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Wikisporadic Newsletter: September 2022
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Wikisporadic, an Occasional Newsletter for our Germinating Community.
- Oral knowledge We held a session on oral knowledge and Wikispore as part of Options Space at Wikimedia Summit 2022 in Berlin, looking at options with several African affiliates to link out to cultural topics from Wikipedia(s). Some African communities are already doing oral knowledge documentation like the Nigerian community working on oral history as well as the growing Mozambican community working on oral history documentation in Makhuwa language. This is a way to provide more sources as well as digitize some oral parts of their history.
- Wikidata integration There is a plan to install the new UnlinkedWikibase extension, advancing the vision of Wikisprout and full Wikidata integration such as use in infoboxes.
- Movement strategy Using the Cargo and related extensions on Wikispore, work is underway to create a demo of Movement Strategy activities, adapting Baserow data from Wikimedia Summit.
- Halloween event As a Wikidata 10th Birthday event, there is hope to collaborate at the end of October with Wiki Cemeteries User Group on Grave Spore (see discussion), for maps and in-depth coverage of individual graves.
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Article Creation Guidance
editHi Tgr. I noticed your name on the Wish List and I assume that you might be interested in ways to improve the New User experience in a way that would also relieve much of the burden at NPP. You will probably not be aware of this community project some of us have been working on for 2 years: It is so simple in its concept and does not necessarily require the intervention of the WMF at all. All the elements of this project exist already but simply need to be fine tuned and some .js added. If you have a moment, please check out these two pages of the project: New landing page proposal and its workshop page and don't hesitate to post at the talk. Your comments and suggestions would be most welcome. Regards, Kudpung (talk) 17:17, 24 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Kudpung. I think the new article wizard is a great idea, but it's not one that I find personally motivating. I haven't been an active editor for a very long time, I'm not on the WMF Growth team anymore, and I don't think I have any competitive advantage for this kind of code (my expertise is mostly in MediaWiki architecture, and this looks like a UX-heavy project). So to the extent I spend free time on Wikipedia/MediaWiki work, I'd rather focus on other things. Sorry. I hope you can find enough contributors to finish it! Tgr (talk) 18:59, 24 May 2025 (UTC)