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Some baklava for you!

I think you need a sweet to complete the deletion process for Fiorenza II Crispo, Co-Lady of Milos. Bearian (talk) 16:58, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. Sorry about that. —Tom Morris (talk) 17:07, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue IX, September 2013
Headlines
Belgium report: Europeana Fashion Fashion edit-a-thon; Wiki Loves Monuments France report: Aerial pictures of Versailles; In Brief Germany report: Reaching out for new partners India report: Wiki Loves Monuments in India Italy report: Italian Wikipedia takes libraries Mexico report: Wiki Loves Monuments 2013; edit-a-thon in La Merced historical neighborhood Netherlands report: Wiki Loves Monuments; ECNC photo competition; Europeana Fashion Edit-a-thon Antwerp; Fourth Dutch Wikipedian in Residence; Wiki loves libraries workshop; 10 years of CC licenses Spain report: Amical projects: Catalan Culture; Wiki Loves Monuments Sweden report: Sign language and case studies Switzerland report: New cooperation with Botanical Garden; History of Alps update; OpenGLAM workshop at OKCon UK report: The Morning After the Month Before USA report: Wikipedia at the Metropolitan New York Library Council in New York Wiki Loves Monuments report: The world's largest photography contest has struck again, but missed many countries Open Access report: Thanks, OKCon, featured content, stats and a final Calendar: October's GLAM events
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Don

Is the word "don" in the context of a university gender neutral? I know the original Spanish word is masculine, and the word entered English before female professors were common. The word doña is not used, but is "don" used for female professors? (I'm not British, and it sounds wrong to me.) 216.8.169.45 (talk) 14:38, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

I'm not an Oxonian or a Cambridgian, so I don't know the finer points of the word in question. Google reassures me that there are female dons. —Tom Morris (talk) 16:34, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #79

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

Discussions
- Discussion over how Property metadata should be stored within Wikidata
Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata sends goodies to Google Summer of Code 2013 volunteers
- A Wikidata interview with Lydia
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Statistics about sourcing on Wikidata
- Help the development team prioritise!
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Wikivoyage banner, RSL identifier, ISIN
Development
- Added index removal and addition support to Wikibase Database
- Improved initialization code of Wikibase Query
- Added database setup code to Wikibase Query
- Added schema updating support to Wikibase QueryEngine
- Added SimpleQuery special page to Wikibase Query. This page allows users to find entities by a property value pair
- Formatters for snaks/values are now used throughtout Wikibase
- Some progress on DecimalValues and QuantitiyValues
- Started work to include the data type of snaks in the JSON dumps
- Worked on cleaning up inconsistent handling of Claim GUIDs vs hashes.
- Implemented more convenient user interface for Special:SimpleQuery.
- MergeAPI module and claim editing from wbeditentity to be deployed
- Further work on a build step to make deployment easier
Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of these.

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SHELDRAKE

Tom. 10 mistakes made by Rupy are listed on page 1 of the February 2012 issue of the Ethical Record (published by Conway Hall Ethical Society). Norman. — Preceding unsigned comment added by N.Bacrac (talk • contribs) 19:01, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #80

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Discussions
- Discussion over the implementation of 'showcase items'
- Requests for comment over restructuring user rights
Events/Press/Blogs
- Lydia gives a talk at Latinoware about Wikidata
- Talk at UCBerkeley about Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata
Did you know?
- Newest properties: street address, e-mail, guest of honor, MusicBrainz label ID, burial plot reference, Austrian municipality key, streaming media URL, MycoBank taxon name identifier, IPNI taxon name identifier, Tropicos taxon name identifier, MSW species identifier, section, verse, or paragraph, ISBN-10, IBNR identifier, full text available at, ISCO code, NSZL identifier, BNE identifier, NLI (Israel) identifier
- Newest task forces: International relations task force
Development
- Further development on WikibaseDatabase
- IE8 is working again
- JSON socumentation created and merged
- Lots of work carried out on the quantity datavalues
- Papercut: mouseover input suggestions messes up input. Fixes bug 44896
Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
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Wikidata weekly summary #81

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- Gerard wrote about Wikipedia's place as a source within Wikidata
- Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) will be held next week, Monday to Wednesday, in Berlin.
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- Echo has been enabled on Wikidata
- Magnus created some queries for Wikidata
- Wikidata is 1 year on October 29th! Stay tuned for some 'surprises'
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- Bene improved Special:ItemDisambiguation (bugzilla:55466)
- Bene added ftp as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (bugzilla:54103)
- Linked sitelinks in diffs (bugzilla:53471)
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- Worked on the user interface for the numbers datatype
- Continued work on ordering statement groups in the user interface
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- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
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Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter

Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...

New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian

Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.

New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions

New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration

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Tree2mydoor page deletion

Hi Tom, I've read the "Why was my page deleted?" article and would like to get this page reinstated. Could you confirm the reasons you deleted it? Also, we feel that Tree2mydoor is a notable, established multi-award winning UK niche brand that deserves a Wikipedia page. I was a contributor to the page and am working to get it reinstated. 90.194.179.149 (talk) 08:02, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

It was deleted because there was a consensus in the deletion discussion that it isn't notable. —Tom Morris (talk) 08:27, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

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