Aaqib

Nelson Mandela

Hey Aaqib! I'm glad you're out of retirement. I fixed Nelson Mandela article. I'm just waiting until Mandela dies (not to be mean). Is there any more suggestions about making Mandela into a good article. I trust your judgment. Thanks. Oh and welcome back! --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 20:29, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks TDKR! I am glad that I am out of retirement, too. I am looking forward to help out SEW. Oh, do not worry , you're not being mean at all to Mandela. Everyone's going to die. And here is my suggestion, just lay back and rest, once Mandela dies. You can work on the article. --Aaqib 20:32, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Oh once again welcome back. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 20:46, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

. --Aaqib 20:46, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Wow...welcome back. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 01:41, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Even though I am under a ban discussion, I will still make positive contributions by reverting pure vandalism and work on the whole purpose of why this wiki was made for, articles!! - so happy to be back. --Aaqib 01:43, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Welcome back to Wikipedia! I hope you make good contributions while you're here again. Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 17:01, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Obviously, I'll make positive contributions! --Aaqib 17:05, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Creating maintenance categories

Hey, remember when I explained here and here about using templates when you create maintenance categories? Category:Articles that need to be wikified from July 2013 is another one of those categories. Osiris has fixed this one, but please remember this if you create more of this kind of category. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:29, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Ya, sorry, I was going to fix it later by finding the template used for those categories. --Aaqib 00:09, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Category:Generals of Sri Lanka

You created this category with only one entry. We need three entries for a new category. Do you have two other Sri Lankan generals to add here? --Auntof6 (talk) 22:35, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

 Done I have added two generals to the category. --Aaqib 00:09, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! --Auntof6 (talk) 00:24, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

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Attribution for articles from En

I noticed that you created Maitree Wickramasinghe by copying the opening paragraph from EnWP and making very small changes. When copying from En, make sure you give attribution, please. Thanks, Gotanda (talk) 22:06, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

And you need to add references for your BLPs. Osiris (talk) 01:38, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Category:Sri Lankan academics

Some notes about this category that you created:

• I removed the scientists category you put it in and added Category:Academics. Academics aren't necessarily scientists.
• I removed Category:Underpopulated categories. That category is not added directly to articles. It is added by putting the {{popcat}} template on the category. I added that template.
• There are only two entries in this category. As I mentioned above, we want at least three entries in every new category. Please do not create this kind of category until there are three or more entries to go into it.

These are just reminders. I know you're still learning. Thanks! --Auntof6 (talk) 03:41, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

New articles

Hello Aaqib. You seem to be focusing on content work now, which is good. But I have a few concerns:

• You obviously use content from the English Wikipedia. That's fine, but you need to properly follow the steps in Wikipedia:How to copy from another Wikipedia. The second-last point talks about attribution. It's not entirely your work, so for Wikipedia you need to state where you got it from. I've done an example for you in two ways (you only need to do one) on Mahinda V - here and here. If you're still unsure, ask me.
• In most cases, it looks like even though you're copying from the English Wikipedia version, you remove the references. And then after you're finished, you tag the article with {{no sources}}. Why do you do that? Every time you tag something, it adds the page to our maintenance lists which means that, eventually, somebody else has to come along and fix the problem. But it's a problem that you've taken a little bit of extra effort to create. So essentially, in tagging the pages, you're identifying a problem that you created yourself and that you have the ability not only to fix yourself but to not create in the first place.
• A few minor style issues: Only the subject of the page as it is written in English should be in boldface; don't bold dates or transliterations. Unless there is a compelling reason for it, honorifics and titles (like "King", "Sir", etc) should not be part of the name of the article and should not be bolded in the opening sentence either.

If you have any questions about any of this please ask. Osiris (talk) 03:28, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Have you read what I've written, Aaqib? It's okay if you don't understand it, just please let me know. Osiris (talk) 03:34, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

WP:VIP : 209.189.130.17

I have seen you reported 209.189.130.17 to Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress. An admin said that he was insufficiently warned and he was right. How come you didn't put any warning and his user page? Remember, you can't report to WP:VIP without warning. Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 05:38, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

 Disagree No, did you see his talk page? He was warned by other users. I bet he took a break and started doing his nonsense again. --Aaqib 16:57, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Yes, Aaqib in 2011 we are now in 2013 he should be warned with 4im or the 4th warning. You can't just report him. Let's see what the talk page stalkers say. Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 19:18, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

The 4im warning shouldn't have been used either. The user hasn't done anything in two years, a 1st or 2nd warning would have been enough. TCN7JM 04:45, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, like TCN7JM said. I invited Chenzw to the discussion so we can have an admins opinion. Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 04:49, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Category:Government Ministers

As I mentioned above, we need at least three entries in each new category. This category, which you created, has only one. Do you have more entries you plan to put in it? Please do not create any new categories unless you put three entries in them. You have been told this before. --Auntof6 (talk) 02:23, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

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Request reason:

Please guys, I really have learned my lesson. I learned not to question an administrator, I should not be mean or annoying. I should work on articles and really revert vandalism. I have learned that I should just stick with writing articles. Please, I swear that I will not be disruptive. Cheers, Aaqib 17:53, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Decline reason:

You have been banned by the community, and you may not appeal it until 11 July 2014. There was clear consensus for the ban, so take this year to address the concerns brought up in the discussion. -Mh7kJ (talk) 17:56, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #66

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

• Discussions
  • A request for comment on defining administrator activity
  • A request for comment on image properties
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A personal note and secret from Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)
  • Denny's map gets an upgrade, take a look at the amazing visualisations!
  • Browser search plugins for wikidata have beeen created.
  • Byrial's database reports have been updated from the 2013-07-10 dump! These can be seen here.
• Development
  • Support for badges in the process of being added to the DataModel.
  • Created further UI mockups for Wikidata Mobile.
  • Front end performance improvements in a few areas (including multiple edits on pages).
  • The bug in wbeditentity where aliases were removed has been fixed.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: eMedicine (P673), a list of (P674), Google Books identifier (P675), lyrics by (P676), ÚSOP code (P677), incertae sedis (P678), ZVG number (P679), molecular function (P680), cell component (P681), biological process (P682), ChEBI ID (P683), ortholog (P684), NCBI Taxonomy ID (P685), Gene Ontology ID (P686)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #67

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

• Discussions
  • A request for comment for exclusion criteria in wikipedia namespace.
  • Images for the Main Page proposed and discussed on project chat.
  • Discussion on Wikivoyage notability and changes to WD:N.
  • Request for comment on sockpuppetry guidelines closes.
• Events/Press
  • Watson has received the Feigenbaum Prize which has been donated to Wikimedia and Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Kemler ID (P700), Disease Ontology ID (P699), Pubmed ID (PMID) (P698) , Ex taxon author(s) (P697)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in China, is created.
  • 239 Million language links removed from the Wikipedias, almost 5GB of text. (2012 vs 2013).
  • Saskia joins the Wikidata team to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata.
  • Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, see the coordination page here.
• Development
  • Wmf11 has been deployed to test.wikidata.org!
  • Wikidata is moving from a Squid to a Varnish cache system!
  • Search ranking has been improved ready for the next deployment where Wikivoyage support will also be added.
  • Optional title normalization added to 'wbgetentities'
  • Fixed broken XML result for wbeditentity.
  • Fixed broken link to anchor in sitelinks section.
  • Templates no longer parsed in labels.
  • Technical documentation improved for Ask and WikibaseQueryEngine.
  • Work started on EntitiesByPropertyValue API module.
  • Work on ChangeOps and API module edit summaries.
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #68

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

• Discussions
  • New UI Mockup suggested for Wikidata Mobile. Please give feedback.
• Events/Press
  • Next office hour on August 26
  • upcoming: COSCUP
  • upcoming: Wikimania (including hackathon)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata learns to travel - language link support for Wikivoyage has been enabled and it was concluded that Wikivoyagers are pretty awesome
  • There is now a gadget you can use to see a map of a geocoordinate on Wikidata
  • Picture of the week could use some more input
  • Top 20 items on Wikidata that are covered in a lot of Wikipedias? Here you go.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Dodis (P701), encoded by (P702), found in taxon (P703), Ensembl Transcript ID (P704), Ensembl Protein ID (P705), located on terrain feature (P706), Satellite bus (P707), diocese (P708), Historic Scotland ID (P709), participant (P710), Strunz 8 (P711), Strunz 9 (P712), Strunz 10 (P713), Dana 8th edition (P714), Drugbank ID (P715), JPL Small-Body Database identifier (P716), Minor Planet Center observatory code (P717), Canmore ID (P718), Notable Incident (P719)
  • Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
• Development
  • When a page is moved on Wikipedia or Wikivoyage the link on Wikidata is now updated (bugzilla:36729)
  • Ranking of the search results has been improved
  • Worked on URL data type
  • Added coveralls.io support for most of our components (test coverage)
  • Fixed some minor bugs related to site-links editing
  • Fixed bugzilla:52023, where multiple anon warning bubbles are displayed at once
  • Worked on SpamBlacklist to filter URL values in Wikibase
  • Improved handling of corrupt data from the database
  • Made tests more reliable
  • Made regular undo via the API work with Wikibase
  • Worked on Time value formatter
  • Error handling for ByPropertyValue API module
  • 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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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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Hi

Hi Aaqib,

I recently saw the thread (it's been one month already) and would like to wish you a [belated] good luck and when you come back in one year, demonstrate maturity and competence and then continue good faith constructive changes. Best. WorldTraveller101  ?  19:51, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Category:Government Ministers

An editor has requested deletion of Category:Government Ministers, an article you created. We appreciate your changes, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Please comment on the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2013/Category:Government Ministers and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also change the article during the discussion to address the nominator's concerns. But you should not remove the requests for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you very much. Auntof6 (talk) 04:58, 7 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wikidata weekly summary #81

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over whether to split three properties into six more specific ones
  • Closed: Exclusion criteria for Wikipedia: namespace items
  • Closed:Place of property documentation
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Gerard wrote about Wikipedia's place as a source within Wikidata
  • Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) will be held next week, Monday to Wednesday, in Berlin.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Echo has been enabled on Wikidata
  • Magnus created some queries for Wikidata
  • Wikidata is 1 year on October 29th! Stay tuned for some 'surprises'
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Philippine Standard Geographic Code, IOC country code, MusicBrainz area ID, BAG-code for Dutch villages, code for weekend and holiday homes (Sweden), Pastoratkod (Sweden), code for parishes in the Church of Sweden, Civil parish code/ATA-code in Sweden, Minor urban area code in Sweden, Urban area code in Sweden, tributary, described in URL, catalogue, category combines topics, neurological function
• Development
  • Lazowik worked on API support for editing badges
  • Bene added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to the item it is connected to on Wikidata (bugzilla:46538)
  • Bene worked on a table of content for items (bugzilla:44876)
  • Bene improved Special:ItemDisambiguation (bugzilla:55466)
  • Bene added ftp as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (bugzilla:54103)
  • Linked sitelinks in diffs (bugzilla:53471)
  • Cleaned up and added tests in client that are necessary for improving the recent changes integration and for supporting enhanced changes
  • Worked on the user interface for simple queries
  • Worked on the user interface for the numbers datatype
  • Continued work on ordering statement groups in the user interface
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #82

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata celebrates its first birthday!
  • Wikidata presentation at the Open Knowledge Workshop Day on November 4th by Wikimedia Suomi
  • Interview with Magnus, a Wikimedia tool creator
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • record held, the one-thousandth property, is created.
  • Wikidata could be a multilingual picture dictionary
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Lattes Platform number, NTA PPN identifier, PTBNP identifier, MusicBrainz Place ID, NLR (Romania) identifier, engine configuration, belongs to jurisdiction, record held, ARICNS, dmoz, scan file, NFPA Reactivity, NFPA Fire, NFPA Health, function/mission, elected holder, voice recording, spoken text audio
  • Newest task forces: Railways task force
• Development
  • Create and remove claim diffs will now show a diff for the WHOLE claim, bug 53142
  • Sitelinks in diffs now have a link to the article
  • ByPropertyLists now also accept lower case propertyids as keys instead of just uppercase
  • WikibaseDatabase extension released to version 0.1
  • Entity descriptions are now included in the search index text
  • Sitelink titles are also included in search index text
  • Further developments on Quantities
  • Fixed the hiding of the remove button when adding a new statement
  • Serialization options have been cleaned up
  • Escape titles on revision history and diff pages
  • Further work on Query and QueryEngine
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #83

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

• Discussions
  • Closed: Restructure of minor user rights
  • Lua enhancements discussion
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata IRC Office hour on Wednesday November 13th in #wikimedia-office
  • On November 10th, Gerard Meijssen will discuss Wikidata at the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
  • Lydia makes a guest appearance at the Metric and activities meeting to discuss Wikidata's growth
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource deployment planned to start January 13th, 2014, see the coordination page here
  • Magnus discusses Wikidata items and Wikipedia entries
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: BIBSYS identifier, Arts & Architecture Thesaurus ID, criterion used, including, excluding
  • Newest task forces: Athletics task force
  • You can now thank users for their contributions on Wikidata
• Development
  • Sitelinks in diff views now link to the article
  • Bene* worked on adding a table of contents to item pages (bugzilla:44876)
  • More work on badges by mlazowik
  • Creating and removing claims with references and qualifiers now show full diffs
  • Fixed invalid diffs which display 'diff=0' as a parameter (bugzilla:49434)
  • Fixed cases where diff pages arew caches and display in incorrect languages (bugzilla:55667)
  • Added ability to ignore conflicts in merge items API module
  • Worked on adding the datatype in the json output
  • Fix validation of wbsetreference
  • Wikibase Query now listens to entity changes of Wikibase Repo
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve biology, help out the Molecular biology task force.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #84

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

• Discussions
  • Closed: Geocoordinates on people
  • Instances of human
  • Dimensions and units for the quantity datatype
  • Discussion started by Tom Morris over Wikidata and Wikinews
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Digitale Bibliothek 2013 is taking place, November 21st to November 22nd
  • Wikidata office hour logs are available here
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus creates a Wikidata search add-on for Wikipedia
  • Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google
  • The Wikidata IRC channel is moving from #wikimedia-wikidata to #wikidata.
  • Magnus and the Wikidata created redlink lists
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: feed URL, language regulatory body, BAV (Vatican Library) identifier, asteroid taxonomy
  • Newest task forces:
• Development
  • Added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to its associated item on Wikidata (bugzilla:bug 46538)
  • Fixed bugzilla:49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
  • Worked on Lua improvements including bugzilla:54324 (sequence in Lua should start with 1)
  • Started making improvements to the loading time of items
  • Started creating a special page to show the items with the most sitelinks (bugzilla:46217)
  • More work on ranks for statements
  • Worked on putting the datatype into the JSON output
  • Worked more on support for enhanced changes format in client
  • Cleaned up code that handles Wikibase entries in client recent changes
  • Added tests for recent changes formatting code in MediaWiki code
  • Updated Wikibase to maintain compatibility with changes in Universal Language Selector
  • Removed many deprecates method usages related to EntityId
  • Improved Special:SetSiteLink page
  • Removed obsolete EntityCache code from Wikibase Client
  • Removed obsolete SearchEntityArtefacts script from Wikibase Repo
  • Updated usages of EntityId to usages of ItemId and PropertyId where applicable
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new new statements today!
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #85

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

• Discussions
  • Improve handling of deleted items and labels in archives
  • Closed: Commons links
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • An interview with Denny Vrandečić
  • WikiCon 2013
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Reasonator now supports cities and locations
  • The quantities datatype is available for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: main food source, GHS signal word, Digital Rights Management system, legal citation, light characteristic of a lighthouse, crew member, donated by, awarded by, doctoral thesis, SUDOC catalog (editions only), SBFI occupation code, SBC-2010 occupation code, CNO-11 occupation code, KldB-2010 occupation code
• Development
  • Refactored Api output
  • Collect tasks for Google Code In
  • Make wbeditentity accept serialization with the id and type keys
  • Start setting up ‘automated’ part of the Wikidata build script
  • Released version 1.0 of the Ask library https://github.com/wmde/Ask
  • Fixed dependency injection issue in Wikibase Query
  • Started work on providing a new serialization library that does not have the design issues of the current data model serialization code and can be used as standalone PHP library
  • Moved quantity data type out of experimental and enabled on https://test.wikidata.org
  • Improved Wikibase Lua code
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #86

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

• Discussions
  • Showcase items - take 2
  • Verified statements
  • Closed: VCards for Wikivoyage
  • Closed: Image properties
  • Closed: Proposals for the 'Place' related properties
  • Closed: Source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
  • Closed: Constraint violation technical bases
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • The Wikidata Concept Cloud
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Quantities datatype is available for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ZDB identifier, sockets supported, film editor, type of kinship, relative, manager/director, Dewey Decimal Classification, honorific suffix
  • Newest task forces: Sports results task force
• Development
  • Ranks are nearing completion (bugzilla:49120)
  • Quantities got some more love (improved diff, added scientific notation and simple localisation and made it possible to show/not show + for positive values - bugzilla:54318)
  • Ordering of statement groups is nearing completion
  • Avoid loading all referenced items in EntityView to improve loading time of items
  • Finalizing the inclusion of data types in JSON output
  • Fixed 2 XML errors on test.wikidata.org ready for deployment
  • Started work on a Wikibase-independent serialization component for DataValues
  • Worked on making Lua arrays start with 1 instead of 0 (bugzilla:54324)
  • Released the Datavalues library
  • Improved enhanced changes code in core, to better allow Wikibase (and Flow) to support that format
  • Defined permissions for Simple Queries
  • First Google Code-In task completed (meaning Special:SetSitelink now retains POSTed infomation after an error so you don't have to enter it again)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #87

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

• Discussions
  • Change the resysopping process
  • Inactive administrators
  • Open RfBs: The Anonymouse
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Gerard blogs about the Italian Wikipedia search updates (See the Polish Wikipedia's update too)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Italian and Polish Wikipedia now display Wikidata results in their searches
  • A few new features which require your testing!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NCL identifier, Catholic Hierarchy ID, discovery method, Sycomore ID, SWB editions, IDEO Job ID, ZDB identifier
  • Newest task forces: Periodicals task force
  • Showcase items: Douglas Adams, ethanol
• Development
  • Finalized localization of quantity values
  • Worked on support for scientific notation in quantities
  • More work on improving diffs
  • Worked on ranks and grouping of statements of the same rank
  • Improved performance of AuthorityControl gadget by a factor of 5
  • Finished work on initial version of ordering of statements
  • Bene* finished the API part of badges support (user interface part is still needed)
  • Database performance improvements
  • Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/
  • Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!

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Wikidata weekly summary #88

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

• Discussions
  • Guidelines about ordering
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Succu becomes the first non-bot user with more than 1000000 edits in Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ResearcherID, Portuguese Job Code CPP-2010, PSH id, medical condition
  • Newest task forces: Political geography task force
  • Showcase items: Barack Obama, Hubble Space Telescope
  • Fun Fact: Q12345 is Count von Count (ah ah ah)
• Development
  • Made improvements to lower database load
  • Deployed ordering, ranks and a table of contents and fixed issues with those after deployment (mainly performance-related)
  • Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
  • Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
  • Started working on a version of DataModel that works with the new DataValues components
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #89

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over the notability of the new Draft namespace on the English Wikipedia
  • Discussion over the notability of template documentation items
  • RfC: Notability of item for all special pages
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource is still scheduled to get language links via Wikidata on January 14th
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NLM ID, NDL editions
  • Showcase items: Douglas Adams
  • Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.
• Development
  • Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome ;-)
  • Improved and added a lot of tests
  • Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
  • No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
  • Caching and database improvements
  • Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
  • More work on quantities UI
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #90

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over handling of items
  • RfC: Interwiki links for subpages (Notability based discussion)
  • Closed: Inactive administrators
  • Closed: Bot policy
  • Closed RfA: Matěj Suchánek (Successful)
  • Open RfA: GerardM
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Add the file and translate namespaces to the list of namespaces excluded from Wikibase Client's linking functionality and enable the "Add links" dialog for pages without language links on commons. (#58903)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: chromosome, produces
• Development
  • Redesign and improvement of toollabs:bene/itemsbycat/. You can also use short urls like toollabs:bene/itemsbycat/enwiki/Wikidata.
  • Worked on reorganizing our git repositories and splitting quite a few of them
  • Worked more on parser cache to be able to cache more content (this failed during the last deployment)
  • Some progress on redirects
  • Tests, tests, tests
  • Vacations \o/
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Help translate on of Bene*'s tools!

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Wikidata weekly summary #91

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about the RfD process
  • Discussion about Notability of Wikisource on Wikidata
  • Open RfAs: Lymantria, Lavallen
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata reached 100000000 edits
  • d:User:Dexbot is the first bot to reach 10000000 edits
  • Wikisource is due to receive Wikidata Phase 1 on January the 14th
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: none
  • Newest task forces: MediaWiki task force
  • Showcase items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988)
  • Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014)
• DevelopmentWord from John
  • To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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Wikidata weekly summary #92

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over Wikisource's notability within Wikidata
  • Make Symmetric & Inverse Property addition automatic and bidirectional
  • Closed RfAs: Lymantria (Successful), Lavallen (Successful)
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Presentation about Wikidata at Aldil, Lyon, France
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource is deployed to testwikidata
  • A group of students is working on suggestions to make it easier to add missing information. They published a status report and a rough first demo.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: track gauge, pathogen transmission process, CVR, ERA Journal ID
  • Newest task forces: Manga and Anime task force
  • Showcase items: Douglas Adams
  • Fun Fact: Does not exist (Q404)
  • Wikidata's presence: The Dutch Wikipedia have a category for coordinating coordinates on Wikidata (Categorie:Wikipedia:Coördinaten niet op Wikidata)
• Development
  • Adrian Lang joins the team
  • Cirrus Search is now the default search on Wikidata and should improve d:Special:Search's handlich of special characters for example
  • Made the “in other languages” box also show up for people who have not configured a babel box (bugzilla:49079)
  • No longer showing a table of content when it has less than 3 items in it to prevent it from showing up on property pages (bugzilla:58422)
  • More performance improvement work
  • Finishing touches on quantities datatype user interface
  • Display qualifiers in non-Java Script user interface
  • Prevented import of wikitext into the main namespace (bugzilla:47070)
  • Split the DataValues component into more clearly defined libraries and switched Wikibase over to use these
  • Switched Wikibase to use Wikibase DataModel 0.6
  • Changed development and installation workflows to make use of the dependency manager Composer (more details)
  • Made tests run with less warnings (especially in Firefox)
  • Started replacing wikibase.fetchedEntities with a proper entity store
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!

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Wikidata weekly summary #93

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

• Events
  • upcoming: FOSDEM
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource now gets its language links via Wikidata
  • Reasonator gets extended functionality
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: PlantList-ID, Danemark Job Code (DISCO-08), Instruction Set, Thailand central administrative unit code, student of, archive URL
  • Showcase items: ethanol
  • Fun Fact: A Space Odyssey (Q2001)
• Development
  • Enabled language links for Wikisource
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:22, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

My ban appeal reasons: (User:Chenzw - can you please state this message on the "Ban Appeal" section?"

User:Chenzw, User:Osiris: ANY ADMIN: Chenzw stated that I can appeal my ban a year ago. I am requesting ban appeal. I feel like returning and would like to show to my fellow colegeus that I have changed. I have missed this place much, editing here, in community discussions.

In reality, I was here when I was young... Now. I am mature, hopefully... I went through English classes now... Earned trusted rights at a website I went when I was banned. Hopefully, an admin can hold up a discussion. And I wish to return under a new account, named "Jezz55".

Thank you all so much ~Aaqib

User:TDKR Chicago 101 - can you please reach an active administrator to hold up a discussion? --Cheers, Aaqib 18:56, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

User:Glaisher - ^^^ --Cheers, Aaqib 18:58, 1 August 2014 (UTC) User:Auntof6

User:Macdonnalross --Cheers, Aaqib 22:25, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

• Comment: I don't think it was appropriate for you to blank your talk page before starting this ban appeal. It gives the impression that you are trying to hide previous discussions and makes it harder for people to look at the history that led to your ban. That prejudices me, at least, against your appeal. I realize I can go to the page history, but it still gives a bad impression.

As far as the appeal itself, nothing in what you wrote above tells me why we should trust you now. Maybe you could give us examples of what you did wrong before and what you would do differently now. It would also be in your favor if you would put back the sections you deleted from the page. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:54, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

• I've noticed that he has improved considerably in the past few months by seeing his interactions with other users on IRC and other wikis, though he still has much to learn (like everyone else). I would very much appreciate it if you can list down all the socks which you've used so that those can be reviewed. The first step is to start being honest. Also you should probably not start using another account even if this ban is lifted; you should probably use User:Goldenburg111 which you currently use at other wikis. Of course, it's up to you. As Auntof6 has stated above, please give us some examples of what you did wrong before and how you would act now in such circumstances. Also per en:WP:BLANKING, declined unblock requests while the block is still in effect should not be removed. I'm very much willing to support this ban appeal if you can convince me that you've changed and that if you are unblocked you would not repeat the same actions that lead to your ban. Regards, --Glaisher (talk) 12:58, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

"I've noticed that he has improved considerably in the past few months by seeing his interactions with other users on IRC and other wikis" - User:Glashier

Yes, I have. I have been a member of the SWMT for about a few months, reverting vandalsm, and spam. I also joined this wiki named "Vikidia", in which I have been contributing to reverting vandalism and contributing to Sri Lankan Related articles. (http://en.vikidia.org/wiki/User:Goldenburg111) - I wish to return to the Simple English Wikipedia to continue my contributions to Sri Lankan articles, if my ban appeal is successful.

What I have done wrong, and what I will do if I am unban

1. Ignoring people's warnings

You cannot really blame me on this: Since I was young, and I couldn't really understand the warnings. Since now I am 1 year older and now having more important roles in my house and real life. I think I can fairly take a warning seriously, and comprehend it. Rather than reading, being insulted, and insulting the user who gave me a warning.

2. Immature comments

Not necessarily grossly immature (such as "suck my d***) but immature comments such as "I gave so many awards. I really am crying now. Goodbye. (Never commenting again". And also a little discussion about one edit summary, I used "what the heck". The IP I reverted then said "heck" was a bad word and should not be used. So this shows that instead of making stupid comments such as "I am really am crying now" (the grammar is wrong anyways), I would rather be more mature, such as pointing what I did wrong. And instead of saying "what the heck" in an edit summary, I would rather give a more constructive summary, rather telling the user what he did wrong and why I am reverting it.

3. My obsessions with user rights

"you almost immediately requested rollback" --User:TCN7JM: Well, that obsession is over, now I learned that rights are for responsible users who have enough experience to handle such responsibilities. Plus, my report which has been created to track all my rights request has been closed about 3 months ago.

4. Grammar

Some people thought that my grammar was horrible, which meant that I couldn't communicate well. I could, but I was just young and too immature. When I left, I communicated good with users, right? Yup. So that meant I fixed up my grammar, going to English Classes too

~Thank you. --Cheers, Aaqib 20:04, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Unbanned

Hi Aaqib,

Echoing my comments on AN, the consensus among the community is that your ban has served its purpose and that you have improved enough to be a competent editor on the project. As such I have removed the block on this account. However, further behaviour of the type that occurred before you were banned may result in you being re-banned. Your edits will also be monitored for a while just to make sure there are no further problems, which I am confident there won't be. Good luck, -Mh7kJ (talk) 20:39, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

I actually prefer my User:Goldenburg111 account to be unbanned, it has a much more "rich" (as you can say) reputation and the account is global too. Thanks User:Mh7kJ. --Cheers, Aaqib 19:03, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Congratulations on your unbann! Sorry I didn't vote for unbann but I was on a WikiBreak (as you can see on my contributions) and I couldn't. --Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 16:50, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Reception! :) --Goldenburg111 (talk) 23:25, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Global account

Hi Aaqib! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Cheers, DerHexer (talk) 00:28, 17 January 2015 (UTC)