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Why only count items?

Why do we only mention the 107M items on Wikidata, in the first section of the main page? What about lexemes? Asaf Bartov (talk) 22:36, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

German Wikidata Main Page: Wikifunctions

Hi folks!

At the page bottom, the new Wikifunctions is listed as one Wikimedia project. But right now, on the German page, it is a red link. Can someone fix this? (Maybe linking to the English language version at first)

Thanks! --PantheraLeo1359531 (talk) 18:16, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Ameisenigel: would you mind looking at this, because you are good with the translation stuff? The link comes from Wikidata:Main Page/Sister projects — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:38, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
An anon created Translations:Wikidata:Main Page/Sister projects/53/de with an inappropriate translation (they translated the interwiki prefix with the name). I’ve fixed it. I’m not sure if it really makes sense to have this link translatable at this point, though – in case of other multilingual projects, translation means linking to translated main pages like c:Hauptseite or mw:MediaWiki/fr, but Wikifunctions doesn’t seem to have translated main pages yet. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:44, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The main page of Wikifunctions is translatable, but we use a template for it which is just transcluded on the main page. It shows the content of the page in your interface language, if available. --Ameisenigel (talk) 02:55, 2 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
In this regard, that counts as not translated, as one can’t create interwiki links pointing to the different translations. (By the way, this is why I’m not a big fan of UI language-based translation – unless you play with URL parameters, it works only in one language, and even that one language is forced to be English for logged-out users. You can’t read content translated to a second language you speak, you can’t read any translated content without creating an account.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:21, 2 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

News from 2023-06-27

2023-06-27: The one hundred and twenty millionth item, about a Turkish female given name Nazmiye, is created. This is wrong, the page is a redirect to Wikimedia disambiguation page Nazmiye (Q5999113). Quick-O-Mat (talk) 13:00, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Be bold - [1]. --Wolverène (talk) 13:28, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not my language ;-). Quick-O-Mat (talk) 13:34, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Well, updated. Now waiting for a translation administrator to mark it for translation. --Wolverène (talk) 13:53, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Quick-O-Mat (talk) 04:52, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

2 billionth edit on 11th birthday

The 2 billionth edit was now created today, on around 15:08 UTC today - on the celebration of 11th Wikidata birthday. How would it that be... JrandWP (talk) 15:16, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Translation quality improvement

Hello, Where can we correct the source of the Occitan version of this page? There are many errors on it, including parts of the text in catalan and other using words that look Occitan but actually do not exist in our language. Best regards Jfblanc (talk) 12:11, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jfblanc: Here: all messages of the main page in Occitan. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 01:50, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Q124000000 entry not displayed on the main page

Why is the entry not displayed on the main page? The family name fits so well with the Christmas holidays ;-) Could someone please have a look at it? Thank you! Quick-O-Mat (talk) 17:06, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What makes the number special at this scale? Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 23:21, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There is so little new to report that a mention in connection with the family name "Tannemann" at Christmas can't be wrong. --Quick-O-Mat (talk) 23:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You forget to mention it’s your own created item. The number is insignificant, we are not here for personal serotonin releases. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 19:39, 26 December 2023
124000000 is a round number and just as much a milestone as 120000000 or 125000000. I see no problem in mentioning this in view of the few news items, on the contrary, it is more of an incentive to work towards the next milestone. In addition, the entry was not created by a bot and serves as a nice example of a properly completed data record for a family name. The entry with the number Q123456789 (T:294) has been in the news since 15 November 2023, what do the rules say about it? As I said, there are so few milestones that the occasional news item is more likely to liven up the main page than harm anyone. I'm curious to see if the statement "Feel free to add to this list." is true. --Quick-O-Mat (talk) 19:54, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The number Q123456789 is significant, if we keep reporting EVERY round number there is a no room for actual news left. On this scale we should not report on every million. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 12:12, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The entry Q123456789 is nothing special, especially as it was also deleted. You could also say that the entry Q124000000 is curious because it contains the surname "Tannemann" at Christmas, which doesn't happen every day. The record Q123000000 was created on 10 October 2023, so I don't see any danger here that there might not be enough space for the few new messages that are posted in the news. In a period of three months, just 6 messages do not flood the space for new messages. The record Q120000000 is even 6 months old and was only a redirect to Q5999113, which I also merged. Posting a new message a little more frequently would do the main page some good. --Quick-O-Mat (talk) 12:50, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Item numbers are not interesting news. If you want number/based news, focusing on growth in editors would be much better.
Apart from that news over new policy/features/gadgets would be better than item numbers. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 14:08, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It looks to be displaying now. -wd-Ryan (Talk/Edits) 23:36, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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