User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2016 April

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Reversion
Hi : A recent edit you performed here has been reverted. You may want to check it out. North America1000 15:49, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikiproject Food and Drink Newsletter – April 2016
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Privacy and dark traffic
Good catch. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  21:06, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:47, 3 April 2016 (UTC).

Need your help
Hi Rich, I've added all the articles from the various feeds to: WikiProject Women in Red/Metrics. Can you please remove the duplicates and other wizardry? Thanks, --Rosiestep (talk) 01:19, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Sure, I don't want to sleep, it's boring!  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:20, 3 April 2016 (UTC).

Thanks
Rich, thank you for catching that error I made with the UNICEF figures. SarahSV (talk) 06:03, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * You are welcome. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:34, 3 April 2016 (UTC).

Accusation of falsified credentials
Hi Rich Farmbrough,

I trust you're fine. I want to let you know that I forwarded my credentials and employment document to the OTRS team. Thanks. Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 14:59, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

"Research help" proposal
Did you see this close 13 (+ 8 on discussion page) vs 5 claiming for...lol...o well trial will end on April 7 anywas--Moxy (talk) 16:42, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Moxy: It's OK. ReXXs closed in favour of "my" proposal, which is to close the pilot, not in favour of the pilot proposal (which was never made at VP).  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:12, 3 April 2016 (UTC).


 * Hey Rich, wanted to follow up and make sure you know that I have no hard feelings on the research help stuff. We still disagree, of course, but that's something that happens all day all around Wikipedia. In the future, just please make sure your pings actually ping people. :-) Also, for your amusement, I made an accidental edit with my staff account last night (I was leaving a message on Commons and forgot to log back out). Given the edit's content, the irony is absolutely palpable. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 20:13, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated - and I did have a little grin at that edit. I am absolutely sure that the ideas behind Research Help are important, which is why I have tried to encourage those working on it to express them a little more clearly - sadly to no avail so far.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:38, 3 April 2016 (UTC).


 * Keep in mind that both Wiki Librarians are good people and, like me, are long-term volunteers (long before they started with the WMF). I wouldn't be surprised if many of the ideas they work on came pre-employment! Although I don't have direct knowledge of situations like this (I'm in Comms, not CE), I think I'd be safe in saying that they're more than happy to listen to community comments—in fact, I would say that getting adequate participation is one of the hardest tasks they and everyone else at the WMF has... unless something goes wrong, of course. ;-) Keep working with them, get others to work with them, look for places where both camps could compromise, and I think in the end something great could result. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 21:40, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Maps
Hi, I want to include some maps in some of the articles. I want a consensus for that. Please make your comments on the talk pages of Talk:Achaemenid Empire and Talk:Parthian Empire. Arman ad60 (talk) 11:10, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Please leave edit summaries
Hi. Could you please leave edit summaries, especially when your edit affects navigation like this? Although edit summaries are always useful, if you don't feel like getting into that habit, the next time you change a section heading, you could also change the  markup in the summary, and/or add an  to the section. Cheers. fredgandt 13:06, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hm, well that would be easily dealt with by a little java-script, that I used to run. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:09, 4 April 2016 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #203
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 08:57, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press SparQL - Wikidata - École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes - 2016-04-04.pdf
 * Upcoming: WWW 2016
 * Upcoming: WikiCite 2016
 * Past: Wikimedia hackathon.
 * Some of the things that were worked on (but are not finished yet):
 * Easier referencing like it is done in VisualEditor
 * Data imports including National Library of Israel
 * Getting the ArticlePlaceholder ready for deployment on the first small Wikipedias
 * Updated maps of the geocoordinates in Wikidata (Adam will publish a blog post with them soon)
 * Improvements for Librarybase
 * Automated language links for Wiktionary
 * Cleanup of existing data import tools
 * partial group photo
 * Objetos culturales y metadatos: hacia la liberación de datos en Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Lucie published her thesis about supporting small Wikipedias through article placeholders based on Wikidata [[File:Generating Article Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia - Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge.pdf|thumb|Lucie's thesis: Generating Article Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia - Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge]]
 * This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
 * If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a Facebook group for you.
 * There are 4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
 * There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
 * Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add yourself to interested attendees for the sessions.
 * PetScan now has item creator functionality.
 * The catalog of the National Library of Israel has been added to Mix'n'match
 * Great examples on French and Russian Wikipedia for infobox based on Wikidata: fr:Andrew Tanenbaum, ru:Таненбаум, Эндрю and references based on Wikidata: fr:Trappeur, ru:Доказательство с нулевым разглашением
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 * Newest properties: dataset distribution, file format, protocol, URL, CricketArchive player ID, ESPNcricinfo player ID, FIG gymnast identifier, type locality, ISU figure skater identifier, New York Times Semantic Concept: Descriptor, New York Times Semantic Concept: Location, New York Times Semantic Concept: Organization, New York Times Semantic Concept: Person, BARTOC ID, Box Office Mojo person ID, NDL JPNO, Opensecrets Identifier, Basketball-Reference.com NBA player ID, Kijkwijzer rating, Bekker Number, is verso of, is recto of, author of afterword, author of foreword, Russiancinema.ru film ID, relative position within image, rating certificate ID, reply to
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 * Query examples: phrases, Redewendungen, most commons eponyms
 * Development
 * 4 years ago we started coding on Wikidata. What a ride it has been and continues to be. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
 * We are going to make a change to the RDF format for geocoordinates.
 * Here is a preview of geospatial search on the query service.
 * The query service now has bubble charts as a visualization option (example)
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TB
(official hat on) I just replied to you over on Meta. Best, Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 22:05, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * And again! Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 04:29, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Once more, with feeling! Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 00:19, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Terry Ellis
I your ref. Billboard is not a book but a periodical, and is not the title of the article, which is "A Day in the Life of Terry Ellis"; credited author is Jim McCullaugh; it's on page 46; ISSNs go in the issn parameter. -- Red rose64 (talk) 08:25, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Great. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:40, 6 April 2016 (UTC).

Wikicology arbitration case opened
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RfC
Hi Rich, I thought you might be interested in this. Best regards -- Marek . 69    talk  21:24, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Wero
This stub was a bit of a mess as you left it: "visitors come in readership"? unsourced, garbled formatting? What was going on there? Pam D  12:51, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Probably KVM switching. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:25, 11 April 2016 (UTC).

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Wikidata weekly summary #204
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 10:58, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussion
 * Splitting a property to limit formatter URLs to one per property: Authority_control#DE-ISIL
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: digikult.se
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour
 * Upcoming: FOSSCOMM
 * A week of looking at women
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Document with lots of useful links around Wikidata for workshops etc
 * Nice list of species with sounds linked on Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: typeface/font, disjoint union of, union of, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges id, UNZ journal identifier, UNZ author identifier, Persée journal ID, Persée author ID, Projeto Excelências ID, ISSF ID, Badminton World Federation ID, CageMatch worker ID, United World Wrestling ID, UIPM ID, GOG application ID, Deezer track ID, Deezer album ID, Deezer artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum release ID, embed URL, Hungarian-style transcription, lowest-observed-adverse-effect level, no-observed-adverse-effect level, collage image, elected in, sectional view, median lethal concentration, minimal lethal concentration, Cycling Quotient identifier (cyclist, woman), Cycling Quotient identifier (women races), Karate Records ID, EIDR identifier, British Film Institute identifier
 * Query examples: women with most sitelinks and no image born in 1921 or later, what is depicted in artwork, most eponymous mathematicians
 * Showcase items: Iron Man (film)
 * Development
 * Lucie successfully defended her thesis about the ArticlePlaceholder. Congrats!
 * Worked more on the first version of the user interface for structured data for multimedia files
 * Worked on simplifying input of queries for people who do not know SPARQL
 * Improved localizability of the sitelink and reference counters
 * Allow input and output of localized dates with precision smaller than years (T95532 and T127820)
 * More string properties have been converted to external id ones, so that we have over 850 external id properties now
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Number
I hope you don't mind that I subtly changed your comment. Regards &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:18, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't mind. But the idea was to record the number at that time, per Xaosflux's "tracking this will be able to provide a real time count of how many registered established seasoned editors are around for a bit". All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:49, 13 April 2016 (UTC).

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Nomination of Alpha Kappa Omicron for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Alpha Kappa Omicron is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Alpha Kappa Omicron until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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 * Hi Richard Farmbrough. I am just notifying you as a courtesy since you did add a few sources to the article while it was still a draft and other than the article's creator you are really the only other editor to significantly contribute to it. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:11, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #205
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) 15:19, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussion
 * Closed request for comments: Reforming the property creation process, Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: office hour on IRC (log)
 * Past: ISB2016 (slides)
 * Past: WWW2016 - Freebase to Wikidata migration (slides)
 * Past: CUNY Wikidata intro (slides)
 * National Library of Wales: Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
 * New TSRI Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
 * Yle <3 Wikidata - using Wikidata for concept tagging
 * Other noteworthy stuff
 * ArticlePlaceholder is going live on the first small Wikipedias on May 11th and could use your help
 * Wikimedia Commons will get the arbitrary access feature on April 26th
 * The Europeana Art History Challenge has started
 * Magnus made a handy user-script for duplicating items, for when a new item has similar property values to an existing one. See for instance, this set of edits for a second version of an artwork.
 * Listeria now has a status page
 * PetScan has now the option "Has no statements" to find items without statements for a category at Wikipedia (sample: en:Category:United States geography stubs) or an entire language version (sample: "sowiki").
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: production statistics, DNZB, PASE name, this zoological name is coordinate with, Australian Geological Provinces Database Identifier, Tate artist identifier, ResearchGate institute ID
 * Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Museums
 * Query examples: items named after their shape, recent events, assemblies by number of seats, characters portrayed by most actors
 * Development
 * Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60 seconds (T126730)
 * Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak peek)
 * Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel - should go live later today)
 * Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily
 * Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
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Igogo festival
Hi RF,

I trust you're fine. I need clarification on a particular source. User:Plx1 once stated on the evidence page that every single sources in the Igogo festival are fake and forgery. This is very untrue. The major mistakes I made was that I never knew that the exact page is what should be cited when citing google books. I fixed the problems with sources in that article, I also add new sources. I explained these mistakes of not citing the exact page on the evidence page under my section. One of the sources User:Plx1 described as forgery " Poynor, Robin (November 1987). "Ako Figures of Owo and Second Burials in Southern Nigeria". African Arts (UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center) 21 (1): 62–63+81–83+86–87. doi:10.2307/3336502." did supported the claim that Igogo festival is combined with new yam celebration and I used the source to support that single line. User:PIx1 returned to the evidence page to write ""a new reference has appeared, supposed to be about the celebration of new yams. This Poynor's paper is easy to find [1]. Page 86 is made of end notes. None of them is about yams or the Igogo festival. Nor any other part of this reference paper. Dear mentors, any comments ?"

I was surprised to see this comment because that source on page 86 reads:

"The number seventeen seems to be of ritual significance in Owo. Igogo, the most important annual festival in the kingdom, a combination of New Yam festival and purification ceremony merged with a memorial to the goddess Oronshen, also takes place over a seventeen-day period. The burial of the Olowo takes seventeen ritual days. These and other significant ceremonies all begin on the day of the five-day market."

I was confused and I left a message on their talk page here pointing them to what the source actually says. I asked if there is something I am missing so that they can point me to it because I don't understand why they felt the sources didn't supported the claim. User:Plx1 ignored me and returned to the evidence page to write

"these fake references have been trashed out by their author (and the article reduced from 11,250 bytes to 6,928 bytes). At [11], a new reference has appeared, supposed to be about the celebration of new yams. This Poynor's paper is easy to find [1]. Page 86 is made of end notes. <Del>None of them is about yams or the Igogo festival . <U>One of them, note 3, is about the signification of a 17 days period. One line refers to yams . Nor any other part of this reference paper. Dear mentors, any comments ?

I was perplexed to see this again. I am learning but I'm not sure why they feel the source didn't supported the claim and the source is a forgery. I contacted User:Smartse for clarification perhaps I'm missing anything but Smartse said " the reference is saying (in very brief passing) that the festival is similar to the New yam festival but doesn't explicitly state that yams are celebrated during Igogo . Although English is not my primary language but I don't think the source is saying "Igogo festival is similar to the New yam festival". Is that what the source is saying? Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 13:39, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Plx1 has acknowledged what you wrote, by modifying his evidence. The footnote says it is a combination or merging of three things.  Because this seems to disagree with the contemporary reference which has the two festivals separated by a week, I would be very careful about what goes in the article.  I would suggest that the Upeli is 12 days, and the New Yam festival is 5 days later, making 17 days in total.  Similarly the eje seems to involve gunshots while for the igogo they are forbidden.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:56, 21 April 2016 (UTC).


 * Thank you so much, RF. I have already added another source that supported the claim, here. Do you think the source is good enough? I have also found more sources that supported the claim. Let me know what you think. Thank you. Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 18:24, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Dato Abdul Malik Mydin listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Dato Abdul Malik Mydin. Since you had some involvement with the Dato Abdul Malik Mydin redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Alexander Iskandar (talk) 03:26, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Why didn't the editor ask me in the first instance? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:30, 21 April 2016 (UTC).

Nomination of Angela Wright for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Angela Wright is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Angela_Wright until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Mathglot (talk) 18:59, 21 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Regarding reference 2: 'Solent SkillQuest Autumn 2008 Newsletter': I was unable to locate this on worldcat or Google. Can you please expand this reference so that it may be verified?  Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 22:10, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * You could try Southampton Library. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:47, 23 April 2016 (UTC).

Nomination of Janet Brumby for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Janet Brumby is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Janet Brumby until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Thank you for your edits
Thank you for your great edits to Let's Get Married. ) Moscowamerican (talk) 04:58, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Welcome! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:13, 25 April 2016 (UTC).

Photography
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Dion Francis DiMucci
FYI... you created a redirect to itself. Bgwhite (talk) 08:04, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * TYVM> All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:13, 25 April 2016 (UTC).

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Flynn Adam albums


A tag has been placed on Category:Flynn Adam albums requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for four days or more and it is not presently under discussion at Categories for discussion, or at disambiguation categories.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. <span style="font-family:'Tahoma',Geneva,sans-serif"> QEDK ( T  &#9749;  C ) 15:01, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I have no objection to this being deleted, it has served its purpose. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:25, 27 April 2016 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #206
<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="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <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) 20:42, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Writing a bachelor's thesis at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
 * Europeana Art History Challenge begins
 * TED is partnering with the Wikimedia community to add “ideas worth spreading” to Wikimedia projects
 * Wikidata meets world literature
 * Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes (conference poster)
 * Past: Wikimedia Conference
 * Other noteworthy stuff
 * SQUID: a new class and property browser for Wikidata (background info)
 * Wikidata Graph Builder now can visualize graphs with different node sizes. See for instance, types of artists with number of people, occupied with each subclass item
 * List of items that have English, German, and French sitselinks, but no statements
 * List of articles on English Wikipedia with a video where the corresponding item has no video
 * Listeria bot (the one generating lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data) will now begin auto-replacing simple WDQ queries with SPARQL ones
 * Magnus is looking for a designer to help with a logo for PetScan
 * Arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons is coming as planned on the 26th
 * Wikidata surpassed English Wikipedia in items/articles using files from Wikimedia Commons
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Danish listed buildings case ID, Models.com client ID, Race time, IAT diver ID, IAT weightlifter ID, IAT triathlete ID, FIS snowboarder ID, FIS Nordic combined skier ID, FIS ski jumper ID, FIS freestyle skier ID, FIS cross-country skier ID, FIS alpine skier ID, D-U-N-S, source of income, budget, BNE journal ID, JudoInside.com ID, ISO 4063 process number, blue-style.com ID, Wrestlingdata person id, Danish protected area ID, Skyscraper Center building complex ID, Research Papers in Economics Series handle, NUTTAB Food Identifier, AUSNUT Food Identifier, CNC film rating, EIRIN film rating, exploitation visa number, production date, Dictionary of Canadian Biography ID, New Zealand Organisms Register ID, Roller Coaster Database ID, Photographers' Identities Catalog ID, PRONOM software identifier, PRONOM file format identifier, Filmiroda rating
 * Newest WikiProjects: Olympics
 * Query examples: songs with longest melody (source), subjects with most art dedicated to them (source), versions of The Scream (source)
 * Development
 * There will be some maintenance on the query service in a few hours
 * Redesigned the rank selector as well as snak type selector icons (T129033, 283968)
 * The snak type selector icon also has a tooltip now (283945)
 * The term table header row as well as language column will now be marked as  instead of   (283395)
 * Fixed an issue with newline characters in quantity values (T110728)
 * Fixed the month-precision time parser ignoring the minus in "January -150" (T132441)
 * Continued working on diffing and patching support for new entity types (T132442)
 * Continued working on support for creating entities of new types as part of the work for Wikimedia Commons support (T132964)
 * Rolled out a little query explanation field to query.wikidata.org to help you better understand a query if you don't understand SPARQL well
 * Fixed a bug where the map wouldn't show in the visualization of a query result (T132669)
 * Fixed issues with the duplicate references gadget (T131920)
 * Added basic support for more languages to the query service (T132756)
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Women artists of Middle East / North Africa... a WiR & Guggenheim collaboration
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DYK for Pan Am Flight 841
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