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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2017)
![]() One 24-ounce energy drink has 330 calories, more than a fast-food cheeseburger, and the equivalent of 18 single-serving packets of sugar.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Maya mythology • Emigration Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 September 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #276
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10
- Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties, by Simon Razniewski et al.
- ctj rdf: Part One, showing linking text minded data to Wikidata with SPARQL.
- Creating parliament charts with Wikidata by Knut
- The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse by Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog
- When Westminster Was Wikified, by Luca Martinelli
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New admin: congrats to علاء
- Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
- With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
- The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription, Tibetan pinyin, Wylie transliteration, Australian Women's Register ID, iconographic symbol, slope, angle from vertical
- Query examples:
- Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
- Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography, given names by soundex
- Development
- Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
- Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
- Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
- Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
- Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
- Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (phabricator:T170531)
- Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (phabricator:T151186)
- Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (phabricator:T172987)
- The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (phabricator:T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.
- Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (phabricator:T171725)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- We are asking Tech News readers five questions to make the newsletter better. You can answer the questions here. We are grateful for every reply we get.
Recent changes
- The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around. [1][2]
Problems
- Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" in your preferences and see if it helps. [3]
Changes later this week
- New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [4]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can see a presentation about and discuss the new Technical Committee on 5 September at 17:30 (UTC). There will be a presentation on YouTube and a discussion in
#wikimedia-office
on Freenode. You can use the web chat. [5]
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
22:15, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 6 September 2017
- From the editors: What happened at Wikimania?
- News and notes: Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments
- Featured content: Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies
- Traffic report: A fortnight of conflicts
- Special report: Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future
- Recent research: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: WikiProject YouTube
- Technology report: Latest tech news
- Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up
- Humour: Bots
This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2017)
![]() A small pond hockey field
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Calorie • Maya mythology Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 11 September 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #277
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- RDFIO: extending Semantic MediaWiki for interoperable biomedical data management - Paper demonstrating interoperatility between WikiData and Semantic MediaWiki, among other things.
- Données structurées, la puissance de Wikidata au service de Wikimedia Commons - French-language article by Rama about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons.
- Europeana is interested in linking its new Entity Collection to Wikidata, and will talk about this at the WikidataCon.
- Upcoming (21.9.2017): "Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mapping". Presentation by Joachim Neubert at the 17th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, TPDL 2017 Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich, one day dedicated to Wikidata and the Query Service in Zurich, Switzerland, September 14th
- Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Paris, France, September 15th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India, September 16th and 17th
- Past: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India
- WikidataCon
- The program of the WikidataCon is now published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
- The official visuals have also be released! Check out the conference logo and the volunteers visual, both designed by Bleeptrack under CC-BY-SA.
- The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Q39000000 was created
- Wikidata passed 7 average statements per item
- The ArticlePlaceholder is now deployed on Albanian Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: danskfilmogtv title ID, Billboard artist ID, Italian National Earthquake Center ID, Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage person ID, Foursquare username, The Times of India Topic ID, ROARMAP ID, WFD Chemical status, PagesJaunes ID, Christie's creator id, Google Play Music album ID, Google Play Music artist ID, Graphic character set global ID, cytogenetic location, category for employees of the organization, CNPS taxon ID, Familypedia person ID, LNH player ID, Alljudo athlete ID, Rivers.gov river ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject India
- Newest user scripts: Overpass (adds a map showing features tagged, in OpenStreetMap, with the ID of the current Wikidata item, if any)
- Development
- The new Echo notification is now deployed on all wikis
- Looked into further possible improvements for change dispatching
- Worked on persistently storing edits in more parts of a Lexeme
- Worked on getting expanded URIs for identifiers into the RDF exports (phabricator:T121274)
- Continued work on caching constraints results so we can roll it out for more users (phabricator:T173696)
- Fixing a bug that highlights input in value fields as not recognized when it shouldn't be (phabricator:T175525)
- Released version 2.1.0 of the Serialization JavaScript component (phabricator:T174011)
- Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component (phabricator:T168681)
- Released version 0.9.0 of the DataValues JavaScript component (phabricator:T172916)
- Released version 0.8.6 of the DataValues Time component (phabricator:T151088)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis. [6]
- The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later. [7]
- The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category:
tidy-whitespace-bug
. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug. [8]
Problems
- Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead. [9]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
- New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences. [10]
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19:16, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Nomination of Howard Leslie Elliott for deletion
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Howard Leslie Elliott is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Howard Leslie Elliott until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BSOleader (talk • contribs) 00:27, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: August 2017
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Nomination of Jo Cribb for deletion
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jo Cribb is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jo Cribb until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. CelenaSkaggs (talk) 17:21, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2017)
![]() A spelling error on a road sign
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Pond hockey • Calorie Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 September 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now see contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them. [11][12]
- Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed. [13]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.
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15:32, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #278
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata Wahldaten Workshop 2017 – 30 September 2017 in Vienna, Austria
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Research Showcase
- Past: Wikidata workshop in Zurich (the slides of the speakers are linked on the page)
- Past: GLAMhack Wikidata workshop in Lausanne (see the slides of the Query Service introduction)
- Past: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India
- Bridging real and fictional worlds in Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
- Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany), by Envel Le Hir
- Wiki Loves Monuments und Wikidata, by SW
- The French Connection at the Wikimania 2017 Hackathon, by Envel Le Hir
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata ontology explorer: creates a tree of a class or property, shows common properties and statements
- Join the mysterious group of Wikidata:Flashmob who improve labels, or summon them on an item
- A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced
- Q40000000 was created
- Improvements coming soon to Recent Changes
- Several new catalogs in Mix'n'Match incl. Encyclopædia Britannica, National Gallery artists and ArtCyclopedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: United Nations Treaty Series Registration Number, Sefaria ID, ICD-10-CM, Encyclopedia of Australian Science ID, Indonesian Small Islands Directory ID, Cyworld ID, IPA Braille, category contains, Enciclopedia Italiana ID, United Nations Treaty Series Volume Number, National Criminal Justice ID, order of battle, Tyrolean Art Cadastre inventory ID, shelf life, UK Electoral Commission ID, LNB Pro A player ID, nLab ID, highest observed lifespan, Unicode hex codepoint, PACTOLS thesaurus ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Russian version) ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Bashkir version) ID
- Query examples:
- Algorithms and the problems they solve (source)
- Swiss items with article in exactly one of German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-language Wikipedias (source)
- Popular gender-neutral given names (source)
- Computer network protocols and their ports (source)
- Software developers by number of software titles (source)
- Spacecraft and what they were named after (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject property constraints
- Development
- Worked more on the constraints gadget in order to make it also qork for references and qualifiers
- Made progress on persistently storing edits for the new Lexeme entity type (next to items and properties)
- Worked on the RDF mapping for full URIs of external identifiers (phabricator:T121274)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
New Page Reviewer Newsletter
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Backlog update:
- The new page backlog is currently at 14304 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
- Currently there are 532 pages in the backlog that were created by non-autoconfirmed users before WP:ACTRIAL. The NPP project is undertaking a drive to clear these pages from the backlog before they hit the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing a few today!
Technology update:
- The Wikimedia Foundation is currently working on creating a new filter for page curation that will allow new page patrollers to filter by extended confirmed status. For more information see: T175225
General project update:
- On 14 September 2017 the English Wikipedia began the autoconfirmed article creation trial. For a six month period, creation of articles in the mainspace of the English Wikipedia will be restricted to users with autoconfirmed status. New users who attempt article creation will now be redirected to a newly designed landing page.
- Before clicking on a reference or external link while reviewing a page, please be careful that the site looks trustworthy. If you have a question about the safety of clicking on a link, it is better not to click on it.
- To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:16, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2017)
![]() George Lazenby at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in 2014
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Spelling • Pond hockey Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 25 September 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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The Signpost: 25 September 2017
- News and notes: Chapter updates; ACTRIAL
- Humour: Chickenz
- Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe
- Technology report: Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications
- Gallery: Chicken mania
- Traffic report: Fights and frights
- Featured content: Flying high
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with
CTRL
+F
orcmd
+F
when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs. [14][15] - Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow. [16]
Changes later this week
- You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences. [17]
- Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser. [18]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
- You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
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16:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2017)
![]() George Lazenby at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in 2014
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Spelling • Pond hockey Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 16:16, 25 September 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #279
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Wikimedia Research Showcase - A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop about the Austrian election data, September 30th, Vienna
- Upcoming: The next IRC office hour will take place on November 14th, 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2) on the channel #wikimedia-office
- Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata's 5th birthday is about 1 month away. Time to think about birthday presents? ;-)
- Siri shows more information based on Wikidata in iOS 11
- 2 funding proposals are looking for comments and support: soweego and CrossWikiFact
- Quick graph of the relation of the number of labels in a given language on Wikidata and the number of first language speakers of that language
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: candidate number, maximal rate of climb, refine date, regular expression syntax, vocalized name, webcam page URL, Heritage Building in Finland ID, PatientLikeMe symptom ID, PatientLikeMe treatment ID, PatientLikeMe condition ID, Figshare author ID
- Query examples: standards bodies by number of standards they are connected to (source)
- Development
- Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (phabricator:T151717)
- Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (phabricator:T55619)
- Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
- Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (phabricator:T176062)
- Fixed an error message on Special:GoToLinkedPage (phabricator:T176327)
- Finishing touches on including full URIs for external IDs in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2017)
Hello, Stuartyeates.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: George Lazenby • Spelling Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 2 October 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #280
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags, by Mateusz Konieczny
- One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co
- Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata
- Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings (Paper and presentation), by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017 at TPDL
- Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The ArticlePlaceholder has been enabled on Bengali Wikipedia (example)
- There is a new page with information around Wikidata:Wikidata in Wikimedia projects. You can help expand and improve it.
- New Wikidata Game to help you evaluate merge candidates based on projectmerge.
- A reading tip from Spinster (not mentioning Wikidata, but interesting general background knowledge): Indigenous peoples and responsible data: an introductory reading list from responsibledata.io
- Where's Wally (aka Waldo)? Right here on Wikidata, of course!
- Wikidata passed 8 average statements per item
- Statement 300.000.000 was created
- 20 million edits were done in September 2017
- Did you know?
- Development
- Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
- Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to support lexicographical data (phabricator:T173742, phabricator:T173744)
- Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (phabricator:T121274)
- Added a new
mw.wikibase.getAllStatements
Lua function in addition to the existinggetBestStatements
, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (phabricator:T176124) - Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (phabricator:T174794)
- Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it. [19]
Changes later this week
- If you have turned on "Automatically enable most beta features" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature. [20]
- Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look. [21]
The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October. [22]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature. [23]
- The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.
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23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for reviewing HIV/AIDS in New York City. Feedback like you are giving is invaluable. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:15, 5 October 2017 (UTC) |
This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2017)
![]() Wikipedia is sometimes criticized for being used as a source of circular reporting.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The number of active users listed by
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too. [24] - Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. [[::File:X.jpg]] now has to be [[:File:X.jpg]]. There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter. [25]
Problems
- You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models. [26]
Changes later this week
- The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week. [27]
- If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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14:21, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #281
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
- We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base YAGO. The second keynote speaker is Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
- Please volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop at XLDB, October 12th, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Rebuild the map of famous artwork with Wikidata by Poulpy (in French)
- Research libraries and Wikimedia: A shared commitment to diversity, open knowledge, and community participation
- Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a good start for documentation for QuickStatements. Feel free to help improve it!
- New Mix’n’match mode to show just the entries with multiple matches (example)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Lega Pallavolo Serie A player ID, KNAU ID, PfaF id, YouTube Playlist ID, Wheelchair ITF player ID, VBL player ID, MIL-STD-2525 Symbol Identification Code, stellar rotational velocity, readership, PROSPERO ID, PM20 folder ID, possessed by spirit, panorama view, official app, LFH player ID, UK National Fruit Collection ID, Riigikogu ID, Nominis saint ID, Theses.fr person ID, Nominis given name ID, LUMIERE director ID, LUMIERE film ID, LNV player ID, International Standard Text Code, hydrological order number, FCI rider ID, Daum movie ID, Cinémathèque québécoise work identifier, Japanese Database of National important cultural properties, Tunisian geographic code, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ID, DPLA subject ID, rating, Daum TV series ID, half maximal effective concentration, half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50), Landtag of Liechtenstein ID, Bavarian geotope ID, Reddit user name, LinkedIn company ID, THW Kiel player ID, Footoféminin.fr player ID, FFVoile sailor ID, NPB player ID, Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile player ID, Gallica ID, National Museums of Japan e-museum ID, Spanish "Boletín Oficial del Estado" ID, Banglapedia (English version) ID, Banglapedia (Bengali version) ID, number of constituencies, All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Delhi Metro
- Newest database reports: television series by camera setup
- Development
- Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
- A
mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang
Lua function will be added (phabricator:T173262) - The
mw.wikibase.sitelink
Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (phabricator:T142903) - Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
- Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
- Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
- Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (phabricator:T174794)
- Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2017)
![]() A fire sprinkler with red liquid alcohol in the capsule
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's
format
configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it. [28][29] - The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.
Problems
- There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis. [30]
- Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this. [31]
- Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed. [32]
Changes later this week
- Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [33]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #282
Wikidata weekly summary #282
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Association Football Matches
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
- If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the events page and the birthday page
- A blog post describing Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
- Slides of the presentation "Wikidata Query Service: The State of the Engine" by Stas Malyshev
- Slides of the presentation "Wikidata and structured data initiatives at Wikimedia. Current trends and priorities" by Dario Taborelli
- Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings by Joachim Neubert
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- If you are interested in Structured Data on Commons, and helping out as a Wikidata contributor, please consider joining the new Structured Commons community focus group!
- Participate to the Global Legislative Openness Week with MySociety and organize a Wikidata workshop in your country, from 20th to 30th November 2017
- Inventaire now has a News section where you can follow ongoing discussions and developments of the project
- wikidata-cli added bot support and new commands (wd search, wd aliases, wd add-alias, wd remove-alias, wd set-alias)
- wikidata-edit added bot edits support and new functions (alias.add, alias.remove, alias.set)
- HarvestTemplates has a new collaboration platform
- You can now use reCh to patrol items from your PagePile
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Women's Sports Foundation ID, Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame ID, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame ID, New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame ID, National Trust Collections ID, Infopatrimônio ID, KBO pitcher ID, KBO hitter ID, Cairn author ID, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame ID, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame ID, Kansas Sports Hall of Fame ID, Hawai‘i Sports Hall of Fame ID, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame ID, DSMHOF athlete ID, ASHOF athlete ID, ExecutedToday ID, Monumentos de São Paulo ID, gravsted.dk ID, Dutch lost building register ID, Musikverket person ID, Megalithic Portal ID, PROSITE documentation ID, Search formatter URL, nominated by, BillionGraves cemetery ID, Cravo Albin artist ID, salinity, Lotsawa House Indian author ID, Lotsawa House Tibetan author ID, Florida Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, T4T35 megalith ID, excavation director, QEdu ID, WBPLN author ID, Store norske leksikon ID, synodic period, PubsHistory pub ID, Organization ID on Radio Radicale, LOINC ID, digitised page from Lloyd's Register of Ships from 1930 to 1945, Lloyd's Register Ship ID, IDESCAT territorial code in Catalonia, Heritage Conservation District of Ontario ID, GenBank Assembly accession, Deutsche Synchronkartei actor-ID, Department of Education and Skills roll number, contains, Wikimedia template, Brueckenweb id, BHL bibliography ID, BFI-Filmography person ID, APA phoneme code, combination classification, young rider classification, best sprinter classification, best combative classification, mountains classification, Elite Prospects staff ID, Scottish Sports HoF athlete ID, GARD rare disease ID, kinship equivalent in SPARQL at Wikidata, SwimSwam ID, SpeedskatingResults.com speed skater ID, musée de Bretagne identifiant collections ID, camera setup, FOIH taxon ID, FOIH decree types ID, FOIH event types ID, FOIH value types ID, FOIH heritage types ID, FOIH periods ID, FOIH styles and cultures ID, FOIH materials ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Women
- Newest database reports: Jean Rochefort Filmography
- Development
- Continued working on persistently storing edits on Lexeme pages (specifically Forms)
- Dealt with issues caused by too many edits being injected into recent changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia
- Constraint checks will also be done on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T176863)
- Fixed a regression with the focus not automatically being set after a property was selected (phabricator:T177485)
- Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)
- The secondary
wb_entity_per_page
table got removed now (phabricator:T140890) - The secondary
wb_terms
table does have aterm_full_entity_id
column now (phabricator:T167114) - Released version 4.0.0 of the Wikibase DataModel JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177476)
- Released version 3.0.0 of the Wikibase Serialization JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177613)
- Released version 0.10.0 of the DataValues JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177232)
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Books and Bytes - Issue 24
Books & Bytes
Issue 24, August-September 2017
- User Group update
- Global branches update
- Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
- Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
- Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
- Bytes in brief
Arabic, Kiswahili and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:53, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer Newsletter
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Backlog update:
- The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
- We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.
Technology update:
- Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.
General project update:
- The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look.
- To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 17:47, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2017)
![]() A 1912 illustration of Robin Hood and Little John
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Fire sprinkler • Circular reporting Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 23 October 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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The Signpost: 23 October 2017
- News and notes: Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!
- Featured content: Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables
- Humour: Guys named Ralph
- In the media: Facebook and poetry
- Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK
- Traffic report: Death, disaster, and entertainment
Jurors for WikiScienceCompetition 2017
Hi, I don't if you missed all the messages I left here and on commons and wikiveristy about this event.
I am checking with Ivo Kruusamägi from Wikimedia Estonia the composition of the final jury. We did our best to keep it balanced by continent, gender, field etc but in the end it is still a little bit eurocentric.
I hope that the results will promote science around the globe in any case. As a last appropriate effort now that more urgent issues have been addressed and we are finalizing the main organization, I am looking all the profiles of active wikimedians from or related to Africa, South American Oceania or Asia but not to countries with national juries, with a public name and surname (jurors should be public figures) and a scientific or technological education or position, the key aspect is to make a wikidata item of the jurors, so I need some ID that show they are or were related to the academia. There are good chance for example that this is you. We want to give the idea to the young researcher that we their images will be evaluated by people who were or are in the academia like them, with different backgrounds.
Would you be interested in joining us to be a juror in the second-level jury? I am sure that next time we will find new additional contacts and I will find your name not at the last minute.
Even you don't have time, could you help us also in promoting the event amongst people you know or mailing lists or groups you have joined? This will be also useful to promote more national juries next time.
Thank you in advance.--Alexmar983 (talk) 03:26, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Alexmar983 I'm http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1809-1062, I have a Phd in computer science / digital libraries from Waikato University, spent time working at Oxford and now work in an academic library. I'm happy to spend a little time judging things related to computer science or libraries. Ping me with instructions. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:08, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
- We will have the instructions once we start, the strategy we adopt will depend on the final number of jurors. If we get few mores we will create different subjuries for continents groups for example. We are thinking about it know (and the event has not started yet).
- In any case, there is no category for "computer science". These are the categories. It is more like balanced sensitivity of different fields and countries. But no worries if you don't join... in the meantime I got someone from New Zealand in the main jury and a mathematician, so I did my best to fill the box. At this point, it is more about how you feel. If you like the idea of looking at hundreds of pictures of different fields and say yes/no to send them to next jury, jump in. Otherwise if you think it is boring, don't worry.
- I can give you the link when the start date is officially decleared, and you can spread the news. That's also a good thing.
- Thank you for the quick reply in any case.
- Ops, I put a wrong SCOPUS link! in any case since I saw all the IDs I used the one I could access from PRC and created d:Q42306660. Take it as a thank you for the reply... plus I am trying to explore the world of resesrchers' items on wikidata too.--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:59, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can use
ccnorm_contains_any
when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation. [34]
Changes later this week
- When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better. [35]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it. [36]
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18:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #283
Wikidata weekly summary #282
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Zugang Gestalten (slides by multichill)
- Past: Coding Da Vinci (slides by Jonas)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Tokyo, 27 October from 12:00 to 14:00 in Roppongi Hills
- Upcoming: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
- Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Seoul, 29 October from 15:00 to 18:00
- Upcoming: Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017 6-7 November 2017 (in cooperation with Wikimedia Austria)
- COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata (tool website)
- Provenance Information in a Collaborative Knowledge Graph: an Evaluation of Wikidata External References
- Question Answering Benchmarks for Wikidata
- Using Word Embeddings for Search in Linked Data with Ontodia (tool website)
- Unlocking the human potential of Wikidata
- Textes d’Affiches, des films à lire sur Gallica
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- If you have a present or organize an event for the Wikidata's fifth birthday, feel free to add link and pictures here
- New version of the Alexa skill for Wikidata by metaphacts
- Nice short gif tutorial for writing a Wikidata query
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID, Baseball Almanac ID, sports.ru player ID, Opera Vivra singer ID, Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame ID, NLBPA ID, MusicBrainz recording ID, caliber, Women's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame ID, Museus.br ID, Memória Globo, Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural ID, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum athlete ID, BrainInfo ID (hierarchical), NeuroNames ID (plain mode), Anvisa drug ID, BC Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, TheSports.org athlete ID, mapping relation type, Science Museum people ID, Mappy place ID, update method, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame ID, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame ID, DAMIT asteroid ID, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, LFB player ID, Soccerdonna player ID, Sandrart.net artwork ID, youth wing
- Query examples:
- Average age of members of the 19th German Bundestag (source)
- Mountains in CH by height (topographic prominence) (source)
- Mountains in CH by height (elevation above sea level) (source)
- Monuments in Berlin for which Berlin cultural heritage ID and geolocation are known in Wikidata (source)
- Initial characters of names of free software (source)
- Initial characters of names of nonfree software (source)
- First World Heritage site per country (source)
- Newest database reports: list of kinship types
- Development
- Query Service throttling has been tweaked, to block a type of abusive client
- Adding diff support for Lexeme-related edits
- More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
- Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
- Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
- Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (phabricator:T48329, phabricator:T50684) Thanks Matej!
- Released the Wikibase DataModel component in version 7.2.0 (phabricator:T177486)
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2017)
![]() Choreographed dancing at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show in 2015
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Wikidata weekly summary #284
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Defining account creators
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
- Past: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October. You can find the slides, notes and video recordings for most of the sessions
- Past: Wikidata's fifth birthday in Tokyo, Seoul, Munich
- Upcoming: Using Wikidata to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects in the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2017), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, 30 October-3 November.
- Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact MB-one
- Wikidata's birthday
- The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.
- Birthday presents
- Search index now contains statements with {{Property|P31}} and {{P|P279}}. These can be used to influence search rankings and in the future also for matching.
- inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
- You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
- Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
- Wikidata becomes a proper citizen of the linked open data web
- graves.wiki – visualization of grave locations stored in Wikidata
- Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM) - Wikidata semantic topics and usage statistics
- Happy Birthday to You, Dear Wikidata – recording and improvisation (Lucas Werkmeister)
- You can now create items from the command-line
- Crochet your own cute structured data bee to express your appreciation for structured data in the Wikimedia movement! And ask her/him/it to join the Wikimedia Cuteness Association (Q29169245).
- Wikidata Query Service UI: Geoshapes from Commons are now displayed in the Map view: Constituencies for the election to the German Bundestag 2017, with winning candidate and party
- Wikidata Query Service UI: The query service now shows you code examples for how to use your query in many programming languages (example query)
- Dungeon of Knowledge (source), a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon full of bits of Wikidata wisdom
- Simple WD an experiment of a simple frontend API on top of Wikidata using JSON-LD and schema.org.
- mapview widget/user script on Wikidata
- Images fragments for an item depicted on several artworks
- Histropedia Query Timeline tool - Demo of cool new features launched today for WikidataCon
- Q42395533 - the first item about a notable item!
- SQID now suggests statements that we are missing (example page, log in to see suggestions) -- more on Wikidata:WikiProject_Reasoning soon
- From labs VM to Wikibase Query Service in 2 minutes (using Docker images and docker-compose)
- Stories and reflections
- Wishes for the year to come, by Tpt
- Happy Birthday Wikidata! by the Gene Wiki Team
- Some random thoughts on the occasion of Wikidata's fifth birthday, by PKM
- Wishes and a personal story, by Spinster
- Happy Birthday, Wikidata by RolandUnger from Wikivoyage
- Happy Birthday, Wikidata by Katherine Maher
- Two years of Wikidata experience from ArthurPSmith
- Happy Birthday wishes from Wikimedia Deutschland
- Message from the development team
- Birthday presents
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Biblioteca Nacional de México ID, MNCARS artist ID, BFI Film and TV ID, FPB rating, The Coptic Library ID, snap package, LesBiographies.com ID, Indian Foundation for Butterflies ID, AKL Online Artist ID, Google Doodle, New York City Parks Monument ID, Pro14 player ID, implementation of, GACS ID, Y-DNA Haplogroup, mtDNA haplogroup, mandates, Portuguese lighthouse ID, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame athlete ID, Sportbox.ru ID, VNDB ID, Videolectures ID, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame ID, rfpl.org player ID, Panthéon des sports du Québec ID, Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee ID, New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID
- Query examples:
- Organic acids with images (source)
- People who are their father's father (source)
- 2017 German federal election results by district with geoshapes and color depending on the % of votes (source)
- Cities with most first performances of works (source)
- Count of women Vs. guys names “John” in the UK parliament (source)
- Percentage of popes who died in Rome (source)
- First sites registered at Unesco for each country (source)
- Development
- Continued working on persistent storage of edits on Lexeme pages
- Fixed an encoding problem in the SVG download of query results in the query service (phabricator:T178564)
- Fixed a problem with change dispatching changes to Wikipedia and co, that sometimes lead to single wikis falling way behind. (T179060)
- Added full URIs for external identifiers to the RDF export
- You can leave feedback on how improved fulltext search result page should look like
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis. [37]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).
Meetings
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Wikidata weekly summary #285
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Obaid Raza
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata, a rapidly growing global hub, turns five on WMF's blog by Andrew Lih and Robert Fernandez
- Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata, by Petter Reinholdtsen
- Mix-n-Match: Large Catalogs, by Magnus Manske
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon, here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
- Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs
- Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Barbarian R.C. id, Barbarian F.C. id, Isidore ID, Team GB athlete ID, HOC athlete ID, COAM architect ID, Camera Decision ID, Google Play developer ID, INDUCKS miniseries ID, INDUCKS issue ID, INDUCKS story ID, INDUCKS publisher ID, INDUCKS creator ID, INDUCKS publication ID, INDUCKS character ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Accused witch ID, Humble Store ID, Australian Baseball League player ID, European Fencing Confederation athlete ID, IBHOF boxer ID, Melon artist ID, Czech Jockey Club horse ID, Rush Parliamentary Archive ID, British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association ID, IGHOF athlete ID, Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee ID, Twitch game ID, Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID, Ecole des chartes thesis abstract ID, Rugby League Project player ID, Canadian Ski Hall of Fame inductee ID, Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee ID, World Golf Hall of Fame player ID, Kaitai Struct format gallery ID, Diccionario biográfico español ID, Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah ID, Discography of American Historical Recordings ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database ID, Coinage of the Roman Republic Online ID, Argentine Chamber of Deputies ID, Argentine Senate member ID, Thibaudeau classification, Scoresway handball person ID, HAL author ID, Shirat Nashim person ID, cash back, Minimum Spend Bonus, reward program, grace period, reward, Card Network, mean age, hydraulic head
- Query examples:
- endemic moths of New Zealand with images in Wikidata (source)
- Images of people commemorated by plaques in Jena, Germany (source)
- Paintings located in Le Louvre without pictures on Wikidata, with the location in the museum (source)
- Persons who will have their work in public domain in 2018 in Denmark, with their occupations (source)
- Political parties by ideology in a tree view (source)
- Organic acids with pictures (source)
- Levels of education in France, from kindergarten to high school, with their US equivalents (source)
- Horses drawn on hills in the UK (source)
- Frequency of “retrieved” dates in Wikidata references (source)
- Newest database reports: completeness of family relation properties
- Development
- query service UI improvements (Ided10bb8c8, I3c6ec22a15, Ieb6e561563, I9a526fc8b4, Ib4ea273ab1
- proposed changes to HTML around statements – feedback welcome!
- Finished diff support for lexeme phab:T178757
- Refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
- JavaScript libraries used by Wikibase have been integrated as submodules into Wikibase's git repository (phab:T177087)
- Git repository of the Wikibase JavaScript API has been moved. Check your settings! (phab:T178226)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it. [38]
Changes later this week
- The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F
instead ofhttps://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История
. This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work. [39][40]
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This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2017)
An optical illusion. Square A is exactly the same shade of grey as Square B. (See Checker shadow illusion.)
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Wikidata weekly summary #286
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, November 14th, 19:00 (UTC+2) in the channel #wikimedia-office
- Review of the WikidataCon by Sean McBirnie (Histropedia)
- Blogpost on workflow co-documentation with community members during the WikidataCon, by Jan Dittrich
- Completeness and the Age of Abundance of free tools, in Basque language, by Theklan
- Report about the first WikidataCon in Hungarian language, by Texaner
- Report of the WikidataCon 2017 in German, by MB-one
- Visualising Wikidata on Interactive Timelines using HistropediaJS by Sean McBirnie
- Wikidata: A growing community behind open data by John Samuel
- Report about the 2017 WikidataCon in Polish, by Yarl
- Report about WikidataCon 2017 for WMAM community in Armenian, by Kareyac
- WikidataCon - my résumé by Ahoerstemeier
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata training material and sample SPARQL queries by Geertivp
- A new version of Unicode CLDR was released, including data about languages from Wikidata
- research article where Wikidata is used to unify metabolite identifiers: WikiPathways
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: vertical depth, describes a project that uses, National Monuments of Namibia Site Reference, CycleBase cyclist ID, California Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Formal Public Identifier, IAFD male performer ID, IWRP athlete ID, Wimbledon player ID, Snooker.org ID, albedo, family relationship degree, World Snooker athlete ID, Microsoft Store artist ID, NACE code, Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: properties count by datatype, Mayflower voyage participants, film archives
- Development
- Fixed a series of smaller regressions after switching to Cirrus based search backend (phabricator:T179045, phabricator:T179061, phabricator:T179130)
- Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (phabricator:T179228)
- Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
- Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (phab:T176417)
- Add
wikibase-snakview-indicators
area where gadgets and user scripts can safely add indicators instead of directly appending to the value (phab:T95403, d:WD:PC#Gadget / userscript editor feedback wanted) - Accessing
mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' )
will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use thewikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded
hook instead (phabricator:T169771) - Work on caching constraint check results (phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (phab:T179844)
- Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (gerrit:379669)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator. [41]
- A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [42]
- Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences. [43]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. You can see an example on the test wiki. [44]
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This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2017)
Hello, Stuartyeates.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Illusion • Price ceiling Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 20 November 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [45]
The abuse filter now has a function called
get_matches
. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.
Problems
- Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [46][47][48]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like
http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}-
must be replaced. You will have to write-{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }-
instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [49][50]
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19:19, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #287
Wikidata weekly summary #287 Global message delivery/Targets/Wikidata
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- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: IRC office hour (log)
- Past: Wikidata Lab II, a workshop to teach users how to create lists using Wikidata in São Paulo (images from the event)
- Upcoming: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Commons, November 21, 18:00 UTC in the channel #wikimedia-office
- Upcoming: WLM-Wikidata-Editathon 2017 in Berlin, November 24-26
- Upcoming: Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon - II edition (with Wikidata track) in Sofia, November 27
- Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon at WikiMUC in Munich, November 30
- WikidataCon 2017
- Fünf Jahre Wikidata at Chaosradio
- "Turning a historical book into a data set"
- "Creating Wikipedia articles from research data"
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool by Magnus: Wikidata SPARQL Recent Changes - get diffs for all items matching a SPARQL query, for a date range
- New tool by Magnus: WD edit stats - get edit stats for all items matching a SPARQL query
- Wikidata coverage for 'place' in OpenStreetMap (as of October 2017)
- OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible. Let's write tutorials for it.
- Mix'n'match now shows for a catalog which user originally imported it and if it is updated regularly (example)
- A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: CGF athlete ID, OKS athlete ID, Gymn Forum athlete ID, sexually homologous with, Tennis Temple player ID, has listed ingredient, World of O athlete ID, HOO athlete ID, IBTrACS cyclone ID, Collective Biographies of Women ID, Snooker Database player ID, Spider Ontology ID, EThOS thesis ID, EUTA theatre ID, EUTA person ID, Czech Street ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Trial ID, ChinesePosters artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code, Douban movie ID, REGINE water system number, UK Parliament thesaurus ID, ABA bird ID, MuIS ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Person ID, Vermont Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Alaska Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Radio Radicale person ID, SUNCAT ID, payload mass, Melon album ID, ctext work ID, Mémoire du cyclisme cyclist ID, Prisma ID, Africultures person ID, Africultures movie ID, Scottish Cemetery Kolkata ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: expeditions
- Development
- Fixed Commons media suggester not loading all preview thumbnails (phabricator:T160528)
- RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (phabricator:T161592)
- Worked on making statements on Forms editable and persistent (phabricator:T163724)
- Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library (phabricator:T172914)
- Worked on caching constraint check results (phabricator:T179849) and indicating when constraint check results are cached (phabricator:T179844)
- Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 24 November 2017
- News and notes: Cons, cons, cons
- Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely
- Technology report: Searching and surveying
- Interview: A featured article centurion
- WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects
- In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution
- Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate
- Featured content: We will remember them
- Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text
This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2017)
![]() A student performing schoolwork
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Wikidata weekly summary #288
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode
- Proposal to add some order and structure to the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata (mailing list post)
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can read the log on meta.
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Prague, December 1st
- Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best?
- Spatial-based Topic Modelling using Wikidata Knowledge Base (in Wikidata as Q43662744)
- Cleaning BNF identifier in Wikidata by Envlh (in French)
- Monitoring changes to Wikidata pages of your interest by Egon Willighagen
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Sandra is co-ordinating an inventory of crucial volunteer tools for Wikimedia Commons, GLAM, and structured data in general. You can provide input and prioritize your favorite tools in this Google spreadsheet.
- Q43649390 is an item about our concept of "QID"s
- OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: type foundry, Accademia della Crusca ID, first appearance, USGHOF athlete ID, Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID, Städel Museum artist ID, Berlinische Galerie artist ID, Tidal video ID, Tidal track ID, Tidal album ID, Tidal artist ID, HTML entity, Norwegian historical register of persons ID, Merchant Category Code, SS KL Auschwitz Garrison ID, West Australian Football League player ID, Wikidata project, BPH journal ID, SNCZI-IPE reservoir ID, BTO five-letter code, awarded for period, electoral district number, Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID, Art Museum of Estonia artist ID, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA ID, National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame ID, IJF ID, SNCZI-IPE dam ID, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame ID, FAI ID, Canada Games ID, ICRC PoW ID, RA Collections ID, mountain range, Everyone Remembered ID, CNRS research group ID, ARLIMA ID
- Query examples:
- People who were Time Person of the Year in two consecutive years (source)
- Fictional characters “said to be the same as” other fictional characters from the same fictional universe (source)
- Map of places of birth of deceased sociologists (source)
- Map of libraries in India (source)
- Train and subway stations in Basque Country (source)
- Newest database reports: Decameron editions and translations
- Development
- Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (phabricator:T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
- Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
- Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later. [51]
- You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB. [52]
- You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance. [53]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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About Anne Veronica Goldson - moved to Annie Goldson?
Hi Stuart,
It would appear that Dr Goldson is much better known as Annie Goldson - see her NZ On Screen bio here.
I have gone ahead and moved the page. Your thoughts about this?
Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:49, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- User:Shirt58, I'm fine with that. I'm thinking about nuking the subjects' contribution, however, since this isn't a CV. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:24, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
- "the subjects' contribution" -Special:Contributions/121.98.247.88? --Shirt58 (talk) 11:14, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
- The irony of a professor who teaches journalism not immediately recognising the difference between a primary and tertiary source is not lost. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:06, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
- The very real problems faced by a real, living person who has a WP:BLP article here and has to navigate the labyrinth of WP:PG ain't just ironic, it's positively Kafka-esque.--Shirt58 (talk) 10:57, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
- The irony of a professor who teaches journalism not immediately recognising the difference between a primary and tertiary source is not lost. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:06, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
- "the subjects' contribution" -Special:Contributions/121.98.247.88? --Shirt58 (talk) 11:14, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #289
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: Part II (Wikidata Workshop), Washington, D.C., November 2, 2017 with Andrew Lih and Alex Stinson
- Past: Wikidata Clinic (slides) in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017, with Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
- Past: Wikikonference in Prague with a Wikidata workshop in Czech and a introduction of Wikidata and its community
- Wikipedia Weekly audio podcast coverage of Wikidata:
- Episode 126 - Introduction to Wikidata, with Andrew Lih and Rob Fernandez
- Episode 127 - WikidataCon 2017 roundtable discussion, with Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, Stacy Allison-Cassin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Rob Fernandez
- Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers by Joachim Neubert
- Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
- The Wikidata map in November 2017 and what changed during the last four months, by Addshore
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey. The voting phase is open until December 10th.
- If you run any functionality on Wikimedia sites that uses queries to the Wikidata Query Service, please add it here (more information)
- The 600,000,000th edit has been made.
- The first content made specifically for Wikimedia projects in space has been added to Wikidata (see Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind)
- The Aaron Swartz Fellowship at OSA, Budapest, Hungary, is open for applications (deadline Dec. 31). The second focus area of the fellowship may be of interest to Wikidata folks.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: set designer, Swedish Musical Heritage composer ID, National Film Board of Canada movie ID, South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame ID, World Rugby Hall of Fame ID, Microsoft Store album ID, date of burial or cremation, Lives of WWI ID, polymer of, monomer of, FAPESP researcher ID, FAPESP institution ID, NIOSH Publication Number, post town, arXiv author ID, CPE athlete ID, Mountain Project ID, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID, Atomic Heritage Foundation ID, Dreadnought Project page, IWGA athlete ID, Argentinian Historic Heritage ID
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- Newest WikiProjects: Stolpersteine, Jasmerah
- Newest database reports: Q5 with identical P18
- Development
- Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9th January 2018 (phabricator:T181645)
- There were no RDF dumps last week due to problems generating them, investigation is still going on (phabricator:T181385)
- Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata (phabricator:T180450)
- Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (phabricator:T181807)
- More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically phabricator:T180467)
- Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (phabricator:T113468)
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- It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files. [54]
- You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it. [55]
- There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects. [56]
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Thanks for Brigid Hughes. Timely contribution. Cheers Victuallers (talk) 07:52, 8 December 2017 (UTC) |
Thanks, User:Victuallers. Someone was complaining on twitter that she wasn't mentioned in another article, so I got them to tweet me some refs. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:02, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
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Brigid Hughes
Thanks for the question. Interesting. The top job at the Paris Review, normally, is Editor. The founder, George Plimpton was the Editor. Hughes is the only one who's had the top job referred to as Executive Editor. Here's how they refer to the past editors on their Masthead page:
Past Editors George Plimpton (1953–2003), Brigid Hughes (Executive Editor, 2004–2005), Philip Gourevitch (2005–2010), Lorin Stein (2010-2017)[1].
According to the pieces in the New York Times, she started as an intern, was hired as an editor (doesn't specify what level, but probably associate editor), then was named Managing Editor. When Plimpton died, she was named "interim editor," meaning top editor pro tem, like Plimpton but only temporarily, ie, while they looked for a successor. The board wound up giving her the job, naming her "executive editor." For clarity sake I agree that using "executive editor" will make it clearer. All the clips refer to her position before she became the exec as "interim editor." I'll figure something out and reword it shortly.
Thanks for the query.
Sam Perkins (talk) 06:08, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2017)
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Wikidata weekly summary #290
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- Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, France, December 12th
- Incoming:Next Structured Commons IRC office hour will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 18:00 UTC.
- Past: Tech-talk about knowledge technologies, featuring Wikidata, DBpedia, and Histropedia at Jakarta Digital Valley, Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec 8, 2017. Slides are available at Slideshare link.
- My vision of a possible strategy. How could we change Wikidata’s core infrastructure to be able to scale better in the future? by ChristianKl.
- Using WikiData as a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects - conference paper
- WikiCite 2017 report by Dario Taborelli and the organization team
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: Participate in this survey to help the team understand which tools and functionalities are most important to the Commons and Wikidata communities
- QuickStatements now has a CSV-like import function (under "import commands")
- wikidata-cli now support dynamic SPARQL requests using JS files
- New wikidata-sdk function: wdk.getSitelinkUrl, a function to easily build URLs from Wikidata API sitelinks data
- Musik Lovers (de) is a project created during Coding da Vinci 2017 and reuses data from Wikidata about composers played in the Koncerthaus of Berlin
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: premiere type, name of the character role, Bechdel Test Movie List ID, Iowa Sports Hall of Fame ID, DORIS ID, Online Books Page author ID, ICTV virus genome composition, EK number, identity of object in context, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston object ID, squadron embarked, South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID, trophy awarded, Württembergische Kirchengeschichte person ID, Merkelstiftung person ID, National Library of Brazil ID, AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID, DVV player ID, UniProt journal ID, WAFL FootyFacts ID, watershed, Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID, LKL player ID, LACMA ID, Art Institute of Chicago artwork ID, Queensland Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID
- Query examples:
- Place of birth of author with pages on the French Wikisource (source)
- Number of movies passing or failing the Bechdel test by year (source)
- 100 of the earliest 1000 works created by women on Wikidata with an image on Commons (source)
- Chemical entities, whom discovered them, and when (source)
- Sister-city and twin-city relationships of the largest cities (source)
- Cast age at date of film publication (source)
- Male saints that are the most used to name French cities after them (source)
- Development
- Add anchors to Special:ListDatatypes (phabricator:T181371)
- Data Types library has been integrated to Wikibase (phabricator:T180454)
- Investigate on the slow problems encountered on Wikidata (phabricator:T182322)
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- URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:
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instead ofhttps://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История
. This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work. [61] - A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. [62]
- If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [63]
- Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "View new changes since $1" link is now more prominent. [64]
- Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements. [65]
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New Page Reviewer Newsletter
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Backlog update:
- The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
- Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!
Outreach and Invitations:
- If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with:
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. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.
New Year New Page Review Drive
- A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
- Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.
General project update:
- ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
- The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
- To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.
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Books and Bytes - Issue 25
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- User Group update
- Global branches update
- Spotlight: Research libraries and Wikimedia
- Bytes in brief
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Wikidata weekly summary #291
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Mapping and improving the data import process
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for local OpenStreetMap community & others, Riga, Latvia, December 19th
- Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
- Wikidata in Collections: Building a Universal Language for Connecting GLAM Catalogs
- A purposeful #strategy for #Wikidata
- WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge by Peter Kraker
- Review of the Global Legislative Openness Week by MySociety
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A script to add links to Wikidata on Twitter by Envlh
- Resolver can now open an item in tools/third-party sites listed on Q43649390#3303, using the
?project=
attribute - for example https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php?prop=P496&value=0000-0003-4402-5296&project=scholia - New edition of the Structured Data on Commons newsletter
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Wiki Aves bird ID, DACS ID, SAN ID, reservoir, CPDOC ID, Musée d'Orsay artwork ID, Coflein ID, The Numbers person ID, Wikimedia import URL, Flathub ID, partition type identifier, partition table type, ESCO Occupation ID, Welsh assembly ID, BSD Portal athlete ID, identity of subject in context, location of first performance, representation of, RCR number, ESCO skill ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art ID, Colorado Sports Hall of Fame ID, Welsh Chapels ID, photosphere image, Estonian Football Association team ID, The Peerage person ID, FoodEx2 code, Sherpa Juliet ID, Indian Financial System Code
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- Map with buildings by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
- Properties most used for “no value” statements/qualifiers/references (source)
- Scientific papers with an animal credited as co-author (source)
- Image grid of what different cryptocurrencies are named after (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Narration
- Newest database reports: Brigata del Decameron
- Development
- Additional languages for monolingual values got approved by the language committee: ami (Amis), bnn (Bunun), fos (Siraya), ppu (Papora / Hoanya), pwn (Paiwan), pyu (Puyuma), ssf (Thao), trv (Seediq / Taroko), uun (Pazeh) (see gerrit:374052, phab:T144272)
- More work on caching constraint results so we can enable the constraints checks for all logged-in users by default
- Fixed a bug when edit links showed up in diff views (phabricator:T181807)
- Final step towards being able to store statements on Forms of a Lexeme
- Disabled RDF support for Lexemes as the mapping isn't defined yet (phabricator:T182660)
- Adding some more smart tracking for Lua usage so we better know which properties from an item are used on a Wikipedia article even when the whole item is loaded (phabricator:T179923)
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Seasons' Greetings
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...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 04:23, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
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Grunf (talk) 14:35, 2 February 2018 (UTC)Hi Stuart. I'm an academic from Croatia and I use the page Michael Adrian Peters with my students. Usually they just use the Croatian version, but now I've got a few foreign students as well, and I was surprised when they told me the page was down. I first waited a bit, but when the page did not return, decided to ask. So I looked up the webpage, and found out that you put it down for what seems to be a good reason. Now I'm only vaguely familiar with Wikipedia and its editing policies (sorry if my question is posted in a wrong manner or place), but I do think that you might want to reconsider the decision to put the page down, or perhaps to leave it in a different, more appropriate format for Wikipedia, and retain the important parts of the text. Can you please advise what should be done in order to provide at least some info on Peters in English Wikipedia? My students primarily need the list of publications and basic biographical information, really just encyclopedic stuff, which was nicely done in the previous version. I do know the subject in person, but I also use his work professionally, and the Wikipedia page is really helpful for my students. Thanks a lot for your reply, and once again excuse me for any ignorance about your work.
- Hi I suggest you read Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Michael_Adrian_Peters where the concensus is that he may not be notable and the whole page might be deleted: in short we need secondary sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:00, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
Female NZ Professors - AUT
Hi there, I admire your commitment to creating pages for female professors in NZ. How's the progress going? I would like to draw your attention to the fact that you've missed AUT. See the list at "AUT professors".. Tayste (edits) 20:54, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks User:Tayste. It came out of event funded by the RSNZ and run by USer:Giantflightlessbirds that I helped out on; I had no idea there were this many female profs, and once I knew I was too stubborn to admit defeat. There are several classes of female profs I've missed (including quite a few deceased, retired and emeritus; and I've still not found any at Wānanga). In reality I'll probably not catch them all, but in terms of WP:Systemic bias, I'm not sure absolute completeness is required, just doing a fair whack. I see you've added the AUT ones to my list; I'll get to them eventually, Alison McIntosh was already done and I have Tania Ka'ai currently under construction. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:53, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
- Yay. I'll try to help some more when time permits, tho I might focus on institutions I'm not affiliated with first, i.e. outside Auckland. Feel free to ping me on the talk pages of specific ones you'd like help with. Tayste (edits) 10:18, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
- I'm much more laissez-faire about COI than I used to be. These days I declare a bunch of COIs and am happy to back off if anyone takes exception; this lets me edit whatever I want :). Stuartyeates (talk) 19:43, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
- Yay. I'll try to help some more when time permits, tho I might focus on institutions I'm not affiliated with first, i.e. outside Auckland. Feel free to ping me on the talk pages of specific ones you'd like help with. Tayste (edits) 10:18, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks User:Tayste. It came out of event funded by the RSNZ and run by USer:Giantflightlessbirds that I helped out on; I had no idea there were this many female profs, and once I knew I was too stubborn to admit defeat. There are several classes of female profs I've missed (including quite a few deceased, retired and emeritus; and I've still not found any at Wānanga). In reality I'll probably not catch them all, but in terms of WP:Systemic bias, I'm not sure absolute completeness is required, just doing a fair whack. I see you've added the AUT ones to my list; I'll get to them eventually, Alison McIntosh was already done and I have Tania Ka'ai currently under construction. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:53, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
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Help request for synonym labeling
@Stuartyeates: We are building a model to be able to do article section alignment across Wikipedia languages. I'm wondering if you can help us with a labeling task that will define the ground truth for a synonym detection algorithm. (Please be aware that clicking on the next two links will take you to a Google spreadsheet) The task and the instructions, in case you'd like to look into it. Also, if you have recommendations on who else can help us for English or some of the other languages, please suggest names in the Usernames sheet. I'd appreciate if you let me know if this is something you can help us with. Thanks either way! :) --LZia (WMF) (talk) 19:34, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hi User:LZia (WMF) I've done a handfull and will do a bunch more later in the day. The link to the task took me to a spreadsheet sheet that I couldn't edit, which was initially confusing... Stuartyeates (talk) 20:09, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, Stuartyeates. I locked en-r1 and gave you access with your gmail account. I think it wouldn't work if you were not logged in with that account. I see that you're on en-r2 now. No problem. I'll lock it once you finish. We want to make sure we don't mix signals from those who help labeling at the label collection level. --LZia (WMF) (talk) 20:30, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- The issue appear to be that i was logged on to a different gmail account when I clicked on the link from wikipedia and this messed up the permissions. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:53, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, Stuartyeates. I locked en-r1 and gave you access with your gmail account. I think it wouldn't work if you were not logged in with that account. I see that you're on en-r2 now. No problem. I'll lock it once you finish. We want to make sure we don't mix signals from those who help labeling at the label collection level. --LZia (WMF) (talk) 20:30, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hi User:LZia (WMF) I've done a handfull and will do a bunch more later in the day. The link to the task took me to a spreadsheet sheet that I couldn't edit, which was initially confusing... Stuartyeates (talk) 20:09, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Stuart - Jennifer Windsor has requested the article about her be deleted. You may wish to take a look as I note that you wrote most of it. I think, on the basis of a fairly superficial examination of Google data, that it should be retained as she appears to be notable in my view. NealeFamily (talk) 05:07, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads-up, User:NealeFamily. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:43, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Is Judy Margaret Parr notable?
Hello, @Stuartyeates: While reviewing new articles, I came across your article on Judy Margaret Parr. As the article stands, it is not clear how she meets the Notability standards for academics (at WP:NACADEMIC). I have not tagged the article yet: I thought I would check with you first. Just being a professor is not enough. Please indicate how she has had a significant influence on her field, and/or what prestigious awards or honours she has received, or how else she is notable (in Wikipedia's special meaning of that word).--Gronk Oz (talk) 13:02, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
- I think she's notable. If you don't, you're welcome to take the article to AFD. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
- Bugger, I was hoping the answer would be that there's more material you haven't got around to incorporating yet. I really hate deleting good articles. There are plenty of rubbish ones that really need deleting. Never mind, I think I will leave it to somebody else to take this one to AfD if they choose... --Gronk Oz (talk) 01:46, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Gronk Oz: before I posted my response, I did add more material :). Full disclosure: I have another at AfD right now Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jennifer Windsor if you're interested in casting a !vote. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:39, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Stuartyeates:
Done --Gronk Oz (talk) 11:42, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Stuartyeates:
- @Gronk Oz: before I posted my response, I did add more material :). Full disclosure: I have another at AfD right now Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jennifer Windsor if you're interested in casting a !vote. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:39, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- Bugger, I was hoping the answer would be that there's more material you haven't got around to incorporating yet. I really hate deleting good articles. There are plenty of rubbish ones that really need deleting. Never mind, I think I will leave it to somebody else to take this one to AfD if they choose... --Gronk Oz (talk) 01:46, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
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I removed your comment here. In your paper that you cited there, you wrote things like "A number of people have criticised Beall for racism" and "Taken together the last three issues would be seem to be easy to characterise as racism, xenophobia or colonialism, depending upon the lens one uses.", each of which is quite different from the declarative statement you made at WT:MED. BLP applies everywhere in WP. It is not ~exactly~ a BLP violation but close enough to make my hair stand up. Please feel free to repost more...carefully. Jytdog (talk) 22:11, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
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I quick follow up on the synonym labeling project. Will you have time to complete it soon? It is important for us to have the whole list made by a unique person. If you don't have time to finish it, that not a big deal. Just tell me so I can find someone to work on that list. :)
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Stuartyeates, WP uses sentence case for headings as per MOS:HEADINGS. After creating nearly 2,500 articles that shouldn't be news to you. I suspect, though, that you are working from a template and that it contains the heading "Selected Works". Could you please adjust that template to use "Selected works"? Similarly for "Private Life". Much appreciated. Schwede66 01:54, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- The other thing that's missing from your template is DEFAULTSORT! Lastly, you place the stub tag in the wrong spot; it belongs into the very last line and there are supposed to be two empty lines between the last category entry and the stub tag. Could you please confirm that you'll fix your template for new articles? Schwede66 02:49, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
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