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Don't be daft mate. MLA and MHRA guidelines stipulate that 40 words or more (Chicago Manual stipulates 100) is the minimum for a block quote. It looks idiotic if you indent quotations every time they arise, as you have done. --[[User:Knucmo2|Knucmo2]] ([[User talk:Knucmo2|talk]]) 23:57, 3 March 2020 (UTC) |
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These categories are supposed to be about the persons origins. Not everywhere they have worked. Rathfelder (talk) 15:43, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
- [citation needed] Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:55, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #403
- Discussions
- Versionize property definitions ?
- Closed request for comments: Non-free content
- Events
- Past: Warsaw, 13-14 February: Workshop to develop the data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
- Upcoming: March 12, Amsterdam: Datasprint Amsterdam Time Machine/Golden Agents with the ECARTICO and ONSTAGE datasets, involving Wikidata.
- Upcoming: FindingGLAMs Wikidata editing challenge, improve data about cultural heritage institutions, from February 17th to 23rd
- Tool of the week
- Looking for one of the 7000+ Wikidata properties? Try Propbrowse to search and browse all properties.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Cradle tool can now generate forms based on Schemas (example for human)
- Loading time of pages on Wikidata and Commons has been improved. You can learn more about page load performance and developing with ResourceLoader.
- Science Stories by Kat Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt, an application that tells stories about underrepresented people in STEM using Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, is the winner of the LODLAM 2020 Challenge!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: gained territory from, gave up territory to
- External identifiers: MOCAGH ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, AnimalBase ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, Canmore object-type ID, Clavis Clavium ID, CYRI ID, DANFS ship ID, Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, Gamekult game ID, Gamekult platform ID, GBAtemp game ID, Mendeley publication ID, Museums in Austria Code, Médias 19 ID, SerialStation game ID, TheTVDB person ID, TrueAchievements series ID, Canmore monument-type ID, Bollywood Hungama person alphabetic ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Jurisdiction List number, Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: energy consumption per transaction, yearly energy consumption, church patron saint, national identification number, Democracy Index, business model, intended subject, examination jury, depicted format, DoME artist ID, historic county, код персоны на elibrary.ru, applies if regular expression matches
- External identifiers: Patamu Certificate ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Annuaire des Maîtres d'art, Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas ID, GameReactor game ID, Fandango performer ID, Cell Ontology ID, ColecoVision.dk ID, BioLexSOE ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Colecovision Zone ID, Catalogue of Life ID, GreatSchools ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Mirabile author ID, Mirabile saint ID, Kanopy ID, Czech War Graves Register
- Query examples:
- Place names of Bergamo: map with pronunciation audio files (source)
- Number words whose number of letters equals their value: with Lexemes (source), with labels (source)
- Graph of the extended Kardashian clan (source)
- Scottish monuments with a commons sitelink, but no image (source)
- Number of films with LGBT representation per country (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikidata Bridge: more work on unsupported edit cases (unsupported datatypes phab:T235753, ambiguous statements phab:T240212, deprecated statements phab:T238660, unknown value or no value statements phab:T242747)
- Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
- Making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
- Style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
- Create Grafana boards to track the results of the tainted references feature
- Increase factor for query service that is taken into account for maxlag (later reverted) (phab:T244722)
- Fix edit summaries not displayed on client wikis (phab:T244129)
- Fixed some issues causes by the wb_terms migration
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance. [1][2]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).
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16:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
merging infoboxes
You have requested that {{Infobox automobile}}
and {{Infobox tractor}}
be merged. But you have not started a discussion at either page, nor have you given any reason. Without any reasons given, most people will probably ignore it until it fades away. Stepho talk 22:57, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- As the notification template I have added to both of those infobox templates' pages says, I have started a discussion - where I have stated reasons - at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 February 19#Template:Infobox automobile. This page is one of a set that is the venue we use for discussing hundreds of templates every month. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:04, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
- Oops, I missed that. Thanks. Stepho talk 10:52, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
Voice Intro Project in Poland
Please help: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:VIP-Dorota_Segda.mp3 Borys Kozielski (talk) 11:35, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
The Bugle: IssueICLXVI, February 2020
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Article improvements
Alte Liebe I Will Mention the Loving-kindnesses |
Valentine month, thank you, also for JSTOR source, will use the latest although it's very technical tough reading. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:34, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
Today's Alte Liebe became especially meaningful after yesterday's funeral. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:45, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
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March 2020 at Women in Red
March 2020, Volume 6, Issue 3, Numbers 150, 151, 156, 157, 158, 159
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Wikidata weekly summary #404
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: DannyS712, Fralambert
- Possible change of usage of "located in administrative territorial entity" (P131)
- Events
- Scholarships application process for Wikimania 2020 (Bangkok) is now open until March 17th. More information, FAQ, apply
- Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open from February 27th to March 30th.
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: More discussion of pseudonyms and historical place names, 25 February. Agenda
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Research office hour, February 26th
- Upcoming: Wikidata x OSM meetup in Taiwan, March 9th
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata's Linked Data for Cultural Heritage Digital Resources: An Evaluation Based on the Europeana Data Model by Nuno Freire, Antoine Isaac
- When Humans and Machines Collaborate - Cross-lingual Label Editing in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee: video during Wikimedia Research Showcase (at 30:00), paper
- Do you speak data? Wikidata as the Open Internet’s universal language, by Elisabeth Giesemann
- “Wikidata is just a matter of facts”, by Andra Waagmeester
- Does Biodiversity Informatics 💘 Wikidata?, by Quentin Groom & Deborah Paul
- Tool of the week
- Wiki Art Depiction Explorer is a web interface for adding depiction information for artworks in Wikidata by surfacing frequently used terms and providing suggestions. Read the full project description and documentation
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- QWiki, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute;
- soweego is an artificial intelligence that links Wikidata to large external catalogs. The proposal for version 2 is out for your consideration. review of version 1 is open for discussion.
- Wikimedia Developer Satisfaction Survey run by the WMF until March 6th (source)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Wikimedia community discussion
- External identifiers: Open Food Facts label, BioLexSOE ID, Roglo person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: applies to name of object, Country of registry, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, generational suffix
- External identifiers: RealGM basketball coach ID, Irish playography person ID, Irish playography play ID, Mirabile title ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Filmfront person ID, Filmfront film ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, Glassdoor company ID, block creators, targeted block time, staking ratio, SOCAN work number, NHLR ID, The Washington Post ID
- Query examples:
- Importing from ThePeerage (Nov. 2019) added 50% to the number of Johns on Wikidata (source)
- SF movies and series with a significant character known to have been portrayed by an actor who was born in Liverpool (source)
- countries in Europe whose ISO 2-letter abbreviation contains letters not in the native language name of their country (source)
- places names in Wales with Welsh pronunciation audio (source)
- Map of types of GLAMs in Wales (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Provide better redirect for statement nodes (phab:T203397)
- Wikidata Bridge: style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
- making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
- research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)
- showing the loading bar while saving (phab:T237433)
- More work on wb_terms table and fixing various issues
- Removing all of pre-entity source based federation code
- Fixing various issues causing errors in production
- Investigate on an issue with pasting exact Commons file title (phab:T196165)
- Update the APIs to specify an errorformat and a uselang parameter (phab:T242769)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).
Future changes
- There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.
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21:00, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 March 2020
- From the editor: The ball is in your court
- News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide
- Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews
- Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?
- Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed
- Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman
- In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019
- From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?
- Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark
- Gallery: Feel the love
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Opinion: Wikipedia is another country
- Humour: The Wilhelm scream
Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).
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- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
must not
undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather thanshould not
. - A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.
- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
- Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.
- Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
- The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.
Request for Clarification
Sir, This is TheGoodIndian here. I see that my account on Wikispecies has been blocked infinitely, citing vandalism, on 1 March. The vernacular names for a few birds that I had added were reverted immediately. I am both surprised and confused as to what action of mine constituted vandalism. I can assure you that all I have done on this platform has been in good faith. I request you to kindly explain to me what led to this block. Regards, TheGoodIndian (talk) 14:05, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
- Your most recent edit there added a vernacular name for a bird which translates as "India is at risk". Others were apparently equally unrelated to the names of birds. You are free to place an unblock request on your talk page there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:28, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #405
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Kostas20142
- Events
- March 7: Wikidata introductions and editathon during OpenDataDay in Hasselt, Belgium
- July 2-4, Lisbon: WikiData Days 2020. Call for proposals is open until April 15.
- Program submissions for the Celtic Knot Conference are open until March 30th. Submissions about languages on Wikidata, GLAM or supporting minority languages are very welcome.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Tutorial on how to use machine learning with Wikidata.
- Bob DuCharme's blog post: Populating a Schema.org dataset from Wikidata
- About Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons:
- OpenRefine: results of the 2020 user survey
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Languages Landscape dashboard provides insights into the ways languages are organized and used in Wikidata and across the Wikimedia projects that reuse Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: business model, format of creative work, associated electoral district
- External identifiers: Adelsvapen ID, Irish playography play ID, Irish playography person ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Adventure Gamers company ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, NHLR ID, The Washington Post writer ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Type of bow used, staking lock-up period, validator bond lock-up period, URL match pattern, Pertainym, cognate, symbol of, transactions per month, compatible wallets, minimum amount to run a validator, minimum amount to participate in voting
- External identifiers: Kooora player ID, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, EcuRed, IGCD fictional car ID, Chicago Landmarks ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, BC Register of Historic Places ID
- Query examples:
- Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation
- British Prime Ministers with children under the age of 5 when elected, or born during their time in office (source)
- Timeline of countries of origin of the winner of the European Film Award for Best European Film
- People with profiles on the Washington Post website
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Started working on Federated Properties for Wikibase
- Bridge: more style adjustments
- Research on reference rendering for the Bridge (phab:T244987)
- Disable WDQS jump to focus when used in an iframe (phab:T245637)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [3]
Changes later this week
- If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [4]
- When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [5]
- On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [6]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all wikis from 5 March (calendar).
Future changes
- The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [7]
- There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
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wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage
was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [8]
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00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
This Month in Education: February 2020
This Month in Education
Volume 9 • Issue 1 • February 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue
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Don't be daft mate. MLA and MHRA guidelines stipulate that 40 words or more (Chicago Manual stipulates 100) is the minimum for a block quote. It looks idiotic if you indent quotations every time they arise, as you have done. --Knucmo2 (talk) 23:57, 3 March 2020 (UTC)