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Wikidata weekly summary #379
- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikimania recap, 27 August. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts
- What we talk about when we talk about Wikidata quality: a literature survey, by Alessandro Piscopo and Elena Simperl
- Introduction to OpenRefine in video by Emma (University of Edimburgh) (12min)
- Old but gold: introduction to Wikidata by Asaf Bartov (7min)
- Tool of the week
- In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
- Integraality generates tables to assess the completeness of properties on sets of items, such as properties on railway stations for instance. Tables are automatically updated and highly configurable.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Edit 1,000,000,000 - the one-billionth, or 10⁹ - was the creation of The band structure in microwave frequency for quasi-1-D coaxial photonic crystals (Q66665412) by User:Stevenliuyi
- New termbox interface on mobile is enabled - you can view and edit easily the labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile devices (full announcement)
- Random finds from WikiProject Random
- Starting from July 2019, Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team work together to create a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships. Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
- Wiki Loves Monuments and other Wikimedia Commons campaign organizers can now specify structured data fields in the campaign UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons.
- The new termbox interface is now enabled on mobile, you can edit labels, descriptions and aliases from a mobile device
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: ordeal by, newspaper archive url, periphrastic definition, lexeme for periphrastic definition, link for periphrastic definition
- External identifiers: Awards & Winners artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Image-Line artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, Supraphonline artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, YesAsia author ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Scribd publication ID, SongMeanings artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, Belgian Species List ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Mafab.hu film ID, jog.fm artist ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, moly.hu book ID, Liber Liber author ID, GreatSong artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, MTV Polska artist ID, MTV UK artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Eiga.com movie ID, Transfermarkt team ID, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, BEACON ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: associated with, present on map, translated title, Wikia Article URL 2, position in sequence, color produced, Itch.io ID, mobile formatter, subscribers, Attribution text, difficulty
- External identifiers: RPGGeek, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, Estudanky ID, LongSwimsDB ID, L-number, Dove.org work ID, WTA ID, iTunes (gb) artist ID, Arnet Miner publication ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID, NLP ID, SCTrails ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, UN treaty reference, musicbrainz tag, Identification code for universities and colleges, Toons Mag, YouTube Music channel ID, The Independent topic ID, Pandora artist ID
- Query examples:
- https://w.wiki/7UY timeline of competitions of the 2019-2020 figure skating season]
- Future figure skating competitions
- Currently happening figure skating competitions
- French ships whose name start with an A (source)
- Map of birth places of delegates to the Alaska Constitutional Convention (source)
- Schema examples:
- human chromosome, built on chromosome, built on sequence assembly
- Lunar crater
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Deploy mobile termbox, follow-up and bug fixing
- Deploy then rollback the move of "Wikidata item" link on clients due to cache issues (phab:T66315)
- Work on adjusting the save button of the Entity Schema editor (phab:T230398)
- Work on the bridge emitting button (phab:T230326)
- Introduce a header for the bridge modal (phab:T230328)
- Produce initial statistics/indicators for the Wikidata Languages Landscape (phab:T223119)
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!
August 28: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (+editathons before and after)
August 28, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Featuring this month a review of the recent Wikimania 2019 conference in Sweden! We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 17:57, 27 August 2019 (UTC) | |
Edit-a-thons at Interference Archive and The Met | |
Also check out these editing events, before and after our WikiWednesday Salon:
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The Signpost: 30 August 2019
- News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings
- In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff
- Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users
- Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes
- News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year
- Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Red-tagging in the Philippines
Hi. Just seeing if maybe I can get more guidance on how to improve the lead on Red-tagging in the Philippines. I know that your suggestion is to break the current text into sections and to add a lead, but in my mind the text that's already there is the lead, and I was hoping, at a later time, to add significantly longer sections - first on the etymology of the term, and then the history of its use (inlcuding a summary of Communism in the Philippines and of Authoritarianism in the Philippines), then notable incidents of red-tagging, and then maybe some statements from various organizations who have expressed concern about it. That said, I feel that everything in the current article is material that has to be briefly described in the lead. But maybe you have some more suggestions for what can be excised without leaving out important information? Thanks. - Koakaulana (talk) 04:16, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for reaching out about this, Koakaulana. The lead should be a short section that summarizes the main points of an article and are offered for a reader to quickly see the main topic. Since there are not any sections in this article right now, it technically does not have a lead as there is only a single section. You may want to have a sentence or two as the lead and then at least two sections in the article, after which you can continue to expand it as you suggested. Let me know if that helps. --- FULBERT (talk) 17:47, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Century
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Century. Legobot (talk) 04:31, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2019)
Hello, FULBERT.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Pitchfork • Bianca Wahlgren Ingrosso Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 2 September 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #380
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister
- Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, article in PeerJ Computer Science (Q27726596) by Lars Willighagen (Q45907528)
- A systematic literature review on Wikidata (paywalled) - Marçal Mora-Cantallops et al.
- GeneDB and Wikidata - Magnus Manske, et al.
- Wikidata from a Research Perspective -- A Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata - Mariam Farda-Sarbas, Claudia Mueller-Birn
- Enriquecimiento de entidades de Wikidata mediante un modelo de descomposición y mapeado de categorías de Wikipedia ("Enrichment of Wikidata entities through a decomposition model and mapping of Wikipedia categories") - Tomás Saorín et al.; text in Spanish
- Tool of the week
- In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
- Cocoda is a web application to manage mappings between authority files. It supports editing Wikidata-mappings including GND, Basisklassifikation, Regensburg Classification, Iconclass, and Nomisma. Cocoda can be used like mix'n'match but for more complex mappings.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The vision and strategy papers for Wikidata and Wikibase have been published - comments welcome on the talk page
- Follow-up from Wikimania: you can now give input about the language barrier on Wikidata and federating Wikibase instances with Wikidata
- New tool: a Python library to create bots, scripts and tools for lexicographical data by MichaelSchoenitzer
- There is now a new API parameter to add tags on edits summaries
- soweego version 1.1 is on its way, thanks to a WMF Rapid Grant
- Several job offers related to Wikidata were published in the last few weeks:
- Scribe, a Wikimedia Foundation funded software and research project, is looking for a full-stack software engineer
- The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a software engineer for its Search Platform team, including work on Wikidata Query Service
- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer and a full-stack developer for Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: access restriction status, in defining formula
- External identifiers: RPGGeek ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, AccuRadio artist ID, eSTUDÁNKY ID, LongSwimsDB ID, WTA trail ID, Scribd Item ID, Dove.org work ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, SCTrails trail ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Mediawiki Wiki, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, scope and content, Number of nodes, Performance, use restriction status, Significant number, FCC Product Code, Hardware Version Identification Number, amount cataloged, number of decimal digits, Gregorian calendar, food energy, pronunciation
- External identifiers: YouTube Music channel ID 2, Pandora artist ID 2, The Independent topic ID 2, NÖ Proposal ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Newspapers.com ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, WGA writer ID, WGA project ID, FCC Grantee Code, Spectrum Management System Company Number, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Prime Pages ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Peakbagger climber ID, Naver Music artist ID, Naver Music album ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, Slovo i Dilo person ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, FNL player ID, Peakbagger key col ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID
- Query examples:
- Public art in London by female artists
- People used as examples in Wikidata properties (source)
- Closest capitals of non bordering countries (<200 km) (source)
- Hillforts mapped with their heritage designation/protection status
- YouTubers without a YouTube channel
- Racing automobile drivers who died in a car crash (source)
- Schema examples:
- Newest database reports: papers about Wikipedia
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Adjust label of save button of the Entity Schema and add accesskey for easier editing editor (phab:T230398)
- Get Grafana Datamodel References dashboard back up and running (phab:T214894)
- Fix an issue in EntitySchema tests that caused some CI failures (phab:T231065)
- Localize Wikibase API help links (phab:T231269)
- Support tags parameter on Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
- Add in Wikidata support for sitelinks to https://nap.wikisource.org (phab:T212886)
- Reading property terms from new store in production now (phab:T225053)
- Adding WDQS lag to maxlag info, to avoid stress on WDQS machines (phab:T221774)
- Implementing the fallback version of the new better edit summary messages on items through API (phab:T224010)
- Fixing the issue of an invisible quality constrain violation indicator (phab:T227866)
- Switching item terms to migration stage of writing to both wb_terms and the new store (phab:T225055)
- Preparing to run migration of item terms (phab:T219123)
- Allowing to access Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
- Hiding non-supported languages in old termbox (phab:T227083)
- Work on a new solution to move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox avoiding the cache issues (phab:T66315)
- Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
- Showing the current Wikidata value in the edit modal (phab:T226997)
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!
September 2019
Hello, I'm Dimsar01. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, The Fugitive (song), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. —Dimsar01 Talk ⌚→ 14:08, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for your message Dimsar01. I did not add content; I reverted an edit where somebody removed that content without evidence. Your revert of my revert has now re-removed what has been present in that article for some time and appears to have been removed without evidence. --- FULBERT (talk) 14:17, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- @FULBERT: It was unsourced though. So why there's a problem with its removal? —Dimsar01 Talk ⌚→ 14:19, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- I see what you mean Dimsar01. OK, leave it off given its lack of sourcing. --- FULBERT (talk) 14:25, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- @FULBERT: It was unsourced though. So why there's a problem with its removal? —Dimsar01 Talk ⌚→ 14:19, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Saturday Sept 7: Met Fashion Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sept 7, 12:30pm: Met Fashion Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for Met Fashion Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side. Together, we'll expand Wikipedia:WikiProject Fashion topics for basic clothing types that can be illustrated by the Met collection, and also past Costume Institute exhibitions! It's the last weekend for Camp: Notes on Fashion, and we will have an intro talk to the exhibit by a guest from the Costume Institute, and participants will then be able to visit it on their own. Galleries will be open this evening until 9 pm. With refreshments, and there will be a wiki-cake! Open to everyone at all levels of experience, wiki instructional workshop and one-on-one support will be provided.
Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends, colleagues and students! --Wikimedia New York City Team 19:37, 4 September 2019 (UTC) |
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This Month in Education: August 2019
Rollback granted
Hi FULBERT. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:
- Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
- Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
- Rollback should never be used to edit war.
- If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
- Use common sense.
If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 23:12, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you, L235 for enabling this. I hope this helps me with our shared efforts toward addressing vandalism. --- FULBERT (talk) 03:30, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:People's Mujahedin of Iran
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:People's Mujahedin of Iran. Legobot (talk) 04:28, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2019)
A vegetable soup prepared using udon noodles
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Organ (anatomy) • Pitchfork Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 9 September 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Week1/Assignment1/tt1887
My name is Tian Tan. I live in New Jersey. I come from China. This is my second year in MASY program. I started the program from fall 2018, and I have taken eight classes already. My concentration is Database Technologies. Tt1887 (talk) 20:27, 8 September 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tt1887 (talk • contribs) 17:44, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
- Please remember to sign your post on the Talk page with " FULBERT (talk) 19:59, 8 September 2019 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date). Please reply here Tt1887 with that to try it out. --- FULBERT (talk) 19:59, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
- Tt1887 (talk) 20:30, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
- Did you mean "~~~~"? TheAwesomeHwyh 20:33, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
- TheAwesomeHwyh, Exactly! Thanks for the catch on the error on my end. Appreciated!! --- FULBERT (talk) 02:29, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
- Nice addition Tt1887. The next step will be to include the : to indent, but fine for now! --- FULBERT (talk) 02:39, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
- TheAwesomeHwyh, Exactly! Thanks for the catch on the error on my end. Appreciated!! --- FULBERT (talk) 02:29, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
- Did you mean "~~~~"? TheAwesomeHwyh 20:33, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #381
- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: References in Wikidata, 10 September. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Merging Open Data Sources to Plan Learning Activities for Online Students - Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo, et al., in: 2019 23rd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)
- Open-Access Society Publishers in Wikidata by A. Britton
- Tool of the week
- moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
- The first draft of the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
- Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (phab:T230762)
- Recent tool: @Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
- New game: Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: mobile formatter URL, degree of difficulty, color produced, computer performance, use restriction status, FCC Product Code, Itch.io ID, Gregorian calendar start date
- External identifiers: Identification code for Japanese universities and colleges, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Toons Mag ID, Newspapers.com ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, Prime Pages ID, FCC Grantee Code, FNL player ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Naver Music album ID, Naver Music artist ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Pandora artist ID, Peakbagger climber ID, Peakbagger key col ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, Slovo i Dilo person ID, Spectrum Management System Company Number, The Independent topic ID, WGA project ID, WGA writer ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, CPUID, L-number, Arnet Miner publication ID, NLP ID (record)
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IP Code, dénivelé cumulé positif, Supports qualifier, climbing route, madhhab, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID
- External identifiers: Auckland Museum ID, Al-Jazeera Topic ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, SNK ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, VAT identification number, TOP500 System ID, ACUF unique ID (UFI), Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier, Downdetector ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Behind the voice Actors short ID, Rate Your Music label ID, Labelcode, Maine Trail Finder ID, Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, WeChat ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to Odder (phab:T230120)
- New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
- Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (phab:T227866)
- Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (phab:T192462)
- Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (phab:T178745)
- Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
- Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
- Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (phab:T231833)
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!
Mingjue Huang/Week2/Assignment1/WILL.I.AMMJ
This is Mingjue (William) Huang. It's my pleasure to meet you guys. My major is system management with concentration of database technologies. This is my second semester and I quite enjoy being a graduate student at NYU. I would love to share my idea or experience with you guys. Thank you! WILL.I.AMMJ (talk) 19:58, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
- Welcome to the democratic and collaborative world of Wikipedia. I hope you find it engaging and inviting WILL.I.AMMJ. --- FULBERT (talk) 02:01, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: August 2019
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LGBT rights in Poland and vandalization
Hello Fulbert,
I've created my Wikipedia account only recently, but I've been working on some Wikia projects in the past. I've been reading Wikipedia for years. I'm an Gay person from Poland, and I've decided to participate in editing LGBT rights in Poland and LGBT-free zone topics. I've noticed that there are some users in both of them, that are seemingly affiliated with groups that are activly participating in that hate, or for instance are from the US and are having ties with fundamentalist Church groups which they mention on their own user pages. These users are activly editing those topics, removing crucial information, undermining notibility of sources, etc. Their agenda is clearly not "keeping wikipedia clean" but rather bluring the image of what is really happening in Poland. You may view Talk pages for those topics, especially the LGBT rights one and see for yourself. Is there anything you could do to help us? Jackgrimm1504 (talk) 16:48, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
- Jackgrimm1504, sorry to hear about this difficult news and wish I had a clear answer. However, I think it may be useful to post this to the discussion section on the LGBT+ User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT%2B/Portal and see what sort of guidance and discussion we can have as a result of this topic, as the user group includes people from around the world, some of whom have faced these issues before and may have some direct counsel on how to handle them. FULBERT (talk) 20:28, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
Hello FULBERT,
- Backlog
Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
- Coordinator
A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
- This month's refresher course
Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
- Deletion tags
Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
- Paid editing
Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
- Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
- Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
- Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.
- Not English
- A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
- Tools
Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.
Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.
Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.
DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.
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Error message display 14-SEP-2019
To answer your question about displaying CS1 error messages, the following is taken from Help:CS1 errors: By default, Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2 error messages are visible to all readers and maintenance messages are hidden from all readers.
To display maintenance messages in the rendered article, include the following text in your common CSS page (common.css) or your specific skin's CSS page and (skin.css).
(Note to new editors: those CSS pages are specific to you, and control your view of pages, by adding to your user account's CSS code. If you have not yet created such a page, then clicking one of the .css
links above will yield a page that starts "Wikipedia does not have a user page with this exact name." Click the "Start the User:username/filename page" link, paste the text below, save the page, follow the instructions at the bottom of the new page on bypassing your browser's cache, and finally, in order to see the previously hidden maintenance messages, refresh the page you were editing earlier.)
.mw-parser-output span.cs1-maint {display: inline;} /* display Citation Style 1 maintenance messages */
To display hidden-by-default error messages:
.mw-parser-output span.cs1-hidden-error {display: inline;} /* display hidden Citation Style 1 error messages */
Even with this CSS installed, older pages in Wikipedia's cache may not have been updated to show these error messages even though the page is listed in one of the tracking categories. A null edit will resolve that issue.
After (error and/maintenance) messages are displayed, it might still not be easy to find them in a large article with a lot of citations. Messages can then be found by searching (with Ctrl-F) for "(help)" or "cs1".
To hide normally-displayed error messages:
.mw-parser-output span.cs1-visible-error {display: none;} /* hide Citation Style 1 error messages */
You can personalize the display of these messages (such as changing the color), but you will need to ask someone who knows CSS or at the technical village pump if you do not understand how.
Nota bene: these CSS rules are not obeyed by Navigation popups. They also do not hide script warning messages in the Preview box that begin with "This is only a preview; your changes have not yet been saved". Regards, Spintendo 05:43, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
- Spintendo, Thanks! This is one of the things I so enjoy in working with Wikipedia editing -- there is always more to learn. --- FULBERT (talk) 22:20, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Week 1/Introduce Yourself/Dragonroll
Hello FULBERT,
This is Dragonroll. My name is Chu Chu. This is my second semester at New York University. I am in the Management and System Program with a concentration on Database Technology. I just learned about Wikipedia and how to use it as an editor. I have a new understanding of Wikipedia now. I believe it will be an interesting journey editing here. I cannot wait to practice and learn more about how to be a good editor. Dragonroll (talk) 17:54, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
- Dragonroll, Welcome to Wikipedia, and I look forward to your edits and helping you along the way. FULBERT (talk) 23:17, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Week 2/Introduce Yourself/Boboandy
Hello FULBERT, This Yibo Ge from your RPM course. My user id is Boboandy. This is my second year in NYU and my concentration is ERM. This my first time to edit and I am a little bit worried about doing things wrong right now. 209.150.41.25 (talk) 23:35, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
- Unfortunately you were not logged in, and the bot could not determine your user name. Please log in and reply to this and use the signature string per the training and my Week 2 instructions. FULBERT (talk) 23:30, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Week 2/ Introduction/ Nuli90
Hello this is Nuli. I am excited to be part of this class and looking forward to get to know the team and work together. I am a part time student and I work full time. My days are compacted but every day is a learning experience for me. Nul90 (talk) 02:20, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
- Nul90, Looking forward to both the course as well as your edits. As you are working, you will have a breadth of possible areas for exploring and editing here. Hope it will be a great experience!! FULBERT (talk) 23:32, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Week2/Introduction/Ygplusplus
Hello everyone, this is Yingdi Gao. I graduated from ASU and this is my second semester in NYU. I used to spend time for searching on Wikipedia and never try to edit on that. I can't wait to be a wikipedian. Ygplusplus (talk) 15:03, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
- Ygplusplus, Welcome, and Wikipedia can not wait to have you as an editor! FULBERT (talk) 23:36, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
week2/introduction/irisnan1009
Hi. This is Lingyun Nan. My major is database. It's my pleasure to meet all of you. Thank you.Irisnan1009 (talk) 05:26, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
- Irisnan1009, Glad you have started your editing journey. Make Wikipedia be the better for it! FULBERT (talk) 23:43, 15 September 2019 (UTC)