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Category:Chinese footballers
OK Dsp13 (talk) let me get this straight, you've gone on to delete the Category:Chinese footballers from as I speak 44 players even though the majority of the people from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football still believe that this page has relevance.

You're also created a new page Category:Chinese association football defenders, which needs further discussion such as 1) What about players who play in several positions? 2) Does a player fall into this category if they've only played a few minutes there, or only one game there? 3a) Are you gonna apply a simular page to all the other countries? 3b) If not why not?

User talk:Kai Lau 9 October

I'll add a headline this time
That was years ago, I'm a reformed character these days. Not even on the brink of recidivism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Septemberfourth476 (talk • contribs) September 4th, 2012
 * delighted to hear it :) Dsp13 (talk) 21:34, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

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Category:Chinese association football defenders
Dear Dsp13 thank you for re-directing me to Categorisation discussion of your recently created category page. After reading the arguments presented I don't think this the best way in refining the search for a player and I will be reverting the player pages you changed.

Yours sincerely User talk:Kai Lau 16 October.

Jane Chambers
A long overdue Wiki Notable. I just wanted to say thanks for your contribution of her worthwhile inclusion. Her "Bluefish Cove" play was definitely a landmark piece Pjt48 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:25, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * thanks very much! really kind of you to take the trouble to get in touch. Terry Baum on the way, though I have to stop now for a children's birthday party.Dsp13 (talk) 14:42, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Nasuhi al-Bukhari
Hello Dsp13. Thanks for creating the article on former PM Nasuhi al-Bukhari. I expanded the article a bit, and nominated it to WP:DYK. I hope you don't mind. Also, thanks for that great resource of redlinks you put together, it comes quite handy. Cheers. Yazan (talk) 14:28, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * thanks! I saw you'd spotted the redlinks, and I'm really pleased if they come in handy. I was surprised that such a low proportion of the people in Sami Moubayed's book were in WP. Dsp13 (talk) 15:52, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Nasuhi al-Bukhari
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A barnstar for you!

 * thanks very much indeed for taking the trouble to send this! Much appreciated. Dsp13 (talk) 12:23, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * thanks very much! I've commented at the nominations page. Dsp13 (talk) 13:16, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

List of schools/meetup
I've got my grammar school list up now, at List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century). I guess any attempt to describe the unreformed system is going to be messy, for reasons explained in the lead.

Meetup/Cambridge/16 for the next meetup, 28 October. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:30, 29 September 2012 (UTC)


 * thanks for both of those: re the schools, I've added some redirects to help see which of the redlinks there were real, and some queries on the talk page. 28 October is half-term, but I hope to come if we're not away.Dsp13 (talk) 15:35, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the editing. I wish I had a slick answer about what to do with the list, which isn't comprehensive (no pun intended). Plenty to do with those schools, and perhaps other lists will be needed in future. Category:Ancient grammar schools of Cheshire, an oddity, shows up the problem. Charles Matthews (talk) 14:21, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Margaret Cousins
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

BHM aftermath
Can you see a way forward for this draft? It was created by the person I worked with most at Friday's workshop. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:16, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Had a quick look last night, will hopefully get back to it at some point. Interesting. Dsp13 (talk) 09:18, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I've expanded and resubmitted it. Dsp13 (talk) 22:43, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for all the help so far. Still finding it all a bit of an uphill struggle, but no doubt I'll figure it out as I go along! KarenLMasters (talk) 11:08, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

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 * Added filter and preference for recent changes on the client, to show/hide Wikidata edits
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 * Fixed some issues in the Wikidata Vagrant
 * Added puppet recipe for Wikidata on WMF labs
 * Worked on making statements editable in the frontend
 * JSON of entities is sent to the frontend now
 * Finalized DataTypes extension’s $.valueview system
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 * Added Selenium tests for special pages
 * Tracking separate revision ids in Javascript to fix the edit conflict handling
 * Fixed fatal PHP error in Special:SetLabel
 * Entities with just whitespaces as label/description are not allowed anymore
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 * foss.in
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 * SWIB
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 * Code-base is now nearly 100 000 lines
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 * Open Tasks for You
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Jessie Stephen
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 * Added wbsetqualifier API module
 * Added wbremovequalifiers API module
 * New JavaScript wb.Api now used for labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks
 * Improved Selenium tests and PHPUnit tests
 * Selenium tests now independent from ULS
 * Selenium tests for statements UI
 * Existing statements can be edited now
 * Filtering anons and Wikidata in RecentChanges on client now works correctly
 * Added extra checks on client RecentChange save point to avoid duplicate entries
 * Started an experimental branch with API methods for claims
 * Link to Commons Media displayed for Snak values of related data type
 * Improved styling of statements in JavaScript mode
 * Improvements in templating engine
 * Started working on adding Statements to existing section of Statements
 * Set up a fresh dev server for testing
 * Discussions/Press
 * Publicity for Wikidata and Wikivoyage
 * “Importing data is hard: a rant about integrating open data projects”
 * Disallowing links to locked wikis
 * Sourcing of every statement
 * Events
 * Foss.in
 * Intro and Q&A in Bangalore
 * WhereCamp Berlin
 * Upcoming: Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management, Karlsruhe
 * Announced next office hours
 * Still looking for people/projects to join us for the mass collaboration assembly
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New mockups for phase 2: 1 and 2
 * New admin notice board
 * “How to Edit Wikidata” presentation by Sven
 * “Working With MediaWiki” has been released. First book to mention Wikidata!
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 * Development
 * Deployed new code on wikidata.org. All changes can be found here
 * Updated demo system
 * http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses http://wikidata.org for getting language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden)
 * Statements (think of “population: 2.000.000” and similar things) are taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at this point.
 * It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example)
 * Links are now protocol-relative (42534)
 * No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database is set to read-only
 * Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser
 * Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
 * Removed many singletons to reduce global state
 * Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities
 * Improved settings system
 * Improved options of ValueFormatters
 * Improved options of ValueParsers
 * Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any violating values
 * Fixed serialization of SiteArray
 * ~=[,,_,,]:3
 * Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again
 * Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks
 * Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests
 * Report URL to entity in wbsearchentites API module
 * Moved the demo system to a larger server
 * Fixed several bugs in Statements user interface, most notably, adding Statements to existing sections and layout fixes
 * Added wikibase API module on the client to provide information about the associated repo (e.g. url, script path, article path)
 * A bunch of messages for autocomments were fixed (they are automatically added as an edit summary for edits on items and co in Wikidata - for example: “‎Changed [en] description: Finnish rock band”)
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 * “Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge“
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The London Review
Fairly tangled. A trawl through the ODNB makes it clear that post-1860 there was a London Review, though possibly failing. The individual notability of some of these seems troublesome, but of course the inclusionist line that they all are is reasonable. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:35, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I think I'd make that page title about the 1829 one - short-lived but well-documented and the effort of a fairly well-defined intellectual grouping - and have a (disambiguation) page for this list. Timperley misdates Cumberland's 1809 effort, which leads the Waterloo Directory (to which I have academic access at the moment) to misunderstand what he says as being about the European Magazine. As you say, fairly tangled. Dsp13 (talk) 21:12, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

So I have now created Oriel Noetics which was worthy in its own right. I came to much the same conclusion as you, and will try to find out more about the 1829 London Review. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:46, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Rather a lot of matters arising as I chase up the Noetics. Several come from Henry Taylor (dramatist): the Leslie Stephen biog in the DNB on Taylor, an associate of his father, is somewhat tantalising. George Taylor the father of Henry Taylor might be notable: radical sympathies, and reported I believe to the 1832 Royal Commission but more needed. Two women from the Henry Taylor biography look notable: Isabella Fenwick via the Wordsworth connection, and the daughter Ida who is in the ODNB as a biographer. Richard Whately and Nassau Senior both need attention, certainly. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:15, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Taylor's pretty sui generis - but then I find I always think of Victorian dramatists as that. I'm not sure the article's right to call his Stateman a satire - it's unlike anything else at the time, but I think had some serious intent, as an effort (& yet another way of claiming to be Baconian!) to describe how administration actually happened. I'll have a shy at one of the redlinks you suggest. Dsp13 (talk) 16:24, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

I assume the Statesman was the Yes, Minister of its time. By the way, this list is all 600 names from the Dictionary of Nineteenth-century British Philosophers, some of which can be done from the DNB, and some of which are on your redlinks list. Have a good Xmas. Charles Matthews (talk) 14:12, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * exactly very approximately 100 redlinks left on that list! We'll see what we can do about that. Merry Xmas to you. Dsp13 (talk) 09:54, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #37
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 * Removed empty aliases structure from wbsearchentities
 * Heavy Selenium testing of statements UI
 * Improved overall usability and responsiveness of the statements UI
 * Implemented remove functionality for statements in the UI
 * Refactored and added tests for language links handler in the client
 * Bug fixes in the client
 * Improved SiteLinkTable class in WikibaseLib and added tests
 * Started work to improve AbuseFIlter integration
 * Added logic to find all referenced entities for a given set of claims
 * Added serialization of referenced claims to output of entity pages
 * Diff Extension: Split off diffing code from MapDiff and ListDiff to dedicated Differ classes
 * Diff Extension: Added dedicated patcher classes, which are used for the getApplicableDiff functionality
 * Discussions/Press
 * Representing values 1 2 (including a prototype to try out the current state of discussions)
 * "Wikidata: People And Bots Busy Filling The System In Phase One"
 * Events
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 * Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
 * upcoming: 29C3
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 * Wikidata has been added to the Wikimedia stats site
 * Video of the Wikidata talks at Wikimania 2012 is online now
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 * Give input to the representing values discussion
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 * Development
 * Some of us unwrapped gifts (-:
 * Started working on supporting different kinds of Snaks in the user interface
 * Fixing support for PostgreSQL in core, which was broken with introduction of the sites stuff
 * Code reviewing of changes in MediaWiki core
 * Adding watchlist filter in client for Wikidata changes
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 * right now: 29C3
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