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Wikidata weekly summary #132

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Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Lydia, Magnus and Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the ODI award gala

This Month in GLAM: October 2014



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Wikidata weekly summary #133

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page.
    • GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Help make sure these items have labels in your language
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
    • Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
    • Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage)
    • Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
    • Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance.
    • Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
    • Improved calendar model display
  • Monthly Tasks

Template:RFC list footer has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. G. C. Hood (talk) 16:34, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #134

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

Maine team

I really do not know where else to pose this question: How does one become a member of the Maine team?Mackenzie Andersen (talk) 23:17, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

I responded here. Harej (talk) 23:37, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Question about GLAM project Library of Congress

Hi Harej, I hope this message finds you well. I am doing research on Wikimedia programs, and I was wondering if you have some information on Library of Congress GLAM project. Do you know when it started? Is it over or not yet? Any contact information you may have could be super useful. Thank you, MCruz (WMF) (talk) 19:43, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Maria, as far as I can tell this WikiProject has no official connection to the Library of Congress. Harej (talk) 23:52, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, Harej! MCruz (WMF) (talk) 21:35, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Thursday December 4: NYC Wiki-Salon and Skill Share

Thursday December 4: NYC Wiki-Salon and Skill Share

You are invited to join the the Wikimedia NYC community for our upcoming wiki-salon and knowledge-sharing workshop in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.

6:30pm–8pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street

Afterwards at 8pm, we'll walk to a social wiki-dinner together at a neighborhood restaurant (to be decided).

We hope to see you there!--Pharos (talk) 07:11, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #135

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

Esperanza

I see you were the last to block Wikipedia:Esperanza. I don't see it as a page that needs full protection anymore - for that matter, it probably doesn't need any protection at all. I'd say it's time to unprotect. BTW, I'm not planning on changing anything, it's just the principle of it. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 15:19, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Oiyarbepsy, I have unprotected Wikipedia:Esperanza. Harej (talk) 15:53, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

End-of-the-year meetups

Hello,

You're invited to the end-of-the-year meetup at Busboys and Poets on Sunday, December 14 at 6 PM. There is Wi-Fi, so bring your computer if you want!

You are also invited to our WikiSalon on Thursday, December 18 at 7 PM.

Hope to see you at our upcoming events!

Best,

James Hare

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Wikidata weekly summary #136

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Blogs/Press
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
    • Statements on properties are now live
    • Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
    • The Game has a new mode: alma mater
    • Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
    • Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
    • English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Started work on units
    • More work on evaluating options for querying
    • Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
    • Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
    • Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
    • Work on improved label lookup performance
    • Wrapping up work on usage tracking
  • Monthly Tasks

Bevo Mill article

Hi, I don't know how to use this (an old man here). The above article needs work on one sentence. "Cities" should be "city's", and the claim made in the statement is illogical (can't ne declining and holding even simultaneously).

I saw your name on wiki projects St Louis and after failing to fix this there thought is aend directly to you. Here is the sentence from the bevo mill main article: "The growth of immigrants in Saint Louis has kept the cities declining population at an even level.[3]"

Hi there Tedmarx38! Editing is pretty simple, especially just for grammatical changes. You can just hit the edit button, make the change, and hit save. In any case, I took a look at the sentence and re-casted it to: "The growth of the immigrant population in Saint Louis has helped stem the decline in the city's population." Better? Harej (talk) 01:44, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia genealogy project

Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. ---Another Believer (Talk) 17:38, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2014



Headlines
  • Australia and New Zealand report: ALIA partnership goes countrywide
  • Belgium report: Workshops for collection holders across Europe; Founding event of Wikimedia Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg; Plantin-Moretus Museum; Edit-a-thon at faculty library in Ghent University; Image donation UGentMemorie; Upcoming activities
  • France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; mass upload; Musée de Bretagne
  • Germany report: Facts, fun and free content
  • Ireland report: Ada Lovelace day in Dublin
  • Italy report: National Library Conference; Wiki Loves Monuments; Archaeological Open Data; BEIC
  • Netherlands report: Video challenge; Wikidata workshop and hackathon; Wikipedia courses in libraries; WWII editathon
  • Norway report: Edit-a-thon far north at the Museum of Nordland (Nordlandsmuseet)
  • Spain report: Picasso, first Galipedia edit-a-thon, course in Biblioteca Reina Sofía and free portraits
  • South Africa report: Wiki Loves GLAMs, Cape Town
  • Sweden report: Use, reuse and contributions back and forth
  • UK report: Medals, maps and multilingual marvels
  • Special story: ORCID identifiers
  • Open Access report: Open proposal: Wikidata for Research; Open Access signalling
  • Tool testing report: Tools for references, images, video, file usage; Popular Pages
  • Calendar: December's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #137

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Wikidata weekly summary #138

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

Policy book

Hi James,

I like the new look of the policy list: good work! Your ultimate goals are also very sensible, and address something that people love to criticize without having any idea about how to fix, so more power to you! --Slashme (talk) 09:41, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Slashme! I look forward to seeing what we can do to cut down on instruction creep and make our rules more understandable for beginners. One of the things I find is that we love expounding at length about why we have our rules, which is valuable institutional knowledge but it does not really help make our rules clear to others. I'm encouraged by the Wikimedia Foundation Trademark Policy, which does a better job of laying out the rules than our paragraphs of text ever will. We should be doing more things like that. Harej (talk) 18:25, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Seasonal Greets!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!!

Hello Harej, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2015.
Happy editing,
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:01, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

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Need help moving an article

Hi Harej! I picked your name out of the blue. I've written a few articles in the last few years, even renamed a few, but I have just come to know of the proper way of renaming articles. The other day, I pasted the contents of "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbhajan_Singh_Yogi" (HSY) onto a new site I created: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbhajan_Singh_Khalsa." (HSK) That did not end up working and I have since come to know of the "move page" tab at the top of each article, but now I cannot move the article from HSY to HSK because I receive the message that "a page by that name already exists" although in fact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbhajan_Singh_Khalsa does exist not any more.

The reason I want to change the name of the page is because the subject's legal name is Harbhajan Singh Khalsa, not Harbhajan Singh Yogi. It has been Harbhajan Singh Khalsa since 1976, when he dropped his caste-identifying last name of "Puri" and replaced it with the casteless "Khalsa." So Harbhajan Singh Khalsa is his proper and legal name. Moreover, in the Punjabi culture where from Harbhajan Singh originates, "Yogi" can be considered a pejorative term, making it even more inappropriate to use the word in his name. In western culture, "Yogi" carries no such negative connotation, in fact 99% of people who know and recognize Harbhajan Singh Khalsa as "Yogi Bhajan," which long ago was the title of this article, but that is not his legal name.

Would you kindly help me change the name of "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbhajan_Singh_Yogi" to "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbhajan_Singh_Khalsa"?

Thanks for considering. Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa (talk) 06:02, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, Harej!

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