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You're mentioned in Beall's blog

See here. --Randykitty (talk) 17:46, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

@Randykitty: Belatedly: thank you. What a vague and unhelpful comment he made. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:55, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

ORCID invalid records blog post

While http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/10/29/concerns-about-dirty-data-in-the-orcid-database/ is probably not your fault, or problem, is there any chance you can help remove those (hopefully invalid) records - e.g. escalate it to someone more appropriate? John Vandenberg ^(chat) 05:03, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

That post already has a comment posted in behalf of ORCID, who are aware of and dealing with the issue. In the meantime, such records do not interfere in any way with the use of valid records. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:53, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #183

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Lakokat
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
  • Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
  • Semantic Cities
  • Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
  • Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
  • Past: semwebpro (slides)
  • Past: ODI Summit
  • Past: MozFest (etherpad)
  • Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul

Highlights of 3 years of Wikidata by Madgalena Wiegner

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
  • Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
  • Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
  • Ever noticed ranks?
• Development
  • Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
  • From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
  • Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
  • Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
  • Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
  • Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
  • Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184)
  • Worked more on making search work on mobile
  • Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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Tech News: 2015-46

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

• Superprotect has been removed. [1]
• You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [2]
• JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [3]

Problems

• Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [4]

Changes this week

• Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [5]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback. [6]
• The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [7]

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue X, October 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thon & editing challenges Belgium report: Flemish institutions start with Wikidata project France report: From Brittany to Provence Italy report: The history of Fascism in Italian libraries Macedonia report: Wikipedian in residence at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts Spain report: GLAMing Madrid, libraries and free images Sweden report: 55 000+ links to Wikipedia; Exhibits, concepts and biographies UK report: 'Hywel Dda' edit-a-thon & Pic-a-thon USA report: GLAM activities in Philadelphia & Seattle Open Access report: Open Access Week; Recent uploads Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Can you add references to a template?

Andy, I have been working on some cleanup lists eg Somerset and Bristol. I commented to User:Colinrosewell about Template:Rosewell family tree which adds a references needed/uncitedtag to articles it is included in. He attempted to add references to that template but says this broke the template and it has now been blanked. Is there a correct way to add references in a template?— Rod ^talk 08:52, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

@Rodw: It should be possible; having looked at the edits concerned, I'm not sure what User:Colinrosewell was trying to achieve. I suggest adding the refernces one at a time, and checking each is OK before moving to the next. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:41, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #184

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
  • Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
  • Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
  • Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
  • Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
  • Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
  • Newest WikiProjects: Education
  • Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
  • Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia
• Development
  • Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
  • Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (phabricator:T101694)
  • Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
  • Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
  • Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
  • Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
  • Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:04, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-47

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 this week

• You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [8]
• Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [9]
• The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
• Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [10]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [11][12]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXVI, November 2015

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-Class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on the Battle of the Bulge Op-ed: TomStar81 looks at the collapse of the Serbian Army in World War I Timeline: This month in World War I

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Naming conventions

Pigsonthewing, sorry about our disagreements over "You in Your Small Corner"‎, but you touched a raw nerve. I have raised my concerns over terminology before, in greater detail than on the talk page. See my comments in Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television)#When is a (TV) film not a film?. Unfortunately, it has not gained a response, so I would appreciate a second opinion, if you are so minded. Philip Cross (talk) 16:13, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 20 November

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Hello

I am enjoying this. Shedsue (talk) 14:20, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

hola

hola how are you? Parquesol (talk) 15:18, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

hello

Hi Andy! Drwgovier (talk) 15:26, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Hello

Thank you so much for teaching an old dogs a new trick. Marjorie Yvonne Eckersley (talk) 15:54, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Andy, Thanks for all the help today at the intro to Wikipedia held here at Manchester Library Media Lounge. SoundFlyer 15:59, 21 November 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SoundFlyer (talk • contribs)

Template:Ukrsrow

Can I get some input from you, please, on Template:Ukrsrow and the state of UK railway stations – D et al.

I amended UK railway stations – C to use Template:Ukrsrow (based on awesome regex-fu, fwiw ... how are you getting on with that?). And that worked fine, as it does for Stations A & B

But UK railway stations – D and probably others have stations which have no postcode nor station TLA ... and in some cases, have ad hoc links to a map and a timetable - see Dduallt railway station in the list.

Template:Ukrsrow is designed to handle the presence or absence of a postcode and/or of a TLA. Not designed to handle ad hoc values (e.g. a Template:Coord for the map and URLs for station details and station timetables). Were Template:Ukrsrow to be amended so that it could cope with these additional values, then I could continue on & amend all pages a) without information loss and b) such that other later can add stations for which we have no postcode but do have a location.

Right direction / worth doing? And how is your template-fu? Might you be inclined to get involved? --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:16, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Magna Carta Tapestry

Hi Andy,

Sorry to bother you so early. I just forgot to mention that, if you are still in Manchester, perhaps you would like to see the exhibition in the Whitworth Art Gallery by Cornelia Parker. She made a tapestry about the Magna Carta taking as model the Wikipedia page. I went to see it and I think is worthy.

Just another way in which Wikipedia is influential.

Once again, thank you so much for the course today. It was amazing.

Regards

Miriam Parquesol (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

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Navbox templates

Please see discussion of "Does the current text of WP:BIDIRECTIONAL have broad consensus?" at Wikipedia talk:Categories, lists, and navigation templates#WP:BIDIRECTIONAL navbox requirements. Montanabw^(talk) 01:41, 22 November 2015 (UTC)