User talk:Marek69/Archive 25

This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2015)

A Old Colony Mennonite family observing the practice of plain dress Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Plain dress Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Historic house • Soufflé Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:10, 31 August 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2015)

Two high divers in mid-air Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: High diving Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Plain dress • Historic house Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:22, 7 September 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Potential admin

Hi, I notice you're on Wikipedia:List of administrator hopefuls. Wikipedia would benefit from more admins. If you have been editing for more than 12 months (preferably 24+ months), and have been editing fairly consistently for the past 6 months (preferably 12+ months) with at least 100 edits a month (this tool will help) - or an explanation for any gaps, and haven't been blocked or topic banned in the past three years - or a good explanation for a recent block or ban, don't have a recent history of edit warring or arguing with other editors, feel you can explain why you wish to be an admin, can demonstrate some understanding of Wikipedia's procedures and processes, or know where to go for guidance, and are confident enough to go through a RfA, please get in touch with me. We can talk about it some more, and if all looks OK, I'll nominate you. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 12:16, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi SilkTork, thank you for thinking of me. :-)

I am a little snowed under with work commitments at this present time.

I appreciate your offer and will certainly get in touch with you when I am ready to run. :-)

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 18:18, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

No worries. I'll mark you down on my list as not interested at the moment, and look forward to you getting in touch on my talkpage or by email. No promises as I've not yet looked into your contribution history, but I do like that you are willing to put yourself forward as an admin, so I'm happy to give you support, honest opinion, and advice when you're ready, and when all is well, to nominate. Regards SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 09:47, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VIII, August 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Two edit-a-thons France report: August in Brittany Germany report: Sharing is Caring Mexico report: Pilot program to make freely licensed animation clips Spain report: Museum of African Art "Jiménez-Arellano Alonso"; Wiki Loves Monuments in Spain Sweden report: Odd submarines, new strategy and an old contest UK report: QRpedia AWOL; RSC holds another edit-a-thon Special story: New toolkit on Photo Events documents best practices, strategies and more Open Access report: Wikipedia as an amplyfier; horse face recognition, rhythm perception, fossil rodent teeth Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2015)

Transection of a human head Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Head Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: High diving • Plain dress Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:11, 14 September 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2015)

"Boy on white horse" by Theodor Kittelsen Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Scottish mythology Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Head • High diving Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:10, 21 September 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2015)

Personal finance – an example image of personal budget planning software Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Personal finance Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Scottish mythology • Head Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:07, 28 September 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2015)

An example of musical composition – Scherzo in A flat (Borodin) Playⓘ Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Musical composition Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Personal finance • Scottish mythology Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:07, 5 October 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

This Month in GLAM: September 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue IX, September 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thon & editing challenges Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art; Publications; SOIMA 2015: Unlocking Sound and Image Heritage France report: Clever September Germany report: Opening up (with) the Prussians! Italy report: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 Italian edition and photographic archives Macedonia report: Bringing Wikipedia closer to animal lovers Netherlands report: Who's afraid of Jacob van Ruisdael? Various gifts from Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden Spain report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Wiki Takes Ayora; Glaming Madrid; Wikimedia Connection; Creative Commons Valladolid Film Festival Sweden report: Books, exhibitions, maritime connections and monuments UK report: Wake me up, when September ends... USA report: Edit-a-thon in Seattle Open Access report: Homo naledi; Wikigate; Open Access Week Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2015)

Costumed performers from the 2006 Bristol Renaissance Faire Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Costume Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Musical composition • Personal finance Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:17, 12 October 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2016)

Debt is the amount of money that is owed or due. Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Debt Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Delicatessen • Pecan pie Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 18 April 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #205

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

• Discussion
  • Closed request for comments: Reforming the property creation process, Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: office hour on IRC (log)
  • Past: ISB2016 (slides)
  • Past: WWW2016 - Freebase to Wikidata migration (slides)
  • Past: CUNY Wikidata intro (slides)
  • National Library of Wales: Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
  • New TSRI Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
  • Yle <3 Wikidata - using Wikidata for concept tagging
• Other noteworthy stuff
  • ArticlePlaceholder is going live on the first small Wikipedias on May 11th and could use your help
  • Wikimedia Commons will get the arbitrary access feature on April 26th
  • The Europeana Art History Challenge has started
  • Magnus made a handy user-script for duplicating items, for when a new item has similar property values to an existing one. See for instance, this set of edits for a second version of an artwork.
  • Listeria now has a status page
  • PetScan has now the option "Has no statements" to find items without statements for a category at Wikipedia (sample: en:Category:United States geography stubs) or an entire language version (sample: "sowiki").
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: production statistics, DNZB, PASE name, this zoological name is coordinate with, Australian Geological Provinces Database Identifier, Tate artist identifier, ResearchGate institute ID
  • Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Museums
  • Query examples: items named after their shape, recent events, assemblies by number of seats, characters portrayed by most actors
• Development
  • Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60 seconds (phabricator:T126730)
  • Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak peek)
  • Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel - should go live later today)
  • Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily
  • Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
  • More work on first prototype for structured data support for Wikimedia Commons
  • Cleaned up icons for selecting rank and value type
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Edits

Hi Marek69,

I just wanted to inform you that this IP address is a university address, so I have no idea who was making edits to the page Romania but a block - as I understand these instances are often sanctioned with - would affect at least the two hundred or so people who live in this college building. Please bear that in mind before taking action against this IP address, if these disruptive edits continue, as it will affect a lot of people.

Many thanks,

-Clueless bystander — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.32.240.71 (talk) 13:39, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for your message.

The simple solution to this is for editors from this IP address to create an account. That way you avoid unnecessary messages or blocks.

Kind regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 18:30, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Not only is it linked to chico state university, but it is also linked to butte community college, so it would be best to keep your tabs on the edits of this ip because that is alot of people.

sources: I go there haha. 205.155.141.7 (talk) 18:12, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2016)

Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Fame (Irene Cara song) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Debt • Delicatessen Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 25 April 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #206

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Writing a bachelor's thesis at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
  • Europeana Art History Challenge begins
  • TED is partnering with the Wikimedia community to add “ideas worth spreading” to Wikimedia projects
  • Wikidata meets world literature
  • Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes (conference poster)
  • Past: Wikimedia Conference
• Other noteworthy stuff
  • SQUID: a new class and property browser for Wikidata (background info)
  • Wikidata Graph Builder now can visualize graphs with different node sizes. See for instance, types of artists with number of people, occupied with each subclass item
  • List of items that have English, German, and French sitselinks, but no statements
  • List of articles on English Wikipedia with a video where the corresponding item has no video
  • Listeria bot (the one generating lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data) will now begin auto-replacing simple WDQ queries with SPARQL ones
  • Magnus is looking for a designer to help with a logo for PetScan
  • Arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons is coming as planned on the 26th
  • Wikidata surpassed English Wikipedia in items/articles using files from Wikimedia Commons
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Danish listed buildings case ID, Models.com client ID, Race time, IAT diver ID, IAT weightlifter ID, IAT triathlete ID, FIS snowboarder ID, FIS Nordic combined skier ID, FIS ski jumper ID, FIS freestyle skier ID, FIS cross-country skier ID, FIS alpine skier ID, D-U-N-S, source of income, budget, BNE journal ID, JudoInside.com ID, ISO 4063 process number, blue-style.com ID, Wrestlingdata person id, Danish protected area ID, Skyscraper Center building complex ID, Research Papers in Economics Series handle, NUTTAB Food Identifier, AUSNUT Food Identifier, CNC film rating, EIRIN film rating, exploitation visa number, production date, Dictionary of Canadian Biography ID, New Zealand Organisms Register ID, Roller Coaster Database ID, Photographers' Identities Catalog ID, PRONOM software identifier, PRONOM file format identifier, Filmiroda rating
  • Newest WikiProjects: Olympics
  • Query examples: songs with longest melody (source), subjects with most art dedicated to them (source), versions of The Scream (source)
• Development
  • There will be some maintenance on the query service in a few hours
  • Redesigned the rank selector as well as snak type selector icons (phab:T129033#2217402, gerrit:283968)
  • The snak type selector icon also has a tooltip now (gerrit:283945)
  • The term table header row as well as language column will now be marked as <th> instead of <td> (gerrit:283395)
  • Fixed an issue with newline characters in quantity values (phab:T110728)
  • Fixed the month-precision time parser ignoring the minus in "January -150" (phab:T132441)
  • Continued working on diffing and patching support for new entity types (phab:T132442)
  • Continued working on support for creating entities of new types as part of the work for Wikimedia Commons support (phab:T132964)
  • Rolled out a little query explanation field to query.wikidata.org to help you better understand a query if you don't understand SPARQL well
  • Fixed a bug where the map wouldn't show in the visualization of a query result (phabricator:T132669)
  • Fixed issues with the duplicate references gadget (phabricator:T131920)
  • Added basic support for more languages to the query service (phabricator:T132756)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Thank You

Thank you Marek69 for your warning here regarding this article, it's about time someone did something about that vandalizing IP. (N0n3up (talk) 23:18, 28 April 2016 (UTC))

No problem, he's on his final warning now. -- Marek.69 ^talk 23:35, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi Marek69, the IP, continues to vandalize as it did just now despite your last warning. I think the IP really needs to be blocked. (N0n3up (talk) 02:50, 30 April 2016 (UTC))

Hi N0n3up, thank you for reporting this. The IP has now been blocked. -- Marek.69 ^talk 07:57, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

No problem and thanks. I really appreciate you having reported the situation when others were so indifferent. (N0n3up (talk) 18:26, 1 May 2016 (UTC))

Talk:Industrial Revolution/GA2

Hi. I've opened a GAR on the Industrial Revolution article for which you are or have been a significant contributor. I have concerns that it does not quite meet current GA criteria regarding a number of issues, including layout, image use, and inline citations, and that length, prose, and use of external links also need discussing. Following the guidelines at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment, I'm letting you know in case you're interested in helping to resolve the concerns, though you are under no obligation to do anything. See Talk:Industrial Revolution/GA2 for more details. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 15:12, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2016)

Steak à la carte Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: À la carte Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Fame (Irene Cara song) • Debt Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 02:07, 2 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Bunce Island

Thank you Baffle gab1978 :-) Marek.69 ^talk 23:33, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #207

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

Wikidata's coverage as of April 2016

Difference of Wikidata's coverage between April 2016 and 6 month before

• Discussions
  • Wikidata, a stable source for disambiguation items?
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Find, Prioritize, and Recommend: An article recommendation system to fill knowledge gaps across Wikipedia
  • Upcoming: CSVconf
  • Upcoming: Open Tech Summit
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Commons now has arbitrary access
  • Work on ORES to make vandalism fighting easier is progressing well. "Damaging" and "goodfaith" models for Wikidata are now online.
  • Wikimind
  • New coverage maps have been created (see thumbnails)
  • We have new images you can use to indicate your website/app/service is using data from Wikidata. (2 of the files have a problem still. We're working on a fix and will reupload.)

    

    Show the rest of the world you're using data from Wikidata!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Loop ID, sound power, 3DMet ID, locality or place, Index Hepaticarum ID, clearance, ASF KID Cave Tag Number, power consumed, net tonnage, connects with, Czech neighbourhood ID code, longest span, aerodrome reference point, Mercalli intensity scale
  • Category reports on without claims by site now link to PetScan's fast "has no statements"-option. A report for your preferred Wikipedia can be added.
  • Query examples: software with most versions (source), oldest software (source), map of U1 stations in Berlin (source)
• Development
  • Created the first MediaInfo entity through the API (screenshot, a bit more background)
  • Substantially reduced server load for item and property displaying (phab:T132662)
  • There are currently some issues with the order of latitude/longitude inn coordinates in the query service map visualization. It will be fixed tonight.
  • Removed unsupported sort and dir parameters from the wikibase.api.RepoApi JavaScript module. This may break user JavaScript calling getEntitiesByPage (phab:T119856).
  • Worked on new flyers for institutions that want to cooperate with Wikidata and developers wanting to use our data (will be published on Commons once they're done)
  • Moved forward with internationalization of the query service interface (not on translatewiki.net yet but being worked on)
  • Worked on making it possible to extend SPARQL queries in simplified natural language version. It will also no longer add query prefixes when editing the query. Those are not live yet.
  • Fixed a bug where admins got a blank page when trying to view deleted revisions (phabricator:T132645)
  • Investigating issues with bad suggestions for properties when adding new statements (phabricator:T132839)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Hello

Hi and I expanded and referenced this article. Can you take a look? Thank you: Amaro Rodríguez Felipe.--80.39.243.106 (talk) 17:30, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2016)

Gustaf Skarsgård Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Gustaf Skarsgård Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: À la carte • Fame (Irene Cara song) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 9 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #208

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: OpenTechSummit

    

    slides for SPARQL intro at OpenTechSummit

  • Past: CSVConf
  • Past: Subscribe7 (slides)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Our Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
  • More constraint templates now generate SPARQL links
  • Europeana Art History Challenge is still going on until the end of the month
  • Freebase has been shut down
  • Wikiversity now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
  • The 24,000,000th item was created: Q24000000
  • The ArticlePlaceholder will go live on the first Wikipedias on Wednesday (Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan Wikipedia)
  • Quora: Why isn't Wikimedia Commons using structured data via Wikidata?
  • Newest trend on Twitter: annotating books with Wikidata statements ;-)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: flower color, Megogo ID, via, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID, Belgian Football ID, by-product of, by-product, cardinality of this set, Yandex.Music album ID, Sherdog ID, appears in the heritage monument list, HowLongToBeat identifier, ESR station code, P-number, mouthpiece, MathWorld identifier, PGA Tour ID, LPGA Tour ID, Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas Code, wavelength, molar volume, vibration, goratings ID, International Sailing Federation ID, Wikidata time precision, fleet or registration number, FIVB beach volleyball player ID, Beach Volleyball Database ID, BVMC person ID
  • Query examples: most frequent occupations without a label in a given language, map of places of birth of economists (source), map of all the paintings for which we know a location with the count per location (source), scientists who have worked together but whose Erdős numbers don’t reflect that (source), members of the French National Assembly born out of France (source), mathematical proofs (source), items that depict most things (source)
• Development
  • Finished remaining blockers for deploying the ArticlePlaceholder on the first Wikipedias
  • More work on initial Commons prototype
  • Further work on textual representation of SPARQL queries to allow you to read/edit more of an existing query without having to touch SPARQL
  • Show label instead of URI for globes in coordinate diffs - thanks Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T110193)
  • Improve recent changes entries formatting on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T52893)
  • No longer showing a restore link for inaccessible revdel'ed entity revisions - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T55496)
  • Investigated and worked around issues with the suggestions for new statements - needs more work (phabricator:T132839)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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This Month in GLAM: April 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue IV, April 2016 Headlines Africa report: Wiki Loves Women in Africa Argentina report: Edit-a-thons in Buenos Aires Belgium report: Writing weeks in and about Brussels Bulgaria report: Meeting lots of museum directors Germany report: Learning in the GLAM field & how to edit the GND Italy report: MUSE Edit-a-thon and Backstage pass and Small Museums in Italy Macedonia report: ArchiWiki edit-a-thon; Wikimedian-in-residence Netherlands report: Edit-a-thon Attic Nights Norway report: Photographic portraits Poland report: Faras discoveries, Carpathian ethnography, and a spreadsheet-based uploader Spain report: Free pictures, edit-a-thons and new partners Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Offentligkonst.se; Digkult; ArbetSams museidagar; VISS; Museernas vårmöte; GLAM/ED collaboration UK report: GLAMwiki work in Yorkshire; Mitchell Arts Centre Special story: Halfway point of the Europeana Art History Challenge Open Access report: Hypercycle; Wikipedia Year of Science; Snake envenomings Wikidata report: Wikimedia Commons gets arbitrary access Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Vandal IP

Hi Marek69. Sorry to bother you but there is a vandalizing IP. As you can see in the IP's edit history that all of them are nothing but vandalism. Apparently it's a school IP but not entirely sure. (N0n3up (talk) 23:20, 14 May 2016 (UTC))

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2016)

Ozone-oxygen cycle in the ozone layer. Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Ozone layer Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Gustaf Skarsgård • À la carte Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:09, 16 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #209

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

• Discussions
  • A few proposals for missing properties for Wikivoyage listings have been made
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Panama Papers and Wikidata made quite a splash online
    • Occupations of persons from Panama Papers
    • Panama Papers bubble chart shows politicians are most mentioned in document leak database
  • EveryPolitician: I use Wikidata for multilingual names
  • Random item: Q14829494
  • Lots of papers relevant to Wikidata or about Wikidata haven been published at ICWSM
  • Wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia
  • Wikidata Map May 2016 (Belarus & Uganda)
  • Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We made a huge step for small Wikipedias and small languages online by rolling out the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias
  • Geospatial search is now up and running on the query service. You can now search for items within a geographic area.
  • The Wikidata Graph Builder has a refreshed interface with even more controls
  • Sitelinks for the new Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia (in Jamaican Patois) are being added
  • Mapbox's Geocoder now uses Wikidata
  • PetScan now has query examples
  • d:Wikidata:Wikidata for authority control collects examples of usage of Wikidata for authority control
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: professional name (Japan), month number, highest income threshold, lowest income threshold, individual tax rate, ARKive ID, Joint Electronics Type Designation Automated System designation, totem, Online World of Wrestling ID, Internet Wrestling Database ID, corporate officer
  • Query examples: longest rivers (source), map of places mentioned in travel stories with text in French accessible online (source), things located where the equator meets the prime meridian (source), people who acted with Brad Pitt (source), Italian mountains higher than 4000mt (source), who died by burning (source), age at date of death for musicians (source), universities of main programming language authors (source), hashtags (source), Pokemon! (source)
  • Showcase items: Iron Man 2 (Q205028)
• Development
  • Deployed the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias and worked on issues that were found
  • Incident report of issues with the query service
  • Worked on language fallback in the main header (screenshot, phabricator:T98014)
  • More work on Commons prototype
  • Worked on timeline as another visualization for the query service (phabricator:T135222)
  • Fixed missing message for translation for Wikibase repo - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T124766)
  • We are now generating translatable automatic comments for undo and restore operations - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T41134)
  • Fixed issue with autocompletion on the query service (phabricator:T133317)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2016)

A small whirlpool in a pond Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Whirlpool Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Ozone layer • Gustaf Skarsgård Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 23 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #210

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

• Discussions
  • Discussions about missing properties for Wikivoyage listings are progressing as enhancements are suggested
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Gotta catch 'em all if they are prime
  • Paper: Are Superstar Artworks also Digital Superstars? Online Popularity of Worldfamous Artworks
  • Upcoming: Wikicite (session proposals)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • In about 2 weeks we will get the ArticlePlaceholder to more Wikipedias. Let us know if yours wants to be in.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: produced by, Wi-Fi, Google+, wheelchair accessibility, RAN ID, incidence, Benezit ID, place of marriage, age of onset, NSC number, gait
  • Query examples: given names with most variations (source with links to graphs), papers about Wikidata (source), memes (source), cathedrals in Paris (source), highest mountains in the universe (source), Law & Order episodes (source), things/people with most children (source)
• Development
  • Performance improvements in query service map display.
  • Fixed a focus issue in the suggester (phabricator:T135008)
  • Further groundwork on Commons support
  • Fixed first issues that popped up after ArticlePlaceholder deployment based on feedback
  • Investigated and prepared fix for issue where files on Commons couldn't be deleted (phabricator:T135485)
  • Finished work on language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T98014)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:50, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2016)

A photodetector salvaged from a CD-ROM. The photodetector contains 3 photodiodes visible in the photo (in center). Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Photodetector Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Whirlpool • Ozone layer Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 30 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #211

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Standards for property proposal discussions, Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements
  • Import of Wiki Loves Monuments database
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: WikiCite (including links to documentation etherpads)
    • interview with Open Science Radio
  • Past: Gulaschprogrammiernacht (video)
  • Ben Whishaw, Broadway, La Rada et WWikidata
  • Meet TED’s Wikipedians-in-Residence
  • Orte, die mit 'ow' oder 'itz' enden
• Other Noteworthy Stuff

  

  • Charlie published her thesis about editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia and co
  • Learning pattern about using data of Wikipedia and Wikidata in Google spreadsheet
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Library of the National Congress of Argentina ID, Minitel, SureChEMBL ID, type of unit for this property, property usage tracking category, PubChem BioAssay ID (AID), time in space, tourist office, miRBase mature miRNA ID, miRBase pre-miRNA ID, record or record progression, has role, Molenecho's ID, Hollandsche Molen ID, Band number, OpenCritic ID, Nederlandse Molendatabase ID, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID, Leidse Hoogleraren ID, cites, X-SAMPA Code, KLOV ID, WWE.com superstar ID, EU Surface Water Body Code, VAT-rate, disease burden, electrical plug type, emergency phone number, payment types accepted, iTunes artist ID
  • Query examples: Fictional universes with most fictional planets (source), main subject of West Wing episodes (source), places with free wifi (source), citation network of paper about Zika (source), taxons and what they are named after (source), billionaires (source), animals that were executed (source), chemical elements and their isotopes by number of neutrons (min/max) (source), popes with children (source), birthplaces of astronauts (source)
• Development
  • Worked on fix for issue with language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T135714)
  • More work on support for Commons - main focus right now is on making it possible to actually store a new entity without jumping through hoops
  • Fixing a bug in Internet Explorer with prevents editing (phabricator:T136543)
  • Worked on more blockers for next deployment of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T135624)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:24, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2016)

The Hilton Athens is part of the Hilton Hotels & Resorts hotel chain. Hello, Marek69. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Hilton Hotels & Resorts Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Photodetector • Whirlpool Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 6 June 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #212

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: OpenData.ch
  • Upcoming: HackHPI
  • Upcoming: ELAG
  • Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
  • Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
  • wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
  • It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: exact match, reserve number (Canada), Shakeosphere person ID, mains voltage, HKMDb film ID, relegated, promoted, NIOSHTIC-2 ID
  • Query examples: body of water with the most watercourses ending in it (source), French communes with names ending in ac (source), birthplaces of Europeana280 artists (source), popular eye colors (source)
• Development
  • Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (phabricator:T115792)
  • Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (phabricator:T136543)
  • Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
  • Worked on new visualization for the query service to visualize results with data on different dimensions
  • Improved build and deploy process for the query service. The site should load faster now.
  • Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
  • More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
  • Worked on a fix for the issue where sometimes an old label is shown in the main header of an item (phabricator:T135714)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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June 2016 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2016 News Hello everyone, welcome to the June 2016 GOCE newsletter. It's been a few months since we sent one out; we hope y'all haven't forgotten about the Guild! Your coordinators have been busy behind the scenes as usual, though real life has a habit of reducing our personal wiki-time. The May backlog reduction drive, the usual coordinating tasks and preparations for the June election are keeping us on our toes! May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's record-setting backlog reduction drive. Of the 29 people who signed up, 16 copyedited at least one article, 197 copyedits were recorded on the drive page, and the copyedit backlog fell below 1,500 for the first time! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz will occur from 12 June through 18 June; the themes will be video games and Asian geography. Coordinator elections: It's election time again; how quickly they seem to roll around! Nominations for the next tranche of Guild coordinators, who will serve a six-month term that begins at 00:01 UTC on 1 July and ends at 23:59 UTC on 31 December, opens at 00:01 UTC on 1 June and closes at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. Voting takes place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. If you'd like to assist behind the scenes, please consider stepping forward; self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; remember it's your Guild, and it doesn't run itself! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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This Month in GLAM: May 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue V, May 2016 Headlines Africa report: Joburg, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana Brazil report: Immigration Museum of Sao Paulo: first steps towards an open access policy France report: Photography, a true hobby! Germany report: "Licence hint generator" at WMDEs event series about legal issues Italy report: A full month of activities Latvia report: Edit-a-thon in Latvian Academy of Culture Macedonia report: 1963 Skopje earthquake 300 photos Mexico report: Forestry and the Longest Edit-a-thon in history Netherlands report: Colonial images; Coutinho collection; Open Cultural Data; Netherlands and the world; NL Art History challenge Norway report: International Memory of the world register; Speak Norwegian? Access to The National Library's bokhylla.no? Spain report: Wiki Loves Earth; free resources; Pentathlon Wikimedia Sweden report: LSH upload; World Wide Wikipedia; Nationalmuseum Switzerland report: ETH-Bibliothek commences mass uploading campaign for photographs from the Image Archive UK report: Oxford and Scotland USA report: Archivist Award Special story: Ted Speakers Challenge - Win Books! Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves report: UNESCO and Wiki Loves Earth partner to run Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves in 120 countries throughout June Open Access report: WikiCite; Fluorescent vertebrates; Insights into a singer's head WMF GLAM report: WMF GLAM report Wikidata report: We feel used (and that makes us happy) OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey report: Survey results presented at conferences in Hong Kong and Montreal Wikimania report: GLAM at Wikimania Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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