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Wikibreak

I am on an educational wikibreak until 15 Feb 2013. I will be checking my emails during this time. --Guerillero | My Talk 01:42, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

I hope yours goes better than mine has been. I... erm... seem to still be here. Sven Manguard Wha? 06:55, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
It seems to be going well. The real world is distracting enough. Guerillero | My Talk 17:20, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
The what? Sven Manguard Wha? 17:31, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Request for Course Instructor Right Evaluation

Hello! I've noticed that you do a lot of work for the Wikipedia US Education Program, and I recently (very recently, so I'm being rather impatient) requested rights as an instructor to assist my professor in some curricula that she's looking at implementing (I get a feeling that a lot of your instructors are actually assistants like myself, but I'm thrilled to be a part of the project). I noticed on your talk page that you're taking a vacation, and I hope that it's going very well. When you get back or have a moment to look at my request, I'd really appreciate if you could give your input and/or process it at WP:ENB#Request_for_course_instructor_right:_Jackson_Peebles_.28talk.29! Thanks so much! --Jackson Peebles (talk) 05:59, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

I am away to concentrate on my school work. I hope that someone on the Wikipedia:Education noticeboard and help you. Guerillero | My Talk 17:17, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #43

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia ([1] [2] [3])
    • 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
    • Selenium tests for references
    • Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
    • Worked on puppet
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Open Tasks for You
    • Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
    • Hack on one of these
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The Signpost: 04 February 2013

Thanks, man!

Thanks for proving my point, man! I recommend you to run for the committee again the next year. I am sure you'd make a great arbitrator. 67.169.10.90 (talk) 15:30, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Your welcome. I may run again, I am not sure of my plans. --Guerillero | My Talk 17:32, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #44

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • 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
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • FOSDEM
    • upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Open Tasks for You
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Hello

The Friendship Barnstar
Nice to meet you. The future of Editor of the Week depends on nominations. You seem to be a Wiki wanderer. I would imagine that you run across potential candidates here and there. Please keep EotW in mind. ```Buster Seven Talk 18:26, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

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Now that I'm back, I think it's damn well time we relaunched this. After all, it's an important part of any encyclopedia that means to depict music. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:34, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

I think technology has progressed enough in the past year to make this boat float. I'm in as long as we keep this entirely onwiki. --Guerillero | My Talk 04:58, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 February 2013

I really, really wish you'd delete your comments there. I honestly think it's better to get this resumed before we start making changes; once we have people, we can sort out criteria changes easily, but we're not going to get that if we keep the project dead. The project needs to show some life if anyone's going to pay attention to it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:22, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Notice of discussiont to revamp WP:FS

As a formerly active discussant at WT:FSC, I would like to call your attention to Wikipedia talk:Featured sound candidates#Proposal to revamp FS.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:09, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #45

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 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
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
    • Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
    • Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
    • 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)
      • Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
      • 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
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    • Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
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  • Open Tasks for You
  • Help expand en:Wikipedia:Wikidata
  • Help expand and translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
  • Hack on one these
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The Signpost: 18 February 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #46

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DC happy hour on Thursday, February 28!

Please join Wikimedia DC for Happy Hour at the Capitol City Brewery at Metro Center on Thursday, February 28 at 6 p.m. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 34. Hope to see you there! Harej (talk) 02:17, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven (special Birthday recap)

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Average retention (weeks with at least 1 edit) 5.02 weeks 8.57 weeks 1.7x retention
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Mass Amateurization Advice?

Hi Guerillero. Thanks for taking the time to volunteer as online ambassador for our course. We are planning to move our article on Mass Amateurization to the main Wikipedia space within the next week. Do you have time to take a quick look at it and give us some feedback? Primarily, we want to make sure that our article doesn't have any glaring formatting or phrasing issues.Here's a link to my Sandbox where the article exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SCTT/sandbox SCTT (talk) 20:54, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 February 2013

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16:36, 26 February 2013 (UTC)