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Hello all! Based on popular demand, let's open a "tool of the week" section in the newsletter. The idea is simple: present a tool in a few sentences, explain quickly what it does and why it is useful / why it would interest other people.
We will present only one tool per week, but you can already prepare content here, so we can just pick one every week :)
Template: the paragraph could have the following form:
X (name of the tool with a link) allows you to ... (short description of the features). It is especially interesting for ... (type of people who could use it, eg "people making lists for their wikiprojects")
When you add links, please don't forget to add the prefix, eg d:..., as the Weekly Summary is displayed across wikis.
@Lea Lacroix (WMDE): Great! We already have a "tool of the week" at Wikidata:Tools, which has not been updated for months. Could this be updated with the tool selected here every week? (feel free to move my comment anywhere, I am not sure if this is the right place) − Pintoch (talk) 08:42, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Yes, I noticed that :) To be honest, I can't commit on updating both every week. The "tool of the week" section on Wikidata:Tools requires a bit more research (links to examples, screenshot, source code, etc.) and I don't think I'll have time to update it myself. So I will focus on the Weekly Summary. However, any help is welcome of course :) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:01, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
@Lea Lacroix (WMDE), Pintoch, Lucas Werkmeister: Ideally we should have a complete Item for each tool (phab:T229404) so that we can manage everything easily and efficiently. But there is no agreement on which properties to use for certain information about the tools (e.g., the authors). There is the option to create a template that contains a {{#switch:{{#expr:{{CURRENTWEEK}} mod N}} | ... }}, where N is the number of tools listed, to automatically show a tool description each week, but the best option is to read that information from Items anyway. --abián17:22, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello @Shisma, the current locations we share the weekly summary is via social media, mailing list, and on-wiki on project chat and massmessage delivery. I'm not familiar with how rss or atom work. If you're able to figure out how, please let me know, so we can add them to our delivery mediums. -Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (talk) 08:10, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi @Mohammed Sadat (WMDE), Lea Lacroix (WMDE): I'm (co-)supervising two Outreachy students and one GSoC student working on Wikidata-related projects, who just started. The Outreachy one is phab:T300207, "What's in a name? Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata", and the students wrote introductory blog posts in the last week, see [1] for Feliciss and [2] for PangolinMexico. The other is phab:T305869, "Rewrite the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua", which Lennard Hofmann is working on, also see his first report. Maybe worth a mention / request to welcome them to the community? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:21, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
Please see de:Wikipedia:Wikidata/Newsletter. The weekly summary numbers went from 521, (522 missing), 523, 524 then all the way down to 425 & 426. Somehow the archive did not receive the 522nd edition. And somehow every newsletter sent to any project suddenly went down a 100 numbers from 5xx to 4xx. Thanks! CX Zoom (talk) 15:40, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
Good catch! Thanks, CX Zoom. This should be fixed in the coming edition. I'll send the next one as 522. The repeated 425 & 426 should have been 525 & 526 respectively. -—M@sssly✉18:29, 3 July 2022 (UTC)