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Best regards! Chris Troutman (talk) 02:57, 22 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Invitation to Wikidata user study edit

Dear A Scheduling Error,
I am a researcher of the Web and Internet Science group of the University of Southampton.
Together with a group of other researchers from the same University, we are currently conducting a research aiming to discover how newcomers become full participants into the Wikidata community. We are interested in understanding how the usage of tools, the relationships with the community, and the knowledge and application of policy norms change from users' first approach to Wikidata to their full integration as fully active participants.
This study will take place as an interview, either by videotelephony, e.g. Skype, phone, or e-mail, according to the preference of the interviewees. The time required to answer all the questions will likely be about an hour. Further information can be found on the Research Project Page Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base.
Any data collected will be treated in the strictest confidentiality, no personal information will be processed for the purpose of the research. The study, which has submission number 20117, has received ethical approval following the University of Southampton guidelines.
We aim at gathering about 20 participants, chosen among experienced Wikidata users who authored a large number of contributions.
Should you be interested in taking part or wish to receive further information, you can contact us by writing to the e-mail address ap1a14+wikidata_user_study@ecs.soton.ac.uk.
Thank you very much, your help will be much appreciated!
--Alessandro Piscopo (talk) 08:44, 26 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Share your experience and feedback as a Wikimedian in this global survey edit

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Your feedback matters: Final reminder to take the global Wikimedia survey edit

(Sorry to write in Engilsh)

This diff does not show the nature of the edit you made for some reason. Can you tell me what the edit was? — Ipoellet (talk) 19:03, 7 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

There were two spaces between 'NRHP' and 'Building' in the English label. I just removed the extra space. ASchedulingError (talk) 19:09, 7 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
Ah. Thank you. I was just puzzled why the diff seemed to show no change. — Ipoellet (talk) 02:46, 9 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Please stop for a moment edit

You are making way too many mistakes by changing the meaning of items, merging items that shouldn’t be merged, and deleting references. So please take some time to read Wikidata policies, and do not change properties that define items (like instance or subclass of) unless you have references to back such modification. A good start would be to revert all your edits that have deleted or changed statements with references. Andreasm háblame / just talk to me 00:49, 9 February 2019 (UTC)Reply