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...for taking the time to make corrections at B7/Incivility. Its really more a repository of ideas and gleanings than it is an essay. ```Buster Seven Talk 15:33, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

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Your submission at AfC Banqsoft (August 12)

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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 if you feel they have been resolved.

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! APerson (talk!) 16:32, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
That's all very well APerson, but I didn't actually submit Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Banqsoft to AfC! I made a very minor copyedit to it. User:Marius.willy is the user who submitted it. (In general, admins don't tend to submit new articles via AfC...) —Tom Morris (talk) 16:35, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
Whoops! I just submitted the article under the last editor. I'll add an option to submit it as the article creator so this doesn't happen again - thanks! APerson (talk!) 16:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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    • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
    • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
    • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
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    • Newest task forces: Physics task force
    • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
  • Development
    • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
    • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
    • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
    • Started improving API and Special Page tests
    • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
    • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
    • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
    • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
    • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
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    • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
    • Hack on one of these.
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Quick update

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Hi Tom,

I thought I'd let you know I've restarted work on the Lua module for retrieving wikidata. I put a copy of Module:Sandbox/Tom Morris into Module:Sandbox/RexxS and wrote some documentation, then expanded the code a little. I've developed a generic call that passes the property ID as a parameter, and two similar calls that retrieve an unlinked value and a date, so I'm almost at the point where we can write a complete wikidata-aware infobox template. I'm still struggling to find the best logic for making the call from an infobox though. If you get a chance, you might have a look at Wikipedia talk:Wikidata where's there's talk of another RfC. Hope you're well and keeping busy. --RexxS (talk) 22:37, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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  The Barnstar of Diligence
For keeping the Edward II page up to date. YellowFratello (talk) 17:40, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

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Article Feedback Tool update

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Hey Tom Morris. I'm contacting you because you're involved in the Article Feedback Tool in some way, either as a previous newsletter recipient or as an active user of the system. As you might have heard, a user recently anonymously disabled the feedback tool on 2,000 pages. We were unable to track or prevent this due to the lack of logging feature in AFT5. We're deeply sorry for this, as we know that quite a few users found the software very useful, and were using it on their articles.

We've now re-released the software, with the addition of a logging feature and restrictions on the ability to disable. Obviously, we're not going to automatically re-enable it on each article—we don't want to create a situation where it was enabled by users who have now moved on, and feedback would sit there unattended—but if you're interested in enabling it for your articles, it's pretty simple to do. Just go to the article you want to enable it on, click the "request feedback" link in the toolbox in the sidebar, and AFT5 will be enabled for that article.

Again, we're very sorry about this issue; hopefully it'll be smooth sailing after this :). If you have any questions, just drop them at the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) 21:47, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Seeking more info/advice on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shift4

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Hi Tom,

A few months ago you helped me understand why a page I authored had been deleted under WP:CORPDEPTH. In your response, you mentioned that if I could come up with a list of independent sources to prove WP:CORPDEPTH, we could have the page undeleted. Well, I finally had a few minutes to look at it, and I've compiled the following list. Does this look adequate to you? 

 * http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=37263652
 * http://www.hospitalityupgrade.com/_vendors/vendors_Detail.asp?VendorID=134
 * http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/Golfweek-Custom-Media/2012jtshcofinalopt/2012100302/22.html#22
 * http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/mar/24/boy-scouts-expect-raise-15000-stratosphere-skyjump/
 * http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/q?db=pat&asned=SHIFT4%20CORPORATION
 * http://www.shift4.com/dotn/4tify/trueTokenization.cfm
 * http://www.shift4.com/blog/post.cfm/did-shift4-really-invent-tokenization
 * http://www.visa.com/splisting/
 * http://www.shift4.com/PDF/Shift4_Corporation_PCI_DSS_Attestation_of_Compliance.pdf
 * https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/approved_companies_providers/validated_payment_applications.php   
 * http://www.nevadabusiness.com/2013/05/family-owned-business-2013/
 * http://together.pgatour.com/stories/2013/january/ryan-moore-scott-piercy-shift4.html

If you think this list of sources is sufficient to prove CORPDEPTH, I'd be happy to provide you with the actual text of the rewrite for you to review/vet before we start the undelete process. (Honestly, I'd love your help to make sure it doesn't end up {advert} tagged or anything.

Thanks, Casper n (talk) 19:23, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

I'm on vacation at the moment. If you create a user draft, I'll have a look at it (or one of my talk page stalkers can do so). Thanks. —Tom Morris (talk) 19:55, 3 September 2013 (UTC)


Sounds good. Enjoy your holiday. I created a user draft as you suggested and I would love page-stalker input/assistance. Let's see if I'm smart enough to link to the draft.
Thanks, Casper n (talk) 17:40, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

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