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Wikidata weekly summary #215

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

DYK for Jaycee Lee Dugard

Hi, I noticed you mentioned your GA for this article on Ritchie333's page. If you want to get it in on time, it should be nominated by June 25. You can write any old hook, and I'll be happy to suggest another when I come back online after Shabbat.

By the way, your talk page is so long that I can't see what I'm typing; it takes sooo long to load. Please read WP:ARCHIVE to see how to archive a talk page. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 15:22, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi, Yoninah. Since then I was reading the Did You Know eligibility closely, and if I read it correctly, the Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard article is ineligible because it was an WP:On This Day feature 3 times on June 10 (the anniversary of her kidnapping) and once is enough to disqualify it. This June was the 25th anniversary by the way. I really appreciate your having my back on this. Ping me back.
I will trim my talk page. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 17:32, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

TWL HighBeam check-in

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Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, June 29

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
A Wikipedia panel discussion about journalism

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We make sure to allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks. We will also have:

  • A brief report on Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San Francisco Publice Library, coordinated by Merrilee:
    What topics might we cover in a follow up?
    Find out more about resources your public library provides to help with editing (hint, it's more than just books!)
    Special announcement (secret for now but come and find out more!)
  • Join in on an in person Wikidojo!
    Are you curious how your peers approach writing a Wikipedia article? This exercise, pioneered by Wikipedians Nikola Kalchev and Vassia Atanassova in 2015 and conducted in many places around the world, will help us all - from first-time wiki users to veteran Wikipedians - share ideas, while building an article together. If you have ideas (relating to Bay Area history, ideally) about a new article we could build (stubs and short existing articles are fine), please submit them ahead of time to coordinator Pete Forsyth. (User talk page or email is fine.)
    Announcements and impromptu topics are welcome, too!

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2016

See you soon! Pete F, Ben, Stephen and Checkingfax | (Subscribe or Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:07, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard

The article Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sainsf -- Sainsf (talk) 00:26, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Changes this week

  • You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [6]
  • It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [7]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).

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18:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #213

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

This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2016)

A cubic zirconia crystal made by the Shelby Gem Factory
Hello, Checkingfax.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Shelby Gem Factory

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Hilton Hotels & Resorts • Photodetector

Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations

Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 13 June 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard

Hello Checkingfx:

I'll have a go at Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard hopefully today or tomorrow. No problem.

Regards.

Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:45, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Celebrating Pride @ Women in Red

You are invited...

LGBTQ worldwide online edit-a-thon

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Your GA nomination of Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sainsf -- Sainsf (talk) 13:40, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

June 2016 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2016 News

Hello everyone, welcome to the June 2016 GOCE newsletter. It's been a few months since we sent one out; we hope y'all haven't forgotten about the Guild! Your coordinators have been busy behind the scenes as usual, though real life has a habit of reducing our personal wiki-time. The May backlog reduction drive, the usual coordinating tasks and preparations for the June election are keeping us on our toes!

May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's record-setting backlog reduction drive. Of the 29 people who signed up, 16 copyedited at least one article, 197 copyedits were recorded on the drive page, and the copyedit backlog fell below 1,500 for the first time! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz will occur from 12 June through 18 June; the themes will be video games and Asian geography.

Coordinator elections: It's election time again; how quickly they seem to roll around! Nominations for the next tranche of Guild coordinators, who will serve a six-month term that begins at 00:01 UTC on 1 July and ends at 23:59 UTC on 31 December, opens at 00:01 UTC on 1 June and closes at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. Voting takes place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. If you'd like to assist behind the scenes, please consider stepping forward; self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; remember it's your Guild, and it doesn't run itself!

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978.

To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:01, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2016)

The Hilton Athens is part of the Hilton Hotels & Resorts hotel chain.
Hello, Checkingfax.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Hilton Hotels & Resorts

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Photodetector • Whirlpool

Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations

Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 6 June 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey

The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has appointed a committee to lead the search for the foundation’s next Executive Director. One of our first tasks is to write the job description of the executive director position, and we are asking for input from the Wikimedia community. Please take a few minutes and complete this survey to help us better understand community and staff expectations for the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director.

Thank you, The Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Steering Committee via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:49, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2016

As a participant of WikiProject LGBT studies, you are invited to participate in the third annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign, which runs through the month of June. The purpose of the campaign is to create and improve content related to LGBT culture and history. How can you help?

  1. Create or improve LGBT-related Wikipedia pages and showcase the results of your work here
  2. Document local LGBT culture and history by taking pictures at pride events and uploading your images to Wikimedia Commons
  3. Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Looking for topics? The Tasks page, which you are welcome to update, offers some ideas and wanted articles.

This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. The group's mission is to develop LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. Visit the affiliate's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing! ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:52, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Spotlight on women entertainers!

You are invited...

Women in Entertainment worldwide online edit-a-thon

--Rosiestep (talk) 02:14, 24 May 2016 (UTC) via MassMessage (To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list)

DYK nomination of Jacky Lafon

Hello! Your submission of Jacky Lafon at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:53, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Checkingfax, it's been a week now. If you wish to continue pursuing this nomination, we need to hear from you right away. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:23, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, BlueMoonset. We have been and remain working on it behind the scenes. It has been a hectic couple of weeks and Picomtn has been on Wikibreak. Plus, today is a holiday. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 21:11, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Walmart

I'm puzzled how DJV can continue to edit Walmart (see [8]) even though s/he has been blocked. What am I missing?  – Corinne (talk) 01:48, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi, Corinne. In the diff above, how do you feel about all the parentheses added?
Here is the block log for that user. Latest block was capped at 48-hours, which has now passed.
Check out the two latest unblock requests here.
Note: Both blocks were by admin John.
In two years, since signing up as a Wikipedia user, DJV11181988 has never replied to a question on their talk page. They did make a statement directed at nobody once, and they did make the two recent unblock requests.
They edit big business, big box, and highway articles and very rarely leave an edit summary.
They have twice been chided for not leaving an edit summary, yet continue not to.
They are given credit on the Commons for a high quality, non-snapshot, aerial photograph of a huge solar electric array on the rooftop of a Walmart in Puerto Rico.
DJV11181988 lacks a user page.
They have never thanked another editor[9].
Their top edited article is Walmart.
One of their favorite edits is to change rounded billions of dollars to four decimal place billions (e.g.- changing US$256 billion to US$256.1435 billion).
When they do leave an edit summary here is how it reads.
They do not post on other editors talk pages. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 15:37, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for explaining about the unblock. That's an interesting list. I think the pattern and that edit summary suggest s/he may have a conflict of interest. That edit summary also suggests an attitude of ownership of the article. Adding those decimal points seems unnecessary. The second main bulleted item in MOS:LARGENUM states:
Where explicit uncertainty is unavailable (or is unimportant for the article's purposes) round to an appropriate number of significant digits; the precision presented should usually be conservative. Precise values (often given in sources for formal or matter-of-record reasons) should be used only where stable and appropriate to the context, or significant in themselves for some special reason. [italics added]
I'm not going to engage in an argument with the editor over this; I just thought I'd share what I found in MoS in case you hadn't seen it. I also don't know what can, or should, be done, if anything, about the other issues. Perhaps just let it be for now.  – Corinne (talk) 01:08, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series on May 25

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
A Wikipedia panel discussion about journalism

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.

Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.

For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, May 2016

See you soon! Pete F, Ben Creasy, and Checkingfax via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:15, 9 May 2016 (UTC) | Subscribe/Unsubscribe to the SF Meetups notice.

Women artists of Middle East / North Africa... a WiR & Guggenheim collaboration

File:Monir Portrait-exh ph021.jpg
You are invited...

Women artists of Middle East / North Africa
worldwide online edit-a-thon

--Rosiestep (talk) 14:16, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
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Photography

You are invited...

Women in Photography
worldwide online edit-a-thon

--Rosiestep (talk) 12:33, 24 April 2016 (UTC) via MassMessage
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8

Newsletter • March / April 2016

This month:

Transclude article requests anywhere on Wikipedia

In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.

Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)

With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=, category=, or wikiproject=, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!

Help us build our list!

The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.

If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.

An open database means new tools

WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.

And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.

Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!

On the horizon
  • The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
  • The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.


Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Michael Laucke

Hello Checking Fax:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Michael Laucke has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

I have advised Natalie Desautels as well.

Kind regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:05, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

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,

Harej (talk) 01:43, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

2016 Art And Feminism Wikipedia Editathon @ CCA

You are invited! - Saturday, March 5 - Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/ArtandFeminism 2016
Arts+Feminism logo
 Please join us at the California College of the Arts' Simpson Library on Saturday March 5, 2016,
for an event aimed at collaboratively expanding Wikipedia articles covering Art and Feminism, and the biographies of women artists!

--Circa73 (talk)

Newspaperarchive

You should have gotten an email from me about this - can you please either fill out the linked form, or email me if you didn't get it? Nikkimaria (talk) 18:52, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Nikkimaria. I do not recall receiving the form to fill out. I will email you. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 01:39, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I have filled out the Google form 3 times now and no response. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 22:59, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Checkingfax, did you get my email response? Basically Newspaperarchive has to process the form response and generate a login for you, which takes a few workdays - I expect you'll get it this week. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:13, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Michael Laucke

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Michael Laucke you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MurderByDeadcopy -- MurderByDeadcopy (talk) 03:02, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Planned Parenthood

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Planned Parenthood you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Casliber -- Casliber (talk) 07:20, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to the Google Doodle task force

Hello, Checkingfax. You're invited to join the Google Doodle task force of the Today's articles for improvement project. We aim to improve articles on current and previous Google Doodles to turn them into a valuable and inspiring resource for interested readers.

If interested in joining, please add your name to the list of members. Thank you for your consideration.

– Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:54, 2 February 2016 (UTC) on behalf of WikiProject Today's articles for improvement

Persoonia terminalis has been nominated for Did You Know

The Signpost: 04 July 2016

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Tech News: 2016-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [10]

Changes this week

  • The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [11]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #216

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