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Asking for advice

Hi ZW, I'm not sure if you know that I'm currently considering retirement from Simple Wiki. The reason for my retirement? Other than fighting vandalism, I'm not sure if there's anything much that I can contribute here. There are few articles which I can contribute to, and articles of my interest are extremely rarely viewed. I even doubt those viewers are interested in the subject of my article. For fighting vandalism, there are many editors here who can handle that as well. I hope you can give me some advice on this, whether I should retire from here or not. I'm asking you as you are a fellow countryman, have the <redacted>, and last but not least, an admin worthy of my trust and seeking of advice. Thanks. Arctic Kangaroo (✉ • ✎) 15:05, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You can help at the Wikipedia backlog, which has many tasks and problems for people to do. Doing those tasks are really appreciated. ~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 00:24, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Whatever curtaintoad said, and do also take a look at WP:PGA, WP:PVGA, T:TDYK. This is a relatively small wiki, and we need all the content help we can get. Chenzw  Talk  09:18, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

OK, let me think about it first, and I will get back to you ASAP (may be as long as a month) after I'm done with some work back at en.wiki. Cheers. Arctic Kangaroo (✉ • ✎) 14:58, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Final decision: Staying. :) --✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 13:19, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Prediction

Hi Chenzw, if (I am not saying I am) I was a kid, making contributions here, what would you say? --Aaqib 16:05, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

You do realize you have already admitted you were in your rename request right? -DJSasso (talk) 16:08, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

I am scared to my bones know. I might decide to leave Wikipedia. --Aaqib 16:09, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 July 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace
• In the media: Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing
• Traffic report: Yahoo! crushes the competition ... in Wikipedia views
• Discussion report: Snuggle, mainpage link to Wikinews, 3RR, and more
• WikiProject report: Puppies!
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• Arbitration report: Tea Party movement reopened, new AUSC appointments
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Wikidata weekly summary #65

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

• Discussions
  • Alternative proposal for Wiktionary support
  • RfC on the sourcing requirements for bots
  • Project chat discussion about creating a new Requests for mergers page
  • One of our Google Summer of Code students is looking for feedback on mockups for Wikidata mobile
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MeSH Code (P672), Mouse Genome Informatics ID (P671), street number (P670)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 22nd, see the coordination page here
  • Addshore joins the Wikidata development team as an intern (project chat)
  • Byrial creates Statistics showing the namespaces used in item site links
  • Proposal for a new Wikimedia Foundation Sister project called 'Global Economic Map' that could use Wikidata at its core (on meta.)
• Development
  • Very rough and tentative timeline for the next month of development: mw:Roadmap#Wikidata deployment
  • Continued work on validation and handling of partially invalid data
  • Breaking change for 'wbeditentity' in the API fixing (bugzilla:49526) - when creating new items the 'new' parameter must now be given
  • Improved handling of broken UTF-8 encoding
  • Made it possible to enter the direction in a geocoordinate also at the beginning now (for example 52°31′N 13°23′E can soon also be entered as N 52°31′ E 13°23′)
  • Introduced PropertyInfoStore for quick access to meta-info about properties
  • Deserialization of Description objects in Ask
  • Lots of bugfixing
• 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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Adivce

Chenzw, can I add (using HotCat) {{Category:Buddhists}} to every known Sri Lankan Buddhist? Cheers --Aaqib 20:16, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) For living people, you have to have a reliable reference to give a person's religion. For dead people, a reference is recommended but not strictly required. See en:WP:CAT/R for the guideline. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:35, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Is it okay if I can notify a user if he/she violated a rule on Wikipedia that does not relate to me? --Aaqib 01:50, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Usually, yes. Chenzw  Talk  01:58, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Hey there!

Hey there Chenzw! Good to see you again! It's been, um... a couple of years. I'm glad to see you're still contributing to the simple wiki! — RyanCross (talk) 07:38, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

3 months short of a "couple of years" :P I hope you do decide to stay on and edit a bit! (of course I know that real life catches up, but then...) It's great to see an old editor come by after a period of inactivity - and I thought everyone was going to maroon me on this wiki... Chenzw  Talk  08:14, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

I think I'll have some time to edit more here and there now. Sometimes I'm on the computer when I'm on break from studying and I just ponder to myself... what am I doing? I could be helping people out, and Wikipedia is definitely a great place to do that with so many colleagues to work concomitant with the many tasks needed to be done. :)

Nah, I wouldn't abandon you because I'm never truly away. I always find myself visiting to make a few edits every year, but I think this time I actually want to become more active again. Maybe not as active as 3 years ago, but checking in hopefully a few times a day at least would do more than satisfy. I'm also surprised to see User:Kennedy too! If I missed someone, I'll notice them very soon.

Since I've probably missed quite a bit... would you mind telling me if there have been any major changes since I went on break? — RyanCross (talk) 09:44, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

As far as I can remember, no major changes in policy. Simple stub project has been elevated to guideline status, many more new cases of long-term abuse... Chenzw  Talk  11:13, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Ban of Aaqib

Hi Chenzw, what about my ban discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. Nobody has been discussing anything, and I have left a few comments. You may want to spread this out or comment. --Cheers, Aaqib 23:50, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

VIP Warning (discussion)

Please check User talk:Aaqib and look at the WP:VIP field and please say your opinion. Am I right or Aaqib? Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 04:44, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 July 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikimedia Board appoints world expert in women's issues, global south
• Op-ed: It's time to stop pretending the English-language Wikinews is a viable project
• Dispatches: Infoboxes: time for a fresh look?
• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
• Discussion report: Featured article process governance, signature templates, and more
• WikiProject report: Not Jimbo: WikiProject Wales
• Featured content: The week of the birds

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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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The Signpost: 17 July 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation's new plans announced
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Square Enix
• Featured content: Documents and sports
• Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case opens; July 22 deadline for checkuser and oversight applications
• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week

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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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Deflagration

I was about to delete this page because it's a copy of the enwiki article. However, I see that you changed it back in January. Do you see a reason not to delete it? --Auntof6 (talk) 20:26, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Nope, please go ahead. I edited it back then to detransclude a deleted template. Chenzw  Talk  12:21, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I have deleted it. --Auntof6 (talk) 19:29, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of articles

Hello Chenzw. I'm a English school teacher and new user. I've been working on a project with my class for them to make pages of famous Japanese people who are not on Simple Wikipedia. So far, three students have posted something, but all three were promptly deleted by you for not being notable. Was this because they hadn't any references? Is it possible to put some kind of marker on pages to ask for more time to fix them as the school weeks progress? All pages will be good under my supervision, but it will take time. Finally, can I retrieve the information that was deleted so that my students can pick up where they left off? Thank you, Hokusei Power Hokuseipower (talk) 06:44, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience brought about by the deletion. Can you please let me know the names of the affected articles, or the usernames of the students who were involved? I will get the articles restored promptly. In the future, you can add {{class project}} to the top of the page. Chenzw  Talk  10:29, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The pages were probably deleted because Chenzw didn't know that they were made by students. Please see :Wikipedia:Schools for more information on how school projects work on Simple English Wikipedia. Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 07:28, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Reception, your comment wasn't particularly useful here. Chenzw  Talk  10:29, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 July 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikivoyage turns ten, but where to now?; Wikipedia Zero expands into India
• In the media: Wikipedia flamewars
• Discussion report: Partially disambiguated page names, page protection policy, and more
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Religion
• Featured content: Engineering and the arts
• Arbitration report: Infoboxes case opens
• Traffic report: Gleeless

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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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