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ITN recognition for Babette Smith

On 25 November 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Babette Smith, which you created. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 22:35, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

@Stephen: Thank you. That was my first time. I'll keep my eye out for articles that might qualify. --Oronsay (talk) 00:57, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

December 2021 at Women in Red

Women in Red | December 2021, Volume 7, Issue 12, Numbers 184, 188, 210, 214, 215, 216


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Wikidata weekly summary #496

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
    • Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
    • Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
    • More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156)
    • Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)

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.

You've Got Mail

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Badge and barnstar for you!

November third place: Women in Oceania: WiR Women in Oceania contest, 2021




Women in Red Women in Oceania contest
13 articles Oronsay Third Place November 2021 Congratulations! WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:17, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
@WomenArtistUpdates: Thanks for this recognition. I appreciate the work you've been doing for this competition. It will be interesting to see how we all go this month!--Oronsay (talk) 01:22, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for the kind words. Look forward to finding out how Oceania turns out! WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:50, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #497

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: Continued polishing for the first version. Improving the texts and adding loading state. Incorporating feedback from testing.
    • Continued migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
    • Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
    • Finished work on small tool to show Items recently edited by several accounts to surface current events.

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.

West Coast Task Force 2

News from the West Coast Task Force

Summer 2021–22

Kia ora koutou. Here's what's happening.
  • I gave a presentation and workshop about Wikisource at the LIANZA librarians conference in November, and there was quite a bit of interest. We finished proofreading Old Westland (1939), released it into the library catalogue as a e-book, and it was almost immediately borrowed by 15 people (the physical book had only gone out three times in the last few years). Newly-uploaded books needing work are George Marriner's The Kea: a New Zealand Problem, the 1886 edition of Rambles on the Golden Coast of New Zealand, and Horatio Robley's Pounamu: notes on New Zealand greenstone. Wikisource ☞
  • With the help of the Left Bank Art Gallery we've been focussing on pounamu (greenstone) carving and hei tiki over the last month, with the goal of negotiating with copyright holders to get decent photos of different types of stone and some carving styles. There is lots to do! Let me know if you're keen to help with pounamu. Arts ☞
  • User:Paora has made some great improvements to Lake Wahapo, which made me wonder if there was interest in a small project in the New Year to improve articles on the West Coast's lakes and rivers.
  • Meetups: we had a small Wikiblitz at Byte Digital Hub in Greymouth on Sat 4 Dec, which improved the Greymouth article and led to the creation of Floods in Greymouth • There'll be an online meetup of the West Coast Task Force, Sat 15 Jan 1pm (link to join). • In February we're planning a Wikiblitz on the Westland Petrel and the Barrytown Flats, to take place somewhere around Punakaiki – watch this space.

Keep editing and mā te wā, — Giantflightlessbirds, 7 Dec 2021

View of Adams Range over Lake Wahapo
@Giantflightlessbirds: Thanks for the update. As usual it prompted me to visit WikiSource, this time to proof a few pages of Rambles. I am happy to live without the sandflies!--Oronsay (talk) 03:26, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2021



Headlines
  • From the team: Migration from Outreach to Meta: your opinion is needed
  • France report: Study day on open content; Open content GLAM report
  • India report: Second proofread competition ended on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with the British Library
  • Italy report: Traing course and conference in November
  • Serbia report: GLAMorous November
  • Sweden report: Art, design and history from the museums of Göteborg; Maps in the National Archives of Sweden
  • UK report: Khalili Collections
  • Ukraine report: Aricle contest for librarians «Local cultural heritage and prominent people»
  • USA report: Smithsonian demos new Wiki API Connector tool and other meetups
  • Content Partnerships Hub report: We continue building for the hub; SDC for fun and profit: detecting bad coordinates; Needs assessment – video recorded interviews; Improving ISA
  • WMF GLAM report: Wikisource birthday celebration, Community Tech Wishlist, and upcoming conversation about courses for GLAM professionals
  • Calendar: December's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #498

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Lightning talks on WikiProject Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Wikidata use for a site-specific archaeological case study (Dura-Europos, Syria), and round tripping Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine. Agenda, Dec. 14th.
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: Developed a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.
    • Preparing for Lexeme Lua access to be enabled on the first wikis. (phab:T294637, phab:T294159)
    • Continuing work on migrating the termbox to vue3 (phab:T296202)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #499

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment. Happy holidays, everyone :)

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.

Merry Christmas!

Season's greetings and Merry Christmas to you and your family. Have a wonderful holiday season. Cheers! RV (talk) 02:47, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Greetings