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Co-op: Mentor profiles and final pilot prep

Hey mentors, two announcements:

1. You can now make your profile at The Co-op! Please set up your mentor profile here as soon as you are able, as the pilot begins on March 4th. It isn't very involved and should only take a minute. If you need more info about what the different skills mean (e.g. writing, communication), please refer to these descriptions.
2. Profile creation, invitations, and automated matching of editors, profile creation, that will be coordinated through HostBot and a few gadgets may not be ready for our pilot, and will have to be done manually until they are ready. In preparation for the pilot, please read over these instructions on how we will be manually performing these tasks until the automated components are ready. I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was send by Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:42, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #147

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata
  • Past: Wikidata for Research meetup
  • Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: The Endless Story and a family tree)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits
  • Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well.
  • Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. Here are the Wikidata related ones.
  • New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff.
  • There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more?
  • Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Naturbase ID, Fach, AllMusic song ID, AllMusic album ID, AllMusic artist ID, Flora of North America ID, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID, beats per minute
  • Newest WikiProjects: Cheese, Filming Locations
  • Showcase items: None this week. Yours next week?
  • You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom)
• Development
  • Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject)
  • Updated the json documentation
  • Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. gerrit:168632
  • Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job
  • Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies
  • Fix for phabricator:T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients)
  • Final touches on new header design
  • Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements
  • More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype
  • Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface.
  • Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks
• 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
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher 12:47, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Editing for Women's History in March

Hello,

I am very excited to announce this month’s events, focused on Women’s History Month:

• Sunday, March 8: Women in the Arts 2015 Edit-a-thon – 10 AM to 4 PM

  Women in the Arts and ArtAndFeminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Free coffee and lunch served!

  More information • RSVP on Meetup

• Wednesday, March 11: March WikiSalon – 7 PM to 9 PM

  An evening gathering with free-flowing conversation and free pizza.

  More information • RSVP on Meetup (or just show up!)

• Friday, March 13: NIH Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon – 9 AM to 4 PM

  In honor of Women’s History Month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is organizing and hosting an edit-a-thon to improve coverage of women in science in Wikipedia. Free coffee and lunch served!

  More information • RSVP on Meetup

• Saturday, March 21: Women in STEM Edit-a-Thon at DCPL – 12 PM

  Celebrate Women's History Month by building, editing, and expanding articles about women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields during DC Public Library's first full-day edit-a-thon.

  More information • RSVP on Meetup

• Friday, March 27: She Blinded Me with Science, Part III – 10 AM to 4 PM

  Smithsonian Institution Archives Groundbreaking Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Free lunch courtesy of Wikimedia DC!

  More information • RSVP on Meetup

• Saturday, March 28: March Dinner Meetup – 6 PM

  Dinner and drinks with your fellow Wikipedians!

  More information • RSVP on Meetup

Hope you can make it to an event! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.

Thanks,

James Hare

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Template for misrepresenting a source

Hi Rich,

Do you have a template for a section of an article that has misrepresented a source? Regards. 2.30.8.47 (talk) 06:10, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

{{Not in source}} All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:35, 28 February 2015 (UTC).

(talk page stalker) Today I've found {{Jagged 85 shortened}}, appears as:

OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 12:00, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Lime Street

Is [this person's edit legit? even for a show that has historical significance because of its connection with Samantha Smith and even though it didn't even last a season, are we really allowed to link to full episodes on YouTube? Paul Austin (talk) 13:38, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

We are certainly allowed to link to episodes, not matter how obscure. However we do not link to copyright violations, which this appears to be. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:22, 4 March 2015 (UTC).

question to your userpage Comment

why do you state "joined March 3 2015" when you have been 131 months on WP?--Wuerzele (talk) 06:53, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

@Wuerzele: Excellent question! It's a template about my membership inWikipedia:Co-op (which I actually joined a few days earlier), that I thought would look good/be useful on my user page. I'll modify the page so that the meaning is clearer. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:16, 6 March 2015 (UTC).

The Signpost: 04 March 2015

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• Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report

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Wikidata weekly summary #148

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfA: Haplology
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of March
  • upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Help flesh out landing pages for partners
  • Update on the Wikidata query service progress
  • The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
  • Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
  • Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
  • Showcase items:Symphony No. 7
• Development
  • Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
  • Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
  • Worked on updating the data model documentation
  • Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
  • Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
  • Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
  • Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
• 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
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 00:19, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Category:George Gershwin music recordings

Category:George Gershwin music recordings, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:03, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of The Indestructibles

Hello! Your submission of The Indestructibles at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 15:43, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Reference Errors on 8 March

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Statistics

Thanks (I think -- I'm not entirely sure this wasn't satire) for your comments at ARCA. I'm afraid it's a lost cause, but I'm always happy to discuss.

But I fear you also dress me in borrowed robes. You write of my "wealth of expertise in the statistical field." Thank you, but are you sure you're not confusing me with someone else entirely? I’m just curious what work you have in mind here. MarkBernstein (talk) 12:33, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

It took some digging to dispel the idea that I had in fact confused you with someone else. Instead I could have looked at your user page. I have read probably over a thousand pages of information on Gamergate (and still don't feel qualified to edit in the area), and had come across your cogent criticism of a homemade study of Gamergate tweets, plus suggestions that you work extensively with data and reviewing scientific papers.

Scientific rigour in my opinion is lacking in many papers I read in the conclusions drawn from statistical results, ie. epistemological errors, and in some cases in experimental design. I am however aware that the actual statistical process is a blindspot for me, (despite being a mathematician by qualification) and that a significant number of papers use incorrect or at least sub-optimal methods.

In terms of scientific areas where there is controversy neutral appraisal of statistical methods is a useful adjunct to Wikipedia's sourcing policies. It is important, of course, not to get into on-wiki disputes about what is and is not valid. But collegial sharing of the limitations of studies on talk pages can help avoid inadvertent citation of less robust (or plain wrong) studies as authoritative.

Note of course that pseudo-science and climate change are already under discretionary sanctions, so if you hold passionate views on either they may not be the best place to engage.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:45, 11 March 2015 (UTC).

My doctorate’s in chemistry; almost all my work is in computer science. Sure, I know a bit about statistics -- the sort of thing that anyone in these fields ought to know. But setting the inside baseball of discretionary sanctions, what’s the point of technical expertise here? As soon as someone from a PR agency or some political operative appears to say "this is invalid," we're off to the races. And now that everyone has a playbook for doing this in support of a lost cause, how can Wikipedia resist?

In point of fact, Wikipedia is (still, for now) fairly good in non-contentious pages that some few people care about. That serves technical areas fairly well, along with video game plots, cartoons, and porn stars. But of course anything that matters can become contentious, and again we're off to the races.

I've watched a few pages for ages, chiefly technical biographies of people who are contentious because they have an enemy or a rival. These people are often treated very shabbily indeed in Wikipedia, though it was a revelation that, after years of ghastly defamation and dispute at [Dave Winer], a single administrator’s determination to block a single enemy (and his socks) suddenly ended the whole bitter dispute. That gave me some hope for Wikis -- hope that [Aaron Swartz] sorely tried, and that this current affair has pretty much quashed.

But I remain happy to listen to suggestions. MarkBernstein (talk) 15:11, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Barnstar for F/M ratio work

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For your amazing work gathering the F/M ratio over time information. Impressive and inspiring. GRuban (talk) 14:52, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:41, 12 March 2015 (UTC).

The Signpost: 11 March 2015

• Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey

• News and notes: WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign

• In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West

• In focus: WMF to NSA: "stop spying on Wikipedia users"

• Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time

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• Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters

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Blue

Thank you out of the blue, for kindness statistic and support, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:58, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for The Indestructibles

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:04, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

F/M study

I'm curious about two aspects of your intriguing chart.

1. Do you have any idea of the standard error? I notice that the fluctuations seem to increase substantially in 2013. Is that well understood? (I saw comments on the page -- missed on first skim -- suggesting they're edit-a-thon's and classes. But I wonder if a change in response rate might be involved.)
2. I'm curious why you choose F/M and not F/(M+F). For small F, the two measures converge, but it seems the latter would be the first one to read for. At large F. clearly, the two diverge considerably.

Is there an underlying paper to read? Thanks! MarkBernstein (talk) 22:13, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Because of the relatively low number of people selecting their gender preference (due partly to our English interface messages not needing it) this measure of gender balance has not been widely used. Existing data points are from 2008 (and I think 2010) and 2011 surveys, which could be used to broadly calibrate the graph. The 2008 figures have been corrected for selection bias by some logistic regression work (Hill and Shaw in Plos One). The same corrections have not been applied to the 2011 figures, because the 2011 survey was editors only, so the propensity scores derived from the Pew readership figures could not be used. The raw 2011 figures, are slightly worse than the raw 2008 figures, however if they are restricted to primary English language editors, they are not substantially different.

I have no idea of the standard error, I have done no analysis of the figures other than what little I have posted. MstCell has done some work, which is posted on Jimbo's talk page.

F/M has the benefit that each female editor gained has the same value. Supposing our goal is equal numbers "50%", we fool ourselves that "25%" is half way, when actually it is only a third of the way.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:56, 14 March 2015 (UTC).

Special report on the gender ratio?

Hey, I saw your post on Jimbo's talk page per a tip at the Signpost suggestions. Would you consider writing up your findings and/or opinion on the matter in a special report in the Signpost? Given that this March in particular is a centerpiece for the campaign we'd be ecstatic to run it, and it'd be the best way to present the information to the community. Thanks, ResMar 19:54, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Per Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions#Rising_number_of_female_editors.3F. ResMar 15:28, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #149

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

• Discussions
  • Successful RfA: Haplology
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Pictures, reloaded
  • Improving data quality on Wikidata – checking what we have
  • Linkin mash
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Simple Wikidata graph generator
  • Please help test the next step for header redesign
  • Provide input about how to improve Wikidata watchlist integration on Wikipedia and other sister projects
  • Items without statements - help by adding "instance of" to some of them
  • Picture of current geocoordinate coverage on Wikidata
  • Query generator spreadsheet
  • Image search now allows the addition of the "grave image" property
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage ID, National Pipe Organ Register identifier, Hornbostel-Sachs classification, Watson & Dallwitz family ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase Occurrence, Aviation Safety Network accident description ID, category related to list, list related to category, scale, BBC Your Paintings collection identifier, name day, Parlement & Politiek ID, NCI Thesaurus ID, Flora of China, ZooBank nomenclatural act, VASCAN ID, Agassiz et al checklist number, Bradley and Fletcher checklist number, GTAA concept identifier, category for films shot at this location, CiNii book identifer, Merck Index monograph
• Development
  • Got next step for header redesign and other goodies ready for testing (see above)
  • Created gadget for displaying padlock indicators on protected items and properties
  • Preliminary support for statements in the RDF export
  • Fixed "page watched" icon not being updated after an edit that should trigger it
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 2.6
  • Wikidata builds are now prepared automatically each day
• 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
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:31, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Mentor?

Hey Rich-- you were matched with this editor here a few days ago, but I noticed you haven't had a chance to interact with the editor yet (at least, not on Is now not a good time for you to mentor? I can try to find another mentor for the editor, if you'd like. Thanks, I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 19:17, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

It also occurred to me that the notification didn't go through properly for some reason-- just wanted to alert you to this match in any case. I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 19:22, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Do you know if the page I scripted on my user page is worthy to be a real page? I tried it once before, but it was deleted. Tfan101 (talk) 02:31, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

new essay

The ArbCom case against me is vexatious indeed - I shall not contend against those who taste blood. The main complaint even includes my essays - so I wrote one which I hope you will appreciate WP:Wikipedia and shipwrights. It would be fun to see how others react, indeed. Warm regards, Collect (talk) 04:26, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 March 2015

• From the editor: A salute to Pine

• News and notes: SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation

• In the media: NYPD editing articles regarding allegations of police brutality and misconduct

• Op-ed: Does the Wikimedia fundraising survey address community concerns?

• Featured content: A woman who loved kings

• Traffic report: It's not cricket

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Wikidata weekly summary #150

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Editathon at MACBA
  • Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne
  • Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin
  • Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ to answer their most common questions.
  • We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation and d:Wikidata:Data access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual.
  • Lots of improvements around MixNMatch. It has a new catalog overview page. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
  • There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata
  • First screenshot of the primary sources tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 and 2
  • DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology
  • Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: art-name, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, school of, possible creator, forgery after, manner of, circle of, follower of, workshop of, attributed to, USDA plant identifier, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier, LMI code, denkXweb identifier, place name sign
  • Newest WikiProjects: Municipalities of Germany
  • Newest gadgets: Image search supports the new "place name sign" property
• Development
  • Fixed property suggestions on empty items
  • Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions
  • Updated various documentation
  • Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality)
  • Polishing in the user interface
• 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
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 22:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

American politics 2 arbitration case opened

Pursuant to section 3a of an arbitration motion, you were recently listed as a party to a request for arbitration. Please note: being listed as a party does not imply any wrongdoing nor mean that there will necessarily be findings of fact or remedies regarding that party. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics 2. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics 2/Evidence. Please add your evidence by April 14, 2015, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics 2/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, --L235 (t / c / ping in reply) by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:57, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Arbitration Case Opened

You were recently listed as a party to a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Collect and others. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Collect and others/Evidence. Please add your evidence by April 7, 2015, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Collect and others/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Robert McClenon (talk) 21:09, 24 March 2015 (UTC) Robert McClenon (talk) 21:09, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Unauthorized Edit

Please do not edit case pages that are labeled as to be edited only by arbitrators and clerks. Your addition of the word "(uninvolved)" has been reverted. You may have a valid request to have that word inserted into the heading of your statement on the case page, but you should make that request only to the arbitrators. If you want to make such a request, you may use the case talk page. For the Arbitration Committee, Robert McClenon (talk) 02:43, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Arbitration amendment request archived

Hi Rich Farmbrough, the Arbitration Committee has reached a consensus to decline your arbitration amendment request in favor of combining all housekeeping actions into a single motion in a few months. Accordingly, the amendment request has been archived to Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests#Amendment request: Discretionary sanctions/article probation (March 2015). (If you'd like a more standard notice of archival, let me know.) For the Arbitration Committee, --L235 (t / c / ping in reply) 03:06, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy

• Op-ed: How my father's railroad image collection now benefits the world: the value of digitization

• Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude

• Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014

• Traffic report: Oddly familiar

• Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes

• Blog: The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program

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Transformers

Hey is there any chance that I could be the one to make the page once there is enough information for it? Tfan101 (talk) 18:11, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Cool! So what do I do? Just find more information? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tfan101 (talk • contribs) 01:19, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Edit summary, please

Hi Rich, I appreciate your helpful edits at Frost heaving and Frost law. It would also be helpful to leave edit summaries behind. I can tell that you are an experienced and busy editor, so this might have slipped your mind. Cheers, User:HopsonRoad 12:14, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

You are welcome, and yes, more edit summaries would be good. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:17, 28 March 2015 (UTC).

Thanks!

Lately you've been giving the climate pages some needed copy edits... thanks! 15:23, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Most welcome! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:00, 28 March 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #151

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Sex and artists
  • VIAF is Moving to Wikidata
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour on Tuesday
  • Upcoming: Editathon in the pre-program of the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The next steps for the header redesign and bugfixes are live
  • New tool by Magnus that lets you add reference URLs with a single click
  • An update from Freebase (which is going read-only on Tuesday!)
  • The tours are working again thanks to Bene* and Lucie
  • Effort to define a biomedical relationship ontology for Wikidata
  • Eventzoom.net - displaying history from Wikidata on maps
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ABoK number, Word Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Danish National Filmography ID, Masaryk University person ID, EMLO person identifier, Commemorative plaque image, Wikimedia database name, Maltese Islands National Inventory of Cultural Property identifier, ISO 639-5, International Standard Industrial Classification code, Smithsonian American Art Museum: person/institution thesaurus id, bureau du patrimoine de Seine-Saint-Denis ID, format as a regular expression, category of associated people, category of people buried here, BioStor author identifier, chief operating officer, DVN identifier
• Newest WikiProjects:
• Newest gadgets: Image search can find photos for the new "commemorative plaque image" property
  • New task forces: Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
• There is a SpecialPage to easily get to the Wikidata item for a given Wikipedia article and another one to get to the Wikipedia article for a given Wikidata ID.
• Development
  • Deployed new code to Wikidata \o/ (and fixed a few issues that popped up)
  • Made good progress on RDF export (needed for example for queries)
  • Did more performance groundwork for arbitrary access
  • Students working on improved constraint reports and checking against 3rd party databases are making good progress
  • Looked into improving suggestions
  • Worked on making dispatching changes from Wikidata to Wikipedia and co more robust
  • Removed backwards compatibility from mw.wikibase.getEntity(), to be deployed April 7 and 8. See also here.
  • Improved support for right-to-left languages, e.g. in the sitelinks view
  • Created a unit test framework for special pages
• 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
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add multi-lingual labels for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 20:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Next meetups in North England

Hello. Would you be interested in attending one of the next wikimeets in the north of England? They will take place in:

• Leeds on 12th April 2015
• Manchester on 26th April 2015
• Liverpool on 24th May 2015

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Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:40, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Signpost report

Hey, just wanted to tell you that with regards to the special report we hope you can write for us: we're going to be doing an end-of-month assessment of the initiative in the April 1 issue and we hope this will be a big part of that. We'd still publish it later than that but it would have the most impact if you were able to finish it sometime in the next week. Thanks for your contribution, ResMar 03:40, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Because of IRL and other publication pressures (sorry 😡) I'm holding out on the finisher until April 8. ResMar 16:55, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

More info

I think you're the first person to ever ask about the diffs. Thanks. Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about things I'm not allowed to talk about but if you'd like more info on the other edits, I'm happy to provide it.MOMENTO (talk) 21:18, 31 March 2015 (UTC)