User talk:Guerillero/Archives/2013/February

Wikibreak
I am on an educational wikibreak until 15 Feb 2013. I will be checking my emails during this time. -- Guerillero &#124;  My Talk  01:42, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I hope yours goes better than mine has been. I... erm... seem to still be here.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  06:55, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * It seems to be going well. The real world is distracting enough. Guerillero  &#124;  My Talk  17:20, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The what?  S ven M anguard   Wha?  17:31, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Request for Course Instructor Right Evaluation
Hello! I've noticed that you do a lot of work for the Wikipedia US Education Program, and I recently (very recently, so I'm being rather impatient) requested rights as an instructor to assist my professor in some curricula that she's looking at implementing (I get a feeling that a lot of your instructors are actually assistants like myself, but I'm thrilled to be a part of the project). I noticed on your talk page that you're taking a vacation, and I hope that it's going very well. When you get back or have a moment to look at my request, I'd really appreciate if you could give your input and/or process it at WP:ENB! Thanks so much! --Jackson Peebles (talk) 05:59, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I am away to concentrate on my school work. I hope that someone on the Education noticeboard and help you. Guerillero  &#124;  My Talk  17:17, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #43
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 13:23, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia
 * Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
 * Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
 * Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
 * Working on property parser function for the client
 * Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
 * Resumed work on linked data interface
 * References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
 * Several minor user interface fixes
 * Styling of the user interface for statements
 * Selenium tests for references
 * Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
 * Worked on puppet
 * Discussions/Press
 * Abuse filter guidelines
 * Policy on properties
 * First external tool for output in RDF: and
 * Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)
 * Events
 * We’ve set the date for the next office hours
 * upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Admin reconfirmation is still ongoing
 * Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Wikipedia for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
 * Hack on one of these

The Signpost: 04 February 2013

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Thanks, man!
Thanks for proving my point, man! I recommend you to run for the committee again the next year. I am sure you'd make a great arbitrator. 67.169.10.90 (talk) 15:30, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Your welcome. I may run again, I am not sure of my plans. -- Guerillero &#124;  My Talk  17:32, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #44
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 16:08, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Deployment of the first parts of phase 2 (infoboxes/statements) on wikidata.org done - see it live for example here, here and here
 * Diffs for statement edits can now be shown
 * Started work on query definitions
 * Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
 * Edit links are now hidden when viewing old revision
 * Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
 * More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
 * Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
 * New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
 * JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
 * Repaired and updated the demo system
 * Resumed work on Linked Data interface
 * Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
 * There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
 * Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
 * Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
 * Discussions/Press
 * Signpost
 * Lots of discussions about the usage details and policies of phase 2 on d:Wikidata:Project chat
 * Events
 * FOSDEM
 * upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on the English language Wikipedia is still planned for Monday late evening UTC (pending a performance review)
 * List of existing properties and their usage
 * List of new proposed properties
 * Open Tasks for You
 * d:User:PinkAmpersand is looking for someone to write a script that once someone has been made an autopatroller, retroactively patrols all of their prior edits
 * d:Wikidata:Press coverage could use some love and care
 * Hack on one of these

This Month in GLAM: January 2013
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The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven
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Featured sounds
Now that I'm back, I think it's damn well time we relaunched this. After all, it's an important part of any encyclopedia that means to depict music. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:34, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I think technology has progressed enough in the past year to make this boat float. I'm in as long as we keep this entirely onwiki. -- Guerillero &#124;  My Talk  04:58, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 February 2013

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Featured sound candidates/Glinka Barcarolle
I really, really wish you'd delete your comments there. I honestly think it's better to get this resumed before we start making changes; once we have people, we can sort out criteria changes easily, but we're not going to get that if we keep the project dead. The project needs to show some life if anyone's going to pay attention to it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:22, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * No. Carts come after the service animal not before. -- Guerillero &#124;  My Talk  13:52, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Notice of discussiont to revamp WP:FS
As a formerly active discussant at WT:FSC, I would like to call your attention to Wikipedia talk:Featured sound candidates.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:09, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

This Month in Education: February 2013
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Wikidata weekly summary #45
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 21:28, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Deployment to English Wikipedia
 * Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
 * Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
 * Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
 * Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
 * Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
 * Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
 * Started with valueview refactoring
 * Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
 * Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
 * Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
 * Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
 * Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
 * More work on Lua-based templates for entities
 * Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
 * Created query object
 * Proper bot-flagging of edits (44857)
 * Use of ID to directly address an item or property
 * Search should give more of the complete matches now
 * Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
 * More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
 * Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
 * Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
 * Discussions/Press
 * List of currently existing properties
 * Proposals for new properties
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
 * Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
 * Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
 * New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
 * Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
 * Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
 * Ability to add items to claims by their ID
 * Better handling of deleted properties
 * More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
 * We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
 * Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
 * Check out a well-done item
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help expand en:Wikipedia:Wikidata
 * Help expand and translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
 * Hack on one these

The Signpost: 18 February 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #46
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
 * Development
 * Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID
 * Updated demo system
 * Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
 * Implemented first version of a string data type
 * Worked on better error reporting from the API
 * Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
 * Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
 * Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities)
 * Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance
 * Worked on cleanup of local entity store
 * Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries
 * Discussions/Press
 * Wikidata development will continue in 2013
 * Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing
 * RFC about the Wikidata API
 * Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at d:Wikidata:List of properties and new ones are being discussed at [d:Wikidata:Property proposal]]
 * RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata
 * Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines
 * Events
 * office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log)
 * upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
 * Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them
 * Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata
 * “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata)
 * List of most used properties
 * OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles
 * Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
 * We’ve hit Q5000000
 * Had a look at d:Wikidata:Tools lately?
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these
 * Help translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
 * Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia

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DC happy hour on Thursday, February 28!
Please join Wikimedia DC for Happy Hour at the Capitol City Brewery at Metro Center on Thursday, February 28 at 6 p.m. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, see Meetup/DC 34. Hope to see you there! Harej (talk) 02:17, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven (special Birthday recap)


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Over the past year almost 2000 questions have been asked and answered, 669 editors have introduced themselves, 1670 guests have been served, 867 experienced Wikipedians have participated in the project, and 137 have served as hosts. Read more project analysis in our CSCW 2013 paper

Last month January was our most active month so far! 78 profiles were created, 46 active hosts answered 263 questions, and 11 new hosts joined the project.

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Mass Amateurization Advice?
Hi Guerillero. Thanks for taking the time to volunteer as online ambassador for our course. We are planning to move our article on Mass Amateurization to the main Wikipedia space within the next week. Do you have time to take a quick look at it and give us some feedback? Primarily, we want to make sure that our article doesn't have any glaring formatting or phrasing issues.Here's a link to my Sandbox where the article exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SCTT/sandbox SCTT (talk) 20:54, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 February 2013

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Trinity031
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