Nat965

Ryde

Hi, I reverted your merge of Ryde (Q29079928) and Ryde (Q5355920) as I have been specifically setting up districts of the same name at different time periods as distinct items. I know the Wikipedia articles tend to be combined into one, but technically they are different entities and do not cause constraint violations like multiple inception and dissolution dates. Happy to discuss if you disagree. Great job by the way on your work on filling out the parliamentarian information. --Canley (talk) 07:37, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Hey Canley, no worries. Having a look at it a second time, I can completely understand. Nat965 (talk) 07:53, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Gender coding thanks

Very many thanks for your very many edits on gender coding, Nat. That backlog seems to have been knocked on the head, at least for items with up to 8 properties, much faster than I expected. I've not yet managed to get Listeria to give us any sans-gender lists for items with more than 8 props ... not yet sure why; but we probably deserve a break for a wee while, or, some variety.

I think we'll only see the full fruits of our labour in e.g. WHGI in a fortnight or so's time - iirc WHGI has a considerable delay in its pipeline.

I'm planning to add some more Petscans to Metrics/Wikidata dealing with other issues, should you be looking for more games to play. But I see you're still plenty busy as it is, doing righteous stuff. All very much appreciated. --Tagishsimon (talk) 02:52, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

No worries, Tagishsimon! That's the reason why I like Wikidata - its either right or wrong, there's (usually!) no third opinion. I'll definitely swing by the page occasionally. Looking at Wikidata:WikiProject_every_politician as my main focus, there's definitely no shortage of things to do on Wikidata! Nat965 (talk) 06:30, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Ah, good man. I'm up to my neck in Ghanaian MPs right now - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ghana/Parliament_of_Ghana/Extended_Index & most MPs thereon just created in the last couple of days. Need to get around to adding it to Wikidata:WikiProject_every_politician ... I did Zambia & Malawi current legislators last year as I was cutting my wikidata teeth. Plenty of work there to keep us quiet for a long time. Not sure if you know that MySociety has written scrapers for most legislatures, and there are CSVs available, albeit I know they have concerns (and I have less concerns) about copyright. If that might be of any use, tap me up. --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:19, 12 February 2019 (UTC)