by Nazia Tasnim. Mentors:
Martin Gerlach, Isaac Johnson
- Bots for automatically identifying first and last author names for
Wikicite and Wikidata by Feliciss & Luis Roberto. Mentors: Mike Peel, Andy
Mabbett
You can learn more about these projects here:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Past_projects#2022>
[1],
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Past_projects#Round_24> [2].
Cheers,
Wikimedia organization administrators (Srishti, Aisha, and Gopa)
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Past_projects#2022
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Past_projects#Round_24
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi everyone,
The community has long requested the ability to allow Wikidata to use
Redirects and the target article as independent sitelinks, so that Wikidata
and Wikipedia can be matched more appropriately in complicated cases.
As you may know, you can include sitelinks (also known as interwiki links
or interlanguage links) on Wikidata Items that link to Wikipedia pages.
Many Wikipedia pages cover more than one subject, so a Redirect may be
created to a particular point on the target page, like a section header or
an anchor. There is a workaround to do this: You can link to a Redirect
page on Wikidata if the page was not a Redirect at the time the link was
created. However, you cannot create links to pages that are currently
Redirects. Our goal was to provide an official way to solve this.
Implementing a solution has unfortunately taken us way longer than we hoped
for, mostly because we struggled with the complexity of this topic
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Allow_the_creat…>
and a fear of ripple effects.
Based on all the input that we got from you, we have now implemented the
following functionality:
-
After testing is complete, you will be able to directly add a sitelink
to a Redirect to an Item if you also add a Redirect badge (sitelink to
Redirect (Q70893996), intentional sitelink to Redirect (Q70894304)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:AvailableBadges>) in the same
edit.
-
It is possible to add a Redirect badge to an existing redirect sitelink.
But if you try to remove a Redirect badge from a sitelink that points to a
redirected page the edit is rejected.
-
Without using a Redirect badge the default behavior stays unchanged: If
a Redirect is in place for a sitelink, the default behavior is still to
normalize the sitelink (by following the Redirect). If the target of the
Redirect is already a sitelink, the sitelink is rejected.
This new functionality is now available for testing on test.wikidata.org
<https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:AvailableBadges>. Please let us
know if the current functionality is sufficient, or if the feature needs
more work before it can be enabled on Wikidata proper. If you encounter any
issues or want to provide feedback, feel free to use this Phabricator ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278962>.
Cheers,
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
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Hello all,
As you may know, Wikidata’s 10th birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday> is
around the corner, with plenty of local and online events taking place in
October 2022 to gather the Wikidata community.
On top of that, we are working on a collaborative video to celebrate the
10th anniversary of Wikidata and the achievements of the community. In this
short clip, we would like to integrate footage from many people from all
around the world sharing birthday wishes, saying a few words about
Wikidata, and showing places around them.
This is where you come in! You can contribute directly to this project
by *recording
and sending us a video before September 18th*.
You can do it on your own or together with your local Wikidata community.
You can take the opportunity of an upcoming onsite event (for example, a
Wikimania gathering) to record something with more people.
You don’t need a lot of equipment: videos filmed on smartphone are very
welcome. You will find *all the details and requirements on this page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Ce…>*
.
On top of that, if you need support to record a video, or simply if you
want to take the opportunity to gain new skills, we are happy to offer an
online workshop “how to film with your smartphone”, you will find more
details about the workshop on this page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Ce…>
.
Feel free to share this message with your local community and anyone
interested. If you have any questions or need support, please check the
documentation page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Ce…>,
and feel free to write on the talk page. If you have technical questions,
you can also contact Anne, our video producer, directly by email
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Ce…>
.
We’re very excited to receive your videos and to create this celebration
content with you! Best,
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement Coordinator
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.