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Template:Defunct airports in the United Kingdom
Not sure that this has any value as a navigation template but rather than go straight for a deletion request I have asked at WP:AIRPORTS for any opinions refer Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Airports#Template:Defunct airports in the United Kingdom, any comments welcome. MilborneOne (talk) 17:19, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 August 2013
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- Technology report: Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia
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DYK for Ben Gunn (campaigner)
| On 2 September 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ben Gunn (campaigner), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Ben Gunn, imprisoned 32 years for killing a friend when he was 14, earned a Master of Arts degree in peace and reconciliation? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ben Gunn (campaigner). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
My pleasure to support peace and reconciliation ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:06, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
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Infobox poem
I see that you're involved with working on the poem infobox, I posted a technical enquiry on the talk page about possible new parameters to be added. Could you take a look and tell me if this is possible? I know precious little about writing an infobox. Template talk:Infobox poem#Additional parameters and design issue--ColonelHenry (talk) 12:07, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #74

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The Signpost: 04 September 2013
- In the media: Manning "put back in the closet"; State involvement in Azerbaijani Wikipedia
After media praise for Wikipedia's decision to move the Bradley Manning article to Chelsea Manning, the reversion of that page move on August 31, after a discussion in which several hundred Wikipedians participated, has so far triggered less favourable feedback, as well as a blog post from Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner expressing her disappointment with the decision.
- News and notes: Privacy policy debate gears up
On September 3, the Wikimedia Foundation launched the second stage of the process to improve the privacy policy implemented on most Wikimedia sites, including Wikipedia and its sister projects, by publishing a policy draft.
- Traffic report: No accounting for the wisdom of crowds
A news-heavy week offers some insight, perhaps, into humanity's priorities.
- Discussion report: Arbcom election procedures, Wiki Loves Monuments, Privacy policy, FDC, and more
As mentioned in "In the news" on Wikipedia's main page, the Library of Birmingham in the United Kingdom has opened. This interior photo was taken a week before opening. The article reports that the library "has been described as the largest public library in the United Kingdom, the largest public cultural space in Europe, and the largest regional library in Europe."
- Featured content: Bridging the way to a Peasants' Revolt
Four articles, four lists, and eight pictures were promoted to 'featured' status this week on the English Wikipedia
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- Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case opens; Tea Party case closes ; Infoboxes nears completion
The dispute over the title for the Manning article escalated quickly to arbitration levels, as the Bradley/Chelsea Manning naming dispute case was accepted for arbitration.
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FP Nomonation
Hi Pigsonthewing,
I have nominated your File:Library of Birmingham - interior 2013-08-28 - 101.JPG into the featured pictures nominees. Hope it may succeed. By the way, it's a splendid pic. Benison talk with me 10:34, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
DYK for Francis John Williamson
| On 7 September 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Francis John Williamson, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Francis John Williamson sculpted a statue of theologian and natural philosopher Joseph Priestley for Birmingham, and the Jubilee bust of Queen Victoria? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Francis John Williamson. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: August 2013
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Selly Manor & The Manor of Selly
Hello Andy
Just wanted to say how pleased I am to see you’ve created an article for Selly Manor. I have been meaning to do something along these lines for a while, but I’m sorry to say I’ve never quite got ’round to it. In fact I haven’t been contributing much to Wikipedia for sometime now, so really must try and get back into things. Anyway, I hope you won’t mind me pointing out one thing, and that is where you say it was “Originally the manor house of the village of Bournbrook” because this isn’t correct; even though I do realise Selly Manor’s own website says it was “Bournbrook’s manor house”. It is true that the building formerly stood in Bournbrook Road, Bournbrook, but Bournbrook is essentially a nineteenth-century development, and, as far as I am aware, was never a village.
My understanding is that Selly Manor is actually believed to have been the manor house of the Manor of Selly, which was a sub-Manor of the much larger Manor of Northfield and Weoley. The Manor of Selly occupied the most northerly part of the old Parish of Northfield, and whilst it would have comprised what is now the district of Bournbrook it would also have included what has become the neighbouring suburb of Selly Park (the area that became Bournbrook and Selly Park originally being called Selly Hill), together with part of modern-day Bournville (including where the Green is now and everything as far south as The Bourn), as well as much of today’s Selly Oak (though not actually that part of Selly Oak where St Mary’s Church, Selly Oak Park and Lodge Hill Cemetery all are, as this area was originally within the medieval Weoley Park and therefore not in the Manor of Selly).
Anyroad, as I say, I hope you don’t mind me mentioning all of this, and once I can get my act together I’ll see about putting up some fully referenced additions. In the meantime, thank you again for creating the page and helping to expand the coverage of the old Worcestershire part of Brum on Wikipedia.
Best regards (Lepidus Magnus (talk) 19:56, 10 September 2013 (UTC))
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes closed
An arbitration case regarding behaviour around the use of Infoboxes in several articles has now closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
- Pigsonthewing (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from adding, or discussing the addition or removal of, infoboxes.
- Nikkimaria (talk · contribs) is admonished to behave with the level of professionalism expected of an administrator.
- Gerda Arendt (talk · contribs) is indefinitely restricted from: adding or deleting infoboxes; restoring an infobox that has been deleted; or making more than two comments in discussing the inclusion or exclusion of an infobox on a given article. They may participate in wider policy discussions regarding infoboxes with no restriction, and include infoboxes in new articles which they create.
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For the Arbitration Committee, — ΛΧΣ21 00:26, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Victoria
A German user thought that Williamson's statue of Victoria in Christ Church (Commons) was "the bust", - I told him it's not, but what is it? Should it be mentioned? Several images, not one of them good. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:19, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 11 September 2013
- In the media: Lawyer goes to court to discover Wikipedian's identity; Storming Wikipedia; Wikimedia UK Secretary in conflict-of-interest controversy; Does Wikipedia need a "right to reply" box?
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- Traffic report: Syria, celebrities, and association football: oh my!
While the Syrian Civil War crept its slow way into the minds of the public, with a new fourth related entry in the top 25, the top 10 remained dominated by celebrity, mainly sports and music. Two megabucks transfers stimulated public interest in football/soccer ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, while Lil Wayne's public apology ahead of his latest album release sent him to the top.
- Arbitration report: Workshop phase opens in Manning naming dispute ; Infoboxes case closes
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Wikidata weekly summary #75

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- State of the Map
- Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
- Slides for a Wikidata intro in French and English
- Speaker needed for a Wikidata talk in Slovakia
- Blog post by Denny: A categorical imperative?
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The URL datatype is now available. Go and add all the sources ;-)
- Sourcerer gadget by Magnus to help you add URLs from Wikipedia articles for claims
- Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on 23rd of September
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- Worked on simple query special page
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- Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
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DYK for Selly Manor
| On 13 September 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Selly Manor, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Selly Manor was moved by a chocolate maker, eight centuries after construction? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Selly Manor. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
About the newer place: 100.000 visitors in 8 days, - would you know where to find a source for that recent claim? The quote is too long and too English for "Schon gewusst?" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:06, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
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{{citation needed}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:41, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Francis John Williamson
Mixed questions (to be continued):
- is this also a work by Williamson?
- What to do with coords ref for his residence here?
- How about giving positions of the people portrayed. Yes, there are links, and many readers may know them just by name, but the others? (I started in German, because there are no links, please check.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:39, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
@Gerda Arendt::
- Cast by William Bloye from FJW's original
- Not sure what you're asking
- Good idea; but please remember, Ich spreche nicht Deutsch!
-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:41, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
- I wondered because it doesn't say so in the description on the Commons, nor is the pic in his category.
- There is a ref using a template in English, that doesn't work in German.
- I mean the English article, could say "Shakespeare scholar" for Timmins etc, so that people don't have to click. (No idea how many know to use pop-up. I learned the hard way not to trust that people can even read a diff right.) - I took care of the German.
- Thanks! no need to ping, I am watching ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:53, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
- It does when I view it (in English).
- Not sure what to suggest, sorry.
- Ah, I see. I'll add it to my to-do list.
-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:27, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Found pic info now, thanks. Working on the promised article, comments welcome, happy to improve content, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:40, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
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New CS1 cite admin
The final promotion of Trappist to admin was logged today (see: dif405), as 86/35 (71%), in a borderline, close call by 'crats ignoring the warnings of 35 users who were troubled by harsh dialogues in his talk-page. This also sets a precedent: becoming a Lua admin while never editing a live Lua module, so we need to watch the Lua updates for "Script error" and beware trouble. I am not sure if a 75% consensus to suppress red-error messages would be enough, so we might need to contact another Lua admin for help. I have requested an RfA promotion to be able to help update the protected Lua modules. Please do not be discouraged, and continue to work in areas where there is less opposition. Thanks for trying to suppress those trashy error messages, and you are right how error messages are not the way of the future in live typesetting: nowhere in HTML do we see an invalid span-tag say, "ERROR: <span id=77> requires date parameter" as if "Error, error: does not compute!" from the 1960s. Focus on the humor, and remember these bizarre times in Wikipedia. -Wikid77 (talk) 19:39, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
Neutral colour for heading
What do you think of a neutral colour for the title of {{infobox musical composition}}, as in {{infobox person}}, to have a pic stand out more, for example here or here? I didn't manage. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:37, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
- I'm generally happy to stick to the default colours, but I've fixed your code; just change the hex colour value if you want something else. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:48, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you, - I like it neutral, but great to have the option to match a colour with the pic if it's so important. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:03, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
- You mean to change per article? That would require different code. I don't recommend it, as it is likely that people would use inaccessible colour-contrast combinations. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:11, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
- I see more ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:17, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
- ... but I don't see where to find the colour code for no colour, as used in Bach composition and opera --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:10, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
- I looked at it again: the light blue we have now will be fine for most cases, such as this. I think two things are desirable:
- have the subtitle the same colour
- be able to toggle it off for the few cases where no colour seems better, but then also for other title field such as "premiere" (similar to the option for "no italic title")
- --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:22, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
- You mean to change per article? That would require different code. I don't recommend it, as it is likely that people would use inaccessible colour-contrast combinations. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:11, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you, - I like it neutral, but great to have the option to match a colour with the pic if it's so important. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:03, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Show genre sooner
New question: If we have a symphony, we want |genre=, but not don't need to show it, because it's in the article name, for an oratorio (song, cantata ...), we probably want |genre=, but better show the term in the position of a subtitle. Ideas? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:18, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
- I'm contemplating this. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:25, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
A similar question: opera, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:35, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 18 September 2013
- News and notes: Third time's the charm: the FDC's newest round of funding requests
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), the volunteer-led body that evaluates chapter and (for the first time) thematic organizational annual plan grant requests to the Wikimedia Foundation, is preparing for its third round of public proceedings to deliberate on the distribution of several million US dollars of Wikimedia movement funds.
- WikiProject report: 18,464 Good Articles on the wall
This week, the Signpost headed to WikiProject Good Articles. As of publishing time, out of the 4,331,477 articles on Wikipedia, only 18,464 are rated as "good" (about 1 in 235).
- Featured content: Hurricane Diane and Van Gogh
Thirteen articles, six lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status last week on the English Wikipedia.
- Technology report: What can Wikidata do for Wikipedia?
In this week's "Technology report", we look at how the growth of Wikidata can benefit Wikipedia. Gerard Meijssen is a highly active contributor and frequent blogger about Wikidata. We asked him to share his thoughts on how the new project benefits Wikipedia.
- Traffic report: Twerking, tragedy and TV
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Wikidata weekly summary #76

- Events/Press/Blogs
- upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
- Magnus blogged about the Wikidata Query tool
- Gerard did an interview with Emw about the heady stuff of Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 30 percent of all items are categorized in 6 large groups (main type (GND) (P107)). Most are items about geographic features (1.7 million items), some of these already have coordinates (0.5 million). Items about persons are fairly frequent too (1.3 million), many already with gender (0.9 million), a few with DOB (0.05 million) or DOD (0.04 million). Other groups include: creative works (305,000), terms, organizations, and events.
- The first 2 Wikidata oversighters are elected, Ajraddatz and Rschen7754. Please contact the email at the above page, and do not post requests onwiki. Two more candidates are running: Stryn and Sven Manguard.
- Neat new gadget to semi-automatically import labels, aliases and descriptions based on Wikipedia article introductions
- New search backend on testwikidata needs testing
- Commons is still scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on Monday and can also be tested on test.wikidata.org
- Did you know?
- Development
- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a software developer with a focus on frontend development with Java Script to work on Wikidata among other things. Apply!
- Paper Cut: Display the ID of an item or property page next to the label (bugzilla:53462)
- Paper Cut: Fix value field not loading for some properties (bugzilla:53157)
- Paper Cut: Work on supporting non-earth globes in the UI (bugzilla:54097)
- Worked on quantity data type implementation in backend and frontend
- Work on a build and release tool for the Wikidata software
- More work on sorting of references and qualifiers
- Work on database schema modification functionality to be used by the query store
- Prepare deployment for Wikimedia Commons (including improving script for populating sites table, adding support for Wikimedia Commons)
- Work on making entity data available in the Mobile Wikibase skin
- new Cirrus Search (Elastic Search) backend enabled on test.wikidata.org
- Finished up cucumber tests for sitelinks
- Hotfixes for coordinates autosummaries
- Worked on simplifying process of defining wb.fetchedEntities
- Finished working on wbeditentity
- Worked on MySQL and SQLite table definition readers
- Open Tasks for You
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Please note that Andy may be offline for a bit. There were some ISP issues, and he won't be doing Wikipedia via his mobile device. Anyone wanting to "yell at Andy", may have to wait a day or three. (and yes that was a play on Andy's sig.) — ChedZILLA 22:36, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks, Chedzilla. To clarify, a fire at my domestic ISP means I have no connection at home for the last two, and next few, days. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:30, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
- Back now. Thanks again. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:06, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
SG for Francis John Williamson
| On 23 September 2013, Schon gewusst? was updated with a fact from the translation of the article Francis John Williamson, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was: Der Bildhauer Francis John Williamson schuf zum 50. Thronjubiläum von Queen Victoria eine vielfach kopierte Büste der Königin. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (quick check). |
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September 2013
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CS1 cite messages not suppressed at 75% consensus
As expected, the WT:CS1#RfC consensus of nearly 3 weeks, already at 75% to suppress the extra cite messages, did not get implemented during the update of Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration. All of the cite messages were left at full display ("hidden=false") now exceeding 27 days. Do you have a timeframe for how much longer should the WT:CS1#RfC be kept open before the cite messages would be expected to be re-hidden? -Wikid77 (talk) 19:39, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
- Also, I am working on an auto-correction version of {cite_web} to merely list the unrecognized parameters (as plain text) at the end of a cite, and anyone who knows cite formats would realize the extra text should be fixed in the cite parameters, without any need for a large, glaring red message (but still tracked in a warning category). -Wikid77 00:05, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
How to get article re-assessed by WikiProkect UK Roads?
Hi, my apologies for contacting you directly. Can you tell me how I can get an article re-assessed by the WikiProject UK Roads please? I have been working on Wade's Causeway the last couple of weeks and the project still classifies it as a stub, which I do not think is appropriate any more. Can you tell me how I can get it re-assessed please? I didn't see anywhere to register it for re-assessment on the project page. Many thanks -PocklingtonDan (talk) 20:37, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
- Nice work; I've reassessed it. For future reference, you can always ask on the relevant project's talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:11, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Repost of Template:Convert to use Infobox settlement
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The Signpost: 25 September 2013
- Op-ed: Q&A on Public Relations and Wikipedia
Over the last year, there's been extensive debate about whether public relations professionals and other corporate representatives should participate on Wikipedia and, if so, to what extent and what kinds of rules should be followed.
- Traffic report: Look on Walter's works
The saga of Walter White, chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin, as told in the critically adored television series Breaking Bad, has been a water-cooler necessity for years, and now, as it nears its end, audiences are feverishly following every plot thread to guess what the finale will reveal.
- In the media: Fox News: Wikipedia abandons efforts to purge porn from online encyclopedia
Fox News writer Perry Chiaramonte published an article detailing Wikipedia's alleged abandonment of its fight to remove pornography.
- News and notes: Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor
On 30 September, Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the Wikimedia community's global photo competition, will reach to the end of its submission period. The proceedings have been underway since the first of this month; national juries will start reviewing submissions for the first round of selections after it closes ... Community aggravation with one of the Wikimedia Foundation's signature initiatives, the VisualEditor, came to the fore again this week with the announcement and implementation of code blocking the tool.
- WikiProject report: Babel Series: GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!
This week, we continued our exploration of other language editions of Wikipedia by visiting the Spanish Wikipedia's Wikiproyecto Fútbol (WikiProject Football).
- Featured content: Wikipedia takes the stage
Twelve articles, six lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
- Recent research: Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia?
A conference paper makes a rather serious claim: "We find a surprisingly large number of editors who change their behavior and begin focusing more on a particular controversial topic once they are promoted to administrator status."
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Wikidata weekly summary #77

- Events/Press/Blogs
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Denny's last day on the development team was today. He has a few closing remarks in this blog post.
- Wikimedia Commons now gets language links via Wikidata
- Stryn's request for oversight flag
- Individual Engagement Grants Proposal: Understanding Wikidata
- Terminator now also has most linked-to items with no label in language X
- Draft for Wikidata support of Wikiquote
- Open position for a JavaScript developer to work on Wikidata - please spread the word
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: KSH code, FishBase species identifier, work location, Commons gallery, heritagefoundation.ca ID, PMCID, city served, type of electrification, color space, activating neurotransmitter, anatomical location, postsynaptic connection, presynaptic connection, possible treatments, possible examinations, magnetic ordering, main topic of creative work, Spanish subject headings for public libraries, SOC Occupation Code, NOC Occupation Code, GRAU index
- Development
- Said Good Bye to Denny - *sob*
- Improved layout for commons sitelink table
- More work on sorting
- Worked on statements UI tests
- Fixed failing QUnit tests
- Deployed new code and updated sites for Commons deployment
- Fixed a number of small bugs
- Code review for Google Summer of Code student projects
- Work to automate creating deployment branches and builds of Wikibase with its dependencies
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of these.
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WP:HWY and potential rules on article structure/content.
Hi Andy,
I noticed you have had thoughts on similar circumstances in the past. I would appreciate your comments on this thread:
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Highways#Sections
Its a bit of a read :)
My main fears are that these rule ideas are not supported by the MOS, FA criteria, and can overrule the opinion of stewarding editors (or groups) who likely have good reason to deviate from the one size fits all approach championed by some in the thread. -- Nbound (talk) 14:10, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
- @Nbound: Thanks, but I'm avoiding that nest of mendacious control freaks as much as possible. Do let me know, though, if they try, again, to prohibit the use of coordinates. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:32, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
A list of infoboxes
Hi Andy, since you're a member of the Infobox WikiProject I figured you might be interested in this recently recreated list of infoboxes.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 15:04, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
- @Underlying lk: Thanks for letting me know; an impressive piece of work. Is it manually compiled or did you use a script? How are you going to keep it up-to-date? It certainly shows that there is more work to so consolidating redundant infoboxes. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:05, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
- The list was compiled manually with the help of Special:PrefixIndex, which means that infoboxes without the right prefix (like Template:Taxobox) were added manually or are still missing; new infoboxes can be discovered with the Catscan tool if they're transcluding Template:Infobox, while deleted or merged ones can be removed by checking the TfD logs if they were nominated there, but keeping the list thoroughly updated without some kind of automation will be problematic. There are hundreds of infoboxes that could be merged uncontroversially, all the templates in the fictional character section could be replaced with one infobox for example. If you're thinking about consolidation, the category with the most potential is sports, there are 54 infoboxes just for baseball so the scope for mergers is vast.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 19:11, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
- @Underlying lk: You might find Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes/Statistics useful for tracking down infoboxes outside the "Template:Infobox foo" namespace. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:35, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
- The list was compiled manually with the help of Special:PrefixIndex, which means that infoboxes without the right prefix (like Template:Taxobox) were added manually or are still missing; new infoboxes can be discovered with the Catscan tool if they're transcluding Template:Infobox, while deleted or merged ones can be removed by checking the TfD logs if they were nominated there, but keeping the list thoroughly updated without some kind of automation will be problematic. There are hundreds of infoboxes that could be merged uncontroversially, all the templates in the fictional character section could be replaced with one infobox for example. If you're thinking about consolidation, the category with the most potential is sports, there are 54 infoboxes just for baseball so the scope for mergers is vast.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 19:11, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
Help test better mass message delivery
Hi. You're being contacted as you've previously used global message delivery (or its English Wikipedia counterpart). It doesn't feel so great to be spammed, does it? ;-)
For the past few months, Legoktm has built a replacement to the current message delivery system called MassMessage. MassMessage uses a proper user interface form (no more editing a /Spam subpage), works faster (it can complete a large delivery in minutes), and no longer requires being on an access list (any local administrator can use it). In addition, many tiny annoyances with the old system have been addressed. It's a real improvement! :-)
You can test out MassMessage here: testwiki:Special:MassMessage. The biggest difference you'll likely notice is that any input list must use a new {{#target:}} parser function. For example, {{#target:User talk:Jimbo Wales}} or {{#target:User talk:Jimbo Wales|test2.wikipedia.org}}. For detailed instructions, check out mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage.
If you find any bugs, have suggestions for additional features, or have any other feedback, drop a note at m:Talk:MassMessage. Thanks for spamming! --MZMcBride (talk) 05:21, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
Start date template
Given this development, is there any chance that we could re-attempt the bot request for {{Start date}} in {{Infobox NRHP}}? Nyttend (talk) 22:29, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
- @Nyttend: That's an interesting turn of events. By all means try again, but see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Theo's Little Bot 25 first. It's exasperating. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:22, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
Voice intro project / David Gilmour
Hi Andy. Thank you for helping to introduce the voice intro project. I think it's an excellent idea. I hope as many notable people as possible are willing to participate in the project and that they don't feel "nervous" about recording their voice for Wikipedia. Hopefully notable people will agree that it's a good idea.
On a different note, being a Pink Floyd fan like yourself, I feel that the "Equipment" section in the WP article of David Gilmour isn't particularly well-structured. I've tonight divided one huge long paragraph into two lesser paragraphs for improved readability. But I still feel it would benefit from considerable improvement in terms of how it is structured to further improve readability. I wondered whether you would agree with that? Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 19:41, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
- @Kind Tennis Fan: Thank you for your kind words about the voice intro project. It's going very slowly; please consider whether you know anyone who might be eligible to contribute. As for DG's equipment, I agree, but I'm not sure how to improve it. Looking at the source, it seems to be a malformed list. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:20, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
DYK for Eric Ashby (naturalist)
| On 3 October 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Eric Ashby (naturalist), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that wildlife cameraman Eric Ashby, nicknamed "The Silent Watcher", refused to film tame animals? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eric Ashby (naturalist). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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please help
i spent 3 days updating a profile of some one i am a huge fan of. you delete all my work in a few seconds. couldn't you have just messaged me and given me advice on how to make it better? i have lost all of that work. im so upset.
is it saved anywhere so i can change it to make it 'legal'? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Willfarrell39 (talk • contribs) 15:14, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
- Your edits were reverted because they included copyright text which you and Wikipedia have no right to use. There is a hard-and-fast rule that requires this. The message I left on your talk page links to pages which explain in more detail. Your edits are still viewable in the page history, should you wish to revisit them. Further support for new editors is available at Wikipedia:Teahouse. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:28, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
ok, i understand fully. thank you very much, i will give it another go. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Willfarrell39 (talk • contribs) 09:14, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #78

- Discussions
- 3 Individual Engagement Grants related to Wikidata are looking for feedback and endorsements: Understanding Wikidata, Wikidata Toolkit and Wikintelligence
- Request for Comments on linking Wikimedia Commons
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Tempo-spatial display (events in Wikidata on a map)
- Canned queries (for queries that help find missing information)
- Wikidata Browse (pretty slideshow of random Wikidata items, their pictures, labels in various languages and statements)
- Wikidata generic tree (displays a tree of data in Wikidata)
- We've crossed ID 15000000: d:Q15000000 (Category:Sternorsidis)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Code of nomenclature, programmer, theme music, inspired by, GHS precautionary statements
- Development
- Finished initial version of the build tool (= tool that creates one tarball/git repository from all our extensions and their dependencies for deployment)
- Continued work on numbers data type
- Continued work on Formatters (for autosummaries, diffs, etc)
- Fixed RDF serialization issue
- Merged merge API module
- Finished up database schema updating code
- Added validation for precision in globe coordinate value
- Finished and released Diff extension version 0.9
- Polishing work on Wikibase QueryEngine
- Some cleanup of EntityView
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Hack on one of these.
- Note from Lydia about the future of the weekly summaries
- I've been compiling the weekly summaries for Wikidata for the past 1.5 years. It is time to give this into the hands of a few capable community members now that I have moved on to product management. Starting next week I will not be compiling the weekly summaries anymore. I am happy to help anyone who wants to take over get up to speed of course. Please contact me if you'd like to take this over.
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About BlakesBot and template sub pages
Dear Andy, I am Gabriel Lee, 13 years old from Hong Kong. I am thinking to take the task and I will request for the BOT flag.--Gabrielchihonglee (talk) 12:26, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
- @Gabrielchihonglee: That would be great. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:57, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
- also, I would like to join the Volunteer Response Team.--Gabrielchihonglee (talk) 13:41, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
- @Gabrielchihonglee: Sorry, I don't know anything about that. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:46, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
- also, I would like to join the Volunteer Response Team.--Gabrielchihonglee (talk) 13:41, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
Phillip Collins
Hello! A page you created; Phillip Collins but it currently has no content, are you going to place content in it? ///EuroCarGT 21:47, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you. Fixed. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:55, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 02 October 2013
- Op-ed: Commons medical diagnostic images under threat from unresolved ownership
Medical images have transformed many aspects of modern medicine. Over the past two decades the increasing sophistication of MRI, CT-scanning, and X-ray techniques has made these technologies the cornerstone of diagnosing a range of conditions, replacing what used to be largely guesswork by doctors. They can be the difference between life and death for a patient, and their importance is underlined by the tens of billions of dollars spent on them annually just in North America. For Wikimedia Foundation projects, advanced images are now a powerful tool for describing and explaining, and educating our worldwide readership of medical articles.
- Discussion report: References to individuals and groups, merging wikiprojects, portals on the Main page, and more
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
- News and notes: WMF signals new grantmaking priorities
In what will be remembered as a game-changing week for Wikimedia grantmaking, the Foundation's executive director, Sue Gardner, published a forthright and in places highly critical statement, Reflections on the FDC process, and grantmaking staff revealed that the WMF will significantly strengthen its targeting of optimal impact in funding.
- Featured content: Bobby, Ben, Roger and a fantasia
Six articles and two pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
- Arbitration report: Infoboxes: After the war
Editor's note: To go beyond the mere facts of cases, the "Arbitration report" invited several editors who participated in the recent Infoboxes case to comment on infoboxes: what they are, where new users can go to find out about them, specifications and protocols, best practices, and how the upcoming community discussion recommended by the Committee in the case decision should be framed.
- WikiProject report: U2 Too
This week, we revisited the enthusiastic editors at WikiProject U2. Started in June 2007, the project has grown in spurts, resulting in a collection of 8 Featured Articles and 24 Good Articles. The project maintains a to do list, portal, and a list of references.
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SG for Library of Birmingham
| On 8 October 2013, Schon gewusst? was updated with a fact from the translation of the article Library of Birmingham, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was: Die neue Library of Birmingham enthält den holzgetäfelten Shakespeare Memorial Room von 1882. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (quick check). |
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