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Replace "News" section with links to weekly summaries
The news section on the main page is mostly only used to report when some IDs reach a particular number. That is not useful (or particularly interesting) to someone wanting to know what is happening at Wikidata.
I've tried to encourage people to add more newsworthy things to the news section by adding things like events myself, and by pointing out to WMDE that they have not added upcoming events to the main page, but it hasn't helped. The Lexicodays 2024 event was never announced there, there's no mention of the office hours later today nor the new EntitySchema datatype.
If you actually want news about Wikidata, you have to read the weekly summaries, but those are only linked at the very end of the page and there's no link to the most recent one.
To make it easier for people to find the most recent news and avoid issues with the main page not being updated, I therefore propose that we should replace the manually updated news section with an automatically generated list of links to the most recent weekly summaries.
- Nikki (talk) 12:17, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
Support I perfectly agree. --Epìdosis 12:23, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support That would be great for keeping the page updated. --Soylacarli (talk) 16:21, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support That would be excellent! Ainali (talk) 09:12, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
- What about instead integrating it at Wikidata:News which is linked from that section in bold? Prototyperspective (talk) 12:09, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Current highlight lexemes
can we have current highlights also for lexemes? –Shisma (talk) 12:28, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Mark updates for translation
@Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE): I see you are a translation administrator, so you can mark the changes for translation. --Mormegil (talk) 15:25, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- PS. Oh! It wasn’t my fault to post to Wikidata talk:Main Page instead of the intended Wikidata talk:News – the latter is a redirect here! Maybe User:WaitingForConnection had a point to redirect it in 2012, but maybe we should remove the redirect now? --Mormegil (talk) 15:50, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
What happened to the Main Page?
Why is there a Lua error at the Main Page of Wikidata? Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 05:37, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
Wikidata on Bluesky?
In the Contact tile on this page, there are links to Facebook, Mastodon, X/Twitter. There's many issues with Musk's Twitter and Mastodon is used very little which also has some issues while many now (also or instead) use Bluesky. I think it would be good to add a link to a Wikidata account on Bluesky there – apparently none such exists so I also suggest to create it.
- You can see that many people and organizations with a Wikidata item now have a bluesky account with this search using the Bluesky handle property.
- Further Twitter alternatives and Pros and Cons of each are in this structured argument map "What's the Best Twitter/X Alternative?" but I don't see another one not yet featured on the Main page there that comes close except /r/Wikidata on reddit which may need a separate discussion.
- I think the tile's title "Contact" is not fitting well. Please consider renaming it, e.g. to "Contact & outreach" or "External communities" or something similar.