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Anime GA review

I only now saw your comment on the GA review for Anime. If you'd like to work on it and then re nominate it when you're done making the changes I requested, I will happily review it again.Lemurbaby (talk) 01:18, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. |>(@"<) (talk) 03:05, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Asteroids (video game)

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Civilization IV

The first link you added as reference to the general 4X genre description seems to be broken. Do you think you could show it to me so that I could verify it some other way, or look for the archived version of it on Internet Archive? TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 08:28, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Asteroids (video game)

The article Asteroids (video game) 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 needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Asteroids (video game) for things which need to be addressed. Indrian (talk) 21:06, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Welcome and a suggestion

Hi. I noticed that you're in the middle of getting Asteroids to become a Good Article and hopefully beyond. Its good to see effort made towards articles based on arcade games and I hope you can continue and be part of the Video Game WikiProject. But if you don't mind offering a suggestion on another project, Sinistar has always been an interesting bird for me and its current condition is really sad. Just a thought if that's okay. GamerPro64 04:43, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

• Well, of course I've been thinking of improving plenty of articles about games like these, including arcade games, because there's the Golden age of video arcade games and the second generation of video game consoles, where a lot of the simple basics of video games got wide exposure and there was a number of innovations and inventions for the medium at that time. Atari was the basic form of a typical video game industry: They made games, developed games, published games, advertised games, got big, and earned money. Much of the stuff they made is simple and fun, even arcade games like Asteroids are that way. They also innovated things, like putting in vector graphics for Lunar Lander. Today, the medium is complex, while the industry is massive. The greatness of the early days of video games before the NES came is what made me focus on improving such articles. |>(@"<) (talk) 05:19, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
  • Indeed, it's okay to improve Sinistar, and I can do it. |>(@"<) (talk) 05:24, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Asteroids (video game)

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FAR on hold

Hi! I have placed your FAR of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening on hold. FAR instructions require a notification of a potential FAR to be made on the talk page of the article prior to the review being started. I see that you have posted to the talk page, but you did not give interested editors the chance to respond before you started the FAR. Discussion should be continued on the talk page, and if the article does not see significant improvements over the next week or two, the review may be restarted at WP:FAR. Thanks, and please let me know if you have any questions. Dana boomer (talk) 15:45, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

You need to wait more than a couple of hours. Editors have jobs, school, are in different time zones, are on vacation, etc. A wait of at least a week is necessary, two weeks is generous. Dana boomer (talk) 15:53, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

I might help there - specially if you take a look at another of the pre-2008 FAs which I helped get a star, Metroid Prime - some concerns were raised before, and while not enough to fear a FAR, preventing is always a reasonable thing to do. igordebraga ≠ 00:16, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Hope some more people appear to look at DMC - and that my GOCE request to clean Metroid Prime up is answered soon before it gets into the FAR... igordebraga ≠ 02:08, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your note - that appears to be an interesting discussion. Just remember that before articles can be taken to FAR they need to have a notification placed on the article talk page for a reasonable period of time (not just a few hours). Notifications at WP:VG or the sub-page listing pre-2008 FAs don't count, as there may be interested editors who don't watch those places. Not just saying this to you, but to everyone participating at that discussion. Dana boomer (talk) 14:01, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Sockpuppet comment you made

Hi there. I saw this comment you made. It seems you and @Indrian: think he's a sock puppet. I was wondering if you could provide some reasons or "difs" that show this? Or if you had been to WP:SPI about it? I'd prefer to clear this up, and block him if he's a sockpuppet who's block evading or wrongfully using 2 accounts, or not be bringing it up if it looks like its not true. Please let me know what you know. Thanks! Sergecross73 msg me 18:18, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Talk Page

Let us discuss the changes at the Sega Saturn Talk Page. We may get in trouble if we continue to go back and forth. Although I do not think either of use is doing it intentionally, the rules still apply from what I read. I'll let you to change back to the old version for now while we discuss. John Mayor ERS (talk) 02:32, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Actually I will change it back. John Mayor ERS (talk) 02:33, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

"Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments" in an sockpuppet investigation

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Unhelpful talk page formatting

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Fix your signature

Fix your signature so people can leave you messages on your Talk page, not somebody else's. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 03:09, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

If you want to avoid WP:ANI, please fix your signature. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 03:16, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 03:22, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Your signature has to be legible letters or numbers, not cryptic symbols that can't be understood. Also, it is almost impossible to read your talk page with a dark red background. Was this your intention? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:38, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Q*bert

You seem to have made a mistake in the Q*bert article, so I reverted your last edit. You seem to believe Atari made Q*bert for some reason, I am afraid that is incorrect. Q*bert, like many other games of the time, were associated with Atari, mostly on their consoles, so I can understand your confusion. Atari did buy the rights to Q*bert some years later, and did release games like the 3D 1997 remake, so I can't fully blame you for thinking Atari made Q*bert. The real creators though were Gottlieb.

If I am not mistaken, Atari brought the franchise when Q*bert 3 came out. BustaBunny (talk) 22:37, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Your ANI comment

"I've considered changing Jak's block to a permanent site-ban because of the carnage he and his sockpuppets have done." I understand that you are obviously passionate about this matter, but what is the meaning behind comments like this? You are not an admin.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 02:48, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

And just so you know, there really isn't much of a difference between "indefinite block" and "site ban". We already block him on sight, per WP:DUCK, similar to a ban, since he's so bad a block evading, the only real difference would be that we could rightfully revert every single edit he makes, without question. Considering most of his pages are protected, and his other edits are terrible and reverted, or just largely unanswered talk page musings, so we have most of that covered too. So that's why I say I think we're better off just being vigilant with watching over these pages, and keeping up with the protection/blocks. I don't think it worth dragging through the pits of ANI drama when it wouldn't give much of a return for our efforts.

Side note, you mentioned that Jak may have first started as an IP back as far as 2011. I wasn't aware of that one. Do you have a link to that one? Sergecross73 msg me 15:05, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

• Looking at the CD-i page, Jak-type edits first appeared in January 2011. Indrian (talk) 15:25, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Old User page

Hi, Gonna,
You might want to copy the contents of User:Mr. Gonna/Header and User talk:Mr. Gonna/Archive and copy it to a User:Mr. Gonna Change My Name Forever User page. Then, request the page be deleted as there is no longer a Mr. Gonna User account. You can post {{Db-g7}} on the page or else I will nominate it for deletion at MfD. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:00, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I can move the username part of the titles of those pages, then the redirects would be deleted. Mr*|(60nna) 23:51, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Tagged both redirects for speedy deletion. Mr*|(60nna) 00:04, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

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I've been holding my tongue on this but it is just irritating to me. Can you stop liking all my comments I make whenever you're involved in a conversation? Its one thing to do that if you're thankful for the user for making useful edits, but why like something someone says in the comments? This is not Facebook. GamerPro64 23:17, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Okay, I'll reduce that. Mr*|(60nna) 23:19, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

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?! }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 23:57, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

I'm confused about this message. }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 23:59, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

He was wrong, you did not break 3RR, but you were very close. Please, I'd prefer you take it to SPI than bother reverting him. If it is another Jak sock, we'll worry about cleaning up the article once he's blocked. Thanks. Sergecross73 msg me 00:21, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

BTW

Next time you go lying and accusing me of being users I am not, and pretending (like serge) that no one agreed with me and we were not having a civil discussion on the Sega Saturn talk page, allow me to show you what was also shown on the talk page:, which you would not have missed if you actually took the time to read:

1. [1]

2. [2]

3. [3]

4. [4]

Huh, guess I did have a civil conversation and people did agree with me and there was consensus on some issues. I don't like your other lie you wrote in your edit summary on the Saturn page either. I also do not know who Red Phoenix is and why you keep mentioning him. I never mentioned him by name ever until just now. You seem to be extremely confused, which has caused you to make a very devastating edit war. On with you lying about me adding sources. I also opened a new topic so me and Time could discuss the changes I made, before you came in a disrupted that twice.

Now if you would please STOP. Thank you. TheRealAfroMan (talk) 00:20, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

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Impossible Mission

VIDEO

Explain to me how after looking at the video, that the game is not an exploration based platformer like Metroid, Montezuma etc? Branching paths, mutiple floors, full exploration. JakIIDax (talk) 16:35, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

It's a platformer where you infiltrate Atombender's stronghold searching the installation for password pieces in computers while avoiding robots. So you don't explore as much as you search for passwords. }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 16:48, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

And how is that different from most of the early 2D go anywhere platforming games? I have played the game, and if you have played it as well as you have said, you should know the game branches in multiple areas and is not straight linear. It's no different than running around trying to find keysm etc. in other similar games. Unless you can point out the difference? (not to mention the open ended design of this game was actually marketed back when this was new.) JakIIDax (talk) 17:05, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

I agree. Impossible Mission cares less about exploration, but it does include branching into multiple areas and yes, it is not linear. You're just more likely to search for stuff and avoid robots than explore, but exploration can be possible. However, you're more often going to new areas than old ones. }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 17:17, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Exploring does not necessarily mean you have to go back to older areas. The fact that you can basically choose your own route to new areas, when you want the way you want and everything connects together, leading to more areas old and new, seems to be exploration by definition. Take a look at the Exploration article here on Wikipedia. JakIIDax (talk) 17:23, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Okay. }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 17:25, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

As you can see, you are in the game, exploring the buildings(?) with no restrictions, by your own means with a specific objective in mind. You have the complete option to go in any direction into a place you have "technically" not seen before. Look at a movie, where people will send in spies to "explore the area" or "explore the base" or those older movies about people "exploring ruins" or "exploring the cave" etc, etc.

Games like Defender, SMB, Sonic 2, Gradius, these may allow you to stage select at most but will contain nothing else required for exploration and give you usually linear or/and restricted choices in how you approach the level. Impossible Mission however, does this, so you actually explore in impossible mission. JakIIDax (talk) 17:39, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Oh really? Impossible Mission does not care about exploration because you're moving to the next area every single minute. Because of this, you actually DO NOT explore in Impossible Mission. }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 17:42, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

This is turning more into you not knowing what exploration is then it not being about exploration. You are going to an area you have not been to to obtain an objective, check. You can go to any place in the game at any with only a few exceptions, check. There are different obstacles as you go through new areas Check, the game is not linear, check. You continue to find new areas, check. What part of this game is not exploration by definition? I showed you a direct definition. You want another one? Ok, here's the dictionary definition and the other dictionary definition. The 2nd link even breaks it down with examples. The game is has exploration. You haven't told me how it hasn't yet. You've only told me so far that you don't know the definition of exploration. JakIIDax (talk) 18:02, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

You gave me nothing but two definitions of the word "Exploration". Period. Read the whole Impossible Mission article again and compare the gameplay to the definition of the word "Exploration". }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 18:06, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

I want you to violate WP:3RR because you are Jakandsig. }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 18:08, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Are you acting like Jakandsig? Why? }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 18:11, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Proof?

Also I did show you, you still don't seem to understand the definition for some reason. I am sure a mod or other would agree with me. I have shown you everything there is to know about the word exploration and yet you still don't get what exploration is so I am not sure what to do here. What exactly are you not understanding? Is there a part that confuses you? Because we can go over it. JakIIDax (talk) 18:15, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

I know and understand "Exploration" and its definition already for a long time. }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 18:17, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

This is doubtful because you still refuse to believe that Impossible mission is exploration based when it check out on all the key parts of the definition, and you have not even explained why you think that. JakIIDax (talk) 18:19, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Are you PewDiePie? Are you Angry Video Game Nerd? Do you have a YouTube channel? And why did you start editing Wikipedia? }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 18:21, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

You're annoying reverts are becoming an issue. I would hate to have to go find an administrator, but at this point I am positive you know you are wrong about impossible mission and instead are posting extremely random youtube comments. I don't have a clue why you are reverting randomly but I would appreciate it if you stopped. JakIIDax (talk) 18:26, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Talk to User:Frecklefoot. }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 18:27, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

I don't post YouTube comments. I am right about Impossible Mission. You are an issue. Why not answer those 4 questions? }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 18:30, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

You're actually wrong about impossible mission. Exactly what is the issue here? JakIIDax (talk) 18:32, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

I revert your edits because they are poor. Now here is why I don't believe Impossible Mission is exploration-based (this is just a quote from the Impossible Mission Wikipedia article):

The player takes the role of a secret agent who must stop an evil genius. Professor Elvin Atombender is believed to be tampering with national security computers. The player must penetrate Atombender's stronghold, racing against the clock to search the installation for pieces which form a password, all the while avoiding his deadly robots. Once in possession of all the password pieces, the player must correctly assemble the password pieces together and use the completed password in the main control room door, where the evil professor is hiding. Password pieces are found by searching furniture in the rooms. When searching, the player can also find "Lift Resets" and "Snoozes." They are used at computer terminals. "Lift Resets" reset all moveable platforms; "Snoozes" freeze all enemies in the room for a limited time. There are also two special rooms where additional lift resets and snoozes can be awarded for completing a musical puzzle. The location of puzzle pieces, arrangement of the rooms and elevators, and abilities of the robots are randomly selected each game, providing replay value.

There is no mention of "exploration" or "exploration-based". The issue here is your disruptive edits and incivility. }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 18:34, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

The word exploration is not mentioned in the majority of games, so your excuse is poor. You continue to put no effort into looking at the definition of exploration. I can find linear games with the word explore in it, that doesn't mean their exploration based. Impossible Mission however, is.

On that note, searching an unknown territory is, especially without restrictions, a key part of exploration, which IS in your insert. Searching(which again is in your reply), especially for an objective is pretty much the core definition of exploration. Now what's your excuse? This is in those links I sent you that you said you read. So I think you have actually made it clearer the game is exploration based. JakIIDax (talk) 18:41, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

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If you're confused...

I blocked you for the (obvious) 3RR as per the EW noticeboard, but I've just looked a bit further into this, and seen the SPI etc. So for the time being I've unblocked you (will sort the autoblock out shortly). Please don't exceed 3RR on an article again, though, regardless of the circumstances. Black Kite (talk) 19:42, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

• Oh and don't do this again either, please. Follow our dispute resolution policies. Black Kite (talk) 19:49, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
  • Okay, I won't do that again. }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 20:02, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
    • I will follow Wikipedia's dispute resolution policies. }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 20:37, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

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I'm sorry for that edit war, Black Kite. I was trying to fix errors on the Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts article, not to make edit wars. I did not violate WP:3RR because I reverted two edits by JakIIDax to that article before he made 3 reverts to it. JakIIDax is a sockpuppet of disruptive editor Jakandsig, who is blocked indefinitely by Sergecross73 because of his violations of Wikipedia's Conduct policies, including edit warring, sock puppetry, and personal attacks. Jakandsig has a large, documented history of sockpuppetry and he is disrespectful and verbally aggressive. In contrast, many of my 2,300+ edits are innocent and good, and I would not engage in such conflicts again after this unblock request because I'm tired of Jak constantly banging on the door just to make conflicts with me and others users like Indrian, Sergecross73, and TheTimesAreAChanging. I am nice, and I'm rightful. I follow Wikipedia's rules and guidelines. By the way, I wish I could slowly walk away from the conflicts Jak's sockpuppets often have. I though the edits JakIIDax made were poor because I didn't look up the content of the article firsthand. I do recognize he removed an unsourced statement from the article, so I won't revert that article again. }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 19:50, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I'd already unblocked you - see above! Black Kite (talk) 19:57, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

I'm happy! (=D) }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 19:59, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #105

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Quality is measurable
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Announcing ToolScript. With ToolScript can be used to get the output of all Magnus' tools
  • Feline mayors of the world or why Wikidata is awesome
  • A Rijksmuseum representative indicated what kind of information she hopes Wikidata will deliver
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikiquote now gets its sitelinks via Wikidata. Welcome, Wikiquote! Access to the other data will follow.
  • Do you want automatic sidebar links to other Wikimedia projects powered by Wikidata? Here you go: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-April/003690.html Thanks Tpt!
  • Use Wikidata for internationalization on any website! How awesome is this? Very!
  • Vote for some Wikidata talks for Wikimania
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: KulturNav-id, compression ratio, patent number, OmegaWiki Defined Meaning, phone number, International Standard Recording Code, Theatricalia play ID, Swiss Football Association Club Number, Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level, ISFDB publisher ID, Swedish Football Association ID, Box Office Mojo film ID, Parsons code, ISFDB series ID, ISFDB publication ID, ISFDB author ID, Linguist list code, NARA online catalogue
• Development
  • Still looking for an awesome intern. Do you know someone who'd fit?
  • Bene* continued working hard on making “badges” (the “featured” and “good article” stars) in Wikidata a reality
  • Finishing touches for Statements on properties
  • Worked on better error messages when parsing failed
  • Updated the translations to use much easier to manage JSON files for each language
  • Made a list of hard to understand messages that should be reworded
  • Implemented a usable interface for Special:SimpleQuery
  • Closed a backdoor that let you change the property of a snak via the API, sorry guys
  • Continuous refactoring and improving of the code base that defines what Wikidata and the Wikibase extensions are
  • Kept Wikidata up to date with the typography update
  • Started to redesign the Wikibase page on mediawiki.org
  • Investigated if standard spam prevention features of MediaWiki work as they should on Wikidata (Result: mostly yes but some fixes/tweaks are needed.)
  • Released version 1.0 of the Diff extension.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the movement (P135) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 20:20, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

FYI

I really do appreciate your help with the sockpuppets...but please, try not to go about reverting them so much until they've been officially marked as a sock, whether it be from the reports at SPI, or me blocking them per WP:DUCK. That way, you won't get into trouble with edit warring. If they are not officially marked as socks, I think an Admin could rightfully block you. (Not to mention, we could be wrong one of these days, and if the person wasn't a sock, then you'd really be edit warring.)

Anyways, just be a little more cautious. Most of Jak's edits, while not good, are not urgent WP:BLP issues or copyright issues, so we can go back and clean up the mess post-block. Its okay to revert him some too, just not so much that it could get you blocked.

Thanks again for your assistance. Sergecross73 msg me 01:28, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome (=D) }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 02:19, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Downward Spiral

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article The Downward Spiral 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 Casliber -- Casliber (talk) 23:40, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Downward Spiral

The article The Downward Spiral you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Downward Spiral for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Casliber -- Casliber (talk) 05:41, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:Trent Reznor, Self Destruct concert, 1994.jpg

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Wikidata weekly summary #106

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

• Discussions
  • Sources will be called references because of a discussion
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • List of items without images but possibly free images available
  • Any interested in another Wikidata office hour? (Say yes)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI) SNO/CNO, earliest written record
• Development
  • Lots of small little cleanups.
  • Sprintbreak as most people are taking a few days off.
  • Happy Q21196! Say Hi to the Q108636 ;-)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 22:36, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

About Your Main Page

Mr. Gonna, I feel rather concerned about the self-description you have on your profile. This following bit is rather inappropriate as it comes off as a personal attack:

"Speaking of GAs and FAs, I am not one of those editors who far too many times don't make their articles perfect enough for GAN and/or FAC like TonyTheTiger, Dr. Blofeld, Chris Gualtieri, and WikiRedactor. I don't do that, and I prefer making articles good enough to pass GARs and FACs easily."

I would take that down if I were you if you don't want to face scrutiny. It's one thing if you thought the Miley Cyrus articles (or any other articles) nominated for GA aren't ready for that status, but don't belittle the nominators or simply quickfail GAN's simply because you don't like their genre(s). If there are problems within an article, go into detail. Users need reviewers to give a detailed analysis of what to address within the article during GAN. If you have questions about reviewing GAN's, feel free to ask. XXSNUGGUMSXX (talk) 21:08, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for changing it. XXSNUGGUMSXX (talk) 03:04, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome! I'm happy! (=D) }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 03:09, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for The Downward Spiral

slakr^\ talk / 23:08, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #107

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over property creation guidelines
  • Open RfA: JurgenNL
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Lydia will give an update on Wikidata at the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting
  • Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon is taking place to add labels for all members of the Lok Sabha.
  • In May, edit-a-thons hounouring Adrianne Wadewitz are taking place to add more gender related information to Wikidata.
  • Wikidata office hour on May 19th at 17:00 UTC.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Time and geocoordinates have been reworked and need some testing at test.wikidata.org. Found issues? Let Lydia know.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: coordinates of the point of view, Rotten Tomatoes ID, depicts Iconclass representation, Iconclass notation, Helveticarchives ID, Slovenska biografija ID, BCU Ecrivainsvd, AUSTLANG code, ABS ASCL code
• Development
  • Worked on making it possible to use languages not supported by MediaWiki in Wikidata
  • We now also display statements with "no value" or "unknown value" on the client (when using the parser function or Lua)
  • Created another maintenance script to fix data integrity issues
  • Finishing touches on the first version of the new entity suggester
  • Simple queries are starting to work (If you want to see a demo attend the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting)
  • Worked more on making error messages localizable
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7.4
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 20:19, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Wolfenstein 3D

Thanks for changing the background colour of your page Mr. gonna, it's much easier to read now. Most appreciated. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 21:53, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #108

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Lydia gave a first demo of simple queries and other cool stuff at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
  • ongoing this weekend: Youth Science Hack Day where a team is working on a Wikidata powered quiz app
  • upcoming: Data Science Day
  • upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Helen and Anjali join Wikidata as Outreach Program for Women interns
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: coordinates of the point of view, Rotten Tomatoes ID, depicts Iconclass representation, Iconclass notation, Helveticarchives ID, Slovenska biografija ID, BCU Ecrivainsvd, AUSTLANG code, ABS ASCL code
• Development
  • Got simple queries in shape for a first demo at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
  • Cleaned up constraints checks and input validation
  • Worked on requirements for the user interface redesign
  • Started work on monolingual text datatype
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:51, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

...generation video game consoles pages

Hi, just wondering what happened there? I saw you changed the page titles and then just changed them back? We're currently having a situation with another user that we're talking about on the project talk page, so if you have thoughts about the naming you would like to express, please join us there. BcRIPster (talk) 20:00, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #109

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Developer user group
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • There will be a German handbook on Wikidata and authority control. Feedback and proofreading is very welcome until next week at https://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/2014-05-06.html
• Development
  • Attending the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
  • Work on finalizing the JSON dumps
  • More work on simple queries to get them ready for performance and security review and a first release
  • Legoktm created an API module to retrieve the current dispatch stats status
  • Fixed an issue with iferror when using the property parser function (bugzilla:55347)
  • Show correct data in the in other languages box for older revisions (bugzilla:63309)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 23:02, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #110

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfCs: Clarifying the requirement for property creation, Quality is measurable, One vs. sereveral sitelink-item correspondence, Property documentation redux and DBpedia import process
  • Open RfA: Dexbot (adminbot)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • wrap-up blog post of the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
  • upcoming: SMWCon
  • upcoming: IRC office hour on Moday
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Data access for Wikiquote will be enabled on June 10th. Coordination and questions should go to d:Wikidata:Wikiquote.
  • Superclasses maps shows coordinates for a class of items on a map. Classes are coming from Wikidata.
  • The EditItem suggester was released. You give it a property and it will return a list of items likely missing that property.
  • The new duplicate item finder lists items that should potentially be merged.
• Did you know?
  • Newest task forces: Wikidata:WikiProject Mathematics
• Development
  • We're looking for a PHP developer to join the dev team and work on Wikidata. Apply!
  • Looking for a cool university project with impact? We have some of them around Wikidata - not just for computer science students. Get in touch with Lydia.
  • Had a lot to think about and recap from the Zürich Hackathon, e.g. things regarding search, suggestions as well as the user interface redesign
  • Started doing mockups of the new user interface (Nothing to show yet, sorry!)
  • Setup an autogenerating code documentation instance on labs at wbdoc.wmflabs.org. Hint: Submitting patches that make the inline code documentation even better is a good starting point to get involved in coding
  • Continued working on the wikiba.se site and FAQ
  • Worked on new datatype monolingual text (basically a string with an associated language)
  • Reworked a hell lot of “change operations” code that’s responsible for each and every edit as well as validating user input and API requests, for example denying empty descriptions and finding and blocking unnecessary duplications
  • Checked all the new Beta features that the teams in San Francisco are developing and made sure they work with Wikidata
  • Our efforts to make Wikidata faster broke some gadgets so we helped fixing them. Sorry for the breakage!
  • Dug into odd display bugs with the MonoBook skin and attempted to fix them (bugzilla:64741)
  • More testing on simple queries
  • Tpt worked on making inter-project links in the sidebar a beta-feature
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:25, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #110

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about Draft articles
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata office hour log
  • Wikiconference USA in New York on May 30th and June 1st
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Editors may now include their ORCID identifiers (and others, such as VIAF) on their user pages, using the Authority control template. You can register for an ORCID at http://orcid.org
• Play the Wikidata Game
• Development
  • jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
  • More fixes for gadgets (authority control, preview gadget)
  • Improve formatting and handling of snak formatting errors
  • Continued working on monolingual text data type
  • Continued making messages easier to understand
  • Removed a bunch of unused code, interfaces and methods
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 16:30, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #111

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfAs: FakirNL, Josve05a
  • Wikidata:Tours
  • RfC: Open datasets (Meta)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Slides from WikiConference USA
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The seventeenth million item is made then delete as a dupe. So seventeenth million plus 2 anyone?
• Development
  • More work on mockups for new user interface design. Hope to have something publishable soon.
  • More work on monolingual text datatype
  • Fixed lots of small bugs when editing statements like bugzilla:65398
  • Made progress on globe precision issues (bugzilla:65535 and bugzilla:64887)
  • Cleaned up installation instructions
  • Tagged version 1.0 of Wikibase Internal Serialisation and Wikibase Datamodel Serialisation
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:28, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

This Wikidata weekly summary, like the last one, has one number behind. This is #112, not "#111". }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 12:25, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #112

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfAs: FakirNL (Successful), Josve05a (Unsuccessful)
  • Open RfAs: Taketa, Jianhui67, 555
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Magnus Manske writes about how the Wikidata Game has developed over two weeks
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:Thepwnco is working on some Wikidata:Tours during for a FOSS project
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Italian Chamber of Deputies ID, eye color, number of injured, EPSG ID
• Development
  • Did a lot of cleanup in Wikibase.git
  • thePHPcc thinghy
  • Released DataValues Time 0.6
  • Add time support to QueryEngine
  • Release Wikibase DataModel 0.8
  • Worked on the way deleted items are formatted (= shown on other items)
  • Released ValueView 0.6, which includes refactoring of the entity suggester code, bug fixes.
  • Fix issue with entering strings (newline character sometimes got added and then cause api error)
  • Fix bug 64658 (date adjustment dialogue doesn't show up on Firefox with Monobook skin)
  • Fix bug 64887 (issue with display of globecoordinate when precision does not match predefined precisions)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 23:09, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

...and this one too. I'd bet all these weekly summaries from a couple points ago to the future will be one number behind. }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 22:34, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

"Censorship"

What the hell are you talking about? My revert of the archive tags did not censor anything. Stop re-archiving the thread when it should not have been archived in the first place. Discussion was ongoing and that does not mean that one uninvolved person's prudeness and loss of patience with the thread means they get to shut it down, nor do you get to shut it down by edit warring with me. Consider this the edit warring warning.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 16:54, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Don't Worry, Be Happy... Like me! =D }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 17:02, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

If you have nothing constructive to contribute to the discussion on WT:VG then stay out of it. Your "I'm so happy for you" and "okay" don't add anything and seem to be trolling.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 06:45, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

I'm not trolling at all in any way. }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 07:01, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #113

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

• Discussions
  • Wikidata participation in Wiki Loves Pride
  • Discussion: Delete as a new user group
  • RfC: Refining "part of"
  • Open RfAs: Calak, Andre Engels
  • Closed RfAs: Taketa (successful) Jiangui67 (successful) 555 (successful)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The preview gadget has been rewritten and now comes with a completely new user interface. You can enable it here.
  • Wikiquote received access to the data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on Tuesday.
  • Try out the new Wikidata Property Browser.
  • The Merge gadget has been updated. It is now faster and only one edit per merge is performed.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: original spelling, ranking, number of points/goals scored, number of matches played, ploidy, AlgaeBase URL, military casualty classification, winner, number of victims, participated in, described by source, number of seats
  • Newest task forces: Sports task forces
• Development
  • Continued with the implementation of redirects. There are a lot of corner cases to work out...
  • Created new data value handlers for quantities and geo coordinates, bringing queries closer
  • Moved browser tests to a new repository at https://github.com/wmde/WikidataBrowserTests to make the main Wikibase repo smaller and cleaner
  • Fixed a bunch of issues with the monobook skin
  • Made some more jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
  • More cleanup for the coming switch to WikibaseDataModel 1.0.
  • Icinga Dispatch Lag monitoring scripts, including IRC notifier bot, have been tested and are ready for Ops implementation. This should give us quicker notifications in case the notifications to Wikipedia and co about changes on Wikidata are slow again.
  • Enabled data access for Wikiquote
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 22:17, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

• Discussions
  • Idea collection: data quality and trust
  • Open RfAs: PMG, Dr Zimbu, 콩가루
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Several Wikipedias now have a template (d:Q17195970) for articles which have a related property in Wikidata.
  • User:Thepwnco is working on a documentation overhaul and updating Help pages for a FOSS project - leave feedback on suggested changes here
  • First concept designs of Wikidata's possible new interface
  • GenderCounter uses Wikidata to provide an accurate service with distinguishing male and female names
  • ca.wikipedia found a nice way to use Wikidata. They're comparing their living people to Wikidata to see if any of them have a date of death there. They're then put into a category for review: ca:Categoria:Persones vives a revisar
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: BBC Your Paintings, successor, predecessor, ITTF ID, points/goal scored by, TLS, Anime News Network ID, Monte Carlo Particle Number, Number of points/goals conceded, points for, matches/games drawn/tied, matches lost/games lost, matches won/games won
  • New task forces: LGBT task force
• Development
  • Created a script that provides the schema creation SQL for Wikibase Query
  • Releases Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.1
  • Made WikibaseDataModelJavascript a separate component at https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelJavascript.
  • Continued working on full redirect support for items. It touches a surprising big chunk of the code base.
  • Continued working on the QueryEngine code base and it’s data type support.
  • Fixed and updated the most recent implementation of the property and item selector widget, e.g. a MonoBook specific bug.
  • Pushed along reviews and deployment of the entity suggester code that will make suggestions for new properties to be added to items. Our hope is to have it through performance review for the next deployment.
  • Pushed along reviews of the “in other projects” sidebar: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
• Note from John
  • Hey everyone, it's rare these small sections come along but there is a bit of interesting news to get across which one line under 'noteworthy stuff' won't be the best for. For the next 6 summaries, they will be translatable at Wikidata. This is an interesting idea which was first proposed on the delivery page and on Wikidata-l by Base. This is purely a trial and if you all want the summaries to remain translatable, please participate! You can view the first translated summary (hopefully) here! Also sorry for this one being late :)

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 13:29, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Talk:LoveGame/GA2

Talk:LoveGame/GA2, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:LoveGame/GA2 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Talk:LoveGame/GA2 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. —Indian:BIO · ^{[ ChitChat ]} 09:53, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Why did you close Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:LoveGame/GA2 without an explanation here? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 04:10, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

I understand. There was a note put on the MfD and I properly closed it. Seems like the tension has calmed down now. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:05, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Talk:Paparazzi (Lady Gaga song)/GA2

Talk:Paparazzi (Lady Gaga song)/GA2, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Paparazzi (Lady Gaga song)/GA2 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Talk:Paparazzi (Lady Gaga song)/GA2 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. —Indian:BIO · ^{[ ChitChat ]} 09:54, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #115

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

• Discussions
  • Second UI designs are now up for comments
  • Discussion about predecessor and successor timelines
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata intro and QA, June 29th in Paris
  • Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: contains settlement, coincident with, bridgehunter.com ID, uglybridges.com ID, China railway TMIS station code, MTR station code, capital of, NSK identifier, daily ridership, binding of software library, ASI Monument ID, ihsi identifier, Iranian National Heritage registration number, LNB identifier, BBC Your Paintings, replaced by, replaced, ITTF ID, points/goal scored by, TLS, Anime News Network ID
• Development
  • Redirects are moving slow because they touch so much of our and the core code base, but they are coming closer!
  • Final touches on the monolingual data type and UI
  • Fixed some smaller but nasty bugs in the UI like not being able to change only the rank
  • Finally improved the most confusing error messages and hints you get to read when using the Wikibase client or repo
  • The Wikibase DataModel JavaScript component (which moved to it’s own repository) reached version 0.2.0
  • Continued working on the QueryEngine component (the foundation for queries)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 11:49, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #116

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

• Discussions
  • A question from an intern
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata got 10 times easier to use with the entity suggester
  • Lydia needs your help with some selfies (already uploaded ones are at c:Category:Wikidata selfies)
  • Wikidata the Game has a new game: occupation
  • As part of the Outreach Program for Women d:User:User:Thepwnco is continuing improving all help pages to help new users understand Wikidata better. At the same time w:User:Discoveranjali is helping with social media outreach and creating presentations workshops about Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: replaced by structure, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Russia), Linguasphere code, NCI ID, Glottolog code, proxy, ComicBookDB ID, Index Fungorum ID
• Development
  • Upcoming API change (wblinktitle)
  • Deployed entity suggester.
  • More work on redirects. They are taking shape. Done with much of the groundwork. We've seen the first one! :D
  • Continued work on user interface redesign mockups
  • Monolingual text datatype is also taking shape but needs more user interface love to make it intuitive.
  • Investigated making Wikidata.org its own client so you can for example get access to better Lua functions for access to an item's label on a discussion page. Outcome: Should be possible but needs some more work.
  • Fixed bugs
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:44, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #117

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

• Discussions
  • Improving the FAQ
  • Should we link to restricted access databases?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Two new GuidedTours (aka interactive tutorials) have been released—we now have one on editing items and one on editing statements! Both tours are available from the Wikidata:Tours portal and feedback can be left on the talk page at Wikidata_talk:Tours. The work was a combined effort of User:Bene* and Outreach Program for Women intern User:Thepwnco.
  • We passed another milestone \o/ 10 million items now have an "instance of" or "subclass of" statement making it easy to tell what the item is about.
  • Last week to add some selfies. We need more!
  • Items with no image around you? Here you go! (change the number in the URL and click toggle markers) Thanks Magnus!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to, MusicBrainz series ID, script directionality, World Glacier Inventory ID, original combination, Foundational Model of Anatomy ID, bug report page, FCC Facility ID, convicted of
• Development
  • Bene* worked with the dev team this week. He pushed forward support for storing badges (eg featured article) on Wikidata and implemented the first two guided tours.
  • CTRL+ click and middle click on a search result in the entity selector now opens the result in a new tab.
  • Further progress on redirects
  • Fixed a number of annoyances with the entity selector
  • Continued work on mockups for new user interface
  • Investigated what issues come up if we make wikidata.org its own client. Things look good so we will probably enable it soonish. This will mean you can link Wikidata pages in items and access the data in them on other pages on Wikidata.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:16, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Quake (video game) copyedit request

Hi, you requested a copyedit of Quake (video game) at WP:GOCE, aiming to reach GA status. I have a few questions about how you plan to approach this.

First, huge swathes of the article are either completely unsourced, or reliant solely on primary sources. While this is mostly acceptable for the Plot and Gameplay sections, it's not acceptable even there for value judgements like "the most traditional ideology", "the most popular", "they serve no purpose", "considered unique for its time", "A notable participant was...", "...this concept was scrapped due to..." and so on.

For all other sections, reliable sources are essential.

Related to this are my concerns about the "Mods and add-ons" and Speedruns sections. While I agree that these topics deserve sections of their own (because they are key to the impact, legacy and ongoing popularity of the game), the current level of detail seems grossly unjustified. For example, discussing multiple individual recordings of Quake gameplay, right down to precise dates and the numbers of minutes and seconds involved, without any secondary source verifying the importance of these events, will not (or at least, should not), make it through GA.

Normally when copyediting for GA I would take a section like this and reduce it to appropriate weighting; which would mean one or two short paragraphs instead of the current four long paragraphs, with the focus on those aspects that the secondary sources had said were important.

But without secondary sources, this is difficult. Also, I'm not even sure that it's what you want me to do. Is removing most of several key sections of the article, really the sort of copyedit that you want done?

From a grammar and WP:MOS point of view, it's mostly nearly there already. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 19:55, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply; this copyedit has now been completed. I'll assist further with any prose issues that arise at its GA nomination, time and opportunity allowing. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:21, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #118

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about removing person data
  • Discussion to increase the support votes required for successful RfAs
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Main Page redesign suggestions
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID, GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to
• Development
  • Finished setting up JSON dumps. If everything goes well, a first dump will be available on Monday evening
  • Worked on badges UI integration and made initial progress at making them editable
  • Did a lot of JavaScript refactoring in order to put Api related code into an own component
  • Made it possible to access data from Wikidata items on Wikidata itself using Lua (not yet enabled)
  • Fixed a bug that allowed creation of items with the same label+description of another item
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 23:14, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #119

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

• Discussions
  • User conduct policies RfC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The first draft for the Main page redesign is ready for review (a summary of proposed changes can be found at Project Chat)
  • User:Thepwnco is working on updating Wikidata documentation for all sister projects, starting with Wikidata:Wikisource
  • Drop by the Wikidata Lounge, a new initiative to promote friendliness and civility started by d:User:Micru
  • Wikinews will get sitelink support on August 19th
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: b-side, executive producer, OpenPlaques identifier, pet, Lost Art-ID, journey origin
• Development
  • Published the first JSON dumps
  • Finishing touches on badges support
  • Finishing touches on redirects
  • Finishing touches on the "in other projects" beta feature that displays links to sister projects in the sidebar of Wikipedia for example
  • Tested and fixed issues with allowing sitelinks to Wikidata pages and accessing item data via Lua on Wikidata itself
  • Final tests before we can start switching to the new serialization format
  • The code for simple queries is being reviewed by the Foundation. This is hopefully the last step before we can deploy this too.
  • Worked on improving the code of the {{#property}} parser function in preparation of allowing arbitrary data access and allowing linked output.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 22:48, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Consider visiting Talk:Greece. There is an ongoing debate over something similar to what you've previously stated there. Regards Califate123! (talk) 16:53, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #120

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfAs: Gabbe
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • List of Wikidata talks at Wikimania 2014
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's new Main page is almost ready to go live, but is still in need of a visually-appealing banner! Got an idea for an eye-catching design that represents what Wikidata's all about? Submit proposals before August 11 at d:Wikidata:Portal Redesign/Banner
  • Wikidata's tours are now translatable. You may help translating at d:Wikidata:Tours/Items and d:Wikidata:Tours/Statements.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: published in
  • Showcase items: Kleinmachnow
• Development
  • Created CLI script to import entities into the QueryEngine store (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jpg)
  • More work on redirects (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
  • More work on the monolingual datatype
  • Started work on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface (that’s the first coding steps of getting us a new user interface design)
  • Final touches on badges (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 23:42, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #121

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikimania \o/ It was amazing and Wikidata all over the place. Wikidata's true potential is starting to show.
  • Guided tours and Wikidata: How to explain a complex project and encourage new editors
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia
  • Histropedia now uses Wikidata to build timelines
  • Slides and videos of first Wikidata talks at Wikimania online: 1 2 3 (more slides and videos will follow))
  • First prototype screenshot of asking questions to Wikipedia mobile readers (similar to Wikidata the Game)
  • Userboxes
• Did you know?
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Interesting Content, WikiProject sum of all paintings
• Development
  • Attended Wikimania and Socrates
  • Worked on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface to make it ready for the new user interface design
  • Discussed Wikidata, structured data on Commons and a ton of other things with many people at Wikimania
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23:57, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #122

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfOS: John F. Lewis
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Help choose which banner will be featured on the new Main page! Click here to view the two banner candidates and leave your feedback before August 20th 16:00 UTC.
  • Wikidata Translate, a Wikidata-based Google translator open source clone.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: journey destination, score method, grave picture, present in work, Fide ID, Norsk filmografi ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, plea, collection size
  • New task forces: WikiProject Movies
• Development
  • Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email.
  • Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
  • Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
  • We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates.
  • Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design
  • Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 13:26, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #123

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London
  • "Growing items" by User:Micru, an essay about modelling concepts and understanding items
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The new Main page will go live early next week! See the announcement at Project chat for more details and to leave any last comments
  • It will be possible to show the badges like "Featured Article" stored on Wikidata in the sidebar of the clients (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...) starting Tuesday. Wikipedia will follow on Thursday.
  • Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature on the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata.
  • Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick up speed. Get involved: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html Also maybe attend the office hour?
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: list of monuments, list of works, legal form, catholic.ru ID, motto, Sandbox Monolingual text, nickname, official name, Sports Reference ID, people missing, fictional universe described in
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Structured Data for Commons
• Development
  • Deployed lots of new features like badges, access to language links for Wikinews and Wikidata, the monolingual text data type and redirects!
  • Working hard on making the new UI a reality, mainly refactoring the UI widgets right now. Covers a lot of ground and will take some time.
  • More work on HHVM issues that need to be fixed before Wikidata can switch to it.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:30, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #124

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • past: OpenSym
  • upcoming: IRC office hour about structured data for Wikimedia Commons
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New Main Page and other new features
  • Breaking changes for gadgets
  • Badges support via Wikidata has been rolled out to Wikipedia and other sister projects. If the icons shown are not the ones your project would like please request a change here.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NIEA building ID, Cadw Building ID, color index, absolute magnitude
• Development
  • Deployed more new stuff \o/ (in other projects sidebar; new internal serialization format; showing badges on the Wikipedias and other sister projects; Special:GoToLinkedPage)
  • Added a new “item-redirect” permission
  • Continuous work and reviews for the new JavaScript user interface
  • DataModel 1.0 will be more strict when adding Claims or Statements to Entities. Quite some tests needed to be made compatible
  • Adopted to recent API changes (getPossibleErrors and others got dropped)
  • Replaced hundreds of class name aliases in the code with the actual class names
  • Attended OpenSym
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 00:18, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #125

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Why Wikidata is so important to Histropedia
  • Wikidata Outreach: What happened?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The new main page can now be translated.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: reporting mark, maximum glide ratio , FIFA player code, WALS family code, WALS genus code, WALS lect code, category for people died here, category for people born here, PRDL Author ID
• Development
  • Performance improvements for "in other projects sidebar" beta feature and bug fixes in the feature on wikis with sidebar cache enabled (e.g. zhwiki, commons)
  • Worked on performance improvements to badges feature
  • Fixing bug with xml format in the API, and added tests for it so hopefully this does not break again!
  • Worked more on enabling statements on properties
  • Further work on new user interface design groundwork - mostly refactoring and enabling editing of multiple sitelinks and label/alias/description at once
  • First pokes at usage tracking
  • Drafted an RfC to improve recent changes so we can show Wikidata changes also when enhanced recent changes is enabled
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 18:43, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #126

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

• Discussions
  • A new blocking policy has been accepted.
  • Proposal for an individual engagement grant to use Wikidata items for citations needs your input
  • RfC: redirect vs. deletion
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • past: Open Government WikiHack organized by Wikimedia DC in Washington, DC
  • upcoming: Wikidata training organized by Wikimedia UK with Magnus in London
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • With the deployment next Tuesday you will be able to edit all sitelinks at once as well as all fields of the "in other languages" box. This is an intermediate step towards the new user interface and will evolve further over the next weeks. You can see what is coming on Tuesday now already on test.wikidata.org.
  • WikiProject Names aims to improve name related data on Wikidata. Initial focus is on first names (given names). Half of items for first names still need cleaning up, but 15% of items for persons already have a given name defined.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Stack Exchange tag, vici.org ID, sourcing circumstances, has contributing factor, has immediate cause, birth name (Monolingual text), title, Nupill Literatura Digital - Document, Nupill Literatura Digital - Author, Commons Creator template, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID, male population, female population, number of households, contributing factor of, immediate cause of, used by, end cause, family name identical to this first name, country for sport, parents of hybrids, Glad identifier, kulturnoe-nasledie.ru identifier
  • Showcase items: Hessian Broadcasting Corporation, Fishing Creek
• Development
  • Jan Zerebecki has joined the Wikidata dev team.
  • Worked on supporting statements on properties in WikibaseDataModelSerialization (bugzilla:66425)
  • Fixed broken xml api output (bugzilla:70531), as well as some inconsistencies in the xml format and added tests that should help avoid future breakage in the xml format
  • Finished performance improvements for badges
  • Worked on entity usage tracking
  • Pietro from the EAGLE project came to visit us, one of the first 3rd party users of Wikibase. See http://www.eagle-network.eu
  • Added a hook point to allow 3rd party users (like the EAGLE project) of Wikibase to control what goes into the search index
  • Started work on a widget that lets you edit badges right in the item instead of going to the special page
  • Use checkboxes instead of a multiselect to edit badges on d:Special:SetSiteLink
  • Work on hhvm-related issues in Wikibase and temporarily disabled the beta feature on Wikidata until fixes are deployed for the issues.
  • Deployed new code on test.wikidata! (to be deployed on wikidata on Tuesday), see mw:Wikidata_deployment#wmf.2F1.25wmf1
  • Work on fixing empty maps in the JSON serialization, differentiate them from empty lists (fixed prerequisite bugzilla:70606)
  • Jeroen made a little video demonstrating how you can get a clone of Wikibase DataModel, set it up, and run it's tests: https://asciinema.org/a/12530
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 12:13, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #127

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

• Discussions
  • [[:d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/User conduct policies|Closed RfC: User conduct policies]
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.3.0 released - Wikidata Toolkit
  • ProteinBoxBot is making Wikidata the canonical resource for referencing and translating identifiers for genes and proteins from different species
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: depends on, motto, series ordinal, Federal Register Document Number, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID
• Development
  • Investigated and fixed issues with time values
  • Investigated issues with coordinate value precision
  • Fixed a number of issues related to HHVM
  • Further work on usage tracking
  • Created smoke tests for items and properties
  • Created a widget to edit badges directly on the item without going through the special page
  • Prepared for a week of work with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers next week to get more planning done for structured data support for Commons
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:48, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #128

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfA: Nikosguard
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming IRC office hour about structured data on Commons
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • All human genes are now wikidata items, for example: Here is one (of approximately 40,000) called "spinocerebellar ataxia 37" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18081265. Blog post about this to appear here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/
  • Want to be kept up-to-date on structured data on Commons? There is now a new newsletter you can subscribe to.
  • Interested in some statistics about the data on Wikidata? Check Wikidata Stats every now and then. (Thanks Magnus for moving it to the new dump format.)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: UBERON ID, Yandex.Music ID, has quality, Exceptionnal heritage of Wallonia ID, Orphanet ID, demonym (monoligual text), maximum Strahler number
• Development
  • Spent the week with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers to get more clarity about structured data on Commons. We'll be asking for feedback on a lot of stuff over the next weeks. The main info hub is taking shape at Commons:Structured data.
  • More fixes for the switch to HHVM
  • Looked into possible performance improvements. Some of them will be taken into the next sprint.
  • Battled a handful of nasty issues on the live-site
  • Wikibase DataModel 1.1 was released
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 22:32, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #129

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

• Discussions
  • Do you want to see constraint violation reports and referencing improved? Please provide input.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (log)
  • hackathon around scholarly articles on Wikidata (etherpad with notes)
  • Blog post about the meeting to discuss structured data on Commons in Berlin
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Clusters of humans and species on Wikidata
  • New parameter in the template Property documentation: subject item; see [this example edit] for how to use it
  • New tool: Linked Items. Returns sorted, de-duped list of Q values from a Wikipedia page, or chunk of wiki-text. Thank you, Magnus!
  • Wikidata annotation tool is looking for feedback
  • Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase by Denny and Markus has been published. It gives a very nice non-technical overview of Wikidata.
  • Magnus re-wrote Wiki ShootMe to now use Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Always wanted to know which topics have amazing articles on Wikimedia projects across many languages? Here you go!
  • Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
• Development
  • Improvements to sitelink editing usability
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 2.0
  • Profiling and performance improvements in Wikibase and Wikibase DataModel
  • Implementing LabelLookup, which is needed to improve performance of EntityId formatting. This will lead to improved item page loading times.
  • Added new featured list and recommended article badges.
  • Remove most usage of class aliases to be compatible with HHVM (dependencies of bugzilla:71295)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:26, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
• Development
  • Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
  • Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
  • When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
  • Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
  • Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
  • Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
  • Work on entity usage tracking
  • Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
  • Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
  • Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
  • Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 20:28, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #131

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday! Have a look at the notes from the community and development team and add your note. Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)!
  • Wikidata II
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata is nominated for 2 Open Data Awards! \o/ Magnus and Lydia will attend the award ceremony next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
  • Wikidata as the central hub for open life science data
  • What is Wikipedia about? Great data viz based on Wikidata
  • Super Lachaise, a mobile app based on Wikidata for a cemetery in Paris
  • Random items without statements
  • Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata
  • Updated statistics on the topics with most highly-rated articles on Wikipedia
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID, Municipality code of Brazil, Pleiades identifier, MalaCards ID, natural product of taxon, official blog, University of Barcelona authority ID, Beilstein Registry Number, Gmelin Number
• Development
  • Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP
  • HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata
  • Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core
  • Work on language fall backs for new serialization code
  • Work on fixing XML dumps
  • Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions
  • Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further
  • Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries
  • Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties
  • Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink editing
  • Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 14:24, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #132

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

• Discussions
  • Zero error rate - help improve the quality of Wikidata's data

Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Lydia, Magnus and Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the ODI award gala

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata won the Open Data Award by the Open Data Institute in the category Publisher \o/ (blog post by ODI, blog post by WMDE)
  • Tutorial: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries
• Did you know?
  • Less than 23% of Wikidata items have no statement. Down from ~53% a year ago.
  • Newest properties: consecrator, Slovene Cultural Heritage designation, penalty, charge, judge, defender, prosecutor, defendant, number of casualties, deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID
• Development
  • Continued work on LabelLookup and related code to further improve performance
  • Made it possible to show references in statements on property pages. (Remaining bugs before roll-out are issues with adding/editing/removing statements on property pages.)
  • Further improvements to sitelink editing (The edit toolbar now floats so it doesn't scroll out of the page on a long list of sitelinks. An empty row for adding a new sitelink is shown by default when editing to make this faster and take less scrolling.)
  • Further adapting of simple query code so we can get it to review at the Foundation again.
  • Lots of bug fixes all over the place
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:05, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #133

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page.
  • GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Help make sure these items have labels in your language
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NATO code for grade
• Development
  • Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
  • Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
  • Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage)
  • Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
  • Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance.
  • Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
  • Improved calendar model display
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 00:00, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #134

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Had a great hackathon for GLAM and Wikidata in Amsterdam last weekend
  • IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (logs)
  • Building a periodic table using Wikidata
  • Lydia will be speaking at internetdagarna in Stockholm on Monday
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Commons will get Phase 2 on December 2nd
  • The Sum of all Paintings - new app to nicely display data related to artwork
  • Institutions on Commons without an item on Wikidata
  • Wikidata descriptions being used to help clarify search results in the Wikipedia mobile app
  • WikidataTodo now shows you tasks to be done on Wikidata related to a specific country as well
  • VisualEditor coming as a beta feature
  • Statements on properties are getting closer to the finish line. You could help figure out which properties to use for describing and classifying properties.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MarineTraffic Port ID, MarineTraffic Ship ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer, SIREN number, CLARA-ID, History of Parliament ID, IRC channel, Commons Institution page
• Development
  • When a page is deleted on a client (Wikipedia, etc) its sitelink is now removed automatically from its Wikidata item
  • Reworked the automatic precision detection for coordinates
  • The long planned split of the code base into two independent Wikibase Repo and Client extensions is getting closer pretty fast these weeks
  • Made good progress on making the sitelinks section much more compact and moving it into the right-hand sidebar
  • While still reworking lots of details that slightly changed in DataModel 2.0 we already started working on a possible DataModel 3.0
  • More performance optimizations in the form of more advanced label lookup implementations
  • Implemented file-based cache of SiteStore to improve performance
  • Bug fixes
  • Updated the property suggester with new data! :)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:47, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #135

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm
  • Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin
  • Picture this!
  • Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next?
  • Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process
  • IRC office hour on Wednesday
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday
  • Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming
  • VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: China Vitae ID, Formatter URL, subject item, equivalent property, SIL code, Thai cultural heritage ID, has melody, MarineTraffic Port ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer
• Development
  • Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now)
  • Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance)
  • Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before
  • Fixed more issues with geocoordinates
  • Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access)
  • Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup)
  • Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix phabricator:T74348
  • Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing
  • JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on
  • Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar
  • Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs)
  • Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones
  • Fixed error in DataModel that was noticed by DataModelSerializer tests
  • Input on mw:Wikibase/Indexing
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:14, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #136

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • IRC office hour (log)
  • Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
  • Statements on properties are now live
  • Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
  • The Game has a new mode: alma mater
  • Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
  • Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
  • English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: working title, undercarriage
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Wikidata for research aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted.
• Development
  • Started work on units
  • More work on evaluating options for querying
  • Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
  • Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
  • Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
  • Work on improved label lookup performance
  • Wrapping up work on usage tracking
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:48, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #137

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Running Wikidata queries on scientific publications
  • Finding ORCID identifiers used in Wikidata & Wikipedia
  • past: Wikidata workshop in NYC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Ancient philosopher communities visualized based on Wikidata data
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
• Development
  • More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
  • Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
  • Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
  • Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
  • Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
  • Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
  • Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
  • Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:01, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #138

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfAs: Petr Matas
  • Closed RfAs: Jared Preston (Successful)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Welcome Freebase!
    • Freebase announcement
    • Wikidata announcement
    • Wikiproject
    • Primary sources tool
    • Heise
    • Venturebeat
    • Gigaom
  • Wikidata for Research – presenting the team and a first sketch of the workplan
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New features! Language fallbacks, property data type and performance improvements
  • New tree of life based on Wikidata data
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: subproperty of, mandatory qualifier, NIST/CODATA ID, EgliseInfo ID
  • New task forces: Freebase, Sled dog racing
  • Showcase items: Lion
• Development
  • Happy holidays from the dev team, everyone :)
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Wikipedia
  • Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements, language fallback, and property data type
  • Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment
  • Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup)
  • Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign
  • Ongoing work on the WikibaseJavaScriptApi extension that was split from the Wikibase code base
  • Finished tree of life
  • Some more work on support for units
  • Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator
  • Wikidata Query has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a load balancer in front of it.
  • The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when adding new statements should be even better now.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 17:49, 20 December 2014 (UTC)