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Latest comment: 10 years ago by Zolo in topic Streets and addresses

Welcome

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 

Welcome to Wikidata, Rschen7754!

Wikidata is a free knowledge base that you can edit! It can be read and edited by humans and machines alike, and you can help. Go to any item page now and add to this ever-growing database!
Need some help getting started? Here are some pages you can familarise yourself with:

If you have any questions, please ask me on my talk page. If you want to try out editing, you can use the sandbox to try. Once again, welcome, and I hope you quickly feel comfortable here, and become an active editor for Wikidata.

Regards, --Wiki13 (talk) 13:04, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Greetings

Latest comment: 11 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi. Didn't expect to see you here. Welcome! -happy5214 14:15, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm mostly keeping an eye on this project to see if there's anything that might be helpful to us, like shared infobox data or anything like that. --Rschen7754 (talk) 19:01, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Roads task force update

Latest comment: 11 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I have added some proposed guidelines for items on roads in the United States at Wikidata:Roads task force/United States/Guidelines. All comments are welcome!

Also, I have added a list of members to the U.S. task force page. Please update the list if necessary.

All for now. Thank you. -happy5214 11:57, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

I've taken a brief look over and it seems fine. I don't think I'll be doing any editing on this site for another week though, since I'm out of town. --Rschen7754 21:01, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Q2175090

Latest comment: 11 years ago13 comments3 people in discussion

You added the label "U.S. Route 412 in Oklahoma" to this item. Why is the "in Oklahoma" necessary? Is that really the common name for the highway? Note that labels do not need to be unique. --Yair rand (talk) 17:43, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

On the English Wikipedia (and on a few other Wikipedias) we have both a "U.S. Route 412" and a "U.S. Route 412 in Oklahoma". Both are technically highways in Oklahoma. However, the first one contains an overview of the second one, as well as the other states that US 412 goes through. Hope this helps. --Rschen7754 21:02, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
Ah, got it. Thank you for explaining. Another issue is items like "New Mexico State Road 6563". The article seems to refer to it primarily as "State Road 6563" or "NM 6563". Would one of these perhaps be a more appropriate label than "New Mexico State Road 6563"? --Yair rand (talk) 20:47, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
No, they're different per w:WP:USSH - and that resulted out of a long drawn out conflict that ended in an arbitration case on the English Wikipedia. It seems to me that globally, most Wikipedias use the full name as the article title, so in my opinion we should remain consistent (I don't think that they follow that particular guideline globally, though I could be wrong). --Rschen7754 21:19, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
But we don't have any reason to follow Wikipedia naming conventions when deciding labels. Wikipedia titles have different requirements, such as having every title be unique, which leads them to different standards. Here, disambiguating in done in the description field, and multiple labels can be the same. --Yair rand (talk) 21:28, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Yes, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't follow them when all the articles are named that way. Also, some states do include the state name in the official name of the highway. --Rschen7754 21:31, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
I understand that when the actual name of the highway includes the state name it makes sense to include it, but where it doesn't, wouldn't it just be extra disambiguating text? --Yair rand (talk) 21:38, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Not necessarily, since there are also different types of highways that all could be in the same state: state highways, county highways, Interstates, U.S. Routes, etc. --Rschen7754 21:45, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
I don't quite understand how the existence of different types of highways is relevant. Could you please explain further? --Yair rand (talk) 21:51, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
"Route x" could refer to a county route or a state route or an Interstate. Also, "NM 6563" could be anything, really, and is too vague. --Rschen7754 21:53, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Labels are allowed to be vague. There isn't really any problem if a it can refer to a county route or a state route or an Interstate. That's why the description field is there. --Yair rand (talk) 22:06, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
My opinion remains that the state name and the type of route need to be included in the label as they are very essential. You are welcome to start a discussion elsewhere if you disagree. --Rschen7754 22:11, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
There already is a discussion started (sort of) at Wikidata talk:Roads task force/United States/Guidelines. This probably should be continued there. -happy5214 07:10, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Confirmation of adminship

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello! Please note that the confirmation vote for your adminship on Wikidata is scheduled to take place from Mar 18 to Mar 22. You should create a nomination statement at Wikidata:Administrators/Confirm 2013/8 before the beginning of the vote. Thank you! Regards --Iste (D) 13:41, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Added property

Latest comment: 11 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi, I added a pronunciation file as a property in the item for Coimbatore. Was what I did correct? Here is a link to the diff. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:45, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Seems fine to me. --Rschen7754 15:09, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Note

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Activity note: I will be offline for the rest of today, Tuesday, and most of Wednesday. I will be back on Thursday. --Rschen7754 23:48, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Collapse

Latest comment: 11 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi,

why did you hide this talk? Bináris (talk) 23:58, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

More or less out of courtesy, since you were concerned that it would reflect badly on you. I am willing to revert it though if you want. --Rschen7754 00:03, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, but I think that's not me who is badly involved by purely displaying the content; I was involved with the events, not the history of the events. :-) Bináris (talk) 00:21, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Descriptions and more

Latest comment: 11 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi, due to some illness I have been offline for the last weeks and did not much in Wikidata, but now I want to return. I Have some short questions: Phase 2 is active now and I saw that you are adding several items. When will the other items (length etc.) be online? I think, it's better to edit a road only once and not several times (should be more effective). And another question: I tried to add an description for the item P14 "highway shield". Is it only for sysops allowed, to add such descriptions or is there any bug in my user rights? Greetings from Germany, -- feuerst – talk 22:25, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Sorry to hear that! The other data types (numbers, strings, etc.) are under development and will hopefully be done soon. I'm not sure why the description isn't working - there isn't one, so the field should be open for you to edit... It's not restricted to admins. --Rschen7754 22:30, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
I found a way to edit the description, in a German forum there had been an answer. To avoid this problem, I have to login in www.wikidata.org, not de.wikidata.org. -- feuerst – talk 22:41, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #47

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 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
    • We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3
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Regarding Wikidata and redirects

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Here is the link to the discussion on Wikidata was referring to in the Simple:Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy discussion: Wikidata:Project chat#Issue pertaining to redirects. I hope that you can provide some insight into this, or at least provide feedback. Unless this gets addressed soon, I can see other editors creating more drastic cases of issues like what happened with my edits on Simple:Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy.

P.S. You might see this message on more than one of your Wikimedia sites: I want to make sure you received this message, as I do not know which Wikimedia site you use the most. Steel1943 (talk) 05:20, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #48

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

8 years on the English Wikipedia

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I have posted an essay marking my 8th anniversary on my home project, the English Wikipedia. It can be read here. --Rschen7754 10:29, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #49

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
    • 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
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language
    • Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page
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Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Mateuszek045

Latest comment: 11 years ago14 comments3 people in discussion
 

May i ask why did you add this comment to my !vote at Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Mateuszek045?

  1. ... what? --Rschen7754 07:59, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Curtaintoad curtain or toad 08:12, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

What you wrote does not make sense. It is clear that you do not understand what makes a good admin on this site or on other WMF sites. I can explain further if you wish. --Rschen7754 08:17, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Oops... sorry... please tell me more. Curtaintoad curtain or toad 08:19, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
And give me a "talkback" message please. Curtaintoad curtain or toad 08:23, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Let's look at what you wrote:

Because i think User:Mateuszek045 will probably make a GREAT Administrator.

Probably? Being an admin is a serious thing and is not a game. Will he make a great administrator, or will he not? "Probably" is a very bad thing to say.

Mateuszek045 has been here on the English wiki-data since 25 - January - 2013 ( which is enough to become admin here on wiki -data )

Is it? If I went to some random wiki and made 2 edits, came back 6 months later, and ran for admin, would I be qualified? Also it's Wikidata, not wiki-data.

has autopatrolled rights here

Not everyone who is autopatrolled will make a great administrator.

( but i'm pretty sure you also need the rollback right so that it can be moved in the admin flag ( or other user rights ) ),

That is not written in understandable English.

knows some of the policies/guidelines here,

Some? Why not all?

and is friendly, helpful and busy to other editors and pages, ( and other good things here ).

How can you be "busy" to other editors and pages?

I am definitely sure Mateuszek 045 will become a great, awesome, wonderful, and happy administrator with the mop and new tools than user can use.

There are plenty of unhappy administrators - just look at the English Wikipedia.

Here's some better things to look for:

  • Click the SULinfo link. Does this editor have any permissions elsewhere? What is their edit count like? Are they blocked anywhere? If you can read the language, what are they like on the wiki where they have the most edits?
  • Do they understand Wikidata? 500 edits are a minimum now, but the more the better.
  • Do they participate in Wikidata discussions? Project chat? RfD? RfP?
  • Have they tried to canvass? In other words, are they campaigning for being an admin? Wikimedia sites are not places for politics.

User rights (admin, rollbacker, bureaucrat, etc.) are not toys. There are 700 Wikimedia projects and none of them will give user rights to you without you showing them that you can be trusted. Right now all you are doing is creating fancy userpages (I've seen you on the English Wikinews, Commons, English Wikiversity, and English Wikisource). That will not get you any userrights. Can you at least please try to work on content? There are plenty of people on Wikidata and the English Wikivoyage that are willing to help you, but you have not asked. Both of these places are a lot easier to edit than Wikipedia. (I am an admin on all 3). If you do good work on content, in 2-3 years you may be able to be an admin, and you can get unblocked on the English Wikipedia.

In short, we all want to help you! We want you to succeed. But you have to take our advice. --Rschen7754 08:59, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Curtaintoad, I would like for you to refrain from editing any project, user, or user talk pages until you have made at least five edits to a property or item. Please take your focus off your userpage and userrights (in general).--Jasper Deng (talk) 19:56, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. I will try help. Curtaintoad curtain or toad 05:08, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Can I please be a wikignome? Cheers, Curtaintoad curtain or toad 06:31, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Well, even wikignomes contribute to content. All that you have been doing is treating WMF sites like Facebook. --Rschen7754 06:37, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
You (apparently) promised to heed my request, Curtaintoad. Yet you have not and do not seem to understand why I made that request.--Jasper Deng (talk) 01:45, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
I think I am fine with some of the things I have right now (but please help me, I will try help) :*( thanks anyway. Also, could you please not send me the messages such as "that was a very bad idea", "you are treating like Facebook", etc as it gives me personal panic attacks and I really don't like it. Thanks, Curtaintoad curtain or toad 07:40, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Well what do you want me to say? Do you want me to say "you're doing a good job!" when you're not really accomplishing anything? If you ever want to be an admin, or even an editor, you will have to learn how to face criticism. Check out what some people have said about me here. --Rschen7754 08:44, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Let me be more direct. As I previously said, it is your responsibility to avoid "panic attacks", not ours, especially in the face of reasonable criticism. Criticism is sometimes hard to deal with, trust me, but accepting critcism is very important.
If we were to do a plus/delta chart of you, then this is the "delta" side. It is not the same as a "minus" side, in that this criticism is intended for you to know and address what we see as problems with your editing on Wikimedia projects. It can only work if you accept it.
You also say that you want us to help you. This is exactly what we're trying to do. However, if you don't accept our criticism and suggestions, you won't benefit from it.--Jasper Deng (talk) 21:15, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #50

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 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.
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Wikidata weekly summary #51

 
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

Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk)

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Wikidata weekly summary #52

 
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.

New

Latest comment: 11 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

OK .. I read through the links you gave me for a general idea. Two questions:

  1. Are their policies I should read through?
  2. for example .. I looked at George Bush, I don't see a date of birth field - is that something to add?

Ched (talk) 11:34, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

All our main policies are at Wikidata:List of policies and guidelines - there aren't that many compared to enwiki. Unfortunately there is no date data type yet, the developers are still working on it. There's only links to other items, links to Commons files, and strings that cannot be translated right. now. --Rschen7754 18:54, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks Rschen, I'll get up to speed as fast as I can. Ched (talk) 21:08, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
Much of our policy is still under development, as Rschen says. One thing to note is that everything has no citation at the moment - that's something the developers are working on.--Jasper Deng (talk) 05:53, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #53

 
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

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.

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Deletion of one side of reciprocal property

Latest comment: 11 years ago6 comments2 people in discussion
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
Ending this "sour grapes" conversation. --Rschen7754 06:47, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

If you delete part of the information ("buried here"), please ensure that it's present as "place of burial". --  Docu  at 06:40, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Absolutely not - we have too many statements to remove, because you continued to add them when the property was at PFD. --Rschen7754 06:42, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
This isn't productive at all. What are you trying to achieve? --  Docu  at 06:44, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
Sorry man, I'm just following the proper procedures. --Rschen7754 06:45, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
You are just destroying data. --  Docu  at 06:46, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #54

 
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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Wikidata:Roads task force

Latest comment: 11 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

Hi

The problem is that on the translated variants of the page the links to subpages also change. Was it your intention? --Michgrig (talk) 10:26, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

No, my apologies - I did not realize this. --Rschen7754 10:28, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
I think there are two ways out. 1) Change the links to subpages from relative ones (like /United States) to absolute ones (like Wikidata:Roads task force/United States), or 2) Move the translatable header to a subpage. Which one do you select? :) --Michgrig (talk) 11:20, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
I've added the prefix. --Rschen7754 11:30, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #55

 
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Bot flag

Latest comment: 10 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi, I fixed the problem regarding my bot (User:ViscoBot) adding references without bot flag. Now I fixed it. Hope to be unblocked soon. Regards, --Viscontino (talk) 06:33, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

  Done --Rschen7754 06:38, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #57

 
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Hi!

Latest comment: 10 years ago5 comments2 people in discussion

Hey! I just thought I would drop by and introduce myself. I'm AutomaticStrikeout (in case you didn't know) and I'm just saying a friendly hello. AutomaticStrikeout 02:56, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm familiar from you from enwiki, though I don't know that we've interacted too much over there. --Rschen7754 03:31, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
No, I don't think we have, but enwiki is a much bigger community. AutomaticStrikeout 22:28, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
  • Given that it looks like the current RfB will not succeed, I would encourage you to run. It would be good to have another crat and I'd be surprised if you didn't pass. AutomaticStrikeout 18:56, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
    • Thanks, but I don't really feel a need for the bureaucrat tools. I already have three adminships on WMF content wikis and will eventually become an OS on this wiki, and that is already is a large time commitment, so anything that I "run" for in the future will have to be thought out carefully. --Rschen7754 20:25, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Hubert Ludwig

Latest comment: 10 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi ! Could you please merge this entry into this one ? Those are the same person. Thanks. (genium ✉) 22:15, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

  Done --Rschen7754 22:18, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

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Global unlock proposal for S9000

Latest comment: 10 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I am not doing a crosswiki vandalism spree anymore so therefore I would like my account unlocked because I want to edit wikidata and meta wiki with that account and change my signature on english wikipedia. If unlocked, reply on my accounts English Wikipedia talk page and go here but please reply here and leave a talkback notice. Im sorry for that vandalism spree and Im not going to do it again. --74.131.177.233 22:00, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

The place for that is m:SRG not here. --Rschen7754 22:03, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #59

 
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  • 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

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Translation unit identifier

Latest comment: 10 years ago7 comments2 people in discussion

This kind of changes are extremely destructive for the translations. Before continuing, read very well the documentation found here and here. If you have any questions ask at Translators' noticeboard. --β16 - (talk) 07:58, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

What would you suggest then for that particular scenario? --Rschen7754 08:04, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
I think the best things to do is to restore the old translation markers and correct the translations eventually made in the meantime. --β16 - (talk) 08:19, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Personally though, I don't see a way around this; putting the new section at the bottom would have been problematic as it would be out of logical order. --Rschen7754 08:29, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Not at the bottom of the page. Put the new section where it should be, but without translation marker. So, in this way the traslate extension creates itself the correct traslation unit. See the documentation, in particular mw:Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_example#Step 4: Making changes. --β16 - (talk) 08:39, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Is it better now? --Rschen7754 08:48, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Yes, it's perfect! Thanks :) --β16 - (talk) 08:53, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Removal

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

read these.--GZWDer (talk) 11:39, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #63

 
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  • 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

Road or highway?

Latest comment: 10 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi! I noticed you are doing some work on US highways, with them claimed as instance of (P31) = road (Q34442). But, perhaps that should be highway (Q269949)? Danrok (talk) 22:24, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

More specifically, some are controlled-access highway (Q46622). Danrok (talk) 22:30, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Road is the more general term, and better in my opinion - some roads are highways and some are not, and some are for part of the length and some are not. Also, there are former highways, and highways that are half controlled access and half not. --Rschen7754 01:57, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Willingness to cooperate

Latest comment: 10 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi! I've read your proposal to join to WD:USRD and I'm ready to join this, but I don't know where to start so can you tell how to help you? --DiegoTheMasterPL (talk) 11:39, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Adding Polish labels and descriptions would be helpful. If you know about Poland roads, the items at Wikidata:Roads task force/Poland could use some statements. --Rschen7754 23:28, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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RfC on Wikidata's primary sorting property

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

You recently participated in a deletion discussion for P107 - main type (GND). The discussion has been closed, as it is clear that a resolution won't come from PfD, and an RfC has been opened on the matter at Wikidata:Requests for comment/Primary sorting property. You are invited to participate there. Please note that this is a mass delivered message, and that I will not see any replies you leave on this page.

Yours, Sven Manguard Wha? 18:23, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Streets and addresses

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi, I have created located on street (P669) and house number (P670) to which you had opposed. I realize that are some shortcomings with those properties, but I think we really need something, and the discussion has been inactive for a few days. Feel free to comment on the properties talk page, or even to nominate it for deletion if you think it is necessary. --Zolo (talk) 19:30, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #65

 
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