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2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey

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Review request

Please can you help with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Constitution-Talca_Ramal — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.44.139.201 (talk) 19:02, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 June 2016

• News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens

• In the media: Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge

• Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures

• Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.

• Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes

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Wikidata weekly summary #212

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: OpenData.ch
  • Upcoming: HackHPI
  • Upcoming: ELAG
  • Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
  • Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
  • wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
  • It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: exact match, reserve number (Canada), Shakeosphere person ID, mains voltage, HKMDb film ID, relegated, promoted, NIOSHTIC-2 ID
  • Query examples: body of water with the most watercourses ending in it (source), French communes with names ending in ac (source), birthplaces of Europeana280 artists (source), popular eye colors (source)
• Development
  • Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (phabricator:T115792)
  • Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (phabricator:T136543)
  • Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
  • Worked on new visualization for the query service to visualize results with data on different dimensions
  • Improved build and deploy process for the query service. The site should load faster now.
  • Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
  • More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
  • Worked on a fix for the issue where sometimes an old label is shown in the main header of an item (phabricator:T135714)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:28, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Dizzy Sal for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Dizzy Sal is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dizzy Sal until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:19, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Celebrating Pride @ Women in Red

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AutoWikiBrowser Settings

Hi I want to use Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Settings/ISSN with AutoWikiBrowser where should I set it? or where can i use it?Yamaha5 (talk) 09:43, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

You would put it a sub-directory of AWB and use "load settings". However this settings file is ten years old, and as the notes say here, obsolete due to changes in AWB.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:46, 11 June 2016 (UTC).

Thank you for your answer. unfortunately new setting doesn't support

  <FindAndReplaceSettings>
    <findandreplacesettings enabled="True" ignorenofar="False" ignoretext="True" appendsummary="False" afterotherfixes="True">
<FindAndReplace find="&lt;&lt;0x\d&gt;&gt;" replacewith="0" casesensitive="False" regex="True" multi="False" single="False" enabled="True" maxnumber="-1" />
    </findandreplacesettings>
  </FindAndReplaceSettings>

and it supports

  <FindAndReplace>
    <Enabled>true</Enabled>
    <IgnoreSomeText>false</IgnoreSomeText>
    <IgnoreMoreText>false</IgnoreMoreText>
    <AppendSummary>true</AppendSummary>
    <Replacements />
    <AdvancedReps>
      <IRule xsi:type="Rule">
        <enabled_>true</enabled_>
        <Name>Rule</Name>
        <ruletype_>OnWholePage</ruletype_>
        <replace_>s</replace_>
        <with_>b</with_>
        <ifContains_ />
        <ifNotContains_ />
        <regex_>false</regex_>
        <ifIsRegex_>false</ifIsRegex_>
        <numoftimes_>1</numoftimes_>
        <ifRegexOptions_>None</ifRegexOptions_>
        <regexOptions_>None</regexOptions_>
      </IRule>
    </AdvancedReps>
    <SubstTemplates />
    <IncludeComments>false</IncludeComments>
    <ExpandRecursively>true</ExpandRecursively>
    <IgnoreUnformatted>false</IgnoreUnformatted>
  </FindAndReplace>

do you have any Idea how can i convert them?Yamaha5 (talk) 11:33, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #213

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements - feedback on the Primary Sources Tool
  • Others: Discussion about currency conversion rates, P2893_-_wrong_datatype
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimania - find all the Wikidata things happening here
  • Upcoming: Repo-Fringe 2016
  • Past: HackHPI
  • Past: ELAG (slides)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Passionate about Wikidata and a great communicator? We are looking to hire a community communications person.
  • Gujarati, Latvian and Nynorsk Wikipedia now have the ArticlePlaceholder as well.
  • Catalan and Polish Wikipedia will show Wikidata descriptions on the mobile website starting soon. More Wikipedias will follow. (phabricator:T135429)
  • Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: RateBeer brewery ID, Beer Advocate brewery ID, Molendatabase verdwenen molens ID, fax number, minimum age, Swedish county letter, Eldoblaje Movie ID, publication interval, maximum sustained winds, day of week, Skype, UMLS CUI, FamilySearch ID
  • Query examples: Eiffel Tower in art (source), popular surnames among humans (source), popular surnames among fictional characters (source), average lifespan by occupation (source), German breweries (source), years with 3 popes (source), people who died by burning - on a timeline (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Lighthouses, Roller Coasters
• Development
  • Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons.
  • Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at https://jonaskress.github.io
  • Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service.
  • Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari.
  • Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias.
  • Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates.
• You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (phabricator:T137061)
  • Fixed a bug with terms sometimes not showing up, language fallback not working correctly in Lua modules and connection to master database
  • Fixed a bug with URL encoding in the query service.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:26, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

NPP / AfC

Hi. Just a reminder that in just over a week at Wikimania there's going to be a cross-Wiki discussion about the systems of control of new pages. This is a round-table rather than a presentation or a lecture. On the agenda are reforms to the new article reviewing systems and ways to help new users better understand our content policies. If you are going to Italy and would like to take part, please check out the conference schedule, and I look forward to seeing you there. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 18:51, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 June 2016

• News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov

• Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group

• Featured content: From the crème de la crème

• In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing

• Op-ed: Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing

• Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle

• Blog: Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource

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Request for review

Hi Rich,

I have just written my first article for wiki and would appreciate some feedback from someone experienced, before I get it live!

Would you be able to have a look at it for me? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Arden_University

Best wishes,

Jane Bush — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janeyboo10 (talk • contribs) 07:39, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the header, Pdebee. I have tidied the article somewhat. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:06, 6 August 2016 (UTC).

Dump scan

Resolved

Hi! Maybe I could ask a favor to you? As you had that script for counting word frequency this probably shouldn't take too much time. The basic idea: I want to order templates by number of parser functions, that they use. So basically the script should loop trough all templates (in dump file) and for each template count number of these (have to make text lowercased, because of "#IF:" etc.): "#expr:", "#if:", "#ifeq:", "#iferror:", "#ifexpr:", "#ifexist:", "#rel2abs:", "#switch:", "#time:", "#timel:", "#titleparts:", and then group by parser function name. If script could skip {{#invoke:, then it would be great. The result would be something like

Template	{{#if	123
Template	{{#ifeq	12
Template2	{{#switch	3
...

Clarification: for Latvian Wikipedia, not English Wikipedia. And one additional task (probably can be done in one run). Could you count number of "<ref" for each article? Want to know, which articles have the most refs. I know, that this won't be accurate, but still - it would be interesting to see results. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 08:36, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Nasheed

Hi Rich Farmbrough, You recently created a lot of Edits on [nasheed] Article and removed a lot of Artists and other details from there. Can you describe it's reason? I'm "Ahmed mac" and I'm a Nasheed Artist as well as an Socializor, i added my name in it few months back but when i searched for it again then i didn't find it. You can search for my name on Google for more information.

Kindly do not remove Valid information from any Article with authentic information. Best Wishes for you ....

Hi Ahmed,

Usually lists of artists only include those notable enough to have a Wikipedia article of their own. This is not a hard-and-fast rule, but it seems appropriate in this case. I do not find news articles or books discussing you.

Generally self published stuff, facebook, twitter, blogs etc., does not count to establish notability.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:37, 19 June 2016 (UTC).

Nomination of Jock Haswell for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jock Haswell is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jock Haswell until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:03, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #214

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimania
  • Upcoming: WikiConvention francophone
  • Past: GLAM Wiki Boot Camp
  • Past: Silicon Mountain Conf
  • Past: OpenData.ch
  • Past: Semantic Web + Wikidata
  • Wikidata beim Hackathon HackHPI in Potsdam
  • Data Ex Machina
  • Op-ed in the Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • ORES is not available as a beta feature to make it easier to find bad edits
  • New user script to show the main image of an item is ready for testing
  • Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
  • Want to see Wikidata changes in the history of a Wikipedia article? There is a user script that needs your feedback.
  • We are looking for people who work on list articles.
  • You can test a gadget that lets you easily run a query for more items with the same statement.
  • Language fallback is now happening on Wikipedia and co
  • Maps are now enabled on Wikidata
  • First beta release of StrepHit
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID, focal height, month of the year, label in sign language, PO Box, COAM ID, syntax clarification, ECARTICO person ID, MSBI person ID, date depicted, distinctive jersey, time gap, icon, SecondHandSongs artist ID, SecondHandSongs song ID, timezone offset
  • Query examples: colors of chemical compounds (source), map of braodway venues (source), sculptures by Max Bill (source), works of art where the name might be a rhyme (source), works of art where the title is an alliteration (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Professional Wrestling
  • ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (source)
• Development
  • Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
  • More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (phabricator:T134259)
  • Fixed a but with suggestions not showing up (phabricator:T138059)
  • Improved display of query examples (phabricator:T137589) and cleaned them up
  • Improved database access (phabricator:T137539)
  • Fixed a but with the rank selector (phabricator:T109583)
  • Started concept work for automated list generation
  • Discussed the proposal for Wiktionary with a linguist to get more detailed feedback on it. Very positive.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Edit filter noticeboard navbox

Template:Edit filter noticeboard navbox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 19:32, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

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AWB bug

Bugged edit ABW: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Electronic_cigarette&diff=722299517&oldid=722291214

Carl Fredrik 💌 📧 10:29, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #215

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Verifiability and living persons, RfP voting eligibility
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikimania! The Wikidata-related program parts including slides and notes can be found on the Wikidata Wikimania page.
  • TIB and HsH project approved: The replication of Open-Access images
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
  • Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
  • SQID now shows references (example)
  • INSPIRE HEP has been added to Mix'n'match
  • PAWS is now available. It lets you easily run a Jupyter notebook and much more.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: language used, connector, Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers identifier, INSPIRE-HEP author ID, lighthouse range, memory capacity, water as percent of area, InterPro ID, domain of saint or deity
  • Query examples: sandwich ingredients (source), inventors killed by their own invention (source), objects with most mass (source), music genres (source), number of jurisdictions by driving side (source)
• Development
  • The majority of the Wikidata developers team atteded Wikimania
  • You can now embed query results from query.wikidata.org in other websites (example)
  • Linking MediaInfo entities to media files in the "MediaInfo for Commons" prototype (phabricator:T134473)
  • Tracking more statistics for the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T138500)
  • Adding support for quantity values with unknown uncertainty (phabricator:T115269)
  • Worked on fix for bug where new entities can be created with wrong language (phabricator:T138725)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:48, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Featured Picture nomination

Hi Rich,

Great working you on the SVG Media Viewer!

If I could bother you a second... I submitted my "Tiny Planet" of the Last Supper sculpture in Esino Lario for Featured Picture on the English Wikipedia. If you think it qualifies, could you please support my nomination?

Thanks in advance,
cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 22:53, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

User:cmglee will do so. I will also upload my image of the artwork which does not have the paper and masking tape signs on it, Andy Mabbett also took a sign free image, if you fancy trying to merge the textures from the marble slab.

Did you know there is also an exhibition at Milan Malpensa airport of Da Vinci's Last Supper and "Everelasting" (http://www.continiartuk.com/helidon-xhixhas-everlasting-now-installed-milan-malpensa-airport/).

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:01, 29 June 2016 (UTC).

Thanks, Rich. I didn't notice the signs on the sculpture, but am undecided if they should be artificially removed – after all, it's a record of the scene during the event. I didn't know about the exhibition as I didn't pass through Malpensa. Nice to know anyway... cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 12:05, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

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Hi

It was great meeting you, more so as a last minute coincidence just before we returned home after I wrote you here in the past. Also thank you for showing me the pictures and hope to come across them on articles in the future. I will also try to find time to upload mine, from both UK and the conference. Thank you again for a lovely time before the flight. :) אומנות (talk) 10:22, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Likewise, I was rather dreading three hours at the airport, but the five hours I eventually spent there were well spent! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:24, 30 June 2016 (UTC).

Babes in the Wood murders (Wild Park)

Can you add Babes in the Wood murders (Wild Park) to your watchlist? It looks like there might be a trial and the article needs expanding anyway. Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 11:32, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Have done so. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:25, 30 June 2016 (UTC).