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The Signpost: 29 January 2014

• Traffic report: Six strikes out

• WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests

• News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions

• Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion

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Wikidata weekly summary #96

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over the naming of people
  • Discussion over population
  • Successful RfA: Sjoerddebruin
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • See the office hours logs at meta
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • See the FOSDEM slides
  • Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
• Development
  • More work on badges by Bene*
  • Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
  • Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
  • Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
  • Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
  • Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 22:37, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 February 2014

• In the media: WikiVIP; Art Feminism; Medical articles; PR manipulation; Azerbaijani Wikipedia

• Technology report: Left with no choice

• News and notes: WMF bites the bullet on affiliation and FDC funding, elevates Wikimedia user groups

• Featured content: Space selfie

• Traffic report: Sports Day

• WikiProject report: Game Time in Russia

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Administrative subcategories populated automatically

October 2009 you created the page Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories, for a subcategory of Wikipedia soft redirected categories. Do you know how such a category is established--that is, how its automatic population is arranged? If not, do you know where to go to read about it?

Today at Wikipedia talk:Categorization#Container categories, I mentioned the possibility for Category:Wikipedia non-empty container categories and observed that I don't know where one should go for assistance. I don't know that we want such an administrative subcategory of Container categories to be established; that would be premature now.

--P64 (talk) 00:17, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) All of the subcategories of Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories have {{Category redirect}} at the top, and that template contains the following code outside of the {{cmbox}} and {{category other}}:

{{category handler
|all = {{#ifexpr:{{PAGESINCATEGORY:{{PAGENAME}}|R}}
 |[[Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories]]
}}<includeonly>[[Category:Wikipedia soft redirected categories]]</includeonly>
|nocat={{{nocat|}}}
}}

Something similar would need to be added to {{Container category}}. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:13, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #97

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

• Discussions
  • Let's redesign Wikidata's interface
• Reasonator
  • By hovering over a wikilink you will see the first paragraph.
  • The "personal settings" allow you to import your Babel info from Wikidata. This can be used to restrict the random items you will get.
  • The first iteration of "on the fly" text generation for English. It works for "humans" and, is completely based on the available Wikidata information.
  • You can now add labels in your language from within Reasonator. Technically oAuth is used. It now takes just one click to add a label in your language.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: IAAF ID, Lagrangian point
  • Showcase items: Vesta (Q3030)
• Development
  • Wrote performance tests so we can track performance improvements better
  • Did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default in Wikidata. Found and fixed a performance bottleneck.
  • Work on making the interface more responsive, e. g. live preview when editing labels and updating the watchlist star when saving.
  • Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
  • Fixed an issue with OAuth on Wikidata because of permissions
  • Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
  • Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
  • Did a technical debt analysis and design review of Wikibase.git, with initial focus on WikibaseLib
  • Got (backend) EntityStore on the way, so we can test API modules without touching the database
  • Further work on TimeParsers move to the backend
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 13:24, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Bolognia 2

Template:Bolognia 2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Magioladitis (talk) 23:09, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

• This template provided full references to the seminal work on dermatology by the provision of a simple page number.
• It was created to assist the Dermatology Task Force with a massive updating of the dermatology coverage of Wikipedia.
• "References should not use templates." is simply wrong.
• "Not used" is also a poor argument, though one we regularly invoke.
• I would be grateful if someone could userify this template.

All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 17:38, 18 February 2014 (UTC).

 Done, now at User:Rich Farmbrough/Template:Bolognia 2 and User:Rich Farmbrough/Template:Bolognia 2/doc. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:57, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Many thanks, can you please also do the sub-templates listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/Plastikspork&offset=20140211150002&limit=5&type=&user=Plastikspork ? All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 20:22, 18 February 2014 (UTC).

Sorry, didn't know about those... checking for subpages only finds non-deleted pages, and finding the /doc first time was an educated guess.  Done see Special:PrefixIndex/User:Rich Farmbrough/Template:Bolognia 2. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:38, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Smashing, thanks. All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 12:06, 19 February 2014 (UTC).

User:IWPCHI

Someone should kindly point out to this account (The Independent Workers Party of Chicago) that per WP:ISU they should create individual personal accounts. All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 23:52, 20 February 2014 (UTC).

Hello

Just wanted to say hi. We haven't always seen eye to eye on everything on WP but that's neither here nor there. It's all good. I was just floating around on WP and (re-)discovered that you got tossed for year, for what exactly? That was sadistic. Anyway just wanted to say hello and hope you aren't totally discouraged by that. Your good works are appreciated at WP. Carrite (talk) 02:24, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Centred gallery

Template:Centred gallery has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 07:57, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 February 2014

• News and notes: Foundation takes aim at undisclosed paid editing; Greek Wikipedia editor faces down legal challenge

• Technology report: ULS Comeback

• WikiProject report: Countering Systemic Bias

• Featured content: Holotype

• Traffic report: Chilly Valentines

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Wikidata weekly summary #98

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

• Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource will receive access to the data in Wikidata on February 25th. Planning is taking place at d:Wikidata:Wikisource.
  • 1 week left to give initial input for the user interface redesign
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: impact factor, Municipality code (Denmark), USB ID, Home world, Cardinality of the group, Internet media type, Bluebook abbreviation, Z39.5 abbreviation, ISO 4 abbreviation, CODEN, landing site, US Congress Bio identifier, Scopus Source ID, Scopus Affiliation ID, Scopus EID, Scopus Author ID, IPTC Media Topic, topic's main portal, Regensburg Classification, Library of Congress Classification, neutron number
  • Fun Fact: Wikidata has reached 30 million statements
• Development
  • Refactored the suggestions drop-downs when entering properties for better performance
  • Fixed a misdirected arrow in left-to-right languages (bugzilla:61308)
  • Worked on an Apache redirect issue (bugzilla:54273)
  • Found and started fixing an issue that asked users for additional languages they don't want according to their Babel box (bugzilla:61446)
  • Table-of-contents link to the statements section of an item was broken
  • Kept poking TimeParsers
  • Made WikibaseDatabase feature complete for use with WikibaseQueryEngine
  • Work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
  • Investigate using ElasticSearch as term index backend to take some load of the most-used database table
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help develop the next summary here!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher 13:58, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Correction required

The entry on Hugh Macdonald, the New Zealand filmmaker, has his name as Hugh MacDonald. This should be corrected if possible. Eltosso (talk) 11:57, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Eltosso: Although the article was created by Rich Farmbrough, he has not edited it since then. Please note that this user talk page is not the best venue; I suggest that you raise the matter on the talk page for the article itself, i.e. at Talk:Hugh MacDonald (filmmaker). Per WP:BLP, you will need to provide reliable sources to support your point. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:48, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject naming conventions

OK, this is one that is unlikely to be resolved, but here are my thoughts for what they are worth. I agree that the template names should follow the project names, as you know. The project names should be consistent with each other, and ideally with WP naming conventions. (Personally I don't like "WikiProject" we shouldn't use camel case, attempting to change this would be a forlorn hope.)

As to the projects' names there are maybe four reasonable ways to look at them, which would give three different standards.

1. WikiProject is part of the name and the name is a proper noun.
2. WikiProject is not part of the name and the name is a proper noun.
3. WikiProject is part of the name and the name is not a proper noun.
4. WikiProject is not part of the name and the name is not a proper noun.

Of course any embedded proper noun will be capitalised - Canadian, Arena Football League, etc..

1 and 2 produce the same up-style 3 and 4 are different down-styles. 3 seems to fit with usage better, though a full comparison would be more convincing the following sample picked off one of the project pages supports this.

This table shows which of the names is consistent with each of the style

Name	Style 1 and 2	Style 3	Style 4
WikiProject American football	N	Y	Y
WikiProject Sports	Y	Y	N
WikiProject National Football League	Y	Y	Y
WikiProject Canadian football	N	Y	Y
WikiProject Arena Football League	Y	Y	Y
WikiProject College Basketball	Y	N	N
WikiProject College baseball	N	Y	N
WikiProject Football (soccer)	N	Y	Y
WikiProject Rugby union	N	Y	N
WikiProject Rugby league	N	Y	N
WikiProject Australian rules football	N	Y	Y
WikiProject Marching band	N	Y	Y
WikiProject Universities	Y	Y	N

Thus we see that Style 3 is consistent with all 13 apart from College Basketball, and (again apart from College Basketball) the other standards may be considered to apply only by happenstance - that is it is impossible to infer that standard 1/2 or standard 4 was intended.

All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 17:06, 24 February 2014 (UTC).

Water consumption

We discuss the level of human water consumption at

• Water#For drinking
• Fluid balance
• Drinking water#Requirements

Our coverage is not clear, somewhat contradictory, and the referencing should ideally be to the level of WP:MEDRS.

We have been quoted by the "Wikipedia Shop" - According to Wikipedia, the average human needs at least 2-3 liters of water per day to stay healthy. it is a shame that clarity and as far as possible correctness cannot be our stock in trade in this matter as it is in most others.

All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 21:32, 24 February 2014 (UTC).

The Signpost: 26 February 2014

• Forum: Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?

• Featured content: Odin salutes you

• WikiProject report: Racking brains with neuroscience

• Special report: Diary of a protester: Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest

• News and notes: Wikimedia chapters and communities challenge Commons' URAA policy

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