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	Well, maybe. Eventually. But the encyclopedia would not be as good. Celebrate 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:41, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:59, 1 November 2015 (UTC).

I remembered your support last year here, which I think improved the project. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:48, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #182

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

• Discussions
  • How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price.

    

    I love Wikidata because

    • Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
    • Images from the party
    • Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
    • Presents:
      • Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
      • Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
      • Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
      • Special:Nearby by the dev team
      • Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
      • Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
  • Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
  • Past: Open Access Week
  • Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
  • Past: Tehran SFD (video)
  • Upcoming: ODI Summit
  • Upcoming: SWAT4LS
  • Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
  • Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
  • Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
  • The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
  • Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
  • Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
  • Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
  • Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
  • Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
  • We passed 15M items.
  • Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
  • All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
  • Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
• Development
  • Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
  • Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
  • Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
  • Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
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Duchess of Richmond's ball

Floorplan. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:38, 4 November 2015 (UTC).

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AWB

I would like to use AWB to fix typos and perform cleanup, but am worried that the wider community would not allow me access to it. What do you think I should do? Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 15:47, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Read the rule and the guide - be sure you understand why the various restrictions are there, then provided you are happy with that apply. There are some 4000 accounts approved so I doubt there should be much difficulty.

When using AWB be aware that a lot of people consider an error made with AWB far more serious than one made by hand. (Of course if you made 300 copies of the same error and no good edits, they would have a point - but that's not what I mean.) I did an experiment to establish this, though I haven't fully analysed the results. A good deal of the time you save by using AWB will need to be re-invested into quality control.

If you do decide to do typo fixing let me know and I will try and write up a few notes about how I approached that task.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:18, 4 November 2015 (UTC).

Thanks! --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:23, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, just another thing: is it possible it could knacker my computer? --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:29, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Hmm, well it is technically possible, but very unlikely, especially if you are just using it in the normal way. The only thing that I would be even remotely concerned about are intense disk activity or long and intense CPU usage. The first is only likely if you are doing a lot of work with data dumps, and the second if you were doing that or true bot-work. I have used AWB extremely intensively in the past, with no apparent ill effect.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:38, 4 November 2015 (UTC).

Okay, thanks again! --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:41, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Collateral damage from rangeblock

Hi Rich Farmbrough,

I'm writing on your talk page because you took part in the discussion about the extension of a range IP block, there're less than 2 hours left for the new block to start and yesterday I added some information making a summary at the end of the section: may you please join back the discussion and give your final opinion about the matter?

Thank you in advance!

Centocinquantuno (talk) 09:24, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Need to comment

• Wikipedia:Security review RfC

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:28, 5 November 2015 (UTC).

MfD nomination of User:Rich Farmbrough/Final Fantasy (video game)

User:Rich Farmbrough/Final Fantasy (video game), a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Rich Farmbrough/Final Fantasy (video game) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Rich Farmbrough/Final Fantasy (video game) during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Ricky81682 (talk) 22:23, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Your email

What I had in mind actually had nothing to do with the check list page, but is probably still susceptible to the same vulnerability. --Izno (talk) 23:09, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Q3163213 listed at Redirects for discussion

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Nomination of Timothy Allan for deletion

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Nomination of Simon Denny (professor) for deletion

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Nomination of Murdoch MacLeod for deletion

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Nomination of Kenneth Nelson (businessman) for deletion

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Nomination of Paul Davidson (business) for deletion

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Nomination of Maureen Milgram Forrest for deletion

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Nomination of George Douglas Scott for deletion

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Nomination of Ederyn Williams for deletion

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You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

You are invited! Join us remotely! World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

Dates: 8 to 29 November 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event Host/Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR) in collaboration with Women scientists: Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! Sponsor: New York Academy of Sciences Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR in parallel with a "physical" event during the afternoon of Sunday, November 22 in New York City. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in science to participate. As the virtual edit-a-thon stretches over three weeks, new participants will be able to draw on the assistance of more experienced editors while creating, translating or improving articles on women who are (or have been) prominent in the field. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and learn more: →here← --Rosiestep (talk) 03:02, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion

Hi Rich, an article you created, Male hysteria, has been nominated for deletion by [[User:Codeofdusk|.. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Male hysteria. Graham87 03:21, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Looks like it is pretty safe... All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 03:38, 8 November 2015 (UTC).

What (disambiguation) listed at Redirects for discussion

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Precious again

A year ago, you were recipient no. 1015 of
Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:48, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Gerald

I think you've got it! I found this which says he was with Fleming for a time in China, and this confirms he was with Reuters. Many thanks - I shall have to look out his book, he sounds like an interesting character. DuncanHill (talk) 02:14, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

A little detective work is always fun. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:15, 9 November 2015 (UTC).

2015 Arbitration Committee Candidate Statement

Hello,

After reviewing your election statement it appears that you have exceeded the maximum limit of 400 words. Could you please reduce the statement length at the earliest opportunity? You are welcome to provide links to an extended statement if you so desire. On behalf of the Election Commission, Mike V • Talk 02:27, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

There's a word limit? No problem I can précis. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:29, 9 November 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #183

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Lakokat
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
  • Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
  • Semantic Cities
  • Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
  • Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
  • Past: semwebpro (slides)
  • Past: ODI Summit
  • Past: MozFest (etherpad)
  • Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul

Highlights of 3 years of Wikidata by Madgalena Wiegner

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
  • Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
  • Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
  • Ever noticed ranks?
• Development
  • Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
  • From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
  • Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
  • Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
  • Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
  • Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
  • Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184)
  • Worked more on making search work on mobile
  • Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
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Arbitration case accepted

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Nomination for deletion of Template:R to other namespace

Template:R to other namespace has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 22:43, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:ISO 3166 name DE-HB

Template:ISO 3166 name DE-HB has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Fram (talk) 15:26, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Beaumont children disappearance

Hi,

The 50th anniversary of the Beaumont children disappearance is in two months. Would you like to help me with the article so something special and important can be done with it for the anniversary? Also asking other old friends. Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 13:04, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Not sure I'll have time to look at this. Good luck with it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:41, 13 November 2015 (UTC).

Squeeze paper

Hi. Please do not use a edit summary of "undid revision by ..." when you are actually adding new content and not undoing anything, as you did in Squeeze paper. It is not nice for the involved editor. Thank you - Nabla (talk) 10:01, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Apologies. I started with an undo to restore the external links section, then added the external link and restored the stub type. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:40, 13 November 2015 (UTC).

Rich, please try to look at the edit again. AFAICS, the stub was corrected by Nabla. —Sladen (talk) 14:19, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Sladen, please try to read what I wrote again, slowly, and you will see that I never said otherwise. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:26, 13 November 2015 (UTC).

Thank you, and yes, I often use a similar technique. In such cases I try and to be extra careful (because of the potential for upset) to include something that makes it clear that it's a positive development eg. "partial rv; […rationale…]. Undid … ". Would that be useful positive solution? —Sladen (talk) 17:21, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Quite possibly. I have had a bunch of these in the past few days, where someone or something has removed a section merely because it was empty. Believe it or not having to redo something because someone removed it is also "upsetting" and "not nice for the editor involved." I have great respect for stub-sorters, and would not wish to upset any of them. My assumption that they would understand what I did was clearly misplaced, but I don't think it was an unreasonable assumption. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:51, 13 November 2015 (UTC).

Accepted. Thanks. I'd like to point that I am not "a stub sorter" I am user:Nabla, that happens to sort stubs once in a while. As I am not "them" in anyway, I do not know if "they" do understand something or not. Please do not assume anything about "them" based on me. I think I understood what you did, the point is that your summary does not reflect what you did, instead reflected badly on another editor. Please don't take me wrong, I do not want to pick any kind of fight. I also could have done better. Usually when I am sorting stubs I disconnect that from any other activity - that is, I do not correct or tag an article in the same edit. This time I did it, and so I am also responsible for the ensuing confusion. My apologies for that. Enjoy. - Nabla (talk) 02:04, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. And thank you for sorting the stub, as well as everything else you do! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:06, 14 November 2015 (UTC).

DYK nomination of The Industrial Christian Home for Polygamous Wives

Hello! Your submission of The Industrial Christian Home for Polygamous Wives at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! — Maile (talk) 16:11, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Karen Arnold

The article Karen Arnold has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Comatmebro User talk:Comatmebro 23:38, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom

Hi Rich Farmbrough, just thought I'd stop by and say good luck in the upcoming elections samtar ^{t} 15:06, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! Much appreciated. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:26, 12 November 2015 (UTC).

• Best of luck from me also, Rich (sincerely). FYI, I referred to your candidacy as an example here. –xeno^talk 14:12, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks! Now to go and check for more questions. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:26, 15 November 2015 (UTC).
  

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Wikidata weekly summary #184

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• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
  • Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
  • Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
  • Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
  • Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
  • Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
  • Newest WikiProjects: Education
  • Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
  • Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia
• Development
  • Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
  • Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (phabricator:T101694)
  • Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
  • Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
  • Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
  • Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
  • Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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Edit filters

Hi! I'm trying to get some good edit filter for lvwiki, that catches vandalism. Wanted to ask - could you send me email with these filters code: 384, 279, 260, and 354. That will help catch some more besides those which are public - English phrases are common vandalism in Latvian. And want to take a look at the technical part of those filters. You don't need to worry - that information won't be used to screw up or make some big vandalisms at enwiki :) --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 17:55, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 11:18, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Most welcome. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:22, 17 November 2015 (UTC).

Strange behavior of tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec

Hello. Are you aware of the fact that

https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Rich+Farmbrough&project=wiki.riteme.site

answers with zeroes in each place ? (at least on my computer...) Pldx1 (talk) 11:22, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes. It used to time out. Someone was good enough to post some statistics - the SUL figures are more accurate though not as comprehensive. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:20, 17 November 2015 (UTC).

Nomination of John May (executive) for deletion

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Hi. Your comment on the ANI thread seems to have somehow gotten cut off in the middle. You probably want to go back and finish the thought and sign. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 05:36, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

You get the "more efficient than Bracketbot" barnstar. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 05:47, 19 November 2015 (UTC).

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Persistance

	I will not cease from Mental Fight!
	I thought you might appreciate a bit of cheer-leading, in recognition of your patience in handling all those ugly little devils in the detail. Keep focusing on the woods rather than the twigs being thrown around in the wind. You're doing just fine. Fæ (talk) 14:47, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Nils illegitimus ..' eh? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:19, 20 November 2015 (UTC).

Nomination of Finding water for deletion

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• Please desist from adding bogus sources in violation on WP:BLP. Thanks. isfutile:P (talk) 01:15, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
  • I have explained to you that a dead link is not a bogus source. Calling it a bogus source is skating very close to a personal attack. All the best: Rich Farmbrough
    • Under BLP sources should be removed if they do not back up the claims. Your source does not even feature the article subject's name, therefore under WP:BLP it should be removed. There is no evidence that this source backed up the article claim now, or at any point in the past. isfutile:P (talk) 01:22, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
      • You are not seeing my source, please have a look at the URL in the reference, and the URL you are looking at. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:26, 22 November 2015 (UTC).
        
        • Your source: http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?type=RESOURCES&itemId=1084954074&r.s=e&r.l1=1074404796&r.lc=en&r.l3=1084953735&r.l2=1074446322&r.i=1084954027&r.t=RESOURCES which I removed under WP:BLP does not feature any mention of Karen Arnold winning an award, the claim the source is attributed to. I have rechecked your source and I can confirm it does not feature any mention of Karen Arnold. Under WP:BLP a reliable source is needed to assert such a claim in a biography of a living person. isfutile:P (talk) 01:32, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
          • Yes but it did feature such a mention. The page you looked at is https://www.gov.uk/queens-awards-for-enterprise - quite a different page written at quite a different time.
          • The url http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?type=RESOURCES&itemId=1084954074&r.s=e&r.l1=1074404796&r.lc=en&r.l3=1084953735&r.l2=1074446322&r.i=1084954027&r.t=RESOURCES is supposed to have been archived by the National Archive at Kew, but it appears not to have been. The next step on recovering the source information is to contact the National Archive. Without this URL there is no way that this can be done.
          • The WP:BLP states quite simply that contentious claims can be removed if unsourced. If you are seriously contending that Karen Arnold winning the award is cntentious then I would like to know that here and now.

          All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:47, 22 November 2015 (UTC).
          

          • I've made my point clearly and I'm not going to repeat myself if there is nothing new to respond to. isfutile:P (talk) 01:49, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
            • Perhaps you could come back tomorrow and answer that simple question? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:53, 22 November 2015 (UTC).
              
              • I've made my point clearly. I'm not responding further to this thread, or any similar. I'll leave that to other editors. isfutile:P (talk) 01:55, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #185

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
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  • More mixin’, more matches
  • Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
  • Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
  • Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
  • Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata
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  • Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
  • Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
  • MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
  • What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
  • You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
  • Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
  • Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
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  • Decreased size of html of item pages
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Using AWB

Hi, I've downloaded AWB but I don't understand how to use it or take furher steps to set it up. Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:49, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

OK the basic steps are:

1. decide on a task
2. log in (probably not needed if you use IE)
3. make a list of articles
4. set the options
5. run the task

Detailed example

So suppose we decide to fix "perogative" -> "prerogative"

• Click on "file" -> "log in" and do the necessary

Now make the list:

• In the Source area (bottom left) select Wiki search (text)
• Type "perogative" (without quotes) into the box, and click make list

You should get a list of about 6 or 7 articles. (Only 3 have mis-spellings. The others have redirects from misspelling.)

Now under "options" check find and replace and click the "normal" button: You should get a table.

In the first row enter "perogative" and "prerogative" in the first two cells. All the check boxes except "enabled" and "case sensitive" should be blank.

That is the "rule" for this run.

For the sake of simplicity uncheck "auto tag" "apply general fixes" and "unicodify..."

Now go to the start tab, enter an edit summary such as "spelling - prerogative"

Press "Start"

AWB will fetch the first article and apply your rule. Seeing that there is no change it will display "No Change".

Either press "skip" or - go to the options tab and check "skip if no replacement made" and then press start again.

After a few skips, you will come to an article where the rule does make a change, and the diff will be displayed.

If you are happy, press "save" and move to the next article.

Normally you would have the "General fixes", "Auto tag" and "Unicodify" on, of course these may make the diffs harder to read, but they are mostly a "Good Thing".

Hope that helps.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:45, 21 November 2015 (UTC).

Thanks, but I don't know what you mean by log in, as I am logged in. I also don't know how to make a list of articles. Is something supposed to appear somewhere? Where are the options? Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 19:02, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

At Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual#Login it says "choose File / Login (the sixth item from the top)". Where is it talking about? That and the example screenshots lokk diferent to what's on my computer. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 19:11, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

The number was wrong, unless they were counting from zero... but you see the "File" button near the top left? And when you click it you get a drop down? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:18, 21 November 2015 (UTC).

• When you log in to Wikipedia your browser talks to the web server and they exchange a cookie (basically a random number) that confirms it's still you every time you request a new page or press save. If, like me, you use multiple browsers, you will need to log in on each of them. AWB is just another browser so you need to log in there too. (Except that it uses code libraries "and stuff" that IE uses, so you might find if you use IE you are already logged on in AWB.)
• How to make this sample list of articles is explained in my post. I have bolded the point where that explanation starts.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:19, 21 November 2015 (UTC).

I've got it now, thank you so much! --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 19:50, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Most welcome! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:01, 21 November 2015 (UTC).

Hi, how do you stub sort with AWB? Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 23:51, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

I also replaced "transexual" with "transsexual" because I thought it was a misspelling, but Wiktionary defines it as a [[:wikt:Transexual|"rare alternative spelling"], so I won't be replacing this again. Is this a problem? Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 23:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

I doubt that anyone will complain about that. I would have "fixed" that spelling if I saw it, and I'm sure many people would have. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:58, 24 November 2015 (UTC).

I don't think you can stub sort using AWB super-fast - unless perhaps the stubs are already categorised. Stub sorters usually have an intricate knowledge of the stub category tree (or so it seems).

Certainly you can use the listmaker to select articles that transclude {{Stub}}, you can then use the "find" to quickly get to the stub template and add the actual qualifier manually.

(You could automatically replace {{Stub}} with {{-stub}} to save a few keystrokes.)

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:58, 24 November 2015 (UTC).

Okay, thanks again. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 02:13, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Harlan Howard Thompson

I think the woods are full of forgotten but major authors of westerns for children <g>. Have you ever seen his name before? (or as 'Stephen Holt) Collect (talk) 21:52, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Doesn't ring any bells with me, I'm afraid. Currently on women scientists (or was it Chaucer?) when I get a break from stalky XfD's and ACE questions.

There is definitely a lack of coverage of (particularly fiction) authors. Not sure if there are systematic ways of getting refs, maybe with one of the paid services that will have archived book reviews - but even book reviews are scarce in some cases.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:38, 24 November 2015 (UTC).

Thank you -- just finished voicing my opinions on a few AfDs about "women authors" whose articles were possibly created by a "disfavoured person" on Wikipedia - even though the women clearly are notable. Strong is in the DYK queue at least -- quite a character <g>. Collect (talk) 22:58, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Brain Test

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Other than a bit of coverage about it being malware, I really can't see where this app is notable enough for an entry. There was a small flurry of coverage around the end of September, but not really much past that point in time. Most of the coverage past that point is like this and is in places that would be dubious as a source for Wikipedia's purposes, given that the site appears to offer media packages for coverage.

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Parent monthly clean-up category progress

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Something that stayed too long

See here It's not exactly egregious but I was shocked to see that I removed this after almost a decade. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:41, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes redirects are very low maintenance, and no-one would have seen that it the normal course of events. It's certainly true that we are deleting perfectly correct and probably notable information by the bucket-load while clean-up and maintenance falls mainly to a few dozen people. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:44, 27 November 2015 (UTC).

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DYK for The Industrial Christian Home for Polygamous Wives

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Unable to log in to use AWB

Hi, I am currently unable to log in using AWB because it is stated that the account "Rubbish computer" already exists. I am using the correct password and I have tried closing and reloading the tab. Please advise. Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 13:05, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

If you look at the bottom right does it say "not logged in" or "Rubbish Computer"? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:43, 28 November 2015 (UTC).

It says "not logged in". --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 15:01, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

OK. AWB maintains profiles for your various accounts on various wikis. I suspect that for some reason it's trying to make anew profile where one already exists. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:04, 28 November 2015 (UTC).

Okay: I somehow fixed it by not clicking "Save this account". Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 15:06, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Good. When you click "Log in/Profiles " a little window should come up, headed profiles. If "Rubbish Computer" is item 1 (or 2...) , double click it. You may then be prompted for your password, depending on whether you elected too store it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:08, 28 November 2015 (UTC).

Okay, thanks again. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 15:18, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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Nomination of Child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Koavf
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
  • Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
  • Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
  • Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
  • Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
  • WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
  • Workshop i Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
  • New daily report on Mix'n'match
  • Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
  • French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
  • New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
  • A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
  • Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
  • Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
  • example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
• Development
  • Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
  • Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Monthly maintenance category

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