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I appreciated suggestions you provided me re infoboxes

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Here is what I tried, and I'm afraid it will not show up ia my draft of an article I've been working on. If you can, please explore what the flaw(s) may be. By the way, I had entered complete dates for birth & death, using the prescribed format.

Dick Raymond
Born
Richard Raymond

1923
Newark, Ohio
Died2015
Portland, Oregon
CitizenshipU.S.A.
Alma materHarvard University
Occupations
  • Urban planner
  • entrepreneur
  • publisher
Organization(s)Portola Institute, POINT Foundation, Briapatch Network

Thank you.Joel Russ (talk) 02:56, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Without seeing a diff of the edit you attempted, it's impossible to say what went wrong. As you can see, the version here worked, but your date lines should be: 

| birth_date         = {{birth date|1923|11|30}}
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2015|09|16}}

-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:00, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Basically, those are the date lines I tried to enter. Except, for the part: and age I suppose that might be the problem, correct?Joel Russ (talk) 20:18, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
No, that's optional. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:11, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-40

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

Updates for editors

  • Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
  • Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [1]
  • For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [2]
  • The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
  • View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.

In depth

  • The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [3]

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

 

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Wikimedia Apps newsletter – Third quarter of 2024

Hello, and welcome to the app's third newsletter of 2024! In this edition, we will highlight the accomplishments and progress made during July, August, and September 2024!

iOS Updates

Over 20,000 images have been added via the "Add an Image" feature across both iOS and Android! (T372954), good opportunity to try it yourself ;) This tool allows users to enhance Wikipedia articles by adding relevant images. It’s a great way to contribute and improve the visual experience for readers.

The iOS team kicked off the Alt Text experiment to improve image descriptions for accessibility. This feature helps ensure that visually impaired users can better understand the content of images through descriptive text.

 
App screen for iOS App project page

The iOS App has been transitioning from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports both reading and editing. After adding a number of editing features, the navigation system of the app needs to grow and change to support them and future additions. Improving our navigation will allow for more app users to discover editing features, and allow experienced users quicker access to their most-used tools. This refresh incorporates findings from usability testing with multiple variants of the App's navigation. The team is currently planning phased rollouts over the coming year to improve user experience. (Phase 1: T373714)

Android Updates

Improvements were made to the Places feature in response to user feedback, including larger cluster icons and a Wikipedia logo for articles without images (T371067, T370094). Also, the team is exploring designs to allow users to explore articles from multiple language wikis simultaneously and will adjust the zoom logic to show nearby locations upon launch (T352757, T368792).

  • WikiTrivia Game

The team prepared for the WikiTrivia Game during a hackathon, selecting a data source and creating initial designs (T371508, T371510).

Work began on adding Recommended Content to search, iterating on design concepts and testing performance (T371613).

The team is now engaging with several wikis to implement Machine-Assisted Article Descriptions based on prior experimental results.

Android users can now share reading lists with others, expanding community collaboration (T370703).

And some performance enhancements: Revision tags for app edits were successfully implemented (T366731, T366732).

The app now supports URL sharing on Pixel devices, thanks to volunteer developer contributions (T370020).

Stay tuned for future updates as we continue to enhance your Wikipedia experience! And you can subscribe to this newsletter.


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Wikidata weekly summary #648

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<translate> Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-07. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #647</translate>

<translate>Events</translate> <translate>* Upcoming:

    • Wikidata Day 2024 at the Pratt Institute Manhattan Campus, New York - To celebrate Wikidata's 12th Birthday, a mini-conference with beginner workshops, lightning talks and keynote speeches will be held. October 26, 11am - 5pm EDT (UTC-4). More info, registration and full address on this Wikipedia event page.
    • The Wikidata Days 2024 in Bologna, Italy will take place on November 8th and 9th. Its program revolves around Wikidata for libraries and academia, and features a wide range of Wikidata-enthusiastic librarians and researchers from Italy. Registration is open until October 31st.
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Scholia hackathon on Oct 18-20, aimed at addressing changes related to the Wikidata graph split
    • Intangible Cultural Heritage on Wikidata - Hosted by Wikimedia Community Malta (WCM), November 8, 2024 18:00 - 19:00 CEST, Malta Fairs and Conference Centre (MFCC) in Ta’ Qali, Malta
    • Edit-A-Thon: 50 States of Comics - Ohio, take part in this virtual event held October 10, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC-5).</translate>

<translate>Press, articles, blog posts, videos</translate> <translate>* Blogs

<translate>Tool of the week</translate>

  • (fr) wikidata MultiSearch - search for a list of elements in Wikidata. A GPLv3 licenced tool built by Philippe Gambette allows you to search for a list of words in Wikidata and retrieve some associated Wikidata properties.

<translate>Other Noteworthy Stuff</translate>

  • Are you building applications or services with Wikidata's data? We'd love to hear from you to help us figure out the future of accessing Wikidata's data.
  • Wikidata: Event Organizers - If you are organizing or thinking about planning a Wikidata event, this new page listing the additional User rights the user-role 'event organizer' has will be a valuable resource. Including the process for applying for permission rights.

<translate>Newest properties and property proposals to review</translate>

<translate>* Newest properties:

    • General datatypes:</translate>
      • handwriting example (sample image of the person's handwriting)
      • objects of occurrence have role (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.))
      • agents of action have role (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. ))
      • agent class of action (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead))
      • agent of action (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
      • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
      • has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
      • publication type of scholarly work (Publication type of scholarly work)
      • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
      • magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)

<translate>** External identifiers:</translate> ‎Finnish Business ID, Prosocour person ID, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID, Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID, ‎LMFDB knowl ID, ACUM performer ID, ACUM creator/publisher ID, ACUM Work ID, ACUM album ID, culture.ru organization ID, ‎Hindustan Times topic ID, Newgrounds submission ID, Storia della civiltà europea ID, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Linked Open Vocabularies ID, ‎Ontobee ID, ‎typeset.io journal ID, NooSFere editorial collection ID, pomniky.npmk.cz ID, ‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID, GameReactor company ID, Latgales dati person ID, ‎FantLab artist ID, RedBA Granada authority ID, ‎NWIS site ID, MetalTabs.com band ID, Koha Kütüphane ID, HA! artwork ID, France television program ID, Radio France program ID, Grand Est inventory ID, Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, ‎Münzkabinett ID, MyWaifuList character ID, ‎Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, ‎European Parliament document ID, ‎Western Australian Biographical Index, beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID, beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID, Biblioteka Nauki article ID, Biblioteka Nauki journal ID, Biblioteka Nauki book ID, Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID, PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID, DDB person ID <translate>* New property proposals to review:

    • General datatypes:</translate>
      • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
      • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
      • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
      • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
      • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
      • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
      • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
      • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
      • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
      • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
      • beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
      • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
      • Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)

<translate>** External identifiers:</translate> case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, KISTI institute ID, Hlídač státu subject ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Person ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, Dwelly entry ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Identifiant CIRDOC d'un auteur ou d'une autrice, Identifiant CIRDOC d'un document, Department of Defense Identification Code, Identifiant d'un document audiovisuel dans le catalogue de l'Inathèque, LWW journal ID, BAHRA ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, AniSearch person ID, identifiant Babelio d'un sujet, Identifiant d'une personne sur Madelen, ITTF PTT ID, Push Square series ID, VG247 series ID, dtf.ru person ID

<translate>You can comment on all open property proposals!</translate>

<translate>Did you know?

<translate>* Newest WikiProjects:

<translate>Development

  • Data access:
  • Design system: We continued migrating the Query Builder and Special:NewLexeme from Wikit to Codex</translate>

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

<translate>Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2024-41

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Weekly highlight

  • Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [4]

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [6]
  • Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [7]
  •   Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
  •   Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
  • Five new wikis have been created:

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This Month in GLAM: September 2024

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Revisions to Cell 16 page and Mary Ann Weathers page

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Hi Andy,

I attempted once again on October 5 to make revisions to both pages mentioned in the subject line.

I am trying to add on the Mary Ann Weathers page in external links, that the article, "An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force" is also available in my book, "Inside the Second Wave of Feminism." I clicked "edit source" and added this information and then clicked "publish changes." But nothing has appeared. Please advise.

Also revised the same thing on the Cell 16 page under "Further reading" that the above mentioned article by Weathers is also available in my book.

Thanks for any help. Liberationfemale (talk) 14:59, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

I am stumped, especially as you can make edits here.
There are a few things you could try:
* Make only a very small edit to the article (just one or two words; no links to anything)
* Log out and make a small edit to the article
* Log in on another machine and make a small edit
Let me know which of those work. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:16, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
It doesn't appear that either works. OMG!
I tried to add that Weathers was also a member of Boston Female Liberation. I clicked on "edit source" and then added this. Was that correct? I did it both on a laptop and then on a desktop and neither registered the change.
Thanks for your help. Liberationfemale (talk) 15:55, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
In each case, did you enter an "edit summary"? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:17, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
Yes! And, I just did that again. Liberationfemale (talk) 16:23, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
I can only suggest two things; if you are in a big city or near a university and there are local Wikipedia meetups, take your laptop and show someone. Or ask at WP:VPT. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:07, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
Thanks Andy. Turns out there is a meetup that I will be attending later this month. Liberationfemale (talk) 19:16, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
Have fun! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:28, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on The Canal Museum

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Wikidata weekly summary #649

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #648

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 15 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 15 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1729008000 Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database https://irfa.paris/en/en-learn-about-a-missionary/ using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: [13]
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday: We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to:

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Elemwala (এলেমওয়ালা) (https://elemwala.toolforge.org): is a proof-of-concept interface that allows you to input abstract content and get natural language text in a given output language. There may well be errors with particular inputs, and the text may not be quite as natural as you might expect, but that's where your improvements to your language's lexemes, other Wikidata items, and the tool's source code come in!
  • mlscores: Tool for calculating multilinguality score of Wikidata items (including properties). E.g. for Wikidata (Q2013), the scores are - en: 99.66%, fr: 89.49%, es: 84.07%, pt: 68.47%. For instance of (P31), the scores are - en: 99.86%, fr: 87.12%, es: 80.83%, pt: 61.37%.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Launch of WikiProject Deprecate P642: The goal of this project is to prepare for deprecation, and eventual removal, of the property of (P642). Currently, of (P642) is labeled as "being deprecated", meaning its use is still allowed, but discouraged. From a peak of around 900,000 uses, the property now has around 700,000 uses (see status here). Our goal is to reduce that as much as possible in a systematic way, while ensuring that appropriate properties exist to replace all valid uses of of (P642). The latter is key to officially deprecating the property. Before removing the property, we want to get as close to zero uses as possible.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to find an EntitySchema by its label or aliases when linking to an EntitySchema in a statement (phab:T375641)
  • Design system: We are continuing the work on migrating the Query Builder from Wikit to Codex
  • REST API: We finished the work on language fallback support in the REST API (phab:T371605)

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

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2024-42

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

Updates for editors

  • The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [14][15]
  • WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [16]
  • View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [17]
  • Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [18]
  •   Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [19]

In depth

  • The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
  • The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.

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