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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 2

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Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019

Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019

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Everything flows (and certainly data does)

Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?).

Amazon Echo device using the Amazon Alexa service in voice search showdown with the Google rival on an Android phone

Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making.

Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness.

There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.

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Thank you

February 2019
The Hidden Valley, Negev
... with thanks from QAI

... for the nice message on my talk. I replied there, but this is for you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Want to become a member of the cabal of the outcasts, perhaps? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:55, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

You are serving the cabal well! Would you mind becoming an official member, being its messenger? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:06, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Gerda Arendt, joined... What does being its messenger entail? Eddie891 Talk Work 14:11, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
What you do, spreading appreciation of quality work. Thanks for joining, so nice to see the percentage of the blocked and banned among the members (see the "despised" corner of my talk) go down ;) - It was founded in 2012 in opposition (to a TFA dictatorship), but now (that TFA is handled in a much more transparent and almost democratic way) became more general. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:15, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Can't believe nobody gave Precious to you yet! (Too many Ed and the like, sorry.) Which day would you like? Next available, or a special date? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:23, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Gerda Arendt, I already got it on 3 May! thanks for the offer though :-) Eddie891 Talk Work 14:27, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Can't type, not even in the search field. Relief! - Im busy with an article dedicated to a friend who died, DYK? I want to nominate it for GA and translate to German now. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:32, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2019)

A typical Finnish school meal lunch, served free of charge to all pupils.
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An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status
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Thank you

That was a very nice message you left on my talk page. I'm glad to see some people appreciate the work that was put into this project.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 19:04, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

toggle ref check

Hello, just a note to say that User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck has been update to add the option to toggle it on or off.

The installed script will add a tab to the drop-down tab at the top, located between the 'watchlist star' and the search box (using the vector.js skin). The tab toggles between "Hide ref check" and "Show ref check" with displaying the errors as the default option. You may need to edit Special:MyPage/common.js and change User:Lingzhi/reviewsourcecheck to User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck (add the "2" after User:Lingzhi). Please do drop me a line if you have any problems or suggestions. Tks. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 15:53, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Lingzhi2, Good to know... Your script has been immensely helpful to me -- Eddie891 Talk Work 15:55, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
I'm very happy that it has helped you. Always open for suggestions.. tks! ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 15:56, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
  • Sorry to bother you again. After the addition of a toggle option in the tab atop the page, one editor requested a revised version in which the toggle link appears in the "Tools" section of the page's left sidebar. So now there are two versions of this tool. If you prefer the links in the Toolbar section on the side, the slightly altered script is named User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck-sb.js (just add "-sb" before the ".js"). Finally, both versions should now also store the page state (whether reference errors/warnings are "hidden" or "shown"). The state persists between page loads and between the browser closing and reopening (unless cleared by the user, for example by deleting data in your browser's cache etc.). Huge thanks to User:Evad37 for much coding help. If you have any questions or problems, please drop me a line. Thanks again. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 08:21, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
    Lingzhi2, Evad37: Thanks for all the work you do! Eddie891 Talk Work 19:13, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

A page you started (Mary Margaret Francis) has been reviewed!

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Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative!

Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative!

Hi Eddie891, Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative with your signature! Maybe you know another Wikipedian who'd like to sign as well? :-) --Gnom (talk) 09:11, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CLIV, February 2019

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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2019)

Pondicherry is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry.
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List of named storms (A) moved to draftspace

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Thanks for the review

The Wikiproject Nevada Barnstar
For taking the time to review the article Groom Mine, to elevate it to good article status, I present to you this barnstar. RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 00:14, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

List of named storms moved to draftspace

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CASSIOPEIA, See List of Latin terms, articles like that one function as though they are disambigs Eddie891 Talk Work 14:51, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi Eddie891 - Greetings to you. Pls note stand alone list need to be supported by source just like normal article - see Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists. Do note also note WP:OTHERSTUFFEXIST for articles should not be in Wikipedia as volunteers have not come around to work on them. Since the lists in your article in your draft have pages in Wikipedia, it is very easy to find sources to support the claimed. Ping me when you have added the sources and I will review and get it publish for you. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 22:46, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
CASSIOPEIA, sources added Eddie891 Talk Work 20:33, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi Eddie891 - Thank you for informing. Reviewed. Article in main space. Thank you for your contribution. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 01:18, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2019)

Mixian rice noodles being cooked on a gas stove at a noodle restaurant in Kunming, Yunnan, China
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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2019)

A cheeseburger at a restaurant
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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

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What is a systematic review?

Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources.

PRISMA flow diagram for a systematic review

Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help?

File:Schittny, Facing East, 2011, Legacy Projects.jpg
2011 photograph by Bernard Schittny of the "Legacy Projects" group

Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen.

Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 3

we thank you

February
The Hidden Valley, Negev
... with thanks from QAI

Thank you for article improvements in February, and passing Precious! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:34, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt, And thank you for all you do! Eddie891 Talk Work 22:09, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Mary Margaret Francis

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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2019)

Wanted posters in Japan, 2004
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Wanted poster

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The Bugle: Issue CLV, March 2019

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DYK for Mary Margaret Francis

On 11 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mary Margaret Francis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Mary Margaret Francis told Graham Lord that her husband, Dick Francis, "would like me to have all the credit" for his novels? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Margaret Francis. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Mary Margaret Francis), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2019)

Zippers with common teeth variations: metal teeth (top), coil teeth and plastic teeth
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Zipper

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NPR Newsletter No.17

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News
Discussions of interest
  • Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
  • {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
  • A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
  • There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.
Reminders
  • NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.
NPP Tools Report
  • Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
  • copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
  • The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2019)

Many of the internal organs of the human body
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Organ (anatomy)

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Response for SignPost

Hi Eddie,

The Administrative Noticeboard quickly opened a thread on this and two admins did a deep dive into the allegations. [12] Rather than respond at length myself, I'll let the admin, User: Swarm, who did most of the investigation respond for me (the highlight is: "This article seems to be little more than an unfortunate piece of trumped-up clickbaity garbage."):

"BC1278 is alleged to be a serial POV-pusher and professional whitewasher, who games the system to get his edits through with a combination of relentless bludgeoning and canvassing. That's extremely alarming and I was ready to crucify this guy. I was even pissed to see the lighthearted reactions above. But, when you actually examine the article, I'm not seeing any violations. In fact, I'm not really seeing anything of major concern. The article itself seems to quietly concede that he doesn't actually violate any policies. In fact, it comes across as extremely misleading and obviously written by someone who doesn't understand Wikipedia at all. He "spent over a year lobbying" for the creation of Caryn Marooney? Come on, he created it as a draft and got it approved through the AfC process, not because he's some relentless lobbyist. Relentless bludgeoning, based on this? Really? He's literally just discussing something in the discussion section, because he was refraining from !voting. Obviously the writer has never witnessed true bludgeoning. Canvassing? The supposed incidents of "canvassing" are usually explained as simply being notifications to relevant users who are involved in some way, such as WikiProject members. I have not seen any refutations of that point. I mean, one of the warnings cited was literally for notifying the only other contributor to an article about a deletion discussion.[30] There's nothing even particularly unreasonable about that. Most of the supposed "whitewashing" seems to be mundane matters that don't harm articles at all, if not actual improvements, like making articles better comply with BLP. "It almost always works"? Uh, yeah, if you're in compliance with policies and are making reasonable requests that are being vetted by established editors who decide to approve them, then good for you, you're not terrible at what you do. It certainly isn't because the community has no problem with paid COI editors, on the contrary, they're among the most stigmatized editors within the community. This article seems to be little more than an unfortunate piece of trumped-up clickbaity garbage, and I actually feel bad for the paid editor here. I hope both the editor and the Foundation will push back in some way. If COIN wants to do an in-depth investigation of this editor, that's perhaps a reasonable reaction, but based solely on the allegations and supporting evidence presented in the article, which, I assume was the worst they could find, there's nothing actionable there."

The other investigating admin concurs, though he wishes I were more concise. I think the entire admin thread is very informative. The thread also has an extended reply as to my practices in my own words. Feel free to use it. I'll say that as I go through the HuffPo article example-by-example for my extended letter of response to them, I am more perturbed than ever by the level of intentional deception, sensationalism, ignorance of Wikipedia, and very disturbingly to me, failure to practice the basic practices of investigative journalism (such as letting the subject of accusations respond to them specifically - before you run your article; or using and quoting actual experts to analyze difficult and controversial material.) The reporter, Ashley Feinberg, did her formative training at Gawker, famous for smearing people without allowing them to respond. Ms. Feinberg did not ask or email me about any specific proposed edit I ever made on Wikipedia. When she contacted me, I asked her if she had any seen any problems with anything I had done. She lied and said “no.” Had she asked me, I would have taken the time to talk her through her allegations one at a time.

It took me five years to build confidence with some of the world's leading companies to trust me that it was in their best interest to always disclose a COI and always to make proposals only on a Talk page (whether they hired me or not.) I hope the Wikimedia Foundation will do as User:Swarm suggests and take some action of support here to stand up for the policy of COI disclosures, or this bit of digital yellow journalism will force many thousands of organizations and individuals back into the "black hat" undisclosed-paid-editor or undisclosed-COI-editing closet.BC1278 (talk) 03:04, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

BC1278, Thank you! Eddie891 Talk Work 12:14, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

19:44, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

FR30799386's User Scripts

Dear all. Recently, FR30799386 (talk) was blocked for sock puppetry. Among their projects were a number of user scripts that they left behind. I (DannyS712) have copied the scripts, and have taken over maintaining them. You currently import one or more of FR30799386's scripts, and I thought that you might want to import a maintained version. Links to each script are provided below.

If you have any questions, please reach out and talk to me. --DannyS712 (talk) 03:57, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you ...

March
... with thanks from QAI

... for improving article quality in March and passing Precious - click on "March" for travel pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:34, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2019)

Lady Gaga playing a keytar, which is a type of keyboard instrument
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Keyboard instrument

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Peer review of [New Albion]

Hello Eddie891. I have requested a peer review of New Albion which you may find HERE. I found your name on the volunteer list of reviewers and also saw that you have inspected this article in the past. So, I request, if you are so able, to review the article again. I have made many changes in the article, particularly with the citations. I have also altered images and some text. I am uncertain regarding the introduction and believe it may be too detailed, perhaps an insufficient summary. I also question my inclusion of the 1658 map by Nicolaes Visscher I. I included it at the expense of another image, one which depicts the careening of a ship. That version may be view HERE. I am believing that the Visscher map is unnecessary the the careening image valuable. However, I would like advice regarding their inclusion. I also read on your talk page that you have experience with featured articles, so I even more so look forward to your advice and thoughts. As the Military Project also is listed for peer review assistance, I also asked them for help. Kind regards, Hu Nhu (talk) 02:44, 27 March 2019 (UTC)