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Mosque notability

Hello. For a while, from browsing the new pages feed, I've noticed your project contributing articles on Tunis mosques. Having visited Tunis, I thought that was worth while. But I just looked for the first time at a couple of the articles, and saw that there's fairly little information in them, particularly the sort of information that would convey encyclopedic significance. Would you say that each of these mosques meets the notability guidelines, particularly the general notability guideliness? I haven't done any research so I have no basis right now for suggestion that any of them don't, but I wanted to make sure you're aware of this requirement, which applies to individual mosques as well as to any article topic here. I realize you may well be aware of it, and that you may be contributing articles specifically about mosques that are notable, but I thought I'd check. Largoplazo (talk) 22:39, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

March 2017

Hello, I'm Yoshi24517. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to Hammouda Pacha Mosque— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Yoshi24517 ^Chat _Online 19:47, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Souk El Kachachine

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Medicine schools in Tunisia (June 29)

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Ways to improve Dar Hussein

Hi, I'm Boleyn. Houssem Abida, thanks for creating Dar Hussein!

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Ways to improve El Ahmadi Mosque

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Your draft article, Draft:Medicine schools in Tunisia

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The souks of Sfax

While new page patrolling I've come across a lot of your articles on the various souks in Sfax. In my opinion they are probably individually barely notable, but I think that if you rolled them all together you would have a substantial article. (I've visited Sfax, a delightful town in my opinion)TheLongTone (talk) 15:19, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Friend, Thank you for you precious suggestion. The purpose of starting these articles is to encourage contributors to enrich them and to search for new informations and photos. That's why we chose to put them in seperate articles even if they are short for now.

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A page you started (Bou Chouaicha Mosque) has been reviewed!

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Nice work! Would be good if you could include the coordinates for the mosque in the article.

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Hughesdarren (talk) 12:50, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Hughesdarren:. Actually I don't have them yet. I will look for them.Houssem Abida (talk) 12:56, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No problems, if you do find them and need any help putting them into the article let me know. The article is also an orphan (meaning there are no links to it in any other wikipedia articles), could a mention of it with a link to it be made in the Medina of Sfax or the Sfax or any other article be made? Regards Hughesdarren (talk) 13:19, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the assistance @Hughesdarren:. I am working on that.Houssem Abida (talk) 15:27, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019

Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019

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Everything flows (and certainly data does)

Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?).

Amazon Echo device using the Amazon Alexa service in voice search showdown with the Google rival on an Android phone

Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making.

Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness.

There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.

Links

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day for 18th birthday celebrations
WMUK video page, with "fake news", Jimmy Wales, Wikidata and more (health warning for those with tune allergy)
Why Wikipedia’s Medical Content Is Superior, Stephen Harrison, 28 January 2019, Slate
Olivia Colman reveals struggle with Wikipedia over age, Naomi Gordon, 28 January 2019, harpersbazaar.com
Making Wikidata visible, Martin Poulter blogpost, 24 January 2019, Bodleian Digital Library
Inventory, Magnus Manske blogpost, 24 January 2019, on Wikidata tech support for an image donation by Cleveland Museum of Art

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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

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What is a systematic review?

Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources.

Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help?

File:Schittny, Facing East, 2011, Legacy Projects.jpg

2011 photograph by Bernard Schittny of the "Legacy Projects" group

Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen.

Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.

Links

Evidence-Based Practice: Appraise, resources page from Duke University Medical Library & Archives.
What should Cochrane do next?, Bad Science blogpost 5 November 2014, Ben Goldacre.
Cambridge (UK) Science Festival event, How do scientific discoveries become clinical medicine?, ScienceSource workshop for ContentMine 23 March 2019, with systematic review process diagram. Also on Eventbrite for tickets, taking place in Makespace, 16 Mill Lane.
PROSPERO database of PRISMA, for registration of systematic review protocols.
Process wonkery thread, wikien-l mailing list, September 2006.
Meta-Analysis, xkcd cartoon.

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Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

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When in the cloud, do as the APIs do

Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook.

File:Cloud-API-Logo.svg

Logo of Cloud API on Google Cloud Platform

The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API.

APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web.

Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of "Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do.

Links

Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative, 2016 paper by Andrawaag and others, commenting inter alia on the role of the API on Wikidata
Working With Wikibase From Go, Digital Flapjack blogpost 26 November 2018, Michael Dales, developer for ScienceSource using golang, with a software engineer's view on Wikibase and the MediaWiki API
Dealing with the Rust, Magnus Manske blogpost 12 March 2019, on the Rust language and the MediaWiki API
mw:API:RecentChanges, mediawiki.org page on the API for access to "recent changes" on a wiki
wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews, wikitech.wikimedia.org for the Pageview API, giving Wikimedia traffic information
xkcd cartoon, API Guide

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A page you started (Sidi Brahim Riahi Mausoleum) has been reviewed!

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Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

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Completely clouded?

Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point.

Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around.

Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs.

What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list.

Links

Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/In focus#The_Wikipedia_SourceWatch by Headbomb.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Questionable1
d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/Beall's list: Beall's list, final version, matched into Wikidata.
SPARQL query for Quackwatch: query to find items on Wikidata for articles subject to the Quackwatch blacklist of "Nonrecommended Periodicals", under "Journals (Fundamentally Flawed)".
SPARQL query to find retracted articles on Wikidata.
d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/NCBI2wikidata dashboard, metadata for biomedical articles being built up, sourced from PubMed and PubMed Central.

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Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019

Text mining display of noun phrases from the US Presidential Election 2012

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Semantic Web and TDM – a ContentMine view

Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while.

It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM (text and data mining).

Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?"

The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata.

The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.

ScienceSourceReview, introductory video: but you need run it from the original upload file on Commons

Links for participation

http://sciencesource-review.wmflabs.org/, review tool link in the left-hand sidebar at http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page

The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list and d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue.

Please be aware that this is a research project in development, and may have outages for planned maintenance. That will apply for the next few days, at least. The ScienceSource wiki main page carries information on practical matters. Email is not enabled on the wiki: use site mail here to Charles Matthews in case of difficulty, or if you need support. Further explanatory videos will be put into commons:Category:ContentMine videos.

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Ways to improve Trans Homos DZ

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Hi @FULBERT:. Thanks for the help. I added some references to make the topic more notable and eligible to have an article about it. For the orphan tag, I don't think I can do much for now as the only solution is to create more articles and mention the NGO in them. Kawayashu (talk) 12:39, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Kawayashu. Anything to add to the credible sources for this article will be well-received. Additionally, as this was improved during Wiki Loves Pride, I added the tag {{Wiki Loves Pride 2019}} to it for its contribution to this effort. You may want to do this to any related articles you work on this month. --- FULBERT (talk) 18:22, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Al Qaws

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FULBERT (talk) 00:42, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi FULBERT. I just noticed that I forgot to continue working on Al Qaws article. I just added some content and some references. The article exists in 4 languages (arabic, english, french and hebrew for now), so I guess it is notable enough. I will work on it even more in the next few days during Wikipedia for peace's editathon in Vienna, and ask the participants to translate it to into more languages. Thanks and have a nice day.Kawayashu (talk) 12:58, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Kawayashu. Please continue to add references for credibility of this, and existing in other language Wikipedias does not establish that (cf. WP:CIRCULAR). This may be another useful one to include in your upcoming editathon. Looking forward to hearing what you do with this one. --- FULBERT (talk) 18:32, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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