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2016 year of the reader and peace

2016

peace bell

Thank you for your support and thoughts, with my review, and the peace bell by Yunshui! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:55, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Let's hope it's not the Cloister bell! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:46, 31 December 2015 (UTC).

Yes, click on bell for the soft sound of peace (and jest) ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:20, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Rich Farmbrough and a question...

It appears that there has been enough work on references to delete the tag. What do you think?

Ella Bully-Cummings

Cheers, --Beth Wellington (talk) 16:49, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

I think so. However the text did not reflect the references in a number of cases I looked at. The most egregious was saying that three people called the traffic stop a setup, when in reality only one of them is cited as saying it "looked like a setup".

The section tag on the personal life should stay though.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:18, 4 January 2016 (UTC).

File:Portrait-Beard Andrew Jackson.jpg listed for discussion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Portrait-Beard Andrew Jackson.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Fram (talk) 17:15, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I wonder who could have done such a thing? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:56, 4 January 2016 (UTC).

Invitation to a virtual editathon on Women in Music

Women in Music
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Congrats and please help!

Dear Rich, great to see you unleashed again! would it be possible to update Wikipedia:Articles with UK Geocodes but without images and ideally set some sort of regular refresh on it? The current list is extremely stale because of the Arbcom problem, and it would be much simpler for newbies if we didn't have to ask them to manually remove ones where they'd added an image. I was also wondering if it could perhaps be subdivided into two or three separate lists, the current one includes Bermuda and also British South Atlantic territories despite them not being covered by the Geograph. Ideally I would like two lists, one covering the UK and the other Eire - that would give us some good exercises for newbies with a high proportion of articles having images already on commons. ϢereSpielChequers 15:16, 5 January 2016 (UTC)::

Unleashed is a relative term. It's more like I have managed to wriggle my big toe free! But I will see what I can do. Will probably recode from scratch, I have some ideas. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:26, 7 January 2016 (UTC).

Great. Instructions for it are currently at User:WereSpielChequers/image adding - at least one step drops out if we can get the list regularly refreshed. One of the risks of the current system is that people can easily choose the wrong river or village if the names are duplicated; The Geograph has a lovely facility for finding nearby images - I don't know if their code is as openly licensed as their images. If we can get something based on geocoding and nearby images then we could make this more than the UK. Another possible route would be to look at articles which lack images but which have intrawiki links to articles illustrated from commons. ϢereSpielChequers 19:56, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #191

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • The Reference Wars
  • Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
  • Wikidata references from Microdata
  • Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
  • From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
  • Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
  • Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
  • Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
  • The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. Get your talk proposals in!
  • IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
  • Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
  • Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
  • Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
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  • Newest WikiProjects: Broadcasting
  • New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool, tool to move statements from one item to another
• Development
  • Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
  • Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia if interested.
  • More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them
  • Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (phabricator:T87263)
  • We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247)
  • Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (phabricator:T95419)
  • More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget
  • Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
  • References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
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Yo Ho Ho

ϢereSpielChequers is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec15a}} to your friends' talk pages.

04:36, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Parker

Just to let you know that your comments re: A. Parker may have been somewhat misplaced. DS (talk) 21:14, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I thought I was very careful in what I said.... Maybe not careful enough. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:16, 12 January 2016 (UTC).

History merge?

should we merge the history of CountryAbbr into Country abbreviation? Frietjes (talk) 15:05, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm not sure if we should. If you look at {{Country abbreviation/sandbox}} there is nothing left of the original. However I have no objection. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:57, 12 January 2016 (UTC).

2016 Istanbul bombing

Hi- any chance of some semi-protection? I know I should go to the heavilly-backlogged WP:RPP, but we're getting caned by IP vandals atm. Check recent history. Cheers. _Fortuna ^{Imperatrix Mundi} 18:47, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Sadly (or otherwise) not an admin. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:53, 12 January 2016 (UTC).

On consideration, you may consider that a lucky escape perhaps! Apologies for bothering you; hopefuly there is a compliment in there somewhere, though... cheers! _Fortuna ^{Imperatrix Mundi}

Help decide the future of Wikimania

The Wikimedia Foundation is currently running a consultation on the value and planning process of Wikimania, and is open until 18 January 2016. The goals are to (1) build a shared understanding of the value of Wikimania to help guide conference planning and evaluation, and (2) gather broad community input on what new form(s) Wikimania could take (starting in 2018).

After reviewing the consultation, we'd like to hear your feedback on on this survey.

In addition, feel free to share any personal experiences you have had at at a Wikimedia movement conference, including Wikimania. We plan to compile and share back outcomes from this consultation in February.

With thanks,

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Cross-namespace redirects

I couldn't help but to notice what you were working on in Lua. I wrote what I think it is you're trying to do in Module:Sandbox/Jackmcbarn. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:30, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Please tag misspelled new template redirects with G7

Could you please, when you "manually" create 17 misspelled template redirects in a row (Template:ISO 3166 code Yemen Ḩajjah Governerate and the like) and then have to move all 17 a few minutes later, either uncheck the "leave a redirect behind" box when moving them, or tag them for G7 deletion? Keeping these around serves no purpose. Fram (talk) 11:48, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

@Fram: Only administrators, bots and global rollbackers can move without redirect. Rich is in none of those groups. --Izno (talk) 12:10, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, I had forgotten that that box was admin-only. Rich, Could you please tag them as G7 or is it fine by you if an admin simply deletes them as recent implausible redirects? A RfD discussion for these seems like overkill. Fram (talk) 12:35, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

You may delete them if you wish. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:23, 14 January 2016 (UTC).

Incidentally, four days isn't a few minutes... All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:27, 14 January 2016 (UTC).

Oops, you're right, I was misled by the double redirect thing somehow. I'll delete them now. Fram (talk) 08:11, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

• 17 creations in 9 minutes is well, well within the capabilities of a human not using any automation other than ctrl-c/ctrl-v. Since many of these titles are similar, using ctrl-c/ctrl-v for much of it would be a natural thing to do. --Hammersoft (talk) 16:39, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
  • Yes, but creating the same misspelling seventeen times in a row? Fram (talk) 10:26, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
    • You're right, if the first one was correct, he would have performed 16 correct ctrl-c/ctrl-v actions, however, if he would have typed the first wrong because he thought that spelling was correct, he would probably have typed the same typo 16 times. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 10:50, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
      • The ctrl-c / ctrl-v argument was surely about the body of the pages, not about the title though? In any case, all rather academic, pages are deleted, right ones created (by Rich), and all discussion done here, on his user talk page. Fram (talk) 11:05, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
        • Ctrl-c/ctrl-v can be done with titles just as well as with bodies. I see no reason to believe this was not done manually. --Hammersoft (talk) 21:07, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Route 10 (MTA Maryland)

Hello, in your edit of 16 October 2009 of Route 10 (MTA Maryland), user:SmackBot introduced inconsistent definitions of <ref name="btco.net">. Would you kindly sort this out? —Anomalocaris (talk) 23:23, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

 Done All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:35, 13 January 2016 (UTC).

Need checking

1. Al-Shirqat
2. Biescas
3. Novska
4. Ogulin
5. Pleternica
6. San Buenaventura, Francisco Morazán
7. Slatina, Croatia
8. Tampines

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:43, 15 January 2016 (UTC).

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Wikidata weekly summary #192

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

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  • Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
    • Fifteen years ago , Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske
    • Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more?
    • Slides for talk by Lucie and Adam at the birthday party in NYC
  • Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym.
  • Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester)
  • Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video, slides)
  • Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Module:Cycling race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
  • Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
  • Wikidata-lang - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
  • Live-stream of Wikidata edits by Magnus
  • Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet now has a Wikidata function
  • Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Theatricalia person ID, Theatricalia theatre ID, Global Geoparks Network ID, judicial sentence, allcinema film identifier
• Development
  • Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (phabricator:T67397)
  • Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
  • Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (phabricator:T123234)
  • Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (phabricator:T123233)
  • Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (phabricator:T119493)
  • Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (phabricator:T120196)
  • Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (phabricator:T94989)
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Wiki Loves Nigeria Writing Contest

Hello RF, and happy Wikipedia @ 15. This is to notify you of Wiki Loves Nigeria Writing Contest organized by the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria to commiserate the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia. The contest will start on 28 January 2016 and end on 29 February 2016. Please help to suggest articles on notable Nigeria-related topic here and if you like to be part of the jury, add your name here. Thanks for your participation. Warm regards Wikic¤l¤gy^{t@lk to M£} 08:13, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Adding images

hi Rich, Whixley made the list despite having a couple of images in a gallery. ϢereSpielChequers 14:31, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Ah, gotta love galleries. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:32, 23 January 2016 (UTC).

Incidentally I now have a nice list of UK places (well including one French place) that just needs trimming by those with images. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:34, 23 January 2016 (UTC).

Thanks, look forward to it. ϢereSpielChequers 19:27, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

User:Rich Farmbrough/temp127 and User:Rich Farmbrough/temp138 is the untrimmed list. Too big for one wiki-page. Probably has some bugs still. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC).

Although saving 127 is giving:

Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again in a few minutes.

Sigh. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:26, 23 January 2016 (UTC).

T124564 applies. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:37, 23 January 2016 (UTC).

There are many advantages to having multiple smaller lists, if they can be done geographically they are more likely to prompt photographers to visit places we have no pictures for, and they should also be of interest to wikiprojects. at the same time they can be transcluded together to give the appearance of large lists. ϢereSpielChequers 04:06, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

They load faster too! But many of these have images so until I've pruned the list decisions on chopping it up can't be made. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:54, 24 January 2016 (UTC).

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History of Sentence Spacing

Added a comment on the Talk page for this article, about your recent edits. Please take a look, thanks. Battling McGook (talk) 22:07, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #193

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
  • Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
  • Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [1] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [2] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
  • Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
  • Wikidata Graph Builder
  • Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
  • You can give input on WMF's strategy
  • Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
  • Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
  • French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
  • Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
  • Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)
• Development
  • Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
  • Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
  • Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
  • Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
  • Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
  • Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
  • Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
  • Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
  • More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
• Monthly Tasks
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History of Islam

Hey, Rich, since you were involved in this discussion last December, and the editor involved seems to me to be renewing the exact same editing behavior discussed there, could you take a look at current discussion on the article's Talk page and its recent edit history and see if you think further action is needed? Thanks ... General Ization ^Talk 00:34, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to an online editathon on Black Women's History

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Wikipedia:London Gazette Index update request

Hi, I'm a user from Wikipedia in Italian language. I casually discovered some minutes ago that all the links in Wikipedia:London Gazette Index (created by you 5 years ago) needs to be updated. For example, the current link to the 5 November 1688 issue (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/2396/pages/1) now redirects to the home page of The Gazette website (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/), but fixing like this (http://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/2396/page/1) it can be easily restored. In brief: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/ must be replaced with http://www.gazette.co.uk/London/ and the final 's' of words like "issues", "pages", "supplements" (and so on) must be removed from the old URL addresses. Good luck! --Mess (talk) 23:00, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you I will see if this can be corrected. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:26, 28 January 2016 (UTC).