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Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart (read more and try examples in the documentation) by Jonas
{{#statements:…}}, a new parser function is currently in development with better features that you can try on beta by the Wikidata dev team and volunteers
Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles, by fnielsen
The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!
Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!
Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:
Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart! Read more and try examples in the documentation (Jonas)
{{#statements:…}}, a new parser function is currently in development with better features: try it here! (Thiemo, Wikidata dev team and volunteers)
Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles (fnielsen)
Technical documentation about Wikibase for PHP and JS scripts (Ladsgroup and Jonas)
new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse the properties of items. see in the video (Jonas)
graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (demo video) (Jonas, [[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (phabricator:T149580)
Invitation to Training Modules design conversation
Hello! We are leaving you this message because you have previously indicated that you interested in helping the Wikimedia Foundation Support & Safety team in developing our training modules this year.
We appreciate all the help and thoughts users like you have offered thus far. We would like to encourage you, if you are interested, to participate in the next step of our development: a community consultation about the design and structure of the modules. Note that we're not yet getting feedback on the content of the modules - a separate consultation about that will be starting soon.
In this "design" consultation, we're looking for advice on things like the best place to host these modules, the accessibility of content, and other potential design decisions. Please feel free to leave any thoughts you have about these things on the talk page. Thanks! (PS: I'm sending this to your volunteer account, but please let me know if it would be better sent to your staff one!) Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) 18:12, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
The Mysterious 5th Section of the Voyager Golden Record
I realize it has been 4 years, but if you are still wondering what happened to the UN delegates' messages this article might help satisfy your curiosity. I was seeking an explanation of the same question when I stumbled across your comment on this talk page. Cheers! -- LWGtalk 22:21, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
@LWG: Wonderful! I've thought about it many times since then, and was hoping the accurate information would come to light during the anniversary. Thank you so much for the note here! I'll reply further at the article talkpage. Quiddity (talk) 19:26, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Outreachwiki case study
A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.
Parlement & Politiek ID (P1749) has been completed in Mix'n'match. Over 5000 politicians from the Netherlands (and also Belgium) now have a link to this resource
Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (phabricator:T149598)
Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (phabricator:T151129)
Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T113955)
Hello, Quiddity. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
The Fossasia Opentech Submit in Singapore is looking for speakers. If you're in the area and want to introduce attendees to Wikidata, feel free to send your application!
I found a message by you into Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120784. How could I contribute? I'm getting deep as I can into djvu files structure but I feel myself far from the goal. --Alex_brolloTalk|Contrib 09:16, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Replied on phabricator. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:54, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
Just discovering who you are within this community, after seeing your name so many times, and seeing it again on the WikiCuteness project! We are working with BlueRasberry on volunteer recruitment strategies and would love to connect with you to include your perspectives! Ping me for more info and some Q&A?
Hi @DrMel:. Sure, post more details here, or link me to where I can find out more, or send me an email ("email this user" link in the sidebar). I don't have much free time these days, but I can possibly link you to interesting/existing locations, or help fill out questionnaires and similar. (Sidenote: I checked a few links on your userpage, and you might be interested in the essay WP:AUTIST, regarding some of your other work.) Quiddity (talk) 20:04, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Light bulb. Since you had some involvement with the light bulb redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Thryduulf (talk) 19:49, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
I am seeking independent and neutral viewpoints on the article ThoughtAudio, which is being considered for deletion. If you have a few minutes to review it, I would appreciate your opinion on the decision to retain and improve, or to delete it. I fear that ThoughtAudio may have been targeted by the same editor that made a failed attempt to delete the wikiquote article Michael Scott Gallegos on the grounds "Not sufficiently notable." The majority of my work has been as the wikiquote editor, ELApro. I also have a question on why two of the Wikquote articles that I created (Ernest Flagg and Nicomachus) are listed under Feb 5, 2017 on your Quote "Watchlist" page. I have been a long time editor for Wikipedia, but have not created many articles here. I would much appreciate your advice and/or contributions with regard to this decision. ELApro (talk) 16:32, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
@ELApro: Hi. Re: ThoughtAudio, I'm afraid that from a glance at the existing references, I would conclude that there isn't substantial focused coverage of the site - it is merely mentioned a few times in lists of related websites, or very briefly described. Wikipedia has quite strict Notability guidelines, otherwise it would quickly become chaos, and too much for the limited number of volunteers to maintain. Hence only entities which pass the various Notability criteria are encouraged. For this article, I would suggest that you make a copy of the wikitext, and keep it on your own computer, so that you can periodically check in the future whether more detailed reliable sources have been written about the site. If 2 reliable sources write extensively about the site, it could become 'notable' according to Wikipedia's criteria.
Re: those 2 Wikiquote pages, nobody can see the contents of anyone else's watchlist - I assume you clicked on the links on my userpage, which would have taken you to your own watchlist! :) It's one of various links that will have a different target depending on who clicks it, such as Special:MyTalk.
Sidenote: I like the classic-style portal page you have at your personal website. I used to maintain an elaborate bookmark collection similar to that, but all the deadlinks, and the labyrinthine directory structure, means it too has fallen into neglect. C'est la vie!
Best wishes, Quiddity (talk) 04:44, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #247
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Module Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and report any problems (already reported one).
Experimental c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.
[1]thank you for trying--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:02, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
New Page Review - newsletter No.3
Hello Quiddity,
Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.
Still a MASSIVE backlog
We now have 819 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced. If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire.
You can now make your Harvest Templates tasks run automatically. After you have generated a permalink to your task, add &run= to the url. When you open it next time, it will load and then run automatically. Alternatively, you can use &load= which will only prepare the task for running.
Continued to finalize the initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
A recent RfC has redefined how articles on schools are evaluated at AfD. Specifically, secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist.
Cookie blocks should be deployed to the English Wikipedia soon. This will extend the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user after they switch accounts under a new IP.
A bot will now automatically place a protection template on protected pages when admins forget to do so.
The Wikipedia Library
Template:Outreachwiki case study has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:13, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
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