User talk:Andrew Gray/Archives/69

Please comment on Draft talk:Austin Petersen presidential campaign, 2016

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Draft talk:Austin Petersen presidential campaign, 2016. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue V, May 2016 Headlines Africa report: Joburg, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana Brazil report: Immigration Museum of Sao Paulo: first steps towards an open access policy France report: Photography, a true hobby! Germany report: "Licence hint generator" at WMDEs event series about legal issues Italy report: A full month of activities Latvia report: Edit-a-thon in Latvian Academy of Culture Macedonia report: 1963 Skopje earthquake 300 photos Mexico report: Forestry and the Longest Edit-a-thon in history Netherlands report: Colonial images; Coutinho collection; Open Cultural Data; Netherlands and the world; NL Art History challenge Norway report: International Memory of the world register; Speak Norwegian? Access to The National Library's bokhylla.no? Spain report: Wiki Loves Earth; free resources; Pentathlon Wikimedia Sweden report: LSH upload; World Wide Wikipedia; Nationalmuseum Switzerland report: ETH-Bibliothek commences mass uploading campaign for photographs from the Image Archive UK report: Oxford and Scotland USA report: Archivist Award Special story: Ted Speakers Challenge - Win Books! Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves report: UNESCO and Wiki Loves Earth partner to run Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves in 120 countries throughout June Open Access report: WikiCite; Fluorescent vertebrates; Insights into a singer's head WMF GLAM report: WMF GLAM report Wikidata report: We feel used (and that makes us happy) OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey report: Survey results presented at conferences in Hong Kong and Montreal Wikimania report: GLAM at Wikimania Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 12:34, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Natalie Portman

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Natalie Portman. Legobot (talk) 04:31, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
6,035		United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016 (talk)						Add sources
767		European Free Trade Association (talk)						Add sources
57		Northern Cyprus and the European Union (talk)						Add sources
17		412 Transport Squadron (talk)						Add sources
19		European Union Military Committee (talk)						Add sources
15		No. 264 Squadron RAF (talk)						Add sources
16		Iraq–European Union relations (talk)						Cleanup
56		Eurosphere (talk)						Cleanup
207		European Union statistics (talk)						Cleanup
5,054		Belarus (talk)						Expand
2,190		Oslo (talk)						Expand
1,185		Liberal Democrats (talk)						Expand
328		Supranational union (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
52		Jonas Gahr Støre (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
138		Multi-speed Europe (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
46		London and Paris Conferences (talk)						Merge
10		317th Troop Carrier Group (talk)						Merge
163		CIM-10 Bomarc (talk)						Merge
166		United States–European Union relations (talk)						Wikify
729		History of the European Union (talk)						Wikify
23		EU Rural Development Policy (talk)						Wikify
2		Actinochaeta amazonica (talk)						Orphan
2		Al Hashimiya (talk)						Orphan
2		Allan A. Swenson (talk)						Orphan
6		No. 200 Squadron RAF (talk)						Stub
13		439 Combat Support Squadron (talk)						Stub
10		423 Maritime Helicopter Squadron (talk)						Stub
8		No to the EU (Norway) (talk)						Stub
17		David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon (talk)						Stub
44		Everything but Arms (talk)						Stub

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 11:47, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
4,127		The Chronicles of Narnia (talk)						Add sources
382		Supreme court (talk)						Add sources
177		Religion in The Chronicles of Narnia (talk)						Add sources
5		They Asked for a Paper (talk)						Add sources
2,687		Federal government of the United States (talk)						Add sources
150		Till We Have Faces (talk)						Add sources
65		Surprised by Joy (talk)						Cleanup
19		Second Battle of Beruna (talk)						Cleanup
330		George MacDonald (talk)						Cleanup
389		Trial (talk)						Expand
3,689		Polar bear (talk)						Expand
9,101		Jane Fonda (talk)						Expand
218		The Space Trilogy (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
565		The Magician's Nephew (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
1,571		International Criminal Court (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
157		The Chronicles of Narnia (TV serial) (talk)						Merge
23		Dahomean religion (talk)						Merge
351		Cherry picking (talk)						Merge
1,763		Double jeopardy (talk)						Wikify
19		Literary estate (talk)						Wikify
261		High Court of Australia (talk)						Wikify
13		Libraries of the University of Cambridge (talk)						Orphan
3		Ahmad Abdulal (talk)						Orphan
2		Andrews Creek (talk)						Orphan
12		A Preface to Paradise Lost (talk)						Stub
48		The Allegory of Love (talk)						Stub
8		Of Other Worlds (talk)						Stub
31		The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (talk)						Stub
16		An Experiment in Criticism (talk)						Stub
21		Boxen (C. S. Lewis) (talk)						Stub

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 20:40, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #213

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements - feedback on the Primary Sources Tool
  • Others: Discussion about currency conversion rates, P2893_-_wrong_datatype
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimania - find all the Wikidata things happening here
  • Upcoming: Repo-Fringe 2016
  • Past: HackHPI
  • Past: ELAG (slides)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Passionate about Wikidata and a great communicator? We are looking to hire a community communications person.
  • Gujarati, Latvian and Nynorsk Wikipedia now have the ArticlePlaceholder as well.
  • Catalan and Polish Wikipedia will show Wikidata descriptions on the mobile website starting soon. More Wikipedias will follow. (phabricator:T135429)
  • Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: RateBeer brewery ID, Beer Advocate brewery ID, Molendatabase verdwenen molens ID, fax number, minimum age, Swedish county letter, Eldoblaje Movie ID, publication interval, maximum sustained winds, day of week, Skype, UMLS CUI, FamilySearch ID
  • Query examples: Eiffel Tower in art (source), popular surnames among humans (source), popular surnames among fictional characters (source), average lifespan by occupation (source), German breweries (source), years with 3 popes (source), people who died by burning - on a timeline (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Lighthouses, Roller Coasters
• Development
  • Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons.
  • Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at https://jonaskress.github.io
  • Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service.
  • Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari.
  • Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias.
  • Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates.
• You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (phabricator:T137061)
  • Fixed a bug with terms sometimes not showing up, language fallback not working correctly in Lua modules and connection to master database
  • Fixed a bug with URL encoding in the query service.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:25, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Wikimedia wikis now use AuthManager. If you have new problems related to logging in or being logged in, report them. [1]
• Visiting Special:Notifications doesn't automatically mark notifications as read anymore. You can go between read, unread or all notifications on Special:Notifications. Notifications on Special:Notifications are grouped by day. You can mark every daily group as read individually. Notifications are displayed by groups of 50 on Special:Notifications and you can find former notifications by using navigation arrows. [2][3][4][5]

Changes this week

• You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [6]
• It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [7]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

18:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 June 2016

• News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov

• Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group

• Featured content: From the crème de la crème

• In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing

• Op-ed: Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing

• Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle

• Blog: Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Cary Grant

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Cary Grant. Legobot (talk) 04:27, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Captain Marvel (DC Comics)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Captain Marvel (DC Comics). Legobot (talk) 04:28, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #214

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimania
  • Upcoming: WikiConvention francophone
  • Past: GLAM Wiki Boot Camp
  • Past: Silicon Mountain Conf
  • Past: OpenData.ch
  • Past: Semantic Web + Wikidata
  • Wikidata beim Hackathon HackHPI in Potsdam
  • Data Ex Machina
  • Op-ed in the Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • ORES is not available as a beta feature to make it easier to find bad edits
  • New user script to show the main image of an item is ready for testing
  • Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
  • Want to see Wikidata changes in the history of a Wikipedia article? There is a user script that needs your feedback.
  • We are looking for people who work on list articles.
  • You can test a gadget that lets you easily run a query for more items with the same statement.
  • Language fallback is now happening on Wikipedia and co
  • Maps are now enabled on Wikidata
  • First beta release of StrepHit
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID, focal height, month of the year, label in sign language, PO Box, COAM ID, syntax clarification, ECARTICO person ID, MSBI person ID, date depicted, distinctive jersey, time gap, icon, SecondHandSongs artist ID, SecondHandSongs song ID, timezone offset
  • Query examples: colors of chemical compounds (source), map of braodway venues (source), sculptures by Max Bill (source), works of art where the name might be a rhyme (source), works of art where the title is an alliteration (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Professional Wrestling
  • ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (source)
• Development
  • Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
  • More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (phabricator:T134259)
  • Fixed a but with suggestions not showing up (phabricator:T138059)
  • Improved display of query examples (phabricator:T137589) and cleaned them up
  • Improved database access (phabricator:T137539)
  • Fixed a but with the rank selector (phabricator:T109583)
  • Started concept work for automated list generation
  • Discussed the proposal for Wiktionary with a linguist to get more detailed feedback on it. Very positive.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:29, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [8]

Changes this week

• The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [9][10]
• Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [11]
• When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [12]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki. The meeting will be on 22 June at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Malia Bouattia

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Malia Bouattia. Legobot (talk) 04:31, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
96		Perelandra (talk)						Add sources
3,783		Joan Crawford (talk)						Add sources
1,295		The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (talk)						Add sources
318		Mere Christianity (talk)						Add sources
620		The Silver Chair (talk)						Add sources
40		Belfast Metropolitan Area (talk)						Add sources
78		God (male deity) (talk)						Cleanup
298		May Ball (talk)						Cleanup
54		Jewish views on love (talk)						Cleanup
817		Lillian Gish (talk)						Expand
40		Rilian (talk)						Expand
6,341		Istanbul (talk)						Expand
99		Calormen (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		The Personal Heresy (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
13		Dymer (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
20		Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council (talk)						Merge
10		Primacy of Canterbury (talk)						Merge
1,820		Group of Seven (G7) (talk)						Merge
683		Daemon (classical mythology) (talk)						Wikify
86		Religious views on love (talk)						Wikify
66		Lusitanian mythology (talk)						Wikify
3		Alaska Immigration Justice Project (talk)						Orphan
4		Abdul Kader Kamli (talk)						Orphan
4		Alexander Bell Donald (talk)						Orphan
41		The Pilgrim's Regress (talk)						Stub
43		Miraz (talk)						Stub
33		Music of The Chronicles of Narnia films (talk)						Stub
93		The Problem of Pain (talk)						Stub
26		Ramandu (talk)						Stub
8		Miraz's Castle (talk)						Stub

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 00:02, 18 June 2016 (UTC)