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Wikidata weekly summary #96
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- See the office hours logs at meta
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- See the FOSDEM slides
- Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
- Development
- More work on badges by Bene*
- Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
- Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
- Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
- Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
- Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
- Monthly Tasks
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Romaine (talk) 17:24, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Style guidelines for disambiguation hatnotes
Hi there,
Thank you for expanding the Film Programme redirect into a full article in its own right.
I notice that you included a disambiguation ("dab") hatnote at the start, which was useful, but please note that- to the best of my knowledge- such dab lines should follow similar rules to the full disambiguation page style, i.e. only link variants of- or items likely to be confused with- the "The Film Programme" itself and not (e.g) Claudia Winkelman, since that name doesn't require disambiguation there.
Hope this explains things. All the best, Ubcule (talk) 17:40, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Unreferenced BLPs
Enough of this nonsense
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You have been here more than long enough to know not to create them (Csaba Sógor the latest), please can you add some sources? GiantSnowman 19:58, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
That's exactly my point - where is this information coming from? If you are so pushed for time that you cannot provide even a basic reference then do not create the article. If this continues then the matter will be raised elsewhere. GiantSnowman 17:04, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
My Two Cents: Andy, you need to either (a) hang a { { construction } } template on the top if you're coming back to source out the microstubs you are churning out; or (b) take another 30 seconds to add one source. That's really pretty much a mandatory minimum for BLP, is it not? Hell, it's a minimum for anything at WP these days. Don't get your backhair up, just do what we all know needs to be done for each and every new start. Carrite (talk) 05:27, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Andy!
Thanks for all your help. You can buy us all a beer. Matchstickgeezer (talk) 10:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Andy
Thanks for the very interesting training today! :) Allen 56285 (talk) 10:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Andy
This is the best course on how to use Wikipedia I've ever been on. Edders8 (talk) 10:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Thank you for coming today this has been very interesting HilaryHopker (talk) 10:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Andy!
Hello Andy,
Thank you very much for all your help today. The wiki-love has been a highlight! Ramona De Souza (talk) 10:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Thanks for teaching us how to edit Wikipedia. HanLouNew (talk) 10:24, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Der Kontrabaß
as discussed before, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:09, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Elayne Boosler
Interested in her for your celeb voice project? If so please tell me what she needs to do. [email protected]Billybd1948 (talk) 20:50, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
DYK for Reginald Mount
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Orlady (talk) 22:41, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Bob Leaf
Per your COI Noticeboard declaration, I observe:
This highly controversial assertion: "Credited as "the father of public relations"..." is backed up only with a dead link. That needs to be rectified or removed.
Best regards, —Tim /// Carrite (talk) 19:27, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- That seems to be a temporary glitch; it was fine yesterday, and worked for me just now, on the second refresh. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:33, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: January 2014
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Any ideas...
Andy, I've noticed that, fairly recently, the infoboxes at articles such as Warwick Castle and Berkhamsted Castle aren't displaying their maps. This seems to be fairly widespread across similar articles, but I can't see what might be causing it... Any ideas? Hchc2009 (talk) 17:54, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
- Probably related to Wikipedia talk:MILHIST#Exciting template news! - I suggest you ask there if you need further assistance. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:47, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks Andy. Hchc2009 (talk) 19:01, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #97
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- Discussions
- Reasonator
- By hovering over a wikilink you will see the first paragraph.
- The "personal settings" allow you to import your Babel info from Wikidata. This can be used to restrict the random items you will get.
- The first iteration of "on the fly" text generation for English. It works for "humans" and, is completely based on the available Wikidata information.
- You can now add labels in your language from within Reasonator. Technically oAuth is used. It now takes just one click to add a label in your language.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: IAAF ID, Lagrangian point
- Showcase items: Vesta (Q3030)
- Development
- Wrote performance tests so we can track performance improvements better
- Did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default in Wikidata. Found and fixed a performance bottleneck.
- Work on making the interface more responsive, e. g. live preview when editing labels and updating the watchlist star when saving.
- Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
- Fixed an issue with OAuth on Wikidata because of permissions
- Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
- Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
- Did a technical debt analysis and design review of Wikibase.git, with initial focus on WikibaseLib
- Got (backend) EntityStore on the way, so we can test API modules without touching the database
- Further work on TimeParsers move to the backend
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SG for Sorrow
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Thank you, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:53, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
- And thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:24, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
- typical 9-months pregnancy ;) - I was remembering sorrow when I requested it for German, and was in sorrow when I wrote it, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:05, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: 10206 views! Well done. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:19, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
- + today is another chance (but not pictured), - every day they have four SG "teasers", one pictured: 2 new, 2 from the day before. Duck Attack! had 18 + 7, Ezra Meeker was the most successful at 38k, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:14, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Category:RSPB Medallists
Category:RSPB Medallists, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor (talk) 06:44, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hello
This is the best training course - enjoy the sandwiches. Poisonchallis (talk) 14:04, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
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- News and notes: Foundation takes aim at undisclosed paid editing; Greek Wikipedia editor faces down legal challenge
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Template mergers
Hi Andy, I have noticed you have been nominating a ton of templates to be merged, and quite frankly, it makes many pages look rather unsightly, particularly when the template appears in the middle of the page (i.e. Andrew Jackson and the cabinet template). Do you know of a way to minimize this negative effect for our readers? It makes the pages look poor and sloppy. Is there a particular necessity in merging the templates (e.g., bandwidth/server space or something?); I am just concerned it is having a net negative effect for the readers – am more than open to discussion. Thanks in advance! Go Phightins! 20:56, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
- @Go Phightins!: Belated response, sorry. The need to merge or delete redundant templates is to reduce the maintenance overhead, and to reduce confusion for editors trying to choose which to use. The notification system is standard, and intended to ensure that all interested editors are aware of the proposed changes. If you object to how it appears, you should raise that on a central talk page for the TfD process. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:52, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #98
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- Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource will receive access to the data in Wikidata on February 25th. Planning is taking place at d:Wikidata:Wikisource.
- 1 week left to give initial input for the user interface redesign
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- Newest properties: impact factor, Municipality code (Denmark), USB ID, Home world, Cardinality of the group, Internet media type, Bluebook abbreviation, Z39.5 abbreviation, ISO 4 abbreviation, CODEN, landing site, US Congress Bio identifier, Scopus Source ID, Scopus Affiliation ID, Scopus EID, Scopus Author ID, IPTC Media Topic, topic's main portal, Regensburg Classification, Library of Congress Classification, neutron number
- Fun Fact: Wikidata has reached 30 million statements
- Development
- Refactored the suggestions drop-downs when entering properties for better performance
- Fixed a misdirected arrow in left-to-right languages (bugzilla:61308)
- Worked on an Apache redirect issue (bugzilla:54273)
- Found and started fixing an issue that asked users for additional languages they don't want according to their Babel box (bugzilla:61446)
- Table-of-contents link to the statements section of an item was broken
- Kept poking TimeParsers
- Made WikibaseDatabase feature complete for use with WikibaseQueryEngine
- Work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
- Investigate using ElasticSearch as term index backend to take some load of the most-used database table
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Books & Bytes, Issue 4
News for February from your Wikipedia Library.
Donations drive: news on TWL's partnership efforts with publishers
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Hi. As you probably know I'm trying to make the football biography template embeddable but when embedded in another template the border and the cellpadding/spacing don't go away. Any idea how to correct this? Davykamanzi → talk · contribs 17:36, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
- Sorry; I don't. You might ask on WP:VPT. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:42, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
- Before reverting User:Lukeno94 again, I think it would be worth you examining his (and others') concerns at WT:FOOTY and Template talk:Infobox football biography. The changes made by User:Davykamanzi have dramatically altered the aesthetics of the infobox, and for no reason other than to apply embedding functionality to the infobox – a function that is not currently necessary. Once Davykamanzi has worked out how to solve the aesthetic issue, then the changes should be applied, but not before. – PeeJay 23:04, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
- I would't have reverted him the first time, had he made his concerns clear, instead of using an edit summary to the effect "revert undiscussed changes". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:23, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
- Before reverting User:Lukeno94 again, I think it would be worth you examining his (and others') concerns at WT:FOOTY and Template talk:Infobox football biography. The changes made by User:Davykamanzi have dramatically altered the aesthetics of the infobox, and for no reason other than to apply embedding functionality to the infobox – a function that is not currently necessary. Once Davykamanzi has worked out how to solve the aesthetic issue, then the changes should be applied, but not before. – PeeJay 23:04, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #99
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- Discussion about defining lists
- Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט, Pamputt
- Closed RfAs: Epìdosis (Successful)
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: unemployment rate, manner of death, file extension, received signal, prevalence, connecting service, first performance, Universal Decimal Classification, Chinese Library Classification, Dharma Drum Buddhist College place ID, Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID, MEP directory identifier, Rodovid ID, handle, Gewässerkennzahl, LIBRIS editions, numeric value, visitors per year, Geokod, approximation algorithm, transmitted signal
- Showcase item: Why not improve Kleinmachnow (Q104192) to showcase standard?
- Wikidata's presence: vici.org are using Wikidata identifiers in their data storage
- Development
- Made loading items a lot faster
- Enabled access to the data on Wikidata for Wikisource
- Fixed the diff view sometimes showing the wrong revision
- Attended ConFoo and learned all of the things
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 0.1
- Continue work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
- Started to make Wikidata even faster by removing StaticExpert and BifidExpert
- Started reviewing interface animations. You should be able to disable them all by setting $.fx.off = true; in your Special:MyPage/common.js.
- Fixed Wikidata looking a bit odd when enabling the Typography refresh Beta feature.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
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- Help develop the next summary here!
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Hi Andy, please see Talk:Jewellery#Spanish_link_.22In_other_languages.2C.22_leads_to_obscure_article - he's right, the Spanish link should go to "Joya" not "Joyeria" (Jewellers - 2 lines). I tried but failed to fix it. No doubt you know what to do. Thanks I expect I'll see you on the 28th. Johnbod (talk) 15:36, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hi there, it seems that you have added an incorrect redirect for Birmingham Workhouse Infirmary to Birmingham Union workhouse...this is a different institute that was around at least 75 years before. I have placed a delete proposal on the redirect page and tried to explain why along with a link to information about the Birmingham Workhouse Infirmary on the University of Birmingham website. Thought I would keep you updated. All the best, Mountaincirque 16:11, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
- The cited sources indicate that the name "Birmingham Workhouse Infirmary" was also used for the Birmingham Union workhouse. Since we only have an article on the latter, it's appropriate to redirect, When we have an article on the earlier institution, it can be a disambiguation page, or hatted. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:18, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
- Ok, I'm happy to go with your decision, thanks. My concern arose from the fact that we with the advent of the redirect we have in-line links from the main University of Birmingham page to the Birmingham Union workhouse which state that that was where medical teaching originally began in the 1770s, this is factually incorrect as it actually began in a different workhouse in Birmingham around 70 years before and that facility didn't exist at the time. Could referenced information be added to the Birmingham Union workhouse to note that another workhouse existed beforehand of the same name to avoid confusion?
- FYI, there are some good resources on the original Birmingham Workhouse here: http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/ Mountaincirque 17:21, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
- A better solution might be to create a stub (or longer article!) on the older facility, then treat it as I describe above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:24, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
- Ok, I'll give it a go at my next convenience, thanks for your guidance! Mountaincirque 11:03, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
- A better solution might be to create a stub (or longer article!) on the older facility, then treat it as I describe above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:24, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Ping. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 16:47, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
DYK for Garrick Theatre fire, Hereford
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- Thank you. Cemetery in the same set. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:15, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #100
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- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiquote will get language links via Wikidata on April 8th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
- Did you know?
- Development
- Added more details to the diffs of time and geocoordinate values (will show which globe the coordinate is on and so on now as well)
- More work on badges by Bene* - most work left is now in the GUI part of it
- Removed unneeded and unused permissions/rights
- Fixed a bug concerning spaces in quantities (bugzilla:61911)
- Started work on taking ranks into account for queries, the property parser function and Lua. (By default only preferred values should be used if available. If not available then it should use values with rank normal.)
- test2.wikipedia.org and test.wikipedia.org now use test.wikidata.org as their data repository, instead of wikidata.org
- Started work on WikibaseInternalSerialization component
- Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7 - https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md
- Added indexes to Wikibase QueryEngine
- Improved SQLite support in Wikibase Database
- Started moving virtual machine instances of various test systems to the new Wikimedia Datacenter
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the sport (P641) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
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Thanks for taking the time for the constructive edits and advice on the Schneps page. (Including fixing typos that I can't believe I missed after multiple proof reads - how does that happen?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by OttRider (talk • contribs) 16:34, 9 March 2014
- My pleasure. At least typos here can be fixed - it's worse when your work is in print. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:43, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
DYK QPQ needed
You nomination at Template:Did you know nominations/Charity Bick has gone 2 weeks without a QPQ. Please do one soon so we don't have to close the nomination as rejected. --ThaddeusB (talk) 06:31, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
- Please see new note on DYK nomination page. Yoninah (talk) 22:30, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
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Help with COI issue and sourcing
Hi Andy,
I was wondering if you could help me out with the page I am trying to create. I'm new to Wikipedia so pretty unfamiliar with the backend of it. I've attempted to update my sources so that I now have 20 references and some related reading, which I hope to be enough on that end? But how do I resolve the COI issue?
Thanks! Lindsay Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/ColemanResearch — Preceding unsigned comment added by ColemanResearch (talk • contribs) 16:52, 13 March 2014
- Firstly, register a new account, in your own name (or use a pseudonym which is not linked to CR, and which does suggest that it may be a corporate or shared one). Then read WP:COI and drop a note here from your new account, once you've done so. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:56, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
AFCH rewrite
Hi Andy!
You can find more information about the rewrite at WP:AFCHRW -- and it really is a rewrite. We've just begun very limited testing of a very alpha version, so don't expect it to be become mainstream until at least a few months from now. Don't go around telling folks to switch yet, though -- tl;dr, things could explode at any minute. You're welcome to try it out, of course; any and all feedback (which you can give from within the tool) will be greatly appreciated and will help shape the development of the script.
Cheers,
Theopolisme (talk) 05:09, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
New DYKs
Hi Andy, I was wondering if you could help me out. I'm looking to work on a few 'new' articles, maybe create with your help, on something outside of my usual areas of interest. I want to work on bringing them up to DYK status. Could you help me out? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 20:07, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
- What help do you need? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:13, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
- Well, if you could point me to an article that can be a potential DYK and doesn't exist/is a stub. It'd be great. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 20:20, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
- That depends on your area of interest, and what you would find it easy to research. for instance, if you want to write about places in India, see Category:India geography stubs. For actor biographies, see Category:Actor stubs. You can see lots of other stub categories, hierarchically, under Category:Stub categories. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:42, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
- Hey thanks a lot Andy! I discovered this today and created an article. If you could help me bring it up to DYK, it'd be great. It's Foldscope. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 20:53, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
- Good work (and a nice topic). You should go ahead and make a "self nomination" at T:DYKT. As a new DYK contributor, you don't have to review another article, so skip that bit. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:41, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
- Hey thanks a lot Andy! I discovered this today and created an article. If you could help me bring it up to DYK, it'd be great. It's Foldscope. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 20:53, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
- That depends on your area of interest, and what you would find it easy to research. for instance, if you want to write about places in India, see Category:India geography stubs. For actor biographies, see Category:Actor stubs. You can see lots of other stub categories, hierarchically, under Category:Stub categories. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:42, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
- Well, if you could point me to an article that can be a potential DYK and doesn't exist/is a stub. It'd be great. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 20:20, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
I was gonna do that today. :) P.S: It'd be my 9th DYK. :D I've listed all my achievements on my user page. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 03:39, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
- Also, What do I use for the hook? It's construction, or price?-Rsrikanth05 (talk) 14:03, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
- Both! Try "...that Foldscope is made from paper, costs under $US 1, but can help to detect 12 disease-causing organisms?" Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:20, 14 March 2014 (UTC)