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A monthly overview of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, also published as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter.


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Other recent publications that could not be covered in time for this issue include the items listed below. Contributions, whether reviewing or summarizing newly published research, are always welcome.

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"Analyzing Digital Discourses: Between Convergence and Controversy"

From the abstract:[1]

"This study analyses Wikipedia’s sites for negotiating convergence, conflict and identity, concentrating on two aspects. First, convergence and conflict at the macro-level of intercultural comparison are investigated using the example of the construction of concepts of nationalism, citizenship, identity and tribe in their English and German language versions. Second, the English articles serve as a basis to examine the types of convergence and conflict tendencies at the micro-level of the Talk-section."

From the paper's section on talk pages:

"[...] in our data, criticism of content (81 instances/31% of all 259 conflictual codings) is the most frequent conflictual category [...], followed by general metapragmatic criticism concerning clarity and more general stylistic features [...], metapragmatic criticism related to Wikipedia's principles (each comprising about half of the total of 81 metapragmatic tokens), or a mixture of both [...].

Giving reasons for disagreeing is the mitigating strategy used most frequently in all for Talk1-sections, followed by suggesting, inviting and hedged imperatives to induce further improvement of an article, agreement and additional explanation to clarify an issue [...]."

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"Building a Public Domain Voice Database for Odia"

From the abstract and paper:[2]

"The pilot detailed in this paper is about creating a large freely-licensed public repository of transcribed speech in the Odia language as such a repository was not known to be available. The strategy and methodology behind this process are based on the OpenSpeaks project [which is hosted on the English Wikiversity at https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/OpenSpeaks ].

"The 'Methodology' section details the process of collecting words [from a dump of Odia Wikipedia], compiling a wordlist [making use of Wikidata lexeme forms to generate additional forms], recording the pronunciation of those words, and uploading the speech data to Wikimedia Commons using Lingua Libre."


References

  1. ^ Kleinke, Sonja; Landmann, Julia (2021). "Cross-Cultural Observations on English and German Wikipedia Entries at the Interface of Convergence and Controversy". Analyzing Digital Discourses: Between Convergence and Controversy. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 135–162. ISBN 9783030846022. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help) Closed access icon Google Books
  2. ^ Panigrahi, Subhashish (2022-04-25). "Building a Public Domain Voice Database for Odia" (PDF). Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022. WWW '22. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1331–1338. doi:10.1145/3487553.3524931. ISBN 9781450391306.
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Images and Galleries
Sidebar images

To put an image in your article, use the following template (link):

[[File:|center|300px|alt=TKTK]]

O frabjous day.
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Filler image-v2
 |image     = 
 |size      = 300px
 |alt       = TKTK
 |caption   = 
 |fullwidth = no
}}

This will create the file on the right. Keep the 300px in most cases. If writing a 'full width' article, change |fullwidth=no to |fullwidth=yes.

Inline images

Placing 

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Inline image
 |image   =
 |size    = 300px
 |align   = center
 |alt     = Placeholder alt text
 |caption = CAPTION
}}

(link) will instead create an inline image like below

[[File:|300px|center|alt=Placeholder alt text]]
CAPTION
Galleries

To create a gallery, use the following 

<gallery mode = packed | heights = 200px>
|Caption for second image
</gallery>

to create

Quotes
Framed quotes

To insert a framed quote like the one on the right, use this template (link): 

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Filler quote-v2
 |1         = 
 |author    = 
 |source    = 
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}}

If writing a 'full width' article, change |fullwidth=no to |fullwidth=yes.

Pull quotes

To insert a pull quote like

use this template (link): 

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Quote
 |1         = 
 |source    = 
}}
Long quotes

To insert a long inline quote like

The goose is on the loose! The geese are on the lease!
— User:Oscar Wilde
— Quotations Notes from the Underpoop

use this template (link): 

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/block quote
 | text   = 
 | by     = 
 | source = 
 | ts     = 
 | oldid  = 
}}
Side frames

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A caption

Side frames help put content in sidebar vignettes. For instance, this one (link): 

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Filler frame-v2
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 |caption   = A caption
 |fullwidth = no
}}

gives the frame on the right. This is useful when you want to insert non-standard images, quotes, graphs, and the like.

Example − Graph/Charts
Further information: Category:Graph, chart and plot templates
A caption

For example, to insert the {{Graph:Chart}} generated by 

{{Graph:Chart
 |width=250|height=100|type=line
 |x=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8|y=10,12,6,14,2,10,7,9
}}

in a frame, simple put the graph code in |1= 

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Filler frame-v2
 |1=
{{Graph:Chart
 |width=250|height=100|type=line
 |x=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8|y=10,12,6,14,2,10,7,9
}}
 |caption=A caption
 |fullwidth=no
}}

to get the framed Graph:Chart on the right.

If writing a 'full width' article, change |fullwidth=no to |fullwidth=yes.

Two-column vs full width styles

If you keep the 'normal' preloaded draft and work from there, you will be using the two-column style. This is perfectly fine in most cases and you don't need to do anything.

However, every time you have a |fullwidth=no and change it to |fullwidth=yes (or vice-versa), the article will take that style from that point onwards (|fullwidth=yes → full width, |fullwidth=no → two-column). By default, omitting |fullwidth= is the same as putting |fullwidth=no and the article will have two columns after that. Again, this is perfectly fine in most cases, and you don't need to do anything.

However, you can also fine-tune which style is used at which point in an article.

To switch from two-column → full width style midway in an article, insert 

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-end-v2}}
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-start-v2|fullwidth=yes}}

where you want the switch to happen.

To switch from full width → two-column style midway in an article, insert 

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-end-v2}}
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-start-v2|fullwidth=no}}

where you want the switch to happen.

Article series

To add a series of 'related articles' your article, use the following code

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29 April 2015

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25 December 2013

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6 November 2013

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3 July 2013

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12 June 2013

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12 June 2013

The Visual Editor: Where are we now, and where are we headed?
25 March 2013

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18 March 2013

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7 January 2013

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10 December 2012

Second Visual Editor prototype launches
25 June 2012

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{{Signpost series
 |type        = sidebar-v2
 |tag         = VisualEditor
 |seriestitle = Visual Editor
 |fullwidth   = no
}}

or 

{{Signpost series
 |type        = sidebar-v2
 |tag         = VisualEditor
 |seriestitle = Visual Editor
 |fullwidth   = yes
}}

will create the sidebar on the right. If writing a 'full width' article, change |fullwidth=no to |fullwidth=yes. A partial list of valid |tag= parameters can be found at here and will decide the list of articles presented. |seriestitle= is the title that will appear below 'Related articles' in the box.

Alternatively, you can use 

{{Signpost series
 |type        = inline
 |tag         = VisualEditor
 |tag_name    = visual editor
 |tag_pretext = the
}}

at the end of an article to create

For more Signpost coverage on the visual editor see our visual editor series.

If you think a topic would make a good series, but you don't see a tag for it, or that all the articles in a series seem 'old', ask for help at the WT:NEWSROOM. Many more tags exist, but they haven't been documented yet.

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It's amusing to read the sample discussion and see that

  1. It is a lame dispute about whether it should be "a herb" or "an herb"
  2. That the usage had been flipped before
  3. That the first three editors were Usernameistoosimilar, Deli nk and Jytdog who have all been indefinitely blocked for their sins.

So, the main problem is not where we stand on the tactical hierarchy of argument but whether we should be arguing at all. Wikipedia is infested with dysfunctional and unproductive editors – griefers, grinders, obsessive pedants, fanatics and more. In making mountains out of molehills, they are operating at a different level and this analysis fails to capture this more fundamental issue. As usual, further research is needed...

Andrew🐉(talk) 21:39, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Andrew Davidson: While the dispute certainly is lame, the correct reference for the conversation used as a sample is Talk:Fenugreek#A_herb/an_herb_2, which was started by Jytdog off of that previous discussion you linked to, and grew quite a bit more involved than that one (though no more productive, AFAICT). Neither Usernameistoosimilar nor Deli nk seem to have participated. It was basically just Jytdog and Porphyro going back, and forth, and back, and forth, and... well, it's long, is the point. FeRDNYC (talk) 14:37, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
That further discussion takes the lame to another level. And then there's a part 3 in which an edit notice is requested. And now, of course, we are digging deeper with this further derivative discussion...
Looking at the actual article, I notice that it doesn't mention that fenugreek was one of the ingredients in the original herbal formula of the famous Lily the Pink. I must edit the article myself and see what further mayhem ensues. WP:INTODARKNESS...
Andrew🐉(talk) 18:06, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
RIP Andrew Davidson, died on An Hill,[a] 3 January 2023. He will be missed.
  1. ^ SWIDT?
FeRDNYC (talk) 06:16, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I fixed that link to the source discussion. Thanks! Regards, HaeB (talk) 12:15, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
So, I edited fenugreek to add some details of its use in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I had researched this reasonably well, finding a book about the history of the compound which detailed the recipe. I cited this but the entire addition was reverted with the edit summary, "Nonsense and WP:FRINGE". This seems to be name-calling at the bottom level of the hierarchy but so it goes. The next step may be to start an RfC... Andrew🐉(talk) 16:51, 7 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]


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