User talk:Curtaintoad/Archive 2

Talkback

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Pratyya ^(Hello!) 12:23, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikiproject Anti-Vandalism

Hi, Curtaintoad, Welcome to Wikiproject Anti-Vandalism! Thank you for joining to help make a difference. If you need help, check out the Talk page of our Wikiproject, or leave a message on my talk page. Anyway, Welcome! -- Aaqib Talk!| Hola! 18:44, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

--Aaqib Talk!| Hola! 18:44, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Reversed my mind

[1] --Arctic Kangaroo (✉ • ✎) 06:00, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Reverting

Hi, Curtaintoad. You've been doing a great job reverting vandalism lately! I just noticed that one of your reverts (this one) accidentally removed a {{Use British English}} template. No worries, I have put it back, but please be careful! Thanks! --Auntof6 (talk) 07:55, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

rfa

Hi Curtaintoad! You want me to nominate you as admin? I also have a barnstar for you! --Aaqib Hola! 20:38, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		:) Nice work! Aaqib Hola! 20:38, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Aaqib. However, I might nominate myself for admin in a few years or so, once I have a few thousand changes and once I have been in a good mood here. I have only been here for around two months. ~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 22:08, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

OK! Take your time. --Aaqib Hola! 23:28, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Good faith?

I must ask how you consider this edit to Pi good faith. In my opinion, it looked like obvious vandalism. I would just like to hear your reasoning, since you are more experienced than I on this wiki. TCN7JM 07:26, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

It looked like to me the IP did something wrong to the title of the section, but didn't mean to do that. The section on the page was broken. ~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 07:31, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

While I disagree with that, as I don't think any user acting in good faith would type two Fs and then save the page without immediately reverting because they did it on accident, I can see where you're coming from. Thanks. TCN7JM 07:33, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

That's not what we would call a "good faith" edit, CT. A good faith edit is one that the editor thought was a good change to the article. This one was either vandalism or a mistake. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:02, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Smile

Hello Curtaintoad, Aaqib has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

For my last day on Wikipedia, sorry for the disruption --Aaqib  13:41, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Rollback is only for vandalism

See topic. -Bill — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.144.156.141 (talk • contribs) :... ~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 10:27, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

I apologize if I made a mistake. ~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 10:28, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

User Muling Buksan Ang Puso TV

I saw your warning to this user. What is this the name of? --Auntof6 (talk) 10:16, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Auntof6. At first I thought it was a TV company. But I just looked it up and I think it is a series. Is it still a violation though? --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 10:24, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure, but I don't think it would be considered promotional like the name of a company would. By the way, you don't need to leave me talkback. Most people here don't usually do that. When I leave a specific message for an editor, I watch their talk page so I can see when they answer. That yellow banner we get when we have a new message can be annoying when you're in the middle of some intensive editing, and I check the pages I'm watching periodically. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:31, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Looks good. Thanks. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 10:34, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Question

I'm curious: is there a particular reason you've been asking different people about becoming admins here? When I became an admin, I didn't think we really needed more, but am I missing something? --Auntof6 (talk) 11:03, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

I thought that people were allowed to ask other people to become admins here. But I should ask before making an RfA (if the answer is yes). If yes, then I should continue. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 06:47, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Yes, you're certainly allowed! It just seemed like you had been asking quite a few people, and I just wondered about it. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:49, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Ah. Thanks anyway. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 06:50, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

So, if you want, you could still satisfy my curiosity and tell me why. However, you certainly don't have to tell me, I was just curious. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:57, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Relay

Hi Curtaintoad! You probably noticed, but just letting you know that I had to move the history of Relays to the place where you pasted the content (Relay). Just so that we know who wrote it. Regards, Osiris (talk) 11:01, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi Osiris. Thank you for the move. ~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 11:03, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #69

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

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on defining CheckUsers.
  • Request for comment on class ⇄ instance relationship in Wikidata
  • The d:Wikidata:Global Economic Map task force is starting its property list. Please go there to propose important properties about economics for countries, regions or companies.
• Events/Press
  • Next office hour on August 26
  • COSCUP this weekend, Taipei (August 3-4, 2013)
  • Wikimania is nearly here!, Hong Kong (August 7-11, 2013)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The list of interwiki links has been updated with more infomation and now also includes wikivoyage!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: removed feature, introduced feature, Parent company
  • Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
• Development
  • Custom edit-summaries added for the majority of API modules
  • Started working on implementation for ordering qualifiers in the JavaScript user interface
  • ChangeOps for wbsetclaimvalue, wbcreateclaim, wbremoveclaims and refactoring of wbremoveclaim
  • Fix handling of '0' value in API response
  • Solved bugs related to copyright notice
  • Some minor UI speed improvements
  • EditEntity refactored
  • Test cases improved
  • Further work on URLs
  • Work on implementing QueryEntity
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Notable numbers

I noticed your comment at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2013/2003 FYI, it isn't the shortest numbers that get articles, it's the ones that have something interesting about them. The length of the number isn't relevant. --Auntof6 (talk) 01:52, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

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Pratyya ^(Hello!) 13:59, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Report me to the admins!

Could you report me to the admins please?--94.197.217.89 (talk) 07:08, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Only if you vandalize once more, you will be reported and blocked. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 07:10, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #70

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

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on Property proposal organisation reform to a more Model
  • Request for comment on VCards for Wikivoyage
  • Requests for bot approval has many requests that need further discussion!
  • Many property proposals still need input!
• Events/Press
  • Wikimania continues! If you are around make sure you come and say Hi!
  • Wikidata meetup in the chapters village on Saturday at 1 PM at Wikimania.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Following numerous discussions we are happy to present the new version of the proposal that would lead to Wikidata supporting structured data for the Wiktionaries.
  • There are now only an estimated 1,000,000 articles remaining with inter language links, down from the previous 26,000,000!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: LAU (local administrative unit), Sikart (identifier in SIKART), symptoms (the possible symptoms of a medical condition)
  • Frequently used for cities and other places, P17 ("country") indicates the sovereign state an item relates to. There now at least 100 items for most present day sovereign states. Leading is China (Q148) with 607,817 items, followed by Iran (!794) with 105,875 items and the United States of America (Q30) with 99,243 items. China rose from just 5266 items a month ago.
• Development
  • Changeops implemented for all Api modules
  • All Api modules now have better auto comments and custom summaries
  • Work on claim ordering started
  • Work on refactoring Api Tests
  • Bug Fixes!!
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Nelson Mandela GA

Hey. I've been working hard into making Nelson Mandela into a good article. Can you please read the article and then write your suggestions in the article's talk page. Thanks. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 04:14, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Sure. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 17:57, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #71

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • COSCUP (Wikidata intro slides)
  • Wikimania (State of Wikidata presentation, Tech behind Wikidata presentation, Wiktionary discussion)
  • Wikidata babel multi-language easter egg
  • The Occitan Wikipedia and Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
  • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
  • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
  • Newest task forces: Physics task force
  • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
• Development
  • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
  • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
  • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
  • Started improving API and Special Page tests
  • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
  • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
  • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
  • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
  • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
• Open Tasks for You
  • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
  • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #72

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion started about improving the RfC process
  • d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources has been closed
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Report from Wikimania
  • Wikidata meets Incubator
  • Office hour on 26th
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Average edits per page is nearly 5 now.
  • Wikivoyage is still scheduled to get access to data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on August 26.
  • Developers are working hard to also make the URL datatype available by August 26 but there are factors that are not in their hands so it might have to be delayed until the next deployment in 2 weeks. URL as a datatype will soon be available on test.wikidata.org. Please give it some thorough testing and report bugs.
  • Outsch! (Help collect and fix paper cuts.)
• Did you know?
  • 20 undescribed monsters
  • Newest properties: separated from (P807), code Bien de Interés Cultural (P808), WPDA id (P809), academic minor (P811), academic major (P812), date retrieved (P813), IUCN protected areas category (P814), ITIS TSN (P815), decays to (P816), decay mode (P817)
• Development
  • Prepared deployment of phase 2 on Wikivoyage
  • Worked on ability to sort qualifiers and references inside a statement
  • Started work on an api module to merge items
  • Worked on special page to query for items with one specific property and value
  • Cleaned up code for handling recent change entries from Wikidata in the clients (Wikipedia/Wikivoyage)
  • Worked on generic script for populating sites table and better integration with WMF process for creating new wikis
  • Setup new git repo for WikibaseMobile skin and extension
  • Fixed SetClaim api module to properly mark bot edits in recent changes and advised pywikipedia maintainers about adding support for the module. SetClaim can be used to create claims with references in a single edit.
  • Reviewed code for Google Summer of Code students
  • Updated doxygen documentation
• Open Tasks for You
  • Report a paper cut (see above).
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Hack on one of these.

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Your edit to User talk:Osiris

About this edit: I'm not going to speak for Osiris, but if you ever see something like that on my talk page, I would prefer you not reply unless you have something to contribute to the subject being discussed. We don't need to police each other's talk pages. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:38, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I will not do that anymore. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 08:40, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

I have undone your change to WP:Vandalism in progress

The only objection I see with that user is that the user name is the name of an orgranization. That may violate our policies, but it is not vandalism. WP:Vandalism in progress is for vandalism only. Please report other kinds of things at WP:AN. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:42, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Okay. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 08:43, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

For what it's worth, they were (and still are) adding spam to their talk page in spambot fashion, which is fine for WP:VIP. Also, why was rollback used here? --Rschen7754 09:47, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, the rollback was my mistake. I was trying to click undo, but hit rollback instead. Curtaintoad's edits were not vandalism. As for the other user's edits, the only warning I saw from Curtaintoad was about the user name. There was nothing about other edits. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:56, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #73

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

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on Geo Coordinates for people
  • Request for comment on reuse of data from DBpedia
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map (September 6-8, 2013)
  • Recent office hour logs now availible.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Abraham, Denny and Lydia sat down for an evening trying to capture what Wikidata is about in a video.
  • Deployment! Wikivoyage now has access to the wikidata dataset and various other bugs have also been fixed (including the copyright warning)!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: interchange station (P833), public holiday (P832), parent club (P831), Encyclopedia of Life (P830), OEIS ID (P829), possible causes (P828), BBC programme identifier (P827), tonality (P826), dedicated to (P825), Meteoritical Bulletin Database ID (P824)
  • Newest task forces: Wikidata:País Valencià task force
• Development
  • Work on allowing API module editentities to edit claims
  • Work on entity / item redirects
  • Work on support for moving qualifiers in API and Frontend
  • Adding coordinates to diff display and improving diff display code
  • Allowing site groups for language links on clients to be configurable (needed for commons)
  • EntityId changes, we are now working on 0.5!
  • Show snaktype in summary for novalue and somevalue snaks
  • Further work on merge module for the API
  • Wrote missing tests for various jQuery widgets
  • Work on value formatters
  • Continue on moving tests to cucumber
  • Bug fixes for coordinates following the latest deployment
• Open Tasks for You
  • Report a paper cut (see above).
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 28 August 2013

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

• News and notes: Looking ahead to Wiki Loves Monuments
• In the media: Chelsea Manning, Box-office predictors, and 'Storming Wikipedia'
• Traffic report: Reddit creep
• WikiProject report: Loop-the-loop: Amusement Parks
• Featured content: WikiCup update, and the gardens of Finland
• Technology report: Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia
• Recent research: WikiSym 2013 retrospective

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Your recent revert activity

Could you explain these reverts that you did:

• George Michael
• Boy George
• Rupert Everett

The edits you reverted don't look like problem edits to me. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:48, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

I reverted those changes because another one of the IP's contributions had vandalism on it as well as a warning from a rollbacker on the IP's talk page, so I thought that the contributions I reverted are possibly the same style. Also, when I looked through the difference between the two contributions on the on all of the three articles that I looked at from the IP, it was something related to categories and I noticed that the words of some categories were lowercase letters and thought it would affect the article and looked like vandalism.

BTW (please note), I used to contribute to WMF sites with Internet Explorer 9/10, now I am contributing with Google Chrome because there are problems with IE9/10; however GC is going much slower then what IE9/10 does, so I will probably be inactive for most of the time for now as well as issues with some of the buttons. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 06:53, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Use of warning templates

Please refer to en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_user_warnings/Usage_and_layout#Levels. Level4im warnings are designed to be the only warning for vandals. Please refrain from using level 4im warnings unless absolutely necessary. Chenzw  Talk  10:25, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 September 2013

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

• In the media: Manning "put back in the closet"; State involvement in the Azerbaijani Wikipedia
• News and notes: Privacy policy debate gears up
• WikiProject report: Writing on the frontier: Psychology on Wikipedia
• Traffic report: No accounting for the wisdom of crowds
• Discussion report: Arbcom election procedures, Wiki Loves Monuments, Privacy policy, FDC, and more
• Featured content: Bridging the way to a Peasants' Revolt
• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case opens; Tea Party case closes ; Infoboxes nears completion
• Technology report: Making Wikipedia more accessible

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Wikidata weekly summary #74

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

• Discussions
  • Saskia has finished her analysis of the different Wiktionary proposals and projects
  • Oversight nomination for Ajraddatz
  • Request for input by ontology experts
  • Help Sven compile a list of major accomplishments of Wikidata to date
  • RfC about the Guidelines for the RfC process
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map
  • Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
  • 10 questions about VIAF, Wikidata and the world
  • Wikidata quality and quantity
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Potentially useful Coursera course about metadata and information started
  • URL datatype needs more testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GSS code (2011) (P836), BioLib ID (P838), IMSLP ID (P839), narrative set in (P840), Paleobiology Database Identifier (P842), SIRUTA code (P843), UBIGEO code (P844). A set of properties to build calenders: public holiday (P832), day in year for periodic occurrence (P837) and feast day (P841). A proposal for "reoccurring date in machine readable format" is still under review.
• Development
  • mlazowik has put in more work to getting support for batches (featured article and so on) to Wikidata
  • Jeroen gave a presentation on clean functions
  • More work on the URL datatype to make it ready for deployment
  • Continuous work on cucumber & moving browser tests to saucelabs/cloudbees
  • Simple query special page
  • DataValues reorganization
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Your recent comment

Hi Curtaintoad. Regarding your comment on the request for rollback page, it says that if you have rollback rights on other projects, you don't need the requirements here, which I have on en.wiki and Commons. I'll also may be a frequent vandal patroller here. So I will need rollback. Jianhui67 (talk) 13:02, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 September 2013

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

• News and notes: As deadline approaches, Individual Engagement Grants looks for ideas
• In the media: Lawyer goes to court to discover Wikipedian's identity; Storming Wikipedia; Wikimedia UK Secretary in conflict-of-interest controversy; Does Wikipedia need a "right to reply" box?
• WikiProject report: Traveling to Indonesia
• Traffic report: Syria, celebrities, and association football: oh my!

• Featured content: Tintin goes featured
• Arbitration report: Workshop phase opens in Manning naming dispute ; Infoboxes case closes

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Wikidata weekly summary #75

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map
  • Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
  • Slides for a Wikidata intro in French and English
  • Speaker needed for a Wikidata talk in Slovakia
  • Blog post by Denny: A categorical imperative?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The URL datatype is now available. Go and add all the sources ;-)
  • Sourcerer gadget by Magnus to help you add URLs from Wikipedia articles for claims
  • Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on 23rd of September
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
  • Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
• Development
  • Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
  • Started work on number data type
  • Worked on simple query special page
  • Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
  • Worked on JSON dumps
  • Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
  • Continued work on the merge items API module
  • Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
  • Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
  • Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
  • Continued moving to new browsertests framework
  • Bugfixes on autosummaries
  • Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
  • Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 18 September 2013

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

• News and notes: Third time's the charm: the FDC's newest round of funding requests
• Traffic report: Twerking, tragedy and TV
• WikiProject report: 18,464 Good Articles on the wall
• Featured content: Hurricane Diane and the Van Gogh
• Technology report: What can Wikidata do for Wikipedia?

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Wikidata weekly summary #76

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
  • Magnus blogged about the Wikidata Query tool
  • Gerard did an interview with Emw about the heady stuff of Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • 30 percent of all items are categorized in 6 large groups (main type (GND) (P107)). Most are items about geographic features (1.7 million items), some of these already have coordinates (0.5 million). Items about persons are fairly frequent too (1.3 million), many already with gender (0.9 million), a few with DOB (0.05 million) or DOD (0.04 million). Other groups include: creative works (305,000), terms, organizations, and events.
  • The first 2 Wikidata oversighters are elected, Ajraddatz and Rschen7754. Please contact the email at the above page, and do not post requests onwiki. Two more candidates are running: Stryn and Sven Manguard.
  • Neat new gadget to semi-automatically import labels, aliases and descriptions based on Wikipedia article introductions
  • New search backend on testwikidata needs testing
  • Commons is still scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on Monday and can also be tested on test.wikidata.org
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GSRR rating, filming location, USK rating, notation, facility, South African municipality code, topic's main category, Nova Scotia Register of Historic Places identifier, PEGI rating, AMG Game ID, Libris, PORT identifier
• Development
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a software developer with a focus on frontend development with Java Script to work on Wikidata among other things. Apply!
  • Paper Cut: Display the ID of an item or property page next to the label (bugzilla:53462)
  • Paper Cut: Fix value field not loading for some properties (bugzilla:53157)
  • Paper Cut: Work on supporting non-earth globes in the UI (bugzilla:54097)
  • Worked on quantity data type implementation in backend and frontend
  • Work on a build and release tool for the Wikidata software
  • More work on sorting of references and qualifiers
  • Work on database schema modification functionality to be used by the query store
  • Prepare deployment for Wikimedia Commons (including improving script for populating sites table, adding support for Wikimedia Commons)
  • Work on making entity data available in the Mobile Wikibase skin
  • new Cirrus Search (Elastic Search) backend enabled on test.wikidata.org
  • Finished up cucumber tests for sitelinks
  • Hotfixes for coordinates autosummaries
  • Worked on simplifying process of defining wb.fetchedEntities
  • Finished working on wbeditentity
  • Worked on MySQL and SQLite table definition readers
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 25 September 2013

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

• Op-ed: Q&A on Public Relations and Wikipedia
• News and notes: Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor
• Traffic report: Look on Walter's works
• In the media: Fox News: Wikipedia abandons efforts to purge porn from online encyclopedia
• WikiProject report: Babel Series: GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!
• Featured content: Wikipedia takes the stage
• Recent research: Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia?

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Wikidata weekly summary #77

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
  • What can Wikidata, the collaboratively edited knowledge base, do for Wikipedia?
  • “Allow me to reintroduce myself,” say those in Wikidata and VIAF
  • Importing data from the Polish Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Denny's last day on the development team was today. He has a few closing remarks in this blog post.
  • Wikimedia Commons now gets language links via Wikidata
  • Stryn's request for oversight flag
  • Individual Engagement Grants Proposal: Understanding Wikidata
  • Terminator now also has most linked-to items with no label in language X
  • Draft for Wikidata support of Wikiquote
  • Open position for a JavaScript developer to work on Wikidata - please spread the word
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: KSH code, FishBase species identifier, work location, Commons gallery, heritagefoundation.ca ID, PMCID, city served, type of electrification, color space, activating neurotransmitter, anatomical location, postsynaptic connection, presynaptic connection, possible treatments, possible examinations, magnetic ordering, main topic of creative work, Spanish subject headings for public libraries, SOC Occupation Code, NOC Occupation Code, GRAU index
• Development
  • Said Good Bye to Denny - *sob*
  • Improved layout for commons sitelink table
  • More work on sorting
  • Worked on statements UI tests
  • Fixed failing QUnit tests
  • Deployed new code and updated sites for Commons deployment
  • Fixed a number of small bugs
  • Code review for Google Summer of Code student projects
  • Work to automate creating deployment branches and builds of Wikibase with its dependencies
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Talkback

Hello, Curtaintoad. You have new messages at 78.26's talk page.
Message added 17:45, 3 October 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

78.26 (talk) 17:45, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #78

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

• Discussions
  • 3 Individual Engagement Grants related to Wikidata are looking for feedback and endorsements: Understanding Wikidata, Wikidata Toolkit and Wikintelligence
  • Request for Comments on linking Wikimedia Commons
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • UK Wikidata training
  • Pushing Wikidata to the Next Level
  • Hello, Good-bye at Wikidata
  • Google Summer of Code 2013 - Let's Mobilize Wikidata! - A Summary
  • Wikidata Query updates
  • Blog: Wikidata qualifiers
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Tempo-spatial display (events in Wikidata on a map)
  • Canned queries (for queries that help find missing information)
  • Wikidata Browse (pretty slideshow of random Wikidata items, their pictures, labels in various languages and statements)
  • Wikidata generic tree (displays a tree of data in Wikidata)
  • We've crossed ID 15000000: d:Q15000000 (Category:Sternorsidis)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Code of nomenclature, programmer, theme music, inspired by, GHS precautionary statements
• Development
  • Finished initial version of the build tool (= tool that creates one tarball/git repository from all our extensions and their dependencies for deployment)
  • Continued work on numbers data type
  • Continued work on Formatters (for autosummaries, diffs, etc)
  • Fixed RDF serialization issue
  • Merged merge API module
  • Finished up database schema updating code
  • Added validation for precision in globe coordinate value
  • Finished and released Diff extension version 0.9
  • Polishing work on Wikibase QueryEngine
  • Some cleanup of EntityView
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Hack on one of these.
• Note from Lydia about the future of the weekly summaries
  • I've been compiling the weekly summaries for Wikidata for the past 1.5 years. It is time to give this into the hands of a few capable community members now that I have moved on to product management. Starting next week I will not be compiling the weekly summaries anymore. I am happy to help anyone who wants to take over get up to speed of course. Please contact me if you'd like to take this over.

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The Signpost: 02 October 2013

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

• News and notes: WMF signals new grantmaking priorities
• Op-ed: Commons medical diagnostic images under threat from unresolved ownership
• Discussion report: References to individuals and groups, merging wikiprojects, portals on the Main page, and more
• WikiProject report: U2 Too
• Featured content: Bobby, Ben, Roger and a fantasia
• Arbitration report: Infoboxes: After the war

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Possible sock puppets and only warnings

I see your report at WP:VIP about User:Southern Wear 604, and I see that you left a final warning on that user's talk page. I don't see the issues were, and I don't see what deserved a final warning without any previous warnings. If it was because of your suspicions that that user is a sock puppet, please explain why you think it is a sock. The page DWTL-TV started out as a bit of a mess, but that looks like formatting issues, not vandalism, and it was cleaned up. As far as I know, only people with certain rights have the tools to determine whether a user is a sock puppet. Even garden-variety admins don't have those tools. Please explain, because I am not willing to take any action without understanding the issues here. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:11, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Other sock puppets of Christian2941 edited the page List of television stations in the Philippines (see history), and the edits were reverted and removed too. These edits were reverted because the other edits of sock puppet Christian2941 were reverted and removed, plus these socks have similar usernames and have been editing some of the same pages to before. There was another sock puppet which created their account a couple of weeks ago, Sanyo2038, which was blocked, and edits reverted from me. You may have not been here at the time or saw what happened. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 09:31, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 October 2013

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

• News and notes: Extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed
• Traffic report: Shutdown shenanigans
• In the media: College credit for editing Wikipedia
• WikiProject report: Australian Roads
• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute and Ebionites 3 cases continue; third arbitrator resigns
• Featured content: Under the sea

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Request for uploading a Logo

Please upload al Logo for me, can you? Please, I'm sure you can.

The article is WikiMANNia and the logo is here: http://wikimannia.org/skins/common/images/wiki.png

Thank you! --77.0.184.118 (talk) 09:35, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

 Not done: sorry. I searched it up on Wikimedia Commons just then but no notable results were found. Also, I'm not sure how to paste the above link (image) onto the page. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 09:42, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

This file (http://wikimannia.org/skins/common/images/wiki.png) is to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons! "To be uploaded", not "to be searched!

"wikimannia.org/skins/common" is NOT "Wikimedia Commons". "wikimannia" n.e. "wikimedia". --77.0.184.118 (talk) 21:22, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #79

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over how Property metadata should be stored within Wikidata
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata sends goodies to Google Summer of Code 2013 volunteers
  • A Wikidata interview with Lydia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Statistics about sourcing on Wikidata
  • Help the development team prioritise!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Wikivoyage banner, RSL identifier, ISIN
• Development
  • Added index removal and addition support to Wikibase Database
  • Improved initialization code of Wikibase Query
  • Added database setup code to Wikibase Query
  • Added schema updating support to Wikibase QueryEngine
  • Added SimpleQuery special page to Wikibase Query. This page allows users to find entities by a property value pair
  • Formatters for snaks/values are now used throughtout Wikibase
  • Some progress on DecimalValues and QuantitiyValues
  • Started work to include the data type of snaks in the JSON dumps
  • Worked on cleaning up inconsistent handling of Claim GUIDs vs hashes.
  • Implemented more convenient user interface for Special:SimpleQuery.
  • MergeAPI module and claim editing from wbeditentity to be deployed
  • Further work on a build step to make deployment easier
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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QD reasons

Hi Curtaintoad. When you tag something for quick deletion, please make sure that you use a criterion from WP:QD. If the reason you use is not on there, then it probably can't be deleted under that reason. If it helps, try sticking to the list used by Twinkle. Osiris (talk) 10:40, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #80

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over the implementation of 'showcase items'
  • Requests for comment over restructuring user rights
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Lydia gives a talk at Latinoware about Wikidata
  • Talk at UCBerkeley about Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: street address, e-mail, guest of honor, MusicBrainz label ID, burial plot reference, Austrian municipality key, streaming media URL, MycoBank taxon name identifier, IPNI taxon name identifier, Tropicos taxon name identifier, MSW species identifier, section, verse, or paragraph, ISBN-10, IBNR identifier, full text available at, ISCO code, NSZL identifier, BNE identifier, NLI (Israel) identifier
  • Newest task forces: International relations task force
• Development
  • Further development on WikibaseDatabase
  • IE8 is working again
  • JSON socumentation created and merged
  • Lots of work carried out on the quantity datavalues
  • Papercut: mouseover input suggestions messes up input. Fixes bug 44896
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 16 October 2013

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

• News and notes: Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin
• WikiProject report: Heraldry and Vexillology
• Traffic report: Peaceful potpourri
• Discussion report: Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more
• Featured content: That's a lot of pictures
• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case closes

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Hey

TDKR Chicago 101 has given you some cookies! Now enjoy them!

WOW, thank you very much!! Just logged in and now you have made me cheer up! =p nomnomnomnomnomnom --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 23:24, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Your qd requests

On several of your qd requests, you have put the word "unclean" in the comments. What do you mean by that? --Auntof6 (talk) 09:41, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

When I see sentences that do not leave spaces after their comments, commas, full stops, etc. I may also add the word when I nominate an article for fast deletion if there are broken templates, links, and such. I have done this on other WMF projects too. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 09:46, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

That does not make an article "unclean". Unclean articles are not eligible for quick deletion, anyway. Please see the deletion policy. Chenzw  Talk  09:51, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

You should change your "welcome" to equate with what you do

Can't say I feel "welcome". 141.218.36.59 (talk) 05:05, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Please see WP:TP: you used your talk page incorrectly. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 05:12, 24 October 2013 (UTC)