User talk:Ezhiki/2015

Happy New Year Ezhiki!

Happy New Year!

Ezhiki,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Iryna Harpy (talk) 22:43, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2015}} to user talk pages.

I was just about to slap up this same template, but Iryna beat me to it... Atleast I was the first to steal it for use on Commons. Have a great 2015 old friend! I just wish Greyhood was still around so I could leave him one... INeverCry 22:58, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Ah well, INeverCry, it's the thought that counts. I'm going to slap one on your talk page. Just consider me a template hog! Cheers! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 00:31, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

I got to protect both the pics, so nah nah! Happy New Year to you and yours too Iryna! INeverCry 00:59, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, folks! I hope your new year is filled with joy and productivity as well :) Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 5, 2015; 14:08 (UTC)

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Aleksandr Samoilo

Happy New Year to you and Ym! Can either of you find a source and something to add?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:45, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year to you as well! I've added a link to the encyclopedia article on the Russian Ministry of Defense site, but didn't do anything to our article. This military stuff always bores me to death and I'm not very good with it; sorry! Anyone should be able to use the information at that link to expand the article, however. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 6, 2015; 21:28 (UTC)

The {Abaza surname) issue

Hi there. Please do forgive if I am leaving a message to you in the wrong area. I could not find a 'send this user a message' button. The issue I have is that the word on all online Turkish dictionaries do not end up translating as 'stupid'. We only have the cited book and we can't check that. In Turkish-English dictionaries the word 'abaza' simply means 'abaza' or Abazaians'. I don't think it's a Turkish word meaning 'stupid'. The only translation I got online is from Google Translate and it says 'horny'. So I thought let's have both alternatives. I agree with you Google Translate is not reliable by Wikipedia standards. But we also cannot check the meaning because whoever wrote it cited a book. And I kind of suspect vandalism - with choosing the translation 'stupid' since I am an Abazin person and I doubt this is a Turkish word at all. We have our own language called Abaza. Please give me your thoughts on this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.98.158.170 (talk) 07:16, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #139

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List

Hello, again, friend. This may be awfully close to the kinds of questions I've asked you before, but on the page of List of cities and towns in Russia by population, it mentions that these are cities ranked by their city propers and not metropolitan or urban area measurements. My understanding of "city proper" in the context of where I'm from means a measurement within the boundaries of a defined administrative/municipal division. However, it appears that may not be the definition on this page for every city. What does "city proper" mean in the Russian context, and can this be made a bit more clear on that page? Like we discussed at length with Sochi, it seems that for some of these cities (more specifically the ones where there may be multiple settlements in one division) while we're definitely talking about a measurement contained within an administrative or municipal division, it might not be a population measurement of all of the settlement territories within those boundaries. --Criticalthinker (talk) 09:40, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi there! Hope your new year is going alright. To answer your question, in the context of Russia, "city proper" refers to the territorial entity (whose boundaries may or may not be identical to the boundaries of the administrative or municipal division which contains the said city). Typically, when an administrative/municipal division only contains one city, the borders of that division and of the "city proper" (i.e., the territorial unit) match, but exceptions do happen. A city may have other territories in its jurisdiction (which are not within the "city proper"), and those territories may or may not contain other inhabited localities. And as far as the population figures go, Census reports them for both the "cities proper" and, separately, for the administrative/municipal divisions. List of cities and towns in Russia by population includes only the figures for "cities proper", as it should. Does this answer your question?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 9, 2015; 16:20 (UTC)

So, "city proper" is a contiguous settlement area within the boundaries of an administrative/municipal division division. I guess my only other question is in a city like Sochi, clearly, the Russian statistics agency clearly distinguishes between a city proper and the administrative area. What about Moscow on that list, though? Is that a territorial measurement or a measurement of the population with the administrative boundaries? I ask, because in recent years, Moscow has annexed huge tracts of neighboring districts/cities, and the urban area isn't always contiguous. Are places like Moscow and St. Petersburg the exception to the rule? Do they use total administrative boundary population even when there are multiple non-contiguous settlements in these huge metropolises? --Criticalthinker (talk) 16:41, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Ignore the above question; I didn't read the page well enough. I see a note was made about Moscow and St. Petersburg. --Criticalthinker (talk) 16:51, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, Moscow and St. Petersburg are indeed a special case and an exception to many rules which apply to other cities. Their internal structure can also be quite vague and not always well-defined—this is especially true about the status of the localities they comprise. The definitions are better for the newly annexed territories, but something like the territorial status of Zelenograd may very well be worthy of a whole research project. Zelenograd is definitely considered to be a separate city by some sources, equally definitely not to be a separate city by others, and the whole thing is largely ignored by most sources whenever they can get away with it. The definitions of the status of Moscow's few rural localities (pre-annexation) are even worse. The pertinent laws are very vague, with no incentive to improve the wording since little other than academic interest depends on clarifying the issue!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 9, 2015; 17:25 (UTC)

I'm just getting around to going down the list to see if there is anymore exceptions, and as soon as you get to #5 (Nizhny Novgorod), the population given for the city proper is the same population for the entire administrative city despite it clearly stating on the city's page that along with Nizhny Novgorod proper there is one resort settlement and twelve rural localities. I assume that the population of these other settlements combined is very small, but it seems to tell me that the measurement or city proper is not at all consistent even apart from the notable exception of the federal cities. I imagine if I go down this list, I'll find other population figures that are supposed to be for city propers but are actually for the entire administrative city. Is this the fault of how the Russian government measures the city propers, or the person who transcribed the list here on wikipedia? --Criticalthinker (talk) 11:06, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean? The number in the list (1,250,619) is the same as what's in the Nizhny Novgorod article (although there was a typo in one of the instances which I have just corrected; it was off by only four people anyway), and that's the number for Nizhny Novgorod proper. "City proper" populations are the only ones included in the Russian city articles. The population of the administrative unit (i.e., of the city of oblast significance of Nizhny Novgorod) was, as of the 2010 Census, 1,259,738, but nowhere in the "Nizhny Novgorod" article I can see a statement that the population reported there is for the administrative unit. Could you clarify what made you think it was?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 12, 2015; 15:54 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #140

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Novosibirsk Collage

It's back, re-uploaded as a new image. I started a talk page discussion. I don't know how to go about reporting this or getting a more permanent fix. Maybe request a block on the IP? Kendall-K1 (talk) 14:22, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

I'll respond there. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 20, 2015; 14:52 (UTC)

Bazin

Many years ago, you created Базин as a redirect. I've marked it as a redirect from Russian.

• Is it actually Russian? I certainly recognize Cyrillic, and it exists as a redirect page on ru.wiki.x.io, but I though I'd ask.

1. It redirects to a disambiguation page, is there something more specific that it should be directed to?Naraht (talk) 16:14, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Naraht! First off, I should clarify that Bazin is not a disambiguation page; it's a set index (on last names). Given the hatnote and the entries under "see also", it could be made into a proper disambig, if the last name material is consolidated on a separate page and linked to.

The redirect (which is indeed in Russian) was created in 2009 when, if I remember correctly, there was a consensus that native Russian spelling of the last names should redirect to appropriate pages. I'll have to re-check if that consensus still stands, but in general, retaining such redirects doesn't seem to be unreasonable. Still, I don't quite remember what compelled me to create that particular redirect—even in 2009, the "Bazin" page did not contain any Russian entries (the Russian last name romanized as "Bazin" is unrelated to the French last name "Bazin"). If an article about a Russian person with this last name is created, the redirect can be pointed to it, and if more than one such article is written (the Russian Wikipedia has three), then it's probably best to leave it pointing to the set index. Does this answer your question?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 20, 2015; 14:49 (UTC)

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Astrakhan

Your editing is disruptive. You haven't explained why you think three different population figures are important enough to be mentioned in the lead. You haven't explained why you want to quote every one of them to six significant figures. You haven't understood that "sourced" is a necessary but not sufficient condition for inclusion in articles. And you are repeatedly and dishonestly not mentioning that you are reverting every part of my edit. What exactly was your problem with the words "which is" in this edit? Kindly start behaving properly. 200.83.136.145 (talk) 02:26, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Dear anonymous editor. First of all, hello. Second of all, it is actually your editing that is disruptive. And I'm not saying this right off the bat to tell you off—as an IP editor, who is presumably new to Wikipedia, you can't be expected to know all the rules and guidelines we have in place. But if you only read one of our guidelines, please make it this one (well, technically not a guideline, but it's full of good pointers about acceptable behavior, general policy, and common courtesy). It will explain to you that while everyone is welcome to make any edits they deem to be helpful/useful/reasonable, if such an edit is reverted, the next step is not re-reverting (and then re-reverting again, and then again), but rather discussion. Well, better late than never—I'm glad you started such a discussion now.

For my part, I tried to do my best to explain the reasons for reverting you in my edit summaries. Per that same BRD essay above, it is one's expectation that if such an explanation is insufficient (the space in the edit summary box is, after all, limited), the other party will follow-up on the article's (or user's) talk page.

So, with that out of the way, let's look at the merits of your edits. If you look around Wikipedia, and at the articles related to Russia in particular, you'll see that including several most recent Census figures (and occasionally estimates) in the lede is a common practice. Clearly, most people have no problem with this approach, and those who might, don't see it as a big one that needs to be fixed right away. As far as cities and other populated places go, a recent population count is one of the most basic attributes that needs to be included. And since it's a hard number, making it clear where the numbers came from is not optional. As for the previous population counts, those show a trend—something especially important in the context of Russia, where the population is generally decreasing, so any place with a stable or increasing population is an outlier that needs to be pointed out (ideally, with the reasons explained).

With that in mind, does it mean that the lede is always the best place to include this information? Hell, no! Your concern is a perfectly valid one; it's the way you went about addressing it that's problematic. The main purpose of the lede is to summarize the article. That's all well and good for well-developed, long articles, but every now and then, it is important to include the information, yet there is no place in the text to include it. Making a very short section only to repeat its contents in the lede is a practice that's not encouraged, so most of the time this kind of information is simply appended to the lede. The population information in particular would normally belong in the Demographics section (in which case including only the most recent population count in the lede would be perfectly acceptable). There is no Demographics section in the Astrakhan article, however. And, as I said above, creating one only to include three Census figures is not not a good practice either. So, what is one to do then? Well, it's simple, really. If your interest in Astrakhan is truly genuine, perhaps you'd be interested in writing up such a section, which would include not only the three figures, but perhaps a short paragraph about the population development, ethnic composition, or other such matters? It doesn't have to be very long (a paragraph or two would definitely suffice), but it would not only address your concern, but will be a great improvement of the article, which is, after all, the desired outcome. And if your knowledge of this area is insufficient to write a whole section (mine certainly is), another possible solution is to aggregate the Census figures in a table and stick it after the infobox, "sectionless", so to speak. See, for example, this article where this solution is employed. The formatting may look a bit daunting, especially to a (presumably) new editor like you, but I'll be more than willing to help out on that front; just ask! Finally, the sentence (or even the "non-sentence" which so got your goat) with all three figures can be left in the lede until such time when a knight in shining armor—one who knows everything about the demographics of Astrakhan—appears out of the ether and does things the right way.

As you see, just like I said in my edit summaries, there are multiple ways to go about this situation, all of them equally acceptable. What is not acceptable, however, is fixing what you perceive to be a cosmetic problem (too many numbers! too many sources!) by cutting the problem out. In that you behaved like a cosmetic surgeon whose solution for fixing an ugly face is cutting the head off. Problem solved, yes, but has it actually benefited anyone? Removing sourced information is never a good idea, and removing it repeatedly is not only disruptive behavior (see how I wrapped it up to the beginning of this conversation?), but actually a blockable offense. You do get quite a leeway due to being new and all, but stubbornly persisting with reverts cannot continue indefinitely.

As for rounding the numbers, doing that simply has no practical benefit (cosmetics aside). Russian (and before that, Soviet) Census numbers have always been reported with the accuracy to one person, those are the numbers supported by the cited source, hence that's what's used in our articles. Readers who don't need that kind of accuracy can easily round the figure themselves, to whatever accuracy they desire, and those who do need the exact numbers will have them readily available (as opposed to having to dig through the original source in a language they may only have a very basic familiarity with).

Well, this came out a bit longer than I hoped it would. The bottom line: I will now reinstate the original version with all three figures. The main reason for that is the fact that removing sourced information (which is expected to be there, because it's there in every single article about Russian localities) and offering nothing in return is unacceptable. If doing that results in a lede that looks so ugly to you that you toss and turn at nights, you are welcome to either write the Demographics section and move the numbers there, or to move them to a standalone table. Should you choose that path, my offer to help with technical aspects (should you need any) still stands. And if it's the overly precise numbers that bother you so, you are welcome to open a discussion to revisit the general approach used to handle them (Astrakhan is just one of the hundreds and hundreds of articles where Census figures are reported with their original precision). WP:RUSSIA would be a good place to start. If there is a consensus to round the numbers, it will be implemented. I, personally, see no practical use for doing the rounding, for the reasons I explained above.

Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 28, 2015; 14:57 (UTC)

Hello to you too and thanks for replying. First off, I'm not new to Wikipedia. I've been editing it for more than a decade. You start by telling me to read the essay called BRD; my opinion on that is that it has caused incalculable damage to wikipedia and must have driven off vast numbers of people whose sensible edits got reverted by people who didn't understand them properly, and used this idiotic screed as a justification. And vast, vast numbers of people revert IP edits simply because they are IP edits. Either they don't bother to even read them, or they feel a sense of aggravation that someone who they regard as an interloper has touched "their" article. I'm not saying that's the case here; I'm just saying that there is a vicious anti-IP culture at Wikipedia, despite its claim to be the encyclopaedia that anyone can edit, and that people often go to extraordinary lengths to undo improvements to articles, simply because they were made anonymously. However, it's clear that you didn't read my edits fully because you twice removed changes other than what you mentioned in your edit summaries.

Your reasoning starts from a fundamentally flawed premise. You've said several times "do not remove sourced information". The mere fact of something being "sourced" is utterly inadequate as a reason for retaining it in an article. It's as laughable as saying "do not remove correctly spelled information". Verifiability is a necessary but not sufficient criterion for inclusion.

Your second flawed premise is that somehow removing flawed text could be "unacceptable". Now if a sentence contains a misspelled word, we correct the spelling rather than delete the sentence. But if a sentence contains irrelevant trivia, we remove the irrelevant trivia; there's no other solution. The population of Astrakhan according to the most recent census is encyclopaedic and relevant. And if you really think the sixth significant figure is meaningful then you can insist that it be specified to that (certainly unwarranted) degree of accuracy. But the population at the two preceding censuses is not interesting or relevant. If you think there's something important to be read into the numbers, then say what it is. But otherwise, removing that useless information is necessary.

Now someone took it upon themselves to protect the article, falsely claiming "Persistent disruptive editing". So your misguided revert will stand for now. But if you seriously think that deleting bad material is "unacceptable", and that sourced material should not be removed from articles simply because it is sourced, then you're not following the core policies of the encyclopaedia. That is a problem that goes way beyond this one article. 200.83.136.145 (talk) 18:37, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

You are quite right that it is not uncommon for people to revert IP edits just because they come from IPs. That is sad and wrong, but true. And yet, I don't see how this regrettable practice has anything substantial to do with BRD. If one's edit is in good faith (as yours clearly was) yet is nevertheless reverted, there are either other problems with it, or there is a disagreement in place which needs to be resolved. Either way, discussion is a necessary next step. If after ten years of editing you think this approach is "idiotic", I'm not sure there's a way this situation can be resolved to your satisfaction. Insisting one's vision is the only correct one and everyone else must be reverted/is interpreting policies incorrectly/uses an idiotic approach is exactly the kind of behavior that perpetrates the "[nearly] all IPs are vandals and trolls" attitude, thus completing the vicious circle. Luckily for us, your disdain towards BRD notwithstanding, we are having a discussion here.

So let's get back to business of discussing, and start with the "removal of sourced information", which is my main grievance. You are absolutely right that the mere fact of something being sourced is an inadequate reason for retaining information. A piece may be thoroughly sourced and verifiable yet still remain unencyclopedic, out of place, misleading, POVish, or have a whole host of other problems. There is a multitude of situations when removing a sourced piece is not only acceptable, but indeed necessary. It all, however, boils down to the reasoning for removal, and that is what needs to be policy-based or have a consensus. As things stand (as I explained previously), lack of usefulness and over-preciseness are not policy-based reasons. The former is a completely subjective one, while the latter does not have a consensus (note, for example, that the vast majority of articles about populated places in the English Wikipedia report the population figures to one person, except where the precision of the source for those figures is lower). Similarly, retaining the accuracy of the most recent census but rounding the ones that precede it is not the usual practice. And I did agree with you that having all those numbers in the lede is not an ideal situation, as well as explained several possible solutions to remedy that; solutions which do not require a complete removal. Short sentences tend to grow into sections, and sections tend to grow into separate articles. If precise Census counts were included in the demographics of Astrakhan article, you probably wouldn't have a problem with that, would you? Well, the sentence which you were trying to cut is actually the progenitor of that future article, a seed which may eventually grow into a beautiful tree. If you trample on that seed now, maybe another one will be planted months or years after you lose interest in this article, but the damage will have been done all the same. It is precisely this kind of damage that's been labeled "disruptive behavior" by the editor who imposed protection. Don't ever remove anything that can be fixed; only remove things which can't be fixed. It's as simple as that.

P. S. This edit of yours should not have been reverted; this one is completely my oversight, for which I apologize. I have re-instated it.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 2, 2015; 15:24 (UTC)

Stevan Lieberman

Hi, any chance you can restore the article, a very notable lawyer who got deleted wrongly by G11, probably because of something within the article which they disagreed with. I'll give it a read for POV or tone or whatever once done to ensure it really complies. It was very well-sourced too. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:49, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Here we go. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 30, 2015; 15:23 (UTC)

Thanks, an idiotic deletion by an insufferable editor (Red Pen of Doom). Lieberman is very notable in his field. I must do some more work on legal bios sometime, we should have so many more of them on wikipedia. If the US coverage isn't terrific, imagine what law and lawyers for many other countries is like. How are you anyway? How is that database getting on :-) ?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:24, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I, too, am not convinced this is an "advert". Surely one can't cover a notable lawyer without listing his cases, and it's not like this article has "call me at this number now and get a 25% discount" messages plastered all over it! Thanks for taking care of this. Me, doing fine, more or less; thanks for asking. Lots of crap going on in real life, but what else is new. The database is getting better with every passing day :) Don't know if you've noticed, but I'm on to urban-type settlements now, plus doing additions to the district articles in preparation to the next stage (selsoviets and such). It's slow but steady.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 30, 2015; 16:42 (UTC)

Excellent work! Do you think at some point we'll at least have articles on all of the selsoviets? Obviously some of the larger cities and towns in Russia might be high priority but it would be great to have decent coverage across Russia. These days I'm not so much into every village being covered regardless of quality, but eventually I do stick by the notion of having a decent article on any place on the planet, and I think it's what we should be striving for ultimately. In the near future I think it might be a good thing to get a Russian city up to GA status. Can you think of a couple which would be worth it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:58, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. We will absolutely have articles about all selsoviets; no question about it. It is when we have them that's the issue :) I did run a few test cases, and it seems that unless we want to make a complete mess out of it, we absolutely must sort out and organize the selsoviet articles titles first (meaning dabs, set indices, hats, lists, and whatnot will need to be created; in parallel the same will need to be done for the low-level municipalities). There's a lot of preliminary tedious work to be done, but this didn't stop me in the past, so no reason why it should stop me now :) In the end, if we could have something like this for each selsoviet, I'd be a very happy camper indeed. It is so much easier to add actual encyclopedic information to articles which already have stable structure. Sometimes editors genuinely want to cover something, only to get bogged in all those formatting/organizational details. Having a solid carcass in place really, truly helps.

As for GAs, any city article would be worth it. It's not like Russia doesn't have an ample supply of those! There's something there for anybody—whether you are into improving an article about a big, important city like Nizhny Novgorod, or into smaller places with somewhat obscure, but still interesting histories, like Tsimlyansk.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); January 30, 2015; 17:10 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #143

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfAs: Eurodyne (unsuccessful)
  • Open RfAs: BlackBeast
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: MediaWiki Developer Summit
  • Past: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: ArtBytes hackathon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • ATOM feeds for changes in Wikidata Query results. Define your own to keep an eye on changes in specific topics
  • Overview of the number of visual artworks items on Wikidata by creator (>5 items)
  • The Wikidata Free Image Search Tool can now also search Commons (not just follow language links)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: British Museum person-institution, Sächsische Biografie, equivalent class, LfDS object ID, DAAO identifier
  • Newest WikiProjects: Authority control
• Development
  • Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the left side (phabricator:T87096)
  • Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (phabricator:T87764)
  • Further work on header section redesign (phabricator:T75654)
  • Started redesign of statements section (phabricator:T87316)
  • Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is used on an item or property (phabricator:T85105)
  • Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase Repo code base
  • Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code quality
  • Released Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3 with language fallback support
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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Tech News: 2015-06

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

Problems

• There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [9]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
• The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [10]
• You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [11] [12]

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16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

User page protection request

Hi Ezhiki, thanks for sorting out the little thing on my user page. The vandal is someone who has for a long time been vandalising a large number of football team articles by adding ridiculous kits in the infobox. Looks like he has started on my page as well now! Could you protect my page for a couple of weeks just so it is one less thing I have to deal with please. Cheers. Fenix down (talk) 23:56, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Sure thing. Semi'd for two weeks. Holler if you decide you want to lift it before it expires (or if you need to up it to full protection). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 6, 2015; 00:35 (UTC)

Cheers buddy! Fenix down (talk) 07:46, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Grammar

Thank you for your replies, and for correcting my grammar; I'm glad about the occasion to learn. My Russian is really rusty, so I had to take out my old textbook and reconstruct my memory. My onerous chain of thought was that (a) "for" corresponds to "для", (2) для demanded the genitive, and (c) that would be "губерний"; where was the wrong step? — Sebastian 16:03, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Sorry for the confusion! There really was nothing wrong with your line of thinking. If you translate the "for other" part to Russian, then "губерний" is indeed the correct form you'll have to use (but it shouldn't have been capitalized, although that's a minor point). My onerous line of thinking was that when one uses a Russian word in the English text, it should always be in nominative (plural nominative in this case). And since yours was also capitalized, I immediately jumped to the conclusion that you simply copy-pasted it from somewhere, so I might as well make it flow better. Had I known that you actually can speak some Russian and were trying to use the correct case on purpose, I would have never made that correction! Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 6, 2015; 16:13 (UTC)

Actually, I did copy-paste the stem (since I currently don't have Cyrilic KB installed), and forgot about the initial. :-)
So, do you speak some German? The "Igel" in your name makes me think so. — Sebastian 16:51, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

No, not really. I did study some German years ago, but was never good at it. I can ask for directions in broken German with a hilarious accent, or even order something in a restaurant (although I wouldn't feel comfortable unless I back it up with a finger jab at the appropriate line on the menu), but I'd never claim I know German. That, and, as it was politely pointed out to me by a native speaker of German a while ago, "Igels" in my signature makes no sense whatever, but by that time I felt it was too late to change it to "Igel" :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 6, 2015; 17:05 (UTC)

Just like my Russian! Too bad someone pointed out the plural thing already, it would have added so nicely to the symmetry in this section. :-) — Sebastian 17:56, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Well, yeah. And while I have you here, does "Igels" in my signature look truly weird and awkward to a native German eye? Like, if someone had a similar signature with a Russian noun in, say, dative for no apparent reason, that would have really grated my eye—is it how my signature looks to you? Because if it does, I might correct it after all!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 6, 2015; 18:06 (UTC)

I don't mind; I'm used to the letter "s" coming and going between German and Russian; it disturbs me less than when I first noticed the missing "s" in "Санкт-Петербург". It took me a while to notice that your sig contained German. We are a real melting pot of cultures here, so I don't expect to find pure specimens of language in people's names. And signatures are even more of a place for individualism and creativity. (To wit: The marriage of French and Russian in one word in your signature.) Personally, I'm of the school that simplifies, rather than embellishes signatures, so I don't normally pay much attention to those of others. I just see it as playful. But many Wikipedia editors have a keen eye for spelling details and may not enjoy the playfulness in others' signatures, so yes, for them it's probably grating to their eyes to see the genitive form here. But before you change it, I should say that the hedgehog itself isn't necessarily all positive in German. The term "sich einigeln" ("заёживаться"?) refers to people who retreat from others, forming a prickly ball. (As a boy, one disturbed my sleep: I was sleeping on the ground in autumn, when I woke up from a shuffling and sniffing noise, and noticed a hedgehog that seemed to wanted to sidle up to me because of my body warmth. I was so afraid of his spikes that I woke up from every moving maple leaf for the rest of the night!) I don't think any German would name their child "Igel". Maybe you could go all the way with the joke by making a fake Germanic name such as "Igelbert", "Igelher", "Igelfried", "Igulf", or "Igelbold". — Sebastian 16:27, 7 February 2015 (UTC)    (I stopped watching this page. If you would like to continue the talk, please do so here and ping me.)

Wikidata weekly summary #144

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfAs: BlackBeast
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Eurpeana Tech
  • Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata (slides)
  • Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship.
  • Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.
  • Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/
  • Mix'n'Match got a face lift
  • Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/
  • RStats client for Wikidata
  • Reasonator now also supports biography texts in French
• Did you know?
  • Showcase items: Lucy (first name)
• Development
  • Did more work on Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
  • Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
  • Further work on header section redesign
  • Tweaks to the sitelink section
  • Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
  • Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
  • Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes
  • Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (phabricator:T76213)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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René Fehr

Care to restore? I suspect he's notable.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:39, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

He might be. However, the deleted article contains nothing but one sentence that he is a "Swiss painter", unsourced date of his birth, a link to the personal website, and a dead link to a Zürcher Unterländer article. I can restore this to your userspace, if you'd like, but not in the mainspace, since it would make it an unsourced BLP. Let me know.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 9, 2015; 13:20 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-07

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Recent software changes

• You can now use {{#lsth: PageName | SectionName }} to transclude a section with its title. [13]

Problems

• MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [14]
• UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [15]
• All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [16]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
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• You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [20] [21]
• It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [22]
• You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [23]
• In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [24]

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Admin Nom

Hi Ezhiki, Any chance we could delay creating this until Monday, some stuff has come up this week and I don't think I will be able to dedicate the required time before then. Fenix down (talk) 09:50, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. Monday it is.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 11, 2015; 12:56 (UTC)

thanks a lot, that should give me time to prep some answers to the initial pro forma questions and I should be able to spare an hour a day in the evening to deal with any follow ups. Fenix down (talk) 13:06, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #145

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• Events/Blogs/Press
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  • Wir lieben Freie Software
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• Other Noteworthy Stuff
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Tech News: 2015-08

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

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
• On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [25] [26] [27]
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Meetings

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17:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters

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Sakha Names

Yo, where are you getting these from? Is there a list you can share, please? Fenix down (talk) 16:02, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Are you asking about Taymylyr? The Sakha name had already been added to the lede by someone else; I simply copied it to the infobox. On other occasions, I was taking them from the Sakha (and occasionally Russian) Wikipedia. I don't have an actual list, though. Sorry!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 17, 2015; 16:04 (UTC)

That's a good point I should check ru WP for them. Fenix down (talk) 16:27, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Improper italicization

I've never understood the rationale for using those ital-loaded templates when mentioning previous historical names in other languages, be they German, Polish or whatever. Some techies dreamed up the template format, not people versed in history or in expository writing and editing, IMO.

I've been fighting a twilight battle against it for years. Sca (talk) 16:14, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Well, with proper design, templates like that could be quite useful. This particular one, however, was created for one purpose (and by a non-techie, by the way, which is likely why it's not as functional as it should be) and is usable only under a certain set of circumstances, which are not satisfied in that article. Hence all the problems. Anyway, there's a more generic {{audio}} template, which seems to be somewhat more flexible. Perhaps we could use that one. I myself have always found having audio pronunciation of foreign names useful, but there are, of course, multiple ways of including it. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 19, 2015; 16:26 (UTC)

Please go ahead and substitute the more generic audio template. Спасибо. Sca (talk) 17:04, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

OK, done. Please let me know if you see any issues.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 19, 2015; 17:11 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #146

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Asking ever bigger questions with Wikidata
  • Wikidata4Research meetup in Berlin
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • As announced Wikibooks is getting access to Wikidata for their sitelinks on 24th. Coordination at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks
  • ViziData
  • Update on data quality project
  • Update on structured data for Commons
  • Using mw.wikibase.getEntity in a Lua module? Please read this.
  • Number of visual artworks items by property (type, genre, creator...) on Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: operty:P1721|pinyin transliteration]], posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, SANDRE ID, brand
  • Showcase items:Montblanc
• Development
  • Still looking for an awesome frontend developer to join the team
  • Met with Nik and Stas from WMF in Berlin for a week to move query functionality forward. Made good progress on evaluating backends and languages
  • Worked on RDF mapping/export
  • Introduced mw.wikibase.renderSnak(s) for rendering arbitrary Snaks in Lua. This can be used for rendering for example qualifiers or references.
  • Made it so that links in the “other projects” sidebar are alphabetically ordered
  • Made the diff views for dates easier to read
  • Continued work on the planned Wikibase View component
  • Continued work on header redesign
  • Worked on a new special page that lets you set label, description and aliases in one page
  • Fixed all browsertests to use new header section and adjusted them to use phantomjs
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • d:Wikidata:Glossary could use some serious simplification to make it easier to understand. Can you help?
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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Tech News: 2015-09

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

Recent software changes

• All new accounts are now global. [34]
• Your Meta user page is now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report problems if you see any. You can ask a bot to delete your old user pages. [35] [36] [37]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
• It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger. [38]
• It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [39]
• Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [40]
• Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [41]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
• Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [42]

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16:28, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Urengoy

Any chance you or Ymblanter could add an infobox and some details to this? Spotted it on my world map :-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:11, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, it's on my to-do list, along with other urban-type settlements. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 25, 2015; 14:38 (UTC)

Sakha Census Data

Ezhiki, can you confirm to me whether this is what I think it is, namely 2010 census data broken down by village? Fenix down (talk) 18:10, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Can you double-check the URL, please? I get a "file not found" error when I follow the link above.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 24, 2015; 18:27 (UTC)

Is this any better? Fenix down (talk) 14:12, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Yup, that one works. This is indeed the results of the 2010 Census, by individual localities (according to what the footer says). A great find! May I ask which page of the Sakhastat website this file is linked from?

They also have this file, which only lists the same entities as what's on the municipal compilation of the main 2010 Census results, but it also has 2014 estimates added, which may come in handy as well.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 25, 2015; 14:27 (UTC)

I saw that one too, that site looks pretty detailed, do all sub-national divisions at that level have similar gks.ru sites? Unfortunately, I am not sure what page it came from. It was an xls file linked directly in one of the ruWiki articles. Looking at the site, the links you would think might hold it seem only to have more recent data files. Fenix down (talk) 15:34, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, they all have similar gks.ru sites; although the accessible data collections are rather inconsistent (plus you never know what good stuff they have accessible deep within but not linked properly from anywhere; like this file).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); February 25, 2015; 16:01 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #147

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata
  • Past: Wikidata for Research meetup
  • Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: The Endless Story and a family tree)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits
  • Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well.
  • Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. Here are the Wikidata related ones.
  • New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff.
  • There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more?
  • Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Naturbase ID, Fach, AllMusic song ID, AllMusic album ID, AllMusic artist ID, Flora of North America ID, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID, beats per minute
  • Newest WikiProjects: Cheese, Filming Locations
  • Showcase items: None this week. Yours next week?
  • You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom)
• Development
  • Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject)
  • Updated the json documentation
  • Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. gerrit:168632
  • Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job
  • Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies
  • Fix for phabricator:T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients)
  • Final touches on new header design
  • Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements
  • More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype
  • Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface.
  • Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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Tech News: 2015-10

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

Recent software changes

• A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [43]
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
• You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [44] [45]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
• Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [46] [47] [48] [49]
• The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [50]
• The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [51]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [52]

Future changes

• You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [53]

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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline

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Ebelyakh

Hi Ezhiki, I was wondering whether you knew to what municipal district Ebelyakh belonged? The infobox for Anabarsky District says administratively that it belongs to it, but there are only two rural settlements from a municipal basis. Is it part of Ebelyakhsky Rural Okrug for administrative purposes but subordinated to another (Saskylakhsky?) rural okrug for municipal purposes? As it is on the border with Olenyoksky District, I wondered if it might be municipally subordinated to that district (kind of like how Billings is subordinated to different districts depending on how you look at it) but that doesn't tie with the stats given in the Olenyoksky District infobox. I'm confused, or is this just a typo in the Anabarsky infobox? Fenix down (talk) 12:17, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

It's one of those uncommon (in the Sakha Republic) cases where the administrative and municipal divisions do not match. There is no overlap on the district level, however. Ebelyakh is administratively a part of its own (Ebelyakhsky) rural okrug, but municipally, Ebelyakhsky and Saskylakhsky Rural Okrugs are incorporated as Saskylakhskoye Rural Settlement. This is why the infobox in Anabarsky District shows three rural okrugs but only two rural settlements. I've edited the Ebelyakh article (and also corrected the coordinates, which were slightly off). Let me know if you need anything further. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 5, 2015; 17:13 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #148

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfA: Haplology
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of March
  • upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Help flesh out landing pages for partners
  • Update on the Wikidata query service progress
  • The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
  • Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
  • Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
  • Showcase items:Symphony No. 7
• Development
  • Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
  • Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
  • Worked on updating the data model documentation
  • Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
  • Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
  • Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
  • Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 00:19, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Adding or changing to "Administrative republic"

Anyone doing this is almost always someone, or a small group of editors, from Rio de Janeiro adding terms from the video game Europa Universalis. There are other government related labels they add, but I note that this is one you reverted recently. Dougweller (talk) 11:30, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up; this certainly puts those edits into a new perspective. I'll keep that article on my watchlist for a while longer. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 9, 2015; 12:29 (UTC)

Thanks. They are editing from a couple of IP ranges. They use various other terms. Any Rio IP is suspect, to be honest. Also occasional copyvio. Dougweller (talk) 13:49, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Posted this to another editor: For several years socks from Rio de Janeiro have been trying to add various terms from this videogame to articles, often (like the last few weeks) changing "autonomous republic" to "administrative republic". See [54] - now I'm not accusing you of being one of those, obviously, but you did add the wiki for Europa Universalis III to Administrative republic, which until mid February was Autonomous republic until a brand new editor came along and changed it. Since then a number of IP socks have been editing it. I'm not happy with that. It still contains a couple of country names which use 'autonomous' and not 'administrative', and although for Yugoslavia 'administrative' is sourced, most sources call them 'autonomous'.

I generally don't like undiscussed name changed, and this one was immediately jumped on by obvious socks. I'm tempted to revert, any comments? Dougweller (talk) 20:19, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

I moved it back. Such moves change the scope and should be discussed.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:48, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-11

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

Recent changes

• You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [55] [56]
• VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [57] [58] [59]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
• In VisualEditor the "Edit ^beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [60] [61]
• The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [62] [63]
• You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [64] [65]
• You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools. [66] [67]
• If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Future changes

• You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy pages. [69]
• You will soon be able to read technical reports in Phabricator. [70]

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15:18, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Barnstar for you

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		This Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who have performed stellar work in the area of instruction & help for other editors. For being helpful and thoughtful in discussions relating to citation policy. NickCT (talk) 18:01, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Well deserved.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:03, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, guys. I'm trying :) Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 12, 2015; 18:39 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #149

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• Discussions
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• Events/Blogs/Press
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• Did you know?
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• Development
  • Got next step for header redesign and other goodies ready for testing (see above)
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Please comment on Template talk:F1 driver results legend 2

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Wikidata weekly summary #150

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• Events/Blogs/Press
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Wikidata weekly summary #151

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• Events/Blogs/Press
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• Other Noteworthy Stuff
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• There is a SpecialPage to easily get to the Wikidata item for a given Wikipedia article and another one to get to the Wikipedia article for a given Wikidata ID.
• Development
  • Deployed new code to Wikidata \o/ (and fixed a few issues that popped up)
  • Made good progress on RDF export (needed for example for queries)
  • Did more performance groundwork for arbitrary access
  • Students working on improved constraint reports and checking against 3rd party databases are making good progress
  • Looked into improving suggestions
  • Worked on making dispatching changes from Wikidata to Wikipedia and co more robust
  • Removed backwards compatibility from mw.wikibase.getEntity(), to be deployed April 7 and 8. See also here.
  • Improved support for right-to-left languages, e.g. in the sitelinks view
  • Created a unit test framework for special pages
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

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Wikidata weekly summary #152

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • WikiArabia takes place in Monastir, Tunisia, 3-5 April
  • The GLAM-WIKI 2015 conference in The Hague (10-12 April) features several presentations and tutorials about Wikidata for/with cultural institutions.
  • The Library world will use Wikidata to link its information to any and all Wikipedias. No longer English only, but every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way.
  • Freebase, SEO and Wikidata
  • Office hour on IRC covering overall status/development, Freebase and admin inactivity criteria RfC. You can read the log.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus wrote a short tour of Wikidata's tool ecosystem.
  • A first version of the Primary Sources Tool has been released. It'll help with migrating Freebase data and more.
  • Italian Wikipedia's quality festival is focusing on interwiki links and Wikidata this month. Help them out?
  • Lots of new databases have been added to Mix n Match.
  • Screenshots of the current state of new constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases have been posted.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: choreographer, senat.fr ID, Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
• Development
  • Wikidata development started 3 years ago. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
  • Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment
  • Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle-Beta dumps in place. All new Wikidata dumps will be in http://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for backwards compatibility).
  • Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to make the UI faster).
  • Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be cut short when quickly saving. (phabricator:T92831)
  • Fixed issues with setting focus after clicking edit.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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Speedy deletion nomination of Kalino, Russia

A tag has been placed on Kalino, Russia requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates two or fewer extant Wikipedia pages and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic); or
• disambiguates no (zero) extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title.

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The page is not a disambiguation page; it's a set index, so G6 does not apply.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 8, 2015; 13:27 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #153

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  • New tool by Magnus for Wikidata item labels
• Did you know?
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• Development
  • We are going to change the way value suggestions are ranked when entering a new statement. This will help with "male" and "female" not showing up among the top suggestions. Previously we ranked by number of sitelinks. We will change this to the maximum of sitelinks and labels. So if an item has labels in many languages but no sitelinks like "male" and "female" it will still show up high in the suggestions. (phabricator:T94404)
  • Discussed how to move forward with identifiers. Outcome: They should get their own datatype. (phabricator:T95287)
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Wikidata weekly summary #154

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• Discussions
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  • RfC: Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties, Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Redirects on Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
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  • Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome.
• Did you know?
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• Development
  • Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use
  • Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type
  • Expanded our set of automated browser tests
  • Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb.
  • Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release
  • Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support
  • Continued work on our RDF generator
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  • Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects
  • Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (US stations)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (US stations). Legobot (talk) 00:07, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

One from your home territory

Chapaevka, Kamchatka Oblast (Holm, 87th Motor Rifle Division, 2015.) The Chapaevka vehicle/equipment stores were located at 53 03 19N, 158 49 35E. There does not appear to be any disambig stub for Chapaevka en generale, which may be an oversight considering it seems like it might be a relatively common Russian name. Would you mind taking a look? Kind regards Buckshot06 (talk) 22:45, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

I guess the proper spelling is Chapayevka--Ymblanter (talk) 08:17, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Over a thousand miles away from my home territory, but OK, close enough :) I've created Chapayevka, Russia, but please note that the place in Kamchatka Krai is currently a microdistrict of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (which is confusingly called a "settlement" of Chapayevka) and seems to have been merged into it at some point before 2001 (I couldn't find an exact date). Also seems that it was established in Yelizovsky District around 1959. Hope this helps.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 27, 2015; 15:10 (UTC)

Thankyou very much Ezhiki, and apologies for not saying so earlier. Now I've just located a picture of Stab DVO - closer to home, Kharbarovsk ;) - on the DVO page on Ruwiki. Could you remind me who the expert was on moving Ruwiki pictures to Commons? Buckshot06 (talk) 04:53, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

I can easily move a file.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:58, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

You are welcome, and no thanking is expected :) I quite enjoy digging these up. As for the images, Yaroslav should be able to help you. I haven't been following what's going on on the Commons for a while, and it seems all of my contacts there are wikidead.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 4, 2015; 13:12 (UTC)

The file in question for moving is http://ru.wiki.x.io/wiki/Дальневосточный_военный_округ#/media/File:Штаб_ДВО.JPG ; moving all the pictures on the DVVO page would also be helpful. Ymblanter (talk · contribs), thankyou for your help with these!! Buckshot06 (talk) 05:18, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

File:Штаб ДВО.JPG is actually on Commons since 2012, will have a look at other files now.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:07, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

I transferred File:Штаб 5-й армии, Уссурийск.JPG and File:Хабаровск, 301-й окружной военный госпиталь.jpg. Everything else either was already on Commons, or is non-transferrable because of the freedom of panorama limitations.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:17, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Very many thanks Ymblanter. I appreciate this a great deal. Buckshot06 (talk) 02:55, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #155

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• Discussions
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• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata emerges as central element of GLAM-WIKI 2015
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• Other Noteworthy Stuff
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  • Commons-WD: a tool to edit Wikidata based on a Commons category
  • Various improvements to the Primary Sources Tool including:
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    • It now uses the URL blacklist to not suggest low-quality references
    • Caching issues were fixed
• Did you know?
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• Development
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  • Did work towards having entity ids in revision histories and in diffs linked with their label (like on watchlists or in the recentchanges)
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A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For continual searching out of wonderful small communities in the vastness of the greatest continent on Earth!! Definite scrutiny and precision!! Buckshot06 (talk) 04:49, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Voronezh

Hey, Ezhiki, maybe you can help me with this? (I see you have made occasional edits to the Voronezh page) Is this piece really as grotesque as I make it (I am by no means fluent in Russian)? What's the deal with this Polyakova woman (I found her here posing with the Book of Veles)? Surely she isn't an actual historian? The Indo-European "water-deity" stuff goes back to this edit which added much to the confusion, and I have a hard time figuring out what is actually in the sources cited, what is contorted by journalism, and what is made-up for Wikipedia. I get the vibe that there is some local thing going on here with people trying to come up with a mysterious past, but I am confused. here, "Тайна имени Воронежъ" is listed as a novel, so perhaps this is innocent historical fantasy, and it was just some on-wiki foul-up that made this into an etymological study invoking Varanasi and Brian the Blessed?

Btw, woman from Voronezh once told me there is a local joke or fake etymology translating the name as "Ворон + Ёж". I thought based on your username maybe you know something about this? --dab (𒁳) 10:55, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

The piece from Polyakova is fringe and based on the Book of Veles which is a proven hoax. Polyakova seems to take it seriously and derive smth from it. There is absolutely no fucking way there was a Russian settlement in the area in the 12th century.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:01, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

I fully concur with Yaroslav. I also added a couple comments on Talk:Voronezh#Name and early history. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 4, 2015; 13:33 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #156

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• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata was presented at a Swedish Linked Data Network Meet-up in Gothenburg.
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  • New tool by Magnus: Find pictures on geography.co.uk, upload them to Commons and add them to Wikidata
  • All Van Gogh Museum paintings are now on Commons and Wikidata. Go go SumOfAllPaintings peeps!
  • List of topics with links in at least X Wikipedias
  • All French Senators matched using MixNMatch \o/
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  • The students team is working hard to get a first release of the improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases out.
  • Ricordisamoa fixed the issue with long descriptions being cut off.
  • We fixed the focus flow in the property selector.
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• Monthly Tasks
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (definite or indefinite article at beginning of name)

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Wikidata weekly summary #157

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• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Mbch331
  • New request for comments: Notability policy overhaul
  • Closed requests for comments: Conflict of Interest (no consensus), Speedy vs Regular deletion (stale)
• Events/Blogs/Press
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  • MusicBrainz is migrating to Wikidata for Wikipedia links
  • Past: Open Data for Academics - some media available on Wikimedia Commons.
  • Upcoming: OuiShare Labs Camp in Paris
  • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata Visualization Challenge has started. You can enter your submission until June 1 (23:59 CEST).
  • Denny has published a proposed breakdown of tasks for Wiktionary support incl mockups. Please read and comment.
  • The Wikidata Menu Challenge has started and goes on to May 27. Add labels, images and pronunciation audio to a list of around 290 items to help show off the power of Wikidata at a food festival.
  • Dynamic lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data
  • The Frick Collection and the Brooklyn Museum both have their paintings on Wikidata now.
  • The most distant known galaxy EGS-zs8-1 (Q19860435) has been discovered and added to Wikidata.
  • Reasonator has been restyled, to work better on mobile devices. It also has an enhanced display on first names (exsample: Paul)
  • Woah! Volcanos! (Help match the Smithonian's volcano identifiers with Wikidata) ;-)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Smithsonian volcano identifier, cathedral, hair color, Declarator.org ID, Web Gallery of Art identifier, list of characters, measured by, income classification (Philippines), Vox-ATypI classification, after a work by, spacecraft
• Development
  • Access to data from arbitrary items is coming to the first wikis on Monday \o/ It'll be Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource.
  • Sneak peek at the current state of development for showing constraint violations on statements
  • Hovercards also show the target's label and ID now. (Try them by turning them on in the beta features section of your preferences.)
  • Continued working on RDF export
  • More work on making it possible to add a reference right away when adding a statement (and allowing the full statement incl references to be edited at the same time)
  • Did more work to make usage tracking possible on multilingual wikis (namely Commons)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
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Wikidata weekly summary #158

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Mbch331
  • Closed request for comments: Opting out of Global sysops 2
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
  • Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
  • Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
  • Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
  • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Elections for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation are ongoing. Wikidata should be well represented among the voters. Go and vote!
  • Wikidata won another award by Land der Ideen! \o/ Thank you everyone who is making Wikidata awesome!
  • Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource now have the arbitrary access feature. Persian Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikipedia are following today. Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects are following on June 1st.
  • New manual for adding inventory numbers to paintings on Wikidata
  • English Wikipedia is running a bot to add authority control templates to many articles that are filled completely from Wikidata. Italian Wikipedia is doing so as well.
  • Wikidata won an Open Data award last year. Nominations for this year are open now. Who should win this year?
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources entry, vice-county
• Development
  • Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
  • Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
  • Improvements to calendar handling
  • More work on RDF export for query service
  • Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
  • Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:09, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Signature date stamp

Hi Ezhiki,

I noticed that your signature inserts the date/time stamp in a non-standard format, using a <span> tag around the date followed by a semicolon before the time, e.g.:

Wikicode	<span class="nowrap">May 20, 2015</span>; 18:33 (UTC)
Produces this	May 20, 2015; 18:33 (UTC)

You may not realise that doing this breaks the Comments in Local Time gadget (enabled in Preferences), the Unclutter gadget (which customises the appearance of signatures) and customised style sheets, as they cannot recognise the Wikicode as a signature.

For example, signatures may appear to a user using these features as follows:

Wikicode

<small>—'''[[User:sroc|sroc]]''' [[User talk:sroc|💬]]</small> 16:11, 16 May 2015 (UTC) --[[User:EncycloPetey|EncycloPetey]] ([[User talk:EncycloPetey|talk]]) 02:36, 18 May 2015 (UTC) --[[User:T.seppelt|T.seppelt]] ([[User talk:T.seppelt#top|talk]]) 13:14, 20 May 2015 (UTC) —[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]] • ([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); <span class="nowrap">May 20, 2015</span>; 14:41 (UTC)

Produces this

— Sroc (talk • contrib • sig) 02:11, 17 May 2015 (UTC+10) — EncycloPetey (talk • contrib • sig) 12:36, 18 May 2015 (UTC+10) — T.seppelt (talk • contrib • sig) 23:14, Yesterday (UTC+10) —Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 20, 2015; 14:41 (UTC)

Note how your signature appears differently from the others, the different time zones make it difficult to follow the relative times of each post, and the date isn't shown as "Today" or "Yesterday" where applicable. Note, too, that it is possible to customise the appearance of your signature for those who aren't using these gadgets (see how my name and talk link are formatted) without sacrificing this functionality for users who wish to take advantage of them.

Would you consider amending the formatting of your date/time stamp so that these features will work with your signature? —sroc 💬 20:06, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi, sroc! This actually came up before, and my answer is always the same. My philosophy is that if a tool does not work properly, the proper course of action is fixing the tool, not asking users to change their preferences (and a choice of a date format is a very personal preference). My signature, after all, uses a pretty standard date format; it's not like it's an ancient Egyptian calendar using hieroglyphics! Accounting for this programmatically can't possibly be a difficult task, especially considering that I am not the only user with a non-dmy preference in the signature and that my signature hasn't changed in years (and years, and years).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 20, 2015; 20:19 (UTC)

Well, apparently it is very difficult because of the way the wikicode works. You could always set your preferences to MDY format and then everyone's dates will appear like that, unless they've hard-coded their date stamps in some other format the way you have, of course. —sroc 💬 04:24, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I had my preferences set to mdy format since the day that option became available :) It affects how system messages are displayed and the date formats on dynamically generated pages such as Recent Changes and Watchlist, but it has nothing to do with how the timestamps in user signatures are displayed (nor should it). Yours, for example, shows up exactly the same way it does in the edit window.

Regarding it being "very difficult" to fix the gadgets and such, I'm not buying that for a moment. Humanity can send a probe to land on a comet, but detecting a string of text containing a date in mdy format is beyond the 21st century technology? :) Pardon me for being skeptical, especially in light of the fact that !vote-processing bots never have a problem with accounting for my entries, and while the page-archiving bots did run into a few snags years ago when they stumbled upon my signature, the problem has long since been resolved.

All in all, the gadgets are just toys which some users find helpful (I myself have half a dozen enabled). With that perspective in mind, it is not acceptable at all to bug other users to change their preferences just to keep one's favorite toy running the way one likes it. If fixing the gadget is not an option, let me make you a counter-proposal of equal value—you can go to your Preferences, and turn the gadget off. This way all dates will consistently show up the way their owners intended and the problem will go away.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 21, 2015; 13:21 (UTC)

The Comments in Local Time gadget would allow you to have the times and dates in signatures appear to you according to your preferences—which is, after all, the point of having preferences—but it would not work when reading signatures such as yours which are not recognised. Since I don't have NASA under my command to work on this issue, I thought I would politely bring this to your attention in case you were unaware of the impact of your customisation. I don't find your suggestion to simply turn the gadgets off at all helpful as it presents no advantage over the current state of affairs. —sroc 💬 14:23, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I have no problem with the times and dates in signatures of other users showing up the way the owners of those signatures intended and simply ask that other users respect my preference in return.

The gadget code was not written by NASA; it's simply JavaScript (or maybe Lua?) code wrapped up as a gadget so it can conveniently be turned on and off from one's Preferences instead of having to insert it manually to one's common (vector, monobook...).js file. Whoever wrote the code should also be able to fix it for you; alternatively you can add your own code to your .js file to deal with non-dmy timestamps, if they bug you so. And while there is no harm in asking someone politely to do something that benefits you at the expense of the preferences of the person you are asking, it also helps to recognize when the answer is "no".—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 21, 2015; 14:41 (UTC)

P.S. It looks like you could use this gadget to solve your custom signatures display problem. It changes all signatures to default format, so any code assuming the signature dates are in dmy format should work flawlessly.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 21, 2015; 14:53 (UTC)

That's the Unclutter gadget I mentioned in my first post which, once again, does not work with your signature. Note that there's nothing special in the wikicode to distinguish signatures from the surrounding text other than a predictable format (e.g., they're not wrapped in <sig>...</sig> tags); it's because you don't use the predictable format that these gadgets can't recognise your signature as such. —sroc 💬 15:03, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I am not sure how using mdy format instead of dmy is "unpredictable". We seem to start wandering in circles. All of the problems you mentioned can be fixed with a bit of JavaScript (be it via editing the gadget code or editing your own .js page), and that's how you should proceed. Like I previously said, my signature stayed stable for years, nor do I have any plans to change it any time soon—that makes it quite predictable in my book. And like you said, anything predictable can be accounted for in code.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 21, 2015; 15:29 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles

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Renaming Historical city of Russia article

Ezhiki, Thanks for participating in the CFD discussion. They can be a little jargon-y but it's good to get new opinions. Regardless of my nomination, I don't think Historical city of Russia is well named. If you speak Russian, would Soviet Historic City Heritage Register be a reasonable translation of исторические города и поселения? (BTW, if the category survives, I agree with you that it should be renamed to whatever the new name of the article is.)

Thanks, RevelationDirect (talk) 01:24, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I do speak Russian. The problem with the current title is that it is actually just as ambiguous in original Russian as is its translation in English, which is what the source of all the confusion in the CfD is.

"Soviet Historic City Heritage Register" would not be the best option. While the list (register) was first compiled in the Soviet times, it is currently regulated by a post-Soviet (2002) law. "Russian Historic City Heritage Register" might work, although this will still need to go through an RM in case someone can think of an even better option. Whatever the title ends up to be, the category will need to be re-created (and hopefully it won't be something like "inhabited localities in Russia included into the Russian Historic Cities and Settlements Registry" :)).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 26, 2015; 15:16 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #159

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

• Events/Blogs/Press

Wikimedia Hackathon 2015

• • State of the Map US (OpenStreetMap's conference) in New York on 6-8 June
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 in Lyon from 23-25 May. Some of the activities and outcomes:
    • Wikidata descriptions can be soon be edited in the Wikipedia iOS app.
    • A early preview of the official SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata has been created to query Wikidata. Remember that it is not stable and still beta. A short introduction to SPARQL can be found in Lucie's slides.
    • If you are not familiar with SPARQL yet, a tool has been created by Tpt and Bene* to generate SPARQL queries from natural language questions.
    • To do SPARQL queries from the command line, a command line tool was crafted by Marius.
    • The special page to query for badges is within reach.
    • A feedback session on the architecture of Wikibase was held.
    • We got a cool presentation by Maxime about inventaire.io.
    • We figured out the next steps to make Wikidata more mobile friendly.
    • Pilot on the Hungarian Wikipedia to show diagrams based on Wikidata in their articles on Spanish villages
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New command line tool for mapping SKOS to Wikidata (video)
  • The Wikidata Visualization Challenge is ending soon. Please submit your entries. The Wikidata Menu Challenge is also ending soon.
  • The number of videos about Wikidata is growing and there is now a category on Wikimedia Commons for these.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: lowest note, highest note, source website, Fauna Europaea ID, Danish urban area code, OpenPlaques plaque identifier, signatory, BNC identifier, different from
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Elections
• Development
  • Got early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata live
  • The Graph extension is now live on Wikidata
  • Arbitrary access is rolled out on fawiki, hewiki and enwikivoyage now
  • Busy with the hackathon (see above)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Rhumidian. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Kacha, Russia, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Rhumidian (talk) 15:33, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #160

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • upcoming: State of the Map US
  • Visualizing history with automated event maps
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Final hours to make your vote count in the WMF board election
  • Now we have Q20000000 and P1900
  • Wikidata stats have been updated
  • Over 100 timeline of famous painters by Histropedia
  • WD-FIST can now take a manual item list and limit its search to JPEGs
  • Traveling this summer? Find items needing pictures around you with WikiShootMe
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: altered regulation leads to, posttranslational modification association with, gene substitution association with, gene inversion association with, gene insertion association with, gene duplication association with, deletion association with, increased expression in, decreased expression in, side effect, Commonwealth War Graves Commission person identifier, Australian Dictionary of Biography identifier, office held by head of state, FundRef registry name, Volcanic explosivity index, Spotify artist ID, BALaT person/organisation id, EAGLE id, Librivox author ID
• Development
  • Recovering from hackathon
  • Prepared rollout of usage tracking and arbitrary access to more wikis
  • Testing of the query service
  • Fixed styling issues with entity selector
  • Worked more on Capiunto to make it easier to create good infoboxes
  • Worked on making broken values editable to fix them (this for example happens when a property is deleted but some values are left over)
  • Made entity id an optional parameter in mw.wikibase.label and mw.wikibase.description lua methods. (default to use connected item)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
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Wikidata weekly summary #161

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

• Discussions
  • RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more
  • Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides)
  • Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata in favour of Wikidata.
  • New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references
  • The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election. One name should sound familiar to you ;-)
  • Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata. More coming.
  • Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest Wikipedias have.
  • Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
  • Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
  • Zolo did a comparison of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
  • Connectivity statistics were updated.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: DMS V, Clinvar Accession Number, Vaccine Ontology ID, VIOLIN ID, vaccine for, participating team, first line, URI pattern for RDF resource, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID
  • Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled by User:Petr Matas
• Development
  • Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access.
  • The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
  • Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
  • Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by Wikibase: wikibase.resolvePropertyId and wikibase.entity:getBestStatements.
  • Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.)
  • Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps location there (/public/dumps).
  • Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the API.
  • Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.)
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • 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, for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #162

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

• Discussions
  • Should we have a Wikidata User Group?
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Thanks to everyone who participated in the Wikidata:Menu Challenge which made Wikidata shine at A Taste of Stockholm. The live results are still up at https://wikimedia-sverige.github.io/tastydata .
  • Upcoming: Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
  • Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata in Paris
  • News about Wikidata FIST
  • Review of the big interwiki link migration
  • Timeline of Christopher Lee films
  • Wikidata map - 19 months on
  • A challenge was raised to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • ViziData has been improved significantly
  • Wikidata Visualization Challenge winners announced: first prize to ViziData.
  • New paper: Peer-production system or collaborative ontology development effort: what is Wikidata?
  • Jura1 posted some data around property usage on items about people
  • Tpt is interning at Google now to free up more content from Freebase for us. He's adding more data to the Primary Sources Tool.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: street key, relief location map, location map, McCune-Reischauer romanization, conifers.org ID, Dyntaxa ID, Project Gutenberg ID, UN/LOCODE, Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID, DBCS ID, Animator.ru ID, MobyGames ID, stated as, PGCH ID
• Development
  • Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access for more.
  • More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access)
  • Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (phabricator:T102148)
  • More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items
  • More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment.
  • The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile.
  • Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily
  • Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch
  • Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4
  • Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4
  • New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • 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, for the new properties listed above.

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RfC: Religion in infoboxes of nations

There is an RfC that you may be interested in at Template talk:Infobox country#RfC: Religion in infoboxes of nations. Please join us and help us to determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 14:02, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

ru:Заря (микрорайон Балашихи)

Do you know anyone who might do a basic translation of the vitals of this microraion article? Many thanks Buckshot06 (talk) 23:34, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

I don't want to throw anyone under a bus and commit them :) But you can always try posting a request at WT:RUSSIA; perhaps someone who is interested and has time can help. Note also that most of the article in ru-wiki is unsourced, so it seems that it's finding the sources and verifying information that'll be the most laborious, not translating the text.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); June 22, 2015; 13:48 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #163

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

• Discussions
  • German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • en:South Pole Telescope is a nice example of an infobox completely filled from Wikidata.
  • Q20150617 was created on 2015-06-17
  • More data from Freebase have been added the Primary Sources Tool. There is also a page to help the mapping of Freebase properties.
  • Nice new manual for MixnMatch
  • The new nature.com/ontologies links to external ontologies and datasets; among them Wikidata.
  • National Gallery of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum now have entries for all their paintings on Wikidata thanks to wiki project Sum of all Paintings
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: takeoff and landing capability, Discogs label ID, Discogs master ID, Discogs artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum band id, investor, second surname in Spanish name, CulturaItalia ID, BerlPap identifier, Mapillary id, National Library of Ireland authority
  • Newest WikiProjects: Cross Items Interwikis
• Development
  • Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of http://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
  • Worked more on unit support
  • Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
  • Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
  • The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
  • The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
  • More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
  • Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
  • Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
  • Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
  • Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
  • Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
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Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox Russian inhabited locality

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Wikidata weekly summary #164

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Ateliers Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
  • Reductionism
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Which geographic areas do different Wikipedias cover? How does it compare to Wikidata? Markus has a beautiful answer
  • Wikiproject Molecular Biology and AskPlatypus are shortlisted for the OpenData Award \o/ This is the award Wikidata won last year.
  • Paper on vandalism on Wikidata. Lydia is in touch with them to figure out how to best use the insights for us.
  • Reasonator got some updates: it is now using external ID formatter URLs, has monolingual string support and better social network links
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID, Foursquare venue ID, BoxRec ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile catalogue number, sortkey, properties for this type, patron, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Google Scholar ID, Dutch Senate person ID, Trismegistos ID, Wikisource index page
  • Newest External tools: Wikidata Compare
  • Showcase items: none. Yours next week?
• Development
  • Jonas joined the team and Adam is back \o/
  • Deployed arbitrary access to ruwiki and cswiki
  • Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (phabricator:T96298)
  • Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (phabricator:T94588)
  • More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
  • Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (phabricator:T103796)
  • Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
  • Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (phabricator:T103489)
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (phabricator:T103603)
  • Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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Wikidata weekly summary #165

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about Atheism and the religion property.
  • Discussion about the Verifiability of data as a policy.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new database report lists people categorized as dead in Wikipedia, but lacking Property:P570 (date of death). It's updated several times during the day. There are about 20 to 30 new entries each day. There is currently some backlog from the Arabic, Marathi, and Thai Wikipedias. Items updated first in Wikidata wont appear in the report. They are listed directly in Wikidata's recent deaths report.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: RSL editions, Open Hub ID, number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID
• Development
  • Adam wrote a blog post on the improvement of the data after one year and GeneaWiki
  • After the next deployment, Special:ItemDisambiguation will match aliases and be case insensitive.
  • Improved details of matches in the entity suggester (wbsearchentities api module)
  • Deployed the WikibaseQuality and WikibaseQualityConstraints extensions to test.wikidata.org
  • Fixed the layout of long qualifier names
  • JSON dumps are now automatically copied to labs
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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Please take a look at the article Jenny Skavlan that I have created. I plan a DYK nom for it. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 22:33, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

May I ask why you picked me to review this? The article looks fine, but this is coming from someone who never heard of this person before, knows little of the entertainment industry, and does not speak Norwegian (which is what all the references are in). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); July 9, 2015; 13:50 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #166

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Slides on Primary Sources Tool and Wikidata introduction (in Spanish) for the Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
  • Presentation about Wikidata at the Axel Springer Hack Day 2015
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikiresearch looked into the coverage of the moon by geotags in Wikidata
  • Wikiresearch published a visualization of the relationship between nationality and occupation based on Wikidata's data
  • Which zoo has polar bears? Wikidata attempts to answer the question here. Work in progress.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MCN code, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Anime News Network anime ID, Anime News Network manga ID, Anime News Network company ID, Anime News Network person ID, FSK film rating, PolSys ID, Righteous Among The Nations ID, USDA NDB number, lesarchivesduspectacle ID, INEGI locality identifier
• Development
  • The Wikidata Quality extension (constraint reports per item) was deployed. You can now use d:Special:ConstraintReport to see the result for different items. This is for example the constraint report for the item cat (Q142).
  • 8 million additional statements from Freebase were made available through the Primary sources tool
  • Moving towards having a single edit button to edit references along with the value they belong to.
  • Bene continued working on phasing out the deprecated Entity superclass and making more entity types possible.
  • More work on phasing out a deprecated serializer implementation we still use in certain places.
  • Further work on the new RDF export.
  • PHPCS is now used on each change in Wikibase to ensure the code fulfils certain code quality standards.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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Wikidata weekly summary #167

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Nikki
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Right now: Wikimania
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus made some new tools:
    • list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no image, grouped by employer. Check your university!
    • list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no ORCID iD, grouped by employer. Ditto!
    • an InfoBitt replacement
    • a tool you can use to match up Wikipedia articles without an item to either an existing item or a create a new one if none exists
    • plus Mix'N'Match got new datasets you can help match up with Wikidata
  • P2000 was created.
  • Some presentations at Wikimania related to Wikidata have detailed slides online:
    • WikiProject Sum of All Paintings
    • Templates are dead! Long live templates!, technical presentation on the function and future of template syntax
    • Future of structured documents: VisualEditor, Citations and Wikidata, oh my!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID, parliament.uk bio link, medical specialty, AllMusic composition ID, TeX string, Plazi ID, LPSN URL, species kept, Encyclopaedia Metallum artist ID, Delarge ID
  • New task forces: Linguistics
• Development
  • Attending Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City right now, meeting awesome people that already use or want to know everything about Wikidata.
  • After the next deployment, redirects will be automatically created when merging items.
  • Special:UnconnectedPages can now be queried via the query API, thanks to Ladsgroup.
  • Migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
  • Worked on a new time parser that can parse formats like M/D/Y, Y M D and so on.
  • Fixed a bug where a value could not be edited when save failed.
  • Made the snak type, badge and rank selectors position themselves after resizing the browser window and introduced a possibility to collapse the sitelinks sections.
  • Worked on a change in editing to be able to edit a statement and it’s references in one step.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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Wikidata weekly summary #168

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Nikki
  • Open request for oversightership: Sjoerddebruin
  • Closed request for comments: Administrative divisions and populated places, Given names and surnames
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you!
  • Past: Wikimania
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Upload of 4.2M new statements from Freebase in the Primary Sources tool.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NALT id, Instagram username, Twitter username, Revised Romanisation, CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID
• Development
  • Continued migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
  • Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.7.0
  • Depreacting the parameter ungroupedlist in the api modules GetClaims and GetEntities
  • Tweaking the sitelink input
  • Changing the display of item selector results
• 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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Wikidata weekly summary #169

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• Discussions
  • Open requests for Oversight: Sjoerddebruin
  • Enable Flow on Wikidata?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Early version of a reconcile API for Wikidata by Magnus
  • PagePile: a new tool by Magnus
  • Mix-n-Match got a number of new catalogs and now shows a thin red line in front of a catalog that does not yet have a property on Wikidata
  • 1.700 biographical items without gender, but with image. Go go go!
  • Interested in art movements? Check out this
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MoMA artwork id, Facebook ID, cuisine, Cooper-Hewitt Person ID, Exif make, Exif model, IPNI publication ID, ZooBank publication ID, ZooBank author ID, Catalogus Professorum Halensis, NALT id
  • Showcase items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062)
• Development
  • Minor fixes to property edit mode
  • Some fixes for the cucumber test errors
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 4.0
  • Released Wikibase DataModel Services 1.0
  • Continued work to migrate away from old serializers in Wikibase Lib to those in WikibaseDataModelSerialization.
  • Working on scripts for importing entities from another Wikibase instance (e.g. Wikidata), so that development instances can have some sample data.
  • Fixed the counting of references
  • Changed style of the Entitytermsview inputs
  • Entity Selector displays alias in brackets behind label
• 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!
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Railroad District listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Railroad District. Since you had some involvement with the Railroad District redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Peter James (talk) 17:50, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up; I've posted a comment there.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 4, 2015; 18:13 (UTC)

Railway District listed at Redirects for discussion

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Why not Koyluoto?

Because ru:Койлуото is romanized in English Koyluoto, then why Koiluoto? 85.76.182.75 (talk) 18:42, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Because most of it belongs to Finland, so Finnish spelling takes priority.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 7, 2015; 19:35 (UTC)

Not because fi:Koiluoto - English: Moth islet, Russian: Моль островок - is a Finnish name? 85.76.144.51 (talk) 22:12, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure I see your logic (or understand the question, for that matter).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 10, 2015; 16:50 (UTC)

Like Koiluoto, also Virmajärvi is a Finnish name, so not "Koyluoto" or "Virmayarvi". So e. g. Finnish name Лахденпохья - in Russian: Дно залива and in English: Bottom of bay - should be written Lahdenpohja, not "Lakhdenpokhya". 85.76.39.164 (talk) 17:09, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

In English, names of places in Russia (or mostly in Russia) are typically transliterated from Russian, following the BGN/PCGN romanization of Russian guidelines, even when those names are borrowed from other languages. Names of places in Finland (or mostly in Finland) are, of course, normally rendered the same way as in the Finnish language.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 24, 2015; 13:44 (UTC)

However, Lake Virmajärvi is mostly in Russia: MapSite, National Land Survey of Finland. 2001:999:20:1EF2:471:D2AF:F166:67CE (talk) 20:37, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing this out; I've moved the article to an appropriate title.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 24, 2015; 21:00 (UTC)

The word lake is not in Finnish "yarvi", but järvi. So, move the article to an appropriate title: Lake Virmajärvi, please. --85.76.23.131 (talk) 09:52, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

The article is at the appropriate title now. You yourself pointed out that the lake is mostly in Russia, so the rules of dealing with Russian toponyms apply. What the parts of the toponym mean in any other language has nothing to do with anything, as far as picking an article's title goes. Toponyms are romanized as a whole, not broken down into parts to be dealt separately at one's whim.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 25, 2015; 11:52 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #170

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for oversight rights: Sjoerddebruin
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikimedia UK is organizing a Wikidata training session. You can sign up here.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Talk pages on Wikidata can now be converted to use Flow. You can request migrating your talk page at d:Wikidata:Flow.
  • Mix-n-Match got a bunch of new catalogs for you to match up with Wikidata. Currently matching is happening at about 500 items per day. Pretty sweet :)
  • @happybirthdayauthors is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
  • Arbitrary access is rolling out to a large number of wikis over the next two weeks.
  • Duplicity can help you match up unlinked Wikipedia articles to a Wikidata item.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID, Teuchos ID, isomeric SMILES, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Groninganae id, Hansard ID
• Development
  • Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks so they are easier to notice and understand
  • Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
  • The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
  • The number of entities loaded via the {{#property:…}} parser function and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be found below a page preview or within the Html of a page)
  • Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
  • Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects is not too high.
  • Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
  • Moved two extensions (Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to Gerrit. More will follow.
  • We'd like to drop a database table. Discussion is ongoing.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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Wikidata weekly summary #171

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

• Discussions
  • Reinforcement of data analysis before any modification of the DB
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • cooperation between free content projects
  • A case is made to concentrate our quality efforts on the differences between Wikidata and other sources
  • Ongoing: Several team members are attending the Chaos Communication Camp.
  • Upcoming: SmartDataConference
  • A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata needs your vote! It only takes a minute.
  • WikiProject Sum of all Paintings reached the milestone of 100.000 paintings. Congrats!
  • Arbitrary access is now available on another ~250 Wikipedias].
  • See d:Wikidata talk:Arbitrary access#Use cases: testing modules and templates for two general use cases for arbitrary access on Wikipedia's regression testing of Wikidata-related modules and templates and testing infoboxes with Wikidata content.
  • List of articles on English Wikipedia without a Wikidata item (also works for other projects)
  • You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases? Try relabel!
  • SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items.
  • Mix-n-Match has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia.
  • Deaths at Wikipedia are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack d:Property:P570 (date of death).
  • 93% of items about people have a gender set now.
  • Want to make both Wikidata and Inventaire better? You can help by finding those books' authors.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
  • Newest tools: Suggestor
• Development
  • Rolled out arbitrary access to about 250 Wikipedias including German, French and Japanese. More to come in a few days.
  • Worked more on quantities. Looks like we'll have it on a demo system for you to try a first version within the next two weeks.
  • Bene* is joining us for a month as an intern. Welcome!
  • References are now hidden while loading the page, speeding up page load time
  • First commit to the ArticlePlaceholder extension
  • Expensive parser functions now count each entity only once
  • Released a new version of the DataModelServices component and started using it
  • Started working on phasing out the wb_entity_per_page table. It will be kept around and updated for some time to allow tool owners to migrate.
  • The Wikibase code base now fullfills all of MediaWiki’s PHPCS coding standards
  • Added property IDs to Special:ListProperties
  • Did a lot of bug triage on Phabricator
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Thanks

Ezhiki, thanks for the tweak of my edit on the Arkhangelsk page (the population). See if it works now. I was trying to create a full sentence instead of "Population: ..." Foreignshore (talk) 01:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant to re-write it into a complete sentence myself, but forgot to return. What you did is better, but the sentence still doesn't really flow. I've tweaked it further to match other articles containing this information; please let me know if you see any problems. And thanks for the reminder! Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 24, 2015; 13:40 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #172

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: SmartData conference
  • Paper: Reifying RDF: What Works Well With Wikidata?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata made it into the top 10 of the Land der Ideen competition \o/ This means we're part of the final public voting starting on 9th of September. Thanks everyone who voted and spread the word.
  • Flow is being tested on selected talk pages.
  • New tool: Get new Wikidata items (now or before a given timestamp) as HTML or PagePile
  • New tool: Find Wikidata items without an image around a location, then find free images on Flickr taken nearby.
  • EventZoom.net extended with OpenStreetMap support, increasing the options for visualizing historical events from Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
• Development
  • Soon the edit summary for edits through the API will also contain the automatic edit summary that you are used to for edits done through the website. The summary given by the API user will be appended to the automatic summary. (phabricator:T97247)
  • Addressed performance issues in usage tracking updates and had to delay the latest round of rollouts because of it
  • Fixed a bug where suggestions would show up twice in item and property selectors (phabricator:T109697)
  • Improved performance of the mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua method
  • More work done on Unit Selector widget
  • Started working on the ArticlePlaceholder extension
  • Made final changes so we can redirect mobile users to the mobile version by default
  • Evaluated the remaining steps to get the extension deployed that lets you do checks against 3rd party databases. Not much left it seems and we'll tackle that in one of the next sprints. Getting the new features deployed for the constraints checks will still take a bit longer.
  • More work on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
• 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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Wikidata weekly summary #173

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• Events/Blogs/Press
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Wikidata weekly summary #174

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• Events/Blogs/Press
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Wikidata weekly summary #175

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• Events/Blogs/Press
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  • Upcoming: Mobilizing Open Cultural Data, Helsinki, 2 October
  • Upcoming: Wikidata tutorial at SWAT4LS, December
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  • Wikimania 2015 report by Multichill
  • DSS Wikidata Editathon
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  • The annual Wikipedia editing competition organized by the International Society for Computational Biology will include a Wikidata component this year for the first time.
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Ivan Fyodorov (printer)

I'd like to ask you to pay attention to a micro-conflict in this article. A user double-reverted the reverts of two users. The edit in conflict was made by another user who was known for his disruptive editing about names and who has been already permanently banned. Also in the last revert there was made an inappropriate comment that I could only consider as nothing but a pure trolling. I believe my another revert to the original version will not made any good (it might be reverted again with no less "interesting" comments), and I also do not like to interact in a discussion with a user with such an attitude and feeding trolls is not in my plans. I hope for your help. Thanks.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk) 09:24, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Lüboslóv! I left the user a comment with a reminder of what constitutes acceptable editing practices and what doesn't, advised them to open a discussion on the talk page, restored the article to its July version, and am putting it on my watchlist for further monitoring. Please note that you will be expected to participate in that discussion if resolving the situation around this article is of interest to you, and I will try to make sure it does not devolve to the level where the only comments are of "interesting" kind. I am, however, not normally around during weekends, so if this flares up in the next couple days, I would advise you to post a comment at WP:AN/I so another admin could intervene. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); September 25, 2015; 13:27 (UTC)

Thanks, I hope after such an "explanatory work" from the Administration, the user concerned will keep his attitude off and will be more constructive in a possible discussion.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk) 16:04, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

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  • Continued work on the Lua libraries of the default Article Placeholder layout
  • Started the research on client editing with an input page
  • More work on making the mobile view fit for being enabled per default for mobile users
  • Changed our JavaScript coding style to be more in line with MediaWiki core’s
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  • Added a new “YearMonthDay” date parser that supports many edge cases where all other date parsers fail
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• Monthly Tasks
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Aizkraukle

Your cited source (Pospelov) is incorrect. Stučkas is Genitive case of Stučka. There is no Kraukle river in Latvia. That is why I reverted your edit. Dukurs (talk) 10:53, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Dukurs! Thanks for your message, but regrettably I had to revert your revert. If the source is incorrect, it is up to you to provide additional sources that show that; we can't just take your word for it. Note also that naming places in genitive was a fairly common Soviet tradition (indeed, the Russian name is also in genitive) and that there are two sources (including one which is bilingual) that state that Stučkas is the official name (although, of course, it does not mean it was a commonly used one in real life). I have no opinion about the river, having no further information, but again, stating that the "river does not exist" requires proof. It may very well no longer exist, or be known under a different name, or maybe Mr. Pospelov indeed screwed this up; we will never know unless someone digs up additional sources (a task for which you are much better suited than me, with your knowledge of the language and all).

I'll be open to participating in a talk page discussion, should you wish to pursue this further. Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 8, 2015; 12:28 (UTC)

Hi! I already started discussion on place name. I am afraid there will be impossible to find source regarding noexisting river.

About Stučkas. I have a suspection why "naming places in genitive was a fairly common Soviet tradition". These were not places but districts or regions (Russian: rayon, Latvian: rajons). If they put the name of the town before name rajons it is in genitive: Aizkraukle District (Latvian: Aizkraukles rajons or in Soviet times: Stučkas rajons). But the town always was Stučka. Look on any map of Latvia from Soviet times. Dukurs (talk) 13:06, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I must have not worded it well. I am not asking for sources to prove the river does not exist (one cannot prove a negative :)), I'm merely asking for a reliable source providing a more thorough analysis of the place name, and if it doesn't mention a river (Kraukle or some other), then oh well. Pospelov literally has one sentence on it, and if it's an error on his part, one that's not supported by any other sources, then of course there is no reason to insist on using his version. But it should not be simply removed altogether without providing a proper replacement.

A Soviet map of Latvia in Latvian (but not in Russian, because it the Latvian spelling that's in question, not the Russian one) would actually be a good source to support the Stučka variant. Still, both spellings should be given in text. The 1978 Latvijas PSR Administratīvi Teritoriālais Iedalījums reference book (a copy of which I actually have on hand) is written in both Russian and Latvian. It shows the names of both the district and the town as "Stučkas" ("Stučkas Rajons" vs. "Stučkas p."), in more than one place. If that's a typo/error, it would take more than a map to disprove it. Makes sense?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 8, 2015; 13:26 (UTC)

"Stučkas p." is "Stučkas pilsēta" (town of Stučka) which is not actually correct but was common in Soviet times. You will definitely also see there all the other town and city names in genitive: Rīga- Rīgas p(ilsēta), Jūrmala- Jūrmalas p(ilsēta), etc. Dukurs (talk) 13:42, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Yup, you are right; others are also like that (including Riga)! That's what I deserve, meddling with a language I don't know :) I stand corrected and will self-revert shortly. Thanks for your help getting to the bottom of this! Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 8, 2015; 13:59 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #179

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: WikiCon USA (slides)
  • Ongoing: World Health Summit (slides)
  • Upcoming: ODI Summit with a session on the gene-related efforts on Wikidata
  • Don't forget to sign up if you are coming to Wikidata's third birthday party.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Discussion has started on English WikiProject Football about using Wikidata for player squad templates (example) and player club history (example). Needs more input on best practices and commitment to update data.
  • A command line client to the SPARQL query service has been released
  • Query example: popularity of the given name Adolf
  • MoMa artists have been added to Mix'n'match
  • Books without authors on Wikidata are now down to 12.5K from 25K since drive began. You can help get it down even further.
  • Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Catalan Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
  • This Month in GLAM has Wikidata coverage
  • Interested in British politics? WikiProject British Politicians has some stats to show where you can help out
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: median lethal dose, first aid measures, official symbol, units used for this property, external subproperty, external superproperty, volume for quantity, semi-major axis, cash, explosive velocity, torque, Max TDP, maximum thrust, metallicity, market capitalization, discharge, spectral line, decay width, gyromagnetic ratio, flux, household wealth, real gross domestic product growth rate, net worth, cruise speed, radial velocity, proper motion, parallax, longitude of ascending node, angular distance, position angle, relative to, SourceForge project, average shot length, Spotify track ID, Discogs release ID, Spotify album ID, minimum explosive concentration, upper flammable limit, lower flammable limit, dipole moment, electric charge, autoignition temperature, (average) gradient, production volume, students count, Soccerbase manager id, PSS-Archi architect id, Soccerbase player id, endangeredlanguages.com ID, NILF author id, C-SPAN identifier of a person, BiblioNet publisher identifier, BiblioNet author identifier, BiblioNet publication identifier, Wiki Loves Monuments ID, DLI, history of topic, ISO 9:1995, Finnish Ministers database ID, Finnish MP ID, Kansallisbiografia ID, ACM Classification Code (2012), solvent, solubility, drug used for treatment, medical condition treated
• Development
  • You'll now get redirected to the mobile view automatically on mobile devices (example)
  • Made it possible to use more entities on a page via Lua without running into Lua's memory limit
  • Added the Article Placeholder extension’s results to the search result page (this is one of a few remaining blockers before we can put it on a testsystem for you to try out and give feedback)
  • Added option to create a new article from Article Placeholder
  • More work on the new datatype for properties
  • More work on making meaningful edit summaries on the client. Found a few remaining bugs during testing.
  • More work on a birthday present :D
• 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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Merger discussion for Artyom

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Bashkirs

Здравствуйте, коллега! Не могли бы взглянуть на деятельность участника Gamerprof в статье о башкирах? По-моему участник проталкивает заведомо ложные сведения касательно религиозной принадлежности башкир. Авторитетность и нейтральность источника, представленного участником, вызывает большие сомнения. Прочитайте, пожайлуйста, его описание. Это не статисческий сайт, а скорее миссионерский, в нём фигурируют всевозможные цитаты из Библии. Там нет никаких отсылок к опросам или переписям. По всей видимости, там указана всего лишь сильно завышенная оценка. Тем более вносить информацию на этом сайте может любой желающий, заполнив соответствующую форму (не исключено, что сам участник её туда и добавил). Прошу обратить внимание, что участник является бессрочно заблокированным в русскоязычном разделе. Судя по результатам проверок (1, 2), активно использует виртуалов. Также позволил себе крайне резкие высказывания на моей странице обсуждения. Благодаря деятельности виртуалов участника на русскоязычную версию статьи на днях накладывалась защита. Прошу оценить ситуацию, спасибо! --Rg102 14:37, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

You are right on the money about the source—it does not meet the criteria for reliable sources and is thus unacceptable. I've reverted the article to its last week state and will be monitoring it, protecting it from editing if reverts continue. I've also left the user a message reminding that talk pages exist and uncivil comments will not be tolerated. On your end, please also refrain from trying to match that user's reverts—while I agree that you are in the right here, reverting the same edit more than twice is nearly always pointless (unless it's clear vandalism, which in this case it obviously is not). With regards to possible socks, you will need to file a checkuser request; I can't help you with that. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 14, 2015; 15:35 (UTC)

Thanks for explanation. I left request for checking user. After sources searching I'll begin discussion on the talk page. Could you sum up after our discussion? Of course, if Gamerprof will take part in it. --Rg102 08:20, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

If I'm available at the time when it's clear the discussion has concluded, sure, why not.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 15, 2015; 13:14 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #180

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with SPARQL! (French)
  • Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint and the paintings of Goya (French)
  • Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register if you're coming to the party.)
  • More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: [71], [72]
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game! Sweeeeeet! Now includes one where you can match an author and a publication. And it has stats.
  • Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up for you.
  • Sitelinks and P569 compares various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth (Property:P569)
  • Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: periapsis, apoapsis, Florentine musea catalogue ID, reason for deprecation
• Development
  • Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query)
  • Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype string to upcoming datatype identifier
  • More work on birthday present
  • More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo
  • Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression
  • Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc
  • Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October
• 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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Блестящие

Здравствуйте ёжики ))
Не могли бы вы (ещё раз) исправить название статьи «Blestyaschie»? --XXN, 19:44, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Sure thing; done. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 20, 2015; 20:05 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #181

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Derived properties, Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Poof it works - using wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes
  • Wikidata, SPARQL and huskies (French)
  • Wikidata, SPARQL and elected dynasties (French)
  • The birth and death of German playwrights
  • Distributed stats
  • Past: Wikidata training at Wikimedia UK
  • Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday \o/ (on 29th)
  • Upcoming: SemWeb.Pro in Paris
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There's a new Wikidata taxonomy browser
  • Meta, MediaWiki and Wikispecies now have access to sitelinks on Wikidata. Welcome to Wikidata, sisters!
  • Harvest templates. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata.
  • Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Italian Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
  • The Wikidata Game now has a primary sources game and one to match Wikispecies pages to Wikidata items
  • The National Gallery of Arts was added to Mix'n'match
  • Some more query examples: Dracula movies and their actors, movies with links to videos
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Debrett's People of Today ID, maximum operating altitude, DfE URN, NGA artist id, life expectancy, Refseq Genome ID, argument of periapsis, periapsis
• Development
  • ctrl-space now enables autocomplete for labels on http://query.wikidata.org . Should make it easier for you to find the right items and properties.
  • Worked on birthday present :)
  • From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the Wikidata json dumps will be published, along with the gzip compressed version.
  • Made it possible to get from the search results page to the article placeholder. This was one of the last holdups for a first demo version.
• 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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Iglinsky

Hi, Ezhiki, I saw that you created Iglinsky. There are two people on the English Wikipedia with this surname. I think that you have more knowledge about this surname's language than I do, so I would like to ask you, could you please create a page for this surname? - A window cleaner me (talk) 20:32, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. Iglinsky is now a last name article (with the district mentioned in the hatnote). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 26, 2015; 13:31 (UTC)

Thanks so much, this is precisely what I wanted. - A window cleaner me (talk) 00:45, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Demographic Infoboxes

Hi Ezhiki, hope you are well. I like what you have been doing adding the demographic infoboxes to articles. I think it is a clear and succinct way of conveying that information. I was wondering though, whether it was possible to increase the width of the boxes to match that of the infoboxes just for the sake of presentation? Fenix down (talk) 13:52, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Actually, I started adding these with the intent of developing a standalone demographics box for Russia (or pilfering, and perhaps slightly modifying one from elsewhere), but never got around to this task. The ones I'm adding are basically just the generic {{Infobox}} templates, and yes, you can use the bodystyle/labelstyle parameters to control width. Would you perhaps be interested in developing a dedicated template for this, or modifying a similar template (like {{Historical populations}}) to work for Russia? I can't say when I'd be able to get to this myself, so if you have ideas, by all means please give them a try! Once a more suitable candidate is in place, we can do a bot run to replace all those generic Infoboxes I've added so far. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 26, 2015; 14:00 (UTC)

Check out Mokhsogollokh, where I added the custom width.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 26, 2015; 15:52 (UTC)

Could we may be just append this to the infobox? For this to look nice, not only the width should be the same, but also the title should go into a separate shell.--Ymblanter (talk) 02:38, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Technically, it is possible, but would it belong? Right now the demographics box immediately follows the main infobox only because the majority of the articles are so short, so the boxes run into one another. In the long run, however, the demographics box should ideally be a part of the dedicated Demographics section, wouldn't you agree (see Novosibirsk for an example)? Plus, the main infobox is already quite long as it is and I am kind of hesitant to make it even longer. Thoughts?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 27, 2015; 13:15 (UTC)

I do not suggest to add this info into the infobox, just to design a demographics infobox of the same width. If the two happen to be right above each other, it would look nicer; if they do not, we do not lose anything.--Ymblanter (talk) 23:18, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

I see. Unfortunately, I don't have time now to develop one. If somebody wants to tackle it, it'd be great; otherwise I'll probably do it myself at some point in the future.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 29, 2015; 18:22 (UTC)

Spas-Zagorye

Доброе время суток,Ezhiki!
Скажите, а почему "Spas-Zagorye", а не "Spas-Zagorje" ? Потому, что "за горой"?
С уважением,
Frutti-mytti (talk) 20:38, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Because WP:RUS :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 26, 2015; 20:41 (UTC)

"romanization" - великая весч! Ну, "yo", так "yo"! Cей же час переименую все остальные "je" в статье.

Sincere vestrum,

Frutti-mytti (talk) 20:55, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 26, 2015; 21:01 (UTC)

You are welcome,
Frutti-mytti (talk) 04:42, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #182

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

• Discussions
  • How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price.

    

    I love Wikidata because

    • Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
    • Images from the party
    • Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
    • Presents:
      • Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
      • Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
      • Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
      • Special:Nearby by the dev team
      • Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
      • Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
  • Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
  • Past: Open Access Week
  • Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
  • Past: Tehran SFD (video)
  • Upcoming: ODI Summit
  • Upcoming: SWAT4LS
  • Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
  • Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
  • Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
  • The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
  • Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
  • Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
  • Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
  • Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
  • Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
  • We passed 15M items.
  • Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
  • All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
  • Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
• Development
  • Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
  • Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
  • Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
  • Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
• 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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Dagestan TV

it's not an article, yes?--Станислав Савченко (talk) 14:09, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

@Станислав: по правилам английской википедии, на страницах разрешения неоднозначностей можно включать только ссылки на существующие статьи (или же, если статья не существует, дополнительно на другую статью, в которой несуществующая статья упоминается в достаточном контексте). Т.е. надо либо чтобы Dagestan (TV channel) было статьёй, либо чтобы на неё вела ссылка из другой статьи. С правилом этим можно ознакомиться тут.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 4, 2015; 14:29 (UTC)

Спасибо.--Станислав Савченко (talk) 14:39, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

RU.TV

Здравствуйте! Можете дополнить статью про российский канал?--Станислав Савченко (talk) 15:05, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Переводом с ру-вики.--Станислав Савченко (talk) 15:07, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

У меня, к сожалению, сейчас нет времени этим заняться, sorry. Попробуйте спросить на WT:RUSSIA; может там найдутся волонтёры.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 4, 2015; 15:13 (UTC)

Voronezh

Hi! Yup, complete baloney. Max Müller (царство ему небесное) died in 1900 and his ideas on the topic are completely irrelevant today. Good luck getting it evicted, though -- it's referenced!!! Although I guess you could just point out that the further etymology of ворон is irrelevant, since all that's relevant to the city name is the personal name Voroneg. Good luck! Languagehat (talk) 15:51, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Well, I was kind of hoping that you might point this out (on the article's talk page). Your judgement on this matter carries a lot more weight than mine, and I could then invoke my administrative superpowers to keep this nonsense out of the article forever. At any rate, I appreciate the quick reply; thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 5, 2015; 15:55 (UTC)

Yeah, I realized after writing that that I should post something on the talk page, so I just did. Languagehat (talk) 15:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks again; much obliged!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 5, 2015; 16:07 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #183

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Lakokat
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
  • Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
  • Semantic Cities
  • Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
  • Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
  • Past: semwebpro (slides)
  • Past: ODI Summit
  • Past: MozFest (etherpad)
  • Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul

Highlights of 3 years of Wikidata by Madgalena Wiegner

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
  • Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
  • Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
  • Ever noticed ranks?
• Development
  • Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
  • From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
  • Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
  • Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
  • Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
  • Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
  • Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184)
  • Worked more on making search work on mobile
  • Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
• 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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Wikidata weekly summary #184

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
  • Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
  • Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
  • Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
  • Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
  • Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
  • Newest WikiProjects: Education
  • Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
  • Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia
• Development
  • Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
  • Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (phabricator:T101694)
  • Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
  • Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
  • Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
  • Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
  • Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
• 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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Wikidata weekly summary #185

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris
  • Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales
  • More mixin’, more matches
  • Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
  • Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
  • Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
  • Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
  • Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
  • MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
  • What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
  • You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
  • Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
  • Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
• Development
  • Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
  • Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
  • Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
  • Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
  • Decreased size of html of item pages
  • Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
  • More work on making the search on mobile work
  • Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
  • Fixing size of table of content on mobile
  • Prevented merging of items which link to each other
• 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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Please comment on Talk:St. Petersburg, Florida

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:St. Petersburg, Florida. Legobot (talk) 00:05, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Податные сословия

This article gives the stress as Пода́тные, but all my references say that the stress should be penultimate (on the ы). I'm not about to change a Russian stress on Russian Wikipedia, so I thought I'd dump it in your lap to check and (if you agree) change! Languagehat (talk) 14:45, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

You are absolutely right. It's a plural of "податно́й" (from "подать"—a tax, a levy), not of "пода́тный"—an obscure dialectal word meaning either deft/adroit or condescending/compliant!). I'll make the change, but if you have sources, you shouldn't be feeling uncomfortable making that change yourself. Also, I've double-checked this term against Pushkarev's Dictionary of Russian Historical Terms from the Eleventh Century to 1917, and it confirms that it's "ы" that should be stressed, as does Alexandrov's 1885 Russian-English dictionary (available in Google Books). Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 25, 2015; 15:15 (UTC)

Many thanks! Languagehat (talk) 19:48, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Koavf
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
  • Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
  • Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
  • Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
  • Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
  • WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
  • Workshop i Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
  • New daily report on Mix'n'match
  • Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
  • French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
  • New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
  • A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
  • Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
  • Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
  • example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
• Development
  • Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
  • Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
  • Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
  • Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
  • Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
• 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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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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Republic of Crimea again

Hi. Please, judge us again. 1. On 30 Oct I offered to add info about Serbian PMs as a loud visit (like the Berluskoni visit, French PM's visit, etc.) There were no objections and I posted it a week later. After that I got "thank you' from some user. Now, more then a month later, Marek deletes this very logical consecutive information without discussion, withou using Talk and without explaining why he thinks it is inappropriate information in the article. 2. In the first paragraph there is described the information about the way of formation of the Republic of Crimea. The Republic of Crimea is a Russian subject (don't mix with Crimea itself) and its formation should be described in the way of Russian Law. Of cause it should be said that actually internationally Crimea as whole was annexed by Russis and it is mentioned in the next sentence. This information has been existing for a long time because it satisfies everybody. Again except Marek who only now begins to change everything appropriate and inappropriate to "annexed". Could you help? 'Cos I am an ordinary user and can't save the established version of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LeoKiev01 (talk • contribs) 08:09, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Leo. The first step of any dispute resolution is contacting the user you are in disagreement with. Have you tried asking Marek what the reasons for his edits are?

Also, I don't generally mind sorting out this kind of situations, but I'm going to be busy IRL for the next couple of months and do not feel it would be fair to either of you if I can't give enough attention to either side. You might want to take this to the dispute resolution noticeboard this time (but do make sure to talk with Marek first, because it is the DRN requirement that users first attempt to resolve their differences on their own).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 7, 2015; 14:29 (UTC)

Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov

Добрый день, коллега. Посодействуйте в вопросе. В статье о Джебраилове Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov есть о расследовании в русской и английской Википедиях. Там исследовалось много вопросов, которые потом получили освещение в российских СМИ. В частности известное издание Медуза отмечает, что, согласно расследованию в Википедии у Джебраилова в музее представлены награды, которые давались после его смерти: "Награды тоже выглядели сомнительно: один из участников обсуждения лично посетил дом-музей Ахмедия в Шеки и сфотографировал медали. Среди наград оказались медали за участие в Первой мировой войне (хотя Джебраилов не мог в ней участвовать — он еще не родился) и советские медали к 60 и 65-летию Победы, которые вручили уже после смерти Джебраилова". То есть в данном случае эта информация показалась сомнительной не только нам, но и Медузе. Достаточно ли этого, чтобы внести ее в статью? Коллега Интерфейс настаивает, что недостаточно. Не могли бы вы, как знающий язык исходников, выступить посредником? Divot (talk) 19:11, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Здравстуйте, Divot! Meduza критериям авторитетных источников удовлетворяет, поэтому и подход к включению из неё информации совершенно такой же, как и с другими авторитетными источниками. Информация о медалях, на мой взгляд, попадает в серую область. Это не то, что абсолютно необходимо иметь в статье, но и не то, что абсолютно необходимо из неё убрать. Такого рода вопроса решаются путём дискуссий и выявления консенсуса на странице обсуждений, а не административно. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 7, 2015; 19:35 (UTC)

Там проблема в том, что вся история Джебраилова сфальсифицирована, включая награды, выставляемые в его доме-музее и на фотографиях. Так, на фото у него медаль за Первую мировую войну (Джебраилов ещё не родился!), в музее медали, выдаваемые после смерти (якобы получал сын, но это что-то новое в советской наградной системе, выдавать "юбилейные" медали аж через пять лет после смерти). Излишне говорить, что никаких наградных книжек в музее нет в помине, во всяком случае они не выставлены в музее, а коллега Interfase-у во время посещения музея прямо сказали, что таковых документов нет. То есть в контексте главы о фальсификации официальной биографии это важный момент, отдельно отмечаемый Медузой. С коллегой Interfase я знаком лет пять, никакого компромисса с ним никогда не удается достичь, исключительно через посредников. Поэтому и прошу вас выступить модератором. Просто посмотреть статью о Джебраилове и статью в Медузе, и вынести вердикт, как авторитетный нейтральный участник. Спасибо. Divot (talk) 19:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Вообще-то в советской наградной системе, выдавать юбилейные медали посмертно нормально[73]. Во-вторых, в музее мне сказали, что нет наградных листов французских медалей, а наградные листы советских медалей, по словам директора музея, в музее имеются. А в Медузе этот момент отдельно отметили просто потому, что этот момент отметили участники Википедии, только и всего. На мой взгляд, добавление информации об этих медалях (только лишь потому, что это кому-то из википедистов показалась сомнительным) призвано создать у читателя определённый взгляд о том, что ими его якобы не награждали. --Interfase (talk) 19:56, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

"в музее мне сказали, что нет наградных листов французских медалей, а наградные листы советских медалей, по словам директора музея, в музее имеются" - сейчас проверим. Вот ваша цитата: "На униформе много наград, как советских, так и французских. Но двух французских медалей, одна из которых "Военная медаль" нет. Их у Джебраилова, по словам сына, забрали в Москве, и так и не вернули. Эти медали можно увидеть только на фотографиях, которые также выставлены в музее (на этой обе (крайние), а на этой - Военную медаль (крайняя слева)). Фотографии остальных французских медалей сделал. См. здесь. Отчётливо видны Медаль за военное ранение (англ.)русск., Военный крест, Крест за добровольную военную службу (фр.)русск., Крест добровольца (англ.)русск., Медаль общества добровольцев и Медаль национального признания. Вместе с двумя утерянными медалями - всего 8. Есть ещё одна, девятая, полученная в 1994 году. Наградных листов среди многочисленных документов Джебраилова, не нашёл". Тут вы говорите о всех наградных листках - "как советских, так и французских". Divot (talk) 20:08, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Ну да, я не нашёл, будучи в музее. Но это же не значит, что их там нет вообще. Я потом позвонил его сыну и спросил на счёт наградных листов. И он мне сказал, что нет наградных листов французскких медалей, а советских - есть. Я же это писал. Вот цитата: Спросил у сына на счёт медалей. Наградные листы по советским медалям есть. Но они не выставлены и хранятся отдельно. Их я к сожалению не видел. Некоторые награды, по словам сына, получал уже он, сын Джебраилова, после смерти отца (это, к примеру медали 60-летия и 70-летия). Ну вот зачем вы вводите участника Ezhiki в заблуждение? --Interfase (talk) 20:14, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Это все слова, которые ничего не стоят. Как факт, вы все фотографировали в музее, но наградных листков там не нашли. О чем честно написали в обсуждении. А потом сын вам по телефону что-то рассказал. Ну так он и о фантастическом спасении Джебраиловым де Голля от немецкого диверсанта рассказывал. Это неадекватный человек. Divot (talk) 20:36, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Там вообще было очень много документов в десятках стопках. Я их не стал разбирать, с целью найти пару наградных листов. Да и сомнительными мне наличие этих наград не показались и времени так много не было. Я же не говорил, что сфотографировал абсолютно всё, что хранилось в доме-музее. Факт в том, что доказательств того, что этих наградных листов нет, попросту нет. Равно как и нет доказательств того, что посмертное вручение этих медалей - странное. А что кажется участникам Википедии, нас интересовать не должно. --Interfase (talk) 20:45, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Если это была бы единственная странность в биографии Джебраилова, вопросов не возникло бы. Но там вся история из таких сказок состоит. Ну да не суть, пусть коллега Ezhiki на правах посредника посмотрит, как скажет, так и будет. В статье и без этих медалей с "героем" все предельно ясно. Divot (talk) 21:07, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Коллеги, ваша проблема решается предельно просто. В английской Википедии, как и в русской, оригинальные исследования не приветствуются. Я понимаю, что информация в Медузе опубликована по следам исследований Interfase'а, но это не означает, что неопубликованной информации, которой владеет этот участник, есть место в Википедии (пусть даже она более полная и точная). Мы можем работать только со вторичными источниками, что в данном случае сводится к небольшому абзацу в Медузе. Включать из него информацию в статью или не включать — это ваше решение, но решение это можеть быть сделано только на основе авторитетности данного источника и уместности данной информации в контексте статьи. Что вы видели, слышали, проверяли лично совершенно не имеет значения, также как и выводы, сделанные вами на основе этой информации, какими бы логичными они ни были. Википедия же это всё-таки энциклопедия, а не дайджест современных исторических исследований...—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 8, 2015; 16:03 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #187

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
    • notes
    • example queries
    • a few images
  • Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam, 8 December 2015
  • Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
  • Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016
  • Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
  • Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
  • Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
  • Open Science Prize is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
  • The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
  • Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
  • We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content
  • I dreamed of a perfect database - Wikidata? ;-)
  • Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
  • Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
  • Map of narrative locations in Denmark
  • Experimental REST API for Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
  • Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
  • Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
• Development
  • Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
  • Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
  • Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
  • Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
  • Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
  • Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
  • Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co
  • Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
  • Worked on PHP7 support
• 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) 15:48, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Boxing

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Boxing. Legobot (talk) 00:07, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Republic of Crimea

Since you fully protected the Republic of Crimea article, including bunch of nonsense in it (I'm not complaining, I know, I know, WP:WRONGVERSION) can you add a POV tag to it since the matter is obviously contentious? Thanks.User:Volunteer Marek 17:57, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Since I protected the article, it is, unfortunately, not my place to do so, since it involves passing judgement as to the article's content (I only stepped in to stop the flurry of reverts and hopefully provide an incentive for both sides to talk this out). You can, however, use {{edit fully-protected}} template to make such a request for another admin to consider. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 11, 2015; 18:08 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #188

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
  • The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
  • Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
  • Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
  • Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
  • Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
  • query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
  • WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
  • Query example: Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?, places by elevation span, people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)
  • Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Wikipedia of the same language
• Development
  • Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
  • Further work on a separate section for identifiers
  • Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
  • Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
  • Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
  • Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
  • Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
  • Getting ready for the holidays :)
• 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) 14:30, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #189

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
  • You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
  • Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
  • Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
  • Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
  • WikiBrowser - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
  • WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
  • Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
  • Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
  • Query example: works created by females who died in 1945
• Development
  • <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
  • We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (phabricator:T103102)
  • Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (phabricator:T110648)
  • Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (phabricator:T95682, phabricator:T121274)
  • Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (phabricator:T95684)
  • Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (gerrit:259171)
  • More work on cleaning up the statement section (phabricator:T121390)
• 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) 21:59, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's greets!

Iryna Harpy (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas6}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Thanks, Iryna! I hope that a happy, content, and productive year awaits you as well!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 28, 2015; 14:25 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style

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Wikidata weekly summary #190

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: 32C3
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
  • Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
  • Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
  • Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
  • Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
  • Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
  • The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Paper: Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond
  • The Wikidata for Research proposal has now been published in a journal
  • New tool to turn string claims to monolingual claims
  • Johl built a card game about German politicians using Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: number of awards, Prosopographia Attica, Structurae person ID, stage classification, sports disciplines competed in, personal best, substrate of
• Development
  • Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
  • Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
• 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) 14:07, 28 December 2015 (UTC)