Mdd

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--Ricordisamoa 12:23, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your work in maintaining Wikidata. I have a small suggestion to improve your future work. If you notice that two items are duplicates, please merge them instead of blanking one of them as you did with the item Q108782849. External sites use Wikidata identifiers, so it is important that we preserve the chain of references. We do this by making one item a redirect for the other. In particular, item ids are intended to be a permanent identifier, so we never reuse them for another concept. See Help:Merge for more information on how to merge items, and consider installing the Merge Gadget. Thanks!  Bovlb (talk) 23:44, 3 October 2021 (UTC) --Bovlb (talk) 23:44, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

@Bovlb:. There is some kind of logic here that I do not yet comprehend. Now I have a similar case with Arjen Brussaard (Q108839633) and ‎Category:Arjen Brussaard (Q108839626). Could you fix this? -- Mdd (talk) 21:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

And Andrea Bruce (Q59469986) and ‎Andrea Bruce (Q109412675), -- Mdd (talk) 16:29, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Van vs van

Hello Mdd, please make sure that Van Nieuwenburg and van Nieuwenburg are two different spellings, see Van (Q69876093) vs van (Q69872130). Best regards --HarryNº2 (talk) 08:17, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Call for participation in a task-based online experiment

Dear Mdd,

I hope you are doing good,

I am Kholoud, a researcher at King's College London, and I work on a project as part of my PhD research, in which I have developed a personalised recommender system that suggests Wikidata items for the editors based on their past edits. I am collaborating on this project with Elena Simperl and Miaojing Shi.

I am inviting you to a task-based study that will ask you to provide your judgments about the relevance of the items suggested by our system based on your previous edits. Participation is completely voluntary, and your cooperation will enable us to evaluate the accuracy of the recommender system in suggesting relevant items to you. We will analyse the results anonymised, and they will be published to a research venue.

The study will start in late January 2022 or early February 2022, and it should take no more than 30 minutes.

If you agree to participate in this study, please either contact me at kholoud.alghamdi@kcl.ac.uk or use this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSees9WzFXR0Vl3mHLkZCaByeFHRrBy51kBca53euq9nt3XWog/viewform?usp=sf_link I will contact you with the link to start the study.

For more information about the study, please read this post: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Kholoudsaa In case you have further questions or require more information, don't hesitate to contact me through my mentioned email.

Thank you for considering taking part in this research.

Regards

Kholoudsaa (talk) 17:23, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

New family names and given names

Hi Mdd!

It's nice of you to create new names. Please fill out at least these three Properties of information, this saves a lot of work for the other Wikidata contributors:

• For names in Latin script:

1. instance of (P31) (use "family name (Q101352)", "male given name (Q12308941)" or "female given name (Q11879590)")
2. writing system (P282) (use "Latin script (Q8229)")
3. native label (P1705) (use allways "mul" for the language specification; specific language specifications require a reference)

The easiest way would be to use the script from User:Bargioni, see: User:Bargioni/QuickNames

• For persons of Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian origin etc., and other countries with Cyrillic writing system, create the name in Cyrillic script:

1. instance of (P31) (use "family name (Q101352)", "male given name (Q12308941)" or "female given name (Q11879590)")
2. writing system (P282) (use "Cyrillic script (Q8209)")
3. native label (P1705) (use allways "mul" for the language specification; specific language specifications require a reference)

Note: The transliteration from e.g. Russian (Q7737)/Ukrainian (Q8798)/Serbian (Q9299) etc. to English (Q1860), French (Q150), German (Q188) and various other languages is different.

For more information please see this page: Wikidata:WikiProject Names/Properties.

I wish you continued happy work on Wikidata. Best regards, HarryNº2 (talk) 05:41, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

Dates in names (labels)

Hi Mdd,

Thanks for adding the Van der Pot people to Wikidata.

I saw you've put the birth and death dates together with the names in the labels, instead of the descriptions. This causes problems with processing Wikidata information, so the label should only contain the names of these people. The dates can be put in the description as disambiguation information.

Information about labels can be found at Help:Label, especially the sections Labels can be ambiguous, Disambiguation information belongs in the description and Drop dates unless significantly important. Koen WikiTree (talk) 15:29, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @Koen WikiTree:, the reason why I have been doing that because of the presentation in Wikimedia Commons. I would like to have the data in the name and not in the description, which is really strange. What you get in the infobox is for example:

Willem van der Pot,

merchant (1715-1789)

Which is rather a strange way of presentation, which I want to avoid there.

-- Mdd (talk) 15:51, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

On second thought. I guess I can live with this reversed data. I must admit in the infoboxes the names without the birth and death dates reads better, yet more undetermined. -- Mdd (talk) 16:19, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

Automated report of empty item: Q116465299

Hello, an item that you have edited (and you are the only non-bot editor) is considered empty and will be deleted in 72 hours if it doesn't improve. Your automated cleaner, Dexbot (talk) 17:28, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Automated report of empty item: Q108839626

Hello, an item that you have edited (and you are the only non-bot editor) is considered empty and will be deleted in 72 hours if it doesn't improve. Your automated cleaner, Dexbot (talk) 17:30, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Automated report of empty item: Q116416483

Hello, an item that you have edited (and you are the only non-bot editor) is considered empty and will be deleted in 72 hours if it doesn't improve. Your automated cleaner, Dexbot (talk) 21:26, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Automated report of empty item: Q116836725

Hello, an item that you have edited (and you are the only non-bot editor) is considered empty and will be deleted in 72 hours if it doesn't improve. Your automated cleaner, Dexbot (talk) 17:28, 8 March 2023 (UTC)