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The Signpost: 01 January 2014

• Traffic report: A year stuck in traffic

• Arbitration report: Examining the Committee's year

• In the media: Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?

• Book review: Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia

• News and notes: The year in review

• Discussion report: Article incubator, dates and fractions, medical disclaimer

• WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition

• Featured content: 2013—the trends

• Technology report: Looking back on 2013

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 05:11, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Help needed

There is one case where my new code of Template:Deprecated template doesn't work: if there are a parameter 2 and 3. In that case the template is not linked, as you can see on the documentation page. I tried to fix this, but unsuccessfully. If I comment out the parameter, the link returns. Debresser (talk) 16:28, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Might I ask why you are experimenting in the live template and not in its sandbox? --Redrose64 (talk) 19:53, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

It's a behind-the-scenes template anyway, so I wouldn't worry about that. Happy New Year, Rich Farmbrough, 00:48, 7 January 2014 (UTC).

The reason is that this is the intended behaviour. If we want people to use a piped link, we really need to display the syntax - we assume they understand it, or at least can cut-and-paste it (assuming they are allowed cut-and-paste). Happy New Year, Rich Farmbrough, 00:48, 7 January 2014 (UTC).

But it used to work, and even studying the old and new codes, I don't see why. Can you tell me how to make it work again? Debresser (talk) 11:16, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

A Tesla Roadster for you!

	A Tesla Roadster for you!
	Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia! Gg53000 (talk) 01:32, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 January 2014

• Public Domain Day: Why the year 2019 is so significant

• Traffic report: Tragedy and television

• Technology report: Gearing up for the Architecture Summit

• News and notes: WMF employee forced out over "paid advocacy editing"

• Op-ed: WikiCup competition beginning a new year

• WikiProject report: Jumping into the television universe

• Featured content: A portal to the wonderful world of technology

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 07:53, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #92

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over Wikisource's notability within Wikidata
  • Make Symmetric & Inverse Property addition automatic and bidirectional
  • Closed RfAs: Lymantria (Successful), Lavallen (Successful)
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Presentation about Wikidata at Aldil, Lyon, France
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource is deployed to testwikidata
  • A group of students is working on suggestions to make it easier to add missing information. They published a status report and a rough first demo.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: track gauge, pathogen transmission process, CVR, ERA Journal ID
  • Newest task forces: Manga and Anime task force
  • Showcase items: Douglas Adams
  • Fun Fact: Does not exist (Q404)
  • Wikidata's presence: The Dutch Wikipedia have a category for coordinating coordinates on Wikidata (Categorie:Wikipedia:Coördinaten niet op Wikidata)
• Development
  • Adrian Lang joins the team
  • Cirrus Search is now the default search on Wikidata and should improve d:Special:Search's handlich of special characters for example
  • Made the “in other languages” box also show up for people who have not configured a babel box (bugzilla:49079)
  • No longer showing a table of content when it has less than 3 items in it to prevent it from showing up on property pages (bugzilla:58422)
  • More performance improvement work
  • Finishing touches on quantities datatype user interface
  • Display qualifiers in non-Java Script user interface
  • Prevented import of wikitext into the main namespace (bugzilla:47070)
  • Split the DataValues component into more clearly defined libraries and switched Wikibase over to use these
  • Switched Wikibase to use Wikibase DataModel 0.6
  • Changed development and installation workflows to make use of the dependency manager Composer (more details)
  • Made tests run with less warnings (especially in Firefox)
  • Started replacing wikibase.fetchedEntities with a proper entity store
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 09:34, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

A Tesla Roadster for you!

	A Tesla Roadster for you!
	Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia! Gg53000 (talk) 01:32, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the roadsters! All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 16:30, 13 January 2014 (UTC).

Problem

There seems to be an issue with {{Infobox person}}, see Lauren Booth where it displays as:

 
{{{name}}}

Data 1 	{{{data 1}}}
Data 2 	{{{data 2}}}
Data 3 	{{{data 3}}}
Data 4 	{{{data 4}}}

All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 01:13, 13 January 2014 (UTC).

Purging seems to have fixed? Chris857 (talk) 03:44, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Infobox_horseracing_personality_broken may be related. GoingBatty (talk) 04:02, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Yes, and see WP:STOCKS#Kaldari for the "Just testing" award. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:25, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Good, glad it's fixed. Suspected that it was (as other pages were OK - and also that it was in {{Infobox}} as {{Infobox person}} hadn't been edited for a while) and would have done a null edit, but wasn't sure if I'm allowed to do null edits when blocked. All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 16:30, 13 January 2014 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #93

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

• Events
  • upcoming: FOSDEM
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource now gets its language links via Wikidata
  • Reasonator gets extended functionality
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: PlantList-ID, Danemark Job Code (DISCO-08), Instruction Set, Thailand central administrative unit code, student of, archive URL
  • Showcase items: ethanol
  • Fun Fact: A Space Odyssey (Q2001)
• Development
  • Enabled language links for Wikisource
  • Move more part of an item page from JS to HTML to improve performance and non-JS interface
  • Database performance improvements
  • Work on forward compatibility for new entity types
  • Introducing the EntityStore service to improve modularity
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:22, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 January 2014

• News and notes: German chapter asks for "reworking" of Funds Dissemination Committee; should MP4 be allowed on Wikimedia sites?

• Technology report: Architecture Summit schedule published

• Op-ed: Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Wikipedia articles

• In the media: Is Google hurting Wikipedia traffic?; "Wikipedia-Mania" in the New York Times

• Traffic report: The Hours are Ours

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Sociology

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 22:24, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Question about AWB page

Hi Rich! You created Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos/distict back in 2010. Was this a temporary page that can now be deleted, or is there something here that should be retained? Thanks, and Happy Holidays! GoingBatty (talk) 20:25, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Rich! Since you didn't respond, I've requested that the page be deleted per Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G2. If this is incorrect, please remove the tag and let me know. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:11, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Template:OfferHelp listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:OfferHelp. Since you had some involvement with the Template:OfferHelp redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Rezonansowy (talk • contribs) 00:37, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

@Rezonansowy: you may not be aware, but Rich Farmbrough is currently blocked and unable to participate in wp:RfDs xOttawahitech (talk) 04:24, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

I am not concerned about this particular RfD which will be a virtual snow keep, and would hardly matter if it passed, but thanks, Rezonansowy, for the notification, and Ottawahitech for the clarification to Rezonansowy of my status. All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 18:19, 23 January 2014 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #94

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about using 'instance of' specific for animals
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Next Wikidata IRC office hour on Monday, February 3rd
  • FOSDEM
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata Development Plan for 2014+ has been published
  • Wikidata stats now also includes statistics for ranks
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ICTV virus ID, rector, fictional analog of, writable file format, readable file format, place made
  • Showcase items: Cactaceae
• Development
  • Daniel and Katie took part in the MediaWiki Architecture Summit in San Francisco
  • Bugzilla:60027 Add language to label and description field to make it less likely that people enter a label or description in a wrong language
  • Bugzilla:58394 Avoid throwing out of bounds error when adding new claims
  • Bugzilla:50570 API now reveals qualifier hashes
  • Bugzilla:57213 API now reveals data type ids
  • Bugzilla:57754 Die if wbeditentity tries to clear from an old revision id
  • Bugzilla:55795 Add API option to show snaks in a list rather than grouped by property
  • Refactor of ChangeOp remove functionality
  • Continued to move parsing and validating of values from the frontend into the backend to improve performance and make the non-JS user interface more useful
  • Finished the Wikidata build script (We use it to pull together code from various git repositories into a single one for deployment)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 23:57, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 January 2014

• Book review: Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse

• News and notes: Modification of WMF protection brought to Arbcom

• Featured content: Dr. Watson, I presume

• Special report: The few who write Wikipedia

• Technology report: Architecting the future of MediaWiki

• In the media: Wikipedia for robots; Wikipedia—a temperamental teenager

• Traffic report: No show for the Globes

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 01:18, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Elliott Roosevelt

We say:

"At an alcohol-drenched dinner during the Tehran Conference, Elliott Roosevelt applauded Joseph Stalin's proposal for large-scale executions of German POWs, which earned him Churchill's vocal and lasting hostility but Stalin's cheers."

- and cite this sentence to Stalin: The Court Of The Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore. In fact, the book does not describe the dinner as 'alcohol drenched' - indeed commenting two pages later that after this "Stalin began to drink again", though it does describe Elliott as "jumping tipsily to his feet".

Nor does it describe Stalin's "cheers" merely a toast - "To your health Elliott."

Moreover "Churchill's vocal and lasting hostility" is also "not in source" though it is certain (from other sources) he is not impressed with Elliot's memoirs.

All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 00:45, 27 January 2014 (UTC).

Category:Deadly Avenger albums

Category:Deadly Avenger albums, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Mjs1991 (talk) 22:24, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #95

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over P31 as a qualifier
  • Open RfA: Sjoerddebruin
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata is at FOSDEM in Brussels, Februrary 1st-2nd
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Quantities released on Wikidata!
  • Wikisource phase 2 coming Februrary 25th.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: attendance, refractive index, electronegativity, proportion, sandbox-quantity, number of pages, number of platforms , flattening, floors above ground, number of cylinders, masts, number of speakers, g-factor, orbital eccentricity, gross tonnage, total produced, redshift, Mohs' hardness, ELO rating, atomic number, LibraryThing work identifier, EUL control number, capacity, population, Human Development Index, from narrative, launch contractor, valvetrain configuration, KOATUU identifier
• Development
  • Deployed quantities to Wikidata! :)
  • Made patch to make wbmergeitems more reliable Bugzilla::55960
  • Wikidata edit permissions now included in wikimedia OAuth edit groups
  • Moved Diff repo to Github
  • Work put into make the frontend use backend formatters through the api
  • Refactoring of the ValueView extension
  • MergeItems special page merged as an experimental feature
  • Our easy RDF fork is now included using composer
  • Fixed wbmergeitems issues
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 23:37, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Other stuff

• Oronym
• Template:Lists of years in topics
• [1]
• Joe Arpaio 2013 recall attempt - BLP
• Fancy (Bobbie Gentry song)
• War of Nerves
• January 20, 2013. Prince Carl Friedrich and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, twin sons of Prince Georg Friedrich and Princess Sophie.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, sometime, 20 January 2014 (UTC).