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Hello, Rich Farmbrough. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2014_December_15#.EB.94.94.EC.A7.80.ED.84.B8_.ED.8F.AC.ED.8A.B8.EB.A6.AC.EC.8A.A4.
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2015 already

Hi Rich. No frills - just a quiet ‘’all the best’’ to you for 2015 and I hope you’ll continue to be around on Wikipedia for a long time to come. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:04, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

@Kudpung: Hope things go well for you to in 2015! A Happy New-Year! Rich Farmbrough, 00:58, 2 January 2015 (UTC).

The Signpost: 31 December 2014

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Wikidata weekly summary #139

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

• Discussions
  • Provide your input on article placeholders based on Wikidata
  • new RfC: CoI editing
  • Anonymous artists at wiki project visual arts
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • We need to start talking about scaling Wikidata over the next months and years: Scaling Wikidata: success means making the pie bigger
  • The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
  • wikidata4research4all
  • There was a well-attended Wikidata meetup at 31C3
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Query now runs on multiple, load-balanced, self-restarting servers. Thanks to Yuvi for the help.
  • Vandals suck. Don't know how to help us fight them? Here are two pages to get you started: Wikidata:Vandalism and Wikidata:Abuse filter.
  • The Wikidata BEACON generator was updated by Magnus. It now uses all properties with “formatter URL”, so always up-to-date with target URLs. It is faster, too.
  • Number of visual artworks on Wikidata by institution
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Terminologia Histologica (TH), Terminologia Embryologica (TE), ICD-9-CM, operations and procedures key (OPS), ICD-10-PCS, central government debt as a percent of GDP, AniDB identifier, main property, awarded for work, Pokémon browser number, inscription, quote, subtitle, BBC Your Paintings artwork identifier, has vertex figure, index case of, number suspected, number probable, number confirmed, general formula, this taxon is source of, Route number, LAC identifier, CONA, ATCvet, TGN, Chess Club ID, Chess Games ID, Cycling Database ID, ProCyclingStats ID, DOI Prefix, Alexa rank, has index case, related property, number of faces, MPAA film rating, unveiled by, station number, wing configuration, TERYT municipality code, referee, YouTube video identifier, BBF identifier, Korean Movie Database ID, Dictionary of Welsh Biography ID
  • Showcase items: Iggy Azalea, Helsinki
• Development
  • Happy new year! :) It'll be a great one for Wikidata!
  • Have you filed bugs in the past? Awesome! It'd be super helpful if you have a look at your old bugs and see if they are still relevant. You can find them at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/authored/ (make sure you're logged in on Phabricator)
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23:01, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Was that on purpose

Why did you remove Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month in this edit. It seems like a mistake to remove this relevant category. Debresser (talk) 02:14, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Because it is transcluded by {{Parent monthly clean up category}}. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:09, 7 January 2015 (UTC).

My inattentive. :) Thanks. Debresser (talk) 10:57, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

"Je suis Charlie"

You seem to be reverting my edits on the Charlie Hebdo shootings article. The demonstrations are not for the slogan "Je suis Charlie", they are against the shootings! Please take this to the article talk page. -- The Anome (talk) 20:29, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Je suis Charlie for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Je suis Charlie is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Je suis Charlie until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. RGloucester — ☎ 21:23, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

City of Adelaide (1864)

As you are a previous editor of City of Adelaide (1864), you may be interested in the Style Proposal on Talk:City of Adelaide (1864)
ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 22:22, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 January 2015

• In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints

• Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors

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Wikidata weekly summary #140

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on Friday. You should come :)
  • Past: London Wikidata Meetup 2
    • We had a meetup with nine people:
    • set up Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland (sound recording of meeting available)
  • Upcoming: Open Data Day, 21st February 2015
    • For generic wiki, see International Open Data Day
    • Open Data Camp UK, Saturday/Sunday 21st/22nd February 2015
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We just crossed 14000 active users (over the last month). Thank you all!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Gray's Anatomy 1918 subject, Total valid votes, inverse of, NLP identifier
  • Newest WikiProjects: Food, UK and Ireland, Suisse
  • Newest gadgets: ExportClaims, Mark as patrolled from list of changes
• Development
  • The sitelink section has been reworked. This will go live on Wikidata on Tuesday. The sitelinks will then be slimmer and they will appear in a sidebar on the right side if there is enough space.
  • More performance improvements when parsing an item page, ~%15 faster for some pages :)
  • Titan was selected as the graph DB to implement a Wikidata query service running in production
  • Fixed adding links to ru.wikinews.org which was broken by its change to HTTPS-only
  • Worked on redesigning the header area (label, description, alias, in-other-languages box)
  • Polished d:Wikidata:Data access and d:Wikidata:Database download. Could still use some more work though if you have time.
  • Enabled PHP_CodeSniffer with Mediawiki rules and some additional ones to make us aware of more code issues
  • We no longer log some common 404 errors in the exception log
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
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Pings

Did you get a ping for this? There's a discussion on the village pump at the moment, discussing pings that are dropped on the floor. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:39, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Yes I did, thank you! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:36, 14 January 2015 (UTC).

But not from Reditgerz post. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:39, 14 January 2015 (UTC).

The Signpost: 14 January 2015

• Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you

• WikiProject report: Articles for creation: the inside story

• News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community

• In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors

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WP:Co-op

Hey Rich. It's a long follow-up, but I remember hearing from you at the the Wikimania discussion on retaining new editors from last summer. I wanted to ask if you might be interested in mentoring one or more editors during our pilot of the mentorship space called the Co-op. We plan to run the pilot in in February for about one month. The idea is that mentors will be doing one-on-one teaching based on how an editor wants to contribute, and it's not some huge commitment to teach/learn comprehensively about Wikipedia. We also want to make to easier for new editors to find mentors as well. Your experience in technical matters and at the Teahouse would be hugely valuable to editors just getting started. If you're interested, please sign up here and feel free to peruse, make suggestions, or ask questions about how the Co-op will work. Thanks a bunch, I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 20:45, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #141

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Speedy vs Regular deletion‎
  • Closed RfAs: George.Edward.C (successful)
  • Open RfAs: Petr Matas, Edoderoo
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • The Wikidata for research proposal was submitted to the European Union on January 14. Congrats to Daniel for spearheading that huge effort.
  • Blog post about how Wikidata can change the way citizen scientists contribute
  • IRC office hour happened (log)
  • Blog posts about gender inequality index based on Wikidata data by Max and Magnus
  • MediaWiki Developer Summit
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The development plan has been updated and expanded
  • Official Wikipedia app now uses Wikidata descriptions \o/ More to come!
  • Usage tracking will likely be deployed on February 2 on Wikidata. This will not be user-visible. It just means that pages using data from arbitrary items get updated/purged when the data changes. Arbitrary access is being tested at Test Wikidata and testwiki:Test Wiki. An example is at testwiki:Kitten on arbitrary page.
  • Assigning items on Mix'n'match will now make that change on Wikidata for you automatically
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: IGESPAR identifier, SIPA identifier, SkyscraperPage building id
• Development
  • Deployed new sitelinks interface design to Wikidata. It's not done yet but we're getting there. Tweaks are in progress.
  • Worked on redesign of header area
  • Fixed some bugs that popped up after deployment
  • Enabled usage tracking and arbitrary access on test.wikipedia.org and test.wikidata, and preparations for enabling it on Wikidata
  • Collecting Query examples for the new query functionality
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:00, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Murder of Kylie Maybury

List of specific crimes in Melbourne is likely to be deleted, which means that there won't be a good place to link the Kylie Maybury article anymore. Paul Austin (talk) 17:04, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Gaff. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Jennifer Toombs, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Gaff (talk) 21:02, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Dear Rich Farmbrough/Archive,
HAPPY NEW YEAR Hoping 2015 will be a great year for you! Thank you for your contributions!
From a fellow editor,
--FWiW Bzuk (talk)

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Thank you. A Happy New-Year! Rich Farmbrough, 00:59, 2 January 2015 (UTC).

22:02, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Project assessment

I find it much easier to assess or reassess pages if the project templates show the various parameters on their own lines. With that in mind, what is the rationale or purpose of this edit? I'm not critical, just curious (maybe I can learn something). Have put you on my watchlist, so no need to ping me when you reply. Schwede66 00:29, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

When a page has several banners a significant amount of vertical space can be taken up by them. Banners (and the other miscellaneous stuff that gathers at the top of a WP talk page) are generally only of interest to Wikipedia insiders, especially in the edit view. For a naive user it is good to see a section heading as high up as possible, to divert from the impenetrable code.

I wonder if it is worth lining up the class and importance fields, as the first two parameters, I have now done that on the page you mention. In this case doing that enabled me to spot a missing "importance" field.

This is not as simple as it appears- see my subsequent edits! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:28, 20 January 2015 (UTC).

It would be interesting to have some statistics on the layouts used: I run some monthly stats on article layout, I'll look at talk pages if I get time.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:25, 20 January 2015 (UTC).

Bad news...

...you're slipping down the charts. You might like to ask Koavf (talk · contribs), Waacstats (talk · contribs) and Ser Amantio di Nicolao (talk · contribs) how they managed it without automated editing or other blockable practices. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:53, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

They are quite permitted to use automation. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:15, 21 January 2015 (UTC).

Millionaires' club

Thank you kindly. I love the view from up here. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:18, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Je suis Charlie

Thanks for helping free speech Victuallers (talk) 15:14, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

I wanted to give Precious to the one who wrote this, found out: YOU. Thank you. Remember? Had to be you ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:18, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 January 2015

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• Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost

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• News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections

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Wikidata weekly summary #142

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfAs: Petr Matas (unsuccessful), Edoderoo (successful)
  • Open RfAs: Eurodyne
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: MediaWiki Developer Summit
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: Wikidata for research meetup in February in Paris and Berlin
  • Past: Meetup in Cambridge
  • Brainstorming for Wikimania talks related to Wikidata is happening at phabricator:T87334 and you can apply for a scholarship
  • Wikidata - a year in numbers
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Want to help out mapping schema.org and Wikidata properties? There is now a ticket for coordination.
  • The new Content Translation tool uses Wikidata data to suggest the correct article to link to when translating a Wikipedia article to another language
  • Using GNOME Shell? There is a Wikidata search provider for you.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: award shared with, native label, pollenizer, pollination
  • You can influence the languages shown in the "in other languages box" by adding a bable box to your user page like here.
• Development
  • More work on header section redesign
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 2.5
  • Broke and fixed JSON dumps - sorry!
  • Implemented entity change subscription service
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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Reference Errors on 28 January

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Adjusting pilot start date - WP:Co-op

Hello Rich Farmbrough,

I'll be putting out a formal update sometime soon, but I wanted to inform you that I've decided to push our start date back to mid-February rather than in January. There are number of reasons for this, but the biggest factor is that we are now facing the hard work of implementing our designs on the Mediawiki interface. It's a limiting environment to work with from a web-building perspective, and the team that worked on the Teahouse can offer similar testimonials to these challenges. We also want to make sure there is time for us and for you to test the environment out, ask questions at our project's talk page, and give us a little time to make any last changes before we start inviting editors to the space. If some of you know you will be unavailable during this time, it's totally fine if you need to bow out for the pilot. But we do need all the mentors we can get, so even if you can take the time to mentor just one or two editors, that would be fantastic.
Thanks a bunch, I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.

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Protection

I'm stuck on mobile tonight. Can you take care of it. I have no problem with it being unprotected. CambridgeBayWeather (mobile) (talk) 02:50, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

OK. I'm back and I've unprotected the pair of them. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 22:43, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:45, 31 January 2015 (UTC).