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Gefeliciteerd edit

Latest comment: 11 years ago11 comments2 people in discussion

Met #1000--Ymblanter (talk) 20:37, 30 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

:-) Almost all countries in the world have been created. Romaine (talk) 20:38, 30 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
Right, I gave up after Panama because I could not find anything which was not created already.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:40, 30 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
I think we should make sure that all countries are created, with all including the English, French, German and Spanish interwikilinks so that it is easy for other languages to connect. Romaine (talk) 20:43, 30 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
This is difficult to check without categories. Should we make smth like a taskforce with checked countries crossed out?--Ymblanter (talk) 21:12, 30 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
Sure! Some minutes ago I completed all countries. So every country should be present in English and I added Dutch with it as I know what the names are in that language. French, German and Spanish can follow... Romaine (talk) 21:19, 30 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
Here, I did not yet found the way of creating such lists in the main space. I will start now adding the Africa list, and then checking the countries. Please feel free to edit other parts of the list. We possibly want to publicize it on the Village Pump provided it exists.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:25, 30 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
Such lists do not belong in the main namespace but in a project namespace or user namespace. I guess we should limit ourselves to the 4 core languages, otherwise it would get to much I guess. Also I am curious when bots will start. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 21:45, 30 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
I had difficulties finding the proper namespace, so I will not object if somebody moves it to a more appropriate location (if redirects are suppressed the links should be fixed). Concerning the languages, I separated there four main ones and five optional ones, may be I will bold the mail ones now. --Ymblanter (talk) 21:54, 30 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
Now we got automated interwiki import, see here for the details.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:23, 31 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
Great script!! Romaine (talk) 16:41, 31 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Adding a new country! edit

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Heya! How do I add a new country. For instance page for South Africa is not yet created. How do I assign the Q*** code? uwanja Wanna Chat?or to Email Me. 04:16, 31 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

South Africa is at Q258. You can create a new item with Special:CreateItem. --Yair rand (talk) 04:23, 31 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for the assistance. Most appreciated. uwanja Wanna Chat?or to Email Me. 02:57, 1 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

Bravo edit

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Hello, Thank you for improving the pages I created, you even are too fast for me (example : blues)  .

Regards, --Eric-92 (talk) 03:34, 3 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

We have a lot of work to do, and what can be done fast, solves the queue of doing in length. :-) Romaine (talk) 03:35, 3 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

Talkback edit

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Does what it says on the tin. Courcelles (talk) 05:34, 3 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

labels without addition in brackets edit

Latest comment: 11 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hello Romaine,

if you fill labels, you shouldn't write additions in brackets like "(river)".[1] For these additions is the descriptionfield.

Greets, CENNOXX (talk) 00:45, 7 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

I do not completely agree, we haven't defined what should be filled as label. But yes, the description field can be used for that as well. Romaine (talk) 01:46, 7 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

editing labels edit

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Hi, I see that you edit a lot of labels. You could User:Jitrixis/autoEdit.js for that, it makes things much faster. --Zolo (talk) 14:48, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

Hello Zolo, Thanks for the suggestion! I tried it, but to me it isn't easier. I would just need one button right of the label-field that automatically can add the English, German, french or Spanish interwiki name. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 14:54, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
Really ? It just required two clicks, and it adds every language (well only thoses that have available interwikis, but that often includes English, German, french and Spanish). --Zolo (talk) 14:59, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
I add them now with looking, copy, paste and 1 click. Making it easier for me is not by making it more clicks but less. So a button like "<<< en" and "<<< de" would help me. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 15:03, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
Sure it would be even faster. But the point is that it does all languages at once, so imo in total that saves a lot of time. --Zolo (talk) 15:06, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
To me it doesn't makes sense at all to add labels and descriptions, as these fields are mend to be for disambiguation when there is an interwiki conflict. Therefore I created Wikidata:Labels and Descriptions Task Force, to get the labels and descriptions in the lingua franca languages. I think that adding labels and descriptions in Dutch (my language) is almost useless because it will never help solving interwiki conflicts. I earlier think that adding all descriptions in all languages will cause on their own more conflicts as the descriptions aren't similar to each other and will cause interwiki conflicts itself. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 15:17, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
I guess we could find a lot of uses for labels and descriptions, and in Asia (where most humans live) many people do not speak either English, German, French or Spanish. But more generally, I must say I do not get your point. It may have been much easier to begin Wikidata with only a few languages enabled, but that is not the choice that was made. I must say I do not get your point about interwiki conflicts. If some links are wrong, then they should be changed, whether we have a description or not (and as interwiki does not change interwiki links, it cannot create interwiki conflicts, though it may perhaps make them a bit more visible, and hence, easier to solve)--Zolo (talk) 15:48, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
You can find a lot of uses for labels and descriptions? I thought we were adding interwiki's as replacement for having all those interwiki bots on all articles on all language versions? I think the labels and descriptions are mend to be used for making clear what the subject is of the specific article in all the languages. Just as on disambiguation pages, the labels + descriptions must make clear what the difference is between this and another subject.
Adding all labels in all languages (while someone doesn't speak that language) is in my eyes irresponsible as that person can't check if the label/descriptions are correct and really matching with the subject of the interwiki group. Let me given an example. Vaals: on the English Wikipedia this is covered in only one article, while on the Dutch Wikipedia this is covered in two articles, as the municipality is not the same as the town Vaals. The municipality covers several towns (like Vijlen), while the town Vaals is just only the town. By adding the wrong label in a certain language, while you can't read that language, can cause that the town article gets the description of the municipality (or would suggest something like that). If there would be an interwiki conflict, also the description needs to be fixed in all languages where it has gone wrong, while all users do not speak all languages, with the result that the mistakes will stay in all the label/description fields and that this is a base for having again interwiki conflicts as someone adds again the wrong interwiki('s) to the wrong item. The 4 lingua franca languages are the four most commonly spoken languages, so that users can make understandable to each other what the purpose is of that item. This example was relatively easy, but I have seen many not so easy conflicts in the past. Having the wrong descriptions in too many languages will cause that the problems keep occurring in the future. My goal is quality, not quantity. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 17:19, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
Well "many was probably an overstatement :). But I bet Wikidata labels will be used as a multilingual dictionary for computerized natural language processing (tbe Wikitioanry could be used for that, but Wikidata is much easier to data-mine, and it is likely to get many things that are not in the Wikitionary - assuming of course that the Wikitionary itself does not use Wikidata). I think descriptions will be used in small Wikipedias, to provide some sort of stub when the article is missing. It will probably also be used by third parties app (possibly Google Knowledge Graph.
Automatically adding a label based on an interwiki can give an awkward result, and manual checking is always useful. However I do not think in can be completely wrong, unless the Interwiki itself is wrong. Given the millions of interwikis that need to be added, I think it makes sense to automate part of it. There are indeed wrong interwikis, but their proportion seems rather low, and if someone changes in Interwiki, he will hopefully think of checking the label.
For descriptions, I think we should see it differently. Wikidata is not just about interwikis. In Phase 2, we will add various info about each item. If the Wikidata entry for Vaals links to the Dutch Wikipedia article about the municipality instead of the town, then the link is wrong, not just because it does not match the other links, but because it does not match other data like population or administrative status. If we have automatically added " a town" to descriptions in all languages including nl, that will not be wrong as it matches all data of the article, so the description will be right even if the nl link is wrong. Of course, for some topics, it will be a huge challenge to get everyhing right, but for Wikidata to work, it will be necessary that we precisely define what each entry is about, independently of interwiki links that will probably be sometime imprecise. Cheers --Zolo (talk) 08:43, 10 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
Perhaps I am think a little bit too much in the future, but I have seen a lot and I think errors can be made very easy. It is indeed very much needed to make descriptions in such way that the define exactly what the item is about. I am curious what the future will bring, but also a little bit careful. On Wikipedia I have heard already big ideas of what people think of Wikidata, sometimes I think with a little bit too much imagination. But I am glad Wikidata is developed, fixing interwiki links will be much much easier. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 15:26, 14 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

Admin edit

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Hi. Your RfA has been closed and I've promoted you to administrator. Congratulations. Best regards. — MarcoAurelio (talk) 01:06, 11 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! :-) Romaine (talk) 15:26, 14 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

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    • Updated demo system
    • http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses http://wikidata.org for getting language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden)
    • Statements (think of “population: 2.000.000” and similar things) are taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at this point.
    • It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example)
    • Links are now protocol-relative (bugzilla:42534)
    • No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database is set to read-only
    • Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser
    • Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
    • Removed many singletons to reduce global state
    • Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities
    • Improved settings system
    • Improved options of ValueFormatters
    • Improved options of ValueParsers
    • Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any violating values
    • Fixed serialization of SiteArray
    • ~=[,,_,,]:3
    • Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again
    • Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks
    • Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests
    • Report URL to entity in wbsearchentites API module
    • Moved the demo system to a larger server
    • Fixed several bugs in Statements user interface, most notably, adding Statements to existing sections and layout fixes
    • Added wikibase API module on the client to provide information about the associated repo (e.g. url, script path, article path)
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Help:Label edit

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You may want to read Help:Label if you haven't yet. Thanks. --Yair rand (talk) 00:28, 28 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

Um, I don't mean to be a nuisance, but simply because of the large volume of edits you've been making, I think it would be very helpful if you followed the relevant standards. Thanks. --Yair rand (talk) 20:38, 2 January 2013 (UTC)Reply
Hello Yair rand, If we want users to follow standards, than those standards need to be easy to perform. I try to pick the best fitting name that makes it the best clear so far I see. My goal is simple: I want to have all items have an English label. Also, the page is currently only a proposal. Also I don't see why we should not capitalize. I am not unwilling, but KISS isn't applied here in my opinion, that doesn't make it easy to follow proposed guidelines at all. If we really want such standards, much much much more should have been automatically added instead of the manual additions. Also, if standards are that important, I am sure someone will build a bot to make it happen that way. Already thousands of pages have got labels which do not follow the proposed standards. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 21:13, 2 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

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    • Started working on supporting different kinds of Snaks in the user interface
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nl/en labels edit

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Hello romaine,

As discussed on irc, would this meet your needs ? nl_without_en Thieol (discussion) 02:31, 5 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hello Thieol, Thanks for the thoughts, fot the moment that wasn't my biggest need, but on a longer time scale it may be handy. What I was looking more for was a tool/bot/etc with what I can easily put the nl-field in the title field. I noticed with my run by hand that about 85% of the pages without English title could use the Dutch field name. But my browser find the Wikidata pages havy and load not that fast, and as I have good experience with AWB on other projects, I asked if someone knew a bot or tool that can run semi-automatically (I need to visual check before saving) without having to open and load each page, without saving a field and without closing the page, because due bots are active know with adding items, we will have a growing backlog each minute. Perhaps something can be done with the api-output? Greetings - Romaine (talk) 07:31, 5 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Admin confirmation edit

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Hello, your adminship is up for confirmation between Jan 23rd and Jan 28th. Please create a section for yourself at Wikidata:Administrators/Confirm 2013/1, and see Wikidata:Administrators/Confirm 2013 for more info. Regards, Ajraddatz (Talk) 15:59, 19 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hello Ajraddatz, Thanks for informing, I was away on travel the past days for a Wiki Loves Monuments meeting. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 00:09, 23 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

Thanks edit

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I know the page and I updated a lot of "Q's". I found a new one today: User:ValterVBot/Labels and descriptions/es. --LadyInGrey (talk) 02:43, 23 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

Great! Nice work! Romaine (talk) 02:45, 23 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

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    • Useful error messages will be shown in statements user interface in case of data value mismatches
    • Switched the demo system to Labs’ puppet
    • Selenium tests for length constraint, claim edit-conflicts
    • Setting up dispatcher script on internal test machine
    • More work on wikibase.getEntities() function for Scribunto/Lua-Templates
    • AbuseFilter is now working with Wikibase
    • The change dispatcher script is now ready for use on the WMF cluster
    • Initial implementation of {{#property}} parser function for the client
    • Created a widget for the client to connect a page to a Wikidata item and add interwiki language links to a page
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    • Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia ([2] [3] [4])
    • Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
    • Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
    • Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
    • Working on property parser function for the client
    • Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
    • Resumed work on linked data interface
    • References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
    • Several minor user interface fixes
    • Styling of the user interface for statements
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    • Deployment of the first parts of phase 2 (infoboxes/statements) on wikidata.org done - see it live for example here, here and here
    • Diffs for statement edits can now be shown
    • Started work on query definitions
    • Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
    • Edit links are now hidden when viewing old revision
    • Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
    • More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
    • Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
    • New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
    • JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
    • Repaired and updated the demo system
    • Resumed work on Linked Data interface
    • Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
    • There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
    • Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
    • Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
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  • Development
    • Deployment to English Wikipedia
    • Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
    • Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
    • Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
    • Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
    • Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
    • Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
    • Started with valueview refactoring
    • Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
    • Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
    • Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
    • Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
    • Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
    • More work on Lua-based templates for entities
    • Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
    • Created query object
    • Proper bot-flagging of edits (bugzilla:44857)
    • Use of ID to directly address an item or property
    • Search should give more of the complete matches now
    • Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
    • More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
    • Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
    • Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
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    • New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
      • Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
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      • Ability to add items to claims by their ID
      • Better handling of deleted properties
      • More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
    • We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
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  • Development
    • Extended diff view to include references now
    • Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view
    • Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData
    • Updated the demo system
    • More work towards using Solr for our search
    • More investigation and fixes of search issues
    • Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior
    • Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar
    • Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript
    • A lot of bug fixing
  • Events
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
    • Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
    • Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
    • d:Wikidata:Database reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties
    • The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs).
    • The list of available properties is growing and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed
    • Reasonator gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person
    • Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category
    • A few more additions to d:Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements
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    • Development
    • Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
    • More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia
    • More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia)
    • Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
      • bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
      • bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
    • Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
    • Selenium tests for multiline references
    • Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client
    • Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox
    • Selenium tests for language-table
    • Implemented in-process caching for entities
    • Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
    • rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
    • Improved error reports from the API
    • Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
    • Added a table of content to item pages
    • Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia
    • Finished implementation of References-UI
    • Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript
    • Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information
    • Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation
    • Minor bugfixes in Statements-UI
    • More work on RDF export
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  • Development
    • Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
      • Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
      • Fixed the prev/next links in diff view (bugzilla:45821)
      • d:Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets you filter by language and entity type
    • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
    • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
    • Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
    • Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
    • Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
    • Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the Wikipedias.
    • Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
    • Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
    • Support for multi-line references in diff view
    • Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
    • Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
    • Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and visibility of bad dependencies
    • Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • 3rd Media Web Symposium 2013
    • Wikidata trifft Archäologie
    • SMWCon Spring NYC
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse. “Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but it is unknown to us.
  • Open Tasks for You
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User talk:Curtaintoad edit

Latest comment: 11 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Hello Romaine, can you please suppress the edits to "21:15, 21 March 2013" and "00:32, 23 March 2013" to my talk page ( User talk:Curtaintoad ) because I no longer want my talk page edited, but you can suppress the edits though. Thanks, Curtaintoad curtain or toad 03:25, 23 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

I don't see a reason for the edits to be suppressed. See also Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard#User:Curtaintoad.--Jasper Deng (talk) 03:49, 23 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
As Jasper Deng said, there is no reason for suppression. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 04:36, 23 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Q8154962 edit

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Just take a look at this and be more careful the next time ;-) --Bene* talk 21:20, 24 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Gadgets edit

Latest comment: 11 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

There are a gadgets for add automatically labels and descriptions (autoEdit), other for import interwikis from Wikipedia (slurpInterwiki) Regards. --Vivaelcelta (talk) 03:37, 25 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the suggestion, let me try it the coming edits. :-) Romaine (talk) 03:43, 25 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
But first finding out how it works... Romaine (talk) 03:48, 25 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
This gadgets appears on the left, in tools. SlurpInterwiki works importing interwikis from a Wikipedia, there must first be a interwiki and after import interwikis this Wikipedia. And autoEdit, add descriptions in all languages once and for all, like "Wikipedia disambiguation page". --Vivaelcelta (talk) 16:20, 25 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #51 edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their articles (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at it:Torino)
    • Worked on automatic summaries for statements
    • Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of {{#property:p169}} for example
    • Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.)
    • Selenium tests for qualifiers
    • Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
    • Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • Newline 2013
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that.
    • Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed!
    • Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri!
    • We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis
    • We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful.
    • In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you.
    • We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at bugzilla:44228
    • Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: bugzilla:46461
    • Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? This is for you
    • The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again. At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted.
    • Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata
    • Wikidata was added to wikipulse
    • A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set
  • Did you know?
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See note at the end of this weekly summary
    • Help test qualifiers (m:Wikidata/Notes/Data model primer#Qualifiers - see also example statements there) on the test wiki so we can roll it out with the next release
    • Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!)
    • Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label?
    • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #52 edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
    • Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
    • Worked on improving recent changes code in client
    • Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
    • Implemented string formatter
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
    • There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
    • There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
    • We hit Q10000000
    • A Wikidata item in the wild ;-)
  • Did you know?
  • Open Tasks for You

Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.

Wikidata weekly summary #53 edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
    • Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
    • Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
    • Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
    • Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
    • Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
  • Events/Press
    • right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
  • Discussions
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
    • Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
    • There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
    • If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
    • There is a new user right: property creators
    • There is now a page to request deletion of a property
    • We now have Bureaucrats
    • Reasonator was improved and extended (1 2)
  • Open Tasks for You

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Wikidata weekly summary #54 edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
    • wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (bugzilla:45005)
    • Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (bugzilla:45140)
    • Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
    • Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
    • Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
    • Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
    • Work on the storage code for answering queries
  • Events/Press
    • GLAM-WIKI 2013
    • upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
    • upcoming: Opensource Treffen
    • upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
  • Discussions
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Open Tasks for You
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My bot edit

Latest comment: 11 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi, can you unblock my bot on wikidata. Actually I have request for a bot status and also already request on meta and min.wiki. Then I already became a bot on ms.wiki. I hope you can unblock my bot on this wikidata.--파한 Aplikasi 03:51, 3 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hello Aplikasi, I think you should ask User:Legoktm, he is the one who blocked your bot. Romaine (talk) 04:00, 3 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #56 edit

 
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Deletion request edit

Latest comment: 10 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

This is now unnecessary: Q13207897 --99of9 (talk) 12:47, 13 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

  Done Romaine (talk) 18:07, 13 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Re: please complete phase 1 first edit

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Hello, Romaine. You have new messages at Wikidata:Bot requests#Request: please complete phase 1 first.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--Ricordisamoa 00:12, 17 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #58 edit

 
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Automatic RfD marking edit

Latest comment: 10 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hey, if you'd like Benebot* to go through the items you delete at RfD and mark them as deleted, please feel free to add your username to the list at User:BeneBot*/RfD-optin. Cheers! Del♉sion23 (talk) 10:39, 18 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

  Done - Romaine (talk) 11:14, 18 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Request for list with interwiki conflicts edit

Latest comment: 10 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

I'm making the list. Tell me in wich page of nlwiki I should paste the list. --Kizar (talk) 17:55, 24 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Forget it, the list is here. That is the list of templates, I'm working on the categories and articles. I'll write you a message when the list is complete.--Kizar (talk) 18:33, 24 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Ok, thanks and I am looking forward for the new lists. Romaine (talk) 19:08, 24 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

List updated. 13.335 items. Feel free to edit the list removing completed items. --Kizar (talk) 10:32, 25 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #59 edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Press
    • Linked Data in Business
    • currently: Hackathon in Amsterdam
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: catalog code (P528), runway (P529), diplomatic relation (P530), diplomatic mission sent (P531), diplomatic mission sent (P531), port of registry (P532), target (P533), streak color (P534), Find a Grave (P535), ATP id (P536), twinning (P537), fracturing (P538), Museofile (P539)
    • Newest task forces: Ship task force
    • d:Template:Constraint:Item allows to check if items using a given property also have other properties. To find items to fix, it links to one of Magnus' tools and to a daily report. Sample: items with property mother should also have main type (GND) with value person.
  • Development
    • A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
    • Worked on content negotiation for the RDF export
    • Bugfixing for editing of time datatype
    • Added validation in the api for claim guids. This also resolves bug 48473, an exception being thrown in production, whenever a bot or api user requested a claim with an invalid claim guid
    • Improved error message popup bubbles to show HTML and parse the links correctly
    • Fixed bug 48679, to hide the view source tab for item and property pages
    • Testing on Diff extension and SQLstore
  • Open Tasks for You

deleting linked items edit

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hallo, bitte beim Löschen von Items dran denken zu prüfen, ob sie noch verlinkt sind (zB über Special:WhatLinksHere) und die noch gegebenenfalls bestehenden Links zu ersetzen. (bei Q3128853 hattest du das vergessen.) Liebe Grüße, --CENNOXX (talk) 16:29, 30 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #60 edit

 
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Greenland edit

Latest comment: 10 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

What's the sense in deleting emptified item if the same data was moved to other (Q13407191)? Can you restore the former and move the data back from the latter? The former item is used in all discussions about interwiki-conflict. Infovarius (talk) 06:41, 3 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

There appears to have existed an interwiki conflict between Q223 and Q4148644 and those two seem to have been merged. I see no connection with Q13407191. So far I know we all agreed to preferable use the Q with the lowest number, so I think it is merged in the right way. I see no reason why Q223 should be deleted instead and Q4148644 restored... Greetings - Romaine (talk) 20:00, 3 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
Anyway there should be 2 items (because there are 2 articles in ru, for example). Once they were Q223 and Q4148644, not they are Q223 and Q13407191. But total content is the same! So due to the rule of lowest number, Q13407191 should be moved back to Q4148644. Infovarius (talk) 06:46, 5 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Translation edit

Latest comment: 10 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Romaine, thank you for the translation of Q13384863. (If you've got time, you might also want to look at Template:Entities/text/nl.) Cheers --Kolja21 (talk) 14:48, 3 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hello Kolja21, You're welcome. I don't get it: Template:Entities/text/nl... Romaine (talk) 20:02, 3 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your fast reply. Unfortunately we have to use the translation tool which is a bit complicated. Sorry, I didn't thought about that. Right now there is even a greater problem. It looks like one of the main types (Q13384863) should be deleted, see here. All very chaotic ... Cheers --Kolja21 (talk) 21:47, 3 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #61 edit

 
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Wikidata weekly summary #62 edit

 
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Dutch Wikipedia iwlinks edit

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The list is updated. --Kizar (talk) 18:01, 16 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #63 edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Events/Press
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
  • Development
    • Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
    • Further work on input validation
    • Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
    • Use Serializers for generating API results
    • Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
    • Changed globe coordinate value input to use backend coordinate parser
    • Fixed issues with data type definitions not being available in the frontend
    • Wrote a little hack so that on statements with a long list of values you will always be able to see the name of the property of the current section you are in (since the label moves when scrolling the page)
  • Open Tasks for You

Wikidata weekly summary #64 edit

 
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Wikidata weekly summary #65 edit

 
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Wikidata weekly summary #66 edit

 
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Wikidata weekly summary #67 edit

 
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Wikivoyage edit

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi there! You are listed as one of the Ambassadors for wikivoyage and wikidata :) It would be great if you could add a link to the location for bot approval for the wikivoyage you are involved with the the list here (Wikidata:Wikivoyage_migration#Bot_approval). Thanks in advance! ·addshore· talk to me! 07:52, 21 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #68 edit

 
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Wikidata weekly summary #69 edit

 
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Wikidata weekly summary #70 edit

 
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Wikidata weekly summary #71 edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
    • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
    • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
    • Newest task forces: Physics task force
    • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
  • Development
    • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
    • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
    • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
    • Started improving API and Special Page tests
    • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
    • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
    • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
    • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
    • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
    • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
    • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
    • Hack on one of these.
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Wikidata weekly summary #72 edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Average edits per page is nearly 5 now.
    • Wikivoyage is still scheduled to get access to data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on August 26.
    • Developers are working hard to also make the URL datatype available by August 26 but there are factors that are not in their hands so it might have to be delayed until the next deployment in 2 weeks. URL as a datatype will soon be available on test.wikidata.org. Please give it some thorough testing and report bugs.
    • Outsch! (Help collect and fix paper cuts.)
  • Did you know?
    • 20 undescribed monsters
    • Newest properties: separated from (P807), code Bien de Interés Cultural (P808), WPDA id (P809), academic minor (P811), academic major (P812), date retrieved (P813), IUCN protected areas category (P814), ITIS TSN (P815), decays to (P816), decay mode (P817)
  • Development
    • Prepared deployment of phase 2 on Wikivoyage
    • Worked on ability to sort qualifiers and references inside a statement
    • Started work on an api module to merge items
    • Worked on special page to query for items with one specific property and value
    • Cleaned up code for handling recent change entries from Wikidata in the clients (Wikipedia/Wikivoyage)
    • Worked on generic script for populating sites table and better integration with WMF process for creating new wikis
    • Setup new git repo for WikibaseMobile skin and extension
    • Fixed SetClaim api module to properly mark bot edits in recent changes and advised pywikipedia maintainers about adding support for the module. SetClaim can be used to create claims with references in a single edit.
    • Reviewed code for Google Summer of Code students
    • Updated doxygen documentation
  • Open Tasks for You
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Items in use edit

Latest comment: 10 years ago6 comments3 people in discussion

Hi Romaine, please check Special:WhatLinksHere before deleting an item to make sure it is not being used in any statements. Otherwise, there will be many broken links. For example, you deleted Q3932632 but there were still roughly 50 items that used it in a statement ([9], I've since replaced them with Renato Chiantoni (Q2143595) though). I good hint is that BeneBot* should tell you when an item is still in use with something like this:

Isn't this item still in use? -- BeneBot* (talk) 20:10, 23 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Besides that, keep up the good RfD deletion! The Anonymouse (talk) 23:57, 23 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Q10014284: no description: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)

I forgot to mention that the "links" link next to the "delete" and "history" links goes to WhatLinksHere. The Anonymouse (talk) 00:00, 24 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
Hello The Anonymouse, Difficult situation, there are so many deletion requests, I delete thousands, it would be unworkable to check every deletion also for links to it. Of course I understand that the links should be fixed. There should be a warning system, like a bot who checks every adding if there are any links to it. Romaine (talk) 04:27, 24 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
BeneBot* actually does just that: it posts "Isn't this item still in use?" next to items that need to be checked. You don't need to check every one; you really only need to check the items that the bot finds. Example of the bot "complaining": [10] The Anonymouse (talk) 04:45, 24 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
Mmm, a message on my talk page would be easier, to avoid not seeing it. Thanks for telling me about the bot! Romaine (talk) 04:47, 24 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #73 edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: interchange station (P833), public holiday (P832), parent club (P831), Encyclopedia of Life (P830), OEIS ID (P829), possible causes (P828), BBC programme identifier (P827), tonality (P826), dedicated to (P825), Meteoritical Bulletin Database ID (P824)
    • Newest task forces: Wikidata:País Valencià task force
  • Development
    • Work on allowing API module editentities to edit claims
    • Work on entity / item redirects
    • Work on support for moving qualifiers in API and Frontend
    • Adding coordinates to diff display and improving diff display code
    • Allowing site groups for language links on clients to be configurable (needed for commons)
    • EntityId changes, we are now working on 0.5!
    • Show snaktype in summary for novalue and somevalue snaks
    • Further work on merge module for the API
    • Wrote missing tests for various jQuery widgets
    • Work on value formatters
    • Continue on moving tests to cucumber
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I see that you have been editing at Category:Locks <-> history . To me that thing is an ugly amalgam. In English, locks and sluices are different things. To note that I came across it due to the violation of two commons categories attached. Anyway, I am closing my eyes and walking away.  — billinghurst sDrewth 03:20, 28 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

Difficult situation, different languages handle it different... Romaine (talk) 15:18, 29 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

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[11]It has lots of backlinks, Please check any backlinks are here before delete.--DangSunM (talk) 23:36, 21 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

Mmm, why does the merge function move that also? At least thanks for notifying, I moved all the backlinks to the new item. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 23:44, 21 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

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