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Wikidata weekly summary #284
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Defining account creators
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
- Past: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October. You can find the slides, notes and video recordings for most of the sessions
- Past: Wikidata's fifth birthday in Tokyo, Seoul, Munich
- Upcoming: Using Wikidata to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects in the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2017), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, 30 October-3 November.
- Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact MB-one
- Wikidata's birthday
- The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.
- Birthday presents
- Search index now contains statements with {{Property|P31}} and {{P|P279}}. These can be used to influence search rankings and in the future also for matching.
- inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
- You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
- Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
- Wikidata becomes a proper citizen of the linked open data web
- graves.wiki – visualization of grave locations stored in Wikidata
- Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM) - Wikidata semantic topics and usage statistics
- Happy Birthday to You, Dear Wikidata – recording and improvisation (Lucas Werkmeister)
- You can now create items from the command-line
- Crochet your own cute structured data bee to express your appreciation for structured data in the Wikimedia movement! And ask her/him/it to join the Wikimedia Cuteness Association (Q29169245).
- Wikidata Query Service UI: Geoshapes from Commons are now displayed in the Map view: Constituencies for the election to the German Bundestag 2017, with winning candidate and party
- Wikidata Query Service UI: The query service now shows you code examples for how to use your query in many programming languages (example query)
- Dungeon of Knowledge (source), a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon full of bits of Wikidata wisdom
- Simple WD an experiment of a simple frontend API on top of Wikidata using JSON-LD and schema.org.
- mapview widget/user script on Wikidata
- Images fragments for an item depicted on several artworks
- Histropedia Query Timeline tool - Demo of cool new features launched today for WikidataCon
- Q42395533 - the first item about a notable item!
- SQID now suggests statements that we are missing (example page, log in to see suggestions) -- more on Wikidata:WikiProject_Reasoning soon
- From labs VM to Wikibase Query Service in 2 minutes (using Docker images and docker-compose)
- Stories and reflections
- Wishes for the year to come, by Tpt
- Happy Birthday Wikidata! by the Gene Wiki Team
- Some random thoughts on the occasion of Wikidata's fifth birthday, by PKM
- Wishes and a personal story, by Spinster
- Happy Birthday, Wikidata by RolandUnger from Wikivoyage
- Happy Birthday, Wikidata by Katherine Maher
- Two years of Wikidata experience from ArthurPSmith
- Happy Birthday wishes from Wikimedia Deutschland
- Message from the development team
- Birthday presents
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Biblioteca Nacional de México ID, MNCARS artist ID, BFI Film and TV ID, FPB rating, The Coptic Library ID, snap package, LesBiographies.com ID, Indian Foundation for Butterflies ID, AKL Online Artist ID, Google Doodle, New York City Parks Monument ID, Pro14 player ID, implementation of, GACS ID, Y-DNA Haplogroup, mtDNA haplogroup, mandates, Portuguese lighthouse ID, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame athlete ID, Sportbox.ru ID, VNDB ID, Videolectures ID, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame ID, rfpl.org player ID, Panthéon des sports du Québec ID, Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee ID, New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID
- Query examples:
- Organic acids with images (source)
- People who are their father's father (source)
- 2017 German federal election results by district with geoshapes and color depending on the % of votes (source)
- Cities with most first performances of works (source)
- Count of women Vs. guys names “John” in the UK parliament (source)
- Percentage of popes who died in Rome (source)
- First sites registered at Unesco for each country (source)
- 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
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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.
Recent changes
- You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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00:20, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #285
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Obaid Raza
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata, a rapidly growing global hub, turns five on WMF's blog by Andrew Lih and Robert Fernandez
- Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata, by Petter Reinholdtsen
- Mix-n-Match: Large Catalogs, by Magnus Manske
- 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
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Barbarian R.C. id, Barbarian F.C. id, Isidore ID, Team GB athlete ID, HOC athlete ID, COAM architect ID, Camera Decision ID, Google Play developer ID, INDUCKS miniseries ID, INDUCKS issue ID, INDUCKS story ID, INDUCKS publisher ID, INDUCKS creator ID, INDUCKS publication ID, INDUCKS character ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Accused witch ID, Humble Store ID, Australian Baseball League player ID, European Fencing Confederation athlete ID, IBHOF boxer ID, Melon artist ID, Czech Jockey Club horse ID, Rush Parliamentary Archive ID, British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association ID, IGHOF athlete ID, Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee ID, Twitch game ID, Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID, Ecole des chartes thesis abstract ID, Rugby League Project player ID, Canadian Ski Hall of Fame inductee ID, Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee ID, World Golf Hall of Fame player ID, Kaitai Struct format gallery ID, Diccionario biográfico español ID, Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah ID, Discography of American Historical Recordings ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database ID, Coinage of the Roman Republic Online ID, Argentine Chamber of Deputies ID, Argentine Senate member ID, Thibaudeau classification, Scoresway handball person ID, HAL author ID, Shirat Nashim person ID, cash back, Minimum Spend Bonus, reward program, grace period, reward, Card Network, mean age, hydraulic head
- Query examples:
- endemic moths of New Zealand with images in Wikidata (source)
- Images of people commemorated by plaques in Jena, Germany (source)
- Paintings located in Le Louvre without pictures on Wikidata, with the location in the museum (source)
- Persons who will have their work in public domain in 2018 in Denmark, with their occupations (source)
- Political parties by ideology in a tree view (source)
- Organic acids with pictures (source)
- Levels of education in France, from kindergarten to high school, with their US equivalents (source)
- Horses drawn on hills in the UK (source)
- Frequency of “retrieved” dates in Wikidata references (source)
- Newest database reports: completeness of family relation properties
- Development
- query service UI improvements (Ided10bb8c8, I3c6ec22a15, Ieb6e561563, I9a526fc8b4, Ib4ea273ab1
- proposed changes to HTML around statements – feedback welcome!
- Finished diff support for lexeme phab:T178757
- Refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
- JavaScript libraries used by Wikibase have been integrated as submodules into Wikibase's git repository (phab:T177087)
- Git repository of the Wikibase JavaScript API has been moved. Check your settings! (phab:T178226)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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.
- The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.
- Help write the next summary!
Question
Hi, just wondering why you do this and "rescue" sources that are not dead. It seems to me that it just bloats the reference list without solving a problem. Regards, WWGB (talk) 10:25, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, WWGB. The end game is to pre-emptively prevent link rot. I do not know why the tool building team led by Cyberpower678 decided to label it as rescuing. You cannot rescue something that is not lost. We shall have to ask them. Archiving live links pre-emptively prevents a problem. Thank you for asking. I really appreciate it. Having fun! Cheers!
{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}
11:56, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it. [2]
Changes later this week
- The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (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 8 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F
instead ofhttps://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История
. This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work. [3][4]
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18:44, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
More thank yous
Thank you for reviewing my WMF grant request. Your copy edits were an improvement (as usual!). It was great to see so many editors have input to the project. I am appreciating my 'critics' more and more as time goes by since they make me a better editor. I wouldn't exactly call you a critic, I just want to convey that all those who provided feedback helped make the proposal better. The Very Best of Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 21:57, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, Barbara (WVS). You are welcome. I hope it helps. Our small rapid grant request got a similar critique, by the same folks, but it got approved without changing course, delaying it, and basically starting over. Whew. Sometimes we try to read motive into critiques. If there is bad faith, well then. Hopefully it is all in good faith, and none of it is sour grapes or ax grinding. Were you at Wikimania Montreal? Having fun! Cheers!
{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}
00:58, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #286
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, November 14th, 19:00 (UTC+2) in the channel #wikimedia-office
- Review of the WikidataCon by Sean McBirnie (Histropedia)
- Blogpost on workflow co-documentation with community members during the WikidataCon, by Jan Dittrich
- Completeness and the Age of Abundance of free tools, in Basque language, by Theklan
- Report about the first WikidataCon in Hungarian language, by Texaner
- Report of the WikidataCon 2017 in German, by MB-one
- Visualising Wikidata on Interactive Timelines using HistropediaJS by Sean McBirnie
- Wikidata: A growing community behind open data by John Samuel
- Report about the 2017 WikidataCon in Polish, by Yarl
- Report about WikidataCon 2017 for WMAM community in Armenian, by Kareyac
- WikidataCon - my résumé by Ahoerstemeier
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata training material and sample SPARQL queries by Geertivp
- A new version of Unicode CLDR was released, including data about languages from Wikidata
- research article where Wikidata is used to unify metabolite identifiers: WikiPathways
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: vertical depth, describes a project that uses, National Monuments of Namibia Site Reference, CycleBase cyclist ID, California Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Formal Public Identifier, IAFD male performer ID, IWRP athlete ID, Wimbledon player ID, Snooker.org ID, albedo, family relationship degree, World Snooker athlete ID, Microsoft Store artist ID, NACE code, Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: properties count by datatype, Mayflower voyage participants, film archives
- Development
- Fixed a series of smaller regressions after switching to Cirrus based search backend (phabricator:T179045, phabricator:T179061, phabricator:T179130)
- Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (phabricator:T179228)
- Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
- Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (phab:T176417)
- Add
wikibase-snakview-indicators
area where gadgets and user scripts can safely add indicators instead of directly appending to the value (phab:T95403, d:WD:PC#Gadget / userscript editor feedback wanted) - Accessing
mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' )
will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use thewikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded
hook instead (phabricator:T169771) - Work on caching constraint check results (phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (phab:T179844)
- Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (gerrit:379669)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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.
Changes later this week
- The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator. [5]
- A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [6]
- Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences. [7]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (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 15 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. You can see an example on the test wiki. [8]
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19:19, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
What is Talk Page Theatre? Come find out!
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Come find out what "Talk Page Theatre" is all about! The last Wednesday evening of every other month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.
We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks. We will be at the NEW Wikimedia Foundation offices! w00t!!!
Please note: You should RSVP here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in.
For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, November 2017
See you soon! Ben Creasy, Nikikana, and Wayne | ( Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice ) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
Ferdowsi Millennial Celebration
Hello, Checkingfax – I moved the article "Ferdowsi Millenary Celebration" to Ferdowsi Millennial Celebration since I felt that "millennial" was the right word to use. I got to the page that said "Move succeeded", but I don't understand much of what is there. Would you mind looking at it and seeing if there are things that need doing, and taking care of them? Thanks. Also, do you think the second and third words of the title need to be capitalized? They were in the earlier title, so I didn't change the capitalization, but now I'm wondering if I should have. – Corinne (talk) 17:08, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, Corinne. I feel that Ferdowsi millennial celebrations (plural) might show more continuity with the article text. I agree with millennial vs millenary. Jumping down, for continuity, and per MOS, the bolded instance in the lead should try to match the article title. There are other places when for continuity I feel that millennial should be substituted for millenary (e.g. - in a later subsection). As for the "move succeeded" page, part of that is to instruct you to fix any double-redirects (circular redirects). Fortunately, there is now a bot that will pick those up in a jiffy, so you can ignore that tedious and easy to botch task. Since my proposed article title is in sentence case (as you seem to concur is a good idea), you would need to do another move (to Ferdowsi millennial celebrations), then wait for the bot to clean up any double redirects. Make sure to move the talk page too, by checking the talk page checkbox in the page move wizard. Any questions? Having fun! Cheers!
{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}
08:32, 8 November 2017 (UTC)- Thanks, Checkingfax. I don't think I checked any box in the first move. I guess I need to go back and do that, unless you've done it already. I'll take a look now. – Corinne (talk) 17:36, 8 November 2017 (UTC) Well, the talk page shows "Ferdowsi Millennial Celebration", so I guess it was moved. I'm rethinking the capitalization of the title, though. I'm not sure the title should be in sentence case if it's the actual name of a particular celebration, which it seems to have been. LouisAragon, what do you think about this? Should the article title be "Ferdowsi Millennial Celebration", as it is now, or "Ferdowsi millennial celebration"? – Corinne (talk) 17:41, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
- SMcCandlish may have some good thoughts on the article title casing. I was kind of looking at places in the article where it is upcased and downcased, and favoring downcasing it. Having fun! Cheers!
{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}
11:44, 11 November 2017 (UTC)- The one source cited, also an encyclopedia and entirely focused on Iran (thus more prone to overcapitalize in a WP:SSF manner on a topical basis than a more general work) gives it lower-case and plural. This isn't a proper name, but a description (the Millenary Congress, an organization, is a proper name, though). It's essentially not within the scope of the concept "proper name" for a diffuse "series of celebrations and scholarly events" over an entire month, throughout Iran and well beyond, as far away as the UK, to be considered a proper name, strictly speaking. Such an aggregation of discrete things can become capitalized as a matter of convention to some extent, as is the case with things like "the Civil Rights Movement" and "Art Nouveau", though such capitalization is avoided by many publishers and primarily a feature of journalism and a specific camp of academic publishing. WP is one of the publishers that avoids it, unless usage in sources is very predominantly capitalized for a particular subject. It's why so many things that are sometimes capitalized are not here. It's more neutral and also more readable in running prose. Names that are metaphoric/evocative and not merely descriptive are proper names by nature, e.g. Arab Spring (it isn't literally a spring in any sense of that word, and isn't entirely limited to Arabs per se). But this one's just plain descriptive. PPS: Lower case would be consistent with Ferdowsi millenary celebration in Berlin. PS: Millennial is the right word, meaning "of or pertaining to a period of 1000 years"; millenary means "consisting of 1000 years or other units"; a "millenary celebration" would be the longest party in history. :-) — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 15:15, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, SMcCandlish. Thank you for your reply. I see your points - and Corinne's original point and I concur - move it all to sentence case. I was wrong about the plural. D'oh! Having fun! Cheers!
{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}
16:52, 11 November 2017 (UTC)- Thanks, SMcCandlish, for the information and your thoughts. I'll change it to sentence case if it hasn't been done already. – Corinne (talk) 17:01, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, Corinne. Excellent work. This is fun. How do you feel about changing "millennial conference" to "Millennial Congress" for continuity? Notice the word change, and casing change. Cheers!
{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}
00:57, 13 November 2017 (UTC)- Yes, I noticed that, too. I'll look at it tomorrow, and then decide. – Corinne (talk) 01:08, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, Corinne. I made a few more tweaks to the article. If you disagree with any of them, please overwrite them. The only remaining things are that 2nd photo caption text, the See also wikilink text, plus I noticed that the article lacks inline citations. If you find a few sources to cite the text, I can show you how to insert them as dressed citation templates. Have a wonderful day. Having fun! Cheers!
{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}
21:19, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, Corinne. I made a few more tweaks to the article. If you disagree with any of them, please overwrite them. The only remaining things are that 2nd photo caption text, the See also wikilink text, plus I noticed that the article lacks inline citations. If you find a few sources to cite the text, I can show you how to insert them as dressed citation templates. Have a wonderful day. Having fun! Cheers!
- Yes, I noticed that, too. I'll look at it tomorrow, and then decide. – Corinne (talk) 01:08, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, Corinne. Excellent work. This is fun. How do you feel about changing "millennial conference" to "Millennial Congress" for continuity? Notice the word change, and casing change. Cheers!
- Thanks, SMcCandlish, for the information and your thoughts. I'll change it to sentence case if it hasn't been done already. – Corinne (talk) 17:01, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, SMcCandlish. Thank you for your reply. I see your points - and Corinne's original point and I concur - move it all to sentence case. I was wrong about the plural. D'oh! Having fun! Cheers!
- The one source cited, also an encyclopedia and entirely focused on Iran (thus more prone to overcapitalize in a WP:SSF manner on a topical basis than a more general work) gives it lower-case and plural. This isn't a proper name, but a description (the Millenary Congress, an organization, is a proper name, though). It's essentially not within the scope of the concept "proper name" for a diffuse "series of celebrations and scholarly events" over an entire month, throughout Iran and well beyond, as far away as the UK, to be considered a proper name, strictly speaking. Such an aggregation of discrete things can become capitalized as a matter of convention to some extent, as is the case with things like "the Civil Rights Movement" and "Art Nouveau", though such capitalization is avoided by many publishers and primarily a feature of journalism and a specific camp of academic publishing. WP is one of the publishers that avoids it, unless usage in sources is very predominantly capitalized for a particular subject. It's why so many things that are sometimes capitalized are not here. It's more neutral and also more readable in running prose. Names that are metaphoric/evocative and not merely descriptive are proper names by nature, e.g. Arab Spring (it isn't literally a spring in any sense of that word, and isn't entirely limited to Arabs per se). But this one's just plain descriptive. PPS: Lower case would be consistent with Ferdowsi millenary celebration in Berlin. PS: Millennial is the right word, meaning "of or pertaining to a period of 1000 years"; millenary means "consisting of 1000 years or other units"; a "millenary celebration" would be the longest party in history. :-) — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 15:15, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
November 2017
Hello. It appears your talk page is becoming quite lengthy and is in need of archiving. According to Wikipedia's user talk page guidelines; "Large talk pages become difficult to read, strain the limits of older browsers, and load slowly over slow internet connections. As a rule of thumb, archive closed discussions when a talk page exceeds 75 KB or has multiple resolved or stale discussions." - this talk page is 263.5 KB. See Help:Archiving a talk page for instructions on how to manually archive your talk page, or to arrange for automatic archiving using a bot. If you have any questions, place a {{help me}} notice on your talk page, or go to the help desk. Thank you. --Jax 0677 (talk) 23:36, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, Jax. My talk page auto-archives every 93 days. I have a Blackberry Bold and it loads fine for me. Do you have an Edison? Did it load slow for you? Having fun! Cheers!
{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}
13:46, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
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The article Rancho Tehama Reserve shootings has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}}
will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Jax 0677 (talk) 23:36, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, Jax. I would caution you against using the
{{Prod}}
template on articles that are only one day old, or using the WP:AFD or WP:CSD process for such fast moving targets. That is ridiculous and harms the project! I can think of no rational reason for doing this. Having fun! Cheers!{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}
13:52, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, Jax. I would caution you against using the