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-- Ę-oиė  >>> 14:38, 19 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Temporal range

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Would love to hear your opinion on these two properties: Wikidata:Property_proposal/Term#Temporal_range_start, Wikidata:Property_proposal/Term#Temporal_range_end --Tobias1984 (talk) 12:27, 12 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

IUCN taxon ID (P627)

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The property IUCN taxon ID (P627) that you supported is available now. --Tobias1984 (talk) 18:19, 12 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Thanks :) Eran (talk) 22:31, 12 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
You're welcome. --Tobias1984 (talk) 22:34, 12 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
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I fixed all selflinks at Byrial list regarding taxonomoc properties. Exeptions as this are not reasonable. Please adapt your template to the rules of wikidata. --Succu (talk) 09:32, 7 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

I don't think that selflinks are problem. It could be considered as a problem if it was used instead of claim because of deprecated technical reason (once there was no option for adding claims). However when there is a good rational for selflinks, as in the case of taxonomic ranks (using the same set of properties to declare both the above ranks and the specific rank) why not? Eran (talk) 18:18, 7 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
There isn't. A combination of taxon name (P225) and taxon rank (P105) should solve your template problem. --Succu (talk) 19:49, 7 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
  • taxon name (P225) isn't relevant here
  • I don't think there is a problem with redundancy of taxon rank (P105) and selflink. taxonomic level is a claim about the taxonomic level of this entry (e.g species/genus etc) while self linking the entity with genus says the same but in the context of a taxonomic tree defined by the properties P75 (P75),P76 (P76),P77 (P77)... It is much simple to use only this closed set of properties (p75,p76,p77...) and not combination of other properties. Eran (talk) 21:44, 7 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

native label (P1705)

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native label (P1705) is ready. --Tobias1984 (talk) 15:53, 19 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Instance of racist for Donald Trump

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that statement isn't my opinion or a personal interpretation. In the relative discussion on the talk page I've given a proof of the fact that "instance of racist" comes as a consequence of the definitions of the wiki. I'd like you to reply to that discussion before reverting the edit. --Ogoorcs (talk) 10:18, 8 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

File:Skull and Crossbones.svg in WD:PFD

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Can you please not to insert this file with more than 10px setting? Because even such terrible icon is necessary, it can break mobile view of leading words (e.g. in P134 discussion, the "P" of Pintoch is cutted by this icon). --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 06:18, 8 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Liuxinyu970226: Solved differently with table setting+slightly smaller icon (Special:Diff/645621066). Eran (talk) 06:25, 8 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

What is in wbc_entity_usage?

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You are probably more experienced with wbc_entity_usage. If I run the query SELECT * FROM wbc_entity_usage WHERE eu_entity_id = "P2439"; on shwiki and fiwiki, no results are returned despite the existence of fi:Moduuli:Cs:Wikidata/lib and sh:Modul:Official website. Do you know why? And how were you able to find those modules? --Pasleim (talk) 13:02, 28 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Pasleim: running on all wikis with this query:
use enwiki_p; /*replace enwiki to any other wiki*/
SELECT
    page_title, page_namespace
    from wbc_entity_usage
    inner join page on page_id=eu_page_id 
    where eu_aspect='C.P2439'  limit 1
Indicate the following pages are using this property - e.g there is at least one template that fetch it in those wikis.
Eran (talk) 22:23, 28 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

P2439

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Hey. Could you please check again with your tool if P2439 (P2439) is still in use in some Wikipedias? I think this edit removed the last use of P2439 (P2439). --Pasleim (talk) 14:12, 3 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Pasleim: I found only arwiki still using it (ar:ويكيبيديا:ويكي_بيانات/ملعب_ويكي_بيانات) but this may be cached from past and not really use. Eran (talk) 18:43, 4 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your help. ar:ويكيبيديا:ويكي_بيانات/ملعب_ويكي_بيانات is calling ar:Module:Wd-pr which is simply iterating over all statements. So this case will automatically vanish when P2439 gets deleted. --Pasleim (talk) 21:17, 6 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

WLM-IL monument in Rome

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Hi, in what sense does Pontifical Biblical Institute (Q951184) belong to Wiki Loves Monuments Israel?[1] Did you perhaps mean some other object? The WLM-IT system assumes that monuments located in Italy can only participate in WLM-IT, not WLM of other countries. This is a reasonable expectation, isn't it? --Nemo 05:13, 29 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

Nemo: the hewiki page connected to this entity (e.g he:המכון_האפיפיורי_למקרא) is mainly focused on the Jerusalem branch of the institute (if you are interested, google translate may be quite good here). Eran (talk) 17:49, 29 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
Alright! Let's make it clear that the physical locations are not just in Rome then. This suffices for us: [2]. Check if it's fine for your usage as well. Thanks, Nemo 18:11, 29 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

Force an LTR/RTL break?

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Eran, I wonder if you can help me with an LTR/RTL transition problem I've encountered recently.

See w:yue:以利以謝賓猶達. There's a bit in the middle where we tried to list his name in the Hebrew alphabet followed by his date of birth, but the fact that the Hebrew-alphabet name was placed next to numerals and punctuation meant that the software ingested the year and the punctuation into the RTL section. Do you know how I can force a RTL-LTR transition between the Hebrew characters and the Chinese punctuation? Deryck Chan (talk) 17:32, 5 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Deryck Chan: This is quite common problem when mixing RTL and LTR :) Basically there are two solutions: using ‎/‏ marks to control the direction (added it in the article) and having span with unicode-bidi:isolate - the second option is more elegant in my opinion. If you want to consider the 2nd as generic solution, w:yue:Template:Lang-yi (and other RTL langs) can have span with isolate. Eran (talk) 22:12, 5 December 2018 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! It turns out that yue.wp already has the span isolate functionality (through w:Module:Lang) but it wasn't deployed on Template:lang-yi. I've made this edit which fixed the problem. Thank you so much! Deryck Chan (talk) 11:29, 6 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Cycling race

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Hi. I see you add a copy of Module:Cycling race on HE Wiki. Can you add translations on this kit ? His function is to permit a person speaking hebrew 1) understanting what is written in Wikidata items about cycling, 2) having good translations in Wikimedia Commons categories for the display of Wikidata Infobox. If you have the time, can you add translations to d:Module:Cycling race directly by editing the code ? It is not very complex. It is just a copy paste of previous lines with the replacement of words. Thanks, Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick (talk) 09:55, 7 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick: I added some translations. In hewiki use only part of the capabilities this module supports (e.g in teamroster and listofteams) hence it was only partially translated. The devious diesel, can you please double check my translations in Special:Diff/806836127 (I also missed some which I wasn't sure about). Thanks, Eran (talk) 14:12, 7 December 2018 (UTC)Reply
Hi. If you want, it is possible to use in hebrew all the functions, in the idea if you have plans to develop the cycling on your Wikipedia. I am not the best help for this because the alphabet is different, but for example the algorithm perfectly works in russian. Can you give me articles where functions are already in use ? It is always a pleasure to see developments. Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick (talk) 09:27, 8 December 2018 (UTC)Reply
Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick: Yes this is awesome module and in my opinion this is "best practice" how module should be used - where there is a "master" version in Wikidata that can be forked to any wiki, and wikis contribute it back so it will always be up to date :)
See examples in he:קבוצת_סקיי (teamroster) and he:טור_דה_פראנס_2018#קבוצות_משתתפות (listofteams). We don't use the infobox for cyclist because we use a different template (he:תבנית:רוכב_אופניים) and also don't use it for race infobox (he:תבנית:מרוץ אופניים). thanks, Eran (talk) 09:41, 8 December 2018 (UTC)Reply
Hi. Can you copy the code on Module:Cycling race and copy it on the copy of HE Wiki ? I make an update for all the languages, but it is impossible for me on HE Wiki, and the program is better than in 2018. Cordially, Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick (talk) 11:03, 5 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick - I removed the protection from the file. thanks, Eran (talk) 17:25, 5 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, I just make an update. Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick (talk) 17:37, 5 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Translation request

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Hello.

Can you create the article en:Telephone numbers in Azerbaijan in Hebrew Wikipedia?

Yours sincerely, Sarvathi (talk) 20:03, 12 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

הבוט שלך

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האם תוכל ללמד את הבוט שלא להוסיף את תוכן הסוגריים לתוויות העבריות שהוא מוסיף? לדוגמה Q28128723, Q15928143 שבהם הבחנתי עכשיו. שמזן (talk) 16:54, 30 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

  Done שמזן Eran (talk) 03:46, 4 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

Height problems

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Hi!
There is some problems with heights you have imported from hewiki ([3], [4]).
Can you please revise this batch of yours ? Thanks ! Simon Villeneuve (talk) 19:28, 21 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

Simon Villeneuve: Good catch, thank you. I rechecked some of the other imports and couldn't find similar issues. To verify there are no more other issues I used a query to find people with height of more than 3 meter
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel 
{
  ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q5.
  ?item p:P2048/psv:P2048 ?placeElev.
  ?placeElev wikibase:quantityAmount ?elev.
  ?placeElev wikibase:quantityUnit ?unit.
  FILTER((?elev > 3) && (?unit = wd:Q11573))
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "he,en" }
}
LIMIT 10
and looks like we are fine. Eran (talk) 20:07, 21 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

רצח אוקסנה מקר

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הי ערן. הבוט שלך קישר את הערך העברי רצח אוקסנה מקר לפריט הנתונים Oksana Makar (Q2333771)

קישור כזה יוצר בעיות, כמו למשל שאיבת תאריך לידה ותאריך פטירה לערך שאינו על אדם אלא על אירוע.

אנא תקן את הבוט שךא יקשר ערכים על התרחשות לערכים על אדם XX-59-40 (talk) 06:56, 13 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

As you can see in the history of Q2333771 my bot didn't add the sitelink to hewiki, but an anonymous user before it. The bot only added Hebrew label. The sitelink and the Hebrew label are correct. The page discuss about the murder of Oksana Makar as you can see in other sitelinks such as the English sitelink. Thanks. Eran (talk) 18:53, 17 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
הי ערן
אנחנו מדברים על Oksana Makar (Q2333771)
כלומר על ויקינתונים המתייחסים לאוקסנה מקר, בעוד הערך העברי הוא "רצח אוקסנה מקר"
כלומר הערך העברי מדבר על אירוע ולא על אדם.
לאדם יש בויקינתונים תאריך לידה ותאריך פטירה, ובגלל הקישור השגוי הבוט שמופעל על ידי בורה-בורה, שואב את הנתונים האלו ומעביר אותם לאירוע. - מה ששגוי כמובן., לכן אני מנתק פעם נוספת את הערך העברי מפריט Q2333771 XX-59-40 (talk) 16:01, 18 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
I explained it now in the talk page of Q2333771. If there is a bot in hewiki that does wrong activity please ask the operator of that bot to stop it, exclude the page, or ask sysop to block the bot. Eran (talk) 04:31, 19 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

הבוט

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בעריכה זו הוכנסה שגיאה – יש לך מושג איך זה קרה? ביקורת (talk) 14:07, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

הבוט מחלץ שמות ומושגים מתוך ערכים בוויקיפדיה. כנראה שהשגיאה היא במקור מהתוכן שחולץ בוויקיפדיה. Eran (talk) 16:04, 24 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

תרגומים לוקים בחסר

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עברית: שלום, נתקלתי כבר בכמה תרגומים של הבוט שלוקים בחסר, למשל Q78355363 תורגם כ"בעלת גבל" במקום "מקדש בעלת גבל", וQ78355364 תורגם כ"גבל" במקום "מקדש האובליסקים". אלה לא היחידים שנתקלתי בהם, אני לא זוכר כעת את המקרים האחרים. הפעולה של הבוט חשובה ועוזרת מאוד לעורך העברי, אך תרגומים לקויים מהסוג הזה רק מבלבלים ומסבכים את העריכה. מקווה שיימצא לכך פתרון, פעמי-עליון (talk) 18:07, 6 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

הימנעות מיצירת פריטי פירושונים מיותרים

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עברית: היי, אנא שים לב שהפריט Q124262041 היה מיותר – כבר היה פריט לדף פירושונים לשם "אביבעל". פעמי-עליון (talk) 16:05, 13 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
עברית: אף אחד לא קישר את דף הפירושונים ולא ידעתי עליו. תודה על האיחוד עם הדף הקיים.
Eran (talk) 19:07, 13 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
אין בעיה :) פעמי-עליון (talk) 20:04, 13 January 2024 (UTC)Reply