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Wikidata weekly summary #63
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 21:41, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Final vote on the "Guidelines for sourcing statements" till June 24.
 * Work started on a policy regarding information about living people
 * Feedback needed on a proposal by the development team for how to support Wiktionary
 * RfC about sockpuppetry guidelines
 * RfC about personal names
 * Events/Press
 * Wikidata, le Wikipédia que vous utiliserez bientôt tous
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
 * Development
 * Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
 * Further work on input validation
 * Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
 * Use Serializers for generating API results
 * Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
 * Changed globe coordinate value input to use backend coordinate parser
 * Fixed issues with data type definitions not being available in the frontend
 * Wrote a little hack so that on statements with a long list of values you will always be able to see the name of the property of the current section you are in (since the label moves when scrolling the page)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #64
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 23:39, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Development team published a proposal how to make use of Wikidata for Commons
 * Community proposal for how Wikidata could support Wikisource
 * RfC on source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * d:User:Byrial is creating database reports that are useful to find issues in the current data
 * Denny created a map of all geocoordinates currently in Wikidata (normal and huge version - updated daily)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: RTECS number (P657), RefSeq (P656), translator (P655)
 * Development
 * The Wikidata bug report with the most votes was closed (36729 - updating the link on Wikidata automatically when a page on Wikipedia is moved)
 * Wikipedia pages will soon have a link named "Data item" in the toolbox section of the sidebar that links to the Wikidata item that is connected to the page (49105 - You can already see it on the main page of test2.wikipedia.org for example.)
 * Calendar names displayed for time values can now be translated (49080)
 * Added serializers for the Ask query language
 * Buuuugfixes and testing
 * Refactoring
 * Worked on better handling of bad values (= values that don't fit the datatype they should have)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #65
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 16:41, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Alternative proposal for Wiktionary support
 * RfC on the sourcing requirements for bots
 * Project chat discussion about creating a new Requests for mergers page
 * One of our Google Summer of Code students is looking for feedback on mockups for Wikidata mobile
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: MeSH Code (P672), Mouse Genome Informatics ID (P671), street number (P670)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 22nd, see the coordination page here
 * Addshore joins the Wikidata development team as an intern (project chat)
 * Byrial creates Statistics showing the namespaces used in item site links
 * Proposal for a new Wikimedia Foundation Sister project called 'Global Economic Map' that could use Wikidata at its core (on meta.)
 * Development
 * Very rough and tentative timeline for the next month of development: Roadmap
 * Continued work on validation and handling of partially invalid data
 * Breaking change for 'wbeditentity' in the API fixing (49526) - when creating new items the 'new' parameter must now be given
 * Improved handling of broken UTF-8 encoding
 * Made it possible to enter the direction in a geocoordinate also at the beginning now (for example 52°31′N 13°23′E can soon also be entered as N 52°31′ E 13°23′)
 * Introduced PropertyInfoStore for quick access to meta-info about properties
 * Deserialization of Description objects in Ask
 * Lots of bugfixing
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
 * Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Hack on one of these

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, July 13!
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Wikidata weekly summary #66
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 14:42, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * A request for comment on defining administrator activity
 * A request for comment on image properties
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A personal note and secret from Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)
 * Denny's map gets an upgrade, take a look at the amazing visualisations!
 * Browser search plugins for wikidata have beeen created.
 * Byrial's database reports have been updated from the 2013-07-10 dump! These can be seen here.
 * Development
 * Support for badges in the process of being added to the DataModel.
 * Created further UI mockups for Wikidata Mobile.
 * Front end performance improvements in a few areas (including multiple edits on pages).
 * The bug in wbeditentity where aliases were removed has been fixed.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: eMedicine (P673), a list of (P674), Google Books identifier (P675), lyrics by (P676), ÚSOP code (P677), incertae sedis (P678), ZVG number (P679), molecular function (P680), cell component (P681), biological process (P682), ChEBI ID (P683), ortholog (P684), NCBI Taxonomy ID (P685), Gene Ontology ID (P686)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
 * Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #67
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 15:17, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * A request for comment for exclusion criteria in wikipedia namespace.
 * Images for the Main Page proposed and discussed on project chat.
 * Discussion on Wikivoyage notability and changes to WD:N.
 * Request for comment on sockpuppetry guidelines closes.
 * Events/Press
 * Watson has received the Feigenbaum Prize which has been donated to Wikimedia and Wikidata.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Kemler ID (P700), Disease Ontology ID (P699), Pubmed ID (PMID) (P698), Ex taxon author(s) (P697)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in China, is created.
 * 239 Million language links removed from the Wikipedias, almost 5GB of text. (2012 vs 2013).
 * Saskia joins the Wikidata team to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata.
 * Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, see the coordination page here.
 * Development
 * Wmf11 has been deployed to test.wikidata.org!
 * Wikidata is moving from a Squid to a Varnish cache system!
 * Search ranking has been improved ready for the next deployment where Wikivoyage support will also be added.
 * Optional title normalization added to 'wbgetentities'
 * Fixed broken XML result for wbeditentity.
 * Fixed broken link to anchor in sitelinks section.
 * Templates no longer parsed in labels.
 * Technical documentation improved for Ask and WikibaseQueryEngine.
 * Work started on EntitiesByPropertyValue API module.
 * Work on ChangeOps and API module edit summaries.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
 * Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Hack on one of these

Infobox neuron
Please vote for these proposals concerning the Wikidata Medicine project and the Neuron Infobox: d:Wikidata:Property_proposal/Term. Thank you. --Tobias1984 (talk) 09:45, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #68
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 * Discussions
 * New UI Mockup suggested for Wikidata Mobile. Please give feedback.
 * Events/Press
 * Next office hour on August 26
 * upcoming: COSCUP
 * upcoming: Wikimania (including hackathon)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata learns to travel - language link support for Wikivoyage has been enabled and it was concluded that Wikivoyagers are pretty awesome
 * There is now a gadget you can use to see a map of a geocoordinate on Wikidata
 * Picture of the week could use some more input
 * Top 20 items on Wikidata that are covered in a lot of Wikipedias? Here you go.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Dodis (P701), encoded by (P702), found in taxon (P703), Ensembl Transcript ID (P704), Ensembl Protein ID (P705), located on terrain feature (P706), Satellite bus (P707), diocese (P708), Historic Scotland ID (P709), participant (P710), Strunz 8 (P711), Strunz 9 (P712), Strunz 10 (P713), Dana 8th edition (P714), Drugbank ID (P715), JPL Small-Body Database identifier (P716), Minor Planet Center observatory code (P717), Canmore ID (P718), Notable Incident (P719)
 * Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
 * Development
 * When a page is moved on Wikipedia or Wikivoyage the link on Wikidata is now updated (36729)
 * Ranking of the search results has been improved
 * Worked on URL data type
 * Added coveralls.io support for most of our components (test coverage)
 * Fixed some minor bugs related to site-links editing
 * Fixed 52023, where multiple anon warning bubbles are displayed at once
 * Worked on SpamBlacklist to filter URL values in Wikibase
 * Improved handling of corrupt data from the database
 * Made tests more reliable
 * Made regular undo via the API work with Wikibase
 * Worked on Time value formatter
 * Error handling for ByPropertyValue API module
 * Work on implementing QueryEntity
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #69
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 * Discussions
 * Request for comment on defining CheckUsers.
 * Request for comment on class ⇄ instance relationship in Wikidata
 * The d:Wikidata:Global Economic Map task force is starting its property list. Please go there to propose important properties about economics for countries, regions or companies.
 * Events/Press
 * Next office hour on August 26
 * COSCUP this weekend, Taipei (August 3-4, 2013)
 * Wikimania is nearly here!, Hong Kong (August 7-11, 2013)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The list of interwiki links has been updated with more infomation and now also includes wikivoyage!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: removed feature, introduced feature, Parent company
 * Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
 * Development
 * Custom edit-summaries added for the majority of API modules
 * Started working on implementation for ordering qualifiers in the JavaScript user interface
 * ChangeOps for wbsetclaimvalue, wbcreateclaim, wbremoveclaims and refactoring of wbremoveclaim
 * Fix handling of '0' value in API response
 * Solved bugs related to copyright notice
 * Some minor UI speed improvements
 * EditEntity refactored
 * Test cases improved
 * Further work on URLs
 * Work on implementing QueryEntity
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

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DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, August 24!
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Wikidata weekly summary #70
<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="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 14:22, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Request for comment on Property proposal organisation reform to a more Model
 * Request for comment on VCards for Wikivoyage
 * Requests for bot approval has many requests that need further discussion!
 * Many property proposals still need input!
 * Events/Press
 * Wikimania continues! If you are around make sure you come and say Hi!
 * Wikidata meetup in the chapters village on Saturday at 1 PM at Wikimania.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Following numerous discussions we are happy to present the new version of the proposal that would lead to Wikidata supporting structured data for the Wiktionaries.
 * There are now only an estimated 1,000,000 articles remaining with inter language links, down from the previous 26,000,000!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: LAU (local administrative unit), Sikart (identifier in SIKART), symptoms (the possible symptoms of a medical condition)
 * Frequently used for cities and other places, P17 ("country") indicates the sovereign state an item relates to. There now at least 100 items for most present day sovereign states. Leading is China (Q148) with 607,817 items, followed by Iran (!794) with 105,875 items and the United States of America (Q30) with 99,243 items. China rose from just 5266 items a month ago.
 * Development
 * Changeops implemented for all Api modules
 * All Api modules now have better auto comments and custom summaries
 * Work on claim ordering started
 * Work on refactoring Api Tests
 * Bug Fixes!!
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

interested in being an OA for Developmental Biology course?
Hi klortho, Keilana&#124;Parlez ici is going to be an OA for a developmental biology course I'm teaching this fall, where students edit wikipedia pages (in teams of 3). Here's my course page from doing this spring 2013 Education Program:Boston College/Developmental Biology (Spring 2013), and I'm setting up a new course page now Education Program:Boston College/Developmental Biology (Fall 2013)(though just fraked the course wizard when adding my course timeline table!). She said you were super, and if having two OAs for a course isn't greedy, would be great to have you join us! I have 22 currently enrolled, so will have 7 teams, each team working on one page. Hakeleh (talk) 15:26, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for contacting me. I'm afraid I'm going to have to decline, though it grieves me to do so.  I am just overextended right now.  I wish you the best of luck!  You were very lucky to find Keilana, she's the best!  Klortho (talk) 22:09, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #71
<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="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 22:43, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * COSCUP (Wikidata intro slides)
 * Wikimania (State of Wikidata presentation, Tech behind Wikidata presentation, Wiktionary discussion)
 * Wikidata babel multi-language easter egg
 * The Occitan Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
 * Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
 * To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
 * Newest task forces: Physics task force
 * Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
 * Development
 * Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
 * Worked on simple special page to make a query (52385)
 * Worked on ability to move qualifiers
 * Started improving API and Special Page tests
 * Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (51914)
 * ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
 * Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
 * Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
 * Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
 * Open Tasks for You
 * See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
 * Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Hack on one of these.

Are you free on Wednesday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of Wednesday, August 24 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 11:32, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #72
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 * Discussions
 * Discussion started about improving the RfC process
 * d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources has been closed
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Report from Wikimania
 * Wikidata meets Incubator
 * Office hour on 26th
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Average edits per page is nearly 5 now.
 * Wikivoyage is still scheduled to get access to data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on August 26.
 * Developers are working hard to also make the URL datatype available by August 26 but there are factors that are not in their hands so it might have to be delayed until the next deployment in 2 weeks. URL as a datatype will soon be available on test.wikidata.org. Please give it some thorough testing and report bugs.
 * Outsch! (Help collect and fix paper cuts.)
 * Did you know?
 * 20 undescribed monsters
 * Newest properties: separated from (P807), code Bien de Interés Cultural (P808), WPDA id (P809), academic minor (P811), academic major (P812), date retrieved (P813), IUCN protected areas category (P814), ITIS TSN (P815), decays to (P816), decay mode (P817)
 * Development
 * Prepared deployment of phase 2 on Wikivoyage
 * Worked on ability to sort qualifiers and references inside a statement
 * Started work on an api module to merge items
 * Worked on special page to query for items with one specific property and value
 * Cleaned up code for handling recent change entries from Wikidata in the clients (Wikipedia/Wikivoyage)
 * Worked on generic script for populating sites table and better integration with WMF process for creating new wikis
 * Setup new git repo for WikibaseMobile skin and extension
 * Fixed SetClaim api module to properly mark bot edits in recent changes and advised pywikipedia maintainers about adding support for the module. SetClaim can be used to create claims with references in a single edit.
 * Reviewed code for Google Summer of Code students
 * Updated doxygen documentation
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Report a paper cut (see above).
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Hack on one of these.

Meet up with local Wikipedians on September 14!
Are you free on Saturday, September 14? If so, please join Wikimedia DC and local Wikipedians for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages are welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please visit the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 18:49, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

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Are you free next Thursday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!
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Wikidata weekly summary #73
<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="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 13:10, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Request for comment on Geo Coordinates for people
 * Request for comment on reuse of data from DBpedia
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * State of the Map (September 6-8, 2013)
 * Recent office hour logs now availible.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Abraham, Denny and Lydia sat down for an evening trying to capture what Wikidata is about in a video.
 * Deployment! Wikivoyage now has access to the wikidata dataset and various other bugs have also been fixed (including the copyright warning)!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: interchange station (P833), public holiday (P832), parent club (P831), Encyclopedia of Life (P830), OEIS ID (P829), possible causes (P828), BBC programme identifier (P827), tonality (P826), dedicated to (P825), Meteoritical Bulletin Database ID (P824)
 * Newest task forces: País Valencià task force
 * Development
 * Work on allowing API module editentities to edit claims
 * Work on entity / item redirects
 * Work on support for moving qualifiers in API and Frontend
 * Adding coordinates to diff display and improving diff display code
 * Allowing site groups for language links on clients to be configurable (needed for commons)
 * EntityId changes, we are now working on 0.5!
 * Show snaktype in summary for novalue and somevalue snaks
 * Further work on merge module for the API
 * Wrote missing tests for various jQuery widgets
 * Work on value formatters
 * Continue on moving tests to cucumber
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Hi Chris,

Yes, for sure. Sign me up! It was good to meet you and Keilana at GLAM Bootcamp back in April.

Neelix (talk) 01:31, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

I'd be willing to help as well, whenever I can escape the demands of USU. I'm happy to review, answer questions, and help out wherever I can. Good luck to you and all of your students! &bull; Jesse V.(talk) 04:49, 4 September 2013 (UTC)


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 * I checked the page and my name is already there. Do I still need to sign something?


 * Neelix (talk) 16:03, 4 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes. Scroll to the bottom and add yourself as an online volunteer. Klortho (talk) 16:26, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks!
Hi Chris,

Thanks for the welcome and complement on my user page. I should be thanking you because I totally used your userpage as a template and may have borrowed some of your code hahaha.

Which mudder did you do? I did my two in Vermont, one in May 2011 which was freeeeeezing and another in July 2012 which was much better.

How do you like the bioinformatics program? I am doing biotech, but I think I will most likely concentrate in bioinformatics.

I hope I posted this talk correctly.

LutyeusMaximus (talk) 13:22, 17 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I did the Tough Mudder up in Frederick last year. It was fun, but the organization and coordination with the local city was very poor, and there were a lot of problems.  But anyway I'll probably do another one again sometime.
 * I like the BioInformatics program a lot. The biology/chemistry classes are very tough, but the programming classes are easy and fun.
 * Cheers! Klortho (talk) 15:21, 17 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Good to hear you enjoy the program. I am taking Molecular Bio with Dr. Ogg (Obviously) and Advanced Cell Bio 1 with Dr. Koval this semester.  I am excited for the coming semesters when I get to take some of the programming courses.
 * LutyeusMaximus (talk) 15:09, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

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Hello from another student
Hi Chris. I'm also enrolled in the AAP master's program at JHU, but will probably just stick with a general biotech degree although I do plan to take several informatics courses. Thanks for serving as Wiki ambassador. It seems straightforward so far, but I can tell there's a lot of complexity there. Don Brown (talk) 20:29, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
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Hello Wikipedia
Igenes (talk) 22:16, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi,

I am new to Wikipedia community. I am a student from JHU and taking Molecular Biology this semester(Fall, 2013).

-Harshil — Preceding unsigned comment added by Igenes (talk • contribs) 22:12, 23 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi, Harshil, Nice to meet you! Looks like you joined the class rather late!  I hope you can catch up with the tutorial materials.  A couple of pointers:
 * * Don't forget to sign the comments you leave on talk pages
 * * Use the "New section" link at the top of a talk page to start a *new* discussion.
 * I hope you enjoy being a Wikipedia editor!
 * Klortho (talk) 23:29, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi Chris, Nice to meet you too. I was confused on the wikipedia section of this course however still figuring out and hopefully I should catch up soon.Igenes (talk) 05:04, 24 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Don't forget to indent your replies, when replying to someone on a talk page. Do that by inserting a colon at the beginning of each line.  Cheers! Klortho (talk) 12:30, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

my sandbox - RNA-Seq vs Microarray
I just created a sandbox and wrote a few sentences on RNA-Seq vs Microarray. Igenes (talk) 05:06, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Looks good. Another tip:  when referring someone to another page, you could link to it, like this:  "I just created a sandbox and wrote ...".  That makes it easy for the person you're writing to to check it out. Klortho (talk) 12:35, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Hello Again Klortho
Just wanted to say thanks again for your help a couple weeks ago and the words of encouragement...guess I was a little early with my worries since everything seems to be running smoothly now. Sridenour (talk) 22:40, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Great! You're welcome. Klortho (talk) 00:47, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Introducing Myself
Hi, I just wanted to introduce myself as a student in Dr. Ogg's molecular biology class this semester. You've already left a message on my talk page welcoming me to Wikipedia; thank you for that. My name is Jason and this is my second course in the general biotechnology program. I've never used Wikipedia much so I am learning a lot from these assignments. I hope everything goes fairly smoothly. Thanks! Jfitz1974 (talk) 22:31, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, Jason, thanks for the note, and, again, welcome! Klortho (talk) 00:32, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Hello Klortho
Hi Klortho, I am a JHU student in Molecular Biology as you probably know. Thank you for being a Wikipedia Ambassador to our class for this learning process! Oalnafo1 (talk) 01:18, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Nice to meet you, and good luck in the class!  Klortho (talk) 01:45, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

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User: Home
I was trying to put some content that was on my user page to my homepage but apparently it seems that I can't do that. It was a learning experience. Still getting my way around Wikipedia. Igenes (talk) 22:06, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Klortho
Hello Klortho. How are you doing? My name is Anja Jones and I am excited to learn about Wikipedia this semester as part during my Mol. Bio class. I am sure I will have lots of questions! It's my second semester at JHU towards a M.S. in Biotechnology and it's great to be here. My family and I live in the Midwest, USA since 05. I received a B.S. from Iowa State University and am currently employed by large seed manufacturer here in the Midwest. AjoneWiki (talk) 02:17, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
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Touching Base
Hi Chris! My name is Rebecca and I'm in my first semester of the Bioinformatics program. I'm new to WIki editing and look forward to the semester projects. I'm in Dr. Ogg's Molecular BIo class (as well as her Intro to Bioinformatics class). I have a background in Chemistry and most of my research experience is within the lab. Thanks for being around to help! Rebeccachappel (talk) 14:22, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, Rebecca, nice to meet you! Good luck with the project! Klortho (talk) 16:24, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I hope to not have too many issues but I'll be sure to let you know if I do! Rebeccachappel (talk) 16:11, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Hello Klortho
Thanks for the welcome. I'm looking forward to this project since I have never done any wikipedia editing before and had no idea how it worked. Hope your day is going well.

--Andrea. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adimart1 (talk • contribs) 00:46, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, Andrea, thanks for the greeting! Please remember to always sign your comments with four tildes, whenever you leave a message on a talk page.  Klortho (talk) 02:08, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

hello
Hello Klortho, and thanks a lot for welcoming me last week into the Wiki course. I was out of town a then, so only now catching up with what's happened in the class. It is my first experience editing a wiki page and it does sound like an exciting assignment. rokas (talk) 00:57, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi! You are welcome.  I hope you enjoy the project!  Klortho (talk) 02:09, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

And I wasn't given credit for that part of assigmnent either. Am I using the sandbox incorectly? thanks, rokas (talk) 21:07, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello
Hello, I'm Sean, and as many others, I'm in Dr. Ogg's Molecular Bio class this semester and wanted to thank you for helping us all out. And thanks for the hello and welcome on my talk page. I'm looking forward to the project. Seanmcaruthers (talk) 04:05, 1 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Sean, welcome again, and good luck on the project! Klortho (talk) 03:53, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Help test better mass message delivery
Hi. You're being contacted as you've previously used global message delivery (or its English Wikipedia counterpart). It doesn't feel so great to be spammed, does it? ;-)

For the past few months, Legoktm has built a replacement to the current message delivery system called MassMessage. MassMessage uses a proper user interface form (no more editing a /Spam subpage), works faster (it can complete a large delivery in minutes), and no longer requires being on an access list (any local administrator can use it). In addition, many tiny annoyances with the old system have been addressed. It's a real improvement! :-)

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Greetings
Hello Chris Maloney,

I'm Daniel Miller in the Molecular Biology class through Johns Hopkins' AAP. My left shift is broken and it's really annoying.

Dmille96 (talk) 20:10, 1 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi, Daniel! At least it's a key that there are two of, so there's a work-around!  Cheers! Klortho (talk) 03:58, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello from a student (mtee87) in Molec. Bio Class
Hi Klortho! I wanted to introduce myself to you as one of the students in Dr Sherry Ogg's classes for Molecular Biology. I look forward to working with you this semester and thank you for every help you will be offering. sincerely. Mtee87 (talk) 01:08, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, Omotara, thanks for introducing yourself! I hope you find editing Wikipedia to be rewarding!  Klortho (talk) 03:58, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello!
Hello Klortho:

I am in Dr. Ogg's Molecular Biology class and wanted to say hello.

This is my second semester in the AAP program and it's both intimidating and exciting to get involved in Wikipedia in such a way!

Apologies in advance for my novice errors!

--Birdy0124 (talk) 02:46, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
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Books and Bytes Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013 by , Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved... New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted. New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis?? New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration Read the full newsletter ''Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. --The Interior 21:15, 27 October 2013 (UTC)''

Question About Images
Hi Chris, I have a couple of questions about an image I created for Dr. Ogg's Molecular Biology class Wikipedia assignment. I used Photoshop to create a graphic of an E coli plasmid and uploaded it to the Extrachromsomal DNApage. One question I have is how do I get the actual image to show on the page rather than just the link? The other question I have is that on the page for the graphic is says that the graphic has been reviewed and is a candidate to be moved to Wikipedia commons, but I have no clue as to how to go about doing that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Jfitz1974 (talk) 14:02, 31 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi, Jason, I answered your question on your talk page. Klortho (talk) 01:48, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Klortho! I am not too sure I understand what went wrong. I thought I had tried changing them, and but linking the words to the right articles, but I still got that message error. Any help will be appreciated. Sincerely, Mtee87 (talk) 18:55, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

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Hello Klortho! We have a question about the style guidelines and I would greatly appreciate your input on the talk page of our article. See this section: Talk:Inverted_repeat and give your insight there. Thanks in advance! --Jim Perry (Jim892) (talk) 02:05, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

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Watchlist and notifications question
Hi Klortho, I am having problems with my Watchlist and notification set up. Up until last Sunday I was receiving email notifications anytime a change was made to any article on my Watchlist. This past week I have been checking my email daily, but saw not Wiki notifications for article changes. Due to other work, I haven't had much time to work on Wikipedia until night. I went into my Watchlist and found out that a great deal of changes had been made to several articles on my Watchlist, yet I did not receive any notifications of these changes. I have already checked my settings on Wikipedia and nothing has been changed. When I have a few minutes free at work, I try to check my school email, mostly to see if there are any Wiki changes. I don't usually have time until I get home to go on Wikipedia itself. As such, these notifications are really important and have been a great reminder system up until now. Please advise!!!! Thanks,Madscientist2007 (talk) 02:21, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm sorry, I really don't know the answer! I have had trouble with the watchlist notification in the past, too, but usually it's turned out to be a temporary problem.  You might try asking at the help desk.  Also, you can always "manually" check your watchlist.  When you are logged in, just click the "Watchlist" link the upper right, and you'll get a list of pages in your watchlist that have changed recently. Klortho (talk) 15:48, 6 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for getting back to me. It does seem to be a temporary problem as I did receive an email notifying me that you had made changes to your talk page. Should this happen again, I will try contacting the help desk. Thanks again. Madscientist2007 (talk) 16:48, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Formatting question
Hi Klortho, I have another question for you. This time it has to do with a formatting change that was proposed by one of my classmates. The same classmate then wrote back later with a concern regarding his proposed changed and suggested that I contact an OA. Please see below:

Here is the idea: When the article opens up, most of what I see is a super long "contents box" that kind of overwhelms me. And, as I scroll through the article, I hit the major sections, sub-sections, and sub-sub-sections and I can't really tell what is a "sub-section" and what is a "sub-sub-section". (If I look real close, I can see that the font size is very slightly smaller, but it is hard to tell.) So, one idea is the make the sub-sub-sections just "indented bullets". This will help to visually separate sub-sections from sub-sub-sections and also will take the sub-sub-sections out of the contents box (making it much shorter). To illustrate this, I did a copy/paste of part of your article into my "sandbox3". Click this link to get to it: Jim892/sandbox3  Good luck thinking through this. Note that I replaced the sub-sub-sections (that have 4 equal signs on each side) with a "*" at the beginning of the line and then bolded the sub-sub-section text. Then, I added two ":" at the beginning of each block of text below the sub-sub-section. The editing required to do the indenting is a little tedious, but might be worth it for the visual effect.

Here is the concern:You are correct. The "TOC limit" just changes what displays in the Contents Box. You can do the "TOC limit" and the indenting/bulleting together or do just one and not the other. They won't interfere with each other. '''Now, one concern I have about my own suggestion on the indenting and bulleting... You might want to check with an Online Volunteer concerning my approach to be sure it doesn't violate Wikipedia's style guidelines or something. I got a comment on my own article about "bolding" items in a list, so I'd hate for you to do all that work and then find out it isn't "legal" to do it that way.'''

I like the idea that he put together in his sandbox (Jim892/sandbox3). I think that it would help enhance my group's article (Molecular-weight size marker). However, I do not want to go through and make the changes only to find out that it is against Wikipedia guidelines, especially since my class is coming to a close on 12/14. Any advice/suggestions/feedback would be appreciated. Thanks,Madscientist2007 (talk) 17:51, 6 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi, I will reply on your article's talk page. I'll also invite Keilana to share an opinion, if she has time.  Klortho (talk) 04:22, 8 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I will keep eye out for your reply!Madscientist2007 (talk) 14:45, 8 December 2013 (UTC)


 * I replied here. Klortho (talk) 15:13, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

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