“ Welcome to the twentieth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.
Suggested edits As of February, 300,000 suggested edits have been completed since the feature was first deployed in December 2019.
Add a link is the team's first structured task, deployed in May 2021. It has improved outcomes for newcomers. The team is now working on a second iteration based on community feedback and data analysis. ”

“ Newcomers tasks reach the 500,000 edits milestone — more data publicly available As of the last week of June 2022, the newcomers of the world have completed over 500,000 newcomer tasks. In other words, newcomers have made over half a million Wikipedia edits via Growth’s “Suggested Edits” module. ”

“ We know that things can wrong if we offer the wrong incentives to newcomers, so we want to be careful. Please visit the talk page to help guide the project!
News for mentors The mentor dashboard is available at all wikis. It helps mentors see who their mentees are and keep track of their activity. It is automatically activated where a list of mentors has been created. If you need assistance to create a list of mentors, please contact us. The mentor dashboard has a new module: settings. It is now possible for mentors to define their status (active or away) . ”

“ I would like to import all Indonesian schools, more than 100000. The data includes school type, location, and coordinates as well as external identifiers Events Upcoming: Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the 35 presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #99, March 13th at 13.00 UTC LIVE Wikidata editing #74 - YouTube, Facebook, March 12th at 19:00 UTC LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. ”

“ Mentors at wikis using FlaggedRevisions will have a way to discover their mentees' pending edits. Dashboard discovery for new mentors will be improved. Recent changes and fixed bugs We moved to a new Image Suggestions API. This new API will allow us to deploy Add an Image to more wikis. Starting September 19, a few more wikis now offer Add an image to newcomers. These wikis are Greek Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia. ”

“ Tool of the week Bird O'Clock! is a tool based on Wikidata and other data sources that shows pictures and numbers from actual people counting actual birds in the actual world! Tiago's Coin Herbarium is a coin collection depicting different plant information displayed via Wikidata SPARQL queries. Other Noteworthy Stuff Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the second quarter (Q2) . There is a new hub page for the Wikidata Query Service scaling updates, to help you all stay updated. ”

“ Countries which are named after a person (source) Number of musical works (compositions) in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source) Development The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already exists before creating one. REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item. ”

“ Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in Open Journal Systems. Events Upcoming Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. ”

“ A simple demonstration of search using QAnswer software for the disability wikibase knowledge graph - YouTube FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube Using Mix'n'match (in Italian) - YouTube A Triangular Connection Libraries' Wikidata projects on names, collections and users - YouTube Tool of the week Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above) . WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque. ”

“ Wikidata:Development plan/archive2021/status updates Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors) , please visit this page! Wikidata now has over 1,600,000,000 edits! The milestone edit was made by Ruky Wunpini. The Dutch National Library has a new website with more info on their use of the Wikimedia Projects including their work with Wikidata. 2 months paid internship vacancy is available for Wikimedia Indonesia technology division. ”

“ The Growth team data scientist conducted a Newcomer task edit type analysis to see if this was indeed the case. Results from analysis indicate that this likely isn’t a significant concern. More than 70% of users who start with the easy task "Add a link" also make another task type. Read the full analysis and methodology here. News for mentors A new system for the mentors list
The configuration of the mentors list will change over the next weeks. In the future, mentors will sign up, edit their mentor description and quit using Special:MentorDashboard. ”

“ Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g. should have a wiki commons link to since they both refer to . Events Upcoming Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, July 5 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2) Wikidata Data Quality Days, online, on July 8-10 Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022 Ongoing Weekly Lexemes Challenge #48, Human rights Past Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay) . ”

“ We have already some ideas and we started some work to address this challenge. If you have any thoughts to add about the challenges of reviewing these tasks or how we should improve these tasks further, please let us know, in any language. Community configuration Communities can configure how the features work, using Special:EditGrowthConfig. ”

“ Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss and PangolinMexico, working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata, and LennardHofmann, working on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua. Feel free to greet them and follow their work on Phabricator! A new Mix'n'match page to query entries across catalogs, by various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.) ”

“ For a recap of the event: a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes Press, articles, blog posts, videos Blogs Lexicographical Data for Language Learners: The Wikidata-based App Scribe Inaugural Wikidata Fellows announced, Wikimedia Australia Wikidata’s lexemes sparked this librarian’s interest Actress-singers and actor-singers: do actresses become singers and singers become actors? ”

“ Wikibase live session (March 2022) log Press, articles, blog posts, videos Blogs Property exploration: How do I learn more about properties on Wikidata? UCSC Ph.D. students dive deep into engineering open-domain dialogue AI with the support of industry partners. "...aims to develop a better system for entity linking, the connection of entities like “Lebron James” or “the Earth” to their various meanings in an existing database of knowledge – in this case, Wikidata..." Highlighting linked data projects. ”

“ Check out the videos from the Wikidata Live Editing sessions by Jan Ainali, Albin Larsson. The videos of the Data Quality Days 2022 have been published and you can find them in this playlist or linked from the schedule. Placing a scientific article on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices (in Chinese) - YouTube Threads OpenSexism has created the Wednesday Index: each wednesday, it show gender diversity in Wikipedia articles. Gender diversity is computed using a SPARQL query. ”

“ Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions Closed request for adminship: Pi admin bot (successful) New requests for permissions/Bot: BgeeDB-bot. Task/s: inserting gene expression data from the Bgee database into Wikidata. Events Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 28th April 2022 (17:00 Berlin time) . What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community. Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. ”

“ They can specify the volume of questions they want to receive, and they can claim mentees in an easier way. It is also possible for mentors to quit, which will automatically reassign their mentees to other mentors. ”