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Can you help me!?!?

I was looking at the 1958 and 1959 deaths, and I was wandering is this famous people or a little bit of everyone? I was trying to find my grandpa, his name was Bud Daniel Watts. I just can't seem to find out anything on him anywhere! Can u help me with this? Thank you very much!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.62.228.228 (talk) 22:02, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Take a look at Wikipedia:Notability_(people) ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 12:27, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

WP:BN thread

In case you hadn't noticed, please take a look at this rights management thread at BN, where you may be able to lend some clarity. –xeno^talk 14:18, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Cheers! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 09:32, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

(Bot: Adding {{Multiple issues}} {{Orphan}} (Report Errors))

See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antri&diff=538220582&oldid=534958949 where the bot added an orphan tag where one already existed. It shouldn't be adding duplicate tags. If there is one existing, it shouldn't be adding one at all. 3gg5amp1e (talk) 16:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Not an isolated incident either: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galvanina&diff=538330184&oldid=537097202

Don't know if this is fixed now, but I've found many others (and actually requested the AWB be able to automatically fix them as part of cleanup https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99338 ) 3gg5amp1e (talk) 17:49, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this to my attention! This isn't something I remember fixing or ever being mentioned before so I can only presume that it has not been spotted until now (had a quick search in my talk page archive and couldn't find anything.

As it was so long ago I can't remember exactly what script was used to make the changes. I don't remember ever adding general fixes such as white space fixes to my custom PHP scripts so the diffs almost make me feel like this was AWB O_o (I could be wrong however).

If we want a list of articles where this might have happened I could probably generate one with a DB query, If you feel I should fix the errors I would also be more than willing to do so!

Added myself to the phab task so I can follow it ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 19:22, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

I don't think it is a big problem, I've been fixing them as I go through the backlog. Just something that you should be aware of for future runs. It seems to happen when there is an orphan tag that has more than just a date parameter (such as an att= or a few=). Don't know if that helps or not, but I've started tagging them with a note in the ES we can search for later using the ES search tool. 3gg5amp1e (talk) 19:27, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/summary.py?name=3gg5amp1e&search=addbot&max=500&server=enwiki&ns= 3gg5amp1e (talk) 19:29, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Yeh, no need to worry about this happening again, as the script, well, I don't even know where it would be. I'll try and dump a list of page titles for you! Thanks for your work! Don't believe this hasn't been spotted until now, over 2 years later. ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 19:35, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

So there are under 1000 pages that the bot added the orphan tag to in that month. Running a query here to give you a list. Might take about 10-20 mins. ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 19:57, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Apparently I cant run that on quarry, so here is the output ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 23:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

• I'm sorry, I don't want to be a pain, but both of those links give me a page that says "504 Gateway Time-out". Can't I just build a list of all pages using the template with AWB and filter them through a find and replace that looks for them to be used twice? Or could I have it check for doubles for that chunk of AddBot's contributions? 3gg5amp1e (talk) 12:32, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

  You're going to get that until labs is back up. Be patient.—^cyberpower_Chat:Online 14:09, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Creation of an English version of a Wikipedia page

Hello,

I am trying to create an English version of "TEN Music Group" wikipedia page. I saw that the page was previously created but got deleted (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEN_Music_Group) I was wondering if you could help me in the creation process. You can see my draft here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Edourad/Ten_music_group

Swedish version: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEN_Music_Group French version: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEN_Music_Group

Please let me know if you any feedback/tips.

Best, Edourad

--Edourad (talk) 10:25, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Sierre coach crash

If there are bilateral interest between Wiki - User's and the Grand Architektor. As this would have been possible that such a relativ small damage to bus 28 passenger's was killed when  ? DeHoopDeAntoin4 (talk) 10:44, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Workshopping bureaucrat activity requirements

(Message to all bureaucrats)

There is an ongoing discussion about implementing some kind of standards for administrative and bureaucrat activity levels; and activity requirements for bureaucrats have been explored several times in the past. I've prepared a draft addition to Wikipedia:Bureaucrats that would require at least one bureaucratic action every five years to retain the bureaucrat permission.

In the past, I've been hesitant of such proposals but I believe that if the bureaucrat group as a whole is seen to be actively engaged, the community may be more willing to grant additional tasks to the position.

Please let me know your thoughts. I'm not sure if this actually applies to any of us, but if you have not acted as a bureaucrat in over five years, you might consider requesting removal of the permission or otherwise signalling that you intend to return to bureaucrat activity. –xeno^talk 14:22, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

FYI: bureaucrat discussion opened

Message to most bureaucrats

A bureaucrat chat has been opened by Maxim at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Rich Farmbrough 2/Bureaucrat discussion.

Wikipedia:Bureaucrat discussion suggests notifying bureaucrats on their talk page as well as BN, hence this courtesy note. –xeno^talk 23:39, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

CarsracBot

CarsracBot is an interwiki bot inactive 2 years now. Can you please remove its flag? -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:33, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

 Done ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 09:05, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Orphans from Feb. 2009

I've been going through these, finding that many are no longer orphans. Can an automated process be run to de-tag articles that aren't really orphans? There are over 20k articles tagged as orphan that month, it would greatly assist in focusing resources if the tagging was accurate. Apologies if you've already been through this. Cheers, Vrac (talk) 21:01, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi! I used to run a bot! Unfortunately I no longer do (although others have taken its place but may not be as effective). I'll look to see if I can throw something together for a one time run but I guarantee nothing at this stage :/ ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 09:06, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Bureaucrat discussion notification

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Cyberpower678/Bureaucrat discussion

I would welcome input from other bureaucrats in relation to the outcome of this RfA.
Many thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) for WJBscribe (talk) 11:10, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Active Watchers tool no longer works

Hello, when I was about to use the Active Watchers tool (This is a script by Equazcion), it instead lead me to a Toolserver page saying "No redirect found". As i suspect it is from the Toolserver shutdown and it has been going on like this for months, is it possible to bring the tool back up and running? Racer-Ωmegα 00:22, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi. I had a quick look to see if I could find a copy of it that had been moved to tool labs, but unfortunately I see nothing! :/ ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 11:38, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Community & Bureaucrat based desysoping proposal

A discussion is taking place regarding a proposal to create a community and bureaucrat based desysoping committee. The proposal would modify the position of bureaucrat. Your input is encouraged. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators/RfC for BARC - a community desysoping process. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 19:55, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Add category "Georgian" to the list of tenors by nationality

Hi, I am wondering Cold you add category "Georgian" to the list of tenors by nationality and add the singer Gela Guralia? He is pop singer. His YouTube channel https://m.youtube.com/user/Gelaguraliaofficial

Regards, Nataliya — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rwomabroad (talk • contribs) 14:58, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

AfDBot, AfDStatBot

Please unflag User:AfDBot, User:AfDStatBot per User_talk:Staeiou#Bots. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:52, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

 Done ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 11:11, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Bureaucrat discussion notification (Liz)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Liz/Bureaucrat discussion

I would welcome input from other bureaucrats in relation to the outcome of this RfA.
Many thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) for WJBscribe (talk) 12:02, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Dates in Infobox

Hello, why are the dates p.e. Klam etc. from 2014, although I've corrected population and date in 01.01.2015? Best regards -- Sweepy (talk) 19:11, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

arz interwikis

Hello Addshore, I've put interwikis to arz templates and categories (example), could you please run your bot to migrate interwikis of arz Wikipedia to Wikidata? or what should I do exactly?--M777 ^✉ 17:15, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi there! My bot is no longer running, but I am sure another bot will spot them soon enough and move them to Wikidata! :) ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 17:26, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Implementation of Wikipedia:Bureaucrats#Bureaucrat activity requirements

Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years.

“ Bureaucrats are expected to exercise the duties granted by their role while remaining cognizant of relevant community standards concerning their tasks. In addition to the "Inactive bureaucrat accounts" requirements, if a bureaucrat does not participate in bureaucrat activity for over three years, their bureaucrat permissions may be removed. The user must be notified on their talk page and by email one month before the removal, and again and a few days prior to the removal. If the user does not return to bureaucrat activity, another bureaucrat may request the removal of permissions at meta:Steward requests/Permissions. Permissions removed for not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements may be re-obtained through a new request for bureaucratship. ”

To assist with the implementation of this requirement, please see Wikipedia:Bureaucrat activity. Modeled after Wikipedia:Inactive administrators and similar to that process, the log page will be created on 1 September 2015. Bureaucrats who have not met the activity requirements as of that date will be notified by email (where possible) and on their talk page to advise of the pending removal.

If the notified user does not return to bureaucrat activity and the permissions are removed, they will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFB. Removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon the affected user in any way.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. –xeno^talk

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Nomination of Elliptio congaraea for deletion

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Unsure why I got a message deleting me...

Good Day, I just had this message pop up: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:68.3.142.177&redirect=no

It says that I was engaging in vandalism regarding something called Bangkok Dangerous? I'm sorry but I have no idea what that is. I did apply to become a user a long time ago but haven't used it in a while. I hope I wasn't hijacked! Please do let me know what I can do to resolve this. Thanks, Debra Krol [my real actual name] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.3.142.177 (talk) 00:49, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

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I see! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 07:59, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Orain hacked?

What is happening to Orain? I can't connect to the website. Did you have an hacker attack? --95.249.27.93 (talk) 15:47, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Palm1055Logo.jpg

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Wikipedia:BADGER listed at Redirects for discussion

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Hi

hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.57.91.121 (talk) 02:08, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 10:46, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Qaraghaj, Tabriz

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Neovespicula

Is this right?[1] It doesn't look right. Tunop (talk) 01:52, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi! Yes, that is right! :) ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 14:35, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello from an user that just wanted to say thanks!

Helo Addshore, it's been roughly two, maybe three years and I just happened to come by your talk page to say thank you for what you did for me in the past, especially in the case of Fut.Perf.. After that debacle, I took your advice later down the line and have vastly improved since then. I will also say that out of all of the Administrators and Bureaucrats that I have come across, you are the one that has been the nicest and for that, you have my utmost respect!

Sadly, with college happening and things just not being the same around here, I am leaving for better things. I will make a few more contributions here and there and make sure to secure previous contributions that I have made in the past so another hazard so to speak will not ignite, but beyond that, I am pretty much going the route a few other users have gone such as my talk page and leave Wikipedia. It was a fun ride, but I have other stuff to do! I will still be around for perhaps a few more weeks, but that's it. You can come over to my talk page anytime before I leave as anyone is allowed to, but I just wanted to thank you for giving me the helpful tips you have to me 2 years ago. It really helped on Wikipedia!:)

Cheers! Kirby (talk) 14:42, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

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Help decide the future of Wikimania

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WikiData

Is your presentation on WikiData posted anywhere online? A link would be useful because the slides went by very fast. Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:33, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

They sure are! https://twitter.com/addshore/status/688416917141516288 ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 00:05, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

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New admin and bureaucrat

I'm going to be a bureaucrat, administrator, rollbacker, reviewer, autopatrolled, file mover, template editor and ip block exempt by Addshore CanselLal4156 (talk) 10:06, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Good for you! :D ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 14:45, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Category rename

Please see my proposal to speedily rename Category:Algerian handball competitions to Category:Handball competitions in Algeria Hugo999 (talk) 00:27, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Towards a New Wikimania results

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Help name me please!

Silliest question, but I'm really very new here and can't think of a username, can you help? I have an obvious one in mind, but it's too similar to ones I use outside of wikipedia. I'm already lacking the creative juices. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.170.51.11 (talk) 12:52, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

mistakenly moved a talk page

Hi, I found you on Wikipedia_administrators_willing_to_provide_copies_of_deleted_articles. I mistakenly moved a talk page for an article I was developing in my userspace, instead of the article itself. Now I can't find the article. Can you recover it? This it the talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jtamad/2013-2014_Zika_fever_outbreak_in_Oceania Thanks in advance for your help. juanTamad (talk) 02:37, 9 February 2016 (UTC) Nevermind, looks like its ok. juanTamad (talk) 05:36, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Paoc3030 wants a bureaucrat and admin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights/Paoc3030 and be a bureaucrat and admin 112.134.80.13 (talk) 09:03, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

on may 15 2016 addshore do user rights 112.134.80.69 (talk) 15:34, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

rollback

Rollback request EducatedBlackman (talk) 22:41, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Review "Bunto" article

Hello Addshore,

can you review my article "Bunto", please? I want to move it to the main namespace soon.

Thanks a lot.

Suriyaa Kudo (talk) 16:57, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Addbot Bug: Orphan Tag Added Before Hatnote

Hi. I've just fixed an Addbot edit that added an orphan tag in the wrong place, whose commit message said to report bugs here.

The problem was that the page already had a hatnote, and the orphan tag got added right at the top of the page, before the hatnote. [[WP::HNP]] states that the hatnote should be the very first thing before everything else, and indeed the hatnote not being first breaks Wikiwand (which is where I first spotted the problem with this page: the hatnote appeared as the first paragraph of the content rather than via the disambiguation icon at the end of the page title). So on a page with a hatnote, the orphan tag should be added somewhere after the hatnote.

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smylers (talk • contribs) 09:02, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Hey! Thanks for the report! The bot is no longer running so this will not be an issue in the future! :) ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 10:37, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

HSF RFC

Request for comment on Hard science fiction edit history --Tim (talk) 01:57, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

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Deletion of a revision under CRD 2

Can you please delete [2] ? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 15:46, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

 Done ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 09:30, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

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Hello, can you please reinstate as a draft the removed edit for this page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.101.133.76 (talk) 18:24, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Deletion of revisions under RD2

Thanks for quickly deleting the revision last time I asked. Could you please delete these revisions. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:213.205.198.251&oldid=742439498 and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:213.205.198.251&oldid=742439563 and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Emir_of_Wikipedia&oldid=742440846 and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Emir_of_Wikipedia&oldid=742443359 and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Emir_of_Wikipedia&oldid=742446285 and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:213.205.198.129&oldid=742449546 and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Emir_of_Wikipedia&oldid=742561947Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 18:42, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

 Done them all, under RD3 ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 16:37, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for helping with that, but I'm sorry I said their were RD2 and not RD3. Can you please explain the difference to me? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 21:33, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Simply these seemed more like RD3 to me "Purely disruptive material" ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 10:01, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Revision deletion (revdel)

url = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efstratios_N._Pistikopoulos start = 09:34, 13 October 2016 end = 09:35, 13 October 2016 reason = Possible defamatory information.

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Addshore.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Notification that access to AutoWikiBrowser may be temporarily revoked due to inactivity

Hello Addless! This message is to inform you that due to editing inactivity, your access to AutoWikiBrowser may be temporarily revoked. If you do not resume editing within the next week your username will be removed from the CheckPage. This is purely for routine maintenance and is not indicative of wrongdoing on your part. You may regain access at any time by simply requesting it at WP:PERM/AWB. Thank you! MusikBot II (talk) 19:37, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

RevDel Request

Request deletion under R2 for [3]. Gluons12 ^☢|☕ 02:52, 17 October 2016 (UTC).

Withdrawn as already done. Gluons12 ^☢|☕ 16:00, 18 October 2016 (UTC).

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Addshore. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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Hollywood walk of fame stars page

On the Hollywood walk of fame stars page, I was wondering if there could be a couple of paragraphs about how the stars are actually constructed and materials used. Thank you very much. J. Bailey — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.189.223.150 (talk) 07:48, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

There can be, if someone writes them! :D Your best bet is asking at Talk:Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 10:37, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Bureaucrat chat

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Godsy/Bureaucrat chat

I would be grateful for your input in the above discussion. Many thanks, WJBscribe via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:33, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Insults and abuse

I was insulted and abused by User:Cagwinn, a blocked user who has also threatened to continue edit warring once he is unblocked. Despite him insulting me profusely and calling me insane (despite asking me for my sources), an admin called User:Doug Weller is trying to waive the insults and saying it's "my fault" for not leaving when Cagwinn said I was "harassing" him (despite asking me for my sources and immediately insulting me afterwards). Cagwinn seems to have known Doug Weller would be biased towards me, as he specifically pinged him to "have me dealt with". He expressed wishes of me being banned from Wikipedia for showing him sources that prove him wrong. I'm asking you as an impartial source to act as is required. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cagwinn UtherPendrogn (talk) 19:11, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

You're FANTASTIC!

You are. Meltingwood ^meow 02:16, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Urm... Thanks! :D ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 17:21, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

hello, I found your name at WP:REFUND

If you have a few minutes, I am working on an article-rescue, of the upmerge-to-new-broader-topic variety.

For context please see recent afd of the 2004 group run by Atbashian, and the proposed new in-progress Draft_talk:Oleg_Atbashian, for sources gathered thus far to achieve the rewrite-as-BLP.

I am seeking admin help to please restore this deleted content, for myself and any others that may wish to plumb the edit-histories in draftspace:

• Communists for Kerry --> Draft:Communists for Kerry
• Talk:Communists for Kerry --> Draft_talk:Communists for Kerry

Much appreciated. Ping deleting-admin in case they wish to comment further here, RoySmith in this case. 47.222.203.135 (talk) 23:27, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

wikiEdDiff

Good morning/evening/whatever-your-timezone-is. At User_talk:Cacycle/wikEdDiff#Problem: wikEdDiff not showing most of the times editors have been complaining that WikiEdDiff sporadically does not work. Around September you made this edit to the script, which I suspect is the reason for the malfunction. Specifically the line wikEd.DiffSetup(); which I believe should be wikEd.DiffStartup(); Since I don't know what was the reason for the edit, I'm very hesitent of changing this myself, and would appreciate your input. Rami R 09:59, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi! The change was made to fix the issue that is described at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143199. The call to wikEd.DiffSetup is correct. What the change does is listen to the wikipage.diff hook, which is fired when the diff on a wikipage is reloaded, and then re add wikEdDiff.

I just enabled wikEdDiff (as I don't usually have it turned on) and managed to load 10/10 diff pages where wikEdDiff loaded and worked correctly. I can only imagine people are experiencing some sort of odd interaction with WikEdDiff and some other gadget. Does anything pop up in the javascript console?

·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 08:23, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

17:21:10.169 TypeError: wikEd.head is null 1 index.php:254:2
	wikEd.DiffSetup https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php:254:2
	<anonymous> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php:1585:2
	jQuery.Callbacks/fire https://en.wikipedia.org/w/load.php:45:104
	jQuery.Callbacks/self.add https://en.wikipedia.org/w/load.php:45:656
	<anonymous> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php:1582:1

Perhaps moving the hook-listen after wikEd.DiffStartup(); at the script's end would solve the problem? Rami R 15:41, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

It could be! I have made the change, let me know if anything changes with the issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff.js&diff=761597994&oldid=741585034 ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 20:38, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Seems to have solved the problem. Thank you! Rami R 07:18, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

@Rami R: it looks like my fix here actually broke something else as reported at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Improved_diff_view. But an additional little tweak solved that one! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 07:45, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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BAG News

BAG News February 2017

Greetings Bot Approvals Group member! Welcome to our newest member, MusikAnimal. We currently have 25 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing! 2017 has been busy, with 37 closed BRFA's so far this year. If you have not already, you may want to consider adding Wikipedia:BAG/Status to your watchlist, it is a bot generated list of all in progress requests. There are multiple discussions ongoing at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy regarding updates to portions of the bot policy. Please be sure to follow for any policy changes upcoming. For general BAG discussion, please stop by Wikipedia talk:Bot Approvals Group. Thank you! 17:52, 5 February 2017 (UTC) (You can unsubscribe from future BAG Spam by removing your name from this list.)

Kobi Arad's article was deleted

Hi, I realized that an article, which some time ago was useful to make an article about Kobi Arad was deleted from the wiki, I do not know the reason but I think it is unfortunate since the music of Mr. Arad provides a very important Contribution to musicians and (as myself) musicologists from all over the world. His works are worthy of the most rigorous studies for Western musicians due to the complexity they possess. His work is also well supported by several referents through the internet, and web press. Without further reference I would like the article on Kobi Arad to be republished for future reference by the different communities of academic musicians from all over America. Attached is a link of the article that was written by me, which contains the references of which I mentioned previously.

http://u.wn.com/2017/01/22/Insight_Into_Kobi_Arads_Masterful_Musicianship/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Josecarlostenor (talk • contribs) 03:03, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Adding Articles and Latest Work

I would like to add the following articles to the Nick Egan wikipedia page

http://media.wix.com/ugd/952582_8be4725a6911482c82ad879ba6c090f8.pdf

and

http://media.wix.com/ugd/952582_567a68c7e77b482a86295aee28606ed9.pdf

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE1Onix1Qnc — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick Egan (talk • contribs) 11:36, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Message from 2008

Hi

Just had a message from you re an edit to 'Archduke Ferdinand' back in 2008.

It wasn't me!

It's a regular problem on Wiki because some folk's ISP addresses change all the time.

I'm not logged on to Wiki today, so that the ISP address I've been given today may have been used by someone else yesterday (and in 2008) and may be used by someone else again tomorrow.

One (and only one) Wiki editor has regularly accused me of being a sock puppet; he clearly doesn't understand that his misunderstanding is with the system, not with me.

It is of course best practice to always log on to Wiki. But there is no requirement to do so, and I can't always be bothered.

I expect this problem will go on causing confusion forever.

Best wishes

Cassandrathesceptic — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.108.123.180 (talk) 09:57, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Bureaucrat discussion - GoldenRing

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/GoldenRing/Bureaucrat chat

I would be grateful for your input in the above discussion. Many thanks, WJBscribe (talk) 12:15, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Addwiki

Hi Addshore, at the moment I am building a system to add artists and related information to Wikidata with the addwiki library. I'm trying to figure out the documentation. With the documentation I am now able to add statements and to create new items, see here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/HannolansBot However, I don't see documentation how to create a new item and fill that new item with a label and some properties before saving. It's not documenten as far as i know. Could you help me? This is the code i use currently: //Create a new empty item. $saver = $wbFactory->newRevisionSaver(); $edit = new Revision( new ItemContent( Item::newEmpty() ) ); $saver->save( $edit ); --Hannolans (talk) 16:47, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi there! You need to take a look at the code in the Item class! You can do something like this.

$item = Item::newEmpty();
$item->setLabel( 'en', 'Foo' );
$item->setDescription( 'de', 'Bar' );
$item->addSiteLink( new SiteLink( 'frwiki', 'Berlin' ) );

$statementCreator = $wbFactory->newStatementCreator();
$someStatement = $statementCreator->create(
        new PropertyValueSnak(
            PropertyId::newFromNumber( 1320 ),
            new StringValue( 'New String Value' )
        ),
        'Q777'
    );
$item->getStatements()->addStatement( $someStatement  );

$saver = $wbFactory->newRevisionSaver();
$edit = new Revision(
    new ItemContent( $item )
);
$saver->save( $edit );

Sorry the docs are currently lacking... If you find the above helpfull and find time to make a PR for some more docs that would be great!

·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 17:05, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

機械人權限撤銷預告/ Notification of pending suspension of bot permissions due to inactivity

根據中文維基百科機械人方針，任何機械人及其操作者如超過兩年沒有活動，經機械人權限覆核並向操作者發出通知就會除權。如欲保留機械人權限，請於一週通知期內至此告知。如欲恢復機械人權限，歡迎再次申請。最後謹此感謝以往良多貢獻。
According the Bot Policy of Chinese Wikipedia, bot accounts that have had no edits for two years, where the listed operator has also had no edits for two years, will be deauthorized. Prior to deauthorization, the bot will be nominated for review and a one-week notification will be issued. If you wish to have these permissions retained, please post to this page within a week. Re-application of the permissions is needed if you remain inactive for the notice period. Thank you for your past efforts.—J.Wong14:52, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, April 2017

Bots Newsletter, April 2017

Greetings! The BAG Newsletter is now the Bots Newsletter, per discussion. As such, we've subscribed all bot operators to the newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include: Arbcom Magioladitis ARBCOM case has closed. The remedies of the case include: Community encouraged to review common fixes Community encouraged to review policy on cosmetic edits Developers encouraged to improve AWB interface Bot approvals group encouraged to carefully review BRFA scope Reminders/Restrictions specific to Magioladitis BRFAs We currently have 27 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing! Discussions There are multiple ongoing discussions surrounding bot-related matters. In particular: RFC on COSMETICBOT Efforts at WP:CHECKWIKI to identify cosmetic fixes Requested move for the Bot Owners' Noticeboard A phabricator ticket T162685 has been made to have a "bots" tag, so issues related to bot frameworks can be tracked New things Several new things are around: A BAG Guide has been created (WP:BAGG, discussion). Users now have the option to hide AWB from their watchlists via a script (WP:HIDEAWB, discussion) The guidance on how to deal with bot issues has been overhauled (WP:BOTISSUE, discussion) The bot policy has been updated to clarify that bot operators are required to register accounts. (WP:BOTACCOUNT, discussion) Wikimania Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know! Thank you! edited by:Headbomb 11:35, 12 April 2017 (UTC) (You can unsubscribe from future newsletters by removing your name from this list.)

archives

can your bot archive user talk pages?The garmine ^(talk) 14:23, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Nope, see Category:Wikipedia_archive_bots ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 12:41, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. The garmine ^(talk) 14:02, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Copy of deleted article Jack Groselle

Hi there,

I would like a copy of the deleted article about swimmer Jack Goselle (deleted after 2nd AfD listing in 2011). I understand that the deleted article needs much work, but sometimes clean up and expansion is easier than creating a new article from scratch. Since original article was deleted in 2011, Groselle has been honoured by the International Swimming Hall of Fame, received coverage in Swimming World and SwimSwam, broken multiple Masters world records etc. ----

Hi there! It looks like you gave the wrong title of the article. What was it actually called? ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 06:43, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Title is correct - Jack Groselle. Here's the AfD discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jack_Groselle_(2nd_nomination)

You missed the r in the link in your initial message :) here you go ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 15:16, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Copy of deleted page Talk:Chris-Chan

I didn't know about that deletion criteria. Can I have that page please. --NoToleranceForIntolerance (talk) 23:43, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi there! The talk page or the article? ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 11:58, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

REVDEL

Hi. As the admin with the misfortune to be the first listed in CAT:RFRD, could you take a quick look at the PII included in the most recent revision to Talk:Shillelagh (club) and consider whether REVDEL is appropriate. Thanks. Guliolopez (talk) 00:13, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Guliolopez: this is done, feel free to leave that editor a talk page message. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:14, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Xaosflux :) ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 08:17, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Can you delete an article?

Ok User:Addshore, can you please delete the Maiorana article? I've weighed it up and believe it should be deleted, because there are virtually no notables with the name, it is far too detailed and big, when you look at Sinatra (disambiguation), the most famous Italian surname is just a disambiguation page, which isn't right, but it has a notable family of individuals and is well-known by people. Maiorana ,being the length it is, is confusing to people who already won't recognise it from anywhere. "Farrimond" and "Ascroft" have far more notables on Wikipedia, but don't have articles at all, I believe Maiorana should be deleted as an article (perhaps better to move it to Majorana article) or it should be formatted and reduced to the size of Walmsley or Ogden (name), but even these have articles related to them. Maiorana would be a pretty rubbish disambiguation page even, as there's no other articles with the name (people or places). Hope you can help 👍--Theo Mandela (talk) 23:56, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

You should perhaps take a look at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 08:18, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Addbot orphan

Hi Addshore, does Addbot orphan tag removing ignore incoming from dabs per Wikipedia:Orphan#Criteria? Sorry I didn't find a FAQ, thanks for Addbot, regards Widefox; talk 11:24, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi there! The bot no longer runs and the code is also now old / outdated. So the answer to the question is, I guess, I don't know! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 14:34, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Oops, thanks. Widefox; talk 14:54, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, July 2017

Bots Newsletter, July 2017

Greetings! Here is the 4th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include: BAG BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are now members of the BAG (see RfBAG/BU Rob13 and RfBAG/Cyberpower678 3). BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are both administrators; the former operates BU RoBOT which does a plethora of tasks, while the latter operates Cyberbot I (which replaces old bots), Cyberbot II (which does many different things), and InternetArchiveBot which combats link rot. Welcome to the BAG! BRFAs We currently have 12 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing! Discussions Efforts at WP:CHECKWIKI to identify cosmetic fixes are still ongoing. The RFC on COSMETICBOT has concluded with "a clear consensus exists to adopt the proposed language". The new wording is now live. The venue for bot appeals and reexaminations has been changed from WP:BRFA to WP:BOTN (see discussion) The Wikipedia:Bot owner's noticeboard is now the Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard (see discussion). New things A historical correction was made to WP:BOTPOL (see discussion). WP:HIDEBOTS now mentions how to hide all bots from your watchlist, not only specific bots. The phabricator ticket T162685 is now closed, and we now have "#Bots-Framework" tag, so issues related to bot frameworks can be tracked. Wikibits.js has been removed (see discussion). 21 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion). WP:BOTISSUE has been updated to mention that BAG members can act as neutral mediators in bot-related disputes. WP:INTERWIKIBOT has been updated to reflect the post-February 2013 practice of putting interwiki links on Wikidata, rather than on Wikipedia (see discussion). Upcoming HTML Tidy will be phased out in June 2018, or possibly earlier. This may affect some bots (see FAQ). Wikimania Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know! Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 17:12, 19 July 2017 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.)

Jeff Kent (author)

Hi Addshore. You were involved in an AfD nominted by Nonsenseferret back in January 2013, which you closed as delete. There's no mention of the AfD on the current talkpage (I assume that's just an oversight): I think what happened is you deleted it in January 2013, Snoobysoo worked on it in a sandbox, adding references, and then you arranged for it to be redeployed on 10 January 2015.[4] Something like that.

I've not reviewed the references, but in my (admittedly not extensive) experience, a page that looks like Jeff Kent (author) (with massive overcite, insane article length for anyone this side of a major head of state, etc.) is a puff piece that's been created by the subject. In this case, Snoobysoo has uploaded a picture that confirms they're, at the least, intimately connected with the subject. As they appear to be almost single-handledly responsible for the current article, that's not good.

At a glance, do you think the article will survive a new AfD? I've edited one of these before, spent a looong time reviewing all the spurious (conveniently offline) cites, only to have the finished article AfDed. Obviously, I'd like to avoid that this time! What do you recommend? Cheers, Bromley86 (talk) 12:01, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

For what it's worth my view remains unchanged from the original deletion discussion. Wikipedia is better without this sort of local paper sourced autobiography. ℕ ℱ 21:36, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

My family

Texas coop Power august 2017 is very interesting but at same time is not of importance to me although I need the practice with seeing in the dark and reacting to newfound world. What Lurks in the Murk is the title just in case your having trouble. I'll read on it some more but I'm tired – — ° ′ ″ ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ ± − × ÷ ← → · §

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Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018 ScienceSource funded The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video. A medical canon? The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen. The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm. Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help. Links OpenRefine logo, courtesy of Google d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data, Wikidata's multi-lingual dictionary project gets going Ordia tool, a basic search interface for Wikidata lexemes and forms OpenRefine tool 3.0, May update allows wrangling of tabular information into Wikidata d:Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians pushes ahead with data modelling and imports #1Lib1Ref Returns for a Second Time in 2018, IFLA blogpost 25 May 2018, second chance this year to participate in referencing Wikipedia To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below. Editor Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. ScienceSource pages will be announced there, and in this mass message. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018

Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018 Milestone for mix'n'match Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, Magnus Manske, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal. Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders. These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. m:Mix'n'match/Manual for more. For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading. Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite! Links 3D printing Wikipedia goes 3D allowing users to upload .STLs for digital reference, Beau Jackson for 3dprintingindustry.com, February 22 2018 WikiCite report (video) Formal publication and announcement of ISBN citation dataset, see Twitter post, February 23 2018 Plotting the Course Through Charted Waters, workshop on data visualization literacy from Mikhail Popov, Wikimedia Foundation Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos, Nancy Cooey, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, February 12 2018 Why Should You Learn SPARQL? Wikidata! Mark Longair, blogpost November 29 2017 Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?, George Anadiotis for Big on Data, March 5 2018 To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below. Editor Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018

Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018 The 100 Skins of the Onion Open Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that. Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron. Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF. Red onion cross section From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart. Links Crossref as a new source of citation data: A comparison with Web of Science and Scopus, CWTS blogpost 17 January 2018, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy Sugimoto Citations with identifiers in Wikipedia, figshare dataset Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!, Wikimedia blogpost 29 March 2018 by Sandra Fauconnier Village pump discussion, Turn on mapframe? We’re ready if you are reaches conclusions The Power of the Wikimedia Movement beyond Wikimedia, Forbes 28 March 2018, Michael Bernick Tracing stolen bitcoin, blogpost 26 March 2018 by Ross J. Anderson To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below. Editor Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018

Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018 m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource is the new ContentMine proposal: please take a look. Wikidata as Hub One way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites. Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8. Wikipedia:External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by maxlath takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL. Links What galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation blogpost, 29 January 2018, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect, 2018 institutional participation in the #1lib1ref campaign Newspeak House queries, created at 3 February 2018 event in London led by Magnus Manske Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative, Wikipedia Signpost special report 5 February 2018, by JenOttowa What is the Last Question?, 5 February 2018 To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below. Editor Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Greetings!

Here is the 6th issue of the Bots Newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

• Nothing particular important happened. Those who care already know, those who don't know wouldn't care. The curious can dig ARBCOM archives themselves.

BAG

• There were no changes in BAG membership since the last Bots Newsletter. Headbomb went from semi-active to active.
• In the last 3 months, only 3 BAG members have closed requests - help is needed with the backlog.

BOTREQs and BRFAs

As of writing, we have...

• 24 active BOTREQs, please help if you can!
• 5 open BRFAs and 3 BRFAs in need of BAG attention (see live status).
• 54 approved bot tasks since the start of 2018. Of note, Community Tech bot 5 (the #10 Wish on the 2017 Community Survey) was approved to notify users concerning problematic images and files from Wikimedia Commons.

Also

• If you're a bot operator that can help with Tidy/Linter error cleanup (see discussion, discussion), please file a BRFA!
• 8 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion, discussion, discussion).

Discussions

These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.

• Use of tags by bots – Exploring the use of a new 'bot' tag.
• Mass page moves – Bot policy question/clarification about mass moves.
• Creation of redirects – Bot policy question/clarification about the creation of redirects.
• Guidance on disruptive use of semi–automated tools? – Related to meatbots (see also MOS discussion, which resulted in small addition to MOS:VAR).
• Discussion concerning WP:BOTFLAG/WP:RC – A reminder that bots should use the bot flag when it makes sense to use it (see also VPT discussion and CREATEBOT update).
• Out of curiosity... (to all bot operators) – BotPasswords vs OAuth usage amongst bot operators.
• Introducing Toolhub – Toolhub is looking for feedback.

New things

• {{Automated tools}}, a new template linking to user-activated tools and scripts has been created. It can be used in articles previews, and can be placed on any non-mainspace page/template (e.g. {{Draft article}}) to provide convenient links to editors.
• AWB 5.10.0.0 is out, after nearly 20 months without updates. If you run an old version, you will be prompted to install the new version automatically. See the changelog for what's new. Note that the next version will require .NET Framework 4.5. Many thanks to Reedy and the AWB team.
• BotWatch, "a listing of editors that have made >2 edits per minute [without] a bot flag", is being developed by SQL (see discussion).
• Massive updates and improvements have been made to Citation bot in the past few months (see discussions, discussions, discussions). You can activate the bot here, amongst other methods.
• HTML Tidy has been phased out (see Tech News #28).
• {{Newbot}} has been reorganized a bit (diff). In particular, it links to previously approved BRFAs (see discussion).
• Wikipedia:Bots#See also has been reorganized a bit (diff).
• The bot dictionary has two new entries, context bot and context-sensitive edit.
• The bot request header has been updated to include better guidance (see discussion).
• The subcategories of Category:Wikipedia bot requests for approval have been sorted in a consistent manner to make past BRFAs easier to find.

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 15:04, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

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Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Greetings!

Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

• Magioladitis 2 happened, leading to further restrictions on Magioladitis (decision, summary).
• Betacommand 3 was proposed to be amended to lift the indefinite ban on Δ, but was unsuccessful (decision).
• A motion concerning Crosswiki issues (mostly concerning Wikidata) was passed (see discussion).

BAG

• Hersfold was removed from the BAG due to long term inactivity.

BRFAs

We currently have 6 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.

New things

• WP:BOTDICT, a dictionary of common bot-related terms (see discussion).
• 6 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion).
• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey happened. Two bot-related proposal passed, #6 deploy Article Alerts to other languages and #10 Commons deletion notification bot, although other entries may affect bots as well.
• Category:Wikipedia bots and its subcategories has had some cleanup. Bot-related pages that were historically important but are no longer of interests can be found in Category:Wikipedia bots (historical)
• The edit summary limit has been increased to 1000 characters (see T6715). If a bot you operate relied on the old truncation limit (255 characters), please review/update your code, as overly long summaries can be disruptive/annoying. If you want to use extra characters to have more information in your edit summary, please do so intelligently.
• You will soon be able to ping users from the edit summary (see T188469). If you wish to use this feature in your bot, please do so intelligently.

Upcoming

• HTML Tidy will be phased out in June 2018, or possibly earlier. This may affect some bots (see FAQ).

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 03:11, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

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السلام عليكم اخواني — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.66.96.222 (talk) 21:35, 10 March 2018 (UTC)