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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Despite its wide reach, content on Wikipedia suffers from the bias of its editors: white, technically inclined, English-speaking men that live in developed, majority-Christian countries. This represents an alarming absence of voices in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge. In an effort to change this, the Jake is organizing a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Saturday, May 6th, 1 - 5 pm. Our mission is to bring together diverse communities to participate in Wikipedia editing, and improve its coverage of queer people and women of color in the arts. We will provide childcare, snacks, and tutorials for the beginner editor. Bring your laptop, power-cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. No previous Wikipedia experience required! RSVP at and stay tuned to our Facebook page for updates. What: Improving Wikipedia's coverage on queer and women artists of color To unsubscribe from future messages from
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I had listened to Graceland within a week before reading it. I had listened to Paul Simon that very same morning. I'm assuming you're a fan too. :) Best, Alt3no ( talk) 21:42, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
What is a BOT ? LadyWolfEtnaOH ( talk) 16:33, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Someone has marked Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/HostBot 8 as needing your input. Please visit that page to reply to the requests. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 03:53, 22 May 2017 (UTC) To opt out of these notifications, place {{bots|optout=operatorassistanceneeded}} anywhere on this page.
I will probably not go to the Teahouse that often, but I still thank you for inviting me.-- 77Ravin77 ( talk) 20:35, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
Jyotilohkana —Preceding undated comment added 00:24, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Hey Jtmorgan! Just want to say thanks so much for inviting me to the Teahouse, I have already asked a question. It looks like such a helpful page. Anyway if you have anything else you'd like me to see please do as I am quite new to Wikipedia accounts :)
Really kind of you to invite me, hope you have a nice day!
Iris x
Iris Medallion ( talk) 07:35, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on User talk:Igwe Kastan requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Winged Blades Godric 07:34, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
I'd appreciate you stop your malicious removal of my content. Thanks. The content is relevant to the subject and has links to prove it. If something needs to be changed or added to fit your approval, you can just tell me and stop being rude about it. I realize computer screen anonymity makes you feel powerful, but kindness is still a good trait to have. If you'd like to call me and have a chat, I'd love it. So, give me an email to send a number to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidMoyle ( talk • contribs) 18:29, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
Well, then, interestingly Wikipedia made a mistake as it told me it was removed by your bot. And I'm having a lot of issues as I followed your standards and it was still reported by someone and removed without even contacting the person who posted it first. Until I tried a couple more times. So, you can understand my frustration maybe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidMoyle ( talk • contribs) 23:04, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on User talk:يوسف محمد سعيد requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. — fortuna velut luna 11:58, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, July 2017 | |
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Greetings! Here is the 4th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include:
BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are now members of the BAG (see RfBAG/BU Rob13 and RfBAG/Cyberpower678 3). BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are both administrators; the former operates BU RoBOT which does a plethora of tasks, while the latter operates Cyberbot I (which replaces old bots), Cyberbot II (which does many different things), and InternetArchiveBot which combats link rot. Welcome to the BAG!
We currently have 12 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!
Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know! Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 17:12, 19 July 2017 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.) |
Hey Jtmorgan. On occasion, I've come across edits by HostBot to user talk pages where I have previously placed a {{ uw-coi-username}} template. I'm concerned that the HostBot invitation, posted after the coi warning, is conveying the idea that it's ok for them to continue under that account name. As an example, have a look at User talk:UOWSydneyBusinessSchool. The editor's name as well as their edits strongly show they are operating under a conflict of interest. Should they continue to make edits without renaming, it is likely they will be blocked from further editing.
So, I was wondering; could you modify HostBot to detect if the username is in Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices, such as HBC AIV helperbot5 did with this edit, and if so not place the Teahouse invitation?
Your thoughts? -- Hammersoft ( talk) 20:44, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi!
If you remember the archival notification bot thing, I have a good chunk of code already done, as well as the template that the bot should substitute.
If you have time to review the code / make any comments, I would welcome it. The most simple test case is python3 find_and_notify.py > test.log
which creates a list of entries user talk page -> text to add
via the template (pull the repo, move to /scripts, run the command, check out the warnings in command line and inspect test.log). From what I could see, there are a few false negatives No matches for the creation of the following thread:
which I believe are caused by a size limitation of how much history the API accesses in one go.
I still haven't made heads or tails of pywikibot's means to authenticate and post to pages, so I haven't coded the notification process itself (but it should be fairly quick once I understand what is going on). Once that is done, I think the bot request is good to go.
Also, I have trouble to access block info for IP editors via the API, if you know how it is done I am all ears.
All the best, Tigraan Click here to contact me 20:55, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
Sorry, I forgot to answer to you. I did not need your help for testing. The task has been approved, so it is now time to merge to HostBot and add the cron job. I suppose you can show me the way through that; the only potential roadblock is that it uses PWB which might or might not be available in the current HostBot environment.
I won't be much online in the next week or so, but after that I can take a more active part. Tigraan Click here to contact me 16:52, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
Tigraan WIP update: I copied your scripts over to the HostBot repo (onto their own branch, for testing). I hacked at the code a bit and managed to make it run without PyWikiBot. You can see the test edits. I'll need to refactor a bit and clean up my mess before it's production-ready. Longer term, I'd like to refactor some MORE (mostly around standardizing authentication and settings configuration with the rest of the codebase, at least initially). Overall your code is great; easy to work with and understand--thanks esp. for the detailed docstrings :) I'll try to get this up and running on EnWiki within the next week or so. Then, if you're still interested, we can go through the necessary steps to make you a co-maintainer of HostBot. LMK if you have any thoughts/questions! Cheers, J-Mo 00:08, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
{{
nobots}}
. The former is (I think) no big deal since the bot isn't making that many edits, but the latter is potentially problematic since non-newbies occasionally post at the Teahouse.{{
bots}}
or {{
nobots}}
. However, its documentation
helpfully provides a Python implementation (confusingly, "user" is the name of the bot and "text" is the text of the user page, but the rest is fairly straightforward). While it may not be optimal performance-wise, it may be simpler to just copy-paste it into a "test if user excludes the bot" routine, that we call inside
the "is user notifiable" check. If you don't want to use the mwparserfromhell module, it will probably take a bit of tweaking to find the correct regexp or whatever to parse the page.I looked through the code and feel a bit overwhelmed, but that is what usually happens at first contactwas a statement of fact, not a polite criticism. (Maybe later, after digging in the code, I will curse you to death, but I have no reason to do so yet )
What happens if you shut off the bot?
what happens if you shut off a bot? HaapsaluYT ( talk) 22:02, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host lounge/Metrics has not updated since 2014. A Guy into Books ( talk) 11:54, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Why is HostBot currently blocked? —usernamekiran (talk) 10:36, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Its not inviting even through its unblocked Flow 234 (Nina) talk 10:26, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
Here are some topics the JADE team would like to discuss. If you are interested, follow the link to join the conversation:
In the Seattle area? You are invited to the
Seattle Wiknic 2015 on Sunday, July 5, 2015, 11am to 2pm at the
Washington Park Arboretum, in the meadow area to the south of the Graham Visitors Center, approximately at
47°38′15″N 122°17′38″W / 47.637435°N 122.293986°W. Click
here for more details!
|
Thanks for thinking of me good friend Jtmorgan! All hail HostBot! Will try not to be too loud in the the Teahouse! [whispers] Best. - Asdiprizio ( talk) (UTC)
I must have done something Very Very awful to you because I never thought I would be called names when I preview things as browser. Things like last edited by an annoying person to be nice. I am managing partner of a very generous Corp. with 211 employees most work from home. That said I have just been trying to learn how to do new things on computers on my own and as a Gen X guy it can be difficult. however, I taught myself a lot over a year and I figured I could try writing on Wikipedia and not bother anyone no matter how long I work at it. so yesterday Invite to take an adventure while learning but I didn't understand the idea or what was happening. I waisted so much time doing as told went to the tea shop everything but it ran me in circles. I was so mad I had our legal counsel here at six am along with local employees to see what would happen well the names came faster. so I sent someone there the name and phone number of our law firm. then my history was changed or deleted friends saw different things with my name on it and in the same house the screens are different. I hope it's a freak thing because I don't feel good after presenting four attorneys to young smart people that I thought you were. all done maybe venting will help.
In the Seattle area? You are invited to the
Seattle Wiknic 2016 on Saturday, July 16, 2016, noon to 3pm at the
Washington Park Arboretum, in the meadow area to the south of the Graham Visitors Center, approximately at
47°38′15″N 122°17′38″W / 47.637435°N 122.293986°W. Click
here for more details!
|
Hello, Jtmorgan. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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Wikidata as HubOne way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites. Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8. Wikipedia:External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by maxlath takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL. Links
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Bots Newsletter, March 2018 | |
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Greetings! Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include:
We currently have 6 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!
While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.
Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 03:11, 3 March 2018 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.) |
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | ← | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | Archive 8 |
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Despite its wide reach, content on Wikipedia suffers from the bias of its editors: white, technically inclined, English-speaking men that live in developed, majority-Christian countries. This represents an alarming absence of voices in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge. In an effort to change this, the Jake is organizing a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Saturday, May 6th, 1 - 5 pm. Our mission is to bring together diverse communities to participate in Wikipedia editing, and improve its coverage of queer people and women of color in the arts. We will provide childcare, snacks, and tutorials for the beginner editor. Bring your laptop, power-cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. No previous Wikipedia experience required! RSVP at and stay tuned to our Facebook page for updates. What: Improving Wikipedia's coverage on queer and women artists of color To unsubscribe from future messages from
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- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 00:56, 4 May 2017 (UTC) |
I had listened to Graceland within a week before reading it. I had listened to Paul Simon that very same morning. I'm assuming you're a fan too. :) Best, Alt3no ( talk) 21:42, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
What is a BOT ? LadyWolfEtnaOH ( talk) 16:33, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Someone has marked Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/HostBot 8 as needing your input. Please visit that page to reply to the requests. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 03:53, 22 May 2017 (UTC) To opt out of these notifications, place {{bots|optout=operatorassistanceneeded}} anywhere on this page.
I will probably not go to the Teahouse that often, but I still thank you for inviting me.-- 77Ravin77 ( talk) 20:35, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
Jyotilohkana —Preceding undated comment added 00:24, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Hey Jtmorgan! Just want to say thanks so much for inviting me to the Teahouse, I have already asked a question. It looks like such a helpful page. Anyway if you have anything else you'd like me to see please do as I am quite new to Wikipedia accounts :)
Really kind of you to invite me, hope you have a nice day!
Iris x
Iris Medallion ( talk) 07:35, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on User talk:Igwe Kastan requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Winged Blades Godric 07:34, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
I'd appreciate you stop your malicious removal of my content. Thanks. The content is relevant to the subject and has links to prove it. If something needs to be changed or added to fit your approval, you can just tell me and stop being rude about it. I realize computer screen anonymity makes you feel powerful, but kindness is still a good trait to have. If you'd like to call me and have a chat, I'd love it. So, give me an email to send a number to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidMoyle ( talk • contribs) 18:29, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
Well, then, interestingly Wikipedia made a mistake as it told me it was removed by your bot. And I'm having a lot of issues as I followed your standards and it was still reported by someone and removed without even contacting the person who posted it first. Until I tried a couple more times. So, you can understand my frustration maybe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidMoyle ( talk • contribs) 23:04, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on User talk:يوسف محمد سعيد requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. — fortuna velut luna 11:58, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, July 2017 | |
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Greetings! Here is the 4th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include:
BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are now members of the BAG (see RfBAG/BU Rob13 and RfBAG/Cyberpower678 3). BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are both administrators; the former operates BU RoBOT which does a plethora of tasks, while the latter operates Cyberbot I (which replaces old bots), Cyberbot II (which does many different things), and InternetArchiveBot which combats link rot. Welcome to the BAG!
We currently have 12 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!
Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know! Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 17:12, 19 July 2017 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.) |
Hey Jtmorgan. On occasion, I've come across edits by HostBot to user talk pages where I have previously placed a {{ uw-coi-username}} template. I'm concerned that the HostBot invitation, posted after the coi warning, is conveying the idea that it's ok for them to continue under that account name. As an example, have a look at User talk:UOWSydneyBusinessSchool. The editor's name as well as their edits strongly show they are operating under a conflict of interest. Should they continue to make edits without renaming, it is likely they will be blocked from further editing.
So, I was wondering; could you modify HostBot to detect if the username is in Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices, such as HBC AIV helperbot5 did with this edit, and if so not place the Teahouse invitation?
Your thoughts? -- Hammersoft ( talk) 20:44, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi!
If you remember the archival notification bot thing, I have a good chunk of code already done, as well as the template that the bot should substitute.
If you have time to review the code / make any comments, I would welcome it. The most simple test case is python3 find_and_notify.py > test.log
which creates a list of entries user talk page -> text to add
via the template (pull the repo, move to /scripts, run the command, check out the warnings in command line and inspect test.log). From what I could see, there are a few false negatives No matches for the creation of the following thread:
which I believe are caused by a size limitation of how much history the API accesses in one go.
I still haven't made heads or tails of pywikibot's means to authenticate and post to pages, so I haven't coded the notification process itself (but it should be fairly quick once I understand what is going on). Once that is done, I think the bot request is good to go.
Also, I have trouble to access block info for IP editors via the API, if you know how it is done I am all ears.
All the best, Tigraan Click here to contact me 20:55, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
Sorry, I forgot to answer to you. I did not need your help for testing. The task has been approved, so it is now time to merge to HostBot and add the cron job. I suppose you can show me the way through that; the only potential roadblock is that it uses PWB which might or might not be available in the current HostBot environment.
I won't be much online in the next week or so, but after that I can take a more active part. Tigraan Click here to contact me 16:52, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
Tigraan WIP update: I copied your scripts over to the HostBot repo (onto their own branch, for testing). I hacked at the code a bit and managed to make it run without PyWikiBot. You can see the test edits. I'll need to refactor a bit and clean up my mess before it's production-ready. Longer term, I'd like to refactor some MORE (mostly around standardizing authentication and settings configuration with the rest of the codebase, at least initially). Overall your code is great; easy to work with and understand--thanks esp. for the detailed docstrings :) I'll try to get this up and running on EnWiki within the next week or so. Then, if you're still interested, we can go through the necessary steps to make you a co-maintainer of HostBot. LMK if you have any thoughts/questions! Cheers, J-Mo 00:08, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
{{
nobots}}
. The former is (I think) no big deal since the bot isn't making that many edits, but the latter is potentially problematic since non-newbies occasionally post at the Teahouse.{{
bots}}
or {{
nobots}}
. However, its documentation
helpfully provides a Python implementation (confusingly, "user" is the name of the bot and "text" is the text of the user page, but the rest is fairly straightforward). While it may not be optimal performance-wise, it may be simpler to just copy-paste it into a "test if user excludes the bot" routine, that we call inside
the "is user notifiable" check. If you don't want to use the mwparserfromhell module, it will probably take a bit of tweaking to find the correct regexp or whatever to parse the page.I looked through the code and feel a bit overwhelmed, but that is what usually happens at first contactwas a statement of fact, not a polite criticism. (Maybe later, after digging in the code, I will curse you to death, but I have no reason to do so yet )
What happens if you shut off the bot?
what happens if you shut off a bot? HaapsaluYT ( talk) 22:02, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host lounge/Metrics has not updated since 2014. A Guy into Books ( talk) 11:54, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Why is HostBot currently blocked? —usernamekiran (talk) 10:36, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Its not inviting even through its unblocked Flow 234 (Nina) talk 10:26, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
Here are some topics the JADE team would like to discuss. If you are interested, follow the link to join the conversation:
In the Seattle area? You are invited to the
Seattle Wiknic 2015 on Sunday, July 5, 2015, 11am to 2pm at the
Washington Park Arboretum, in the meadow area to the south of the Graham Visitors Center, approximately at
47°38′15″N 122°17′38″W / 47.637435°N 122.293986°W. Click
here for more details!
|
Thanks for thinking of me good friend Jtmorgan! All hail HostBot! Will try not to be too loud in the the Teahouse! [whispers] Best. - Asdiprizio ( talk) (UTC)
I must have done something Very Very awful to you because I never thought I would be called names when I preview things as browser. Things like last edited by an annoying person to be nice. I am managing partner of a very generous Corp. with 211 employees most work from home. That said I have just been trying to learn how to do new things on computers on my own and as a Gen X guy it can be difficult. however, I taught myself a lot over a year and I figured I could try writing on Wikipedia and not bother anyone no matter how long I work at it. so yesterday Invite to take an adventure while learning but I didn't understand the idea or what was happening. I waisted so much time doing as told went to the tea shop everything but it ran me in circles. I was so mad I had our legal counsel here at six am along with local employees to see what would happen well the names came faster. so I sent someone there the name and phone number of our law firm. then my history was changed or deleted friends saw different things with my name on it and in the same house the screens are different. I hope it's a freak thing because I don't feel good after presenting four attorneys to young smart people that I thought you were. all done maybe venting will help.
In the Seattle area? You are invited to the
Seattle Wiknic 2016 on Saturday, July 16, 2016, noon to 3pm at the
Washington Park Arboretum, in the meadow area to the south of the Graham Visitors Center, approximately at
47°38′15″N 122°17′38″W / 47.637435°N 122.293986°W. Click
here for more details!
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Hello, Jtmorgan. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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Jtmorgan,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018
m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource is the new ContentMine proposal: please take a look.
Wikidata as HubOne way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites. Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8. Wikipedia:External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by maxlath takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL. Links
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Greetings! Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include:
We currently have 6 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!
While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.
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