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Museum hacks and museum edits

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Hello there!

Upcoming events:

  • February 6–8: The third annual ArtBytes Hackathon at the Walters Art Museum! This year Wikimedia DC is partnering with the Walters for a hack-a-thon at the intersection of art and technology, and I would like to see Wikimedia well represented.
  • February 11: The monthly WikiSalon, same place as usual. RSVP on Meetup or just show up!
  • February 15: Wiki Loves Small Museums in Ocean City. Mary Mark Ockerbloom, with support from Wikimedia DC, will be leading a workshop at the Small Museum Association Conference on how they can contribute to Wikipedia. Tons of representatives from GLAM institutions will be present, and we are looking for volunteers. If you would like to help out, check out "Information for Volunteers".

I am also pleased to announce events for Wikimedia DC Black History Month with Howard University and NPR. Details on those events soon.

If you have any questions or have any requests, please email me at james.hare@wikimediadc.org.

See you there! – James Hare

(To unsubscribe, remove your username here.) 03:11, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #143

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

Nomination of Laura Lam for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Laura Lam is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laura Lam until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Gbawden (talk) 06:50, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 04 February 2015

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About your (non)participation in the January 2012 SOPA vote

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Hi. I am Piotr Konieczny (User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian, and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 19:17, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your time! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:25, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #144

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Events/Blogs/Press
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Did more work on Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
    • Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
    • Further work on header section redesign
    • Tweaks to the sitelink section
    • Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
    • Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
    • Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes
    • Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (phabricator:T76213)
  • Monthly Tasks
    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
    • Help develop the next summary here!
    • Contribute to a Showcase item
    • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Wikimedia DC celebrates Black History Month, and more!

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Hello again!

Not even a week ago I sent out a message talking about upcoming events in DC. Guess what? There are more events coming up in February.

First, as a reminder, there is a WikiSalon on February 11 (RSVP here or just show up) and Wiki Loves Small Museums at the Small Museum Association Conference on February 15 (more information here).

Now, I am very pleased to announce:

There is going to be a lot going on, and I hope you can come to some of the events!

If you have any questions or need any special accommodations, please let me know.


Regards,

James Hare


(To unsubscribe, remove your username here.) 18:20, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Steven Kukuna Kari

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The article Steven Kukuna Kari has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. JBH (talk) 23:28, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Communist government (disambiguation) listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Communist government (disambiguation). Since you had some involvement with the Communist government (disambiguation) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Mr. Guye (talk) 02:07, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 11 February 2015

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WP:Co-op news for December 2014 – Feburary 2015

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Hey Rich Farmbrough/Archive, it's been a while. The Co-op team has been hard at work during over the winter, so let's get right into what's been happening:

Landing page draft. You know it's a draft when you need to squint at the logo, ha ha.
  • Graphic design work is nearing completion and development work is coming along slowly but surely. The main components of the space, profiles, the landing page, and the mentor landing page have all been built, and we're basically just putting the pieces together. We have close-to-final draft of the landing page, which is currently at User:Slalani/Landing_page, and in the thumbnail to the right. You can check out other components over at User:Slalani if you're curious. Soni, Slalani, and I are working together on some of the front page elements. We've also been doing some testing on test.wikipedia.org for profile building and matching. If you're curious about checking that out, let me know.
  • We've finished up a survey for newer editors to assess their experiences of using existing help spaces (e.g. Reference Desk, Teahouse, IRC, The Wikipedia Adventure) on en.wikipedia. Gabrielm199 is putting together a summary of that survey, and in the meantime, some findings from that survey of 45 newer editors include:
    • On average, editors found contributing to Wikipedia to be easier after using the help space compared to before.
      • However, after using one or more help spaces, only half of editors reported that editing, addressing social challenges, and resolving technical issues were easy or very easy. The other half of editors were either neutral, or reported that these matters were difficult or very difficult.
    • Just under 30% (11 of 38 editors) of newer editors said they probably would have stopped editing entirely had they not received support from the help space they used.
    • Editors frequently reported either 1) that they would not have been learn what they needed without the help space, or 2) That they could have found it, but admitted that it would have been difficult or taken much longer.
  • We will be making one final move of the pilot start date to March 4th, 2015. This is the last move (I promise), because we can't afford to run the pilot any later than that. So there it is: March 4th or bust! But we won't bust, because there are just a few things left on our plate before we can run our pilot successfully. I'll be alerting you about when you will be able to make mentor profiles soon, so when you get a message about that, please take a minute or two to create your profile here (otherwise, you won't get matched to any editors!).

Thanks to all of the new mentors who have joined over the past few months. Big thanks to Missvain to posting about our little project here to the gendergap-l mailing list. I, JethroBT drop me a line 00:47, 13 February 2015 (UTC) on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.[reply]

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Valentine Greets!!!

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Valentine Greets!!!

Hello Rich Farmbrough, love is the language of hearts and is the feeling that joins two souls and brings two hearts together in a bond. Taking love to the level of Wikipedia, spread the WikiLove by wishing each other Happy Valentine's Day, 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 love on the eve,
Happy editing,
 - T H (here I am) 12:12, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the love by adding {{subst:Valentine Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Nomination of Patrick Pasculli for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Patrick Pasculli is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patrick Pasculli until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:24, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #145

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Blogs/Press
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Spiffy new project building on top of Wikidata: inventaire.io. Check out this example entry!
    • You will now see when a language fallback for a label is used on an item or property. The language name will be shown next to it.
    • Automatic descriptions for Wikidata items by Magnus
    • The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc) to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to be getting close.
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • <3
    • We are hiring! Passionate about Wikidata and know your way around Java Script and co? Apply!
    • We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move queries forward in Berlin
    • Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering. This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia infoboxes.
    • Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only)
    • Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code with the parser functions
    • Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding the actual input and not very useful there
    • Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data
    • Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install Wikibase
    • Fixed icinga notification that tests if dispatch lag gets high
    • Investigated several issues regarding storage of time values and started fixing them
    • Fixed editing of qualifiers
    • Fixed most browser tests after introduction of new header design
  • Monthly Tasks
    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
    • Help develop the next summary here!
    • Contribute to a Showcase item
    • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Sanjay Singh

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Hi Rich, your recent userfication at Sanjay Singh seems to have missed the elephant in the room, which was the sanitising that the user did immediately prior to adding their information. Did you miss this or was it for some deliberate reason that you did not restore that material? See [1]. It might need tweaking for BLP but it certainly seems to be valid. - Sitush (talk) 19:35, 15 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's next on the list. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:37, 15 February 2015 (UTC).
Great, thanks. - Sitush (talk) 00:51, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 18 February 2015

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DYK for Whittington's Longhouse

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #146

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

Presentation proposal for Wikimania 2015

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How to pick up more women...
Hello! Victuallers and I have developed a proposal for a talk to be presented at Wikimania 2015. It's titled, How to pick up more women... -- as in more women editors and more women's biographies. Examples include the Edit-a-thon blitz during WikiWomen's History Month and the "new articles" work underway by WikiProject Women Writers. The Wikimania talk proposal review process has begun and there's no guarantee that this proposal will be accepted. That's where you come in. Please review our proposal and give us feedback. Ultimately, we hope you add your name to the signup at the bottom of the proposal which signifies you're interested in the talk (it does not signify you'll be attending the event). Thank you! Rosiestep (talk) 22:26, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Why do you get all the fun posts?

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Found it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=protect&user=The_Transhumanist&page=&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=&hide_patrol_log=1&hide_review_log=1&hide_thanks_log=1       The Transhumanist 23:14, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cool beans. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:24, 22 February 2015 (UTC).

Welcoming users on their user page

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Hi, I assume this was a mistake? (You welcomed them on their userpage, not their talk page) Thanks! Darylgolden(talk) Ping when replying 13:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for spotting! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:08, 23 February 2015 (UTC).

WP:Co-op: Presentation at Wikimania 2015

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Hey Rich Farmbrough/Archive. I've put in a submission for a presentation at Wikimania 2015 called Is Two the Magic Number?: The Co-op and New Editor Engagement through Mentorship. I'll be talking about the state of finding help spaces on en.wiki and how our new mentorship space, The Co-op, factors into that picture. Reviewing will begin soon and I'll need your help to be able to present our work. Please review our proposal and give us feedback. If you would be interested in seeing this presentation, whether you are attending or not, please add your name to the signup at the bottom of the proposal (you do not need to attend Wikimania to express interest in presentations). I, JethroBT drop me a line on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.

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The Signpost: 25 February 2015

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The Signpost: 25 February 2015

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reigned in?

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Spill chuckers strike again <g> I think you meant "reined in" <g> Collect (talk) 13:30, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Of course. Feel free to correct. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:40, 27 February 2015 (UTC).
I loathe folks who do that - sometimes I make a pun deliberately, and to have "sic" after a pun is really embarrassing! ("Henry VIII reigned in Anne Boleyn" is what I would try.) Collect (talk) 14:36, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Those personal pronoun use gender stats

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Hi Rich, Just noticed your last comments from last week on Village Pump... I thought I would check-in on the possibility of getting these monthly stats for trying to take a preliminary look at trends, etc. LawrencePrincipe (talk) 20:43, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have not abandoned the project, but I am a little busy until Tuesday evening. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:34, 28 February 2015 (UTC).

Hi Rich - any thoughts about Picking up More Women?

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My proposed Wikimania talk "How To Pick Up More Women" is here. I know you have some expertise in this creation of articles thing, what are the top tips?. I was hoping that you might give this some thought? No rush ... no ideas? Thanks for listening Victuallers (talk)

Top tip is to use a list. Effectively someone else has already decided that this female (girls are under-represented as well as women, my intuition tells me) is notable. It isn't always successful, though. Patricia Ainsworth was deleted, and very likely Laura Lam will follow. So it's probably more sense to get those notability criteria nailed down before creating the article.
Various lists are already on-wiki see my sandbox section Chican-American writers, WP:GGTF and lists posted to the talk pages.
I am also aiming to get complete lists of women from ANDB and/or ODNB.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:50, 12 February 2015 (UTC).
19:50, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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