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The Signpost: 03 September 2014
change- Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended
- Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more
- Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial
- Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies
- Traffic report: Holding Pattern
- WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)
The Signpost: 10 September 2014
change- Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready
- Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
- WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
- Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity
The Signpost: 17 September 2014
change- News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third
- In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics
- WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland
- Featured content: Which is not like the others?
- Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack
The Signpost: 24 September 2014
change- In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii
- Featured content: Oil paintings galore
- Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the election in Scotland
- WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
- Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
- Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary
The Signpost: 01 October 2014
change- From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
- News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education
- Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
- Featured content: Brothers at War
- Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
- WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture
The Signpost: 08 October 2014
change- In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian brushfire
- Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City
- Traffic report: Panic and denial
- Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread
Wikidata weekly summary #128
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- Discussions
- Open RfA: Nikosguard
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- All human genes are now wikidata items, for example: Here is one (of approximately 40,000) called "spinocerebellar ataxia 37" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18081265. Blog post about this to appear here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/
- Want to be kept up-to-date on structured data on Commons? There is now a new newsletter you can subscribe to.
- Interested in some statistics about the data on Wikidata? Check Wikidata Stats every now and then. (Thanks Magnus for moving it to the new dump format.)
- Did you know?
- Development
- Spent the week with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers to get more clarity about structured data on Commons. We'll be asking for feedback on a lot of stuff over the next weeks. The main info hub is taking shape at Commons:Structured data.
- More fixes for the switch to HHVM
- Looked into possible performance improvements. Some of them will be taken into the next sprint.
- Battled a handful of nasty issues on the live-site
- Wikibase DataModel 1.1 was released
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 15 October 2014
change- Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
- Discussion report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-10-15/Discussion report
- Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace
- In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes
- Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?
- Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext
- Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
- WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest
Wikidata weekly summary #129
change - Discussions
- Do you want to see constraint violation reports and referencing improved? Please provide input.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (log)
- hackathon around scholarly articles on Wikidata (etherpad with notes)
- Blog post about the meeting to discuss structured data on Commons in Berlin
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Clusters of humans and species on Wikidata
- New parameter in the template Property documentation: subject item; see [this example edit] for how to use it
- New tool: Linked Items. Returns sorted, de-duped list of Q values from a Wikipedia page, or chunk of wiki-text. Thank you, Magnus!
- Wikidata annotation tool is looking for feedback
- Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase by Denny and Markus has been published. It gives a very nice non-technical overview of Wikidata.
- Magnus re-wrote Wiki ShootMe to now use Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Always wanted to know which topics have amazing articles on Wikimedia projects across many languages? Here you go!
- Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
- Development
- Improvements to sitelink editing usability
- Released Wikibase DataModel 2.0
- Profiling and performance improvements in Wikibase and Wikibase DataModel
- Implementing LabelLookup, which is needed to improve performance of EntityId formatting. This will lead to improved item page loading times.
- Added new featured list and recommended article badges.
- Remove most usage of class aliases to be compatible with HHVM (dependencies of bugzilla:71295)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 22 October 2014
change- In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator
- Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace
- Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest
- WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles - a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help
- Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV
Wikidata weekly summary #114
change - Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
- Did you know?
- Development
- Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
- Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
- When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
- Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
- Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
- Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
- Work on entity usage tracking
- Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
- Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
- Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
- Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Welcome
changeHello! I noticed that you may have come here from another Wikipedia, so you know a little about how things work here. I hope you like it here and decide to stay! Here are some links to help you adjust:
- Writing in Simple English
- Where to ask questions and discuss things
- How to copy from another Wikipedia
- Some of our active users
There's a lot to do here. Most of it is writing articles that do not exist yet, which you can do by translating from other Wikipedias, but have a look around and see what you want to do. Thanks for joining us, and you know how to contact me if you need any help. Mr Wiki Pro (talk) 13:33, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
July 2014
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Hello, George.Edward.C. It looks like "Maximum Overload" was derived from the English Wikipedia or another version of Wikipedia. If that is indeed the case, please make sure you add some form of attribution, either in your change summary or on the article's talk page. This must be done, even for derivative works, or the article will be deleted in time. More instructions on how to do this are at Wikipedia:Transwiki attribution. Thank you. The article Fury of the Storm also needs attribution. Auntof6 (talk) 20:17, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
2014 deaths
changeGood work on all that splitting. Please be sure to categorize all the new articles, with appropriate sort keys. They probably should also have intro sections. Also, since there's no real content in the main article now, I don't think we need all the subheadings. The individual articles could just be in a list. Make sense? --Auntof6 (talk) 06:53, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
- Yep, I'm on that now. 06:56, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for your edits on the article! Try to double check if the person you add are notable like having a link to the English Wikipedia. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 08:37, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
- I believe all of the people I have added are notable... George.Edward.C (talk) (contribs) 08:38, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
- Oh yes I know and I'm grateful, but someone like Jason Curley, for instance are better off redirected rather than having their own article like the English Wikipedia. The others you added are great. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 08:49, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
- I will take that into account, thanks @TDKR Chicago 101! George.Edward.C (talk) (contribs) 09:06, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
- Other than that the article looks good wouldn't you say. I'm a little worried that creating Deaths in 2015 might be confusing! --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 09:07, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
- Not really confusing, shouldn't we put some form of condolences in the talk page? For respects sake. George.Edward.C (talk) (contribs) 09:35, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
- lol okay. I hope you're around (active) when 2015 comes. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 09:48, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
- I can't see why I won't be. George.Edward.C (talk) (contribs) 09:49, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for your edits on the article! Try to double check if the person you add are notable like having a link to the English Wikipedia. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 08:37, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Heavy metal
changeHi, George. I noticed that a page you created, Glam metal, had a link to Heavy metal. That page is a disambiguation page. The page for the music genre is at heavy metal music. Please use the correct link when writing about the music.
Speaking of disambiguation, I was looking at User:Project/Heavy Metal (which I noticed that you signed up for), and I saw that two entries under the list of people/bands weren't to the correct pages, either. Those bands were Anthrax (US band) and Slash (musician). I fixed the links there, but maybe as part of your work for the WikiProject, you could check links to anthrax and slash and change them if they are supposed to be for the musicians. It would be great to see a WikiProject being active, because we have so many inactive ones. Let me know if you have any questions about any of this. --Auntof6 (talk) 16:43, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
- I will review these links and incorporate your advice. Thanks! George.Edward.C 16:45, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks! Sometimes it's lonely in the disambiguation trenches! --Auntof6 (talk) 16:56, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
asked for quick deletion about Mitra Jashni article
changeHello! I think there is enough proofs to not delete this article . I insert about seven links as references in official and credible websites.if it needs somethings more , please let me know. [qd 1] [qd 2][qd 3][qd 4][qd 5][qd 6][qd 7][qd 8]
- ↑ iranpainters.com self-report. [1]
- ↑ www.uitgeverijemdejong.nl/aanleveren/ons-weekblad/ newspaper article in Dutch. [2]
- ↑ www.lahora.com.ec newspaper article in spanish. [3]
- ↑ www.centroculturalpuce.org news in spanish.[4]
- ↑ www.elcomercio.com newspaper article in spanish.[5]
- ↑ holaciudad.com the interview tv in spanish. [6]
- ↑ ecuavisa.com National news article in spanish. [7]
- ↑ telegrafo.com National news article in spanish. [8]
Palete (talk) 19:09, 5 September 2014 (UTC) Palete (talk) 19:13, 5 September 2014 (UTC)palete
- Also check out the talk page, as more people have listed sources. George.Edward.C (Talk) (Contributions) 06:21, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Nationalities of people in the deaths articles (and even other places)
changeI am leaving this message for George.Edward.C, Jonny Nixon, and TDKR Chicago 101, because you three have been making most of the changes to articles like Deaths in 2014.
When you link the nationality or ethnicity of a person, please try to make sure that the link is not to a disambiguation page (also called "dab page"). There are a lot of words that can be nationalities or ethnicities, but which can also be other things (like languages, cuisine, etc.). Right now on the Deaths in 2014 page, there are links to Indian, Polish, and Serbian, all of which are dab pages. Looking at those dab pages, those links should be piped to go to India, Poles, and Serbia, respectively.
Here is a list of pages that might be used as nationalities, ethnicities, or something similar, but which are dab pages:
- Albanian, Arabic, Aragonese, Armenian, Assamese, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Baltic, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Catalan, Celtic, Chinese, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Hakka, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Khmer, Kurdish, Leonese, Malay, Maltese, Māori, Moldovan, Neapolitan, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sami, Semitic, Serbian, Sicilian, Sindhi, Slavic, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Valencian, Venetian, Vietnamese
It can be hard to spot links to dab pages. I have something in my monobook.js file that highlights dab pages in yellow (as well as highlighting a few other things like redirects in other colors). You are welcome to copy it if you want. I think all you would need to do is add these two lines into your js file:
importScript('User:Auntof6/linkclassifier.js');importStylesheet('User:Auntof6/linkclassifier.css');
You might want to make your own copies of the individual link classifier files, because I don't guarantee anything about the copies I have.
Thanks, and let me know if you have any questions about this. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:15, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
Welcoming vandals
changeGeorge, is it good to welcome unregistered users whose every edit is a clear vandalism? It does look rather strange. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:48, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- I do use the applicable template for vandalism. But I'll use the correct template in future. George.Edward.C (Talk) (Contributions) 18:49, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
On a similar note, please be sure that registered users are not vandals before welcoming them. One user you welcomed, Cyphoidbomber, turned out to be a sockpuppet and has been indefinitely blocked. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:18, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
IP Vandal.
change64 something or 60? something is putting in wrong info. --Wui389 (talk) 15:37, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
- Hi! I'm not sure which vandal your talking about, could you please link to their page? In any case, I'm not the person to contact, as I don't actually have any rights on this wikipedia. You want to get in touch with an admin, and they'll decide what can be done! George.Edward.C (Talk) (Contributions) 15:42, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
64.6.124.31 (talk) --Wui389 (talk) 15:44, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
- As far as I can see they've just been adding in the multistub template. If you are concerned, please contact an administrator. George.Edward.C (Talk) (Contributions) 15:57, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
My mistake. apoligys. --Wui389 (talk) 15:58, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Rollback Request
changeI have approved your request for rollbacker. Please remember to only use it for actual cases of vandalism, any other reverts should be done using another method. -- Enfcer (talk) 18:04, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks Enfcer :) George.Edward.C (Talk) (Contributions) 18:05, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
I wondered if you had any additional thoughts regarding how to improve this article. We were discussing some possible solutions. Rus793 (talk) 18:31, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
- @Rus793: Ah yes, I've been meaning to get around to that (to be really honest, I forgot about it). In my opinion we should split the article (possibly per decade?), and link them all in the core page (probably not like Deaths in 2014, as there won't be enough content for one article per year). We'll also need to find references (a flaw in the EnWiki page) for each flight. In the end though, we'll probably have to resort to rewriting the whole article. George.Edward.C – Talk – Contributions 18:57, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
- It’s a very large project any way it’s divided up. It’s four articles if by quarter-century and ten if by decade. This article is simply a copy of the enwiki list article; the difference being enwiki has links to all the articles (most with decent sources) that back it up. The transwikied article is a massive list of articles we don’t have. Usually the articles come first then the list. So copying just the list article (this article) here was not a great idea to start with. The subject is salvageable I’m just not certain how much (if any) of the article is. I don’t see sources as being a problem; plane crashes were certainly written about. Question: if started from scratch, what do you see as a replacement for this?
- It would be certainly easier to create the articles first, as you said: the articles come first. George.Edward.C – Talk – Contributions 08:19, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
- It’s a very large project any way it’s divided up. It’s four articles if by quarter-century and ten if by decade. This article is simply a copy of the enwiki list article; the difference being enwiki has links to all the articles (most with decent sources) that back it up. The transwikied article is a massive list of articles we don’t have. Usually the articles come first then the list. So copying just the list article (this article) here was not a great idea to start with. The subject is salvageable I’m just not certain how much (if any) of the article is. I don’t see sources as being a problem; plane crashes were certainly written about. Question: if started from scratch, what do you see as a replacement for this?
Mike Moustakes
changeinfobox would be awesome! --Z2dkfj (talk) 19:07, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
- Welcome to Wikipedia! I'll see what I can do :) George.Edward.C – Talk – Contributions 19:11, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Thanks Z2dkfj (talk) 19:14, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Towering Inferno
changei love video games and i see you do to. maybe a helping hand? ty --Z2dkfj (talk) 19:20, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
- My primary concern for this one is notability. The article on EnWiki is considered stub quality by Wikipedia's Video Game project. I'll try and find sources, but let's start with more popular ones, since they will have more sources linked to them. If you're unsure about our notability policy, here it is. George.Edward.C – Talk – Contributions 19:25, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
I found a source. --Z2dkfj (talk) 19:29, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Category:Assassin's Creed
changeThank you for creating this new category. Unfortunately, the category did not contain enough entries, and it has been deleted. Here on Simple English Wikipedia, we want at least three entries in each new category. You can read about this requirement at Wikipedia:Categories#Is there a need for the new category?. If you want to create a new category, please be sure first that there are at least three articles ready to go into it. Feel free to ask if you have any questions about this. --Auntof6 (talk) 11:40, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
- Ah yes, I feared that would happen. No matter, I plan to make more articles that would be applicable for this category. Thanks for the message! George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 14:55, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 October 2014
change- Featured content: Go West, young man (By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article)
- In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral
- Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
- Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
- Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles
Wikidata weekly summary #131
change - Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday! Have a look at the notes from the community and development team and add your note. Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)!
- Wikidata II
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata is nominated for 2 Open Data Awards! \o/ Magnus and Lydia will attend the award ceremony next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
- Wikidata as the central hub for open life science data
- What is Wikipedia about? Great data viz based on Wikidata
- Super Lachaise, a mobile app based on Wikidata for a cemetery in Paris
- Random items without statements
- Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata
- Updated statistics on the topics with most highly-rated articles on Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID, Municipality code of Brazil, Pleiades identifier, MalaCards ID, natural product of taxon, official blog, University of Barcelona authority ID, Beilstein Registry Number, Gmelin Number
- Development
- Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP
- HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata
- Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core
- Work on language fall backs for new serialization code
- Work on fixing XML dumps
- Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions
- Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further
- Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries
- Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties
- Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink editing
- Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Disambiguation pages
changeYou probably know this by now, but I thought I'd mention it just in case. In this edit back in August, you added Category:Disambiguation to the article Jack. That category should not be added directly. Instead, please use the {{disambiguation}} template. Thanks! --Auntof6 (talk) 03:31, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
A Reason to Smile
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| Hi Caliburn/2014, here are some delicious cookies to help brighten your day! However, there are too many cookies here for one person to eat all at once, so please share these cookies with at least two other editors by copying {{subst:Sharethecookies}} to their talk pages. Enjoy! Amanda Atom (talk) 16:34, 3 November 2014 (UTC) |
- Thanks Amanda! :D George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 19:11, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
- Are you going to pass this message on to two other users?Amanda Atom (talk) 19:31, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
- After I find people that deserve them ;) George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 16:30, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- Hmmm, Fair enough! :)Amanda Atom 16:33, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- How did you make your userpage title the way it is?Amanda Atom 16:57, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- {{DISPLAYTITLE:Text}} <-- Like that George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 16:59, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- How did you get it to work?Amanda Atom 17:00, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- The display title has to match the name of the page. George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 17:02, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- How did you get it to work?Amanda Atom 17:00, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- {{DISPLAYTITLE:Text}} <-- Like that George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 16:59, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- After I find people that deserve them ;) George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 16:30, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- Are you going to pass this message on to two other users?Amanda Atom (talk) 19:31, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks!
change4 the help on my contributions! --Gunner1292 (talk) 16:41, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- No problem! Just be sure to add references :) George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 16:48, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 05 November 2014
change- In the media: Predicting the flu; MH17 conspiracy theories
- Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween
Closing RfDs
changeSince you are not an administrator, please do not close RfDs. The page you cited in your edit summary is a suggested guideline, not an active one. Even if we did use non-admin closures, they would be appropriate only when the vote was unanimous and the user closing had not voted in the RfD being closed. Neither was the case here. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:08, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
- And... As per usual I screwed up. Thanks for notifying me though George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 17:10, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
- No problem. We all learn somehow, and this was easily reverted. I'd close that one myself if I hadn't voted in it. That's actually the reason I don't always vote -- so that I can close them later. --Auntof6 (talk) 19:28, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #132
change - Discussions
- Zero error rate - help improve the quality of Wikidata's data
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata won the Open Data Award by the Open Data Institute in the category Publisher \o/ (blog post by ODI, blog post by WMDE)
- Tutorial: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries
- Did you know?
- Less than 23% of Wikidata items have no statement. Down from ~53% a year ago.
- Newest properties: consecrator, Slovene Cultural Heritage designation, penalty, charge, judge, defender, prosecutor, defendant, number of casualties, deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID
- Development
- Continued work on LabelLookup and related code to further improve performance
- Made it possible to show references in statements on property pages. (Remaining bugs before roll-out are issues with adding/editing/removing statements on property pages.)
- Further improvements to sitelink editing (The edit toolbar now floats so it doesn't scroll out of the page on a long list of sitelinks. An empty row for adding a new sitelink is shown by default when editing to make this faster and take less scrolling.)
- Further adapting of simple query code so we can get it to review at the Foundation again.
- Lots of bug fixes all over the place
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Thanks
changeThanks George. will remember that.
I wanted to preserve the "edit history" of Ganga Not tata (talk) 14:47, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
- No problem! I believe it's possible for administrators to merge histories (someone may need to confirm that one) George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 14:56, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #133
change - Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page.
- GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help make sure these items have labels in your language
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NATO code for grade
- Development
- Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
- Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
- Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage)
- Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
- Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance.
- Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
- Improved calendar model display
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 12 November 2014
change- In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
- Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania
- WikiProject report: Talking hospitals
- Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?
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changeNo George.Edward.C, I never did such a thing. That IP is not me. --Hafspajen (talk) 16:57, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
- I know that IP was not you, that's why I messaged the IP user saying something like "Unless you are in fact Hafspajen, please stop adding the retired template to his/her talk page", or something along those lines. I can't really remember now... George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 17:03, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
I think that it would be a good idea to protect that page somehow. Or if not possible delete it all together, it is just bad style and it went on now for months. --Hafspajen (talk) 17:04, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
- The IP (Mac) user seems to have stopped now. You could simply delete both pages using the U1 QD criteria. George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 17:14, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
I can't delete it, I am not an admin. -- OK, got that, on my own request. Sure why not. They seems to exaust themselfses vandalizig that talk. Hafspajen (talk) 17:16, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
- Cool, hope that you'll get this vandalism problem soved once and for all :) --George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 17:20, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
- Hope I got that right. --Hafspajen (talk) 17:22, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, you did. Good luck! --George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 17:25, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
Borrow
changeMind if I borrow your userpage vandalism counter?Amanda Call Me 18:11, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
- I didn't make it myself, Razorflame did. Feel free to transclude it if you want! George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 18:13, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks.Amanda Call Me 18:14, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
- No problem! None of my current userboxes were made by me, I plan on making a few at some point though. --George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 18:23, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
- One of the few things I'm good at on Wikipedia is formatting. If you need help, just ask!Amanda Call Me 18:25, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
- No problem! None of my current userboxes were made by me, I plan on making a few at some point though. --George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 18:23, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks.Amanda Call Me 18:14, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
A book for you
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Congratulations George, you have now qualified for a book (it is actually the second book, but I missed the first one, sorry). You can put this on your user page, or you can change it to a userbox, or a medal, or a ribbon, or even all of them! Thanks for your contributions.--Peterdownunder (talk) 22:24, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks! I might use some of them :) --George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 19:37, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #134
change - Events/Blogs/Press
- Had a great hackathon for GLAM and Wikidata in Amsterdam last weekend
- IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (logs)
- Building a periodic table using Wikidata
- Lydia will be speaking at internetdagarna in Stockholm on Monday
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Commons will get Phase 2 on December 2nd
- The Sum of all Paintings - new app to nicely display data related to artwork
- Institutions on Commons without an item on Wikidata
- Wikidata descriptions being used to help clarify search results in the Wikipedia mobile app
- WikidataTodo now shows you tasks to be done on Wikidata related to a specific country as well
- VisualEditor coming as a beta feature
- Statements on properties are getting closer to the finish line. You could help figure out which properties to use for describing and classifying properties.
- Did you know?
- Development
- When a page is deleted on a client (Wikipedia, etc) its sitelink is now removed automatically from its Wikidata item
- Reworked the automatic precision detection for coordinates
- The long planned split of the code base into two independent Wikibase Repo and Client extensions is getting closer pretty fast these weeks
- Made good progress on making the sitelinks section much more compact and moving it into the right-hand sidebar
- While still reworking lots of details that slightly changed in DataModel 2.0 we already started working on a possible DataModel 3.0
- More performance optimizations in the form of more advanced label lookup implementations
- Implemented file-based cache of SiteStore to improve performance
- Bug fixes
- Updated the property suggester with new data! :)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 26 November 2014
change- Featured content: Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions
- In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism
- Recent research: Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures
- Traffic report: Big in Japan
- WikiProject report: Back with the military historians
Wikidata weekly summary #135
change - Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm
- Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin
- Picture this!
- Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next?
- Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process
- IRC office hour on Wednesday
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday
- Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming
- VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier
- Did you know?
- Development
- Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now)
- Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance)
- Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before
- Fixed more issues with geocoordinates
- Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access)
- Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup)
- Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix phabricator:T74348
- Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing
- JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on
- Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar
- Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs)
- Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones
- Fixed error in DataModel that was noticed by DataModelSerializer tests
- Input on mw:Wikibase/Indexing
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Song titles
changeHi, George. I noticed that you put an italic title template on These Boots Are Made For Walking. Song titles are formatted with quotation marks, not italics, so I took that tag off and put quotation marks around the title in the text. When you use the italic title template on something that does take italics, be sure to italicize the title in the text as well. If you're interested, there is information at en:WP:MOSTITLE on when to format with italics and when to use quotation marks. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:34, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for pointing that out. I assumed it was the same as albums, but thanks for correcting me ;) George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 18:46, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
Barnstar
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| I keep seeing your vandalism reverts in new changes -- good job! Auntof6 (talk) 19:44, 1 December 2014 (UTC) |
- Thanks Auntof6 ;) George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 20:04, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
- You're welcome. There's an awful lot of vandalism today. I wonder if there are a lot of students home on a snow day with little to do or something. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:11, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
- Seems like the vandalism has calmed down now, will keep a close eye just in case. George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 20:23, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
- You're welcome. There's an awful lot of vandalism today. I wonder if there are a lot of students home on a snow day with little to do or something. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:11, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
Madonna
changeHi George, with regards to User:MadonnaHuish, this is actually a common spambot pattern (both the user name and the user page) often seen cross-wiki since a year ago. I used to keep track of them, but now I just tag them when I see them. See m:User:Mathonius/Reports/BAABP for more information. Kind regards, Mathonius (talk) 18:14, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
- Unless activity starts getting suspicious, I don't think QDing the userpage is necessary. George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 18:20, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
- Understood. Mathonius (talk) 11:57, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Warning levels
changeWhen you warn vandals, please do not start with a "final" warning as you did with the IP user 216.73.79.66. This is especially important with IP editor cases like this: the only recent changes were within a very short period of time, so we can be pretty sure those were all done by one person, but the previous bad changes might have been done by someone else. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:16, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
- I don't normally do that, but in this case I felt it was especially necessary, as the user was on the road to a block. I will try to refrain from doing so in future, but I felt it was necessary in this instance. Looking at the diffs, they seem to have been performed by a single individual, but nevertheless, I'll try to avoid jumping to IM. George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 18:24, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 December 2014
change- Op-ed: Who edits health-related content on Wikipedia and why?
- In the media: Embroidery and cheese
- Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!
- Traffic report: Turkey and a movie
- WikiProject report: Today on the island
Wikidata weekly summary #136
change - Events/Blogs/Press
- IRC office hour (log)
- Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
- Statements on properties are now live
- Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
- The Game has a new mode: alma mater
- Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
- Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
- English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: working title, undercarriage
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Wikidata for research aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted.
- Development
- Started work on units
- More work on evaluating options for querying
- Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
- Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
- Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
- Work on improved label lookup performance
- Wrapping up work on usage tracking
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Warm Welcome . . .
changeThank you for your warm welcome!
- Does anyone use photos of themselves on their user page?Stmullin (talk) 18:00, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
- Not problem! :D As for your question, I'm not sure. I know some people at EnWiki do, but I'm not sure about here. George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 18:04, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Would you be interested in writing articles about Zelda? My daughter is a great fan of that series. If it proves to be a safe environment here (no malware or browser issues, no harassing, or other such behavior) I'd like to allow her to edit. Smlombardi (talk) 00:46, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
- The environment here is normally friendly :). I am a fan of Zelda, so I'll be glad to help! George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 20:48, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
- Then I will create an account for her here. Please let people know that her account is not a "sock" . . . she is a child using my IP address but her own account.Smlombardi (talk) 21:19, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
- I created an account for her but it is not yet searchable . . . how do I find her page again?Smlombardi (talk) 03:44, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
- After the /wiki/ in the URL, type User: then her username. George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 06:22, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 December 2014
change- Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!
- In the media: Wikipedia is "a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess"
- Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction
- Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.
Wikidata weekly summary #137
change - Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
- Development
- More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
- Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
- Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
- Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
- Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
- Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
- Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
- Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Welcoming users
changePlease take some care when welcoming users. You welcomed user Jadenzering1022 after he/she had vandalized several times and made no good edits. If we welcome vandals at all, we use the welcome message designed for that. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:53, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- I really cannot believe I made that mistake, noted anyways... George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 19:09, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
Userbox
changeGeorge, please email me. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 23:08, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- Ok... George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 06:51, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Resolved, thanks. George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 16:45, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 December 2014
change- In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders
- Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results
- Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!
- Traffic report: A December Lull
Wikidata weekly summary #138
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- Discussions
- Open RfAs: Petr Matas
- Closed RfAs: Jared Preston (Successful)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: subproperty of, mandatory qualifier, NIST/CODATA ID, EgliseInfo ID
- New task forces: Freebase, Sled dog racing
- Showcase items: Lion
- Development
- Happy holidays from the dev team, everyone :)
- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Wikipedia
- Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements, language fallback, and property data type
- Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment
- Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup)
- Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign
- Ongoing work on the WikibaseJavaScriptApi extension that was split from the Wikibase code base
- Finished tree of life
- Some more work on support for units
- Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator
- Wikidata Query has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a load balancer in front of it.
- The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when adding new statements should be even better now.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 24 December 2014
change- From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief
- In the media: Wales on GamerGate
- Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.
- WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost
- Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased
User: Lombardi4kids
changeHi George! Do you know why there is a vandalism notice on the User:Lombardi4kids page? She does not know how to add templates so I am concerned.Smlombardi (talk) 18:46, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
- It was just a random IP user, so don't worry about it. Auntof6 quickly reverted the user's actions. George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 18:59, 31 December 2014 (UTC)