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The Wikimedia URL shortener will be launched on 11 April; see Wikidata:URLShortener. It will not be immediately incorporated into the Query Service but the feature is planned.
The Library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden compiled an experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata.
The gender gap tool Delenezh is online again and now hosted by Wikimedia France
More work on documenting and preparing the announcement for the Wikidata External Landscape dashboard (phab:T204440)
Improved the documentation of WMDE analytic documents (phab:T219844)
Set up translatable schema edit summaries using the FormatAutocomments hook (phab:T218893)
Improved right-to-left support on schema pages (phab:T219298)
Protected schemas against imports (phab:T218181) and page moves (phab:T219313) and disabled the useless “move” and “create” protections for them (phab:T219980)
Improved schema edit conflict detection to allow merging of non-conflicting edits (phab:T218300, phab:T219173)
Improved the Extension:WikibaseSchema documentation on mediawiki.org (phab:T219979)
Fixed a bug on Lexicographical Data when editing existing grammatical features (phab:T219318)
The page Wikidata:Wikimania 2019 is here to help you coordinating with other people regarding your submissions for Wikimania 2019. The opening of submissions is planned for late April.
Reminder: you can apply to participate to the WikidataCon 2019 before April 29th
Hi James- I was wondering about your rationale for reverting my changes to Janet Napolitano's $15 minimum wage policy. This was a major policy announcement, generating a wave of national headlines (likely the result of a PR push) and considered the first time a University system set a $15 minimum. There are 6 policy initiatives mentioned in her page's University of California section, and none as worthy of inclusion on her wikipedia entry (though I suppose an argument could be made that the carbon-neutrality initiative is equally worthy). Is it that my additions focused too much on implementation, was too detailed, and/or the citations did not adequately capture the national attention it received? Your stated rationale, on its face, would preclude all of the 6 policy initiatives mentioned if it precludes the $15 minimum wage policy. Thanks- Race+equityresearch (talk) 18:49, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #361
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Past: WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
New tool: Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common
Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.
Reliable Sources for NPP
Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
Backlog drive coming soon
Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.
Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new Creative Commons Search catalog.
Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)
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