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Wikidata weekly summary #82

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Precious again

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countering bias
Thank you for quality support in fields such as countering systemic bias and authority control integration, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:41, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A year ago, you were the 300th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, repeated in br'erly style, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:12, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Two years ago, you were the 300th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:57, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #84

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Beginning of MassMessage, end of EdwardsBot

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Wikidata weekly summary #85

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AFD of List of Dewey Decimal classes

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I have put in a deletion request for List of Dewey Decimal classes as it appears to be a copyright violation. I'm notifying you as you have either made multiple edits to the article in the past year and/or on the talk page for that article and Talk:Dewey Decimal Classification. --Marc Kupper|talk 04:28, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it is a violation, but I will ask @Merrilee: who is more of an expert. Maximilianklein (talk) 16:08, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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You're invited: Art & Feminism Edit-a-thon

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Art & Feminism Edit-a-Thon - You are invited!
Hi Maximilianklein! The first Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014 in San Francisco.

Any editors interested in the intersection of feminism and art are welcome. Wikipedians of all experience levels are invited! Experienced editors will be on hand to help new editors.
Bring a friend and a laptop! Come one, come all! Learn more here!

Wikidata weekly summary #89

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Are VIAF errors still being processed?

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Hi, I wondered if errors reported on Wikipedia:VIAF/errors are still being dealt with? At least it seems that the rate of new reports coming in is higher than the rate of resolved issues. :-) Is there a way to help? Chirlu (talk) 15:01, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Chirlu:, all the errors are made aware to the VIAF.org team. Then eventually (with what speed is hard to say) the are incorporated into VIAF.org . The best thing to do is to make Wikidata correct, then use the authority control template without VIAF parameters given, so that it fetches the authority control data from Wikidata. Once Wikipedia becomes correct then it is the onus of VIAF.org to place their merges and they will follow the look to Wikidata. Maximilianklein (talk) 17:30, 23 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikidata weekly summary #95

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Wikidata weekly summary #96

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  • Discussions
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    • See the office hours logs at meta
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    • See the FOSDEM slides
    • Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
  • Development
    • More work on badges by Bene*
    • Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
    • Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
    • Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
    • Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
    • Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
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Wikidata weekly summary #97

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  • Discussions
  • Reasonator
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    • Wrote performance tests so we can track performance improvements better
    • Did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default in Wikidata. Found and fixed a performance bottleneck.
    • Work on making the interface more responsive, e. g. live preview when editing labels and updating the watchlist star when saving.
    • Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
    • Fixed an issue with OAuth on Wikidata because of permissions
    • Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
    • Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
    • Did a technical debt analysis and design review of Wikibase.git, with initial focus on WikibaseLib
    • Got (backend) EntityStore on the way, so we can test API modules without touching the database
    • Further work on TimeParsers move to the backend
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You're invited! WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley

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Saturday, April 5 - WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley - You are invited!
The University of California, Berkeley's Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting our first edit-a-thon, facilitated by WikiWoman Sarah Stierch, on April 5! This event, focused on engaging women to contribute to Wikipedia, will feature a brief Wikipedia policy and tips overview, followed by a fast-paced energetic edit-a-thon. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Please bring your laptop and be prepared to edit about women and women's history!

The event is April 5, from 1-5 PM, at the Berkeley Center for New Media Commons at Moffitt Library.

You must RSVP here - see you there! SarahStierch (talk) 23:35, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #101

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User:AnnBLea's identity

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Max, is AnnBLea's identity known, or is she one of the "keep my name secret" Wikipedians? If the latter, I'm not sure you would have wanted to post a photo of her on her User page, where her nametag might give away her identity. - 70.192.131.218 (talk) 13:41, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #102

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  • Discussions
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    • Continued making the UI faster
    • Fixed Wikidata changes not showing up in the watchlist on the client (Wikipedia, etc.) (bugzilla:62149)
    • Decided to turn off the inoperable wikidata.org language subdomains for now to reduce confusion
    • Created initial version of Wikibase Internal Serialization component
    • wbEntity and wbUsedEntities JavaScript variables are now cached in the parser cache
    • Ongoing refactoring to get rid of the previously used numeric ID numbers in favor of prefixed IDs
    • Made wbsearchentities aware of previously unquoted percent characters
    • Put some time into fixing longstanding oddities that made the developers cry from time to time
    • Worked on reducing internal usage of EntityContent, in preparation for redirect support
    • Worked on performance issues with JSON dump generation (hopefully we can start generating dumps soon)
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Wikidata weekly summary #103

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Look forward to see you at Berkeley today!

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Hi there. Thanks for signing up for the WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon at Berkeley that is happening today. I look forward to seeing you! We have changed the on-campus venue due to the response we've had, via Wikipedia and Facebook. Please take a look at the event page. If you get this message too late, we'll have a sign on the door of the former location directing you to the new one, which is only a short walk. See you then! SarahStierch (talk) 15:38, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki Utilities got a substantial update

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I thought you might be interested. There's actually API docs for it now so you don't have to go digging in the code. https://pythonhosted.org/mediawiki-utilities/ --EpochFail (talk • contribs) 02:35, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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New altmetric

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Hi Max, re the "sum of the page views of each page on which the DOI appears" altmetric at [1], where is that table kept updated? Could you please publish the top 100 monthly somewhere? Do you have scripts for it available somewhere? Thank you! EllenCT (talk) 03:51, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@EllenCT: I will put constantly re-running these stats on my todo-list! However, I have to prioritize finishing the signalling OA project, of which that study was a part. Do you know another person that's experienced in running monthly alt-metrics? Since all my code is open and linked in that blog, its possible for somenone else to make this recurring tool before I catch up on my backlog of intention. Maximilianklein (talk) 13:47, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I used to take periodic readership stats of my watchlist to try to spot trends and readership patterns, but I've never published a periodic altmetric. The WP:SIGNPOST does a column on readership statistics. What is signalling OA? What is the URL for the code?
@Dispenser: are you porting [2] to Tool Labs? EllenCT (talk) 23:59, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@EllenCT: just spoke to @Dispenser: about this. Dispenser, looks like you can run a script continuously with the 
jsub -continously
self restarting command, see documentation. or use http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help#Scheduling_jobs_at_regular_intervals_with_cron. Does this intrigue you? Maximilianklein (talk) 14:05, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, but the Markov alternatives to DSGE that you found for your talk intrigue me more; I wish I wasn't out of town that day. I hope to use [3] in my study of conflicts of interest. Thank you both! EllenCT (talk) 06:55, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
On second thought, [4] is looking so good I might finally get around to trying graphics some day. EllenCT (talk) 07:15, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@EllenCT: I'm pleased it was helpful. Particularly if it's for research that intriugues me. I'd love to know a bit more about your research. If you want some custom data pulled before I get around to building the monthly version, let me know.
Please, yes, please show the top 1000 and its date if a current one is more difficult than historical. I hypothesize a correlation with astroturf dollars spent. EllenCT (talk) 06:01, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

mwparserfromhell supports python 3

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Or so it claims. See the first PG in the readme @ https://github.com/earwig/mwparserfromhell.

I just got chance to sit down with this and I wanted to confirm that you were having trouble using it in python 3. --EpochFail (talk • contribs) 14:25, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@EpochFail: Indeed it does. I was jumping to conclusions it seems. But you mapper in xml_dumps still needs to re-raise errors faithfully :) Maximilianklein (talk) 03:26, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Pull request encouraged. :P You're right though. I'd like to fix that. --EpochFail (talk • contribs)

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Great American Wiknic 2014 - Bay Area

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I'd like to invite you to add a Bay Area event for the Great American Wiknic. This year we're aiming to coalesce nationally around July 6, but any date that is convenient to your local community works as well. And don't be shy about putting something preliminary on the national Wiknic page, it all helps!--Pharos (talk) 16:55, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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A research idea about WIkidata and gender

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Hi Max. Correct me if I am wrong, but this is your article? Brilliant. I was just directed to it today (unfortunately I missed earlier), but it meshes up really well with my recent idea which I described at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Extracting_biographical_data_from_Wikipedia. Perhaps you could offer me some advice (your code-fu is much greater then mine, as I lack skills to extract data from Wikipedia dumps, API, etc., and without a spreadsheet I cannot begin my work), or perhaps we could do some research together? Cheers, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:39, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Piotrus:, thank you for the kind words. I do not mind offering advice, but I would be more excited to collaborate on research. In fact as you mention the village pump, the next step is to consider this across the time variable. I would like to contribute some code-fu, and in return need a bit of direction in formulating the correct Research Question. Maximilianklein (talk) 18:47, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent. I have started a public project page at [5]. Perhaps we can collaborate on this together! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 19:44, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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ORCID

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In case you've not yet seen it: WP:ORCID. Are you coming to Wikimania this year? It would be good to have a chat. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:10, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Lovely explanation / tutorial page @Pigsonthewing:, gets me very excited about the possibilities. Indeed I will be at Wikimania for a chat, and hope to contribute as I can for Identifiers. Maximilianklein (talk) 08:38, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks; I look forward to seeing you in London - and to seeing your ORCID on your user page ;-) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:01, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Now that sa great idea @Pigsonthewing:, ORCID registered and on user page. Maximilianklein (talk) 15:28, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Anne Bishop at Wikidata (WD)

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Hi, MK.

Previously Anne Bishop http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460303 mixed two people, American fiction writer en:Anne Bishop and Canadian education or sociology writer Anne Charlotte Bishop, 1950– (LAC). The one description and all Wikipedia links belonged to the fiction writer, so I "fixed" this at WikiData as follows:

  1. create Anne Charlotte Bishop http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17437630
  2. add to ACB all statements from AB that belong to ACB (date of birth and four authority ID)
  3. delete from AB all those statements
  4. make some other changes at AB, mainly update the LCNAF identifier

My history User contributions for P64 - Wikidata shows no other recent activity. Is this simple method appropriate and sufficient? Nothing more to do at Wikidata? WD documentation is too long and complex for me so I simply ask you. Thanks in advance.

What about WD "references? I added and deleted no WD references manually, so there are none for ACB and those for AB are survivors from automated import.

The crucial source for me to split these two people is LAC: Anne Charlotte Bishop. I don't see how to add this as a reference for her at WD. (When I try to "add reference", and enter freeform data in the composition window, I have only the option to "cancel", never to "save" --so I have never added any reference.) Nor see how to add LCA=7C0070F7990 as a property. Does the project not recognize the Canada authority?

(French and German Wikipedias were the references given for bad identifiers, the ones that I "moved" from AB to ACB. I did fix fr:Anne Bishop and de:Anne Bishop footers. VIAF "errors" seem to reflect mistakes by US and German national libraries. I filed error reports to both and did nothing at WP:VIAF/errors. I'll tell you what happens, and perhaps how soon it happens.)

--P64 (talk) 00:28, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Guten morgen (hier). Automatic email acknowledgment from Germany, received 21 hours ago. Human thanks with notices that data have been corrected, received 3 hours ago from GND, 2 hours ago from Washington (8:20!). GND says VIAF update is automatic "several times a year - hopefully the next one is soon." --P64 (talk) 14:40, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That's a great success story, thanks for all your hard effort @P64:. Maximilianklein (talk) 09:37, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Development
    • Created CLI script to import entities into the QueryEngine store (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jpg)
    • More work on redirects (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
    • More work on the monolingual datatype
    • Started work on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface (that’s the first coding steps of getting us a new user interface design)
    • Final touches on badges (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
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RFC at Wikipedia for page protection

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Last call for opinions on RFC at Wikipedia page for page protection extension. User:Pundit is in support of increasing gender equality at Wikipedia and another user is opposed to User:Pundit's efforts. Cheers. LawrencePrincipe (talk) 17:31, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikidata weekly summary #114

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  • Discussions
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  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email.
    • Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
    • Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
    • We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates.
    • Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design
    • Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database
  • 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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You're invited! Litquake Edit-a-thon in San Francisco

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You are invited! → Litquake Edit-a-thon → See you there!
  In the area? You're invited to
   San Francisco Meetup # 22
  Date: October 11, 2014
  Time: 1-5 pm
  Place: 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
  prev: Meetup 21 - next: Meetup 23 | All SF meetups & events

The Edit-a-thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meetup and create/translate/expand/improve articles about literature and writers. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. This event will include new editor training. RSVP →here←. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:22, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]


You are invited! → Litquake Edit-a-thon → See you there!
  In the area? You're invited to
   San Francisco Meetup # 22
  Date: October 11, 2014
  Time: 1-5 pm
  Place: 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
  prev: Meetup 21 - next: Meetup 23 | All SF meetups & events

The Edit-a-thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meetup and create/translate/expand/improve articles about literature and writers. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. This event will include new editor training. RSVP →here←. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:22, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Discussions
    • [[:d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/User conduct policies|Closed RfC: User conduct policies]
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikidata Toolkit 0.3.0 released - Wikidata Toolkit
    • ProteinBoxBot is making Wikidata the canonical resource for referencing and translating identifiers for genes and proteins from different species
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Investigated and fixed issues with time values
    • Investigated issues with coordinate value precision
    • Fixed a number of issues related to HHVM
    • Further work on usage tracking
    • Created smoke tests for items and properties
    • Created a widget to edit badges directly on the item without going through the special page
    • Prepared for a week of work with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers next week to get more planning done for structured data support for Commons
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  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
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  • Development
    • Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
    • Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
    • When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
    • Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
    • Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
    • Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
    • Work on entity usage tracking
    • Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
    • Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
    • Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
    • Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
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Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Lydia, Magnus and Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the ODI award gala

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  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page.
    • GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Help make sure these items have labels in your language
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
    • Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
    • Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage)
    • Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
    • Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance.
    • Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
    • Improved calendar model display
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  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
    • Statements on properties are now live
    • Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
    • The Game has a new mode: alma mater
    • Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
    • Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
    • English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Started work on units
    • More work on evaluating options for querying
    • Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
    • Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
    • Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
    • Work on improved label lookup performance
    • Wrapping up work on usage tracking
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Speedy deletion declined: Joseph Matheny

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Hello Maximilianklein. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Joseph Matheny, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A11 does not apply to this; article is PRODed already, use AFD if appropriate. Thank you. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 20:44, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Discussions
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  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • 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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  • Events/Blogs/Press
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Spiffy new project building on top of Wikidata: inventaire.io. Check out this example entry!
    • You will now see when a language fallback for a label is used on an item or property. The language name will be shown next to it.
    • Automatic descriptions for Wikidata items by Magnus
    • The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc) to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to be getting close.
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • <3
    • We are hiring! Passionate about Wikidata and know your way around Java Script and co? Apply!
    • We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move queries forward in Berlin
    • Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering. This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia infoboxes.
    • Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only)
    • Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code with the parser functions
    • Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding the actual input and not very useful there
    • Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data
    • Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install Wikibase
    • Fixed icinga notification that tests if dispatch lag gets high
    • Investigated several issues regarding storage of time values and started fixing them
    • Fixed editing of qualifiers
    • Fixed most browser tests after introduction of new header design
  • 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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ArtAndFeminism (3/7) and International Women's Day (3/8)!

Dear fellow Wikipedian,

In celebration of WikiWomen's History Month, the SF Bay Area Wikipedia community has two events in early March -- please consider attending!

First, we have an ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon, which will take place at the Kadist Art Foundation from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday, March 7. We'll be one of many sites worldwide participating in this edit-a-thon on March 7th. So join us as we help improve Wikipedia's coverage of women artists and their works!

Second, we will be celebrating International Women's Day with the International Women's Day edit-a-thon on Sunday, March 8 from 1pm to 5pm at the Wikimedia Foundation. Our editing focus will be on women, of course!

I hope to see you there! Rosiestep (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:06, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Great work

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Great work here! Very interesting and useful read. Thank you. Hmlarson (talk) 21:29, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Maximilianklein. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Edit_filter/Requested.
Message added 13:36, 14 March 2015 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

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Hi. I'm wondering if you have some ideas on adding the {{Authority control}} template en masse to the appropriate articles within WikiProject Women writers; see the talkpage post here. Thanks! --Rosiestep (talk) 17:34, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello,

I am one of your members from IdeaLab. I do not want make you stressed out but I wanted to tell at least give us the scope we have to achieve in the Project so at least we could start, The designers would start in working making look good too.

Hopefully you understand.Thank You Komchi✉☆ 12:28, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Discussions
  • 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
  • Did you know?
  • 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!
    • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

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Wikimedia Hackathon 2015

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  • 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
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  • 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!
    • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

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  • 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?
  • 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!
    • 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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Hi Max

I've been reading about the Signalling OA tool, do you think it would be possible to do this with UNESCO open access publications? I'm especially interested in harvesting the graphs and other graphics in an automatic way. I have a colleague at UNESCO who understands the OA database very well who could assist technically from this end.

Cheers

John Cummings (talk) 09:06, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Daniel Mietchen and John Cummings: Does UNESCO tap into the NIH database by any chance? Also are the UNESCO papers using the JATS XML standard? Those are assumptions our tool makes at the moment. Maximilianklein (talk) 15:16, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Maximilianklein: I've asked, will let you know. John Cummings (talk) 15:29, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Maximilianklein: No to both questions unfortunately, do you need this for importing the content to Wikimedia Commons, or extracting the content from the publications, or both? I think realistically we can import the documents with GLAMwiki Toolset and then repair the links in metadata by hand. Its the extraction of content that would be most beneficial to make automated. John Cummings (talk) 16:08, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
For our workflows, the availability of an XML version is really key. Looks like their stuff is in PDF, so I'm pinging @Metacladistics and Petermr:. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:28, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I know how to hack up PDFs, so graphic extraction in bulk is no problem there, but I have no experience on the 'bulk upload to wikimedia' end of things... Perhaps you could point me to a test set of PDFs and we could work something out from that? Metacladistics (talk) 08:51, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Metacladistics:, amazing, I can sort out the copying to Commons using GLAMwiki Toolset. Here are two pdfs on Commons as a test, happy to add more if helpful. Can things like graph titles be OCRed or would they need to be done manually? I would be very happy to set up a project page to ask people to add correct file names and descriptions. I also have an spreadsheet of all the urls and metadata for the files on UNESDOC so I guess we could get the pdfs straight from there? John Cummings (talk) 10:44, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@John Cummings: Okay, I'm starting to scrape the PDFs here: https://github.com/rossmounce/unesco-open-access-images . The extracted images may be too big to post on github. It looks like there's only ~493 unique open access publications available as PDF, which is odd as it indicates 860. Perhaps some are epub only? Some just don't have full text available despite being marked as 'open access' e.g. http://www.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=232117&set=00562F5F13_1_346&gp=1&lin=1&ll=1 Also one or two are licensed under CC BY NC SA so we'll need to watch out for that e.g. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002293/229319f.pdf
@Metacladistics: an easy way to upload to commons is through the python package "pywikibot", you can see the code that I use to do that here https://github.com/wpoa/recitation-bot/blob/master/recitation-bot/journal_article.py#L199. Maximilianklein (talk) 03:54, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:22, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Maximilianklein/Archive. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

--Rosiestep (talk) 19:04, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Bay Area WikiSalon series kickoff, April 27

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Please join us in San Francisco!
A Wikipedia panel discussion about journalism
Panel discussion at a recent Wikipedia & Journalism event.

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area will gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. We have two brief presentations lined up for our kickoff event in downtown San Francisco:

  • The Nueva Upper School recently hosted the first ever high school Wikipedia edit-a-thon. We will hear what interests them about Wikipedia, what they have learned so far, and what they hope to achieve.
  • Photojournalist Kris Schreier Lyseggen, author of The Women of San Quentin: The Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons, will tell us about her work and how she researched the topic.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.

For further details, see here: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, April 2016

We hope to see you -- and until then, happy editing! - Pete, Ben & Wayne

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Hi Max, I've pinged you a couple of times, but in case you're not getting them, would you mind commenting here?

It's about an edit your bot made to Wikidata that changed the infobox of a featured article about a book about the Holocaust, Night. The bot fetched data from the Italian Wikipedia, rather than from the English (the book is in English) or the French (it was first published in France).

The issue is that the Italian Wikipedia calls it fiction (a novel), rather than memoir. This is an issue because Holocaust deniers call it fiction too, so we've avoided doing the same. It's not that only Holcaust deniers call it that (it is memoir, but parts appear to have been fictionalized, so "novel" is not a horrible genre for it), but there is sensitivity around it because of them, and the author doesn't like it to be called a novel.

I'm trying to find out why your bot would have fetched the data from the Italian Wikipedia. Any light you can shed on it would be appreciated. I want to raise the issue elsewhere (not this example necessarily, but the broader topic of remote editing via Wikidata, mainly because of the BLP issues), but I want to make sure I've understood what happened first. Best wishes, SarahSV (talk) 02:12, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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A Wikipedia panel discussion about journalism

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, May 2016

See you soon! Pete F, Ben Creasy, and Checkingfax via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:15, 9 May 2016 (UTC) | Subscribe/Unsubscribe to the SF Meetups notice.[reply]

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Wikidata weekly summary #211

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

Wikidata weekly summary #212

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

Wikidata weekly summary #213

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

Wikidata Human Gender Indicators

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Hi Max. I have just been looking at your impressive 13 June update to WHGI which contains very interesting information for those of us involved in Women in Red. As far as I know, this is the first update for quite some time. I was first of all wondering whether it would be possible to be notified of future updates and how frequently these are likely to occur. Perhaps you could also include the date of the last update on the first page. Secondly, it seems to be becoming increasingly important to ensure that basic information on biographies is fed into Wikidata as a basis for your analyses. I think I am right in saying that unless a biography is coded as "female" it will not be picked up as relating to a woman. Unfortunately there seems to be a considerable backlog of articles which have not yet been entered or which have been entered without the "female" addition - frequently because a person is not clearly identified as male or female in the biography. I suppose you are aware of the gadgets communicated by Edgars2007 which greatly facilitate the encoding of data on Wikidata without leaving Wikipedia. (See for example the WiR talk page.) I think it would be useful to draw wider attention to these as they certainly make it far easier to update Wikidata. Please keep me informed of any further progress on features documenting or facilitating work on overcoming the gender gap. And thanks for everything you have been contributing to the topic.--Ipigott (talk) 11:35, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ipigott:. Thanks for your message. First of all the idea is that WHGI should update weekly. Unfortunately I didn't realize that it had stopped due to an error with the Wikidata Toolkit software, but now it is fixed. I expect it should update as promised every week, but just in case, its probably worth advertising the date of last update as you suggest. I'll put it on the bug list. You are also right in saying that "unless a biography is coded as "female" it will not be picked up as relating to a woman." I was not aware of Edgars2007's gadget. Is there a way you suggest I could advertise it. I could put some instructions about it on [10]. Do you think that is appropriate? How would you envision WHGI linking to women-focused editing communities? Maximilianklein (talk) 21:44, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for getting back to me on this. If WHGI really does continue to be updated weekly, it looks to me as if it could serve as the basis for monitoring progress on Women in Red. And if our most active editors consistently try to ensure new women's biographies are included in Wikidata, the number of new articles per month could be used as a basis for our "metrics" which have been very difficult to compile correctly. I'm sure Rosiestep and Harej would welcome progress in this direction too. As for the gadget, as far as I can gather it originated on the Russian wiki although it works very well in English too. There are one or two minor problems but I'm sure they can be ironed out. As you were unaware of it, I wonder if other Wikidata fans such as Missvain and Pigsonthewing know about it. It looks to me as if we could achieve quite a lot together if it is agreed that Wikidata can provide the level of support we need. Maybe Project X could consider using the gadget to introduce interfaces facilitating Wikidata backup for new articles? I look forward to further responses on this. Finally Max, please also keep us informed of any papers you write or publish on the gender gap as your work is closely connected to our goals.--Ipigott (talk) 07:13, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, June 29

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Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
A Wikipedia panel discussion about journalism

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We make sure to allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks. We will also have:

  • A brief report on Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San Francisco Publice Library, coordinated by Merrilee:
    What topics might we cover in a follow up?
    Find out more about resources your public library provides to help with editing (hint, it's more than just books!)
    Special announcement (secret for now but come and find out more!)
  • Join in on an in person Wikidojo!
    Are you curious how your peers approach writing a Wikipedia article? This exercise, pioneered by Wikipedians Nikola Kalchev and Vassia Atanassova in 2015 and conducted in many places around the world, will help us all - from first-time wiki users to veteran Wikipedians - share ideas, while building an article together. If you have ideas (relating to Bay Area history, ideally) about a new article we could build (stubs and short existing articles are fine), please submit them ahead of time to coordinator Pete Forsyth. (User talk page or email is fine.)
    Announcements and impromptu topics are welcome, too!

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2016

See you soon! Pete F, Ben, Stephen and Checkingfax | (Subscribe or Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

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