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Jakkasandra page

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Hi sir My name is Jakkasandra Nanjappa, I am staying in Jakkasandra village, I have true information about this village. Previously mentioned /given information about this page are true and correct please believe me sir. I am created this jakkasandra page, I am a kannada medium student sir, I have less knowledge about English language, don't delete this page sir, what is the falt about this village page, please talk/contact with me I will clarify.

Yours faithfully jakkasandra Nanjappa Jakkasandra Nanjappa (talk) 15:04, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Jakkasandra Nanjappa, I don't think this page is likely to be deleted. What is needed are more references, if they can be found. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:31, 2 February 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).

Administrator changes

added None
removed Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
  • Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

  • A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

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The Signpost: 5 February 2018

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Wikidata weekly summary #298

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • We are saddened to report that Polish Wikimedian Krzysztof Machocki (who was also active on Wikidata) died on 31 January 2018, aged 36, after a couple of weeks of illness. Our condolences to his family and friends.
    • Notes of the IRC office hour of January 30th
    • The call for submissions for Wikimania (Cape Town, July 2018) is now open. Deadline is March 18th. Ideas of submissions related to Wikidata can be discussed here
    • Based on community discussions, the ArticlePlaceholder will soon be deployed on Urdu and Estonian Wikipedias.
    • Statistics
      • January 2018 brought us 9,770,248 edits, 445,027 new items were created.
      • The number of users that edited Wikidata per day grew in 2017 from 2439 to 2672 users, 9,6% more compared to 2016. The number of edits by them grew with 18% to 190k edits per day. We also get edited by 542 IP adresses per day, 50% more than in 2016.
      • In 2017, Wikidata got edited by 46 various bots per day, executing 334k edits per day (63% more than in 2016). The most active bot in 2017 was Emijrpbot, who added 18 million edits to Wikidata.
      • 284 million statements now contain references, compared to 67 million at the start of 2017. The average number of statements per item grew from 5 to almost 9. 73 million qualifiers are now used to provide more details for statements, 13 million in early 2017.
    • New tool based on Wikidata: Random TV episodes
  • Development
    • Diffs now show the entity ID in the page title (phab:T181077)
    • Improved handling of translations in the Query Service UI (gerrit:406301, gerrit:406996), thanks to Li Song
    • Continued working on diffs for forms on Lexemes (eg. phab:T186317)
    • Added summaries for edits on representations or grammatical features of a form (phab:T184702)
    • Worked on showing links to Lexemes and statements (phab:T185332)
    • Rolling out fine grain usage tracking on more wikis, so only relevant changes are shown in the watchlist and recent changes (phab:T185032)
    • Improved scalability of fine grain usage tracking (phab:T185693)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Template:Handbook of Texas

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Hello, Rich, I noticed your expertise in template editing at the history of Template:Handbook of Texas.

Like the Handbook of Texas, the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture contains a wealth of information. At the Arkansas database, just the entry ID appears to vary. Examples: [1][2]

Would you kindly make me a similar template at Template:Encyclopedia of Arkansas History? I would begin immediately to write up history sections on hundreds of underrepresented Arkansas communities. Regards– Gilliam (talk) 08:31, 10 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK, item 7682, Charles William Adams (1817–1878) can be cited as
{{Encyclopedia of Arkansas History|name=Charles William Adams (1817–1878)|id=7682|author=David Sesser|date=2017-02-25|retrieved=11 February 2018}}
Which will render as
David Sesser: Charles William Adams (1817–1878) from the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture (2017-02-25). Retrieved 11 February 2018.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:10, 11 February 2018 (UTC).[reply]
Thanks for your help! The new template will save me a lot of tedious typing.– Gilliam (talk) 02:31, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You are very welcome. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:24, 11 February 2018 (UTC).[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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Grandmaster Editor
Congratulations :) (a little late)  M A A Z   T A L K  20:51, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:13, 11 February 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #299

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Underhill, Ruth

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Hi, I've no idea what you were trying to do here. What was wrong with simply 

#REDIRECT [[Ruth Underhill]]

? — Smjg (talk) 14:32, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I was creating a template to perform the function. It is now at {{Qso}}. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:17, 13 February 2018 (UTC).[reply]

de-CH

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Hi,

I noticed that you created the pages Template:ISO 639 name de-CH and Category:Articles containing Swiss German-language text, mentioning that they are for articles in the Swiss German language. However, de-CH is the language code for Swiss Standard German, not Swiss German (which instead uses the ISO 639 code “gsw”).

How hard or easy would that be to fix?

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spidermario (talk • contribs) 15:03, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It would have been easy for me, but the template has been re-written. @Trappist the Monk: may be able to help, before I can look at it in detail. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:30, 13 February 2018 (UTC).[reply]
@Trappist the monk:. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:32, 25 February 2018 (UTC).[reply]
As I write this, you are the only editor to have edited {{ISO 639 name de-CH}} and the only editor to have edited Category:Articles containing Swiss German-language text so the claim that the template has been re-written does not appear to be unsupportable. This, then, leaves me wondering why I have been pinged into this conversation?
—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:58, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I am talking about {{Lang}}, which was the prime purpose of the ISO 639 name family of templates. The re-write is very impressive, though I'm not sure it is as extensible, small, fast or simple. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:03, 25 February 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #300

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Welcome to the 300th Weekly Summary!

The weekly newsletter was started by Lydia at the very beginning of the Wikidata project, even before the first deployment, to keep the community informed about the developments, the new projects and tools. More than five years later, the newsletter is still there, its content powered by the community, and sent every week all along the years. I wanted to say a warm "thank you!" to each person who helped filling the Weekly Summary <3

Over the past years, as you know, Wikidata has grown a lot. More data, more tools, more editors and reusers, more exciting projects led by the community. The Weekly Summary has evolved with us, and the 300th edition seems a good moment to ask you all your suggestions about the newsletter, how it could continue evolving, and how you would like to improve it.

On that purpose, you can find a feedback page to express all your ideas about the Weekly Summary. We're very interested to know more about your reading habits, the parts you're more or less interested in, the new topics you would like to share with the community. Thanks in advance for filling it.

I stay available anytime to discuss with you, feel free to contact me if you have any question or concern! Cheers, Léa

  • A selection of cool tools on Wikidata

Here are a few tools that are recommended by some Wikidata community members. External websites, gadgets or scripts, they are very useful for Wikidata editors or users!

    • The Wikidata Query Service is an infinite source of amazing data and one of the best ways to explore and use Wikidata. (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
    • QuickStatements is a powerful tool that can edit or add Wikidata item en masse, via a text editor or importing a spreadsheet. (Éder Porto via Facebook)
    • Mix'n'match (manual), which helps us to interlink Wikidata with the rest of the web and the world :-) (Spinster, Siobhan via Twitter)
    • WikiShootMe! allows you to see Wikidata items plotted out on a map and shows you whether they have images or not. (Ham II)
    • Yair Rand's WikidataInfo script adds the QID of the equivalent Wikidata item to the page being viewed (on sister projects), along with its Wikidata label and description. (Andy Mabbett)
    • Recoin measures the degree of completeness of relevant properties of a Wikidata item and suggests any relevant statements that can be added to the item. (Rachmat04)
    • Template:Wikidata list ("Listeria") Self-updating lists on wiki pages, to drive projects and show results. Over 14,000 now live. (Jheald)
    • DuplicateReferences gadget adds a link to copy references and add them to other statements on the same item. (PKM)
    • checkConstraints gadget adds notifications on the interface to easily notice the violation of constraints and help people fixing them (Léa)
    • Resolve authors lists scientific articles with the property author name string (P2093) and groups them on the basis of co-authors and topic, which helps to distinguish people referred to by identical name strings. (Daniel Mietchen)
    • The Wiki Loves Monuments map is powered by Wikidata. You can look for a city and find the monuments around. (Stefano Sabatini via Facebook)
  • Development
    • Fixed incomplete "Label:", "Description:" and "Statement:" entity usage messages in various places (phab:T178090). Thanks, Matěj!
    • Improved violation messages for ranges involving the current date (e. g. “should not be in the future”).
    • Continued work on caching constraint check results.
    • Enabled Lua fine-grained usage tracking for better performance on several more wikis: hywiki, frwiki, svwiki, itwiki, zhwiki, bewiki, nlwiki, glwiki, and Wikimedia Commons (phab:T187265 phab:T186714)
    • Representation and grammatical features of the form can be changed using the UI (WikibaseLexeme) (phab:T173743, phab:T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Women's History Month 2018 at Women in Red

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Welcome to Women in Red's March 2018 worldwide online editathons.


Historically, our March event has been one of the biggest offerings of the year. This year, we are collaborating with two other wiki communities. Our article campaign is the official on-line/virtual node for Art+Feminism. Our image campaign supports the Whose Knowledge? initiative. Women's History Month 2018

Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 16:09, 20 February 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

The Signpost: 20 February 2018

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Cohort (biology) listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Cohort (biology). Since you had some involvement with the Cohort (biology) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. MB 14:28, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Underlinked

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Hello, please explain how many links are needed. In the article Stelis, there are six links in the taxobox, family, class, etc. And then there is the List of Stelis species that links to 100 pages, most of them not even created yet. And then, other articles such as Listronotus distinctus have six links in the taxobox. Such an obscure species is unlikely to have more links than those. Of course, it would be possible to add subclass, suborder, subfamily, etc. with their respective links but this is not desirable for other reasons. If Listronotus distinctus needs more links, then most species and genus pages would be labeled as such. Are you sure that such articles need more links? Please explain to me what is going on. --Polinizador (talk) 18:56, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have provided three more (useful) links to the article. I'm not sure that such articles in general need more links though. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:21, 21 February 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #301

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Make it possible to link to Lexemes and Statements (phab:T1854997)
    • Disabling senses for the first release of Lexemes (phab:T186995)
    • Caching for constraints check

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


autowikibrowser

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hi I want translate wikilinks

Plagiarism

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Please make sure that you don't plagiarize texts (even public domain texts) like you did in Amelia Irwin. I have redirected the article to that of her husband to remove the problem and because she (and some other California first ladies) are not independently notable and don't warrant a separate article. Some of the other articles, while at first glance not copying directly, are using rather close paraphrasing as well. Fram (talk) 09:38, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Of course this was not plagiarism, as the source was comprehensively cited. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:38, 4 June 2018 (UTC).[reply]
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