User talk:WikiWikiWayne/Archive 39

Wikidata weekly summary #312
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Adminor


 * Events
 * Past: GLAM forum in Yerevan, Armenia, 10-12 May 2018
 * slides for 'What is Wikidata: How can GLAMs work with Wikidata?' presentation by Andy Mabbett
 * A Wikidata workshop was given by Liam Wyatt and appeared at the national Armenian television
 * Wikidata workshop day at GLAMwiki conference in Rotterdam, May 14th
 * Wikidata workshop in Paris, May 18th
 * Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata: a platform for your library’s linked open data by Stacy Allison-Cassin & Dan Scott, in the journal Code4Lib (also posted on Reddit)
 * Enriching Reconciled Data with OpenRefine, by Karen Hwang


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser
 * New monolingual code available: shy (Shawiya)
 * You can have a look at the draft for the RDF mapping of Wikibase Lexeme
 * New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: item for this sense, season of club or team, Möllendorff transliteration, geographic center, coastline
 * External identifiers: none


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: IGAC rating, taxon described in publication, jockey, Norsk fjordkatalog-ID, Wikidata:Dataset Imports, toponym
 * External identifiers: Bugs! artist ID, Bugs! album ID, KKBOX artist ID, KKBOX album ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Kunstenpunt organisations, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia label ID, Rockipedia area ID, Norsk historisk leksikon ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, Relationship Science profile ID, D&B Hoovers company profile, Victorian Heritage Register ID, CIVICUS Monitor country entry, FloraCatalana ID


 * Underused properties created >3 months:
 * Songwriters Hall of Fame ID (P4757), V Live channel ID (P4756), MONA ID (P4758), Harvard botanical journal ID (P4754), Images d'Art artwork ID (P4761), has boundary (P4777), lot number (P4775), Arcade artwork ID (P4764), biological phase (P4774), crates.io ID (P4763)
 * Query examples:
 * Museums near you (source)
 * Places near you that are the subject of publications (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fs%20%3FsLabel%20%3Fcoor%20%3Foperator%20%3FoperatorLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ7075%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP137%20%3Foperator%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fs%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20VALUES%20%3Foperator%20%7B%20wd%3AQ319761%20wd%3AQ790029%20wd%3AQ5038449%20wd%3AQ1035745%20wd%3AQ7375001%20wd%3AQ1420500%20wd%3AQ1971174%20wd%3AQ3400501%20wd%3AQ4923796%20wd%3AQ4966533%20wd%3AQ5016926%20wd%3AQ5038400%20wd%3AQ5043224%20wd%3AQ5064127%20wd%3AQ5166758%20wd%3AQ5256629%20wd%3AQ16837157%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ5623821%20wd%3AQ6083890%20wd%3AQ16997658%20wd%3AQ6901162%20wd%3AQ6984500%20wd%3AQ16998902%20wd%3AQ7161994%20wd%3AQ7236943%20wd%3AQ7321391%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ5123523%20wd%3AQ6980600%20wd%3AQ7825688%20wd%3AQ1954765%20wd%3AQ2046319%20wd%3AQ3112646%20wd%3AQ5142752%20wd%3AQ7592929%20wd%3AQ6820686%20wd%3AQ7161992%20wd%3AQ5142753%20wd%3AQ5590045%20wd%3AQ16891916%20wd%3AQ5142762%20wd%3AQ5038488%20wd%3AQ20713648%20wd%3AQ4966531%20wd%3AQ17986585%20wd%3AQ16890510%20wd%3AQ7909538%20wd%3AQ8038115%20wd%3AQ4898241%20wd%3AQ4667178%20wd%3AQ4761763%20wd%3AQ5038490%20wd%3AQ5197211%20wd%3AQ30287465%20wd%3AQ18343995%20wd%3AQ17018314%20wd%3AQ7373981%20wd%3AQ18358583%20%7D%0A%0A%20%0A%20%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FoperatorLabel%20%3FsLabel%0A%0A%0A%0A Map of libraries in Wales] (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Italian%20cities%20with%20a%20population%20of%205k%2B%20and%201%2B%20kindergarten%28s%29%0A%23%20Colors%20represent%20the%20number%20of%20kindergartens%20per%20per%2010%2C000%20inhabitants%20%28see%20layer%20legend%29%0A%23%20Query%20by%20Andrea%20Mignone%20%40i_m_andrea%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22layer%22%3A%22%3FratioBin%22%2C%20%22rgb%22%3A%22%3Frgb%22%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fcity%20%3FcityLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3FratioBin%20%3Frgb%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%202%2C%20%22%3C%202%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%203%2C%20%22%5B2%3B3%29%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%204%2C%20%22%5B3%3B4%29%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%205%2C%20%22%5B4%3B5%29%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%225%2B%22%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20AS%20%3FratioBin%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%202%2C%20%220072E5%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%203%2C%20%222F58AB%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%204%2C%20%225F3F72%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fratio%20%3C%205%2C%20%228F2539%22%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%22BF0C00%22%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20AS%20%3Frgb%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcity%20%3Fcoord%20%28count%28%3Fitem%29%2a10000%2F%3Fpop%20as%20%3Fratio%29%0A%20%20%20%20WHERE%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5114%20%3Fid%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ126807%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Fcity%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcity%20wdt%3AP1082%20%3Fpop%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcity%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%3Fcity%20wdt%3AP1376%20%3Fplace.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15089.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20group%20by%20%3Fcity%20%3Fpop%20%3Fcoord%20%0A%20%20%20%20having%20%28%3Fpop%20%3E%3D%205000%29%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20order%20by%20asc%28%3Fratio%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%7D Map of schools in Italy] (source)
 * List of TeX/LaTeX commands for special characters (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Farea%20%3Fpopulation%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ10864048%20%3B%20%23%20first-level%20subdivision%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20%3B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20country%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2046%2Fpsv%3AP2046%20%5B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20area%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbaseArea%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitArea%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ25343%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1082%20%3Fpopulation%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20population%0A%0A%20%20BIND%28ROUND%28%3FbaseArea%20%2a%20%3FunitArea%20%2F%201000000%29%20AS%20%3Farea%29%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%3Farea%20%3E%3D%20400000%20%29%0A%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP576%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%20%20%20%23%20filter%20dissolved%20subdivisions%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP576%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%23%20filter%20dissolved%20countries%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Farea%29 Largest first-level country subdivisions (i.e. larger than 400,000 km²)] (source)


 * Development
 * Fix the bug where changes in the watchlist and Recent Changes on Wikipedia should have been shown but were not (T192673)
 * Clarify error message for the merge API (T180296)
 * Add violation type to restrict which entity types a property can be used (T164744)
 * Added a constraint to blacklist values for a property (T183092)
 * Fix a bug showing the wrong alias in the edit summary when editing an alias (T190492)
 * Fix some bugs related to displaying thumbnails in statements (T193880, T192667, T193499)
 * Continue looking into dispatch issues (T194602)
 * Working on adding an integer constraint (T167989)
 * Preparing to deploy WikibaseLexeme extension on Wikimedia cluster (T168260)
 * Making sure that the form ID counter is preserved when clearing the lexeme via the API (T192264)
 * Applying the same validation to the language code of the Lemma and the representation (T191504)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:54, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Bay Area WikiSalon invitation!
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



Periodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for announcements, informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Bring a friend! Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. This months focus is images!

We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks (maybe pizza too!).
 * For further details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, May 2018 (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

See you soon! ,, , and | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:22, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Event coordinator
Hi, the English Wikipedia recently created a new user permission for editors involved in off-wiki outreach work, event coordinator. This new permission allows users to mark accounts for confirmed for up to 10 days, and also allows them to create accounts for events without rate limits without some of the features of the account creator right that aren't used at edit-a-thons and other events. I have added the event coordinator permission to your account and removed the account creator permission, as you appear to have been using it mainly for outreach work.This should have no noticeable impact on your ability to create accounts, and will give you the extra ability to temporarily confirm accounts if you need to. For more information, you can see the information page on the right, or you can ask me if you have any questions. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:00, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 May 2018
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:18, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update, 25 May 2018
We have grown to 79 members.

Please provide a warm welcome to our latest additions, Wpgbrown, Cactus.man, JLJ001, and Wumbolo.

A lot is going on, much of it on the WikiProject's talk page, so be sure to go there and join in on any of the many discussions taking place there.

Elsewhere around the portal project, or related to portals, the following is happening...

New news template ready for testing
Evad37 has created a new template, with supporting lua module, to handle news in portals...

Transclude selected current events is ready to be tested in some actual portals. Let Evad37 know if you need help with the search patterns.

Noyster commented that "This is the best portal innovation since sliced bread!"

See the relevant discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals.

Thank you, Evad.

Coming soon: Automatic article alerts (but there is a glitch)
Our WikiProject is now subscribed to the bot that makes automatic article alerts, but the subpage where they are posted has not been added to our WikiProject page yet because of a weird problem...

Featured portal nominations from two years ago keep popping up on there.

Please check WikiProject Portals/Article alerts to see if you can figure out how to fix this.

Once that is remedied, it will be posted on our WikiProject page.

Thank you.

Note that, this will only track base pages, because to track the rest, we'd have to create over 140,000 talk pages for the subpages, and that just isn't worthwhile (as we're trying to remove the subpages anyways). Therefore, any alerts for subpages will still need to be posted manually.

New portal, still needs work

 * Portal:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, courtesy of Mozart834428196. See also, the discussion.

Drafting a new portals guideline
Your input/editing is welcome on the draft-in-progress of a new guideline for portals.

See or work on the draft at User:Cesdeva/sandbox11.

See also the discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines

RfC on new TOC layout for main portal list
There is a proposal to change the look of the table of contents at Portal:Contents/Portals.

See: Portal talk:Contents/Portals.

Deletion discussion survivors
Thank you to those who have participated in portal deletion discussions. There are still some editors out there who despise portals, and this comes across in their argumentation style. Wow. Such negativity. But, there is some good news...


 * Portal:Quidditch survived its 2nd deletion nomination
 * Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica did the same

Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page.

Portal space clean up
While portal detractors are trying to get rid of portals via MfD, we have deleted many of them via speedy deletion (per Db-p1 or Db-p2). Essentially, they were bare skeletons, with maybe a little meat on them. The plus here is that speedy deletion is without prejudice to re-creating the portals. They can easily be restarted from scratch without getting approval, or be undeleted by request by someone willing to work on them. We have kept track of these, for when someone wants to rebuild them. They are listed at Portal talk:Contents/Portals.

We are also removing subpages, the functions of which have been migrated to portal base pages. To see which ones have been removed, look for the redlinks in our watchlist.

There is also an MfD concerning some of these at Miscellany for deletion/Redundant subpages of the Cornwall portal.

For subpages that need to be deleted, you can conveniently place this speedy deletion template at the top of each of them:

Then an admin will come along and delete them.

Please help list the unlisted portals!
There are still 100 existing portals not yet presented on the main portal list at Portal:Contents/Portals. There were 400, so we've come a long way. Thank you! But we are not done yet...

Please list a couple of them. Every little bit helps. If each member of this project listed one more, it would almost all be done. Many hands make light work.

The list of missings, and instructions, are to be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals.

I hope to see you there!

Wrapping up
These developments make up just the tip of the iceberg. I'll have more to report in the next update, soon.

Whoa, I missed one...
There's an article about the Portals WikiProject in the new issue of Signpost:

Wikipedia Signpost/2018-05-24/WikiProject report

Enjoy.

P.S.: We now have 80 members. Evad37 just joined! &mdash; The Transhumanist  01:40, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

P.P.S.: And due to you joining, we are now at 81! There are so many posts at the talk page, I can hardly keep up. -TT

UPDATE! Bay Area WikiSalon moved to June 6!
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



Our apologies, but we are rescheduling to Wednesday, June 6 at 6:00 p.m. due to a WMF host scheduling conflict.
 * For further details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2018 (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

See you soon! ,, , and | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:38, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much
The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up.

By the way, the current issue of the Signpost features an article with interviews about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

I'd also like to let you know that the Portals WikiProject is working hard to make sure your support of portals was not in vain. Toward that end, we have been working diligently to innovate portals, while building, updating, upgrading, and maintaining them. The project has grown to 80 members so far, and has become a beehive of activity.

Our two main goals at this time are to automate portals (in terms of refreshing, rotating, and selecting content), and to develop a one-page model in order to make obsolete and eliminate most of the 150,000 subpages from the portal namespace by migrating their functions to the portal base pages, using technologies such as selective transclusion. Please feel free to join in on any of the many threads of development at the WikiProject's talk page, or just stop by to see how we are doing. If you have any questions about portals or portal development, that is the best place to ask them.

If you would like to keep abreast of developments on portals, keep in mind that the project's members receive updates on their talk pages. The updates are also posted here, for your convenience.

Again, we can't thank you enough for your support of portals, and we hope to make you proud of your decision. Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   18:10, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

P.S.: if you reply to this message, please ping me. Thank you. -TT

Welcome, man!
Welcome to the Portals WikiProject.

You are going to love this. There is lots do to, and many toys to play with and work on. :)

You have some catching up to do on the talk page, but I think you will love it.

To help you get up to speed, I've posted the latest issue of our newsletter below.

Enjoy. &mdash; The Transhumanist  22:06, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

It's time: the Portals WikiProject AWBers are needed for a task...
I'm contacting you because you indicated on the Portals WikiProject's members list that you use AWB.

We are now working on a task that requires your help.

Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  22:31, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Women in Red June Editathons
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:15, 29 May 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Portals WikiProject update #007, 31 May 2018
We have grown to 89 members.

This is the seventh issue of this newsletter. For previous issues, see our newsletter archive.

Welcome
A warm welcome to our nearly one dozen new members...

Our new members include:
 * Evad37
 * Checkingfax
 * Grey Wanderer
 * Voceditenore
 * TestPAKISTAN
 * Godsy
 * Greatedits1
 * Charlesdrakew
 * Ww2censor
 * Simon Burchell
 * TheGridExe

Be sure to say "hi" and welcome them to the team.

The portal set has shrunk
There were 1515 portals, but now we have 1475, because we speedy deleted a bunch of incompleted portals that had been sitting around for ages, that were empty shells or had very little content. Because they were speedied, they can be rebuilt from scratch without acquiring approval from WP:DRV.

Maintenance runs on the portals set have begun
This is what we have been gearing up for: upgrading the portals en masse, using AWB.

More than half of the Associated Wikimedia sections have been converted to no longer use a subpage. This chore will probably be completed over the next week or two. Many thanks to the WikiGnome Squad, who have added an Associated Wikimedia section to the many geography-related portals that lacked one. The rest of the subjects await. :)

The next maintenance drive will be on the intro sections. Notices have gone out to the WikiProjects for which one or more portals fall within their subject scope. Once enough time has elapsed for them to respond (1 week), AWB processing of intro sections will begin.

Thank you, you
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your part in the RfC. I went back and reread much of it. I believe your enthusiasm played a major part in turning the tide on there. I'm proud of all of you.

Why reread that mess, you ask?

To harvest ideas, and to keep the problems that need to be fixed firmly in mind. But, also to keep in touch. See below...

Thank yous all around
I've contacted all of the other opposers of the RfC proposal to delete portals, to thank them for their support, and to assure them that their decision was not made in vain. I updated them on our activities, provided the link to the interviews about this project in the Signpost, pointed out our newsletter archive so they can keep up-to-date with what we are doing, and I invited them all to come and have a look-see at our operations (on our talk page).

Sockpuppet, and reverting his work
It so happened that one of our members was a sockpuppet: JLJ001. According to the admin who blocked him, he was a particularly tricky long term abuser. This is a weird situation, since the user was quite helpful. He will be missed.

This has been somewhat disruptive, because admins are doing routine deletions of the pages (portals, templates, etc.) he created, and reversion of his edits (I don't know if they will be reverting all of them). Please bear with them, as they are only doing what is best in the long run.

The following pages have been deleted by the admins so far, that I know of:
 * Portal:Plymouth
 * Portal:Bedfordshire
 * Portal:Suffolk
 * Portal:Norfolk
 * User:JLJ001/tag
 * Template:Non-standard portal flag
 * Template:Portal flag

Automation so far, section by section...

 * Intro – Transclude lead excerpt
 * Selected article – Transclude random excerpt
 * In the news – Transclude selected current events
 * Associated Wikimedia –
 * Categories –

Automatic article alerts is up and running
Automatic article alerts are now featured on the project page.

Some super out-of-date entries kept showing up on there, so posting it on the Project page was delayed. Thanks to Evad37 and AfroThundr for providing solutions on this one. Evad37 adjusted the workflow settings per Article alerts/Subscribing, to make sure only the appropriate page types show up. AfroThundr removed the tags from the old entries that caused them to keep showing up in the article alerts.

Other things that could use some automation
Noyster pointed out that it would be nice to automate the updating of the portals section at the Community bulletin board.

Another major component of the portal system is the main list of portals, at Portal:Contents/Portals. How would we go about automating the updating of that?

Please post your ideas on the WikiProject's talk page. Thank you.

Deletion discussion survivors
Keep in mind that we have already speedy deleted almost all of the nearly empty portals, which can be rebuilt without approval whenever it is convenient to do so. Other portals should be completed if at all possible rather than delete them through MfD (which requires approval from Deletion review to rebuild).


 * Portal:Juanes – see the discussion

(Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page).

Portals needing repair

 * Portal:Toys

Wrapping up
There's still more, but it will have to wait until next issue.

Until then, see ya around the project. &mdash; The Transhumanist  12:00, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

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June 2018 GOCE newsletter
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Portals WikiProject update #008, 7 June 2018
The WikiProject now has 92 participants, including 16 admins.

Welcome
A warm welcome to the newest members of the team:
 * Keith D
 * RL0919

Be sure to say hi.

Congrats
Pbsouthwood has just gotten through the grueling RfA process to become a Wikipedia administrator. Be sure to congratulate him.

The reason he went for it was: "For some time I expect to be busy with subpage deletion for Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals as mentioned above. The amount of work is expected to keep me busy for some time. I am primarly a content creator and contributor to policy discussions, but would be willing to consider other admin work on request, providing that I feel that my involvement would be appropriate and not too far outside my comfort zone."

New feature: Picture slideshow
Evad37 has figured out a way to let the user flip through pictures without purging the page. Purging is awkward because there is an intermediary confirmation screen that you have to click on "yes". In the new picture slideshow section, all you have to do is click on the  to go to the next picture or   to instantly show the previous feature. The feature also shuffles the pictures when the page is initiated, so that they are shown in a different order each time the user visits the page (or purges it).

It is featured in Portal:Sacramento, California. Check it out to the right.

Keep in mind that the feature is a beta version. Please share your comments on how to refine this feature, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals.

The one-page portal has been achieved
We now have a one-page portal design. It isn't fully automated, nor is it even fully semi-automated, as there are still some manually filled-in areas. But it no longer requires any subpages in portal space, and that is a huge improvement. For example, Portal:Sacramento, California utilizes the one-page design concept. While is employs heavy use of templates, it does not have any subpages of its own.

I commend you for your teamwork
This is the most cooperative team I've ever seen. With a strong spirit of working together to get an important job done. Kudos to you.

In conclusion...
There's more. A lot more. But it will have to wait until next issue, but you don't have to wait. See what's going on at the WikiProject's talk page. &mdash; The Transhumanist  02:08, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Golden State Killer copyedit
Thank you,. Having fun! Cheers! 23:11, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

How was the WikiSalon last night?
I hoped to come, with wife, to talk about my aerial photos, but got detained and missed it. Maybe next time. Hope it was fun. Dicklyon (talk) 23:20, 7 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi, . We missed you! It was awesome. Lots of diversity. Great interaction. RSVP: 51, attend: 34. Filled up the new lounge. You are welcome to do a 5-minute lightning talk any time about your aerial photography. No need to pre-register to speak for a short period. If you ever want to do a 15 minute presentation, we would want to know in advance so that we can create an agenda. It was fun and rewarding. See you next time: Wednesday, July 25, at 6 p.m. at 120 Kearny Street (the new WMF HQ). Having fun! Cheers!  23:32, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

AWB task requests, from the Portals WikiProject
1) Replace the intro box sections on portals with an upgrade. See details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Tasks.

2) Replace categories box sections on portals with an upgrade. See details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Tasks.

Enjoy. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:58, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

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Preetha
Hello Checkingfax. All 5 sources were active and online. So why did you tag them all as dead? Regards, --Gereon K. (talk) 10:23, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi,. They are marked . Having fun! Cheers!   15:10, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, ok. Whatever that is for. Thanks, --Gereon K. (talk) 15:23, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, . Archiving live links is used to prevent link rot. In this case, the links are marked as live. Having fun! Cheers!  05:04, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #009, 15 June 2018
Don't mind that box to the right. We'll be talking about that later, below.

Almost done...
With the portals upgrades?

No. :)

What is almost done is the updating of the main list of portals!

There are 23 portals left to be listed.

Kudos to the WikiGnome Squadron, for spearheading this.

Once it is fully updated, we need to keep it up to date. When you complete a portal, remember to add it to Portal:Contents/Portals.

Concerning portal upgrades, we are working on those section-by-section...

Associated Wikimedia section conversion task complete
The Associated Wikimedia sections of the entire set of portals have been upgraded. These are now handled on each portal base page (bypassing the previously used corresponding subpages), using the Wikimedia for portals template rather than reiterated copied/pasted code.

So, to be more accurate on reporting upgrade progress, that's one section down (for the whole set of portals), with (about) nine sections to go. (Skipping curated portals, regarding custom content sections, of course).

Further section conversions (using AWB)
Work is underway on converting Portals' introduction sections, and the categories sections.

If you would like to help, see WikiProject Portals and WikiProject Portals

Further section conversions (by hand)
Work has also started with converting selected picture sections to picture slideshow sections. See WikiProject Portals.

Quality rating system for portals under development
Currently, there is no quality rating for portals: in the Portals WikiProject box on each portals' talk page, it just says "Portal". But times are a changin'. Quality assessment is on the way, and you can help. See the discussion.

What's coming: excerpt slideshows
Evad37 has figured out a way to apply the picture slideshow feature to displaying article excerpts (now you can check out the provided box above). :) This allows us to bypass page purging to see the next selection, and you can even click through them rather quickly. Currently, the wikicode for doing this for article excerpts is a bit eye-boggling, and so we are looking into simplifying it. A streamlined version may be just around the corner.

Note that this is a prototype, not ready for widespread use. Click on the box in between the lesser than and greater than signs, to see what I mean. It was meant for pictures, and so the thumbnail feature doesn't apply to article prose very well. I've presented it even though it isn't ready, to show the direction portal development is heading. See the discussion.

Wow
I'm amazed at how rapidly portals are evolving. And we're still within a single generation of portal technological evolution. Imagine what they might be in 2 or 3 more generations of developments. Pretty soon, portals will be able to shake your hand. :)   &mdash; The Transhumanist   11:03, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

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Invitation to participate in study
Hello,

I am E. Whittaker, an intern at Wikimedia with the Scoring Team to create a labeled dataset, and potentially a tool, to help editors deal with incivility when they encounter it on talk pages. A full write-up of the study can be found here: m:Research:Civil_Behavior_Interviews. We are currently recruiting editors to be interviewed about their experiences with incivility on talk pages. Would you be interested in being interviewed? I am contacting you because of your involvement in Wikipedia’s Women in Red project. The interviews should take ~1 hour, and will be conducted over BlueJeans (which does allow interviews to be recorded). If, so, please email me at ewhit@umich.edu in order to schedule an interview.

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Portals WikiProject update #010, 30 June 2018
We've grown to 94 participants.

A warm welcome to dcljr and Kpgjhpjm.

Rating system for portals
We are in the process of developing a rating system specifically for portals, as the quality assessment scheme for articles does not apply to portals. It is coming along nicely. Your input would be very helpful. See the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/General.

Better than a barnstar
One of our participants got involved with this WikiProject through interest in how the new generation of portals would be handled in WP's MOS (Manual of Style). It didn't take long before he got sucked in deeper. This has given him an opportunity to look around, and so, he has made an assessment of this WikiProject's operations:

"I'm quite frankly really impressed and inspired by what's happening here. If you'd asked me a year ago if I thought portals should just be scrapped as a failed, dragged-out experiment, I would have said 'yes'. This planning and the progress toward making it all practical is exemplary of the wiki spirit, in particular of a happy service-to-readers puppy properly wagging its technological and editorial tail instead of the other way around, and without 'drama'. It's also one of the few examples I've seen in a long time of a new wikiproject actually doing something useful and fomenting constructive activity (instead of acting as a barrier to participation, and a canvassing/ownership farm for PoV pushers). Kudos all around. — SMcCandlish"

Congratulations, everyone. Keep up the great work.

Slideshow development
We've run into a glitch with slideshows: they don't work on mobile devices.

Initially, we will need to explore options that allow portals to have slideshows without adversely affecting mobile viewers. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.

Eventually, we may need another way to do slideshows. If we do go this route, and I don't see why we wouldn't, then (user configurable) automatic slideshows also become a possibility.

TemplateStyles RfC passed
Once implemented, this will allow editors to create and edit cascading style sheets for use with templates. This will expand what we can do with portals. For more detail, see mw:Extension:TemplateStyles and TemplateStyles.

Automation effort
We've run into an obstacle using Lua-based selective transclusion: Lua is incapable (on Wikipedia) of reading in article names from categories. Because of this, we'll need to seek other approaches for fully automating the Selected article section. We are exploring sources other than categories, and other technologies besides Lua.

Speaking of using other sources, the template Transclude list item excerpt collects list items from a specified page, or from a section of that page, and transcludes the lead from a randomly selected link from that list. Courtesy of Certes. So, if you use this in a portal, and if the template specifies a page or section serviced by JL-Bot, you've now got yourself an automatically updated section in the portal. JL-Bot provides links to featured content and good articles, by subject.

What is "fully automated"? When you create a portal using a creation template, and the portal works thereafter without editor intervention, the portal is fully automated. That is, the portal is supported by features that fetch new content. If you have to add new article names every so often for it to display new content, then it is only semi-automated.

Currently, the Selected article section is semi-automated, because it requires that an editor supplies the names of the various articles for which excerpts are (automatically) displayed. For examples, look at the wikisource code of Portal:Reptiles, Portal:Ancient Tamil civilization, and Portal:Reference works.

So far, 3 sections are fully automatable: the introduction section, the categories section, and the Associated Wikimedia section.

Where is all this heading?
Henry.

Or some other name.

Eventually, the portal department will be a software program. And we won't have to do anything (unless we want to). Not even tell it what portals to create (unless we want to). It will just do it all (plus whatever else we want it to do). And we will of course give it good manners, and a name.

But, that is a few years off.

Until then, building portals is still (partially) up to us. &mdash; The Transhumanist  13:29, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Mass message sender?
Hey, TH. Is it on the up and up to use AWB to send mass messages to talk pages? Having fun! Cheers! 00:57, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure, for on-topic and in-scope messages. For example, you opted in to receive project updates when you added your name at WikiProject Portals. ;) During the RfC on portals, I sent hundreds of invites to join the Portals WikiProject – one to each of those who supported portals in the RfC. I've posted thousands of notices to portal talk pages and WikiProject talk pages (those that have a corresponding portal page), about portal resources and the Portals WikiProject. I sent a thank you message to all those who supported portals in the RfC. And so on.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   18:15, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
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Charles Manson
Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Charles Manson is complete.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

By the way, apart from around the time of his death last November when the page, unsurprisingly, got over 1.5 million views, it has seldom been viewed according to the Daily Article Page Views Counter. Many months show no views at all.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist - 21:04, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Having fun! Cheers!  20:41, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * There is an average of well over 11,000 views a day for the last 90 days. Are you doing s Africa? I was in the running for a sclship but was turned down like a prison bed. Which brings us back to Charlie... (n amer conf in October). Randy Kryn (talk) 20:50, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * . Looking forward to seeing you in Ohio in October at WikiConNA. Having fun! Cheers!  21:05, 7 July 2018 (UTC)