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ArbCom 2018 election voter message

 * I have read your message that says "I'm fully complaint with the policy on access to non-public data". Sorry I am not a native speaker of English. What do you mean ?? (complying ??) --Wisdood (talk) 08:56, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Wisdood was pointing out a typo in your statement. Complaint/Compliant. Claudia (talk) 14:09, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Complying means "in compliance with" or "in accordance with", See compliance. Courcelles (talk) 09:13, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry about that. That's what I get for typing on a browser without spell check!  Courcelles (talk) 13:33, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Weird issue
Hey,, I saw you just blocked GoldenSamurai. I was having a weird issue with him/her just now - they were saying I couldn't clean up portal project updates from my talk page? Is that a sitewide rule? It was a confusing conversation. I'm not a frequent Wiki user so I was just trying to understand the rules governing your own talkpage. Let me know what's going on there, if you know. Thank you! Ganesha811 (talk) 16:33, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * They're a long-term abusive editor so nothing they said should be believed. Feel free to clean-up, archive, etc. your talk page as you see fit, so long as you don't edit the content of other's comments. (You can archive or remove other people's comments, you just can't change their contents to make it look like they said something they didn't say) Courcelles (talk) 16:36, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Sock?
Might be a sock of  that you blocked? Doug Weller talk 16:53, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Doug, indeed it is. Courcelles (talk) 16:56, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Evlekis/Archive for brownfingers :)    ——  SerialNumber  54129  17:10, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #341
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: How to handle heat treating as a qualifier for material properties ?
 * New development input: Identify problems with adding new languages into Wikidata


 * Events
 * Upcoming: "Researcher meets Curator", with a subquestion: "What are the consequences of collecting born digital sources, working with digital network analysis and engaging with linked open data initiatives such as Wikidata", in Maastricht on 22 March 2019. Call for papers
 * Upcoming: Advanced Wikidata Training in India, December 15-16
 * Past: "Wikibase: configure, customize, and collaborate" workshop at SWIB 18 in Bonn, Germany on November 26, 2018. Workshop materials
 * Past: EveryPolitician event to identify political data sources for Wikidata in Madrid, Spain, on December 1, 2018.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Author Disambiguator (github source), new tool by d:User:ArthurPSmith (based on SourceMD) for linking author items to their works.
 * OpenRefine 3.1 was released
 * New API module to format multiple entity IDs
 * You can now access the number of Forms and Senses of Lexemes through API and special page


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: reference has role, tautomer of, eponymous category, language style, ratified by, funding scheme
 * External identifiers: GameFAQs company ID, AJOL journal ID, LEGO set ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet journal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Bygdeband location ID, Austrian Biographical Encylopedia ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, Mexican female soccer players ID, member of the Portuguese parliament ID, BBC News topic ID, OBV editions ID, Geolex ID, CNPJ, Defined Term ID, Guida al Fumetto Italiano ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: gained independence from, nachgewiesen mittels, measured by (KPI), OpenTrials ID, administrated by the administrative territorial entity, level of description, stored as lexeme, taxon author citation, Astronomical coordinates, catchphrase, real estate developer, Danske Taler speaker
 * External identifiers: TrENSmissions person ID, LIGA profile, SEINet ID, BIBSYS work ID, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, UK Parliament Identifier, HAER ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, DIR3 ID, NooSFere story ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, RegiowikiAT ID, Discord Store game SKU, kohanimeregister, ARLLFB member ID, ARB person ID, Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, protected area authority ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, identifiant Monument aux morts


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of early Western movies (source)
 * Species represented in the exhibition "Espèces en voies d'illumination" in the natural history museum of Paris (source)
 * Properties most used to describe cats in Wikidata (source)
 * List of UK embassies (source)
 * Map of places of residence for accused witches in Scotland with a layer for occupations (source)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
 * Development
 * Add Lexeme to Wikibase's ontology.owl (T195368)
 * Prepare to drop change_tag.ct_tag column (T194163)
 * Create Federated Wikibase instance on Beta Commons (T204748)
 * More work on preparing a new termbox for the mobile version of Wikidata


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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RFPP
Just to leave my appreciation for cleaning up the entire pack in one go.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:27, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Courcelles (talk) 17:27, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Denmark at the 1952 Winter Olympics
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Your GA nomination of Lebanon at the 1952 Winter Olympics
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Your GA nomination of Aruba at the 1996 Summer Olympics
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Your GA nomination of Mauritania at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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Your GA nomination of Sierra Leone at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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A question
Can it be pointed out what parts of the most recent attempt to edit the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts page were under copyright? I am just trying to give a fair representation of the College. Was the reason for the ECP because so much information was added at one time? Seeing as some of those involved with the removal of my additions (Ken Gallager) are also regular contributors to Thomas More's local competition North East Catholic College, to an outsider like me, this appears to be a conflict of interest. Especially because all of the text was written by myself, and nothing I posted was under any sort of copyright. Anything that was taken directly from the Thomas More site was either in quotations or reworked to avoid copyright.

Thank you for your time. Yours, Virgilisalive (talk)
 * I see your problem, you're not copying directly, but you are falling afoul of WP:Close paraphrasing. That's, around here, just as problematic as a direct cut and paste.  Courcelles (talk) 21:29, 29 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Interesting. How does one avoid doing that? If the information is unbiased and well stated on a website, the only option is to rework the statement... I will see what I can do, but how do I know this take down war won't re-erupt once I try to make similar edits again. For example, the sections on the Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture, the Press, the High School Programs, etc. were not on the website at all. Nevertheless, they were all removed in a foul swoop! Virgilisalive (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 21:41, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Close paraphrasing is perhaps one of the hardest concepts on WP. And, without looking back at the exact wording, I can say that oftentimes, once one contribution to a page is found to be copyright problematic, the rest of that user's edits to that page may be removed preemptively on the assumption they are also problematic. Also, sign your posts in the future, please, by placing four tildes at the end of a comment: ~ .  Thanks. Courcelles (talk) 21:45, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * My apologies. I thought three ~ was the sign off. In the future, I will edit the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts page and rely on your non-biased assessment of my contributions. Yours, Virgilisalive (talk) 03:12, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

I just want to point out that I was not involved in the copyvio reverts, which is clear in the edit history. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:14, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tonga at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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Your GA nomination of Comoros at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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DYK for Mexico at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom Run
I'm disappointed that you haven't answered any of my questions to you regarding your candidacy. I'm hoping it was just an oversight. The other candidates have some very helpful answers to my questions. --David Tornheim (talk) 20:43, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, I missed those! Sorry about that, I'll answer them tonight. Courcelles (talk) 22:49, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --David Tornheim (talk) 23:13, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Done! At some point, I switched from answering top-down to answering bottom-up, and yours were just missed.  Courcelles (talk) 05:58, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Makes sense. Thanks for doing them all.  You now have my endorsement and my vote.  I deleted the redundant question--sorry about that.  Best of luck getting on. --David Tornheim (talk) 10:09, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and sorry for the screwup! Courcelles (talk) 17:45, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

SPI
What'd you do today? Drink too much coffee? You have more energy than a 2-year-old whose toys have been taken away from him.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:31, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Very funny, ! Just a messy day out and lots of energy to burn, might as well help clean out this backlog. Courcelles (talk) 01:35, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #342
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Scholarly articles that are book reviews


 * Events
 * Past: SWAT4HCLS in Antwerp Belgium December 3:
 * Wikibase tutorial
 * "Wikidata as an intuitive resource towards semantic data modeling in data FAIRification" short paper
 * "WikiCite, Wikidata, and Scholia: Linking Publications to Topics" (demo /food/ aspect)
 * Past: Workshop "Wikidata - what is that and why it's relevant in the field of geospatial information technologies?"? at Latvia's Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) conference (slides)
 * Past: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Stokholm, Sweden, December 4th
 * Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Göteborg, Sweden, December 10th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * "Detailed depictions with IIIF, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons" by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
 * Report of the GNDCon in the Kurier (in German)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * iD, the default OSM editor at openstreetmap.org has recently had an update which pulls data from Wikidata.
 * WikidataCon 2019, the conference for open data enthusiasts, will take place on 25-26 October 2019 in Berlin
 * Miniature map will be displayed for coordinate properties
 * New passwords requirements will apply on all wikis to new accounts and privileged accounts starting on December 13th
 * New grant request by MySociety: Wikidata post-election updating toolkit


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: award rationale, heat treating, copyright status, level of description
 * External identifiers: SEINet ID, LIGA profile, BIBSYS work ID, UK Parliament identifier, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, OpenTrials ID, NooSFere story ID, DIR3 ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, TrENSmissions person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: creator, WordLift ID, Specific age inside fictional universe, type of rear suspensions, type of front suspensions, ride height, approach angle, departure angle, Drag coefficient, related category, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Nombre annuel de passagers
 * External identifiers: BDEL ID, ZVR, NARA record group number, MMLO, IEC database ID commemorative monument of Catalonia, Meteorological Service of Canada climate ID, PomBase systematic ID, Volksbund ID, iTunes music movie ID, Paris Musées ID, Beachsoccer.ru player ID, BSRussia player ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of fountains in Zürich (source)
 * Timeline of famous bryologists (source)
 * Percentage of people member of the Swedish church per Church parish (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3FcountryLabel%20(GROUP_CONCAT(%3FgenreLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22)%20AS%20%3Fgenres)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20for%20every%20country%2C%20find%20the%20maximum%20number%20of%20performers%20for%20some%20genre%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20(MAX(%3FgenrePerformers)%20AS%20%3FmaxPerformers)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20for%20every%20country%20and%20genre%2C%20find%20the%20maximum%20number%20of%20performers%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20(MAX(COUNT(DISTINCT%20%3Fperformer))%20AS%20%3FgenrePerformers)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgenre%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ188451%20%3B%20%20%23%20is-a%20musical%20genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5Ewdt%3AP136%20%3Fperformer%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20genre%20of%20performer%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%7B%20%3Fperformer%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ215380%20%7D%20UNION%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20performer%20is-a%20band%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperformer%20((wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*)%7Cwdt%3AP106)%20wd%3AQ639669%20%7D%7D%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20or%20a%20musician%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fperformer%20(wdt%3AP27%7Cwdt%3AP495)%2Fwdt%3AP131*%20%3Fcountry%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20performer%20originating%20in%2Fcitizen%20of%20country%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3624078%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20country%20is%20a%20sovereign%20state%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fgenre%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20for%20every%20country%20and%20genre%2C%20find%20the%20number%20of%20performers%0A%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fgenre%20%3FgenreLabel%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20(COUNT(DISTINCT%20%3Fperformer)%20AS%20%3Fperformers)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fgenre%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ188451%20%3B%20%20%23%20is-a%20musical%20genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5Ewdt%3AP136%20%3Fperformer%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20genre%20of%20performer%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FgenreLabel%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20also%20fetch%20the%20label%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER(LANG(%3FgenreLabel)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%7B%20%3Fperformer%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ215380%20%7D%20UNION%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20performer%20is-a%20band%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fperformer%20((wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*)%7Cwdt%3AP106)%20wd%3AQ639669%20%7D%7D%20%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20or%20a%20musician%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperformer%20(wdt%3AP27%7Cwdt%3AP495)%20%3Fcountry%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20performer%20originating%20in%2Fcitizen%20of%20country%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fgenre%20%3FgenreLabel%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER(%3Fperformers%20%3D%20%3FmaxPerformers)%20%20%23%20keep%20only%20those%20combinations%20of%20country%20and%20genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20where%20the%20number%20of%20performers%20is%20maximal%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3FcountryLabel%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FcountryLabel Musical genres with the most bands and musicians on Wikidata, per sovereign country of origin/citizenship] (source)


 * Development
 * We are now showing the language name instead of the language code of a Gloss (T203457, T209931)
 * We added a Page property for easier programmatic access to the number of Senses and Forms of a Lexeme (T199611)
 * The code samples in the query service have been improved (T207749, thanks abian!)
 * We're working on tracking how often the different Lua functions that Wikibase provides are used in the Wikimedia project to see how that changes over time (T191416)
 * We worked on and fixed a security incident related to blocking (T210953)
 * We are continuing to bring the termbox (showing labels, descriptions, aliases) to mobile viewers

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2018-50
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Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).

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 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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 * When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off.

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Your GA nomination of British Honduras at the 1972 Summer Olympics
The article British Honduras at the 1972 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:British Honduras at the 1972 Summer Olympics 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 Gonzo fan2007 -- Gonzo fan2007 (talk) 22:41, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Belize at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The article Belize at the 2000 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Belize at the 2000 Summer Olympics 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 Gonzo fan2007 -- Gonzo fan2007 (talk) 22:41, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Belize at the 2004 Summer Olympics
The article Belize at the 2004 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Belize at the 2004 Summer Olympics 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 Gonzo fan2007 -- Gonzo fan2007 (talk) 22:41, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Neutral buoyancy
Thanks for protecting Neutral buoyancy yesterday, which has resulted in extended discussion at Talk:Neutral buoyancy. I'm pretty certain that a good compromise has emerged. The other editor has now understood the issues we have with edit-warring and seems very unlikely to repeat that in future. If you have time, would you review that talk page and see if you feel it would now be appropriate to lift page protection from the article, please? There's no problem if you think it best to let the protection run its course: I'll just have to remember to incorporate the agreed text next week. Regards --RexxS (talk) 22:09, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Kudos on working it all out. Unprotected. Courcelles (talk) 22:55, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2018
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Thanks
Hello, thanks for protecting Louisville Cardinals football. Can you do the same to Scott Satterfield and Appalachian State Mountaineers football for the same thing? Satterfield is supposedly a top candidate for UofL. Thanks, Corky  22:38, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. Courcelles (talk) 22:40, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi!
Hello! Would you mind looking at Sockpuppet investigations/Mnair69 if possible? I am curious to see how the result of CheckUser comes up (though easily could be meatpuppeting as well instead of socking, but suspcicious actions are suspicious). Regards, Jovanmilic97 (talk) 15:14, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I was on the road all day yesterday, and just now saw this. It appears has take care of it!Courcelles (talk) 14:43, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
Semi until March 2019? Considering the activity there recently, that seems a bit too long (in fact, the day it got protected, there was only one or two unconstructive edits). Could you maybe consider shortening it to say at most a week or two, or possibly even lowering it to PC? March seems overkill considering there have been more constructive edits than vandalism. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:20, 2 December 2018 (UTC) Narutolovehinata5, I don't think you understand why the article was set to protect for that long. If you check the protection log, it becomes very clear. The article has been vandalized in the past; it is likely for vandalism to continue now that your request has been approved. Each new protection period is set to last longer than the previous period; at least, that's according to my understanding of the protection policy. The protection period preceding this one was 2 weeks; what's the point of reprotection if it's not gonna last longer than that? NLH, please don't give trolls an opportunity to strike; you just reopened the gate to that possibility. Sk8erPrince (talk) 17:02, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Lowered to PC1. Courcelles (talk) 16:35, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I would have seen the point if there had been a string of unconstructive edits before the protection was applied, but it was only one or two edits, and most of the edits before then were good faith, not vandalism. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 19:41, 2 December 2018 (UTC)


 * If PC1 is ineffective or the volume of edits comes to be too high, come find me, and I’ll reapply the semi. Courcelles (talk) 17:33, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I knew PC1 was gonna be ineffective. Take a look at the diff here - the article's under attack again. Please reinstate semi-protection for the article. Sk8erPrince (talk) 22:38, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Onebad edit no one saw is not proof of anything, if you can raw any conclusions at all, it is thatPC1 did its job. Courcelles (talk) 14:44, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-51
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes
 * Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before.
 * Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems
 * tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example . If a   tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  and   will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  20:34, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

GA Nomination: Lebanon national football team
Hi,

I have noticed that you have been active in nominating and reviewing football articles for GA nominations; would it be possible for you to take a look at my Lebanon national football team article nomination if you had time?

Thanks, Nehme1499 (talk) 15:04, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I"m extremely busy in the run-up to Christmas, but I'll take a look if I find time. Courcelles (talk) 15:02, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

December 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Welcome back
Hi Courcelles. Congratulations on your success in the elections and welcome to the 2019 Arbitration Committee. Sorry to be a pain, but we'll need to go through the formalities.

Please use the EmailUser function to indicate:
 * the email address you'd like to use for ArbCom and functionary business

Over the coming days, you will receive a small of emails as part of the induction process. Please carefully read them. If they are registration emails, please follow any instructions in them to finalise registration. You can contact me or any other arbitrator directly if you have difficulty with any of these formalities.

Thank you for volunteering to serve on the committee. We very much look forward to introducing ourselves to you on the mailing list and to working with you this term.

For the Arbitration Committee, WormTT(talk) 10:51, 14 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Congratulations on your re-election to ArbCom. --David Tornheim (talk) 18:15, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Congratulations, Courcelles, you're in now, so you can't change your mind. Welcome back! Liz Read! Talk! 02:27, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Congratulations.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 03:28, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Aww, thanks, y'all! Courcelles (talk) 11:48, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Blocking a sock puppet?
Hi Courcelles. Thanks for handling the YoungDylan sock puppet case. I noticed you blocked one of the IPs, but not all of them. One of them (188.99.194.61) is still editing. Did you mean to block all of them? If not, what is the next appropriate step? Sportsfan77777 (talk) 08:24, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Blocked that IP for a week. Courcelles (talk) 11:48, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #343
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Split identifier into KEGG Drug Identifier, KEGG Compound Identifier, etc?
 * Closed request for comments: Clarifying rights and responsibilities of Property Creators


 * Events
 * Past: 26 November 2018: Adding your own stuff to Wikidata. Workshop at SWIB18, Bonn, Germany
 * Past: 04 December 2018: Chancen und Risiken einer komplementären Nutzung von GND und Wikidata. Präsentation auf der GNDCon in Frankfurt Main, Germany
 * Past: 11–12 December 2018 in Namburu, India: Wiki Advanced Training 2018 (with special focus on Wikidata) by Asaf Bartov
 * Upcoming: 35th Chaos Communication Congress, December 27-30, Leipzig. There will be Wikidata staff and volunteers and Wikidata-related sessions


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * 6 "inside-out" activities librarians are doing &mdash; numbers 4 and 5 involve Wikidata
 * From the "Annalen der Pharmacie" to the "European Journal of Organic Chemistry" about using Wikidata for capturing (some of) the history of chemistry
 * Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, by Sandra Fauconnier, in EuropeanaTech 10 Insight Issue 10: Innovation Agenda
 * Many faces of Wikibase: Lingua Libre makes languages audible, by Jens Ohlig (also available in German)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Call for contribution for the WikiWorkshop, forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects, held in May 2019 in San Francisco, is now open until January 31st
 * Research questionnaire about Wikidata as a learning platform by Shani Evenstein as part of her PhD research.
 * Interactive map of the Sibthorp & Bauer Expedition, produced by the Bodleian Libraries, powered by Wikidata
 * Scholia's "missing" pages (example) now link to the new Author Disambiguator tool, and a Listeria list is available to help prioritize co-author disambiguation for authors with sitelinks.
 * Draft of behavior norms policy, feel free to leave comments
 * Wikimedia hackathon in Prague: apply for a scholarship until January 4th
 * Discuss if you can edit your own item, and vote here on the proposed policy.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: real estate developer, collection creator, digital representation of, specific age inside fictional universe, catchphrase, subject lexeme, right ascension, declination, epoch, galactic longitude, galactic latitude
 * External identifiers: ARLLFB member ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, RegiowikiAT identifier, Discord Store game SKU, Bavarian protected area ID, BDEL ID, Danske Taler speaker ID, Place Names Register ID (Estonia), Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, ARB person ID, Monument aux morts ID, IEC commemorative monument of Catalonia ID, MMLO, Meteorological Service of Canada climate site ID, Volksbund ID, PomBase systematic ID, Paris Musées work ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, iTunes music movie ID, BSRussia player ID, Beachsoccer.ru person ID, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Wikia article ID, MinDat mineral ID, Harvard Index of Botanists ID, MinDat Locality ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Garzanti Linguistica, Buried in this place, specific rotation, Data interval, Minimum wage, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, friend of, copyright representative, rights statement, co-director, Berliner Schutzgebiets-ID, preparation instructions
 * External identifiers: SVT Open archive, Hymnary.org page, Anbytarforum, Multiplayer ID, Amazon Music artist ID, Parliament of South Africa ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, Hymnary author ID, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, OTRS ticket number 2, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, ICCD IDs, Weeds in Ontario ID, AllMusic performance ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID


 * Query examples:
 * (UK) Ambassador by country list - Listeria report which writes 240 by-country reports on UK Ambassadors - h/t NavinoEvans for the approach
 * Presidents of the United States ranked by the number of species named after them (source)
 * Communes of France whose name starts with "Saint" (source)
 * Italian toponyms with suffixes of Celtic origin (-ago, -ate, -asco) (source)
 * List of ABBA songs in A major (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Policies
 * Newest database reports: Nicolas Cage filmography
 * expanded list of Christmas films


 * Development
 * Test that the issue with blocked users will not happen anymore (T211120)
 * Finish up on showing Language and Language codes when editing glosses (T209931)
 * Work towards having QualityContraints on Beta (T209957)
 * Work on tracking usage of Wikibase Lua Functions (T191416)
 * Some more work on string length limits (T154660)
 * Work on some Wikidata toolkit improvements (T209399)
 * Fix some errors happening in production (T208924)
 * More under-the-hood work for the termbox on mobile

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Books & Bytes, Issue 31
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 * OAWiki
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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Birmingham protection
You protected Birmingham a few weeks ago, but I think February was maybe a little much. It could be unprotected and if the vandalism happens again, it can be reinstated.  IWI  ( chat ) 17:46, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Hibernian F.C. in European football/GA1
Courcelles, it looks like there's been a reply to your review here; can you please stop by and see where the review stands? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:03, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2018
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International Bangladesh Hope School
Hi - a few weeks ago you kindly protected International Bangladesh Hope School. For reasons I don't understand, User:DumbBOT subsequently removed the page protection. Today there was a further attempt from an ip address to remove the information on Nibras Islam. This forms a pattern of those connected to the school, with or without declared COIs, seeking to remove the information as they think it has a negative impact on the school's image. I wonder if you'd be kind enough to reinstate the protection. Many thanks and Happy Christmas. KJP1 (talk) 10:53, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy 2019!
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#FF4646; background-color:#F6F0F7; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:0.5em 0.5em 0 0.5em; border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);;" class="plainlinks">Happy Holidays text.png Hello Courcelles: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Hhkohh (talk) 14:37, 26 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message
 * Hope you will have a nice holiday and a happy 2019 in both ArbCom and editing Hhkohh (talk) 14:37, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #344
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667, How to capture negative results in Wikidata?


 * Events
 * Current: Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) where several Wikidata people are present and related sessions happening
 * Next Wikidata IRC office hour: January 8th, 18:00 (UTC+1) on the channel wikimedia-office


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata architecture overview by Addshore
 * Créer une carte avec Wikidata, OpenRefine et uMap (in French) by Jean-Baptiste Pressac


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured data on Commons: Multilingual captions beta testing
 * Lingua Libre now adds audio pronunciation on Forms
 * Check out the roadmap for the development of Wikidata and Wikibase for 2019


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: API endpoint, demonym of, specific rotation, concentration, copyright representative, Berlin protected area ID, advertises
 * External identifiers: Garzanti Linguistica ID, Multiplayer ID, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, Boobpedia article, Amazon Music artist ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, ZVR-Number, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, Weeds in Ontario ID, ICCD ID - S form, ICCD ID - CF form, ICCD ID - CG form, ODNR Division of Wildlife ID, Penthouse ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID, ARTIC exhibition ID, ARTIC artist ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: maintenance method, second family name in Scandinavian names, organizational unit, story by, Code of Natura 2000 FFH habitats, century fl., adjective of, holonym 2, meronym 2, has contraction 2, yield, colorist, distinguishing property, Wikispecies template for this work, affiliation string
 * External identifiers: bgm.tv person identifier, bgm.tv character identifier, PC-9801DB ID, ACB.com coach ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile URL, Scoresway tennis person ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Muséosphère ID, Historical RNA ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, teams.by player ID, pressball.by player ID, AMFR player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, RusTeam player ID, Critique d'art ID, Centre Pompidou ID, Agence photo RMN ID, INE ID (Portugal), Agence photo RMN package ID, Wikiapiary entry, England Football Online player profile, England Football Online manager profile, DVR Number, Politika topic, Goodreads character ID


 * Deleted properties: P4570 (Wikidata project)
 * Query examples:
 * Catchphrases in Wikidata (source)
 * Timeline of Indian mathematicians (source)
 * Painting part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections (source)
 * Types of pasta in Wikidata with pictures (source)


 * Development
 * Writing a maintenance script to make configuring WikibaseQualityConstraints easier (T209958)
 * Working on new ID generator using different SQL to attempt to stop lock errors when creating lots of items (T194299)
 * Making more parts of the Query Service UI more configurable such as the copyright page, title, and started work on the favicon / logos (T194175)
 * Adding tracking for Wikibase Lua functions so we can see how they are used on various different projects (T191416)
 * Working on fixing alignment issues with glosses (T207401)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Request for article restore
Kindly restore article which probably you have closed afd, see this Discussion Thanks JogiAsad  <sup style="font-family:Candara; color:Skyblue;">Talk   03:57, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree that, due in part to a well-received film based on her life, Nazo Dharejo should be considered notable. I did not take part in the earlier discussion, but I hope you can restore the article so that I can work on it and improve it based on RS such as The Guardian, the Express Tribune, and the BBC. Thanks! HouseOfChange (talk) 16:40, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Courcelles!
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Happy New Year! Courcelles, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

Donner60 (talk) 06:51, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup!
Hello and Happy New Year!

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup, the competition begins today. If you have already joined, your submission page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and we will set up your submissions page. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2019, and which you have nominated this year, is eligible for points in the competition, the judges will be checking! Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are, , and. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Galobtter
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Orangemike
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg BorgQueen •  Davidruben • Ocee • Revolving Bugbear • Theda • There'sNoTime • Timc • Tijuana Brass • Tristessa de St Ange

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Addshore



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Joe Roe • SilkTork
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Euryalus • Newyorkbrad • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg AGK • Joe Roe • SilkTork
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Euryalus • Newyorkbrad • There'sNoTime

Guideline and policy news
 * There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria, each previously part of WP:CSD:
 * G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is db-disambig; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
 * R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion).  This is db-redircom; the text is unchanged.
 * G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use db-blankdraft.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation now requires all interface administrators to enable two-factor authentication.
 * Members of the Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.

Technical news
 * Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length . All accounts must have a password:
 * At least 8 characters in length
 * Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the [//github.com/wikimedia/password-blacklist Password Blacklist library])
 * Different from their username
 * User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
 * Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
 * Copyvio-revdel now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

Arbitration
 * Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , ,.

Miscellaneous
 * Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
 * Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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Wikidata weekly summary #345
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Do we want automatic inverse property creation and if so, how should they happen?


 * Events
 * Video of Lydia's keynote at GNDCon


 * Press/Blogs
 * Introduction to Wikidata as a platform and data source
 * Europeana Innovation Agenda
 * The Hand-editor’s Tale
 * mySociety 2018 report including their work on Wikidata
 * Using WikiData API to get the sense of words
 * The Evolution of Power and Standard Wikidata Editors: Comparing Editing Behavior over Time to Predict Lifespan and Volume of Edits


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * In Pywikibot, you can now add a new statement with qualifiers and/or references in a single edit (T112577, T170432)
 * A couple of gran proposals under review need your input and endorsement
 * There are now over 2 million Wikidata infoboxes on Commons!
 * Happy New Year! (L40653)


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: bgm.tv character identifier, ACB.com coach ID, bgm.tv person identifier, PC-9801DB ID, Hymnary author ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Swedish Anbytarforum, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile ID, Wikimedia OTRS ticket number, AllMusic performance ID, Wikibase Registry ID, Scoresway tennis person ID, Historical RNA ID, Muséosphère work ID, pressball.by player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, RusTeam player ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, AMFR player ID, teams.by player ID, vehicle identification number, Centre Pompidou ID, INE ID (Portugal)
 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: agglomerative, urban population, rural population, Linear reference, located in urban area
 * External identifiers: SHARE-VDE author ID, Panorama de l'art ID, PCGamingWiki ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, Uppsala General Catalogue ID
 * Query examples:
 * Graph of student-master relationship of Christian Thielemann #Neujahrskonzert (source)
 * Cricket teams in the world by number of players and their gender (source)
 * Buildings designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
 * Species have been named after Donald Trump (source)
 * Catchphrases (source)


 * Development
 * Not much happened this week because we took some time off over the holidays. Getting back to full speed again in the next days.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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FXCM is back
Please see User_talk:Formilds. Their "suggestions" are being added to the FXCM article by User:CNMall41 who just reverts anything that I add, with comments reminiscent of 1.5 years ago, e.g. that I am assuming bad faith. User:Spintendo had earlier declined to insert the suggestions.

This relates to Sockpuppet investigations/Gouyoku/Archive where Lenticularphoto, Aglassofprosecco, and Lqdr (a declared paid editor) were blocked by you indefinitely as socks or meatpuppets. Goukoyu was not blocked. An anon 199.248.199.110 which traces back to the company was added too late (I guess) for any action. I haven't run into this situation before, but if one declared paid editor is blocked as a meatpuppet, don't other declared paid editors for the same company have the same meat-master?

I hope that Formilds is blocked as a meatpuppet, but would not be against them applying to AN to remove the block, provided that they promise not to remove (or even suggest removing) material in the article about the company's "fraudulent misrepresentation" to their customers.

I'll post something on this at WP:COIN and inform the parties. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 17:40, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the ping, . You really should look closer at the recent history and Spintendo declined the edits, but not because there was an issue in communication with the COI editor. You were asked to AGF as you made an accusation of whitewashing - against me - for removing two sentences of the article that are basically synth and are not about the company. There is also a discussion on the talk page and you were told that there is discussion - recent discussion - on the talk page. So far you haven't said anything there so I am wondering if this is a COI issue you are concerned with or a content dispute? --CNMall41 (talk) 18:02, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * If you want to accuse me of something take it to ANI or Arbcom. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 18:05, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

January 13: Wikimedia NYC invites you to Wikipedia Day 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #346
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?


 * Events
 * Past: 35th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched in replay:
 * Introduction to Wikidata and the Query Service by Lucas Werkmeister and Amir Sarabadani
 * AI in Wikipedia by Amir Sarabadani
 * How to become a Mediawiki hacker by Andre Klapper
 * Live-coding: building a Wikidata tool by Lucas Werkmeister
 * Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, at 18:00 (UTC+1, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
 * Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, by Lars G. Willighagen (preprint)
 * Toward an abstract Wikipedia, by Denny Vrandečić
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games, by Jean-Fred
 * Building a Wikidata Tool – Behind the Scenes by Lucas Werkmeister (follow-up from the "Building a Wikidata tool" live-coding session, see above)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * >1000 sitelinks to the new Shan Wikipedia (shnwiki) have been added since November
 * Swiss foundation MY-D has published a call for projects for Wikidata showcase applications
 * Reminder: you can give your input on issues when requesting a new language for Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: title of broader work, colorist, data interval
 * External identifiers: Critique d'art ID, DVR Number, Goodreads character ID, Politika topic, SHARE-VDE author ID, England Football Online manager profile, England Football Online player profile, Panorama de l'art ID, Agence photo RMN package ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, PCGamingWiki ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IFPNI species ID, corporate purpose, Lace bugs database ID, Катэгорыя членаў, The White-files species ID, at distance, representative image, Wikia Article URL 2
 * External identifiers: Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, Hymnary text ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, OSGS-Number, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, De Agostini ID, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon Digital ID (new scheme), MNAM ID, IHOI ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Genius album numeric ID, Musée Picasso ID, Genius song numeric ID, Crew united Titel, Crew united Name


 * Query examples:
 * Articles about obituaries (source)
 * Map of Slovenian cultural monuments coloured by type (source)
 * 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French settlements with more than one word in the name] (source)
 * People after which a state is named (source)
 * "official name" statements including a slash punctuation mark (source)
 * Streets in the Netherlands named after a woman described in Els Kloek's book (source)
 * Map of parts of the wall of Philip II Augustus in Paris (source)


 * Development
 * Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (T204031)
 * Fixed alignment issues with Glosses on Lexeme pages (T207401)
 * Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (T207150)
 * Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2019-02
<section begin="technews-2019-W02"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes
 * RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata.
 * Octicons-tools.svg MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment.
 * Octicons-tools.svg codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code.
 * Octicons-tools.svg On several wikis, an account named "" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg In AbuseFilter, the "" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).

Meetings
 * Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2019-W02"/> 18:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2018
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 19:58, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

SockPuppet Investigation
Good Morning, I had a question about the sockpuppet investigation about me that you reviewed. You mentioned "Their UA, a common one, is identical, though" I was curious what that meant. I honestly have no idea who is operating the MarkAGuinn account (though I also recognize me just saying that isn't a good argument from your perspective), but I don't know enough about the review to make a coherent defense. Aside from your concern on the investigation, the accusation rests primarily on MarkAGuinn having used a less sophisticated variant of my argument and Orientls dislike of that as an argument. I wanted to check with you to better understand what other reasoning led to the block. Anything you could offer would be appreciated. Squatch347 (talk) 14:19, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #347
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Past: IRC office hour, January 8th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
 * Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm, Germany, on February 22-24. The organization team is looking for people who can give introduction to Wikidata, QuickStatements or gadgets (in German).


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Connecting PCGamingWiki and Wikidata by Connor Shea
 * VOSviewer supports large number of new data sources (including Wikidata)
 * Interview of Denny Vrandečić on the podcast Between the Brackets, about Wikidata and plenty of other things


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (documentation)
 * The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check the current ticket for more updates.
 * New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
 * Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: urban population, rural population, corporate purpose, closest approach
 * External identifiers: Uppsala General Catalogue ID, IFPNI species ID, Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, The White-files species ID, Hymnary text ID, Lace bugs database ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, OSGS-Number, MNAM artwork ID, IHOI work ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Musée Picasso artwork ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: official color, euler characteristic, REDIZO, number of articles, property for implied values, BNP Catalog ID, Psyl'list species ID, charter URL, works in collection, precedes word-initial, WordLift ID
 * External identifiers: Litchfield Ledger ID, NicoNicoPedia, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, Interpol WOA ID, MAMVP ID, VectorBase Taxonomy ID, Köztaurusz azonosító, TV Spielfilm, Norwegian silvertax 1816 contributor ID, Krugosvet article, infosport.ru person ID, Viperson ID, iTunes TV season ID, sportufo.ru person ID, RBU person ID, biathlon.com.ua person ID, skiresort.info ID, AiF dossier, JORFSearch organization ID, ELNET ID, U-DISE code, AISHE code, EIIN number


 * Query examples:
 * Schools of magic by numbers of students (source)
 * Members of the Association for Computing Machinery who also gave TED talks (source)
 * Languages where some lexemes have more than one grammatical gender entered in Wikidata (source)
 * Timeline of early French aviation pioneers (source)
 * Map of schools where virtual twins were educated (source)
 * Most cited Magnuses in Wikidata (source)


 * Development
 * Solving an issue that blocked deployments over the past weeks (T212427)
 * Improved the visual appearance of glosses (T207401)
 * Fixing problems with reverting Sense addition (T211438)
 * Improving our Javascript to be more standard (T210744)
 * Working on performing more constraint type checks in PHP before falling back to SPARQL (T209504)
 * Making the query service logo and favicon configurable in one's own Wikibase (T212210)
 * More work on displaying the termbox on mobile (T207150)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2019-03
<section begin="technews-2019-W03"/> 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
 * You can now use Google Translate in the content translation tool.
 * You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
 * Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Templates with   could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. has a new   parameter now. You can use it for selectors like.

Problems
 * When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
 * Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The AbuseFilter variable  has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15 <section end="technews-2019-W03"/> 17:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

File:British Railways Eastern Region timetable for Summer 1963.jpg
It was recently noticed by myself and others that the British Rail items were subject to Crown Copyright, which lasts 50 years. In 2013, this file entered public domain File:British Railways Eastern Region timetable for Summer 1963.jpg. It was uploaded with a higher resolution but shrunk due to copyright. User:Ww2censor told me an administrator could restore the old file prior to the reduction in resolution.--The Navigators (talk)-May British Rail Rest in Peace. 20:11, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * And perhaps also tag it as . ww2censor (talk) 22:25, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Deletion review for Nazo Dharejo
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Nazo Dharejo. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Zanhe (talk) 20:13, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Do [[Gang Stalking]] & [[Gang stalking]] still need WP:GOLDLOCK?
Almost 9 years ago now, you put these pages full protection. I only noticed this today. After watching this video I searched "Gang Stalking" into the search bar, and was redirected to Stalking. I read up on the history behind the redirect. Ideally, this redirect (and Gang stalking) would lead to Stalking as that makes a bit more sense. Regardless, WP:GOLDLOCK seems a bit excessive now. ― <em style="color:black">Matthew J. Long -Talk-<sup style="font-size:75%">☖  04:17, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #348
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * Past: Workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata, 18 January, Berlin. You can check the collaborative documentation
 * Keynote by Amrapali Zaveri (video)
 * Keynote by Daniel Mietchen (slides, video)
 * Upcoming: free software workshop (including Wikidata) in Lyon, France, January 23rd
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Côte d'Ivoire, February 9th
 * Upcoming: Library data camp, a training for librairies about open data and Wikidata, Manchester, UK, March 11th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: WordLift ID, official color, member category, located at street address, charter URL, works in collection
 * External identifiers: Crew united title ID, Genius album numeric ID, Genius song numeric ID, Litchfield Ledger ID, Microsoft Academic ID, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, REDIZO, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, Interpol WOA artwork ID, Online Catalog of Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal ID, MAMVP artwork ID, Psyl'list species ID, VectorBase taxonomy ID, iTunes TV season ID, Hungarian public thesaurus ID, TV Spielfilm film ID, Viperson ID, Krugosvet article, biathlon.com.ua person ID, RBU person ID, sportufo.ru person ID, Skiresort.info ID, Educational Institution Identification Number, U-DISE code, AISHE code


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: inverse label, tussenvoegsel, Linked to profession, chassis, Swedish Organization Number, COOL species ID, Trading name, funk channel ID, personal pronoun
 * External identifiers: Skimap.org ID, Gault et Millau ID, ID theatreonline.com, Swiss Films, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, sports.md athlete ID, iTunes movie ID, iTunes book ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, Smarthistory ID, World Cube Association ID, CORE (Connecting Repositories) ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, Homosaurus identifier, DIZIE ID, identificador Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música


 * Query examples:
 * Images of exoplanets (source)
 * Types of protected historical objects in Loire-Atlantique, France (source)
 * Common long words in scholarly article titles (source)
 * Timeline of writing systems and alphabets (source)
 * Image grid of synthesizers produced by ARP Instruments (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Data Quality


 * Development
 * Fixed a small bug that we introduced with editing badges on wd.org (T213998)
 * Finished collecting data about the user of the termbox (T211015)
 * Fixed an i18n message (T206416)
 * Created some maintenance scripts for creating and approving oauth consumers (T211568)
 * Checked for possible data coruptions due to an issue with change tags (T213281)
 * Fixed an issue with restoring merge revisions in Lexeme (T204041)
 * Configured WikibaseQualityConstraints on test.wikidata (T209922)
 * Turned on the new entity id formatting for properties (T201838)
 * Continued work on glosses, displaying the language name also in edit mode (T209931)
 * Starting investigating on Shape Expressions
 * Mobile termbox: showing language, description and aliases (T207150)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:06, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-04
<section begin="technews-2019-W04"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta.

Recent changes
 * The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category   to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in   on Wikipedias.
 * https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems
 * When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed.
 * MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone.
 * Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * You will be able to use template styles in the  namespace.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2019-W04"/> 20:34, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

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