User talk:Nathan2055/Archive 1

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Hello, Nathan2055, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Mario Kart Wii. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Watchlist problems

For some reason, new titles on my watchlist aren't bolded. How can I get them to be bolded? Help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nathan2055 (talk • contribs) 22:53, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Solved on IRC. --Nathan2055^talk 23:36, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Uh oh....(again)

Yikes! I'm still having trouble with getting new titles on my watchlist to be bolded. See the above section and this section for more info. Help!!!!!!!!!!! --Nathan2055^talk 17:04, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Once again, solved on IRC. --Nathan2055^talk 17:48, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Look, I was doing a test in your sandbox, OK? I'm not that forgetful.

Time stamping for archive bot. --Nathan2055^talk 19:29, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Welcome!

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I'm welcoming myself to have a link directory handy. --Nathan2055^talk 19:23, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:Bulbapedia_logo.png

Thanks for uploading or contributing to File:Bulbapedia_logo.png. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use. Suggestions on how to do so can be found here.

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If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Melesse (talk) 03:34, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

What would be a rationale for using a logo in a Wikipedia article? --Nathan2055^talk 18:06, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Oh, and the Bulbapedia article is now up for review at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Bulbapedia‎. --Nathan2055^talk 19:59, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Bulbapedia logo.png

A tag has been placed on File:Bulbapedia logo.png, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

The article is currently under debate, and I can't use this image in fair use until I complete review to recreate the salted page (Bulbapedia).

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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion," which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Nathan2055^talk 02:47, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

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Mario FAC

Hi Nathan2055. Thank you for getting the courage to try out FAC! Unfortunately, I've had to archive your nomination. Generally, when an article already has some identified issues (like the comments on the article talk page), it's better to get those fixed before nominating the article. We expect articles to already meet the FA criteria when they are nominated. Take some time to work on those and then you can bring the article back to FAC. Good luck!! Karanacs (talk) 20:18, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} Alright. --Nathan2055^talk 21:22, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

File:Linking book avatar.jpg

I've nominated it for deletion, as it is a copyright violation. Copyrighted things do not belong on Commons, and taking a picture of something doesn't make it your own work. For example, something like File:Funorb-Arcanists.png can exist on Wikipedia only because the image is ridiculously low resolution, used as little as possible (exactly one article), and that it has a rationale for using copyrighted images in a free encyclopedia (It's worth the time when you read those little boxes full of text). If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me, or you can place {{helpme}} on this page with your question below it. Thanks. --Σ ^talk_contribs 02:17, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

It's not a copyright violation that I know of, I got it at http://en.mystlore.com/wiki/File:Linking_book_direbo.jpg under a cc-by-nc and modified it. If I'm correct, since it's a modification under cc-by-sa, I can legally license it under cc-by-sa. --Nathan2055^talk 21:27, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

It's a screenshot from a game, though. --Σ ^talk_contribs 21:33, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

But it's licensed under cc-by-nc. I don't think it's copyright. --Nathan2055^talk 21:40, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

I suggest you can ask Δ for clarification - He knows much more about non-free content and licenses than I do. I saw the file as a screenshot of a copyrighted game and nothing else, but I may be wrong. --Σ ^talk_contribs 02:03, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Just like wikipedia is under a free license we still use non-free files (which cannot be released under a free license) commons:Commons:Derivative_works is a good read. Since the original is copyrighted any derivatives will also be copyrighted. ΔT _{^{The only constant}} 15:32, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, yes. I think it would fall under copyright, but I got the screenshot at http://en.mystlore.com/wiki/File:Linking_book_direbo.jpg which supposedly licensed it under cc-by-nc. Does this matter at all? They may have gotten copyright owner's permission, but I'm not sure. --Nathan2055^talk 17:16, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Several points, there is no license tag for that file, just their general site license which may or may not apply to their images. The odds are really really slim that it was actually released. Also you shouldnt use wiki's as a source because they almost always fail WP:RS. ΔT _{^{The only constant}} 17:23, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

OK, yes. I think that is a copyright violation. Thanks for your help! --Nathan2055^talk 19:02, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Regardless: CC-BY-NC is not compatible with Wikipedia, only CC-BY, CC-0, CC-BY-SA. And anything under CC-BY or CC-BY-SA is still "copyrighted"; we just consider those licenses to be non-restrictive enough to count as "free", which is one goal of Wikipedia (to be a source of free, in terms of both cost and content reusability). Non-free images, the category under which CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-ND, etc. or "All Rights Reserved" would fall, are only to be used in very few, specific circumstances outlined at this page and may not exist on user pages. If this copyright stuff (and this is not even complicated) seems too much for you right now, just stay away from uploading any picture that you did not create yourself, as well as pictures you took that are screenshots, cover art, posters or artwork, sculptures or public art in the United States made after 1923 (as well as other countries). That should keep any other copyright issues until you get acquainted with the basics of U.S. copyright law, which might take a few months. Cheers, /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 00:18, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Yes, but in the case of an derivative of a cc-by-nc, couldn't I license it under cc-by-sa, considering cc-by-nc isn't copyleft/sharealike? --Nathan2055^talk 15:50, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

I can't see the now-deleted file, so I'm not sure how much it was modified. (Obviously you probably changed more than one pixel.) But I'm fairly sure that you couldn't take a work licensed for noncommercial use, modify it, and then license that for commercial use. Of course, I could be completely wrong. But regardless, there was no evidence that the screenshot was licensed under the CC-BY-NC; the original game must be under that license for the screenshot's license to count for anything. /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 18:11, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I see what you mean. Thanks! --Nathan2055^talk 19:18, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} Archive this please, ClueBot. --Nathan2055^talk 19:47, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

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Thank You!

Thank you for your comments about my edit of 'Super Mario Bros. Mii', I will take on board what you said. (B5hcurra) (Talk)

{{done}} Alright, thanks! --Nathan2055^talk 17:20, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Help request

I was trying to fix the image code on Eve McVeagh, but for some reason it won't fix itself. It shows wikicode around the border of the picture. Can someone figure out what the problem is, and then report at the article's talk page (and here)? Thanks! --Nathan2055^talk 20:13, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Some Infobox-templates don't need the file code. just include the image code, the rest will be "included" by the template. mabdul 20:16, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} Ah, OK. Some just need a file name. I'll remove the comment from the talk page. Thanks! --Nathan2055^talk 20:20, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

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{{done}} Great Signpost this week! --Nathan2055^talk 22:05, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Articles for creation/Clogau Gold

Hello Nathan2055, thank you for recently reviewing my article, and I'm glad to hear that you like it. I have made the amends that you suggested and wondered if you would like to re-review the article? Thank you Welshgolder (talk) 08:39, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

The "Design" section in the article sounds like an advertisement. Is it possible to rewrite the section to sound more neutral? That's what the wikify tag meant, I couldn't find a better tag. I think if that can be updated, it can be moved to the mainspace. --Nathan2055^talk 19:19, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Some suitable tags are at Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup#Style of writing - it's important to use a tag that is clear about what the problem is. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:03, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I've updated the tag to a better one. Also, Welshgolder, don't forget to place {{subst:AFC submission/submit}} at the top of your article to resubmit it. I'm watching it, so I'll see any updates. --Nathan2055^talk 20:37, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi Nathan2055, thank you for your review. I have re-written the Design section for you to take a look at. Let me know if this is in a better tone to how it was previously. Thank you.Welshgolder (talk) 08:38, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} Problem solved. --Nathan2055^talk 16:13, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Problems with status indictatior

As you can see above, my status indicator won't work. I keep clicking the link, but nothing will happen. Help! --Nathan2055^talk 03:10, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

It appears that you may need to bypass your cache. See WP:BYPASS. If you use Google Chrome, you will probably have to empty your cache completely. — This, that, and the other (talk) 07:26, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

I bypassed my cache, the links still don't do anything (they take me to an edit page, but nothing gets edited). --Nathan2055^talk 18:29, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

What's your browser? ~~Ebe123~~ ^talk_Contribs 20:35, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Google Chrome 14.0.835.18 dev-m. --Nathan2055^talk 21:54, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Press Command (Control on Windows), shift and R and it will work, or else do a report to google (On a mac, go to "chrome://bugreport/#0".) ~~Ebe123~~ ^talk_Contribs 22:03, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

It still won't work. Click one of the links above. It doesn't change the page. According to the link, it should blank the edit box, then add the status. --Nathan2055^talk 22:07, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

I think that its the template. I think that you should replace "{{StatusTemplate}}" by "{{User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate}}". It should work then, for now, I will just blank your status page. ~~Ebe123~~ ^talk_Contribs 22:43, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Still not working. I'm going to try the Qui system, let's see if that works. --Nathan2055^talk 23:13, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Qui seems to work. I think there is some kind of problem with the link in the other version. --Nathan2055^talk 23:19, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

For some reason, the "automatic edit" links on my status template have never worked for anyone other than me. I can't figure out why, but I wouldn't recommend using it. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 04:57, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} Well, I guess that solves it. --Nathan2055^talk 18:00, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

"Copyedit the article and then resubmit it"

Nathan, thank you for your work on my article Jean-Philippe de Lespinay but you are too succinct in your instructions. I'm not a professional editor or an expert of Wikipedia, you probably guessed... If I'm not mistaken, copyedit means "Make the copy clear, correct, concise, complete, and consistent". Which of these five aspects I need to improve ? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pat grenier (talk • contribs) 14:45 (UTC), 8 August 2011

{{done}} Answering second request. Nathan2055^talk 16:36, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

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Rich(MTCD)^T|C|E-Mail 17:12, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} Nathan2055^talk 20:33, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Katong Shopping Centre

A tag has been placed on Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Katong Shopping Centre, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Approved AFC request

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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion," which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Nathan2055^talk 17:17, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} Deleting redirect of old AFC submission. --Nathan2055^talk 17:18, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Michael Campbell (musician) (born 1985)

A tag has been placed on Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Michael Campbell (musician) (born 1985), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

AFC submission accepted

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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion," which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Nathan2055^talk 21:30, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} Nathan2055^talk 21:33, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Michael Woolson

A tag has been placed on Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Michael Woolson, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

AFC submission accepted

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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion," which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Nathan2055^talk 21:32, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} Nathan2055^talk 21:33, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Adoption

{{Adoptoffer|Waterfox}}


— Waterfox ^~talk~ 22:59, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Certainly. I accept this offer! --Nathan2055^talk 23:31, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Great! One important page to read through is Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset. I'll also help you to identify the area you want to get yourself the most involved in. Here are a few:

• Vandal fighting
  • Recent changes patrol
  • New pages patrol
  • Usernames for attention
• Article work
  • Creating new articles and adding content
  • Improving articles by cleaning them up, fixing typos, etc.
  • Creating articles which were submitted by IP addresses
  • Deletion discussions
• Image maintenance

What are you most interested in? I suggest starting with some vandal fighting. — Waterfox ^~talk~ 23:53, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Sounds good! Should I start with a program like STiki? --Nathan2055^talk 00:23, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps it's just me, but my experiences with STiki have been rather bad. The tools which you'll find most useful, in my opinion, are Twinkle, for automating simple tasks, and Igloo and Huggle for recent changes patrolling. The latter two require the rollbacker user group, which I'll help you work on getting. — Waterfox ^~talk~ 01:50, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Alright, how should I go about getting rollback? --Nathan2055^talk 14:37, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

The standard is to have performed about 50 reverts using the undo feature or Twinkle before applying. How many do you think you've done? Also, make sure you're able to differentiate between vandalism and AGF edits / editing tests. — Waterfox ^~talk~ 17:26, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what they said when I first applied. I'm RCing with Twinkle right now, I almost caught some vandalism, but ClueBot reverted it before Twinkle could run. Sigh. I've CSDed some new pages, but haven't seen any vandalism. So far my count is zero. Are there any other ways I might spot some vandalism? --Nathan2055^talk 17:29, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Sincerely, I've had rollback for so long that I don't recall. But, you can go to Special:RecentChanges and hopefully spot some vandalism to revert. Look for large deletions or additions by IPs. Maybe Lupin's anti-vandal tool will be helpful. Other than that, watch Special:NewPages. New page patrolling isn't just about vandalism - you can make the occasional typo fix. When appropriate, tag as CSD. If there are some things to fix, you can use Twinkle's Tag feature to identify the issues. — Waterfox ^~talk~ 18:05, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

A few other things: even when I'm using Twinkle or Huggle, often enough ClueBot gets to reversion before I do, it's just the way it is. When you can, you should come on IRC so we can chat. You'll find me with the nick "kudu" there. — Waterfox ^~talk~ 18:08, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

I think I saw you on the help channel earlier. One other thing, I noticed STiki's page says it lets you go through ClueBot NG's flagged (but not auto-reverted) edits. Can Huggle and/or Igloo do that? If so, I'll use them once I revert enough vandalism. --Nathan2055^talk 19:46, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

I just saw you updated the vandalism level to two. Repeating characters? I reverted a good amount of vandalism but I didn't see any of that. I did report a spam account that was blocked a few minutes ago. This is fun, and easier than I thought, just using Twinkle! --Nathan2055^talk 20:18, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, apparently you left IRC at 17:10:07! It'd be cool if you came by while I'm there. Yeah, it was mostly a single user who I think was a spambot. I rarely see people say that reverting vandalism is fun, but I guess that's not my call! — Waterfox ^~talk~ 20:52, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

How many reverts do you think I've done? --Nathan2055^talk 16:57, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

According to my calculations, about 33. But hey, I do that in 5 minutes. ;) — Waterfox ^~talk~ 17:43, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

33 already?! I'll have rollback in no time! --Nathan2055^talk 17:47, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Think quality, not quantity. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 17:50, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Demiurge, don't ask where he got it from. And Nathan, keep working! — Waterfox ^~talk~ 21:01, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks everyone! I'll keep working. --Nathan2055^talk 22:01, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Please read my permissions lesson and complete the assignment. Thanks! — Waterfox ^~talk~ 01:55, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

1. Additional abilities beyond those of a normal user.

2. All pages not protected in any way.

3. Any account with ten edits or more that has been live for at least four days.

4. IPs can only preform basic editing and use talk pages, registered accounts can use the other features.

5. Any account that is sysop or better.

6. Revert all consecutive edits made by a user to a page.

7. Reverting anything other than vandalism, with some exceptions.

8. Make more than six accounts a day from one IP.

9. Be exempt from a range block.

10. Create pages without needing patrolling.

11. Give out the other privileges, and use UnwatchedPages. They can also updated the MediaWiki interface. Finally, they can protect, unprotect, undelete, and block.

12. Using Requests for Adminship. You typically need 70% majority to pass.

13. Give out adminship.

14. Have full access to a users permissions.

15. IP address info.

16. The ability to totally delete a contribution.

17. Have a particular need for the tool.

That should complete your test. --Nathan2055^talk 00:42, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm continuing to revert vandalism, do you think I'm ready to request rollback? --Nathan2055^talk 16:27, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Just a few notes: a bureaucrat's duty is also to rename users. Please note that stewards can change any permission on any wiki, and also have implicit sysop rights everywhere. Finally, oversight doesn't delete data - it just hides the data to make it invisible to anyone but other oversighters. I am currently reviewing your reverts to see if you would be ready to request rollback. — Waterfox ^~talk~ 17:06, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

It seems that you have accumulated about 47 reverts. Just do a few more, and then hop right along to WP:PERM/R. — Waterfox ^~talk~ 17:10, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright, thanks! --Nathan2055^talk 17:12, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Well, I didn't get it. They said 50 reverts was too few for a editor that has only been around for about a month. What should I do? --Nathan2055^talk 21:25, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Two things that caused your request to be turned down: 1) you made a premature first request only 4 days ago, and 2) your request was handled by a relatively strict admin, our beloved Salvio giuliano. There is not much you can do about that. But next time, you can consider asking an admin directly on their talk page, as that'll allow for more discussion. Here are a few you can consult: Fastily, HJ Mitchell or Courcelles.

In the meantime, you can try doing some new page patrolling while continuing to revert with Twinkle or godmode-light. You can also try some content work, such as AFC. — Waterfox ^~talk~ 20:32, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Some thoughts on that. First, it's not a good idea to react to being denied rollback at WP:PERM/R, by going and canvassing an individual administrator instead. In a sense, that is asking one administrator to overrule another - it's not appropriate. Instead, just take the advice that you were given; carry on reverting vandalism for two weeks from now, and then apply at WP:PERM/R again. If your adopter is checking your contributions to make sure you're doing it appropriately, then it shouldn't be a problem.

Second, new page patrol is not a good place to dive into, unless you are really sure that you thoroughly understand notability, verifiability, WP:BLP, the criteria for speedy deletion, and how new page patrolling works. The suggestion to work on developing content, is a much better idea. Pick a topic area that you're interested in, and work on improving some articles and adding sourced information. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:27, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll give AFC a try. One question, what's godmode-light? --Nathan2055^talk 02:09, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

I don't know - it's not a term I've ever heard before. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:19, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Godmode light. Also, asking a different administrator to grant one privileges that were previously declined by another administrator is known as admin shopping. --Σ ^talk_contribs 20:41, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the adminshopping link - I'd looked for it under WP:ADMINSHOPPING. Godmode light looks like the kind of thing that it would be unwise for a new editor to install.

A final thought is that it is a good idea to concentrate on adding referenced content to the encyclopedia (making sure to do so in one's own words), rather than concentrating on tools and buttons and scripts and rights. Twinkle is a vital tool, everything else is really a distraction. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:07, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

I would say, use your judgement for requesting rollback, and if it gets denied, don't worry, but if you keep on requesting and requesting, you probably would not get the privilege, even if you have extremly over the requirements. Reach 5 months and do lots of reverts in the mean-time. ~~Ebe123~~ ^talk_Contribs 22:52, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Godmode-light looks to be just what it says. A light version of Twinkle with just rollback buttons. You might as well just use Twinkle. All I use are a few small gadgets that do things like add edit links for the lead section of a page or run citation bot in one click. My only scripts are a unread watchlist item marker, a page count gadget (useful for the GOCE's copyedit drives), and Lupin's anti-vandal tool (a gadget that adds a nice interface for recent changes patrolling). I have Igloo installed as well, but it doesn't work unless I have the rollback right. I've been going through AFC these days, I'm going to join the welcome committee. There's certainly lots to do! --Nathan2055^talk 21:28, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} I've got to get this off my page to try and make it more manageable, make a new message if need be. --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 19:38, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

The Old Christian Koran

What would be a constructive edit changing this http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis&oldid=442530469 very strange thing that a Hebrew text is called by its christian counterpart? 79.254.156.189 (talk) 16:48, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure. I believed the edit to be vandalism so I reverted it. If it is true, try bringing it up at the talk page where more people might understand. --Nathan2055^talk 17:12, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Nathan, reverting the edit was the correct thing to do (a close inspection of the edit and edit summary reveals that they appear intended to make a WP:POINT), but it would have been better to supply a polite and meaningful edit summary of your own. Also, beware of "I believed the edit to be vandalism". The edit definitely needed reverting - whether it can be called vandalism or not, is quite another thing. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 17:39, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. They did appear to be making a point, I guess it's partly my fault. What should I do now? --Nathan2055^talk 17:41, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

You are all right. It was making a point and could be considered vandalism (the edit comment should make this clear, i think). "Hebrew Bible" is used by christian theologians and they have every right to do that. I was just angry to read this in the beginning of the genesis article because it makes this an article from the christian perspective from the very start. And i belive this shouldnt in a neutral encyclopedic. 79.254.156.189 (talk)

That should be brought up on the talk page, not by vandalizing the article. If there is a neutrality dispute, then the article should be wikified. --Nathan2055^talk 17:51, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Wow. The page is already marked so i can no longer edit it. After just one edit. I wanted to change "Hebrew Bible" to "Hebrew scripture", but cant now. 79.254.156.189 (talk) 18:05, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

"Marked"? It doesn't appear to be semi-protected. What do you mean? --Nathan2055^talk 19:17, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

I confirm that this page is not protected. — Waterfox ^~talk~ 14:02, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Does he have a ban on this page? I'm not sure how to check that. --Nathan2055^talk 15:31, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Just to clarify topic bans aren't enforced by the software - quite simply, the banned user has to abide by the ruling, or he will be blocked. — Waterfox ^~talk~ 19:32, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes, so how can he not edit it? There's no block and it's not protected, so his edit should be possible. --Nathan2055^talk 19:37, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 19:39, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

RE: Glen Martin Elementary School article submission.

Hi Nathan, just wanted to discuss my article submission with you a little bit. I am new to Wikipedia and this is my first article submission so any advise you can give me would probably help. I chose to submit this article on Glen Martin Elementary School as my first attempt at an article because it is a little known one room school house I attended for 4-5th grade. I was a unique experience. There is little information on the school that I could find online. I could actually see if Bear Valley Unified School District has any historical information about Glen Martin. Admittedly I know the article is not very notable but I couldn't think of what to contribute to Wikipedia that isn't already here. Perhaps maybe I could contribute something else, any suggestions? I know my article sucks lol but in my defense, I was hoping to mainly learn about the process. I wasn't sure if it worked like a forum or not where one begins a subject or thread and everyone then discusses are adds to it and then someone else revises the content?

So I don't waste anybody's time including my own, I need to know how in depth I need to get with an article submission for it to be considered in the future.

Thanks for your input,

Chris Lingford

— Preceding unsigned comment added by CLingford (talk • contribs) 03:42 (UTC), 8 August 2011

The article looks a lot better now, it's gotten several edits. I'm going to add some cleanup tags. One suggestion: See also is typically used for linking to other Wikipedia articles. You might want to use the PDF as a reference instead. Nathan2055^talk 16:31, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Also, using the article wizard will help you with article creation. You are also given a chance to submit your article to WikiProject Articles for creation, which will allow a member of that WikiProject (such as myself) to review the article before it's moved to the mainspace. Also, read the info that was auto-posted to your talk page when I nominated the page for deletion. That'll help you as well. Regards, Nathan2055^talk 20:38, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for all of your help Nathan! I am excited that my article got another chance. I will definitely be reading the auto-posted info to learn how to do things properly and use the wizards for article creation and WikiProject for article submission. I and others who attended Glen Martin thank you.

Sincerely,

Chris — Preceding unsigned comment added by CLingford (talk • contribs) 23:26, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} Happy to help! --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 19:40, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

"Copyedit the article and then resubmit it"

Hi Nathan,

Thank you for your work on my article Jean-Philippe de Lespinay but you are too succinct in your instructions. I'm not a professional editor or an expert of Wikipedia, you probably guessed... If I'm not mistaken, copyedit means "Make the copy clear, correct, concise, complete, and consistent". Which of these five aspects I need to improve, please ?

Thank you.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Pat grenier (talk • contribs) 14:47 (UTC), 8 August 2011

Hello, copyediting means solving spelling problems and other small edits. Your article also needs to be wikified. I'll add the cleanup tags. Sorry if I wasn't clear. Also, the reason your message may have not appeared is because I was talking about the <ref> tag above, and forgot to put in a nowiki tag, resulting in my talk page acting as a giant reference. Oops. Nathan2055^talk 16:40, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Just a word of advice here Nathan. The copyediting needs of the article were mostly just the use of incorrect verb tenses, which may possibly be due to the author not having English as a first language. It does need wikifying as well, but I don't think the grammar problems are serious enough on their own to prevent the article being moved to mainspace if/when everything else is OK. Simple grammatical errors are often most easily fixed either by the editor reviewing the article, or by another editor once the article is in mainspace. (Being in mainspace with an appropriate tag on it, makes it more likely that someone will get round to fixing it - if the original author doesn't know that they've made mistakes on the verb tenses, they won't be able to fix them). --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:45, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

"Hi Nathan, I just added the requested references on the first line. In the previous version, I had tried to correct verb tenses and "wikifaction" issues. I hope this answered your request." Pat grenier (talk) 15:57, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 19:44, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Creation of Article/ M J Desai

I have made neccessary changes by putting referances on above subject as suggested by you. Have a look at it. Thank You (Hokepoke (talk) 06:14, 9 August 2011 (UTC))

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{{done}} Nathan2055^{talk - review} 16:07, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive report

Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 backlog elimination drive report GOCE July 2011 backlog elimination drive progress graphs Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! Here is your end-of-drive report. Participation 50 people signed up for the drive, of which 39 participated. Thanks to all who copy edited articles and helped us reduce the backlogs in both the total articles and requests. We offered a bonus for copy edits from the Requests page, and have been somewhat successful in reducing that backlog, as a record 89 new requests were received in the month of July. Progress report During the month of July we reduced the backlog by 338 articles, or by about 8.5%. We did not reach our goal of a 10% reduction, but we came close, and did very well considering the small size of the group participating. Since our Backlog elimination drives began in May 2010, we have reduced the backlog by 4,708 articles. End-of-drive results can be found here. We will be handing out barnstars within the next week or two. Requests page Please remember that the GOCE Requests page is receiving a high number of requests, with the number of August requests already above three per day. Any assistance to help keep the backlog down would be greatly appreciated. Our next drive will be in September. We hope to see you there! Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

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Sir

Sir,

I've created a Wikipedia article on the US Army battalion in which I formerly served - 3rd Battalion, 10th Aviation Regiment. Twice you have denied this article publication (in the first case on the grounds of a lack of in-line citation, which I more than adequately corrected, and in the second on the grounds of a lack of third party sources). Unfortunately, third party sources are not abundant regarding this topic. I understand that my own personal experiences (which I cited in my initial rough draft) are most likely neither verifiable, nor - arguably - impartial by Wikipedia's standard, but I have listed numerous sources (admittedly, all Army-related publications) which should be construed as nothing less than quality journalism and, therefore, acceptable according to Wikipedia's guidelines.

Please advise me on the best means by which to have this article cleaned up according to Wikipedia's, and, accordingly, your standards. It most certainly deserves publication as a testament to the brave men and women who currently serve in harm's way under this battalion's unfurled banner.

Thank you for your time.

Very Sincerely And Respectfully,

R. E. Henrickson — Preceding unsigned comment added by R.E.Henrickson (talk • contribs) 02:34, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

I've done some research and you're right. Those publications would be considered reliable sources. However, the external links don't conform to the external links policy (WP:EL). I'll delete them, then review and submit the article. Regards, Nathan2055^{talk - review} 17:03, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} Moved to mainspace. I'm waiting for a DYK review to get the article on the main page. --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 20:38, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

biography - benoît Delbecq

Hello Nathan2055,

I am surprised you've proposed the article "Benoit Delbecq" for deletion.

I am Benoît Delbecq, living in Clichy, France, and I wrote this article by myself a few weeks ago, changed a little thing this morning indeed.

You might not be interested by my musical works - no problem with this - nevertheless I've had so many people from the US, South Africa, UK and other parts of the world writing or saying to me "why can't we find a biography of yours on Wikipedia ?" (there is one on the french Wikipedia since years) therefore I thought I might do it myself - so there's no distortion of information.

Now, nothing has been copied from other web pages except... mine (http://www.delbecq.net/bd/bd2.html) ! And you may easily find dozens of biographical references about my works on the international press online - or paper press.

Sincerely,

Haskjazz66 (talk) 19:48, 7 August 2011 (UTC)Benoît Delbecq

First off, you writing this article is a conflict of interest. You can't edit Wikipedia for your own interests. Secondly, the article didn't use in-text citations using <ref> tags. You can read more about at WP:CITE. It also wasn't written in Wikipedia's formal tone. I'd have to delete it even if there wasn't a conflict of interest. Also, now that I know your living, the article must also be written according to WP:BLP. --

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Nathan2055 (talk • contribs) 19:58 (UTC), 7 August 2011

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GOCE requests page

Hi

I have stricken your comment from the GOCE requests page and deleted the tag from the article The Care Bears Movie. Article size is not a good enough reason for us to refuse a copy-edit, GAN and FAC articles are often around that size and many are larger. I have removed the tag as it should not really be on there, though others might agree with you adding it. It probably would have been better to mention it on the talk page as a query rather than an absolute decision.

The size of an article (Wikipedia:Article size) can depend on various factors, especially whether or not a split article would be notable or not. Take a look at the one I am currently copy-editing Dacian bracelets - it is ≥9,000 words. The guidelines in the MOS page I have given you the link to says:

• 100kb - Almost certainly should be divided
• 60kb - Probably should be divided (although the scope of a topic can sometimes justify the added reading time)
• 50kb - May need to be divided (likelihood goes up with size)
• 40kb - Length alone does not justify division

The care bears article is 77 kb; however, it would not really justify being split off, as the sections are specific to the film and unlikely to warrant an article in their own right. The Dacian bracelets article is 91kb and I will probably recommend a split on the talk page, though that too would be difficult.

If you find an article is too big for you to comfortably copy-edit, simply remove your name from the articles entry on the GOCE requests page. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me or any of the GOCE co-ordinators on the coordinators page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Coordinators. Chaosdruid (talk) 22:37, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion converted to PROD: Ever Present Compensation Coefficient

Hello Nathan2055. I am just letting you know that I have converted the speedy deletion tag that you placed on Ever Present Compensation Coefficient to a proposed deletion tag, because I do not believe A1 applies to the page in question - it's not very short and you can (sort of) make out what it's about. I'd love to know whether it's a hoax or was meant to be serious, but the author hasn't edited for three years, so we'll never know. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:08, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Yep. The editor went to all the trouble to make an account just to create that page. Sigh. Well, thanks any way! Regards, Nathan2055^{talk - review} 17:10, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 20:54, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Golden Bomber article

hello, I just wanted to clear some points, if you don't mind. it was mentioned in the comment that links to social networking sites and blogs are against policy, but the thing is I translated the article from Japanese, and all these links, including twitter and blogs, were put on Japanese page, so I thought it was legit. does Japanese Wikipedia have rules different to other languages?

about the lead, I don't quite get what's wrong. my bad. I tried to do my best with translating and editing the original Japanese page, but I guess I failed (or again, Japanese Wikipedia contributions are reviewed not so strictly). anyway thanks for reviewing. Kinbaku eng (talk) 09:08, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes, Wikipedias in different languages have different policies and guidelines. Particularly relevant here are points 10, 11 and 13 of WP:ELNO. It's often worth removing all external links except for a single link to the official website (and occasionally important resources such as, in the case of actors etc., IMDB) and then starting with the question of what other external links really need to be added. (In reality, a great many Wikipedia articles don't follow this guideline correctly, but it's still a guideline.)

I think the lead just needs to be a bit longer - it should summarise the article. It need not be a direct translation of the Japanese version of the article.

When the article moves to mainspace, be sure to add a link on its talkpage as per Wikipedia:Translation (and/or perhaps mention the source of the article in the edit summary when moving to mainspace); this is to preserve attribution of the original source of the translated material. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 10:16, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

I agree with Demiurge above. The lead needs expansion. I haven't dealt with translated articles yet, so I might need some help. --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 16:10, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Travel Technology Interactive

Hi Nathan2055, Thanks for reviewing my article regarding Travel Technology Interactive. However, could you tell me a bit more why you consider there is no reliable sources? The company description is certified by IATA (International Air Transport Association) which we can say is a reliable source. It is however true that all the other sources are taken directly or indirectly from press releases. However, remaining with a neutral point of view and giving just the facts, shouldn't this be approved? News paper articles are taken from press releases and are nevertheless considered as reliable. Don't you think that as the only sources available (in english, as the company's managing director has been giving some interviews in French press) they should be valid? Waiting for your suggestions and comments.

--Ecnelis75014 (talk) 10:11, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Press releases aren't considered reliable sources in discussion of a company. The only time they are reliable sources is in discussion of a product, like at Super Mario 3D Land. Please read WP:RS. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - review} 16:14, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

1978 European Cup Final

Nathan 2055, perhaps I should have put something in the edit summary, and I'm sorry I didn't, but you must have seen the requester's comments at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/Requests#1978_European_Cup_Final, and he's right, you know. Your edits amount to replacing "ground" with "stadium" a few times, "extra-time" with "overtime" once, and some punctuation. "Overtime" is definitely wrong in the context of association football written in British English. "Home stadium" is all right, but "home ground" is also correct and is more usual. I just wanted to start from the base I could work from most directly. You did actually also remove the inuse tag I placed on the article, potentially exposing me to edit conflicts from others. I have to say it doesn't really feel as if you were assuming good faith on my part.

I see that you contribute mainly at times that are evening or night where I live, and I want to get on with the work. So, depending on when you next come online, I may have done a lot more. Can you allow it, please? --Stfg (talk) 23:11, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm sorry I edited the article. It appeared you simply undid my copyedit, and the summary didn't make since. I didn't catch the message on the talk page, so I was checking every else and was unable to find the message you spoke of. I don't want you to feel like you're not allowed to finish a copyedit. I guess I'm really not good at this. Sigh. I'm sorry. Regards, Nathan2055^{talk - review} 02:45, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the very gracious reply. I can see my edit summary didn't make it clear enough. I was trying to be discreet, but anyway, I'm sorry. Please don't take this episode to heart - your enthusiasm and cooperativeness shine through on this page and elsewhere. As to copy editing, you will probably get good at it with practice. It may be worth checking out how one of the really experienced copyeditors have done it in one of theirs. All of the GOCE admins regularly provide good examples.

I see you said in an earlier thread (now archived) "copyediting means solving spelling problems and other small edits". I think that understates it a bit. It also includes: MOS conformance (including things like WP:LAYOUT and WP:MOSLINK - overlinking is rife here, even in FACs); disambiguation; brief parenthetical explanation of terms that may not be understood; recasting sentences to be easier to read (flattening nested clauses, etc); checking that the author really meant what he seems to have just said (maybe going to a citation or asking on the talk page); and anything else you can think of to help an article look professionally written. I hope this is useful.

Best wishes, --Stfg (talk) 08:25, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

Thanks for notifying, I should've remembered to do that. It's like...teamwork! Or me being forgetful. But let's call it teamwork! OohBunnies! (talk) 00:32, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Microinvest

Dear Reviewer, Since this is the second time my contribution Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Microinvest has been rejected for one and the same reason (sources cited), and since it had undergone a significant change in the reference section and in the content itself, I would like to ask for the specifics of the reason for the second rejection. I believe reliable sources from Bulgarian and Russian mass media and non-minority specialized media have been extensively used. The only use of the website of the organization featured in the article is for the purpose of showing the scanned copies of the honours and awards of the organization, for the reason that such documents are usually not to be found elsewhere, since they are possession of the organization itself. I also checked the page of another such organization, MICROS Fidelio, which has a considerable amount of links from its website (I believe more than 10) and sections with extensive material about their products which is labelled to be challenged for being an advertisement. Yet, this article has been approved and is officially part of Wikipedia, unlike the one that I have attempted to create. Could you provide me with some tips as to what to change in order to be successful in my submission the third time? Thank you very much.Viliminova (talk)

To be honest, I think I might have messed up. The sources seem to be in order except for one which is sourced to the companies website. I'll move it to mainspace! Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 16:24, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Removing contents from one's own talk page

Per Wikipedia guidelines, "Users may freely remove comments from their own talk pages." The only exceptions are warnings, etc. Administrators previously confirmed this for me. See User talk pages. 76.189.126.170 (talk) 03:15, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Correction: Even warnings are allowed to be removed from ones own talk's page. Per the guidelines referenced above: "Users may freely remove comments from their own talk pages, though archiving is preferred. They may also remove some content in archiving. The removal of a warning is taken as evidence that the warning has been read by the user. This specifically includes both registered and unregistered users. There are certain types of notices that users may not remove from their own talk pages, such as declined unblock requests and speedy deletion tags." 76.189.126.170 (talk) 03:41, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Right, I forgot about that policy. Sorry. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 16:49, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Warning about Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Disney XD (Netherlands & Flanders)

Hi I see you opened an AFD for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Disney XD (Netherlands & Flanders). However the problem is that you also closed it. This is not acceptable from a conflict of interest perspective, and an independent person should do this. Even for a snow close this should not happen. The only suitable time to do it would be if you changed your mind about deleting and no one else wanted to, then you can withdraw your proposal. For merge proposals you should be using the talk pages of the affected articles. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:49, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't know I shouldn't close my own XfDs. I'll stop doing that. Thanks for the heads-up! --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 16:53, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Weird find

hi again, User talk:24.93.53.xxx is a weird one. I expect that nowadays this user would be blocked as looking like an IP address. Don't expect any response though as the redirect was created over 11 years ago, and this user inactive for ten years! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:02, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

That was added because I RfDd that redirect and Twinkle left a comment on their talk. And yeah, that would be against policy. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 16:52, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

FAC for Boeing 757 followup

Hi Nathan2055, thanks for adding your initial comments to the FAC for Boeing 757. In the week since, the review has been awaiting further contributions from anyone (and notices have been placed at several WikiProjects). If you have the time to complete your comments, and possibly supporting or opposing, that would be appreciated. Regards, SynergyStar (talk) 02:05, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your help with the article images! The FAC image review has just been finished, and as the article became an "Older nomination" this week, the review may be closed soon. If you would like to make any further or closing comments, however brief, it's currently still open. Sincerely, SynergyStar (talk)

False positive?

The following:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29/Proposal_by_Jc37&curid=36228789&diff=500411306&oldid=500358647

appears to have inadvertently removed a legitimate comment. --Guy Macon (talk) 07:29, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Followup: The proposal was closed, so no corrective action is required, but it still looks like you mistook a legitimate comment for spam. --Guy Macon (talk) 21:21, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Christopheroriger's sandbox

Hi Nathan -- what am I missing? Where is the copyright violation in this sandbox? Thanks -- Antandrus (talk) 21:14, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, there was a discussion about it on IRC. I was going to remove the CSD tag, they said that I should simply warn him about copyvio. Sorry for the trouble, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:19, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

No worries -- I'm not on IRC much so missed that part. I wanted also to make sure he knew about our copyright policies but didn't want to overly harsh on a newbie. Antandrus (talk) 21:25, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

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Wikipedia talk:AFC#AfC script help

Hey Nathan, I saw your reply at Wikipedia talk:AFC#AfC script help two days after you posted, sorry about that. I've tried the script on two other subpages, it stills give me the error message. I tried to add {{AFC submission}} to the subpage, and it still doesn't work. Thanks. -- Luke (Talk) 02:43, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Disney XD

Merger of Disney XD has been challenged. I've raised Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Disney XD (Canada) to discuss it. Please share your thoughts.--RadioFan (talk) 04:00, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

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relisting templates before 7 days has elapsed

could you please wait until at least 7 days have elapsed before relisting templates, especially when there is clear consensus to delete them (Template:Casa Productions; Template:Raju Sundaram; Template:Steven Saylor)? there is really no need to prolong uncontroversial deletions. Frietjes (talk) 21:16, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

I was just about to say something similar. I reverted the relistings and closed the discussions. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 04:00, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Okay, sorry, I didn't think two people was enough consensus. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 19:53, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion declined: Cleveland Rowing Foundation

Hello Nathan2055, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Cleveland Rowing Foundation, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. — Joseph Fox 20:07, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 22:16, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

need more clarification/guidance on entry

Hi - I have used Wikipedia very little as a contributor so I just wanted to follow up on the note I saw about there being an administrator discussion. I was tasked with adding an entry about the company I work for to Wikipedia, not realizing that creating an account with the company name from the start would never be approved under any circumstances. (And, FYI, it's now crossed my mind that the "z" in my account name may look like it's directly tied to the "Zeitbyte" in our corporate account, which is entirely coincidental as my last name begins with Z and I only began working for this company recently.) The initial feedback I received had more to do with the content not demonstrating the company's notability, so I added more references/sources. Comment again said same, so I had a chat with one of the help volunteers yesterday about articles that were more appropriate to use for references (but he still did not tell me I would have a problem with the creator name alone). I tried to add in additional sources, then late yesterday was told the entry was a conflict of interest and needed to edited by a different name, so I went in under my personal account (which, as you'll see, has been used very little).

Trying to be very transparent but not sure of the protocol (I've been doing some reading but it's a bit complex at a beginner level). Can you please advise on what I might do to resolve any issues? Again, we're not trying to use the page to sell anything, etc., but we have received some notable press, etc., and feel a page would be warranted (virtually every other company in our industry space also has a page here). Thanks in advance for your help, and would appreciate any concrete steps to take.

Jz117 (talk) 14:25, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

First of all, you can't add a article about your company no matter what account you use, it's still a conflict of interest per WP:COI. Other companies have articles here because they are written by neutral editors not working with the company. Read the information in the notice you got on your company accounts talk page. Regards, Nathan2055^{talk - review} 16:17, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

I have read that it is discouraged but not forbidden -- as you can see, I am not trying to be "shady" about this and I also have made several attempts working with other editors here (in the chat as well) to find out what might be done to improve the page with appropriate references (which, I was told by a person I worked with in help chat, were much improved from my earlier drafts). Additionally, I've read there are other places here where you may post for assistance from others who may want to help edit an article on your behalf, yet I find it strange you have not even suggested this. (Being new to Wikipedia editing, I have not quite figured out the process but will now find help elsewhere here.) All of the information provided in the article can be substantiated in third-party sources and is also written in a factual manner (and Wikipedia tone), regardless of connection I have to the subject. Jz117 (talk) 14:30, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

You might want to read WP:PSCOI. Asking at the help desk or IRC (there's a link at the top of the help desk page) might get better answers, I'm still new to COI. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - review} 16:11, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

A response to Welcome to Wikipedia

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.195.82.87 (talk) 22:48, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} Any time! --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 22:50, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

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Your brusque level 4im warning on User talk:Heri.emmanuel is really out of line. You would be much more constructive by issuing a welcome with clues to how to properly edit here. None of those edits conforms to WP:Vandalism. Toddst1 (talk) 20:30, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

They don't? Would they be considered editing tests instead? --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 20:36, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Try just a confused newbie that doesn't appear to understand how to edit or what is appropriate. Toddst1 (talk) 20:56, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion contested: Wuhu Island

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I noticed from the deletion log that you were working on a space for Wuhu Island, which nobody had told me that the article formally went up for deletion. I put a lot of hopeful sources and analysis on the talk page after Sergecross73 reverted my first attempt to improve the article. Do you know a way to retrieve a deleted article so that we may access that information? Otherwise, all that work went to waste. Especially since upcoming Mario Kart releases appear to show a Wuhu Island race course. MMetro (talk) 09:44, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Leave a note on the talk page of Sandstein (talk · contribs), the deleting admin. Admins are typically happy to userspace a deleted page, especially in a jam like this. Also, anyone can edit my userspace draft for Wuhu Island. It's at User:Nathan2055/Wuhu Island. Regards, Nathan2055^{talk - review} 21:18, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Untitled

Thanks for following up my edits to the Alfred Nelson-Williams article, it's good to know it's off the wikification list. ChE Fundamentalist (talk) 00:37, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Any time! Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - review} 00:39, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

3rd Battalion, 10th Aviation Regiment (United States)

This article has been returned to the nomination page per this thread. Gatoclass (talk) 06:14, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

C++

I've left comments on the GA nomination here. I am open to comments, criticism and argument. Thanks for nominating the article! Protonk (talk) 10:05, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

• A note. I added this comment because your username was on the template for the GA nom but I don't know who the current active editors on the article are. If you aren't the editor to ping about the review let me know who I should notify. Protonk (talk) 10:08, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Wario

...is on hold. —WP:PENGUIN · ^{[ TALK ]} 15:27, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Notability

{{done}}

Hey,

Thankyou very much for reviewing my article! I was wondering what you mean by condense it a little? As the last reviewer who reviewed posed that there wasn't enough information on it for it to be notable!

Thanks for the help!

Nicky — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beatotter (talk • contribs) 09:53, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Make it a bit more short and to the point. Sorry I didn't respond quickly, I received the message and then forgot about it! Oops. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - review} 19:03, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

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{{done}}

I'm just letting you know that I closed the GAN for C++. You are being informed (as you were the start of the review) because you nominated the article yourself. While it is true that any editor can nominate an article for GA it works best if an editor with some involvement with the article itself does so. That way when a reviewer leaves comments they can be addressed in a reasonable amount of time. Otherwise we have situations like this one where a reviewer's time is basically wasted. Thank you. Protonk (talk) 20:59, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

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not getting how to write biography

{{Archive top}} hye kindly let me know what wrong with the biography i have written i am not getting your point — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunny222 (talk • contribs) 18:47, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Hello, your article didn't show notability when I was reviewing it. I'm not sure if it has notability now, so I'm going to bring it up at AfD to get another opinion. --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 22:18, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

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Wario GAN

{{Archive top}} Various things are left to fix. See the review page. —WP:PENGUIN · ^{[ TALK ]} 16:47, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

I did my best to fix the requests of the GA review. Only the merchandise one at "Promotion and reception" remains, can you expand it? igordebraga ≠ 22:06, 30 August 2011 (UTC) {{Archive bottom}}

Move talk page?

{{Archive top}} What was this for? — Kudu ^~I/O~ 23:17, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Oh, man! I moved my talk page while updating my user page to the new version! I'll fix it. --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 03:06, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

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Talkback

Hello, Nathan2055. You have new messages at Talk:Wario/GA1.
Message added 02:56, 4 September 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

The article has passed. Thank you for your work. Good job and keep it up. —WP:PENGUIN · ^{[ TALK ]} 02:56, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} Any time! To FA! --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 02:58, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Gadget troubles

{{adminhelp}} I've been using the gadget that adds to dropdown boxes with default edit summaries, but the minor summaries add the text "Common edit summaries - click to use" instead of the edit summary picked. Could someone please fix this? Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - review} 00:36, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

(non-admin comment) I suggest you ask at Village pump (technical). This sounds more like a technical problem than an administrator problem. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:23, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

{{done}} Merged to the village pump. --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 16:22, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

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{{done}} Thanks! --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 20:12, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

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Hi Nathan2055, thanks for reviewing my article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Nottingham_Spirk_Innovation_Center). I'm curious as to why you declined my article---you mentioned speedy deletion category A7, and I don't believe my article falls under any of those categories within A7 (It is not a person, band, club, society, group, organization, website, or animal). Apart from that, I generally don't understand how the subject is not notable. I provided a well rounded variety of third party sources including the NY times, and it's in the National Register of Historic Places. If you could provide me with an explanation I would greatly appreciate it. ThanksLalexander11 (talk) 18:55, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for the late response. The main thing your article needs is reliable sources. Read this page for more information on sources, and read this page for info on which sources are or aren't reliable. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - review} 00:43, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

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Mediterreanean Harbor (Disney Sea)

Hello, and thank you for reviewing my submission. I would like a further explanation on why my article was declined. I made the formatting correction which you left a comment about (thanks for catching that,) but while viewing the Manual of Style, Why Was My Page Deleted and Verifiability pages, and did not find any other flaws. I have designed my page to mirror the other pages referencing lands of Tokyo DisneySea, while providing more, viable sources of both 1st and 3rd party. If you would kindly enlighten me on any other issues with this page, it would be greatly appreciated.

P.S; Your user page said do not post questions about resubmission, unfortunately, however, the other pages showing corrections did not help. No disrespect or negligence meant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyr4n02r (talk • contribs) 01:12, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes, the page needs various more updates before creation. I'll fix it and move the article to mainspace. --Nathan2055^{talk - review} 00:47, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

I've resubmitted the article, there may be a few more problems before creation. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - review} 00:54, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

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Nathan2055 Thanks for reviewing my submission about the history of the Duke Jazz Ensemble. I am not sure what references you are requesting. I played trumpet in the group from 1969 until 1974, and directed the group from 1972 until 1974. I would be a primary source for information. I referenced some published information about the group. Other sources would not constitute primary sources. Some of the information about the group is contained in the wikipedia page on the Duke Ambassadors since they were a predecessor to the Duke Jazz Ensemble. I thought it would be better to have its own page on this group's history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Klitz1 (talk • contribs) 16:00, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Power dividers

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Hey all :)

A couple of new things.

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It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 00:11, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

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I'm new to Wikipedia, and I recently submitted an aritcle. My article was approved, but then it was submitted it for deletion. I have made some improvements to the article, but it was submitted for deletion again. I think I have a very revelant topic. I plan on improving the article, but I don't think it should be deleted. I would appreciate any help you could give me. Thanks --Laemiracles (talk) 00:17, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Albany all stars roller derby

A tag has been placed on Albany all stars roller derby, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Misplaced AfC submission

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If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Nathan2055^talk 20:50, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

{{done}} Move error, it's fine. --Nathan2055^talk 21:25, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Notability of Edward Margolies

Hi Nathan. I've been working with a new editor, User:Thecobbrooklyn, to write the Edward Margolies article. The subject is notable, specifically within African American literature. I'd like to challenge that you declaring him non-notable. Just searching "Edward Margolies" and the word African, brings you over 20,000 hits in Google books alone. According to Wikipedia:Notability_(academics), Margolies passes the test, such as "The person's research has made significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources," and if you search Google books you can see that. Same goes for Jstor and other academic search resources. He was also a regular contributor to African American Review and is mentioned in the Harvard guide to African American literature,. While all of the secondary resources aren't here, the new editor, Cob, is learning the merits of adding this content. I believe, that by moving the article to the user space will only help to improve the article, and keep around a good faith and well meaning editor. Thank you for your consideration. Sarah (talk) 21:10, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Just searching his name brought over 40,000 hits on Google Books. I have to admit, I believe I messed up. Another user did move the article two hours after you posted it, and I tagged the article. I'm sorry I messed up. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 00:37, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

That's okay! Thanks for pinging me back! Sarah (talk) 00:39, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

...That was fast! In any case, thanks. This is my second day back from a five month wikibreak, I guess you could say I'm still getting reacquainted. Thanks again, Nathan2055^talk 00:41, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Pradeep_Chowbey

Dear Nathan,

I just want drop you this note regarding the Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Pradeep_Chowbey.

I have tried editing the above article a several times, but each time I failed to impress the reviewer. Today I got to know to talk to the reviewer directly with some reliable sources to show as some solid proof in context of the article. I have found some good newspaper article in support of my article. Please go through the article links:

1. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sleeve-gastrectomy-popular-for-fighting-obesity/427037
2. http://www.timescrest.com/life/weightloss-surgery-from-fad-to-cure-5158
3. http://www.theglobaltimes.in/pdf_issues/pdfVol4Issue2Page1.pdf
4. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110721/edit.htm#6
5. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C02%5C28%5Cstory_28-2-2007_pg12_11
6. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-10-15/india/27894513_1_tibetan-spiritual-leader-dalai-lama-laproscopic-surgery
7. http://www.gulfweeklyworldwide.com/Articles.aspx?articleid=27952
8. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C02%5C28%5Cstory_28-2-2007_pg7_21
9. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050207/cth3.htm
10. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/099200902231531.htm
11. http://www.expresspharmaonline.com/20070731/healthcare05.shtml
12. http://gamutnews.com/20110617/28004/max-institute-of-minimal-access-metabolic-bariatric-surgery-accredited-as-an-international-centre-of-excellence-for-minimal-invasive-surgery.html
13. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1041204/asp/weekend/story_4083082.asp
14. http://www.abc.es/20081016/internacional-asia/lider-espiritual-tibetano-recibe-200810161338.html
15. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NlY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=ciUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1486,31676855&dq=pradeep+chowbey&hl=en

I hope these links will be able to verify the notability of the article and person discussed in the article - Dr. Pradeep Chowbey. I have re-edited the article with the links mentioned here. Please have a kind look towards it once again.--Alaknanda123 (talk) 11:22, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Quick question, is this person still alive? If he is, then you should read WP:BLP. I don't think there is anything wrong with the article besides a minor copyedit, but you need to put in a few more sources for that reason. Also, the external links need to be moved to an external links section. You may want to see if there are any Wikipedia articles concerning the pages you link out to. While I'm here to help, you can also get some help over at the help area. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 15:44, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

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Hello Nathan! I'm contacting you to see if you'd be willing to give me feedback on my wikipedia article about Title Fight. For my English 103 class we were assigned to edit/write a wikipedia article and then ask wikipedia users for feedback. If you have any comments or suggestions for me I would really appreciate it. Thank you! - Beckie Rkprinc (talk) 20:16, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Sure! All I need is a link. --Nathan2055^talk 20:24, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_Fight#cite_note-2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rkprinc (talk • contribs) 21:08, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

A couple of suggestions. I would add some more references, especially since one links to a social network. You might also want to contact the teahouse, many editors there can give you some feedback quickly. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 21:31, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

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hi nathan2055 I've edited the KCS Group value two weeks ago. I'd like to know please the current status. best, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eddierussell55 (talk • contribs) 12:35, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

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I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Find and replace should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Find and replace .

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Thanks, SarahStierch (talk) 05:21, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

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Maitreya page

Hi - I posted some relevant content about Maitreya yesterday and it was removed. Today I posted a smaller post and took off irrelevant posts - I see again my post has been removed and was sent a message to say not to remove others. Not quite sure why my posts are removed - they are relevant and have factual background to back them up. Any chance of shedding any light on why my post was removed? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Angkorangel (talk • contribs) 01:21, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

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Hi Nathan! Thank you for signing up to be a future host at the Teahouse. Well, great news - the future is here, we'd love you to be a Teahouse host! During this pilot time, Teahouse hosts do more than just ask questions - they invite new users to the Teahouse and track those invitations, they also provide input and insight into the development of the Teahouse. A few things I'd love to see you do as a Teahouse host:

• First, declare your Hostness! Add yourself to the Host page! This page is where new editors and your fellow hosts can learn about you and reach out. By signing up here you declare that you know how to serve up a great cup of tea. Add yourself here.

• Learn more about your responsibilities as a host. Teahouse hosts have certain responsibilities during this pilot. If you feel you can't meet them, perhaps a host role isn't for you during this important pilot.
• Invite new users with our invite guide. Aside from answering questions, the most important thing we need you to do as a host is to invite new users. Please follow these steps and invite as many as you can to experience the Teahouse. Also, please document your experience in the spreadsheet link provided on that page!
• Visit the tips page. The tips page provides you some basic tips on how to engage with visitors at the Teahouse. We have a special way of doing things - unlike other areas of Wikipedia! (Such as greeting new editors with a simple "Hi!" and being as easy to understand and friendly as possible.)
• Join the conversation by participating on the host lounge talk pages. We also have an IRC channel now for hosts to get to know one another, develop your skills, and eventually the channel will serve as an additional help space for new editors!

• To visit the IRC channel: #wikipedia-teahouse ^connect (Feel free to ask me for help if you're having trouble connecting!)

I'm so happy that you volunteered to lend a hand at the Teahouse. I look forward to following your contributions and invitations, and your assistance in making the Teahouse a great and warm place for new Wikipedians. See you there :) Sarah (talk) 22:54, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

AfC

Hello. I came across your review at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/High-Tech Gründerfonds, and I must tell you that the decline reason (non-neutral) wasn't quite right. The article was in fact written in a factual manner. I'd like to ask you to be more careful with your reviews. It's important that we only decline submissions when we absolutely have to, because newbies need more encouragement than anything else. It's great that you're helping out at AfC, but please give the reviewer instructions a careful read and make sure that your decline reasons do fit the article in question. Best wishes, and happy editing. ^OohBunnies! Leave a message :) 10:22, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Your review of Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Hi. Firstly, thank you for your contributions at Articles for Creation. I've seen your review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Sustainable Aviation Fuel and I have a few concerns about the reasons given. The first is that being an unwikified article is not a valid reason to decline because it is basically a style issue, which wouldn't be a valid reason to ever delete the article. Lack of inline citations is very rarely an appropriate decline reason either. The only times that the "lack of inline citations" reason should be used is when the article doesn't meet the cases given in the essay WP:MINREF. At AfC the aim is to ensure that articles won't be deleted as soon as we put them in Mainspace, not that they will meet the criteria for a Featured Article. --Mrmatiko (talk) 09:48, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Got it! I noticed the discussion on this over at WT:WPAFC, and I'll go ahead and tag pages instead of declining them. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 15:43, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

--Mrmatiko (talk) 15:46, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Altered speedy deletion rationale: Libremovies

Hello Nathan2055, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I deleted Libremovies, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, under a different criterion from the one you provided. The speedy deletion criteria are extremely narrow and specific, and the process is more effective if the correct criterion is used. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 16:37, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Cambodia

Would you mind helping me keep an eye on Cambodia? An IP address, whom I can only assume is an overly nationalistic American, is trying to remove perfectly well-sourced additions.
~ Iloveandrea (talk) 08:39, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Sure. It's on my watchlist now, I'll try to revert when I see it. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 15:43, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the Teahouse invite; I'll pop over and say hi soon! And thanks for your assistance on Cambodia—you can take the thing off your watchlist now if you wish. A compromise has been implemented, and I don't foresee any further deletions. Not that it's coming off my watchlist! ;D Best etc.
~ Iloveandrea (talk) 06:31, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

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{{done}} Responded there. --Nathan2055^talk 15:23, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

ScribbleLive Wikipedia article

Hi Nathan, Thank you so much for taking the time to look at the article I wrote (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/ScribbleLive) I edited it again and got a number of peers who are not connected with our brand to look at the article, I then applied their changes to the text. Please let me know what you think and/or if anything else needs to be changed. Again, thank you. Katytorg (talk) 18:25, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure, it still reads more like an advertisement, and because you work for this company you fall under having a conflict of interest. I am going to contact another member of Articles for Creation (mabdul (talk · contribs)) and ask him to post over here with his opinion. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 18:52, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you Nathan, I tried to make it as objective and used several other services as guidelines for headings and content. My intention for it is to be a source of information.Katytorg (talk) 19:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Okay. I've contacted mabdul (talk · contribs), he's typically active later in the day. The article is shaping up, but it needs to be written a bit more in the formal tone of an encyclopedia. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 19:26, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

So an extended review:

 It is used by news organizations and corporate companies for real-time news delivery and event coverage.

Which companies are these? Why is that notable for an encyclopedia? (We normally don't list customers)

ScribbleLive differs from traditional blogging by the real-time nature of its content publication

How?

A variety of content can be published via liveblogs, including SMS text messages, tweets, social media updates, voice mail, email, photographs, and video.

reference?

"Service Features"

the complete section is unreferenced, shorting the headline to Features

"Event Coverage"

remove that section! These reference might be really useful, but we are not a press release directory for ScribbleLive.

There some points which might be "advertising", but this might be a bit hard. A "better" decline reason would be "not from a neutral point of view". mabdul 02:35, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Oh and please check the references again in the section "Event Coverage". All these references linking to any news portal which is a customer, but nobody is writing about ScribbleLive; this shows only that the company is earning money! mabdul 02:39, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Indented line I will add all your changes tomorrow, the Events section is meant to demonstrate the use of the platform, I will remove it though. I will also add more source that write about the platform, instead of example of platform use.

The platform is relevant because if you look under "Event Coverage" and click on any of those events, e.g. Japanese Earth Quake, you will see that the event says "powered by ScribbleLive". Considering the level of traffic that these major events, covered by these major news organizations, receive, I would imagine that some of the readers may be curious as to what ScribbleLive is. When they search for ScribbleLive, it would be great for them to have an objective source that describes what exactly it is and what it does. When I Google anything, I press the wikipedia link instead of the actual website in order to learn about something. The goal is to create a wikipedia page that users can use to quickly understand what ScribbleLive is instead of having to go to the website or to a news article (which is currently the case). Katytorg (talk) 20:41, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

I changed all the things that @Madbul mentioned and all sources are now from news articles about ScribbleLive. Please take a look and let me know what you think. Thank you Katytorg (talk) 17:13, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

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I have no time to review it again. mabdul 09:25, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

AfC New Economy Leadership

Hi Nathan

Thank you for your feedback on my article. I was hoping to confirm that my understanding for the rejection is correct; essentially the article is not suitable at this time as New Economy Leadership is a new term and needs to be in broad use before a wiki article can be used on this? If so, could you please give me some advice on how to improve the article to a state that it can be submitted? I was thinking of 2 possible approaches, the first would be to add additional sources, the challenge being that I need enought reliable secondary sources that speak about the term and do not simply use it. The other approach would be to rename it, as my article is more about the core of the leadership style that New Economy Leadership represents than the specific term itself.

I would appreciate any advice and guidance. cheers Peter Pjdevilliers (talk) 19:31, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

First, let me apologize for the two day long delay in responding. I don't typically take this long, but I've had a busy week. On to the point; we need good, reliable, sources to get any article onto Wikipedia. Due to this being being a neologism and falling under WP:NEO, we really need a few more good sources that talk about the term. Secondly, if you are using books as sources, you may want to read WP:ISBN, it's a short article telling how the Wikipedia software detects book ISBNs automatically, and this can be used to source books. Now, if you are unable to find enough sources directly discussing this term, you might try doing what you said above and converting the article to a article about that leadership style. Give me a ring if you need any help. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 16:45, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Nathan

Thanks very much for the feedback, I'll certainly follow your advice and shout if I need help.

cheers Peter Pjdevilliers (talk) 19:48, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue Two

Hi! Welcome to the second edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

• Teahouse celebrates one month of being open! This first month has drawn a lot of community interest to the Teahouse. Hosts & community members have been working with the project team to improve the project in many ways including creating scripts to make inviting easier, exploring mediation processes for troubling guests, and best practices regarding mentoring for new editors who visit the Teahouse.

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Thanks for the cookie!

Hey Nathan, thanks for dropping a cookie on my talk page! It's small gestures like these that make newbies like me feel more welcome. I really appreciate your going out of your way to give me this pat on the back. It makes me want to edit some more, which I will do this weekend. Cheers! Fabrice Florin (talk) 08:26, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome! Thanks for the hard work! --Nathan2055^talk 16:49, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Barnstar

Hey there! I just wanted to thank you for leaving a barnstar on my talk page! It's the first one I've ever received too, hopefully a few years down the road I can look at it and think of this. :P Hpski (talk) 12:22, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Any time! Good luck editing Wikipedia! --Nathan2055^talk 16:48, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Wonderlic Test

My name is VLord Armstrong, and I am currently in a college class for I-O Psychology. Our project is to go and review and edit existing articles or create non-existing articles that pertain to the field of I-O Psychology. I noticed that one of the sections under the Wonderlic Test "Relevance to I-O Psychology" has been deleted by you. I have brought that section back due to the significant value that section has on the Wonderlic Test. Much of my sources are scholarly journals from the American Psychology Association's PsychNET, provided wide credibility. As for the writing style, I do apologize since English is not my first language, however as a "test" there are certain elements that may feel like it is an advertisement, but I assure you that it is not and that all information is provided from multiple sources. The Wonderlic Test stems from the creation of the earlier forms of I-O Psychology and must be mentioned within the article. VLord89 (talk) 20:19, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Wonderlic Test (2)

Hi Nathan2055. I'm sorry to see your work on the article has been so thwarted. The GOCE request should not have been made while the article was still under development, and I'm going to close it now. That does not reflect on you at all -- your work on the article was just as it should have been. I have written to VLord89 here.

I haven't forgotten your concerns about possible copyvio in Wonderlic Test#Types of Wonderlic Tests. Are you able to give me chapter and verse of the wonderlic web site please? I'll be happy then to follow it up.

Thanks for all you've done. Simon --Stfg (talk) 10:59, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Hello again Simon. The reason the section appears to be a copyvio is that it's references use the "According to..." bit that was used with the Reference.com "copyvio" (more like reference roundabout). It's also completely sourced to the bare url wonderlic.com. It's a long-shot, but I'm 90% sure it's a copyvio. --Nathan2055^talk 23:50, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Nathan. Please take care when saying that things are copyvio. It's an allegation of illegal behaviour, so you have to be able to present evidence. There was no copyvio in the case of reference.com. They are using our articles under the GNU Free Documentation License, which Wikipedia permits. (See Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright#Can I add something to Wikipedia that I got from somewhere else? and Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content#Text content). Our use was, as you say, a case of circular referencing -- an error, not a crime. The use of the bare wonderlic.com URL was inadequate, certainly, and you can use the {{full}} template to signal such things, but it's not evidence of copyvio. I had a look around the wonderlic site and found no such evidence, in fact. If you have such a hunch in future, a way to investigate it would be to do a site-specific Google search. For example, if you find "Fred Bloggs is a plumber" in a wikipedia article and suspect its a copyvio of something from plumbersite.com, the Google search box would specify

"Fred Bloggs is a plumber" site: plumbersite.com

Best, --Stfg (talk) 09:59, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I agree with you. It's my first time copyediting after a long wikibreak, and I just happened to get the unfinished article with potential copyvios. Life throws curveballs like that. Any way, thanks for your advice! I will also post on the other discussion at the talk page from the above section. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 15:22, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Super Mario (series) FGAN

I have Quick Failed it before I would like to see it reviewed against B-Class criterias before undergoing a more thorough GAN assessment; see the GA1 page for a lengthier explanation, and feel free to ping me if you have any strong objection to the proposition. :) Salvidrim! 01:54, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

{{done}} - Sent request to WikiProject Video games for a B-Class review. --Nathan2055^talk 02:05, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

AfC Alcohol (Race Horse)

Hi Nathan, I'm new to creating pages and am trying to determine what I need to do for have the AfC "Alcohol (Race Horse)" pass the review. You said it failed because its not adequately supported by reliable sources. I based the page on similar horse pages utilising the same reference sites. Not really sure where to do from here. I also suspect that the page title should actually be "Alcohol (horse)" for consistency (I didn't create the original attempted submission) but am unaware how to change it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.101.79.26 (talk) 01:07, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Hmm... To be honest, most of the sources provide information about the horse. I'd like to see sources that prove notability, such as news articles. If you need some help, try the local WikiProject working on horse articles, WikiProject Equine. If you need any more help, feel free to drop me a note. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 17:51, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination

Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Crown and Treaty (album) at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; see step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 17:35, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

New Pages update

Hey Nathan2055/Archive 1 :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:39, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

"joule ringer"

sorry for the inconvenience, i'm not a native english speaker but the expression "joule ringer" doesn't exist in my language. there's plenty of references in youtube, although i don't know if it refers to "joule thief". what should i do? thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.28.198.249 (talk) 01:31, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Excuse me? Please explain what your saying. Does this reference a declined AfC article? If so, please link to it. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 19:00, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	thank you for your welcome and really good job.

Saba irshad (talk) 13:46, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Welcome templates

Please read a users talk page before templating them with a welcome template. The uers in question User_talk:DJ Mell Starr already has a number of templates, and you placed the template at the end of a current duscussion. Please take more care next time. I have reverted your template action. MrLittleIrish ^(talk) 申 15:13, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

The end of current discussion is a template bug that I'm working on fixing. Sorry for the trouble. --Nathan2055^talk 15:20, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Shouldn't really have had a template to begin with. If you have a look on the talk page, it's already flooded with templates. MrLittleIrish ^(talk) 申 15:21, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Those were really just notice templates. I was trying to leave a welcome. --Nathan2055^talk 15:43, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Re: User talk:Pinktulle#Articles for creation/Lower extremity injuries in ballet dancers

I posted a reply to your comment on my talk page (Articles for creation/Lower extremity injuries in ballet dancers). Thanks! (Pinktulle (talk) 18:32, 10 May 2012 (UTC))

Excuse me, but where is the reply? --Nathan2055^talk 15:12, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

I must have put it in the wrong place... still figuring out this whole talk page thing. Where do I need to put my response and how? Thanks! (Pinktulle (talk) 15:31, 11 May 2012 (UTC))

You said you put it on your talk page at User talk:Pinktulle. To make things easier, you can just put it here on my talk. If you need any help with learning how to use talk pages, see WP:TALK. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 15:35, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Ok, great. Here is what I posted... I've added a few more references to further support the verifiability of this entry. As for your comment about integrating this material into the Ballet page, I personally don't feel that would be an appropriate place because the ballet page is set-up to present more of a historical perspective of the artform, whereas my entry is much more scientific. I have yet to find an article on Wikipedia that discusses science and physiology with relation ballet, which was my goal with this entry. I'd like to continue to edit and resubmit for review, so please let me know if you have any specific suggestions and/or improvements. Many thanks, (Pinktulle (talk) 15:35, 11 May 2012 (UTC))

It sounds okay. I'm going to ask some other people about what to do, specifically relating to the title of the article. Please wait a moment. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 15:46, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage prototype released

Hey Nathan2055! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Untitled section created by Saba irshad (talk · contribs)

thank you for appreciating me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saba irshad (talk • contribs) 16:16, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Your welcome! Just so you know, you should use the "New section link" at the top of talk pages that you should use instead of simply adding your comment to the bottom. You should also sign your comments with ~~~~, this will turn into a link to your user and user talk pages. Thanks again! Nathan2055^talk 16:21, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

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A-class review for Boeing 757

Greetings Nathan2055, and thanks again for handling the GA review of Boeing 757. I have since requested an A-class review of the article, both as a prelude to FAC and because it has been expanded since. As a previous reviewer of the article, and a member of the Guild of Copy-Editors, I thought you might be interested in adding your expertise to this review. If you have the time to provide any input, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, SynergyStar (talk) 19:38, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi again, I was wondering if you have had time to consider this request? It would be great to have a skilled copyeditor take a look. Thanks SynergyStar (talk) 19:01, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm very sorry about the delay. I've been very busy in real life. Anyway, I'm about to give this a look right now. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 16:05, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Great, it would be great to have some comments, either positive, negative, neutral, or otherwise. Thanks again. SynergyStar (talk) 22:23, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

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New Page Triage/New Pages Feed

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Question

Why didn't you ever answer my question? Helpsome (talk) 03:30, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

{{done}} - Replied on your talk. --Nathan2055^talk 16:20, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Zohirul

Zohirul (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Did it again to AfC statistics. You want to handle it? --  :- ) Don 05:27, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

{{done-t}} --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 18:57, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

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AFCH

Dunno, I can't follow the development and sadly I have really useful code (some bugfixes etc in), but be sure: test the code at least three times (or say with 50 pages especially with approvals of BIOs) before requesting a push. See User:wikignome/afc.js (some parts e.g. the drafted template stuff is unfinished!), that was my last stuff I believe (no gurantee...)... I have some more stuff to do, but I won't be able until I'm finish with my flat moving nor getting access to the net by ISP (they say 18th... so sadly I and my gf have to wait). mabdul 01:21, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

BTW: I have no problem with that diff, but never request something similar with the alpha nor with wikignome's scripts... please. mabdul 01:21, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Upps, I missed: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_August_26. mabdul 01:33, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

I went ahead and merged the beta code with my alpha to create the release candidate. Is there anything else in the wikignome build that needs to be pushed that wasn't in beta? Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:12, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

One more thing, why did you link to that CFD? --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:13, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation update

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AFCH

Dunno, I can't follow the development and sadly I have really useful code (some bugfixes etc in), but be sure: test the code at least three times (or say with 50 pages especially with approvals of BIOs) before requesting a push. See User:wikignome/afc.js (some parts e.g. the drafted template stuff is unfinished!), that was my last stuff I believe (no gurantee...)... I have some more stuff to do, but I won't be able until I'm finish with my flat moving nor getting access to the net by ISP (they say 18th... so sadly I and my gf have to wait). mabdul 01:21, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

BTW: I have no problem with that diff, but never request something similar with the alpha nor with wikignome's scripts... please. mabdul 01:21, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Upps, I missed: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_August_26. mabdul 01:33, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

I went ahead and merged the beta code with my alpha to create the release candidate. Is there anything else in the wikignome build that needs to be pushed that wasn't in beta? Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:12, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

One more thing, why did you link to that CFD? --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:13, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Because of Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_August_26#Wikipedia_teahouse_user_invitation_categories. Fix the script! Oh and I don't believe that the beta code is tested enough to get live... I believe that I have many bugs in and that it is unfinished... Be careful if you request a push and moreover test it before... mabdul 08:31, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Graphics card

It may be against Wiki protocol or etiquette, but I have a shoe box full of relatively old graphics cards. Relatively, because I do high resolution CAD and upgrade often. Let me know what you might need if interested. --  :- ) Don 03:27, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Fortunately, everything is working again. We managed to find a graphics card that works for the current computer and are getting ready to upgrade everything next year (including, hopefully, a Linux box for me to code on). Thanks again, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 03:00, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Articles for Creation urgently needs your help!

Articles for Creation is desperately short of reviewers! We are looking for urgent help, from experienced editors, in reviewing submissions in the pending submissions queue. Currently there are 1060 submissions waiting to be reviewed and many help requests at our Help Desk. Do you have what it takes? Are you familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines? Do you know what Wikipedia is and is not? Do you have a working knowledge of the Manual of Style, particularly article naming conventions? Can you review submissions based on their individual merits? If the answer to these questions is yes, then please read the reviewing instructions and donate a little of your time to helping tackle the backlog. You might wish to add {{AFC status}} or {{AfC Defcon}} to your userpage, which will alert you to the number of open submissions. PS: we have a great AFC helper script at WP:AFCH! News Good article nominee 04 Aug 2012 – Parental brain (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Carina1205 (t · c); see discussion AFCH script improvements 1.16 to 1.17 Batman still works!

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Page Curation newsletter

Hey Nathan2055. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.

Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs to the usual address :). We'll be holding a couple of office hours sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:13, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

GNU

Just wanted to drop by and say thanks, and sorry if the environment looks as a bit hostile at the moment. It is indeed much better to say GNU licenses. Belorn (talk) 20:00, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Dori ☾Talk ☯ Contribs☽ 01:50, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:2600:1008:B008:B716:0:39:D3D9:7401

A tag has been placed on User:2600:1008:B008:B716:0:39:D3D9:7401, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

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Email?

Hey Nathan! I have something to ask you and I'd rather do it via email? Would you be comfortable shooting me an email? sstierch at wikimedia.org? It's a good thing, promised! :D Sarah (talk) 00:50, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Sorry if this causes you trouble, but I'd rather not use me e-mail for wiki stuff. Can you ask me on-wiki? --Nathan2055^talk 02:34, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

I'd like to send you a thank you for participating in the Teahouse, but I would need your mailing address and a tiny bit of other information. But, I understand if that's not possible for privacy reasons. Regardless, I am grateful for your participation! We just wanted to send you something special as a thank you :) Sarah (talk) 04:34, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Landegg International University ‎

I notice you accepted the Landegg International University article from AfC, despite there being no improvements made to it. I can't see any way it meets WP:GNG or WP:NCORP. Is there something I'm missing? Sionk (talk) 17:09, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Well, I judge my submissions based on whether they would survive an XfD. Except for the fact that it's weakly sourced and needs a copyedit, I think it's would survive. It's your call if you want to attempt to AfD it. --Nathan2055^talk 18:11, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!

WikiThanks

Thank you for the lovely barnstar, it's so nice to be recognized by fellow editors. Thanks and best wishes! Best regards, SynergyStar (talk) 03:59, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

FireWriter154 Steve Ray submission

Hello!

I just received your decision to reject the submission due to the person not being a notable person. Considering that the Steve Ray whose biography is on Wikipedia is a rugby player from the 1930's, how is one to determine the notability of a person? It would seem that the Steve Ray contemporaneous with us is more notable than the Steve Ray from the 1930's. Please help me to understand this. Thank you.

Respectfully,

FireWriter154 (talk) 02:20, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

We have numerous notability policies here on Wikipedia. Your Steve Ray article simply seems to be a biography. We are an encyclopedia, not a place to host biographies. If you need more help, you might wish to join IRC and get real-time help on #wikipedia-en-help ^connect. Just click the connect link to connect through your web browser. Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 02:44, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Steve Ray Biography

Thank you for your timely response.

I reviewed the notability policies before writing the biography and I'm still confused as to the reason you consider the biography on Stephen K. Ray not notable enough to be posted on Wikipedia. What, specifically, is materially different between the biography I wrote and the one on Steve Ray or this article, which has no sources of any kind? Would you, also, please explain what is "just a biography"?

I am asking you for clarification, because you are the one who rejected my submission. I don't know that registering for "live help" is going to help me understand your reasonings. The man whose biography I submitted to Wikipedia is better and more widely known among people in the United States and is having more of an impact on them than Steve Ray, the rugby player from the 1930's. Please help me to understand why you rejected the biography I wrote.

Thank you for your continued assistance with this.

Respectfully,

FireWriter154 (talk) 05:03, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hi there, FireWriter154. First off, I just want to clarify something: it's perfectly fine to have multiple people on Wikipedia with the same name; we could easily have a disambiguation page to distinguish between the two. The notability of Steve Ray doesn't affect the notability of your submission. It can seem a bit counter-intuitive at first glance, but Wikipedia has a popular adage – "other stuff exists" – meaning that, as Wikipedia is a work-in-progress, there will be other articles that don't meet our standards as well as they should, but we can't use that as justification for ignoring those standards in other articles. You state that Steve is notable in the United States, and that's exactly what we're looking for, but can you prove it? Most of the sources used in the submission are primary sources, coming from Steve himself or related individuals, while we are looking mainly for third-party, secondary sources. The one secondary source that I can review, [2], is good, but it only covers a portion of the article. Are there any other newspaper or magazine articles discussing Steve? Thanks. — The Earwig ^(talk) 20:53, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue Four

Hi! Welcome to the fourth issue of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter for the Teahouse!

• Teahouse pilot wraps up after 13 weeks After being piloted on English Wikipedia starting in February, the Teahouse wrapped up its pilot period on May 27, 2012. We expect this is just the beginning for the Teahouse and hope the project will continue to grow in the months to come!

Thank you and congratulations to all of the community members who participated - and continue to participate!

• What you've all been waiting for: Teahouse Pilot Report is released! We look forward to your feedback on the methodology and outcomes of this pilot project.
• ....and if a pilot report wasn't enough, the Teahouse Pilot Metrics Report is out too! Dive into the numbers and survey results to learn about the impact the Teahouse has made on English Wikipedia.
• Teahouse shows positive impact on new editor retention and engagement

• 409 new editors participated during the entire pilot period, with about 40 new editors participating in the Teahouse per week.
• Two weeks after participating, 33% of Teahouse guests are still active on Wikipedia, as opposed to 11% of a similar control group.
• New editors who participated in the Teahouse edit 10x the number of articles, make 7x more global edits, and 2x as much of their content survives on Wikipedia compared to the control group.

• Women participate in the Teahouse 28% of Teahouse participants were women, up from 9% of editors on Wikipedia in general, good news for this project which aimed to have impact on the gender gap too - but still lots to be done here!
• New opportunities await for the Teahouse in phase two as the Teahouse team and Wikipedia community examine ways to improve, scale, and sustain the project. Opportunities for future work include:

• Automating or semi-automating systems such as invites, metrics and archiving
• Experimenting with more ways for new editors to discover the Teahouse
• Building out the social and peer-to-peer aspects further, including exploring ways to make answering questions easier, creating more ways for new editors to help each other and for all participants to acknowledge each other's efforts
• Growing volunteer capacity, continuing to transfer Teahouse administration tasks to volunteers whenever possible, and looking for new ways to make maintenance and participation easier for everyone.

• Want to know how you can lend a hand at the Teahouse? Become a host! Learn more about what makes the Teahouse different than other help spaces on Wikipedia and see how you can help new editors by visiting here.
• Say hello to the new guests at the Teahouse. Take the time to welcome and get to know the latest guests at the Teahouse. Drop off some wikilove to these editors today, as being welcomed by experienced editors is really encouraging to new Wikipedians.

You are receiving The Tea Leaf after expressing interest or participating in the Teahouse! To remove yourself from receiving future newsletters, please remove your username here. Sarah (talk) 16:46, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!

Teahouse Barnstar

I, Sarah, hereby award you, Nathan, the Teahouse Barnstar for your valued participation in the Teahouse pilot. Whether answering questions or creating great templates and providing insight, your activities haven't gone unnoticed! I look forward to your continued participation at the Teahouse and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia the invaluable resource it is! Sarah (talk) 00:34, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! I got your other barnstar, but the archive bot malfunctioned. I'm straightening out the problem now. Thanks again! --Nathan2055^talk 01:47, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Article Review Status

Hi there. Just wanted to follow up about my article that you reviewed about a month or so ago. I believe last time we were in contact, you were going to see about having my article approved or possibly altering the title a bit. Do you happen to know the current status of this? Thanks so much, (Pinktulle (talk) 21:05, 12 June 2012 (UTC))

Sorry about the wait, I have been super busy. Any way, the article submission can be found at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Lower extremity injuries in ballet dancers. Please resubmit it and I will take care of the rest! Thanks, Nathan2055^talk 16:48, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:AfCinvite urgent

A tag has been placed on Template:AfCinvite urgent, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Redirect created by accident

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 22:08, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

{{done}} - Bad Twinkle. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 16:30, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! KTC (talk) 01:50, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

{{done}} - Uh, that was my test submission for the script. I should have marked it better... --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 16:32, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

FAC for Boeing 757

Hi Nathan2055, as the GA reviewer of Boeing 757, you might be interested in commenting at its Featured Article candidacy, which is now open at: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Boeing 757/archive1. Any input is welcome. Regards, SynergyStar (talk) 22:38, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Synergy. I'd be happy to. See you soon, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 01:36, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

OTRS pending from Steve Charles, MD page

Hi, you wrote some days ago on my talk page regarding OTRS for Steve Charles, MD. The page has been moved to URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lunaweb/Steve_Charles_(doctor) Can OTRS permission be placed on the page now? The permission was granted through email and a response was given from permissions@wikimedia.org Ticket#2012061410009351. Thanks for all your help Lunaweb (talk) 20:26, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

AfC

I see you declined Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus as being inadequately cited. It seems to me there is sufficient citation of quite acceptable news sources, including ABC, though they need to be better formatted. I don't want to accept it just one or two minutes after you decline it, as this will confuse the editor, but perhaps you can modify the comments to indicate that all that is really needed is getting the references to display right, along with some advice how to do it. DGG ( talk ) 10:05, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Article Declined

Hello,

You recently reviewed my article about Matthew 25: Ministries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Matthew_25:_Ministries). This was the second time I have submitted it. I am new to Wikipedia and was wondering if you could give me some tips on how to make my article ready for submission. I tried to make the changes I thought were needed from the first submission but they were not enough. Any help you are able to give would be very much appreciated. Thank you!

Joodia (talk) 18:44, 18 June 2012 (UTC)Joodia

You need to add third-party, independent, reliable sources per this policy. I wish you luck on your article. Just click the button to resubmit it when you are ready. See you soon, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:12, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Motley Slough Bridge

I actually find it ironic that there is a WikiProject Mississippi add above the edit window right now, since the article is in that project. I was just a bit curious as to why you declined the submission. The article was clearly to the point where it would have passed AFD and that is generally the approve/decline line for AFC submissions. Ryan Vesey Review me! 19:30, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

To be honest, I think I goofed on that one. The references weren't formatted correctly so it was hard to tell whether the article was sourced well or not. Sorry. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 16:29, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks!

...for the feedback and for joining the testing project. :) Also, I edited the uw-test proposal since both you and Writ Keeper expressed the same concern. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 20:57, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

For you know what. avs5221(talk|contrib) 00:39, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

New Page Patrolling - declined CSD

Hi. Thank you for patrolling new pages. I have declined your Speedy Deletion on U.S. Air Force Pipe Band. In spite of recommendations for A1 articles, you tagged this in less than one minute where gut feeling should have clearly told you this was a work in progress. Please take more care - NPP is in a bad enough state already and we don't want to scare users away. Thanks. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 19:58, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I guess that was a mistake of mine. I'll try to be more careful next time. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 20:03, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Encore Atlanta

You need to write 'delete' there otherwise the bot that counts the votes will have a hiccup ;) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:32, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Oops. It's been a while since I have NPPd and I seem to be making a lot of mistakes. Sorry. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:33, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

I saw your suggestion on the Encore page about condensing it into Fox Theatre. Since it's the official show program of three other entities, I went ahead to try and put links to Encore on all four entry pages' external link sections in case the article ended up getting deleted. But I don't know that the edit to the external links on the Alliance Theatre page took (I type fast so they warned me that I might be a spammer?). Since you seem to be active in the discussion, I thought I'd let you know, so the link could be added to Alliance Theatre. I agree that not much seems to be written about Encore, but it is a big deal for arts lovers in Atlanta and the content is of interest to more than just Fox patrons. I think that because it was in the Media in Atlanta section, people were trying to create a stub for it. Kris3011 (talk) 02:11, 29 June 2012 (UTC)Kris3011

Contested PROD

Hello. I've contested the proposed deletion of Tiger-head shoes because I think it seems notable enough. There is a governmental source at [3] which was for some reason not cited, and I was able to find some discussions in books on Google Books, e.g. at [4] and [5]. I would, with some sheepishness, admit that I don't currently plan to work on the article to work in those sources, but I think the notability is there. And ultimately, since the article isn't promoting a business / product / person, I think it should be allowed to remain, given the basic notability. Thanks. wctaiwan (talk) 23:41, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Re: Question about an IP

Hello, Nathan2055. You have new messages at Gogo Dodo's talk page.
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C'mon on back to the Teahouse!

It's easier than ever to be a Host at the Teahouse

Hi Nathan2055! The Teahouse has recently went through some design changes in order to improve it's usability for new editors and for our Hosts. As a former Host, we'd love to see you back. A few changes have taken place about hosting: A new and improved Host Lounge which features calls to action and resources. A simplified Host sign up process. It just takes a few simple steps to add your new profile to our new Host profile page. Concerned about how much time you have to contribute? Don't be. With our new automated Host check in system Hosts can feel less pressure to participate outside of their volunteer capacity - only participate when you want. Teahouse invitations are currently automated! We encourage you to keep inviting, but, there is no pressure or quotas as HostBot does the task for the you. I hope you'll come back and join us, your skills at making new editors feel welcome and appreciated are invaluable to the Teahouse, and the Wikipedia community. See you there! EdwardsBot (talk) 17:31, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Mojang logo.png

A tag has been placed on File:Mojang logo.png requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 18:20, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	This barnstar is awarded to you in appreciation of your submission to the WP:2012 main page redesign proposal. The straw poll has now closed (see results), but the discussion continues on the talk page – hope to see you there! Evad37 (talk) 00:37, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, you can find it at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/sandbox.
• To edit the submission, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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• You can also get live chat help from experienced editors.

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Bjelleklang - talk 20:27, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Don't feel too badly, my sandbox was declined also. --  :- ) Don 15:34, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Unblock requests from rangeblocked IPs

Re your comment here: This happens a lot with rangeblocked IPs, and as I said (and have said on all other previous occasions) there's really nothing I can do. The only edits from that IP are those related to that request ... any other edits the user made came from different IP and no diffs have been provided. We don't lift rangeblocks because one IP wants to be unblocked ... we never have (Giving registered users IPBE when they're caught in them, which I've done many times, is different). And to suggest that by following that practice I'm somehow violating WP:BITE shows a limited understanding of that page. I have been professional and polite doing it, after all, which the IP noticed.

Even if we could somehow redo the rangeblocks so as to leave that IP out, it wouldn't make a difference to a user on a dynamic range. They could just as easily find themselves on another blocked IP, and start this whole thing over.

There's nothing wrong with you advocating on this user's behalf, but as I've said I can't do anymore. You would be better off taking it up with Materialscientist, who imposed the initial rangeblock. Daniel Case (talk) 16:42, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

fixed

As promised, dunno if the top lines are needed, but the second part fixes the comment problem: [6]. Regards mabdul 20:38, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation newsletter - closing up!

Hey all :).

We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.

However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.

Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:20, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Supporting GAN! Consider reviewing today! :)

I've noticed you're interested in supporting GA! :) That is fantastic. Please consider reviewing a Good Article nominee to help in the 450+ article review backlog! :) Your assistance and support of Good Article is appreciated. :) Clearing the backlog is important in terms of recognising quality work by Wikipedia's contributors! --LauraHale (talk) 03:40, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Interview re: WikiProject participation?

Hi Nathan! Would you be willing to grant me an interview about WikiProject Articles for Creation? I'm currently researching WikiProjects (in a non-WMF capacity), and AfC seems like a really interesting case, since it's been around for a while and looks to be pretty active. Message me back or find me on IRC to let me know. Cheers, - J-Mo ^{Talk to Me} _{Email Me} 20:40, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject:Articles for Creation October - November 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive

WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive

WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from October 22, 2012 – November 21, 2012.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 1000 articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

EdwardsBot (talk) 00:13, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks but....

I'm not new. I've edited many articles and I have visited the Teahouse several times. I've been a Wikipedian since August. I'm very expierienced. I'm trying to let people know that I'm not new. DEIDRA C. (talk) 18:56, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Mentioned you

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=520365105&oldid=520349204

Anthonyhcole (talk) 02:52, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, you can find it at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/sandbox.
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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:01, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. However, it has not been accepted yet. There are comments left by the reviewer as to what should be fixed before it is moved to article space and they can be viewed on the submission page. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and you can resubmit it once you feel they have been resolved.

• If you would like to view or work on your submission, you can find it at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/sandbox.
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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 20:39, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Welcome, host!

Hey Nathan, this is Jethro, the current maitre'd at the Teahouse. My position is not one of any particular authority, but just to oversee things at the Teahouse and make sure things are running smoothly. I wanted to welcome you as a host, and thank you for joining us. Here are a couple of resources you might find helpful as you're hosting:

• User scripts - This is a list of user scripts which can allow you to automatically post talkbacks for the Teahouse, provide invite templates to new users, and a few other things.
• Host expectations - Just a short list of general expectations and guidelines you should consider following in your work.
• Hosts talk page - A good page to keep in your watchlist for announcements and other discussions related to The Teahouse.
• Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host_lounge/Maitre_d/Calendar - The maitre'd calendar so you know who to go to with questions about The Teahouse on a given day.

Let me know if you have any question, and happy hosting. :) I, Jethrobot ^{drop me a line} (note: not a bot!) 07:08, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Declined Submission

Moved to WP:AFCHD

 – Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 17:43, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Article for Creation Idea Office submission decline November 8 2012

Moved to WP:AFCHD

 – Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 17:43, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

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Sourced data removed

Hi Nathan - I added some data for Mojang - that they are at $200 million in revenue. You removed. Just curious why?

Thanks!

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Well, your source was reliable, but it wasn't inserted properly (see WP:REFB for instructions). You also don't explain who "Mojang CEO" is. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 17:48, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #39

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  • Several minor bugfixes in the user interface
  • Updated Vagrant for Wikidata
  • More work on AbuseFilter
  • Deployed new version of Wikibase and MediaWiki core to wikidata.org and test2.wikipedia (bugfixes - all Wikibase changes here)
  • Fix for bug 43595 which was seen on Wednesday during attempted deployment of the wmf7 version of MediaWiki core. Thanks Marius!
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  • Created prototypes for parsing coordinates and time in Wikidata that need feedback
  • Bureaucrat support requirements
  • Defining administrators
• Events
  • 29C3
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We’ve reached item ID 2.000.000
  • You can now enable the SitelinkCheck gadget in your preferences that makes it easier to check if a certain link is already in use in an existing item
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  • Give feedback on prototypes for parsing time and coordinates
  • Help translate the client extension (especially to Hungarian in light of the upcoming deployment)
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Wikidata weekly summary #40

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• Development
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  • Notification for IP edits that IP will be logged (bugzilla:42954)
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  • Updated PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Selenium, etc.. on internal test server and enabled APC + memcached
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  • Implemented length constraint for labels, descriptions and aliases (configurable with a default of 2500 UTF8 characters)
  • Implementing a new mechanism for dispatching change notifications to client wikis
  • Worked more on how Wikidata changes are handled in the client watchlist (bugzilla:43124)
  • Some work went into using Solr for the search. Still very simple
  • Prepared improvements to our puppet files on labs
  • Worked on statements UI (snaktypes/references)
  • Fixed bugs in UI event handling of widgets
  • Put EntityId parsing code into a dedicated class
  • Finished EntityDiff cleanup
• Discussions/Press
  • Reworked inclusion syntax completely 1 2
  • Updates to time and space model
  • Is there a need for bureaucrats?
  • Planned improvement to the search field
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia is still planned for Monday (Jan 14th)
  • Jens writes a bit about Wikidata’s mascots
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Wikidata weekly summary #41

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

• Development
  • We are live on the Hungarian Wikipedia \o/
  • We have an intern for a week, Marius aka User:Hoo man. He’ll be working on the wizard for linking a new Wikipedia article to an existing item or creating a new item for it if none exists yet. (the first two stories here)
  • Refactored sites code to improve design
  • Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
  • Added lots of new Selenium tests
  • Changed AbuseFilter so Wikibase can hook into it
  • Implemented new change dispatcher script
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Working on combining successive changes to avoid watchlist clutter
  • Claims error handling (i.e. they now show error messages when needed)
  • Implemented initial version of Solr-based search for Wikidata in extension WikibaseSolr
  • Started investigating use of Lua/Scribunto for the Wikibase client
  • Updated the Wikidata Vagrant development machine
  • Improved the setup via puppet on Labs
• Discussions/Press
  • Latest updates on time and coordinate datatypes
  • Schedule for the reconfirmation of the first round of admins
  • RFC on en:wp about the transition to language links from Wikidata
  • Signpost, among others, covers the deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Congrats to our sister Wikivoyage on their official launch
  • There’s now a manual for using the Pywikipediabot on Wikidata
  • Deployed new code on wikidata.org
  • Community Portal got a rework
  • Tried to drop www from Wikidata URLs but that was more difficult than expected. Sorry for the issues it caused. We're working on resolving the remaining ones.
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  • d:Wikidata:Press coverage needs some love and attention
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Wikidata weekly summary #42

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• Development
  • Updated demo system
  • Improved design of sites code in core
  • Fixed SQLite compatibility
  • Worked on implementing references handling in statements user interface
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  • Switched the demo system to Labs’ puppet
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  • Deutscher Sprachtechnologietag
  • upcoming: FOSDEM
  • upcoming: talk about MediaWiki groups
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  • Reconfirmation of temporary admins
  • Next deployment (Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia) still scheduled for 30th of January as planned
  • Planning for Wikimania in Hong Kong
  • Wikimedia data center move went rather smoothly
  • Request from the Bosnian Wikipedia community to be among the next to use Wikidata
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Wikidata weekly summary #43

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  • Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia ([7] [8] [9])
  • Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
  • Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
  • Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
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  • Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
  • Resumed work on linked data interface
  • References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
  • Several minor user interface fixes
  • Styling of the user interface for statements
  • Selenium tests for references
  • Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
  • Worked on puppet
• Discussions/Press
  • Abuse filter guidelines
  • Policy on properties
  • First external tool for output in RDF: [10] and [11]
  • Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)
• Events
  • We’ve set the date for the next office hours
  • upcoming: FOSDEM
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Admin reconfirmation is still ongoing
  • Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Wikipedia for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.
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  • Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
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• Development
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  • Started work on query definitions
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  • upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
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The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven

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Thanks again! Ocaasi 01:55, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

regarding new article submission

Dear Nathan,

It was nice to get a robotic message from you. I had written an article in sand box and submitted few days earlier.

But when ever i am visiting my sand box That same article is showing. and below that Some AFC and Article name is showing. with written that its under review, M afraid is it really submitted or not?

Hope you could help me. Thanks in advance. Regards, Prabodha K Meher — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prabodha K Meher (talk • contribs) 19:40, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #45

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

• Development
  • Deployment to English Wikipedia
  • Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
  • Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
  • Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
  • Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
  • Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
  • Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
  • Started with valueview refactoring
  • Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
  • Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
  • Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
  • Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
  • Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
  • More work on Lua-based templates for entities
  • Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
  • Created query object
  • Proper bot-flagging of edits (bugzilla:44857)
  • Use of ID to directly address an item or property
  • Search should give more of the complete matches now
  • Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
  • More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
  • Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
  • Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
• Discussions/Press
  • List of currently existing properties
  • Proposals for new properties
• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
  • Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
  • Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
  • New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
    • Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
    • Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
    • Ability to add items to claims by their ID
    • Better handling of deleted properties
    • More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
  • We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
  • Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
  • Check out a well-done item
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• Help expand en:Wikipedia:Wikidata
• Help expand and translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
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GOCE February 2013 newsletter

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Wikidata weekly summary #46

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

• Development
  • Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID
  • Updated demo system
  • Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
  • Implemented first version of a string data type
  • Worked on better error reporting from the API
  • Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
  • Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
  • Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities)
  • Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance
  • Worked on cleanup of local entity store
  • Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries
• Discussions/Press
  • Wikidata development will continue in 2013
  • Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing
  • RFC about the Wikidata API
  • Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at d:Wikidata:List of properties and new ones are being discussed at [d:Wikidata:Property proposal]]
  • RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata
  • Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines
• Events
  • office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log)
  • upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
  • Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them
  • Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata
  • “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata)
  • List of most used properties
  • OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles
  • Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
  • We’ve hit d:Q5000000
  • Had a look at d:Wikidata:Tools lately?
• Open Tasks for You
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  • Help translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
  • Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia

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GOCE news: February 2013

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The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven (special Birthday recap)

A celebratory cupcake from the Teahouse Birthday Badge

It's been a full year since the Teahouse opened, and as we're reflecting on what's been accomplished, we wanted to celebrate with you.

Teahouse guests and hosts are sharing their stories in a new blog post about the project.

1 year statistics for Teahouse visitors compared to invited non-visitors from the pilot:

Metric	Control group	Teahouse group	Contrast
Average retention (weeks with at least 1 edit)	5.02 weeks	8.57 weeks	1.7x retention
Average number of articles edited	58.7 articles	116.9 edits	2.0x articles edited
Average talk page edits	36.5 edits	85.6 edits	2.4x talk page edits
Average article space edits	129.6 edits	360.4 edits	2.8x article edits
Average total edits (all namespaces)	182.1 edits	532.4 edits	2.9x total edits

Over the past year almost 2000 questions have been asked and answered, 669 editors have introduced themselves, 1670 guests have been served, 867 experienced Wikipedians have participated in the project, and 137 have served as hosts. Read more project analysis in our CSCW 2013 paper

Last month January was our most active month so far! 78 profiles were created, 46 active hosts answered 263 questions, and 11 new hosts joined the project.

Come by the Teahouse to share a cup of tea and enjoy a Birthday Cupcake! Happy Birthday to the Teahouse and thank you for a year's worth of interest and support :-)

-- Ocaasi and the rest of the Teahouse Team 20:40, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

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It's been an exciting year for the Teahouse and you were a part of it. Thanks so much for visiting, asking questions, sharing answers, being friendly and helpful, and just keeping Teahouse an awesome place. You can read more about the impact we're having and the reflections of other guests and hosts like you. Please come by the Teahouse to celebrate with us, and enjoy this sparkly cupcake badge as our way of saying thank you. And, Happy Birthday!

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Wikidata weekly summary #47

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

• Development
  • Extended diff view to include references now
  • Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view
  • Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData
  • Updated the demo system
  • More work towards using Solr for our search
  • More investigation and fixes of search issues
  • Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior
  • Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar
  • Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript
  • A lot of bug fixing
• Events
  • Wikipedia Day NYC
  • upcoming: Wikimedia metrics and activities meeting
  • upcoming: office hour (German)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
  • Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
  • Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
  • d:Wikidata:Database reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties
  • The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs).
  • The list of available properties is growing and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed
  • Reasonator gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person
  • Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category
  • A few more additions to d:Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements
  • We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to the remaining Wikipedias that will get phase 1 on March 6
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #48

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

• Development
  • More work on widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly without having to go to Wikidata
  • Bug fixes for Wikipedias, including:
    • don't show edit link when noexternallanglinks magic word suppresses Wikidata links (bugzilla:45037)
    • use Q## links instead of linking to Special:ItemByTitle for “edit links” link (bugzilla:44536)
    • preference for showing Wikidata edits by default in watchlist (bugzilla:44973)
  • Catching up on writing tests for untested functionality
  • More work on the Lua support for accessing data from the repository (wikidata.org) on the Wikipedias
  • Updated Wikidata’s Vagrant development machine
  • Created initial QueryStore interface
  • Created initial setup code for the SQL QueryStore
  • Discussed and created initial schema for the SQL QueryStore
  • Simplified code for client settings, including which namespaces can have Wikidata links. The default is now all namespaces, without needing to explicitly specify them in the settings
  • Improved code for sorting interwiki links in the clients, with step towards allowing the communities to specify custom sort orders per Wikipedia
  • Improved handling of deleted properties
  • Further work on replacement for current search box
  • More work on improving error reporting and edit summaries in the API
  • Tim and Aaron killed the mystery bug that caused corrupt login tokens (bugzilla:41586)
• Discussions/Press
  • Hacker News noticed we exist
  • RFC about opting out of global sysops or not (more RFCs d:Wikidata:Requests for comment)
  • Asked the Italian, Hebrew and Hungarian Wikipedias if they want to be the first to use phase 2 (will ask a few more to join the first batch later today)
• Events
  • WMF Metrics and Activities meeting (recording is linked there)
  • office hour in German
  • upcoming: Bibliothek & Information
  • upcoming: Wikidata trifft Achäologie
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We’re now live on all Wikipedias with phase 1 \o/
  • Deployed bugfixes and a new data type (string) to wikidata.org
  • How will Wikidata impact Wikipedia?
  • More useful database reports (more are being requested on the discussion page)
  • Quite a few new properties that make use of the new string data type now and more are being proposed
  • Lukas wants to work with us to improve usability
  • New user scripts at d:Wikidata:Tools
• Did you know?
  • Is a specific bug report really important to you? If you have an account on bugs.wikimedia.org you can easily add yourself to the CC list of the bug and then receive updates about its status via email
  • Wikidata is also on Twitter, identi.ca, Facebook and Google+
  • There is an IRC channel too: #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Continue being awesome

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Wikidata weekly summary #49

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

• • Development
  • Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
  • More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia
  • More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia)
  • Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
    • bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
    • bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
  • Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
  • Selenium tests for multiline references
  • Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client
  • Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox
  • Selenium tests for language-table
  • Implemented in-process caching for entities
  • Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
  • rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
  • Improved error reports from the API
  • Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
  • Added a table of content to item pages
  • Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia
  • Finished implementation of References-UI
  • Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript
  • Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information
  • Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation
  • Minor bugfixes in Statements-UI
  • More work on RDF export
• Discussions/Press
  • When to autoconfirm users
  • More property proposals
• Events
  • Bibliothek und Information
  • 3rd Media Web Symposium
  • upcoming: Wikidata trifft Archäologie
  • upcoming: SMWCon
  • Log of latest office hour on IRC (in German)
  • We’ll be at the Amsterdam Hackathon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New features/bugfixes on wikidata.org are planned for March 20
  • Lua roll-out! You’ll be able to use it soon to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia. Here's two introductory blogposts: [12] [13]
  • The new pope didn’t go unnoticed on Wikidata either
  • Someone sent the dev team a cake! <3
  • Want an easy way to add authority control data? Check this
  • We crossed item ID 7000000
  • We now have over 4000 active editors \o/
  • Some more stats based on a database dump from end of February
  • Reasonator got a few more goodies
• Did you know?
  • If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language
  • Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help translate m:Wikidata/Deployment Questions
  • Hack on one of these

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GOCE mid-March 2013 newsletter

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Wikidata weekly summary #50

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

• Development
  • Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
    • Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
    • Fixed the prev/next links in diff view (bugzilla:45821)
    • d:Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets you filter by language and entity type
  • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
  • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
  • Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
  • Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
  • Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
  • Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the Wikipedias.
  • Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
  • Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
  • Support for multi-line references in diff view
  • Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
  • Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
  • Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and visibility of bad dependencies
  • Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
• Discussions/Press
  • Denny had a look at some data about Wikidata
• Events
  • 3rd Media Web Symposium 2013
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• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Join us for the Amsterdam and Wikimania hackathon and Wikimania
  • Too many items with the same label and no description? Terminator helps you hunt them all down and clean them up. Also check out the top 1000
  • Interested in the distribution of books by genre on Wikidata and similar things? WikidataStats can help
  • d:Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot needs input from more people
  • Detailed list of bots
  • Collecting information about creating a bot
  • We’ve crossed Q8000000
• Did you know?
  • When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse. “Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but it is unknown to us.
• Open Tasks for You
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Wikidata weekly summary #51

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

• Development
  • The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their articles (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at it:Torino)
  • Worked on automatic summaries for statements
  • Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of {{#property:p169}} for example
  • Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.)
  • Selenium tests for qualifiers
  • Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
  • Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)
• Discussions/Press
  • Denny wrote down how we’re planning to support queries on Wikidata. Feedback welcome.
  • Proposal for a vandalism policy
  • Now that improvements for references have been deployed here’s a discussion on the best way to use them. (You can see an example of how it could be used in the source for “CAS registry number” on d:Q153)
  • Should Wikidata have featured items?
  • RFC about restricting the ability to create properties to some users
  • Heise.de reporting about deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias
  • Report about a collaboration event between Wikipedians and archeologists
• Events
  • Newline 2013
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that.
  • Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed!
  • Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri!
  • We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis
  • We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful.
  • In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you.
  • We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at bugzilla:44228
  • Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: bugzilla:46461
  • Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? This is for you
  • The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again. At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted.
  • Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata
  • Wikidata was added to wikipulse
  • A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set
• Did you know?
  • If you need to merge two items d:Help:Merge explains how
• Open Tasks for You
  • See note at the end of this weekly summary
  • Help test qualifiers (m:Wikidata/Notes/Data model primer#Qualifiers - see also example statements there) on the test wiki so we can roll it out with the next release
  • Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!)
  • Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label?
  • Hack on one of these

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q1 2013

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 6, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2013
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Wikidata weekly summary #52

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

• Development
  • The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
  • Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
  • Worked on improving recent changes code in client
  • Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
  • Implemented string formatter
• Discussions/Press
  • RFC for defining the bureaucrats role on Wikidata
  • RFC about statements for items related to software
• Events
  • upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
  • There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
  • There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
  • We hit Q10000000
  • A Wikidata item in the wild ;-)
• Did you know?
  • There are a number of task forces that take care of specific jobs or topics on Wikidata
  • You can get database dumps to play with
  • There are a lot of stats about Wikidata on http://stats.wikimedia.org
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hit a random item and add a missing source?
  • Hack on one of these

Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.

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Wikidata weekly summary #53

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

• Development
  • Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
  • Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
  • Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
  • Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
  • Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
  • Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
• Events/Press
  • right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
• Discussions
  • The RFC about bureaucrats was closed
  • RfC about policy for translation admins
  • We need feedback from contributors working on references addition or having tried to add references to statements. Please comment about your problems or your trials at d:Help:Sources
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
  • Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
  • There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
  • If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
  • There is a new user right: property creators
  • There is now a page to request deletion of a property
  • We now have Bureaucrats
  • Reasonator was improved and extended (1 2)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Help draft the next weekly summary

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Hello, Nathan2055. You have new messages at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation.
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Moreover I would delete your release candidate since the only real change is a rewording of the decline reason, but unused if using the keyboard. (e.g. by pressing v for missing references) mabdul 09:56, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #54

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

• Development
  • Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
  • wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (bugzilla:45005)
  • Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (bugzilla:45140)
  • Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
  • Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
  • Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
  • Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
  • Work on the storage code for answering queries
• Events/Press
  • GLAM-WIKI 2013
  • upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
  • upcoming: Opensource Treffen
  • upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
• Discussions
  • RfC about references and sources
  • RfC about local oversighters
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 (infoboxes) on English Wikipedia is planned for April 22. All remaining Wikipedias are planned for April 24.
  • Qualifiers are available now. In the same update several bugs have been fixed mainly related to Internet Explorer 8. At the same time search has been made case-insensitive. More details here.
  • d:Wikidata:Notability has been completely rewritten
  • Cool task force page: d:Wikidata:Video games task force
  • List of Wikipedia articles that still have language links in the wiki text
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these

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GOCE April 2013 newsletter

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Wikidata weekly summary #55

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

• Development
  • Started working on support for the Time data type in the frontend (editing/displaying of time values)
  • Fixed copyright tooltip’s issues where it was not possible to dismiss it
  • Started work for making it possible to track where on the client a property is used
  • Work on dispatching changes to Wikipedias via the redis job queue
  • Introducing core hooks to allow us to avoid page re-rendering when language links are changed
  • Implemented automatic comments for setClaim (adding/setting claim, adding/removing/changing qualifiers)
  • Investigated issue where edit conflicts are detected in error
  • Fixed wrong revision shown in history-view
• Events/Press
  • A lot of articles about the deployment of phase 2 on all Wikipedias among them: Wikipedia-Datenfundus Wikidata geht in den Regelbetrieb, Wikidata goes live worldwide, Wikidata-revolutionen är här: Möjliggör strukturerade data på Wikipedia
  • Wikimedia switching to MariaDB in c'T (German): Wikipedia wechselt von MySQL auf MariaDB
  • Office hour about references (log)
  • Introduction to Wikidata - talk at the British Library
  • OpensourceTreffen in Munich
  • Upcoming: Hypertext 2013
• Discussions
  • RfC about vandalism
  • RfP for oversighters
  • RfC about interproject links interface
  • RfC about inactive administrators
  • RfC about permissions for rollbackers regarding vandalism
  • RfC about Kinship
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Phase 2 has been deployed on English Wikipedia and all remaining ones
  • Deployed a widget that makes it easier to add language links when there is only one language link on Wikidata so far
  • Page to collect information about phase 2 on the Wikipedias
  • Page edits have passed 31 million.
  • d:Help:Shortcut lists shortcuts for frequently used pages
  • Nice interaction of local data and data from Wikidata on English Wikipedias
• Did you know?
  • Item Q12000000 is is the Czech Wiki entry about "Výškové horolezectví" or "high altitude climbing"
  • Newest properties are: occupant, color (hex triplet), NOR, member of, color (item), opposite of, said to be the same as, IMO ship number, foundational text, Emporis ID, Structurae ID, industry, cohabitant, astronaut's missions, original network, launch site
  • Newest qualifiers are: determination method, role
  • Properties merged: sister and brother (discussion)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Translate the Table of properties into your language
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • If fixing a particular bug is especially important for you then please consider voting for it in Bugzilla to help the development team prioritize. A list of all of the currently open ones is here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #56

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

• Development
  • Worked with students on their Google Summer of Code proposals
  • Worked on time data type editing in the frontend
  • Worked on improving the DataTypes system
  • Working on better Continuous Integration strategy
  • Moving Selenium tests to Cloudbees & Saucelabs
  • Catching up with Selenium tests
• Events/Press
  • Hypertext 2013
  • upcoming: Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
• Discussions
  • RFC to enable the "flood flag"
  • RFC about "labels in uncommon language variants"
  • RFC to create "Items for Wikimedia projects besides Wikipedia"
  • 7 users requesting access to the oversight permission
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Bugfixes were deployed on wikidata.org. The ones you probably care about are:
    • when clicking "edit links" on a Wikipedia article the user is automatically taken to the language links part of the item. Hopefully it is now more obvious how to change the links.
    • fixed a few cases where edit conflicts where detected in error
    • added automatic edit summaries for adding qualifiers and claims
    • fixed wrong revision being shown in div history
  • Translators can now sign up to receive translation notifications at d:Special:TranslatorSignup
  • Visual query interface for Wikidata
  • 3 Wikimania submissions that could use your vote at the bottom: State of Wikidata, The Technology Behind Wikidata, Ask Us Anything About Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Recorded at (studio), Supporting actor/actress, Palissy identifier, Filmaffinity number, input device, Volume (collections), Historic Places identifier, CELEX number, country calling code, local dialing code, eight banner register, lakes on river, dan/kyu rank, legislated by
  • Newest task forces: Pokémon task force, Cultural heritage task force, Space task force
• Open Tasks for You
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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This Month in GLAM: April 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue IV, April 2013 Headlines From the team: Some personal thoughts on GLAM Australia and New Zealand report: Wikipedia in academia and libraries in Australia Denmark report: Upcoming Edit-a-thon 1864 Finland report: WLPA; GLAM Sessions; Funding France report: Brest Germany report: Hamburg Museum; Museum August Kestner Hungary report: Article writing contest about statistics and related sciences Italy report: Wikipedia workshop; Editathon on women's biographies Mexico report: Fotofestín activities; DIY scanner project progress and Winners of the Holy Week in Mexico photo contest at ITESM Campus Ciudad de Mexico Netherlands report: GLAM WIKI UK; Wiki loves Sound; Wikipedian in Residence; Wiki loves Libraries; Wikipedia Training National Museum of Ethnology Spain report: Longest edit-a-thon ever at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona Sweden report: GLAM handbook version 3; conferences; hackathons and Wiki Loves Public Art Switzerland report: Swiss Federal Archives looking for a Wikipedian in Residence Taiwan report: Taiwan Government Data Portal Launched UK report: GLAM-Wiki; new and departing Wikipedians in Residence USA report: First GLAM Boot Camp; Consortium meeting; GLAMout; plus workshops and editathon Special story: Intersections between GLAM and Wikinews Open Access report: Featured content; Wikimania sessions Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #57

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

• Development
  • Implemented basic editing of Time values
  • Worked on advanced editing of Time values (having a preview, defining precision and calendar model while editing the value)
  • Work on RDF mapping/export
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Solving issues with WMF Jenkins
  • Migrating Selenium test from RSpec to Cucumber
• Events/Press
  • Interview on dradio.de
  • PHP Unconference Europe 2013
  • PHP Days 1013 Berlin
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
• Discussions
  • RfC: Bureaucrats' role in removal of permissions
  • RfC: Disambiguation pages guidelines
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Blog post by Magnus Manske about the Wikidata tool ecosystem
  • New mailing list for discussion of development of Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ISO 4217, CBDB ID, ORCID, country of origin, ICD-10, ICD-9, OMIM ID, orbit diagram, provisional designation (astronomy), currency symbol description, chairperson, Unicode character, MeSH ID, archives at, IMA Number
  • Newest task forces: Baseball
• Open Tasks for You
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #58

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• Discussions
  • What should be done with the property stable Version?
  • Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
  • The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata
• Events/Press
  • A lot of Wikidata-related submissions have been accepted for Wikimania
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
  • upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Amsterdam
  • upcoming: Linked Data in Business
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • d:Help:Lua is now the place for all things Lua on Wikidata
  • Item d:Q13000000 is Devarakonda, a village in India.
  • The geographic relation "exclave of" is the property with the ID 500.
  • English Wikipedia discussion closes allowing for use of Wikidata
  • Template to display a tree based in Wikidata data
  • Deployed new bugfixes on wikidata.org including a fix for pages not being added to the watchlist automatically plus the first version of the RDF exort
  • The ability to include data using the property label is planned to be deployed on English Wikipedia on Monday and all others on Wednesday (You can then for example use {{#property:logo image}} in addition to {{#property:P154}}.)
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  • {{Property|123}} can be used on Wikidata to get the label of the given property (P123) in the readers language. {{label|Q123}} does the same for items.
• Development
  • Simplified the inclusion syntax (this is one way how you access data from Wikidata in a Wikipedia article - the other one is via Lua)
  • Result of the external codebase review has been published
  • Worked on implementation of editable time values in frontend
  • Selenium tests for false edit-conflicts and old-revision-view
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  • Made many improvements to the unit test configuration and bootstrapping code in Ask, Diff, DataValues, WikibaseQueryEngine and WikibaseDatabase
  • Automatic class loading based on PSR-0 convention in Ask, Diff and WikibaseQueryEngine
  • Added new array comparison code and started work on merging diffs together in Diff
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  • Improved many unit tests by removing unneeded dependencies they had
  • Bug fixing
  • Made property parser function code more robust
  • Worked on EntityPerPage rebuild script, to enable it to run for Wikidata to fill in missing entities in the wb_entity_per_page table
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Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

see bug fix at test.wikipedia. Some edits after that fixing my autoed problems. mabdul 21:53, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Alright. We need to discuss blacklisting further and I am continuously updating the dev page with bugs, the latest of which is that apparently the script is incompatible with Windows 8 (more specifically, IE10). I'm going to begin testing the version with autoed and my changes, if I see fixes that need doing I'll work on them. See you on IRC! --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 17:49, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Would you explain that? XD

The former version is a simply text replace (without an regex)

The latter is with regex and not "valid" as it won't ever find anything as it is "ignoring" interpreting the brackets as special characters. mabdul 01:52, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

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• Development
  • A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
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Wikidata weekly summary #60

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• Events/Press
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  • 5 students are working on projects related to Wikidata as part of Google Summer of Code 2013
  • prototype of a multilingual map using Wikidata
  • Many Wikimedia wikis got a new account creation and login page - among them Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: venue (P540), office contested (P541), officially opened by (P542), oath made by (P543), torch lit by (P545), docking port (P546), commemorates (P547), version type (P548), MGP ID (P549), chivalric order (P550), residence (P551), handedness (P552), social media account on (P553), social media address (P554), doubles record (P555), crystal system (P556), DiseasesDB (P557), unit symbol (P558), terminus (P559), direction (P560), NATO reporting name (P561), central bank/issuer (P562), ICD-O (P563), singles record (P564), crystal habit (P565)
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  • Made good progress on moving the sitelinks on Wikidata too when a page on Wikipedia is moved (bugzilla:36729 - currently the bug with most votes)
  • Fixed some bugs in the time value user interface
  • Worked on coordinate value support
  • Worked together with Wikimedia Foundation ops staff on Apache configuration changes to enable “pretty urls” for item pages. (e.g. https://en.wikidata.org/wiki/New_York_City goes to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60 in the future)
  • Added MediaWiki setting wgLogAutopatrol to allow wikis the option to disable logging of autopatrol actions
  • Improved EntityPerPage rebuild script, which is needed to fix the situation where some Wikipedia articles can't access data from Wikidata (bugzilla:48506)
  • Fixed bug in SetQualifiers API module; Moved both SetQualifiers and RemoveQualifiers out of experimental mode
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{{resolved}} Hi Nathan, as a Teahouse Junior Wrangler I am here to provide you with a courtesy notification that your talk page edit notice has been mentioned at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions. The thread is entitled "Why are they so quick to slam the door in a noobs face?" Regards, --Demiurge1000 (talk) 19:50, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Where? I read that entire thread twice and saw no mention of me. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 19:54, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

It's the "If you want to ask me why I marked something for deletion, tagged your article as having an issue, or other basic editing related questions, go to the Wikipedia Teahouse" part, followed by her interpretation (using a fish-related metaphor) of what that means. (The quoted text is in your talkpage editnotice.) As a Junior Wrangler, I can confirm that fish-related metaphors are not usually appropriate at the Teahouse. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:09, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

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Zachary Moldof

Hello. Thank you for accepting my AfC submission at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Zachg. One point on the article title, however. While for people who are best known by a pseudonym, the legal name should usually appear first in the article (WP:NAMES#Pseudonyms, stage names and common names), the name used most often to refer to a person in reliable sources is generally the one that should be used as the article title, even if it is not their "real" name, and even if it appears to pass judgement on the person (WP:STAGENAME). Therefore, in this case, I think Zachg should be used as the article title as per Zachary Moldof#References. Could you please take a second look? 114.164.154.113 (talk) 21:44, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

@admin - Looks like this IP copy and paste moved Zachary Moldof to Zachg. Gonna need a histmerge or something. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 00:44, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

{{done}} I've performed the histmerge. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 12:28, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Daniel Brusilovsky

Hello Nathan2055, I saw your decline of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Daniel Brusilovsky. The reason you gave was that the article had been deleted at AfD. But according to the page history, the article never went through AfD, it was only Speedied, back in 2009. Does that change anything? Howicus (talk) 19:14, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Either way, it's salted and will require a DRV. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs}

If the submission is acceptable, shouldn't that require a request to an admin to unsalt it, not a DRV? --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:34, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Possibly. I'm not sure. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 20:36, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

RE: Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Solid Concepts Inc.

Hi Nathan, My article was declined really quickly by you with the reason cited as "Resubmitted with no changes since last decline", which is false. I made changes to my references, deleted the two that seemed most likely to be "not verifiable" (even though they were) and cleaned up the rest of them. The remaining ones are still verifiable and from highly regarded media sources. I talked with another Wikipedia editor and he suggested I give at least one reference per paragraph, which I have done where applicable. I'm not quite sure what remains unverifiable, but I'm certainly sure that you did not actually look over my page. I appreciate your help.Alyssacles (talk) 15:17, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

@Alyssacles - Here is a diff showing the differences between my bad sources decline and the no changes decline. I reverted a few of your changes in between because they removed the infobox as well as one decent source and one bad source. I apologize if you believe my actions were too hasty. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 18:59, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Zeke Durden

You declined my article after I spent a ridiculous amount of time going back and forth with davidwr over citation formats, trademark issues, and quotations. If my article was only going to be declined in the end for failing to meet the notability guidelines, why did Wikipedia waste so much of my time with formatting and quotation requests? If you had told me upfront that the article would not be accepted, that would have been fine. But having me jump through numerous hoops and spend an inordinate amount of time perfecting citations only to have the article declined at the end is infuriating. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AshtarSheran (talk • contribs) 03:19, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

AshtarSheran asked a similar question about Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Zeke Durden on my talk page. Not knowing he posted here, I responded with some guidance and a request for him to ask you for more information. See User talk:Davidwr#Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Zeke Durden. AshtarSheran: If you are reading this, you may want to ask for additional help at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 03:41, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

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Greenberg-Hastings cellular automaton

I am new to Wikipedia editing, talk, etc, though not at all new to reading W. articles. If I understand correctly you (or someone) proposed to delete the article "Greenberg Hastings cellular automaton". Here are some reasons I think it deserves to stay:

1. This was, as far as I know, the first published CA model of an excitable medium. A Google search for "Greenberg Hastings", with the quotes, gives about 3300 hits.

2. In the article on Cellular Automaton there is a list at the bottom of specific models. These all have Wikipedia articles. The first one is called "Brian's Brain". That is closely related to Greenberg-Hastings, in that there is only one small difference in the rules. It apparently has interesting properties, but little has been proved about it.

3. Google scholar reveals 199 citations, 16 in the last year. (The article cited is 35 years old.) A Google Scholar search for "Brian's Brain" returns 56 citations, 2 in the last year, though the article is newer than GH. Another CA model on the list is Langton's ant. That returns 77 total hits, 4 in the last year, though it also is newer. So GH has shown staying power.

4. Among the hits for GH in Google Scholar are articles by distinguished mathematicians with "Greenberg Hastings" as part of the title. This is quite rare for articles in math journals.

5. Again to compare with Brian's Brain and Langton's ant, more of the GH articles are in math journals, as opposed to CS and other topics. In math, at least, GH has made more impact.

6, This model is also described in Wolfram's book "A new kind of science". I've added that citation.

I think the main weak point in my article is that I don't know how to do the graphics I want. The Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction article has a .gif animation of basically the same thing. But I want something that shows why the patterns evolve, not just THAT they evolve. This could be done best if I could create an interactive graphic in which the pattern would evolve one step at a time when the viewer clicks on it. I don't know if this is possible, and I certainly don't know how to do it now. Advice would be appreciated. It is very hard to see exactly what is going on in the .gif animation.

If interactivity is not possible, I can try to prepare a series of snapshots, but this would not be nearly as good, in my opinion.

The two web links given in the article give better graphics than the .gif file, but still don't bring out very well the importance of spirals in the developing pattern. Every GH pattern can be interpreted as interacting rotating spirals. This is especially hard to see in the aforementioned .gif.

I am particularly puzzled by the statement that I can sign this with four tilde's. But here they are: Sph110 (talk) 01:48, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Sorry - I obviously don't know what I am doing. I thought I was editing the previous posts, not submitting new ones.

I do have an additional argument for "noteworthiness". The SIAM textbook cited (Society of Industrial and Applied MaTH) devotes a large part of chapter 6 to the GH model. And as far as I know, none of the authors of the text know either Greenberg or Hastings personally. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sph110 (talk • contribs) 02:44, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

@Sph110 - Alright, well that's a pretty good statement of notability. Good job, you seem to really know this topic. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 00:50, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

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Liz Magor Article - Sources

Hi Nathan,

Thanks for taking the time to edit the article I've started about the Canadian Artist, Liz Magor. As per your suggestion, I will add some additional sources to flesh out the article a bit more. I will re-submit it in the coming weeks. Again, thanks for your contribution.

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1. While you may have made the change as part of the BRD cycle, a necessary part of that cycle is that when others disagree with you, you revert your actions.
2. Editors should never misrepresent consensus to pursue their own agenda.
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4. If you believe Hasteur was declining submissions inappropriately, to the point of disruption, then AN/I is the correct venue for sanctions if userpage discussions fail. Not making changes to the helper script. Pol430 talk to me 08:56, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

First of all, in discussion to my comment to Earwig, that was two years ago, I have no idea what I was thinking then and looking back on it, it's obvious that I didn't have consensus to make the change. Thus, I'd like to say on record that I was not misrepresenting consensus, I was misunderstanding consensus. The reason I stated that I wanted an RfC to enforce the change is because not only I believed the original change to be made by consensus (which it was not, as I said above), but because there were many more people showing up with declines that make no since because new reviewers who misunderstood the process were showing up and leaving bad declines. I gave examples of Hasteur doing this, and I attempted to talk to him on his user talk page, but he didn't listen. Either way, I'm going to reimplement the custom decline reasons in a fork of stable. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 16:42, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Understood, misunderstandings happen. Thank you for reflecting on this and I apologize if you thought my tone harsh. Pol430 talk to me 17:07, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Could you also take a look at this section and include some fixes in the next push, when you have time? Thanks in advance. Pol430 talk to me 17:13, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Jim Kilroy submission

{{resolved}} Hi there, per advice with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Jim_Kilroy

i added context about Kilroy helping to pioneer maxi yacht racing and about Kialoa III holding major race record for 21 years. didn't want to add more context so as not to bog down article, u think that's enough? also, fixed link to wiki page on Kialoas and adding link to wiki page on maxi yachts.

also, didn't find button to resubmit article -- do u have to reset that for me?

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Resubmitting John A. "Cloudman" Day article

RE: John A. "Cloudman" Day article that you've rejected. On the advice of an online wiki editor/coach at the Articles for creation help desk, I took out a peacock phrase "pioneering meteorologist" in the first paragraph and replaced it with the phrase he suggested: "notable meteorologist" Apparently, in your view, this is still a peacock word. If I delete "notable", will this article finally be acceptable? This is my first wiki article and I was trying to follow the notability criteria.

I've reviewed the rest of the article for neutral tone and source citations.

Must my article go back to the end of the line for a 3rd review? Thank you.

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@Cdleonha - It's written way too much like an essay for my tastes. Find an article about a similar person and form it like that then drop me a line and I'll review it. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 00:48, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi Nathan - thank you for the feedback. I actually modeled this page after another wiki article about John Day's co-author Vincent Shaefer. Shaefer's page included a lot of background to establish his early influences, and was very interesting to read. I have revised Day's page to be more 'encyclopedic' in tone. I hope you will please review again and find it improved. Cdleonha (talk) 20:19, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

@Cdleonha - I'm sorry, but the submission still reads very much like a essay. There is also the problem of the "unpublished journals" source. If no one can read the journals, how can they verify the article? Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 15:15, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

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Boca Juniors (Gibraltar)

You accepted Boca Juniors (Gibraltar) at AFC. The article had been speedy deleted before as an A7 (no indication of any importance), yet without any improvements, you had it accepted. It had one blog source and two statistics databases. Can you explain why you thought it was an acceptable article? Fram (talk) 07:02, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

SMC4: Social Media Capture

Hi Nathan, I have taken on board your comments when Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Social_Media_Capture was declined, and made some comprehensive changes to make it flow better, read more in line with Wikipedia articles, and more neutral / matter of fact.

Appreciate your comments / further advice.

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Hi, I have spent some considerable time on the help desk chat discussing various improvements/changes/removals for this article over the last three days. As such, I have implemented all recommended changes and would appreciate your views on the updated article - now smaller :-) --PMWhyte (talk) 11:57, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

@PMWhyte - Howdy! I agree with Sarah's point of view on this-it might be WP:TOOSOON for this to have an article. Very few sources cover the topic, and it seems like a relatively new concept. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 15:11, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi again Nathan. Based on your comments, I just wanted to query your statement "Very few sources cover the topic, and it seems like a relatively new concept"

The reason is that this topic (the issue of using social media compliantly at a business level) has been an issue for companies since 2010 and is becoming ever more topical, borne out by the Havard reference I cited and many others, i.e.

http://www.finra.org/newsroom/newsreleases/2010/p120780 - FINRA guidance issued to the Financial sector (2010)

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/08/social_media_compliance_isnt.html - a Havard Business Review blog by the influential Ryan Holmes

http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_102/compliance-roadmap-for-proposed-social-media-rules-for-banks-1059418-1.html - American Banker article

http://www.onwallstreet.com/blogs/preparing-for-a-finra-spot-check-3-Simple-Steps-to-Social-Compliance-2685457-1.html - via OnWallStreet (posted yesterday)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardlevick/2013/05/15/the-impact-of-the-secs-social-media-pronouncement/ - Forbes on the Security Exchange Commission's report

Therefore, can we re-consider this please. It is a subject close to my heart as I have been a victim of improper use, as have 1000s of other individuals over the last few years. I obviously also noted the comments by @SarahStierch and realize some additional citations are probably required, but unless it is accepted as topical, I wouldn't want to waste my or anyone else's time by researching further.

Interested in your thoughts.

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I have updated WP:AFCH with the new versions, so I need some protected interface pages edited. User:Nathan2055/afc.js needs to be copy and pasted over User:mabdul/afc_beta.js and User:Nathan2055/afc stable.js copy and pasted over MediaWiki:Gadget-afchelper.js. I've already added the global gadget notice to the page, so it should be fairly simple. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 00:34, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Stable has been updated, the new beta will be setup at MediaWiki:AFCH-beta.js. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 14:45, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

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Please check that Cmmit [14]: don't push it and the best revert it. There are some useful improvements in, but changing HTML comments and changing regex shouldn't be automatically and moreover checked before pushed. That commit breaks simply too much! mabdul 07:00, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

@Mabdul: - There is absolutely no issue with that commit that I can see. Take a look at this, which declined fine using that build. What's the big deal? --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 13:36, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Check that edit [15]: All regex and notifications were changed to a level 3 headline instead of a level 2 headline... mabdul 14:25, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Well. Sounds like that's a problem. I'll get it fixed before someone pushes the new beta. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 14:59, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

@Mabdul: -  Commit reverted. I have also updated my on-wiki copy so if anyone ever merges it, the fixes should appear in beta. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 15:11, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #72

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• Discussions
  • Discussion started about improving the RfC process
  • d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources has been closed
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Report from Wikimania
  • Wikidata meets Incubator
  • Office hour on 26th
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Average edits per page is nearly 5 now.
  • Wikivoyage is still scheduled to get access to data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on August 26.
  • Developers are working hard to also make the URL datatype available by August 26 but there are factors that are not in their hands so it might have to be delayed until the next deployment in 2 weeks. URL as a datatype will soon be available on test.wikidata.org. Please give it some thorough testing and report bugs.
  • Outsch! (Help collect and fix paper cuts.)
• Did you know?
  • 20 undescribed monsters
  • Newest properties: separated from (P807), code Bien de Interés Cultural (P808), WPDA id (P809), academic minor (P811), academic major (P812), date retrieved (P813), IUCN protected areas category (P814), ITIS TSN (P815), decays to (P816), decay mode (P817)
• Development
  • Prepared deployment of phase 2 on Wikivoyage
  • Worked on ability to sort qualifiers and references inside a statement
  • Started work on an api module to merge items
  • Worked on special page to query for items with one specific property and value
  • Cleaned up code for handling recent change entries from Wikidata in the clients (Wikipedia/Wikivoyage)
  • Worked on generic script for populating sites table and better integration with WMF process for creating new wikis
  • Setup new git repo for WikibaseMobile skin and extension
  • Fixed SetClaim api module to properly mark bot edits in recent changes and advised pywikipedia maintainers about adding support for the module. SetClaim can be used to create claims with references in a single edit.
  • Reviewed code for Google Summer of Code students
  • Updated doxygen documentation
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  • Report a paper cut (see above).
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Wikidata weekly summary #73

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

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on Geo Coordinates for people
  • Request for comment on reuse of data from DBpedia
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map (September 6-8, 2013)
  • Recent office hour logs now availible.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Abraham, Denny and Lydia sat down for an evening trying to capture what Wikidata is about in a video.
  • Deployment! Wikivoyage now has access to the wikidata dataset and various other bugs have also been fixed (including the copyright warning)!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: interchange station (P833), public holiday (P832), parent club (P831), Encyclopedia of Life (P830), OEIS ID (P829), possible causes (P828), BBC programme identifier (P827), tonality (P826), dedicated to (P825), Meteoritical Bulletin Database ID (P824)
  • Newest task forces: Wikidata:País Valencià task force
• Development
  • Work on allowing API module editentities to edit claims
  • Work on entity / item redirects
  • Work on support for moving qualifiers in API and Frontend
  • Adding coordinates to diff display and improving diff display code
  • Allowing site groups for language links on clients to be configurable (needed for commons)
  • EntityId changes, we are now working on 0.5!
  • Show snaktype in summary for novalue and somevalue snaks
  • Further work on merge module for the API
  • Wrote missing tests for various jQuery widgets
  • Work on value formatters
  • Continue on moving tests to cucumber
  • Bug fixes for coordinates following the latest deployment
• Open Tasks for You
  • Report a paper cut (see above).
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WP:AFC on GitHub

Hey Nathan. Come back to the AFCH project on GitHub! The reason I'm here on your talkpage is because there is some new blood wanting to be part of the project, but mabdul has been AWOL for a while and no-one else seems to have permissions to add members to the group or manage member permissions. I have taken over the task of setting up milestones and labels and trying to get some organization going on. It's just too chaotic without it. So, I was wondering if you could pop in to IRC to discuss giving me the permissions to manage our members as well. I'll email mabdul to see if I can get him to do it, but I'm not sure how long that will take so I figured I'd ask you too. Thanks and be well! Technical 13 (talk) 00:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

@Technical 13: - Meh, all right. See issue #149. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 14:23, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #74

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

• Discussions
  • Saskia has finished her analysis of the different Wiktionary proposals and projects
  • Oversight nomination for Ajraddatz
  • Request for input by ontology experts
  • Help Sven compile a list of major accomplishments of Wikidata to date
  • RfC about the Guidelines for the RfC process
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  • State of the Map
  • Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
  • 10 questions about VIAF, Wikidata and the world
  • Wikidata quality and quantity
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Potentially useful Coursera course about metadata and information started
  • URL datatype needs more testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GSS code (2011) (P836), BioLib ID (P838), IMSLP ID (P839), narrative set in (P840), Paleobiology Database Identifier (P842), SIRUTA code (P843), UBIGEO code (P844). A set of properties to build calenders: public holiday (P832), day in year for periodic occurrence (P837) and feast day (P841). A proposal for "reoccurring date in machine readable format" is still under review.
• Development
  • mlazowik has put in more work to getting support for batches (featured article and so on) to Wikidata
  • Jeroen gave a presentation on clean functions
  • More work on the URL datatype to make it ready for deployment
  • Continuous work on cucumber & moving browser tests to saucelabs/cloudbees
  • Simple query special page
  • DataValues reorganization
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
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Wikidata weekly summary #75

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map
  • Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
  • Slides for a Wikidata intro in French and English
  • Speaker needed for a Wikidata talk in Slovakia
  • Blog post by Denny: A categorical imperative?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The URL datatype is now available. Go and add all the sources ;-)
  • Sourcerer gadget by Magnus to help you add URLs from Wikipedia articles for claims
  • Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on 23rd of September
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
  • Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
• Development
  • Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
  • Started work on number data type
  • Worked on simple query special page
  • Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
  • Worked on JSON dumps
  • Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
  • Continued work on the merge items API module
  • Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
  • Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
  • Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
  • Continued moving to new browsertests framework
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  • Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
  • Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
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Wikidata weekly summary #77

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
  • What can Wikidata, the collaboratively edited knowledge base, do for Wikipedia?
  • “Allow me to reintroduce myself,” say those in Wikidata and VIAF
  • Importing data from the Polish Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Denny's last day on the development team was today. He has a few closing remarks in this blog post.
  • Wikimedia Commons now gets language links via Wikidata
  • Stryn's request for oversight flag
  • Individual Engagement Grants Proposal: Understanding Wikidata
  • Terminator now also has most linked-to items with no label in language X
  • Draft for Wikidata support of Wikiquote
  • Open position for a JavaScript developer to work on Wikidata - please spread the word
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  • Newest properties: KSH code, FishBase species identifier, work location, Commons gallery, heritagefoundation.ca ID, PMCID, city served, type of electrification, color space, activating neurotransmitter, anatomical location, postsynaptic connection, presynaptic connection, possible treatments, possible examinations, magnetic ordering, main topic of creative work, Spanish subject headings for public libraries, SOC Occupation Code, NOC Occupation Code, GRAU index
• Development
  • Said Good Bye to Denny - *sob*
  • Improved layout for commons sitelink table
  • More work on sorting
  • Worked on statements UI tests
  • Fixed failing QUnit tests
  • Deployed new code and updated sites for Commons deployment
  • Fixed a number of small bugs
  • Code review for Google Summer of Code student projects
  • Work to automate creating deployment branches and builds of Wikibase with its dependencies
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October 2013 AFC Backlog elimination drive

WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive

WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from October 1st, 2013 – October 31st, 2013.

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There is a backlog of over 1000 articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

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15		Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland (talk)						Cleanup
1		Station Viciano (talk)						Cleanup
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396		Russia–United States relations (talk)						Expand
116		IcedTea (talk)						Expand
6		Edachena Kunkan (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
683		Princess Peach (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
202		Keep Austin Weird (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
24		Rebasing (talk)						Merge
15		Disney Media Distribution (talk)						Merge
93		Middleware (distributed applications) (talk)						Merge
959		Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures (talk)						Wikify
133		South Park (season 5) (talk)						Wikify
95		Google Image Labeler (talk)						Wikify
1		Skylight shell (talk)						Orphan
4		Moesha (season 1) (talk)						Orphan
3		Chan Tai San (talk)						Orphan
255		Scrolls (video game) (talk)						Stub
10		Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin' (talk)						Stub
19		Jim Bernstein (talk)						Stub
6		Buffer (application) (talk)						Stub
115		Cobalt (video game) (talk)						Stub
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WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, October 2013

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 6, No. 3 — 3rd Quarter, 2013
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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q3 2013

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 6, No. 3 — 3rd Quarter, 2013
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Project At a Glance
As of Q3 2013, the project has:

• 164 Featured Articles
• 60 Featured Lists
• 7 Featured Topics
• 6 Featured Pictures

• 43 A-Class Articles
• 623 Good Articles
• 9 Good Topics

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• Feature: One person's cruft is another person's pleasure: How to address listless list management
• Interview: Salvidrim

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356		Mario (franchise) (talk)						Cleanup
9		Basnet (talk)						Cleanup
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280		Comparison of the Java and .NET platforms (talk)						Expand
1,770		Winx Club (talk)						Expand
973		New York City Police Department (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
324		Mind uploading (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
90		History of free and open-source software (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
374		Fused deposition modeling (talk)						Merge
1,328		Sonic the Hedgehog (series) (talk)						Merge
89		Snake antivenom (talk)						Merge
2		Grade II* listed buildings in Bedfordshire (talk)						Wikify
29		Jude Wright (talk)						Wikify
10		Google Blogoscoped (talk)						Wikify
24		SeaTools (talk)						Orphan
2		Cerastocytin (talk)						Orphan
2		Tityustoxin (talk)						Orphan
86		Matplotlib (talk)						Stub
5		Kenny Davenport (talk)						Stub
4,558		Informative Murder Porn (talk)						Stub
21		Wolvercote Cemetery (talk)						Stub
89		Venomous fish (talk)						Stub
2		American Herro (talk)						Stub

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GOCE September 2013 drive wrap-up

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Wikidata weekly summary #80

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

• Discussions
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  • Newest task forces: International relations task force
• Development
  • Further development on WikibaseDatabase
  • IE8 is working again
  • JSON socumentation created and merged
  • Lots of work carried out on the quantity datavalues
  • Papercut: mouseover input suggestions messes up input. Fixes bug 44896
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
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  • Hack on one of these.

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GOCE Blitz wrap-up; join us for the November drive

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347		Browser wars (talk)						Add sources
258		NPAPI (talk)						Add sources
0		Iris Wildthyme (Series 3) (talk)						Add sources
49		CONFIG.SYS (talk)						Add sources
420		Scope (computer science) (talk)						Add sources
1,896		Linux kernel (talk)						Add sources
34		Hammer Bro. (talk)						Cleanup
9		St Monica's High School (talk)						Cleanup
14,092		Twitter (talk)						Cleanup
286		Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (talk)						Expand
3,890		Ubuntu (operating system) (talk)						Expand
28		Mario Superstar Baseball (talk)						Expand
392		CompuServe (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
36		Caldera OpenLinux (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
2,935		Stack Overflow (talk)						Merge
9		Disney Cinemagic (Portugal) (talk)						Merge
36,794		Google (talk)						Merge
79		Phototypesetting (talk)						Wikify
235		MinGW (talk)						Wikify
387		Multiplayer video game (talk)						Wikify
0		Delta-palutoxin (talk)						Orphan
2		Muscarinic toxin 2 (talk)						Orphan
5		Health Industry Business Communications Council (talk)						Orphan
3		Iris Wildthyme Series 2 (talk)						Stub
127		Literal (computer programming) (talk)						Stub
9		Elek Benedek (talk)						Stub
14		Lineo (talk)						Stub
21		Pokka (talk)						Stub
4		The Larry Sanders Show (season 2) (talk)						Stub

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Wikidata weekly summary #84

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

• Discussions
  • Closed: Geocoordinates on people
  • Instances of human
  • Dimensions and units for the quantity datatype
  • Discussion started by Tom Morris over Wikidata and Wikinews
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Digitale Bibliothek 2013 is taking place, November 21st to November 22nd
  • Wikidata office hour logs are available here
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus creates a Wikidata search add-on for Wikipedia
  • Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google
  • The Wikidata IRC channel is moving from #wikimedia-wikidata to #wikidata.
  • Magnus and the Wikidata created redlink lists
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: feed URL, language regulatory body, BAV (Vatican Library) identifier, asteroid taxonomy
  • Newest task forces:
• Development
  • Added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to its associated item on Wikidata (bugzilla:bug 46538)
  • Fixed bugzilla:49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
  • Worked on Lua improvements including bugzilla:54324 (sequence in Lua should start with 1)
  • Started making improvements to the loading time of items
  • Started creating a special page to show the items with the most sitelinks (bugzilla:46217)
  • More work on ranks for statements
  • Worked on putting the datatype into the JSON output
  • Worked more on support for enhanced changes format in client
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  • Added tests for recent changes formatting code in MediaWiki code
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  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new new statements today!
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Wikidata weekly summary #84

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

• Discussions
  • Closed: Geocoordinates on people
  • Instances of human
  • Dimensions and units for the quantity datatype
  • Discussion started by Tom Morris over Wikidata and Wikinews
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Digitale Bibliothek 2013 is taking place, November 21st to November 22nd
  • Wikidata office hour logs are available here
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus creates a Wikidata search add-on for Wikipedia
  • Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google
  • The Wikidata IRC channel is moving from #wikimedia-wikidata to #wikidata.
  • Magnus and the Wikidata created redlink lists
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: feed URL, language regulatory body, BAV (Vatican Library) identifier, asteroid taxonomy
  • Newest task forces:
• Development
  • Added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to its associated item on Wikidata (bugzilla:bug 46538)
  • Fixed bugzilla:49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
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GOCE December 2013 Blitz wrap-up and January Drive invitation

December Notes from the Guild of Copy Editors The December blitz ran from December 8–14. The theme for this blitz was articles tied in some way to religion. Seven editors knocked out 20 articles over the course of the week. Our next blitz will be in February, with a theme to be determined. Feel free to make theme suggestions at the Guild talk page! The January 2014 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on January 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on January 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in October and November 2012 and complete all requests placed before the end of 2013. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in October and November 2012", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! Coordinator election: Voting is open for candidates to serve as GOCE coordinators from 1 January through 30 June 2014. Voting will run until the end of December. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95 and The Utahraptor To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Message delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:25, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #90

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I am new, an am trying to decide whether to slither away or help. I got aggressively edited, and know I made mistakes, but looking at the history of this area (and many other areas I have researched) there appears to be a tendency to use NPOV and MEDRS to prevent significant minority view points. If I read the rules properly I think I am able to bring MEDRS facts to the table and demonstrate that there are prominent adherents and significant peer reviewed research. I also think I can avoid giving these minority views equal weighting.

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Wikidata weekly summary #91

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

• Discussions
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  • To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
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Wikidata weekly summary #92

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Wikidata weekly summary #94

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Wikidata weekly summary #95

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  • Made patch to make wbmergeitems more reliable Bugzilla::55960
  • Wikidata edit permissions now included in wikimedia OAuth edit groups
  • Moved Diff repo to Github
  • Work put into make the frontend use backend formatters through the api
  • Refactoring of the ValueView extension
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  • Our easy RDF fork is now included using composer
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Wikidata weekly summary #96

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Wikidata weekly summary #97

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  • Work on making the interface more responsive, e. g. live preview when editing labels and updating the watchlist star when saving.
  • Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
  • Fixed an issue with OAuth on Wikidata because of permissions
  • Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
  • Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
  • Did a technical debt analysis and design review of Wikibase.git, with initial focus on WikibaseLib
  • Got (backend) EntityStore on the way, so we can test API modules without touching the database
  • Further work on TimeParsers move to the backend
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GOCE February blitz wrapup

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Wikidata weekly summary #98

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• Noteworthy Stuff
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  • Refactored the suggestions drop-downs when entering properties for better performance
  • Fixed a misdirected arrow in left-to-right languages (bugzilla:61308)
  • Worked on an Apache redirect issue (bugzilla:54273)
  • Found and started fixing an issue that asked users for additional languages they don't want according to their Babel box (bugzilla:61446)
  • Table-of-contents link to the statements section of an item was broken
  • Kept poking TimeParsers
  • Made WikibaseDatabase feature complete for use with WikibaseQueryEngine
  • Work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
  • Investigate using ElasticSearch as term index backend to take some load of the most-used database table
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Wikidata weekly summary #99

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about defining lists
  • Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט, Pamputt
  • Closed RfAs: Epìdosis (Successful)
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata scholarships for the Zürich Hackathon
  • Wikidata FOSS Outreach Program for Women
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  • Newest properties: unemployment rate, manner of death, file extension, received signal, prevalence, connecting service, first performance, Universal Decimal Classification, Chinese Library Classification, Dharma Drum Buddhist College place ID, Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID, MEP directory identifier, Rodovid ID, handle, Gewässerkennzahl, LIBRIS editions, numeric value, visitors per year, Geokod, approximation algorithm, transmitted signal
  • Showcase item: Why not improve Kleinmachnow (Q104192) to showcase standard?
  • Wikidata's presence: vici.org are using Wikidata identifiers in their data storage
• Development
  • Made loading items a lot faster
  • Enabled access to the data on Wikidata for Wikisource
  • Fixed the diff view sometimes showing the wrong revision
  • Attended ConFoo and learned all of the things
  • Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 0.1
  • Continue work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
  • Started to make Wikidata even faster by removing StaticExpert and BifidExpert
  • Started reviewing interface animations. You should be able to disable them all by setting $.fx.off = true; in your Special:MyPage/common.js.
  • Fixed Wikidata looking a bit odd when enabling the Typography refresh Beta feature.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
  • Hack on one of these.
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Wikidata weekly summary #100

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about enabling GuidedTours on Wikidata
  • Open RfA: ElfjeTwaalfje
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikiquote will get language links via Wikidata on April 8th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
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  • Newest properties: portal's main topic, Finnish municipality number, carries scientific instrument, upper stage booster, river basin category, mode of inheritance
• Development
  • Added more details to the diffs of time and geocoordinate values (will show which globe the coordinate is on and so on now as well)
  • More work on badges by Bene* - most work left is now in the GUI part of it
  • Removed unneeded and unused permissions/rights
  • Fixed a bug concerning spaces in quantities (bugzilla:61911)
  • Started work on taking ranks into account for queries, the property parser function and Lua. (By default only preferred values should be used if available. If not available then it should use values with rank normal.)
  • test2.wikipedia.org and test.wikipedia.org now use test.wikidata.org as their data repository, instead of wikidata.org
  • Started work on WikibaseInternalSerialization component
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7 - https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md
  • Added indexes to Wikibase QueryEngine
  • Improved SQLite support in Wikibase Database
  • Started moving virtual machine instances of various test systems to the new Wikimedia Datacenter
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the sport (P641) property
  • Hack on one of these.
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Wikidata weekly summary #101

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

• Discussions
  • Notability of items
  • Organisation of statements, sitelinks and external identifiers
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Media Hack Days, Berlin March 22nd-23rd
  • Ateliers Wikidata, Bordeaux, France March 22nd-23rd
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Happy Pi Day
  • paper by Denny Vrandečić and Markus Krötzsch
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NLC authorities, Atlas ID, fuel system, supercharger, ID (General Administration of Press and Publication), ISMN, NUKAT authorities
• Development
  • Changed the {{property}} parser function and Lua’s mw.wikibase.entity.formatPropertyValues to only return the statements ranked as preferred or if none are available the ones ranked as normal (This will probably go live on April 25th.)
  • Worked on improving page load time further by reducing the number of reloads during page loading
  • Made diffs for time and geocoordinates more complete and prettier
  • Continued research for user interface redesign
  • Tpt worked on optionally showing links to other sister projects in the client’s sidebar (bugzilla:54374)
  • Wrote a fix for Wikidata changes not showing up in the client’s watchlist (bugzilla:62149)
  • Updated a major chunk of our inline code documentation
  • Continued discussing technical details about how coordinates should be stored in Wikibase
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Léonore ID (P640) property
  • Hack on one of these.
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Wikidata weekly summary #102

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

• Discussions
  • Wikiquote notability
  • Belongs to jurisdiction
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Cambridge revisited II documents how you can query Wikidata and put the results on a map.
  • Cambridge revisited V shows that maps have popups with texts generated on Wikidata statements and labels.
  • The architecture of the Wikimedia storage of the meta data of media files discusses that integration of Commons is a subset of what we can achieve when we consider the whole of media files.
  • Spaghetti Open Data, Bologna. March 28th - 30th
  • GLAM Treffen, Bremen. March 29th - 30th
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Riksdagen person-id
• Development
  • Continued making the UI faster
  • Fixed Wikidata changes not showing up in the watchlist on the client (Wikipedia, etc.) (bugzilla:62149)
  • Decided to turn off the inoperable wikidata.org language subdomains for now to reduce confusion
  • Created initial version of Wikibase Internal Serialization component
  • wbEntity and wbUsedEntities JavaScript variables are now cached in the parser cache
  • Ongoing refactoring to get rid of the previously used numeric ID numbers in favor of prefixed IDs
  • Made wbsearchentities aware of previously unquoted percent characters
  • Put some time into fixing longstanding oddities that made the developers cry from time to time
  • Worked on reducing internal usage of EntityContent, in preparation for redirect support
  • Worked on performance issues with JSON dump generation (hopefully we can start generating dumps soon)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
  • Hack on one of these.
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Some baklava for you!

thanks for the tea:) here get a piece of baklava White House Biennial (talk) 16:25, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #103

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

• Discussions
• Wikiquote notability
  • Discussion relating to DBpedia
  • Discussion over Wikidata data
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Summary: The summaries will now be sent out on Saturday as opposed to Friday.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: astronomical filter, National Archives specific records type ID, National Archives topical subject ID, National Archives geographic ID, National Archives organization ID, National Archives person ID, compressor type, Internet Broadway Database person ID, Internet Broadway Database show ID, Internet Broadway Database production ID, Internet Broadway Database venue ID, English Heritage list number, apparent magnitude
• Newest task forces: Heraldry task force
• Development
  • Reduced page load time significantly once again. Page load time was cut to roughly 2/3. For now we’re happy with the resulting page load times. We’ll start concentrating on other areas of the user interface now.
  • Fixed faulty selection handling when adding a property using the keyboard (bugzilla:62868)
  • Worked on fixing issues with handling of spaces in quantities (bugzilla:62567)
  • Fixed miscount of Wikidata changes on the client watchlist (bugzilla:45812)
  • Wrote new browser tests for special pages using the Cucumber and Selenium frameworks
  • Improved error formatting, localisation and handling. We will work on error message wording next to make them more understandable.
  • Worked on the code which propagates page moves from the clients into Wikidata as a preparation for allowing page deletions to appear on Wikidata
  • Made the Wikibase extension work with the new “Compact language links” Beta feature and a bit more independent from the UniversalLanguageSelector in general
  • The student team working on the entity suggester has finished the first version of it. The code is being reviewed now and is hopefully ready for deployment soon. Once it is deployed it will show you what new properties you could add to an item.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q1 2014

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 7, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2014
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Project At a Glance
As of Q1 2014, the project has:

• 169 Featured Articles
• 63 Featured Lists
• 8 Featured Topics
• 10 Featured Pictures

• 42 A-Class Articles
• 665 Good Articles
• 8 Good Topics

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• Changes to Featured and Good content
• News items and announcements

• Feature:WikiProject Video Games in retrospect
• Report:Featured and Good articles by genre
• Interview: Red Phoenix

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Wikidata weekly summary #104

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

• Discussions
  • Closed: Merge project chats
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.1.0 released!
  • Wikidata development has been going on for two years!
  • Wikiquote gets Phase I on Tuesdays (April 8th)
• Did you know?
• Newest properties: JSTOR journal code, Openpolis ID, Philippine Standard Geographic Code ID
  • Newest task forces: France task force, US legislation task force
• Development
  • Property of an existing claim can no longer be changed through API with wbeditentity (bugzilla:62425)
  • UI for simple query SpecialPage (bugzilla:55593)
  • minor fixes in the UI
  • UI for claims on property pages
  • worked on review of property suggester (review)
  • still looking for a working student/intern
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
  • Hack on one of these.
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Wikidata weekly summary #105

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Quality is measurable
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Announcing ToolScript. With ToolScript can be used to get the output of all Magnus' tools
  • Feline mayors of the world or why Wikidata is awesome
  • A Rijksmuseum representative indicated what kind of information she hopes Wikidata will deliver
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikiquote now gets its sitelinks via Wikidata. Welcome, Wikiquote! Access to the other data will follow.
  • Do you want automatic sidebar links to other Wikimedia projects powered by Wikidata? Here you go: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-April/003690.html Thanks Tpt!
  • Use Wikidata for internationalization on any website! How awesome is this? Very!
  • Vote for some Wikidata talks for Wikimania
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  • Newest properties: KulturNav-id, compression ratio, patent number, OmegaWiki Defined Meaning, phone number, International Standard Recording Code, Theatricalia play ID, Swiss Football Association Club Number, Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level, ISFDB publisher ID, Swedish Football Association ID, Box Office Mojo film ID, Parsons code, ISFDB series ID, ISFDB publication ID, ISFDB author ID, Linguist list code, NARA online catalogue
• Development
  • Still looking for an awesome intern. Do you know someone who'd fit?
  • Bene* continued working hard on making “badges” (the “featured” and “good article” stars) in Wikidata a reality
  • Finishing touches for Statements on properties
  • Worked on better error messages when parsing failed
  • Updated the translations to use much easier to manage JSON files for each language
  • Made a list of hard to understand messages that should be reworded
  • Implemented a usable interface for Special:SimpleQuery
  • Closed a backdoor that let you change the property of a snak via the API, sorry guys
  • Continuous refactoring and improving of the code base that defines what Wikidata and the Wikibase extensions are
  • Kept Wikidata up to date with the typography update
  • Started to redesign the Wikibase page on mediawiki.org
  • Investigated if standard spam prevention features of MediaWiki work as they should on Wikidata (Result: mostly yes but some fixes/tweaks are needed.)
  • Released version 1.0 of the Diff extension.
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  • Fix a format or content violation for the movement (P135) property
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Wikidata weekly summary #106

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  • Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon is taking place to add labels for all members of the Lok Sabha.
  • In May, edit-a-thons hounouring Adrianne Wadewitz are taking place to add more gender related information to Wikidata.
  • Wikidata office hour on May 19th at 17:00 UTC.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Time and geocoordinates have been reworked and need some testing at test.wikidata.org. Found issues? Let Lydia know.
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• Development
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  • We now also display statements with "no value" or "unknown value" on the client (when using the parser function or Lua)
  • Created another maintenance script to fix data integrity issues
  • Finishing touches on the first version of the new entity suggester
  • Simple queries are starting to work (If you want to see a demo attend the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting)
  • Worked more on making error messages localizable
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Wikidata weekly summary #108

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Lydia gave a first demo of simple queries and other cool stuff at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
  • ongoing this weekend: Youth Science Hack Day where a team is working on a Wikidata powered quiz app
  • upcoming: Data Science Day
  • upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
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  • Helen and Anjali join Wikidata as Outreach Program for Women interns
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  • Newest properties: coordinates of the point of view, Rotten Tomatoes ID, depicts Iconclass representation, Iconclass notation, Helveticarchives ID, Slovenska biografija ID, BCU Ecrivainsvd, AUSTLANG code, ABS ASCL code
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  • Got simple queries in shape for a first demo at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
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• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
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Wikidata weekly summary #109

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Developer user group
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • There will be a German handbook on Wikidata and authority control. Feedback and proofreading is very welcome until next week at https://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/2014-05-06.html
• Development
  • Attending the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
  • Work on finalizing the JSON dumps
  • More work on simple queries to get them ready for performance and security review and a first release
  • Legoktm created an API module to retrieve the current dispatch stats status
  • Fixed an issue with iferror when using the property parser function (bugzilla:55347)
  • Show correct data in the in other languages box for older revisions (bugzilla:63309)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
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Wikidata weekly summary #110

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfCs: Clarifying the requirement for property creation, Quality is measurable, One vs. sereveral sitelink-item correspondence, Property documentation redux and DBpedia import process
  • Open RfA: Dexbot (adminbot)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • wrap-up blog post of the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
  • upcoming: SMWCon
  • upcoming: IRC office hour on Moday
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Data access for Wikiquote will be enabled on June 10th. Coordination and questions should go to d:Wikidata:Wikiquote.
  • Superclasses maps shows coordinates for a class of items on a map. Classes are coming from Wikidata.
  • The EditItem suggester was released. You give it a property and it will return a list of items likely missing that property.
  • The new duplicate item finder lists items that should potentially be merged.
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  • Newest task forces: Wikidata:WikiProject Mathematics
• Development
  • We're looking for a PHP developer to join the dev team and work on Wikidata. Apply!
  • Looking for a cool university project with impact? We have some of them around Wikidata - not just for computer science students. Get in touch with Lydia.
  • Had a lot to think about and recap from the Zürich Hackathon, e.g. things regarding search, suggestions as well as the user interface redesign
  • Started doing mockups of the new user interface (Nothing to show yet, sorry!)
  • Setup an autogenerating code documentation instance on labs at wbdoc.wmflabs.org. Hint: Submitting patches that make the inline code documentation even better is a good starting point to get involved in coding
  • Continued working on the wikiba.se site and FAQ
  • Worked on new datatype monolingual text (basically a string with an associated language)
  • Reworked a hell lot of “change operations” code that’s responsible for each and every edit as well as validating user input and API requests, for example denying empty descriptions and finding and blocking unnecessary duplications
  • Checked all the new Beta features that the teams in San Francisco are developing and made sure they work with Wikidata
  • Our efforts to make Wikidata faster broke some gadgets so we helped fixing them. Sorry for the breakage!
  • Dug into odd display bugs with the MonoBook skin and attempted to fix them (bugzilla:64741)
  • More testing on simple queries
  • Tpt worked on making inter-project links in the sidebar a beta-feature
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
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Wikidata weekly summary #110

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  • Editors may now include their ORCID identifiers (and others, such as VIAF) on their user pages, using the Authority control template. You can register for an ORCID at http://orcid.org
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Wikidata weekly summary #111

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  • Open RfAs: FakirNL, Josve05a
  • Wikidata:Tours
  • RfC: Open datasets (Meta)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Slides from WikiConference USA
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  • The seventeenth million item is made then delete as a dupe. So seventeenth million plus 2 anyone?
• Development
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  • More work on monolingual text datatype
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  • Made progress on globe precision issues (bugzilla:65535 and bugzilla:64887)
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  • Tagged version 1.0 of Wikibase Internal Serialisation and Wikibase Datamodel Serialisation
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  • Hack on one of these.
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GOCE June 2014 newsletter

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Wikidata weekly summary #112

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

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  • Closed RfAs: FakirNL (Successful), Josve05a (Unsuccessful)
  • Open RfAs: Taketa, Jianhui67, 555
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Magnus Manske writes about how the Wikidata Game has developed over two weeks
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  • Did a lot of cleanup in Wikibase.git
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  • Release Wikibase DataModel 0.8
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  • Hack on one of these.
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Wikidata weekly summary #113

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  • Discussion: Delete as a new user group
  • RfC: Refining "part of"
  • Open RfAs: Calak, Andre Engels
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  • Newest task forces: Sports task forces
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  • Continued with the implementation of redirects. There are a lot of corner cases to work out...
  • Created new data value handlers for quantities and geo coordinates, bringing queries closer
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Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

• Discussions
  • Idea collection: data quality and trust
  • Open RfAs: PMG, Dr Zimbu, 콩가루
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  • Several Wikipedias now have a template (d:Q17195970) for articles which have a related property in Wikidata.
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  • First concept designs of Wikidata's possible new interface
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  • ca.wikipedia found a nice way to use Wikidata. They're comparing their living people to Wikidata to see if any of them have a date of death there. They're then put into a category for review: ca:Categoria:Persones vives a revisar
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  • New task forces: LGBT task force
• Development
  • Created a script that provides the schema creation SQL for Wikibase Query
  • Releases Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.1
  • Made WikibaseDataModelJavascript a separate component at https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelJavascript.
  • Continued working on full redirect support for items. It touches a surprising big chunk of the code base.
  • Continued working on the QueryEngine code base and it’s data type support.
  • Fixed and updated the most recent implementation of the property and item selector widget, e.g. a MonoBook specific bug.
  • Pushed along reviews and deployment of the entity suggester code that will make suggestions for new properties to be added to items. Our hope is to have it through performance review for the next deployment.
  • Pushed along reviews of the “in other projects” sidebar: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
• Note from John
  • Hey everyone, it's rare these small sections come along but there is a bit of interesting news to get across which one line under 'noteworthy stuff' won't be the best for. For the next 6 summaries, they will be translatable at Wikidata. This is an interesting idea which was first proposed on the delivery page and on Wikidata-l by Base. This is purely a trial and if you all want the summaries to remain translatable, please participate! You can view the first translated summary (hopefully) here! Also sorry for this one being late :)

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The Signpost: 25 June 2014

• News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan

• Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?

• Exclusive: "We need to be true to who we are": Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost

• Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags

• Featured content: Showing our Wörth

• WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true

• Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects

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Wikidata weekly summary #115

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

• Discussions
  • Second UI designs are now up for comments
  • Discussion about predecessor and successor timelines
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata intro and QA, June 29th in Paris
  • Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: contains settlement, coincident with, bridgehunter.com ID, uglybridges.com ID, China railway TMIS station code, MTR station code, capital of, NSK identifier, daily ridership, binding of software library, ASI Monument ID, ihsi identifier, Iranian National Heritage registration number, LNB identifier, BBC Your Paintings, replaced by, replaced, ITTF ID, points/goal scored by, TLS, Anime News Network ID
• Development
  • Redirects are moving slow because they touch so much of our and the core code base, but they are coming closer!
  • Final touches on the monolingual data type and UI
  • Fixed some smaller but nasty bugs in the UI like not being able to change only the rank
  • Finally improved the most confusing error messages and hints you get to read when using the Wikibase client or repo
  • The Wikibase DataModel JavaScript component (which moved to it’s own repository) reached version 0.2.0
  • Continued working on the QueryEngine component (the foundation for queries)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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GOCE July 2014 newsletter

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q2 2014

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 7, No. 2 — 2nd Quarter, 2014
Previous issue | Index | Next issue

Project At a Glance
As of Q2 2014, the project has:

• 175 Featured Articles
• 63 Featured Lists
• 9 Featured Topics
• 16 Featured Pictures

• 42 A-Class Articles
• 696 Good Articles
• 9 Good Topics

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• Changes to Featured and Good content
• News items and announcements

• No feature this quarter
• Interview: CR4ZE

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• VG Project Main pages

  • Main project – talk
  • Project category – talk
  • Portal – talk

  VG Project Departments

  • Assessment – talk
  • Cleanup – talk
  • Peer review – talk

   

  • Reference library – talk
  • Newsletter – talk
  • Video game images – talk

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Wikidata weekly summary #116

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

• Discussions
  • A question from an intern
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata got 10 times easier to use with the entity suggester
  • Lydia needs your help with some selfies (already uploaded ones are at c:Category:Wikidata selfies)
  • Wikidata the Game has a new game: occupation
  • As part of the Outreach Program for Women d:User:User:Thepwnco is continuing improving all help pages to help new users understand Wikidata better. At the same time w:User:Discoveranjali is helping with social media outreach and creating presentations workshops about Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: replaced by structure, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Russia), Linguasphere code, NCI ID, Glottolog code, proxy, ComicBookDB ID, Index Fungorum ID
• Development
  • Upcoming API change (wblinktitle)
  • Deployed entity suggester.
  • More work on redirects. They are taking shape. Done with much of the groundwork. We've seen the first one! :D
  • Continued work on user interface redesign mockups
  • Monolingual text datatype is also taking shape but needs more user interface love to make it intuitive.
  • Investigated making Wikidata.org its own client so you can for example get access to better Lua functions for access to an item's label on a discussion page. Outcome: Should be possible but needs some more work.
  • Fixed bugs
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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The Signpost: 02 July 2014

• In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms

• Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.

• News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award

• Featured content: Ship-shape

• WikiProject report: Indigenous Peoples of North America

• Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)

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The Signpost: 09 July 2014

• Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?

• Wikicup: Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more

• Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis

• Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!

• News and notes: Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative

• Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week

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Wikidata weekly summary #117

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

• Discussions
  • Improving the FAQ
  • Should we link to restricted access databases?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Two new GuidedTours (aka interactive tutorials) have been released—we now have one on editing items and one on editing statements! Both tours are available from the Wikidata:Tours portal and feedback can be left on the talk page at Wikidata_talk:Tours. The work was a combined effort of User:Bene* and Outreach Program for Women intern User:Thepwnco.
  • We passed another milestone \o/ 10 million items now have an "instance of" or "subclass of" statement making it easy to tell what the item is about.
  • Last week to add some selfies. We need more!
  • Items with no image around you? Here you go! (change the number in the URL and click toggle markers) Thanks Magnus!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to, MusicBrainz series ID, script directionality, World Glacier Inventory ID, original combination, Foundational Model of Anatomy ID, bug report page, FCC Facility ID, convicted of
• Development
  • Bene* worked with the dev team this week. He pushed forward support for storing badges (eg featured article) on Wikidata and implemented the first two guided tours.
  • CTRL+ click and middle click on a search result in the entity selector now opens the result in a new tab.
  • Further progress on redirects
  • Fixed a number of annoyances with the entity selector
  • Continued work on mockups for new user interface
  • Investigated what issues come up if we make wikidata.org its own client. Things look good so we will probably enable it soonish. This will mean you can link Wikidata pages in items and access the data in them on other pages on Wikidata.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:16, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 July 2014

• Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile

• Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week

• Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic

• Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun

• News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles

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The Signpost: 20 August 2014

• Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia

• Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero

• WikiProject report: Bats and gloves

• Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia

• Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan

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Wikidata weekly summary #123

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London
  • "Growing items" by User:Micru, an essay about modelling concepts and understanding items
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The new Main page will go live early next week! See the announcement at Project chat for more details and to leave any last comments
  • It will be possible to show the badges like "Featured Article" stored on Wikidata in the sidebar of the clients (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...) starting Tuesday. Wikipedia will follow on Thursday.
  • Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature on the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata.
  • Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick up speed. Get involved: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html Also maybe attend the office hour?
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: list of monuments, list of works, legal form, catholic.ru ID, motto, Sandbox Monolingual text, nickname, official name, Sports Reference ID, people missing, fictional universe described in
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Structured Data for Commons
• Development
  • Deployed lots of new features like badges, access to language links for Wikinews and Wikidata, the monolingual text data type and redirects!
  • Working hard on making the new UI a reality, mainly refactoring the UI widgets right now. Covers a lot of ground and will take some time.
  • More work on HHVM issues that need to be fixed before Wikidata can switch to it.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:29, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 August 2014

• In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news

• News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster

• Traffic report: Viral

• Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!

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Wikidata weekly summary #124

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • past: OpenSym
  • upcoming: IRC office hour about structured data for Wikimedia Commons
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New Main Page and other new features
  • Breaking changes for gadgets
  • Badges support via Wikidata has been rolled out to Wikipedia and other sister projects. If the icons shown are not the ones your project would like please request a change here.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NIEA building ID, Cadw Building ID, color index, absolute magnitude
• Development
  • Deployed more new stuff \o/ (in other projects sidebar; new internal serialization format; showing badges on the Wikipedias and other sister projects; Special:GoToLinkedPage)
  • Added a new “item-redirect” permission
  • Continuous work and reviews for the new JavaScript user interface
  • DataModel 1.0 will be more strict when adding Claims or Statements to Entities. Quite some tests needed to be made compatible
  • Adopted to recent API changes (getPossibleErrors and others got dropped)
  • Replaced hundreds of class name aliases in the code with the actual class names
  • Attended OpenSym
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 00:18, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 September 2014

• Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended

• Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more

• Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial

• Traffic report: Holding Pattern

• WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)

• Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies

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Wikidata weekly summary #125

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Why Wikidata is so important to Histropedia
  • Wikidata Outreach: What happened?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The new main page can now be translated.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: reporting mark, maximum glide ratio , FIFA player code, WALS family code, WALS genus code, WALS lect code, category for people died here, category for people born here, PRDL Author ID
• Development
  • Performance improvements for "in other projects sidebar" beta feature and bug fixes in the feature on wikis with sidebar cache enabled (e.g. zhwiki, commons)
  • Worked on performance improvements to badges feature
  • Fixing bug with xml format in the API, and added tests for it so hopefully this does not break again!
  • Worked more on enabling statements on properties
  • Further work on new user interface design groundwork - mostly refactoring and enabling editing of multiple sitelinks and label/alias/description at once
  • First pokes at usage tracking
  • Drafted an RfC to improve recent changes so we can show Wikidata changes also when enhanced recent changes is enabled
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 18:42, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 September 2014

• Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready

• Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity

• Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue

• WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right

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ANSWER

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The Signpost: 17 September 2014

• In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics

• WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland

• News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third

• Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack

• Featured content: Which is not like the others?

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The Signpost: 24 September 2014

• Featured content: Oil paintings galore

• In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii

• Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary

• Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland

• WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time

• Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education

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Wikidata weekly summary #126

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

• Discussions
  • A new blocking policy has been accepted.
  • Proposal for an individual engagement grant to use Wikidata items for citations needs your input
  • RfC: redirect vs. deletion
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • past: Open Government WikiHack organized by Wikimedia DC in Washington, DC
  • upcoming: Wikidata training organized by Wikimedia UK with Magnus in London
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • With the deployment next Tuesday you will be able to edit all sitelinks at once as well as all fields of the "in other languages" box. This is an intermediate step towards the new user interface and will evolve further over the next weeks. You can see what is coming on Tuesday now already on test.wikidata.org.
  • WikiProject Names aims to improve name related data on Wikidata. Initial focus is on first names (given names). Half of items for first names still need cleaning up, but 15% of items for persons already have a given name defined.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Stack Exchange tag, vici.org ID, sourcing circumstances, has contributing factor, has immediate cause, birth name (Monolingual text), title, Nupill Literatura Digital - Document, Nupill Literatura Digital - Author, Commons Creator template, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID, male population, female population, number of households, contributing factor of, immediate cause of, used by, end cause, family name identical to this first name, country for sport, parents of hybrids, Glad identifier, kulturnoe-nasledie.ru identifier
  • Showcase items: Hessian Broadcasting Corporation, Fishing Creek
• Development
  • Jan Zerebecki has joined the Wikidata dev team.
  • Worked on supporting statements on properties in WikibaseDataModelSerialization (bugzilla:66425)
  • Fixed broken xml api output (bugzilla:70531), as well as some inconsistencies in the xml format and added tests that should help avoid future breakage in the xml format
  • Finished performance improvements for badges
  • Worked on entity usage tracking
  • Pietro from the EAGLE project came to visit us, one of the first 3rd party users of Wikibase. See http://www.eagle-network.eu
  • Added a hook point to allow 3rd party users (like the EAGLE project) of Wikibase to control what goes into the search index
  • Started work on a widget that lets you edit badges right in the item instead of going to the special page
  • Use checkboxes instead of a multiselect to edit badges on d:Special:SetSiteLink
  • Work on hhvm-related issues in Wikibase and temporarily disabled the beta feature on Wikidata until fixes are deployed for the issues.
  • Deployed new code on test.wikidata! (to be deployed on wikidata on Tuesday), see mw:Wikidata_deployment#wmf.2F1.25wmf1
  • Work on fixing empty maps in the JSON serialization, differentiate them from empty lists (fixed prerequisite bugzilla:70606)
  • Jeroen made a little video demonstrating how you can get a clone of Wikibase DataModel, set it up, and run it's tests: https://asciinema.org/a/12530
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 12:13, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q3 2014

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 7, No. 3 — 3rd Quarter, 2014
Previous issue | Index | Next issue

Project At a Glance
As of Q3 2014, the project has:

• 185 Featured Articles
• 66 Featured Lists
• 10 Featured Topics
• 17 Featured Pictures

• 42 A-Class Articles
• 727 Good Articles
• 12 Good Topics

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Content

• Changes to Featured and Good content
• News items and announcements

• Feature: Sourcing video game articles
• Interview: Guyinblack25

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Project Navigation

• VG Project Main pages

  • Main project – talk
  • Project category – talk
  • Portal – talk

  VG Project Departments

  • Assessment – talk
  • Cleanup – talk
  • Peer review – talk

   

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  • Newsletter – talk
  • Video game images – talk

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The Signpost: 01 October 2014

• From the editor: The Signpost needs your help

• Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism

• News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education

• WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture

• Traffic report: Shanah Tovah

• Featured content: Brothers at War

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Wikidata weekly summary #127

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

• Discussions
  • [[:d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/User conduct policies|Closed RfC: User conduct policies]
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.3.0 released - Wikidata Toolkit
  • ProteinBoxBot is making Wikidata the canonical resource for referencing and translating identifiers for genes and proteins from different species
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: depends on, motto, series ordinal, Federal Register Document Number, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID
• Development
  • Investigated and fixed issues with time values
  • Investigated issues with coordinate value precision
  • Fixed a number of issues related to HHVM
  • Further work on usage tracking
  • Created smoke tests for items and properties
  • Created a widget to edit badges directly on the item without going through the special page
  • Prepared for a week of work with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers next week to get more planning done for structured data support for Commons
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:48, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 October 2014

• In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian bushfires

• Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City

• Traffic report: Panic and denial

• Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread

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Wikidata weekly summary #128

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfA: Nikosguard
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming IRC office hour about structured data on Commons
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • All human genes are now wikidata items, for example: Here is one (of approximately 40,000) called "spinocerebellar ataxia 37" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18081265. Blog post about this to appear here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/
  • Want to be kept up-to-date on structured data on Commons? There is now a new newsletter you can subscribe to.
  • Interested in some statistics about the data on Wikidata? Check Wikidata Stats every now and then. (Thanks Magnus for moving it to the new dump format.)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: UBERON ID, Yandex.Music ID, has quality, Exceptionnal heritage of Wallonia ID, Orphanet ID, demonym (monoligual text), maximum Strahler number
• Development
  • Spent the week with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers to get more clarity about structured data on Commons. We'll be asking for feedback on a lot of stuff over the next weeks. The main info hub is taking shape at Commons:Structured data.
  • More fixes for the switch to HHVM
  • Looked into possible performance improvements. Some of them will be taken into the next sprint.
  • Battled a handful of nasty issues on the live-site
  • Wikibase DataModel 1.1 was released
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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GOCE October 2014 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors October 2014 newsletter is now ready for review. Highlights: Results of the August Blitz and September Drive A few changes around the Guild's pages Sign up for the October Blitz Review the Coordinators election results – Your project coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:17, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #128

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfA: Nikosguard
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming IRC office hour about structured data on Commons
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • All human genes are now wikidata items, for example: Here is one (of approximately 40,000) called "spinocerebellar ataxia 37" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18081265. Blog post about this to appear here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/
  • Want to be kept up-to-date on structured data on Commons? There is now a new newsletter you can subscribe to.
  • Interested in some statistics about the data on Wikidata? Check Wikidata Stats every now and then. (Thanks Magnus for moving it to the new dump format.)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: UBERON ID, Yandex.Music ID, has quality, Exceptionnal heritage of Wallonia ID, Orphanet ID, demonym (monoligual text), maximum Strahler number
• Development
  • Spent the week with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers to get more clarity about structured data on Commons. We'll be asking for feedback on a lot of stuff over the next weeks. The main info hub is taking shape at Commons:Structured data.
  • More fixes for the switch to HHVM
  • Looked into possible performance improvements. Some of them will be taken into the next sprint.
  • Battled a handful of nasty issues on the live-site
  • Wikibase DataModel 1.1 was released
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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GOCE October 2014 newsletter

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Wikidata weekly summary #129

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

• Discussions
  • Do you want to see constraint violation reports and referencing improved? Please provide input.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (log)
  • hackathon around scholarly articles on Wikidata (etherpad with notes)
  • Blog post about the meeting to discuss structured data on Commons in Berlin
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Clusters of humans and species on Wikidata
  • New parameter in the template Property documentation: subject item; see [this example edit] for how to use it
  • New tool: Linked Items. Returns sorted, de-duped list of Q values from a Wikipedia page, or chunk of wiki-text. Thank you, Magnus!
  • Wikidata annotation tool is looking for feedback
  • Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase by Denny and Markus has been published. It gives a very nice non-technical overview of Wikidata.
  • Magnus re-wrote Wiki ShootMe to now use Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Always wanted to know which topics have amazing articles on Wikimedia projects across many languages? Here you go!
  • Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
• Development
  • Improvements to sitelink editing usability
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 2.0
  • Profiling and performance improvements in Wikibase and Wikibase DataModel
  • Implementing LabelLookup, which is needed to improve performance of EntityId formatting. This will lead to improved item page loading times.
  • Added new featured list and recommended article badges.
  • Remove most usage of class aliases to be compatible with HHVM (dependencies of bugzilla:71295)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:26, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 22 October 2014

• Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace

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• In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; New UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator

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Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
• Development
  • Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
  • Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
  • When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
  • Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
  • Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
  • Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
  • Work on entity usage tracking
  • Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
  • Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
  • Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
  • Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 20:27, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

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