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@Skyllfully: thanks for welcoming me, me! —Skyllfully (talk) 05:17, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Welcome from me, also! Notice that your edit at User talk:Patrickdonals hasn't quite worked, as there's a {{{1}}} showing. The correct way to post this template is shown at Template:Welcome#Usage. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:22, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

@John of Reading: thanks for your friendly help! —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 14:13, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Skyllfully, you are invited to the Teahouse!

Hi Skyllfully! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Be our guest at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a friendly space where new editors can ask questions about contributing to Wikipedia and get help from peers and experienced editors. I hope to see you there! Worm That Turned (I'm a Teahouse host) Visit the Teahouse This message was delivered automatically by your robot friend, HostBot (talk) 17:20, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

@Worm That Turned: Thanks for the invite! I'm going to become a host once I'm autoconfirmed, because I like helping people and I participate in many other (non-Wikimedia) wikis! —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 18:38, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Is that you?

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Here? Otherwise I can lock this account, if somebody tries to get your identity. (I'm a steward there, so ask me, if you need things there). Greetings, Luke081515 08:40, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

@Luke081515: Yes that is me, I can even give you confirmation. Thanks for checking. Marking as  Resolved for my reference. —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 14:33, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

(change visibility) 17:01, 31 August 2015 Luke081515 (Talk | contribs | block) changed group membership for User:Skyllfully from (none) to confirmed user (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/678769645). Thanks. Greetings, Luke081515 15:02, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Creating Userbox Templates

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I need help publishing a userbox template, how might I go about achieving consensus for it? Its currently at {{User:Skyllfully/toa}}. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 18:49, 28 August 2015 (UTC) This user comes from the Town of Ajax. That's "published" already; people can use it on their user pages by adding {{User:Skyllfully/toa}} (as I did here). If you want to make it more widely known on Wikipedia, Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/New Userboxes seems a good venue. Huon (talk) 19:36, 28 August 2015 (UTC) @Huon: Thanks for your help, coming from other MediaWiki-wikis, I was thinking that userboxes should be published under (Main) not a user's subpage. But I guess it's different. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 20:16, 28 August 2015 (UTC) Marking as  Answered for my reference. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 03:04, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Users' Information

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Hey there, I was wondering, how does one find the IP address of a user? Also, how does one find what groups a user is part of? Thanks in advance! —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 07:18, 29 August 2015 (UTC) IP address information is only avalible to a small number of trusted users, and even then not looked up except under certain circumstances. To find what groups a user is part of, there is a "special" page. For example, your rights are listed on Special:Log/rights/User:Skyllfully. Mdann52 (talk) 07:25, 29 August 2015 (UTC) @Mdann52: Thanks for a speedy, reliable response! —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 07:29, 29 August 2015 (UTC) Marking as  Answered for my reference. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 03:04, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Page move button in other skins

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Hey there, is there any way to get the raw JavaScript for the move button for pages if I want to use it on other skins? —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 16:28, 31 August 2015 (UTC) I just checked the other skins, and they all had a more prominent "move" option than Vector. Thus I don't quite see what you want to add to them. There's a list of user scripts available at Wikipedia:User scripts, but I don't think those are what you are looking for. Twinkle produces a drop-down menu that on Vector looks quite similar to the "More" drop-down menu that holds the move button, so you could check that code. Otherwise you'll probably be better-off asking at MediaWiki, or possibly WP:VP/T. Huon (talk) 20:03, 31 August 2015 (UTC) Marking as  Answered for my reference. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 03:04, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Template for notification of removal of CSD on one's article

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Is there a template for notification of removal of CSD on one's article (i.e. a {{uw}} template)? —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 05:01, 3 September 2015 (UTC) Something like Template:Uw-speedy1? Rotideypoc41352 (talk) 05:05, 3 September 2015 (UTC) @Rotideypoc41352: thanks for your help! Please remember to change the {{help me}} to {{help me-helped}} or null the template ({{help me}}) when answering these types of questions. (Don't worry, I've already gone ahead and done it for this time!) —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 05:09, 3 September 2015 (UTC) Thanks. I kept it open in case my reply didn't answer your question. Best, Rotideypoc41352 (talk) 05:10, 3 September 2015 (UTC) Marking as  Answered for my reference. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 03:04, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Removing AfD template

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles, or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion debates, as you did with User:Parvadhaa. Otherwise, it may be difficult to create consensus. If you oppose the deletion of an article, please comment at the respective page instead. This is an automated message from a bot about this edit, where you removed the deletion template from an article before the deletion discussion was complete. If this message is in error, please report it.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 04:30, 7 September 2015 (UTC) This was a mistake, I was taking down the AfD and changed it to MfD. Also, I removed notices from talk pages, CSD-ed my false AfD and removed it from AfD altogether. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 04:39, 7 September 2015 (UTC) Marking as  Resolved for my reference. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 03:04, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

FYI

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With this revert you restored egregious WP:OR which I had removed. In case you didn't know, I'm an admin with over ten years' editing experience. It pays to check the contributions and content when reverting edits. Cheers, Guy (Help!) 09:35, 8 September 2015 (UTC) Hey there, thanks for letting me know. I'm just starting out on Wikipedia and I happily accept advice and feedback, thanks and I'll remember in the future! —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 18:58, 8 September 2015 (UTC) Marking as  Resolved for my reference. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 03:04, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Primary source

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Hi Skyllfully, just a quick note regarding this edit. If a film has been released, then the primary source, i.e. the film itself, can be used a source for non-interpretive plot information and cast. Where we would need references is if someone tried to add a plot write-up for a movie that has not been released yet, or if they were trying to add content about perceived themes and other subjective material. The same goes for the soundtrack. If it has been released, then presumably we could look at the album cover to discern the track titles, or play the soundtrack and figure out how long each song is. The release date should be sourced, since that's not usually printed on an album. And obviously if there are issues with vandalism, that might warrant some {{citation needed}} templates. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:31, 8 September 2015 (UTC) Hey there, thanks for letting me know. I'm just starting out on Wikipedia and I happily accept advice and feedback, thanks and I'll remember in the future! —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 18:59, 8 September 2015 (UTC) Marking as  Resolved for my reference. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 03:04, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

3RR accusation

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Hi. You accused me of violating 3RR without giving details. I don’t see where or when I have, but if I have, I would very much like to know. Thanks. —67.14.236.50 (talk) 00:02, 10 September 2015 (UTC) Hey there 67.14.236.50, I am deeply sorry for (1) not reponding to your message and (2) falsely accusing you of violating the 3RR. I am new to Wikipedia's policies, and I'm asking that you forgive me. Thanks for understanding! —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 02:52, 10 September 2015 (UTC) Marking as  Resolved for my reference. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 03:04, 10 September 2015 (UTC) Thanks for apologizing! I’m… not quite sure how to respond, not quite used to this kind of sincerity from accusing editors. But other than the 3RR thing, the rest of your comment was kind of right on. So, thank you for posting to my Talk page. What would you suggest? —67.14.236.50 (talk) 03:17, 10 September 2015 (UTC) @67.14.236.50: No problem, I come from another wiki where everyone's nice like that... Maybe it would be best to have someone with more user rights (e.g. sysop) intervene, then, if it is a severe edit war or the other contributor is making bad faith edits the 'higher-up' (e.g. sysop) could place a temporary block on a user's account (after warnings of course)! That's my idea, do you have anything to add on, anything you didn't like, or even a totally different idea? I try to focus on defusing disputes as fast as I can. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 03:28, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Hello, Back

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Hello, Skyllfully, and thank you for the welcome. Just one question: As my habit of making minor (and very occasionally major) changes dates back at least five years, why issue me a welcome now? Just curious. Thanks. Chris Madden 00:51, 11 September 2015 (UTC) Hey there Chris Madden, you didn't seem to have a talk or user page so I assumed (wrongly) that you were a new user, without checking your contribs. So a happy belated welcome to you, I hope to see you around. By the way, please modify your signature to conform with WP:SIGLINK. Happy Wikipedia-ing!! —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 02:17, 11 September 2015 (UTC) Marking as  Answered for my reference. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 02:33, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Blue Jeans Environmental and humanitarian impact section

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Hello Skyllfully. You recently undid my edit on the jeans page where I removed the whole "Environmental and humanitarian impact" section. Is there any way for me to put a note on the article requesting additional information/citations on this? I really didn't want to remove the whole section, but I couldn't find another way to convey this. If nobody can find citation showing that jeans use more water than other kinds of pants, then I think the whole water paragraph should be moved to the cotton and/or pants pages. Similarly, if nobody can find citation showing that jeans are more "environmentally damaging" than other kinds of pants, I think that the language "environmentally damaging" should be removed. This part: "The production of jeans with a "used look" can be more environmentally damaging than regular jeans" is saying that all jeans are "environmentally damaging". Says who? And if they are, are they more so than other pants options? This is opinion in an article of jeans facts. Maybe we could put the information under a sandblasting article, or under a section in the jeans article entitled "Humanitarian Impact of Sandblasting Jeans". If jeans don't use more water than other kinds of pants, and they aren't more "environmentally damaging" than other kinds of pants, then I think that this section is irrelevant to the whole article. Maybe we could move that to a pants article. Please let me know what you think. If I'm breaking any protocols here, please forgive me, I'm new to editing Wikipedia pages. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.40.160.26 (talk) 19:01, 4 September 2015 (UTC) Hey there 170.40.160.26, thanks for you wonderful explanation and reasoning! Great question, if you would like additional citations for articles or sections, you can place {{Unr}} at the top of the page, as long as there are no citations, if there are some references, you can place {{Refimprove}} or {{Refimprove|section}}, and if there are some references in an article but none in a certain section, you can use {{Uns}}. I hope this helps, remember, if you need any further help, I'm always a reply away! —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 03:41, 10 September 2015 (UTC) @170.40.160.26: P.S. Thanks for being bold that's a great trait for editing because everything is reversible on Wikipedia, I just wanted to let you know that Community Consensus is the formal method for enacting big edits like the one you performed, and it also helps avoid edit wars. For more info on this topic, please see WP:CON. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 03:53, 10 September 2015 (UTC) Marking as  Answered for my reference. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 02:35, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Detroit Metropolitan Airport

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I've removed the speedy tag from Detroit Metropolitan Airport. I think it would be best to let the move discussion run its course. Best, Mackensen (talk) 02:39, 14 September 2015 (UTC) Okay, I guess I can be a little "quick to conclusions" at times! Marking as  Answered for my reference. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 01:24, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

User:Itailevi700000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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I reverted your edit b/c I didn't know why you removed the user's username from the template, but now I see why as that user doesn't exist. Everymorning (talk) 02:55, 14 September 2015 (UTC) Apparently Samwalton misspelled the user's username when tagging the sock's userpage, but I have fixed it now. Everymorning (talk) 11:18, 14 September 2015 (UTC) Okay, thanks for doing that. I only removed it because it was a misleading link. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 01:27, 16 September 2015 (UTC) Marking as  Answered for my own reference. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 01:28, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

The Nova Science article

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The proposed changes were already formatted, and now they are a chaos. The entire second half of the article must be changed I feel as I proposed, to make it compatible with latest results in bibliometry achieved by the University of Granada in Spain. Also, the SENSE results from the SENSE consortium in the Netherlands are presented in a very biased way. Sense says that Nova are a decent publishers, not that they are in a lowest category. We in Wikipedia must keep our standards and put back emotions. If someone does not like the company, why not write an article in a major peer-reviewed journal of Library science, bibliometry or what have you? But such articles don't exist. What has happened though is that passionate Nova critics say things for which there is no evidence in either PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS or in the INTERNATIONAL QUALITY PRESS. Quoting from the social media is not enough. I left though the last part of the article as it is; althoug I fundamentally disagree with the formulations in the light of the mentioned evidence, I think there would be an edit earthquake if I were to change it. Inshallah.Al Andaluz Toledano (talk) 13:30, 29 September 2015 (UTC) @Al Andaluz Toledano: thanks for your detailed response. I have placed some maintenance tags on the article, someone will eventually come around and clean it up! If you like, you can help the article. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 22:47, 29 September 2015 (UTC) Note: Marking as  Answered for my reference. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 23:12, 29 September 2015 (UTC) Note: Reopening discussion. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 23:16, 29 September 2015 (UTC) @Al Andaluz Toledano: Another Wikipedian has edited that article, only removing the maintenance tags, do you have any thoughts on this? His reason was, “consider this the WP:JOURNALS answer to the edit request. Basically, we follow reliable sources, and Beall is considered reliable.” — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skyllfully (talk • contribs) Note: Marking as  Answered for my reference. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 19:15, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Is this now correct?

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I enter here this answer sign, can I then edit the page?

Reverting personal attacks

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The reverts are removing personal attacks/harassment/outing attempts. I have requested that the IP be blocked. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 02:21, 8 September 2015 (UTC) Okay, thanks for explaining NorthBySouthBaranof, we have both made multiple reports and it is in the hands of the (slow) admins. Although, I must ask that you stop violating the 3RR, I will try to revert what I can as well but we must ignore the case for now, until there's any further developments. Thanks for understanding! —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 02:30, 8 September 2015 (UTC) Question: you stated that NorthBySouthBaranof had a "bad track record". You've been here two weeks. If you don't mind my asking, where did you encounter this user before? Best, Mackensen (talk) 12:47, 8 September 2015 (UTC) Note: Marking as  Unresolved. —Skyllfully (talk | contribs) 03:14, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Editor Interaction Utility

I have brought this discussion here because (a) I have conceeded the point at the SPI and it is becoming a distraction to the central point and (b) most of the relevant prior discussion is here. I therefore apologise for apparently hijacking your talk page.

Engineers tend to have specialist areas of interest with areas of overlap on the edges of their discipline (and for any other interests that they have). It is therefore not surprising to find overlaps of editing interest (plus they do have a tendency to follow each other). Put any four editors (the IPs are most likely the same editor with a dynamic IP) who have contributed to to any engineering based article into the Editor Interaction Utility (EIU) and it is almost bound to provide many hits (and, of course, it will increase with the square of the number of editors). What you need to do is try them two at a time to get any real picture. IBW & LR - probably about par. Myself & LR - a few more but probably reflects our mutual interest in railways. Myself & IBW - Back down to about par (and a surprise overlap). And just picking two editors for no reason other than that I know they have no relationship with each other (or this matter) 2 unrelated editors - I didn't actually expect the list to be that long (it is probably the higher edit count), but it amply illustrates my point. DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 14:13, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

No problem, I'm fine with anyone joining or making new discussions.

I see where you're coming from and I totally agree with you, what do you suppose we do now? —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 15:36, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm not suggesting that we do anything. The time has come to just let the SPI run its course rather than add further distractions. I confess to being a little bemused by Uk55 seeking advice from someone who has less editing time on Wikipedia than he is claiming to have - no offence to you intended. Incidentally, there is no need to add a reply tag to my talk page as I had popped you on my watch list - at least for now. I DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 16:27, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

May I ask where I claimed to have any more editing experience than I claim to have? —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 16:45, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Apologies for any misunderstanding. I did not intend to suggest that you had made any such claim and I do not believe that I did. I merely made an observation of my bemusement. What I intended to convey is that it is Uk55 that is claiming to be a relatively new editor (from end of June 2015). That he was aware that I hail from the UK when that fact has not been revealed since at least the end of 2013 (I am still looking for when it was) plus his knowledge of Wikiprocedure establishes he was around before that date. DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 17:15, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry 'bout that. I would like to notify you that Uk55 could've assumed that, you do type in British English (or a closely related dialect, not Canadian or American), Uk55 also displays similar signs. —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 17:30, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

That I type in British English is not proof that I am British. I could be German or even Dutch. Substantial numbers of residents of both countries speak [British] English to a very high standard (in fact English is displacing Dutch in many of the larger cities in Holland). Uk55 was quite specific that I am British. He can only know this as a fact from somewhere else. DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 12:50, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Help with Sock Puppet Investigation

Hi, thanks again for your offer of help yesterday, I wondered if I could take you up on it now?

I gathered some evidence, which seemed solid-ish, but then I came across the Editor Interaction Analyser, which lit up like a christmas tree. Hundreds of common edits on dozens of unrelated pages. I'm now 100% certain they're the same person, the problem is I don't know how to translate that information to the investigation form. Is it possible you can help me?

Thanks so much. Uk55 (talk) 02:41, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Hey there, thanks for your interest in busting these sockpuppets! I also find that the Editor Interaction Anaylser tool is useful. If you're okay with it, I will create the case for you, all I need are the editors' usernames. Don't worry if I create the case, you'll still be able to voice your opinion on the SPI! Please reply back with the usernames... —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 03:09, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

@Skyllfully: If you can that would be incredibly helpful. The users are I B Wright, DieSwartzPunkt, and LiveRail. There's also a set of IP addresses 85.255.233.161, 85.255.233.196 and 85.255.233.210 - this is one person who claims not to have an account, but their behaviour, particularly on my talk page, has been more than suspicious. As they change IPs constantly though, I don't know if it's worth adding them. Thanks again. Uk55 (talk) 04:05, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Note: Added links to users on above comment for convenience. —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 04:23, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

@Uk55: I don't see too much evidence just through the analysis, do you have any more evidence? Think back to WP:SIGNS. —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 04:29, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

@Skyllfully: Oh, really? I thought them having edited 15+ different articles within a day of each other would be pretty conclusive... or am I just reading it wrong? Well, before I found that tool I was mostly basing it on how they were interacting with me on the Blu-ray talk page - I thought I was being perfectly civil, but each one that appeared seemed to increase in hostility from the last. They also all followed the pattern of writing one or two angry essay-length replies, then disappearing. I could accept multiple people disagreeing with me, but it seemed odd they'd have so much to say one minute and nothing the next. It also seemed like a really weird thing to get upset about. Plus their writing styles seemed identical, but maybe that's subjective. There were a few other things I noted, but none I would really call conclusive. So do you think I might've been wrong? Uk55 (talk) 05:04, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

You may want to check here. DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 12:46, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

@Skyllfully: Hi, I'm a bit confused, because you posted on that report but didn't reply here. Are you still willing to help with this? Uk55 (talk) 08:03, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

@Uk55: I'm sorry to disappoint you but I'm not British. I am Canadian. What makes you think I am British? I B Wright (talk) 10:49, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

@I B Wright: since we (us Canadians) write in Canadian English, Uk55 could've assumed from that. Although, our English dialects have they're differences. —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 15:36, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

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Telugu movie category

Srimanthudu has collected $2.0 billion,the most after Bahubali.It has to be the 2nd most collected sum movie.Change it. Krishh krishna (talk) 05:49, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 16:10, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you for patrolling the redirects I created

Thank you for patrolling the redirects I created. I wanted to alert you to some news:

1. - We no longer have to put the redirect Category on the 1st line. The 3rd line is now preferred
2. - Each redirect can be in up to 7 redirect categories
3. - Categories only need to start with the letter 'R' and no more need for a pipe
4. - R to misspelling renders the same boilerplate as R to modification
5. - Here is a list of R cats: [[Template:R template index]] showing the parent R cats

Cheers! ...Checkingfax ( Talk ) 05:55, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

@Checkingfax: I hope you don't mind me asking but, where did you find that info? I'd like to know in case I need to refer to it in the future. —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 02:37, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Just from poking around. I haven't kept track of my sources. Looks like they might actually be working toward using the rcat prefix not the R prefix. Don't know for sure.

You can test "R to misspelling" and "R to modification" by putting them in the same redirect then doing a preview. You'll see they render the same boilerplate. One is a parent, the other a child. Don't know which one is which. See if that list tells us.

I'll look around for the doc that says we're instructed to put the category on the 3rd line now instead of all on the 1st line with the #REDIRECT.

[[Here's]] one page that references the ability to put each redirect in up to seven categories.

I'll be in touch. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 03:21, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

When I was poking around previously I found a page where it explicity said there used to be a system limitation where the #REDIRECT and the category had to be on the first line but that limitation was overcome and they were instructing us going forward to put the first category on the 3rd line. [[This]] page does not address the first line issue but all the samples show the categories starting on the third line. I'll dig in to find the page where it addressed the previous system limitation.

By the way #REDIRECT used to have to be in all caps, and they prefer we do it that way, but it will still function even if in lowercase. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 03:34, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Question

Why do you think that this article should be considered for speedy deletion? I left this message in the contest area. it will eventually link with many records in the All England Open Badminton Championships that already exist. Furthermore it links to Uber Cup and other badminton records and is very similar to many short sports people profiles. The profile of a successful international badminton player is far more important than the hundreds of profiles on footballers etc. whose greatest achievements are playing for a tier 5, 6 or 7 club. If you feel there should be more on the profile why not post a message to me instead of asking for it to be deleted.Racingmanager (talk) 17:27, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

@Racingmanager: At the current point, it does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the topic. Please create a userspace draft if you would like to improve an article undisrupted, here's a link. The mainspace (or article space) is not the place for short unencyclopaedic content/dictionary definitions. —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 17:31, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Discussion about moving Eastern Sports Club

I am writing to invite you to join the discussion on Talk:Eastern Sports Club and reconsider your objection on moving this article, as I believe you are opposing it as an uncontroversial technical request but not the content of the moving request. I have put more information on the talk page of the article. Antonytse (talk) 01:55, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 October 2015

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• From the editor: The Signpost‍‍ '​​s reorganization plan—we need your help
• News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles
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Wikidata weekly summary #182

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

• Discussions
  • How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price.

    

    I love Wikidata because

    • Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
    • Images from the party
    • Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
    • Presents:
      • Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
      • Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
      • Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
      • Special:Nearby by the dev team
      • Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
      • Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
  • Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
  • Past: Open Access Week
  • Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
  • Past: Tehran SFD (video)
  • Upcoming: ODI Summit
  • Upcoming: SWAT4LS
  • Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
  • Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
  • Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
  • The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
  • Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
  • Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
  • Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
  • Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
  • Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
  • We passed 15M items.
  • Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
  • All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
  • Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
• Development
  • Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
  • Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
  • Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
  • Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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New Companies delsort category

Hi Skyllfully: Just a heads up that a new deletion sorting page was created on 16 October 2015 for companies, located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Companies. Thanks for your work in performing deletion sorting on Wikipedia. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:23, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for (a) notifying me and (b) noticing me! Happy Wikipedia-ing. —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 21:43, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

User:Nerdfighter8842

This is he. I went through and deleted portions of my page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nerdfighter8842 (talk • contribs) 22:16, 31 October 2015‎

Hey there, your userpage still violates policy and there is still no reason for keeping it; if you have reason to plead for keeping the page, please state so on its entry, but please remember to remain civil. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skyllfully (talk • contribs) 22:31, 31 October 2015

I am cleaning out the page, so please don't delete it until it's empty.--Nerdfighter8842 (talk) 00:24, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

@Nerdfighter8842: Hey there, it's great that your "moving out" but while a page is in the MfD process, we are not allowed to blank it. So please copy your information without blanking it. Or I have another idea, I will withdraw my MfD submission as long as you will fully clear your user page and add {{db-userreq}} to your user page? —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 01:24, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Okay, I'll leave some things to delete.--Nerdfighter8842 (talk) 02:38, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Nuke it.--Nerdfighter8842 (talk) 03:12, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

New Disability delsort category

Hi: Just a heads up that a new deletion sorting page was created on 19 October 2015 for Disability-related articles, located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Disability. Thanks for your work in performing deletion sorting on Wikipedia. North America^{[[User talk:Northamerica1000|1000]]} 18:12, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks again! —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 21:49, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Filing SPIs

You may mean well, but the two SPIs you filed today were a waste of my time. As you probably know, I declined and closed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zaembraal for lack of evidence of disruption, among other things. When you file an SPI, you must present evidence that the accounts edited disruptively. Otherwise, don't file them. In effect, you presented no evidence except the similarity in two subpages, which I imagine had absolutely nothing to do with anything. The second SPI was worse. I deleted Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/InsaneGangsterDisciple as all of the accounts had no edits. What did you do - look at the user list for similar usernames? And let's assume they actually did have edits. You still have to present evidence beyond just "similar usernames". And if you file an SPI and there are two puppets, don't create two separate investigations, one for each puppet. Put the two puppets in one list. Before I realized that the accounts had no edits, I had to combine the two pieces into one. That annoyed me once I realized what the whole thing was about. And if you request a CU, as you did in both SPIs, you must state the reason why you are requesting a CU.

I strongly suggest that the next time you are thinking about filing an SPI, you seek help from an experienced editor and discuss it before taking any action.--Bbb23 (talk) 05:17, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your advice! —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 05:22, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: User:Danzigland

Hello Skyllfully. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:Danzigland, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: William Blake died 1827, so his poem is out of copyright. We could delete the page as WP:CSD#G7 because the author blanked it, but users can basically do what they like, within limits, on their user pages, and the IP that unblanked it may have been Danzigland editing without logging in. I think best to leave it blank, and if Danzigland returns s/he can restore it or do whatever else s/he wants. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:37, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your note! —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 16:39, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Umm.

I apologize for the copyright but I was only trying to replicate this user's page which had part of the poem in it. It seemed like it was acceptable here. I'm sorry nonetheless. --IzWeirdTho (talk) 15:41, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Okay, I see where you are coming from (in fact, that user's page violates policy). Copying information (and publishing it) from anywhere without permission is a crime. You can feel free to rebuild your user page, as long as it follows policy! —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 16:15, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

I have redesigned my userpage and I hope it fits the criteria now. Also I just saw that the speedy deletion of User:Danzigland was declined, because of the following concern: William Blake died 1827, so his poem is out of copyright..Does that mean my page was deleted for the wrong reason? It seems unfair to be honest. --IzWeirdTho (talk) 16:40, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes that does seem unfair. I guess the deleting admin didn't notice that. If you want to put that poem back in, feel free, you may want to put in some disclaimer text such as, "This poem is in the public domain in countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years or less." —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 16:54, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! --IzWeirdTho (talk) 17:10, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 November 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey
• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone
• In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?
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Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Motto Shop/Requests

Hi, Skyllfully why if I may ask so? Lotje (talk) 16:24, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

@Lotje: I decided that I didn't want a motto, so I rolled back my edits. If you have an idea though, I'd freely accept it! —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 17:26, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

@Skyllfully:, I like this one, and it would fit you like a perfect shoe Lotje (talk) 17:31, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

@Lotje: where do you suggest I place it? If you like, I invite you to put it on my user page yourself (if you can navigate that mess). —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 17:33, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

@Skyllfully:, I guess you could create a User:Skyllfully/Motto Shop Template 1 or another one as per Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Motto Shop and add to it whatever you like. Lotje (talk) 17:45, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #183

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Lakokat
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
  • Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
  • Semantic Cities
  • Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
  • Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
  • Past: semwebpro (slides)
  • Past: ODI Summit
  • Past: MozFest (etherpad)
  • Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul

Highlights of 3 years of Wikidata by Madgalena Wiegner

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
  • Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
  • Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
  • Ever noticed ranks?
• Development
  • Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
  • From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
  • Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
  • Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
  • Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
  • Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
  • Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184)
  • Worked more on making search work on mobile
  • Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikimedia Highlights from October 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in October 2015.

• Wikipedia’s global impact recognized with Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award ceremony
• Creating change one step at a time: Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez
• Your October milestones include Wikidata’s 15 millionth item
• District court grants government’s motion to dismiss Wikimedia v. NSA, appeal expected
• Making Chinese Wikipedia more ethnologically diverse

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Your edit to Template:User info

Hey,

In this edit you moved the documentation to a sub-page. Though this is normal here, it makes synchronising this template between multiple wikis (as flagged in the documentation) really irritating. Also, you failed to copy across some of the instructions and, crucially, the TemplateData. Could I ask you to reconsider?

Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 22:56, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Ya, thanks for catching that. I've just merged it all here. —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 02:03, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! :-) Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 02:17, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 November 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed
• Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee
• Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review
• Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling
• In the media: Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys
• Traffic report: Doodles of popularity
• Gallery: Paris

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Wikidata weekly summary #184

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
  • Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
  • Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
  • Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
  • Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
  • Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
  • Newest WikiProjects: Education
  • Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
  • Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia
• Development
  • Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
  • Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (phabricator:T101694)
  • Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
  • Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
  • Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
  • Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
  • Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 18 November 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed
• In the media: Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing
• Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world
• Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running
• Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales
• Traffic report: Darkness and light

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Wikidata weekly summary #185

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris
  • Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales
  • More mixin’, more matches
  • Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
  • Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
  • Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
  • Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
  • Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
  • MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
  • What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
  • You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
  • Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
  • Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
• Development
  • Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
  • Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
  • Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
  • Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
  • Decreased size of html of item pages
  • Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
  • More work on making the search on mobile work
  • Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
  • Fixing size of table of content on mobile
  • Prevented merging of items which link to each other
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:08, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for helping me with my sandbox. Also thanks for the link to my user page. Have a happy thanksgiving! Wikipedia1014 (talk) 13:43, 25 November 2015 (UTC) Wikipedia1014 (talk) 13:43, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm SwisterTwister. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, User:Lynnlindahl/sandbox, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. SwisterTwister talk 19:29, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 November 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art
• Op-ed: Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone
• Traffic report: J'en ai ras le bol
• News and notes: Fundraising update; FDC recommendations
• In the media: Erasmus Prize awarded to Wikipedia; trouble on the Russian Wikipedia
• Recent research: Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films
• Featured content: Caves and stuff
• Arbitration report: Third Palestine-Israel case closes; Voting begins
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Koavf
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
  • Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
  • Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
  • Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
  • Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
  • WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
  • Workshop i Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
  • New daily report on Mix'n'match
  • Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
  • French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
  • New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
  • A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
  • Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
  • Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
  • example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
• Development
  • Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
  • Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
  • Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
  • Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
  • Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 02 December 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?
• Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes
• News and notes: Online harassment consultation; High voter turnout at ArbCom elections
• In the media: Is Wikidata as transparent as it seems?; Wikimedia Fund-raising drive launches
• Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #187

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
    • notes
    • example queries
    • a few images
  • Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam, 8 December 2015
  • Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
  • Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016
  • Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
  • Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
  • Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
  • Open Science Prize is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
  • The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
  • Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
  • We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content
  • I dreamed of a perfect database - Wikidata? ;-)
  • Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
  • Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
  • Map of narrative locations in Denmark
  • Experimental REST API for Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
  • Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
  • Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
• Development
  • Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
  • Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
  • Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
  • Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
  • Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
  • Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
  • Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co
  • Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
  • Worked on PHP7 support
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:48, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 December 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: ArbCom election results announced
• Op-ed: Wikidata: Knowledge from different points of view
• In the media: Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries
• Traffic report: So do you laugh, or does it cry?
• Featured content: Sports, ships, arts... and some other things
• Technology report: Tech news in brief
• Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 winners

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Wikidata weekly summary #188

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
  • The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
  • Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
  • Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
  • Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
  • Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
  • query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
  • WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
  • Query example: Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?, places by elevation span, people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)
  • Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Wikipedia of the same language
• Development
  • Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
  • Further work on a separate section for identifiers
  • Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
  • Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
  • Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
  • Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
  • Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
  • Getting ready for the holidays :)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:30, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 December 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Wales in China; #Edit2015
• In focus: Drone photography: New possibilities and new challenges
• Arbitration report: GMO case decided
• WikiProject report: Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations
• Traffic report: A feast of Spam
• Featured content: An unusually slow week
• Gallery: WikiConference USA 2015: images, slide decks, and videos

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Wikidata weekly summary #189

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
  • You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
  • Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
  • Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
  • Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
  • WikiBrowser - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
  • WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
  • Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
  • Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
  • Query example: works created by females who died in 1945
• Development
  • <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
  • We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (phabricator:T103102)
  • Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (phabricator:T110648)
  • Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (phabricator:T95682, phabricator:T121274)
  • Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (phabricator:T95684)
  • Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (gerrit:259171)
  • More work on cleaning up the statement section (phabricator:T121390)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:59, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Guidelines for creating redirects and redirect categories

Hi, Skyllfully. Here are some links regarding categories for redirects that might interest you:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect/Style guide
• Category:Redirects from plurals (the blue box talks about putting redirect categories starting on the 3rd line)
• Template:This is a redirect/Comparison

Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 07:14, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #190

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: 32C3
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
  • Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
  • Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
  • Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
  • Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
  • Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
  • The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Paper: Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond
  • The Wikidata for Research proposal has now been published in a journal
  • New tool to turn string claims to monolingual claims
  • Johl built a card game about German politicians using Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: number of awards, Prosopographia Attica, Structurae person ID, stage classification, sports disciplines competed in, personal best, substrate of
• Development
  • Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
  • Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:07, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 December 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: WMF Board dismisses community-elected trustee
• Year in review: The top ten Wikipedia stories of 2015
• Arbitration report: Second Arbitration Enforcement case concludes as another case is suspended
• In the media: Wikipedia plagued by a "Basket of Deception"
• Traffic report: The Force we expected
• Featured content: The post-Christmas edition
• Gallery: It's that time of year again

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Editor Interaction Analyser

Hi. I see you're experienced with the Editor Interaction Analyser. Are you aware of any tips/guidelines on how to interpret its (editorinteract.py) output (or use related tools) that you can point me to? e.g. what to make of EIGHTY edits under an hour from each other. (How to drill down, what to look for to spot more Wikipedia:Signs_of_sock_puppetry#Possible_signs quickly?) --Elvey^(t•c) 15:08, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 January 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: The WMF's age of discontent
• In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE
• Arbitration report: Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided
• Featured content: Featured menagerie
• Recent research: Teaching Wikipedia, Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia?
• WikiProject report: Try-ing to become informed - WikiProject Rugby League
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #191

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • The Reference Wars
  • Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
  • Wikidata references from Microdata
  • Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
  • From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
  • Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
  • Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
  • Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
  • The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. Get your talk proposals in!
  • IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
  • Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
  • Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
  • Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
• Did you knower?
  • Newest properties: BugGuide ID, elibrary.ru organisation ID, member of the deme, ComLaw ID, Persons of Ancient Athens, IBU biathlete identifier, Mackolik.com footballer ID, Australian National Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number, dblp identifier, Species Profile and Threats Database ID, KNAW past member identifier, nominee, GeoNames feature [https://artturimatias.github.io/metapipe/codes, MAME ROM, Encyclopædia Britannica contributor identifier, Turkish Football Federation manager ID, Turkish Football Federation player ID, transfermarkt manager id, transfermarkt footballer id, metasubclass of, homoglyph, stage reached, conversion to standard unit, literal translation, transliteration, language, narrator, number of seasons, voltage, PORT person ID, Panarctic Flora ID, gender of a scientific name of a genus, J. Paul Getty Museum artist id, Thyssen-Bornemisza artist id, takeoff roll, expected completeness, RePEc Short-ID, grid global research id, Xeno-canto species ID, service ribbon image, Berlin cultural heritage ID, FIE identifier
  • Newest WikiProjects: [[d:Wikidata:WikiProject Broadcasting|Broadcasting]]
  • New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool, tool to move statements from one item to another
• Development
  • Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
  • Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia if interested.
  • More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them
  • Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (phabricator:T87263)
  • We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247)
  • Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (phabricator:T95419)
  • More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget
  • Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
  • References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
  • SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:50, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Help decide the future of Wikimania

The Wikimedia Foundation is currently running a consultation on the value and planning process of Wikimania, and is open until 18 January 2016. The goals are to (1) build a shared understanding of the value of Wikimania to help guide conference planning and evaluation, and (2) gather broad community input on what new form(s) Wikimania could take (starting in 2018).

After reviewing the consultation, we'd like to hear your feedback on on this survey.

In addition, feel free to share any personal experiences you have had at at a Wikimedia movement conference, including Wikimania. We plan to compile and share back outcomes from this consultation in February.

With thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk), from Community Resources 21:32, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 January 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee
• In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street
• Editorial: We need a culture of verification
• Op-ed: Transparency (by James Heilman)
• Blog: Inside the game of sports vandalism on Wikipedia
• Community view: Strategy and controversy
• In the media: War and peace; WMF board changes; Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias
• Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report
• Special report: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
• Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
• Arbitration report: Interview: outgoing and incumbent arbitrators 2016
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #192

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
    • Fifteen years ago , Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske
    • Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more?
    • Slides for talk by Lucie and Adam at the birthday party in NYC
  • Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym.
  • Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester)
  • Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video, slides)
  • Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Module:Cycling race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
  • Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
  • Wikidata-lang - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
  • Live-stream of Wikidata edits by Magnus
  • Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet now has a Wikidata function
  • Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Theatricalia person ID, Theatricalia theatre ID, Global Geoparks Network ID, judicial sentence, allcinema film identifier
• Development
  • Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (phabricator:T67397)
  • Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
  • Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (phabricator:T123234)
  • Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (phabricator:T123233)
  • Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (phabricator:T119493)
  • Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (phabricator:T120196)
  • Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (phabricator:T94989)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:21, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 January 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out
• Op-ed: Not a pretty picture: Thoughts on the "monkey selfie" debacle
• In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up
• Traffic report: Danse Macabre
• Featured content: This week's featured content
• Blog: Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske

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Wikidata weekly summary #193

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
  • Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
  • Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [3] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [4] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
  • Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
  • Wikidata Graph Builder
  • Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
  • You can give input on WMF's strategy
  • Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
  • Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
  • French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
  • Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
  • Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)
• Development
  • Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
  • Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
  • Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
  • Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
  • Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
  • Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
  • Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
  • Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
  • More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:10, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from December 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in December 2015.

• Wikipedia celebrates 15 years of free knowledge
• Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske
• Making our pageview data easily accessible
• In brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #194

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Replicator: Wikidata import tool
  • The Facebook of German Playwrights
  • Language usage on Wikidata
  • Past: FOSDEM (slides of talk by Lucie)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
  • Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
  • some visualizations:
    • Family tree of King Halo, race horse
    • Doctoral students of Gauss
    • Tributaries of the Danube
    • Children of Kronos
    • Influenced by Leibnitz
    • Graphs
    • Zika virus papers
  • KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
  • Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
  • Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
  • WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
  • Query example: horses, French sculptors by year of birth
  • Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
  • Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
  • New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
• Development
  • und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
  • Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
  • Final touches on making search work on mobile
  • Finishing identifier datatype and section
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:45, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #195

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: HakanIST
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
  • Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
  • Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
  • How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
  • What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
  • We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
  • Andrew updated his maps
  • We crossed edit 300,000,000!
  • Graph example: matrices
  • Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
  • Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Box Office Mojo studio ID, Box Office Mojo franchise ID, ČSFD film ID, Richter magnitude scale, moment magnitude scale
• Development
  • Search now works on mobile
  • Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
  • Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
  • Investigated further options for performance improvement (phabricator:T125502)
  • Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500)
  • More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063, phabricator:T124757)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Towards a New Wikimania results

Last December, I invited you to share your views on the value of Wikimedia conferences and the planning process of Wikimania. We have completed analysis of these results and have prepared this report summarizing your feedback and important changes for Wikimania starting in 2018 as an experiment. Feedback and comments are welcome at the discussion page. Thank you so much for your participation. I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, 22:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 February 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Help wanted
• In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board
• Op-ed: So, what’s a knowledge engine anyway?
• Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost
• Traffic report: Bowled
• News and notes: Harassment survey 2015; Luis Villa to leave WMF; knowledge engine background
• Featured content: This week's featured content
• Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration

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The Signpost: 10 February 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: New leaked internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine

• In focus: An in-depth look at the special report's newly revealed documents

• News and notes: Another WMF departure

• In the media: Jeb Bush takes a swing at Wikipedia, and connects

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: A river of revilement

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements

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Wikidata weekly summary #196

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
  • Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
  • We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
  • WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
  • Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
  • WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
  • Autolist now supports SPARQL
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
  • A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
  • Hay created a new property browser
  • Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
• Development
  • Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
  • UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
  • Work on properly linking identifiers
  • Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
  • Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
  • Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
  • Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
  • Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #196

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
  • Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
  • We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
  • WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
  • Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
  • WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
  • Autolist now supports SPARQL
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
  • A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
  • Hay created a new property browser
  • Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
• Development
  • Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
  • UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
  • Work on properly linking identifiers
  • Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
  • Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
  • Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
  • Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
  • Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 17 February 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Blog: Antonin Scalia and the editor tracking his legacy
• Featured content: This week's featured content
• Op-ed: Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month
• Special report: Search and destroy: the Knowledge Engine and the undoing of Lila Tretikov
• Technology report: Tech news in brief
• Traffic report: Super Bowling

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Wikimedia Highlights from January 2016

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in January 2016.

• Content Translation tool has now been used for 50,000 articles
• Who edits Wikipedia?
• “Wikipedia is a testament to what we can create together as a global community”: Sara Mörtsell
• In brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #197

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
  • Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
  • Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
  • Timeline of Zika papers
  • A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
  • The museum map now works for all countries
  • Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
  • Wikidata BEACON has been switched to use SPARQL
  • Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
  • Reasonator has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Strand orientation, perimeter, sidekick of, bowling style, acceptable daily intake, operating area, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID, Free Software Directory entry, Sandbox-External identifier
  • Newest WikiProjects: Religions, Award
  • Query example: natural numbers
• Development
  • The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (phabricator:T2708)
  • The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
  • Input needed on caching for the query service
  • Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
  • We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
  • Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095)
  • More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
  • Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
  • wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 24 February 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears

• Op-ed: Backward the Foundation

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges

• Arbitration report: Motion on CheckUser and Oversight inactivity

• Technology report: Tech news in brief

• Blog: Wiki Loves Africa brings the continent's fashion to the world

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Wikidata weekly summary #198

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata makes Wikipedia a database. Let the fun begin
  • Bringing the world's cultural heritage online
  • In search of French towns on Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
  • Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
  • A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
  • Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism.
  • Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
  • The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site.
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Köppen climate classification, superhuman feature or ability, married name, name, GPU, Wikidata usage instructions, autores.uy database id, stroke, bore, fee, production designer, in work, quantitative metrical pattern, used metre, recording or performance of, Italian Senate of the Republic ID
  • Query example: battles
• Development
  • Wikidata Query Service has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0
  • Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
  • More groundwork for Commons support
  • Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (phabricator:T128078)
  • Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (phabricator:T128075)
  • More performance work
  • In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (phabricator:T125712)
  • More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #199

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Oscars 2016: Movies that got the most attention on Wikipedia (followup with most famous cats)
  • Statements per item
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • COOL-WD has been announced to help assess the completeness of various parts of the knowledge base
  • You can apply for a grant as part of the Inspire Campaign around the topic of content review and curation
  • Wikimedia was accepted for Google Summer of Code. If you're a student this can be your chance to work on Wikidata code this summer.
  • A catalog of Uruguayan authors has been added to Mix'n'match
  • Listeria bot now has experimental support for references (example)
  • Self-portraits of women through the ages, powered by Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Québec cultural heritage directory people identifier, grammatical option indicates, Statistics Indonesia language code, Statistics Indonesia ethnicity code, village code of Indonesia, has phoneme, INSEE departement code, INSEE region code, Australian Wetlands Database Directory of Important Wetlands Reference Code, distance from Earth, J. Paul Getty Museum object id, BabelNet id, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital ID, studied by, studies, admissible rule in, UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID, measures, National-Football-Teams.com player ID, number of out of school children, Twitter hashtag, uncertainty corresponds to, Saros cycle of eclipse, contact times of eclipse, repealed by, amended by, ECHA InfoCard ID, global-warming potential
  • Query example: French heads of government by length of service, Metro stations in Paris
• Development
  • Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
  • More work on the first prototype for Commons support (phabricator:T125822)
  • Continued working on improving language support for monolingual text and labels/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T125066)
  • Conversion of properties from string to external identifier datatype is ongoing
  • Experimenting with putting query results on a map in query.wikidata.org (earthquakes, ski resorts)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 02 March 2016

• News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: Brawling

• Recent research: Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is "verifiable"?

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation details requests to alter or remove content in new transparency report

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The Signpost: 09 March 2016

• News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted

• In the media: Wikipedian is break-out star of International Women's Day; dinosaur art; Wikipedia's new iOS app and its fight for market share

• Op-ed: A modest proposal for Wikimedia’s future

• Featured content: Five articles, four lists, a topic, and five images were promoted this week.

• Technology report: Wikimedia wikis will temporarily go into read-only mode on several occasions in the coming weeks

• WikiCup report: First round of the WikiCup finishes

• Blog: The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists

• Systemic bias: Revenge of "I can’t believe we didn’t have an article on ..."

• Traffic report: All business like show business

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Wikidata weekly summary #200

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: WikiArabia
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon
  • Upcoming: digikult.se
  • Wikidata Tour Down-Under
  • Open culture session at Open Belgium
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Coming to Wikimania? Consider submitting a Wikidata related poster, training or discussion! Deadline is on the 20th.
  • Wikidata has passed the milestone of 1 Billion Datapoints (Triples) on Wednesday, 9th of March.
  • Wikidata Graph Builder now supports arbitrary SPARQL queries (example)
  • ESWC 2016 has a new Wikidata Bonus Challenge
  • Playing with Wikidata in BigQuery
  • There will be server maintenance work next week on all Wikimedia servers that will prevent editing for a short time.
  • Wikidata external ID resolver now uses SPARQL and supports lookup of properties via English name (fragment)
  • iSpecies now has multilingual summaries and links to Wikidata (example)
  • Awarder lets you add awards to a biographical item, or use the Wikipedia text of the award to add all recipients]
  • A new version of the Wikidata nuclide chart is online
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: thickness, World Heritage criteria (2005), Valencian Property of Local Relevance id, BookBrainz creator ID, PlayStation ID, ČSFD person ID, Kinopoisk person ID, Kinopoisk film ID, Hockeydb.com player ID, Eurohockey.com player ID, Geni.com profile ID, block size, serial number, Gram staining, culture, maximum gradient, Latvian Olympic Committee athlete ID
  • Query examples: Number of museums by U. S. state on map, Film directors ranked by number of sitelinks multiplied by their number of films, all museums in Barcelona with coordinates, women mushers, women scientists, women artists, air accidents, Twitter accounts of biologists, torture devices, public art in Paris, Locations of Pablo Picasso works
• Development
  • We reduced the loading time of items significantly. Enjoy a faster Wikidata :)

    

    Faster!!!

  • Wikidata Query GUI now supports maps. Check it out with one of the example queries above. (Select Map under Display results menu).
  • Pywikibot now has SPARQL endpoint support.
  • We worked on getting the first pieces of Commons support on a test system. Nothing shiny to see yet but we're making progress.
  • Converted more identifier to the new identifier datatype. Still some to go but 450 properties have been converted by now.
  • Updated the data that generates suggestions when adding a new statement
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 16 March 2016

• News and notes: Wikipedia Zero: Orange mobile partnership in Africa ends; the evolution of privacy loss in Wikipedia

• In the media: Wales at SXSW; lawsuit over Wikipedia PR editing

• Op-ed: Hard work needed to address Wikimedia’s leadership challenges

• Discussion report: Is an interim WMF executive director inherently notable?

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!

• Traffic report: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States

• Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #119: The Foundation and the departure of Lila Tretikov

• Blog: It “revolutionized the way German-speaking people inform themselves about the world”: Fifteen years of the German Wikipedia

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Wikidata weekly summary #201

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Reforming the property creation process
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Color History with the Smithsonian!
  • Past: Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at the DC Public Library
  • Past: Admin meetup of the German-language Wikipedia
  • Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Biomedical literature
  • Identifying problematic statements in Wikidata via multi-level modeling theory
  • Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative
  • Adding disclosures to Wikidata with Bioclipse
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Dutch language Wikipedia has a consistently low number of articles unconnected to Wikidata: Duplicity statistics for nlwiki
  • MusicBrainz now uses Wikidata to fetch images for their entities
  • The query service is now linked in the sidebar
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs among them TED speakers
  • Maarten made some reports to make it easier to connect paintings on Wikidata with images on Wikimedia Commons
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: BBFC rating, German tax authority ID, ISO 9362 SWIFT/BIC code, DNF person ID, PASE ID, MetroLyrics ID, MEK ID, Companies House ID, Site of Special Scientific Interest (England) ID, ISO 15924 numeric code, Hungarian company ID, SHOWA ID, formatterURL for Wikidata ID, World Heritage criteria (2005), TED talk ID, TED topic ID, TED speaker ID
  • Query examples: distribution of public art by place
• Development
  • The query service now has Ctrl+enter as a shortcut to run a query
  • Started working on improving input for geocoordinates and dates (changing the advanced settings)
  • Worked on database performance improvements for the client (Wikipedia and co) (phabricator:T125838)
  • Experimenting with arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons on http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org
  • Converted more identifiers from string datatype to identifier datatype
  • Worked on improved localization of dates that are very far in the past or future (phabricator:T127820)
  • Fixed undo actions going through abuse filter (phabricator:T126861)
  • Fixed issues in the query service with Internet Explorer 11
  • Improved query service display on small screens
  • Improved autocompletion in the query service
  • Fixed a bug with an add button for qualifiers being shown when it shouldn't (phabricator:T128317)
  • Further work on Wikimedia Commons support (Special Pages, API)
  • You can now add a default view to a query like here. This then shows the defined view (map, table, image grid) when executing the query.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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rollback

Hi Skyllfully. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Katie^talk 15:56, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! I'll remember your name in case I run into any troubles. —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 16:18, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Crawfords Freightlines

Hello Skyllfully. Thanks for patrolling new pages – it's a very important task! I'm just letting you know, however, that you shouldn't tag pages as lacking context (CSD A1), content (CSD A3), or significance (CSD A7) moments after they are created, as you did at Crawfords Freightlines. It's best to wait at least 10–15 minutes for more content to be added if the page is very short, and the articles should not be marked as patrolled. Tagging such pages in a very short space of time may drive away well-meaning contributors, which is not good for Wikipedia. Attack pages (G10), blatant nonsense (G1), copyright violations (G12) and pure vandalism/blatant hoaxes (G3) should of course be tagged and deleted immediately. Thanks.. Your speedy tagging of Austin Butts was also clearly inappropriate, and I doubt these are isolated example. Please review WP:A7 and WP:BEFORE before further carrying out further speedy tagging. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by administrators since 2006. (talk) 11:11, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Hey there, sorry for any trouble I've caused you. I'll remember this for the future! —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 13:23, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

SORRY

I AM SORRY User:WP MANIKHANTA —Preceding undated comment added 14:01, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Pardon me, you are sorry for what exactly? —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 14:03, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Vietnamese people in Taiwan

I am a Vietnamese living in Taiwan, You should be concerned about this entry Canadian. --223.137.177.102 (talk) 14:43, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

@223.137.177.102: sorry, how can I help you? —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 15:08, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 March 2016

• Interview: Exclusive: interview with interim ED Katherine Maher

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

• In the media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil

• Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March

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

• Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot and a crested serpent awaits!

• Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended

• Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #120: Status of Wikimania 2016

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Discussion with MML Ruler on 25 March 2016

What do you mean?! I always sign my talk posts on pages. Skyllfully, I have no idea what you mean, but if you are trying to vandalize my talk page, then back off.

--MML Ruler (talk) 13:36, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Hello there, please calm down, I do not enjoy heated conversations on my talk page and apologize for any confusion I may have caused you. I sent you that notice because of this message which I corrected with a {{unsigned}} template. Not signing talk pages shouldn't get you banned and I was accusing you of it with evidence, please refrain from accusing another editor of vandalism (which one can easily be blocked for) without having multiple accounts of it. If you have any further questions I can answer, feel free to reply! —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 03:35, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #202

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikidata intro at the École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes (slides)
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour
  • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon
  • Migrating pKa data from DrugMet to Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A little Easter present for the WikiVerse from Magnus
  • The page for institutions, companies, etc who want to donate data to Wikidata has been reworked and expanded by John and Jens
  • WMDE is looking for a product management intern to work with Lydia
  • Arbitrary access for Commons is getting ready and needs testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: next crossing downstream, next crossing upstream, SOATO ID, Google Knowledge Graph identifier, has parts of the class, discontinued date, variability of property value, corresponding template, Datahub page, alcohol by volume, units sold, tier 1 capital ratio (CETI), consumption rate per capita, target interest rate, topographic prominence, topographic isolation, Scoville grade, EU transparency register ID, FIFA World Ranking, Estyn ID, partnership with, CRICOS Provider Code, interested in, Cycling Quotient url (mens team), Cycling Quotient identifier (races for men), source of material, mirTarBase ID, mean lifetime, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, FedCup player ID, Davis Cup player ID, Swimrankings.net swimmer ID, Filmportal ID, TV.com ID, RARS rating, Minkultury Film ID, number of parts of a work of art, model, geography, place of detention, Turner Classic Movies film ID, cost of damage
  • Query examples: Library and Information Science journals, number of statements backed by a reference with a DOI
• Development
  • You see that you can now show labels/descriptions/aliases for all languages that have been added to an item by clicking "more languages"
  • Preparation for arbitrary access on Commons
  • Getting ready for the hackathon in Israel
  • More work on making the extended input for geocoordinates and dates less complicated to understand
  • Worked on making scrolling of large items less laggy
  • Made the query service map visualization no longer show coordinates that are not on earth
  • Fixed a bug where the removal of a sitelink couldn't be done (phabricator:T129450)
  • Query service no longer restores previous query as requested
  • Fixed a bug where adding a statement would leave a stray "add qualifier" link (phabricator:T128317)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Deletion of GIS United

Heyy Skyllfully! I'm the one you mentioned about TW and new deletion tags XD. It's working out well, but I got careless a few times and reverted a few good edits, one of which were Gilliam's O_O. Anyways, I was wondering if you could delete the GIS United page. I finally found the right template to use, but it keeps getting deleted by a different user. Just wanted to notify you of it. Thanks!

3primetime3 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:55, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Hey there 3primetime3, thanks for spotting that article. Only administrators can delete articles and I am not one of them, although I will send a notice about removing speedy tags from articles to that editor. Also, it looks like another edit has placed a deletion tag on the article and it seems to be staying up so there's no way we can rush the process. Sorry! —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 11:42, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Ah, of all of the users here, I would think you're an admin XD. Thanks again. 3primetime3 (talk) 00:14, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 April 2016

• News and notes: Trump/Wales 2016

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

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

• Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil

• Featured content: A slow, slow week

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #203

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

• Events/Blogs/Press

  

  slides for SPARQL and Wikidata intro by shonagon- École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes

  • Upcoming: WWW 2016
  • Upcoming: WikiCite 2016
  • Past: Wikimedia hackathon.
    • Some of the things that were worked on (but are not finished yet):
      • Easier referencing like it is done in VisualEditor
      • Data imports including National Library of Israel
      • Getting the ArticlePlaceholder ready for deployment on the first small Wikipedias
      • Updated maps of the geocoordinates in Wikidata (Adam will publish a blog post with them soon)
      • Improvements for Librarybase
      • Automated language links for Wiktionary
      • Cleanup of existing data import tools
    • partial group photo
  • Objetos culturales y metadatos: hacia la liberación de datos en Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Lucie published her thesis about supporting small Wikipedias through article placeholders based on Wikidata

    

    Lucie's thesis: Generating Article Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia - Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge

  • This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
  • If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a Facebook group for you.
  • There are 4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
  • There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
  • Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add yourself to interested attendees for the sessions.
  • PetScan now has item creator functionality.
  • The catalog of the National Library of Israel has been added to Mix'n'match
  • Great examples on French and Russian Wikipedia for infobox based on Wikidata: fr:Andrew Tanenbaum, ru:Таненбаум, Эндрю and references based on Wikidata: fr:Trappeur, ru:Доказательство с нулевым разглашением
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: dataset distribution, file format, protocol, URL, CricketArchive player ID, ESPNcricinfo player ID, FIG gymnast identifier, type locality, ISU figure skater identifier, New York Times Semantic Concept: Descriptor, New York Times Semantic Concept: Location, New York Times Semantic Concept: Organization, New York Times Semantic Concept: Person, BARTOC ID, Box Office Mojo person ID, NDL JPNO, Opensecrets Identifier, Basketball-Reference.com NBA player ID, Kijkwijzer rating, Bekker Number, is verso of, is recto of, author of afterword, author of foreword, Russiancinema.ru film ID, relative position within image, rating certificate ID, reply to
  • Newest WikiProjects: Historical Place
  • Query examples: phrases, Redewendungen, most commons eponyms
• Development
  • 4 years ago we started coding on Wikidata. What a ride it has been and continues to be. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
  • We are going to make a change to the RDF format for geocoordinates.
  • Here is a preview of geospatial search on the query service.
  • The query service now has bubble charts as a visualization option (example)
  • Busy at the Wikimedia hackathon.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #204

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

• Discussion
  • Splitting a property to limit formatter URLs to one per property: Authority_control#DE-ISIL
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: digikult.se
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour
  • Upcoming: FOSSCOMM
  • A week of looking at women
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Document with lots of useful links around Wikidata for workshops etc
  • Nice list of species with sounds linked on Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: typeface/font, disjoint union of, union of, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges id, UNZ journal identifier, UNZ author identifier, Persée journal ID, Persée author ID, Projeto Excelências ID, ISSF ID, Badminton World Federation ID, CageMatch worker ID, United World Wrestling ID, UIPM ID, GOG application ID, Deezer track ID, Deezer album ID, Deezer artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum release ID, embed URL, Hungarian-style transcription, lowest-observed-adverse-effect level, no-observed-adverse-effect level, collage image, elected in, sectional view, median lethal concentration, minimal lethal concentration, Cycling Quotient identifier (cyclist, woman), Cycling Quotient identifier (women races), Karate Records ID, EIDR identifier, British Film Institute identifier
  • Query examples: women with most sitelinks and no image born in 1921 or later, what is depicted in artwork, most eponymous mathematicians
  • Showcase items: Iron Man (film)
• Development
  • Lucie successfully defended her thesis about the ArticlePlaceholder. Congrats!
  • Worked more on the first version of the user interface for structured data for multimedia files
  • Worked on simplifying input of queries for people who do not know SPARQL
  • Improved localizability of the sitelink and reference counters
  • Allow input and output of localized dates with precision smaller than years (phab:T95532 and phab:T127820)
  • More string properties have been converted to external id ones, so that we have over 850 external id properties now
  • Experimenting with Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add complete references in the way Visual Editor does it
  • Improved performance of sticky property labels (phab:T103485)
  • Released DataValues JavaScript 0.8.1
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikimedia Highlights from March 2016

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in March 2016.

• The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists
• New completion suggester helps you find what you need on Wikimedia sites
• Jimmy Wales tells South by Southwest that community is key to Wikipedia’s future
• In brief

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The Signpost: 14 April 2016

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

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

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

• Featured content: This week's featured content

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

• Arbitration report: The first case of 2016—Wikicology

• Gallery: A history lesson

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Wikidata weekly summary #205

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

• Discussion
  • Closed request for comments: Reforming the property creation process, Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: office hour on IRC (log)
  • Past: ISB2016 (slides)
  • Past: WWW2016 - Freebase to Wikidata migration (slides)
  • Past: CUNY Wikidata intro (slides)
  • National Library of Wales: Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
  • New TSRI Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
  • Yle <3 Wikidata - using Wikidata for concept tagging
• Other noteworthy stuff
  • ArticlePlaceholder is going live on the first small Wikipedias on May 11th and could use your help
  • Wikimedia Commons will get the arbitrary access feature on April 26th
  • The Europeana Art History Challenge has started
  • Magnus made a handy user-script for duplicating items, for when a new item has similar property values to an existing one. See for instance, this set of edits for a second version of an artwork.
  • Listeria now has a status page
  • PetScan has now the option "Has no statements" to find items without statements for a category at Wikipedia (sample: en:Category:United States geography stubs) or an entire language version (sample: "sowiki").
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: production statistics, DNZB, PASE name, this zoological name is coordinate with, Australian Geological Provinces Database Identifier, Tate artist identifier, ResearchGate institute ID
  • Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Museums
  • Query examples: items named after their shape, recent events, assemblies by number of seats, characters portrayed by most actors
• Development
  • Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60 seconds (phabricator:T126730)
  • Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak peek)
  • Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel - should go live later today)
  • Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily
  • Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
  • More work on first prototype for structured data support for Wikimedia Commons
  • Cleaned up icons for selecting rank and value type
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:19, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 April 2016

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

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

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

• Traffic report: Two for the price of one

• Featured content: The double-sized edition

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

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