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This Month in GLAM: December 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue XII, December 2015
Headlines
Argentina report: Edit-a-thons and Editing Challenges Basque Country report: Local Library weaves a community at Iurretapedia Bulgaria report: Archives Challenge; 100 ancient coins from Philippopolis Germany report: Wallraf Art and Focus on Zeiss Italy report: Fondazione Giorgio Cini donation and a new education project Macedonia report: Physics experiments in glorious HD! Netherlands report: Donation of videos; about Wikimedia during 3 conferences; image donation from Dutch Parliament; workshop at City Archive Rotterdam Spain report: GLAMing Madrid and Wiki Loves contests Sweden report: Riksutställningar UK report: National Library of Wales; Bodleian Libraries of Oxford Open Access report: Open Access stats; recent uploads Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: January's GLAM events
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The Signpost: 13 January 2016

In the media: War and peace; WMF board changes; Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias

Community view: Battle for the soul of the WMF

Editorial: We need a culture of verification

In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street

Op-ed: Transparency

Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report

Special report: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016

News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee

Blog: Inside the game of sports vandalism on Wikipedia

Featured content: This Week's Featured Content

Arbitration report: Interview: outgoing and incumbent arbitrators 2016

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Wikidata weekly summary #192

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
- Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym.
- Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester)
- Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video, slides)
- Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Module:Cycling race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
- Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
- Wikidata-lang - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
- Live-stream of Wikidata edits by Magnus
- Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet now has a Wikidata function
- Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Theatricalia person ID, Theatricalia theatre ID, Global Geoparks Network ID, judicial sentence, allcinema film identifier
Development
- Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (phabricator:T67397)
- Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
- Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (phabricator:T123234)
- Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (phabricator:T123233)
- Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (phabricator:T119493)
- Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (phabricator:T120196)
- Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (phabricator:T94989)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6

Newsletter • January 2016

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

What comes next

Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.

During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.

We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:

Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)

The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.

This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 02:53, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

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A brownie for you!

Hey sam sailor,thanks for the new year wishes.It was awesome.And am sorry I was not able to wish you,i was busy and came back after many weeks.So sending you a brownie made from love.....

Leave me a message whenever you feel like. Bhootrina (talk) 09:47, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 January 2016

News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out

Op-ed: Not a pretty picture: Thoughts on the "monkey selfie" debacle

In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up

Traffic report: Danse Macabre

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Blog: Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place

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Wikidata weekly summary #193

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
- Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
- Upcoming: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
- Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [1] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [2] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
- Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
- Wikidata Graph Builder
- Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
- You can give input on WMF's strategy
- Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
- Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
- Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
- French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
Did you know?
Development
- Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
- Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
- Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
- Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
- Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
- Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
- Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
- Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
- More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikimedia Highlights from December 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in December 2015.

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Wikidata weekly summary #194

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Replicator: Wikidata import tool
- The Facebook of German Playwrights
- Language usage on Wikidata
- Past: FOSDEM (slides of talk by Lucie)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
- Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
- some visualizations:
- KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
- Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
- Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
- WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
Did you know?
- Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
- Query example: horses, French sculptors by year of birth
- Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
- Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
- New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
Development
- und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
- Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
- Final touches on making search work on mobile
- Finishing identifier datatype and section
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #195

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Discussions
- Open request for adminship: HakanIST
Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
- Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
- Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
- How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
- What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
- We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
- Andrew updated his maps
- We crossed edit 300,000,000!
- Graph example: matrices
- Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
- Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Box Office Mojo studio ID, Box Office Mojo franchise ID, ČSFD film ID, Richter magnitude scale, moment magnitude scale
Development
- Search now works on mobile
- Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
- Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
- Investigated further options for performance improvement (phabricator:T125502)
- Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500)
- More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063, phabricator:T124757)
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- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
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The Signpost: 03 February 2016

From the editors: Help wanted

Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost

In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board

Op-ed: So, what’s a knowledge engine anyway?

News and notes: Harassment survey 2015; Luis Villa to leave WMF; knowledge engine background

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This Month in GLAM: January 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue I, January 2016
Headlines
Africa report: #OpenAfrica15 Argentina report: New Editing Challenges and Design the guidelines for cultural institutions Australia and New Zealand report: WiR at State Library of Queensland Belgium report: Heroines Wikipedia workshop addressing the Gender Bias; Public Domain Day Celebration; Wikidata meeting & workshop; FOSDEM: MediaWiki, Wikidata and more France report: New year, new start Germany report: GLAM on Tour at Technische Sammlungen & Verkehrsmuseum Dresden Italy report: BEIC Library Project goes on, and Wikipedia for Press and Media Freedom in Europe Macedonia report: Wikipedia 15 Netherlands report: Wiki loves artists - We need your help; Two Wikipedia edit-a-thons Spain report: GLAMing Madrid, Wiki Loves Folk & Gobernantes de Chile Sweden report: New year, new projects UK report: Audio-describing London Landmarks, celebrating Wikipedia 15 Special story: Pre-production starts for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons tutorial videos Open Access report: Open Access stats; data citation, dino jaw, dozens of beetles Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: February's GLAM events
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The Signpost: 10 February 2016

Special report: New internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine

In focus: An in-depth look at the special report's newly revealed documents

News and notes: Another WMF departure

In the media: Jeb Bush swings at Wikipedia and connects

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: A river of revilement

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements

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Wikidata weekly summary #196

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
- WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
- Hay created a new property browser
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Broadcom

I noticed you have contributed to articles on Broadcom Corporation and/or Broadcom Limited (formerly Avago Tech). Just a quick note that there is a discussion here about whether or not Broadcom should be a disambiguation page or refer solely to Broadcom Corporation. Cheers! ^{Talk to} SageGreenRider 17:49, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 17 February 2016

Special report: Search and destroy: the Knowledge Engine and the undoing of Lila Tretikov

Op-ed: Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month

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Draft (sail)

Hi Sam Sailor, can you take a look at the few additions I made to the above? The article could need some extra help and I was wondering... Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 13:29, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

@Lotje: Now at least the article has one ref. :) Sam Sailor ^Talk! 04:48, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from January 2016

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in January 2016.

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Wikidata weekly summary #197

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
- Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
- Timeline of Zika papers
- A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
- The museum map now works for all countries
- Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
- Wikidata BEACON has been switched to use SPARQL
- Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
- Reasonator has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Strand orientation, perimeter, sidekick of, bowling style, acceptable daily intake, operating area, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID, Free Software Directory entry, Sandbox-External identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Religions, Award
- Query example: natural numbers
Development
- The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (phabricator:T2708)
- The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
- Input needed on caching for the query service
- Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
- We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
- Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095)
- More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
- Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
- wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7

Newsletter • February 2016

This month:

One database for Wikipedia requests

Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.

In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?

Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.

The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.

Until next time,

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The Signpost: 24 February 2016

Special report: WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears

Op-ed: Backward the Foundation

Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges

Blog: Wiki Loves Africa brings the continent’s fashion to the world

Arbitration report: Arbitration motion regarding CheckUser & Oversight inactivity

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Wikidata weekly summary #198

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

Events/Blogs/Press
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
- Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
- A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
- Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism.
- Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
- The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site.
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Köppen climate classification, superhuman feature or ability, married name, name, GPU, Wikidata usage instructions, autores.uy database id, stroke, bore, fee, production designer, in work, quantitative metrical pattern, used metre, recording or performance of, Italian Senate of the Republic ID
- Query example: battles
Development
- Wikidata Query Service has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0
- Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
- More groundwork for Commons support
- Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (phabricator:T128078)
- Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (phabricator:T128075)
- More performance work
- In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (phabricator:T125712)
- More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Msg from Popoki

Hi Sam Sailor, I just logged in and noticed that you reverted my changes on the Shield_Portable page and was wondering what was wrong with the edits? I do work at NVIDIA (disclosed on my profile) and there is an issue on Wikipedia with confusion between NVIDIA SHIELD (as a family of products, which is what it is) and with NVIDIA SHIELD the portable game player (but this use of the term is deprecated). The SHIELD handheld gameplayer is now referred to as the portable. I was trying to make things more factually correct. How do we make this reflect what is currently being used? Thanks!!! Popoki (talk) 15:33, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

@Popoki: Yes, that was maybe not the brightest moment of mine, feel free to revert to Nvidia. Thanks. Sam Sailor ^Talk! 04:51, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

@Sam Sailor:.No worries - will fix when I dive in to try to update some other corporate things. An issue we're seeing is that when someone out in Googleland does a query for "NVIDIA SHIELD", google put a SHIELD Portable next to our URL and then embeds a drop down all about the portable. I did a massive amount of digging and found that our wiki data page seems to be the problem - notice how the wiki data page is the SHIELD "family" page, but it's linking to SHIELD "Portable" data for EN, JA, PL, PT, RU, and UK? I think this is incorrectly informing Google. So, I'm going to try to clean things up, carefully. But maybe next week. ;-) Popoki 🐱🐱 chat 00:30, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

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Yes there were a whole batch of premature nominations. When something was last edited on 9 September 2015, it can only be nominated for a g13 deletion after 9 March 2016. I suppose you get that early notification for pages that are going to be eligible, but the purpose seems to be so that you can save them. Not to scrap them sooner! Any way keep up the (other) good work on AFC! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 07:17, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #199

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Oscars 2016: Movies that got the most attention on Wikipedia (followup with most famous cats)
- Statements per item
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Québec cultural heritage directory people identifier, grammatical option indicates, Statistics Indonesia language code, Statistics Indonesia ethnicity code, village code of Indonesia, has phoneme, INSEE departement code, INSEE region code, Australian Wetlands Database Directory of Important Wetlands Reference Code, distance from Earth, J. Paul Getty Museum object id, BabelNet id, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital ID, studied by, studies, admissible rule in, UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID, measures, National-Football-Teams.com player ID, number of out of school children, Twitter hashtag, uncertainty corresponds to, Saros cycle of eclipse, contact times of eclipse, repealed by, amended by, ECHA InfoCard ID, global-warming potential
- Query example: French heads of government by length of service, Metro stations in Paris
Development
- Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
- More work on the first prototype for Commons support (phabricator:T125822)
- Continued working on improving language support for monolingual text and labels/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T125066)
- Conversion of properties from string to external identifier datatype is ongoing
- Experimenting with putting query results on a map in query.wikidata.org (earthquakes, ski resorts)
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The Signpost: 02 March 2016

News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: Brawling

Recent research: Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is "verifiable"?

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation details requests to alter or remove content in new transparency report

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Thank you.

Just a quick note to say Happy New Year and thank you for your help so far with the draft of the Ned Abraham article...albeit March now...Thank you for your New Years greeting. I am still pretty lost with the communication processes as I only have around 15 minutes a day to work on Wikipedia during my work hours. I have much work to do on the article but understand better what is required. I will continue to work on it until it's good enough to publish. Thanks again for your help. VirginiaHalford (talk) 05:00, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

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Suzanne Eisendieck

Hi you have created some changes on Suzanne Eisendieck site with small error in the reference. Could you please rectify this for me.

Thank you in advance (AKresearch (talk) 10:43, 9 March 2016 (UTC))

the other day. Sam Sailor ^Talk! 17:13, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue II, February 2016
Headlines
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