User talk:TCN7JM/Archive 7

The Signpost: 26 June 2013

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MP5
Please note that according to this, you are one of two bozos interfering with an experienced editors version of the article. Don't fret though, as according to this users list of contributions, it appears that the experienced editor and owner of said article has issues of their own. June 28 2013 (talk) 10:44, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the heads-up. T  C  N7 JM  10:55, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

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 23:42, 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

The Signpost: 03 July 2013

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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 16:43, 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

The Signpost: 10 July 2013

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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 14:46, 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

The Signpost: 17 July 2013

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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 15:20, 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

The Signpost: 24 July 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #68
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 22:34, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 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.

The Signpost: 31 July 2013

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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.

Wikidata weekly summary #70
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 * 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.

The Signpost: 07 August 2013
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The Center Line: Summer 2013

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 * I have replied to the e-mail. T  C  N7 JM  05:54, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I have replied to the reply to the e-mail. AutomaticStrikeout (₵) 15:11, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I have replied to the reply of the reply of the e-mail. T  C  N7 JM  15:21, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2013
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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 22:47, 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.

Penile fracture
Hey, I'd thank you right back but the button to do that seems to have disappeared a while back. Sheesh! Who needs this kind of nonsense? Anyway, I've asked for a semi, though hopefully they'll just get bored. -- Hillbillyholiday talk 06:31, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Heh, yeah. Thanks. T  C  N7 JM  06:32, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #72
<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 21:36, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 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.

The Signpost: 21 August 2013
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My recent RfA
I should have said thanks for your support sooner. ```<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  04:05, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Not a problem. T  C  N7 JM  04:06, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #73
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 * 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
 * Bug fixes for coordinates following the latest deployment
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Report a paper cut (see above).
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Hack on one of these.

The Signpost: 28 August 2013
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Your GA nomination of K-179 (Kansas highway)
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Your GA nomination of K-179 (Kansas highway)
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Re: DYK of Ohio State Route 367
Glad I could help. Just don't feel too bad. While the templates and subpages help resolve a number of problems, their exacting syntax tends to snag even DYK regulars from time to time. --Allen3 talk 00:09, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #74
<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 22:46, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Saskia has finished her analysis of the different Wiktionary proposals and projects
 * Oversight nomination for Ajraddatz
 * Request for input by ontology experts
 * Help Sven compile a list of major accomplishments of Wikidata to date
 * RfC about the Guidelines for the RfC process
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * State of the Map
 * Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
 * 10 questions about VIAF, Wikidata and the world
 * Wikidata quality and quantity
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Potentially useful Coursera course about metadata and information started
 * URL datatype needs more testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: GSS code (2011) (P836), BioLib ID (P838), IMSLP ID (P839), narrative set in (P840), Paleobiology Database Identifier (P842), SIRUTA code (P843), UBIGEO code (P844). A set of properties to build calenders: public holiday (P832), day in year for periodic occurrence (P837) and feast day (P841). A proposal for "reoccurring date in machine readable format" is still under review.
 * Development
 * mlazowik has put in more work to getting support for batches (featured article and so on) to Wikidata
 * Jeroen gave a presentation on clean functions
 * More work on the URL datatype to make it ready for deployment
 * Continuous work on cucumber & moving browser tests to saucelabs/cloudbees
 * Simple query special page
 * DataValues reorganization
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.