User talk:PokestarFan/Archive 2

Your request
- Why does this image have to be deleted? Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 11:08, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I assume it is because it is not being used, but I'd like to confirm this with you. Atcovi (Talk - Contribs)
 * YES, it is not being used. PokestarFan (discuss • contribs) 11:26, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Alright, thank you for confirming. I've deleted the image. Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 11:27, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok. PokestarFan (discuss • contribs) 11:29, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Your revert
My edit may have contained a grammatical mistake, but it did make sense. The point was of course not an important one, but still an (unimportant) correction of something that was (though in an unimportant manner) incorrct: the article did say that Harry Potter finds Aunt Marge "equally if not more" loathsome. In fact there's no question at all: he finds her a great deal more loathsome (however that's called in correct English), there can be no question of an "equally, possibly a bit more", etc.--131.159.76.216 (discuss) 18:55, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, but it did not make much sense to me. P o k e s t a r F a n            ( t a l k)       (c o n t r i b s)          (l i s t o f w i k i m e d i a p r o j e c t s)                        19:28, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
 * All right, so you disapprove of it; still your reproach on my talk page said "please don't make edits that do not make sense" as if I had done something wrong (I mean, morally, not some mistake of grammar or the like), and I am not of this opinion.--131.159.76.166 (discuss) 15:39, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * PLEASE, DO NOT EDIT AN ARCHIVE. CREATE A NEW TOPIC ON MY MAINPAGE! PokestarFan*Talk*Contributions  22:23, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Your signature
I was watching [//en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:Requests_for_permissions&action=edit&section=5 this conversation] and really needed to ask to you: did you know that you can put a page (eg: ), with the code  into your signature, to avoid to post all these span tags? JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 20:58, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Good point. P o k e s t a r F a n            ( t a l k)       (c o n t r i b s)          (l i s t o f w i k i m e d i a p r o j e c t s)                        00:51, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

= Wikidata weekly summary #255 =

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Zolo
 * New request for comments: Proposed client side disambiguation page


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research, on WMF blog, by Dario Taborelli
 * Le canal de Nantes à Brest sur Wikidata (fr) by Édouard Hue
 * Comprende!, a quiz interface on top of MediaWiki/WikiBase by Magnus Manske
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: April 26th, 18:00 in WMDE's office


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deadline for submitting a talk, workshop or roundtable for Wikimania is today, April 10th, at midnight (UTC)!
 * There's now also a #100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named #100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
 * New filters for Recent Changes: the beta deployment is rescheduled on May 9th
 * Grant application to extend the work of John Commings at UNESCO
 * New MapRoulette challenges: Add missing Wikidata ids to cities and capitals on OpenStreetMap
 * You can be a candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees
 * Log of the last IRC office hour with Wikidata development team
 * Help us translating this short message in your language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: TV Guide person ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID, DLV athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Notable integers
 * Longest streets of Moscow
 * Top 20 of heaviest humans in Wikidata (source)
 * Timeline of Paris marathons (source)
 * Countries not involved in any world war (source)
 * People whose place of birth is named after them (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Figure skating
 * Newest external tools: Sistercities, an overview of sister cities of German cities on Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Newest database reports: list of duos


 * Development
 * Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (T162244)
 * Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
 * Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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= Tech News: 2017-15 =

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

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it.

Changes this week
 * Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.
 * New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later.
 * The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
 * RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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= Rollback =

Hi I annulled your rollback because by your change you have just canceled my corrections to page because the changes of the two ip had already been removed (the first ones to me, and the second did it alone). Thanks and regards. --Samuele2002 (discuss • contribs) 19:21, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

= Suggestion =

Nominating lots and lots of things for deletion all at once makes it hard for the community to give each one the careful consideration it deserves. I would recommend taking it all more slowly. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 22:21, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * OK. Maybe up to 10 a day? PokestarFan*Talk*Contributions  22:22, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Heh. Well, I was thinking much slower than that; but, that's me. :-)  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 22:28, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Have you left notices on the user talk pages of people responsible for all those books you nominated, btw? --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 11:11, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * No, I did not, because most of them are inactive. PokestarFan*Talk*Contributions  12:30, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Inactive users sometimes have their accounts set to notify them of edits to their user/talk pages, and so respond when pinged there. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:41, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok then. PokestarFan*Talk*Contributions  12:42, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

= Test Edits? =

Hiya! You left a notification on my talk page regarding edits I made and recommending I make "test edits" in the [ sandbox]. These edits weren't test edits; they were intended to be actual edits. Assuming good faith, I'm confused - why this assumption? Pookiyama (discuss • contribs) 17:39, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

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= Tech News: 2017-16 =

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

Recent changes
 * You can add  to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example:  . This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
 * You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from . If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.

Problems
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week
 * There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
 * Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback.
 * Octicons-tools.svg From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts.

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= Wikidata weekly summary #256 =

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

= Events/Press/Blogs =
 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, Friday, April 21st, about external tools
 * "Wikidata pour la science" training day in Paris, April 24th
 * Heritage in Flanders and Crowd-Sourced Projects - featuring Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap
 * The ACS Spring disclosures of 2017 #1 - about news drug compounds entering Wikidata

= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
 * Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app to be deployed on several Wikipedias
 * More federated endpoints have been added (DBpedia, INSEE, UK Office for National Statistics...)
 * All UNESCO sites in Wikishootme
 * You can now cheat Stadt Fluss Land game with a query ;)
 * To be deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries

= Did you know? =


 * Newest properties: type of reference, suicide rate, Italian Navy Lighthouses and Beacons ID, MyDramaList name ID, iTunes app ID, Wormbase Gene ID, Environment Ontology ID, route diagram, cinenacional.com person ID, Quebec municipalities geographical code, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork ID, Soundtrack Collector ID, Rat Genome Database ID, FlyBase Gene ID, cinenacional.com movie ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali toponym ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali institution ID, Irish Rugby Football Union ID, Open Library subject ID, DBC author ID


 * Query examples:
 * The 500 most important paintings, according to Wikidata sitelinks (source)
 * The most important works in German by Wiki* articles (source)
 * Cities in France starting with the letter W (source)
 * Newest external tools: Wikinity displays a map of items near any given place
 * Newest database reports: list of anthology films

= Development =
 * More work on support for Forms and Lexemes (T160052)
 * Adding monolingual language code UMU (T160531)
 * Fixing a bug about Commons gallery and category (T161826)
 * Improving header image gadget (T160530)
 * Provide a special page to list all available badges (T114473)
 * Show supported data formats in Special:EntityData (T162870)
 * Track the number of identifier properties on an item (T114617)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

= Monthly Tasks =
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:26, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

=How to Survive in Minecraft=

= Wikidata weekly summary #257 =

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
 * Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Wednesday, April 26th in WMDE's office
 * Datensummit by OKFN, April 29th, in Berlin


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Editing will be disabled during parts of May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * Deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: PictoRight ID-Droit de suite, observing time available, MetaboLights Compound ID, Swiss Federal Archives ID, Boijmans artist ID, KVAB member ID, number of perpetrators, History of Modern Biomedicine ID, Tilastopaja male athlete ID, Red Bull athlete ID, Tilastopaja female athlete ID, National Track & Field Hall of Fame athlete ID, Caverphone, Cologne phonetics, Soundex, HappyCow restaurant ID, category for alumni of educational institution, Justia Patents company ID, Justia Patents inventor ID, daily patronage, patronage, tributary orientation, ZFIN gene ID, IAFD female-born performer ID, MyDramaList title ID, Israel Chess Federation player ID, LAWA waterbody ID
 * Query examples:
 * Place of birth of the candidates to French presidency since 1958 (source)
 * Oldest given names on Wikidata (source)
 * Cocktails and their ingredients (source)
 * Cities in UK named after a patron saint (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject Terrorism
 * New template: d:Template:Film festivals


 * Development
 * Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (T138295)
 * Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (T163144)
 * Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (T110604)
 * Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (T159710)
 * Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (T160530)
 * Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (T162342)
 * Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (T160048)
 * Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (T162870)
 * Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (T157466)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:14, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-17
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May.
 * When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups.

Problems
 * Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved.

Changes this week
 * The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit.
 * Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:40, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Igbo
Btw, turns out there really is such a language. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 01:23, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of "User talk:PokestarFan/Archive index"
User talk:PokestarFan/Archive index, a page you created, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, you requested deletion.

You are welcome to contribute content that complies with our content policies and any applicable inclusion guidelines. However, please do not simply re-create the page with the same content, or remove the speedy deletion tag from the page. You can contest the deletion by clicking the "Contest this speedy deletion" button inside the speedy deletion tag. You may also wish to read our introduction to editing and guide to writing your first article.

Thank you. PokestarFan*Talk*Contributions 00:03, 27 April 2017 (UTC),

How to Survive in Minecraft

 * I did inform PokestarFan when I nominated it, it's just already been archived. Don't want you to think I skipped that crucial step :) Only (discuss • contribs) 10:10, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-18
<section begin="technews-2017-W18"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add  block for your scripts also, or add   dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.

Problems
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Changes this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again.
 * The,   and   buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding   to the URL.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W18"/> 19:49, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #258
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
 * Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
 * Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
 * Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - by Songkick, about their data donation
 * Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
 * new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
 * Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
 * Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
 * Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service? Give us your feedbacks
 * Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work, Répertoire national des associations identifier, IPA number order, UNESCO Thesaurus ID, Athletics Australia athlete ID, GuideStar Israel organization ID, MobyGames developer ID, newspaper format, STW Thesaurus for Economics ID, Bollywood Hungama ID, last words, Reprezentacija ID, LoJ peak ID, Ishim ID, GINCO ID, VIVC grape variety ID, column, had as last meal, ADAGP artist ID, CONICET person ID, Medium username


 * Query examples:
 * 15415 people who died in 2016
 * Maps of statues of Jeanne d'Arc on a horse (source)
 * Families who’ve had the same occupation for five generations (source)
 * Couples of capitals more than 19,000 km away from each other (source)
 * A ten-persons “surname = given name” chain on Wikidata (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of newspapers by newspaper format


 * Development
 * Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
 * Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
 * The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
 * Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (T107595)
 * Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
 * Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)
Hello Wikimedians! The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:


 * American Psychiatric Association – Psychiatry books and journals
 * Bloomsbury – Who's Who, Drama Online, Berg Fashion Library, and Whitaker's
 * Gaudeamus – Finnish humanities and social sciences
 * Ympäristö-lehti – The Finnish Environment Institute's Ympäristö-lehti magazine

Expansions
 * Gale – Biography In Context database added
 * Adam Matthew – all 53 databases now available

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, Taylor & Francis and Newspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today! --The Wikipedia Library Team 18:52, 2 May 2017 (UTC)


 * You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Aaron.
 * This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Native English
Ummm... You said I have a native understanding of English. What do you mean by that? Well, I guess... because I speak Standard Jamaican English  Jay Jay Marcus Keize (discuss • contribs) 21:02, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I do not ever remember saying that. PokestarFan*Talk*Contributions  21:21, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #259
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Updating References for External Data


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Registration is open for the Celtic Knot Conference 2017 (July 6th, Edinburgh)
 * Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Vote in the board election (see also Voter guides and rationales
 * Sitelinks for the new Doteli Wikipedia (dtywiki) can be added
 * You can now track the number of identifier properties for an item
 * We provide weekly a new type of database dumps: nt truthy dumps
 * Wikipedia article-draft-generator developed by Pharos for Met Museum project
 * Schema.org proposes to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common entity base for the target of the sameAs relation


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: light sector, Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent, Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work


 * Query examples:
 * All places (with coordinates) that gave its name to something (source)
 * Paintings depicting monkeys (source)
 * Artworks with presumably depicted persons (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of oldest lighthouses


 * Development
 * Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
 * Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
 * Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
 * Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-19
<section begin="technews-2017-W19"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on  in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off   in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw.
 * There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May.

Changes this week
 * When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say  and   instead of   and  . This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If  is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use   for transclusions and   in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use   in a template:  . This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis.

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Learning Quarterly: May 2017
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This Month in GLAM: April 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #260
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Development input: Client editing prototype


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague (see a video of the Wikidata and SPARQL training)
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
 * Upcoming: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: June 7th in WikiBÄR
 * You can still register for the Wikidata/election data hackathon in Ulm, Germany (June 23-25)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Discuss the movement strategy on Wikidata. The Cycle 2 started on May, 11.
 * WikidataCon: join the program committee and other teams!
 * TwoColConflict is now enabled on Wikidata
 * OSMgadget is a tool to help Wikipedia editors find objects in OpenStreetMap, and tag them with their Wikidata IDs
 * The OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher tool
 * Two language properties will be merged but the discussion still needs to go on
 * Tabular data files datatype is now enabled
 * The constraint table has been updated


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: NLL player ID, Italian Senate ID, ALPG golfer ID, Stereo Ve Mono artist ID, BioRxiv ID, narrower external class, Juwra.com ID, MLL player ID, Directorio Grierson ID, RANM member ID, Old Bailey Proceedings ID, Tumblr ID, Bmx-results.com rider ID, Israel Antiquities Authority ID, OlimpBase Chess Olympiad player ID, ESTC citation number, named by, Reactome pathway ID, NFF person profile ID, Chamber of Deputies of Italy ID, face value, Cinema ID, Digital Valencian Library author ID, copyright owner, Rallye-info.com driver or co-driver ID, V&A item ID, MotoGP racer ID, eWRC-results.com athlete ID, USATF athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics male athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics female athlete ID, Diamond League athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Paintings in the Louvre Museum, with heights and widths (source)
 * Chart of USA cities founded per year (source)
 * Country flags including a symbol of sun (source)
 * Birthplace of Spanish Queen Consorts (source)


 * Development
 * More work on Special:NewLexeme page (T164582)
 * Correctly compare time values on constraints (T164279)
 * Check wording of messages/constraint check results (T164354)
 * Creating grammatical features for Forms (T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Help adding missing statements to properties
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-20
<section begin="technews-2017-W20"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now use ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid.
 * The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page.

Problems
 * The  library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding   as the first line in the file and   as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue.

Changes this week
 * The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If   is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use   for transclusions and   in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix.

Older unreported changes
 * Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word  to your Meta user page to stop this.

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Tech News: 2017-21
<section begin="technews-2017-W21"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg There will be a  tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this.

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Wikidata weekly summary #261
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wahlsalon (event Codefor.de about election data): Kickoff on May 24th in Berlin
 * Upcoming: Open Science: the National Plan and you meeting for Dutch researchers: May 29th in Delft, The Netherlands
 * Current: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
 * Current: Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (May 15th-June 30th) help improving the data about the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
 * Past: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna
 * Paper: Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base (Alessandro Piscopo, Christopher Phethean, Elena Simperl)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The extension RevisionSlider is now available by default on Wikidata. Try it on a talk or project page!
 * Check out some updates about the WikidataCon
 * We reached Q30,000,000! Help us improve it and make a showcase item out of it.
 * An additional 10k article placeholders on Welsh Wikipedia will be made indexable in search engines


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, Nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID, channel number, signed form, CETS no., final event, programming paradigm, Bridgeman artist ID, BDCYL authority ID, Clochers de France ID, Global Trade Item Number, Unifrance film ID, Base biographique AUTOR ID, NNL work ID


 * Query examples:
 * Websites but without an official website
 * Plants with associated emoji (source)
 * Languages ordered by number of speakers (source)
 * HMDB identifiers with more than one item (source)
 * Painters with a lot of identifiers on Wikidata, but few Wikipedia articles (source)
 * Buildings with the greatest numbers of elevators (source)
 * Map of female writers on Wikidata by birthplace- generated by SPARQL query (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Counter-Vandalism, WikiProject Documentation


 * Development
 * Participating to the Wikimedia hackathon 2017, having a lot of interesting talks with users, designers, developers...
 * Helping improving the documentation for the property constraints, the beginner documentation about Wikidata, how to install Wikibase
 * Rewriting most constraint violation messages to include more useful information (T164354, help update translations)
 * Working on a tree view for the Query Service (T152676)
 * Setting up a constraints development/testing wiki
 * Moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (T104309)
 * Working on performance of change dispatching so database of wikidata goes read-only in lower rate (T162557)
 * Reducing number of duplicates rows in our database table for labels, descriptions and aliases to make it faster (T163551)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #262
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl (all successful)
 * New request for comments: Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check on Twitter and the video streams to see what happened
 * Six degrees on Wikidata, by Andrew Gray
 * Some statistics on scholarly data in Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Wikidata for librarians, by Dan Scott


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Eurowings app uses Wikidata
 * Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM map? Alex-7 created a web app.
 * Breaking change: sitelink encoding changing in RDF export/WDQS


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Filmweb.pl ID, racon signal, Vitaskrá ID, SSB urban settlement number, Austrian Textbook ID, EKATTE place ID, members have occupation, National Library Board Singapore ID, SHARE Catalogue author ID, Sequence Ontology ID, supports programming language, subreddit, sports league level, TA98 Latin term, Misjonsarkiv person ID, Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of subreddits associated to a place on Earth (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23TEMPLATE%3D%7B%20%22template%22%3A%20%22potential%20reviewers%20for%20papers%20in%20%3Ffield%22%2C%20%22variables%22%3A%20%7B%20%22%3Ffield%22%3A%20%7B%20%22query%22%3A%20%22SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fid%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fid%20wdt%3AP2578%20%5B%5D.%20%7D%22%20%7D%20%7D%20%7D%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Freviewer%20%3FreviewerLabel%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fwebsite%29%20AS%20%3Fwebsite%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Forcid%29%20AS%20%3Forcid%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftwitter%29%20AS%20%3Ftwitter%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ21198%20AS%20%3Ffield%29.%0A%20%20%3FsubField%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Ffield.%0A%20%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP570%20%5B%5D.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Freviewer%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FworkDate.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FworkDate%20%3E%20%28NOW%28%29%20-%20%22P5Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%29%29.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP921%20%3FsubField.%20%7D%20UNION%20%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP101%20%3FsubField.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP856%20%3Fwebsite.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP496%20%3Forcid_.%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Forcid.org%2F%22%2C%20%3Forcid_%29%29%20AS%20%3Forcid%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP2002%20%3Ftwitter_.%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F%22%2C%20%3Ftwitter_%29%29%20AS%20%3Ftwitter%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Freviewer%20%3FreviewerLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20RAND%28%29 Potential reviewers for papers in computer science] (source)
 * Paintings with 'portrait' in the name that lack P180 / depicts (source)
 * Publications and presentations about WikiCite (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Zika Corpus
 * Newest external tools: Wikidata to CSV
 * Newest database reports: Roger Moore filmography


 * Development
 * Attending WikiCite
 * Showing badges on other projects (T73887)
 * Improving label tracking (T151717)
 * Working more on statements on forms in order to support lexicographical data

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-22
<section begin="technews-2017-W22"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a notification when they mention you. You can test this on Beta Wikipedia. You can read more and give feedback on Meta.

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Writing_Adolescent_Fiction/Character_names/Girls
PokestarFan, I had to be bold and undo your letter headering innovation at Writing_Adolescent_Fiction/Character_names/Girls. Since it was implemented, no one has been reading directions on the page and EVERYONE has been adding their names to the Top 350 section instead of the second tier or third tier. Hope you're not too disappointed. Khemehekis (discuss • contribs) 05:15, 3 June 2017 (UTC)