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This Month in GLAM: June 2020



Headlines
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ITN recognition for Flossie Wong-Staal

On 10 July 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Flossie Wong-Staal, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page.  — Amakuru (talk) 06:33, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #424

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: New co-facilitator introductions and tools for editathons, 14 July. Agenda
    • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #12, 18 July Facebook, YouTube
    • Past: Celtic Knot Wikimedia language conference, online, July 9-10. Videos, documentation and slides of sessions are accessible from the program page.
  • Tool of the week
    • DragNDrop.js makes it possible to show a Wikipedia article and drag items to Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Continued building out documentation for Federated Properties (phabricator:T255651) and making interface improvements to the first stage of the feature (incl. phabricator:T246886, changes to special pages that interact with both Items/Properties, and phabricator:T255581, changes to Special:ListDataTypes when federation is enabled)
    • More work on the consistent design system
    • More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier
    • Finalizing research and interviews to better understand what could be improved in the way developers access Wikidata's data (APIs, SPARQL)
    • Testing the first prototype of the Simple Query Builder with some editors to get final input before coding starts
    • Sorting of language links on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects was broken (presumably by a change in MediaWiki core). A fix is being worked on. (phabricator:T257625)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Wikidata weekly summary #425

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: The First Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: August 10, 2020 | Workshop date: October 29, 2020
    • Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) in the Wikidata Telegram group. Query Service special with guests from WMF Search Team.
    • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXIV: Posicionamento digital relativo with Ederporto - July 23 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT). In this technical training, we'll study the possibilities and functionalities of relative digital positioning in images and do practical activities on this topic using historical photographs of the city of São Paulo. The event will be held in Portuguese. Join us!
    • Upcoming video: July 21 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
    • Upcoming video: July 25 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube
    • Upcoming: Kidok-Workshop, online workshop about church building data. In German, non-native users welcome. Currently looking for a date in the upcoming week and people to help!
    • Upcoming video: Beyond Wikipedia - Knowledge that even a computer can understand. July 22, 2020 at 17:00 UTC. In this talk, Zbyszko Papierski will present Wikidata Query Service as one way that developers can interact with Wikidata.
  • Development
    • More work on the consistent design system
    • More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier:
    • Prepare the first development phase for the Simple Query Builder
    • Reference game: run a scraper, work on a dashboard that will gives an overview of the potential references that have already been judged in the game
    • Fix a bug related to maximum limit of search results (phab:T256885)
    • Resolve some configuration issues regarding Entity Sources (phab:T254315)
    • Federated Properties:
      • Changes to special pages that interact with both items/properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246886)
      • Changes to Special:ListDatatypes when federation is enabled (phab:T255581)
    • Add new monolingual language codes: mic (Miꞌkmaq), gil (Kiribati)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Wikidata weekly summary #426

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • We would love suggestions for tools to include in this section of the weekly summary. Please add your suggestions directly under Status updates/Next#Backlog after checking that the tool isn't already listed.
  • Development
    • Changed the size of image previews to 1024 in the gallery view of the query service to avoid some images not loading sometimes (phabricator:T258241)
    • Added an actual space between the entity title and the name of the fallback language (if any), so that the fallback language isn't selected anymore when double-clicking the entity title for copying (phabricator:T256857)
    • Fixed the directionality of text pieces in placeholders that mix LTR and RTL (phabricator:T253812)
    • Continued work on first pieces of design system to make coding new features easier in the future
    • Continued untangling the code of Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repo to make it easier to develop on them
    • Finished first piece of research on how to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers - more work to be done
    • Preparing to start coding on the Query Builder to make it easier to create queries without having to know SPARQL
    • Finished running the scraper that gets potential new references for unreferenced statements and preparing it for publishing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

DYK for Buffalo police shoving incident

On 28 July 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Buffalo police shoving incident, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after a shoving incident involving a 75-year-old man, two Buffalo police officers were suspended and charged with assault? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Buffalo police shoving incident. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Buffalo police shoving incident), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

lafc

please add "head coach" as other teams use — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.1.16.193 (talk) 03:07, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).

Administrator changes

added Red Phoenix
readded Euryalus • SQL
removed Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes

readded GB fan
removed Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:20, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Deletion review for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Derek Chauvin (police officer)

User:Geo Swan has asked for a deletion review of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Derek Chauvin (police officer). Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. —Cryptic 15:59, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #427

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Wiki13
  • Tool of the week
    • SQID allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties.
  • Development
    • The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them.
      • Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions).
      • REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now.
      • Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks.
      • Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Excellent photograph

I'm reading Catch and Kill at the moment, and was looking over the article for Ronan Farrow. I thought, how did we get such a good picture of him? Was this from his publisher? Then I saw that you had taken it! Just wanted to let you know that that is an excellent photo and way above what I typically expect from photographs of celebrities on Wikipedia :) Enwebb (talk) 14:34, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #428

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Past: Wikibase Live Session - August 2020. This session had a few people present on some of their work with modeling GLAM data in Wikibase or Wikidata. (replay)
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions, 11 August. [Agenda]
    • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #25, August 16
  • Development
    • finalized designs for the query builder to start coding at the beginning of September
    • wrapping up the initial work on the design system so that we can start using the first pieces of it in the query builder development
    • working on properly linking redirects in recent changes, watchlist and co (phabricator:T255387)
    • addressed remaining security review comments about the Wikidata Bridge so that we can deploy it finally on the first Wikipedia
    • fixed a bug where string values had the wrong length limit (phabricator:T259440)
    • finishing the work of untangling Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repository extensions to make development easier

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

This Month in GLAM: July 2020



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Nomination of Letitia Mumford Geer for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Letitia Mumford Geer 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/Letitia Mumford Geer until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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. Qwirkle (talk) 16:16, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Sun Aug 16: Great American Wiknic NYC & Beyond

August 16, 3pm: Great American Wiknic

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our annual summer Great American Wiknic, this year being held virtually.

We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person!

Featuring artist-Wikimedian Sara Clugage's "Picnics: An Outside History" for a cultural exploration of picnicking, knowledge and society during the national panel in the first part. We encourage you to call in for the second part from a local park or natural site and share it on the video stream, as well as sharing your favorite picnic grub or other special foods with us.

Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. The Wiknic is taking the place of "WikiWednesday" this month, so we will also include salon and knowledge-sharing workshop aspects.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm online via YouTube (watch our national panel's livestream, and participate by text chat)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm online via Zoom (participate by videoconference with NYC community)

We especially encourage folks to share your parks and foods on screen, and add your 3-minute lightning talks to our roster for the Zoom portion, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)

--Wikimedia New York City Team 22:28, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #429

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Entity Explosion: a new multilingual Chrome browser extension. "Taking the power of Wikidata with me wherever I go across the web!". Uses API calls to the Wikidata Query Service to match the URL you are browsing on to a Wikidata item, and then displays data and links to other sites about the same entity. (Video)
  • Development
    • Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (phabricator:T259440)
    • Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in situations when MediaWiki usually does (phabricator:T255387)
    • Wrapping up the initial work on the design system so it is ready for use in the first new feature (Query Builder)
    • Fixed the serialization of statements on Forms and Senses not containing the datatype (phabricator:T249206)
    • Wrapping up work on the first version of Federated Properties so that other Wikibase installations can use Wikidata's Properties instead of having to maintain their own
    • Worked on ensuring the data from the linked data interface at Special:EntityData is always up to date after an edit has been made (phabricator:T128486)
    • Enabling clients to use Lua to request labels, descriptions and aliases in some (often minority) languages even when they are not content languages (phabricator:T259340, phabricator:T260118)


You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

N95 merge discussion notification

Apologies for not notifying you earlier, but there is a mere discussion at Talk:N95 mask#Page move; since you contributed to the content in question and its DYK, I thought I should notify you. HLHJ (talk) 18:54, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

TwinsthenewTrend moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, TwinsthenewTrend, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. I dream of horses (Contribs) Please notify me after replying off my talk page. Thank you. 21:11, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

You should give people more than 1 minute to add details to articles. I'm deleting the Draft as the expanded text is in the article and exists in main space. -- Fuzheado | Talk 21:38, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #430

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Sophox allows for SPARQL querying of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap in a single query
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Two new grant programs from WikiCite, in support of open citations and linked bibliographic data.
Full documentation, eligibility requirements, selection criteria, program design principles, and contacts at the links. Apply by 1 October.
  1. Project & events [$2-10k]
  2. e-Scholarships [per-diem calculated on your city; 1-5 people (single, or as a 'remote group') for 2-4 days, for COVID-era "stay at home" projects. Paid in advance living allowance, no expense report required.]
  • Development
    • Deployed the first version of the Wikidata Bridge to Catalan Wikipedia
    • Creating Grafana Dashboards for the new Wikidata Bridge so we have some data to help us determine which datatypes to support next for example (phabricator:T260532)
    • Finished working on ensuring Labels of Items in some unusual, often minority, languages are still available on Wikipedia and other clients (phabricator: T259340)
    • Fixed error messages for API modules that will not work with the first version of Federated Properties (phabricator:T258558)
    • Working on improving how ORES judges the quality of an Item to make it more accurate
    • Started coding on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Precious anniversary

Precious
One year!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:32, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #431

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension that displays Wikidata items while browsing the web, adds missing IDs and extracts information from websites to Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Working on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well
    • Polishing remaining pieces of the first version of Federated Properties to make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in other Wikibase instances
    • Continuing to work on improving the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item to make it more accurate

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).

Administrator changes

added Eddie891
removed Angela • Jcw69 • Just Chilling • Philg88 • Viajero

CheckUser changes

readded SQL

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
  • A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors must or should use the articles for creation process.
  • A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:56, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #432

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Rob Fernandez (Wikimedia District of Columbia) on Listeria, a tool that uses SPARQL queries to define a list, and provides a bot that will update a wiki page containing that list if the results of that SPARQL query change, all based on Wikidata, 08 September. Agenda
    • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 8 at 18:00 CEST
    • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19 Facebook, YouTube, September 10
    • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #29, September 13
  • Development
    • Added Wikidata support to Japanese Wikivoyage. phab:T261451
    • Investigating the nature of our training outliers to improve the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item.
    • Working on error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an item. phab:T260869
    • Completed various investigations to make an informed decision on the output format of WikibaseManifest files (automated configuration detection for toolbuilders) phab:T261285
    • Completed various bug fixes and wrap-up tasks to conclude the major engineering work on the Federated Properties project
    • More work on Item Quality Scoring and Federated Properties

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

This Month in GLAM: August 2020



Headlines
  • Albania report: Wikivoyage edit-a-thon - Editing Albania and Kosovo’s travel destinations
  • Brazil report: Open innovation and dissemination activities: wrapping up great achievements on a major GLAM in Brazil
  • Czech Republic report: First Prague Wiki Editathon held in Prague
  • Estonia report: Virtual exhibition about Polish-Estonian relations. Rephotography and cultural heritage
  • Germany report: KulTour in Swabia and 8000 documents new online
  • India report: Utilising Occasion for Content donation: A story
  • Netherlands report: WMIN & WMNL collaboration & Japanese propaganda films
  • Serbia report: Enriching Wiki projects in different ways
  • Sweden report: Free music and new recordings of songs in the public domain; Autumn in the libraries; Yes, you can hack the heritage this year – online!
  • Uganda report: Participating in the African Librarians Week (24-30 May 2020)
  • UK report: Spanish metal and ...
  • USA report: Wiknic & Black Artists Matter & Respect Her Crank
  • WMF GLAM report: Wikipedia Library, new WikiCite grant programs, and GLAM office hours
  • Calendar: September's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #433

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Mbabel is a tool that simplifies article creation by providing pre-made sentences based on Wikidata statements.
  • Development
    • Fixing an error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an Item instead of just one. (phabricator:T260869)
    • Development of version one of Federated Properties has concluded! Expect an announcement with timing of the release of this feature soon. Wikibase users who want an early look at the feature are invited to reach out to participate in the pre-release testing round.
    • Development of the WikibaseManifest extension has continued into its second sprint; we focused on determining a product specification for the Manifest output.
    • Finishing a draft documentation for a REST API to get it ready for a feedback round before implementation.
    • Finished improvements to the automated scoring of the quality of Items with ORES. Still need to retrain ORES and deploy the changes before the scores are actually different though.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Wikidata weekly summary #434

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Online Wikidata Introduction Workshop (German) (September 29)
    • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 21 at 18:00 CEST
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: A starting point for newer institutions to think through what is involved in coordinating a Wikidata project, including shared infrastructure, training, and documentation, 22 September. Agenda
    • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 WikiDojo: Facebook, YouTube, September 25
  • Tool of the week
    • copy-qid is a user script by Abbe98 that allows you to copy the Qid with one click.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • WQS now supports mwapi service request for Wikibooks (phab:T261125)
    • The language codes lij-mc, ja-Hira, ja-Kana, ja-Hrkt, ja-Hani, ojp, ojp-Hira and ojp-Hani" have been added for use in monolingual text property values (phab:T254968, phab:T195816)
    • The language codes de-1901, eo-hsistemo and eo-xsistemo, ja-hira, ja-kana and ja-hrkt have been added for Lexemes (phab:T262330,phab:T257422, phab:T250559)
    • P1438 has been converted from string to external ID datatype (phab:T262198)
    • Worked on fixing an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
    • Investigating what work would be needed to get the new termbox that's available on mobile to also work on desktop
    • Fixing several issues with Special:Undelete (phab:T261747)
    • Fixing an error message being shown twice (phab:T260869)
    • Starting the coding work on the Query Builder
    • Continuing to write a draft for a REST API specification
    • Finishing the remaining work needed to get the improved quality scoring for Items deployed to ORES
    • Continuing work on WikibaseManifest: Determined the essential metadata that will be included in the WikibaseManifest file, added some new features (mostly MediaWiki metadata) to the Manifest that were requested by the OpenRefine team (phab:T262805 and phab:T262804) and set up a test system that will soon be ready for tool builders to use for testing the integration of their tools with WikibaseManifest


You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Reviewing Kyiv/Kiev RM based on new evidence from Ymblanter

Hi, you might want to change your opinion of the Sep 2020 Kiev/Kyiv RM based on this new evidence. An admin Ymblanter recently found out that user who started the RM was later CU blocked as they turned out a logged out user who was topic-banned from all topics related to Ukraine, and Ymblater later also found out that it was most likely a user who was topic-banned by them earlier.

A friend already started a discussion at Wikipedia:Move review/Log/2020 September#Kyiv - you might want to take a look at that discussion regarding reviewing that move.--172.58.140.238 (talk) 23:02, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

It does not change my mind, but thanks for the heads up. -- Fuzheado | Talk 02:22, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Confused by actions on vandalism page

I am a little confused by this edit it seemed like a legitimate report of vandalism. You then left the vandalism report that is concerning my edits. Can you please help me to understand what I may be missing here?--VVikingTalkEdits 14:10, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Huang's law for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Huang's law 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/Huang's law until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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. Edwardx (talk) 18:42, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Sat Sep 26: Met Fashion Virtual Edit Meet-up

September 26, 12:30pm: Met Fashion Virtual Edit Meet-up

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and the Metropolitan Museum of Art for our The Met x Wikipedia Virtual Edit Meet-up: Met Fashion.

This is a follow-up to last year's successful MetFashion 2019, and will follow a similar theme optimized for a remote online experience.

We will be partially coordinating with the international Wiki Loves Fashion campaign.

Watch and join the livestream! The Metropolitan Museum of Art event on Saturday Sep 26 will host a tutorial and question-and-answer session live on YouTube and other social media platforms.

  • 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Presentation
  • 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm - Guidance and Q&A

Chat about improving articles! Support will be provided to help guide new editors in this area at Wikimedia Fashion Chat for the duration of the campaign.

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)

--Wikimedia New York City Team 17:52, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #435

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
    • Nominate your favorite tools for the Coolest Tool Award 2020 before October 14th.
    • Wikidata Walkabout is a new site that lets you browse and drill down through different "classes" of data on Wikidata: wikidatawalkabout.org
    • Como is a new Android app, that uses Wikidata lexemes and senses to create a word-guessing game. It let's players create new senses and tests them on other players to finally save them in Wikidata. The app is developed as part of a BA thesis, to determine if this concept is useful to create more lexicographical data, and testers would be very welcome.
  • Development
    • A long-standing bug has been fixed (T217144) where Items and Lexemes created via OAuth would not be added to the user’s watchlist even if the user had the Add pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist setting enabled. (The Add pages and files I edit to my watchlist setting was probably likewise ineffective, but this was not tested specifically.) Affected tools include QuickStatements, Mix'n'Match, and Wikidata Lexeme Forms; users of these and other tools may see more pages being added to their watchlists now. (This only applies to new edits and page creations; previously created or edited pages will not be automatically added to the watchlist retroactively.)
    • Working on the basic building blocks of the Query Builder towards making it possible to create the first very simple query with it
    • Talking to people about comparing Wikidata's data against other databases and flagging mismatches
    • Fixing an issue with Item creations via the API by blocked users leading to skipped entity IDs (phab:T232620)
    • Fixed an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
    • Finishing the draft of the REST API spec to get it ready for feedback
    • WikibaseManifest: created a separate key for local entities and decided what we do about non-local entity sources based on tool-builder feedback (phab:T263527) and specifying the API in OpenApi format (phab:T262919)


You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).

Administrator changes

added Ajpolino • LuK3
readded Jackmcbarn
removed Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM
renamed There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:42, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Category:Android malware has been nominated for renaming

Category:Android malware has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. 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. FMecha (to talk|to see log) 12:14, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Ada Lovelace Day

Hello Andrew! @Pharos and Mary Mark Ockerbloom: Mary has been hard at work on a recent grant proposal. She and I met to plan the October WikiSalon and we decided to keep it to a small scope of editing Wikipedia articles around women in science. We are not going to teach anything new re: Wikidata, as our local editors have given feedback that they are saturated with new information and need time to practice their skills. Perhaps with more lead time we can collaborate on a larger Ada Lovelace event with Wikimedians next year. See you around the Wikiverse! Thank you for your support! Doreva Dorevabelfiore (talk) 01:50, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #436

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Toby Hudson on Entity Explosion, a browser extension which allows you to get information about entities on the web page you’re visiting, 06 October. Agenda
    • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT)
    • Upcoming: plenty of events for the Wikidata birthday, check the calendar and feel free to organise one!
  • Tool of the week
    • IllWill.js is a userscript that searches Wikidata for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate Template:ill and replace plain red links on other Wikimedia projects.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • omeka-s-wikidata is a new module for the open source GLAM collection management software Omeka, that allows cataloguers to use Wikidata as a vocabulary for persons, places, subjects, etc.
  • Development
    • First pieces of the Query Builder are coming together and we are working towards making it generate the first dumb query
    • Talking to people about their thoughts on checking Wikidata's data against other databases. If you're interested reach out to Mohammed.
    • Got some first internal feedback for the REST API specification draft. We'll publish it for feedback in the next days.
    • Fixing an issue with certain language codes no longer being available (phab:T264294)
    • Working on making sure blocked bots don't waste Item IDs when trying to create new Items (phab:T232620)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Wikidata weekly summary #437

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: MsynABot
    • Closed request for adminship: Fuzheado (successful)
  • Tool of the week
    • OD2WD automatically converts CSV files from Open Data portals into QuickStatements for Wikidata republishing. Demo video
  • Development
    • The RFC to semi-protect all property pages has been implemented, all properties now require the “autoconfirmed” right to edit (T254280)
    • Working on enabling JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T220883)
    • Finishing preventing blocked users from making us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
    • Continuing work on the Wikibase Manifest extension that allows toolbuilders to easily access configurations of a specific Wikibase instance so it is easier for them to make their tools work with not just Wikidata but also other Wikibase instances
    • Started analyzing what we consider a mismatch for our work around checking Wikidata's data against other databases
    • Continued work on the Query Builder to get it to create the first very simple query. It can do that now but not yet visualize the result.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

This Month in GLAM: September 2020



Headlines
  • Brazil report: Wikidata birthday celebrations, Wiki Loves Monuments, new partnerships and more!
  • Colombia report: GLAM and virtual education
  • France report: AAF training course; Workshops in Strasbourg; European Heritage Days: Rennes; Wiki Loves Monuments
  • Germany report: Ahoy! Wikipedians set sail to document the reality of modern seafaring
  • Indonesia report: New GLAM partnerships on data donation; Commons structured data edit-a-thon
  • Norway report: Students taking on GLAM Wiki women in red
  • Sweden report: Musikverket: more folk music and photos; Hack for Heritage 2020; Wiki Loves Monuments; Wikipedia in the libraries; Digital Book Fair on Wikipedia
  • UK report: National Lottery; Khalili Collections
  • USA report: Virtual events MetFashion, 19SuffrageStories, WikiCari Festival and more
  • Open Access report: New publication about access to digitised cultural heritage
  • WMF GLAM report: Launching Wikisource Pagelist Widget
  • Calendar: ctober's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #438

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Prepbio tool uses Wikidata to create the beginnings of a Wikipedia stub biography article. (2020-10-19)
  • Development
    • Blocked users trying to create new Items no longer make us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
    • So far we don't have JSON dumps for Lexemes. We're working on regularly generating them as well now (phab:T264883)
    • Continuing work on getting the Query Builder to generate the first query. Almost there.
    • Started the feedback round for the REST API. Please provide your input if you are currently using the action API or plan to develop against Wikidata's API in the future.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

October 21: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

October 21, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page.

We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person!

In honor of Wikidata's 8th birthday earlier this month, we especially encourage lightning talks related to Wikidata and Wikidata adjacent projects and tools. We'll also discuss the recent proposal to change the Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws, including the Statement of Opposition from Wikimedia NYC.

7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)

--Wikimedia New York City Team 04:11, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #439

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Past: Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata, SEMIC Conference 2020 - (replay)
    • Past: Introduction to Wikidata by Frimelle, Software Freedom Kosova 2020 - (replay)
    • Past: What's new in Wikidata? by Lea Lacroix, Lydia Pintscher and Mattia Capozzi, ItWikiCon 2020 - (replay)
    • Ongoing: plenty of Wikidata birthday events, online and onsite! Here's an overview of the upcoming events, you can find the links and details in the main calendar.
      • WikiCite virtual conference on October 26-28, live-streamed on Youtube and Twitter, with sessions across many timezones and languages – English, French, German, Indonesian, and Portuguese.
      • Wikidata Education Week, online, on October 26-30
      • 24-hours online meetup, on October 28-29: an open discussion with plenty of community members facilitating exchange around the topic "what makes you enthusiastic about Wikidata"
      • Gene Wiki: how to synchronize and curate primary sources with and in Wikidata, online, on October 29th
      • Birthday celebration in Rennes, France, on October 29th
      • Birthday Celebration in Accra, Ghana, and online, on October 29th
    • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CET (16:00 GMT)
    • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 27 at 18:00 CET
  • Tool of the week
    • WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements
  • Development
    • Got the Query Builder to create the first simple queries. You can follow along the development from now on on the test system.
    • Preparing regular JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T264883)
    • Analyzed a number of queries to the query service together with the WMF search team to better understand what the queries are doing and what further optimizations we can make to the query service and which queries need different systems to answer them.
    • Working on creating and tracking implicit usages of Wikidata descriptions so description changes show up in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T265897)
    • Created Extension:WikibaseManifest documentation on MediaWiki.
    • Looking into what would be considered a mismatch when comparing WIkidata's data against another database. This is groundwork for potentially automating this in the future to find potential issues in the data to flag to editors.
    • Working on deploying the new Item quality scoring model for ORES to production so we have improved quality scores
    • Finished investigating how to handle a restricted list of external Wikibase services. (phab:T265118)
    • Removed noratelimit on bots for wikidata.org (phab:T258354)
    • Published Easier Access for Programmers to Wikidata research report

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Administrators' newsletter – November 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:51, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #440

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Hasley (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)
  • Events
    • Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
    • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37, November 8
    • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET
This is 32 hours of video covering 85 individual presentations in 7 languages.
1266 "unique viewers" have watched some portion on YouTubeSince the conference began last Monday.
  • Tool of the week
    • reCH is a Wikidata anti-vandalism tool that is used to review edits and patrol new changes.
  • Development
    • Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting Lexemes (phab:T263435)
    • Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (phab:T264883)
    • Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266673)
    • The Query Builder can now generate its first very simple query and show the result. You can follow along as we develop it at the demo system.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Source

hi i am in the process of editing Yitzhak Frank page, and before i added citation you erased it, please redo it so i can finish editing . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.179.26.6 (talk) 11:34, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
High five, fellow asian! Firestar464 (talk) 03:00, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Jaime Harrison

Ha - great minds think alike. My protection is a little longer, I don't think that will be an issue. Didn't mean to conflict with you, you snuck in between my hitting "protect" and finishing the statement... Hope you're keeping safe and healthy. Risker (talk) 04:50, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

@Risker: Ha, thanks. It seems like protecting many more Senate candidates may be needed for the IP editors jumping the gun. -- Fuzheado | Talk 04:56, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Your removal of my entry on the Ravilloles Wikipedia page

Hello, I added a reference to the Ravilloles Facebook page onto the Wikipedia page.

You appear to have removed it.

The Facebook page is a page of historical images which is being contributed to by many people of the community and has been visited by hundreds of people who have close connections with this French village Ravilloles, from all over the world.

I'd be grateful if you would let me know why you decided to remove it. I think it is absolutely relevant. It is completely within the spirit of Wikipedia.

Regards

Bankfodder (talk) 12:54, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Bankfodder (talk • contribs) 12:52, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

IP range edit warring

This IP range that reverted me and you in genocidal rape is almost certainly evading a block on another range. See Special:Contributions/2601:81:C400:3C70:0:0:0:0/64 which is blocked for 1 year. According to the WHOIS information, it's the same city and ISP. Same topic area. Do you do range blocks? Thanks. --Pudeo (talk) 20:51, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

William D. Lyons

Yes, you made a mistake.

I am Senator Lyons' youngest son.

First, he has no middle initial "D". He was simply known and William "Bill" Lyons.

He had a wife: Edit Mae Lyons (maiden name Hamilton).

His eldest son was Francis "Frank" William Lyons.

He had two daughter: the elder Carolyn Jean Lyons (now Leonard). And she is still alive and residing in New Port Richey Florida.

His younger daughter, Diana Marie Lyons (Boggs), died in 2014.

He had a son, Michael Charles Lyons, who died in 1964 from Luekemia.

And his adopted son (me), David Alan Lyons, is a physicist, who currently resides in Melbourne, FL. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:1A30:A850:E8E7:E33B:C32:54 (talk) 04:00, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Irma Hünerfauth

I'm not sure how to document the change I made. the artist's second son got omitted from the literature for some reason. I've seen the birth certificate though and there is no doubt. (I'm the granddaughter) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr K.Lund (talk • contribs) 18:05, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Delhi Capitals page

Sorry for interrupting. I'm facing an error. Somebody edit the awards reference section into Statistics section. I am trying to recover that. I done that multiple times now, so only I wasn't able to give summary. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kirubar (talk • contribs) 18:22, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Politically biased editing of article on Gacaca

I am a professor who has researched Gacaca courts for 15 years and provided a source for the edits I made and which you removed. The article you have reverted to has mulitiple inaccuracies, mistranslations and political bias. "Gacaca" does not translate as "justice on the grass" but as "short grass". I am fluent in Kinyarwanda and it is clear you are not. Please revert to the edits I have made or I will report you for political bias and publishing inaccurate information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.6.184.153 (talk) 20:12, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

I would encourage you to sign up for an account, edit the article and include references, and they will get their due consideration. Thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk 20:14, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Repeated attempts by this user to undo edits by an expert

Fuzheado, you have repeatedly deleted my edits to a topic I am an expert on while you yourself have no research, language or literature expertise on the topic. You are calling the authority of this website into disrepute by deleting the citations and sources I have provided for a politicized account without academic basis. I have 15 years of research experience on this topic and am fluent in the language that you have mistranslated here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RwandanExpert (talk • contribs) 20:47, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Prakash Karat and Vijay Prashad

In the page for Brinda Karat, it says that Vijay Prashad is her nephew. Prakash Karat is the husband of Brinda Karat. Therefore, he is the uncle of Vijay Prashad. Citation for Brinda Karat being aunt of Vijay Prashad: https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/a-nuanced-gaze-on-west-asia/cid/1504048.

Thanks a lot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rededitor1917 (talk • contribs) 03:14, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

"Baldo" Amato

Hi, Fuzheado: Thanks for jumping in (and man, are you quick!) I'm not really experimenting, I'm trying to clear up some confusion about this guy that I found across several Wikipedia pages and other places on the web -- who, as even seen on the Wikipedia "Zips" page, is referred to merely as "Baldo Amato", his nickname, rather than as his given name. When I googled that nickname and didn't find anything elsewhere in Wikipedia, I checked around and discovered that his actual name is "Baldassare", although most mentions I've found on the web call him "Baldo", and often don't mention "Baldassare" at all. It just seemed odd that his own page in Wikipedia doesn't even mention how apparently most people know him, which is by his nickname, "Baldo". So would it be okay if I changed it back? Thanks for your consideration. Rick. 76.236.220.28 (talk) 04:22, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Spoken Wikipedia-2

Template:Spoken Wikipedia-2 has been nominated for merging with Template:Spoken Wikipedia. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. --Trialpears (talk) 12:38, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Use of Huggle to rollback good edits

Hi, Fuzheado. I noticed you recently made this revert using Huggle without leaving any comment (also, your comment to the IP user did not actual link to the correct diff of what you reverted). Normally that should only be done for clear vandalism, while the edit you reverted was actually a good edit that added a useful wikilink and removed a redirect link. I hope you will be more careful in the future. Take care. – wallyfromdilbert (talk) 20:53, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Actually, this IP edit was correct which you reverted. They were removing BLP-violating material which then had to be revision deleted. Liz Read! Talk! 21:00, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
@Wallyfromdilbert: Thanks for letting me now and yes that was a good edit that should not have been reverted. -- Fuzheado | Talk 21:16, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

November 2020

Information icon Hello, I'm Elizium23. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Paul Shanley, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Elizium23 (talk) 00:55, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Pete Buttigieg and Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Hi, thanks for your help on Pete Buttigieg and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. However, I noticed that the semi-protection put in on both those pages are significantly shorter than the previous protections for both of those pages. Pete Buttigieg in particular was previously protected for six months before vandalism returned. Both pages have been persistent vandalism targets for quite some time. Would you please look at the protection history for both of these pages and consider making them longer? Simmyrak (talk) 00:35, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Good point. I have upped both to 1 year. Thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk

Nomination of .30-01 for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article .30-01 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/.30-01 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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.   // Timothy :: talk  04:40, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #441

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.
  • Development
    • Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
    • Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code.
    • Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly.
    • Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image (phab:T264538)
    • Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (phab:T266673)
    • Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (phab:T263435)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

No response to my message of 4 November concerning your removal of material which I posted up on the Ravilloles Wikipedia page

Hello, I'm very disappointed that although you decided unilaterally to remove material which I had taken trouble to put up on the Wikipedia page for Ravilloles, you apparently have decided not to respond to my message asking you why you did this.

Looking through the history of messages to you I see that it's not the first time that people have protested about the way that you have interfered with their Wikipedia contributions.

I see that one of the rules of Wikipedia is to be polite and so I would invite you to respond to my question of 4 November.

Thank you

@Bankfodder: Please take some more time to learn about the Wikipedia style - we do not put external links into the body of an article. You will notice this if you read any other articles or if you took the time to understand Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#External_links. Also, please sign your comments with four tildes ~~~~ Thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk 12:28, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

/* Prototypes and testing */ Changed status of SHSN1 and SN11

I have been editing the Prototypes and testing statuses of the Staship development history page and I have not been allowed to change the status of two of the prototypes due to it not being constructive. I believe this is wrong, please don´t change it as it is constructive as many people use this as a source of information and I´d like to keep it up to date. Pythagorasboy5 (talk) 13:02, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Longhorn crazy ant

Apparently, you cannot tell the difference between constructive and nonconstructive edits. Maybe a review of MOS or an English class would help. 2603:8080:B200:2E3A:D0DA:C507:88B4:7295 (talk) 02:29, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

When you get caught up

Thanks for the cleanup on aisle crazy category creation and personal attacks editor Fuzheado. When you have a moment would you zap these two edit summaries. As slow as I type you might have fixed them already :-) Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 03:21, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

@MarnetteD: No problem, I deleted the entire page just to be safe. -- Fuzheado | Talk 03:27, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
You were a busy bee as that was a big mess. Many thanks for all your work. MarnetteD|Talk 03:29, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2020



Headlines
  • AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wikipedia in African Libraries Project
  • Brazil report: Abre-te Código hackathon, Wikidata related events and news from our partners
  • Finland report: Postponed Hack4FI GLAM hackathon turned into an online global Hack4OpenGLAM
  • France report: Partnership with BNU Strasbourg
  • Germany report: Coding da Vinci cultural data hackathon heads to Lower Saxony
  • India report: Mapping GLAM in Maharashtra, India
  • Indonesia report: Bulan Sejarah Indonesia 2.0; Structured data edit-a-thon; Proofreading mini contest
  • Netherlands report: National History Month: East to West, Dutch libraries and Wikipedia
  • New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large
  • Norway report: The Sámi Languages on wiki
  • Serbia report: Many activities are in our way
  • Sweden report: Librarians learn about Wikidata; More Swedish literature on Wikidata; Online Edit-a-thon Dalarna; Applications to the Swedish Innovation Agency; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Librarians and Projekt HBTQI; GLAM Statistical Tool
  • UK report: Enamels of the World
  • USA report: American Archive of Public Broadcasting; Smithsonian Women in Finance Edit-a-thon; Black Lunch Table; San Diego/October 2020; WikiWednesday Salon
  • Calendar: November's GLAM events
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Speedy deletion nomination of User talk:Cam Crawford

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that User talk:Cam Crawford, a page that you created, has been tagged for deletion. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Elmssuper 04:46, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Why were my edits reverted?

Please explain. You have not explained. Are you familiar with the C shell?

And if you think somehow the style on the C shell page is bad, you better check these out too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KornShell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcsh which I did my best to imitate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.244.151.2 (talk) 13:10, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

@73.244.151.2: Feel free to change it back if it is consistent with the other shells. -- Fuzheado | Talk 13:21, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. 73.244.151.2 (talk) 13:25, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

How do I start a new topic for Trump coup?

Hello Fuzheado,

I hope you and your family are well. Thank you for taking the time to explain the policy on my editing. I apologize for wasting your time as editing Wikipedia is a first for me and this is a topic that I have found myself to be more passionate about than I am entirely used to in my adult life. Is there a way to begin a new topic for the people who end up at the bridge topic for "Trump coup?" I think most people on Wikipedia looking at the term today are thinking of the 2020 definition. Thank you so much for your time and effort on this site.

YoNibbet (talk) 15:14, 12 November 2020 (UTC)Nibbet

ASIA album

Hello Fuzheado.

How can I leave a citation for my addition? I saw the movie and noted the presence of the album. How could and why would I cite that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.40.245.241 (talk) 19:06, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Revert

Fuzheado, I'm making significant changes to the article and they were not made with the intention of vandalizing. I'm reorganizing the article, fixing grammartical mistakes, inaccuracies, you name it. This would consist of multiple edits. Could you please be more considerate instead of blindly reverting other users as well as giving me a warning, especially if you're unaware of the context? It would be much appreciated if you could revert back for me. ToastLovers (talk) 19:50, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

@ToastLovers: You are not leaving an edit summary nor are you explaining mass deletion of content on the talk page. So unless you do those things, you will be reverted. Please explain your changes. Thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk 19:55, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Clarification and apology

Hi. I see you left a message on my talk page regarding an edit to the article for the 2020 Puerto Rico status referendum. I left another message about this on the talk page of the anonymous user who reverted my edit, so I should let you know too - I'm afraid that my negligence has led to something of a misunderstanding, and there was no ill intent on my part. While making a simple word change and removing an erroneous comma, I had not taken into account that I have a rather amusing extension in my browser that changes instances of either "Jeb Bush" or "Marco Rubio" to "Florida Man". My edit on the Puerto Rico article changing that as such was completely unintentional - I didn't notice Rubio's name was mentioned in that section, and my browser therefore altered it as I went to edit - and as a result, well, it certainly ended up looking bad once I clicked to save changes. My sincere apologies, and I'll be sure I'm more aware of such things in the future. 134340Goat (talk) 04:04, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Do not undo my edits please

As the title says. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.184.252.74 (talk) 21:40, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

If you want the edits to stand, please link to a reliable source. Thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk 05:09, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Just wondering why you removed a link to the French article in Road transport in Japan

I was just wondering why you removed a link to the French article in Road transport in Japan.

You did two comments:

  • "Reverted edits by 88.136.216.31 (talk) (HG) (3.4.10) undo Tag: Rollback"
  • "You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Road transport in Japan. Fuzheado | Talk 11:03, 14 November 2020 (UTC)"

Those two comments suggest you believe there is some kind of vandalism in this link to French article.

I have no clue to understand why you believe that.

Sincerely, I would prefer that you revert your own revert and that you apologize for using your offensive "vandalize" expression.

Of course, as you might understand, such behavior does not encourage contribution to wikipedia.

Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.136.216.31 (talk) 11:27, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi, it was reverted because that is not how we do links between different language editions of Wikipedia - we use Wikidata now. I've made the edit for you here: [2]. It was not just this one edit but a series of unsourced edits that triggered that message. If those previous edits were not you, then I would suggest you create an account so you can better track your activity so we don't have these misunderstanding in the future. Thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk 12:05, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for that answer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.136.216.31 (talk) 12:44, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #442

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    • ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata.
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    • Join the upcoming #1Lib1Ref Wikipedia campaign from January 15th to February 5th 2021 and improve Wikidata items by adding references to statements.
  • Development
    • Added "Random lexeme" link under dedicated section for lexicographical data in the Wikidata sidebar (phab:T205525). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
    • Working on language/spelling variant selector bug on Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme that makes it difficult to continue creating Items or Lexemes (phab:T266638)
    • Work on the Query Builder continues. We're focusing on making it possible to query for all Items with a specific Property but any value next.
    • Went over all the feedback we have received for the REST API specification draft. Overall the feedback is positive and really useful. So we will move ahead after thinking more about the remaining points that were raised.
    • Working on making changes to descriptions show up in the RecentChanges feed and watchlists on Wikipedia and co as well even if they are not explicitly used (phab:T191831)
    • Fixed a problem adding statements with Properties of datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266496)
    • Kicked off our new effort to implement a predictable release cycle and release infrastructure for Wikibase suite by creating a prototype build workflow (phab:T267553) and prototype test workflow (phab:T267554)

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One more for the pile

I'd also have a looksee at WikiTwitter290. While he hasn't hit Myles Turner as heavily all of his edits are basically him playing silly buggers with other basketball players' articles. —A little blue Bori v^_^v Takes a strong man to deny... 05:50, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

@Jéské Couriano: Thanks for the heads up. Blocked. -- Fuzheado | Talk 05:54, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Carter County edit

Hello - I saw your message. The info I edited on the Carter County, Montana page is from the Presidential Election Results table, which is itself sourced at the end of the article from:

Leip, David. "Atlas of US Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved April 2, 2018.

Brokerik (talk) 06:31, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the note - you should put the citation next to the fact, even if it is re-using an existing reference. -- Fuzheado | Talk 06:37, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Cantonese opera

Hi Fuzheado, I am in the process of creating articles for Cantonese opera people and clean up Cantonese opera. Someone with no knowledge of this article is making some incorrect changes to the Notable people section. Can you help. Thanks, SWP13 (talk) 17:54, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

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Can you please block User:Lilmissblackhairedgay

4thfile4thrank {talk} :? 22:56, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Done. I was contemplating it myself before, so good to get a second concurrence. -- Fuzheado | Talk 22:59, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

email

Hello Andrew. I hope you are doing well.
I sent you an email directly, not through wikipedia's email function. Kindly read it at your earliest convenience. I apologise for the inconvenience caused to you. Regards, —usernamekiran (talk) 20:26, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Sourcing - Badger Clark

I believe I had provided the source for my changes. Unfortunately, the source that I used is not available online (other than for sale from the South Dakota Historical Society). How should that be sourced outside of how I referenced it? Please let me know as it took me a while to make sure I quoted him properly. Thank you. Ron Sasso 209.159.212.255 (talk) 02:18, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

AMAs of 2020

Hey Fuzheado. I recently put in a request for the page American Music Awards of 2020 to be temporarily semi protected (WP:RFPP#American Music Awards of 2020). Just wanted to let you know as I see you have been editing that page recently . D🐶ggy54321 (let's chat!) 20:24, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Apraxia revert

Why did you revert my edit to apraxia? I don't understand what part of it was revert-worthy. Thedumbestone (talk) 11:30, 22 November 2020 (UTC)Thedumbestone

ikidata weekly summary #443

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • EntityShape.js is a script that allows you to check an Item against an EntitySchema. On the Item page, it will display various information about the Item, like the properties that should be present on the Item.
  • Development
    • Query Builder: We're making it possible to switch between querying for specific values (e.g. all Items with a specific post code) or any value (all Items with a post code statement regardless of which one it is)
    • Correcting the behaviour of what automatically happens on Wikidata when a page is moved on Wikipedia and co to an excluded namespace with the "suppress redirect" option (phab:T261275)
    • Making language fallback indicators not show up for language variant fallbacks in a few more places (phab:T267502)
    • Adding html language attributes for statements linking to Forms and Senses (phab:T267023)
    • Working on language and lexical category fields turning red on unfocus even though no changes are made after a change in ooui (phab:T266936)
    • Finished building the 1.35 versions of the Wikibase base and bundle docker images and published to dockerhub (phab:T264538)

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Comment

The editor was correct in the editing of the Charlotte Gardner article with the correct middle name. I accept full responsibility and I should had paid better attention to her middle name; the obituary which is one of the citations gave the correct middle name. Again my apologies to yourself; I also apologized to the editor also. Thank you-RFD (talk) 14:42, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Information icon Hello, I'm Fuzheado. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to Tide (brand)—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thanks. Fuzheado | Talk 22:34, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

regarding Amina Maher's page

Hi dear Fuzheado, I am one of Amina's assistants and I am trying to fix her pronounce in the page. She is publicly a transgender and wishes to not have a "He" pronounce on her page. Except that I just added some quotes from film-festivals.which also got denied. Thanks for letting me know how is the wiki's policy towards such a case. bests.--Sarajavadi (talk) 21:06, 29 November 2020 (UTC)Sarajavadi

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