User talk:ToniSant/Archive 2

Questions and Comments from IEE 2013 students
Dear IEE students: please feel free to leave questions for me below. --ToniSant (talk) 12:08, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Absence on 11/02/13
Hi Toni, Due to unforeseen circumstances Im afraid I can not attend tomorrows lecture 11/02/13. I am sending you a message on here due to the university emailing system not working for me at this time, also incase your having trouble with it too, as well as this message i have emailed you from my personal email address bearing in mind the details. (Tasha.Bluck (talk) 23:21, 10 February 2013 (UTC))


 * Thanks for letting me know about this. I will respond to your email privately, of course. --ToniSant (talk) 11:27, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Machinima Project
Hello Toni, I added my information on the Portal:computer graphics page, but it did not go where I wanted it to go, so I deleted my work, and realised it needed to be a new article, I tried to search how to do this and is waiting for a response from the teahouse, but somebody has told me not to edit that page again, Shall I not edit that page again and just work in the sandbox? Natbrock (talk) 18:13, 13 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Nat, it looks like you're having some issues with understanding (a) how a wikipeida portal page works, and (b) what your assignment requires you to do. Let's approach each of these separately.


 * a. Have you read the information page about portals on Wkipedia? It's essential that you understand how portals work on Wkipedia. The essesntial infor is on this page: Portal.


 * b. You do not have to manage to publish anything to the actual portal page, HOWEVER, once you understand how portals really work on Wikipedia, your task is to engage with the Macinima related pages across Wikipedia and ensure that these are also included on the computer graphics portal page, unless there are widely held objections by other Wikipedians active on that portal page. These will be captured through your interactions on the portal's talk page.


 * I also recommend you familiarise yourself with this page: WikiProject Animation/Machinima work group.


 * Good luck! --ToniSant (talk) 19:53, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Assignment 1 Part 1
For the assignment we need to do a presentation, do we do the presentation together if we are editing an article together?

--LewisHoward (talk) 14:12, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Lewis, you're required to do separate presentations about your own work. There will naturally be overlaps since you're working with someone else, but you will be assessed individually for the work you have done.  Also, see the running order for presentations on eBridge and please make sure you load up any PPT or presentation materials you have to the iMac in PS3 before we start. --ToniSant (talk) 14:18, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback
Thanks for the feedback you left about the training for educators! I left a few replies, and was hoping you could elaborate a bit on the North America-specific bits that you noticed.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 16:41, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Sage, you're doing an excellent job with the courses wizard. Thank you!  My comment about the North America-specific bits referred mainly to the terminology used to describe things: for example, in the UK a course is known as a module and faculty is not an academic member of staff but a gathering of academic departments. Having direct experience with both systems, I was not particularly thrown off by this. The one that specifically got me thinking was the semester description.  2013 Q1 means nothing to me and/or my students. Spring 2013 is confusing for most UK students, and possibly even (what you'd call) faculty (what we here call lecturers). In the UK, we'd describe what we're doing now as "2012/13 Semester 2". I hope some of this is helpful.  Thanks again!--ToniSant (talk) 12:31, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, this is very helpful. I'll try to root out as much of that terminology as possible the next time I revise the training. The "2013 Q1" bit doesn't mean anything in the US either, which is why we went with that format, to have a labeling system independent of the many different term systems and terminology out there. That said, it's a stop-gap at this point; I expect we'll want to do away with "term" altogether as something that has to be independently specified, and instead just calculate which cohort a class is in automatically based on the start and end dates, once the software can do that.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 15:13, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Question from Jade
Hey Toni,
 * So, I am currently working on my assignment for the IEE and am trying to create something to add the the Computer animation page. I found on the talk page a user had explained they would like to find out the difference between Computer assisted and Computer generated animation. I have tried to put a little something together with the hope to add it to the article from research I have found and would like to ask if you could visit my sandbox and have a read over what I have written so far. Any ideas or adjustments you can relay to me would be a great help.
 * Many thanks--JLM003 (talk) 21:11, 14 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Jade, before I answer your question, I should point out that I move your question to the bottom of my talk page. This is the normal Wikipedia convention for new questions/comments/messages on talk pages: they go at the bottom of the page, unless you're responding to something that was written earlier on the same page.


 * Now, for your question: I will respond directly on your sandbox talk page. So look there...and if you don't see anything yet it's because I'm still replying. :-) --ToniSant (talk) 11:31, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Re: A barnstar for you!
Hey, no probs. I'm sorry I got in on this course so late, but your students seem to have a good grasp already on appropriate writing style and sourcing. One of your students has expressed concern to me that student edits may be being removed by other editors purely because they are students. I have all of their articles and userpages on my watchlist and I haven't seen any pattern of this, so I don't know which articles or editors this involves. Have any of your students expressed this concern to you? --Geniac (talk) 21:42, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

You are welcome
I have done machinima in 2nd life and still have account, land, and money there. I haven't logged in a month or so, but I suppose I should. There are good inworld machinima groups that may provide video in the proper format and licences for upload. I only have two uploaded. One I lost the source for the public domain song I used so I haven't transfered it to commons yet. I could upload it without music if needed. File:CGI Machinima sample film.ogg is here and File:Machinima sample reindeer full size.ogg is on commons.--Canoe1967 (talk) 14:36, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I noticed editors posting comments to sections and editor talk pages that are rather dated. Some close to two years. You may wish to point out the date stamps and how to see the last contributions done by editors.--Canoe1967 (talk) 12:43, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Good point! I did mention this to them, but as you can appreciate it's quite a lot for most of them to take in all at once. We need to be rather patient with them...it's all part of the learning process! :-) --ToniSant (talk) 13:24, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Are they aware that we have two articles that should be merged? Machinima: Virtual Filmmaking and Machinima. They had merge tags at one time but they seem to be gone now. One student did some massive changes right away that were partially reverted, I forget which article though. I gave a little advice to another at Talk:Computer_animation that you may wish to look at. They may also wish to adjust some of the Special:Preferences to make editing easier. The gadgets section has some handy ones.--Canoe1967 (talk) 13:45, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * That's right, they've been told that there are several things to watch out for. However, some of them tend to be bold and that's how we get some of the unpleasant changes we see as they learn the ropes. I haven't mentioned the gadgets yet, but that's a great suggestion. Thanks again for all your support! --ToniSant (talk) 13:58, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I just discovered a new gadget they may find useful:

--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:46, 3 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, this is an excellent resource...thank you!! --ToniSant (talk) 15:14, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

ORCID
Good to see you today; and congratulations on your recent appointment, which was news to me!

For ORCID, please see that article, also http://orcid.org and Authority control, the latter as used in my user page. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:47, 23 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for your kind words! It's always good to see you Andy, and I have a feeling we'll be bumping into each other more frequently now that I have an official role within WMUK.


 * I plan to get on with ORCID in the coming days. I'll keep you posted about how I get on. I really appreciate your recommendation. It's precisely the sort of nudge I need to get going. Cheers! --ToniSant (talk) 17:04, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikimedia in Further Education
I've followed a soft redirect here from your Wikimedia UK profile. I'm just coming to the end of a 12 contract which has involved some contact with FE colleges in Wales. Although I'm a keen Wikipedian (I'm an admin on cy:wiki), I have no knowledge of the EdwWiki side. As we in Wales now have a sort of 'national WIR' for a year, I had a short discussion with two college representatives about the possibility of somehow blending in Wikimedia editing into some sort of extra credit activities, giving an example work done with HE in Czech Republic. I can deliver Wikipedia training myself, but I'm a little unsure of the practicalities of student/students editing articles and how a tutor can evaluate - is it just case of comparing changes in view history? What if there is an edit class etc? It needn't be accredited (at least for a pilot), but I was wondering if you have any pointers/suggestions on how a tutor goes about setting tasks? Hope these questions don't sound too silly. --Rhyswynne (talk) 15:10, 15 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Rhys - thanks for this! Your questions are far from silly. This is a great subject to bring to the EduWiki Conference in November. Would you consider putting together a proposal for a provocation or presentation on the lines you outline here? I gave a presentation addressing some of your questions at last year's EduWiki.  There's a link to that presentation on my WMUK staff user page. We can also arrange a feel free to email me at at education@undefinedwikimedia.org.uk if you'd like to have a Skype chat, or I can even give you a call if you email me your phone number. --ToniSant (talk) 15:37, 17 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I'll have a look at that (video?) first, then come back with more possible :-). As I'm Cardiff based I would like to attend the EduWiki conference, if family comittments allow, and I'll consider your suggestion. --Rhyswynne (talk) 14:04, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Stuart Harris
Greetings... Your students have been kind enough to dignify my efforts as AD of The Hamnet Players with a wikipage all its own. I appreciate that. User:AliceWicker and User:RaffyDaffy have also worked on a page about me personally, and I appreciate that too.

The page is not exactly inaccurate (at least not in any important respect), but it is unbalanced. Internet performance was only a tiny part of my life. I'm not moaning, not at all. However, I'd like to offer a glimpse of the real me in case your project can make use of it.

Cheers. El Ingles (talk) 13:56, 30 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for getting in touch with me directly. Yes, two of my students at the University of Hull started a page about The Hamnet Players a couple of years ago. Amazingly, one of them is still an active Wikipedian. While the page doesn't contain any great factual errors, it needs quite a bit of work to style it according to Wikipedia's manual of style. I'm aware that Internet performance is only a tiny part of your creative life, but I have frequently argued that you deserve even more credit for Hamnet than you have received. I firmly believe that your Internet performance work should continue to be recognized far and wide. This has most recently driven me to write an academic article for the next issue of the International Journal of Performance Art & Digital Media to mark 20 years since the first Hamnet Players production. My article adds very little factual information about your work, but offers a contextual and critical perspective on its relevance from a historical viewpoint.
 * While you have good reason to provide me and others with a glimpse of the "real" you as a whole person, I will continue to believe that your contribution to the history of performance and internet art has so far been understated. Wikipedia is not the (only or main) place to remedy that, but The Hamnet Players deserve to be remembered and admired by many more generations to come.
 * Meanwhile both The Hamnet Players and Stuart Harris could do with a substantial amount of attention from experienced Wikipedians, who could even improve them to the point where one of them can be considered for inclusion as a featured article. Perhaps this is a challenge that someone will take up as a way to mark the 20th anniversary of that historic first performance of Hamnet. --ToniSant (talk) 14:17, 30 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, both pages need work if they are to survive. I'm not the one to do it. My entire theatrical career is here, if you're interested. Cheers. El Ingles (talk) 19:21, 30 July 2013 (UTC)


 * I noticed this and thought "That looks like something I could usefully do"... until I looked at the actual Stuart Harris article and felt defeated by its sadly low quality as an article. The opening sentence doesn't indicate why SH should be in Wikipedia; the second sentence is a grammatical muddle, etc. But I added the two external links from SH's "biocode" page, formatting the imdb one using the standard template, and have made a link to The Hamnet Players from the section which discusses them, so that's a start! It would be appropriate for SH to make a comment on the talk page on the lines he's done here (as per Autobiography), and then some interested editor might pick up the info and run with it. Pam  D  16:58, 31 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Hello Pam! As ever, you're a beacon of hope to us all who attempt to bring more new editors to Wikipedia. The initial muddle on the Stuart Harris article was created by my students, who were more keen to write a lot than understand how Wikipedia works.  I have since changed the way I use Wikipedia in the classroom, and you'll notice that students who worked with me and other colleagues at our university, are much more restrained in their contributions.
 * It's always a joy interacting with you - you're the best sort of WikiJaguar!
 * I've also found that engages with Wikipedians in a very pleasant manner, so I'm sure he'll take kindly to your comments and the specific suggestion to comment on the article talk page in a similar way to what he has done above. --ToniSant (talk) 17:24, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your kind words and barnstar. I went back to the SH article and made first sentence less dreadful, also added Viaf link, but will leave it at that! Pam  D  06:03, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #88
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Guidelines about ordering
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Succu becomes the first non-bot user with more than 1000000 edits in Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ResearcherID, Portuguese Job Code CPP-2010, PSH id, medical condition
 * Newest task forces: Political geography task force
 * Showcase items: Barack Obama, Hubble Space Telescope
 * Fun Fact: Q12345 is Count von Count (ah ah ah)
 * Development
 * Made improvements to lower database load
 * Deployed ordering, ranks and a table of contents and fixed issues with those after deployment (mainly performance-related)
 * Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
 * Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
 * Started working on a version of DataModel that works with the new DataValues components
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #91
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about the RfD process
 * Discussion about Notability of Wikisource on Wikidata
 * Open RfAs: Lymantria, Lavallen
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata reached 100000000 edits
 * d:User:Dexbot is the first bot to reach 10000000 edits
 * Wikisource is due to receive Wikidata Phase 1 on January the 14th
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 * Newest properties: none
 * Newest task forces: MediaWiki task force
 * Showcase items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988)
 * Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014)
 * Development Word from John
 * To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #87
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:22, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Change the resysopping process
 * Inactive administrators
 * Open RfBs: The Anonymouse
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Gerard blogs about the Italian Wikipedia search updates (See the Polish Wikipedia's update too)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Italian and Polish Wikipedia now display Wikidata results in their searches
 * A few new features which require your testing!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NCL identifier, Catholic Hierarchy ID, discovery method, Sycomore ID, SWB editions, IDEO Job ID, ZDB identifier
 * Newest task forces: Periodicals task force
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams, ethanol
 * Development
 * Finalized localization of quantity values
 * Worked on support for scientific notation in quantities
 * More work on improving diffs
 * Worked on ranks and grouping of statements of the same rank
 * Improved performance of AuthorityControl gadget by a factor of 5
 * Finished work on initial version of ordering of statements
 * Bene* finished the API part of badges support (user interface part is still needed)
 * Database performance improvements
 * Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/
 * Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!

Wikidata weekly summary #89
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 13:12, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over the notability of the new Draft namespace on the English Wikipedia
 * Discussion over the notability of template documentation items
 * RfC: Notability of item for all special pages
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource is still scheduled to get language links via Wikidata on January 14th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NLM ID, NDL editions
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams
 * Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.
 * Development
 * Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome ;-)
 * Improved and added a lot of tests
 * Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
 * No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
 * Caching and database improvements
 * Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
 * More work on quantities UI
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #90
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:48, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over handling of items
 * RfC: Interwiki links for subpages (Notability based discussion)
 * Closed: Inactive administrators
 * Closed: Bot policy
 * Closed RfA: Matěj Suchánek (Successful)
 * Open RfA: GerardM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Add the file and translate namespaces to the list of namespaces excluded from Wikibase Client's linking functionality and enable the "Add links" dialog for pages without language links on commons. (#58903)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: chromosome, produces
 * Development
 * Redesign and improvement of bene/itemsbycat/. You can also use short urls like bene/itemsbycat/enwiki/Wikidata.
 * Worked on reorganizing our git repositories and splitting quite a few of them
 * Worked more on parser cache to be able to cache more content (this failed during the last deployment)
 * Some progress on redirects
 * Tests, tests, tests
 * Vacations \o/
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Help translate on of Bene*'s tools!

Wikidata weekly summary #92
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 09:34, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over Wikisource's notability within Wikidata
 * Make Symmetric & Inverse Property addition automatic and bidirectional
 * Closed RfAs: Lymantria (Successful), Lavallen (Successful)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Presentation about Wikidata at Aldil, Lyon, France
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource is deployed to testwikidata
 * A group of students is working on suggestions to make it easier to add missing information. They published a status report and a rough first demo.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: track gauge, pathogen transmission process, CVR, ERA Journal ID
 * Newest task forces: Manga and Anime task force
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams
 * Fun Fact: Does not exist (Q404)
 * Wikidata's presence: The Dutch Wikipedia have a category for coordinating coordinates on Wikidata (Categorie:Wikipedia:Coördinaten niet op Wikidata)
 * Development
 * Adrian Lang joins the team
 * Cirrus Search is now the default search on Wikidata and should improve d:Special:Search's handlich of special characters for example
 * Made the “in other languages” box also show up for people who have not configured a babel box (49079)
 * No longer showing a table of content when it has less than 3 items in it to prevent it from showing up on property pages (58422)
 * More performance improvement work
 * Finishing touches on quantities datatype user interface
 * Display qualifiers in non-Java Script user interface
 * Prevented import of wikitext into the main namespace (47070)
 * Split the DataValues component into more clearly defined libraries and switched Wikibase over to use these
 * Switched Wikibase to use Wikibase DataModel 0.6
 * Changed development and installation workflows to make use of the dependency manager Composer (more details)
 * Made tests run with less warnings (especially in Firefox)
 * Started replacing wikibase.fetchedEntities with a proper entity store
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!

Wikidata weekly summary #93
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 using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:22, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Events
 * upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource now gets its language links via Wikidata
 * Reasonator gets extended functionality
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: PlantList-ID, Danemark Job Code (DISCO-08), Instruction Set, Thailand central administrative unit code, student of, archive URL
 * Showcase items: ethanol
 * Fun Fact: A Space Odyssey (Q2001)
 * Development
 * Enabled language links for Wikisource
 * Move more part of an item page from JS to HTML to improve performance and non-JS interface
 * Database performance improvements
 * Work on forward compatibility for new entity types
 * Introducing the EntityStore service to improve modularity
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!

Wikidata weekly summary #94
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:57, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about using 'instance of' specific for animals
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Next Wikidata IRC office hour on Monday, February 3rd
 * FOSDEM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata Development Plan for 2014+ has been published
 * Wikidata stats now also includes statistics for ranks
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ICTV virus ID, rector, fictional analog of, writable file format, readable file format, place made
 * Showcase items: Cactaceae
 * Development
 * Daniel and Katie took part in the MediaWiki Architecture Summit in San Francisco
 * 60027 Add language to label and description field to make it less likely that people enter a label or description in a wrong language
 * 58394 Avoid throwing out of bounds error when adding new claims
 * 50570 API now reveals qualifier hashes
 * 57213 API now reveals data type ids
 * 57754 Die if wbeditentity tries to clear from an old revision id
 * 55795 Add API option to show snaks in a list rather than grouped by property
 * Refactor of ChangeOp remove functionality
 * Continued to move parsing and validating of values from the frontend into the backend to improve performance and make the non-JS user interface more useful
 * Finished the Wikidata build script (We use it to pull together code from various git repositories into a single one for deployment)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #95
<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; John F. Lewis 23:37, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over P31 as a qualifier
 * Open RfA: Sjoerddebruin
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata is at FOSDEM in Brussels, Februrary 1st-2nd
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Quantities released on Wikidata!
 * Wikisource phase 2 coming Februrary 25th.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: attendance, refractive index, electronegativity, proportion, sandbox-quantity, number of pages, number of platforms, flattening, floors above ground, number of cylinders, masts, number of speakers, g-factor, orbital eccentricity, gross tonnage, total produced, redshift, Mohs' hardness, ELO rating, atomic number, LibraryThing work identifier, EUL control number, capacity, population, Human Development Index, from narrative, launch contractor, valvetrain configuration, KOATUU identifier
 * Development
 * Deployed quantities to Wikidata! :)
 * Made patch to make wbmergeitems more reliable Bugzilla::55960
 * Wikidata edit permissions now included in wikimedia OAuth edit groups
 * Moved Diff repo to Github
 * Work put into make the frontend use backend formatters through the api
 * Refactoring of the ValueView extension
 * MergeItems special page merged as an experimental feature
 * Our easy RDF fork is now included using composer
 * Fixed wbmergeitems issues
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #96
<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; John F. Lewis 22:37, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over the naming of people
 * Discussion over population
 * Successful RfA: Sjoerddebruin
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * See the office hours logs at meta
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * See the FOSDEM slides
 * Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
 * Development
 * More work on badges by Bene*
 * Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
 * Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
 * Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
 * Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
 * Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Hello to the IEE class
Hello students - feel free to leave a note here. --ToniSant (talk) 13:15, 11 February 2014 (UTC)


 * This next line is indented because I added a colon to it! :-) --ToniSant (talk) 13:15, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

hello Toni i do like Lucio Battisti too — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrea Bornivelli (talk • contribs) 13:19, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

sent you a message :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Liamparlett (talk • contribs) 13:26, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #97
<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; John F. Lewis 13:24, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Let's redesign Wikidata's interface
 * Reasonator
 * By hovering over a wikilink you will see the first paragraph.
 * The "personal settings" allow you to import your Babel info from Wikidata. This can be used to restrict the random items you will get.
 * The first iteration of "on the fly" text generation for English. It works for "humans" and, is completely based on the available Wikidata information.
 * You can now add labels in your language from within Reasonator. Technically oAuth is used. It now takes just one click to add a label in your language.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: IAAF ID, Lagrangian point
 * Showcase items: Vesta (Q3030)
 * Development
 * Wrote performance tests so we can track performance improvements better
 * Did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default in Wikidata. Found and fixed a performance bottleneck.
 * Work on making the interface more responsive, e. g. live preview when editing labels and updating the watchlist star when saving.
 * Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
 * Fixed an issue with OAuth on Wikidata because of permissions
 * Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
 * Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
 * Did a technical debt analysis and design review of Wikibase.git, with initial focus on WikibaseLib
 * Got (backend) EntityStore on the way, so we can test API modules without touching the database
 * Further work on TimeParsers move to the backend
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Missing lecture
Hello Toni, I want to apologise for missing this week lecture..I have been sick for few days! If i am required to see you before next week lecture let me know when and where i can meet you. In the meantime, I am learning how to edit and contribute on Wikipedia (i am not sure if what i am doing is right thought). Please let me know what you think. Regards

Andrea Bornivelli (talk) 17:03, 19 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Hello Andrea - many thanks for your note. I hope you're feeling better. Let's play it by ear in terms of catching up on what you missed.  I suggest you go over what we had in the outline for session 2. Don't hesitate to let me know if you have any specific questions. Keep up the good work and get well soon! --ToniSant (talk) 18:04, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #98
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher 13:58, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource will receive access to the data in Wikidata on February 25th. Planning is taking place at d:Wikidata:Wikisource.
 * 1 week left to give initial input for the user interface redesign
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: impact factor, Municipality code (Denmark), USB ID, Home world, Cardinality of the group, Internet media type, Bluebook abbreviation, Z39.5 abbreviation, ISO 4 abbreviation, CODEN, landing site, US Congress Bio identifier, Scopus Source ID, Scopus Affiliation ID, Scopus EID, Scopus Author ID, IPTC Media Topic, topic's main portal, Regensburg Classification, Library of Congress Classification, neutron number
 * Fun Fact: Wikidata has reached 30 million statements
 * Development
 * Refactored the suggestions drop-downs when entering properties for better performance
 * Fixed a misdirected arrow in left-to-right languages (61308)
 * Worked on an Apache redirect issue (54273)
 * Found and started fixing an issue that asked users for additional languages they don't want according to their Babel box (61446)
 * Table-of-contents link to the statements section of an item was broken
 * Kept poking TimeParsers
 * Made WikibaseDatabase feature complete for use with WikibaseQueryEngine
 * Work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
 * Investigate using ElasticSearch as term index backend to take some load of the most-used database table
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help develop the next summary here!

Books & Bytes, Issue 4
Books and Bytes Volume 1, Issue 4, February 2014 News for February from your Wikipedia Library. Donations drive: news on TWL's partnership efforts with publishers Open Access: Feature from Ocaasi on the intersection of the library and the open access movement American Library Association Midwinter Conference: TWL attended this year in Philadelphia Royal Society Opens Access To Journals: The UK's venerable Royal Society will give the public (and Wikipedians) full access to two of their journal titles for two days on March 4th and 5th Going Global: TWL starts work on pilot projects in other language Wikipedias Read the full newsletter MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:00, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #99
<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; John F. Lewis 18:38, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about defining lists
 * Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט, Pamputt
 * Closed RfAs: Epìdosis (Successful)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata scholarships for the Zürich Hackathon
 * Wikidata FOSS Outreach Program for Women
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: unemployment rate, manner of death, file extension, received signal, prevalence, connecting service, first performance, Universal Decimal Classification, Chinese Library Classification, Dharma Drum Buddhist College place ID, Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID, MEP directory identifier, Rodovid ID, handle, Gewässerkennzahl, LIBRIS editions, numeric value, visitors per year, Geokod, approximation algorithm, transmitted signal
 * Showcase item: Why not improve Kleinmachnow (Q104192) to showcase standard?
 * Wikidata's presence: vici.org are using Wikidata identifiers in their data storage
 * Development
 * Made loading items a lot faster
 * Enabled access to the data on Wikidata for Wikisource
 * Fixed the diff view sometimes showing the wrong revision
 * Attended ConFoo and learned all of the things
 * Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 0.1
 * Continue work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
 * Started to make Wikidata even faster by removing StaticExpert and BifidExpert
 * Started reviewing interface animations. You should be able to disable them all by setting $.fx.off = true; in your Special:MyPage/common.js.
 * Fixed Wikidata looking a bit odd when enabling the Typography refresh Beta feature.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #100
<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; John F. Lewis 15:39, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about enabling GuidedTours on Wikidata
 * Open RfA: ElfjeTwaalfje
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikiquote will get language links via Wikidata on April 8th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: portal's main topic, Finnish municipality number, carries scientific instrument, upper stage booster, river basin category, mode of inheritance
 * Development
 * Added more details to the diffs of time and geocoordinate values (will show which globe the coordinate is on and so on now as well)
 * More work on badges by Bene* - most work left is now in the GUI part of it
 * Removed unneeded and unused permissions/rights
 * Fixed a bug concerning spaces in quantities (61911)
 * Started work on taking ranks into account for queries, the property parser function and Lua. (By default only preferred values should be used if available. If not available then it should use values with rank normal.)
 * test2.wikipedia.org and test.wikipedia.org now use test.wikidata.org as their data repository, instead of wikidata.org
 * Started work on WikibaseInternalSerialization component
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7 - https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md
 * Added indexes to Wikibase QueryEngine
 * Improved SQLite support in Wikibase Database
 * Started moving virtual machine instances of various test systems to the new Wikimedia Datacenter
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the sport (P641) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

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