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Roger Goodman
Email received around 5pm 5/22. Reference is no longer valid and considered libelous--hence the removal by news org. Any further edits to contain this false information will be considered an intentional violation. If you need further explanation I can send you the detailed explanation approved by family law attorneys. Thank you for your cooperation.
- ↑ Liv, A few minutes ago, KOMO changed the offending sentence in the text version of our story about the PAC funding ads against the Roger Goodman campaign to read: “I asked Carns if it was fair to quote divorce documents in the Goodman ad.” The videos we post to our website are cut from our aired newscast and thus cannot be edited after the fact. The video has been removed. Kelly Just Executive Producer, Problem Solvers Unit KOMO-TV 140 4th Ave. N – Suite 370 Seattle, WA 98109 Desk: (206) 404-4235
Liv Grohn (talk) 09:30, 23 July 2014 (UTC)Liv Grohn
Roger Goodman
I reviewed your message. Please review mine as it seems that others are violating by not ensuring that their "undo" content is verifiable.
The divorce declaration cited in occurred in October 2012. The Motion of Contempt filed in August 2013 (presented in court September of 2013) is a completely separate entity from the Temporary Orders filed back in October. The Motion of Contempt, was in fact, filed in regard to violations to the Final Order (which was the settlement) which occurred in June of 2013. The contentious divorce documents from October 2012 were not a part of the Final Order.
"I asked Carns if it was fair to quote contentious divorce documents in the Goodman ad, particularly since they're part of his ex-wife requesting more money in the settlement."
Therefore, the contentious divorce documents had nothing to do with the Motion of Contempt that you site. And since it is is impossible to change any financials after a divorce settlement is signed (in our case June 2013)--the three things are not one related to the other, placed in a sentence as if they are:
contentious divorce documents (Temporary Order--October 2013) and settlement (Final Order/Settlement--June 2013) requesting more money (Motion of Contempt--August/September 2013)
Requests for financial relief for attorney fees when forced to return to court for violations of parenting plans and settlement agreements is routine, but completely separate from the final settlement (inferring money) Final Order.
That is why I continue to edit this so that it is factual. The "undo" edits are disingenuous and an inaccurate picture. Erroneous and libelous.
I need to add that while you might have an opinion that my statements made under penalty of perjury were simply allegations, that is an opinion--not based in fact. Contentious indicates: causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial. Roger too, had the right to respond to my supposed "allegations," under penalty of perjury but chose not to. That was the time to dispute my supposed "allegations." Under penalty of perjury. Through the court of law. Not now, through a medium other than the court of law that doesn't apply the same standards or opportunity to rebut the accusations made.
Therefore, it should be assumed that my divorce declaration statements were not contentious because they caused no argument or disagreement. Roger, making no response to the court, indicates concurrence, not controversy.
I can only assume that the edits are made by supporters who are not caring about the Wikipedia standards for truth and non-inflamotory statements. Facts are very different from truth in Wiki world as well as my world. The edits essentially state that statements made under penalty of perjury are assumed false while statements with no standards for assessment or recourse are not. That is incongruent with reason. As you know, edits must be made fairly and rationally accessing the validity of claims.Perhaps you should be paying more attention to those who are not following the rules for biographies. I will be reporting those who continue to make libelous claims and making copies for my attorneys.
If you would like, I can have one of my attorneys explain in legalese. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
I understand completely how this kind of error could have been made. That is why I simply request that you make the corrections asked.
Liv Grohn (talk) 10:10, 23 July 2014 (UTC)Liv Grohn
Good morning Stuartyeates. I thank you for taking an interest in this page. I am surprised that you take exception to the (very large) number of persons mentioned who have no notability whatsoever apart from qualifying as at one time owning or skippering one of these vessels. This of course is almost inevitable in the nature of a list.
I would of course like to see this page as good as it can be. Would moving the page to "List of Murray-Darling steamboat people" overcome your misgivings? Doug butler (talk) 23:03, 24 July 2014 (UTC) Doug butler (talk) 23:08, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- Mr problem is not with the name. My problem is that much of the material appears to be based on primary sources, with no obvious sources for much of it. Wikipedia is meant to be based on secondary sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:24, 24 July 2014 (UTC)data
- I was going to address that point at a later stage when I had better knowledge of WP acceptable sources. The vast majority of data has come from contemporary newspaper reports, which I understood was OK. No; I referred to your first review, "This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: Many people fail WP:LISTN; this needs to be trimmed or moved to a different namespace. Please help improve this article if you can. (July 2014)" Doug butler (talk) 00:06, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
- Notability guidelines, including WP:LISTN and similar, are grounded in the use of secondary sources that cover the topic(s) in detail. Moving the article to draft:, User_talk: or User: namespaces would remove the immediate need for reliable sources by indicating that the article is not 'ready' yet. These issues are all derived from a lack of secondary sources; add secondary sources and all your problems go away. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:28, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
- I was going to address that point at a later stage when I had better knowledge of WP acceptable sources. The vast majority of data has come from contemporary newspaper reports, which I understood was OK. No; I referred to your first review, "This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: Many people fail WP:LISTN; this needs to be trimmed or moved to a different namespace. Please help improve this article if you can. (July 2014)" Doug butler (talk) 00:06, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 23 July 2014
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Exe (locomotive)
Hi. I've removed your deletion proposal for this article. I do see your point, and although I could upgrade and expand the article, as this is one of a class of locomotives built for the line (plusa modern replica, and another in construction), I think a better solution is to merge all three or four similar articles into one. If you can give me a week or so, I will get that put in place. Hope that is okay with you. Regards, Lynbarn (talk) 23:50, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
- A couple of weeks is fine. A couple of years, not so much :) Stuartyeates (talk) 23:52, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
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Edit war
Stuart. Please refrain from sending me self-serving messages about edit warring when the only issue is your insistence in removing properly sourced, relevant material from the Hager article on extremely flimsy pretexts. Come on man, you know that's not on. 101.98.195.208 (talk) 00:58, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
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Should I post this notice on User:GHSinclair as well? I see you didn't notify your co-editor.Edgespath24 (talk) 03:30, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 13 August 2014
- Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia
Slate reports that Tom Scott, co-creator of the emoji social network Emojli, created a Twitter bot called Parliament WikiEdits to automatically tweet a link to any Wikipedia edits made from an IP address belonging to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Scott's bot initially did not tweet any links to edits made from Parliament and, according to Scott, an "insider" reports that their IP addresses changed. Despite this, Scott's Twitter bot has inspired similar creations in numerous other countries.
- Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction
It's been a grim few weeks. It says something that formerly arresting crises like the war in Ukraine, Boko Haram and the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, despite still being ongoing, have fallen out of the top 10 to make way for the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak and the equally if not more intense conflict against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
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I see you removed the PROD from Helen McGregor (geologist). In what way do you think notability is satisfied? A h-index of 12 is well below the threshold of WP:PROF#C1, and everything else listed is typical for an ordinary academic, -- 101.117.57.69 (talk) 08:13, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
I see you also removed the PRODs from Rebecca Spindler and Erin Roger, which have similar notability concerns. I would like to request that all 3 articles be listed at AfD. -- 101.117.57.69 (talk) 08:16, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
- You're more than welcome to get an account and put them up for AfD. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:00, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 20 August 2014
- Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia
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This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2014)
 A solar flare erupts from the Sun, an example of solar activity.
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Hi Stuart - what makes her notable? and Keith Syers. Also Miriam Meyerhoff and Pablo Gabriel Etchegoin - NealeFamily (talk) 02:26, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
- They're part of a recent tranche of academics I've done. I believe that they all meet Wikipedia:Notability (academics), which is a pretty low bar. Feel free to tag them / nominate them fro deletion. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:11, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 27 August 2014
- In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news
Journalistic integrity, Congressional edits, and other news.
- News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster
More discussions about Media Viewer, Superprotect, and software development
- Traffic report: Viral
"This was a week when an actual virus, Ebola, competed for attention with several viral social phenomena; most notably the Ice Bucket Challenge..."
- Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!
Sixteen articles, five lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted.
This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2014)
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Wikidata weekly summary #124
- Events/Blogs/Press
- past: OpenSym
- upcoming: IRC office hour about structured data for Wikimedia Commons
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New Main Page and other new features
- Breaking changes for gadgets
- Badges support via Wikidata has been rolled out to Wikipedia and other sister projects. If the icons shown are not the ones your project would like please request a change here.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NIEA building ID, Cadw Building ID, color index, absolute magnitude
- Development
- Deployed more new stuff \o/ (in other projects sidebar; new internal serialization format; showing badges on the Wikipedias and other sister projects; Special:GoToLinkedPage)
- Added a new “item-redirect” permission
- Continuous work and reviews for the new JavaScript user interface
- DataModel 1.0 will be more strict when adding Claims or Statements to Entities. Quite some tests needed to be made compatible
- Adopted to recent API changes (getPossibleErrors and others got dropped)
- Replaced hundreds of class name aliases in the code with the actual class names
- Attended OpenSym
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Authority control
May I pester you, again, to return to Template talk:Authority control? Cheers, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:49, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
ANI notification
Hi, I mentioned your name at ANI here Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Abuse of deletion process so performing the mandatory notification. Cheers. Nil Einne (talk) 16:01, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
I mentioned you in the same discussion. -- nafSadh did say 23:24, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks people. I've reluctantly replied. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:24, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 September 2014
- Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended
"On 1 September, the Arbitrators voted to suspend the Media Viewer case for 60 days. After the suspension period is up, the case is to be closed unless the committee votes otherwise. The case suspension comes in response to several new initiatives and policies announced by the Wikimedia Foundation that may make the case moot. In the same motion, the committee declared that Eloquence's resignation of the administrator right was "under the cloud" and that he can only regain the right through another RfA."
- Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more
Two articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted
- Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial
Doc James and some collaborators are working on quick detection of copyright violations
- Traffic report: Holding Pattern
"This week we saw three of the top ten articles remain in place, with the Ice Bucket Challenge at #1, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at #2, and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at #5, all for a second straight week..."
- WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)
"This week, the Signpost went out to meet WikiProject Anatomy, dedicated to improving the articles about all our bones, brains, bladders and biceps, and getting them to the high standard expected of a comprehensive encyclopaedia."
- Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies
The latest roundup of research about Wikimedia
This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2014)
File:Jvc gz-mg555-02.jpg Hello, Stuartyeates.
A handheld camcorder ia a typical consumer electronics device
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Block McCloud
Hi, I have found this news magazine article, regarding to a history of Block McCloud. Is this an acceptable source? TwinTurbo (talk) 09:18, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
- That's an excellent source. A couple more like that and you've saved the article :) Stuartyeates (talk) 09:25, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #125
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The new main page can now be translated.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Performance improvements for "in other projects sidebar" beta feature and bug fixes in the feature on wikis with sidebar cache enabled (e.g. zhwiki, commons)
- Worked on performance improvements to badges feature
- Fixing bug with xml format in the API, and added tests for it so hopefully this does not break again!
- Worked more on enabling statements on properties
- Further work on new user interface design groundwork - mostly refactoring and enabling editing of multiple sitelinks and label/alias/description at once
- First pokes at usage tracking
- Drafted an RfC to improve recent changes so we can show Wikidata changes also when enhanced recent changes is enabled
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
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The Signpost: 10 September 2014
- Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready
Last month, I wrote an open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, inviting others to join me in a simple but important request: roll back the recent actions—both technical and social—by which the Wikimedia Foundation has overruled legitimate decisions of several Wikimedia projects.
- Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity
Even though it's not quite 3/4 over, it's safe to say that 2014 will go down as a year of war, mass murder, plane crashes and terrible diseases. While certainly paying it some heed, it's not surprising that Wikipedia viewers tried this week to find any alternative to that litany of tragedy and pain, and their chosen method of escape was, as usual, celebrity.
- Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
The amazing and strange tongue-eating louse replacing a fish's tongue! Because isopods, the subject of a new featured article, are both awesome and really damn weird!
- WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
This week, the Signpost decided to have a look around with WikiProject Check Wikipedia a maintenance project not concerned so much with articles' content, but in all the tiny errors that are to be found scattered within them. Their front page gives a list of things they mainly focus on ...
This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2014)
 Arches were used in Ancient Roman architecture to build aqueducts, such as the Aqueduct of Segovia
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Hi Stuart - I was assessing this article but she does not seem to be notable from what you have written. Am I missing something? NealeFamily (talk) 22:52, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
- @NealeFamily: Fair enough. I've moved it to draft and will add some more to it. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:56, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
- If you want me to do some research on her, let me know - happy to help. NealeFamily (talk) 02:39, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- @NealeFamily: Thanks for the offer, but I'm seeing a buttload of hits on nzherald and stuff for her name, so I'll sort through that and the more well-known blogosphere first. It is, after all, my responsibility to find the sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:17, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- You do so much, I don't mind assisting NealeFamily (talk) 03:20, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- @NealeFamily: The fact that I know friends will ping me when my stubs get too stuby gives me the confidence to continue creating the number and breadth of stubs that I do. Anyway, take a look at the new Draft:Prue Hyman. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:29, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- If you want me to do some research on her, let me know - happy to help. NealeFamily (talk) 02:39, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Looks much better and should cross any notablitiy threshhold. She has made some significant contributions especially in NZ I suggest you move it back out of draft and I will add further information as I find it. Keep up the good work.NealeFamily (talk) 07:51, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 September 2014
- In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics
The Hürriyet Daily News reports on a series of posts on Twitter from Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Ömer Çelik.
- WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland
As Scotland is deciding its future this week, we thought it might be a good idea to get to know the editors of WikiProject Scotland and talk to them about the project.
- News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third
A prominent Wikipedia researcher has discovered that the encyclopedia's widely used article traffic statistics are missing out on approximately one-third of total views.
- Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack
There is no unifying theme we can slap on top article popularity this week.
- Featured content: Which is not like the others?
Four articles, two lists, and 51 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
Constructiveness and Teamwork
Your revert yesterday instantly branded as unconstructive a protest against a laughably prejudiced destruction of a serious WPbiog of Dennis Rawlins. Up to a few days ago it had accented his lifetime of primary research in refined academic areas. But after August 30 complaints on Graeme Bartlett WPtalk about CSICOP tool and WPadministrator Vsmith's slanders and threats against Rawlins, the biog was deleted on September 12 by Vsmith's catspaw Drmies and replaced by a stub blatantly designed by CSICOP detractors to pretend that Rawlins's career has accomplished almost nothing but headlines in second rate newspapers and referring to him as merely a "professional skeptic". (Such preciously unselfconscious smearing from professional skeptic CSICOP is as amusing as irony gets.) Do you find that constructive? Will you help create a fair biog, more competent than the original, but which recognizes not only Rawlins's few errors (which he repeatedly insured were fully represented in the biog) but provides at least a summary of his many credits and discoveries, also his repeated vindications by unexpected new evidence? Will you do what you can to discourage threatening and conniving administrators and vandals?
How did the Rawlins biog get onto your watch list? The flap over it is a cesspool of revenge, threats, extortion, slander, and primarily suppression which deserves chronicling as much as the original "sTARBABY". (And the offending organization is so well known that its behavior will interest a lot more people.) Anyone asked to become a partner in constitutionally unhumble Vsmith's unprovoked and dementedly bungled (see Bartlett talk on Velikovsky) war against Rawlins should check his conscience and his caution.2thedef (talk) 04:32, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- I know very little about Dennis Rawlins, CSICOP or any of these other people. What I do know is that wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a tertiary source, built on reliable independent secondary sources. If I understand your complaint correctly, finding such sources relating to Dennis Rawlins needs to be your first step. Without secondary sources you're unlikely to get far. Stuartyeates (talk) 04:59, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
You do not even acknowledge the obvious question of how and by whom you got assigned to a subject you admittedly know so little about. There are secondary sources galore in the previous biog, University of Cambridge, New York Times, British Museum, Isis, and so on. But Vsmith's Drmies tossed them all out, instead slumming at the low end of newspaper stories to create a half-smear rather than a biog. The material you autoeliminated was rambunctious but valid in all respects while the biog you protect is deliberately misleading. Why are you fronting for smearers and suppressors? Your calling the September 16 intro to the biog unconstructive is typical of the Rawlins WP biog history. Faced with undeniably relevant and accurate facts — find some excuse for deletion to protect the ever more deeply invested censoring and threatening culprits and their heroes and saints, while denigrating or disappearing material in favor of their devils. Kill as many awful facts as possible using labels like "blog", not Reliable, "stuff", unencyclopedic, "junk", not constructive, "trivial". If you are serious about finding secondary sources then just undo Drmies's edit and you will have dozens of such sources. With input from every side the biog can then be mutually improved in stages to the satisfaction of all but fanatics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2thedef (talk • contribs) 22:06, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Woo Wing Thye
Hello. Am trying to improve the Woo Wing Thye page. Curious why academic journals should be considered unreliable or "self-published." Please advise.Malwriter (talk) 09:24, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
- Material written by the subject is not independent, even after peer review. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:30, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
- Right. If your subject has exciting things to report, secondary sources should do it. Otherwise every academic biography would turn into a resume. Or, to put it another way, a journal article by person X on topic Y is a reliable source, possibly, for article Y. It is not an acceptable source for article X. Drmies (talk) 15:28, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
Assessment
Hi Stuart, if you do assessments of new MP pages, can you please include the politics parameters, too? And the Maori parameter, where appropriate. Here's some code for copy-pasting: Schwede66 21:01, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
{{WikiProject New Zealand
|class=Stub
|importance=low
|politics=yes
|politics-importance=low
|maori=yes
|maori-importance= low
}}
I normally use a tool that doesn't allow me to do that, so I should probably stop doing these MPs. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:03, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2014)
Arches were used in Ancient Roman architecture to build aqueducts, such as the Aqueduct of Segovia
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The Signpost: 24 September 2014
- Featured content: Oil paintings galore
Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
- In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii
The Hindustan Times speculates (September 18) that politicians and their supporters are "sanitizing" their articles in advance of the 2014 Maharashtra State Assembly election. The Times notes the absence of significant controversies in the articles of particular politicians and the presence of heavily promotional language.
- Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary
0.75% of Wikipedia birthdates are inaccurate, reported Robert Viseur at WikiSym 2014. Those inaccuracies are "low, although higher than the 0.21% observed for the baseline reference sources". Given that biographies represent 15% of English Wikipedia, the third largest category after "arts" and "culture", their accuracy is important.
- Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland
This could be the beginning of a new era for this list. Until now, decisions to remove suspicious content have been largely educated guesswork. This week though, we have a new collaborator who can shine a light on the origins and patterns, sorting once and for all the webwheat from the cyberchaff.
- WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
A year and a week later, we're with some of the members of WikiProject Good Articles, who wanted to share the news of their upcoming contest within the project, the GA Cup. The aim of this friendly competition, which is held in the same light friendly manner of the WikiCup and the Core Contest, is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed articles at Good article nominations which has been a constant problem for quite a few years for those running the GA process.
- Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
Banning Policy finishes the workshop phase on 23 September. Parties have proposed findings of fact on the topics of the 3RR, the role of Jimbo Wales, and proxying for banned users. A request for arbitration was posted on 20 September about Landmark Worldwide.
This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2014)
 Aerial photograph of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, an international airport in Houston, United States
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Wikidata weekly summary #126
- Discussions
- A new blocking policy has been accepted.
- Proposal for an individual engagement grant to use Wikidata items for citations needs your input
- RfC: redirect vs. deletion
- Events/Blogs/Press
- past: Open Government WikiHack organized by Wikimedia DC in Washington, DC
- upcoming: Wikidata training organized by Wikimedia UK with Magnus in London
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- With the deployment next Tuesday you will be able to edit all sitelinks at once as well as all fields of the "in other languages" box. This is an intermediate step towards the new user interface and will evolve further over the next weeks. You can see what is coming on Tuesday now already on test.wikidata.org.
- WikiProject Names aims to improve name related data on Wikidata. Initial focus is on first names (given names). Half of items for first names still need cleaning up, but 15% of items for persons already have a given name defined.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Stack Exchange tag, vici.org ID, sourcing circumstances, has contributing factor, has immediate cause, birth name (Monolingual text), title, Nupill Literatura Digital - Document, Nupill Literatura Digital - Author, Commons Creator template, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID, male population, female population, number of households, contributing factor of, immediate cause of, used by, end cause, family name identical to this first name, country for sport, parents of hybrids, Glad identifier, kulturnoe-nasledie.ru identifier
- Showcase items: Hessian Broadcasting Corporation, Fishing Creek
- Development
- Jan Zerebecki has joined the Wikidata dev team.
- Worked on supporting statements on properties in WikibaseDataModelSerialization (bugzilla:66425)
- Fixed broken xml api output (bugzilla:70531), as well as some inconsistencies in the xml format and added tests that should help avoid future breakage in the xml format
- Finished performance improvements for badges
- Worked on entity usage tracking
- Pietro from the EAGLE project came to visit us, one of the first 3rd party users of Wikibase. See http://www.eagle-network.eu
- Added a hook point to allow 3rd party users (like the EAGLE project) of Wikibase to control what goes into the search index
- Started work on a widget that lets you edit badges right in the item instead of going to the special page
- Use checkboxes instead of a multiselect to edit badges on d:Special:SetSiteLink
- Work on hhvm-related issues in Wikibase and temporarily disabled the beta feature on Wikidata until fixes are deployed for the issues.
- Deployed new code on test.wikidata! (to be deployed on wikidata on Tuesday), see mw:Wikidata_deployment#wmf.2F1.25wmf1
- Work on fixing empty maps in the JSON serialization, differentiate them from empty lists (fixed prerequisite bugzilla:70606)
- Jeroen made a little video demonstrating how you can get a clone of Wikibase DataModel, set it up, and run it's tests: https://asciinema.org/a/12530
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
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- Help develop the next summary here!
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Future discussion of Dennis Rawlins's biog will soon shift to Talk:Dennis Rawlins. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2thedef (talk • contribs) 01:26, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 01 October 2014
- From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
Contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do.
- Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
This article was first published in the Signpost in 2009. Written by several long-standing editors, including the late Adrianne Wadewitz, the article was subjected to extensive commentary and ultimately influenced the English Wikipedia's plagiarism guideline. With recent debates about close paraphrasing vis-à-vis plagiarism, we feel that this dispatch retains its relevance and deserves a second airing.
- News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education
The argument on Wikipedia over the benefits of crowdsourcing versus the primacy of "expert" contributors stretches back to co-founder Larry Sanger's break with the project to start the alternative Citizendium.
- WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture
This week, the Signpost went down to the farm to have a look at the work of WikiProject Agriculture, which has been in existence since 2007 and has a scope covering crop production, livestock management, aquaculture, dairy farming and forest management.
- Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
Jews wished each other Shanah Tovah ("Good year") this week as Rosh Hashanah was our most popular article. It was also a week not dominated by heavy news and tragedies, so aside from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (#2, sixth week in the Top 10), our popular article list runs the gamut of current events including new television series Gotham (#3), the 2014 Asian Games (#4), and Reddit-fueled popularity for German director Uwe Boll (#7).
- Featured content: Brothers at War
As the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the American Civil War draws to a close, the race to improve content continues. The Battle of Franklin, fought on November 30, 1864, will, quite appropriately, be Picture of the Day for November 30, 2014, its 150th anniversary. If you want to help commemorate the American Civil War, why not help out at the Military History WikiProject's Operation Brothers at War. Or help out with the World War I centennial, just starting up, Operation Great War Centennial.
Wikidata weekly summary #127
- Discussions
- [[:d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/User conduct policies|Closed RfC: User conduct policies]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.3.0 released - Wikidata Toolkit
- ProteinBoxBot is making Wikidata the canonical resource for referencing and translating identifiers for genes and proteins from different species
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: depends on, motto, series ordinal, Federal Register Document Number, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID
- Development
- Investigated and fixed issues with time values
- Investigated issues with coordinate value precision
- Fixed a number of issues related to HHVM
- Further work on usage tracking
- Created smoke tests for items and properties
- Created a widget to edit badges directly on the item without going through the special page
- Prepared for a week of work with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers next week to get more planning done for structured data support for Commons
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
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Ferrymead 125 and NZ Rail 150
Hi, re your PROD of Ferrymead 125 and NZ Rail 150: I notice that you used the rationale "Not notable. No evidence of awards, charting or in depth coverage in independent reliable sources. No refs" - why are awards necessary, and what "charting" would there have been? This sounds like a rationale for a music album, not a railway event. It is also not the first time that you have done this: you used almost exactly the same rationale two months ago on this steam locomotive. Please ensure that the PROD rationale is appropriate. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:16, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2014)
 Seasoned and chargrilled lamb fillet steak
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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 use the
phab:andphabricator:interwikis to link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. - Some wikis have a template to track bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can look at the one on mediawiki.org to see how.
- You can look at Special:MediaStatistics to see what kind of files are on your wiki.
- A new tool can now create thumbnails of large TIFF images. This concerns files larger than 50 megapixels. These thumbnails are also sharpened. You can comment on Commons.
- The Media Viewer tool has a clearer link to the file page. It also has buttons to download, share and embed the file. You can enlarge images by clicking on them.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
- If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit.
- We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next.
- On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis.
- You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8.
- 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster.
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- You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work.
- More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image.
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Books and Bytes - Issue 8
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 8, August-September2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)
- TWL now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moves on from grant status
- Four new donations, including large DeGruyter parntership, pilot with Elsevier
- New TWL coordinators, Wikimania news, new library platform discussions, Wiki Loves Libraries update, and more
- Spotlight: "Traveling Through History" - an editor talks about his experiences with a TWL newspaper archive, Newspapers.com
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Wellington GAA
Hi Stuart - noticed your prod on the Wellington GAA article. There is also an Auckland GAA one. I think it might be better to merge both articles into a new one about Gaelic Football in New Zealand instead. Your thoughts? NealeFamily (talk) 00:09, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
- The problem with that approach is that neither of them have reliable sources, so merging doesn't help. Indeed, Australasia_GAA is also lacking independent sources. Sport really isn't my thing, but someone needs to find sources for these. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:58, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
- Agreed, but they probably will have some sources as it is an international sport, albeit that it would be relatively minor in NZ and probably Australia. It put a note to the author and see what happens. NealeFamily (talk) 03:33, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 08 October 2014
- In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian bushfires
Also, Wikimedia Norge and Nobel Peace Center edit-a-thon
- Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City
2 Featured articles, 4 Featured lists, 62 Featured pictures, and 2 Featured portals were promoted.
- Traffic report: Panic and denial
The first case of the Ebola virus on US shores sent people into a tizzy, rushing to their keyboards to try and learn what they could.
- Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread
No seriously, it is.
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Wikidata weekly summary #128
- Discussions
- Open RfA: Nikosguard
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- All human genes are now wikidata items, for example: Here is one (of approximately 40,000) called "spinocerebellar ataxia 37" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18081265. Blog post about this to appear here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/
- Want to be kept up-to-date on structured data on Commons? There is now a new newsletter you can subscribe to.
- Interested in some statistics about the data on Wikidata? Check Wikidata Stats every now and then. (Thanks Magnus for moving it to the new dump format.)
- Did you know?
- Development
- Spent the week with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers to get more clarity about structured data on Commons. We'll be asking for feedback on a lot of stuff over the next weeks. The main info hub is taking shape at Commons:Structured data.
- More fixes for the switch to HHVM
- Looked into possible performance improvements. Some of them will be taken into the next sprint.
- Battled a handful of nasty issues on the live-site
- Wikibase DataModel 1.1 was released
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Merge and redirect
Just so you know, "merge and redirect" is the same as "merge" since "redirect" is implied once the merge is complete (so as to keep the links of attribution). czar ♔ 16:10, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, I'm aware that redirect is the default. I find "merge and redirect" a better explanation for newbies, however. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:34, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2014)
 Central America is the geographic region that connects North America and South America.
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Software changes this week
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- You can join a meeting with Language developers on October 15, 2014 at 17:00 (UTC).
- There is a proposal to organize file pages better. It would use the same tools as Wikidata. You can join a meeting about it on October 16, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC).
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The Signpost: 15 October 2014
- Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?
Why does Wikipedia still use the gendered pronouns "she" and "her" for ships?
- In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes
Ben Koo of the sports blog Awful Announcing investigated how player Joe Streater's name became involved in recent years with a historic sports scandal.
- Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
The Banning Policy case was closed on 12 October. Arbcom affirmed that users have "considerable leeway" in terms of how their talk pages are managed.
- Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace
Nine articles and twenty-six pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia.
- Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext
This week we sat down with The Earwig to learn about his wikitext parser.
- Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
We are pleased to report that the WP:5000 has now been updated to include mobile views, including a column reflecting the percentage of views coming from mobile devices.
- WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest
Today, it's the turn of WikiProject Ohio to give us an interview probing deep into of how they manage to run a project covering one fiftieth of the United States, and the workings of how they manufacture their successes and other articles.
Nomination of Sophophobia for deletion
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Nomination of Fear of daylight for deletion
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Nomination of Bibliophobia for deletion
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Queensland Heritage Register - live and dangerous!
I have started rolling out the articles (and learning new things as I go and tweaking the generator accordingly for future articles). They automatically go into the hidden Category:Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register (please review) which is a sub-category of the hidden Category:Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register. After someone other than me has reviewed/refined them, I am asking if they can move the article into the parent category. That way, the "please review" category should contain only the newer unreviewed items. So when you have a spare moment, please feel free to review/refine the new articles. I am not sure how quickly I will roll them out (a bit under the hammer with real life and WMAU events at the moment). So thanks in advance for any help you can give. With continual editor attrition, I think we have to move more to using to automation to create and maintain articles, but it is a "dark art". Kerry (talk) 22:36, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
FYI
You might be interested in in this. Cheers, Jim Carter (from public cyber) 04:59, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2014)
 Inside an ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
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- You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "⧼mw math mathml⧽".
- You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists.
File information cleanup
- You can join a wiki project to help tools read file information. It will help people reuse files.
- See how to fix metadata. You can fix it by adding markers to templates and adding templates to files.
- You can see a list of files missing machine-readable information on your wiki.
- The files missing readable data are also in these categories: no license, no description, no author or no source.
Problems
- Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
- 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature.
- If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category.
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Wikidata weekly summary #129
- Discussions
- Do you want to see constraint violation reports and referencing improved? Please provide input.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (log)
- hackathon around scholarly articles on Wikidata (etherpad with notes)
- Blog post about the meeting to discuss structured data on Commons in Berlin
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Clusters of humans and species on Wikidata
- New parameter in the template Property documentation: subject item; see [this example edit] for how to use it
- New tool: Linked Items. Returns sorted, de-duped list of Q values from a Wikipedia page, or chunk of wiki-text. Thank you, Magnus!
- Wikidata annotation tool is looking for feedback
- Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase by Denny and Markus has been published. It gives a very nice non-technical overview of Wikidata.
- Magnus re-wrote Wiki ShootMe to now use Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Always wanted to know which topics have amazing articles on Wikimedia projects across many languages? Here you go!
- Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
- Development
- Improvements to sitelink editing usability
- Released Wikibase DataModel 2.0
- Profiling and performance improvements in Wikibase and Wikibase DataModel
- Implementing LabelLookup, which is needed to improve performance of EntityId formatting. This will lead to improved item page loading times.
- Added new featured list and recommended article badges.
- Remove most usage of class aliases to be compatible with HHVM (dependencies of bugzilla:71295)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
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The Signpost: 22 October 2014
- Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace
Four articles, four lists, and fifty-three pictures were promoted to featured status.
- Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest
Our op-ed writer this week opines that the organization of Hong Kong's "Umbrella Revolution" resembles how Wikipedia is organized.
- In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; New UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator
Among many newsworthy stories this week, the Signpost notes the passing of Italian Wikipedia administrator and former Wikimedia Italia treasurer [Cotton
- Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV
Ebola, movies and television articles appear in this week's top ten.
- WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles—a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help
PaintedCarpet explains that "WikiProject Orphanage aims to connect all Wikipedia pages, so that pages can be found and read more easily."
Wikidata weekly summary #114
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
- Did you know?
- Development
- Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
- Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
- When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
- Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
- Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
- Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
- Work on entity usage tracking
- Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
- Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
- Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
- Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2014)
 Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, the world's first national park
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- There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly.
- There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday.
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
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Halloween cheer!
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Class project welcome template
Hi, Stuart. Could you tell me where this template is located? I had a look around Category:Welcome templates but couldn't find a likely candidate. Cheers. -- Rrburke (talk) 17:20, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
- You mean the one I've been using on new student user pages? I use Wikipedia:Twinkle which makes it a pointy-pointy clicky-clicky operation, now typing involved. I have no idea what the underlying template is called, sorry. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:25, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @Rrburke: It's
{{subst:Welcome student}}. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:17, 30 October 2014 (UTC)- Thanks! -- Rrburke (talk) 21:24, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @Rrburke: It's
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The Signpost: 29 October 2014
- Featured content: Go West, young man
By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article
- In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral
Noam Cohen reports in The New York Times (October 26) that Wikipedia's "Ebola Virus Disease article has had 17 million page views in the last month," an indication of the public's reliance on the online encyclopedia.
- Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
Rather than the usual WikiProject Report, this week our guest author Jheald is telling us about a campaign to identify thousands of old maps which have been digitised, to make them available for georeferencing and upload
- Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles
Ebola virus disease leads the Report for the fourth straight week. The rest of the list is primarily a mix of pop culture topics, including movie Avengers: Age of Ultron (#4) whose trailer was leaked early, and the death of Oscar de la Renta (#7). A BuzzFeed article on creepy Wikipedia articles, no doubt well-timed with Halloween (#9) around the corner, was responsible for three articles in the Top 25, including June and Jennifer Gibbons (#10), Taman Shud Case (#17), Joyce Vincent (#25). And the internet-run-amok controversy of Gamergate cracked the Top 25 for the first time at #19.
- Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
In new research conducted in light of proposed changes to data protection legislation in the European Union (EU), authors Bart Custers, Simone van der Hof, and Bart Schermer conducted a comparative analysis of social media and user-generated content websites’ privacy policies along with a user survey (N=8,621 in 26 countries) and interviews in 13 different EU countries on awareness, values, and attitudes toward privacy online.
Wikidata weekly summary #131
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday! Have a look at the notes from the community and development team and add your note. Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)!
- Wikidata II
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata is nominated for 2 Open Data Awards! \o/ Magnus and Lydia will attend the award ceremony next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
- Wikidata as the central hub for open life science data
- What is Wikipedia about? Great data viz based on Wikidata
- Super Lachaise, a mobile app based on Wikidata for a cemetery in Paris
- Random items without statements
- Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata
- Updated statistics on the topics with most highly-rated articles on Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID, Municipality code of Brazil, Pleiades identifier, MalaCards ID, natural product of taxon, official blog, University of Barcelona authority ID, Beilstein Registry Number, Gmelin Number
- Development
- Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP
- HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata
- Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core
- Work on language fall backs for new serialization code
- Work on fixing XML dumps
- Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions
- Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further
- Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries
- Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties
- Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink editing
- Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
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This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2014)
 A pizza is an oven-baked flat bread typically topped with tomato sauce, cheese and various toppings
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Recent software changes
- The "Special:Cite" page is now called "Special:CiteThisPage". That way, you know it's to cite the page, not to add a reference.
- You can no longer use the
insource:keyword for text searches. It caused issues with the new search tool. It will come back later.
Problems
- There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday.
- Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed.
- HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
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- The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes.
- After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData.
Future changes
- The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English.
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This stub's deletion might be controversial. Bearian (talk) 21:22, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:
- DeGruyter: 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
- Fold3: 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
- Scotland's People: 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
- British Newspaper Archive: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers
- Highbeam: 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives
- Questia: 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
- JSTOR: 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:
- DeGruyter: 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
- Fold3: 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
- Scotland's People: 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
- British Newspaper Archive: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers
- Highbeam: 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives
- Questia: 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
- JSTOR: 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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The Signpost: 05 November 2014
- In the media: Predicting the flu, MH17 conspiracy theories
"Rachel Feltman, in The Washington Post (November 4), examined research in which a team, mostly from Los Alamos National Laboratory, headed by Kyle Hickman developed a model that enabled them "to successfully predict the 2013-2014 flu season in real time" by employing "an algorithm to link flu-related Wikipedia searches with CDC data from the same time." Apparently when individuals search for information about the flu and its symptoms in Wikipedia when they feel ill, this generates data useful in forecasting the the flu season."
- Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween
"It is, perhaps, ironic that humanity chose the week of Halloween to finally put its fears to bed. Let's face it: 2014 has been a year of tragedies, conflicts, plagues and pain, and eventually something had to break... Whether we at last came to terms with our limited ability to affect events, shoved those events under the carpet, or just decided to let go and move on, we turned our eye to more positive things, such as sports heroes, hotly anticipated movies, and lifelong learning; two Google doodles appeared in the top 25 for the first time since the beginning of August."
Threat
I find it strange that you should threaten me with a formal notice of banning when you are the one reverting. I on the other hand have followed all Wiki guidelines by providing refs and going to the talk page and explaining at length and in detail, in a constructive manner, the significance of my addition. Your brief, flippant and misspelt response is unacceptable and juvenile.This is not the first time you have been warned about edit warring. You have obviously not read what I wrote .To clarify: the original edit simply contained bald facts that were referenced. When challenged to explain these, I did. Then you said I was "pushing a line".I was just explaining the significance of the edit to anyone unfamilar with NZ history. The explanation or interpretation is not part of the edit!Very simple really. Claudia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.62.226.243 (talk) 01:29, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
- Then you flow up with a demand for me to be civil!!This is rather arrogant. Do you have a problem with women who know what they are talking about? You are off topic -the edit in question has been approved by another, independent editor. I think you are well meaning Stuart, but somewhat out of your depth in editing NZ history. Your father was more knowledgeable than you. You will note my multiple, positive,accurate and very detailed additions to NZ history etc on wiki over many years. My contributions to wiki take long hours of research per edit.There is nobody else doing this. Your recent edits appear to be sudden and impulsive over reactions. My contributions to Nz history etc have resulted in far more balanced, factual accounts of our history -far more than any other editor. I have managed to get rid of most the hopelessly biased, seriously distorted and maybe politically motivated versions that used to inhabit wiki. Do you need to examine your own motives for your behaviour? It is important for a person in your position and age to be self aware(why do I behave like this? Why do I hold these views?) and avoid lashing out. Maybe you just need a break. Claudia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.62.226.243 (talk) 21:51, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
- I think we have to accept that "Claudia" is a troll, with an online personality spiced up by constant reminders that "I am a lady! That's what I am, a lady!" This editor plays a game of brinksmanship, provoking and taunting other editors while carrying out a deliberate campaign of misinformation and distortion in articles. Until he/she goes so far that banning is definitely warranted, I see no option but for editors to be vigilant and prompt in tagging or removing his/her most egregious edits and not wasting time on pointless debates. BlackCab (TALK) 23:15, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #132
- Discussions
- Zero error rate - help improve the quality of Wikidata's data
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata won the Open Data Award by the Open Data Institute in the category Publisher \o/ (blog post by ODI, blog post by WMDE)
- Tutorial: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries
- Did you know?
- Less than 23% of Wikidata items have no statement. Down from ~53% a year ago.
- Newest properties: consecrator, Slovene Cultural Heritage designation, penalty, charge, judge, defender, prosecutor, defendant, number of casualties, deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID
- Development
- Continued work on LabelLookup and related code to further improve performance
- Made it possible to show references in statements on property pages. (Remaining bugs before roll-out are issues with adding/editing/removing statements on property pages.)
- Further improvements to sitelink editing (The edit toolbar now floats so it doesn't scroll out of the page on a long list of sitelinks. An empty row for adding a new sitelink is shown by default when editing to make this faster and take less scrolling.)
- Further adapting of simple query code so we can get it to review at the Foundation again.
- Lots of bug fixes all over the place
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
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 software changes
- You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata.
- The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net.
- Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
- You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
- You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.
Problems
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
- You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions.
- The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More".
- The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs.
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