User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2016 August

Wikidata weekly summary #220
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) 21:33, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Notability of items for templates
 * One or more property examples?
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Ongoing: Repository Fringe
 * Ongoing: ICBO (slides)
 * Upcoming: CCBWIKI
 * Localités au fil de l'eau
 * WDQ, obsolete?
 * BigQuery, Wikidata & AgreeList — idea
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can now see the very first steps towards structured data support for Wikimedia Commons.
 * You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
 * You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
 * There is a new command line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
 * Simple guide to help Wikipedia editors find Wikidata IDs. In English - please translate into other languages!
 * You can now use Wikidata to do cool things in Mapbox with the Mapbox iOS SDK
 * IPTC's NewsCodes Working Group has mapped the top two levels of hierarchical terms of Media Topics to Wikidata
 * WMDE's progress report for the annual plan grant with a focus on Wikidata has been published
 * Need to query Wikidata, but lack SPARQL skills? There is now Wikidata:Request a query for you!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: residence time of water, railway signalling system, located in protected area, Rolling Stone artist ID, French national research structure identifier, backup or reserve team or crew, laws applied, surface tension, Standard Geographical Classification code, World Archery ID, Conservatoire du littoral ID, Australian Heritage Database Place ID, Cadw Monument ID, Marine Regions Geographic ID, valid in place, Galiciana ID, zanikleobce.cz abandoned objects ID, Untappd brewery ID, retirement age
 * Query examples: frequency of Romans' praenomen (source), movies by number of actors who studied at RADA (source), actors directed by Tony Scott + number of appearances (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director with years (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of Romans, minimum ages by country
 * Development
 * Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above)
 * Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (T110604)
 * Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities (T115269)
 * Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (T140085)
 * Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
 * Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (T138131)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Jimbo's talk page
For some very strange value of "senior" - funniest thing I've read all week. Thanks for it. Nthep (talk) 17:59, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:31, 18 August 2016 (UTC).

Digital Anthropology research
Hello Rich Farmbrough, My name is Stephanie Barker and I am a student at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am currently enrolled in a Digital Anthropology class, which attempts to answer how the digital world affects culture and how culture affects the digital world. For my final project I am doing an ethnography on women Wikipedia users and as a member of the WikiProject Women page I was hoping I could ask you some questions about your experiences editing Wikipedia pages. 1. Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me. 2. How did you become interested in editing Wikipedia pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages? 3. Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Wikipedia? If yes, please explain the situation to me. 4. How would you describe your gender? 5. Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor? Thank you for taking the time to read this email. I would like you to know that I am only sharing my research with my professor and the other students in my class. If you would like me to send you a copy of my final project, I would be more than happy to! Sincerely, Stelba90 (talk) 00:30, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

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Kappa Sigma
We'll see how long he keeps this up, my guess is quite some time. Also, the replacement of the image is almost certainly deliberate to remove the five letter abbreviation from the name.Naraht (talk) 21:17, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, at least he's responding at his talk page.Naraht (talk) 16:19, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah that's good. Seemed like a good faith editor, who hadn't "got it".  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:51, 13 August 2016 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #221
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) 09:40, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Repository Fringe (slides)
 * Past: WikiConference India 2016
 * Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic is SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
 * Upcoming: SMWCon (call for contributions)
 * Visualizing the DNC vs RNC conventions with Wikipedia+Wikidata+BigQuery
 * Livin’ on the edge
 * Communes orphelines?
 * Paper: Getting the units right: inferring identifier units from a corpus of formulae in Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Paper: Querying Wikidata: Comparing SPARQL, Relational and Graph Databases
 * Paper: WIKIREADING: A Novel Large-scale Language Understanding Task over Wikipedia
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We now have two new pages to find property proposal discussions that need input: Property proposal/Overview, Property proposal/Attention needed
 * WSDM2017 Cup on knowledge base quality and search including tasks about vandalism detection in Wikidata (announcement)
 * Sitelinks for the new Tulu Wikipedia can be added
 * Wikidata Toolkit 0.7.0 has been released
 * Several grant proposals that could use endorsements or discussion: Wikidata module, StrepHit IEG renewal, Librarybase, WikiFactMine
 * 15% of items connected to articles on Japanese Wikipedia have no statements (report with categories on these pages)
 * Wikidata descriptions on mobile web version of Wikipedia
 * Job opening at TIB
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: wheelbase, IWM memorial ID, spatial reference system, precipitation height, ISBN publisher prefix, Indonesian ethnicity code, package management system, adjacent building, EPPO Code, sheet music, UK National Archives ID, open period to, open period from, closed on, open days, ITU letter code, Legacies of British Slave-ownership person ID, flag bearer, Iranica ID
 * Query examples: places of worship in France (source), former capitals (source), Edinburgh-born authors and their notable works (source), movies by David Lynch by duration (source), descendants of Gustav Vasa, people sharing the same name, the other way around, Tony awards nominees and winners (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece
 * Newest database reports: List of Roman dictators
 * Development
 * Glorian joins the team for 6 months as a product management intern
 * Example dialog on query.wikidata.org now shows categories (T140576)
 * Map result view now allows layers and multi colored dots (preview)
 * Made the tatus bar messages in the Query Service translatable (T140383)
 * Made it easier to notice that embedded Query Service results can be edited and are coming from Wikidata (T138766)
 * Improved the way error messages are displayed while editing items (T141880, T141879)
 * Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (T141862)
 * Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (T142034)
 * Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (T139977)
 * Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (T124036)
 * Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (T137933)
 * Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (T141878)
 * Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (T140760)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Query about Ancella Radford Bickley
Rich, could you check out this page and see if it has enough info to remove the tag. If not, what else is needed. Also since I've verified her date of birth could you remove the tag for no date of birth. Congrats on the "drama free days." Cheers,Beth Wellington (talk) 15:34, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. The birth year is simply a question of changing the category.  When I make 1000 days, or maybe 1001, I'll have a party on my talk page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:14, 9 August 2016 (UTC).

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Proposed deletion of List of characters in The Canterbury Tales


The article List of characters in The Canterbury Tales has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern:
 * An ultimately empty list, no information not provided by the main article.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Killer Moff (talk) 18:55, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

The WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter (August 2016)
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:33, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:DoD detainees ARB
Template:DoD detainees ARB has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:06, 11 August 2016 (UTC) ---

Abuse filters
Hi, because of an irritating AbuseFilter bug, we (Kaldari, MusikAnimal and I) are going to do an update next week that will affect some of your filters. We hope we'll fix all affected filters ourselves, but we're of course grateful if you want to help us. The issue is explained here; the current plan is here. In any case, we wanted you to be aware what's happening, and you're very welcome to help out of course. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 11:58, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I've sent you an email with more details. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 12:03, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I guess action stations will be Weds and Thurs afternoon (PST) next week, which fits in with evening here, there's only about 74 rules affected, so should be fairly trivial to fix.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:36, 12 August 2016 (UTC).


 * I'm working on these, see User:Rich Farmbrough/temp145 for a list. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:53, 13 August 2016 (UTC).

list as
In my experience variations lead to undetected duplications. Moreover, AWB's plugin detects all parameters with spaces as errors. This will needs a serious rework to fix it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:06, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis It's easy enough to look for   or   isn't it?  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:09, 13 August 2016 (UTC).


 * Parameters with space will lead to people adding double spaces etc. Or have listas and list as on the same template. I don't understand why this change is necessary to a template with millions of transclusions. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:10, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Don't use "list as" in the biography banner. It is not recognized by any banner.  All banners only recognize "listas".  Bgwhite (talk) 08:14, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * It was when I used it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:44, 13 August 2016 (UTC).


 * Because we use readable code where possible. There is no such word as "listas".
 * As to double spaces, they will be picked up by the category that monitors unrecognised parameters.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:18, 13 August 2016 (UTC).

Bgwhite is right on that. We also that al the other banners that inherit the sort from WPBIO. It's true that "listas" is two words but it is well established as parameters and we have many bots running out there. Changes in that level should be discussed first. Especially when by experience I am pretty sure that parameters variations leads to undesired situations. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:21, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Where do you go to discuss this. This unilateral move to millions of transclusions should be discussed first. they will be picked up by the category that monitors unrecognised parameters Great even more work to do.  Bgwhite (talk) 08:23, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * We could discuss at this section.
 * I doubt that many double spaces will be inserted, and it trivial to fix them.
 * I have just cleared that category, and it took only a few moments. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:44, 13 August 2016 (UTC).

Yet another minor argument is. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:24, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * There are three parameters that are recognised by all WikiProject banners, these are category, listas and small. Other than Milhist (which is different from the majority of project banners in many ways, including that it interprets category differently and doesn't recognise listas at all), I know of no exceptions, and none where a parameter alias exists for these three. To introduce an exception is undesirable, since it then means that a param cannot be copied directly from one WikiProject banner transclusion to another. -- Red rose64 (talk) 09:24, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Copied to discussion. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 09:26, 13 August 2016 (UTC).

Alfred A. Lama
Hello. Why did you change reqphoto to Photo requested please? Is this a new/better format? Does it make a difference? reqphoto seems quicker to type, but I could make an effort if it really makes a difference. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 12:31, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * There is no need, it has exactly the same effect. I prefer the latter as less obscure, but it is a marginal difference.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:49, 13 August 2016 (UTC).

blp = yes with living = no
you seem to be tagging many articles that have living=no as blp=yes [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AGabriel_I_of_Constantinople&type=revision&diff=734517884&oldid=718260961] and introducing duplicate |1= or duplicate |blp=yes. [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AGalon_(bishop_of_Beauvais)&type=revision&diff=734517894&oldid=694610730] not sure how you are planning to clean up the living=no with blp=yes. a bot will most likely clean up the duplicate parameters, but it seems like a bad idea to add more more for the bots. Frietjes (talk) 22:03, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm planning to cross check the entire biography corpus for living/dead. However, I'm not sure where these extra blp=yes are coming from. The extra 1= is probably just a typo, but I'll check.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:06, 14 August 2016 (UTC).


 * I have cleaned up about 125 just in the last hour. You could add a regexp

&rarr;

and

&rarr;

after you are finished processing to clean up after yourself. I would also add &rarr;

to avoid adding blp=yes with living=no. Frietjes (talk) 22:17, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion. I'm fixing any remaining ones. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:20, 14 August 2016 (UTC).

Rich please be more careful when using AWB. You seem to be editing too fast to check these. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:50, 14 August 2016 (UTC) Further to the above I am checking a million pages for that error now. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:52, 15 August 2016 (UTC).

Authority control
Hi, I'd like to have  added to all Women in Red biographies, if this is not on the page already. The list of articles would be the bios on the WiR metrics' pages, going back to July 2015. Is this something AWB can do, and if you, something you would consider doing? --Rosiestep (talk) 01:15, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Certainly. I'll attempt to have a look this evening.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 07:20, 15 August 2016 (UTC).


 * I think does that. I really don't care, who does that, just noting -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 08:24, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * There is a bot adding/modifying Authority control. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:29, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I have a script and the approval for it. I didn't run it in a while. I'll have a look at it. --T.seppelt (talk) 10:56, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Hello Rich, did it work? Are there still many articles left? Maybe it would be good if you could post a list or categories where I can find the pages you were referring to. Warm regards, -- T.seppelt (talk) 06:10, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * User:T.seppelt Yes I grabbed the pages from the metrics list. I have added the tempalte to about 10% of the articles.  I'll upload a list of the rest soon, and ping you. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:31, 23 August 2016 (UTC).

Bio lists
I think Biography lists should be assessed as list Category:List-Class biography articles. Then no listas will be required. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:08, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * A listas is useful, as otherwise they all end up under L. So, Talk:List of 1747 Holy Roman Empire incumbents has 1747 Holy Roman Empire Incumbents. -- Red rose64 (talk) 08:18, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I will ensure they are all set to list. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:54, 15 August 2016 (UTC).


 * What do you think about Deaths in May 2004? I would have thought this is better under "Deaths" than "May".  Ideally "Deaths 2004-05". All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:56, 15 August 2016 (UTC).


 * I think that can sort naturally (no listas) - it's not a "List of Foobars" article. -- Red rose64 (talk) 19:24, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Oxford Wikimedia Meetup
Please see Meetup/Oxford/42, rearranged for 28 August. -- Red rose64 (talk) 09:42, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

DEFAULTSORT conflicts
Hi Rich Farbrough, I made some corrections of your recent AWB sort tagging on some talk pages: one, two, three. The edits were putting the pages into Category:Pages with DEFAULTSORT conflicts. Just an FYI. — Andy W. ( talk  · ctb) 22:46, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:45, 16 August 2016 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #222
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) 08:27, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic was SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
 * Upcoming: a Wikidata workshop in French will be conducted by Ash Crow and Harmonia Amanda during the French-speaking Wikiconvention on 21st August 2016 in Paris
 * History of Parliament and Wikidata – the first round complete
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Léa joins the team as Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
 * ArticlePlaceholder is now live on Welsh and Kannada Wikipedia
 * You can now render sparql queries using the Histropedia timeline engine. Example : Structures in London, colour coded by heritage status Screenshot of Histropedia timeline using Wikidata.png
 * The Wikidata image search tool can now show Commons images around items (example)
 * Job offer : Textmining, Hochschule Hannover
 * New templates:, , . Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
 * UK Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register has been added to Mix'n'Match
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: SIMBAD ID, destroyed, damaged, game artist, standard enthalpy of formation, Cineplex film ID, Open Beauty Facts category ID, official religion, Grace's Guide ID, CosIng number, Storting person ID, standard molar entropy, dynamic viscosity, UN document symbol, WIPO ST.3, GS1 country code, GLAM ID, RERO ID, LepIndex ID, gestation period, Basisregistratie Instellingen number, ButMoth ID, Architectuurgids building ID, Architectuurgids architect ID, Charity Commission no., Turner Classic Movies person ID, NAQ elected person ID, Ontario MPP ID, K League player ID, Bloomberg person ID, Kindred Britain ID, CMFS player ID, Scottish FA player ID, racing-reference driver ID, footballzz ID, Fora De Jogo player ID, HanCinema person ID, College Football HoF ID, scoresway soccer person id, CageMatch wrestling stable id, luminous intensity, SoundCloud ID
 * Query examples: 2016 Olympics flag bearers (source), Composer that scored more than 100 films (source), churches using the same image (source), Challenge: Find a class with more fictional instances than real ones (source), items on human genes with unreferenced statements (source), Women elected to the UK Paliament (via WD:RAQ), Treaties of Paris (source), fictional thoroughfares (source), map of sports teams, with layers for different sports (source), big cities grouped into map layers by population (source), Free software with/without license (source), treaties with/without a date (source), capitals that aren’t capitals (soure), works of art depicting many people (source)
 * Development
 * Wikibase/DataModel/JSON was revised, clarifying the use for dates before year 1.
 * Language code "non" for Old Norse is now available for monolingual text (T137115)
 * Worked more on better visual layout of references (T141862)
 * Fixed issue with references not being expanded in diff view (T129836)
 * Added link to Wikidata item from ArticlePlaceholder (T126873)
 * Enabled ArticlePlaceholder on knwiki and cywiki
 * Removed collapsing behaviour from error messages (T141879)
 * Started writing out next steps for how to use Wikidata items and properties on Commons
 * Drafting interface stability policy (T142084)
 * Worked more in making it possible to create mediainfo entities by adding a statement to a non-existing one (T140760)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

AWB and position of templates
Hi, in this edit you moved EngvarB and Use dmy dates from the top to the bottom of the article. The documentation for "Use dmy dates" clearly says that it goes at the top; I know of nothing to suggest that "EngvarB" doesn't go at the top. I think this is yet another case where AWB seems to do some "fixes" with no justification. I've raised this at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser. Pam D  17:40, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * No, it's me moving it to the bottom, manually, which is where .   I have always placed these templates at the bottom, they are trivial style templates that we should not be polluting the page source with.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:44, 17 August 2016 (UTC).


 * Template_talk:Use_dmy_dates is the almost deserted discussion about placement. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:51, 17 August 2016 (UTC).

Thank you
I really do appreciate you adding the listas parameter. Adding listas was one of the first things I did on Wikipedia. It sort of is like the first job one gets out of college, in which one always remembers, either fondly or in nightmares. It is nice seeing you constantly on my watchlist fixing listas. I do have a bot approved to add listas, but only for standard western names. If you have a group of standard names that you want the bot to edit on, just give a yell. Bgwhite (talk) 19:29, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I am doing this, to some extent, in memory of User:JimCubb who did an enormous amount of work on this backlog.  I know there are others who are working on it too.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:31, 17 August 2016 (UTC).
 * I consider JimCubb my mentor. He is the one who taught me about name sorting and many other things on Wikipedia.  I do miss him.  Bgwhite (talk) 07:02, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

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Broken WikiProjects
See Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiProject ANE, Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiProject LoCE and Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiProject Pottery. The transclusions are all due to your edits. By not checking before saving, you are going against WP:AWB no. 1. -- Red rose64 (talk) 21:20, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I fixed the first group and created a redirect for the second to clarify that its a WikiProject template. In the case of the WP LoCE template I really think that needs to be moved and renamed to be standardized like the other WikiProject templates seem to reflect. I understand that technically these edits broke those templates but they also identified a couple minor errors that are easily corrected and probably would not have otherwise been noticed. So no harm done IMO. Cheers! GustavoRomeo68 (talk) 21:37, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * No, my request was not to fix the redlinks by creating redirects (which I could easily have done myself), but to find out from Rich why those perfectly good transclusions of e.g. were altered to redlinks e.g.  and not left alone. WP:NOTBROKEN doesn't just mean 'do not "fix" links to redirects that are not broken', it also means 'don't break working links even if those are redirects'. -- Red rose64 (talk) 22:43, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks User:GustavoRomeo68! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:36, 19 August 2016 (UTC).


 * Thanks for binging this to my attention. I will investigate this in more detail this evening.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:36, 19 August 2016 (UTC).

Rich, User:Magioladitis/WikiProjects does all the necessary standardisations. I recommend that you use it instead of any other set of custom fixes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:15, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Currently in use. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:34, 19 August 2016 (UTC).

Duplicated parameters
You keep adding duplicated parameters. Examples:, , ,. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:35, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Why add an empty template to an article?
Why add an template to an article if it is empty? Just curious. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:44, 23 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Seems to break rules 3 and 4 of AWB's rules of use. I'd recommend stopping, or at least getting a bot to do these edits, per the rules of use for AWB.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 07:23, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Good point. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:28, 23 August 2016 (UTC).


 * See . All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:28, 23 August 2016 (UTC).


 * Oh and to englarge, the temaplate will dispaly new authorities when they are added to WIkidata. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:37, 23 August 2016 (UTC).

Authority control is added by KasparBot. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:47, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #223
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) 16:29, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Category commons P373 and "Other sites"
 * Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
 * Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties
 * Refining "part of"
 * Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
 * Wikidata:Notability overhaul
 * RfP voting eligibility
 * Standards for property proposal discussions
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * August 17-19 : VIVO conference, see also the keynote about collaboratively created, linked open knowledge.
 * August 20-21 : the Wikiconvention in Paris. Check the notes taken during the Wikidata workshop
 * Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM, on the Wikimedia Foundation blog
 * All your locations are belong to us on Magnus' blog
 * Paper: An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
 * Paper: Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata Using COOL-WD
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job offer : PHP software developer for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Wikidata has now a stable interface policy to guarantee the stability of the tools
 * Enabling Wikidata data access in user language
 * COOL-WD now includes a gadget to show completeness information in Wikidata
 * Mix'n'Match can list entries of some external databases, and allows users to match them against Wikidata items. A new catalogue for ContentMine has been added!
 * WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for Central Cambridge)
 * Extracting Wikidata annotations to create DBpedia mappings project during Google Summer of Code
 * Did you know? Popular surnames Wikidata query.png
 * Newest properties: develops from, recovered by, film crew member, mount, flight number, Flags of the World ID, ID of Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, fiscal/tax revenue, speed limit, qualifies for event, freedom of panorama
 * Query examples:
 * A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below"). This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
 * Common occupations of heads of state (source).
 * Murderers by region in France (source).
 * Authors with a known location and an ORCID (source).
 * Popular surnames among humans (source).
 * Movies that won all the Oscars they were nominated for (source).
 * Colors with multiple RGB statements (source)
 * Filmography of Jean Gabin (source)
 * Cities as big as Antwerp (source)
 * Cities connected by the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Siberian Railway (source)
 * Histropedia timeline of Europeana280 artworks (source)
 * Newest gadgets: Sort the statements on items, prefill "access date" with current date
 * New templates:, , , . Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
 * Newest database reports: list of riders and their horse
 * Development
 * Continuing to work on the concepts for the automatic list generation
 * Enable allow data access in user language will come on Wikidata soon
 * Menus are now internationalised on the query service
 * Clarified error message when adding a URL without a protocol
 * Created a gadget to try out global sort order in items
 * Fixed a bug where the input field for a value was not loaded
 * Worked on the interface stability policy
 * Made possible to create mediainfo entity by adding a statement
 * Worked on showing from which items a given Wikipedia article uses data
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Nomination for deletion of Template:2012
Template:2012 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. P p p er y (talk) 11:47, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
 * G7'd. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:52, 25 August 2016 (UTC).


 * How about G7ing Template:2010 too? P p p e<big style="position:relative;top:10px">r y  <big style="position:relative;top:5px">(talk) 13:58, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Upcoming editathons: Women in Nursing & Women Labor Activists
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Speedy deletion nomination of Talk:Kalleguta


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incorrect wikiproject. Kalleguta is not in Finland.

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Wikidata weekly summary #224
<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;">


 * Discussions
 * We need your input about how you edit lists on Wikipedia


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, 3rd September, University of Pardubice
 * Past: Wikidata workshop by Asaf Bartov during the CEE WikiConv in Dilijan, Armenia
 * Past: Wikidata presentation during Django Girls in Berlin
 * GSoC at Wikimedia (Part 1 of 3), by Alangi Derick
 * Modeling books in Wikidata by Aubrey and Chiara Storti
 * Paper: Vandalism Detection in Wikidata, by Stefan Heindorf, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein and Gregor Engels


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
 * WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
 * The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
 * enabling data access in user language will be deployed on Wikidata on August 29


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Tela Botanica ID (Metropolitan France), Gare & Connexions ID, has tense, Plantarium ID, FloraBase ID, Flora of Australia ID, Internet Bird Collection species ID, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier, ISBN identifier group, KML file, practiced by
 * Query examples:
 * RADA alumni with a good or featured article on Wikipedia (source)
 * Historians with links to French Wikipedia or Wikisource, but missing VIAF ID (source)
 * Unicorn taxa, including the Indian rhinoceros (source)
 * Mithras shrines, as a map (source)
 * 2.300 Wikidata archaeological sites without coordinates (source)
 * All items on Wikidata whom we know we don't know their sex or gender: (source)
 * Drug-disease interactions (source)
 * Nicknames of serial killers (source)
 * Dynamic data map of all U-bahn lines in Berlin with colors (source)
 * [http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=%23Internet%20Services%20By%20Type%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20?webService%20?webServiceLabel%20%0A%0A(SAMPLE%20(?inception)%20as%20?inception)%0A(SAMPLE%20(?image)%20as%20?image)%0A(SAMPLE%20(?type)%20as%20?type)%0A(SAMPLE%20(?precision)%20as%20?precision)%0A(COUNT%20(DISTINCT%20?article)%20as%20?rank)%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A?webService%20wdt:P31/wdt:P279*%20wd:Q1668024.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%09%09%23Subclass%20of%20service%20on%20internet%0A%0A?webService%20p:P571%20?inceptionStatement%20.%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23That%20has%20inception%20date%0A?inceptionStatement%20psv:P571%20?inceptionStatementNode%20.%09%09%09%09%0A%20%20%20%20?inceptionStatementNode%20wikibase:timeValue%20?inception%20.%09%09%09%23Get%20inception%20date%0A%20%20%09?inceptionStatementNode%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?precision%20.%09%09%23Get%20date%20precision%0A%0A?webService%20wdt:P31%20?typeItem%20.%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23Get%20the%20service%20type%0A?typeItem%20rdfs:label%20?type%20filter%20(lang(?type)%20%3D%20%22en%22).%09%09%09%09%23and%20the%20label%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?webService%20wdt:P18%20?image%7D%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23Get%20image%20if%20available%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?webService%20wdt:P154%20?image%7D%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23Get%20logo%20image%20if%20avilable%0A%0A%0A?article%20schema:about%20?webService%20.%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%23Count%20article%20links%20for%20rank%0ASERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7Bbd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20?webService%20?webServiceLabel%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20(?rank)&url=webService&title=webServiceLabel&from=inception&fromPrecision=precision&imageUrl=image&colourCodeBy=type&threshold=1&view=timeline Timeline of internet services by type to celebrate 25 yrs of the web] (source)
 * Network of color (source)
 * Dynamic data map of all country by year of joining the United Nations (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Theatre
 * Newest gadgets:
 * Newest external tools: Wikidata Class Browser (includes subclass counts and instance counts)
 * Newest database reports:
 * New feature/gadget requests:
 * Showcase items:


 * Development
 * Fixed a but where the text field doesn't always load when trying to add a statement (T115267)
 * We're now also creating mediainfo entities when a statement is added to a non-existent media info entity (T140760)
 * Fixed a but where the suggester would show information twice (T143645)
 * The ArticlePlaceholder now also shows the links to other projects in the In Other Projects sidebar (T141771)
 * Worked more in figuring out how to show usage tracking data (T103091)
 * Made progress on Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add useful and complete references (T141856)
 * Worked on restore "purge without confirm" user right (T143435)


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

<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; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:41, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Category:Templates with incorrect documentation has been nominated for discussion
Category:Templates with incorrect documentation, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cabayi (talk) 15:22, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * The general rule is that categories are not emptied without a discussion.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:59, 31 August 2016 (UTC).

RfC on Quote Boxes.
Hi Rich. This is just a message to let you know that I have recently initiated a 'support/opposition' section at the RfC discussing the issues surrounding the use of "quote boxes" (here). As you previously expressed a view on this issue over at the MoS talk page several days ago, you may wish to reiterate your opinion in a 'support/oppose' format. Best, Midnightblueowl (talk) 21:53, 31 August 2016 (UTC)