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WikiProject Food and drink Newsletter: October 2016

The WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter Volume III, no. 8, October 2016 Note: To opt out from receiving future newsletters, please click here for instructions.
Project News Good article Nominations, Project Updates  Note: Our members page design has been tweaked so that members can easily see newsletter-receiving members. We also updated the format of adding your name (i.e. please use {{Mailing list member}} instead on {{user}}. See the page for yourself for more information! The following articles were promoted to GA status! ReaLemon Carrot One new GA nomination: The Restaurant Marco Pierre White (talk | history | start review) by Miyagawa. Some do's to do.. Please see the project's Tasks and To do sections for project and article tasks, and feel free to update the lists with new entries. Please add all food/drink-related pictures on Wikimedia Commons to the project's categories. Help us out by... Patrolling this and this watchlist for vandalism! Assessing unassessed articles. As of September 27, 2016, there are currently 3,497 unassessed articles! Improving stubs Reviewing the "Food and drink" section in the Requested Articles section. Removing inactive users from the active section to the inactive section using the status tool. For recent events regarding project-related articles, see Article alerts. Article alerts Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/Article alerts	Feel free to welcome the new members who have recently joined the project. 2 new members!VarunFEB2003JoshMuirWikipedia Please consider joining the welcome squad to invite more members! The project currently has 114 active members. Some recent food and drink new articles and content: Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Miyagawa (talk · contribs · new pages (8)) started on 2016-08-08, score: 10 Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice and Noodle (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Miyagawa (talk · contribs · new pages (8)) started on 2016-08-08, score: 10 Double Mountain Brewery (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Another Believer (talk · contribs · new pages (156)) started on 2016-08-08, score: 20 List of largest wastewater treatment plants (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Calvin411 (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2016-08-05, score: 10 Loch Duart (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Haseeb delpihero (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2016-08-03, score: 20 Henan Faria da Silveira (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Add92 (talk · contribs · new pages (36)) started on 2016-08-07, score: 10 Plutonocene (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by CxHy (talk · contribs · new pages (6)) started on 2016-08-07, score: 20 Neptunocene (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by CxHy (talk · contribs · new pages (6)) started on 2016-08-07, score: 10 Thorocene (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by CxHy (talk · contribs · new pages (6)) started on 2016-08-07, score: 20 Protactinocene (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by CxHy (talk · contribs · new pages (6)) started on 2016-08-07, score: 20 Satti (food) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Democratics (talk · contribs · new pages (3)) started on 2016-08-02, score: 10 Forum of Indian Food Importers (FIFI) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Bangaji (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2016-07-28, score: 20 Milton L. Banks (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Dbanks1112 (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2016-08-06, score: 10 Watercress soup (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Northamerica1000 (talk · contribs · new pages (9)) started on 2016-08-05, score: 20 SuperMeat (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by KDS4444 (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2016-07-31, score: 20 Abu Talib Urban Farmer (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Adjoajo (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2016-08-04, score: 10 Fisherman's Basket (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Rain and Keet (talk · contribs · new pages (5)) started on 2016-08-04, score: 20 Daegu Chimac Festival (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Kanghuitari (talk · contribs · new pages (130)) started on 2016-08-04, score: 20 Tokki Soju (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Kanghuitari (talk · contribs · new pages (130)) started on 2016-08-04, score: 10 Numbers (Vancouver) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Another Believer (talk · contribs · new pages (156)) started on 2016-08-03, score: 10 Morning Call Coffee Stand (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by MatthewVanitas (talk · contribs · new pages (9)) started on 2016-08-03, score: 10 Shinho (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moist Towels (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2016-08-01, score: 10 Past newsletters
Food and drink articles by quality and importance There are currently 35,572 articles attributed to the project, including 10,820 stubs. There are 40 articles at Featured article class, 212 are at Good article class and 3 are at Featured list class. Article statistics Food and Drink WikiProject article assessment Food and drink articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 15 31 53 FL 2 2 4 FM 141 141 GA 18 31 76 278 403 B 56 232 345 718 86 1,437 C 77 404 994 3,550 528 5,553 Start 22 329 1,675 12,041 3,908 17,975 Stub 17 540 9,021 4,948 14,526 List 12 71 115 543 23 274 1,038 Category 8,919 8,919 Disambig 217 217 File 3,022 3,022 Portal 811 811 Project 440 440 Redirect 10 73 638 2,860 3,581 Template 1,046 1,046 NA 2 20 22 Other 208 208 Assessed 185 1,103 3,833 26,824 17,707 9,744 59,396 Unassessed 14 1,966 1,980 Total 185 1,103 3,833 26,838 17,707 11,710 61,376 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 204,360 Ω = 5.12 Assessment log and Guide to Assessment Help on Editing and Sourcing Articles

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:47, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Margaret Sheridan (writer) defaultsort

Hallo Rich, Were you using some sort of automation to create this stub with its dodgy {{DEFAULTSORT:(writer), Margaret Sheridan}}? If so, something needs to be tweaked to avoid sorting on bracketed disambiguators. I've mended this one. PamD 22:32, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Just a template. Thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:21, 3 October 2016 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #229

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Expanding Wikidata’s Parenthood Information by 178%, or How To Mine Relation Cardinalities, by Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt (Q27038095)
  • Extracting Scientists from Wikipedia, by Gustaf Harari Ekenstierna and Victor Shu-Ming Lam (Q27037451)
  • Comparison of Wikidata and DBpedia projects as spatial data sources (cs), by Jan Macura (Q27042632)
  • Wikidata challenge to take on language obstacles in medical analysis on Warriors Planet
  • The Wikidata scholarly profile page on Finn Årup Nielsen's blog
  • Wikidata as a digital preservation knowledgebase on Open Preservation Foundation

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We need you for Wikidata's birthday! Organize an event or tell us your story about Wikidata
  • Item Q27000000 was created, about Stakihnúkur, a hill in Iceland
  • Log of our last office hour discussion
  • The first WikiCite newsletter has been published
  • You can help a research project to understand the use of the SPARQL query service

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: OKPD2 code of the good or service, OKP ID of the good or service, OKP Code, OKVED 2 code of the economic activity, OKPD code of the good or service, OKVED 1.1 code of the economic activity, SIC code, Catholic Encyclopedia ID, NBN System Key, trunk prefix, KU Leuven person ID, PhilPapers publication, PhilPapers topic, Library of Congress Cultural Heritage Organizations, PhilPapers profile, PhilPapers author, Mediaarts-DB ID, SCAR Composite Gazetteer, South Dakota legislator ID, Schläfli symbol, Cultural Heritage Kosovo ID, HAS member ID, Corporate Number (Japan), NAICS code, List of lights id, Nationalencyklopedin Online ID, NYT topic ID, KvK company ID, Encyclopædia Universalis Online ID, Auñamendi ID, Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, ClassInd rating, SIRET number, Onisep occupation ID, Indian census area code, ISAN
  • Query examples:
    • Most populous commune of France whose name begins by a certain letter (source)
    • Works mentioning #Wikidata properties (source)
    • Places where people born in Brittany died (source)
    • trees grown from seeds that went around the Moon (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Virtual Twins
  • Newest external tools: Free Software Directory plugin with a bot
  • Newest database reports: list of articles with "uses property" (P3176)

• Development
  • Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
  • Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
  • More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
  • Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (phabricator:T144687)
  • Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (phabricator:T146318)
  • Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (phabricator:T144037).
  • Made it possible to use the bzr and cvs protocols in URL data types (phabricator:T146692)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help merge items of people with the same name and dates.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:34, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Blog mention

Hi Rich, just wanted to let you know I just quoted you in a blog post about ACTRIAL. Best, -Pete (talk) 18:07, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Interesting to see a review of this incident. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:45, 5 October 2016 (UTC).

FYI

Template_talk:BLP_sources#.22All.22_tracking_subcategory might interest you. Debresser (talk) 00:42, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

automated mass creation

do you know how the automated mass articles creation works? Saadkhan12345 (talk)` —Preceding undated comment added 21:59, 7 October 2016

Generally some source or sources of data is used to create many pages. It is a far from simple task, and often attracts a lot of controversy, especially in article space and if "mass" is more than a dozen or so pages. Do you have a particular project in mind?

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:27, 8 October 2016 (UTC).

yes so, i do. i thought it was maybe something like awb (like a bot). source of data meaning? Saadkhan12345 (talk) 00:22, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

I know what you mean ..i need data etc.. but is there a mass creation bot like where i toss in names, information etc. and it does something like awb does. (short stubs-). if there is, do you know how it works? Saadkhan12345 (talk) 04:12, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

@Saadkhan12345: Try asking Dr. Blofeld (talk · contribs). --Redrose64 (talk) 08:56, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

I don't recommend it anymore, in fact I'm about to run a contest to expand stubs! But there's certainly an argument for an intelligently thought out bot creating articles on things like African villages. Ask Aymatth2 on that, he's currently trying to get something coded.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:07, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

• @Saadkhan12345: There is no bot that takes something like a list of names and dates and generates one article per name. You would have to write a software program to do that, which is not easy, then get permission at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval. As User:Rich Farmbrough says, mass-creation often attracts a lot of controversy and a lot of editors question the value of short stubs. Aymatth2 (talk) 11:07, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

ok so no one has done that? (written the software program) Saadkhan12345 (talk) 11:58, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Well, yes. You can do the page creation with AWB, for example. Another example is AnomieBot which creates pages such as Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification from July 2016. (Admittedly this is simple, as the content is generated by template.)

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:21, 12 October 2016 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #230

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • During the British wildlife edit-a-thon 2016, attendees added bird sounds from Europeana Sounds to Wikidata and over 60 Wikipedias
  • Past: WikiConference in San Diego, USA
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop by Wikimedia Nederland, October 20, Utrecht
  • Wikidata & Wikipedia edit-athon about Ramon Llull by Amical Wikimedia (ca)
  • A Natural Language Query Engine without Machine Learning, on A Young Programmer's blog
  • The Wikimedia Foundation will now directly fund basic expenses for Wikidata software development, on WMF blog
  • People buried on cemetery and if they have a picture of the grave or not by Magnus Sälgö
  • Sunday Query : où meurent les Bretons ? (fr) by Ash_Crow
  • Charts and data about Brexit & US Elections, by Hector Perez

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Proposition for upgrading the default copyright license for Wikimedia projects to CC-by-SA 4.0 (does not affect the structured data part of Wikidata, which uses CC0).
  • 3 Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF grants : Librarybase, Lua module and WikiFactMine
  • Query service analysis: What kind of things are people doing with WDQS? and Who are our WDQS users and where are they from?
  • chemical compounds in Wikipedia and Wikidata, talk by Sebastian Burgstaller
  • PetScan tool past half a million queries since April (source)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: KANTL member ID, Angel List ID, storyboard artist, content deliverer, Actorenregister ID, Zeri image ID, compulsory education (maximum age), compulsory education (minimum age), Fotografen.nl ID, PORT organization URL, Flickr user ID, LocFDD ID, MySpace ID, radix, base, has anatomical branch, anatomical branch of, points awarded, intangible cultural heritage status, LiveJournal ID, Queensland place ID, Cave E-Cadastre ID, Property proposal discussion, optimum viable temperature, maximum viable temperature, minimum viable temperature
  • Query examples:
    • Chemistry Nobel prizes through time (source)
    • Former countries without continent (P30) (source)
    • Rivers without any mouth specified (source)
    • Interesting items near you (source)
  • Newest external tools: new Wikidata game, Alias Candidates (by MagnusManske)
  • Newest database reports: List of embassies has now summaries by host country and by country represented

• Development
  • The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (phabricator:T146271)
  • More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
  • More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (phabricator:T76007)
  • Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
  • Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (phabricator:T142940)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:13, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

UK Driving Licence codes listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect UK Driving Licence codes. Since you had some involvement with the UK Driving Licence codes redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew (talk) 09:13, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Help at Teahouse

Please issue an invitation for the Teahouse to the author of Akanksha Sharma or directly help this newbie.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 12:54, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Pleased to see you issued the invitation yourself! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:16, 12 October 2016 (UTC).

The Signpost: 14 October 2016

• News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna

• Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input

• In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio

• Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017

• Featured content: Variety is the spice of life

• Traffic report: Debates and escapes

• Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:28, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Help needed regarding AWB

Hi, I use AWB with my main account as well as another Bot account "SM7Bot". Sometimes ago CheckPage was created on maiwiki mai:विकिपिडिया:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage and when I requested both my accounts are added there. But still, I am unable to use it. Now, I created a check page on bhwiki (where I am an Admin) bh:विकिपीडिया:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage and added my bot account there. But I am unable to use it here too, while I am able to use AWB on hiwiki with the same bot account. I saw you answered some people on AWB bug page, and that's why I am requesting this help. Would you kindly guide me about this problem?--SM7^--talk-- 08:09, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

OK, I found Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage format and it works. Sorry for pinging you. Regards.--SM7^--talk-- 11:12, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

You are always welcome to visit my talkpage! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:55, 16 October 2016 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #231

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Connected Data London meetup with Navino Evans
  • Upcoming: Andy Mabbett & Liam Wyatt speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) at Muzeum Cyfrowe in Warsaw, 19 October.
  • Upcoming: Andy Mabbett speaking about Wikidata & running a GLAM-Wiki workshop at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
  • Past: CCBWIKI
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • World Spider Catalog has been added to Mix'n'match
  • Mix’n’match can now limit auto-matches to instances of a specific item and its subclasses
  • Sitelinks for the new Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia (olowiki) can be added
  • There is now a "userbox" for Wikidatans wishing to mark Wikidata's fourth birthday on their user pages
  • myMuseum was created at the hack4heritage hackathon and won a prize
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II
  • Query examples:
    • first Nobel Prize winner who was born after Alfred Nobel’s death (source)
    • streets in Paris named after doctors (source)
    • international land tripoints (source)
    • national flags depicting stars or constellations (source)
    • national flags with inscriptions (source)
    • people who died the furthest away from where they were born (source)
    • closest pairs of capitals (of UN member states, <500km) (source)
    • people who received military decorations from two different countries (source)
    • volcanoes and earthquakes (source)
    • height/width ratios of paintings (source)
    • birthplaces of Members of the European Parliament (source)
    • birthplaces of US Senators (source)
  • New template: d:Template:Poland properties. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
• Development
  • Worked further on automatic linking of pages between Wiktionary language editions
  • Worked further on making it possible to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons
  • Reviewed error messages and made them easier to understand
  • Added tooltips in some places in the UI to make them more understandable (e.g. ranks, special values)
  • Made the loading animation clearer in embedded query results (phabricator:T148042)
  • Making it possible to paste the full URL of an image on Commons into image properties (phabricator:T147917)
  • Worked on a small birthday present
  • Fixed run button not being reenabled after some queries (phabricator:T147114)
  • More work on better parser function and Lua functions that return formatted values (phabricator:T142940)
  • Undoing the last edit to an item will now show a undo summary, not a restore one (phabricator:T147631) Thanks Matěj!
  • Lule Sami and Pite Sami are now supported languages in Wikidata (phabricator:T146707)
  • Brainstormed about how to make it easier to write queries without knowing SPARQL
  • Fixed a bug with spaces in language codes in queries (phabricator:T147729)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:56, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

TheLongTone

What really makes me mad is that its obvious TheLongTone knows nothing of the cases he nominates - he recently nominated Disappearance of Eloise Worledge, one of Australia's most famous crimes - he just has a grudge against Wikipedia covering disappearances and murders, calling it "guff". Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 00:57, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

It's unfortunate,if understandable, that people feel this way. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:42, 21 October 2016 (UTC).

Speedy deletion nomination of William Cliffton

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An invitation to November's events

November 2016
	Announcing two exciting online editathons Women in Food and Drink and Women Writers as well as our strong support for articles on women in connection with Wikipedia Asian Month Faciliated by Women in Red

(To subscribe: Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 18:07, 23 October 2016 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Wikidata weekly summary #232

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Wikidata's birthday is coming!

Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date, a lot of events will happen online and offline.

Birthday events

Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday. You can join one of them or create an event in your own town!

• San Francisco (USA), October 26th
• Torino (Italy), October 26th
• Tokyo (Japan), October 28th
• Paris (France), October 29th
• Utrecht (NL), October 29th
• Berlin (Germany), November 4th
• Rennes (France), November 5th

Online

A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat or the mailing-list every day to see what happens!

You can also participate by posting a story (more info here), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present on the birthday page.

If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add this template to your user page.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata workshops in Paris : every month, Wikimédia France and editors organize a workshop about Wikidata and related tools. Check out the schedule
  • Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS October 29th in Berlin, organized by Lucie and Julia from the Wikidata team

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WikiCite 2016 report

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by, musical conductor, Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID, Belgian Senate person ID, Flemish Parliament person ID, DRÚSOP ID
  • Query examples:
    • places of birth of living US senators (compare with last week's)
    • Wikidata map of filming locations (source)
    • Streets in Paris named after a physician (source)
    • Moons of trans-Neptunian objects (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Chess

• Development
  • Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see GitHub). Thanks, 0x686578!
  • Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when editing a Commons media statement (phabricator:T141880).
  • Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted statements.
  • Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:37, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Invitation from Wikipedia Asian Month 2016

Wikipedia Asian Month

Thanks for partipating Wikipedia Asian Month last year, and I hope you enjoy it. Last year, more than 7,000 articles contribute to Wikipedia in 43 languages in Wikipedia Asian Month, making us one of the largest event on Wikipedia. We will organize this event again in upcoming November, and would like to invite you join us again.

This year, we are lowering down the standards that you only need to create 4 (Four) articles to receive a postcard (new design), and articles only need to be more than 3,000 bytes and 300 words. We are also improving our postcard sending process, e.g. making the postcards right now, and collecting the address after the event ends without waiting other languges.

Wikipedians who create the most articles on each Wikipedia will be honored as "Wikipedia Asian Ambassadors". We will send you both digital copy, and a paper copy of the Ambassador certificate.

Sign up now

Thank you for considering! --AddisWang (talk)
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:46, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

어둠의 왼손 listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 어둠의 왼손. Since you had some involvement with the 어둠의 왼손 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. — Gorthian (talk) 22:02, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Two years ago ...

noticing what is "soul destroying"
... you were recipient no. 1015 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:53, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

I'd like to ask for your help with something

So I've been trying to reduce the amount of pages in the living and listas backlogs for the past couple of days, and I'm really beginning to appreciate just how big 7000+ items can be. I decided to look at the talk pages for both, and saw your post on the listas backlog talk page.

If you're interested, would you mind helping me clear out the living backlog and maybe the listas backlog?
--Non multa,sed Vicipaedia 05:22, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I can do that. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:26, 30 October 2016 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #233

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Wikidata's birthday: presents, stories and events

The birthday week started and already a lot of events happened, presents have been shared, stories have been told! Here's what you may have missed:

• • a word from the development team by Lydia
  • a new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation, by Addshore, who explains how he generated it in a blog post
  • The 4th birthday logo by Incabell
  • A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users, by Tomayac
  • A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service, by TweetsFactsAndQueries
  • Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart (read more and try examples in the documentation) by Jonas
  • {{#statements:…}}, a new parser function is currently in development with better features that you can try on beta by the Wikidata dev team and volunteers
  • Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles, by fnielsen
  • 10 cool queries for Wikidata that will blow your mind. Number 7 will shock you, by Jens and Cornelius
  • 4 years of Wikidata by Stryn
  • A lot of people celebrating and posting pictures on Twitter or on Commons!

The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata birthday in Kanpur (India), November 3rd
  • Wikidata birthday in Berlin (Germany), November 4th
  • Wikidata birthday in Rennes (France), November 5th
  • OKlab Berlin hacknights, October 31st and November 7th
  • Pidapalooza, Reykjavik, November 9-10
  • Past: Ladies that FOSS (livetweet report)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: SummitPost ID, lib.reviews ID, Galiciana Author ID, ICAA rating, KINENOTE person ID, NGS pumping station ID, third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by
  • Query examples:
    • Deities and their families
    • Most frequently variants of given names (source)
    • Cheese made with cow milk (source)
    • Abandoned villages in the Czech Republic (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Informatics: File Formats
  • Newest database reports: Liam Neeson filmography

• Development
  • We proposed a meaningful initial order for the statementSort gadget (phabricator:T147062)
  • Commons media file properties now support pasting full Wikimedia Commons URLs (phabricator:T147917)
  • Added distinct hover tooltips to rank and snak type selectors, as well as some of the "add" buttons (phabricator:T139356)
  • Our concept base URI will be exposed as part of the meta=siteinfo API (phabricator:T143910). Thanks, user Lokal Profil!
  • Progress on the list=wbsubscribers API module to query entity usage information (phabricator:T145880)
  • Progress on the new parser function for rich, formatted statements (phabricator:T142940)
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 6.2.0
  • Released ValueView 0.18.0

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:06, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Living parameter

Hi, if you do this you should also do this. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:19, 31 October 2016 (UTC)