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Infobox CVG
changeCould you please delete Template:Infobox CVG? It's a duplicate of Template:Infobox video game. I replaced all the articles with Infobox video game too. Gaz and Gaming Fan (talk) 16:34, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 01 April 2013
changeNews, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: Who reads which Wikipedia? The WMF's surprising stats
- News and notes: Funding for the Wikipedia Library and six other projects; April Fool's Day ructions
- Featured content: What the ?
- WikiProject report: Special: FAQs
- Arbitration report: Three open cases
- Technology report: Wikidata phase 2 deployment timetable in doubt
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Wikidata weekly summary #52
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
- Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
- Worked on improving recent changes code in client
- Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
- Implemented string formatter
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
- There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
- There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
- We hit Q10000000
- A Wikidata item in the wild ;-)
- Did you know?
- There are a number of task forces that take care of specific jobs or topics on Wikidata
- You can get database dumps to play with
- There are a lot of stats about Wikidata on http://stats.wikimedia.org
- Open Tasks for You
- Hit a random item and add a missing source?
- Hack on one of these
Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.
Igor Janev
changeYou may help in making text about Igor Janev better. Please, do so.— This unsigned comment was added by 79.101.202.124 (talk • changes).
- That is something I cannot do if I know nothing about that person. Chenzw Talk 13:51, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 08 April 2013
changeNews, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Wikizine: Introducing Wikizine: WMF scales back feature after outcry
- News and notes: French intelligence agents threaten Wikimedia volunteer
- Featured content: Wikipedia loves poetry
- WikiProject report: Earthshattering WikiProject Earthquakes
- Arbitration report: Subject experts needed for Argentine History
- Technology report: Testing week for developers and their deployments
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Bot issue
changeHey mate. You probably already know about it, but in case you don't: GoblinBot4 is currently operating while logged out. Osiris (talk) 07:09, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #53
change Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
- Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
- Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
- Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
- Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
- Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
- Events/Press
- right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
- Discussions
- The RFC about bureaucrats was closed
- RfC about policy for translation admins
- We need feedback from contributors working on references addition or having tried to add references to statements. Please comment about your problems or your trials at d:Help:Sources
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
- Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
- There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
- If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
- There is a new user right: property creators
- There is now a page to request deletion of a property
- We now have Bureaucrats
- Reasonator was improved and extended (1 2)
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Help draft the next weekly summary
Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.
Thanks
changeThanks on the blockage on that user who was annoying the heck out of me and maybe several other users. Although when his 24 hours are up I'm still going to keep a wiki-eye on him. Don't mind if I can write back just in case the user is going into anymore trouble. Oh. how can I become an administrator to block users just in case I run into some vandalizing users? Thanks a bunch!!!! --TDKR Chicago (talk), 13 April 2013, 4:37 (UTC).
- No problem :) just in case that I may not be online after the block ends, feel free to make a report at WP:VIP if the persistent vandalism continues. To be an administrator, you must be subject to the approval of the community. Most administrator candidates have at least 6-9 months of experience. You should continue the good work you have been doing - you will be noticed eventually and someone may offer to nominate you. See also the guidelines at WP:CFA. Chenzw Talk 08:51, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Changing username
changeHi! Just saw that you're online and are a bureaucrat. Maybe you can sort out this for me? It's getting quite annoying to log back out and in again all the time... Thanks! --Mark91it's my world 08:46, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot! I merged my Commons account (thanks for noticing!) so most things are sorted out now. Cheers, --Snow Blizzard 09:09, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Deletion of Talk:Robert Peary
changeHi! Why did you delete the talk page for Robert Peary. I've read the reason but how is it an attack on the page itself. I've created some talk pages that are the same as Robert Peary's talk page. If its me please tell me how can I improve, but otherwise can I recreate the talk page as based on|John Doe|oldid=123456789. Thanks. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk), 17 April 2013, 13:46 (UTC).
- The talk page was created by an anonymous user (not you, you must have been mistaken) with defamatory content. Please feel free to create the talk page again. Chenzw Talk 08:26, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 15 April 2013
changeNews, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: How do we fix RfA inactivity?
- News and notes: Another admin reform attempt flops
- Featured content: The featured process swings into high gear
- WikiProject report: Unity in Diversity: WikiProject South Africa
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Some cookies for you!
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Always nice to see fellow Singaporeans on Wikipedia, whether it's en.wiki, simple.wiki or whatever language. 
Arctic Kangaroo 15:27, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #54
change Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
- wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (bugzilla:45005)
- Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (bugzilla:45140)
- Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
- Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
- Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
- Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
- Work on the storage code for answering queries
- Events/Press
- GLAM-WIKI 2013
- upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
- upcoming: Opensource Treffen
- upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 2 (infoboxes) on English Wikipedia is planned for April 22. All remaining Wikipedias are planned for April 24.
- Qualifiers are available now. In the same update several bugs have been fixed mainly related to Internet Explorer 8. At the same time search has been made case-insensitive. More details here.
- d:Wikidata:Notability has been completely rewritten
- Cool task force page: d:Wikidata:Video games task force
- List of Wikipedia articles that still have language links in the wiki text
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
Talk page revoke
changeRevoke Purplebackpack89's talk page access because I saw him making too many unblock requests. TwinkleUser333 (talk) 18:40, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
Talkback
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The Signpost: 22 April 2013
changeNews, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Milan conference a mixed bag
- In the media: Wikipedia inaccurate, says Florence; New Wikipedia app for breaking news
- Featured content: Batfish in the Red Sea
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Editor Retention
- Arbitration report: Sexology case nears closure after stalling over topic ban
- Technology report: A flurry of deployments
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Wikidata weekly summary #55
change Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Started working on support for the Time data type in the frontend (editing/displaying of time values)
- Fixed copyright tooltip’s issues where it was not possible to dismiss it
- Started work for making it possible to track where on the client a property is used
- Work on dispatching changes to Wikipedias via the redis job queue
- Introducing core hooks to allow us to avoid page re-rendering when language links are changed
- Implemented automatic comments for setClaim (adding/setting claim, adding/removing/changing qualifiers)
- Investigated issue where edit conflicts are detected in error
- Fixed wrong revision shown in history-view
- Events/Press
- A lot of articles about the deployment of phase 2 on all Wikipedias among them: Wikipedia-Datenfundus Wikidata geht in den Regelbetrieb, Wikidata goes live worldwide, Wikidata-revolutionen är här: Möjliggör strukturerade data på Wikipedia
- Wikimedia switching to MariaDB in c'T (German): Wikipedia wechselt von MySQL auf MariaDB
- Office hour about references (log)
- Introduction to Wikidata - talk at the British Library
- OpensourceTreffen in Munich
- Upcoming: Hypertext 2013
- Discussions
- RfC about vandalism
- RfP for oversighters
- RfC about interproject links interface
- RfC about inactive administrators
- RfC about permissions for rollbackers regarding vandalism
- RfC about Kinship
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Phase 2 has been deployed on English Wikipedia and all remaining ones
- Deployed a widget that makes it easier to add language links when there is only one language link on Wikidata so far
- Page to collect information about phase 2 on the Wikipedias
- Page edits have passed 31 million.
- d:Help:Shortcut lists shortcuts for frequently used pages
- Nice interaction of local data and data from Wikidata on English Wikipedias
- Did you know?
- Item Q12000000 is is the Czech Wiki entry about "Výškové horolezectví" or "high altitude climbing"
- Newest properties are: occupant, color (hex triplet), NOR, member of, color (item), opposite of, said to be the same as, IMO ship number, foundational text, Emporis ID, Structurae ID, industry, cohabitant, astronaut's missions, original network, launch site
- Newest qualifiers are: determination method, role
- Properties merged: sister and brother (discussion)
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Translate the Table of properties into your language
- Review a proposal for a qualifier property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- If fixing a particular bug is especially important for you then please consider voting for it in Bugzilla to help the development team prioritize. A list of all of the currently open ones is here.
Backlog
changeI have replied in simple talk. BTW what do you think of the proposal to limit the age of articles by a policy? Cheers, TheStrikeΣagle 13:43, 27 April 2013 (UTC)