User talk:TheresNoTime/old/Archive 9

RfA
Thanks for the kind words on my talk page, would you be willing to be a 2nd nominator with Katie for my RfA? RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:26, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd be honoured, as long as Katie reckons I'm suitable I'll start digging through stuff and drop you and Katie a line --  samtar talk or stalk 17:18, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Education Noticeboard Alert!
Hey sam ! I just wanted to let you know that I have applied for an education program volunteer. Feel free to share your ideas and discuss it on the dicussion page. Thanks!  Wiki Pancake  ✉ 📖 14:13, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Watch Dogs
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RfA
Thanks for the kind words on my talk page, would you be willing to be a 2nd nominator with Katie for my RfA? RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:26, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd be honoured, as long as Katie reckons I'm suitable I'll start digging through stuff and drop you and Katie a line --  samtar talk or stalk 17:18, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Education Noticeboard Alert!
Hey sam ! I just wanted to let you know that I have applied for an education program volunteer. Feel free to share your ideas and discuss it on the dicussion page. Thanks!  Wiki Pancake  ✉ 📖 14:13, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Watch Dogs
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Watch Dogs you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The1337gamer -- The1337gamer (talk) 10:20, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Watch Dogs
The article Watch Dogs you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Watch Dogs for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The1337gamer -- The1337gamer (talk) 11:01, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
 * :( . I might edit from this I.P. for a while. 213.163.32.241 (talk) 15:53, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Multiple accounts
I made this account because I wanted to change my other account's name from Spoon2978 to Futurebuilder1. It wouldn't let me change my name from Spoon2978 to FutureBuilder1. Futurebuilder1 (talk) 20:00, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Fair enough! Let me know if there is anything I can do to help, happy editing -- samtar talk or stalk 20:04, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Happy editing to you too! Futurebuilder1 (talk) 20:07, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-44
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only.
 * Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester.
 * The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar).
 * Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "" field when editing templates.
 * Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29.

Miscellaneous
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:Female genital mutilation
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New Page Reviewer granted
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mail

 * can't say I've got that, it normally takes a mo but not this long - can you try emailing samtar.on.en.wp@gmail.com directly? Sorry to be a pain! -- samtar talk or stalk 16:55, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Have tried again just now. Pam  D  17:38, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Nada again, apparently there is a known issue currently affecting sending emails through Wikipedia's "email a user" function, which is rather annoying :( your call for how to proceed -- samtar talk or stalk 18:42, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah well - to sum it up, "Thanks but no thanks". Pam  D  18:57, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

!header
There is no point in adding MARTHOMA XX in my opinion. There is no reference for this claim. Marthoma is a honorific title taken by the metropolitans in the Malankara church. (please see 'Malankara Metropolitan' in wikipedia).There were 9 Marthoma titles, Marthoma 1 to Marthoma 9. Thats it. Afterwards the metropolitans of the Malankara church did not took this title.(no more Mathoma 10 or Marthoma 11). So its a false claim when some body saying Marthoma XX, however they could easily say or add simply 'Marthoma' with out any numbering. I object adding the number 'xx' to 'Marthoma' title because there is no such numbering exist after 9th Marthoma. Thanks Mandrake_the_Magician (talk) 15:55, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Guess what... (I'll give you a clue, it's not female..)
...

!! Mike1901 (talk) 16:13, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I've not got the email - I think something is up with Mediawiki emailing stuffs, so I've emailed you so you can reply. Try sending direct to --  samtar talk or stalk 16:45, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks - got your email and just replied to it. Mike1901 (talk) 17:10, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * got it! (But not the test) - lemme get home from work and I'll reply :) I think the email API is dead -- samtar talk or stalk 17:22, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm on IRC if you're about though -- samtar talk or stalk 17:35, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I am indeedy - though don't know your IRC handle (I'm idling in -en and -en-help) Mike1901 (talk) 17:38, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
I'm sorry, the barnstar is in another castle


 * too. Muffled  Pocketed  12:35, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * , just to check you've emailed manually? The Wikipedia e-mail system seems to be up the creek. Mike1901 (talk) 12:38, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah! Many thanks - I just used the reply function? Muffled Pocketed  12:40, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * From an email he sent you? That should work dandily as it doesn't go back via WP :-) Mike1901 (talk) 12:43, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * All received and replied - I feel popular.  not forgotten about your email/request, keep prodding me --  samtar talk or stalk 13:56, 3 November 2016 (UTC)


 * @ just realised I never said thank you - so thank you! -- samtar talk or stalk 16:34, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016
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Wikidata weekly summary #234
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 

Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!
 * Fourth birthday: thank you!

Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:
 * d:Template:User Wikidata birthday 2016 (Pigsonthewing)
 * A new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation (Addshore)
 * Wikidata's 4th birthday logo (Incabell)
 * A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users. (Tomayac)
 * A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
 * Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart! Read more and try examples in the documentation (Jonas)
 * , a new parser function is currently in development with better features: try it here! (Thiemo, Wikidata dev team and volunteers)
 * Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles (fnielsen)
 * Technical documentation about Wikibase for PHP and JS scripts (Ladsgroup and Jonas)
 * new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse the properties of items. see in the video (Jonas)
 * graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (demo video) (Jonas, [[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
 * d:Module:PropertyPath and d:Template:Show Path Items (TomT0m)
 * Everything is connected, a knowledge game based on Wikidata and Commons (list of levels) (Denny)


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Histropedia: “The power of data visualisation combined with free knowledge” on WMF's blog
 * Presenting the Wikidata Human Gender Indicators by Max Klein
 * How the world’s first Wikidata Visiting Scholar created linked open data for five thousand works of art on WMF's blog


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Music in Canada at 150 Wikipedia Project, a multifaceted campaign to increase the amount and quality of content about Canadian music in Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * 400,000,000th edit was made.
 * The average amount of statements per item became higher than five and is still growing.
 * Wikidata entities usage on Wikimedia projects


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II


 * Query examples:
 * Continents on Wikidata (All eleven of them) (source)
 * Sluices on the river "Vilaine" in Brittany (source)
 * Countries with most cities named after saints (source)
 * Disney characters who share name with their actors (source)
 * 204 items that cite themselves (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20statements%20with%20two%20references%20where%20one%20source%20cites%20the%20other%0ASELECT%20%3Fsubject%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3FpropertyLabel%20%3FobjectLabel%20%3Fsource1Label%20%3Fsource2Label%0AWITH%20%7B%20%23%20subquery%20that%20actually%20finds%20the%20statements%20and%20sources%20%28written%20as%20named%20subquery%20to%20ensure%20it%E2%80%99s%20only%20run%20once%2C%20independently%20of%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20query%3B%20see%20https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.blazegraph.com%2Fwiki%2Findex.php%2FNamedSubquery%29%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fsource1%20%3Fsource2%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20prov%3AwasDerivedFrom%2Fpr%3AP248%20%3Fsource1%2C%20%3Fsource2.%20%23%20statement%20has%20two%20%E2%80%9Cstated%20in%E2%80%9D%20references%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsource1%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fsource2.%20%23%20first%20source%20cites%20the%20second%20one%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fsource1%20%21%3D%20%3Fsource2%29.%20%23%20apparently%20some%20items%20cite%20themselves%3F%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20%23%20auxiliary%20query%20to%20find%20the%20subject%2C%20property%20and%20object%20of%20the%20statement%2C%20as%20well%20as%20labels%0A%20%20%3Fsubject%20%3Fp%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fps%20%3Fobject.%0A%20%20%3Fproperty%20a%20wikibase%3AProperty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aclaim%20%3Fp%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AstatementProperty%20%3Fps.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Statements with two references where one source cites the other] (source)


 * Development
 * Stable interface policy update
 * More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (T149580)
 * Worked on first version of Lexeme entity type (T148139)
 * Worked more on linking values in Lua and the property parser function instead of just returning the label (T142940) You can test it here: https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements
 * Improved map layer colors in the query service (T148022)
 * Improved size of map markers in the query service (T148496)
 * Upcoming: quantity changes
 * Worked more on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (T987) Test system is coming in the next days.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:08, 7 November 2016 (UTC)