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IDP stuff

Hi Andrew,

I'll be coming along on the Tuesday at least and possibly the Wednesday too - though I may have to use the opportunity to visit the rest of the library (if it's too late to organise a reader's pass I can nip over the road to UCL). The period/region is not remotely my specialism so I have no idea about what should be uploaded. I'm just keen to see how the edit-a-thon works and how the archaeologists/academics get on with Wikipedia. Cheers, PatHadley (talk) 10:24, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi Andrew, I am planning to come on Thursday. Tibetologist (talk) 13:54, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi Andrew, can I come on Tuesday please (already have a reader's pass), Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 22:34, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Sure! Followed up by email... Andrew Gray (talk) 22:49, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Throttling problems

Hello, I've posted a proposal to address the throttling problems you experience at Wikipedia_talk:Account_creator#Confirm_users. Regards, Nemo 17:12, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you!

Ada Lovelace Award
Thank you for helping organise the Ada Lovelace Day at the Royal Society. Wouldn't be half as good without you!
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over/underlinking

Could you take a look at http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Linking#What_generally_should_not_be_linked_--_can_we_bring_this_to_closure.3F

The "one link" rule/enforcement has gotten out of hand, I'm trying to get something closer to rationality. You seem to be one of the people with a "middle ground" view, and I'd appreciate any refinements to the proposal. If the proposed replacement at the top of the section is something you'd support, I'd appreciate it if you could leave a note. Thanks Boundlessly (talk) 21:49, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

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Volunteer Training Corps

Many thanks for the Hansard extract; I've only had a quick scan through but it looks really useful. Alansplodge (talk) 23:37, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Marjory Stephenson

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Andrews

The article that I started at your Dunhuang event last week is being picked over at its DYK nomination. As it may go to the front page soon, this would be a good time for others to chip in. Perhaps you might ask Susan to take a look... Andrew Davidson (talk) 13:21, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

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geonotice question

Hi Andrew,

I wanted to check with you about the geonotices for Boston that were just posted. Thanks for your help but I don't see either of them on my watchlist and another local editor I asked didn't see them either. Is there something wrong or do I just need to wait a bit for them to take effect? Thanks, GabrielF (talk) 05:31, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

I figured out the problem - In the geonotice.js file under the end time for many of the events there is a . being used to separate hours and minutes rather than a colon. I replaced these with a : in my vector.js file and the notices showed up. )(The UK meetings are formatted correctly, which is why you were seeing the UK notice) GabrielF (talk) 17:26, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick fix! GabrielF (talk) 18:20, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

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and/or

Can you please change the geonotice from "Join Wikipedians from your area at the Boston Wikipedia Loves Libraries event on November 10 or the Cambridge Wikipedia Loves Libraries event on November 17th!" to "Join Wikipedians from your area at the Boston Wikipedia Loves Libraries event on November 10 and/or the Cambridge Wikipedia Loves Libraries event on November 17th!". We'd love to have people who can, come to both. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:37, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Training Session

Thanks for an interesting and helpful training session at the National Library of Scotland.Jennifer--Glasgow jg (talk) 13:36, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

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Geonotice

Hey there. Can you please change the Geonotice from the Boston and Cambridge item to the Cambridge only item, as we discussed last week? The Boston event was yesterday. Thanks! Sven Manguard Wha? 18:07, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

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Re. blanket use of diacritics in article titles

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Frederic Bourdin article.

Hello Sir. Thank you for putting the question concerning Frederic Bourdin on the right place and sorry for the mistake. But as you can see someone simply erased it; and that's what the problem is; No one is helping me with this. Where this should be a simple editing problem it became a full mess because a couple of editors Bbb23 and Dennis Brown are restricting access to this article. I don't understand why they don't let people edit this article with fully reliable sources sur as: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmmakersonfilm/9459425/The-Imposter-interview-with-the-Chameleon.html and http://www.sptimes.ru/index_bp.php?action_id=2&story_id=36586&section=4 concerning the fact that Bourdin's grandfather wanted her daughter(Bourdin's mother) to abort because of Bourdin's father was Algerian. It's fact and part of every other Wikipedia version of Bourdin. But everyone that tried to change it has been blocked, threatened and else. And of course it's very unfair and ludicrous. Can you help me with this, if I don't find honest Admin who will look at the facts, then I will be also blocked because I tried contribute Wikipedia. Thank you again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Idontfeelthesame (talk • contribs) 18:38, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

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    • Fixed some issues in the Wikidata Vagrant
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    • Worked on making statements editable in the frontend
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    • Improved entity selector widget
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15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade

Hi you may have noticed I expanded the 15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade article, after a copy edit by the guild I aim to put it up for a GA Review. Many thanks for pointing out the brigade history, if you find any more drop me a line as I would always be interested. Once again thank you.Jim Sweeney (talk) 15:35, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

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    • The client now accesses the data on the server directly, and the data is not replicated anymore
    • Added a number of profiler calls
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    • User preference on the client to hide Wikidata edits
    • Statements can be created and saved now
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    • Improved JavaScript part of the templating engine
    • Improved entity selector widget
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The notoriuos wiki troll ( Iaaasi) returned

Hello!

The well known chauvinist romanian wiki-troll User:Iaaasi returned (with a new croatian fake identity) He is now active alias user: Irji2012 He is often active in Hungarian-related aricles, he enjoy edit-warring deleting good sources and sentences from important articles, and he like to break the rules of wiki even 3 revert rule. Can you arrange about this notorious wiki-troll? Thank you! Peter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.0.49.97 (talk) 10:51, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #36

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    • Updated demo system
    • http://test2.wiki.x.io now uses http://wikidata.org for getting language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden)
    • Statements (think of “population: 2.000.000” and similar things) are taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at this point.
    • It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example)
    • Links are now protocol-relative (bugzilla:42534)
    • No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database is set to read-only
    • Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser
    • Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
    • Removed many singletons to reduce global state
    • Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities
    • Improved settings system
    • Improved options of ValueFormatters
    • Improved options of ValueParsers
    • Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any violating values
    • Fixed serialization of SiteArray
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    • Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again
    • Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks
    • Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests
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Bedford Psalter and Hours

Thanks very much for these images. Great job ! When will the BNF adopt the "Public Domain" license as the BL do ? Unfortunately, not for tomorrow ! Mel22 (talk) 19:17, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #37

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Wikidata weekly summary #38

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15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade history

Hi Andrew I have used the 15th Brigade history in a battle article. Now another editor is casting doubt on the validity of the source/publication. Would you care to comment at Talk:Charge at Haritan#dubious source.Jim Sweeney (talk) 00:08, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

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Re:Display bugs

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I believe I was checking the Neil Armstrong article when I saw the template break like that (If I recall correctly, some words in brackets had gone onto another line). Looking at it currently, it does not seem to break, so thank you for removing the line break and sorry for the confusion :). TerryAga (talk) 11:06, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #39

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Authority data integrity

Refs: Template talk: Authority control#Handling multiple records (your yesterday reply); Wikipedia: VIAF/errors#Other errors (my four-week-old report of Rosemary Harris updated this hour)

For what it's worth, only one error in LCCN data integrity (re Rosemary Simari Harris). And I know how to report directly to LC (having previously exchanged email with its integrity office).

By experience I know a few "disintegrities" at WorldCat and many at VIAF --whose kinds I have illustrated here by Rosemary Jeanne Harris and Emily Gravett respectively. And I don't know that there is yet an effective way to report them. Here and there some editors direct others to Wikipedia: VIAF/errors but I doubt that is effective.

By experience I know there are many disintegrities at GND (many at least re English-language writers and illustrators who may not be notable) but they seem to be flagged "not differentiated" which I take to mean a known problem, not an error to report.

Of course there are many disintegrities here at Wikipedia in our biographies. I don't know them by experience and have no reason to doubt that Wikipedia: VIAF/errors is an effective place to report them. --P64 (talk) 18:23, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Based on some discussion I have read in the last two hours, I have notified User:Gymel of this message, primarily its GND paragraph. --P64 (talk) 21:24, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
I kind of non-answered there. As for Wikipedia:VIAF/errors I second P64's interpretation, VIAF feels responsible for errors matching Wikipedia persons to VIAF clusters, this is not different from the way the twenty-something "regular" VIAF constituent databases are handled. Since VIAF is a virtual authority file (and not the universally centralized) it is neither technically nor organisatorically in any position to cause corrections of flaws and inconsistencies in the constituent databases and worse, to my knowledge there does not even exist a survey of the contacts and processes at the participating institutions (which kinds of change request can where be demanded by whom, are there commitments to process requests "from outside" and so on). VIAF itself had to struggle with that and recently introduced their internal xA database [1]: One can interpret this as a pure "workaround database" as VIAF resigning from the idea that at least the most obvious problems will be fixed by the responsible parties in a timely manner when communicated to them... Thus "directly reporting" through available channels to LC/NACO participants is the way to go if "LCCN" records have to be tweaked and reporting to VIAF is reserved for the (albeit sometimes overlapping) case that a wikipedia article encounters bad company in VIAF. -- Gymel (talk) 00:45, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
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