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Wikidata weekly summary #257

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (phab:T138295)
    • Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (phab:T163144)
    • Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (phab:T110604)
    • Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (phab:T159710)
    • Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (phab:T160530)
    • Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (phab:T162342)
    • Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (phab:T160048)
    • Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
    • Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (phab:T157466)

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Wednesday night you are invited! Bay Area WikiSalon

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
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The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather for the Bay Area WikiSalon series to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

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Status of University of California Student Association

James: The Wikipedia article about the University of California Student Association has a fundamental flaw. The UCSA’s primary governing document is titled “Charter…” and that title gives the false impression that UCSA was chartered by the public corporation named “The Regents of the University of California”. In fact, UCSA is an “unincorporated association” and is classified as such by the California Attorney General. UCSA has only two members: (1) Associated Students of the University of California (an independent, nonprofit, unincorporated association) and (2) The Regents of the University of California (doing business under the fictitious names “Associated Students, University of California, Davis”, “Associated Students of the University of California, Irvine”, and other UC “Associated Student” organizations).

This anomalous situation grew out of the fact that the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) came into existence before The Regents was established. ASUC and The Regents have executed a legally binding agreement which states that ASUC is an independent, nonprofit, unincorporated association. That agreement was entered into in accordance with Regents Policy #3301 (third paragraph); http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/policies/3301.html

The UCSA “Charter…” falsely states that UCSA was organized under the California nonprofit public benefit corporation law. The truth is that The Regents was classified as a nonprofit public benefit corporation in the early 1980s in accordance with the transition provisions of California’s revised “Nonprofit Corporation Law”; http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CORP&sectionNum=5000. It appears to me that the students have misinterpreted these facts and are proceeding on the incorrect assumption that UCSA is an “official unit” of The Regents and that UCSA is therefore a subdivision of a California nonprofit public benefit corporation. The Wikipedia article about UCSA should not be based on that incorrect assumption.

You can look up the legal status of UCSA in the records of the California Attorney General’s Registry of Charitable Trusts; http://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Search.aspx?facility=Y The “Details” page about UCSA reads “Type: Unincorporated Association”.

ASUC indicates that it is an “Association” on its federal Form 990; http://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Download.aspx?saveas=663087.PDF&document_id=09027b8f8021273b

In a letter dated January 25, 2017, the California Attorney General asked ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA to register with the Registry of Charitable Trusts, so that association might be an “Unincorporated Association” rather than a subdivision of The Regents. And UCSA might therefore have three members instead of just two members. ASUCSB does have its own Federal Employer Identification Number; No. 951792262. http://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Download.aspx?saveas=170125Z09461176.pdf&document_id=09027b8f802aa073

I am going to revise the ASUC article to show ASUC's true status. MQMagoo (talk) 18:57, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you're asking for here. Wikipedia uses reliable, third-party sources. Your wall of text seems like WP:SYNTHESIS. Feel free to open a discussion on whichever article's talk page you'd like to change, and the community can come to a consensus there. James (talk/contribs) 00:10, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
James: UCSA was initially a subdivision of The Regents. UCSA became independent in 2012. Some students confuse UCSA’s legal status with its tax status and then mistakenly assume that UCSA is a federally chartered corporation because it has been recognized as an organization that is exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. UCSA is not organized as a corporation under federal or state law. I added UCSA’s “Legal status” to the article’s “Infobox" in order to prevent that kind of confusion. MQMagoo (talk) 14:37, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
Please provide reliable, third-party, independent sources for your assertions. James (talk/contribs) 17:43, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #258

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
    • Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
    • The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
    • Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (phabricator:T107595)
    • Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
    • Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table

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Removal of Template:West Santa Ana Branch

If there is an error with the route diagram, then it should be corrected. Wholesale removal of information from an article could be construed as vandalism. Useddenim (talk) 15:02, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism (emphasis in original). Please AGF. James (talk/contribs) 17:33, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #259

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
    • Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
    • Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
    • Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)

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Editing News #1—2017

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Recent changes

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A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [1]

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  • Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [8]
  • The Special character menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [9]
  • A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption. [10]
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Future changes

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  • The kind of button used to Show preview, Show changes, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding &ooui=1 to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [13]
  • The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [14]

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Wikidata weekly summary #260

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Categories & Subcategories

James, Re: this change you reverted, Articles sould be placed in their most specific category. Transport infrastructure completed in 2015 is a subcat of Buildings and structures completed in 2015, therefore the latter can be removed. TiMike (talk) 23:34, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #261

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Everybody is invited to the May 31 Bay Area WikiSalon series!

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
A Wikipedia panel discussion about journalism

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. This month we are taking it on the road to Noisebridge makerspace/hackerspace!

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks. There will be periodic guided tours of Noisebridge. You can stay late, on your own! YeeHaw!

For details and to RSVP, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, May 2017

See you soon! Ben Creasy and Wayne
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Wikidata weekly summary #262

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Attending WikiCite
    • Showing badges on other projects (phab:T73887)
    • Improving label tracking (phab:T151717)
    • Working more on statements on forms in order to support lexicographical data

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Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering

How is Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering not okay when many other similar articles, such as the George R. Brown School of Engineering barely has any resources for the same kind of content? I will do anything to keep the article on Wikipedia because I spent the whole day working on it (of which most of it was removed because of rules I wasn't even aware of). I have been questioning your edits primarily because SJSU having to be exclusive from other universities, despite many universities having similar content (such as the template). If you could please at least justify your argument as to why the article should be deleted, that would be nice. None of your previous standpoints make any sense; surely some primary resources are better than near to nothing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SJSU Moi (talk • contribs) 19:57, 2017 May 31 (UTC)

Hi. First, please put new posts at the bottom of talk pages. Second, please sign your posts. Third, not knowing policies and guidelines on Wikipedia is not an excuse. If you are not familiar with wiki practices, I suggest reviewing WP:HOW generally; and WP:BOOSTER, WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, WP:IRS, and WP:HARDWORK specifically, before editing further. Thank you. James (talk/contribs) 10:29, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #263

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  • Discussions

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The Signpost: 9 June 2017

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Wikidata weekly summary #264

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List of University of California, Irvine people

Do you see any sources on the other names? They don't need references because the linked articles would have the needed info written in their main content! In this case, "Anderson and Land met at their fraternity in University of California, Irvine.[2][5][6]" is written in the SLANDER article. - TheMagnificentist 16:09, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Are you going to say anything? You reverted my edit so I came here to discuss that but you're not replying. I'm no newbie. I feel that the reversion was disrespectful and should have been discussed beforehand. - TheMagnificentist 07:05, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
BRD isn't disrespectful. If there's a source, put it in the article. Your point is taken, but OSE doesn't get to override the verifiability pillar. The other names, too, should be sourced in the article itself. James (talk/contribs) 15:18, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
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