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Wikidata weekly summary #194

21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Fairhead

Why do you keep censoring Fairhead's other current jobs on the BBC Trust site? You don't have a problem with Carr's other job. It is important for people to know that the Trust Chair has other jobs. Please explain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.132.107.40 (talk) 15:29, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:WikiProject MedinaPedia

Template:WikiProject MedinaPedia has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ricky81682 (talk) 07:59, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #195

Last December, I invited you to share your views on the value of Wikimedia conferences and the planning process of Wikimania. We have completed analysis of these results and have prepared this report summarizing your feedback and important changes for Wikimania starting in 2018 as an experiment. Feedback and comments are welcome at the discussion page. Thank you so much for your participation. I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, 22:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 February 2016

VALA

Hello from VALA2016

Hello Andy, starting with Tangyes lantern slides - after that beer. Elyw (talk) 04:43, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

GLAM idea VALA16

Thanks for the talks. Love the idea of finding local history photos or sketches. I will share this with the local cultural heritage librarians. HJLBeard (talk) 04:43, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello (vala)

Hi, I'm interested in the QRpedia project which is weird because I normally don't think QR codes are all that useful. Hmr au (talk) 04:44, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

From VALA 2016

Hello! Firstly, why pigsonthewing? Secondly, can I buy you a beer? Thirdly, I want a wiki-res to come and talk to the ACT Parliamentary library about our rare parliamentary author collection and how we can make it accessible. Jade Koekoe (talk) 04:44, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello Again ^_^

My Van from VALA.

This session has given the idea to encourage my local history colleague to perhaps prepare an article on the past and present of our library as our library has moved into the new building for about 2 years and the old library had been opened for 40 years prior. When I had previously researching about my library I had found very little information and this may be a good way for future students to find out about our library.

Mikki520 (talk) 04:44, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello

Informative! Interesting! Inspirational session! Want to learn more about Wikipedia.

Hi from VALA

Hey, i work in a public library and research my family history and plan to create articles relevant to my family history. Eliott george (talk) 04:48, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Hijacking your bot

Hey Andy, the IMSLP TfD has been finished up, but it still needs to have some (now) legacy parameters changed. I was wondering if I could use your bot to make those changes (both templates have about 2500 transclusions). Cheers, Primefac (talk) 02:59, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

@Primefac: I don't have a bot. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:15, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
Whoops, was pointed to the wrong person. Sorry! Primefac (talk) 01:19, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2016





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The Signpost: 10 February 2016

16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #196

Books & Bytes - Issue 15

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 15, December-January 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
  • #1lib1ref campaign summary and highlights
  • New branches and coordinators

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The Signpost: 17 February 2016

Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon

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18:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #197

Wikidata weekly summary #186

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7

Newsletter • February 2016

This month:

One database for Wikipedia requests

Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.

In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?

Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.

The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:43, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 February 2016

The Bugle: Issue CXIX, February 2016

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20:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #198

URLs

Hi! I remember some time ago you asked at VPT tool for better external links analyzing. Yesterday I came across this tool. It may be not perfect, but it should answer to some of your questions, I think. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 09:27, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

20:24, 7 March 2016 (UTC)