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OSM

Hi Andy! Hope you're well and that Covid isn't playing too much havoc. I'm looking to import a segment of map from OpenStreetMap to give an idea of location in an article (Chandler's Ford shooting). I've found the section I want ([1]) but I was hoping to get a version of the map without any of the business names etc. Is this possible and is it something you can help with? Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:28, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi Harry,
I'm well, and hope you are, too.
It's possible to create your own rendering of OSM data, and to include or exclude whatever you want, but that's overkill for one use.
I would try the options at Template:OSM Location map and see if you can come up with something that suits your needs.
LMK if you need more help. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:01, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
Hey Andy, thanks for the suggestion. Life here is busy, which sadly allows limited time for Wikipedia, but otherwise I'm fine. We'll have to catch up properly when things get back to normal and we're allowed to sit and enjoy a pint. That template looks like it would do what I wanted, but I'm struggling to get it to do it. I think it's partly because I've got the map zoomed in to the maximum because the area is quite small, but I can't figure out how to get coordinates for individual buildings. Somebody suggested taking a screen shot and doing some crude editing in Paint, which isn't great but might work except that I don't want the names of the businesses currently occupying the buildings, because they've all changed since the events the article covers and businesses in leased units tend to be ephemeral. This is as far as I got. The places I want to mark are the bus stop in the top left, the inverted-L-shaped building roughly in the middle, and the rectangular building at the top. I'd appreciate any help you can offer! Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:34, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
Hey Andy, I know you're busy, but if you could find a few minutes to look at this I'd really appreciate it. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:47, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
@HJ Mitchell: Sorry, I missed your earlier post; hang on, and I can pull those coordinates out of OSM for you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:53, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

@HJ Mitchell: I probably have a different size screen to you, so am likely seeing a different portion of the map, but if by "bus stop in the top left" you mean the one across Winchester Road, it's at 50.983242, -1.382827. The centre of the inverted L is 50.982508, -1.382693; and that of the rectangular building is 50.983231, -1.382478. If those aren't the ones you want, make something rough in Photoshop, highlighting them, and email it to me. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:33, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, January 2021

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Hi!

Hi! You might be happy to know that I translated Richard Henry Yapp to Portuguese using the Cite Q template. It was really handy too. Thanks for all your effort! User:Tetizeraz. Send me a ✉️ ! 19:56, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

@Tetizeraz: I am indeed very happy to hear that - as far as I know, it's the first time that an article with all of its citations in {{Cite Q}} has been translated from one language to another. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:06, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #451

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Continued working on the Query Builder. We continued to set up tracking for the number of queries that result in an error, timeout, etc. (phab:T269224). We als made it possible to query for Item values (phab:T268814). You can always try the current state on the test system.
    • Finished fixing an issue with whitespace being stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
    • Worked on no error being shown when trying to save Lemma with invalid language code (phab:T265783)
    • Working on using Special:MyLanguage feature for more links in the Wikidata Query Service interface to redirect people to documentation in their language (phab:T267656)
    • Continued interviewing people to better understand how to best compare Wikidata's data against other databases in order to find mismatches that need the editors' attention

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Tech News: 2021-03

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16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: January 2021

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Category:Fellows of the Academy of Experts has been nominated for deletion

Category:Fellows of the Academy of Experts has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 00:48, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Jonathan Haas

You created this article with a red linked error. Would you fix it? Thanks.
Vmavanti (talk) 01:10, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

In the time you took to type this message, you could have fixed it yourself. Moriori (talk) 01:52, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
But then we wouldn't have has this wonderful exchange where you renewed my faith in humanity.
Vmavanti (talk) 03:45, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Ignoratio elenchi, but you already knew that. Moriori (talk) 01:19, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 42

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Wikidata weekly summary #452

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on January 21st. See notes here (English).
    • Past: 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Beginner Teaching Workshop (in Chinese). Replay on YouTube 1, 2, 3, 4
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikibase, the Integrated Authority File (GND) pilot at the German National Library, and the WikiLibrary Manifesto, 26 January. Agenda
    • Upcoming: SPARQL queries and OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, Januray 26 at 18:00 CET
    • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook, 30 January
    • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #47, 31 January
    • Upcoming: The Open Festival of Persistent Identifiers starts from 27 January 2021. See schedule here.
  • Tool of the week
    • TAViewer is a web-based anatomy atlas viewer that cross-references Terminologia Anatomica terms with data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
    • Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (phab:T267656)
    • Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (phab:T268456)
    • Fixed a case where no error message was shown when trying to save a Lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
    • Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
    • Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
      • Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (phab:T267627)
      • Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (phab:T270133)
      • Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (phab:T271194)

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Tech News: 2021-04

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Problems

Changes later this week

  • Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [5]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

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18:29, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

February 2021 at Women in Red

Women in Red | February 2021, Volume 7, Issue 2, Numbers 184, 186, 188, 189, 190, 191


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Edward C. Ash

Yesterday I added a rather late reply to your query, but I see that it has already been archived. Just noting in case you missed it. Cheers Davidships (talk) 22:33, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

@Davidships: That's very helpful; thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:47, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
I should have added that there's some other useful material in the obits. Davidships (talk) 22:54, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
@Davidships: I don't have BNA access; would you be able to email them to me, please? I'll send you a short email so you have my address. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:05, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
Got it OK. I'll send them tomorrow Davidships (talk) 00:12, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
I hope that the cuttings arrived OK? Davidships (talk) 10:19, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
@Davidships: Yes they did. My apologies, they arrived while I was without my computer (a laptop; it was away being repaired); I read them on my phone, and decided to deal with them and reply when I was able to use a proper keyboard again - then they completely slipped my mind. They're very useful, and I will be using them soon. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:24, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

QAI

I tried to give 2021 a good start by updating the QAI project topics. Please check and correct, - did you know that you belong to project's few members from the beginning who are still active? For moar private "happy new year" see here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:15, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Happy Wikipedia 20, - proud of a little bit on the Main page today, and 5 years ago, and 10 years ago, look: create a new style - revive - complete! I sang in the revival mentioned. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:23, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

... and today Jerome Kohl, remembered in friendship --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:08, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2021

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Wikidata weekly summary #453

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Labelcleaner is a script by Andrew Gray used to clean up Wikidata labels/aliases/descriptions for a given language on a set of items.
  • Development
    • Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
    • Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
    • Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (phab:T265906)
    • Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page phab:T271402
    • Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (phab:T267644)
    • Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (phab:T267656)
    • Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (phab:T264883)
    • Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (phab:T265783)
    • Wikibase Release Strategy
      • Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (phab:T271193)
      • Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (phab:T272580)


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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Arbitration

  • The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2021-05

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

Changes later this week

  • You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [7]
  • Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [8][9]
  • Advanced item Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [10]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [11][12]
  • Advanced item Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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22:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Opera template deletions

Please see the relevant conversation at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera. Thanks for helping improve opera related articles. Best.4meter4 (talk) 19:29, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Kenya page

Okay, I have moved it to User:TeriWanderi/Planning Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya. Deb (talk) 16:05, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [14]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [15][16]
  • Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [17]
  • Advanced item Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [18]

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17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of 1Lib1Ref for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 1Lib1Ref is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1Lib1Ref (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

Vaticidalprophet (talk) 17:47, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

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