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Smells like a duck - squwark - rebbit rebbit JarrahTree 09:44, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi, JarrahTree. This clarifies nothing. What up? I do not speak Wikispecies. Having fun! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 10:01, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

as you say at the top - Please be patient as we work toward resolution of any issues in a peaceful, respectful manner - the editing suggested to me a potential sock (aka a duck that squwarks etc), due to application of what I considered weirdness of edit history... but then stranger things happen JarrahTree 10:07, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi, JarrahTree. Gotcha. Roger that. Ticks are hard to breast. Having fun! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 10:11, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

where I am on the planet most eds are out drinking somewhere - the tics? ahah when I used to be a scout leader 10 years ago we used to get Amblyomma_triguttatum on the ankles at this time on a friday night.. trying to encourage adventurous ones to find their way in The Bush at night... sigh JarrahTree 10:16, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi, JarrahTree. Tick was a double entendre. LOL. Having fun! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 10:19, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

As an ozstrylian with british background I try to mangle entendres, metaphors and oxymorons all in one try :) JarrahTree 10:22, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

YUP blocked - smelt that way squawked that way was one :( JarrahTree 05:43, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-47

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [1]
• The abuse filter now has a function called get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [2][3][4]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [5][6]

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19:19, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #287

Wikidata weekly summary #287 Global message delivery/Targets/Wikidata

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

• Discussions
  • Monolingual language code creation process

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour (log)
  • Past: Wikidata Lab II, a workshop to teach users how to create lists using Wikidata in São Paulo (images from the event)
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Commons, November 21, 18:00 UTC in the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Upcoming: WLM-Wikidata-Editathon 2017 in Berlin, November 24-26
  • Upcoming: Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon - II edition (with Wikidata track) in Sofia, November 27
  • Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon at WikiMUC in Munich, November 30
  • WikidataCon 2017
  • Fünf Jahre Wikidata at Chaosradio
  • "Turning a historical book into a data set"
  • "Creating Wikipedia articles from research data"

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool by Magnus: Wikidata SPARQL Recent Changes - get diffs for all items matching a SPARQL query, for a date range
  • New tool by Magnus: WD edit stats - get edit stats for all items matching a SPARQL query
  • Wikidata coverage for 'place' in OpenStreetMap (as of October 2017)
  • OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible. Let's write tutorials for it.
  • Mix'n'match now shows for a catalog which user originally imported it and if it is updated regularly (example)
  • A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: CGF athlete ID, OKS athlete ID, Gymn Forum athlete ID, sexually homologous with, Tennis Temple player ID, has listed ingredient, World of O athlete ID, HOO athlete ID, IBTrACS cyclone ID, Collective Biographies of Women ID, Snooker Database player ID, Spider Ontology ID, EThOS thesis ID, EUTA theatre ID, EUTA person ID, Czech Street ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Trial ID, ChinesePosters artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code, Douban movie ID, REGINE water system number, UK Parliament thesaurus ID, ABA bird ID, MuIS ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Person ID, Vermont Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Alaska Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Radio Radicale person ID, SUNCAT ID, payload mass, Melon album ID, ctext work ID, Mémoire du cyclisme cyclist ID, Prisma ID, Africultures person ID, Africultures movie ID, Scottish Cemetery Kolkata ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of subclasses of Matrices
    • Works of art in which the artists depicts their spouse (source)
    • locations Van Gogh depicted in his paintings (source)
    • Gender split of past Google Doodles (source)
  • Newest database reports: expeditions

• Development
  • Fixed Commons media suggester not loading all preview thumbnails (phabricator:T160528)
  • RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (phabricator:T161592)
  • Worked on making statements on Forms editable and persistent (phabricator:T163724)
  • Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library (phabricator:T172914)
  • Worked on caching constraint check results (phabricator:T179849) and indicating when constraint check results are cached (phabricator:T179844)
  • Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-11

Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

• The Global collaboration report for October is now available.
• All wikis now have the Filters for edit review as the default system on Recent Changes page.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Most recent changes

• Filters for Watchlists are still on Beta. Please try them and give feedback before we release it for all users!
• Shortcuts to filter Namespaces and Tags are now more visible. [7]
• Discovery of the search bar has been improved. [8]
• If the Recent Changes page or the Watchlist fails to load or is time-outed, a message is now displayed. [9][10]
• The bookmark icon for creating a "Saved filter" is now grayed when it is not possible to save. Before it was not visible. Bookmarking is unavailable when, for example, the current filter set is already saved. [11]

Future changes

• Live updates on Recent changes will be moved out of beta and into the standard feature set by the end of the year. [12]
• Extension:Translate filters for RecentChanges are going to be integrated to the new filters. [13]
• Automatic edit summaries will be filtered as tags. [14]

Content translation [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• List items (suggested items and in-progress/published translations) layout restyled to prevent overflows on small screen sizes.
• Search results for new translation dialog are now embedded, instead of being displayed in floating menu. Search results remain displayed when tabbed out and can be closed using ESC key.
• Missing pages are no longer shown when there is no match for search query. Message informing that there are no results is displayed instead.
• Embedded search results enabled to provide users with more translation opportunities. Articles user recently edited (in currently selected source language wiki) are surfaced when there is no input in search bar, with additional info if article is missing in user's currently selected target language.
• Long suggestion descriptions are limited to three lines, and the rest is truncated, which is indicated by ellipsis.
• Chart data representing user translation statistics in now showing all the months since user's first published translation. Months that went without translation are now displayed in chart as well.
• A loading indicator is shown while suggestions are loading.
• Button to discard dialog is now shown through the whole process of selecting article to translate.

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• Edit-user-talk notifications are now expandable. [15]

Structured Discussions [More information • Help pages]

Future changes

• Some work is ongoing to store Structured Discussions contents from HTML to wikitext. That change will allow some specific templates and magic words to work properly on Structured Discussions. [16]
• Some tests are conducted in order to prepare the rewriting of Structured Discussions' interface. That rewriting will have no visible impact on users but it will ease future changes.

Other projects

• Compact Language Links has been deployed on German Wikipedia. [17]

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15:35, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Question

Hi, Jackfork. May I ask why you approved this Pending Changes request? Ping me back. Having fun! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 04:05, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Because Rotten Tomatoes said Justice League's approval was 40% not 39%. Why, did I miss something? Jackfork (talk) 05:17, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi, Jackfork. Good job. No, you did not miss anything. D'oh. Gotcha. Take care. Having fun! Cheers! PS: it is 41% now, and 256 critics, which I have ammended. BTW, I was hanging out with the plebes that launched RT back in the late 90s. They have done a lot of good work, after graduating from CAL Berkeley. It was fun and exciting to see young, creative, good people have success with many projects. {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 22:05, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Charles Manson photo

Why do you think this is public domain? Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:46, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

RM

The rationale you gave for the Billy the Kid versus Dracula move was totally invalid [18]. WP:TITLECASE does not apply to titles of works, which are governed by MOS:TITLES.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  08:51, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi, SMcCandlish. In that case, I still see the case to downcase Versus per Wikipedia:Manual of_Style/Titles#Capital letters. I was heading to MOS:TITLES at first, but then got sidetracked by MOS:TITLECASE, even though they both come to the same conclusion: Versus should be versus.

However, for names of Wikipedia articles and of section headings in articles and pages, generally only the first word and all proper names are capitalized.

Versus is not the first word, nor is it a proper name.

I am all ears about this. You spend more time focused on this than I do. Having fun! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 09:48, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Titles of works are governed by MOS:TITLES. You're not following the WP:P&G chain; WP:TITLECASE (at WP:AT) says to see WP:NCCAPS for details, and it spells out in brief how to do titles of works, with a cross-reference to MOS:TITLES/MOS:CT for more detail. A consequence of us not having a single style and titles page that is megabytes long and takes all week to read, is that one has to follow various cross-references to find all the subpages that interact in a particular case. I'm working on centralizing the titles-related stuff at MOS:TITLES since it has historically been very scattered.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  02:09, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

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Billy the Kid

Hi, Baffle gab1978. Awesome Possum! Having fun! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 22:27, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Have you seen the recent news about another photograph? I saw this on the ABC's site today; thought it might interest you. Let me know if you want me to pause my c/e while you add the info. [19]. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:07, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi, Baffle gab1978. No, I had not seen that. Thank you for the heads up. I have uploaded the image to the Commons and I put it in a temporary spot on Billy the Kid. I will draft some text later after my eyes rest. I will put it it a new section. Yes, please hold off, so I do not waste your time, or lose you. Having fun! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 03:38, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Greetings, Baffle gab1978. You are back in the saddle again. Feel free to shorten the name of the new section. And, a thousand thanks for the heads up, and all your edits. i really appreciate all of it. Having fun! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 09:14, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

No worries, and thanks for adding the new text. I'm not quite at the photographs section yet, so i can c/e whatever you've added when I reach it. I came across the article about the 'new' photo completely by coincidence while reading the ABC's news site on my tablet, the day after starting the c/e. A happy find. :) Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:39, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

 Done; Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 21:48, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Tips template

Hi Checkingfax,

Regarding the Tips template which Gamaliel kindly ceded to the project to avoid confusion with {{tps}} and other templates, I was thinking about how we should best repurpose it. Possibly a shortcut to an existing template (even temporarily)? (For the time being, I've placed some boilerplate there with a soft 404 in place of the redirect to the renamed old template.)

Or what I was thinking, possibly something like a new nav template that would include links to a lot of the basic Help pages and tutorials that a new to medium-new editor would find helpful. A lot of us have our own customized tips page (here's mine) and I would've loved something that gave me just the basics stuff from existing nav templates, a sort of one-stop-shop for policies, guidelines, simple references, basic editing, basic lists, bold, italic and blockquotes; a simple model of {{cite web}} and {{cite book}}. A pile of stuff like that. I could have fun creating something like that, mining some of the links off other nav templates, but really just the ones you need in your first few days/weeks/months here. And maybe a 'bottom' section, with links to all the other, more in-depth templates. I can work on a mockup in my sandbox or in my user draft space, and we can see what takes shape. Would love your feedback. Pinging Ben Creasy also. Mathglot (talk) 05:34, 30 August 2017 (UTC)"

Hi, Mathglot. I work very part-time in our Tip-of-the-Day department. The heavy lifters are JoeHebda and The Transhumanist. Maybe there is a good fit there for Template:Tips. (courtesy ping to Ben Creasy. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 06:43, 30 August 2017 (UTC) {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 06:47, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

A tip-of-the-day thing might be a very good fit, if there's a need for it there. I'll wait for JoeHebda and The Transhumanist to comment, if they wish to. And thanks for the, uh, tip! Mathglot (talk) 07:05, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

How 'bout, if Tips were fashioned into a user widget that people could place on their user page, with various params that might select the tip-of-the-day under criteria that interested that user, with possibly some display or rendering params for box shape or size, bg-color, borders, and so on. Or do we already have something like that? Template {{totd}} creates a largeish banner, maybe more real estate than I'd want to use on my User page, so maybe Tips could create a smaller one optimized for user page display along with other widgets, maybe a smallish box, with a briefer version of the text, with a link to the main one for those who wanted the more prolix version with the longer explanations? Mathglot (talk) 07:17, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

That seems pretty cool, altho not something I have time to work with. II | (t - c) 02:18, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

@Mathglot: (See below...)

Checkingfax, thank you for the ping. Mathglot, I like your enthusiasm. A great deal of work has gone into relevant projects, and it might be a good idea to review those first, before brainstorming ideas, to avoid duplicating what has already been done. Also, you might find something suitable for your purpose, or for adapting to your purpose. I'll do my best to provide a bit of a tour, of the areas I'm familiar with, below:

• Tip of the day department – maintains a list of 366 Wikipedia tips that redisplay (one tip per day) year after year.
  • WP:TOTD – lists the daily tips chronologically and alphabetically.
  • WP:TIPS – the tip library page, which presents the daily tips by subject or type
  • Wikipedia:Tip templates – lists the various templates for displaying the tip of the day.
• Wikipedia:Welcoming committee – the hand-holding society of Wikipedia, who maintain a welcome page and a huge assortment of navigation/tip templates for posting to newcomers' talk pages.
  • WP:Welcome – the Welcoming committee's "Welcome to Wikipedia" page, with a big hello and some basic tips for the absolute beginner.
  • WP:WT – extensive list of welcome templates, many of which are a customized navigation template of links for newcomers.
  • Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates/Table – gallery of welcome templates on display.
• WP:UPDC – the User page design center, with useful tips and resources for developing one's user page.
  • Wikipedia:User page design center/Navigation aids – gallery of navigation templates to choose from, itself a navigation page.
• Wikipedia:Help Project – the help department. It is dedicated to helping new and advanced users alike. It's huge, and so maintaining navigation systems to get around the material is a major subtask of the department. To survey Wikipedia's collosal collection of help pages, try the following pages:
  • Help:Menu
    • Help:Menu/Site map – all the browse pages presented on a single page
  • Help:Directory – less extensive than the Editor's index below
  • Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia – includes operational pages
  • Wikipedia:List of shortcuts#General information, help, and tutorials
  • All pages index
  • Note that Wikipedia:Department directory lists Wikipedia's operational (task-oriented) pages, but itself could be considered a help page.
  • {{Wikipedia help pages}} – help department's main navigation template
  • Wikipedia:Directories and indexes – WP's directory of directories. :)
• Category:Wikipedia-internal navigational templates – each one is a list of useful links about how to work on Wikipedia
• User tip pages
• User navigation pages
• User:Go for it!/Teleportation chamber – an example of a personal navigation page

I hope you found the above tour both useful and entertaining. Sincerely, The Transhumanist 11:39, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi, Mathglot. Have you ruminated on this? Let me know what has sparked. Having fun! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 08:54, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #288

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode
  • Proposal to add some order and structure to the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata (mailing list post)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can read the log on meta.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Prague, December 1st
  • Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best?
  • Spatial-based Topic Modelling using Wikidata Knowledge Base (in Wikidata as Q43662744)
  • Cleaning BNF identifier in Wikidata by Envlh (in French)
  • Monitoring changes to Wikidata pages of your interest by Egon Willighagen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Sandra is co-ordinating an inventory of crucial volunteer tools for Wikimedia Commons, GLAM, and structured data in general. You can provide input and prioritize your favorite tools in this Google spreadsheet.
  • Q43649390 is an item about our concept of "QID"s
  • OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: type foundry, Accademia della Crusca ID, first appearance, USGHOF athlete ID, Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID, Städel Museum artist ID, Berlinische Galerie artist ID, Tidal video ID, Tidal track ID, Tidal album ID, Tidal artist ID, HTML entity, Norwegian historical register of persons ID, Merchant Category Code, SS KL Auschwitz Garrison ID, West Australian Football League player ID, Wikidata project, BPH journal ID, SNCZI-IPE reservoir ID, BTO five-letter code, awarded for period, electoral district number, Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID, Art Museum of Estonia artist ID, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA ID, National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame ID, IJF ID, SNCZI-IPE dam ID, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame ID, FAI ID, Canada Games ID, ICRC PoW ID, RA Collections ID, mountain range, Everyone Remembered ID, CNRS research group ID, ARLIMA ID
  • Query examples:
    • People who were Time Person of the Year in two consecutive years (source)
    • Fictional characters “said to be the same as” other fictional characters from the same fictional universe (source)
    • Map of places of birth of deceased sociologists (source)
    • Map of libraries in India (source)
    • Train and subway stations in Basque Country (source)
  • Newest database reports: Decameron editions and translations

• Development
  • Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (phabricator:T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
  • Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
  • Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:43, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-48

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later. [20]
• You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB. [21]
• You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance. [22]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:30, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

When is a ping not a ping?

I'm not sure what you meant by "ping me", but in case you meant "reply on my usertalk page", see [23] The Crab Who Played With The Sea (talk) 01:36, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi, PauAmma. Many times editors reply from their talk page without setting a ping to me, and I miss their reply. So, I usually try to ask for a ping. Having fun! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 02:30, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Convert sp=us

No problem, but for your information, {{convert}} accepts |sp=us only. That changes metre/litre to meter/liter, and some other changes which rarely make a difference. Variations such as sp=US are not accepted. That applies at Hoover Dam and One Montgomery Tower. Johnuniq (talk) 09:21, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi, Johnuniq. Good catch. I actually did catch that too, but did not get a chance to fix it. For some backstory, I believe that the {{As of}} template will allow |df=US or |df=us. Chit happens when you go off memory and forget to preview your work. LOL. Thanks again. I really appreciate it. Having fun! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 18:44, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Foreign involvement in the Syrian Civil War

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Foreign involvement in the Syrian Civil War. Legobot (talk) 04:27, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Campolindo High School

I don't know or care whether your problem is inability to use the automation you are using or just plain incompetency, but how do you figure adding blank templates improves an article. I am beginning to understand why you seem to be constantly appearing at ANI. Some unsolicited advice. Put the gadgets away and learn what you are doing. John from Idegon (talk) 23:15, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Dear John from Idegon. I have a speck in my eye when you have a log.

{{official website}}, {{authority control}}, and {{wikimedia|collapsible=true|wikt=no|d=Q123456}} are hardly empty templates. They are populated from instances in items at Wikidata. Take the pebble from my hand, Grasshopper.

Sounds like you spend too much time at ANI. I do not. Are you drunk? Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 05:04, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

I don't get angry easily

But this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Michael_Laucke&diff=710551869&oldid=710540691 is terrible on multiple levels. When you don't follow the template documentation and link to the official website in the infobox, it's a problem. Please stay away from that article as you are not editing with logic or guidelines in mind. When you remove maintenance templates, twice, it's inappropriate. I will take it to a larger community if you do it again. Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:07, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

And then you tag me as being in an edit war because I'm applying correct editing guidelines and template documentation to an article that's a pet project of yours and you don't like the edits? Please don't ask for help for your projects if you are not willing to accept it. Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:26, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi Walter Görlitz. I read your message above after I disruptive editing templated you. Let us go to the Michael Laucke talk page and discuss edits and reach a consensus on anything controversial. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 20:16, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

There is no need for local consensus when the documentation is clear. Walter Görlitz (talk) 21:38, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Probably about time you stopped misusing the templates and Twinkle. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:41, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #289

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: Part II (Wikidata Workshop), Washington, D.C., November 2, 2017 with Andrew Lih and Alex Stinson
  • Past: Wikidata Clinic (slides) in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017, with Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
  • Past: Wikikonference in Prague with a Wikidata workshop in Czech and a introduction of Wikidata and its community
  • Wikipedia Weekly audio podcast coverage of Wikidata:
    • Episode 126 - Introduction to Wikidata, with Andrew Lih and Rob Fernandez
    • Episode 127 - WikidataCon 2017 roundtable discussion, with Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, Stacy Allison-Cassin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Rob Fernandez
  • Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers by Joachim Neubert
  • Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
  • The Wikidata map in November 2017 and what changed during the last four months, by Addshore

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey. The voting phase is open until December 10th.
  • If you run any functionality on Wikimedia sites that uses queries to the Wikidata Query Service, please add it here (more information)
  • The 600,000,000th edit has been made.
  • The first content made specifically for Wikimedia projects in space has been added to Wikidata (see Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind)
  • The Aaron Swartz Fellowship at OSA, Budapest, Hungary, is open for applications (deadline Dec. 31). The second focus area of the fellowship may be of interest to Wikidata folks.

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: set designer, Swedish Musical Heritage composer ID, National Film Board of Canada movie ID, South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame ID, World Rugby Hall of Fame ID, Microsoft Store album ID, date of burial or cremation, Lives of WWI ID, polymer of, monomer of, FAPESP researcher ID, FAPESP institution ID, NIOSH Publication Number, post town, arXiv author ID, CPE athlete ID, Mountain Project ID, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID, Atomic Heritage Foundation ID, Dreadnought Project page, IWGA athlete ID, Argentinian Historic Heritage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline for the writer Robert Louis Stephenson (source)
    • Movies with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill (source)
    • Photographers born before the inception of the earliest photograph (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Stolpersteine, Jasmerah
  • Newest database reports: Q5 with identical P18

• Development
  • Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9th January 2018 (phabricator:T181645)
  • There were no RDF dumps last week due to problems generating them, investigation is still going on (phabricator:T181385)
  • Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata (phabricator:T180450)
  • Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (phabricator:T181807)
  • More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically phabricator:T180467)
  • Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (phabricator:T113468)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:31, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files. [24]
• You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it. [25]
• There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects. [26]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
• Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [27]
• Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [28][29]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page.
• The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development. [30]

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17:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC)