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IDP stuff
Hi Andrew,
I'll be coming along on the Tuesday at least and possibly the Wednesday too - though I may have to use the opportunity to visit the rest of the library (if it's too late to organise a reader's pass I can nip over the road to UCL). The period/region is not remotely my specialism so I have no idea about what should be uploaded. I'm just keen to see how the edit-a-thon works and how the archaeologists/academics get on with Wikipedia. Cheers, PatHadley (talk) 10:24, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Andrew, I am planning to come on Thursday. Tibetologist (talk) 13:54, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Andrew, can I come on Tuesday please (already have a reader's pass), Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 22:34, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
Sure! Followed up by email... Andrew Gray (talk) 22:49, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for helping organise the Ada Lovelace Day at the Royal Society. Wouldn't be half as good without you! Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) 09:39, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
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The "one link" rule/enforcement has gotten out of hand, I'm trying to get something closer to rationality. You seem to be one of the people with a "middle ground" view, and I'd appreciate any refinements to the proposal. If the proposed replacement at the top of the section is something you'd support, I'd appreciate it if you could leave a note. Thanks Boundlessly (talk) 21:49, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #29
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Development
Content Handler is now live on Wikipedia and sister sites
Prefix term search for entities
Fixed bugs that popped up after Content Handler merge
API function wbsearchentities
Discussed JavaScript refactoring
Refactored some JavaScript stuff (like options handling)
Worked on JavaScript refactoring regarding the API
Implemented entity selector jQuery widget
Continued deployment work with WMF
Poked at Vagrant
Create puppet scripts for setting up Wikibase instances
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Volunteer Training Corps
Many thanks for the Hansard extract; I've only had a quick scan through but it looks really useful. Alansplodge (talk) 23:37, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
The article that I started at your Dunhuang event last week is being picked over at its DYK nomination. As it may go to the front page soon, this would be a good time for others to chip in. Perhaps you might ask Susan to take a look... Andrew Davidson (talk) 13:21, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #30
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I wanted to check with you about the geonotices for Boston that were just posted. Thanks for your help but I don't see either of them on my watchlist and another local editor I asked didn't see them either. Is there something wrong or do I just need to wait a bit for them to take effect? Thanks, GabrielF (talk) 05:31, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
I figured out the problem - In the geonotice.js file under the end time for many of the events there is a . being used to separate hours and minutes rather than a colon. I replaced these with a : in my vector.js file and the notices showed up. )(The UK meetings are formatted correctly, which is why you were seeing the UK notice) GabrielF (talk) 17:26, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick fix! GabrielF (talk) 18:20, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
TB
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Can you please change the geonotice from "Join Wikipedians from your area at the Boston Wikipedia Loves Libraries event on November 10 or the Cambridge Wikipedia Loves Libraries event on November 17th!" to "Join Wikipedians from your area at the Boston Wikipedia Loves Libraries event on November 10 and/or the Cambridge Wikipedia Loves Libraries event on November 17th!". We'd love to have people who can, come to both. Sven ManguardWha? 17:37, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Training Session
Thanks for an interesting and helpful training session at the National Library of Scotland.Jennifer--Glasgow jg (talk) 13:36, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #31
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Development
Tpt wrote an awesome SpecialPage (Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel) that lists all items without a label in a given language (merged; will be in next deployment)
Tpt changed the page to create new items to allow you to enter links as well
Created patch for review for next deployment on wikidata.org
Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.
In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:45, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
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Geonotice
Hey there. Can you please change the Geonotice from the Boston and Cambridge item to the Cambridge only item, as we discussed last week? The Boston event was yesterday. Thanks! Sven ManguardWha? 18:07, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Sir.
Thank you for putting the question concerning Frederic Bourdin on the right place and sorry for the mistake. But as you can see someone simply erased it; and that's what the problem is; No one is helping me with this. Where this should be a simple editing problem it became a full mess because a couple of editors Bbb23 and Dennis Brown are restricting access to this article.
I don't understand why they don't let people edit this article with fully reliable sources sur as: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmmakersonfilm/9459425/The-Imposter-interview-with-the-Chameleon.html
and http://www.sptimes.ru/index_bp.php?action_id=2&story_id=36586§ion=4
concerning the fact that Bourdin's grandfather wanted her daughter(Bourdin's mother) to abort because of Bourdin's father was Algerian.
It's fact and part of every other Wikipedia version of Bourdin. But everyone that tried to change it has been blocked, threatened and else.
And of course it's very unfair and ludicrous.
Can you help me with this, if I don't find honest Admin who will look at the facts, then I will be also blocked because I tried contribute Wikipedia.
Thank you again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Idontfeelthesame (talk • contribs) 18:38, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi you may have noticed I expanded the 15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade article, after a copy edit by the guild I aim to put it up for a GA Review. Many thanks for pointing out the brigade history, if you find any more drop me a line as I would always be interested. Once again thank you.Jim Sweeney (talk) 15:35, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Development
Deployed new code on wikidata.org with a lot of bug fixes and a new Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel (all changes here)
http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses Wikidata (click “edit links” at the bottom of the page), and we are working to enable the synchronization of changes to test2 and display links from the repository
Added wbsetqualifier API module
Added wbremovequalifiers API module
New JavaScript wb.Api now used for labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks
Improved Selenium tests and PHPUnit tests
Selenium tests now independent from ULS
Selenium tests for statements UI
Existing statements can be edited now
Filtering anons and Wikidata in RecentChanges on client now works correctly
Added extra checks on client RecentChange save point to avoid duplicate entries
Started an experimental branch with API methods for claims
Link to Commons Media displayed for Snak values of related data type
Improved styling of statements in JavaScript mode
Improvements in templating engine
Started working on adding Statements to existing section of Statements
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The notoriuos wiki troll ( Iaaasi) returned
Hello!
The well known chauvinist romanian wiki-troll User:Iaaasi returned (with a new croatian fake identity) He is now active alias user: Irji2012
He is often active in Hungarian-related aricles, he enjoy edit-warring deleting good sources and sentences from important articles, and he like to break the rules of wiki even 3 revert rule.
Can you arrange about this notorious wiki-troll?
Thank you!
Peter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.0.49.97 (talk) 10:51, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #36
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Development
Deployed new code on wikidata.org. All changes can be found here
http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses http://wikidata.org for getting language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden)
Statements (think of “population: 2.000.000” and similar things) are taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at this point.
It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example)
No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database is set to read-only
Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser
Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
Removed many singletons to reduce global state
Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities
Improved settings system
Improved options of ValueFormatters
Improved options of ValueParsers
Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any violating values
Fixed serialization of SiteArray
~=[,,_,,]:3
Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again
Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks
Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests
Report URL to entity in wbsearchentites API module
Moved the demo system to a larger server
Fixed several bugs in Statements user interface, most notably, adding Statements to existing sections and layout fixes
Added wikibase API module on the client to provide information about the associated repo (e.g. url, script path, article path)
A bunch of messages for autocomments were fixed (they are automatically added as an edit summary for edits on items and co in Wikidata - for example: “Changed [en] description: Finnish rock band”)
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Bedford Psalter and Hours
Thanks very much for these images. Great job ! When will the BNF adopt the "Public Domain" license as the BL do ? Unfortunately, not for tomorrow ! Mel22 (talk) 19:17, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Original Barnstar
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Winter Wonderland
Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, peoples rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension.
Happy Holidays to you and yours. ```Buster Seven Talk 15:45, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. It's rather short this time because pretty much everyone enjoys some well-deserved vacation.
Development
Some of us unwrapped gifts (-:
Started working on supporting different kinds of Snaks in the user interface
Fixing support for PostgreSQL in core, which was broken with introduction of the sites stuff
Code reviewing of changes in MediaWiki core
Adding watchlist filter in client for Wikidata changes
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15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade history
Hi Andrew I have used the 15th Brigade history in a battle article. Now another editor is casting doubt on the validity of the source/publication. Would you care to comment at Talk:Charge at Haritan#dubious source.Jim Sweeney (talk) 00:08, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
I believe I was checking the Neil Armstrong article when I saw the template break like that (If I recall correctly, some words in brackets had gone onto another line). Looking at it currently, it does not seem to break, so thank you for removing the line break and sorry for the confusion :). TerryAga (talk) 11:06, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #39
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Development
Updates for selenium testenvironments (browsers, ruby, selenium-tools)
Extended tests for statements user interface
Refactored snakview user interface to handle other property-snak types than PropertyValueSnak
For what it's worth, only one error in LCCN data integrity (re Rosemary Simari Harris). And I know how to report directly to LC (having previously exchanged email with its integrity office).
By experience I know a few "disintegrities" at WorldCat and many at VIAF --whose kinds I have illustrated here by Rosemary Jeanne Harris and Emily Gravett respectively. And I don't know that there is yet an effective way to report them. Here and there some editors direct others to Wikipedia: VIAF/errors but I doubt that is effective.
By experience I know there are many disintegrities at GND (many at least re English-language writers and illustrators who may not be notable) but they seem to be flagged "not differentiated" which I take to mean a known problem, not an error to report.
Of course there are many disintegrities here at Wikipedia in our biographies. I don't know them by experience and have no reason to doubt that Wikipedia: VIAF/errors is an effective place to report them. --P64 (talk) 18:23, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
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I kind of non-answered there. As for Wikipedia:VIAF/errors I second P64's interpretation, VIAF feels responsible for errors matching Wikipedia persons to VIAF clusters, this is not different from the way the twenty-something "regular" VIAF constituent databases are handled. Since VIAF is a virtual authority file (and not the universally centralized) it is neither technically nor organisatorically in any position to cause corrections of flaws and inconsistencies in the constituent databases and worse, to my knowledge there does not even exist a survey of the contacts and processes at the participating institutions (which kinds of change request can where be demanded by whom, are there commitments to process requests "from outside" and so on). VIAF itself had to struggle with that and recently introduced their internal xA database [1]: One can interpret this as a pure "workaround database" as VIAF resigning from the idea that at least the most obvious problems will be fixed by the responsible parties in a timely manner when communicated to them... Thus "directly reporting" through available channels to LC/NACO participants is the way to go if "LCCN" records have to be tweaked and reporting to VIAF is reserved for the (albeit sometimes overlapping) case that a wikipedia article encounters bad company in VIAF. -- Gymel (talk) 00:45, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
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