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Speedy deletion nomination of 2100

Hello Rich Farmbrough,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged 2100 for deletion, because it's too short to identify the subject of the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Joel.Miles925 (talk) 16:11, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Joel.Miles925: You made a mistake here. There was vandalism to the article a few hours before you tagged it for speedy deletion [1]. Rich hasn't edited it since 2004. --Hammersoft (talk) 17:25, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- There's a regular trickle of these sorts of things. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:28, 18 December 2015 (UTC).[reply]

I didn't know that it was vandalized... it came through the new page feed, and so naturally I thought that was a new page. I apologize.

Season's Greetings

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To You and Yours!

FWiW Bzuk (talk) 03:50, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 16 December 2015

In focus: Drone photography: New possibilities and new challenges

In the media: Wales in China; #Edit2015

Arbitration report: GMO case decided

Featured content: An unusually slow week

WikiProject report: Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations

Traffic report: A feast of Spam

Gallery: WikiConference USA 2015: images, slide decks, and videos

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Allow others to flood your page with seasonal greetings because Christmas is coming... Jim Carter 13:09, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Season's Greetings!

Hello Rich Farmbrough: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:10, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Complete list

Long time, no post on your talk page — hope you're doing well. Just wanted to drop in quickly to ask a question about an edit you made recently, to {{Complete list}}. The edit was the inclusion of the Articles containing potentially dated statements category. This category tree is built at the year and month level, however some uses of the template went right down to the day because that level of accuracy was possible, which broke the categorization when that was included.

Wondering if you had any thoughts on how that could be resolved without losing the specificity, short of creating sub-categories for every day of every month going forward? Mlaffs (talk) 13:31, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it did. Can you give an example? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:24, 21 December 2015 (UTC).[reply]

OK I found one. I will attend to this when I get in, in a few hours. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:30, 21 December 2015 (UTC).[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #189

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
Events/Blogs/Press
- World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
- You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
- Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
- Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
- Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
- WikiBrowser - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
- WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
- Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
- Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
- Query example: works created by females who died in 1945
Development
- <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
- We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (phabricator:T103102)
- Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (phabricator:T110648)
- Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (phabricator:T95682, phabricator:T121274)
- Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (phabricator:T95684)
- Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (gerrit:259171)
- More work on cleaning up the statement section (phabricator:T121390)
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) 21:59, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Technical Help

Hey, I need your help with this Template:Quote_Quran_translation. Can you please edit this template and make the text begins from the left side instead of the center? Also, it would be better if you remove this site: http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran/ and add this site: http://www.islamawakened.com/index.php/qur-an because this website has much more translations. And there's another thing – the template gives the "Translatornumber" for a specific number of translators, and when I replace the number with name of translator it shows "translated by error", for example:

Template:Quote Quran translation

I really hope that you can help me with this. Thanks in advance!--65.111.173.161 (talk) 22:22, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Most of this is overstyled for Wikipedia. I have made some of the changes you suggest, and replaced the "pull quotes" with "block quote". The translator number seems to be based on a table now long gone, I can't see that it has any academic or reference basis. I have provided {{{translator}}} to override this.

I will look at this again presently in more detail. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:05, 22 December 2015 (UTC).[reply]