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Wikidata weekly summary #368
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- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-Thon in Atla, Canada, 13 June 2019
- Upcoming: the Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to minority languages in the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Penryn, Cornwall, on July 4-5. The program is published and will contain several Wikidata-related sessions. The registration is open
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Batches of Rust - Magnus' improvements to QuickStatements
- Robustifying Scholia — Developing a Wikipedia interface for exploring the research ecosystem
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The W3C Entity Reconciliation Community Group has launched
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: sequenced genome URL, number of hospital beds, related image, taxa found at location, calendar feed URL, calligrapher, replacement property, feed-in tariff
- External identifiers: GLIMS ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, racing-reference race ID, racing-reference track ID, SportSport.ba player ID, Xikao History ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, Prazdne Domy architect ID, AntWiki article ID, Mediapart tag ID, NWBib ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID, The Dragon Archive ID, SVT Open archive ID, Australian bank branch ID, Alvin ID, Tainacan MAI ID, GNU ELPA package ID, RFGS person ID, Igromania ID, Czech parliament ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, swMATH work ID, Pinakes author ID, IndicePA ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Married by, Access status, Musixmatch album ID, Antecedent anatomical structure, effective temperature, aperture, surface gravity, historic first
- External identifiers: ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, DR.dk Tag ID, Réunionnais du monde ID, Planilla Códigos Únicos Territoriales (CUT), Doximity ID, dbSNP ID, Bloodhound ID, Xing profile ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, Den Store Danske Encyklopædi ID, MAHG ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, Ciência ID
- Query examples:
- Items in Japanese museums by British sculptors (federated query with Japan Search) (source)
- Number of items about Australia created over time (source)
- Federated query comparing Wikidata and UK Parliament database, to show differences of more than 10km in locations of UK parliamentary constituencies (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- When typing an item ID on Special:Search, labels are now shown in the suggestion menu
- More work on preparing the migration of wb_terms to the new design
- Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
- Add "You are not logged in" overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221831)
- Add the "Remember my choice" checkbox to the "You are not logged in" popup on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221833)
- Add EntitySchema in the license footer (phab:T224536)
- Several improvements to shex simple tools (phab:T221604, phab:T221606)
- Work on an issue with a deleted constraint still appearing on Lexemes (phab:T223372)
- Work on normalistation in the Lua API mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (phab:T224593)
- Improved tests and fixed failing tests
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!
WP:INFOCOL - minimum number of transclusions
WP:INFOCOL does not mention a minimum number of transclusions. Wikipedia:List_of_infoboxes/Geography_and_place#Place has 3 wrappers with 1-49 transclusions and 3 wrappers with 50-99 transclusions. Do you know of any regulation related to the minimum quantity of transclusions for an IB? 77.13.149.196 (talk) 01:45, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
- No; it's a matter to be decided on a case-by-case basis, using common [sic] sense. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:18, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you. Now "2 wrappers with 1-49 transclusions" (CA, FR [nominated for replacement]) and "3 wrappers with 50-99 transclusions (JP [nominated for replacement], RU, US)". 77.11.73.22 (talk) 17:07, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
- Update: "1 wrapper with 1-49 transclusions" (CA), "3 wrappers with 50-99 transclusions (JP [nominated for replacement], RU, US)", "10 wrappers with 100-499 transclusions (CV, DE, FI [in Deletion review], FR [2x], IL, IN, NZ, PS [nominated for replacement, last Arab country], PT)". 77.13.239.116 (talk) 11:52, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #369
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Unifying GO activities and enzyme articles
- Events
- Upcoming: ld4-Wikidata Affinity Group call on June 18th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, France, on June 21st
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Wellington, New Zealand, on June 22nd
- Press, articles, blog posts
- EventKG - the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web - and Biographical Timeline Generation - Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova (in ArXiv)
- Assessing The Factual Accuracy of Generated Text Ben Goodrich, et al. (in ArXiv)
- Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International Research Collaboration Xuan Nguyen, et al. (in ArXiv)
- Treasured Manuscript collection gets the Wikidata Treatment, on the National Library of Wales' blog
- On the road to joint embedding with Wikidata lexemes? by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Wikipedia and Wikidata user contributions as part of Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna 2019
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata-Toolkit 0.10.0 was released
- New Grafana board: number of edits per namespace
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: title in HTML, title in LaTeX, student organization of, emergency services, average speed
- External identifiers: Pro Football Reference coach ID, Keybase username, Elhuyar Dictionary ID, TV Tropes identifier, ITF tournament ID, Campendium ID, Malaysia company number, abART person ID, abART document ID, abART exhibition ID, abART group ID, abART institution ID, DR.dk topic ID, ABA League ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, CCDC Number, Coco Game List ID, Dimensions grant ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: text of verse, literary motif, scribe.amanuensis or copyist.illuminator, distribution format, phosphorylates, RogerEbert.com film ID, literacy rate, Retrosheets ID
- External identifiers: 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Metacritic person ID, Nacionālā enciklopēdija, IMVDb artist ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Charts in France artist ID, VG-lista artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Djshop artist ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Juno Download artist ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Napster artist ID, Qobuz artist ID, YouTube Music channel ID, Bebo profile ID, Steam profile ID, Pandora artist ID, SNBP ID, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, EMIS codes for Pakistani provinces, RIAA artist ID, Gambay ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Cameo ID, Amburger database ID, BVLarramendi, Equipboard artist ID
- Query examples:
- Table of counts of distinct MPs, legislative terms and per constituency P39s for UK parliamentary constituencies, with links to per constituency reports (source)
- Reverse taxon names of 100 mosquitoes (source)
- Five-letter words beginning with "f", from wikidata's lexeme collection (source)
- Péniches in Lyon
- Lexemes ordered according to compound parts (source)
- Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
- Timeline of the Chief Mousers of 10 Downing Street, with photographs when available
- Newest WikiProjects: European Colonialism
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Grafana now tracks the number of edits per namespace (phab:T218901) and the EntitySchemas on the entity by type board (phab:T216835)
- Fixed a bug Special:MobileDiff for an EntitySchema Revision (phab:T224545)
- Make possible to edit items via wbeditentity when they have same label and description, if the edit is about making them different (phab:T222621)
- Fix a bug on ArticlePlaceholder hook on SpecialSearch (phab:T207235)
- Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
- More maintainance on the WDCM dashboards T214586 (phab:T217997)
- Maintain the WDCM Biases Dashboard to make it fully client-side dependent
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [1]
Changes later this week
- MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with
[[File:Filename.midi]]
. Lateroverride_midi
andoverride_audio
will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [2] - A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old
wgEnableAPI
andwgEnableWriteAPI
values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [4]
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20:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
DRV
Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2019 June 9#Template:Infobox Finnish municipality 78.55.42.78 (talk) 19:18, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Now this template will live on. 89.14.159.64 (talk) 11:04, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
TfD - admins not closing a vote 3-1-1 for deletion
TfD - admins not closing a vote 3-1-1 for deletion - Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 June 6#Template:Infobox Palestine municipality 89.14.159.64 (talk) 11:05, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
- Could you do a non-admin-closure? Tomorrow it will have seven days overtime. 77.11.65.37 (talk) 17:11, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
- I'm too closely involved. Also, please get an account. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:30, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Moseley Park
On 17 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Moseley Park, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that you need a key to get into Moseley Park? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Moseley Park. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Moseley Park), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Amakuru: Thank you. I wonder why I wasn't notified when the nomination was first made? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:39, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- You should have been pinged when the DYK nomination was created as you were named as a participant in improving the article. Curious. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:24, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
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- Thank you for article improvements in June! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:19, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 14
Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.
There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:
- A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
- We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have the extension documentation and some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!
Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:
- Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
- WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 21:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata infoboxes
Thanks for your work in article creation. I've had William Balfour Ker and Mary Ellen Sigsbee on the back burner for a while. One request I have is to please consider not using the {{infobox person/Wikidata}}, : it's unsightly (all those gaudy pencil icons!), and largely un-amenable to customization. In my opinion more refined templates such as {{Infobox artist}} allow for higher quality display of the same information. Cheers, --Animalparty! (talk) 21:19, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Animalparty: If you have suggestions for improving {{Infobox person/Wikidata}}, please raise them at Template talk:Infobox person/Wikidata, where you will find the regular contributors to that template, not least User:RexxS and User:Mike Peel, most amenable; not to say willing to explain to you just how customisable the template is. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:01, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Animalparty: Of course, I'm always happy to try to improve the template. It may be worth noting that {{infobox person/Wikidata}} behaves exactly like {{infobox person}} if you don't enable fetching information from Wikidata by adding the parameter
|fetchwikidata=ALL
in the article. Even with fetching Wikidata enabled, any field value can be overriden by simply supplying a local parameter and value for that field. And if you add|noicon=true
, then all those little pencil icons disappear to be replaced by a discrete [edit on Wikidata] at the bottom of the box. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 22:26, 22 June 2019 (UTC) - P.S. You know that {{Infobox artist}} actually uses {{Infobox person}} for its higher quality display anyway? --RexxS (talk) 22:32, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Animalparty: Of course, I'm always happy to try to improve the template. It may be worth noting that {{infobox person/Wikidata}} behaves exactly like {{infobox person}} if you don't enable fetching information from Wikidata by adding the parameter
Wikidata weekly summary #370
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- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items
- Events
- Upcoming: 1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference keynote on Wikidata by José E. Labra Villa Clara, Cuba 24-28 June
- Upcoming: Wikidata meeting for researchers in Sfax University, Tunisia, 25-27 June 2019
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London, June 29th
- Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System, Yuhan Sun, et al (in 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering)
- Comparing DBpedia, Wikidata, and YAGO for Web Information Retrieval, Sini Govinda Pillai, et al.
- WikiDataSets: Standardized sub-graphs from WikiData, Armand Boschin, in ArXiv
- Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, Finn Årup Nielsen
- Combining embedding methods for a word intrusion task Finn Årup Nielsen, et al
- Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values Sarah Dahir, Abderrahim et al., in ICCWCS'19
- Automatic Question Generation based on MOOC Video Subtitles and Knowledge Graph Lin Ma, Yuchun Ma, in ICIET 2019
- Wikidata as a linked-data hub for Biodiversity data, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
- Using Crowd-curation to Improve Taxon Annotations on the Wikimedia Infrastructure, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
- Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to Share RDF Data Models and to Guide Curation with Rigorous Validation, et al. Best in-use paper award ESWC
- From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier, Theo van Veen
- Developing workflows for local authority file conversion from MARC to Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: qualifiers for depicts support have been enabled on June 20th
- Result format change for Query Service JSON query output
- Filename scheme for Wikidata RDF entity dumps will change
- The development of Wikidata Bridge (editing Wikidata's data from Wikipedia) started
- CheckShex userscript adds an in-page way of checking if an item fits an Entityschema
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: has written for, motif represents, solar irradiance, effective temperature
- External identifiers: JIS standard, Réunionnais du monde ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), dbSNP ID, digilibIT author ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic ID, eBiodiversity ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, euroleague.net coach ID, Gamepedia Wiki ID, Hoopla artist ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID, ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, IntraText author ID, Musixmatch artist ID, MAHG ID, Amburger database ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, Rugby League Project ID (general), RIAA artist ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: extracted from, Instagram hashtag, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, number of pins, number of pin positions, Representative in legislature, subscribers
- External identifiers: nchdb asset id, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Goodreads series ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Retrosheet ID, The DJ List artist ID, BBC artist ID, The Independent topic ID, NME artist ID, Metro topic ID, MangaSeek person ID, Soccerway coach ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase ID, Find & Connect ID, SA Flora ID, ATRF ID, geograph, ArtBrokerage artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Scandipop topic ID, iTunes movie collection ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier, FPBR person ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Roskomnadzor media license number, 2014 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Music certifictions ID, El portal de Música artist ID
- Query examples:
- Most commonly used qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata, with top 10 classes or items that each one is used on (source)
- Most commonly used properties connecting military people to military organisations (source)
- Bubblechart of most frequent WMF import sources
- French male first names ending with "ée" (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Australia
- Newest database reports: Property completion by country leaderboard
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Beginning of wb_terms migration (phab:T221764)
- Fixed a bug with phan on Wikibase (phab:T226083)
- Enable bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223303)
- Fix an issue with pipe character on some special pages (phab:T223270)
- Fix an issue with removed constraint still displayed on Lexeme (phab:T223372)
- Make edits to EntitySchema pages autopatrolled (phab:T224495)
- Work on creating better edit summaries for wbeditentity API endpoint (phab:T224010)
- Deploy the work environment for new mobile termbox
- Start setting up the technical environment for Wikidata bridge
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [5]
- Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [6]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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17:29, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Notice
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Edit warring and lack of consensus-seeking at Wikipedia:Office actions. Anne drew (talk) 22:13, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
July events from Women in Red!
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:41, 25 June 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
WP:CEN is now open!
To all interested parties: Now that it has a proper shortcut, the current events noticeboard has now officially opened for discussion!
WP:CEN came about as an idea I explored through a request for comment that closed last March. Recent research has re-opened the debate on Wikipedia's role in a changing faster-paced internet. Questions of WP:NOTNEWS and WP:Recentism are still floating around. That being said, there are still plenty of articles to write and hopefully this noticeboard can positively contribute to that critical process.
Thank you for your participation in the RFC, and I hope to see you at WP:CEN soon! –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 19:10, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 19:34, 29 June 2019 (UTC) on behalf of DannyS712 (talk)
New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019
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Hello Pigsonthewing,
- WMF at work on NPP Improvements
More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.
- QUALITY of REVIEWING
Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.
- Backlog
The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.
- Move to draft
NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.
- Notifying users
Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.
- PERM
Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.
- Other news
School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.
Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.
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The June 2019 Signpost is out!
- Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia
- News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising
- In the media: The disinformation age
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters
- Technology report: Actors and Bots
- Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?
- Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia
- From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
- In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal
- Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes
2019-07 Milan
Greetings
Hello Andy! --Roberto.Piersanti (talk) 09:45, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Hello, could you buy me a beer?--Jan Kondas (talk) 09:45, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy.
Hello! --Ncorna (talk) 09:45, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Namaste!--Hvardhana3 (talk) 09:46, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Andy!
Hello again. FGiunt (talk) 09:47, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello again.--Fede Bandi 91 (talk) 09:48, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
hello Andy
Ciao Andy. --DamarZ14 (talk) 09:48, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Hello again. Thank you for your advise! --RitaL91 (talk) 09:49, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello, there, Andy!
How would you like your beer, Andy?. --Kairin (talk) 09:49, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Hello again. --MattiLoganR (talk) 09:49, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Ciao Andy. --Jamesfratta (talk) 09:50, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello
Thank you for your lecture. --Gfabio87 (talk) 09:50, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Namastem!!
Hello Andy
Can I buy you a beer?--Michela Massi (talk) 09:52, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Namastemm!!!
Hello Andy
Hello again. How are you? --Marcozambianco (talk) 09:53, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi professor
Hi, I'm a new student. TKS --Ilabanca (talk) 09:53, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Ciaooo--Fede Bandi 91 (talk) 09:54, 1 July 2019 (UTC)Fede Bandi 91
Hello andy
Hello andy. Can I buy you a beer.--Smlhd1993 (talk) 09:54, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
You can buy me a beer
Hi, Andy, good lecture today, and I'll be happy if you buy me a beer, I'll do the same for you--Polymerix (talk) 10:01, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Michael (polymerix) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Polymerix (talk • contribs) 09:56, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy!
Hello again. --Matteosalvador (talk) 10:06, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Andy
Hello there. --Clconci (talk) 10:06, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Hello again.--Giodol12 (talk) 10:06, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Hello again. --Prospector2 (talk) 10:07, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Thanks for teaching us! --Tirittiti (talk) 10:09, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Andy!
Hi Andy! --Azzalini Fabio (talk) 10:09, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Dear Andy
Dear Andy,my PC does not want to connect to internet at all. I'll try to borrow a PC for this afternoon. Best, Alebotte --Alebotte (talk) 10:10, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy!
Hello again.--GabrieleBer (talk) 10:11, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Hi Andy, I would gladly buy you a beer! --Emanuele Oddo (talk) 10:11, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Great course!
--Mattambo (talk) 10:14, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Hi Andy! Do you like IPAs? --4dimensionalUSB (talk) 10:15, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy!
Hello there!--Egibe (talk) 10:16, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello
Hello, Mr. Andy Mabbett --Lingiorgia (talk) 10:17, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Hello again!
--NoMore201 (talk) 10:17, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Andy
Nice to meet you --Mengting.sonia (talk) 10:18, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi there! Barzandr (talk) 10:32, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Hello, thanks for the lesson Enricotalamas (talk) 10:32, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Hello how are you?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by JetsaF (talk • contribs) 10:46, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello andy
Hello Andy.--Sara Eh91 (talk) 12:07, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Hello Andy. --Hsadeh (talk) 12:59, 2 July 2019 (UTC)