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 * Thanks, I'd be happy to join, but unfortunately the membership list isn't compatible with global userpages. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:02, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

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Meetups

 * Thanks Mike, I'll try and come along to Leeds if I can! GiantSnowman 08:37, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for telling me, but the cities named are too far away from me. I might have gone to a Birmingham one a couple of years back, except that it clashed with another engagement.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:10, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * there are other meetups in the UK too, see m:Meetup/UK, although it's been a while since there was one in the midlands. Perhaps you (or /) might be interested in organising one in the area? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:51, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advance warning of dates. Manchester and Liverpool are in my diary and I'll see if I can get there. MerielGJones (talk) 17:01, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Lancaster.
Good to see you on board. I have been having a look at the background material-- particularly Manual of Style/mathematics and Help:Referencing for beginners. Not to put too finer point on it neither would pass Ofsted. Rather than cause an earthquake- I have put together a sandbox, where I have tried to gather a few threads together, Manual of Style/Mathematics/sandbox, I have left copius comments embedded in the page- if you have a few monments could you have a look and make a few surgical comments. The referencing issue is also interesting, there seems to be no consistent terminology for the different approved styles and a lot of confusion caused by this in the discussion. Many maths stubs are tagged for improvement- but seem too short to require inline refs. -- Clem Rutter (talk) 09:27, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi working on the MoS isn't really my kind of thing, so I'll watch but probably won't contribute much. I'd generally recommend keeping things short, simple, and not over-prescriptive. And please encourage people to stick with the standard inline referencing system, rather than using one of the more bespoke ones. :-) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:47, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I think that was my starting point too! Its not been that easy!-- Clem Rutter (talk) 22:55, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

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another one....Microscopium
I was amused as Patrick Moore had written there was nothing interesting in Microscopium, but there are some weird stars and things. However, I am a bit stumped trying to find out more and write about Microscopium Void as getting my head around large-scale universe stuff is a challenge...and I'd like to get it in somehow. All help appreciated. cheers Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:57, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmm, it doesn't look like the microscopium void is particularly notable. The 'discovery' paper is only referenced 7 times, the latest in 1995 . It might be better as a brief mention somewhere else rather than having its own article. I'll try to have a look at the constellation article later. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:55, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks..yeah there's a whole List of voids (queue some Seinfeld joke about a whole lotta Nothing...) Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:38, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Nudge nudge.....cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:44, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay, I've posted some suggestions at Talk:Microscopium. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:32, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * No trouble at all - much appreciated! Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:19, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Grosvenor Picture Palace
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Speaking of stars....
Thar's a big 'un a few of us've been workin' on it'd be great if someone professional would look at it...cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:54, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * ....Mike? Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:13, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay, I'll take a look now. I've also posted a message to a facebook group of professional astronomers asking whether any of them would like to review the article / have any comments: they might leave comments on the talk page, or I'll copy comments over to the talk page from facebook. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:28, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Brilliant! Much appreciated. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:57, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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Serpens
Hello Mike; I see you've taken a look at several of Casliber's constellation articles in the past and provided useful commentary. One I've been working on for around a year now, Serpens, is incredibly near FAC, I believe; would you mind having a look at it? StringTheory11 (t • c) 16:08, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
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d:User:Mike Peel/sandbox
Hi Mike. On the french version of Wikipedia, I create fr:Module:Infobox/Télescope. We speak about that in fr:Projet:Astronomie/Porte des étoiles and fr:Discussion utilisateur:Simon Villeneuve.

We should work togeter to elaborate a common infobox. Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick (talk) 12:48, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

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STV Astrid
You could use Cite newspaper The Times for that reference. Mjroots (talk) 18:54, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmm, shouldn't that template just redirect to cite news, perhaps auto-filling the 'newspaper' parameter? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:15, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * No, it's a dedicated template for The Times, with parameters that aren't normally used in other newspaper cites. Mjroots (talk) 19:57, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

The only parameter that seems to be different, according to the documentation, is 'day_of_week'. E.g., see the following template calls (the ordering is different, but the information displayed is the same):

The conversion between the two seems to be: Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:19, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I've posted a copy of this at Template_talk:Cite_newspaper_The_Times, which might be the better place to discuss this further if you're interested. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:58, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #170
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:20, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for oversight rights: Sjoerddebruin
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikimedia UK is organizing a Wikidata training session. You can sign up here.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Talk pages on Wikidata can now be converted to use Flow. You can request migrating your talk page at d:Wikidata:Flow.
 * Mix-n-Match got a bunch of new catalogs for you to match up with Wikidata. Currently matching is happening at about 500 items per day. Pretty sweet :)
 * @happybirthdayauthors is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
 * Arbitrary access is rolling out to a large number of wikis over the next two weeks.
 * Duplicity can help you match up unlinked Wikipedia articles to a Wikidata item.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID, Teuchos ID, isomeric SMILES, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Groninganae id, Hansard ID
 * Development
 * Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks so they are easier to notice and understand
 * Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
 * The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
 * The number of entities loaded via the parser function and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be found below a page preview or within the Html of a page)
 * Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
 * Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects is not too high.
 * Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
 * Moved two extensions (Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to Gerrit. More will follow.
 * We'd like to drop a database table. Discussion is ongoing.
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This Month in GLAM: July 2015
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Wikidata weekly summary #171
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:03, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Reinforcement of data analysis before any modification of the DB
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * cooperation between free content projects
 * A case is made to concentrate our quality efforts on the differences between Wikidata and other sources
 * Ongoing: Several team members are attending the Chaos Communication Camp.
 * Upcoming: SmartDataConference
 * A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata needs your vote! It only takes a minute.
 * WikiProject Sum of all Paintings reached the milestone of 100.000 paintings. Congrats!
 * Arbitrary access is now available on another ~250 Wikipedias].
 * See d:Wikidata talk:Arbitrary access for two general use cases for arbitrary access on Wikipedia's regression testing of Wikidata-related modules and templates and testing infoboxes with Wikidata content.
 * List of articles on English Wikipedia without a Wikidata item (also works for other projects)
 * You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases? Try relabel!
 * SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items.
 * Mix-n-Match has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia.
 * Deaths at Wikipedia are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack d:Property:P570 (date of death).
 * 93% of items about people have a gender set now.
 * Want to make both Wikidata and Inventaire better? You can help by finding those books' authors.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
 * Newest tools: Suggestor
 * Development
 * Rolled out arbitrary access to about 250 Wikipedias including German, French and Japanese. More to come in a few days.
 * Worked more on quantities. Looks like we'll have it on a demo system for you to try a first version within the next two weeks.
 * Bene* is joining us for a month as an intern. Welcome!
 * References are now hidden while loading the page, speeding up page load time
 * First commit to the ArticlePlaceholder extension
 * Expensive parser functions now count each entity only once
 * Released a new version of the DataModelServices component and started using it
 * Started working on phasing out the wb_entity_per_page table. It will be kept around and updated for some time to allow tool owners to migrate.
 * The Wikibase code base now fullfills all of MediaWiki’s PHPCS coding standards
 * Added property IDs to Special:ListProperties
 * Did a lot of bug triage on Phabricator
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Postpone the Manchester Meetup?
You may want to comment at meta:Talk:Meetup/Manchester/30. Yaris678 (talk) 11:30, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #172
<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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 12:35, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: SmartData conference
 * Paper: Reifying RDF: What Works Well With Wikidata?
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata made it into the top 10 of the Land der Ideen competition \o/ This means we're part of the final public voting starting on 9th of September. Thanks everyone who voted and spread the word.
 * Flow is being tested on selected talk pages.
 * New tool: Get new Wikidata items (now or before a given timestamp) as HTML or PagePile
 * New tool: Find Wikidata items without an image around a location, then find free images on Flickr taken nearby.
 * EventZoom.net extended with OpenStreetMap support, increasing the options for visualizing historical events from Wikidata.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
 * Development
 * Soon the edit summary for edits through the API will also contain the automatic edit summary that you are used to for edits done through the website. The summary given by the API user will be appended to the automatic summary. (T97247)
 * Addressed performance issues in usage tracking updates and had to delay the latest round of rollouts because of it
 * Fixed a bug where suggestions would show up twice in item and property selectors (T109697)
 * Improved performance of the mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua method
 * More work done on Unit Selector widget
 * Started working on the ArticlePlaceholder extension
 * Made final changes so we can redirect mobile users to the mobile version by default
 * Evaluated the remaining steps to get the extension deployed that lets you do checks against 3rd party databases. Not much left it seems and we'll tackle that in one of the next sprints. Getting the new features deployed for the constraints checks will still take a bit longer.
 * More work on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
 * Monthly Tasks
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 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.