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Wikidata weekly summary #283

Wikidata weekly summary #282

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Wikidata weekly summary #284

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Continued working on persistent storage of edits on Lexeme pages
    • Fixed an encoding problem in the SVG download of query results in the query service (phabricator:T178564)
    • Fixed a problem with change dispatching changes to Wikipedia and co, that sometimes lead to single wikis falling way behind. (T179060)
    • Added full URIs for external identifiers to the RDF export
    • You can leave feedback on how improved fulltext search result page should look like

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Wikidata weekly summary #285

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon, here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
    • Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs
    • Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs

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UCLA colors

James, I just wanted to get your thoughts on the your color name change. I don't know much about UCLA, so I figured I'd ask. At Module:College color/data, we have been going by the media guides/traditions pages on athletic teams websites. UCLA lists their colors as "Blue and Gold" in the media guides (and have for at least the past couple of years, as well as the Traditions webpage. I think I have argued this in the past with someone else on the "True Blue" name. Most generally, as I believe is the case here, "Powderkeg Blue and "Westwood Gold" are just the branding names as a some universities have been known to use different names for branding. I cannot find anything else that says otherwise. Thoughts? Corky Buzz by the Hornet's Nest 18:56, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

You're more familiar with the topic; I defer to your judgment. Feel free to revert. James (talk/contribs) 23:02, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
That being said, "Powderkeg Blue" is used by reliable independent sources, [1][2][3] and at least one source says it is slightly different than True Blue. [4] I don't know if that's correct. James (talk/contribs) 23:10, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for those links. I'm thinking "Westwood Gold" is referring to Westwood, Los Angeles (home of UCLA) per the dailynews.com article and "Sons of Westwood"? "Powder Keg Blue" is an actual color, but far from UCLA's color; "Westwood Gold" is not and UCLA's is just Pantone 130-C. The full brand guide also shows a "Mighty Gold". My guess is it is just a branding name... Corky Buzz by the Hornet's Nest 01:03, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #286

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Linda Katehi

Hi James! As you may remember, this particular article has been the subject of a lot or PR editing, by the subject of it and apparently by her students. I cannot recall where, (COIN?) but it was the subject of a thread on a drama board at least once. I reverted an edit yesterday by another new editor who left me a note here and had also left a preemptory note on their talk page about the edit. This reeks of being a redeux of the previous incident. Just so you are aware. Hope it is well with you! John from Idegon (talk) 18:47, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Re COI

Hi James, I totally see what you mean. I actually just edited that as an in-class example for my students on the differences between Edit and Edit Source. I'm collaborating with the WikieEdu program to get college students to edit Wiki articles, and this edit was made as part of an in-class demo on editing. Should I delete it? Or revert it? I don't feel strongly about including that edit. Thanks. Chapmansh (talk) 16:50, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

No worries! I've already reverted it. James (talk/contribs) 16:53, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #287

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Fixed Commons media suggester not loading all preview thumbnails (phabricator:T160528)
    • RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (phabricator:T161592)
    • Worked on making statements on Forms editable and persistent (phabricator:T163724)
    • Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library (phabricator:T172914)
    • Worked on caching constraint check results (phabricator:T179849) and indicating when constraint check results are cached (phabricator:T179844)
    • Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia

Duchess of Sutherland

I note you've picked up the disambiguation issue on Duchess of Sutherland - I am enough of a novice to have not spotted that your solution solves much of the problem. The rest of it appears to me to be a "content" matter - perhaps making sure that Sutherland (disambiguation)#People has a bit of extra content - which would include some female Sutherland titles that point, amongst other places, to the moved Duchess of Sutherland page. I suppose it may be unsatisfactory having one disambiguation page point at another, but I think that is down to the complexity of the names of the people we are trying to direct the reader to - the Duchess of Sutherland that I originally searched for had at least 4 different names in her life, two of them including the word "Sutherland". Between all the different Duchesses with an article on them, there are a lot of alternative names - and all of them went by the less formal title of "Lady Sutherland".
Thanks for your involvement. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 23:37, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #288

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (phabricator:T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
    • Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
    • Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms

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RM closures

You need to remove the requested move/dated template, otherwise it will remain in the listing and in Category:Requested moves. Jenks24 (talk) 10:37, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, sorry. Don't know why I forgot that time. James (talk/contribs) 10:42, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

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