User talk:Gobonobo/Archive 17

Elizabeth Brown
Thanks for adding the pic! Raystorm   (¿Sí?)  17:41, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Gobōnobō  + c 04:10, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Ada Lovelace
Thank you indeed, that's much appreciated. Looking at edits by others, though, I clearly still have a lot to learn. Regards, Eric:  Esowteric + Talk  09:26, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You seem to be doing fine to me. Gobōnobō  + c 04:10, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Editathon at Minneapolis Central
The event is on November 3, please let me know if you can come. &mdash;innotata 22:31, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your work on this Innotata. I should be able to make it. Gobōnobō  + c 04:10, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Why I stopped using citation templates:
I learned that they take much longer to process and load, and that although this difference is small with short articles or fast connections, it is hard on users without good connections as the articles get longer. OTOH I have heard 'rumors' that 'they' will someday fix this problem universally, and I do understand that templates make export to biblio software easier; I guess I just have chronic underdog bias :-) groupuscule (talk) 03:56, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I've thought about this before, and have similarly read that if slowness was an issue, it would be dealt with technically and there was no need to alter citation style. However, it is apparent that this remains an issue that affects the utility of the site, particularly for users with slow connections. I'll keep citation load time in mind in the future. Thanks for the note. Gobōnobō  + c 04:10, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #29
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 13:51, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Content Handler is now live on Wikipedia and sister sites
 * Prefix term search for entities
 * Fixed bugs that popped up after Content Handler merge
 * API function wbsearchentities
 * Discussed JavaScript refactoring
 * Refactored some JavaScript stuff (like options handling)
 * Worked on JavaScript refactoring regarding the API
 * Implemented entity selector jQuery widget
 * Continued deployment work with WMF
 * Poked at Vagrant
 * Create puppet scripts for setting up Wikibase instances
 * New release of Pywikidata
 * Discussions/Press
 * Discussions around bots on the mailing list
 * Events
 * Bootstrapping Awesome
 * SMWCon
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Jenkins test results are now online (we’re still investigating why quite some of them are failing atm)
 * Nice video about the why and how of Open Data
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Main Page draft is taking shape but you can still help out with it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Main_Page_draft
 * Hack on one of these

DYK nomination of Marietta Pallis
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Bad Pharma
Hi Gobonobo, just a note to say thank you very much for reviewing the book, and for the kind words. All the best, SlimVirgin (talk) 21:24, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You're quite welcome. Gobōnobō  + c 04:10, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Kamala Sohonie
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:02, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Mary Pickford (physiologist)
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

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If you have time - and feel like it...
I'm going to rework the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame to include images. It didn't take me long to realize there are about 300 names there. I already know from re-working Texas museums that so many names with images will make the page impossible to open. So, I'm going to break it up with a main page (the existing one) that has links to other tables of lists. What I'm wondering, do you think that while I'm working on the tables, you might expand what is now the lead. That way, it won't look so puny that some drive-by person slaps a tag on it. To give you an idea, today and part of yesterday, I've been working on the 1983-1989 part over on one of my user pages. That batch alone is about 60 names, give or take a few. The other 240 or so are separated out in another user page. Either way, I'll work on the tables. Hope you can help with the prose of the lead. Thanks. If you don't want to, that's OK also — Maile (talk) 01:31, 28 October 2012 (UTC)


 * It's unfortunate that lists like this get bogged down by thumbnail images. I'm glad to see that you're not using the era or group columns. I'd love to help. I'll see if I can find some sources for expanding the lead. Gobōnobō  + c 02:03, 28 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for helping with this. When I woke up this morning, I considered abandoning the idea.  But I'm past the Point of No Return now.  I just finished on 1990-1999. That decade alone has 92 nominees and 71,646 bytes. Very few images.  I think it's the citations and links that ratchet up the size. I'm estimating that years 2000-2012 have about 150 nominees. — Maile  (talk) 00:45, 29 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, well, well...you and I are not the only ones paying attention to this. A sysop just went over to my sandbox where I have the 1983-1989 nominees and removed all non-free images. Fine with me - I'm not wedded to those images.  It just seemed very intrusive to have it happen to a sandbox. — Maile  (talk) 01:14, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

OK, I've just wiped out all the work I did for the last couple of days. I won't be returning to this one. Ewww-yuck. If we've got someone stalking our sandboxes - which is what that was - it's not worth it to me to put in all this unpaid work. Yuck. A stalker among us. — Maile (talk) 01:52, 29 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Images that are freely licensed are fine to use wherever, but non-free images can only be used on articles if fair use rationales have been provided (compliant with WP:NFCC). I think removing non-free images from user spaces is just a routine administrative task. I'm sure it was nothing personal. Regardless, I'm sorry to see that your effort was for nought. Hopefully someday the coders will figure out a way to allow us to have fast loading pages that are heavy on citations and images. Gobōnobō  + c 08:31, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Darshan Ranganathan
Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Eleanor Maguire
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:03, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2012 October newsletter
The 2012 WikiCup has come to a close; congratulations to, our 2012 champion! Cwmhiraeth joins our exclusive club of previous winners: (2007),  (2008),  (2009),  (2010) and  (2011). Our final standings were as follows:



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 * The news award goes to, for 10 in the news items in round 3.
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 * The reviewer award goes to both (14 reviews in round 1) and  (14 reviews in round 3).
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Awards will be handed out in the coming days; please bear with us! This year's competition also saw fantastic contributions in all rounds, from newer Wikipedians contributing their first good or featured articles, right up to highly experienced Wikipedians chasing high scores and contributing to topics outside of their usual comfort zones. It would be impossible to name all of the participants who have achieved things to be proud of, but well done to all of you, and thanks! Wikipedia has certainly benefited from the work of this year's WikiCup participants.

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DYK for Ida Freund
Yngvadottir (talk) 08:03, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Rosalind Pitt-Rivers
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DYK for Beatrice Blackwood
The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Eric Fehrnstrom


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 * Only independent, reliable references that go into detail about him are about the etch-a-sketch controversy. This is a clear cast of WP:ONEEVENT

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Wikidata weekly summary #30
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 12:26, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Launched wikidata.org \o/
 * Updated http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation (We need feedback on the data flow from Wikidata to the Wikipedias http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064196.html)
 * Updated the demo system: http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de
 * Tagged a 0.1 release https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase.git;a=tags
 * Added QUnit tests for DataValues
 * Worked on Api.js JS refactoring
 * Fix content handler and other related core bugs
 * Generalized Autocomment
 * Changed name of wbsetitem to wbeditentity
 * First implementation of wbsearchentities
 * More Puppet scripts and Vagrant exploration
 * All of the API should now handle prefixed IDs
 * Implemented templating system
 * Browser code and server code both starts to use templates
 * Jeroen and Daniel were added as primary authors of MediaWiki core for their work on the Content Handler
 * Discussions/Press
 * “wikidata.org is live” got quite some responses in the press. Some examples: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/wikidata-oeffnet-als-zentrale-datenbank-fuer-wikipedia-a-864649.html and http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikidata-Daten-Fundus-fuer-Wikipedia-eroeffnet-1740780.html
 * Events
 * SMWCon
 * WMF metrics and activities meeting
 * upcoming: office hours on IRC
 * upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie
 * upcoming: ISWC
 * upcoming: talk at Bergman Center
 * upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna
 * We’re looking for partners for a mass collaboration assembly at 29C3
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * First 1000 items: http://pastebin.com/Gahpgekp (html: http://pastebin.com/5L6N2gZq)
 * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:Task_force
 * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions
 * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#SlurpInterwiki_script
 * Translate extension enabled on wikidata.org for easier translation of help and similar pages
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation
 * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&list_id=151541&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org

DYK for Edith Bülbring
Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:02, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Sydney Mary Thompson
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DYK nomination of Isis Pogson
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DYK
I've left a message for you at your DYK nomination for Anne Elizabeth Ball. Anne (talk) 16:57, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you Anne. I've left a note for the article's creator and will try to find a copy of the ODNB reference to see if it contains a different birth place. Gobōnobō  + c 13:03, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Anne (talk) 15:42, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Rosalind Pitt-Rivers
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:02, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Margaret Meyer
Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:03, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Marietta Pallis
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #31
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
 * Development
 * Tpt wrote an awesome SpecialPage (Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel) that lists all items without a label in a given language (merged; will be in next deployment)
 * Tpt changed the page to create new items to allow you to enter links as well
 * Created patch for review for next deployment on wikidata.org
 * Updated demo system
 * Worked on and discussed editing widgets for data values
 * Some cleanup and further refactoring in JS of EditableValue
 * Added a message on the client’s Special:MovePage to invite users to update the associated page on the repository
 * Reviewed a whole pile of changesets
 * Helped with testing of deployment branch
 * Fixed Selenium search test & sitelink tests
 * Added Selenium tests for checking for security issues (JS injections)
 * Worked on Api.js refactoring
 * Worked on and fixed bugs in wbsearchentities
 * Couple of minor fixes in the front end
 * Introduced siteselector jQuery widget untangling functionality of SiteIdInterface


 * Discussions/Press
 * Flow of data between Wikidata repo and Wikipedias
 * Nice front page article in the latest edition of Linux User and Developer


 * Events
 * office hours (logs here and here)
 * WMF metrics and activities meeting
 * right now: Wikimedia Conferentie + hackathon
 * upcoming: ISWC
 * upcoming: talk at Berkman Center
 * upcoming: intro and Q&A in Vienna


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Stewards approved the first round of admins for Wikidata
 * wikidata.org has been added to the global interwiki map so you should soon be able to write Q2 and link to item Q2 for example
 * Database dumps are available
 * New tools were added
 * Top 1000 articles task force has been completed
 * Denny did some language analysis on Wikipedia articles here and here
 * Great Wikidata artwork!

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DYK for Mary Parke
The DYK project (nominate) 08:09, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Mary Barber (natural historian)
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 * Hi, I see you started to add inline citations. Per DYK rules, there needs to be at least one cite per paragraph. Also, the prose is less than encyclopedic. Best, Yoninah (talk) 10:49, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Please see new note on DYK talk page. Yoninah (talk) 21:29, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

This is not a newsletter
This is just a tribute.

Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.

In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:59, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Sydney Mary Thompson
The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Mary Elizabeth Barber
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:08, 15 November 2012 (UTC)