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Question from AmazingTheGreatt (15:37, 19 November 2024)

Hello, how do you create your own page --AmazingTheGreatt (talk) 15:37, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

AmazingTheGreatt Good day. This is your user page. Pls read Wikipedia:User pages guidelines first before start writing. Also, I have sent you a welcome message on your talk page, pls read the Wikipedia guidelines (highlighted texts) so you may understand some of the Wikipedia guidelines. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 04:41, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

New page patrol school

Hello @Cassiopeia, I have noticed the growing backlog in New pages patrol and would like to apply for New page reviewer rights. Before submitting my application, I would appreciate training in this subject. My primary focus has been on improving existing articles through copyediting and adding verifiable references to those lacking sources. Additionally, I have created articles to support mainspace pages and highlight specific subjects independently. I would be obliged if you could kindly assist me in gaining the necessary knowledge and training in this area. Please let me know if you would be willing to help. Thank you. QEnigma (talk) 08:02, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

QEnigma Good day and thank you for interested in joining he NPPS. I understand you have joined Wikipedia long time ago but only active in the last few month. Pls complete the WP:TWA short program first (60 min) so you may familiar with some of the Wikipedia fundamental guidelines for NPPS program is comprehensive and complex. You will require to spend time on answering the assignments' questions and reading the guidelines. There is no time frame on completing the program but most participants took about 3 months to finish the program. Equip with the info above and once you have completed TWA and if you still want to join the program, then pop back here and let me know. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 08:14, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

@Cassiopeia: Hello, and thank you for your response. I have been contributing to Wikipedia since 2015, though intermittently. I would like to inform you that I have completed the WP:TWA programme, as recommended. However, I have removed all the badges recived during the module from my user page. You can verify this through the following revision. Please note that, although the final badge is numbered 15, there are only 14 in total, as badge number 8 appears to be unavailable. I would be grateful if you could kindly set up the NPPS programme if the above is in order. Thank you. QEnigma (talk) 11:09, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

QEnigma, I have set up the program for you. Pls book mark the program page on your computer for ease to find. Pls read the "communication section" at the very bottom of the assignment prior start answering the questions. When you have finished the assignment, ping me at the "communication section". Welcome to NPPS. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 22:05, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

@Cassiopeia: Thank you for setting up the programme. As I did not receive an alert for the new page, I checked your contributions history and was able to access this page – User:Cassiopeia/NPPS/QEnigma. I assume this is the correct training page, although it appears to be addressed to another editor. I would be grateful if you could kindly confirm. QEnigma (talk) 00:37, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

QEnigma, Yes, that is the program page. Sorry that I paste the wrong editor name. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 00:42, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

@Cassiopeia: Hello, I have submitted the assignment no. 1 on 14 November and also sent a quick reminder on 16 November, but I have not received a response from you. I hope everything is in order and these requests are not getting in the way of your other work. Best regards. QEnigma (talk) 17:30, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

QEnigma, Sorry for the delay. I need a slot of time to review the assignment and due to two week of rain here, the internet is extremely slow (take about 5 mins to open a web page) and today the weather looks a little better an I hop my internet service provider can fix the problem. Will review the assignment as soon as I can when the ISP has fixed the problem. My apologies. Cassiopeia talk 20:03, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

@Cassiopeia: Hello, thank you for the reply. No need to apologise. Real life and circumstances get in the way. Please let me know when you complete the review. Best regards. QEnigma (talk) 04:27, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

@QEnigma hi, just to inform you that I have no landline Internet today and it looks like my there are some issues/ damages occurred due to the 2 week rain here. ( I am writing this message from my mobile and it is very difficult to review the assignment via mobile). thank you for your patience and I will do the reviewing when my Internet is up. my apologies. Cassiopeia talk 20:25, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

@Cassiopeia: Hello, thank you for the update. I hope you are doing well despite the circumstances. Take your time to review once your resources are restored, and let me know once you complete. Best regards, and stay safe. QEnigma (talk) 07:40, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

QEnigma, My internet came back with weak signal and hopefully it will be better in the next couple days. So I finished the review and pls see comments. Sorry for the delay. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 07:58, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

@Cassiopeia: Replied on the assignment page. Thank you for the review. QEnigma (talk) 12:58, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Dana Whites Contender Series

Hello, the info I added was included in the reference that was already present at the time of the edit, it was referenced correctly, just extended upon what was originally there. JoeyRacing (talk) 02:34, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

JoeyRacing, Good day. Thank you for informing and provide the specific source as you did in the edit summary so I could check. Pls state in the edit summary of your edit every time you edit so other editor would know the nature/reasons of your edits for Wikipedia is a project where editors working together to improve the project. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 04:35, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Kikosubii (13:42, 20 November 2024)

Hlo mentor, I know how to do basic editing of articles. But i need to depth of editing like how to add tables, images in certain format and how to do presentable article? --Kikosubii (talk) 13:42, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

@Kikosubii hi, (1). pls complete the WP:TWA shor program so you would understand the basic Wikipedia guidelines (2) check HELP:Wikitext for adding tables and etc and (3) Read WP:Images for adding images. pls note that you need to be the copyright holder ( the one who took the photos) to upload the images/ photos. Cassiopeia talk 20:46, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Merychippus (17:59, 21 November 2024)

Hello. You are my assigned Wikipedia mentor. I've been working on a draft of a short article — would you be able to give some feedback? --Merychippus (talk) 17:59, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Merychippus Good day and thank you for the question. I believeTHIS is your article which you are working on. First of all, pls note that for a subject to have a page in Wikipedia, the subject needs to pass Wikipedia WP:GNG criteria which means the subject needs to have significant coverage by independent, reliable sources where by the subject is talked about in depth and in length and not merely passing mentioned for verification. Pls read Help:Your first article to understand in more detail on how to write an article and also pls transfer your content to "Draft" space instead of your sub page - see Wikipedia:Drafts. To add inline citation - pls see Template:Cite web and Template:Cite book for sources from the web and books respectively. (note you need to provide the page number for books source). Your source here-1 is just the info of the book which does not support the content of your draft article and your second source - here-2 is only partially state the poem (primary source) - we need secondary reliable source for such both can not be used to contribute to the notability guidelines. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 20:29, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Lazybuffalo on International School of Brussels (17:45, 22 November 2024)

Hello, If an organisation has been flagged for containing promotional content, and the details of the organisation added in the article are detailed and mirror what a brochure might say, outweighing comparable pages in the level of such details, how might I proceed? --Lazybuffalo (talk) 17:45, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Lazybuffalo Good day. Pls provide the article name in the Wikipedia and pls state which paragraph that the content is promotional and in violation of copyright for me to help you. Cassiopeia talk 20:32, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-48

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:39, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #655

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-11-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #654

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: 333Bot - Task(s): Add missing sitelinks to english Wikisource based on their header templates there.
• Closed request for comments: Additional rights for bureaucrats - Closed as successful. Bureaucrats will now be able to remove Admin rights.

Events

• Upcoming
  • 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon - registration is now open
  • Save the date: the Data Reuse Days 2025, an online event focusing on the use of Wikidata's data for tools and applications, will take place in February. You can already propose sessions for the program.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 3 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET (Time zone converter). Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our Series Etherpad to help us prepare relevant materials for you. You only need to fill it out once, no matter how many sessions you plan to attend. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024, at our regular time of 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET. Event page
  • Wikimania 2025 Scholarships are now open! This application is open until Sunday 8th December, 2024

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Why and for what purpose should Wikidata be used in Colombia?
  • Wikidata Workshop 2024: National Library of Latvia
  • Wikidata and the 2024 Open Library Community Celebration
  • Where the data may roam: Bringing Wild West performers to Wikidata. Author Jason Sharp documents their experience adding legendary showman Buffalo Bill to Wikidata.
  • Advancing BHL’s Data for a Sustainable Future: Meet Tiago, Our New Wikimedian-in-Residence The BHL-Wiki Working Group has enrolled a Wikimedian-in-Residence with a focus on Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons.
• Papers
  • Beyond the Library Catalogue: Connecting Library Metadata to Wikidata - examines how integrating Wikidata into libraries enhances resource discoverability, fosters interoperability, and empowers users within a global knowledge network. By Okuonghae, O. (2024).
  • On assessing weaker logical status claims in Wikidata cultural heritage records - approaches to representing weaker logical status (WLS) information in Wikidata, finding limited usage, variations and ambiguities between datasets, and proposes improvements for clarity and accuracy. By Di Pasquale et al.(2024)
• Books: Tiziana Possemato, Entity modeling: la terza generazione della catalogazione: contains many references to the use of Wikidata in cataloguing
• Videos
  • (Portuguese)Wikidata & OpenRefine - Part of the “Introduction to digital platforms for research” sessions for the Centro Luís Krus of NOVA FCSH. Practical exercises for data reconciliation from the Portuguese Early Music Database using the OpenRefine tool.
  • NODES 2024: Using Dbpedia and Wikidata Knowledge Graphs With Neo4j - Cuneyt Tyler presents 'Semantic Space', a project using Dbpedia and Wikidata to enhance the user experience browsing articles on the web.
  • Uploading Images From Public Sites - Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata make great bedfellows. Margaret Donald shows how to create Commons categories, create structured data and link categories to Wikidata.
  • WCNA: LOFESQ Lots of Farmers Empty Silos Quicker: building community through a named entity Wikibase. Experiences of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives setting up the WikiNames Wikibase instance and breaking down knowledge silos
• Podcast series: Decolonizing structured data: a new season of Whose Voices? including "Episode 5 -- Unpacking Wikidata’s possibilities with Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)"
• Other
  • SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions"
  • De Wikidata à Wikibase : Pour une meilleure compréhension de vos données, presentation by John Samuel at Le campus du libre 2024 (Q131312243), Lyon, November 23, 2024.

Tool of the week

• Guess Image from Pronunciation is an Ordia game that uses lexicographic data in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The game challenges players to match the correct image with the audio pronunciation of what the image depicts.
• ABECTO is a tool that compares #RDF data to spot errors and assess completeness. Recent changes to the tool adjust result export for #Wikidata Mismatch Finder to changed format, add reporting of qualifier mismatches to Wikidata Mismatch Finder export, and suppress illegal empty external values in Wikidata Mismatch Finder export (Tweet)
• Wikidata Infernal is an API that allows you to infer new facts from Wikidata. It uses a set of rules to infer new facts from existing ones. The generated statements will have qualifiers to indicate the source and method of the inference. Output is an array of statements in JSON/Wikidata format. (blog)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • picture of this person doing their job (picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits)
  • ISCC (ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing)
• Newest External identifiers: Kultboy editor ID, WikiBaseball ID, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID, ANID Researcher Portal ID, TOPO ID, DBIS Resource ID, ITV News topic ID, Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID, ISFDB editorial collection ID, Great Norwegian Encyclopedia contributor ID, ILEC World Lake Database ID, Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID, El Moudjahid tag ID, SGES monument ID, DEX ’09 entry ID, Electronic Language International Festival person ID, Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID, Paramount+ video ID, Le Club Mediapart blogger ID, Phish.net venue ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • study or design for this work (preliminary work for this finished work)
  • OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services)
  • Open Library Collection (Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics)
  • scientific illustration (an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.)
  • thesis submitted for (academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted)
  • meeting of (subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.))
  • UMC rating (Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC))
  • Non-binary population (number of non-binary people inhabiting the place)
  • role named as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work)
  • bequest income (The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: ISLRN, erail.in railway station identifier, Gallimard author ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Identifiant d'un(e) artiste sur Reg-Arts, Eyrolles author ID, Zvuk album ID, Chtyvo author ID, Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Tournai IDs, EU Corporate body code, SBOID, Waymark code, Radio Algeria tag ID, Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian entry ID, PBY Ben-Yehuda dictionary identifier, ThePWHL.com player ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Map of Swedish municipalities colored by Wikipedia article length (source)
  • Timeline of deaths from disasters in Spain (source)

• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Aargauer Bibliografie - WikiProject for the coordination of data ingests and Wikipedia workshops related to the official bibliography of the Aargau Cantonal Library, operated by Bibliothek und Archiv Aargau (Switzerland)
  • WikiProject Taiwan/Amis - collects information related to the Ami culture, including statistics and activity records.
  • Rwanda - aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc...) relating to Rwanda Rwanda (Q1037)
• Newest database reports: A list of Items with a sitelink to English Wikipedia but without any Statements
• Showcase Items: Cueva de las Manos (Q223385) - cave with cave paintings in Santa Cruz, Argentina
• Showcase Lexemes: bezczelny (L2781) - Polish adjective that can mean "impudent" or "brazen" in English

Development

• Wikidata Query Service: The graph split rules have been updated to now also include Items that contain a statement using "publication type of scholarly work" into the scholarly article graph.
• Wikibase.cloud now allows personal userscripts (phab:T378627)
• EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by label and aliases when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema.(phab:T375641)
• Ontology file: We are updating the Wikibase ontology file. (phab:T371196, phab:T371752)
• Property Suggester: We are updating the suggestions data (phab:T377986 but first need to improve the underlying scripts (phab:T376604)
• Wikibase REST API: We are prototyping the search functionality for the REST API (phab:T379608)
• Revision table: We are continuing the investigation into the size limitations of the table.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Ghana
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Previous issue · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:42, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Alexoguta on Draft:Senator Kenneth Chukwuemeka Eze (05:20, 27 November 2024)

How do I create a reference? --Alexoguta (talk) 05:20, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Alexoguta Good day. Before adding a reference you need to make sure the subject meets Wikipedia notability guidelines which means the subject needs to have signification coverage by independent, reliable sources whereby the sources talk about the subject in depth and in length for verification. I suggest you to read WP:Your first article. To add a inline citation (reference), you can use the horizontal format of Template:Cite we and WP:Cite book if the source is from the web or book respectively. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 05:28, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Help me

Could you please help me, and teach me how to fight against vandalism. MersmanD (talk) 21:19, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

MersmanD Good day and thank you for interested in joining CVUA program. To join the program the editor needs to have at least total main space edit of 250. At the moment you have only 98 - see HERE-1 and secondly the editor needs to be lifted from user account block for 6 months. You have 2 username blocks - see HERE- 2 (understand you didnt know about the Wikipedia guidelines when you started editing). Please come back next year on March 14, 2025 and I will set up the program for you. I am happy that you took TWA program and believe you have already gain some fundamental Wikipedia guidelines. Pop back here if you have any questions or need assistance for I am here to help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 06:45, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ibtissam73 (10:46, 28 November 2024)

Bonjour comment éditer une citation --Ibtissam73 (talk) 10:46, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Ibtissam73 Good day. To add a citation, you can use the "horizontal format" of Template:Cite web or Template:Cite Book if the source is from the web or book respectively. By the way, this is English Wikipedia, so all content added/changed need to be written in English. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 01:10, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red December 2024

Women in Red | December 2024, Vol 10, Issue 12, Nos 293, 294, 324, 325 Online events: New: Women who died in 2024 | Religion Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements from other communities Women in Religion have a monthly virtual edit-a-thon and the next session is December 2nd 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. CST. For Zoom meeting details, contact Dzingle1 or RosPost. Women in Red members are welcome to join the Zoom Meeting here Tip of the month: Think of rewarding contributors, especially newcomers, with a barnstar. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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Question from Merychippus (08:25, 30 November 2024)

Hello. Thank you for your response to my earlier request. I have moved the in-progress page to draft space here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:The_Names_of_a_Hare (please let me know if I made any mistake with that)

As for your comments about notability, I want to point out the citation I included to the 1935 article by Alan Ross, which contains extensive discussion of the language used in the poem. I did find a copy online, but as it was a scanned copy on someone's personal web site, I guessed that it wouldn't be appropriate to link directly to that. Do you agree? In any case I was able to confirm the contents by requesting a copy from my local library.

Similarly, I found a second scholarly article responding to the 1935 one and disputing a few points of textual interpretation, but without including some very specific etymologies in the draft article itself, I didn't see a good way to cite it. Do you think there's any value in adding it as an additional reference just to provide further reading? --Merychippus (talk) 08:25, 30 November 2024 (UTC)