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Israel Aharoni

Hello, I just added the chapter regarding Golden Hamsters to heWS, and I thought you might be interested in reading it or something. I must warn you, however, that it's written in a very archaic language, so Google Translate may be less effective in translating it correctly. Here it is.--Itsused (talk) 16:20, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Do you know what I'm talking about? "In 1930, Israel Aharoni captured the first live hamsters known to science and in 1942 published his notes and a narrative of the experience in an autobiography, Memoirs of a Hebrew Zoologist (זכרונות זואולוג עברי)" – that's what I'm talking about.--Itsused (talk) 08:22, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you so much for adding the digital text for the chapter on "Golden Hamster" in Israel Aharoni's Memoirs of a Hebrew Zoologist. Yes, of course, I started domestication of the Syrian hamster and this text is the primary source material from the person who led the expedition to Aleppo to capture the hamster who eventually became the mother of all domesticated Syrian hamsters. I appreciate your integrating this text into Wikisource and yes, Google translate was sufficient for me to understand most of the chapter. After reading the primary text already I recognize differences in this account versus the summaries of partial translations which I have read everywhere.

I made links to your text in two places in that article. I will get the word around otherwise that this text exists. It is amazing to have it available. Thank you so much!

Could I ask why you did this? Was this because of hamsters, history of medicine, history of research, interest in the University of Jerusalem or in Aleppo, or some other reason? I appreciate the support because sorting foreign texts on hamsters is an extraordinary and unusual gift to receive, and you have completed a useful project for me and others in this space. This really is impressive. Thank you. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:10, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

I am very glad you liked it. I had a few Siberian hamsters some years ago. Eventually I read the article about Golden hamsters on the Hebrew Wikipedia and saw that there was this quite interesting book by the man who discovered it. Luckily a small publishing company had the book republished by scanning the pages of the original book and printing those scans on new paper, so I planned on buying it someday. A few months ago, I joined Wikipedia, and some time after that I ordered the book from the Internet. When it came I thought it would be a good idea to add it (or at least some of it) to Wikisource. I thought it would be quite helpful to you in improving the article about the domestication of this wonderful species.

Sorry for my bad English. Anyway, the chapter on hamsters was the only one I added to Wikisource because, well, I didn't think someone will really use this book.--Itsused (talk) 20:56, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Dignity of risk

Hi Blue, I see you have been quite heavily involved in the Caregiver article, so I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at the new article about dignity of risk that I have started. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 06:47, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Your supportive communication over Berden

Dear Lane,
Thank you for your communication. You are right; I received an email from lawyers requiring me to take down the photos I took of Berden. Even though I subsequently changed the file names, descriptions and cats of those small number of files remaining which would be uncontroversial (such as details of flowers) , and leaving no indication of place other than the broad county, there has been a further requirement for me to take these down. You are also right in that the lawyer's email was bullying. However, as I know that the Foundation doesn't involve itself with such matters, leaving users to their own devices, I thought I would bend over for a quiet life.
What is particularly galling is that there are many photos of Berden village locations and people (including children) on the web, including the village's own website and Facebook page, where permission was obviously not sought from those depicted, and where there seems no movement from 'village elders' to take them down. What is equally galling is that I made a previous special journey to take many photos for my Berden Church article development, some of which are on the Berden website uncredited. There are elements of hypocrisy here.
It might be useful for a Wiki community discussion as you indicate... please see].
Thank you for your kind words. Best wishes Acabashi (talk) 12:31, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Signpost editors

I feel that the current Signpost newsroom crew, especially the de facto coordinator, Evad37, are not appropriately recognized. There is a huge and unfair discrepancy between this list and reality. Thought you might be a good person to bounce this thought off of and discuss with. ☆ Bri (talk) 14:23, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

@Bri: Did you have something particular in mind? Updating that list is easy. I could strike names if that helped.

I can talk things through, and I can support other people in making statements, and I can suggest ways to remedy the situation, but I cannot take a leadership role or the responsibility for taking an action. At meta:Grants:Project/bluerasberry/fund_a_Signpost_publisher I made a proposal that the person serving in the role of coordinator should get a little funding support. I would like for people like Evad37 to have their time freed to be creative and make executive decisions and to not be bogged down with any routine.

There are other ways to give credit, but from my perspective, direct payment for assistance is among the least expensive ways to recognize the value of projects. I know the Wikimedia community would often rather pay $10,000 to fund a software development or a volunteer recruitment drive that generates what could be purchased outright for $1,000. Perhaps you have seen that in the Wikimedia chapter and user group system.

Some other things that I can offer are commitments to do a little Signpost writing for regular sections for a few weeks, a commitment to writing another special feature in the next 2 months, and availability by video or phone to talk things through. Without some stable labor commitments to take for granted it is challenging to commit to anything other than scrambling for labor and burning through our relationships. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:35, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Burning through relationships is the last thing I want to see. Let me think on this a bit, maybe I'll take you up on the offer of a video chat before doing anything disruptive on-wiki. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:06, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Open Access at DRV

No worries. I didn't actually do the closing there, but in hindsight I get where the confusion came in. I've commented at DRV and notified the actual closer, User:Jo-Jo Eumerus. Thanks! UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 13:36, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 3 – 11 August 2017

Facto Post – Issue 3 – 11 August 2017 Wikimania report Interviewed by Facto Post at the hackathon, Lydia Pintscher of Wikidata said that the most significant recent development is that Wikidata now accounts for one third of Wikimedia edits. And the essential growth of human editing. Internet-In-A-Box Impressive development work on Internet-in-a-Box featured in the WikiMedFoundation annual conference on Thursday. Hardware is Raspberry Pi, running Linux and the Kiwix browser. It can operate as a wifi hotspot and support a local intranet in parts of the world lacking phone signal. The medical use case is for those delivering care, who have smartphones but have to function in clinics in just such areas with few reference resources. Wikipedia medical content can be served to their phones, and power supplied by standard lithium battery packages. Yesterday Katherine Maher unveiled the draft Wikimedia 2030 strategy, featuring a picturesque metaphor, "roads, bridges and villages". Here "bridges" could do with illustration. Perhaps it stands for engineering round or over the obstacles to progress down the obvious highways. Internet-in-a-Box would then do fine as an example. "Bridging the gap" explains a take on that same metaphor, with its human component. If you are at Wikimania, come talk to WikiFactMine at its stall in the Community Village, just by the 3D-printed display for Bassel Khartabil; come hear T Arrow talk at 3 pm today in Drummond West, Level 3. Link Plaudit for the Medical Wikipedia app, content that is loaded into Internet-In-A-Box with other material, such as per-country documentation. Editor Charles Matthews. Please leave feedback for him. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Opted-out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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August 30: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday August 30, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday August 30 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street (note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 12:03, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Great work all around Eddie891 Talk Work 14:06, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Other Wikipedias article

I'm going over the Signpost article you've been working on about other wikipedias. You mentioned the second most wikipedia about a language that is now #2 in the number of articles. I was poking around and discovered that bots are used to create articles. I don't know if this matters or not, but it is still interesting. Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 17:36, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

@Barbara (WVS): Thanks for checking it out. Excuse me but I am terribly forgetful. Can you link to what you are reading? I worry that I might have started a draft somewhere and somehow misplaced it from my schedule. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:03, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. I think it was the draft about the other wikipedias. I'll double check and let you know. It looks we are trying to get the Signpost finished up by Sunday. Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 19:05, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Voice chat for podcast WikiJabber Suggestion

Hi Bluerasberry, I'm hosting the podcasts de:WP:WikiStammtisch (German) and meta:WikiJabber (English) and I would like to invite you to WikiJabber. We would talk about you, your relationship to Wikipedia etc. and other interesting projects. Technically it is a talk via https://zencastr.com for about an hour. What do you think? --Sebastian Wallroth (talk) 06:15, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

@Sebastian Wallroth: Thanks for reaching out. Sure, let's talk. I just emailed you. Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:35, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Could you take a glance at:

ticket:2017082910022911

I trust it will be obvious why.

Long term, we ought to find a more organized way of addressing this, but if this doesn't interest you personally, I bet you have contacts at the NY chapter.--S Philbrick(Talk) 19:32, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: Thanks for the referral to this university class. Please send any others our way. I very much appreciate it. FYI - 90% of these kinds of offers want us to help them with promotional brand editing which we will not do. If you get these from anywhere in the US then you can send them to Wiki NYC for an initial conversation, because we have experience ending the conversation quickly if what they want is out of scope. When we get good leads, we turn them over to anyone local we know, but the initial conversation can raise a lot of difficult questions for anyone who has not been through this several dozen times. Thanks. If anything comes of this I will let you know. Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:43, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

You're the only person I know,

This just caught my eye

Modern dolly cart

who might be able to satisfy my curiosity. There's a steel? plaque at the top of the cylinder that reads "Fire Extinguisher on Wheels, inspected by Underwriters' Laboratories 13531".

I guess my questions are

• How long ago was Underwriters Laboratories founded? (Just looked it up, after all I'm on Wikipedia!)
• What could a simple steel cylinder like this do in a fire?
• Why do I take photos of such things?

Only you can help!

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 20:15, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) It looks like a 1900-1910 chemical cart, possibly made by Foamite. See [1] and [2]. Bri.public (talk) 00:32, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

OK, he's not the only one. The dates, "chemical" and the 2nd link look right on target. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 03:27, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

@Smallbones: Staff from UL go to some of the consumer rights conferences which I attend. At this point there are several dozen consumer rights organizations which have had friendly collaborations with Wikipedia. I have not meaningfully connected with any UL staff yet for a wiki project, but as time goes on the opportunity only becomes more ripe. Eventually I expect something will happen.

I talked with some communications staff at UL in the past and they were not aware of any particular published histories of their field of expertise. They also were not aware of published histories of UL itself - perhaps you can see that the wiki article is in poor shape. I am more interested in their advocacy positions than the organization itself, just because they have strong opinions on influential but obscure topics. I am not sure what relationship Wikipedia should have with product standards although I feel that there is some connection here and even more for Wikidata.

History of trade devices and manufacturing is underrepresented in Wikipedia. If Bri recognizes this then he knows more than me. The Internet Archive, so far as I know, has the best collection of trade manuals anywhere. Of course all of us - you , me, Bri and the rest - all have great interest in capturing all this cultural history because it is being lost and forgotten quickly. If only we document it now then the memory is preserved for as long as digital archives exist. Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:32, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. You're right on target. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 20:40, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

I wish I could claim I had special genius in this area but I don't. It just happened to remind me of a modern industrial/airport/shipboard fire extinguisher dolly cart, and the image search confirmed it. ☆ Bri (talk) 05:08, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Great

this was great. and i mean that. Jytdog (talk) 20:23, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikijabber

Thank you so much for the great interview. I really appreciated listening to you. --Gereon K. (talk) 21:04, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

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An OTRS ticket tailor made for you two

For @Doc James: and you, could you take a look at: ticket:2017090510023829 Might be a big deal, but both of you are better qualified to respond.--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:10, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

You're wonderful (but you knew that.)--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:24, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Have asked a friend who worked in Germany in health care for a number of years her thoughts about the organization. Thanks for looping us in. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:14, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikimania article for Signpost?

Hi, I just read your Signpost article requesting stories from Wikimania attendees. I wanted to ping you before submitting a formal proposal, because I wrote a blog post about Wikimania a couple of weeks ago which I think with a few edits could work as a Signpost article. It would definitely be more of an op-ed than a news piece though. Thoughts? Funcrunch (talk) 04:03, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

I responded on your talk page. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:11, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Help getting a page published

Hi! I've just added a few more sources to my article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Annika_Bruhns). I have no idea what I've done wrong. I've found a lot of artist pages with less information than mine (for exemplare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_Douwes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Borchert). Any help would be really appreciated. Thank you in advance! — Preceding unsigned comment added by MiMee (talk • contribs) 10:50, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Request for expansion Tom Uzhunnalil

Hi, I just created a stub Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil. Subject is highly notable, but as a stub I am sure its gonna get converted back into a redirect. Please search tom uzhunnalil on Google to see notability. Please reply, 31.215.192.57 (talk) 17:49, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

I added a few sentences to the article. I do not think anyone would propose making it a redirect or deleting it. There is too much media coverage. Thanks for starting the article. Yes, I am interested in articles about people from India who play roles in international diplomacy. Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:25, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Bauhaus books + coffee for deletion

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Undetectable = Untransmittable

I saw you as an active editor on several medical talk pages and while I try to stay current on the latest developments in HIV/AIDS I have to admit my ignorance of the U=U consensus statements by the International Conference on HIV/AIDS I've added it as a new section on the talk page of both the main HIV/AIDS and the Prevention of HIV/AIDS pages in hopes that it could be added to the topics. So I am trying to encourage/lobby you to take a look at this and contribute your expertise as an editor to my effort. Personally I don't know the jargon of Wikipedia and so as a result often get overwhelmed and intimidated by the process. It seems everytime I understand the latest template, editing process or citation method it changes. As a result, I feel like the perpetual newbie.

T S Ballantine (talk) 02:43, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Thaddeus Ballantine Thanks for messaging. Yes, I care about this topic. I can help with the process side of Wikipedia. Can you give suggestions only on the text and its placement? If you can help with that side of this, then I can sort the technical side. Yes, Wikipedia uses software from the late 1990s - being nonprofit, it is the only website with which anyone interacts with which has not had $100+ million development behind it. It is clunky so we tell experts and content contributors to focus on text, and seek support for technical matters. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:16, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters

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Kudos

Kudos! ticket:2017100410008327 --S Philbrick(Talk) 13:56, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Sphilbrick I am not aware of anyone reaching out to the wiki community in this way, so this was a first. I asked them to give their support to the chapter and I hope for an ongoing relationship with this wonderful school. Thanks for the referral. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:07, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Message to BLUE RASBERRY .... Appreciation  !!

Dear BlueRasberry,

Respectful Greetings !!

I merely want to thank you for the uploading of the picture / art print on Jashodaben ( ex ? - wife of PM Narendra Modi). I am most appreciative of the trouble you have taken for a faithful and admiring way in which she has been portrayed. I am an indian born American, .... for the last 40 yrs in the US. I am also deeply grateful for the trouble and efforts you have expended for the Wiki, in your numerous articles. I am also a donor to the Wiki, and I share in your enthusiasm on this brilliant concept by Jimmy Wales.

I am very curious, to know, as to how you have learnt, presumably, such a native competency in Hindi. That is admirable - unless ofcourse, you were born in India. Still very admirable. I studied Hindi for ten years and unfortunately, am still, none the wiser. ;-) LOL

No reply is necessary, or required - I wish you good health and spirits. God Bless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FCC8:944D:D700:C43D:856F:50BD:67A4 (talk) 16:01, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

FYI, I redacted and revdelled the email address provided--S Philbrick(Talk) 17:08, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

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In case you didn't see the thank-you letter

ticket:2017100410008327 --S Philbrick(Talk) 12:36, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Oops, I see I already linked it. Never-mind.--S Philbrick(Talk) 12:38, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick:-- DoneYeah! I suspested something like that and left the note!Anyways, closed.Winged Blades of Godric^{On leave} 13:00, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Art+Feminism at German Wikipedia

I assume you were notified that the German Wikipedia article for Art+Feminism was nominated for deletion. Here is a link to the ongoing discussion, if you care to contribute. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 12:48, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

First article in draft

I wrote my first article and it is in draft: 10-Minute Walk; thought you may find that decent progress!! Fingers crossed it goes well, as I have received some helpful feedback on it. Would welcome any thoughts too, if you can spare a couple minutes. Thanks, Bluerasberry! FULBERT (talk) 14:02, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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Engaging Academic Archivists, Librarians and Students to Address the Historical Gender and Racial Gap of Western Pennsylvania through the University of Pittsburgh Library System

I would like to know if you would still be willing to be an advisor to me and the grant proposal for Wikipedian-in-Residence. The grant proposal can be found here. Thank you so much. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 13:48, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

I replied at your user page. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:08, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikimania vid

Hey, I heard you might have a recording of the WikiEd panel(s?) at Wikimania. Do you, and is it online somewhere? czar 20:14, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

No sweat either way, but {{ping}} me if you do reply czar 17:24, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

@Czar: Yes I have it. No it is not online. I am still learning about video editing. I know I need to get this up while it is relevant but I am having challenges finding time for this... The best that I can say is that it is on my to-do list. Blue Rasberry (talk) 22:45, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Nice! Well, let me know if I can help. You can upload any video file with toollabs:video2commons and it'll convert to the right format. czar 22:48, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

@Czar: I have the video online at vimeo.

If you are interested, then I could use some support and shared headspace for documenting video2commons. I have used it for a series of videos you can see in my Commons log. It mostly does not have documentation, and I had to learn some peculiar aspects of it. It is kind of surprising, but I think there is no sensible guide for uploading video to Wikimedia projects. It is not complicated but also without being told, there is no chance whatsoever that 95% of users could ever figure this out because the process is not intuitive at all and all on-wiki guides are nonfunctional.

I am not sure what to think of video to commons; I have used it in the past. Now this morning it has been going for 5 hours to convert this 800mb mp4 to webm. This happens on the wiki server side but I am not sure what to expect. I thought it would be done by now, and am sure that in the past the videos converted more quickly. Perhaps in a bit you will see this video also converted in my Commons log. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:15, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Converted! Commons:File:Wikimania 2017 Wikipedia Visiting Scholars presentation.webm Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:24, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

A pie for you!

Just because! Bobherry Talk Edits 06:04, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red November contest open to all

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Halloween cheer!

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Article on Predictions of Wikipedia's end

I tried to nominate Predictions of Wikipedia's end] for deletion, but to no avail. Many thanks for suggestions of help with this - help will be appreciated. Vorbee (talk) 06:40, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

It is confusing. I posted a follow up on your talk page. Blue Rasberry (talk) 10:40, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon (Nov 19) and global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month (Nov 1-30)

Sunday November 19, 10:30 am - 4:00pm: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon

The Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met will be the Metropolitan Museum of Art's second edit-a-thon, hosted on Sunday November 19, 2017 in the Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education (81st Street entrance) at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City. Following the first Met edit-a-thon in May 2017, the museum is excited to work with Wikipedia Asian Month for the potential to seed new articles about Asian artworks, artwork types, and art traditions, from any part of Asia. These can be illustrated with thousands of its recently-released images of public domain artworks available for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons from the museum’s collection spanning 5,000 years of art. The event is an opportunity for Wikimedia communities to engage The Met's diverse Asian collections onsite and remotely. Sunday November 19 Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 10:30 am - 4:00 pm in Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Uris Center for Education 81st Street entrance, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light snacks, drinks and cake will be provided. We also welcome remote participation for the global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month, running November 1-30. Thanks, and hope to see you at the museum, and/or as part of the online Wikipedia Asian Month contest!--Pharos (talk) 16:36, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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Precious three years!

Precious

Three years!

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Arbcom case

You may wish to reformat your addition, your name should be in the title bit. Have a look at other cases. I'd do this for you, but the clerks are hot on nobody ever touching someone else's statement. --Fæ (talk) 15:39, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 6 – 15 November 2017

Facto Post – Issue 6 – 15 November 2017 WikidataCon Berlin 28–9 October 2017 WikidataCon 2017 group photo Under the heading rerum causas cognescere, the first ever Wikidata conference got under way in the Tagesspiegel building with two keynotes, One was on YAGO, about how a knowledge base conceived ten years ago if you assume automatic compilation from Wikipedia. The other was from manager Lydia Pintscher, on the "state of the data". Interesting rumours flourished: the mix'n'match tool and its 600+ datasets, mostly in digital humanities, to be taken off the hands of its author Magnus Manske by the WMF; a Wikibase incubator site is on its way. Announcements came in talks: structured data on Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to make substantive progress by 2019. The lexeme development on Wikidata is now not expected to make the Wiktionary sites redundant, but may facilitate automated compilation of dictionaries. WD-FIST explained And so it went, with five strands of talks and workshops, through to 11 pm on Saturday. Wikidata applies to GLAM work via metadata. It may be used in education, raises issues such as author disambiguation, and lends itself to different types of graphical display and reuse. Many millions of SPARQL queries are run on the site every day. Over the summer a large open science bibliography has come into existence there. Wikidata's fifth birthday party on the Sunday brought matters to a close. See a dozen and more reports by other hands. Links Wikidata statistics I4OC progress in its first year, with 47% of scientific citation data now open (announced two days ago) The flowering ORCID, Magnus Manske blogpost on identifying authors of scientific papers @querybook, a Twitter feed devoted to SPARQL queries Massive progress on Wikidata coverage of the UK parliament Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM Editor Charles Matthews. Please leave feedback for him. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:02, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

What the heck?

Is this a WikiEd issue? [3] ☆ Bri (talk) 16:42, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

@Bri: I doubt it; Wiki Ed supports people who demonstrate a staff affiliation at higher learning institutions with traditional accreditation. This person has not identified in this way so far as I can tell.

Just the same, I will greet them with links to the online instructor training. There is no need for anyone to have account creator rights unless they are organizing a large event for drop-in participants. Almost no instructors need creator rights. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:24, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Signpost - In the media

Hi there, would you still be interested in working on Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/In the media (which you started about a month ago)? I've added some more items (from WP:PRESS 17) to be looked at and summarised. Cheers, - Evad37 [talk] 01:47, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

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TAL monkey pic writeup

I have some thoughts or comments on the writeup you submitted for Signpost issue 11. Would you like to discuss here? Or perhaps Newsroom? Bottom line, I think their confusion goes beyond what you stated and I am not really sure they know what public domain really means. BTW is the chinchilla picture here a selfie or ...? Just kidding! ☆ Bri (talk) 23:36, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

@Bri: Newsroom is probably best. I would prefer to seek editorial consensus on commentary. I think that we will find agreement about their confusion. I appreciate anyone else's views on the nature of that confusion and what possibilities we might have for helping to diminish it.

The chinchillas just hop around. I hope someday to cover their domestication but right now I am still on domestication of the Syrian hamster. Blue Rasberry (talk) 23:46, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Just thinking about how to approach this. It's not a news show, so do we critique it for being inaccurate in its understanding of both copyright law and the functioning of an open-knowledge community? Or having a non-neutral tone, or making assertions of unproven things such as sonar causing beachings in the second segment? Put some thoughts together at newsroom here, hope they are coherent enough to have a discussion around. ☆ Bri (talk) 05:21, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

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