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8'46"

Hi there. Can you elaborate more on your close rationale for Talk:Eight_minutes_46_seconds#Requested_move_10_June_2020? Paintspot initially raised concerns at a subsequent RM for that page (since withdrawn), but I also have similar questions. To me, it seemed that there was no guideline-based support at the subthread Talk:Eight_minutes_46_seconds#Sanity_break to spell out "Eight"; one person initally said it was based on the AP-based MOS, but they withdrew their support. Others !votes for "eight" were not based on a guideline, while I explained that our MOS had no preference for this case, which one other agreed and nobody rebutted. Thanks in advance. Regards.—Bagumba (talk) 08:12, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

• Hi Bagumba. Thanks for reaching out. In summary, I found (and retrospectively numbered) (1.) a strong consensus to move away from 8'46" to (in regex form) /(8|Eight) minutes( and)? 46 seconds/, and (2.) a somewhat weak consensus that the value represented by the word "eight" should be spelled out in the title. Since I don't think the former is in dispute (although I'd be happy to provide a more detailed explanation of that if you wish), a more detailed explanation of only the latter follows.

Background: the guidelines are a mess on this. Going off of any version of MOS:NUM between May 29 and June 15, it's not clear that the relevant portion of MOSNUM applies to titles at all. (The "generally, in article text" part of MOS:SPELL09 applies only to, well, article text. However, the "notes and exceptions" section that could otherwise apply doesn't say so. But it makes no sense to have the scope of the exceptions exceed the scope of the rule! Further complicating matters, one of the exceptions is that "proper names, technical terms, and the like are never altered", and the examples are links to and/or titles of Wikipedia articles, so maybe it does apply?) However, even assuming the MOS applies, the MOS doesn't tell us much of use when the integer we need to decide how to represent is expressible by the word "eight", only that "figures or words may be used with unit names ([n] minutes or [number] minutes), within the guidelines above" (but "the guidelines above" say "Integers from zero to nine are spelled out in words"). Given all of this, I weighted appeals to MOS for this portion of the discussion less than I normally would. For obvious reasons, for question 2, I weighted discussion that took place after "Eight minutes forty-six seconds" was proposed more than discussion that took place before the proposal (although I did take the reasoning of each participant into account in evaluating the question, even if they did not participate in the later discussion).

Turning to the the discussion of question 2 itself: I found that the consensus was clearly for one of what User:EEng numbered B2 and B3 (with, perhaps, an "and" thrown in, but there was minimal discussion on that). Both were well-argued, to the point that my weightings based on the strength of both arguments were equal. However, B2 received the support of 4 in the subthread, and B3 received the support of only two (counting yours as B3). That would be a fairly strong consensus, but given the goings-on outside of the subthread, I think it was weaker (but still there). An aside: WP:NCDURATION wasn't mentioned as far as I noticed, probably because its examples don't really seem to consider shorter periods of time. We should probably work on that if there is a consensus either way.

All of that being said, I think that there is actually a chance that a RM squarely focused on the following two questions would reach a different result, at least on one of them: (a) Should the integer represented by the word "eight" be expressed as "8" or "eight"? and (b) Should the word "and" go between "minutes" and "46"? I wouldn't be too opposed to one being started on that; although I think the differences are minor enough that it might not be worth the effort, others may not agree.

I hope the above is helpful. Please let me know if you have any further questions, or if you have any interest in working on making this labyrinth of MOS/Naming Conventions a bit less labyrinthian. Best, --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 15:02, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for closing this. FWIW, my !vote was for "8 minutes and 46 seconds", which wasn't any of the "A" or "B" options. I read the "sanity break" thread and nothing therein persuaded me to change my !vote (which was based on common name, with examples provided). I count more than half a dozen editors voting the same way I did. I didn't realize that my vote would be weighed less because it came before the sanity break section. Frankly I didn't think I had to comment again because "8 minutes and 46 seconds" had such a large lead in terms of votes over any other option presented. Don't get me wrong, I think your rationale above is well reasoned and extremely thorough. You've clearly put a lot of thought into the close, for which I'm grateful. And I'm a big believer in "not a vote". Levivich ^{[dubious – discuss]} 15:11, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Fair enough, and I'm sorry for that. I think I did fully consider your non-vote, and I should probably further elaborate on how exactly I did that weighting. There were effectively three questions to answer in the RM yes, I did list only two above.... Abandoning my labelling from above, they were: (a) Should the title have "minutes" and "seconds"? (per MOS:UNITNAMES) (b) Should the first integer be spelled out? and (c) Should the word "and" be between "minutes" and "46"?. The non-votes in before the section break fully considered issue (a), and I fully took those comments into account on that issue. However, the non-votes before the section break (with a couple of exceptions) did not discuss issues (b) and (c), and therefore, I did not take those particular non-votes into account on determining those issues. I did, however, fully take into account your WP:COMMONNAME argument, which, although having merit, was not discussed by others (although it was seconded). Your argument is why I described the consensus on issues (b) and (c) as weak, and why it could change.

Turning to the my closure's result itself: Although I think there was a consensus on (b) and (c) in the direction that I closed it, I think a "no consensus" close would have also been reasonable for those issues (I still don't think there was a positive consensus for your version, given the section break discussion). However, that would raise the question: "What should the article be renamed to, given the consensus on (a) being that there are serious other issues with the title?". Although I'm not convinced I should undo my closure (because there would be a second RM either way), in retrospect, I probably should not have closed the discussion at all. Instead I should have acted as a facilitator, asking others who had not yet discussed (b) and (c) to do so, and trying to further develop discussion on the WP:COMMONNAME argument. That would have probably led to a more robust consensus, one way or another. Thoughts, @Levivich? (also, please let me know if you want me to stop pinging you...) --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 15:56, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

I think your analysis is solid. I agree it comes down to (b) and (c), or "eight/8" and "and". From a COMMONNAME perspective, the "and" bit could go either way: some sources include "and", others omit it. I view that as a "tie", which can be broken by MOS in preference for omitting the "and", basically per EEng's arguments. The "Eight/8" part is the tougher one for me. It seems to me that "8" is far preferred by sources, especially in titles of works (i.e. headlines). MOS clearly says "eight". Part of me thinks, "Well AT is a policy and MOS is a guideline", but I generally dislike "its only a guideline" arguments. There's something to be said for "we should write it the right way even if no one else does". But that seems to go against COMMONNAME. Do you see it that way on the "eight/8" issue? As COMMONNAME-vs-MOS? In the end, if this were to be pursued further, it seems like a relist (with a helpful relisting statement to guide further discussion, as you suggest) is more efficient than a second RM or an MR. On the other hand, I think this is a purely stylistic and not-at-all-substantive titling dispute (unlike, say, "death of..." v. "murder of..."), so I'm personally rather ambivalent about whether further discussion would be productive, or whether we should just "make a call" (as you have done) and move on. (And no I appreciate the pings, thank you, and WarGames is a classic!) Levivich ^{[dubious – discuss]} 16:17, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

@Levivich: Agreed on both counts. If people want that relist, I'll do it, but I agree that it might not be worth it. --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 19:22, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

A relist could be an option, but with an WP:IAR of not reverting back to 8'46", for which it's unanimous that it's wrong.—Bagumba (talk) 05:06, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

IMO the article ought to be merged anyhow, and may very well be. BTW turns out it's not 8 minutes and 46 seconds, it's 7 minutes and 46 seconds, and I think that will dampen the lasting significance of this slogan. Or maybe everyone will just update their signs. We'll see. [1] Levivich ^{[dubious – discuss]} 05:20, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

It's independent of the close, at any rate.—Bagumba (talk) 05:26, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

@Levivich: Throwing a wrench into the AT vs MOS debate, it's never been clear if AT applies to styling of titles. These options are all the same time duration, and moreorless read the same as a title. They are just styled differently. For the names of works e.g. books, films, songs, etc." we typically defer to the styling of the original. But this about Floyd is more of a descriptive idea as opposed to a title of a work. Anyways, this was all not part of the RM discussion.—Bagumba (talk) 05:01, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Bagumba! The reason I opened up that "part 2" Requested move is because a majority of people seemed to prefer the consistent numerals ("8 minutes 46 seconds") over the combined half-and-half version (among the other reasons listed at the withdrawn move request). Paintspot Infez (talk) 17:58, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

@Mdaniels5757: I appreciate the response. Yes, my main concern is your point 2 re: "eight" vs. "8". A few responses to some of your comments: ... it's not clear that the relevant portion of MOSNUM applies to titles at all: Perhaps, but I don't think that was a point brought up by the participants. Given all of this, I weighted appeals to MOS for this portion of the discussion less than I normally would.: But I don't believe any participants said "don't follow the MOS because it doesn't make sense." Thus, I don't think it should be a factor in the close. I weighted discussion that took place after "Eight minutes forty-six seconds" was proposed more than discussion that took place before the proposal: I don't see why they would be given additional weight. There wasn't any inherent bad assumption made earlier nor any quideline oversights. This also presupposes that there is WP:SILENT support of later comments, but participants typically dont check back unless they are pinged. However, B2 received the support of 4 in the subthread ...: I see only 2: intially it was EEng, VikingB, and Psiĥedelisto—I consider EEng to have withdrawn that support. Those 2 didn't elaborate on why they liked one over the other. Blaylockjam10 and I provided a rationale for our choice of "8", and mentioned that its allowable per the MOS. Of course, discussions aren't a pure !vote count either. I think that there is actually a chance that a RM squarely focused on the following two questions would reach a different result ... I don't see the arguments supporting "eight" being stronger, and are in the minority of the entire discussion. I think we do go with the majority in that case, but it is fair for mention in the close about no prejudice on a further narrow discussion on "eight" vs "8". Regardless of how you view the weighting now, you do need to expand the close's rationale and mention any acceptable RM options that could be opened and not be considered disruptive. Regards.—Bagumba (talk) 04:50, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

@Bagumba: Thanks for your response. I've added to my closure rationale and expressed approval/non-opposition for a more focused RM here. Best, --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 15:55, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

• I understand I'm pinged in here somewhere but when I went looking I got disoriented and became dizzy. All I can say is if you guys try to add in the comma or the and I'll sic the MOS mob on you. EEng 21:12, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

  Oh, well, dear, worry not, my friend, for I can say, without a doubt, "Bagumba and Mdaniels and Paintspot and I would never do such a thing." Levivich ^{[dubious – discuss]} 21:35, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Well-advised move?

May I assume here that you were not aware that Charles XV is called Charles IV in Norway, and that that one probably should not have been on that list? His grandfather Charles XIV John of Sweden has a similar feature & was not moved. Could you reverse Charles XV and give us a chance to discuss that aspect? --SergeWoodzing (talk) 13:58, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

• @SergeWoodzing: Thanks for pointing that out. I reversed that move, and will start a new RM at Talk:Charles XV of Sweden shortly. --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 15:11, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

help

I know my page that I created was declined to publish, what can I do or fix that can be done to correct it, so that it could be published. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raymond Ramos r2fx (talk • contribs) 16:41, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

@Raymond Ramos r2fx: Hi. I have a couple of suggestions, but first, are you Raymond Ramos (the person whose article you created)? (Also, please remember to sign your talk messages with four tildes (~)). Best, --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 14:52, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Talk:Conventional PCI

Hi Mdaniels5757,
The Talk doesn't redirects to Talk:Peripheral Component Interconnect, I think needs to be move or merge by an admin. — YoungForever^(talk) 00:45, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

• Hi User:YoungForever. Yeah, I wondered what was up with that. I checked through the history when performing my post-move cleanup, and saw that what was at Talk:Peripheral Component Interconnect pre-move had text before, so I chose to leave it. However, what I didn't notice was that it actually was from a copy/paste move (ugh). Since there were no attribution issues, I've created that redirect now. Best, --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 00:59, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

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• Hi. I'm afraid I can't help you with this, I don't have the needed permissions. I hope Berean Hunter can resolve your issue. --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 22:00, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Closed discussion

I noticed that you recently closed the discussion at Talk:2014 ICC Awards, but the 2015 LG ICC Awards redirect still exists. Given the 2015 ceremony wasn't sponsored by LG Electronics, would you also be willing to help me delete it? — 29cwcst (talk) 23:10, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

• Hi User:29cwcst. Given the results of the previous two RfDs ([1], [2]), I don't think any further discussions are likely to result in deletion. Best, --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 23:14, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
• Same to you Dan, thanks anyway. — 29cwcst (talk) 02:55, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

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Talk:List of fictional trans characters

Hi there, I didn't see that there was a discussion over changing the article title to contain the word "trans", and I was surprised that this was the case. Given that there were two comments in support and two in opposition, I'm reopening the discussion and will be reverting the title to the original, through the appropriate channels. Onetwothreeip (talk) 22:21, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

@Onetwothreeip: Your math is off. Three (including the nominator, but not including the nominator's second !vote) people were in favor of "trans" and 2 were opposed. Of course, consensus is not a matter of counting votes, and even if the !votes were 2-2, I would have found that the contention that "List of fictional trans characters" is ambiguous lacks merit, that WP:PRECISION (policy) says that "Usually, titles should unambiguously define the topical scope of the article, but should be no more precise than that", and weighed !votes accordingly. If you believe that I assessed the consensus there incorrectly, or that there was significant additional information not discussed, you are welcome to explain in more detail here, and, if needed, list my closure for move review. However, simply reopening the discussion would be out of process, and adding a non-vote to a closed discussion fruitless. Best, --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 01:05, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

To be clear I am not including the nominator and I am not including myself either. There was clearly no consensus at the time, and more views should have been countenanced. I would agree that "transgender" is more precise than "trans", particularly in this context. Onetwothreeip (talk) 09:12, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

@Onetwothreeip: Thanks for your response. First of all, closers should include the nominator in assessing consensus, and I believe I properly did so. I think that there was a consensus at the time, both numerical (unweighted based on strength of arguments) and weighted. Per WP:MRV, if you wish to challenge my closure, please state here, with details, how I "did not follow the spirit and intent of WP:RMCI" or "was unaware of significant additional information not discussed in the page move discussion". Best, -Mdaniels5757 (talk) 15:40, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

I have no issue with including the view of the nominator, and I do not think you have failed to follow the spirit or intent of policy. What I am saying is that there was clearly no strong consensus either in support or against, and in regular circumstances more participants should have been included. I'm simply notifying you of this as a courtesy to you. Thanks. Onetwothreeip (talk) 22:05, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for closing and moving the RM for Climate Pledge Arena. Someone moved it earlier today before the discussion closed, and I had to move it back. I couldn't close it myself as was involved in the discussion. I was pretty sure it would close as a move (that's what I would have done anyway), but in such cases procedure needs to be followed. Thanks again. - BilCat (talk) 00:37, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

@BilCat: You're welcome! --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 00:38, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

RM template

Hi. Re this, sure, a single request works fine, but multiple requests generate a 'wrong page' error. — kwami (talk) 01:04, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

@Kwamikagami: Yes. When using {{subst:RMassist}} (for technical requests only), you must use one template per request. Thus, Special:Diff/965888008 was four {{subst:RMassist}} uses. Note, however, that {{subst:Requested move}} (for starting new discussions only), allows multiple pages to be nominated for discussion in one template call. Best, --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 01:09, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

My bad. Thanks. I'll just enter multiple copies of the template next time. — kwami (talk) 01:12, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #425

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: General semi protection for all property pages

• Events
  • Upcoming: The First Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: August 10, 2020 | Workshop date: October 29, 2020
  • Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) in the Wikidata Telegram group. Query Service special with guests from WMF Search Team.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXIV: Posicionamento digital relativo with Ederporto - July 23 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT). In this technical training, we'll study the possibilities and functionalities of relative digital positioning in images and do practical activities on this topic using historical photographs of the city of São Paulo. The event will be held in Portuguese. Join us!
  • Upcoming video: July 21 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
  • Upcoming video: July 25 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube
  • Upcoming: Kidok-Workshop, online workshop about church building data. In German, non-native users welcome. Currently looking for a date in the upcoming week and people to help!
  • Upcoming video: Beyond Wikipedia - Knowledge that even a computer can understand. July 22, 2020 at 17:00 UTC. In this talk, Zbyszko Papierski will present Wikidata Query Service as one way that developers can interact with Wikidata.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities botany pilot using Wikidata QIDs
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #11 Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Wikispore Day, including an interview of Denny Vrandečić about Abstract Wikipedia at 34'00
  • Video: Merging elements on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikibase Ecosystem - taking Wikidata further (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Frettie/consistency_check_add.js check consistency and add missing relations of a Wikidata object like father/son...

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change: removing special pageterms behavior on repo wikis, use entityterms instead (relevant for people using pageterms submodule of the query API module on Wikibase repository wikis)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: version control system, interactive elements, course, peak bagging classification, public transport stop, descriptive solubility, applies if regular expression matches, energy consumption per transaction, content partnership category, Van Der Waals Constant a, Van Der Waals Constant b
    • External identifiers: Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, EHESS ID of a French commune, OpenHistoricalMap relation ID, IAPH code, Knot Atlas identifier, Knotinfo identifier, Swiss Tunnel ID, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID, Österreichisches Musiklexikon Online ID, Swedish Riksdag document ID, Artprice artist ID, AnyDecentMusic album ID, SAH Archipedia architect ID, Personendatenbank Germania Sacra ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID, Digital Library of the Caribbean ID, Homebrew formula name, Our Campaigns candidate ID, UK Research and Innovation person ID, Unique Street Reference Number, Benerail station ID, Churches in Limburg, Vmusic.bg artist ID, US Quaternary Fault ID, ASCRG 2016 ID, ANZSOC 2011 ID, ANZSCO 2013 ID, Political Graveyard politician ID, SAH Archipedia building ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: BTI Status Index, BTI Governance Index, lyricsmule, number of majors offered, nationality (cultural identity), image of view, web interface software
    • External identifiers: Native Plants Database ID, Český hudební slovník osob a institucí ID, OpenCritic critic ID, DATAtourisme ID, ASCCEG 2019 ID, AHECC 2017 ID, ANZSIC 2006 ID, Unsplash User ID, South Africa EMIS code, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID, HLTV Player ID, HLTV Team ID, SÚKL code, Nomenclature de tous les noms de rosiers, Science Fiction Awards Database author id, Fototeka person ID, Henrik Ibsen skrifter ID
  • Query examples:
    • Painters in Wikidata with the surname Ruiz (Source)
    • Cities with female mayor (Source)
    • MPs in the current UK parliament with identified mythical ancestors (Source)
    • Indian subcontinent rail lines (Source)
    • List of countries by age of the head of government (Source)
    • Cities of the United States between 100,000 and 600,000 inhabitants with the counties and states they are located in (Source)
  • Newest database reports: list of 1000, 2000 (without statements) and 10000 (filtered) random items

• Development
  • More work on the consistent design system
  • More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier:
    • load WikibaseClient through the JSON file (phab:T257435),
    • decoupling Client from Lib/Repo in the JavaScript code (phab:T256054),
    • reduce the uses of Repo classes (phab:T255885, phab:T255882)
    • Move all the special pages (phab:T257444), API modules (phab:T257443) and hooks (phab:T257445) from the PHP entry point to the JSON file
    • Merge the registration of WikibaseLib into the Repo and Client extensions (phab:T257432) and merge WikibaseView into Repo (phab:T258043)
  • Prepare the first development phase for the Simple Query Builder
  • Reference game: run a scraper, work on a dashboard that will gives an overview of the potential references that have already been judged in the game
  • Fix a bug related to maximum limit of search results (phab:T256885)
  • Resolve some configuration issues regarding Entity Sources (phab:T254315)
  • Federated Properties:
    • Changes to special pages that interact with both items/properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246886)
    • Changes to Special:ListDatatypes when federation is enabled (phab:T255581)
  • Add new monolingual language codes: mic (Miꞌkmaq), gil (Kiribati)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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A Barnstar for you!

		The Diligent Librarian Barnstar
		For exemplary service at the Resource Exchange, tirelessly delivering the reliable sources on which this encyclopedia depends, please accept this award. :) Specifically, thanks for fulfilling RX requests that otherwise would have been closed as stale. Keep up the good work! MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 16:39, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Ditto!

		The Guidance Barnstar
		Thanks for your sterling work! That was great stuff, much appreciated, and so prompt too. Many thanks indeed! Although I'll be cursing you tomorrow when, yet again, I don't get any work done  ;) All the best! ——Serial # 17:38, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For fulfilling WP:RX's trickiest requests—thank you! czar 19:36, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Move of page pantsdrunk

You recently closed my move request of pantsdrunk to kalsarikännit as "do not move". If you read User:Urjanhai's comments, he suggests that kalsarikänni without the "t" is a better move target, as that's what the original Finnish article fi:kalsarikänni uses. So I wish to propose a new move to kalsarikänni. JIP | Talk 12:53, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

@JIP: Feel free to propose such a move if you wish in the future, but I don't think that it's likely to gain consensus based on the recent discussion, which I read as your nomination, 1 !vote being neutral on which language to use but saying that a different Finnish word should be used instead, and 2 !votes opposing a move to a non-English word per WP:USEENGLISH. I suggest waiting a few weeks first, and then arguing that there is WP:DIVIDEDUSE in English-language sources (assuming that this is true) in your nomination. Best, --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 14:21, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

I can confirm also here, as I said in comment to the request, that I don't have and will not have any opinion concerning the question whether or not the name of the article should be translated or not in en-wikipedia. I only told my opinion about the question, what form of the word should be used if the untranslated name would be chosen to be used in the name of the article. As a non native speaker of english I really do not have any competence to assess this question in this particular case.--Urjanhai (talk) 17:47, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Asshole

You really make me mad. Just let me edit Barney you old hag. You could probably be my dad tbh. Ireallyreallyreallyloveharryedwardstyles (talk) 02:27, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

A message from Sonther4ever

Help us to fix information. We are in contact with friends from Alberto Carpani and we are already tired to read that wikipedia is spreading wrong information about his death. Unfortunately any tabloid which is not a reliable source, published lies, but not even the source taken for that tells that Alberto had COVID-19, his test was negative, he died due different health problems. Now his fans are confused because the info from wikipedia is very wrong. What can we do in order to solve this problem? Please we will appreciate your help, more than rules, this is a human issue.--Sonther4ever (talk) 02:34, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

• Hi User:Sonther4ever. In order to prevent misinformation, Wikipedia requires that all information be properly sourced. I've changed the wording to "lung infection" in order to accurately reflect the cited source. Additional information should not be added unless cited to a reliable source. Best, --02:42, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #426

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

• Events
  • The Wikidata track of the LD4 conference on Linked Data in Libraries takes place on Thursday 30 and Friday 31 July. Free, upon registration.
  • Seeking feedback on a possible WikiCite@Wikidata's 8th Birthday online conference; and what content/format/timing preferences you have. Please respond to this short survey. [Privacy policy: https://w.wiki/XfN]
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Liam Wyatt on WikiCite and its future plans, ways to get involved, and discussions that are happening in the community, 28 July. Agenda
  • Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour with a focus on the Query Service, July 21st. Notes of the discussions
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14, August 1 Facebook YouTube
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #23, August 2

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Croiser des données avec OpenRefine by Ash_Crow (in French, how to match data from inside and outside Wikidata with Open Refine)
  • "OBA: An Ontology-Based Framework for Creating REST APIs for Knowledge Graphs"
  • Library’s linked-data project gets new grant. "Known as Linked Data for Production, the project is part of a long-term collaboration among Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Through linked data, information about books and other items in library records will be enhanced by related information from external online sources". By Jose Beduya
  • Wikidata Training Workshop 1, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association
    • Part 1 - Introduction to Wikidata - YouTube (En, Fr)
    • Part 2 - Usage of Wikidata - YouTube (En, Fr)
    • Part 3 - Components of a Wikidata item - YouTube (En, Fr)
  • Video: Wikidata Lab XXIV on relative digital positioning (in Portuguese). YouTube
  • Video: Women Writers in Review: Integrating special collections into Wikidata. YouTube
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • We would love suggestions for tools to include in this section of the weekly summary. Please add your suggestions directly under Status updates/Next#Backlog after checking that the tool isn't already listed.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS) launches in Beta. This SPARQL endpoint for Structured Data on Commons can federate with Wikidata's Query Service. (Announcement & discussion)
  • A new OpenRefine reconciliation service for Wikidata is available. Add it in OpenRefine with https://wikidata.reconci.link/en/api or by replacing en by any other Wikimedia language code.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: pertainym, BTI Governance Index, BTI Status Index, Ofsted inspection rating, distribution map of taxon
    • External identifiers: Wiki-Rennes ID, Queensland Biota ID, Australian Weed ID, Encyclopedie berbere ID, Japanese magazine code, Lobbywatch.ch ID of a member of parliament, IVS ID, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok ID, National Registry of Exonerations Case ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID, Český hudební slovník osob a institucí ID, PM20 geo code, PM20 subject code, DATAtourisme ID, OpenCritic critic ID, ASCCEG 2019 ID, SmallGroup ID, ANZSIC 2006 ID, AHECC 2017 ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: booking URL, member of lexicon, screen (display) resolution, in pixels, Size comparison diagram, Butcher tableau, related laws and regulations, Water area
    • External identifiers: Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID, WISAARD ID, Jisho word id, UK Research and Innovation organisation ID, Opta football player ID, Opta football team ID, Opta football competition ID, Power plant operating licence (Turkey), Árvore de Interesse Público ID, MinDat taxon ID, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID, Twitter topics numeric ID, People Australia ID
  • Query examples:
    • People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap (Source)
    • Number of MPs elected to the Swedish parliament for each election back to 1970 (Source)

• Development
  • Changed the size of image previews to 1024 in the gallery view of the query service to avoid some images not loading sometimes (phabricator:T258241)
  • Added an actual space between the entity title and the name of the fallback language (if any), so that the fallback language isn't selected anymore when double-clicking the entity title for copying (phabricator:T256857)
  • Fixed the directionality of text pieces in placeholders that mix LTR and RTL (phabricator:T253812)
  • Continued work on first pieces of design system to make coding new features easier in the future
  • Continued untangling the code of Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repo to make it easier to develop on them
  • Finished first piece of research on how to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers - more work to be done
  • Preparing to start coding on the Query Builder to make it easier to create queries without having to know SPARQL
  • Finished running the scraper that gets potential new references for unreferenced statements and preparing it for publishing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).

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Some stroopwafels for you!

dees are for u u retard Dirt07 (talk) 06:25, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Sock tags

Please don't modify sock tags placed by Checkusers or SPI Clerks; if you think an error has been made, it's best to ask the editor who placed the tag as opposed to editing it directly. In this case, I specifically omitted the "blocked" parameter as it adds the statement that the account was blocked as a result of checkuser confirmed socking, which is not the case. The account was blocked as WP:NOTHERE and was later confirmed to be socking.-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 17:14, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

@Ponyo: Understood, sorry about that. --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 17:18, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

No worries, it was clearly done in good faith.-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 17:47, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

A message from Danoxmas

Hi mdaniels!

Thanks for adding the show's poster for me, I wanted to change it to the vertical poster but eventho I've made over 10 edits and have had an account for longer than 4 days I can't seem to be able to upload images. When I go to the upload page it says "You do not have permission to upload this file, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Autoconfirmed users, Administrators, Confirmed users.". What else do I have to do? Anyway, here's the file.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc207498d34bc5e5954261d/1578084877647-33TY2C6IH4FRGYQ9MCF4/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kHnK_yRjKo-bFO7w2t_TctF7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QHyNOqBUUEtDDsRWrJLTmFrKkuyfqIWRdt3lCufLMAYxkVXQVnyOOcDD0H6-K9i1XVgpZWnxX8LTaGv2X84Wz/mr+inbetweennn_.jpg Danoxmas (talk) 18:53, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi Danoxmas. Your account needs to be exactly four days old to have the permission to upload files. Looking at the logs, you will have that permission in about three hours (July 19, 23:40 UTC). Since it will be so soon, if it's alright with you, I'll let you upload the file yourself then. Best, --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 20:37, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Oh wow I was close then haha. Well I just uploaded the poster I want for the page but I can't seem to figure out how to swap out the horizontal one currently being used with the vertical poster I just uploaded? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danoxmas (talk • contribs) 18:44, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

@Danoxmas: The way you swap it out is by changing a field of the infobox, which I've gone ahead and done here. Note that you also always have to add a rationale on how the file complies with our non-free content policy, which I've done here.) Also, remember to sign your messages to others with four tildes (~). Best, --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 21:03, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Ah thanks for the help and being patient with me. One final question/request, I want the specific awards "AACTA" and "Logies to have Sub-heading 1 format size but can i have them removed the table contents? I'm fine with Awards having a section in the table of contents but i don't need the specific awards to show in the table of contents, i dont know how to edit the table of contents.

-Danoxmas — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danoxmas (talk • contribs) 02:20, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

@Danoxmas: There actually shouldn't be links in section headings, I've cleaned it up. --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 15:44, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

THANK YOU Danoxmas (talk) 18:19, 21 July 2020 (UTC) Dan

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Wikidata weekly summary #428

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516
  • Closed request for adminship: Wiki13 (successful)

• Events
  • Past: Wikibase Live Session - August 2020. This session had a few people present on some of their work with modeling GLAM data in Wikibase or Wikidata. (replay)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions, 11 August. [Agenda]
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #25, August 16

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - QuickStatements and Distributed Wikidata games Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Collaboration, contribution and use of Wikidata and Wikipedia by academic libraries (in Greek). YouTube
  • Librarians work to broaden Vanderbilt’s research reputation with Wikidata tools. "To speed up the creation of metadata about faculty and their publications, Steven Baskauf, data science and data curation specialist for libraries, developed “VanderBot,” a set of scripts that can read and write to Wikidata, greatly improving the efficiency by which Vanderbilt’s faculty are discoverable through Wikidata".

• Tool of the week
  • OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher links Wikidata entries to places in OpenStreetMap.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wikidata2df, a Python package for easily turning a Wikidata SPARQL query into a pandas dataframe
  • With Wikidata Concept Tree Generator, you can enter any concept and instantly see a visualization of its extended relations. (Source)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: size comparison diagram, view
    • External identifiers: Legacy.com newspaper ID, ChemSynthesis ID, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID, Maitron des fusillés ID, Fototeka person ID, LibraryThing series ID, TOPCMB ID, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: image of entrance, extinction date, notation writer, raga, tala, SMARTS, Editio princeps, recording location
    • External identifiers: Sochy a města ID osoby, Sochy a města ID sochy, podvignaroda, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, European Investment Bank project ID, WordNet 3.1 Synset Id, cadastral municipality ID, NPR station ID, NYARC Discovery ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister-ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID, Trismegistos Texts ID
  • Query examples:
    • Ancestors of the current King of Spain color coded by sex or gender
    • Political alignments of the parties of world leaders (Source)
    • Female Mathematicians whose birth/death anniversary is today (Source)
  • Commons queries:
    • Map of images found in the medieval Atlas De Wit (source)
    • Things depicted with cats (source)

• Development
  • finalized designs for the query builder to start coding at the beginning of September
  • wrapping up the initial work on the design system so that we can start using the first pieces of it in the query builder development
  • working on properly linking redirects in recent changes, watchlist and co (phabricator:T255387)
  • addressed remaining security review comments about the Wikidata Bridge so that we can deploy it finally on the first Wikipedia
  • fixed a bug where string values had the wrong length limit (phabricator:T259440)
  • finishing the work of untangling Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repository extensions to make development easier

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

WP:OP

Hello Mdaniels5757. Thanks for your interest in and helping out with WPOP (and remind me to add MrClog if they return). Please be sure you've read this page. It's traditional to issue a little test to potential verified users. I first note that there are two unofficial mottos when it comes to WPOP. The first is, be chill. The second is, don't sound confident when you're not. Without further ado, please tell me something about these IPs, in the context of OPs:

• 36.74.53.222 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
• 122.155.168.74 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
• 69.10.203.202 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

(and I may be tempted to find a few more). Responses may include, but are not limited to, Would you block, not block, or unblock? How long for? etc. Thanks. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 19:31, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

• @Zzuuzz: OK, here goes. Note that I assume that (except for entries I can see in the history log) each IP has no deleted contributions.
  • 36.74.53.222 (talk · contribs · WHOIS): IPcheck shows two vendors listed the IP as a proxy. A "nice"/non-invasive nmap scan shows filtered ports, but no open ports. Ports 80 and 443 were among those filtered ports, but I could not connect either directly or attempting to use the IP as a proxy. WHOIS and BGP data don't say anything useful that I can tell. I'd say the result was  Inconclusive, and would not block as a proxy (although, of course, the short vandalism block was a good call).
  • 122.155.168.74 (talk · contribs · WHOIS): I have two dueling theories of what's going on here. Based on WHOIS and BGP data, I first suspected that it's a webhost of some sort ("CLOUD" is in the network's name, and the ISP markets some cloud/hosting products). IPcheck shows that two vendors listed the IP as a proxy, which gave my suspicion some more weight. It also showed one vendor listing this a compromised server, however. A ("nice"/non-invasive) nmap scan shows some open ports that have been used in viruses/trojans, which gives the compromised server theory some more weight. Lacking enough evidence to make a decision either way on whether this is a {{colocationwebhost}} or a {{zombie proxy}}, I would conclude that this IP is  Likely something bad, err on the side of caution, and recommend a {{zombie proxy}} block for 1-6 months.
  • 69.10.203.202 (talk · contribs · WHOIS): The IP was recently blocked (globally and locally) as an open proxy. The ports ST47ProxyBot provided are now closed, so the original reason for the just-expired block is now invalid.
    I ran a check anyways. IPcheck shows IPQualityScore listing the IP as a proxy (IPQualityScore has the most false positives, in my experience). Additionally, the IP is listed on SPAMHAUS' CBL as being a part of a botnet as of July 17. Based on a desire to confirm SPAMHAUS' listing, I ran a nice/non-invasive nmap scan. I found that ports were open that variously suggested either a compromised machine or a webhost (mostly FTP, SSH, telnet, HTTP, and HTTPS, but also 5101 and 5431). I was unable to connect to the open HTTP(s) ports, either normally or as a proxy. For legal/ethical reasons, I did not attempt to connect to telnet, FTP or SSH. The IP has not edited since the last block. Given the array of open ports, I'd declare it  Possible that the IP some form of proxy. Given the lack of recent disruption, I'd recommend a requester to come back if the IP starts editing again.
    --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 20:25, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Here's a quick response. 36.74.53.222 was an open proxy, used by a banned user who uses open proxies. It was almost certainly open on port 8080 until at least the following day. A short block was indeed appropriate, though it could have been a few days really. 122.155.168.74 was again used by a (different) banned user who uses open proxies (typically NordVPN). Confirmation of this one eludes me however... there are servers throughout the range, for example at 122.155.168.71 .. 75, 76, 78, ..., so I also conclude this is {likely}, and probably a commercial VPN. As for the final IP, I think that's a pretty good summary. I suspect there might be some ISP filtering proxy with some dodgy security, but that's just a quick guess. Possible it is. I'll be back, probably within a day or two. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 21:05, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Cameron Archer

How do I post this link to his thread correctly, then?

https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=60091.0HVLegion (talk) 21:13, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi User:HVLegion. It depends on what purpose the link is (e.g. to cite something, for further information, etc.). First, I have a question: do you have any kind of connection to heroesandvillains.info (like working for them, being an admin/moderator, etc)? --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 21:18, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

I am the Moderator 'Legion'.HVLegion (talk) 21:19, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

The purpose is to provide further information. HVLegion (talk) 21:20, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

@HVLegion: OK. Taking a closer look at the link, I think that that's something that Wikipedia avoids linking to. See WP:ELNOT numbers 10 and 11. --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 21:24, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Message from User:AnomieBOT about Template:Twocopies

AnomieBot put a message on its talk page that pinged me about {{Twocopies}}, saying something about too many parameters. You removed the message. I would like to understand what happened. That template doesn't take parameters, and is just used to display an unpleasant message on a draft to the submitter of the draft. So am I correct then that the bot was confused, and you removed the message because the bot was confused? If not, please explain. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:30, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon: It has nothing to do with parameters, but rather substitutions. The bot is supposed to complain if the template is WP:TRANSCLUDED more than 5 times, so a human can modify its settings. However, since the bot was wrong about it being transcluded too much, I removed the warning. Cheers, --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 18:00, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

So the bot was confused. The template is marked as a subst-only template, and I have been letting the bot subst it, just because it is easier not to have insert the subst: before the name of the template. So if the bot is complaining for no real reason, I will let it complain and let it do its job. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:31, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Unblock request (autoblocked)

This user's request to have autoblock on their IP address lifted has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Mdaniels5757 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Mdaniels5757 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

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Block message:

Autoblocked because your IP address was recently used by "Whazza1". The reason given for Whazza1's block is: "Sock puppetry by User:Itsrobloxhereyt".

• Blocking administrator: ‪CaptainEek (talk • blocks)

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Accept reason: Autoblock lifted. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 17:30, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

• I just realized what the problem was: I created the account Whazza1 as part of an ACC request. --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 18:50, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

List of Nick Jr. original programming

Could I just get a check if I've moved back this article properly? As per your move on June 29 based on the consensus at Talk:List of programs broadcast by History (TV channel)#Requested move 22 June 2020, the article was moved from List of programs broadcast by Nick Jr. to List of Nick Jr. original programming. However, today, user SpaceRacersFan14 decided to revert that movie, I've since reverted that move itself. I'd just love to get it checked that I've moved it back the way it was properly and that there isn't anything I (or they) did wrong. Thanks in advance. Magitroopa (talk) 16:22, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

@Magitroopa: Looks good to me! --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 16:26, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Adminship stuff

Broken off from the above "Unblock request (autoblocked)" section

• Wait, what? I came by here to say "oh you got a bot too!"--and saw this, and as chance would have it, I blocked a whole bunch of Whazzas the other day. Small world! Drmies (talk) 01:44, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • @Drmies: Haha yeah. This definitely taught me a lesson: don't create any Whazzas at ACC, lest I get autoblocked again... --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 01:47, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
    • You don't have admin glasses yet so you can't see my log, but there's Whazza2 and Whazza3 in there. BTW I'm convinced they are incarnations of an older sock, someone who edits road articles, but I can't remember who that was. Get yourself those special glasses! Drmies (talk) 01:49, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
      • @Drmies: Who knows, maybe in that September flight! Although, thinking more about it, perhaps a bit later—I'd probably need to create 2 GAs or 1 FA first if I wanted to pass, as that seems to be a baseline for RFA passage recently. (I also ought to do it anyways—I've been meaning to do meaningful content creation for a while.) --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 01:55, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
        • What people will want to see is that you have a sense of what article writing is about. You don't need an FA or a GA for it, although that would help, but many RfA regulars do look at editors like you with some reservations (I just went through your contributions) and will think you won't be able to imagine what it's like to write, and so you might not have the appropriate...what's the word, sympathy for content contributors. But that kind of experience is not hard to get. I mean, The Afersata: an Ethiopian novel and Because of Women are still redlinks--how crazy is that? Anyway, you certainly can make a case that you can put the tools to good use with all this "maintenance" stuff that you do, the tech stuff. I was looking at your rights, and people who trusted you enough to grant you various powers include Primefac, TonyBallioni, Xaosflux, Stwalkerster, and Zzuuzz--those are big names.

          If you want to start writing some content, I'll be glad to help you out. It can be fun. Let me know. Drmies (talk) 02:12, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

          • For what it’s worth, I was thinking about sending you an email on this myself. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:16, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

            Stop, I'm blushing :). To be honest, I wasn't really considering making Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Mdaniels5757 blue anytime soon, but perhaps I will after making a couple articles (I could try to run without that experience, but I imagine my chances in an RfA would be significantly lower, and I ought to do so anyways). --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 03:02, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

More potential redirects to Template:End

Per your recent TFD which ended in a useful set of redirects, I stumbled across a couple more. These 12 results may need to be checked to see which ones are truly identical to {{end}}, but most of them appear to be (the Ratings table template appears to have additional code). – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:00, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

• Draft:FUN88 Group
• Draft:Sirron Norris

Thanks, MDanielsBot (talk) 04:00, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #429

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

• Discussions
  • Closed requests for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516 (all successful)
  • New request for comments: How (un)important is preserving the historic character of an item?

• Events
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #26, August 23

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: Editing Wikidata with information from Son jarocho (in Spanish). YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Entity Explosion: a new multilingual Chrome browser extension. "Taking the power of Wikidata with me wherever I go across the web!". Uses API calls to the Wikidata Query Service to match the URL you are browsing on to a Wikidata item, and then displays data and links to other sites about the same entity. (Video)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Bridge v1 will be deployed on Catalan Wikipedia on August 18th
  • New description and screenshots for the Simple Query Builder project, feedback welcome
  • Help:Dataset sizing

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: alternative form
    • External identifiers: Henrik Ibsen writings ID, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures, Manioc book ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, Unsplash User ID, EIB project ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: latest start date, earliest end date, Number of votes after transferring, map URL, type of archaeological site, record number, front and back matter
    • External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, Panteono de edukado.net, LSG local body code, MobyGames attribute ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), Proballers player ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, Chrome Webstore extension ID, CTHS publication ID, LBS Physical ID, GBIF occurence ID
  • Query examples:
    • Largest collections of Picasso content (Source). The National Gallery of Art holds the most with 303 objects
    • Bubble chart of snooker world champions (Source)
    • Map of streets in Tillydrone named after WW2 military leaders (Source)

• Development
  • Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (phabricator:T259440)
  • Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in situations when MediaWiki usually does (phabricator:T255387)
  • Wrapping up the initial work on the design system so it is ready for use in the first new feature (Query Builder)
  • Fixed the serialization of statements on Forms and Senses not containing the datatype (phabricator:T249206)
  • Wrapping up work on the first version of Federated Properties so that other Wikibase installations can use Wikidata's Properties instead of having to maintain their own
  • Worked on ensuring the data from the linked data interface at Special:EntityData is always up to date after an edit has been made (phabricator:T128486)
  • Enabling clients to use Lua to request labels, descriptions and aliases in some (often minority) languages even when they are not content languages (phabricator:T259340, phabricator:T260118)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:03, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-34

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

• If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [2]
• The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [4][5]

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20:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Substitute Template:Hot100brasil.com

Why would you substitute {{Hot100brasil.com}} when it was deleted because such a notice was unnecessary. Now we still have the notice but we can't easily update it. I think it should just be removed. --Trialpears (talk) 14:24, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

@Trialpears: Yup, realized that halfway through lol (and rollbacked before you posted this). Listing this (and the now-blank editnotices) for deletion now. —Mdaniels5757 (talk) 14:27, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

I guess I was a bit quick there. Thanks! --Trialpears (talk) 14:42, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

(Sorry I didn't notice this earlier) No worries! —Mdaniels5757 (talk) 04:21, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #430

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata distributed birthday in October. You can organize an (online) event with your local group or favorite WikiProject! See also: calendar in progress, information for organizers, 24-hours online meetup
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will talk about gadgets and user scripts. 25 August. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #27, August 30
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Commonsense Knowledge in Wikidata (via ArXiv)
  • Wikidata-focused presentations at the Workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research" taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online.
    • Sarasua, Cristina, & Mietchen, Daniel. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272
    • Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266 (also on YouTube)
  • Video: How to add missing descriptions to Wikidata using QuickStatments tool (in Arabic) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #16 Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata editing basics (in Chinese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Sophox allows for SPARQL querying of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap in a single query

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Two new grant programs from WikiCite, in support of open citations and linked bibliographic data.

Full documentation, eligibility requirements, selection criteria, program design principles, and contacts at the links. Apply by 1 October.

1. Project & events [$2-10k]
2. e-Scholarships [per-diem calculated on your city; 1-5 people (single, or as a 'remote group') for 2-4 days, for COVID-era "stay at home" projects. Paid in advance living allowance, no expense report required.]

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: SMARTS notation, tala, raga, recording location, law or regulation identifying number, earliest end date, latest start date, extinction date
    • External identifiers: Filmstarts title ID, Trismegistos text ID, SPLC Individual ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID, BHF magazine ID, Macedonian cadastral municipality ID, Monumentbrowser ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938 ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister ID, BHF author ID, Proballers ID, Opera Online work ID, Opera Online composer ID, Opera Online opera house ID, CTHS publication ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Namesakes, Engineer's Line Reference, bibliography, external auditor, ITF-identificatiecode voor speler 2020, rotated image, mirrored image, combined from, overlaid from, number of deaths in senior care homes, number of cases intensive care, negotiated by, is solution to, Commons category for the exterior of the item, Number of taxpayers, medium
    • External identifiers: Abbreviations related to ancient authors and works and to academic works regarding classical antiquity, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Emporis company ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, FBref.com squad ID, Operator licence number, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Istrapedia ID, monumenta.ch ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Art Bonus ID, The Living New Deal ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, UG Digital Collections, jewishencyclopedia.com ID, Fancyclopedia 3 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, Grandterrier.net ID
  • Query examples:
    • British MPs with sons- or daughters-in-law who were also MPs (source)
    • MPs with the largest number of children or childen-in-law who became MPs (source)
    • Descendants of Robert Emett (born 1729), with counts of sitelinks and external IDs for them and their spouses (source)
    • Programming languages written by women (Source)
    • Bar chart showing the number of research output (articles, etc) annotated with a SARSCoV2 proteins as 'main subject' (Source)
    • Female soccer players who have a (known) social media account (Source)
    • Largest cities in France by population (Source)
  • Commons queries:
    • Works in Helsinki, and their copyright status (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Gazetteer

• Development
  • Deployed the first version of the Wikidata Bridge to Catalan Wikipedia
  • Creating Grafana Dashboards for the new Wikidata Bridge so we have some data to help us determine which datatypes to support next for example (phabricator:T260532)
  • Finished working on ensuring Labels of Items in some unusual, often minority, languages are still available on Wikipedia and other clients (phabricator: T259340)
  • Fixed error messages for API modules that will not work with the first version of Federated Properties (phabricator:T258558)
  • Working on improving how ORES judges the quality of an Item to make it more accurate
  • Started coding on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:09, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you on behalf of bot

Thank you thoughtful Mdaniels5757 for making bot happy! Poor bots not get much appreciation! bishzilla _ROARR!! pocket 20:35, 10 August 2020 (UTC).

@Bishzilla: Please don't eat me Yes. Bot need happy. I give bot {{Batteries for you}} gift soon. —Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 20:40, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

[Judiciously:] Good gift. Give regards little User:MDanielsBot! bishzilla _ROARR!! pocket 20:43, 10 August 2020 (UTC).

Duplicate G13 notices

Hi Mdaniels. TNT has received the same G13 notice six times (once per day). — JJMC89 (T·C) 03:30, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

@JJMC89: Yeah, that's not supposed to happen. Disabled that for now, will look at it in the morning. Best, —Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 03:38, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diplomacy

Thank you for your efforts in stepping up to mediate a dispute between two Template editors. I appreciate your objectivity, wisdom, and good faith attempts to move things forward without admin intervention. It seems like you were on the right track to resolving the dispute and I 100% would have closed the thread in deference to your mediation if another admin had not interjected in order to threaten one party. Thus a bilateral warning had to be issued for the sake of fairness. Anyway, this kind of stepping-up to mediate disputes is rare and it is very much appreciated. Thanks again, and keep up the good work. ~Swarm~ {sting} 05:34, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

• @Swarm: Belated, but: Thank you for the barnstar and your kind words! —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 15:59, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Why aren't you an admin?

Hi, I was going to advise you to refrain from closing discussions when you don't have the technical access to fully carry out the closure yourself, even if it seems like a no-brainer. (Referencing Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2020_August_20#Template:Tfd_instructions.) However, a superficial review of your contributions to date makes me think you might be an asset to the project as an administrator. Any reason you haven't yet put yourself forward for the mop? Aervanath (talk) 22:40, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Only a day after the last such thread got archived. This is just going to keep happening, Mdaniels5757. – bradv🍁 23:44, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

@Aervanath and Bradv: Thank you both for saying this. I'm considering doing so soon™, but want to have more substantial content creation work first (both because it'd be useful at RfA, and any successful RfA of mine would probably make my content contributions more sparse).
Also, with regard to NACs as delete, my understanding was that delete closures of TfDs are acceptable per Wikipedia:Non-admin closure#Templates for discussion. However, a review of the relevant RfC shows that those are only for orphan closures. I'll seek clarification on WT:TFD on which is accurate.
Best, —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 15:58, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

File:Milwaukeebears.png FFD close

I get your close of this file, but just want to point out that file was already licensed as PD when it was nominated; so, it technically can't be a candidate for PD. The problem was that the nominator was trying to apply WP:NFCC to a file that isn't subject to NFCC; that's equivalent to applying BLP to an article or article content not covered by BLP. If the nominator had challenge the file's PD license, then that would've be an acceptable nomination; it might still have been misguided, but that could've been discussed. Trying to claim NFCC applies to files that aren't non-free, however, is non-starter and there's nothing to discuss.

Finally, just a personal observation so please only take it as such; it might be better to word your close a little more neutrally so that it doesn't seem like a WP:SUPERVOTE. I get there's a lot of frustration with what's happened here withe these nominations; if you want to say the file's obviously "PD-logo", however, it would probably be better to do so as a WP:!VOTE instead. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:04, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

I just want to add that I appreciate you taking the time to try and help sort some of these files out. Some probably needed to be discussed, but the sheer number of files nominated on that day means it's going to take more time than perhaps is usually needed to figure out what those files are. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:13, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

@Marchjuly: You're right on that one, I've reworded it. Yeah, I should have been a bit more neutral in wording my closes; I was kinda pissed :). Cheers, —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 14:34, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #431

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

• Events
  • Past: Editing contest - Members of the 3rd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana. By Global Open Initiative - YouTube (1), (2)
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 1 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, September 2nd at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT). Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata birthday events organizers call, September 2nd at 19:00 CEST.
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #28, September 6
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18 Facebook, YouTube, September 5 at 19.00 UTC
  • Upcoming: Onam label-a-thon (September 1st and 2nd): Online label-a-thon to improve Wikidata items related to Kerala and Malayalam on this Onam holidays.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: How to use the Wikidata Query Service, by Dr Chris Langley
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Creating a Wikidata item (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • WikiCite and bibliographic data on Wikidata, how to contribute and how to view it with Scholia (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way - article by Lydia Pintscher in the Wikipedia Signpost

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension that displays Wikidata items while browsing the web, adds missing IDs and extracts information from websites to Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.
  • WMF will be performing data center maintenance operations by switching all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020. You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for up to an hour from 14:00 UTC
  • The Wikidata community now has a channel on the newly-established Wikimedia Chat service.
  • reconciler, a Python wrapper for Open Refine's API to reconcile pandas data frames with Wikidata items.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Butcher tableau, front and back matter, external auditor
    • External identifiers: edukado.net Panteono ID, Chrome Webstore extension ID, PARADISEC Catalog, NPR station ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Emporis company ID, Art Bonus ID, British Museum object ID, monumenta.ch ID, The Living New Deal ID, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: parent superproperty, publisher of, performed at, Barcelona Public art identifier, opening hours (v.3), Fanbase name, aerial view, ground clearance, axle track, placeholder text element ID, displacement, Deutsche Bahn station abbreviation, entry in abbreviations table, Liturgical rank
    • External identifiers: NHK Archives Portal person ID, EPA Ecoregion Level 1 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 2 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 4 Code, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945, Firefox add-on ID, London Stock Exchange company, Fatcat ID, NDL law ID, e-Gov law ID, OFAC sanction ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, YUAG ID, Grove Music Online ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe person ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of cities and towns in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Map of structures that have won architectural awards - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Birth places of Buffalo Sabres players (Source)
    • Timeline of all of Bird’s tunes (Source)
    • Approximate proportion of people called "John" in any given UK Parliament since 1372 (Source)
    • People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade of birth (Source)
    • Location of decommissioned aircraft - OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
    • Railway network in Czechia (Source)
    • People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade (of birth) (Source)
    • List of locations of Woolf's books (Source)

• Development
  • Working on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well
  • Polishing remaining pieces of the first version of Federated Properties to make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in other Wikibase instances
  • Continuing to work on improving the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item to make it more accurate

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:49, 31 August 2020 (UTC)