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Sam Cooke

Your protection of Sam Cooke was reverted by a bot. Tapered (talk) 04:29, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

• The protection itself just expired, the protection template was what was removed by the bot. The bot doesn't have admin powers and can neither protect or revert protection on a page. Courcelles (talk) 04:30, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Thanks! Have some pasta.

    

    Tapered (talk) 23:46, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
    • And thanks for the protection. Tapered (talk) 00:58, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Page protection

Might be a good idea to lock the World News Today and BBC News at Ten pages. -KH-1 (talk) 06:44, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

• Done. Courcelles (talk) 06:45, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Spelling Bee

You've protected the 91st National Spelling Bee page. You said it was a violation of the privacy living persons, but each and every one of these people have signed a press release form, which makes this legal according to wikipedia laws.

• Not true, it may be legal to publish the names in terms of real law, but it is absolutely against Wikipedia's WP:BLP policy. Courcelles (talk) 19:13, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

It is neutral, so do you mean that I need to provide a source?

• No source will be good enough. You are not going to publish a long list of non-notable children's names on this website, full stop, end of discussion. Courcelles (talk) 19:21, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Who are you to say they're not notable? Wikipedia's laws say that it only has to be one event. You just have to speak of them in an unbiased way. It is just a list of names, so get over it. Erfson (talk) 23:50, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

• WP:NSPORTS They're not notable. Courcelles (talk) 23:55, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

They are notable, it says there must be reliable secondary sources about the person(s), which there are. Second of all, http://ghosttrick.wikia.com/wiki/Ghost_Trick_Wiki:Protected_page says "Do not protect a page you are involved in an edit dispute over. Admin powers are not editor privileges - admins should only act as servants to the user community at large." Also, someone clearly hasn't read the five pillars of Wiki.

• First, I'm not involved. 2) This is Wikipedia, please look at our own protection policy. And you seem to be missing WP:BLPNAME, which is policy here. Courcelles (talk) 14:11, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

I made this list back when I was still very new to Wikipedia, and sources were alien to me, but now I know how to use them, but when this expires in two months, I'll come back, but I promise it will be with the proper sources. Erfson (talk) 18:08, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Abiodun Williams

Thanks for protecting Abiodun Williams. Any reason you didn't restore the deleted, sourced information that was removed by the anon IP? Best, Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 03:16, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

• I never revert when protecting unless absolutely necessary; I just protected the version I happened to find. Courcelles (talk) 13:12, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Gotcha, thanks for the answer. Best, Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 17:00, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
    • I'm not very good at using wikipedia, so apologies if I am doing this incorrectly. Would it not be better to restore the version of the page including the section discussing the failure of The Hague Institute? As others have pointed out, it is well-sourced. There seems to be a concerted effort from Tufts University (or even Abiodun Williams) to bury this controversy but it has been a scandal that has been the subject of several newspaper articles, as well as being debated in the Dutch parliament. It would be odd to omit it entirely from the Abiodun Williams wikipedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justice Expert (talk • contribs) 21:04, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Just wait a week. The protection will be lifted after 25 April 2018. Best regards,Jeff5102 (talk) 06:58, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Someone wishing to re-add negative BLP information needs to go through and evaluate that all sources are reliable, that the sources used reflect a consensus of the sources available, and that all the information is in line with those sources. Quite frankly, I don't have time myself, but will drop the protection to semi if someone vows to do that before reverting. Courcelles (talk) 16:49, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

I work for a media analysis firm and I'm a native Dutch speaker, all info is correctly cited and come from credible sources (Institutional Dutch media and official documents of the Dutch Parliament). Anon seems to have differences with the media who published the articles, if that's the case he needs to settle that with the media not here. As long as anon user from Tufts doesn't win a court case for libel against these media and politicians, we can presume that the information is correct and shouldn't be removed. Best regards,Stadswacht1 (talk) 12:58, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Block evasion

No tienes permiso para modificar esta página, por el siguiente motivo:

Tu nombre de usuario o dirección IP ha sido bloqueada.

El bloqueo lo hizo Courcelles. La razón dada es Checkuser blocks.

   Inicio del bloqueo: 17:59 8 feb 2018
   Caducidad del bloqueo: infinito
   Bloqueo destinado a: Vanherboal

Puedes contactar a Courcelles o con otro de los administradores para discutir el bloqueo. No puedes utilizar la función «enviar correo electrónico a este usuario» a menos que tengas una dirección de correo electrónico válida registrada en tus preferencias de usuario y la función no haya sido también bloqueada.

Tu dirección IP actual es 84.125.41.7, y el identificador del bloqueo es #8193220. Incluye todos los datos aquí mostrados en cualquier consulta que hagas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.52.125.86 (talk) 13:31, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

• I"m not sure I understand what it is you want? Courcelles (talk) 13:35, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Hey by Player2847582 (talk) 01:04, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

What do you do in Wikipedia and look at my user talk page right now

Mistakes

Have you ever made mistakes sometimes? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Player2847582 (talk • contribs) 17:42, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

As an administrator

How long you been active since you became an administrator in Wikipedia? Player2847582 (talk) 04:55, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Malta at the 2018 Winter Olympics

The article Malta at the 2018 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Malta at the 2018 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 15:02, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Albania at the 2006 Winter Olympics

The article Albania at the 2006 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Albania at the 2006 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dom497 -- Dom497 (talk) 12:01, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for List of 1968 Winter Olympics medal winners

On 3 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article List of 1968 Winter Olympics medal winners, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Romania won its only Winter Olympics medal at the 1968 Games in Grenoble, France? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/List of 1968 Winter Olympics medal winners. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, List of 1968 Winter Olympics medal winners), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Turkey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

The article Turkey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Turkey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dom497 -- Dom497 (talk) 14:41, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Brazil at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

The article Brazil at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Brazil at the 2014 Winter Paralympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dom497 -- Dom497 (talk) 14:41, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey, thank you for protecting Group Animal. I think I forgot to thank you for passing The High Road to China last month, so thank you for that. Also, do you think we should finish User:Courcelles/List of accolades received by Far from Heaven this year? I believe it just needs a lead. - JuneGloom07 Talk 17:07, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

• Agreed, we should finish Far From Heaven this year. And I think you've got a pretty credible GAN in Group Animal. Always good to see your face. Courcelles (talk) 17:16, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Iveta Mukuchyan

Please see note on your DYK review. Yoninah (talk) 20:10, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

• I see your point, but I'm not sure that's actually a rule? Courcelles (talk) 20:31, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

SmileDirectClub

Hello! Can you help me understand why the SmileDirectClub page was deleted last night? When I looked yesterday, there were 2 votes to delete and 4 to keep the page. Why did the delete votes win? The page was originally flagged because a user affiliated with Smile Direct Club made updates to the page, which is apparently against policy. Can you explain what the preferred policy is for making factual updates to a page? As far as I understand, the user only updated out-of-date information, including old prices. To me, it seems like making those factual updates is more in keeping with Wikipedia's policies than removing the page altogether. Now it's no help to anyone! Really looking forward to learning more about the rationale for this and the appropriate way to correct factual inaccuracies. 173.128.144.63 (talk) 15:00, 24 April 2018 (UTC) Thank you!

• AFD isn't a vote, so you can't just count heads and close a discussion. (If we are counting snouts, it was 3-4; the nominator counts as a vote for deletion; not 2-4) It is a battle of ideas, a debate on policy. One side had a policy leg to stand on, the other did not. Namely that WP:CORP was not satisfied by the article in question. The keep side argued that some promotional content had been removed, not refuting the central point of the nomination. Courcelles (talk) 16:09, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
• Ok, thank you for explaining that. Can you tell me more about the process for making factual updates to existing content? If a person affiliated with the subject of the article isn't allowed to make updates personally, how are factual changes supposed to be made per Wikipedia policy? Obviously, another person can be tapped in to act on behalf of the organization, but that's not exactly kosher. Is there a way Smile Direct Club could have reached out to update factual inaccuracies by the book? Thanks again.

• Sure, there's a whole Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Courcelles (talk) 16:32, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
• Ok, very helpful. Would you consider re-instating the Smile Direct Club page as it was before the editor with the COI made changes, with the promise that the organization will follow the correct editing procedures moving forward?

• That doesn't solve the issues of notability, though. Courcelles (talk) 14:12, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #311

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Sort identifier statements on items that are instances of human
    • Make "developer" and "programmer" properties clearer

• Events
  • Wikidata and GLAM workshop day in the context of the EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, Monday 14 May 2018
  • Wikidata access methods, slides by Dan Scott

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • More than 850 living people' articles from the English Wikipedia which have date of death or place of death on their Wikidata item: manual checks needed. You can also check Category:P570 missing in Wikipedia
  • Florian will be improving Wikidata support in the Wikipedia plugin for OpenStreetMap's JOSM editor, for the Google Summer of Code 2018
  • Prssanna Desai will work on improvements for the Query Service during Google Summer of Code

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Deutsche Bahn station category, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Wikimedia outline, assistant director, island of location, possible medical findings, suggests the existence of, has evaluation, evaluation of, greater than, less than
    • External identifiers: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID, Behind The Voice Actors character ID, HanCinema film ID, Italian School ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, LGDB game ID, LGDB emulator ID, LGDB tool ID, LGDB engine ID, TFRRS athlete ID, All About Jazz musician ID, Ontario public library ID, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, WikiCFP event ID, WikiCFP conference series ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IMDA rating, is program committee member of, officialized by, KAVI rating, topographic map, child monotypic taxon, Köppens klimaklassifisering, Möllendorff transliteration, attested, geographic center, season of club or team, sports competition competed at, factorizsation, coastline, forest cover, vehicles per capita, audio transcription
    • External identifiers: e-MEC entry, Norwegian war sailor register ship ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials, GNOME Wiki ID, Israel Film Fund ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Cinema Project ID, Chinese Political Elites Database ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Person ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Movie ID, JMA Seismic Intensity Database ID, Portale della Canzone italiana IDs, Trustpilot company ID, Ester ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators
  • Properties lacking use created > 3 months:
    • Sign@l journal ID (P4726), INRAN Italian Food ID (P4729), produced sound (P4733), IBM code page ID (P4734), IBM graphic character global ID (P4736), Line Music album ID (P4748), Line Music artist ID (P4747), is proceedings from (P4745), National Historic Ships certificate no. (P4750), Manus Online ID (P4752)
  • Deleted properties: Réunion des musées nationaux ID (P5100)
  • Query examples:
    • Map of birth places of authors in the Portuguese Wikisource
    • Video games that are set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe by game mode (source)
    • Timeline of Programming Languages (source)
    • Timeline of people named Karl born in Karlsruhe (source)

• Development
  • Allow continuing Wikidata entity dumps (phab:T193688)
  • Make sure Wikidata entity dump scripts run for a short amount of time (phab:T190513)
  • Add monolingual language code shy (phab:T184783)
  • More work on preparing QuickStatements to be run by other parties (phab:T193606, phab:T192079, phab:T192365)
  • Expand references with constraint violations (phab:T177970)
  • Improving validation of Form representations on WikibaseLexeme (phab:T193011)
  • Fixing a bug that replaces a representation by another (phab:T192264)
  • Enable finding forms using wbsearchentities API (phab:T191981)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2018-19

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

• The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [1]

Problems

• The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [2]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [3]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).

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• All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [4][5]

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Your GA nomination of Netherlands at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Netherlands at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 19:04, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Uzbekistan at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Uzbekistan at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 19:04, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Andorra at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Andorra at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 19:04, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 19:03, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Algeria at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Algeria at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 19:03, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ethiopia at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Ethiopia at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 19:03, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 19:03, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2018

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue IV, April 2018 Headlines Australia report: HerStory in Alice Springs and Australasian Open Access Strategy Belgium report: Everybody WIKI Brazil report: Labs to introduce Wikidata and its potentialities in Brazil Catalan areas report: Event: Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science France report: City of Grenoble Italy report: Libraries in the spotlight Macedonia report: Macedonian Wikiexpeditions exhibition and workshops with Wiki Clubs members Netherlands report: 325,000 images from Dutch photo archives uploaded by Mr.Nostalgic Philippines report: First Wikipedian in Residence in the Philippines Portugal report: Partnerships, GLAMs & Art+feminism Serbia report: Strong support from the Ministry of culture and information of Republic of Serbia: Financing the three WIR programs and realizing GLAM seminars Sweden report: National museum of world Culture; Sounds and pronunciations; Nordic Museum Tunisia report: Upload Book UK report: National Library of Wales and Oxford University USA report: April showers Wikidata report: April Love WMF GLAM report: Wikipedians in Residence and Travel Calendar: May'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.

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GA Comments

My comments were not meant as a knock against you. You've done more recently and historically than I have (or likely will do) and yes even in the most distorted accounting you've been a net positive to GAR. I perhaps shouldn't have noted anyone as an example for that argument. I do so given that there was discussion on the talk page already about the short noms felt it could help illustrate a point about any individual nomination and the collective effect. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 22:19, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

• And I might have overreacted some, but it did feel like personal criticism -- I've been very deliberate to review more than I submit in this recent phase of my writing energy. Personally, I'd love a QPQ system where someone had to review one once they had five GA's to their name or something, or even a "5 nominations at a time" limit. But, yeah, it's always best to talk in generalities, not call out one set of articles as the problem. As to the length aspect, well, they're also fairly trivial to review. You could review any of them in ten minutes work, whereas it often takes me an hour or more to do a longer article properly. (Maybe I'm slow? Who knows?) Anyways, I'm rambling, Barkeep49, but sorry for getting a little defensive. Courcelles (talk) 22:26, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

And I am equally sorry for the personal example when the general would have sufficed. 22:29, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Project AMAD

Sourced information from the IAEA, the Gaurdian as well as literature was removed on the Project Amad article, and then a ARBPIA3 (the article has nothing to do with the Israel-Palestine conflict) was put on the article unjustly in order to not have the previously removed information restored to the page.

RedSparrow1 (talk) 14:16, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

• ARBPIA3 covers the entire Arab-Israeli conflict, not just the Palestinians in particular, despite the slightly misleading acronym. Courcelles (talk) 14:58, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

I think RedSparrow1 meant that Project Amad had nothing to do with Arab-Israeli conflict. Iran is clearly not an Arab country as you know. --Mhhossein ^talk 18:53, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Not Arab, but clearly within the broadly-construed language, I think. Someone would have to ask ArbCom for a current interpretation, which may differ than what I meant when I voted for it, which was that Iran would be part of it. Courcelles (talk) 19:00, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Iran is not part of the Arab world I see no reason for *ARBPIA3. RedSparrow1 (talk) 11:13, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Pelé

Brazilian soccer player Pelé’s article are protected. I suggest include after his name the KBE order title that he owns. It should be like that: “Edson Arantes do Nascimento, KBE ...” Pietovte (talk) 04:42, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

• (The place to suggest this is on the talk page, not here. Courcelles (talk) 13:12, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Block question

My account shows that I am NOT blocked from editing at Wiki.

When I attempted to add a section at The Salvation Hunters, a pop-up says I am blocked. But I could, nevertheless, make small edits, such as changing font in other parts of the article!

Can you shed some light on this? CerroFerro (talk) 18:14, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

• I've got no clue. I wonder if you were using a highly dynamic IP and settled on one temporarily that was blocked. Because if you made edits, you aren't blocks, rather the edit rewrites an entire article or adds a single space, the blocking mechanism doesn't care... Courcelles (talk) 19:13, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Delete my old user talk page

User talk:Pachisu124. And the one on Commons too. Because I was a moron a few years ago.

--Aneyh (talk) 16:41, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

• WE're generally not allowed to delete user talk pages, it is an explicit exception to WP:U1. Sorry. Courcelles (talk) 16:43, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

How come? It's MY old talk page, that I don't want to see anymore. That's stupid. So could you at least delete my old user page instead? That's one's much stupider.

--Aneyh (talk) 23:07, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

• That I can do. But deletion of user talk pages isn't allowed. You are welcome, however, to blank it. Courcelles (talk) 23:11, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Uzbekistan at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

The article Uzbekistan at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Uzbekistan at the 2014 Winter Paralympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 06:41, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Andorra at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

The article Andorra at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Andorra at the 2014 Winter Paralympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 07:01, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 08:21, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of San Marino at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article San Marino at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 13:20, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ethiopia at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Ethiopia at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Ethiopia at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 07:41, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Algeria at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Algeria at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Algeria at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 08:21, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of American Samoa at the 1994 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article American Samoa at the 1994 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 23:01, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Help with my blocking case

Hi there.

you've received this message as you are the most recently online Checkuser that I've found.

I'm user 459PHJ3502 [6]. My account got blocked by Bbb23 for editing Dawenkou culture, adding a comment in the Talkpage, and removing the code by a previously blocked user as I found it's not appropriate to cross a user's opinion even if this user has been blocked.

The blocking of my account was performed by Bbb23 without notification.

When I brought my case to Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents to review, user Bbb23 came and reverted my request for block review without explanation [7], [8], [9]. It's like I've been forced to shut up by this user. Even after being asked for an explanation in my summary at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, user Bbb23 still reverted my request for block review section without giving an explanation.. There is something unusual about user Bbb23.

Please help me with the block review of my case in Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. 58.224.26.190 (talk) 17:50, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

• You are blocked for abusing multiple accounts, in contravention of WP:SOCK. As you are continuing to sock, I have blocked this IP. Courcelles (talk) 18:14, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Project Amad

You protected this page from being edited by editors with less than 500 edits (like me), citing 'Arbitration enforcement'. Can you tell me what this means? Attack Ramon (talk) 15:59, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

• See WP:ARBPIA3. Basically new editors aren't allowed anymore in the various ISraeli-Arab conflicts topic area. Courcelles (talk) 16:02, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

But I just saw that that page is not within the scope of ARBPIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Mhhossein ???? Attack Ramon (talk) 01:56, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

also this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment Attack Ramon (talk) 01:58, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Bermuda at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Bermuda at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Bermuda at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of M00036 -- M00036 (talk) 17:41, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Please inform me when the changes suggested have been made for me to review. As I mentioned on the talk page, however, these pages are not often awarded Good Article status due to the difficulties in meeting all six criteria with limited content. M00036 (talk) 17:48, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

It's ready. Left some broader commentary on the entire thing on your talk page, and am watching there. Courcelles (talk) 19:37, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Boxestastebad

Revoke talk page access please, per [10]. Thanks. theinstantmatrix (talk) 21:12, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

• Done. Courcelles (talk) 21:13, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

GA project

Hey there. I figured I would invite you, if you are interested, to work on Oceania at the Olympics articles with myself and Cameron11598. I recently finished Tuvalu with DatGuy, Cam is finishing up Marshall Islands, and we are now working on Guam at the Olympics (and Kiribati). I made a list on my user page of most of the Oceania articles, still need to add Australia and some other big hitters. I have done a couple of non-Oceania topics as well. If you are interested in collaborating on any articles, for WikiCup or otherwise, let me know. Thanks! Kees08 (Talk) 19:29, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

• I'd love to help make some GT's; sounds like great fun rather than just doing nations randomly. Courcelles (talk) 19:37, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
  • Welcome to the Good Topic Olympic Oceanic Nations cult group --Cameron₁₁₅₉₈ ^(Talk) 03:25, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
    • Awesome! I would recommend either starting at the beginning of Guam and moving forward until we meet, or starting on whichever topic you want. If you want, I can try to do half of the topic. _{where did cameron even come from...} Kees08 (Talk) 05:14, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
    • If you are interested, here is a list of the smaller countries' participation at Winter Olympics (I have never written a Winter Games article before, seems like you like them?)
      • American Samoa at the 1994 Winter Olympics
      • Tonga at the 2014 Winter Olympics
      • Tonga at the 2018 Winter Olympics
    • If you want to do something else, then that's cool too. Thanks! Kees08 (Talk) 19:48, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
      • Great, I need to focus on this. I'll try and knock out the two Tonga Winter articles this weekend. American Samoa might take a little longer, the oldest I've done any of these so far is 2006. Courcelles (talk) 19:52, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
        • Awesome! I clipped some sources for you, there are plenty more. If you do not have a free Newspapers.com subscription through Wikipedia, you should get one, in case there are not many sources on the internet. Kees08 (Talk) 20:25, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
          • @Kees08:, I finished writing the American Samoa article, but I'm not sure I'm citing the newspapers.com clippings correctly? Courcelles (talk) 00:06, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
            • Just those couple of things, I add location sometimes too. Kees08 (Talk) 01:38, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
              • Thanks! I ususally don't cite location unless the name of the paper doesn't include it, or the location is obscure. Now... just to wait for a willing GA reviewer for the article! Courcelles (talk) 01:40, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
                • I figured as much, that's why I did not add it. Cheers! Kees08 (Talk) 02:12, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Username Violation

It looks like this user named HelloSillyCrapGoooses does meet the username policy. If it is a username violation, then can you block this user. Thanks, Blackmagic1756 (talk) 03:38, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Nevermind another user blocked him Blackmagic1756 (talk) 04:44, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

• Good, good, I was soundly asleep at the time. Courcelles (talk) 12:49, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

What about me Courcelles is my username violating the policy yes or no HotelServiceOwner (talk) 15:29, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Indefenite Semi protection

Can you add Semi protection to the 2018–19 United States television schedule because I afraid that users will put shows without a realible source. From A random user —Preceding undated comment added 18:16, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

• Why would I semiprotect an article that doesn’t exist yet? ACPERM means it already, essentially, is. Courcelles (talk) 18:22, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

I meant 2018–19 United States network television schedule now can you please add semi protection a random user —Preceding undated comment added 18:51, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

• Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. is what I'd tell you at RFPP, and I'm afraid that's what I'm going to tell you here. Courcelles (talk) 19:32, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of American Samoa at the 1994 Winter Olympics

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DYK for Albania at the 2006 Winter Olympics

On 7 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Albania at the 2006 Winter Olympics, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Erjon Tola was the only athlete sent by Albania to the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Albania at the 2006 Winter Olympics. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Albania at the 2006 Winter Olympics), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

On 8 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the alpine skier Corey Peters won a silver medal for New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Paralympics? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Paralympics. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Paralympics), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Vanamonde (talk) 00:01, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Brazil at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

On 9 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Brazil at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Brazil, Turkey, and Uzbekistan all made their Winter Paralympics debuts at the 2014 Sochi Games? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Brazil at the 2014 Winter Paralympics), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Turkey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

On 9 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Turkey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Brazil, Turkey, and Uzbekistan all made their Winter Paralympics debuts at the 2014 Sochi Games? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Turkey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Turkey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Uzbekistan at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

On 9 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Uzbekistan at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Brazil, Turkey, and Uzbekistan all made their Winter Paralympics debuts at the 2014 Sochi Games? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Uzbekistan at the 2014 Winter Paralympics), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of San Marino at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article San Marino at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:San Marino at the 2010 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 14:21, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Andorra at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

The article Andorra at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Andorra at the 2014 Winter Paralympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 19:41, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Uzbekistan at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

The article Uzbekistan at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Uzbekistan at the 2014 Winter Paralympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 19:41, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Netherlands at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

On 11 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Netherlands at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that until the Netherlands competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, all of the country's Winter Paralympics medals had been won by one woman, Marjorie van de Bunt? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Netherlands at the 2014 Winter Paralympics. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Netherlands at the 2014 Winter Paralympics), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ethiopia at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Ethiopia at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ethiopia at the 2010 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 19:01, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Algeria at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 19:41, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics

On 12 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

(Loaded onto MP by Gatoclass) Courcelles (talk) 12:55, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tajikistan at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Tajikistan at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Portugal at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of San Marino at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Portugal at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Portugal at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Portugal at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Tajikistan at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Peru at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 08:01, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Peru at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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Wikidata weekly summary #312

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Adminor

• Events
  • Past: GLAM forum in Yerevan, Armenia, 10-12 May 2018
    • slides for 'What is Wikidata: How can GLAMs work with Wikidata?' presentation by Andy Mabbett
    • A Wikidata workshop was given by Liam Wyatt and appeared at the national Armenian television
  • Wikidata workshop day at GLAMwiki conference in Rotterdam, May 14th
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, May 18th
  • Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata: a platform for your library’s linked open data by Stacy Allison-Cassin & Dan Scott, in the journal Code4Lib (also posted on Reddit)
  • Enriching Reconciled Data with OpenRefine, by Karen Hwang

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser
  • New monolingual code available: shy (Shawiya)
  • You can have a look at the draft for the RDF mapping of Wikibase Lexeme
  • New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: item for this sense, season of club or team, Möllendorff transliteration, geographic center, coastline
    • External identifiers: none
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IGAC rating, taxon described in publication, jockey, Norsk fjordkatalog-ID, Wikidata:Dataset Imports, toponym
    • External identifiers: Bugs! artist ID, Bugs! album ID, KKBOX artist ID, KKBOX album ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Kunstenpunt organisations, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia label ID, Rockipedia area ID, Norsk historisk leksikon ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, Relationship Science profile ID, D&B Hoovers company profile, Victorian Heritage Register ID, CIVICUS Monitor country entry, FloraCatalana ID
  • Underused properties created >3 months:
    • Songwriters Hall of Fame ID (P4757), V Live channel ID (P4756), MONA ID (P4758), Harvard botanical journal ID (P4754), Images d'Art artwork ID (P4761), has boundary (P4777), lot number (P4775), Arcade artwork ID (P4764), biological phase (P4774), crates.io ID (P4763)
  • Query examples:
    • Museums near you (source)
    • Places near you that are the subject of publications (source)
    • Map of libraries in Wales (source)
    • Map of schools in Italy (source)
    • List of TeX/LaTeX commands for special characters (source)
    • Largest first-level country subdivisions (i.e. larger than 400,000 km²) (source)

• Development
  • Fix the bug where changes in the watchlist and Recent Changes on Wikipedia should have been shown but were not (phab:T192673)
  • Clarify error message for the merge API (phab:T180296)
  • Add violation type to restrict which entity types a property can be used (phab:T164744)
  • Added a constraint to blacklist values for a property (phab:T183092)
  • Fix a bug showing the wrong alias in the edit summary when editing an alias (phab:T190492)
  • Fix some bugs related to displaying thumbnails in statements (phab:T193880, phab:T192667, phab:T193499)
  • Continue looking into dispatch issues (phab:T194602)
  • Working on adding an integer constraint (phab:T167989)
  • Preparing to deploy WikibaseLexeme extension on Wikimedia cluster (phab:T168260)
  • Making sure that the form ID counter is preserved when clearing the lexeme via the API (phab:T192264)
  • Applying the same validation to the language code of the Lemma and the representation (phab:T191504)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:54, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-20

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

• Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
• The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
• The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [12]

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22:23, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 19:40, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 20:20, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nepal at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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2018 Commonwealth Games

Why did you remove the sponsors' section from the 2018 Commonwealth Games page? Just check the 2000 Summer Olympics page as it has the sponsors' section. Sheffieldgraduate (talk) 06:50, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

• And you'll notice Sydney is orange tagged for advertising... these lists just amount to corporate spam and take up entirely too much of an article so as to be WP:UNDUE weight. Courcelles (talk) 12:05, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Request for Help - Britain's Got Talent (series 12)

Hi, is there any chance you can help? Some IP users are putting in dates for episodes that can't be confirmed as such at the moment, as was done before on the article in question, but refuse to heed requests to provide confirmation or have the information removed for being possibly false. GUtt01 (talk) 19:43, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

• Semi-protected for 3 months. That should slow it down some. Courcelles (talk) 19:45, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 01:21, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mongolia at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 16:41, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

A personal request

Could you please perform a checkuser on me and ban my previous account, with the reason being I've moved to this account? Whatever it is, I don't know the name of it, and I don't want to go back to it anyways, since I remember being a real idiot when I was using it because I didn't really understand policy.💵Money💵emoji💵^Talk 12:18, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

• I need to send you an email to complete this task, please turn on your email? Courcelles (talk) 12:22, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
  • I've turned it on.💵Money💵emoji💵^Talk 12:31, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
    • Sent you one. Courcelles (talk) 12:39, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
      • I saw it. That isn't my old account, mine had 500 or so edits on it. The last edit from the old account was in mid 2017, about a year ago. It's okay if you can't find it, it's inaccessible anyways, so nothing is lost. Thank you very much for taking some time to look into this.💵Money💵emoji💵^Talk 12:44, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
        • Sorry, then; CU can only "see" 90 days into the past. Courcelles (talk) 18:15, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Portugal at the 2006 Winter Olympics

The article Portugal at the 2006 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Portugal at the 2006 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 20:01, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of San Marino at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Portugal at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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Tech News: 2018-21

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

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17:34, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Peru at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Peru at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Peru at the 2010 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 12:02, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Need to question about use of Talk Pages

Hi, it's me again. I just was checking out Wikipedia today, when I found that someone made mention of me on four separate articles, regarding my editing on them - each was on a novel by Agatha Christie, and the mentions were by Prairieplant. I'm not sure why they didn't think to send me a message regarding them, which I would have naturally sent a response to, but I don't know if what they did conforms to policy and guidelines about talk pages. I found that when they noticed my edits again, they make mention of it, and believe that what is there is what I want to have stand - this is not the case.

All I did was redo the plot summaries to trim down details, and length - if anyone wants to work on them further to make them conform to Wikipedia's guidelines on novels, I won't have any objection to that. The other thing I find concerning about the mentions on these talk pages, is whether they appear to be a personal attack on me - to get mentioned four times on the same thing, is slightly unnerving. I don't want to respond to all four, because if they had an issue, why didn't they talk to me on my Talk Page, not these articles?

The talk pages I have mentions on are Talk:Cards on the Table, Talk:Cat Among the Pigeons, Talk:Evil Under the Sun, and Talk:After the Funeral. Could you check these out and let me know what you think? And in terms of the subject behind their mentions, would you also check these four articles, and give me an honest, reasonable and fair review of what I did? I would much appreciate and respect your input. Please let me know when you can. Thanks GUtt01 (talk) 07:06, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

• It looks like Prairieplant pinged you each time, so you should have received notification of the mention; not on your talk page as you might be used to, but on the little counter next to your username on the top of every page. (If for some reason you have these turned off, go turn them back on right away, they've become critical to operating on Wikipedia!). As to the actual conduct, that's going to take longer to look into, give me a while. Courcelles (talk) 13:06, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, I did notice the notifications of the mention, but was surprised that they were spread across four separate talk pages. GUtt01 (talk) 13:30, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

That's a little unusual. Would have been better operationally to centralize discussion on one page, or a WikiProject page, and just notify the other pages. Four separate discussions is unwieldy. Courcelles (talk) 15:55, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Indeed. I would have preferred them to do that, or send me a message. Besides, I was trying to do my bit to make the plot summaries be reduced in length and detail. If he thinks there's an issue, surely he could have seen what others think, and naturally I would not further editing, revisions and so forth to any of my edits. GUtt01 (talk) 16:18, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 17:21, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #313

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Addshore, Pintoch
  • New request for comments: How to manage software versions, Improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user
  • Closed request for comments: Privacy and Living People

• Events
  • Past: Europeana Tech Conference (including a lot of Wikidata workshops and discussions)
  • Past:Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, 18-20 May in Barcelona
    • Check the hashtag #wmhack on Twitter to see what has been worked on regarding Wikidata
    • List of the projects that have been demoed during the showcase
  • Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • A look back at the first Federated-Wikibase-Workshop
  • Martin Poulter gave a TEDxBathUniversity talk about Wikidata
  • The Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST) has been launched; Wikidata is represented by the Wikimedia Foundation
  • "Translating a blog post into structured data" Martin Poulter, the Bodleian Digital Library blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A bunch of new constraint types were recently added
  • A Request for comments on improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user
  • We have deprecated units used for this property (P2237). Please update any tool which uses this property to use the new API before it gets deleted.
  • EditGroups is a new tool that lets you review, discuss and revert entire edit groups made by various tools.
  • PictureThis! Is a new tool integrated to WikiShootMe! that allows you to choose an item and upload a picture of it

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: IGAC rating, KAVI rating, established from medical condition, vehicles per capita (1000), applies to name, Wikipedia glossary entry
    • External identifiers: Chinese Political Elites Database ID, amateur radio callsign, Bugs! album ID, Bugs! artist ID, Cinema Project (Israel) ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators ID, e-MEC entry, Ester ID, Israel Film Fund ID, KKBOX album ID, KKBOX artist ID, Norwegian war sailor register ship-ID, OnsOranje match ID, OnsOranje player ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials ID, Trustpilot company ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Flanders Arts Institute organisation ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Norwegian historical lexicon ID, Norwegian fjord catalog ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia area ID, Rockipedia label ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Victorian Heritage Register ID, FloraCatalana ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: animal water well, World Rugby Ranking, Schulsprengel, dedicated object, conjugation class, word stem, visible by means of, Production website, software version of, Japanese pitch accent, reading pattern of kanji, has conjugation class, stroke count, radical, grade of kanji, Party coalition, Naturdenkmal ID, ISO 3950 code, software version, software developer
    • External identifiers: Eurohockey.com club ID, Namuwiki, Daum Encyclopedia, Melon song ID, Sistema de Información Cultural, African Studies Thesaurus ID, nwhl.zone player ID, YouPorn ID, Pornhub ID, NWSL player ID, eBird hotspot ID, British Library system number, Flickr tag, Sveriges Dödbok, BAG Openbare ruimte ID, BAG Pand ID, SpectraBase Compound ID, Carnegie Hall event ID, Carnegie Hall work ID, Armenian National Academy of Sciences ID, Armenian Cinema ID, Armenian Parliamentary ID, National Gallery of Armenia work ID, Spyur ID, OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiad player ID, GONIAT author ID, GONIAT taxon ID, GONIAT paper ID, GONIAT place ID
  • Dormant properties created >3 months:
    • USA Rugby player ID (P4778), MYmovies name ID (P4785), CiNii author ID (articles) (P4787), Who's Who UK ID (P4789), uses data storage type (P4788), Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID (P4796), Basketball-Reference.com referee ID (P4795), PARES ID (P4813), BWSA ID (P4811), LoC and MARC vocabularies ID (P4801)
  • Query examples:
    • Most populous first-level country subdivisions without legislatures (source)
    • Prisoners of Conscience by place of birth (source)
    • Photos of railway stations from Latvia and Estonia (source)
    • Map of items near me that have a label in Catalan but not in French (source)
    • Places of residence of accused Scottish witches (source)
    • Poets whose fathers were lawyers (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Sustainable Development, Wikipedia Sources
  • Newest database reports: list of English Wikipedia outline articles, US states

• Development
  • Hackathon!
  • Work on adding “integer” constraint (phab:T167989)
  • Fix a bug expanding the references with a constraint violation (phab:T193669)
  • Add a "mis" code language to enable uncoded languages in Wikibase Lexeme (phab:T194754)
  • Improve the different language fields in the interface of editing a Lexeme (phab:T191504)
  • Finish work to edit Forms via the web API (phab:T190906)
  • Include special Lexeme IDs (phab:T187060)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Your GA nomination of Nepal at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Nepal at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Nepal at the 2010 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 21:21, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for American Samoa at the 1994 Winter Olympics

On 16 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article American Samoa at the 1994 Winter Olympics, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that despite being born in Indiana, Brad Kiltz represented American Samoa at the 1994 Winter Olympics? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/American Samoa at the 1994 Winter Olympics. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, American Samoa at the 1994 Winter Olympics), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Netherlands at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

The article Netherlands at the 2014 Winter Paralympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Netherlands at the 2014 Winter Paralympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 10:01, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

User:Bhutanese Diplomatic Passport

Could you disable talkpage access? Thanks. 195.201.107.240 (talk) 22:12, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

• Done by MaxSem! Courcelles (talk) 22:18, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Rollback rights

Hello Courcelles, I wanted to ask you if you could grant me rollback rights. Recently there were frequent high level disruptive edits and vandalism by IP accounts in some articles concerning early Turkish football and its championships, such as in List of Turkish football champions, Turkish National Division, and Turkish Football Championship. Having that feature would really help me dealing with those vandals. Thank you in advance. Akocsg (talk) 00:04, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

• Done. Courcelles (talk) 00:50, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mongolia at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Mongolia at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mongolia at the 2010 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 15:21, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Monaco at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Monaco at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of QatarStarsLeague -- QatarStarsLeague (talk) 23:01, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 20:01, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

May 23: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday May 23, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday May 23 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 03:12, 23 May 2018 (UTC) P.S. You are also invited to Action = History: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for Asian American Literature on Sunday May 27!

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The Signpost: 24 May 2018

• From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline

• Op-ed: Has the wind gone out of the AdminShip's sails?

• Opinion: Integrating my many lives on Wikipedia

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals

• Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

• Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics

• News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia

• In the media: Wikipedia in Turkish politics; COI politics in Wikipedia; most cited work

• Traffic report: We love our superheroes

• Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies

• Blog: Why I write about women on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues

• Humour: Play with your food

• Gallery: Wine not?

• From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost

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The Signpost: 24 May 2018

• From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline

• Op-ed: Has the wind gone out of the AdminShip's sails?

• Opinion: Integrating my many lives on Wikipedia

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals

• Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

• Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics

• News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia

• In the media: Wikipedia in Turkish politics; COI politics in Wikipedia; most cited work

• Traffic report: We love our superheroes

• Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies

• Blog: Why I write about women on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues

• Humour: Play with your food

• Gallery: Wine not?

• From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost

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Your GA nomination of Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 21:01, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 23:01, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #314

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Pintoch, Addshore (both successful)
  • New request for comments: Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?

• Events
  • IRC office hour, on May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office. Special topic: Lexemes on Wikidata

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Paper on Cellosaurus, with mappings to Wikidata, by Amos Bairoch
  • Blog post from Galder Gonzalez announcing the Lexemes (in Basque)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Ongoing: On 24 May, there was a significant outage affecting Wikidata and sister projects that use Wikidata. As a result, some features of are temporarily disabled: Wikidata's property suggester, Lua modules and parser functions calling by label instead of ID, search for the ArticlePlaceholder. We apologize for the inconvenience, we're working to get them back as soon as possible. For technical details, see: phab:T195520 & Incident documentation/20180524-wikidata.
  • As announced last week, the “integer” constraint type and the “separators” parameter for the “single value” and “single best value” constraint types are now supported in WikibaseQualityConstraints.
  • Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata! Check the announcement for more details. Feel free to try adding words and give feedback
  • Structured Data on Commons has designs for displaying and using multilingual captions on the file page. Feedback is welcome on the talk page.
  • You can try the new Drag&Drop gadget developed by Yarl and give feedback
  • The European Commission announces a review of the Database Directive.
  • OpenRefine 3.0 beta was released. You can get an overview of the new Wikidata-related features with tutorials and videos.
  • TextRazor is a web service which analyses text and identifies the entities and concepts discussed, giving the corresponding Wikidata QIDs.

• Did you know?
• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: grammatical gender, conjugation class, word stem, Sandbox-Lexeme, Sandbox-Form, synonym, derived from, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, officialized by, Wikidata dataset import page, output method, IMDA rating, adapted by, topographic map, date of commercialization, stroke count, has conjugation class
    • External identifiers: CIVICUS Monitor country entry, Relationship Science organization ID, JMA Seismic Intensity Database ID, Eurohockey.com club ID, Daum Encyclopedia ID, Melon song ID, ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID, British Library system number, eBird hotspot ID, BAG public space ID, BAG building ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Vocalized form, display technology, compound of, Chromosome number, Vietnamese character reading pattern, fanqie, evokes, homograph lexeme, homograph form, prime factor, classifier, Accomplice, Slavic Alphabet, signum
    • External identifiers: BMRB ID, ICSC ID, Baidu Baike ID, Tree of Life Web Project ID, Argentine biography deputy ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. ID, Chromosome numbers of the flora of Germany database ID, Filmow ID, Cité de la musique ID, Giant Bomb ID, OpenCorporates corporate grouping, Artists in Canada record number, RollDaBeats ID, Songfacts ID, ARWU ID
  • Properties not really used, created >3 months:
    • Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number (P4814), Amtrak station code (P4803), make-up artist (P4805), sets environment variable (P4809), Technical Element Score (P4815), Rugby Australia ID (P4799), TORA ID (P4820), Panoptikum identifier (P4818), Cour des comptes magistrate ID (P4821), La Poste personality ID (P4822)
  • Query examples:
    • Map of places of birth of Liverpool's football players (source)
    • Areas of Malaysia states (source)
    • People and the distance between their place of birth and place of death (source)
    • Grammatical cases of languages (source)

• Development
  • Deployed and activate WikibaseLexeme on wikidata.org so you can now store the first lexicographical data on Wikidata (phab:T191457)
  • Fixing the encoding issues on labels of items linked on Lexemes (phab:T195470, phab:T195359)
  • Fixed an issue that was preventing adding Forms and Lexemes in statements (phab:T195402)
  • Suppressed the browser's autocomplete that covers WikibaseLexeme's suggestion on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T195383, phab:T191526)
  • Worked on a bug about representation overwriting other representation with the same language code (phab:T193636)
  • Changed title of the field of a lemma language to make it less likely for people to add a translation as a second Lemma (phab:T193603)
  • Working on the RDF mapping of WikibaseLexeme (phab:T160260)
  • Working on implementing fulltext search for Lexemes (phab:T189739)
  • Working on showing Lemmas for linked Lexemes instead of just their ID on special pages like Special:AllPages (phab:T195382)
  • Fixing issues that happened after dropping an index from the wb_terms table (phab:T194270, phab:T195642, phab:T195611)
  • Made constraint check result appear directly after adding a new statement (phab:T194247)
  • Working on looking up entities by external identifiers on Special:Search (phab:T99899)
  • Added Docker image to Wikibase website (phab:T189936)
  • Added WikibaseImport script to Docker images to make it easier for people to start their own Wikibase install with some data imported from Wikidata (phab:T192080)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2018-22

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

• You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [13][14]
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [15]
• Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [16]
• Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [17]
• There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [18]

Problems

• Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [19]

Changes later this week

• There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [20]
• A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [21]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [22]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [23]
• A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [24]
• Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [25][26]

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12:40, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 17:01, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cayman Islands at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 19:41, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Peggy Schuyler

Hey,

Thank you for protecting this page! Would you consider doing longer protection than 2 months as it seems to have just finished a 12 month protection and the disruptive vandalism started back up? (I know I stated 4 months in my original request but...apparently I didn't read the years from the protection log).

Thanks! -- Dane ^talk 22:18, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

• Done, for three years. Courcelles (talk) 22:22, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Question

Since I see that you blocked Trestimesalady because that user is a sock evader of Smallmouthbassboost and Overthebarrel. There is now a user name "Knowthewaytojose" who has the similar editing patterns as those accounts. Is this possible that the user is evading a block? Raritydash (talk) 02:05, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Good eye. Confirmed as a sock and blocked. Courcelles (talk) 02:09, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, also what I'm concerned about is that those account that I listed above, I believe that they are a sock puppet of User:Wikidawg11; the master account who has done the same thing 3 years ago. Do you believe that those accounts belong to that master? Raritydash (talk) 02:13, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Who knows, and with a master that old who's already blocked and made 30 edits, I don't really care enough to spend time investigating. Courcelles (talk) 19:07, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Then, I'll just assume that it's "Smallmouthbassboost". Raritydash (talk) 22:36, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
• Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

• A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

• In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

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Wikidata weekly summary #315

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata IRC office hour, May 29th
  • Past: slides of "Wikidata in GLAM, how and why" by Jason Evans during EuropeanaTech conference
  • Figsharefest: "(Personal) use-cases for Figshare in a Wikidata narrative", June 4th, Brussels (slides)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Using the Hive Mind: WikiData Integration and Artist Pages on the blog of the National Galleries of Scotland
  • Tools for Wikipedians: Keeping track of what’s going on on Wikidata from Wikipedia by Jens Ohlig (also available in German)
  • Wikidata and Scholia as a hub linking chemical knowledge poster presented at 11th International Conference on Chemical Structures (PDF)
  • A complete video walkthrough to learn how to use OpenRefine: how to match, clean up and import data into Wikidata
  • Lexicographical data: number of existing lemmas per language

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now search for values of a statement in Special:Search (P31, external-ids and strings)
  • You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki.
  • Country geoshape data have been added to Commons and linked to the corresponding Wikidata items. These geoshapes can be used to visualise query results e.g. World map showing population of each country.
  • Concordances: mappings between Wikidata and other knowledge organization systems

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: chromosome count, prime factor, pronunciation variety, compound of
    • External identifiers: ISO 3950 code, National Gallery of Armenia work ID, GONIAT author ID, Armenian National Academy of Sciences ID, Armenian Parliamentary ID, GONIAT paper ID, GONIAT place ID, GONIAT taxon ID, Spyur ID, Armenian Cinema ID, BMRB ID, ICSC ID, Tree of Life Web Project ID, NWSL player ID, Information Center for Israeli Art artwork ID, OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiad player ID, Argentine biography deputy ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. ID, Carnegie Hall event ID, Carnegie Hall work ID, Chromosome numbers of the Flora of Germany database ID, D&B Hoovers company profile, Filmow ID, SpectraBase Compound ID, Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris work ID, Artists in Canada record number, RollDaBeats artist ID, Songfacts song ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: grammatical category, IAB code, title number, chữ Nôm, noun, gender inflection, winter view, of, alternative form, lexical category, spelling variant, hyphenation
    • External identifiers: myschool ID, IPTC subject code, Canal-U person ID, FilmTv.it movie ID, FilmTv.it TV series ID, FilmTv.it person ID, Corago ID, Les Enfoirés participant ID, Les Enfoirés song ID, iTunes App Store developer ID, NDOP taxon ID, BirdLife International ID, Relationship Science person ID, Czech Geomorphological Unit Code, Swedish Gravestone ID, OED Online ID, Dordrechts Museum, Finnish national bibliography corporate name ID, SJP Online ID, Contemporary Music Portal ID, Web umenia work ID, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales Work ID, Cdmc ID, Monarch Disease Ontology ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ID, Saint Louis Art Museum ID, Strava ID of a professional sport person, StadiumDB identifier, Songfacts artist ID, World Stadium Database identifier, Douban Movie Celebrity ID, Firmenbuchnummer
  • Properties waiting to be used, created >3 months:
    • Program Component Score (P4826), deductions (in figure skating) (P4825), Swimrankings meet ID (P4827), Sailboatdata ID (P4833), World Sailing regatta ID (P4832), Landslagsdatabasen ID (P4830), Irish Rugby Football Union women's player ID (P4836), Wolfram Language entity code (P4839), Directory of Czech publishers ID (P4840), development of anatomical structure (P4843)
  • Query examples:
    • List of Danish female athletes (source)
    • Battles within 100km of Edinburgh (source)
    • Grammatical features graph (source)
    • 10 items having the biggest number of sitelinks (source)
    • Writers and their signatures (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Eurovision
  • Newest database reports: verb categories

• Development
  • The API respond for maxlag will in the future also include the dispach lag (phab:T194950)
  • Add Elastic and CirrusSearch in the Wikibase Docker image (phab:T192813)
  • Add OAuth extension to wikibase bundle container (phab:TT192364)
  • Work on showing constraints in the QueryService (phab:T194762)
  • Make the PropertySuggester use CirrusSearch (phab:T195490)
  • Add integer constraint in the constraint checks (phab:T167989)
  • Add “citation needed” constraint type (phab:T195052)
  • Make Special:EntityData should handle form IDs (phab:T192149)
  • Fix encoding problems for labels displayed in Lexemes (phab:T195359)
  • Improve the text in the grammatical feature field (phab:T193604)
  • Work on showing Lemma on Special:AllPages and other pages (phab:T195382)
  • Work on better handling use of statements linking to Lexemes on client (phab:T195615)
  • Fix a bug that breaks Lexeme when language or lexical category items don't have a label (phab:)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:57, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	For patrolling admin pages like WP:RPP. Gee that was fast... JustBerry (talk) 19:39, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

• Thank you. We need more admins patrolling RFPP, it sadly seems there is always a backlog. Courcelles (talk) 19:44, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

  Agreed! --JustBerry (talk) 19:47, 27 May 2018 (UTC)