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Another Barnstar for You!

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		Thanks for all of your work in translating articles! Ensignricky Talk 21:31, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

It is my pleasure! Rich Farmbrough, 20:10, 2 September 2013 (UTC).

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you very much for naming Yemen villages. Khmansour1 (talk) 11:42, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

You are most welcome! Rich Farmbrough, 20:10, 2 September 2013 (UTC).

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you very much for naming Yemen villages. Khmansour1 (talk) 11:42, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

You are most welcome! Rich Farmbrough, 20:10, 2 September 2013 (UTC).

The Signpost: 04 September 2013

• In the media: Manning "put back in the closet"; State involvement in Azerbaijani Wikipedia

• News and notes: Privacy policy debate gears up

• Traffic report: No accounting for the wisdom of crowds

• Discussion report: Arbcom election procedures, Wiki Loves Monuments, Privacy policy, FDC, and more

• Featured content: Bridging the way to a Peasants' Revolt

• WikiProject report: Writing on the frontier: Psychology on Wikipedia

• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case opens; Tea Party case closes ; Infoboxes nears completion

• Technology report: Making Wikipedia more accessible

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 22:07, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #74

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

• Discussions
  • Saskia has finished her analysis of the different Wiktionary proposals and projects
  • Oversight nomination for Ajraddatz
  • Request for input by ontology experts
  • Help Sven compile a list of major accomplishments of Wikidata to date
  • RfC about the Guidelines for the RfC process
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map
  • Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
  • 10 questions about VIAF, Wikidata and the world
  • Wikidata quality and quantity
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Potentially useful Coursera course about metadata and information started
  • URL datatype needs more testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GSS code (2011) (P836), BioLib ID (P838), IMSLP ID (P839), narrative set in (P840), Paleobiology Database Identifier (P842), SIRUTA code (P843), UBIGEO code (P844). A set of properties to build calenders: public holiday (P832), day in year for periodic occurrence (P837) and feast day (P841). A proposal for "reoccurring date in machine readable format" is still under review.
• Development
  • mlazowik has put in more work to getting support for batches (featured article and so on) to Wikidata
  • Jeroen gave a presentation on clean functions
  • More work on the URL datatype to make it ready for deployment
  • Continuous work on cucumber & moving browser tests to saucelabs/cloudbees
  • Simple query special page
  • DataValues reorganization
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 11 September 2013

• In the media: Lawyer goes to court to discover Wikipedian's identity; Storming Wikipedia; Wikimedia UK Secretary in conflict-of-interest controversy; Does Wikipedia need a "right to reply" box?

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Indonesia

• Featured content: Tintin goes featured

• News and notes: As deadline approaches, Individual Engagement Grants looks for ideas

• Traffic report: Syria, celebrities, and association football: oh my!

• Arbitration report: Workshop phase opens in Manning naming dispute ; Infoboxes case closes

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 05:33, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #75

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map
  • Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
  • Slides for a Wikidata intro in French and English
  • Speaker needed for a Wikidata talk in Slovakia
  • Blog post by Denny: A categorical imperative?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The URL datatype is now available. Go and add all the sources ;-)
  • Sourcerer gadget by Magnus to help you add URLs from Wikipedia articles for claims
  • Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on 23rd of September
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
  • Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
• Development
  • Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
  • Started work on number data type
  • Worked on simple query special page
  • Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
  • Worked on JSON dumps
  • Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
  • Continued work on the merge items API module
  • Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
  • Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
  • Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
  • Continued moving to new browsertests framework
  • Bugfixes on autosummaries
  • Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
  • Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 18 September 2013

• News and notes: Third time's the charm: the FDC's newest round of funding requests

• WikiProject report: 18,464 Good Articles on the wall

• Featured content: Hurricane Diane and Van Gogh

• Technology report: What can Wikidata do for Wikipedia?

• Traffic report: Twerking, tragedy and TV

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 07:06, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Please msaada with Kigezo:Tupac Shakur !

Salaam. I have just updated the above mentioned kigezo at SWWP. Pity, I can't find out where did I miss. It doesn't work at all - please be a pal and have sometime to crosscheck it! We need you there. Best!--_{Mwanaharakati}^(Longa) 05:38, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 September 2013

• Op-ed: Q&A on Public Relations and Wikipedia

• Traffic report: Look on Walter's works

• In the media: Fox News: Wikipedia abandons efforts to purge porn from online encyclopedia

• News and notes: Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor

• WikiProject report: Babel Series: GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!

• Featured content: Wikipedia takes the stage

• Recent research: Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia?

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 07:12, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #77

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
  • What can Wikidata, the collaboratively edited knowledge base, do for Wikipedia?
  • “Allow me to reintroduce myself,” say those in Wikidata and VIAF
  • Importing data from the Polish Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Denny's last day on the development team was today. He has a few closing remarks in this blog post.
  • Wikimedia Commons now gets language links via Wikidata
  • Stryn's request for oversight flag
  • Individual Engagement Grants Proposal: Understanding Wikidata
  • Terminator now also has most linked-to items with no label in language X
  • Draft for Wikidata support of Wikiquote
  • Open position for a JavaScript developer to work on Wikidata - please spread the word
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: KSH code, FishBase species identifier, work location, Commons gallery, heritagefoundation.ca ID, PMCID, city served, type of electrification, color space, activating neurotransmitter, anatomical location, postsynaptic connection, presynaptic connection, possible treatments, possible examinations, magnetic ordering, main topic of creative work, Spanish subject headings for public libraries, SOC Occupation Code, NOC Occupation Code, GRAU index
• Development
  • Said Good Bye to Denny - *sob*
  • Improved layout for commons sitelink table
  • More work on sorting
  • Worked on statements UI tests
  • Fixed failing QUnit tests
  • Deployed new code and updated sites for Commons deployment
  • Fixed a number of small bugs
  • Code review for Google Summer of Code student projects
  • Work to automate creating deployment branches and builds of Wikibase with its dependencies
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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