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Bluff Knoll[edit]
Testing satusuro 07:49, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
just another boring talk page[edit]
Re:only part[edit]
Hello, I've taken as example Category:Populated places in South Australia --Horcrux92 (talk) 00:09, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
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seealso in Category:Transport infrastructure in Christmas Island[edit]
I disagree with this addition of "see also" to Category:Transport infrastructure in Christmas Island.
- Christmas Island is redundant; Category:Transport infrastructure in Christmas Island is already in Category:Christmas Island.
- Indian Ocean is too general in this context. (Do you plan to add that item to every subcategory of Category:Christmas Island (of which there are far too many!)? If not, why is this one special?)
Mitch Ames (talk) 02:32, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
- The above also applies similarly to other categories, eg [1]. Mitch Ames (talk) 05:13, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
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A new reference tool[edit]
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Total number of ants in Australia[edit]
Saw this journal when I was reading another, and I thought you may find this interesting. At least 6,500 species of ants could be living in Australia (of which 130 are Myrmecia). All estimations though, but I should say that at least 20 Monomorium ants from Australia have been described here in 2015. Burklemore1 (talk) 13:04, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 3[edit]
Greetings! For this month's issue...
We have demos!
After a lengthy research and design process, we decided for WikiProject X to focus on two things:
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Harej (talk) 00:57, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
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What happened to SatuSuro (I think that was the old username)?[edit]
Having just visited Leeuwin Current, and remembering you had edited it significantly and added info, I was going to ask if you could also review Leederville Aquifer, and improve it with your local knowledge. Looking for SatuSuro, I could only find yours! What inspired the name change? Cheers, Luxure Σ 08:18, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
mail[edit]
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I have unreviewed a page you curated[edit]
Hi, I'm Eat me, I'm a red bean. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Agricultural railways of Western Australia, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Eat me, I'm a red bean (take a huge bite) 02:36, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Rail Transport in Australia Project[edit]
Thanks for the comments JarrahTree. Ill take a look at the Scotland page. Ive got a few things to also jot down in my sandbox that ill send you later about a possible structure. Who might be a high up editor that might be a sponsor of such a project and might be able to smooth the way. Also, when you say that people take POV pot shots, do you mean contributors that come out with statements loaded with bias/judgement when they shouldn't (i.e. people don't stick to the facts cos its rail and rail makes people emotional)?
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Checkuser[edit]
Thanks for your e-mail. It was a lot of work, and it's always gratifying to have that work acknowledged. (Great picture on your userpage.) --Bbb23 (talk) 04:51, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
You added an incomplete ref in your recent update to the article. I removed it, but you may want to check to see if you can fill in the entire ref. Bgwhite (talk) 07:27, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
Signatures[edit]
What do you mean? I add signatures in RMs before original signatures for a bot to relist discussion. George Ho (talk) 14:27, 16 July 2015 (UTC) George Ho (talk) 14:27, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 12[edit]
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Vast Ego Humility[edit]
Hi, I've blocked this account as an obvious DavidYork sockpuppet. Thanks for reverting their edits. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 03:51, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Ross Babbage[edit]
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- self-promotional
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Speedy deletion nomination of Ross Babbage[edit]
[Notice removed]
Upon looking closer, I see the copyright issues were added recently and he does pass WP:BIO. I just restored an earlier version, effectively withdrawing the CSD and declining the PROD. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 19:11, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
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Category:Australian Dictionary of Biography[edit]
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Counting words in the Wheatbelt (Western Australia)[edit]
Re: [2] ...
I did boldly edit the article in the first place - and you disagreed with the edit. That's the point at which we are supposed to discuss it on the talk page and ask for other opinions if we can't come to an agreement ourselves. Mitch Ames (talk) 12:17, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
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Redirect question[edit]
Hello, JarrahTree. You recently edited Category:Wikipedia:WikiTakes Western Australian Wheatbelt Railways to make it a redirect to a page outside the category namespace. This generally isn't allowed; a category page should only redirect to another category page, if at all. Also, having dual prefixes ("Category:Wikipedia:...") is quite unusual. Can you please clarify what you were trying to do? I note that there are a number of pages currently contained in Category:Wikipedia:WikiTakes Western Australian Wheatbelt Railways 2013 that apparently should be in Category:Wikipedia:WikiTakes Western Australian Wheatbelt Railways, so this is not expected to be an empty category. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:40, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
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Books and Bytes - Issue 13[edit]
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Kimberley[edit]
How's it going? Do you think it would be worth doing a Kimberley historical timeline much like the Pilbara historical timeline that you did ages ago (which I was fiddling with today)? Let me know what you reckon. Hughesdarren (talk) 09:11, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
- Made a start, see Kimberley historical timeline, will continue later today, any input would be most welcome. Hughesdarren (talk) 02:26, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
talk about an over-reaction[edit]
Listen, you're overreacting. I simply disagree with your category edits, having researched a wide range of islands in Tasmania extensively. I've also done a great deal of work categorising a wide range of islands in Tasmania. I don't need to write on your page to explain why I reversed your categorisation approach. I know understand the history of the region better than most. Just relax.
- Thanks for your valuable guidance about how to research a topic, but I'll stick to my own approach thanks. If I choose to research one particular topic in detail before moving onto the next, that is my prerogative. Stop trying to read more into it. Wikipedia:Just_drop_it and Wikipedia:Let_it_be
- Unsigned obvious illustration of a lack of knowledge of how wikipedia works.
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Proposed deletion of Light Railways[edit]
The article Light Railways has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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- There is nothing (a) obscure (b) non notable about the publication, or the associated organisation. It is in fact the most significant long living organsiation and publication about industrial and light railways in Australia. Proposed deletion is both unfounded and unnecessary.Period. JarrahTree 10:19, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
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Review[edit]
Hey mate, would you mind doing a quick copyedit of Australian Legendary Tales? The cats probably need wrangling, and there might be some glaring text problems I can't see for staring. Hope all is well at your end. cygnis insignis 13:54, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 5[edit]
Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
In July, we launched five pilot WikiProjects: WikiProjects Cannabis, Evolutionary Biology, Ghana, Hampshire, and Women's Health. We also use the new design, named "WPX UI," on WikiProject Women in Technology, Women in Red, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. We are currently looking for projects for the next round of testing. If you are interested, please sign up on the Pilots page.
Shortly after our launch we presented at Wikimania 2015. Our slides are on Wikimedia Commons.
Then after all that work, we went through the process of figuring out whether we accomplished our goal. We reached out to participants on the redesigned WikiProjects, and we asked them to complete a survey. (If you filled out your survey—thank you!) While there are still some issues with the WikiProject tools and the new design, there appears to be general satisfaction (at least among those who responded). The results of the survey and more are documented in our grant report filed with the Wikimedia Foundation.
There is more work that needs to be done, so we have applied for a renewal of our grant. Comments on the proposal are welcome. We would like to improve what we have already started on the English Wikipedia and to also expand to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Why those? Because they are multilingual projects and because there needs to be better coordination across Wikimedia projects. More details are available in the renewal proposal.
The Wikimedia Developer Summit will be held in San Francisco in January 2016. The recently established Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in investigating what technical support they can provide for WikiProjects, i.e., support beyond just templates and bots. I have plenty of opinions myself, but I want to hear what you think. The session is being planned on Phabricator, the Wikimedia bug tracker. If you are not familiar with Phabricator, you can log in with your Wikipedia username and password through the "Login or Register: MediaWiki" button on the login page. Your feedback can help make editing Wikipedia a better experience.
Until next time,
message[edit]
Thanks JarrahTree for getting in touch about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_acts_from_Western_Australia
I need some help, I have a lot to learn, but I find the user guides hard to understand. Hoping you can point me in the correct direction.
Can you proofread it? What do I do to make this happen? (Not sure how)
Editing that large table was a pain. Rather not have to redo it unless I have to.
My useraccount Bottomupwebs is just used by me. Hope that is OK.
Thanks Chris Horgan 11:15, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Re: if you have time[edit]
Sorry, I don't generally deal with edit warriors in situations like that. Graham87 14:32, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Foreign nationals who have lived in Malaysia continuously for 5 years, can apply for permanent residency. For foreigners who are married to Malaysian citizens, the period required is 10 years. The application has to be sponsored by a Malaysian citizen. In order to apply, submit the following documents at the Malaysian Immigration Department:
If you look the Template:Ethnic groups in Canada, it was redirected to Template:People of Canada. Ethnic ancestry there including people who are permanent residents, temporary residents, expatriates, refugees and may include illegal immigrants. If we look into 2010 Malaysian Census, the Department of Statistics also include non-Malaysian citizens as part of Malaysian population. I think the template name, Template:People of Malaysia make sense. People of Malaysia means person who reside in Malaysia for more than six months. If less than six months, they should be referred as tourist. Alexander Iskandar (talk) 14:54, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Based on 2010 census, Malaysians includes citizens, permanent residents, non-citizens, refugees. In another words, any person residing in Malaysia more than six months (excluding tourists for short vacation) may identify themselves as Malaysian. As a results, 30 millions population is counted without excluding non-citizens. If we excluding non-citizens and overseas Malaysian/diaspora (do not reside in Malaysia more than six months) from Malaysian population, I am sure that less than 20 millions is Malaysian citizens who really residing in Malaysia at the time of census. Malaysian people is not equally same to Malaysian citizens because to gain citizenship is another story. Foreign-born people may gain Malaysian citizenship by registration and naturalization. In short, the Burmese who residing (legally or illegally) in Malaysia still subject to Malaysian law, so it is undisputed words for Burmese to be considered Malaysian. It applies to any foreign-born people who live in Malaysia.
Let me ask you why 2010 census counts 271,899 non-Malaysian citizens as part of the Malaysian population. Why does the Malaysian population do not excluding people who reside in Malaysia more than six months but being a permanent residents, temporary residents, illegal workers, refugees, prisoners, aliens, and any kinds of non-citizens. If we just only count Malaysian citizens as Malaysian, how about Malaysian citizens who study abroad, work abroad or live abroad. Do the Malaysian diasporas who leave Malaysia for more than six months are prohibited to identify themselves as Malaysians and being excluded from the census?? Alexander Iskandar (talk) 14:59, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
October 2015[edit]
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Nomination of List of ziyarat locations for deletion[edit]
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This Month in GLAM: October 2015[edit]
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The Signpost: 11 November 2015[edit]
- Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed
- Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee
- Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review
- Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling
- In the media: Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys
- Traffic report: Doodles of popularity
- Gallery: Paris
The Signpost: 18 November 2015[edit]
- Special report: ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed
- In the media: Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing
- Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world
- Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running
- Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales
- Traffic report: Darkness and light
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categorization of Toodyay worksheet pages[edit]
Regarding your recent edits [3][4]
I think that in the spirit and intent of WP:DRAFTNOCAT, subpages of Wikipedia:WikiTown/Toodyaypedia/stage II worksheet ought to be considered drafts, and thus not categorized. Mitch Ames (talk) 13:50, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
Lake[edit]
If it's also a locality I have zero problem with it being moved straight back, it just wasn't at all obvious in the text of the article (or it'd have stayed there). The Drover's Wife (talk) 00:21, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Death Template Alterations[edit]
A major change has been made without discussion to Template:WikiProject Death. Please see the explanation at Template talk:WikiProject Death#Images, and weigh in if possible. Thank you. - Boneyard90 (talk) 22:16, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 25 November 2015[edit]
- Blog: Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art
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- Traffic report: J'en ai ras le bol
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Wow[edit]
Not quite, just moving along with it when I've got time. I'm at work now, back in the Pilbara, but will be home for Christmas. I spend the last week in WA on a little holiday down south. Thinking of moving back to Perth actually. We will make a decision early next year. Sick of flying! Calistemon (talk) 01:18, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 02 December 2015[edit]
- Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?
- Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes
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- In the media: Is Wikidata as transparent as it seems?; Wikimedia Fund-raising drive launches
- Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
Books and Bytes - Issue 14[edit]
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 14, October-November 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)
- New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
- Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
- Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians
The Interior, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:13, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: November 2015[edit]
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The Signpost: 09 December 2015[edit]
- News and notes: ArbCom election results announced
- Op-ed: Wikidata: Knowledge from different points of view
- In the media: Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries
- Traffic report: So do you laugh, or does it cry?
- Featured content: Sports, ships, arts... and some other things
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 winners
Recent edits to Perth, Australia[edit]
Hello, and thank you for your recent contributions. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edits because I believe the article was better before you made that change. If someone types in Perth, Australia, the redirect should really go to that article, not the dab page. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you! Onel5969 TT me 11:51, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 December 2015[edit]
- In the media: Wales in China; #Edit2015
- In focus: Drone photography: New possibilities and new challenges
- Arbitration report: GMO case decided
- WikiProject report: Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations
- Traffic report: A feast of Spam
- Featured content: An unusually slow week
- Gallery: WikiConference USA 2015: images, slide decks, and videos
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Season's Greetings![edit]
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Hello JarrahTree: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America1000 19:58, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
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Season's Greetings[edit]
To You and Yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 22:35, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, etc[edit]
Your goodwill and good wishes are much appreciated. "Lord, gie us a guid conceit o' oursels". Bjenks (talk) 13:05, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
Because you thanked me[edit]
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JarrahTree, you thanked me for one of my recent edits, so here is a heart-felt... YOU'RE WELCOME! It's a pleasure, and I hope you have a lot of fun while you edit this inspiring encyclopedia phenomenon! Poepkop (talk) |
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And a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Poepkop (talk) 16:09, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 December 2015[edit]
- News and notes: WMF Board dismisses community-elected trustee
- Year in review: The top ten Wikipedia stories of 2015
- Arbitration report: Second Arbitration Enforcement case concludes as another case is suspended
- In the media: Wikipedia plagued by a "Basket of Deception"
- Traffic report: The Force we expected
- Featured content: The post-Christmas edition
- Gallery: It's that time of year again
Happy New Year JarrahTree![edit]
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JarrahTree,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Poepkop (talk) 13:34, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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Happy New Year, JarrahTree![edit]
JarrahTree,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 10:44, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
Syn?[edit]
Re: [5]
Making an assertion (that Category:Turquoise Coast (Western Australia) should be a subcat of Category:Wheatbelt (Western Australia)) by citing several other references [6][7][8] - none of which support the assertion. Isn't that a WP:SYN? 
Mitch Ames (talk) 03:48, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
Tourist info[edit]
Re getting tourist info (superseded, I know, but ...) – it could have been worse, they could have just given you a printout of the Wikipedia page!
True story: after I created Milligan Street, Perth, and while I was still trying to clarify some of the historical details, I went to the Riverton library to see if I could find any more information about the street(s) in the early days of Perth. I asked the librarian if they had any relevant reference material, and after a few minutes on the computer she handed me a printout of the Wikipedia article and suggested that some of the references listed in it might be useful! Mitch Ames (talk) 12:42, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 06 January 2016[edit]
- News and notes: The WMF's age of discontent
- In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE
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Chesipiero[edit]
Hi, I was writing to you this message when I saw your last. I thank you for some suggestions as the “seaofblue” and the “flagicon”. I’ld like to explain that I am checking every single lighthouse (I started by country) updating the infobox and the coordinates, both not always correct as therminology (square pyramidal rather than square frustum regarding lighthouse shape, it is not the same) the first and as the exact place the others. I started to create some pages but the work would be extraordinary Article created. Thanks for your support and all the best for the New Year. Chesipiero (talk) 15:12, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks[edit]
Thanks mate - and the same (Happy New Year) to you! Gderrin (talk) 07:23, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
- I know what you mean about heat (hope you don't mean fires). I had 6 weeks over there in spring battling the heat, flies and wind trying to take melaleuca (etc.) pics. Over here is cool but no eremophilas! No Gastrolobium either - they're all yours. Gderrin (talk) 08:30, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: December 2015[edit]
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Note[edit]
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{DelanyBB (talk) 15:15, 12 January 2016 (UTC)} Hi Jarrah Tree - thanks for feedback. I had to create another account, because I didn't register first time with an email address and then got locked out of it, so had to create another account with a verified email. All photos uploaded have CC sharealike licences. Perhaps I'm not attributing properly and you can advise. thanks
Eremophila etc.[edit]
Hello JarrahTree,
Thanks for your latest. It's sometimes a bit hard to follow what you mean but I think there are 3 parts:
1. Distributions: I think you mean I need to work out a better way of describing distributions. For some like Eremophila eversa it's easy - I generally refer to the biogeographic regions listed in FloraBase (same as IBRA?) For others, like Eremophila exilifolia which are widespread, it's much harder - I would prefer not to list 10 regions where it occurs. Ideally, I would have a map but that either involves copying the FloraBase map (which is probably okay but tedious) or constructing one myself. I've tried and failed at that (also labour intensive). In the case of E. exilifolia, perhaps Eremaean province might be a good idea. Anyway, I'll work on that. (Knowing someone is actually reading the stuff I write is an inspiration. I'll try harder.)
- Yep - understand now and agree 100%. I've noticed some of your work in this area.
2. Chinnock's monograph: I think you can buy it - I bought it a couple of months ago. Lots of on-line bookshops have it. It's a big book! Nearly 700 pages ~ $85.00. I rely on it heavily so I'm hoping listing it on every page might encourage people to buy it. Some pages are available in on-line previews. When I add a hyperlink to one of those pages, someone always takes it away. Not sure how to solve that one.
- I'm broke too - thanks to Chinnock and co.
3. Poverty bush/emubush: I agree - too many species with the same name. In general, I'm using Brown and Buirchell "Guide to the Eremophilas of Western Australia" for common names. It's also a beautiful book (~$35) with 3 photographs for most of the W.A. species. Not sure how to solve this problem either. Any suggestions?
- I try to avoid the temptation to list all the common names. APNI lists about 11 for Eremophila abietina
All the best to you - stay cool. Gderrin (talk) 02:02, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
BTW - looking forward to going west in spring to get some eremophila pics!
The Signpost: 13 January 2016[edit]
- News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee
- In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street
- Editorial: We need a culture of verification
- Op-ed: Transparency (by James Heilman)
- Blog: Inside the game of sports vandalism on Wikipedia
- Community view: Strategy and controversy
- In the media: War and peace; WMF board changes; Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias
- Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report
- Special report: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
- Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
- Arbitration report: Interview: outgoing and incumbent arbitrators 2016
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6[edit]
Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.
During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.
We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
- Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
- One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
- Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)
The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.
This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.
Until next time,
Your insights about Guy Grey-Smith Reply[edit]
Hi JarrahTree, Thank you again for your edits of Guy Grey-Smith, especially the solid citation of awards. It's a boon to have people with personal knowledge of artists, such as that which you clearly have, editing their pages. I hope we and others can add to the article more evidence of Guy's contribution to modernism in Australia, and/or more specifically to Western Oz. Don't let WP get in the way of writing about your experiences in the artists' group house...we should be careful not to let such knowledge slip away unpreserved! All the best, James sinarau (talk) 04:43, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Re: Meetup[edit]
Yep, I noticed that. :-) Graham87 06:14, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
- And I just noticed the edit summary accompanying your message ... "oh dear" is right! Graham87 16:13, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Crop image[edit]
Hello friend, I think while I was cropping this image from the original one, I may have missed a spot. This is the image (left hand side is a long thin rectangle of white), any chance you could crop it since you're an admin? I'm not familiar with commons so I thought someone such as yourself would know more. Cheers, Burklemore1 (talk) 06:20, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 20 January 2016[edit]
- News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out
- Op-ed: Not a pretty picture: Thoughts on the "monkey selfie" debacle
- In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up
- Traffic report: Danse Macabre
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Blog: Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske
Edit summaries are forever[edit]
Please remember that while Talk page edits come and go (and can be refuted), edit summaries are forever. Mitch Ames (talk) 13:27, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #194[edit]
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
- Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
- some visualizations:
- KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
- Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
- Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
- WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
- Query example: horses, French sculptors by year of birth
- Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
- Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
- New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
- Development
- und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
- Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
- Final touches on making search work on mobile
- Finishing identifier datatype and section
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #195[edit]
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: HakanIST
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
- Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
- Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
- How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
- What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
- We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
- Andrew updated his maps
- We crossed edit 300,000,000!
- Graph example: matrices
- Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
- Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Search now works on mobile
- Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
- Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
- Investigated further options for performance improvement (phabricator:T125502)
- Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500)
- More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063, phabricator:T124757)
- 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.
The Signpost: 03 February 2016[edit]
- From the editors: Help wanted
- In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board
- Op-ed: So, what’s a knowledge engine anyway?
- Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost
- Traffic report: Bowled
- News and notes: Harassment survey 2015; Luis Villa to leave WMF; knowledge engine background
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration
This Month in GLAM: January 2016[edit]
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The Signpost: 10 February 2016[edit]
- Special report: New leaked internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine
- News and notes: Another WMF departure
- In the media: Jeb Bush takes a swing at Wikipedia, and connects
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: A river of revilement
Wikidata weekly summary #196[edit]
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
- WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
- Hay created a new property browser
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
- Did you know?
- Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #196[edit]
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
- WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
- Hay created a new property browser
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
- Did you know?
- Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
- 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.
Books & Bytes - Issue 15[edit]
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
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 February 2016[edit]
- Blog: Antonin Scalia and the editor tracking his legacy
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Op-ed: Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month
- Special report: Search and destroy: the Knowledge Engine and the undoing of Lila Tretikov
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
- Traffic report: Super Bowling
Wikidata weekly summary #197[edit]
Wikidata weekly summary #186
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
- Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
- Timeline of Zika papers
- A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
- The museum map now works for all countries
- Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
- Wikidata BEACON has been switched to use SPARQL
- Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
- Reasonator has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Strand orientation, perimeter, sidekick of, bowling style, acceptable daily intake, operating area, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID, Free Software Directory entry, Sandbox-External identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Religions, Award
- Query example: natural numbers
- Development
- The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (phabricator:T2708)
- The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
- Input needed on caching for the query service
- Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
- We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
- Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095)
- More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
- Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
- wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
- 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.
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7[edit]
This month:
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) 01:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #198[edit]
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
- Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
- A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
- Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism.
- Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
- The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site.
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Köppen climate classification, superhuman feature or ability, married name, name, GPU, Wikidata usage instructions, autores.uy database id, stroke, bore, fee, production designer, in work, quantitative metrical pattern, used metre, recording or performance of, Italian Senate of the Republic ID
- Query example: battles
- Development
- Wikidata Query Service has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0
- Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
- More groundwork for Commons support
- Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (phabricator:T128078)
- Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (phabricator:T128075)
- More performance work
- In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (phabricator:T125712)
- More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
- 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.
Category:Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail has been nominated for discussion[edit]
Category:Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Peter James (talk) 21:09, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
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