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Wikidata weekly summary #357
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
On
Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (
slides,
video)
The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised:
Twitter thread
While editing OpenStreetMap from the iD editor,
it will now be possible to match map data with Wikidata by typing in names and getting an autocompleted label.
OpenStreetMap is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code, and
quite a few of the project ideas involve Wikidata integration.
The Wikimedia URL shortener will be launched on 11 April; see
Wikidata:URLShortener. It will not be immediately incorporated into the Query Service but the feature is planned.
The Library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden compiled an
experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata.
The gender gap tool
Delenezh is online again and now hosted by Wikimedia France
More work on documenting and preparing the announcement for the Wikidata External Landscape dashboard (
phab:T204440)
Improved the documentation of WMDE analytic documents (
phab:T219844)
Set up translatable schema edit summaries using the FormatAutocomments hook (
phab:T218893)
Improved right-to-left support on schema pages (
phab:T219298)
Protected schemas against imports (
phab:T218181) and page moves (
phab:T219313) and disabled the useless “move” and “create” protections for them (
phab:T219980)
Improved schema edit conflict detection to allow merging of non-conflicting edits (
phab:T218300,
phab:T219173)
Improved the Extension:WikibaseSchema documentation on mediawiki.org (
phab:T219979)
Fixed a bug on Lexicographical Data when editing existing grammatical features (
phab:T219318)
The page
Wikidata:Wikimania 2019 is here to help you coordinating with other people regarding your submissions for Wikimania 2019. The opening of submissions is planned for late April.
Reminder: you can apply to participate to the
WikidataCon 2019 before April 29th
Past:
WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
New tool:
Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common
Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team,
announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the
project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.
Reliable Sources for NPP
Rosguill has been
compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the
discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
Backlog drive coming soon
Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the
New Page Patrol talk page.
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Hello Slashme,
WMF at work on NPP Improvements
Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team,
announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the
project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.
Reliable Sources for NPP
Rosguill has been
compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the
discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
Backlog drive coming soon
Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the
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Wikidata weekly summary #365
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new
Creative Commons Search catalog.
Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)
Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) -
Slideset link -
Press release
Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property
P6426.
At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary)
a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (
phab:T203366)
Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (
phab:T217994)
WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (
phab:T217994,
phab:T214586,
phab:T217997)
Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (
phab:T221965)
More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (
phab:T221831)
Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (
phab:T221833)
Could you make a "double arch diagram" with an arch with smaller dots for non-voting represenatives/delegates below the main arch (like for the Maine House of Represenatives)?
The
Maine House of Representatives has three seats for non-voting tribal representatives (they're not entirely non-voting, as they sit on one of Maine's joint standing committees as an extra member and their position on any divided reports in a committee is noted), although two of the nations, tribes or bands that are allotted such a representative have presently declined to elect one (stemming from disputes over sovereignty issues). The one sitting tribal representative is apparently a Democrat, although that doesn't show up on the Maine House web site. Currently the dot representing her is in something like cerulean (a less-vibrant shade of blue), but it's on the same arch and vacancies in non-voting members are represented the same as vacancies for voting members. The 151 voting seats are now all filled, although the arch diagram hasn't been updated yet to reflect the Democratic victory in Tuesday's special election (that guy was sworn in yesterday), and I'm not savvy about that kind of thing. But I think it would be neat if the non-voting tribal representative(s) and any vacancies in those positions were represented, but as a separate arch with smaller dots to denote slightly less prominence. One could do a separate diagram with what you currently have, but that might be objected to and it would draw more attention to the non-voting representatives than might be appropriate in such a diagram. I like the way the "Composition of the 129th Maine House of Representatives" table is done, and I think an arch diagram kind of matching that would be ideal. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that.
Kevin Lamoreau (
talk) 23:28, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at
NPR. There is now also a live queue of
AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.
QUALITY of REVIEWING
Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please
be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors.
The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at
NPR.
Backlog
The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.
Move to draft
NPR is
triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.
Notifying users
Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are
SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.
PERM
Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.
Other news
School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.
Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at
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Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
Hello Slashme is this where you ask questions about the wikipedia parliament diagram?
i am really sorry if its not i am really not good at this wikipedia thing but i really love your tool
also please excuse english i know its not the best — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
YoWoSorra9634 (
talk •
contribs)
You can definitely ask me questions here, no problem. I'm glad to help! --
Slashme (
talk) 06:53, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Well its not really a question, it's more of a suggestion/request
A lot of people who use your tool or generally suck at editing and creating Wikipedia articles (myself included) and alternate history nuts would really love if you could also generate an election wikibox (examples :
https://imgur.com/a/tawdUoe) or the wikitext needed for a wikibox based on the information the user provides if it's not too complicated — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
YoWoSorra9634 (
talk •
contribs) 19:43, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
The tool already creates the wikitext for the "legend" template, and it wouldn't be difficult for me to add text to create a table like in the second example that you give, except that my tool obviously can't provide the change relative to the last election. One question: where would the alternative history people be using this? Clearly not on Wikipedia, so would the Wikipedia syntax still work?
The WikiBox uses lots of information that I'm not collecting, so it wouldn't really be feasible. --
Slashme (
talk) 10:59, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
I've deleted this as requested, as the article seemed to be an attack piece on Wikipedia without any reliable sources, and a spot check of every revision for the last 10+ years suggests the same. If anyone complains, I'll restore it and send it to AfD.
Ritchie333(talk)(cont) 11:11, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
I note that two days ago
Justlettersandnumbers declined a speedy on this article, though the rationale given then wasn't anything in
WP:CSD, so it may have been declined procedurally.
Ritchie333(talk)(cont) 11:15, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
@
Ritchie333: I actually wanted to withdraw my CSD (but you were too quick for me) because previous versions withstood AfD, and it seems as if all the personal attacks are recent. Maybe restore an old version and
protect it? --
Slashme (
talk) 11:40, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Although there were two AfDs, they were over ten years ago, plagued with sockpuppetry and single-purposes accounts, and closed as "no consensus". There are two problems here - the obvious one with the troll today and that the article has fallen through the cracks in our policies and stands out like a sore thumb. I have put the article back to an older version and blocked the IP for disruption; we'll see what happens at the AfD now.
Ritchie333(talk)(cont) 11:55, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #373
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Structured Data on Commons: RDF output for MediaInfo is now available (
example)
Edits with the tag #suggestededit-add 1.0 come from the suggested edit feature on Wikipedia's Android app:
see the FAQ for more information
Property number 7000:
DigitalNZ ID is live. This data aggregator has over 30 million records. The proposal was the first from
Ambrosia10, a New Zealand editor.
I saw that you tagged the article on
Yuhihai to be moved back to the draft space because the references were "uncomfortably close to the topic." However, Yuhihai is a very niche event (concerning collegiate
kendo) and aside from videos taken at the tournament, not very much is posted online about the event besides what is posted by the club itself and by UCLA's campus newspaper, the Daily Bruin. (For instance, there are many links to Daily Bruin articles in the section titled "External Links.") I had hoped to change that by offering more information online about the tournament by creating this Wikipedia Article.
Please allow this article to remain published as it was initially.
Best,
KendoGirl (
talk) 20:42, 24 July 2019 (UTC) KendoGirl
Hi
KendoGirl, the reason that we require independent sources is to satisfy the
neutrality and
verifiability requirements on Wikipedia. Topics that aren't discussed in detail in independent sources might be better suited to other projects, like for example
Wikia. This
kendo Wiki might be ideal, for example. You should also see whether you can get wider reporting by inviting journalists from independent publications to report about the event. Once you've got a few such reports, you'll be better positioned to create a Wikipedia article that will stick. --
Slashme (
talk) 09:50, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
This page 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
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Wikidata weekly summary #357
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
On
Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (
slides,
video)
The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised:
Twitter thread
While editing OpenStreetMap from the iD editor,
it will now be possible to match map data with Wikidata by typing in names and getting an autocompleted label.
OpenStreetMap is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code, and
quite a few of the project ideas involve Wikidata integration.
The Wikimedia URL shortener will be launched on 11 April; see
Wikidata:URLShortener. It will not be immediately incorporated into the Query Service but the feature is planned.
The Library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden compiled an
experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata.
The gender gap tool
Delenezh is online again and now hosted by Wikimedia France
More work on documenting and preparing the announcement for the Wikidata External Landscape dashboard (
phab:T204440)
Improved the documentation of WMDE analytic documents (
phab:T219844)
Set up translatable schema edit summaries using the FormatAutocomments hook (
phab:T218893)
Improved right-to-left support on schema pages (
phab:T219298)
Protected schemas against imports (
phab:T218181) and page moves (
phab:T219313) and disabled the useless “move” and “create” protections for them (
phab:T219980)
Improved schema edit conflict detection to allow merging of non-conflicting edits (
phab:T218300,
phab:T219173)
Improved the Extension:WikibaseSchema documentation on mediawiki.org (
phab:T219979)
Fixed a bug on Lexicographical Data when editing existing grammatical features (
phab:T219318)
The page
Wikidata:Wikimania 2019 is here to help you coordinating with other people regarding your submissions for Wikimania 2019. The opening of submissions is planned for late April.
Reminder: you can apply to participate to the
WikidataCon 2019 before April 29th
Past:
WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
New tool:
Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common
Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team,
announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the
project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.
Reliable Sources for NPP
Rosguill has been
compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the
discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
Backlog drive coming soon
Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the
New Page Patrol talk page.
What, if anything, would a SNG for
Softball look like
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NPR Newsletter No.18
Hello Slashme,
WMF at work on NPP Improvements
Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team,
announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the
project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.
Reliable Sources for NPP
Rosguill has been
compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the
discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
Backlog drive coming soon
Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the
New Page Patrol talk page.
What, if anything, would a SNG for
Softball look like
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Wikidata weekly summary #365
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new
Creative Commons Search catalog.
Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)
Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) -
Slideset link -
Press release
Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property
P6426.
At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary)
a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (
phab:T203366)
Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (
phab:T217994)
WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (
phab:T217994,
phab:T214586,
phab:T217997)
Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (
phab:T221965)
More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (
phab:T221831)
Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (
phab:T221833)
Could you make a "double arch diagram" with an arch with smaller dots for non-voting represenatives/delegates below the main arch (like for the Maine House of Represenatives)?
The
Maine House of Representatives has three seats for non-voting tribal representatives (they're not entirely non-voting, as they sit on one of Maine's joint standing committees as an extra member and their position on any divided reports in a committee is noted), although two of the nations, tribes or bands that are allotted such a representative have presently declined to elect one (stemming from disputes over sovereignty issues). The one sitting tribal representative is apparently a Democrat, although that doesn't show up on the Maine House web site. Currently the dot representing her is in something like cerulean (a less-vibrant shade of blue), but it's on the same arch and vacancies in non-voting members are represented the same as vacancies for voting members. The 151 voting seats are now all filled, although the arch diagram hasn't been updated yet to reflect the Democratic victory in Tuesday's special election (that guy was sworn in yesterday), and I'm not savvy about that kind of thing. But I think it would be neat if the non-voting tribal representative(s) and any vacancies in those positions were represented, but as a separate arch with smaller dots to denote slightly less prominence. One could do a separate diagram with what you currently have, but that might be objected to and it would draw more attention to the non-voting representatives than might be appropriate in such a diagram. I like the way the "Composition of the 129th Maine House of Representatives" table is done, and I think an arch diagram kind of matching that would be ideal. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that.
Kevin Lamoreau (
talk) 23:28, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at
NPR. There is now also a live queue of
AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.
QUALITY of REVIEWING
Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please
be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors.
The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at
NPR.
Backlog
The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.
Move to draft
NPR is
triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.
Notifying users
Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are
SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.
PERM
Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.
Other news
School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.
Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at
New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.
Stay up to date with even more news –
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Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
Hello Slashme is this where you ask questions about the wikipedia parliament diagram?
i am really sorry if its not i am really not good at this wikipedia thing but i really love your tool
also please excuse english i know its not the best — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
YoWoSorra9634 (
talk •
contribs)
You can definitely ask me questions here, no problem. I'm glad to help! --
Slashme (
talk) 06:53, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Well its not really a question, it's more of a suggestion/request
A lot of people who use your tool or generally suck at editing and creating Wikipedia articles (myself included) and alternate history nuts would really love if you could also generate an election wikibox (examples :
https://imgur.com/a/tawdUoe) or the wikitext needed for a wikibox based on the information the user provides if it's not too complicated — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
YoWoSorra9634 (
talk •
contribs) 19:43, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
The tool already creates the wikitext for the "legend" template, and it wouldn't be difficult for me to add text to create a table like in the second example that you give, except that my tool obviously can't provide the change relative to the last election. One question: where would the alternative history people be using this? Clearly not on Wikipedia, so would the Wikipedia syntax still work?
The WikiBox uses lots of information that I'm not collecting, so it wouldn't really be feasible. --
Slashme (
talk) 10:59, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
I've deleted this as requested, as the article seemed to be an attack piece on Wikipedia without any reliable sources, and a spot check of every revision for the last 10+ years suggests the same. If anyone complains, I'll restore it and send it to AfD.
Ritchie333(talk)(cont) 11:11, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
I note that two days ago
Justlettersandnumbers declined a speedy on this article, though the rationale given then wasn't anything in
WP:CSD, so it may have been declined procedurally.
Ritchie333(talk)(cont) 11:15, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
@
Ritchie333: I actually wanted to withdraw my CSD (but you were too quick for me) because previous versions withstood AfD, and it seems as if all the personal attacks are recent. Maybe restore an old version and
protect it? --
Slashme (
talk) 11:40, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Although there were two AfDs, they were over ten years ago, plagued with sockpuppetry and single-purposes accounts, and closed as "no consensus". There are two problems here - the obvious one with the troll today and that the article has fallen through the cracks in our policies and stands out like a sore thumb. I have put the article back to an older version and blocked the IP for disruption; we'll see what happens at the AfD now.
Ritchie333(talk)(cont) 11:55, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #373
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Structured Data on Commons: RDF output for MediaInfo is now available (
example)
Edits with the tag #suggestededit-add 1.0 come from the suggested edit feature on Wikipedia's Android app:
see the FAQ for more information
Property number 7000:
DigitalNZ ID is live. This data aggregator has over 30 million records. The proposal was the first from
Ambrosia10, a New Zealand editor.
I saw that you tagged the article on
Yuhihai to be moved back to the draft space because the references were "uncomfortably close to the topic." However, Yuhihai is a very niche event (concerning collegiate
kendo) and aside from videos taken at the tournament, not very much is posted online about the event besides what is posted by the club itself and by UCLA's campus newspaper, the Daily Bruin. (For instance, there are many links to Daily Bruin articles in the section titled "External Links.") I had hoped to change that by offering more information online about the tournament by creating this Wikipedia Article.
Please allow this article to remain published as it was initially.
Best,
KendoGirl (
talk) 20:42, 24 July 2019 (UTC) KendoGirl
Hi
KendoGirl, the reason that we require independent sources is to satisfy the
neutrality and
verifiability requirements on Wikipedia. Topics that aren't discussed in detail in independent sources might be better suited to other projects, like for example
Wikia. This
kendo Wiki might be ideal, for example. You should also see whether you can get wider reporting by inviting journalists from independent publications to report about the event. Once you've got a few such reports, you'll be better positioned to create a Wikipedia article that will stick. --
Slashme (
talk) 09:50, 26 July 2019 (UTC)