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DYK for May Day (Washington College)
 | On 1 April 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article May Day (Washington College), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that students at Washington College celebrate May Day by running naked around the flag pole on the campus green? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/May Day (Washington College). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Remove pages from my account
Remove pages from my account NOW — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.43.107.123 (talk) 17:49, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
- Ummm...what? --Guerillero | My Talk 17:52, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Re-Creating Fabian Tompsett
Sorry that you have deleted this. I have just looked at the French page [1] which still exists. I would like to recreate the English page, using the English and French material. Gordo (talk) 07:41, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
- Did you also consider that there are several links to the page that you deleted? Special:WhatLinksHere/Fabian_Tompsett Gordo (talk) 07:59, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #52
- Development
- The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
- Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
- Worked on improving recent changes code in client
- Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
- Implemented string formatter
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
- There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
- There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
- We hit Q10000000
- A Wikidata item in the wild ;-)
- Did you know?
- There are a number of task forces that take care of specific jobs or topics on Wikidata
- You can get database dumps to play with
- There are a lot of stats about Wikidata on http://stats.wikimedia.org
- Open Tasks for You
- Hit a random item and add a missing source?
- Hack on one of these
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Lifting the Gibraltar DYK restrictions
A couple of months ago, you opposed a proposal to lift the restrictions on Gibraltar-related DYKs, which were imposed in September 2012. Could you possibly clarify (1) under what conditions you would support a lifting of the restrictions, and (2) when you think it would be appropriate to lift the restrictions? Prioryman (talk) 20:19, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
- 24 months after we can confirm that absolutely no money is changing hands for wiki related work on the topic of Gibraltar. --Guerillero | My Talk 00:21, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
OpenMusic Page
hello,
I noticed a malicious anonymous edit on the OpenMusic page (aggressively stating a "hijacking" of another software) and I tried to get things objective and serene by writing a very detailed history of the generations of composition software at ircam and the way they have influenced each other (PatchWork had some influence on OpenMusic, which created new ideas and influenced in turn PWGL which is a descendent of PatchWork, so there's no point in diffusing hatred, all these are great musical softwares)
However this detailed history was deleted because it was perceived as promotional.
So in the last version, I just removed the malevolent and aggressive edit, as well as the promotional material for PWGL that had maliciously been introduced by the same anonymous person in the OpenMusic entry. So the page is minimal, but it is objective and free from aggressive and vicious inclusions.
best
Gerard — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theropode (talk • contribs) 00:49, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
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DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, April 13!
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, April 13 at 5:30 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 36. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 18:57, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #53
- Development
- Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
- Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
- Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
- Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
- Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
- Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
- Events/Press
- right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
- Discussions
- The RFC about bureaucrats was closed
- RfC about policy for translation admins
- We need feedback from contributors working on references addition or having tried to add references to statements. Please comment about your problems or your trials at d:Help:Sources
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
- Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
- There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
- If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
- There is a new user right: property creators
- There is now a page to request deletion of a property
- We now have Bureaucrats
- Reasonator was improved and extended (1 2)
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Help draft the next weekly summary
Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.
DC meetups on April 19 and 20
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for two exciting events this weekend:
On the evening of Friday, April 19, we're hosting our first-ever WikiSalon at our K Street office. The WikiSalon will be a twice-monthly informal meetup and collaborative editing event to help build the community of Wikimedia enthusiasts here in DC; please join us for its inaugural session. Light refreshments will be provided.
On Saturday, April 20, we've partnered with the George Washington University to host the All Things GW Edit-a-Thon at the Teamsters Labor History Research Center. Please join us for behind-the-scenes tours of the University Archives and help edit articles about GWU history.
We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events! Kirill [talk] 20:02, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #54
- Development
- Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
- wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (bugzilla:45005)
- Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (bugzilla:45140)
- Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
- Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
- Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
- Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
- Work on the storage code for answering queries
- Events/Press
- GLAM-WIKI 2013
- upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
- upcoming: Opensource Treffen
- upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 2 (infoboxes) on English Wikipedia is planned for April 22. All remaining Wikipedias are planned for April 24.
- Qualifiers are available now. In the same update several bugs have been fixed mainly related to Internet Explorer 8. At the same time search has been made case-insensitive. More details here.
- d:Wikidata:Notability has been completely rewritten
- Cool task force page: d:Wikidata:Video games task force
- List of Wikipedia articles that still have language links in the wiki text
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
Toil
I've begun the GA review for Toil and would like your thoughts on a few small points. Thanks for your work on this one, and sorry you had to wait so long for a reviewer! -- Khazar2 (talk) 19:57, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| For your contributions to bring Toil to Good Article status. Thanks, and keep up the good work! -- Khazar2 (talk) 03:41, 23 April 2013 (UTC) |
- Thank you so much for the review. I was getting worried there --Guerillero | My Talk 03:43, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
- Ha, I can imagine. If it's any consolation, one of my nominations is also one article away from appearing at the top in the five oldest unreviewed submissions. What's odd is that yours was a short, high-quality article that needed almost no work--I'm surprised nobody jumped on it before me! It all seems pretty arbitrary. -- Khazar2 (talk) 03:51, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
Break
It is that time of the year again. Next week is the last week of classes and the week after that is finals week. Looking at it right now, I have 4 papers and a video that I need to get done in the next two and a half weeks. To keep myself productive and sane, I will be away from the 'pedia starting today. (If I am appointed to the AUSC, I will be active in the subcommittee's business during this time, except for the last week of classes.) I will have access to my inbox the whole time. Happy editing, --Guerillero | My Talk 16:23, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
- Good luck! I'd say "enjoy your break", but four papers doesn't sound like a particularly fun one-- Khazar2 (talk) 16:24, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks. This is the punishment I get for going to a liberal arts school --Guerillero | My Talk 16:27, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
What the...
You block for no reason and then remove with no comment or apology? [2] [3] 71.236.188.255 (talk) 01:23, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
- I thought I left a message on your talk page; I must have not saved it before I closed the window. I was looking over several IP addresses at the time and yours got mixed up with another address with another address that looks visually similar on Captain Occam's user page who's edits closely line up with several blocked/banned users. I am sorry for the wait. --Guerillero | My Talk 02:02, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 April 2013
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Editor Retention
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Wikidata weekly summary #55
- Development
- Started working on support for the Time data type in the frontend (editing/displaying of time values)
- Fixed copyright tooltip’s issues where it was not possible to dismiss it
- Started work for making it possible to track where on the client a property is used
- Work on dispatching changes to Wikipedias via the redis job queue
- Introducing core hooks to allow us to avoid page re-rendering when language links are changed
- Implemented automatic comments for setClaim (adding/setting claim, adding/removing/changing qualifiers)
- Investigated issue where edit conflicts are detected in error
- Fixed wrong revision shown in history-view
- Events/Press
- A lot of articles about the deployment of phase 2 on all Wikipedias among them: Wikipedia-Datenfundus Wikidata geht in den Regelbetrieb, Wikidata goes live worldwide, Wikidata-revolutionen är här: Möjliggör strukturerade data på Wikipedia
- Wikimedia switching to MariaDB in c'T (German): Wikipedia wechselt von MySQL auf MariaDB
- Office hour about references (log)
- Introduction to Wikidata - talk at the British Library
- OpensourceTreffen in Munich
- Upcoming: Hypertext 2013
- Discussions
- RfC about vandalism
- RfP for oversighters
- RfC about interproject links interface
- RfC about inactive administrators
- RfC about permissions for rollbackers regarding vandalism
- RfC about Kinship
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Phase 2 has been deployed on English Wikipedia and all remaining ones
- Deployed a widget that makes it easier to add language links when there is only one language link on Wikidata so far
- Page to collect information about phase 2 on the Wikipedias
- Page edits have passed 31 million.
- d:Help:Shortcut lists shortcuts for frequently used pages
- Nice interaction of local data and data from Wikidata on English Wikipedias
- Did you know?
- Item Q12000000 is is the Czech Wiki entry about "Výškové horolezectví" or "high altitude climbing"
- Newest properties are: occupant, color (hex triplet), NOR, member of, color (item), opposite of, said to be the same as, IMO ship number, foundational text, Emporis ID, Structurae ID, industry, cohabitant, astronaut's missions, original network, launch site
- Newest qualifiers are: determination method, role
- Properties merged: sister and brother (discussion)
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Translate the Table of properties into your language
- Review a proposal for a qualifier property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- If fixing a particular bug is especially important for you then please consider voting for it in Bugzilla to help the development team prioritize. A list of all of the currently open ones is here.
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