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The Signpost: 31 July 2013

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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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Banned

How come Aaqib was banned? — This unsigned comment was added by 2602:306:ce09:8d40:806e:33d:8062:b5db (talk • changes). 19:44, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Any idea?

Hi ZW, you have any idea who ‎65.254.60.108 is? This IP seems like a IP-hopping vandal, since he targeted both of our talk pages, and both of us do vandalism revert. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 13:50, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

BTW, can you help me to semi-protect my user page? Thanks. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 13:51, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

I have no idea... though you are probably right - a vandal which targets user talk pages first is someone who has probably been here before. Chenzw  Talk  13:59, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Now that I look up the IP's origins and referring to my previous blocks yesterday, it might be Wikinger again - he has the habit of renting servers from other locations, from which he will edit. Chenzw  Talk  14:05, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for protecting my page. I tried to take a look at Wikinger's contributions, but the username was not registered. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 14:14, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Anothet thing, I see you were very active on en.wiki a few years ago. Why did you suddenly choose to permanently settle here? Prefer a quieter environment, or you want to help a smaller wiki to progress? Cheers. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 14:14, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikinger doesn't contribute under a user account over here. You can take a look at some of the range blocks and LTA blocks I made yesterday for an idea.

Actually, I started editing here before I even started on EN, and knew about this wiki because another active administrator then (not revealing the identity to protect privacy) was featured in a newspaper article. This wiki is much quieter, less dramatic, less bureaucratic. Chenzw  Talk  14:28, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

I just read his LTA report on en.wiki. Do you think we should revert all his edits? The report says some are good-hand, while others are bad-hand. And BTW, are you planning on creating any articles here? ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 14:50, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

I am more of a wikignome... for Wikinger, the good-hand edits can stay - he reverted his own mess, and I am not complaining :P Chenzw  Talk  15:03, 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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The Signpost: 07 August 2013

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

• News and notes: Chapters Association self-destructs
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Freedom of Speech
• Featured content: The great Colorado River and the mysterious case of the grand duchess
• Discussion report: Civility policy, geographic names, CheckUser and Oversighter candidates, and more
• Arbitration report: Fourteen editors proposed for ban in Tea party movement case
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109.156.75.92

Hi ZW, do you have any idea why Samlaptop made this rather good-hand edit? Or is it one of his habits? Cheers. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 14:11, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

It's one of his habits. Best bet is to block, revert, ignore. Chenzw  Talk  14:15, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Talking about revert, why aren't the good-hand pages created by Christian2941's socks deleted? (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 14:22, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Created pages? I actually can't recall any such pages. If you point them out I will go take a look at them. Chenzw  Talk  14:26, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

List of television stations in the Philippines and Cherie Gil. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 14:05, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

BTW, I have added an IP and some stuff on your Samlaptop report. Cheers. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 14:19, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for not finishing

I am sorry that I didn't finish doing the Template:Did you know adjustments (resetting the timer etc.). I just got a phone call and had to go somewhere and didn't have time. I hope I never make this mistake again. Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 16:12, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

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

• Special report: Jimmy Wales: media favors entertainment over raising public awareness
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Wikia

Can I talk to you for a second? Aaqib sent me here to invite you to a wiki he made that is all about Asia. I think you can help the wiki for him. Thanks! --173.53.52.217 (talk) 19:44, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #71

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

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

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Unfounded

Who gets to decide what is unfounded? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.250.144.176 (talk • contribs) 03:58, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

The Quick deletion policy. Your original "article" only rephrased the title. Please include a little more information next time. Osiris (talk) 04:08, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Talk page

Can I add a talk page header when the talk page has a blp header? --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 15:39, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Please don't. They all count as talk page headers. We don't create talk pages that contain only headers. They should be left as redlinks until there is actually some discussion about the article. Chenzw  Talk  15:43, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 23:44, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

I've created a list of talk pages that TDKR created with only header templates. It's at User:Auntof6/header-only talk pages. If no other edits have ever been done, can these be deleted? I'm willing to do the work. In fact, I'm even willing to check all pages with the talk page and/or blp headers to see if there are more like this. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:04, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Bill and Ted!

Be Excellent to Each Other Chenzw and Party On Dude!--86.134.181.234 (talk) 14:35, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

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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BFW

Hello, would you like to participate in the Big Forests Weekend? Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 13:28, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Igor Janev

Hi Chenzw , please tell me, why your Wiki has removed art. on Igor Janev, RM diplomat. Not prominent enough or something else? See [1]. sincerely yours, — This unsigned comment was added by 178.223.34.138 (talk • changes) on 00:12, 25 August 2013‎ (UTC).

The Signpost: 21 August 2013

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• From the editor: Call for contributors
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Big Forests Weekend

The Big Forests Weekend has now finished in all times zones. Thank you for your contributions to the Big Forests Weekend (BFW). We have created 36 articles and made 152 edits to pages already created, 8 redirects and a few disambiguation's as well. For more information on edits and articles check the organization page. I hope you had fun and that we will have another Big Weekend together! The contributor with most edits was Peterdownunder which beat Auntof6 with one edit.

List of all edits by all users

Peterdownunder : 66

Auntof6 : 65

Macdoanld-ross : 40

Reception123 : 25

Chenzw : 12

Thanks again. Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 12:13, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Deleted category: Active Wikipedians

Thanks for deleting this category. There are a few users who have it hardcoded on their user or talk pages. Would it be appropriate to remove it from there? --Auntof6 (talk) 11:03, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Almost all done... I have notified Barras and Mh7kJ on IRC about the category deletion. Chenzw  Talk  11:06, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #73

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

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

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The Signpost: 28 August 2013

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

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

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