Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018

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Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018
 

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WikiCite issue

GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California.

 
Wikidata training for librarians at WikiCite 2018

In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more library science is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point.

Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: "bash, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and mix'n'match. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector.

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This Month in Education: November 2018

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This Month in Education

Volume 4 • Issue 10 • October 2018


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In This Issue

The Signpost: 1 December 2018

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

 

  Administrator changes

  Al Ameer sonRandykittySpartaz
  BosonDaniel J. LeivickEfeEsanchez7587Fred BauderGarzoMartijn HoekstraOrangemike

  Interface administrator changes

 Deryck Chan

  Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
  • A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
  • A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
  • A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

  Technical news

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous

  • In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
  • Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

  Obituaries


16:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #341

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Wikidata weekly summary #342

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17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the help on Hybrid PAC!

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I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for helping out with the Hybrid PAC article. It's my first real creation of an article, and so I did miss little things like the reflist, and categories. I was hoping you could take a look at my work on the article that led me to create Hybrid PAC in the first place - I ran across Committee to Defend the President when it was a real mess - it basically read like an advertisement, for the PAC and for the creator, when I first read it. I've tried to clean it up, but again, as my experience is still not that of a seasoned editor, I'd really appreciate it if you could stop by. Thanks! Ewen Douglas (talk) 01:39, 11 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

No problem, I was happy to work on the Hybrid PAC article. I briefly looked over the Committee to Defend the President article (and a few other PAC articles) and see what you mean. It looks like you have been doing a decent job, but I can stop by and work on improving it more in-depth soon. I might not be able to work on it a lot right now, but I will start editing it within a day or two. Thanks for creating the hybrid PAC article and also suggesting an article needing some work. MarkZusab (talk) 01:55, 11 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Blue squirrel for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Blue squirrel 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/Blue squirrel 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.  I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 03:45, 11 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Africa Policy Institute moved to draftspace

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An article you recently created, Africa Policy Institute, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. K.e.coffman (talk) 03:13, 12 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Africa Policy Institute (API)

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Africa Policy Institute (API), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, such as at Articles for deletion. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:05, 12 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Thanks For The Help!!

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I just wanted to thank you for your help on my article, you are truly an exemplary Wikipedia editor. Without so much as a search outside the Google database or even an advanced search, you were able to discern the validity and existence of a technology you've never heard of and which is still undergoing R&D. On behalf of the Wikipedia community, thank you for doing exactly what Wikipedia was intended to do and nominate for speedy deletion all articles that are unknown to you or you think are fake news. There's only one way to ensure fake news doesn't win - to blindly censor everything that one person doesn't personally believe in, you're doing god's work son! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cmringel (talkcontribs) 17:14, 12 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Tags for Nepenthe (video game)

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Saw you removed the "RPG Maker" tag; may I ask why that wasn't appropriate on my part? (I'm very new to this, sorry if it should be obvious) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yitzilitt (talkcontribs) 04:08, 13 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Yitzilitt:, the reason I removed Category:RPG Maker was because that category is only for the RPG Maker series, while the subcategory Category:Games made with RPG Maker is meant for games made with RPG Maker. I hope that clears up any confusion about why I switched the category. MarkZusab (talk) 04:32, 13 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Even more help would b awesome!

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I note u did some minor editing on my page for George Grimm (Buddhist Scholar), that no doubt, was of immense help. Since I've completed the article as best my know-0 (/inexperienced Wikipedian) brain can, any additional help in making it a better article would b immensely appreciated. I actually completed an article on the same person, last night, which was taken down for copyright reasons less than 24 hours later. I've rephrased most of it this time, but a few things, especially in the " Major Works and Views" section still need work in that regard. I am also guilty of a lot of inelegance, and in the vital statistics side-bar, I've labeled him a philosopher, because that worked, when other things didn't, and I'd 0 better idea. For some reason, also, the .jpg does not show. THe final bibliography section probably needs much work. Major positive regardSlarty1 (talk) 05:26, 13 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

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Hello MarkZusab,

Reviewer of the Year
 

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.


Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.


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Speedy deletion nomination of Franz Klainsek

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A tag has been placed on Franz Klainsek requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Theroadislong (talk) 15:18, 16 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

If you have not seen it, you may be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Franz Klainsek. Dorsetonian (talk) 17:20, 17 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

20:35, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Nepenthe (video game)) has been reviewed!

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Thanks for creating Nepenthe (video game).

I have just reviewed the page, as a part of our page curation process.

Nice start, consider expanding it and adding some more sources.

To reply, leave a comment here and ping me.

Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

JC7V (talk) 21:50, 17 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #343

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Nomination of Dermophis donaldtrumpi for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Dermophis donaldtrumpi 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/Dermophis donaldtrumpi 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. ~Sıgehelmus♗(Tøk) 03:09, 20 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Books & Bytes, Issue 31

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  The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018

  • OAWiki
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
Read the full newsletter

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The Signpost: 24 December 2018

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

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  Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello MarkZusab, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019.
Happy editing,

Walk Like an Egyptian (talk) 05:34, 25 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Wikidata weekly summary #344

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Sorry for the overwrite, I was in the middle of formatting and saved it so that I could do regex replaces on the section rather than the entire article. It is under construction until I can go home and add anything I can find from Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities. Feel free to add more.

Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018

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Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018
 

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Learning from Zotero

Zotero is free software for reference management by the Center for History and New Media: see Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero. It is also an active user community, and has broad-based language support.

 
Zotero logo

Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the Zotero translator underlies the citoid service, at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata can be imported into Zotero; and in the other direction the zotkat tool from the University of Mannheim allows Zotero bibliographies to be exported to Wikidata, by item creation. With an extra feature to add statements, that route could lead to much development of the focus list (P5008) tagging on Wikidata, by WikiProjects.

Zotero demo video

There is also a large-scale encyclopedic dimension here. The construction of Zotero translators is one facet of Web scraping that has a strong community and open source basis. In that it resembles the less formal mix'n'match import community, and growing networks around other approaches that can integrate datasets into Wikidata, such as the use of OpenRefine.

Looking ahead, the thirtieth birthday of the World Wide Web falls in 2019, and yet the ambition to make webpages routinely readable by machines can still seem an ever-retreating mirage. Wikidata should not only be helping Wikimedia integrate its projects, an ongoing process represented by Structured Data on Commons and lexemes. It should also be acting as a catalyst to bring scraping in from the cold, with institutional strengths as well as resourceful code.

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Sullivan High School

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Hi. I took care of your request at WP:RM/TR, but just wanted you to know, in case you don't already, that you can move articles over redirects yourself, as long as the redirect points back to the article and there haven't been any other edits to it since its creation. Station1 (talk) 05:38, 29 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Station1: Thanks for moving the article for me and also thanks for letting me know that I am able move articles over redirects yourself. I did not realize that I was able to do that. I will keep that in mind. MarkZusab (talk) 05:41, 29 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Administrators' newsletter – January 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

  Guideline and policy news

  1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
  2. R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
  3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

  Technical news

  • Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
  1. At least 8 characters in length
  2. Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
  3. Different from their username
User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
  • Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
  • {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous

  • Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
  • Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

Wikidata weekly summary #345

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Speedy deletion nomination of 2018 Marriott Hotels Strike

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A tag has been placed on 2018 Marriott Hotels Strike requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/travel/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-strike-against-marriott-hotels.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Citrivescence (talk) 09:37, 3 January 2019 (UTC)Reply