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former resident of
[edit]In your very good options available - have you ever considered the boxes:
- this person is a former resident of... ??
- this person is interested in x as a former resident... ??
- Just curious. JarrahTree 12:04 pm, 16 January 2019, Wednesday (19 days ago) (UTC+8)
- I certainly could, although you're the first person to request it. The options 72, 73, 37, 51, 52, 53, 54, and 35 of the User in region templates produce the following:
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{{User in Tasmania
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{{User in Tasmania
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{{User in Tasmania
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- I could add a verb option to Template:User lives in so you could change This user lives in to This user lived in, This user has lived in, This user formerly lived in, This user once lived in, This user is a former resident of, etc. This would give you the option to cite a town as well as a region. If your verb phrase gets to long, you will run out of space in the userbox. What do you think? Buaidh talk contribs 12:33 pm, 16 January 2019, Wednesday (19 days ago) (UTC+8)
thank you
[edit]for the welcome! Nomad5515 (talk) 6:52 pm, 16 January 2019, Wednesday (19 days ago) (UTC+8)
Jimi Hendrix
[edit]I do not agree with the amount of categories at Jimi Hendrix - I believe there is something seriously wrong there
— User:JarrahTree
— https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Categorization&diff=879139554&oldid=879137969
[1][2] fixes two things that were wrong, but otherwise there is no obvious duplication. Mitch Ames (talk) 9:10 pm, 19 January 2019, Saturday (16 days ago) (UTC+8)
- Speaking of JH, see Portal:Jimi Hendrix. — The Transhumanist 5:28 pm, 20 January 2019, Sunday (15 days ago) (UTC+8)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #026, 20 Jan 2019
[edit]Well, here's the first issue of the new year. Enjoy...
New participants
[edit]A hearty welcome to new arrivals to the portals department:
Harvesting categories tool prototype
[edit]DannyS712 has created a user script prototype, User:DannyS712/Cat links, that can pull members from a category, a functionality we've been after since the project's revamp last Spring. Now, it's a matter of applying this technique to scripts that will place the items where needed, such as with a section starter script and/or portal builder script.
New portals since last issue
[edit]- Academic publishing
- Accounting
- Adam and Eve
- African Great Lakes
- Al Green
- Alternative views
- America's Next Top Model
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Angles
- Applied mathematics
- Arabic
- Areas of mathematics
- Atlanta metropolitan area
- Atlantic Ocean
- Big Bash League
- Bijelo Dugme
- Bill Cosby
- Boats
- Bombardier Aerospace
- Bruce Willis
- Canadian law
- Cannons
- Caribbean American
- Chinese American
- Chinese Canadians
- Chinese gardens
- Chris Brown
- City
- Common law
- Criminal law
- Czechoslovakia
- Data
- Data warehouses
- DC Comics
- Deities
- DeKalb County
- Destiny's Child
- Differential equations
- Discrete geometry
- East Asia
- Economy of China
- Economy of India
- Economy of Malaysia
- Economy of the United Kingdom
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Email clients
- E
- Equations
- European Americans
- Filipino Americans
- Football in Algeria
- Fox Corporation
- Fractions and ratios
- Functional analysis
- Game theory
- Girlguiding
- Gloucestershire
- Grazhdanskaya Oborona
- Greek diaspora
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Hilbert's problems
- Hoodoo Gurus
- Hyundai Motor Company
- Iggy Azalea
- Indian Ocean
- Infinity
- Information theory
- Integrals
- Irish diaspora
- Irrational numbers
- Italian diaspora
- Japanese diaspora
- J. Cole
- Jennifer Lopez
- Jessica Lange
- John Fogerty
- Kehlani
- Kiev
- K. Michelle
- Knot theory
- Kool & the Gang
- Lakes in China
- Lake Van
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Limerick
- Literary composition
- Long Island Rail Road
- Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
- Lukas Graham
- Mathematical optimization
- Matt Damon
- Merchant ships
- Metallic means
- Metro-North Railroad
- Microsoft Windows
- Military of India
- Miss America
- Modulation
- Moon landing
- Mozilla
- Music of Ireland
- Narratives
- Nashville
- Nassau County
- Norfolk
- Nottinghamshire
- One Life to Live
- Overseas Chinese
- Percentages
- Probability distributions
- Public Broadcasting Service
- Quezon City
- Raven-Symoné
- R. Kelly
- Rodeo
- RuneScape
- Sarah Silverman
- Saturn rockets
- Science and technology
- Sesame Street
- Seth MacFarlane
- Ships
- Shipwrecks
- Shropshire
- Spaceports
- Space suits
- Spanish diaspora
- Steam locomotives
- Suffolk
- Suzuki
- Tanks
- Tensors
- The CW
- Thomas Aquinas
- T.I.
- TISM
- Tom Cruise
- Toni Braxton
- Toyota
- Transportation in the Philippines
- True Blood
- Violin
- Virgin Group
- Vladimir Putin
- Volkswagen
- Volume
- Warner Bros.
- Warships
- Warwickshire
- Washington D.C.
- Watercraft
- Web syndication
- Wikis
- Witchcraft
- Women's sports
- World of Warcraft
What else is going on
[edit]There have been some discussions at Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines. DreamyJazz is working on a bot to place links to portals on root articles, category pages, and navigation footer templates. Portal bugs are getting dealt with soon after they are reported. Lots of wikignome activity (using Hotcat, etc.). Keep up the good work. — The Transhumanist 5:27 pm, 20 January 2019, Sunday (15 days ago) (UTC+8)
Herding cats
[edit][3][4] - feel free to offer you own opinion on that page explicitly as to
- whether the guidelines should change or not
- if so, how?
- if not, (why) should we ignore the guidelines on so many pages?
Mitch Ames (talk) 7:43 pm, 20 January 2019, Sunday (15 days ago) (UTC+8)
Wikidata weekly summary #348
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
- Events
- Past: Workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata, 18 January, Berlin. You can check the collaborative documentation
- Upcoming: free software workshop (including Wikidata) in Lyon, France, January 23rd
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Côte d'Ivoire, February 9th
- Upcoming: Library data camp, a training for librairies about open data and Wikidata, Manchester, UK, March 11th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: WordLift ID, official color, member category, located at street address, charter URL, works in collection
- External identifiers: Crew united title ID, Genius album numeric ID, Genius song numeric ID, Litchfield Ledger ID, Microsoft Academic ID, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, REDIZO, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, Interpol WOA artwork ID, Online Catalog of Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal ID, MAMVP artwork ID, Psyl'list species ID, VectorBase taxonomy ID, iTunes TV season ID, Hungarian public thesaurus ID, TV Spielfilm film ID, Viperson ID, Krugosvet article, biathlon.com.ua person ID, RBU person ID, sportufo.ru person ID, Skiresort.info ID, Educational Institution Identification Number, U-DISE code, AISHE code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: inverse label, tussenvoegsel, Linked to profession, chassis, Swedish Organization Number, COOL species ID, Trading name, funk channel ID, personal pronoun
- External identifiers: Skimap.org ID, Gault et Millau ID, ID theatreonline.com, Swiss Films, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, sports.md athlete ID, iTunes movie ID, iTunes book ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, Smarthistory ID, World Cube Association ID, CORE (Connecting Repositories) ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, Homosaurus identifier, DIZIE ID, identificador Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Data Quality
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed a small bug that we introduced with editing badges on wd.org (phab:T213998)
- Finished collecting data about the user of the termbox (phab:T211015)
- Fixed an i18n message (phab:T206416)
- Created some maintenance scripts for creating and approving oauth consumers (phab:T211568)
- Checked for possible data coruptions due to an issue with change tags (phab:T213281)
- Fixed an issue with restoring merge revisions in Lexeme (phab:T204041)
- Configured WikibaseQualityConstraints on test.wikidata (phab:T209922)
- Turned on the new entity id formatting for properties (phab:T201838)
- Continued work on glosses, displaying the language name also in edit mode (phab:T209931)
- Starting investigating on Shape Expressions
- Mobile termbox: showing language, description and aliases (phab:T207150)
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!
Greetings
[edit]G'day Sunshine Happy New Year! (I've forgotten my password - hence the IP address.) Cheers, 2001:44B8:2AD:6404:D15A:5687:2538:36F8 (talk) 7:48 pm, 23 January 2019, Wednesday (12 days ago) (UTC+8)
Wikidata weekly summary #349
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
- Discussions
- Open requests for adminship: Deror avi, Wildly boy
- Events
- February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
- Incoming: Wikidata Lab XII in São Paulo, Brazil, February 14th.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Making Wikidata visible, by Martin Poulter on Bodleian Digital Library's blog
- How to query Wikidata using R, by Envel Le Hir
- Inventory of the Cleveland Museum of Art images, by Magnus Manske
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a tool to validate mappings between Wikidata and external RDF vocabularies done with the properties equivalent property and equivalent class.
- Topic matcher, a tool to help you adding a "main topic" or "depicts" statement to items about streets, articles, painting, etc.
- Editing Wikidata - Swedish Cuisine by JanAinali on Twitch
- City-Country-Shapes visualization based on Wikidata: how many of a country's largest cities do you need to put on a map to be able to recognise the country?
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: ELNET ID, iTunes book ID, iTunes movie ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, Skimap ID, sports.md athlete ID, Gault et Millau ID, Theatreonline.com ID, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Smarthistory ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, World Cube Association ID, COOL species ID, CORE ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID, JORFSearch organization ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: journal series, has alt-text, has lyrics, day of regular release, CBFC rating, full work on commons
- External identifiers: sport-strana.ru article ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, NMSRCP reference number, AKB48 member ID, TV Spielfilm Series ID, MCULE ID, Global Species ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis company ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis person ID, Musicbrainz Event ID, ManualsLib brand ID, LGD local body code, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary tune ID, Hymnary instance ID, Getty Images ID, Amsterdam code
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Protected areas in Germany
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Started development on Shape Expressions
- Termbox: show an expanded-by-default section for the user's preferred languages (phab:T211865)
- Provide visualization LUA usage on a dashboard (phab:T211768)
- Fixed issues with sense ID wrapping (phab:T210502)
- Background work to support the deployment of the next pieces for Structured Data on Commons
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!
The Signpost: 31 January 2019
[edit]- Op-Ed: Random Rewards Rejected
- News and notes: WMF staff turntable continues to spin; Endowment gets more cash; RfA continues to be a pit of steely knives
- Discussion report: The future of the reference desk
- Featured content: Don't miss your great opportunity
- Arbitration report: An admin under the microscope
- Traffic report: Death, royals and superheroes: Avengers, Black Panther
- Technology report: When broken is easily fixed
- News from the WMF: News from WMF
- Recent research: Ad revenue from reused Wikipedia articles; are Wikipedia researchers asking the right questions?
- Essay: How
- Humour: Village pump
- From the archives: An editorial board that includes you
Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
[edit]Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
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Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?). Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making. Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness. There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.
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Re: indeed
[edit]Oh yes. One day we'll have more former admins than current ones ... Graham87 7:02 pm, 1 February 2019, last Friday (3 days ago) (UTC+8)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #028, 04 Feb 2019
[edit]Here's a quicky status report:
- Old-style portals: 1,018
- Single-page portals: 4,367
- Total portals: 5,385
But of course, there has been more going on than just that...
Dreamy Jazz Bot is up and running!
[edit]Dreamy Jazz Bot has been approved and is now up and running. What it does is places missing links to orphaned portals. It places a link in the See also section of the corresponding root article, and it puts one at the top of the corresponding category page. We have thousands of new portals that have yet to be added to the encyclopedia proper, just waiting to go live. When they do go live, over the coming days or weeks, due to Dreamy Jazz Bot, it will be like an explosion of new portals on the scene. We should expect an increase in awareness and interest in the portals project. Perhaps even new participants. Get ready... Get set... Go!
Another sockpuppet infiltrator has been discovered
[edit]User:Emoteplump, a recent contributor to the portals project, was discovered to be a sockpuppet account of an indefinitely blocked user. When that happens, admins endeavor to eradicate everything the editor contributed. This aftermath has left a wake of destruction throughout the portals department, again. The following portals which have been speedy deleted, are in the process of being re-created. Please feel free to help to turn these blue again:
- Portal:Adidas
- Portal:AFC Asian Cup
- Portal:Airbus
- Portal:Anhui
- Portal:Bicycles
- Portal:Blue Cheese
- Portal:Boeing
- Portal:British Airways
- Portal:Carcinogen
- Portal:ComfortDelGro
- Portal:Construction
- Portal:Corals
- Portal:Cross-Strait relations
- Portal:Derry
- Portal:Duke University
- Portal:Electricity
- Portal:Ethnic groups
- Portal:Extraterrestrial life
- Portal:Flanders
- Portal:Fujian
- Portal:Gansu
- Portal:German language
- Portal:Gordon Ramsay
- Portal:Government of Australia
- Portal:Government of Canada
- Portal:Government of Hong Kong
- Portal:Government of Indonesia
- Portal:Government of Ireland
- Portal:Government of Japan
- Portal:Government of Malaysia
- Portal:Government of Russia
- Portal:Government of Singapore
- Portal:Government of Spain
- Portal:Government of Thailand
- Portal:Government of the United Kingdom
- Portal:Government of Ukraine
- Portal:Grapes
- Portal:Guangxi
- Portal:Guizhou
- Portal:Hasbro
- Portal:Hebei
- Portal:Heilongjiang
- Portal:Henan
- Portal:Hillary Clinton
- Portal:History of art
- Portal:History of North America
- Portal:History of Thailand
- Portal:Hollywood
- Portal:Hubei
- Portal:Hunan
- Portal:Hybrid (biology)
- Portal:Hydrogen
- Portal:Imperial College London
- Portal:Inner Mongolia
- Portal:Japan Airlines
- Portal:Jet engines
- Portal:Jet Engines
- Portal:Jiangsu
- Portal:Jiangxi
- Portal:Jilin
- Portal:Johor Bahru
- Portal:Julius Caesar
- Portal:JYP Entertainment
- Portal:Kedah
- Portal:Kelantan
- Portal:Kuala Lumpur
- Portal:Labuan
- Portal:Lee Kuan Yew
- Portal:Liaoning
- Portal:Lufthansa
- Portal:Magnetism
- Portal:McLaren
- Portal:Menstrual cycle
- Portal:Monash University
- Portal:Mutations
- Portal:Nanyang Technological University
- Portal:National University of Singapore
- Portal:Negeri Sembilan
- Portal:Nestlé
- Portal:Nike, Inc.
- Portal:Ningxia
- Portal:Nissan
- Portal:North Africa
- Portal:North Pole
- Portal:Pahang
- Portal:Penang
- Portal:PepsiCo
- Portal:Perak
- Portal:Perlis
- Portal:Qinghai
- Portal:Quantum electrodynamics
- Portal:Quantum mechanics
- Portal:S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Portal:Selangor
- Portal:Shanxi
- Portal:Sichuan
- Portal:SM Entertainment
- Portal:South Pole
- Portal:Subway (restaurant)
- Portal:Temperature
- Portal:Terengganu
- Portal:Uber
- Portal:Veterinary medicine
- Portal:Volvo Buses
- Portal:Walgreens
- Portal:Walmart
- Portal:Xinjiang
- Portal:Yahoo!
- Portal:Yale University
- Portal:YG Entertainment
- Portal:Yunnan
- Portal:Zhejiang
And the corresponding talk pages:
- Portal talk:Adidas
- Portal talk:Airbus
- Portal talk:Bicycles
- Portal talk:Boeing
- Portal talk:Carcinogen
- Portal talk:Corals
- Portal talk:Duke University
- Portal talk:Electricity
- Portal talk:Ethnic groups
- Portal talk:Flanders
- Portal talk:Fujian
- Portal talk:German language
- Portal talk:Girls' Generation
- Portal talk:Government of Australia
- Portal talk:Government of Canada
- Portal talk:Government of Hong Kong
- Portal talk:Government of Indonesia
- Portal talk:Government of Ireland
- Portal talk:Government of Japan
- Portal talk:Government of Malaysia
- Portal talk:Government of Russia
- Portal talk:Government of Singapore
- Portal talk:Government of Spain
- Portal talk:Government of Thailand
- Portal talk:Government of the United Kingdom
- Portal talk:Government of Ukraine
- Portal talk:Grapes
- Portal talk:Guangxi
- Portal talk:Hebei
- Portal talk:Henan
- Portal talk:Hillary Clinton
- Portal talk:History of art
- Portal talk:Hollywood
- Portal talk:Hubei
- Portal talk:Hunan
- Portal talk:Hybrid (biology)
- Portal talk:Imperial College London
- Portal talk:Inner Mongolia
- Portal talk:Jet engines
- Portal talk:Jet Engines
- Portal talk:Jiangsu
- Portal talk:Johor Bahru
- Portal talk:Julius Caesar
- Portal talk:JYP Entertainment
- Portal talk:Kuala Lumpur
- Portal talk:Lee Kuan Yew
- Portal talk:Lufthansa
- Portal talk:Magnetism
- Portal talk:Menstrual cycle
- Portal talk:Monash University
- Portal talk:Mutations
- Portal talk:Nanyang Technological University
- Portal talk:National University of Singapore
- Portal talk:Nike, Inc.
- Portal talk:North Africa
- Portal talk:PepsiCo
- Portal talk:Quantum electrodynamics
- Portal talk:Quantum mechanics
- Portal talk:Sichuan
- Portal talk:SM Entertainment
- Portal talk:Subway (restaurant)
- Portal talk:Temperature
- Portal talk:Veterinary medicine
- Portal talk:Walgreens
- Portal talk:Walmart
- Portal talk:Xinjiang
- Portal talk:Yale University
- Portal talk:YG Entertainment
- Portal talk:Yunnan
New portals since the last issue
[edit]- Portal:American Horror Story
- Portal:Bad Religion
- Portal:Bicycles
- Portal:British Airways
- Portal:Campania
- Portal:Ciara
- Portal:Derry
- Portal:Extraterrestrial life
- Portal:Fujian
- Portal:Guangxi
- Portal:Imperial College London
- Portal:Islamic Golden Age
- Portal:Ivy Queen
- Portal:Japan Airlines
- Portal:Japanese language
- Portal:Kate Ceberano
- Portal:Labuan
- Portal:LL Cool J
- Portal:New York City Police Department
- Portal:Penang
- Portal:PepsiCo
- Portal:Perak
- Portal:Perlis
- Portal:Politics of Ukraine
- Portal:Quantum mechanics
- Portal:Salads
- Portal:Selangor
- Portal:Shaquille O'Neal
- Portal:South Pole
- Portal:Supermarket
- Portal:Temperature
- Portal:Terengganu
- Portal:The Fairly OddParents
- Portal:The Incredibles
- Portal:Vassar College
- Portal:Voivod (band)
- Portal:Yu-Gi-Oh!
Keep up the great work
[edit]Until next time, — The Transhumanist 6:09 pm, Today (UTC+8)
Tibet / Tibetan Buddhism
[edit]What did you mean? Please be more specific. — The Transhumanist 6:11 pm, Today (UTC+8)
Creating new portals
[edit]Roughly how many do you expect to be making? — The Transhumanist 6:13 pm, Today (UTC+8)
Wikidata weekly summary #350
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
- Press, articles, blog posts
- „Eisberg voraus!“ – Sächsische Landeskunde mit SXRM, Wikisource und Wikidata by Jens Bemme (in German)
- Linking the OLAC Video Game Vocabulary with Wikidata by Tracy Hoffmann and Peter Chan
- Adam blogged about how to update an existing Wikibase docker instance
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Got some time? SpeedPatrolling, a tool to simplify patrolling of recent changes on Wikidata (documentation), has been announced and you can use it to help fight vandalism.
- Got some time? Match some streets and the humans they are named after.
- Got some time? Help link OpenStreetMap and Wikidata Items with the new OSM <-> Wikidata matcher.
- Wikidata Query Service now has over 7 billion triples.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: affiliation string, RightsStatement status according to source website, trading name, Alexander–Briggs notation
- External identifiers: DIZIE ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, sport-strana.ru article ID, Homosaurus ID, funk channel ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, infosport.ru person ID, ManualsLib brand ID, MusicBrainz event ID, LGD local body code, HAER ID, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary instance ID, Hymnary tune ID, Global Species ID, Amsterdam code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: does not have quality (2), Den Digitale Byport-ID, expression of, calendar feed url, Total goals in career, Strepsiptera database species ID, Brentidae of the world species ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID, WBCHSE code
- External identifiers: Douban Book ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Author ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili user ID, QQ number, Bilibili video ID, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Mtime movie ID, Mtime people ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, Eventa Servo ID, Rocks Backpages author ID, Rocks Backpages artist ID, Rocks Backpages publication ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, Democracy Club ID, ISA ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schutzgebiete-ID, DALFAN ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Bildarchiv, Herder-Institut, IEEEXplore document ID, IEEEXplore author ID, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Twitter user ID, Australian Antarctic Data Center, Enciclopedia delle donne ID
- Deleted properties: P1112 (Pokédex number)
- Query examples:
- Common topics of publications by people affiliated with a given organization
- World __ days and other awareness days in calendar order (Source)
- timeline of writing systems (source)
- family tree of Donald Duck (source)
- Common long words in titles of scholarly articles (source)
- schools of magic by number of students (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Making progress towards first showable version of basic Shape Expression support
- Layout polishing for the mobile termbox (the box that shows labels, desctiptions and aliases) and continuing work on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" sections in it
- Added tracking for the number of Senses and Forms to our graph for tracking the number of Items, Properties and Lexemes
- Worked more on making it easier to set up Quickstatements in other Wikibase instances
- Preventing an entity to redirect to itself (phabricator:T214919)
- Working on making Federation (reusing Wikidata's Items and Properties to make statements) work for Wikimedia Commons to get the rollout of the next stage (support for depicts statements) ulrnstuck
- Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Commons (phabricator:T213975)
- Fixing Cognate support for yue Wiktionary (phabricator:T214400)
- 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!
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[edit]Up for a task?
[edit]Prior to April of last year, the portals WikiProject produced about 80 portals per year.
{{bpsp}} is designed to take advantage of {{navbox}} footer templates, populating 2 sections of a portal with each one.
The thing is, there are over 128,000 of them.
So, a simple hypothesis is that there are over 10,000 of them about subjects suitable for portals, and probably even more.
We made it to 5,000 portals with ease, and now we are shooting for the 10,000 mark.
The task, should you accept it, would be to hunt down subjects supported by navbox footers, and then use {{subst:bpsp}}
to create corresponding titled portals.
There's a script that makes this process even faster.
Once a suitable subject has been found, it takes between 10 and 20 seconds to create the portal for it.
At a portal a day, that's 365 portals in a year.
At 10 portals a day, that's 3,650 portals in a year.
Let me know if you think you are up to it, and I'll provide some more tips.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 21:43, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
P.S.: You thanked me for this post. Is that a "yes"?
Inneresting' - sounds interesting... JarrahTree 21:46, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Do you have more details or is that it? if so yes... JarrahTree 21:54, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
- More details? Absolutely! More to come... — The Transhumanist 21:56, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
More details
[edit]At a minute or so, that makes finding a subject to make a portal on the most time-consuming part of the task of portal creation these days.
To make the hunt as quick as possible, you need tools and tricks...
importScript('User:The Transhumanist/SearchSuite.js'); //Linkback: [[User:The Transhumanist/SearchSuite.js]]
Let's start out with WP:SearchSuite. Let me know when you have it installed. — The Transhumanist 22:09, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: January 2019
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Italics in the wheatbelt
[edit]re your reversion of my edit ... Which specific purpose in MOS:ITALICS requires the use of italics here? It's not
- emphasis
- name of work of art, court case, scientific, vessel,
- words as words
- foreign term
Mitch Ames (talk) 09:45, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for your thanks! Biggest, scariest job ever. Worried that I would delete a species that someone else had spent hours on. Fingers crossed. (Still working on it.) Gderrin (talk) 01:31, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
Portal creation tip
[edit]Would you like to know how I create portals so quickly?
But first, do you use WP:wikEd?
If you use WP:wikEd, keep in mind that the following method does not work while wikEd is turned on. You absolutely have to turn wikEd off for it to work. Otherwise, wikEd will send the script into an endless loop, on every tab that the script is running. And that would be BAD.
That being said, the trick to quick portal creation is User:The Transhumanist/QuickPortal.js.
The way I used it on the provinces of Indonesia, was Ctrl+click on the various links at Provinces of Indonesia, then, in each tab, clicking on the menu item "Matching portal" in the Tools menu in the sidebar menu, and then clicking on the "Start the" link on the resulting screen (in each tab). Then, inspect the preview of the new portal in each tab, and click Save or Ctrl+W as appropriate.
Ctrl+clicking on the articles, will load each one into a tab. And you can traverse the tabs with Ctrl+Tab ↹. (In Firefox).
Enjoy.
Of course, feel free to ask any questions you may have. — The Transhumanist 12:32, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #351
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- Events
- Past: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata at FOSDEM
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- Did you know?
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- Making Lemma input on Lexeme pages save your input when you press enter (phabricator:T206140)
- Making QuickStatements work more easily for other Docker-powered Wikibase instances (phabricator:T205606)
- Worked more on making Federation work for making Statements on Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T214557)
- Working on stripping whitespaces at the beginning and end of Glosses when saving them (phabricator:T212019)
- Looking into adding more signals to ORES' vandalism detection model so we can detect bad edits more accurately (phabricator:T194737)
- Preventing a redirect of an Entity onto itself (phabricator:T214775)
- Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T213975)
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- 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!
archive
[edit]ah, what a shame! would be wonderful to have access to those. It's such an interesting period. The Drover's Wife (talk) 21:15, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
- Any other suggestions for uncovered article topics from that period? The Drover's Wife (talk) 23:26, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
- Not just Sydney inner life - there is a whole set of filing cabinets full of material for all of australia that is not in trove that unless it is in peoples scrap books - is very difficult to retrieve - my specialist areas are tassie 70s, and sydney 70s, perth and wa same era - but I do know that it is a laborious process as it is not at the tip of a trove tag, it is physical checking through and slow things... but it is nothing compared to what I am doing in another un-related (so far) project - try getting a handle on 10,000 + images held in a government archive, which I have to hand photograph... sigh, it is taking quite some time. So the answer is - the gratifying easy quick response aspect of trove is great until 1955 - it is the 1960s and 1970s of oz that one thread of canberra times items in trove cannot even scratch JarrahTree 23:34, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
Invitation to Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network
[edit]Hello and nice to reconnect! You messaged me on my talk page. I want to invite you to meta:Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network and you can invite any other Wikimedians in Residence. For about a year we have been meeting monthly at noon New York Time, which is 4am Perth time. Sorry about the disconnect, but maybe with some planning we can make it work. Right now the meeting is set up to serve Seattle-Paris, which I think is a 9 hour gap.
We post minutes to meta:Wikimedians_in_Residence_Exchange_Network/archive. If you want to discuss something you can bring it to the talk page.
This is a peer-to-peer support organization which seeks to mutually recognize and support each other. Consider also that if you want opinions on a matter, you can post a question to the agenda and answer will appear after the next meeting. Thanks, we all depend on each other. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:56, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
confusing moves
[edit]Hey,
Re. my confusing moves, the easiest way for me to create gobs of new redirects is to move existing rd's to the names I want, and let a bot clean up the resulting dbl rd's. So, if 'X language' rd's to 'Y language', and 'X' is best linked there as well rather than to an ethno article (e.g. the 'Eastern Foo language', where the 'Eastern Foo' are not a people), then what looks like a move from 'X language' to 'X' is really just the creation of a new rd from 'X' to 'Y language'. You'd need to look at the content of X to see it's just a rd. I know, it's confusing, but it saves a lot of time, esp. when I'm covering spelling variants, forms of the name with and without diacritics, adding/subtracting dab terms, etc.
— kwami (talk) 01:21, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
Reply
[edit]Hrm? Not sure what you're referring to. The Drover's Wife (talk) 09:11, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
John Olive Lees
[edit]Hi JT! I have just this morning deleted a name from the list of 1912 North Mount Lyell disaster casualties, in which you have an interest, having discovered that rumors of his death ... etc. Now I find that his name is mentioned in a paper The North Mount Lyell disaster - a miscarriage of justice by one Peter Schulze, published around the same time as the addition of the name, and wondered if there is a story there. Do you have access to the on-line version? I would be delighted to have my "bold edit" reverted if I was somehow wrong. Doug butler (talk) 22:53, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
- Many thanks for the Schulze text. Totally convincing, and I do know something of electrical installations, though 700A fuses are way out of my league! Unfortunately nothing about John Olive Lees, but mentions of my man Mervyn Murray were interesting and useful. His statement at the Royal Commission (not mentioned in the Schulze paper) that an electrical fault was unlikely, as the equipment came from the "very best suppliers", was however cringemaking. Doug butler (talk) 13:40, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
Kings Cross
[edit]Yeah, I'm out - unwatchlisted. They bloat the article, there's no plausible reason why there needs to be a gallery of six, you yourself opposed a gallery on the talk page and I'm being reverted by two people who refuse to use the talk page any longer (note that my ignored response trying to find a consensus was the last post on there). Have fun. The Drover's Wife (talk) 10:51, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
- Next time, if you're keen on the talk page furthering the issue, perhaps you might use it instead of joining that dude in ignoring it and reverting without explanation. I'm fine with some of the plans going in amidst the text, but neither of you were remotely interested in coming to any kind of consensus and I'm too busy offline these days to stuff around with articles where people are going to ignore discussion and railroad me with reverts. The Drover's Wife (talk) 11:03, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #352
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: NewDataB
- New request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items, Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion)
- Events
- February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
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- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Got some time? Add QIDs to the tools on Edit items, Query data, Enhance user interface, Visualize data, Lexicographical data, For programmers and List of properties. If some tools don't have their own Items, feel free to create them.
- Hardware issues at Toolforge and CloudVPS affect lots of tools and coincide with changes in the statement stats dynamics
- WikibaseCirrusSearch will become a Mediawiki extension
- You can still help Shani Evenstein with her research: Wikidata as a Learning Platform
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: drag coefficient, illiterate population, literate population, non-free artwork image URL, taxon author citation, total goals in career, stall speed
- External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle donne ID, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, BIDICAM authority ID, Board Game Atlas ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE publication ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Biblioteca Virtual Andalucía authority ID, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, JWF Wrestlers Database person ID, Indian census area code (1991), Lithuanian Sport Encyclopedia (LSE) article ID, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, UN/CEFACT common code
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- Query examples:
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- Prevent redirecting an entity to itself (phabricator:T214775)
- Make pressing enter when editing a lemma save the lemma (phabricator:T206140)
- Strip whitespace around sense glosses (phabricator:T212019)
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Incorrect tagging
[edit]do not in any way need extra items beyond the project tag - please do not add
- needs-image=yes |needs-infobox=yes
and there is no template named {{Years}}
. I just cleaned up about 10 of your screw ups. 76.127.20.109 (talk) 23:36, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
- again, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO ADDED needs-image=yes |needs-infobox=yes! Do you get it? YOU ARE THE ONE WHO ADDED needs-image=yes |needs-infobox=yes!
- try reading the article history!
- My diff [5] I changed {{Years}} to {{WikiProject Years}}.
- My diff [6] I changed {{Years}} to {{WikiProject Years}}. YOU ARE THE ONE WHO ADDED needs-image=yes |needs-infobox=yes!
- My diff [7] I changed {{Years}} to {{WikiProject Years}}. YOU ARE THE ONE WHO ADDED needs-infobox=yes!
- Do I need to list the other 5 changes? 76.127.20.109 (talk) 23:48, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
- Oh, so you do want me to list more of your screw ups? I'm not the one who started this. 76.127.20.109 (talk)
- As the editor above insists on repeatedly deleting my replies - admittedly on my part hasty and not that polite - that they were, with some time for thought in murderous morning traffic what had happened, I hereby offer an expanation in the expectation that the IP is located in New Jersey is simply an IP who has for whatever reason has found it expedient to edit from an IP despite quite a resource of knowledge of wikipedia editing. New users do not have the capacity to understand most of the components of the above.
I had been using an app that when the word 'years' is typed in, it usually links to the wikiproject years - however, it can connect with something other than the wikiproject, and in my editing, I had failed to see the result... despite the apps capacity to let an editor see the result of the edit really well before hitting the save button, I had not realised the mistake. So my mistake, and yes the IP is correct, but I do not condone WP:SHOUTING regardless of where the issue arises.
I often screw up - and gladly accept corrections, but I must say that I do have an inherent suspicion of IPs editing complex wikipedia tasks - I have never seen a convincing and comprehensive explanation as to why editing from an IP or, repeatedly reverting talk page messages, as an example of what it is all WP:ABOUT, but I am sure I could always be convinced if I had a reasonable explanation for the practices... JarrahTree 01:04, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
I do have an inherent suspicion of IPs editing complex wikipedia tasks
— WP:AGF - don't just mention the acronym in the occasional talk page discussion, follow the guideline, assume good faith unless/until there's evidence to the contrary.I have never seen a convincing and comprehensive explanation as to why editing from an IP ... but I am sure I could always be convinced if I had a reasonable explanation for the practices...
— Challenge accepted...- WP:VALIDALT - some of the valid reasons for using an alternative account can apply equally to editing while not logged in
- meta::Association of Good Faith Wikipedians Who Remain Unregistered on Principle
- Wikipedia:IPs are human too
- I occasionally make edits while not logged in, because:
- I'm not on a trusted computer and/or network
- Privacy reasons - I have been known to make legitimate edits that I don't want linked to my Wikipedia account and thus real world identity
- Mitch Ames (talk) 12:46, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
- your opinion was not asked for. JarrahTree 12:51, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
hello again
[edit]Yep, back making a few edits here and there, not that I have any more free time now than I used to but I'll see how long I last before burning out! I too was surprised there wasn't a 2019 Tasmanian bushfires article yet either... that's going to be a fairly big job... -- Chuq (talk) 12:17, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
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