User talk:Ganeshk/Archive 35

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 12:50, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

The new run of Trochidae stubs?

Hello Ganesh, a few articles near the end of the new run of Trochidae stubs had 7 line spaces between the lede and the rest of the article. This oddity started at Sericominolia vernicosa and ran for the last 6 ones, but I already fixed the final 3 by hand. I left the first 3 unaltered so you could see it fresh.

Also, a few of the first species stubs, Omphalomargarites sagamiensis, Cantharidoscops clausus, and Cantharidoscops frigidus failed to get an italic title. There may be others without italic title because I did not yet check any stubs between Cantharidus sanguineus and Pseudominolia gradata.

Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 16:31, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

P.S. I see that Stomatella illusa also has the 7 line spaces after the lede. I don't know if this is true of others here and there, but I suppose it probably is. Invertzoo (talk) 14:16, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

P.P.S. I also see that Pseudostomatella cycloradiata has no italic title, plus strangely the species name is written with the genus name twice, on two different lines in the taxobox. Invertzoo (talk) 14:19, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi Susan, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I was away on a vacation. Thanks for checking the stubs. The line space issue was an oversight on my part. I usually let the bot run twice on each article. One for creating the stub and the second for removing the blank lines. I must have closed out the program before it ran through the full list of the species articles. I have just finished removing the blank lines from the articles. I will look into the italic issue next. — Ganeshk (talk) 04:31, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi again, I hope you had a nice vacation Ganesh. Thanks for checking these three issues, 1. extra spaces, 2. no italic title and 3. duplication of the genus name. Thanks again, Invertzoo (talk) 14:48, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Seems to be a technical automatic taxobox issue. I have requested for help on it here, Template_talk:Speciesbox#Italics_2. — Ganeshk (talk) 14:50, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi Ganesh. I'm in the process of checking the new run of your bot on Trochidae. Cantharidoscops clausus and Cantharidoscops frigidus both state in the taxobox(title and species) twice Cantharidoscops. Furthermore, the title doesn't appear in italics (unless I put a template for this). Can you check this ? JoJan (talk) 16:29, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi JoJan, I will look into the italic issue right away. — Ganeshk (talk) 04:31, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

All the issues have been resolved now. Please let me know if you find any other issues. — Ganeshk (talk) 22:03, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Ganesh! Invertzoo (talk) 00:42, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Copyright Commercial, Non Commercial

Hi Ganeshk,

Sorry to be a bit slow on this, but I still don't quite understand the difference between these licences. As a photographer I'm used to giving away my images for non-commercial purposes, but not sure what someone is allowed to do if I leave off the NC. Does this mean, for instance, that someone can take my image from Commons and incorporate it in his book app or ebook without my permission, then sell his product for a profit? Surely this is at odds with Wikipedia's ethos of being free? I understand that he is obliged to attribute and that derivatives may be made from my image.

BernardP (talk) 21:27, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

You can help....

Hi!
We at India Noticeboard are discussing some sort of flagging arrangement for reviewed articles and some help from editors who have knowledge of bots would be useful. Please take a look at the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics#Large_amount_of_un-patrolled_bad_edits and guide us. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 09:18, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Ganeshbot

Hi there.
I am interested in your bot creation village in India. Any possibility of posting a translated article in ms wiki? Yosri (talk) 00:47, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I need to study that. But how about Indian village. Do you still have the data? May i used is in MS Wiki?
Regards. Yosri (talk) 08:16, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Oh! Is this still good? User:Ganeshbot/Census2001 Yosri (talk) 08:32, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your assistants. Yosri (talk) 21:40, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

You might be interested in http://makanaka.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/indias-2011-census-a-population-turning-point/ Yosri (talk) 23:50, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Noticeboard for India-related topics

Hi, can you have a look at the page. The transclusion is currently malfunctioning. --Anbu121 (talk me) 08:27, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Infobox settlement - data analysis

Gansehk, I found you on the bot request page. Can you have a look at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Infobox settlement - data analysis. Around 330 000 articles seem to use this template. It would be nice to analyse the data and detect inconsistency. The first field that comes to my mind is the field settlement_type. If the type contains a country specific link, one could also check whether subdivisions are filled correctly, for India, a taluka page should have a district listed. And the state should be the same for all talukas that have this district. NVanMinh (talk) 07:30, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks a lot for the reply. NVanMinh (talk) 12:43, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

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My Bot Request

Many thanks for the signpost! Sounds easy, but I'm sure it's not! I'll try and get my head round it in the next few days. If I fail, I'll take you up on your kind offer! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 23:39, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Ganesh. I've downloaded AWB but I'm unable to log on as Llywelyn2000 ("You are not enabled to use this"). Either the cy-Wiki isn't configured for AWB to work or I need to Register with CheckPage (yet that page informs me that it for en-Wiki ONLY). I've also given myself Bot status, just in case, as I'm an Admin on cy-Wiki. Any ideas? Llywelyn2000 (talk) 10:38, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I've logged on. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 13:27, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

... and redirected a few pages. However, I've encountered a small problem: Many of my Latin names have (wrongly) two white spaces, rather than one e.g. "Lithophane ornitopus". Is there a quick way to edit to one space rather than two? Or can AWB correct automatically? Thanks again. We're getting there! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 19:38, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Your walkthrough is superb! Great work! and thanks for your help. I'm sure I'll be back for more help, but at least you have given the Welsh language an exoset missile in our fight for the conservation of that rich diversity of culture! Diolch. BOT-Twm Crys (talk) 06:53, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

You alone responded to my Bot request, and in the last two days I've managed to set up a Bot and completed one of the three requests - thanks to you! Can I move on to my second request: how can I copy existing English langauge Infoboxes (e.g. Infobox UK place) from en to cy? Many thanks, Llywelyn2000 (talk) 07:18, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick response (again!). I've left a message for you on my talk page. Thanks. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 06:57, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I now have AWB access for my account. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 23:49, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Bore da! I've been trying to add the two lat/long lines to the Scottish peaks for a couple of hours. When I go to the "Options > Normal Settings" menue, I can add ONE line. I do that and it recognises the ##Z## and ##A## (coordinates) columns correctly. But can do but one line. Therefore I open Advanced Settings; then typed a new rule:

Find:

| dosbarthiad

Replace with:

| lledred = ##Z##

| hydred = ##A##

| dosbarthiad

PS The ";" are here only, not on AWB!

What effect does this have? Exactly as above! It does not input the coordinates. Yet it finds them in "Normal Settings"! In "Typed" I have "Inside Templates" ticked. I'm nearly there... Thanks. Llywelyn2000 (talk) aka: - BOT-Twm Crys (talk) 06:17, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi. I've left another message here. Thanks! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 10:24, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Your edits to Template:Automatic taxobox

As part of this set of edits, you changed:

| parent = {{Taxobox/taxon|{{{taxon|}}}|{{{1|}}} }}

to the following, if I strip out the insertion of "Acacia":

| parent = {{Taxobox/taxon|{{{taxon|{{PAGENAME}}|}}}|{{{1|}}} }}

However, these don't have the same behaviour. Since the first parameter to {{Taxobox/taxon}} now always has a value, your code is equivalent to:

| parent = {{{taxon|{{PAGENAME}} }}}

so (a) the invocation of {{Taxobox/taxon}} is redundant (b) the anonymous first parameter to {{Automatic taxobox}} can't be used, so {{Automatic taxobox|Acer}} doesn't work, whereas it used to. I don't believe that the form with an unnamed parameter is ever used (or desirable), so this change doesn't matter. BUT the insertion of {{PAGENAME}} here is wrong; {{Taxobox/taxon}} checks whether the raw page name is correct and tries {{PAGENAMEBASE}} if not, which will strip off bits of the page name like " (plant)" or " (genus)" put there to disambiguate. Can you please restore at least this part of the original logic? What's needed (ignoring Acacia) is:

| parent = {{Taxobox/taxon|{{{taxon|}}}| }}

Peter coxhead (talk) 15:27, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

See reply at my talk page. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:50, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Omitting PAGENAME broke Template:Automatic_taxobox

The recent change to remove PAGENAME from parameter "taxon" (in Template:Automatic_taxobox) seems to have re-broken the template:

| parent = {{Taxobox/taxon|{{{taxon|<noinclude>Acacia </noinclude><includeonly>{{PAGENAME}}</includeonly>|}}}|{{{1|}}} }}<!--

was changed to this:

| parent = {{Taxobox/taxon|{{{taxon|<noinclude>Acacia</noinclude>}}}|{{{1|}}} }}<!--

That change has caused over 2,300 articles to exceed the expansion depth, and clutter the tracking category:

• Category:Pages_where_expansion_depth_is_exceeded - cluttered with over 2,300 {Automatic_taxobox}

The resulting clutter causes the category to be almost unusable for other Wikipedians, who must wade past those 2,300 Automatic_taxobox articles to check for expansion-depth problems in other articles. The clutter is totally debilitating, as if an automobile dashboard lit up with 2,900 vehicle-failure lights, and the owner of the car must sift through all the clutter to determine which of those 2,900 warning lights indicate serious problems, and which are merely "normal errors" among those 2,900. Most people cannot work under such conditions. The choice is clear: Template:Automatic_taxobox must not ruin a tracking category, by adding massive clutter, to impact the other 9,500 Wikipedians who edit many articles each month for train routes, towns, historic sites, WikiProject banners, etc. If Template:Automatic_taxobox cannot be used within system limits, then it should not be used at all. Again, the choice is absolutely clear: this is not Wiki-Automatic_taxobox-pedia, and the integrity of the entire system must be preserved, rather than promote the use of broken templates which function beyond system limits, to the detriment of other users. We cannot have templates which clutter a vital error-tracking category with thousands of entries, and obscure critical problems lost in an ocean of errant template operations. Since this problem has persisted for years, then weeks of future analysis will be needed to find some better solutions. -Wikid77 (talk) 13:42, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Ganeshk was just doing what I asked him to do, because the changes made in November had broken the automatic taxobox on some pages. It didn't work on a page whose name contains a disambiguating string (like " (genus)" or " (animal)") if the taxon parameter is omitted, which the old system allowed (and its documentation actually encouraged).

Clearly we all agree that the automatic taxobox system must operate within system limits. The issue is whether its intended behaviour can be implemented without exceeding the expansion depth. I have never liked the way Martin coded it to use the page name if the taxon parameter was omitted in {{Automatic taxobox}} – I would never have written it this way myself – but it's how editors have become accustomed to using the template. The correct behaviour when the page name is used by default has to include using {{PAGENAMEBASE}} to strip off any disambiguating strings in the page name otherwise it doesn't work properly. I would support a change to requiring the taxon parameter to be present and removing the default use of the page name, but this would require all pages which use the default to be changed. Perhaps a bot could do this. Alternatively there may be a way of re-coding the template which prevents resource errors. Is {{PAGENAMEBASE}} itself the problem, or the way that it is currently used? Peter coxhead (talk) 16:58, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

I've now been through and manually fixed all the pages where the page name is the taxon name plus disambiguating text in parentheses – names like Yoda (genus). It's only these pages that were affected by the reversion to the old code in Template:Automatic_taxobox which I asked you to make – because the taxon parameter was omitted, these pages had been picking up the taxon name from the page name and then relying on {{PAGENAMEBASE}} to strip off the disambiguating text, which wasn't happening. Now that I've fixed these pages by adding the taxon parameter:

• Please revert the change to Template:Automatic_taxobox I asked you to make. The old code is no longer needed and reverting will fix many expansion depth errors.
• I will update the documentation to say that if the page name is not exactly the same as it is in the name of the relevant "Taxonomy/TAXON" template then the taxon parameter must be used.

Thanks! Peter coxhead (talk) 09:51, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

• Expansion-depth category cleared and usable: Thank you for reverting the change to {Automatic_taxobox} which was needed for only a few articles, and now the exceeded-depth category has been cleared of those extra 2,620 taxobox articles within a few hours, to allow seeing just a 3-page list of articles to fix. I have already fixed an erroneous talk-page and 4 articles for NRHP historic sites, which had exceeded the 41-level depth. The next taxobox depth problem is related to 410 taxonomy templates with the taxonomy/key subtemplates, which can wait a few more weeks to be reduced. -Wikid77 (talk) 20:08, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Narayana Murthy

We need admin help on Narayana Murthy. I have been trying to edit this article for six months now and Kkm010 keeps rolling back changes without discussing it on the Talk page. I have made repeated attempts to discuss on the talk page and yet the user refuses to discuss and instead undoes the changes repeatedly. Can you please warn the user or prevent him/her from disruptive editing the page? --- Tib42 (talk) 16:17, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

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New stubs by bot

Hello Ganesh, I have not yet really looked at the latest batch of new bot stubs, but I wanted to point out that for Acremodontina varicosa there are a whole bunch of spaces after the intro sentence and before the references section, plus the bot did not put the project template on the talk page. Thanks for all your work. Invertzoo (talk) 17:18, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Not sure how this article got left out. I have fixed it now. I have also checked the last 200 new pages and found no other issues. — Ganeshk (talk) 17:45, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Yes I also checked the rest and found no other glitches. Thanks again Ganesh! :) Invertzoo (talk) 13:18, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

New note

Hi... Thanks for messaging me. Can you help me out with everything that you included in your last message. I am new to editing wikipedia so I didn't know what to do. It would be really helpful if you told me how to do it. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mayura Ravi (talk • contribs) 18:35, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Bivalve Barnstar
		This spiny Spondylus Barnstar is awarded to you Ganesh, in recognition of all your 2012 work on the subject of bivalve mollusks as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Bivalves, including (of course) founding the project itself! All your efforts are much appreciated! Invertzoo (talk) 18:25, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

January 2013 Barnstar

		The Gastropod Barnstar
		For the enormous amount of good work that you Ganeshk (and your bot friend) have put into Wikiproject Gastropods this year: working with JoJan to set up and create our new stubs; listing all the changes needed for keeping our preexisting stubs up to date in terms of changes; and also generously helping me whenever I needed technical advice, I award you this Gastropod Barnstar. You have certainly earned it! Congratulations and all the very best wishes for 2013! Invertzoo (talk) 20:12, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

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Meetup

Thanks for the post about the library meetup, wish I could have made it. Do you know tentativly when the next one will be?

Thanks,

Jab843 (talk) 20:36, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Re; Thanks for your quick response! It is quite unfortunate that I could not make the one in Atlanta, but I hope I will have time to make the other one. When would the next one be in ATL. Also what was the turnout like?

Thanks,

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Wikidata weekly summary #41

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• Development
  • We are live on the Hungarian Wikipedia \o/
  • We have an intern for a week, Marius aka User:Hoo man. He’ll be working on the wizard for linking a new Wikipedia article to an existing item or creating a new item for it if none exists yet. (the first two stories here)
  • Refactored sites code to improve design
  • Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
  • Added lots of new Selenium tests
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Wikidata weekly summary #42

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• Development
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  • Switched the demo system to Labs’ puppet
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  • More work on wikibase.getEntities() function for Scribunto/Lua-Templates
  • AbuseFilter is now working with Wikibase
  • The change dispatcher script is now ready for use on the WMF cluster
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  • Created a widget for the client to connect a page to a Wikidata item and add interwiki language links to a page
  • Preparing a page to list unconnected pages on the clients
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  • InfoLunch at Hasso-Plattner-Institut
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• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Reconfirmation of temporary admins
  • Next deployment (Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia) still scheduled for 30th of January as planned
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Wikidata weekly summary #43

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

• Development
  • Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia ([1] [2] [3])
  • Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
  • Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
  • Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
  • Working on property parser function for the client
  • Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
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  • References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
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  • Styling of the user interface for statements
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  • Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
  • Worked on puppet
• Discussions/Press
  • Abuse filter guidelines
  • Policy on properties
  • First external tool for output in RDF: [4] and [5]
  • Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)
• Events
  • We’ve set the date for the next office hours
  • upcoming: FOSDEM
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Admin reconfirmation is still ongoing
  • Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Wikipedia for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.
• Open Tasks for You
  • Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
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Welsh-cy - Problem with copying Infoboxes

Hi Ganesh. Can you take a look at the last two inputs I made on my Talk page please. The problem is with what follows the pipe. Any text following a pipe was not copied into the text box. This meant that e.g. "| unitary_england = Bedford" was changed / copied by AWB to the text file as: "| unitary_england = [[Bedford (borough)". See here. Any ideas, please? Can I also thank you for your time over the last few months, and may I wish you a great new year. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 08:56, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi. There's a message for you here. Thanks. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 04:02, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

100px		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I award Ganeshk the Tireless Contributor barnstar for his fantastic efforts with Infoboxes in the past 2 months. Diolch yn fawr! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 14:51, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Post mortem: the problem was with the references: a couple of the URLs had a tilde! So I changed the module so that I had no references; then it worked! Now I have another small problem: I'm trying to copy all Town Infoboxes from en to cy. The module worked fine and produced a textfile "Infodata" with around 200 Welsh towns (in English). I then spent 5 hours translating these towns into Welsh (eg Monmouth = Trefynwy). However I must have deleted or added a tilde somewhere along the line! AWB now tells me that the column header needs to match the number of columns. Can I force it to work on the correct towns only, and leave out the town I messed up? Or can CSV Loader not point out which field has actually been messed up so that I can Skip it? Sorry bothering you again with such trivial matters. Diolch. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 05:22, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Version 1.0.0.17 is behaving very well - better than my wife! You are a wizard!!! Brilliant, and than you VERY much. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 13:09, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Template:Taxonomy/Nesta

The template Template:Taxonomy/Nesta has a link to an disambiguation page with "Nesta". Due to the complex programming, I am unable to solve it. Can you take care of that soon? Thanks! The Banner talk 16:15, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

 Done — Ganeshk (talk) 16:19, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #44

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

• Development
  • Deployment of the first parts of phase 2 (infoboxes/statements) on wikidata.org done - see it live for example here, here and here
  • Diffs for statement edits can now be shown
  • Started work on query definitions
  • Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
  • Edit links are now hidden when viewing old revision
  • Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
  • More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
  • Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
  • New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
  • JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
  • Repaired and updated the demo system
  • Resumed work on Linked Data interface
  • Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
  • There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
  • Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
  • Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
• Discussions/Press
  • Signpost
  • Lots of discussions about the usage details and policies of phase 2 on d:Wikidata:Project chat
• Events
  • FOSDEM
  • upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on the English language Wikipedia is still planned for Monday late evening UTC (pending a performance review)
  • List of existing properties and their usage
  • List of new proposed properties
• Open Tasks for You
  • d:User:PinkAmpersand is looking for someone to write a script that once someone has been made an autopatroller, retroactively patrols all of their prior edits
  • d:Wikidata:Press coverage could use some love and care
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #45

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

• Development
  • Deployment to English Wikipedia
  • Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
  • Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
  • Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
  • Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
  • Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
  • Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
  • Started with valueview refactoring
  • Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
  • Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
  • Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
  • Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
  • Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
  • More work on Lua-based templates for entities
  • Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
  • Created query object
  • Proper bot-flagging of edits (bugzilla:44857)
  • Use of ID to directly address an item or property
  • Search should give more of the complete matches now
  • Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
  • More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
  • Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
  • Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
• Discussions/Press
  • List of currently existing properties
  • Proposals for new properties
• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
  • Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
  • Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
  • New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
    • Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
    • Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
    • Ability to add items to claims by their ID
    • Better handling of deleted properties
    • More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
  • We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
  • Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
  • Check out a well-done item
• Open Tasks for You
• Help expand en:Wikipedia:Wikidata
• Help expand and translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
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question about special:export

• hello Ganeshk , since you are the editor who made me aware of special:export, I wonder if you know the answer to a relevant question. I asked a question about "fixing" redirects so they can be properly exported, here. Many thanks • Serviceable†Villain 02:59, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
  • Thanks! I'm sure I knew about that once, but I had quite forgotten. Tks again! • Serviceable†Villain 04:25, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
    • A tiny word of caution (but don't miss the thanks above): Your method worked like a charm, but the output had a few residual undesirable results. if you ever recommend this to anyone else, tell them to check for things like those below:
• Category:Redirects from alternative names
• Category:Redirects from alternative names
• Category:Redirects from initialisms
• Category:Redirects from long names
• Template:R from incorrect name
• Template:R from incorrect name • Serviceable†Villain 04:50, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #46

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

• Development
  • Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID
  • Updated demo system
  • Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
  • Implemented first version of a string data type
  • Worked on better error reporting from the API
  • Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
  • Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
  • Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities)
  • Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance
  • Worked on cleanup of local entity store
  • Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries
• Discussions/Press
  • Wikidata development will continue in 2013
  • Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing
  • RFC about the Wikidata API
  • Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at d:Wikidata:List of properties and new ones are being discussed at [d:Wikidata:Property proposal]]
  • RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata
  • Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines
• Events
  • office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log)
  • upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
  • Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them
  • Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata
  • “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata)
  • List of most used properties
  • OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles
  • Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
  • We’ve hit d:Q5000000
  • Had a look at d:Wikidata:Tools lately?
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  • Help translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
  • Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia

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Wikidata weekly summary #47

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

• Development
  • Extended diff view to include references now
  • Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view
  • Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData
  • Updated the demo system
  • More work towards using Solr for our search
  • More investigation and fixes of search issues
  • Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior
  • Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar
  • Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript
  • A lot of bug fixing
• Events
  • Wikipedia Day NYC
  • upcoming: Wikimedia metrics and activities meeting
  • upcoming: office hour (German)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
  • Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
  • Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
  • d:Wikidata:Database reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties
  • The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs).
  • The list of available properties is growing and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed
  • Reasonator gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person
  • Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category
  • A few more additions to d:Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements
  • We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to the remaining Wikipedias that will get phase 1 on March 6
  • Hack on one of these

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Hi.

Thanks for the help. Sorry its been my friend who has been updating all the stuff. I saw your message only today. And could you please check whats the problem with the image copyright I have? I've sent an email from my Facebook id, granting the permission for the usage of the picture. For both the pages. It would be great if you can help. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajesh.ashok (talk • contribs) 13:01, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Singhsons.png

Thanks for uploading File:Singhsons.png. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. —Bkell (talk) 15:07, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #48

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

• Development
  • More work on widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly without having to go to Wikidata
  • Bug fixes for Wikipedias, including:
    • don't show edit link when noexternallanglinks magic word suppresses Wikidata links (bugzilla:45037)
    • use Q## links instead of linking to Special:ItemByTitle for “edit links” link (bugzilla:44536)
    • preference for showing Wikidata edits by default in watchlist (bugzilla:44973)
  • Catching up on writing tests for untested functionality
  • More work on the Lua support for accessing data from the repository (wikidata.org) on the Wikipedias
  • Updated Wikidata’s Vagrant development machine
  • Created initial QueryStore interface
  • Created initial setup code for the SQL QueryStore
  • Discussed and created initial schema for the SQL QueryStore
  • Simplified code for client settings, including which namespaces can have Wikidata links. The default is now all namespaces, without needing to explicitly specify them in the settings
  • Improved code for sorting interwiki links in the clients, with step towards allowing the communities to specify custom sort orders per Wikipedia
  • Improved handling of deleted properties
  • Further work on replacement for current search box
  • More work on improving error reporting and edit summaries in the API
  • Tim and Aaron killed the mystery bug that caused corrupt login tokens (bugzilla:41586)
• Discussions/Press
  • Hacker News noticed we exist
  • RFC about opting out of global sysops or not (more RFCs d:Wikidata:Requests for comment)
  • Asked the Italian, Hebrew and Hungarian Wikipedias if they want to be the first to use phase 2 (will ask a few more to join the first batch later today)
• Events
  • WMF Metrics and Activities meeting (recording is linked there)
  • office hour in German
  • upcoming: Bibliothek & Information
  • upcoming: Wikidata trifft Achäologie
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We’re now live on all Wikipedias with phase 1 \o/
  • Deployed bugfixes and a new data type (string) to wikidata.org
  • How will Wikidata impact Wikipedia?
  • More useful database reports (more are being requested on the discussion page)
  • Quite a few new properties that make use of the new string data type now and more are being proposed
  • Lukas wants to work with us to improve usability
  • New user scripts at d:Wikidata:Tools
• Did you know?
  • Is a specific bug report really important to you? If you have an account on bugs.wikimedia.org you can easily add yourself to the CC list of the bug and then receive updates about its status via email
  • Wikidata is also on Twitter, identi.ca, Facebook and Google+
  • There is an IRC channel too: #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Continue being awesome

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Wikidata weekly summary #49

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

• • Development
  • Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
  • More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia
  • More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia)
  • Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
    • bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
    • bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
  • Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
  • Selenium tests for multiline references
  • Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client
  • Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox
  • Selenium tests for language-table
  • Implemented in-process caching for entities
  • Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
  • rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
  • Improved error reports from the API
  • Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
  • Added a table of content to item pages
  • Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia
  • Finished implementation of References-UI
  • Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript
  • Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information
  • Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation
  • Minor bugfixes in Statements-UI
  • More work on RDF export
• Discussions/Press
  • When to autoconfirm users
  • More property proposals
• Events
  • Bibliothek und Information
  • 3rd Media Web Symposium
  • upcoming: Wikidata trifft Archäologie
  • upcoming: SMWCon
  • Log of latest office hour on IRC (in German)
  • We’ll be at the Amsterdam Hackathon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New features/bugfixes on wikidata.org are planned for March 20
  • Lua roll-out! You’ll be able to use it soon to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia. Here's two introductory blogposts: [6] [7]
  • The new pope didn’t go unnoticed on Wikidata either
  • Someone sent the dev team a cake! <3
  • Want an easy way to add authority control data? Check this
  • We crossed item ID 7000000
  • We now have over 4000 active editors \o/
  • Some more stats based on a database dump from end of February
  • Reasonator got a few more goodies
• Did you know?
  • If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language
  • Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help translate m:Wikidata/Deployment Questions
  • Hack on one of these

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Indian Barnstar of National Merit

		The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
		For your innumerable contributions to WikiProject India and other India related articles I award this barnstar of National Merit to the only Indian Administrator I have ever seen. Congratulations & Cheers - Jayadevp13 (talk) 11:46, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Jayadev. There are many other Indian administrators around. — Ganeshk (talk) 04:10, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

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Scissurella mantelli

Hi, Ganesh. Can you fix the taxobox of Scissurella mantelli ? Thanks. JoJan (talk) 12:44, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

 Done — Ganeshk (talk) 09:58, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

The taxobox still shows problems, as Scissurella is not specified. Could you check again ? JoJan (talk) 09:35, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

It's OK now. JoJan (talk) 09:38, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #50

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

• Development
  • Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
    • Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
    • Fixed the prev/next links in diff view (bugzilla:45821)
    • d:Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets you filter by language and entity type
  • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
  • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
  • Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
  • Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
  • Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
  • Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the Wikipedias.
  • Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
  • Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
  • Support for multi-line references in diff view
  • Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
  • Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
  • Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and visibility of bad dependencies
  • Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
• Discussions/Press
  • Denny had a look at some data about Wikidata
• Events
  • 3rd Media Web Symposium 2013
  • Wikidata trifft Archäologie
  • SMWCon Spring NYC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Join us for the Amsterdam and Wikimania hackathon and Wikimania
  • Too many items with the same label and no description? Terminator helps you hunt them all down and clean them up. Also check out the top 1000
  • Interested in the distribution of books by genre on Wikidata and similar things? WikidataStats can help
  • d:Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot needs input from more people
  • Detailed list of bots
  • Collecting information about creating a bot
  • We’ve crossed Q8000000
• Did you know?
  • When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse. “Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but it is unknown to us.
• Open Tasks for You
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  • Still looking for the right way to contribute for you? Have a look at d:Wikidata:Contribute

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Wikidata weekly summary #51

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

• Development
  • The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their articles (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at it:Torino)
  • Worked on automatic summaries for statements
  • Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of {{#property:p169}} for example
  • Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.)
  • Selenium tests for qualifiers
  • Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
  • Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)
• Discussions/Press
  • Denny wrote down how we’re planning to support queries on Wikidata. Feedback welcome.
  • Proposal for a vandalism policy
  • Now that improvements for references have been deployed here’s a discussion on the best way to use them. (You can see an example of how it could be used in the source for “CAS registry number” on d:Q153)
  • Should Wikidata have featured items?
  • RFC about restricting the ability to create properties to some users
  • Heise.de reporting about deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias
  • Report about a collaboration event between Wikipedians and archeologists
• Events
  • Newline 2013
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that.
  • Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed!
  • Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri!
  • We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis
  • We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful.
  • In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you.
  • We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at bugzilla:44228
  • Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: bugzilla:46461
  • Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? This is for you
  • The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again. At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted.
  • Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata
  • Wikidata was added to wikipulse
  • A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set
• Did you know?
  • If you need to merge two items d:Help:Merge explains how
• Open Tasks for You
  • See note at the end of this weekly summary
  • Help test qualifiers (m:Wikidata/Notes/Data model primer#Qualifiers - see also example statements there) on the test wiki so we can roll it out with the next release
  • Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!)
  • Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label?
  • Hack on one of these

Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk)

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Wikidata weekly summary #52

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

• Development
  • The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
  • Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
  • Worked on improving recent changes code in client
  • Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
  • Implemented string formatter
• Discussions/Press
  • RFC for defining the bureaucrats role on Wikidata
  • RFC about statements for items related to software
• Events
  • upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
  • There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
  • There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
  • We hit Q10000000
  • A Wikidata item in the wild ;-)
• Did you know?
  • There are a number of task forces that take care of specific jobs or topics on Wikidata
  • You can get database dumps to play with
  • There are a lot of stats about Wikidata on http://stats.wikimedia.org
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hit a random item and add a missing source?
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #53

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

• Development
  • Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
  • Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
  • Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
  • Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
  • Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
  • Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
• Events/Press
  • right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
• Discussions
  • The RFC about bureaucrats was closed
  • RfC about policy for translation admins
  • We need feedback from contributors working on references addition or having tried to add references to statements. Please comment about your problems or your trials at d:Help:Sources
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
  • Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
  • There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
  • If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
  • There is a new user right: property creators
  • There is now a page to request deletion of a property
  • We now have Bureaucrats
  • Reasonator was improved and extended (1 2)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Help draft the next weekly summary

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Two columns / Find and Replace on AWB

Hi Ganesh. I'm looking at creating a very simple spellchecker in Welsh with more than just a handful of words. As a starter I have set up [Defnyddiwr:Llywelyn2000/Anthemau cenedlaethol this page] to try out, and would like to use the Find / Replace to translate from English to Welsh ie {{Flag|Argentina}} to {{Flag|Yr Ariannin}}. I have a CSV file with two fields: the English country names and the Welsh words. Is there a way of getting AWB to see and use this CSV file? Many thanks. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 21:12, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. There are "more than a handful" of replacements. In fact 180 something! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 22:06, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #54

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

• Development
  • Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
  • wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (bugzilla:45005)
  • Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (bugzilla:45140)
  • Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
  • Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
  • Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
  • Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
  • Work on the storage code for answering queries
• Events/Press
  • GLAM-WIKI 2013
  • upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
  • upcoming: Opensource Treffen
  • upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
• Discussions
  • RfC about references and sources
  • RfC about local oversighters
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 (infoboxes) on English Wikipedia is planned for April 22. All remaining Wikipedias are planned for April 24.
  • Qualifiers are available now. In the same update several bugs have been fixed mainly related to Internet Explorer 8. At the same time search has been made case-insensitive. More details here.
  • d:Wikidata:Notability has been completely rewritten
  • Cool task force page: d:Wikidata:Video games task force
  • List of Wikipedia articles that still have language links in the wiki text
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #55

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

• Development
  • Started working on support for the Time data type in the frontend (editing/displaying of time values)
  • Fixed copyright tooltip’s issues where it was not possible to dismiss it
  • Started work for making it possible to track where on the client a property is used
  • Work on dispatching changes to Wikipedias via the redis job queue
  • Introducing core hooks to allow us to avoid page re-rendering when language links are changed
  • Implemented automatic comments for setClaim (adding/setting claim, adding/removing/changing qualifiers)
  • Investigated issue where edit conflicts are detected in error
  • Fixed wrong revision shown in history-view
• Events/Press
  • A lot of articles about the deployment of phase 2 on all Wikipedias among them: Wikipedia-Datenfundus Wikidata geht in den Regelbetrieb, Wikidata goes live worldwide, Wikidata-revolutionen är här: Möjliggör strukturerade data på Wikipedia
  • Wikimedia switching to MariaDB in c'T (German): Wikipedia wechselt von MySQL auf MariaDB
  • Office hour about references (log)
  • Introduction to Wikidata - talk at the British Library
  • OpensourceTreffen in Munich
  • Upcoming: Hypertext 2013
• Discussions
  • RfC about vandalism
  • RfP for oversighters
  • RfC about interproject links interface
  • RfC about inactive administrators
  • RfC about permissions for rollbackers regarding vandalism
  • RfC about Kinship
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Phase 2 has been deployed on English Wikipedia and all remaining ones
  • Deployed a widget that makes it easier to add language links when there is only one language link on Wikidata so far
  • Page to collect information about phase 2 on the Wikipedias
  • Page edits have passed 31 million.
  • d:Help:Shortcut lists shortcuts for frequently used pages
  • Nice interaction of local data and data from Wikidata on English Wikipedias
• Did you know?
  • Item Q12000000 is is the Czech Wiki entry about "Výškové horolezectví" or "high altitude climbing"
  • Newest properties are: occupant, color (hex triplet), NOR, member of, color (item), opposite of, said to be the same as, IMO ship number, foundational text, Emporis ID, Structurae ID, industry, cohabitant, astronaut's missions, original network, launch site
  • Newest qualifiers are: determination method, role
  • Properties merged: sister and brother (discussion)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Translate the Table of properties into your language
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • If fixing a particular bug is especially important for you then please consider voting for it in Bugzilla to help the development team prioritize. A list of all of the currently open ones is here.

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Selecting a part of an article to input text

Hi Ganeshk. I would like to add a few sentences using variable data to produce that sentence. That has been done successfully but I can only apend or prepend this info into the article. Can I place the text after the first paragraph or let's say at the end of the existing article text? Or is this a question for AWB? Many thanks. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 13:26, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Wouldn't it be nice if we could select whether to place the additional text after paragraph 1, 2, 3 etc? That would make life easier and give me a few minutes extra to plant a few seeds in our veg garden! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 20:06, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. For me to be able to: "the last few words" + "new sentence", I would need "last few words" which are common in all articles. This isn't always the case, as you know eg all villages are in Wales are written differently. It would be nice to tell AWB to insert a new paragraph about the 2011 census after paragraph 2. By the way, I've added around 7,000 new articles (villages of England) on the Welsh Wicipedia, over the weekend - all thanks to you! Archive? Yes! But there's no time for me to blow my nose, let alone archiving! I'll do it one day! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 15:31, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #56

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

• Development
  • Worked with students on their Google Summer of Code proposals
  • Worked on time data type editing in the frontend
  • Worked on improving the DataTypes system
  • Working on better Continuous Integration strategy
  • Moving Selenium tests to Cloudbees & Saucelabs
  • Catching up with Selenium tests
• Events/Press
  • Hypertext 2013
  • upcoming: Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
• Discussions
  • RFC to enable the "flood flag"
  • RFC about "labels in uncommon language variants"
  • RFC to create "Items for Wikimedia projects besides Wikipedia"
  • 7 users requesting access to the oversight permission
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Bugfixes were deployed on wikidata.org. The ones you probably care about are:
    • when clicking "edit links" on a Wikipedia article the user is automatically taken to the language links part of the item. Hopefully it is now more obvious how to change the links.
    • fixed a few cases where edit conflicts where detected in error
    • added automatic edit summaries for adding qualifiers and claims
    • fixed wrong revision being shown in div history
  • Translators can now sign up to receive translation notifications at d:Special:TranslatorSignup
  • Visual query interface for Wikidata
  • 3 Wikimania submissions that could use your vote at the bottom: State of Wikidata, The Technology Behind Wikidata, Ask Us Anything About Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Recorded at (studio), Supporting actor/actress, Palissy identifier, Filmaffinity number, input device, Volume (collections), Historic Places identifier, CELEX number, country calling code, local dialing code, eight banner register, lakes on river, dan/kyu rank, legislated by
  • Newest task forces: Pokémon task force, Cultural heritage task force, Space task force
• Open Tasks for You
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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This Month in GLAM: April 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue IV, April 2013 Headlines From the team: Some personal thoughts on GLAM Australia and New Zealand report: Wikipedia in academia and libraries in Australia Denmark report: Upcoming Edit-a-thon 1864 Finland report: WLPA; GLAM Sessions; Funding France report: Brest Germany report: Hamburg Museum; Museum August Kestner Hungary report: Article writing contest about statistics and related sciences Italy report: Wikipedia workshop; Editathon on women's biographies Mexico report: Fotofestín activities; DIY scanner project progress and Winners of the Holy Week in Mexico photo contest at ITESM Campus Ciudad de Mexico Netherlands report: GLAM WIKI UK; Wiki loves Sound; Wikipedian in Residence; Wiki loves Libraries; Wikipedia Training National Museum of Ethnology Spain report: Longest edit-a-thon ever at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona Sweden report: GLAM handbook version 3; conferences; hackathons and Wiki Loves Public Art Switzerland report: Swiss Federal Archives looking for a Wikipedian in Residence Taiwan report: Taiwan Government Data Portal Launched UK report: GLAM-Wiki; new and departing Wikipedians in Residence USA report: First GLAM Boot Camp; Consortium meeting; GLAMout; plus workshops and editathon Special story: Intersections between GLAM and Wikinews Open Access report: Featured content; Wikimania sessions 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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Talk page notification test

Ganeshk (talk) 03:42, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #57

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

• Development
  • Implemented basic editing of Time values
  • Worked on advanced editing of Time values (having a preview, defining precision and calendar model while editing the value)
  • Work on RDF mapping/export
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Solving issues with WMF Jenkins
  • Migrating Selenium test from RSpec to Cucumber
• Events/Press
  • Interview on dradio.de
  • PHP Unconference Europe 2013
  • PHP Days 1013 Berlin
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
• Discussions
  • RfC: Bureaucrats' role in removal of permissions
  • RfC: Disambiguation pages guidelines
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Blog post by Magnus Manske about the Wikidata tool ecosystem
  • New mailing list for discussion of development of Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ISO 4217, CBDB ID, ORCID, country of origin, ICD-10, ICD-9, OMIM ID, orbit diagram, provisional designation (astronomy), currency symbol description, chairperson, Unicode character, MeSH ID, archives at, IMA Number
  • Newest task forces: Baseball
• Open Tasks for You
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #58

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

• Discussions
  • What should be done with the property stable Version?
  • Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
  • The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata
• Events/Press
  • A lot of Wikidata-related submissions have been accepted for Wikimania
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
  • upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Amsterdam
  • upcoming: Linked Data in Business
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • d:Help:Lua is now the place for all things Lua on Wikidata
  • Item d:Q13000000 is Devarakonda, a village in India.
  • The geographic relation "exclave of" is the property with the ID 500.
  • English Wikipedia discussion closes allowing for use of Wikidata
  • Template to display a tree based in Wikidata data
  • Deployed new bugfixes on wikidata.org including a fix for pages not being added to the watchlist automatically plus the first version of the RDF exort
  • The ability to include data using the property label is planned to be deployed on English Wikipedia on Monday and all others on Wednesday (You can then for example use {{#property:logo image}} in addition to {{#property:P154}}.)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: exclave of, enclave within, HURDAT identifier, ISO standard, home port, general manager, ISO 15924, Swedish county code, BNFC Thesaurus, cause of death, brother-in-law (sister's husband), honorific prefix, academic degree, birth name, interleaves with, state, phase, powerplant, interaction, part concerned, armament, scheduled service destination, type of orbit, temporal range start, temporal range end, Swedish municipality code, located on island, consists of
  • {{Property|123}} can be used on Wikidata to get the label of the given property (P123) in the readers language. {{label|Q123}} does the same for items.
• Development
  • Simplified the inclusion syntax (this is one way how you access data from Wikidata in a Wikipedia article - the other one is via Lua)
  • Result of the external codebase review has been published
  • Worked on implementation of editable time values in frontend
  • Selenium tests for false edit-conflicts and old-revision-view
  • Jenkins setup improvements
  • Made many improvements to the unit test configuration and bootstrapping code in Ask, Diff, DataValues, WikibaseQueryEngine and WikibaseDatabase
  • Automatic class loading based on PSR-0 convention in Ask, Diff and WikibaseQueryEngine
  • Added new array comparison code and started work on merging diffs together in Diff
  • Progress on the SQLStore
  • Improved many unit tests by removing unneeded dependencies they had
  • Bug fixing
  • Made property parser function code more robust
  • Worked on EntityPerPage rebuild script, to enable it to run for Wikidata to fill in missing entities in the wb_entity_per_page table
  • Making the Settings system more robust, preparing split of client and repo settings
  • Work on RDF mapping and serialization
  • Work on content negotiation for Special:EntityData
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Determine statements to add to Wikidata based on Wikipedia categories
  • Map a Wikipedia infobox to Wikidata properties (advanced sample)
  • Select a rarely used property and add values to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #59

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

• Events/Press
  • Linked Data in Business
  • currently: Hackathon in Amsterdam
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • It is now possible to access data from Wikidata on the Wikipedias by using the property's label.
  • The time datatype can now be tested on the demosystem and should become available on Wikidata next week.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: catalog code (P528), runway (P529), diplomatic relation (P530), diplomatic mission sent (P531), diplomatic mission sent (P531), port of registry (P532), target (P533), streak color (P534), Find a Grave (P535), ATP id (P536), twinning (P537), fracturing (P538), Museofile (P539)
  • Newest task forces: Ship task force
  • d:Template:Constraint:Item allows to check if items using a given property also have other properties. To find items to fix, it links to one of Magnus' tools and to a daily report. Sample: items with property mother should also have main type (GND) with value person.
• Development
  • A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
  • Worked on content negotiation for the RDF export
  • Bugfixing for editing of time datatype
  • Added validation in the api for claim guids. This also resolves bug 48473, an exception being thrown in production, whenever a bot or api user requested a claim with an invalid claim guid
  • Improved error message popup bubbles to show HTML and parse the links correctly
  • Fixed bug 48679, to hide the view source tab for item and property pages
  • Testing on Diff extension and SQLstore
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add statements to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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FoCuSandLeArN on Commons

So Ganesh, Did you mean that FoCuS already has a Commons account (?) or did you mean that he can use his Wikipedia account to work on Commons? I could not find a Commons account in his name, unless he used a different one there...? Invertzoo (talk) 13:36, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Invertzoo, Yes, Focus can use his Wikipedia account to login to Commons. It is a unified login across all Wikimedia projects. The Commons account will get created at the first login. — Ganeshk (talk) 14:24, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #60

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

• Events/Press
  • Deutschlandfunk interview about Wikipedia, Wikidata and more
  • Hackathon in Amsterdam
  • Linked Data in Business
  • Upcoming: Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
  • Upcoming: SemTechBiz
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The time datatype is now available allowing you to enter dates in Wikidata (this also includes a short rundown of what the developers are going to work on next)
  • 5 students are working on projects related to Wikidata as part of Google Summer of Code 2013
  • prototype of a multilingual map using Wikidata
  • Many Wikimedia wikis got a new account creation and login page - among them Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: venue (P540), office contested (P541), officially opened by (P542), oath made by (P543), torch lit by (P545), docking port (P546), commemorates (P547), version type (P548), MGP ID (P549), chivalric order (P550), residence (P551), handedness (P552), social media account on (P553), social media address (P554), doubles record (P555), crystal system (P556), DiseasesDB (P557), unit symbol (P558), terminus (P559), direction (P560), NATO reporting name (P561), central bank/issuer (P562), ICD-O (P563), singles record (P564), crystal habit (P565)
  • Newest task forces: Tennis task force, Taxonomy task force, Iranian Persian task force, Medicine task force
• Development
  • Made good progress on moving the sitelinks on Wikidata too when a page on Wikipedia is moved (bugzilla:36729 - currently the bug with most votes)
  • Fixed some bugs in the time value user interface
  • Worked on coordinate value support
  • Worked together with Wikimedia Foundation ops staff on Apache configuration changes to enable “pretty urls” for item pages. (e.g. https://en.wikidata.org/wiki/New_York_City goes to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60 in the future)
  • Added MediaWiki setting wgLogAutopatrol to allow wikis the option to disable logging of autopatrol actions
  • Improved EntityPerPage rebuild script, which is needed to fix the situation where some Wikipedia articles can't access data from Wikidata (bugzilla:48506)
  • Fixed bug in SetQualifiers API module; Moved both SetQualifiers and RemoveQualifiers out of experimental mode
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Major taxonomic overhaul

Hi Ganesh. I just found out today that a couple of months ago the large superfamily Rissooidea has been split into the superfamily Rissooidea s.s. and the new superfamily Truncatelloidea, containing most of the families previously in Rissooidea.

WoRMS: Truncatelloidea.

This involves creating the article about the new superfamily and a lot of changing on the level of families, genera and species with changing in the taxobox (or speciesbox) and in the lead of "Rissooidea" into "Truncatelloidea". I suppose the Ganeshbot is best suited for this, because manually this would be a tedious work and involve a lot of my precious time. At the same time, all the missing articles could also be created.

I also draw your attention to my previous post on your talk page about the Seguenzioidea.

I hope you can find the time to do all this. Thanks. JoJan (talk) 14:37, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #61

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

• Discussions
  • Please use the next week to review the discussions about sourcing of statements (d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources and Discussion on the Project Chat)
• Events/Press
  • Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
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  • Large donation by Yandex for further development of Wikidata (press coverage here and here among others)
  • en:Template:Infobox road and simple:Template:Infobox road now have the ability to use Wikidata for the map field
  • Denny writes about Wikidata and the truth
  • Average edits per page has passed 4
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  • First steps towards being able to add sitelinks for the first sister-project (WikiVoyage)
  • Improved the Travis CI continuous integration setup
  • Made the DataValue component installable via Composer
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
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Seguenziidae

Hi, Ganesh. Checking the family Seguenziidae, I've noted that the genera Basilissa (gastropod) (and synonyms), Thelyssa and Rotellenzia have been overlooked by the Ganeshbot. Idem for a number of species in Ancistrobasis, Basilissopsis, Calliobasis, Fluxinella, Carenzia, Hadroconus, Halystina, Quinnia, Seguenzia and Seguenziopsis JoJan (talk) 13:47, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi JoJan, I have fixed this issue. 113 new pages have been added. Please review. — Ganeshk (talk) 22:45, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

About the picture

Hi. I've just uploaded the picture on Wikimedia Commons. Thanks for the help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajesh.ashok (talk • contribs) 11:39, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Rissoinidae

I've just finishing checking the new family Rissoinidae (upgraded from subfamily Rissoininae). The Ganeshbot can now add all the missing articles. Can you also change the Rissoidae-stub template into Rissoinidae-stub for all the articles ? Thanks. JoJan (talk) 15:42, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #62

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• Noteworthy Stuff
  • Geocoordinates can now be entered in Wikidata and language links can now be edited without JavaScript
  • The folks at OCLC did a great intro video to Wikidata and VIAF/authority files
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  • If you're interested in a specific topic then the task forces are a good place to find like-minded people. Can't find one for your interest? Start one!
• Development
  • More progress on supporting links to sisterprojects
  • Fixing issues with geocoordinate datatype that popped up after deployment
  • Selenium tests for time and geocoordinate interface
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About the album

Thank you so much. Kind of you. :) Spread the music so that the album reaches more people. You know how the independent music scene is in South India. Only when we make people listen, they'll know :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajesh.ashok (talk • contribs) 07:11, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 23:35, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #63

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

• Discussions
  • Final vote on the "Guidelines for sourcing statements" till June 24.
  • Work started on a policy regarding information about living people
  • Feedback needed on a proposal by the development team for how to support Wiktionary
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  • Wikidata, le Wikipédia que vous utiliserez bientôt tous
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  • Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
• Development
  • Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
  • Further work on input validation
  • Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
  • Use Serializers for generating API results
  • Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
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Rissoinidae (brought back from the archive)

I've just finished checking the new family Rissoinidae (upgraded from subfamily Rissoininae). The Ganeshbot can now add all the missing articles. Can you also change the Rissoidae-stub template into Rissoinidae-stub for all the articles ? Thanks. JoJan (talk) 15:42, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #64

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

• Discussions
  • Development team published a proposal how to make use of Wikidata for Commons
  • Community proposal for how Wikidata could support Wikisource
  • RfC on source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • d:User:Byrial is creating database reports that are useful to find issues in the current data
  • Denny created a map of all geocoordinates currently in Wikidata (normal and huge version - updated daily)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: RTECS number (P657), RefSeq (P656), translator (P655)
• Development
  • The Wikidata bug report with the most votes was closed (bugzilla:36729 - updating the link on Wikidata automatically when a page on Wikipedia is moved)
  • Wikipedia pages will soon have a link named "Data item" in the toolbox section of the sidebar that links to the Wikidata item that is connected to the page (bugzilla:49105 - You can already see it on the main page of test2.wikipedia.org for example.)
  • Calendar names displayed for time values can now be translated (bugzilla:49080)
  • Added serializers for the Ask query language
  • Buuuugfixes and testing
  • Refactoring
  • Worked on better handling of bad values (= values that don't fit the datatype they should have)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
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