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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.
![Reply tool improved with edit tool buttons](http://wikiimg.tojsiabtv.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/TalkPages-Reply-v2.0.png/300px-TalkPages-Reply-v2.0.png)
The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.
- On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
- The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
- an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
- a rich-text visual editing option, and
- other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:46, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks!
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Hi, I have no idea how I ended up on your user page a few days ago, but it inspired me to create some articles about your former place of work on pl.wikipedia. Here is one of them, that picture really made me dig deeper about this building. I've been to the British Museum a few times, but I've never known that there is a building with such interesting history right in the middle of it! Thanks! Nadzik (talk) 13:00, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
- That is lovely! Thank you Nadzik :-) Wittylama 13:08, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
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What?
Can you explain why you restored a spelling mistake ? DS (talk) 19:58, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
- DS: Because I was looking at the article history on a tablet and mistakenly brushed the 'rollback' button with my finger. It's a one-click action and doesn't ask for confirmation. As you can see in the edit history, I reverted myself - back to your version - less than a minute later. [1]. The rollback and subsequent self-revert both happened an hour before your message to me here. Wittylama 20:44, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: April 2020
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
Hey. Why did you remove Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) right after creating it? I think it's a valid article. I wrote the [מסע בין כוכבים: עולמות חדשים ומשונים Hebrew version] which has some more info, and can no longer be considered a stub. GHA (talk) 20:50, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
- Dear GHA, originally I created the article at that title, and built it to this state. I then discovered that the article naming convention should have the qualifier "TV show" (not just "TV"), so I redirected "my" article to that title which, I discovered, user:DownAirStairsConditioner and user:Obi-WanKenobi-2005 had already begun in parallel to me. I pasted the text which I had written at the first title over the top of what was there, since mine was more detailed. I had already added a hatnote to Star Trek:Strange New Worlds (the book) and also to the ST navigation box pointing to my original article title, which I then retargeted to the new title. That article was then extended by several other people, until user:Adamstom.97
blanked and redirected the page with the edit summary "We generally do not create articles for films and TV shows until they begin filming, per WP:NFF. Redirecting for now." Fair enough. If/when the show DOES begin filming then the article will be restored, as per standard procedure. In the mean time, if you wish to compare your article on the Hebrew WP with the English WP, this is the version of the article as it stood before being redirected by Adamstom.97. I hope that helps, Wittylama 10:50, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
- Hi guys, FYI there is also a draft article for this that you can help with until we can have the article in the mainspace again. You can find that at Draft:Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I meant to mention it when I redirected the article but I must have forgotten. - adamstom97 ( talk) 20:57, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020
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Issue 39, May – June 2020
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Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Wikipedia:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.
- Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing
@
. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months. - New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
- New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
- Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.
– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
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- Your help can make a difference
NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.
- Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate
In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
- Discussions and Resources
- A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
- Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
- A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
- Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.
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Editing news 2020 #3
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Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:
- The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
- More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
- Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
- The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
- Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
- On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
- In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
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Nomination of Langford Wellman Colley-Priest for deletion
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Langford Wellman Colley-Priest is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Langford Wellman Colley-Priest until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Lettlerhello 22:34, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
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Editing news 2020 #4
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Reply tool
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The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.
- More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
- Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
- Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[2]
The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).
The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.
New requirements for user signatures
- The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
- Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.
Next: New discussion tool
Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 40
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Issue 40, July – August 2020
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- Ancestry
- RILM
- #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
- AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence
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Books & Bytes – Issue 40
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Issue 40, July – August 2020
- New partnerships
- Al Manhal
- Ancestry
- RILM
- #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
- AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence
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Books & Bytes – Issue 41
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Issue 41, September – October 2020
- New partnership: Taxmann
- WikiCite
- 1Lib1Ref 2021
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New Page Patrol December Newsletter
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Hello Wittylama,
- Year in review
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
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1 | DannyS712 bot III (talk) | 67,552 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Rosguill (talk) | 63,821 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | John B123 (talk) | 21,697 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Onel5969 (talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | JTtheOG (talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | Mcampany (talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Mccapra (talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Hughesdarren (talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Utopes (talk) | 3,958 | Patrol Page Curation |
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- Reviewer of the Year
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
- NPP Technical Achievement Award
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
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Editing news 2021 #1
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Reply tool
![Graph of Reply tool and full-page wikitext edit completion rates](http://wikiimg.tojsiabtv.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Junior_Contributor_Reply_Tool_and_full_page_edit_completion_rate.png/300px-Junior_Contributor_Reply_Tool_and_full_page_edit_completion_rate.png)
The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.
- The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
- It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.
Research notes:
- As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
- There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[3]
- The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[4] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
A large A/B test will start soon.[5] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.
New discussion tool
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The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[6] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.
Next: Notifications
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During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.
–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Books & Bytes - Issue 42
Books & Bytes
Issue 42, November – December 2020
- New EBSCO collections now available
- 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
- Library Card input requested
- Libraries love Wikimedia, too!
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Invitation to comment on Julia Margaret Cameron article
As someone who has contributed substantially to this article, I invite your input on an RfC asking: Should the infobox use the original photograph of Cameron or a version modified by a Wikipedia editor?
Thanks in advance for your input. Qono (talk) 22:21, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 42
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Issue 42, January – February 2021
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jigar Saraswat
It appears that you skipped over creating the deletion nomination at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jigar Saraswat. I am not sure what went wrong here, but please make sure to complete the nomination if you want the page to be deleted. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 13:42, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks Metropolitan90. I've now done so. I used the Wikipedia:Page Curation tool to create the initial nomination and I thought that the nomination statement I wrote inside that tool would populate the nomination statement. However, it just sent it to the original author creating the article, not to an AFD page. Wittylama 14:13, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
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Books & Bytes – Issue 43
Books & Bytes
Issue 43, March – April 2021
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Editing news 2021 #2
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
- Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
- The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Collaborate on a workshop on WikiCite at Wikimania 2021?
@Wittylama: @Fuzheado: Might you care to collaborate on a workshop on WikiCite during Wikimania 2021?
In 2019 I proposed one for Wikimania Stockholm, then asked Lydia Pintscher if she'd like to collaborate. When she asked what I wanted her to do, I said I wanted her to tell me what I could do to make that workshop most useful for her.
She just emailed me saying she would be willing to collaborate on one this year, but a better collaborator might be Wittylama. However, I do NOT have an email for him and so could not officially name him as an "Additional Speaker".
Similarly, I hope to recruit Fuzheado as an "Additional Speaker", because he said, "It would be good to have a session on the state and future of citations."
Please click here to see the proposal I submitted. I'd be happy to modify this in almost any way you think might make it more successful. If the proposal is approved, I'd be happy to have your collaboration in managing the workshop to maximize the benefits that you, Lydia and the movement derive from this.
Comments? Spencer Graves, aka DavidMCEddy (talk) 14:21, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- Dear DavidMCEddy, it seems your proposal overlaps with the topic submitted by by user:Mike Peel. search the published submissions] page for the keyword “ Cite Q “ to see, and perhaps get in touch with him? The proposal you have written seems to imply that “wikicite” is a separate or specific database or piece of software in its own right, which is a common misconception. Witty lama 22:06, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- Dear User:Wittylama: Thanks for the reply.
- "Mike Peel, Andy Mabbett" have proposed a "lecture" (30 minutes) on how to use WikiCite / Cite Q. We need that.
- I've proposed a "Workshop" (45 minute) / bitch session to try to understand concerns that people have about using WikiCite / Wikidata, similar to what I did two years ago, as mentioned above. That's different from the tutorial that Peel and Mabbett are offering. We need both.
- In particular, why isn't template:Cite Q available in Spanish and German? It is available in French and other languages. Why isn't it available in Wikimedia and Wikiquote? The tutorial proposed by Peel and Mabbett will only be a source of frustration for people who want to use it in the Spanish and German language Wikipedias as well as Wikimedia and Wikiquote.
- I think we need to understand the obstacles to wider use. What would you suggest we do to make WikiCite / Cite Q available in the Spanish and German language Wikipedias as well as Wikimedia and Wikiquote? I think we need a workshop, preferably led by you and Lydia -- with help from me and maybe Fuzheado, Peel, and Mabbett. I had the audacity to suggest a workshop on this, but I'm confident that you and Lydia can make it much more useful for the future of Wikimedia Foundation projects and humanity more generally. I'd be happy to edit this in almost any way you think would make it more attractive to the review committee and the audience I hope to attract -- or to authorize you to edit it.
- Thank you for showing me how to find presentation proposals. When I checked just now, I did not see the proposal I submitted for this roughly 8 hours ago. If this deficiency is not a timing issue, I could use suggestions on what I might do to make more visible my proposal.
- DavidMCEddy ( talk) 23:07, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- DavidMCEddy, thanks for the ping. I'm happy to let Mike and others carry the weight of this effort, as I'll have plenty to do with GLAM submissions. Happy to help in any way. -- Fuzheado | Talk 13:48, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- @DavidMCEddy: There's no technical reason why it won't work on the German and Spanish wikipedias - it's designed to be completely multilingual. This is part of what we would cover in the tutorial/presentation. It needs someone that's local to the wiki to make sure it works, and to use it, though. I think the general question links in with whether wikis use Wikidata or not, for part of that see the 'Integrating Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects' panel I proposed. If your workshop is accepted, I'd be happy to participate though. Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 08:26, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
- DavidMCEddy, in terms of the "obstacles" to having more wikipedias with this template, there is no technical impediment. You would need to localise the documentation, and adjust the way the template formats the footnotes to meet the local wiki's standard styleguide, but it doesn't require new software per se. It just requires people who want to do that implementation work, and to obtain community editorial consensus that footnotes driven by data stored on Wikidata rather than inside the text of the article itself, is acceptable. That is: the task is one of community politics, not one of software development. So, perhaps your best bet if you would like to have CiteQ functions on a new language wikipedia, is to start a conversation on the relevant discussion page for editorial policies on your wiki. I'm not sure what a workshop with me, or Lydia, would achieve in that regard, as it's a local editorial decision.
- In the submission software for wikimania - Pretalx - there is a field that lets you select to make the proposal "public". Someone on the wikimania committee will manually copy the abstract onto the wikimania wiki for public viewing - it's not automatic as fas as I can tell. Witty lama 08:28, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks. I just checked: The proposal for a Workshop on "Making it easier to cite sources using WikiCite" says, "This content will be shown publicly" right below "Proposal title". A completely different proposal I filed (as "Spencer Graves") the day before the deadline appears on that list. ??? Thanks again. DavidMCEddy ( talk) 00:09, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
- DavidMCEddy, on a separate but related note, the title + description of your proposed session seem to imply that “WikiCite” is a database of content and/or a type of software. Neither is the case… like “1lib1ref” or “GLAMwiki” or “women in red” it is a brand. It is cute name to support an community project to improve citation information, but not a separate project or special software itself. One cannot ‘use WikiCite’ as the title says. Rather, Mike Peel et al. had a grant under the WikiCite program to improve the effectiveness of the citeQ template, and, Wikidata is a repository of structured data - including many millions of items about citable works. Does that clarify things? Witty lama 09:53, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks. I just checked: The proposal for a Workshop on "Making it easier to cite sources using WikiCite" says, "This content will be shown publicly" right below "Proposal title". A completely different proposal I filed (as "Spencer Graves") the day before the deadline appears on that list. ??? Thanks again. DavidMCEddy ( talk) 00:09, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: June 2021
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