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The Signpost: 23 March 2016

• Interview: Exclusive: interview with interim ED Katherine Maher

• News and notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks

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• Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March

• Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

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The Signpost: 1 April 2016

• News and notes: Trump/Wales 2016

• In the media: Saskatoon police delete Wikipedia content about police brutality

• WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music

• Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil

• Featured content: A slow, slow week

• Technology report: Browse Wikipedia in safety? Use Telnet!

• Recent research: "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education; using eyetracking to find out how readers read articles

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• Blog: Growing hashtags: Expanding outreach on Wikipedia

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About Women

Hi CFCF. I'm an editor (not very active till now) of the Italian Wikipedia, where the gender gap is a real problem. I'm trying to participate to an IEG with the project "Women are everywhere". You will find the draft at this link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_are_everywhere It would be great if you could have a look at it. I need any kind of suggestion or advice to improve it. Support or endorsement would be fantastic. Many thanks,--Kenzia (talk) 10:21, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 April 2016

• Op-ed: Should prison inmates be permitted to edit Wikipedia?

• News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board

• In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: A welcome return to pop culture and death

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Books & Bytes - Issue 16

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 16, February-March 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

• New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
• Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
• A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
• Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months

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A barnstar for you!

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	Thank you for the share of icons Moughamir (talk) 01:04, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Anatomy atlas

Coming from WPMED re your post. You might want to see Wikipedia_talk:Pictures_for_medical_articles. It's a rich nearly untapped PD sourceLeadSongDog come howl! 19:46, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Your attention needed at WP:CHU

Hello. A renamer or clerk has responded to your username change request, but requires clarification before moving forward. Please follow up at your username change request entry as soon as possible. Thank you. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 22:38, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 April 2016

• News and notes: Lunar project; steering group formed to search for next executive director

• Op-ed: Knowledge Engine and the Wales–Heilman emails

• Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot

• Traffic report: Two for the price of one

• Featured content: The double-sized edition

• Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case

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Translating SVG

Here you go:
commons:Commons:Translation_possible/Learn_more

-abbedabb^talk 15:35, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Archiving at Water fluoridation

Hello there. :) Why this? Cheers. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 18:47, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

People will be aware of the history, if you wanted to point to a specific issue a diff would have been better. Archiving might have been a little strong, but I did not feel that the section contributed anything. Carl Fredik 💌 📧 19:20, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi CFCF. I started that thread after posting at several project pages asking for involvement to help sort out a content dispute. I should have stated that. The initial thread was to get the ball rolling. The history link was a convenience link that helped those arriving to immediately see the story. An edit summary explaining would have been nice, but I'm not sure the oneclickarchiver does that. Anyhow, it doesn't matter now. A thread sorting things out was subsequently started. Best wishes. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 19:46, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Hey Carl I unarchived that section. While I agree something more specific would have been better, archiving it caused confusion because it was linked directly from notices placed on projects, and when editors tried to click through it didn't go anywhere. So, I restored it so new editors could at least have a target. Zad68 12:54, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. I caused this. I should have said in the post that comments could be arriving there. My apologies. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:56, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Gonstead technique

What are you doing? Not only are there 5 secondary sources, this passed AfD as keep, there is no consensus to merge. Actually you didn't merge it you just redirect ... no. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 09:06, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Please read WP:MEDRS for proper sourcing guidelines when making health-claims. Carl Fredik 💌 📧 09:07, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

This actually does not have to pass WP:MEDRS did you review the AfD? Valoem ^{talk contrib} 09:09, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

It makes health claims, as such MEDRS applies. That is passed AfD at an arbitrary time does not impact this whatsoever. Neither does it impact the outcome of a merge - where I found no salvagable content to be merged. Carl Fredik 💌 📧 09:12, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

I clearly avoided including health claims on Wikipedia per WP:MEDRS, where do you see health claims? Also this pass WP:MEDRS see here. Here is a very specific source if you don't want to go through it [1] non-chiropractic sources exist this is one of the few techniques that has legitimate studies. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 09:14, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

I wouldn't characterize a few case reports in fringe chiropractic journals to be thoroughly studied... Carl Fredik 💌 📧 09:21, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

What are you talking about that's the "Journal of Physical Therapy Science", not a chiropractic source. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 09:24, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 2 May 2016

• News and notes: Wikimedia Switzerland's board and paid-editing firm; passing of Ed Dravecky

• In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps

• Traffic report: Purple

• Featured content: The best ... from the past two weeks

• Arbitration report: Two editors unbanned; Wikicology case enters workshop phase; Gamaliel restricted from Gamergate at his own request

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Warning

There is no consensus to merge. I clearly disproved your arguments above. If you merge I will ANI. Two discussion are against merge. Your personal dislikes for the subject do not override policy and is considered disruptive editing. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 02:24, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Valoem — There was a wide appreciation of the merge — and you can not simply restore the article, leaving a massive duplication of text. It is also very interesting that you perceive my actions as based upon some form of dislike — of which I have not voiced a word. If adherence to evidence and science is termed dislike I suggest you leave Wikipedia — because all our core policies are based upon such principles. Please engage in the ongoing discussion at the main page instead of threatening editors. Carl Fredik 💌 📧 05:55, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Please link me the discussion which was closed with consensus to merge and I will personally revert. Both have passed AfD therefore the burden is on you to find consensus to merge, I laid my arguments out, I'll clear out the duplicated text. If you feel I've done something wrong please open an ANI. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 12:48, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

No, you reverted on the grounds of no consensus. That never holds any merit — you must provide a rationale, not simply shout "NO". I frankly do not care about ANI, I care about the encyclopaedia and these articles will be merged — especially so now that I have seen strong evidence of support in the Fringe Noticeboard discussion you failed to link — which I did not know of. Carl Fredik 💌 📧 14:45, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

I have given plenty of source based reasoning for inclusion as have other editors such as Cunard and now there are three discussions on this matter here, Fringe Noticeboards and here. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 15:23, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #208

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: OpenTechSummit

    

    slides for SPARQL intro at OpenTechSummit

  • Past: CSVConf
  • Past: Subscribe7 (slides)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Our Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
  • More constraint templates now generate SPARQL links
  • Europeana Art History Challenge is still going on until the end of the month
  • Freebase has been shut down
  • Wikiversity now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
  • The 24,000,000th item was created: Q24000000
  • The ArticlePlaceholder will go live on the first Wikipedias on Wednesday (Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan Wikipedia)
  • Quora: Why isn't Wikimedia Commons using structured data via Wikidata?
  • Newest trend on Twitter: annotating books with Wikidata statements ;-)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: flower color, Megogo ID, via, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID, Belgian Football ID, by-product of, by-product, cardinality of this set, Yandex.Music album ID, Sherdog ID, appears in the heritage monument list, HowLongToBeat identifier, ESR station code, P-number, mouthpiece, MathWorld identifier, PGA Tour ID, LPGA Tour ID, Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas Code, wavelength, molar volume, vibration, goratings ID, International Sailing Federation ID, Wikidata time precision, fleet or registration number, FIVB beach volleyball player ID, Beach Volleyball Database ID, BVMC person ID
  • Query examples: most frequent occupations without a label in a given language, map of places of birth of economists (source), map of all the paintings for which we know a location with the count per location (source), scientists who have worked together but whose Erdős numbers don’t reflect that (source), members of the French National Assembly born out of France (source), mathematical proofs (source), items that depict most things (source)
• Development
  • Finished remaining blockers for deploying the ArticlePlaceholder on the first Wikipedias
  • More work on initial Commons prototype
  • Further work on textual representation of SPARQL queries to allow you to read/edit more of an existing query without having to touch SPARQL
  • Show label instead of URI for globes in coordinate diffs - thanks Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T110193)
  • Improve recent changes entries formatting on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T52893)
  • No longer showing a restore link for inaccessible revdel'ed entity revisions - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T55496)
  • Investigated and worked around issues with the suggestions for new statements - needs more work (phabricator:T132839)
• 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.

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Suicide bag

Please discuss the changes you want to make on Talk. I oppose every change you've made so far and I'd like to discuss them with you. Many of the changes were tried by other people in the past, e.g. removing the diagram of the suicide bag, but were rejected on consensus. Thank you. See you on the Suicide Bag Talk page. Ratel (talk) 20:23, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Controversial statements, even those in images require sources. See WP:RS, WP:Verify. Carl Fredik 💌 📧 21:32, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Bringing Muscle to GA?

Hey Carl, I hope everything's going well for you... and what a great user page! If you have any spare time on top of your many extra endeavours, how would you feel about trying to bring Muscle to GA with me? It seems to be mostly complete in terms of the content, and just needs some copyediting, citations and a bit of a cleanup. Thoughts? --Tom (LT) (talk) 22:13, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

LT910001, Tom — thanks for noticing, I'm working on designing a template and my own user page is sort of my beta. I'm definitely interested, and will take a look. I'm very busy up until early June, but from then I can hopefully put some more effort into it.

Best, Carl Fredik 💌 📧 11:54, 21 May 2016 (UTC) 

Thanks Carl, that sounds good. As you know I'll be busy until mid July anyway :). --Tom (LT) (talk) 05:40, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #209

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

• Discussions
  • A few proposals for missing properties for Wikivoyage listings have been made
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Panama Papers and Wikidata made quite a splash online
    • Occupations of persons from Panama Papers
    • Panama Papers bubble chart shows politicians are most mentioned in document leak database
  • EveryPolitician: I use Wikidata for multilingual names
  • Random item: Q14829494
  • Lots of papers relevant to Wikidata or about Wikidata haven been published at ICWSM
  • Wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia
  • Wikidata Map May 2016 (Belarus & Uganda)
  • Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We made a huge step for small Wikipedias and small languages online by rolling out the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias
  • Geospatial search is now up and running on the query service. You can now search for items within a geographic area.
  • The Wikidata Graph Builder has a refreshed interface with even more controls
  • Sitelinks for the new Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia (in Jamaican Patois) are being added
  • Mapbox's Geocoder now uses Wikidata
  • PetScan now has query examples
  • d:Wikidata:Wikidata for authority control collects examples of usage of Wikidata for authority control
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: professional name (Japan), month number, highest income threshold, lowest income threshold, individual tax rate, ARKive ID, Joint Electronics Type Designation Automated System designation, totem, Online World of Wrestling ID, Internet Wrestling Database ID, corporate officer
  • Query examples: longest rivers (source), map of places mentioned in travel stories with text in French accessible online (source), things located where the equator meets the prime meridian (source), people who acted with Brad Pitt (source), Italian mountains higher than 4000mt (source), who died by burning (source), age at date of death for musicians (source), universities of main programming language authors (source), hashtags (source), Pokemon! (source)
  • Showcase items: Iron Man 2 (Q205028)
• Development
  • Deployed the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias and worked on issues that were found
  • Incident report of issues with the query service
  • Worked on language fallback in the main header (screenshot, phabricator:T98014)
  • More work on Commons prototype
  • Worked on timeline as another visualization for the query service (phabricator:T135222)
  • Fixed missing message for translation for Wikibase repo - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T124766)
  • We are now generating translatable automatic comments for undo and restore operations - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T41134)
  • Fixed issue with autocompletion on the query service (phabricator:T133317)
• 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.

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The Signpost: 17 May 2016

• News and notes: Affiliates' nomination of WMF trustees announced; FDC's straight talking to WMF

• Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil

• In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post

• Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one

• Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogs

• Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"

• Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!

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Template:MI

Hi. I'm concerned that this 07:30, 5 May 2016 edit, made after your bold retargeting of 2 September 2015 did not generate an {{error}} (which I patrol for and correct). It didn't get fixed until I just fixed it after two weeks. As it's something I stumbled into for a different reason, it could have gone undetected much longer. My inclination is to want to convert Template:MI into a disambiguation page, but I don't see a precedent for that yet, as there is in project space, e.g. WP:MD and WP:NW. I suppose a solution would be to check {{MI}} for a date parameter, e.g. {{MI|date=May 2016}} and generate an error if the parameter is used, as date is not a valid parameter in that template, but should always be used in {{Mi}} (a bot adds that if the editor doesn't). – wbm1058 (talk) 22:02, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Also note that Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects should have been updated when you changed the target of that template redirect. – wbm1058 (talk) 22:06, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

When I changed the template it had no uses whatsoever, I cancelled the two that existed. That AutoWikiBrowser chose to use redirects instead of the real name is not something that should be an issue to editors, but to the developer. Creating a disambiguation is pointless, or actually downright disruptive, because it wastes time. This is really not a major issue, and I think it is best for everyone to just let it be as it is. (The editor who chose to use the template without checking that it did not at all work as he/she intended is at fault, not me or anyone else). Carl Fredik 💌 📧 22:20, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

One of the reasons there may be few uses of the shortcut is that part of AWB's general fixes is to expand shortcuts when it encounters them. "Wasting time" is a matter of one's perspective; one editor's time saved by typing a two-letter shortcut is counterbalanced by the time an editor unfamiliar with the shortcut needs to look it up. Thus, AWB will change {{MI}} to {{Multiple issues}} (or would have, until I made this edit. It's a challenge for developers to keep template redirects up to date, when various random editors keep adding new redirects, or changing them. I agree this is not a big deal, though I thought you should know some of the issues with making changes of this sort. wbm1058 (talk) 22:49, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #210

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

• Discussions
  • Discussions about missing properties for Wikivoyage listings are progressing as enhancements are suggested
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Gotta catch 'em all if they are prime
  • Paper: Are Superstar Artworks also Digital Superstars? Online Popularity of Worldfamous Artworks
  • Upcoming: Wikicite (session proposals)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • In about 2 weeks we will get the ArticlePlaceholder to more Wikipedias. Let us know if yours wants to be in.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: produced by, Wi-Fi, Google+, wheelchair accessibility, RAN ID, incidence, Benezit ID, place of marriage, age of onset, NSC number, gait
  • Query examples: given names with most variations (source with links to graphs), papers about Wikidata (source), memes (source), cathedrals in Paris (source), highest mountains in the universe (source), Law & Order episodes (source), things/people with most children (source)
• Development
  • Performance improvements in query service map display.
  • Fixed a focus issue in the suggester (phabricator:T135008)
  • Further groundwork on Commons support
  • Fixed first issues that popped up after ArticlePlaceholder deployment based on feedback
  • Investigated and prepared fix for issue where files on Commons couldn't be deleted (phabricator:T135485)
  • Finished work on language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T98014)
• 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.

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singling out

Dear CFCF, I hope that you do see that in this you are singling out the support section. May I ask you to be consistent? --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 10:57, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Beetstra — Feel free to move other comments as well — I did what I did following a somewhat "spammy" addition to the board by a single user, as opposed to the discussion that had occurred surrounding the other votes. Carl Fredik 💌 📧 11:26, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Well, on all those the first commenter is also in all cases the same. There is just a difference in timing (me asking questions in one go, there they were added as they went). Just saying. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 11:39, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

After some reading and discussion I have reverted on the basis of WP:TPO. I strongly believe that moving the comments to a separate section breaks them loose from the original comments they were connected to, and through that change their meaning. That in combination with the singling out of only doing that on support !votes, and because of the remark you make here above ("opposed to the discussion that had occurred surrounding the other votes" - where you turned some into discussion at after the move, and the fact that at least 2 were already discussions before the move), and because you are an interested party and not an uninvolved observer. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 13:58, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Comparison of programming languages (types, type system)

Hi Carl, I had posted tags on the page to get it fixed but after some initial signs of that happening it now looks like the editor has abandoned it. It has since been PRODed 2 days ago by another editor (rightly so IMO). If contested but not fixed, I will bring it to AfD. Thanks, DeVerm (talk) 14:08, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

You seem to be signing as Fredik. Is that you? Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:56, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Bluerasberry — I can't believe I had made that typo in on the preference page — and that I didn't even notice it for a month. It should be fixed now, but that is a lot of comments that look pretty bad because I misspelled my own name xD. Carl Fredrik 💌 📧 08:49, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2016

• News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting

• Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director

• In the media: The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax

• Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures

• Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian

• Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee

• Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies

• Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride

• Blog: Freely licensed magic at Eurovision

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Wikidata weekly summary #211

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Standards for property proposal discussions, Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements
  • Import of Wiki Loves Monuments database
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: WikiCite (including links to documentation etherpads)
    • interview with Open Science Radio
  • Past: Gulaschprogrammiernacht (video)
  • Ben Whishaw, Broadway, La Rada et WWikidata
  • Meet TED’s Wikipedians-in-Residence
  • Orte, die mit 'ow' oder 'itz' enden
• Other Noteworthy Stuff

  

  • Charlie published her thesis about editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia and co
  • Learning pattern about using data of Wikipedia and Wikidata in Google spreadsheet
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Library of the National Congress of Argentina ID, Minitel, SureChEMBL ID, type of unit for this property, property usage tracking category, PubChem BioAssay ID (AID), time in space, tourist office, miRBase mature miRNA ID, miRBase pre-miRNA ID, record or record progression, has role, Molenecho's ID, Hollandsche Molen ID, Band number, OpenCritic ID, Nederlandse Molendatabase ID, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID, Leidse Hoogleraren ID, cites, X-SAMPA Code, KLOV ID, WWE.com superstar ID, EU Surface Water Body Code, VAT-rate, disease burden, electrical plug type, emergency phone number, payment types accepted, iTunes artist ID
  • Query examples: Fictional universes with most fictional planets (source), main subject of West Wing episodes (source), places with free wifi (source), citation network of paper about Zika (source), taxons and what they are named after (source), billionaires (source), animals that were executed (source), chemical elements and their isotopes by number of neutrons (min/max) (source), popes with children (source), birthplaces of astronauts (source)
• Development
  • Worked on fix for issue with language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T135714)
  • More work on support for Commons - main focus right now is on making it possible to actually store a new entity without jumping through hoops
  • Fixing a bug in Internet Explorer with prevents editing (phabricator:T136543)
  • Worked on more blockers for next deployment of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T135624)
• 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.

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2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey

The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has appointed a committee to lead the search for the foundation’s next Executive Director. One of our first tasks is to write the job description of the executive director position, and we are asking for input from the Wikimedia community. Please take a few minutes and complete this survey to help us better understand community and staff expectations for the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director.

• Survey, (hosted by Qualtrics)

Thank you, The Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Steering Committee via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:49, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine + WikiProject X

Hello CFCF, I see you have been drafting a redesign of WikiProject Medicine using the WPX UI templates. Would you like my assistance with launching this on WikiProject Medicine, including the various automated reports that are available? Cheers, Harej (talk) 15:03, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Hey, Harej — I've been following your progress and WikiProject X is looking really polished. There are a couple of extra features I think we might need in WikiProject Medicine to get it rolled out completely. They are mostly minor, and shouldn't be too difficult to add I hope. The main ones I can think of are:

1. Add a translation icon together with the other icons under the introductory text. I don't know if it should act as a link to WP:RTT or to create a summary module — but I quite like the icons at either File:Translation icon.svg or File:Language icon.svg
2. Retain the old members list. I really like how the members list works in WPX, but I don't think we are prepared to forsake all our older members since we have so many.

Do you think these are reasonable? If you are willing to put some time into it I think we can very easily get this through with the WP:MED community and get it running.

Also, when are you going to Finland? Carl Fredrik 💌 📧 19:40, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

I can add a translation icon and embed the progress table with a link to the full page. Does that sound good? As for the members list, it would not require much effort for me to migrate it over to the new system, if that would work for you.

I don't know, when am I going to Finland? 🇫🇮 Harej (talk) 19:58, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Harej Wonderful, that works perfectly. I'm pretty busy right now, but if you are going to Wikimania we can probably set it up there and make the whole thing live. I'll try to fix some of the modules before that so that it can be a pretty straightforward process.

I thought you were going on some conference with the CDC to Finland? Maybe I was mistaken.

Best, Carl Fredrik 💌 📧 22:04, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Unfortunately I will not be going to Wikimania. Will Doc James and other WikiProject Medicine members be around? We could have a video call and launch the project that way! (I will play nice with the Central European time zone.)

And that was Denmark, in April. (It was relocated from Helsinki.) It was great! Harej (talk) 23:24, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Will be at Wikimania. Easier to meet from home though. Lets look at getting together after. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:18, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Together in what sense? We live thousands of kilometers from each other! However I would be interested in video conferencing with you all in the next few weeks. Harej (talk) 16:16, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 June 2016

• News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens

• In the media: Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge

• Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures

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• Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes

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Wikidata weekly summary #212

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: OpenData.ch
  • Upcoming: HackHPI
  • Upcoming: ELAG
  • Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
  • Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
  • wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
  • It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: exact match, reserve number (Canada), Shakeosphere person ID, mains voltage, HKMDb film ID, relegated, promoted, NIOSHTIC-2 ID
  • Query examples: body of water with the most watercourses ending in it (source), French communes with names ending in ac (source), birthplaces of Europeana280 artists (source), popular eye colors (source)
• Development
  • Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (phabricator:T115792)
  • Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (phabricator:T136543)
  • Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
  • Worked on new visualization for the query service to visualize results with data on different dimensions
  • Improved build and deploy process for the query service. The site should load faster now.
  • Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
  • More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
  • Worked on a fix for the issue where sometimes an old label is shown in the main header of an item (phabricator:T135714)
• 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) 14:28, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

It's an edit-a-thon!

Looks like we were both working on Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/sandbox at the same time. How do you think it is coming along? Think we could launch it soon?

Of note, I got some feedback from people on IRC, and they recommended either compressing the header image or removing it altogether. It is very large in size—causing the page to load slowly—and it interferes with some gadgets. Harej (talk) 20:27, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

It isn't a must, but I think it adds a bit of extra flavor to the page. I'll redo it as a jpeg, sometimes my internet is too fast so I don't notice when things load slowly. I'll pop by IRC soon, need to go see to the washing machine first. Carl Fredrik 💌 📧 20:30, 11 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.

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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

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Books & Bytes - Issue 17

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 17, April-May 2016
by The Interior, Ocaasi, UY Scuti, Sadads, and Nikkimaria

• New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
• Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
• New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!

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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Androgen replacement therapy reversion

This reversion removed a bunch of legitimate fixes and valid additions. Please be more discerning in the future. Exercisephys (talk) 23:53, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

It also removed a merge proposal notification. Exercisephys (talk) 00:11, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

We don't merge articles that detail treatments in this way, and of all the "fixes" one was legitimate, and only marginally so — the see more-link to the Testoterone#Treatment page. Carl Fredrik 💌 📧 05:30, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Nope, I count at least three or four, which have since been reintroduced. Exercisephys (talk) 16:46, 20 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)

Removal of merge notification tag (again)

Replace the merge notification tag that you removed again. I'm not cleaning up your mess a second time. Exercisephys (talk) 16:36, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

WP:SNOWBALL — it isn't going to get merged. You're creating a mess, not cleaning one up. Carl Fredrik 💌 📧 19:55, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #215

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Verifiability and living persons, RfP voting eligibility
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikimania! The Wikidata-related program parts including slides and notes can be found on the Wikidata Wikimania page.
  • TIB and HsH project approved: The replication of Open-Access images
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
  • Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
  • SQID now shows references (example)
  • INSPIRE HEP has been added to Mix'n'match
  • PAWS is now available. It lets you easily run a Jupyter notebook and much more.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: language used, connector, Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers identifier, INSPIRE-HEP author ID, lighthouse range, memory capacity, water as percent of area, InterPro ID, domain of saint or deity
  • Query examples: sandwich ingredients (source), inventors killed by their own invention (source), objects with most mass (source), music genres (source), number of jurisdictions by driving side (source)
• Development
  • The majority of the Wikidata developers team atteded Wikimania
  • You can now embed query results from query.wikidata.org in other websites (example)
  • Linking MediaInfo entities to media files in the "MediaInfo for Commons" prototype (phabricator:T134473)
  • Tracking more statistics for the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T138500)
  • Adding support for quantity values with unknown uncertainty (phabricator:T115269)
  • Worked on fix for bug where new entities can be created with wrong language (phabricator:T138725)
• 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) 16:48, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Links

Hey Carl. Wondering what these links mean? [2] They do not work for me. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:18, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Suicide

"Media" is plural. Dr.enh (talk) 15:38, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Dr.enh - how is this related to me? Carl Fredrik 💌 📧 15:45, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

You reverted this revision[3] of mine.Dr.enh (talk) 02:07, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Media is uncountable. Carl Fredrik 💌 📧 09:08, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #216

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Europeana280 Art History Challenge has finished
    • Europeana blog post
    • video
    • Wikimedia blog post
  • The life and times of Mr Herbert Ellerby: Linking Llandudno, Lancashire, and Moggill, Australia
  • Wikidata auf der GPN
  • Past: PSESHSF (You can sign up to be notified about more Wikidata workshops in France)
  • Past: Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon
  • Upcoming: office hour on IRC
  • Upcoming: State of the Map US in Seattle - http://stateofthemap.us/
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia UK AGM with Wikidata training
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
  • Tobias started writing a tutorial on how to write infoboxes that make use of Wikidata's data and could use your help expanding it.
  • Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: British Book Trade Index ID, Plarr ID, warheroes.ru ID, Dailymotion channel ID, Munk's Roll ID, Catalogus Professorum Rostochensium ID, CageMatch tag team ID, Pleiades place type identifier, parliamentary term
  • Query examples: Ancestors of Guðni Jóhannesson (note the last names), movies with Bud Spencer (source), largest cities per country (source), longest river of each continent (source), rivers in Antarctica (source), continents (source), and some other continents (source), places with continent Antarctica more than 3000 km north of south pole (source), files used as “image” in more than 10 items (source), monuments historiques in Loire-Atlantique (source), music composers by birth place (source), places of whorship (source), teachers with most students (source), buildings in more than one country (source), sandwiches (source), composers and their most-used tonality (source), former capitals (source), list of suicide attacks (source), birthplaces of people named Antoine (source), places that are below 10 meters above sea level (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Etymology, Knowledge Organization Systems
  • Newest external tools: Navel Gazer (users statement addition counts)
• Development
  • More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
  • Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (phabricator:T89663)
  • Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (phabricator:T127056 and gerrit:294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
  • Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long, medium, short
  • Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (phabricator:T138974)
  • Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (phabricator:T139284)
• 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) 16:51, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 July 2016

• News and notes: Board unanimously appoints Katherine Maher as new WMF executive director; Wikimedia lawsuits in France and Germany

• Op-ed: Two policies in conflict?

• In the media: Terrorism database cites Wikipedia as a source

• Featured content: Triple fun of featured content

• Traffic report: Goalposts; Oy vexit

• Blog: Jimmy Wales names Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight as Wikipedians of the Year

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