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Wikidata weekly summary #50

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
      • Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
      • Fixed the prev/next links in diff view (bugzilla:45821)
      • d:Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets you filter by language and entity type
    • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
    • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
    • Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
    • Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
    • Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
    • Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the Wikipedias.
    • Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
    • Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
    • Support for multi-line references in diff view
    • Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
    • Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
    • Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and visibility of bad dependencies
    • Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • 3rd Media Web Symposium 2013
    • Wikidata trifft Archäologie
    • SMWCon Spring NYC
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse. “Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but it is unknown to us.
  • Open Tasks for You
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kvajdej!!!

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kako si fant, as uredu? :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.142.196.149 (talk) 21:09, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #51

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their articles (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at it:Torino)
    • Worked on automatic summaries for statements
    • Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of {{#property:p169}} for example
    • Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.)
    • Selenium tests for qualifiers
    • Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
    • Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • Newline 2013
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that.
    • Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed!
    • Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri!
    • We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis
    • We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful.
    • In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you.
    • We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at bugzilla:44228
    • Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: bugzilla:46461
    • Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? This is for you
    • The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again. At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted.
    • Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata
    • Wikidata was added to wikipulse
    • A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set
  • Did you know?
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See note at the end of this weekly summary
    • Help test qualifiers (m:Wikidata/Notes/Data model primer#Qualifiers - see also example statements there) on the test wiki so we can roll it out with the next release
    • Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!)
    • Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label?
    • Hack on one of these

Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk)

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Wikidata weekly summary #52

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
    • Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
    • Worked on improving recent changes code in client
    • Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
    • Implemented string formatter
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
    • There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
    • There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
    • We hit Q10000000
    • A Wikidata item in the wild ;-)
  • Did you know?
  • Open Tasks for You

Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.

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Wikidata weekly summary #53

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
    • Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
    • Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
    • Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
    • Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
    • Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
  • Events/Press
    • right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
  • Discussions
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
    • Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
    • There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
    • If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
    • There is a new user right: property creators
    • There is now a page to request deletion of a property
    • We now have Bureaucrats
    • Reasonator was improved and extended (1 2)
  • Open Tasks for You

Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.

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Wikidata weekly summary #54

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
    • wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (bugzilla:45005)
    • Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (bugzilla:45140)
    • Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
    • Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
    • Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
    • Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
    • Work on the storage code for answering queries
  • Events/Press
    • GLAM-WIKI 2013
    • upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
    • upcoming: Opensource Treffen
    • upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
  • Discussions
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Open Tasks for You
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Wikidata weekly summary #55

 
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Wikidata weekly summary #56

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

This Month in GLAM: April 2013

 


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Wikidata weekly summary #57

 
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Wikidata weekly summary #58

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #59

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Press
    • Linked Data in Business
    • currently: Hackathon in Amsterdam
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: catalog code (P528), runway (P529), diplomatic relation (P530), diplomatic mission sent (P531), diplomatic mission sent (P531), port of registry (P532), target (P533), streak color (P534), Find a Grave (P535), ATP id (P536), twinning (P537), fracturing (P538), Museofile (P539)
    • Newest task forces: Ship task force
    • d:Template:Constraint:Item allows to check if items using a given property also have other properties. To find items to fix, it links to one of Magnus' tools and to a daily report. Sample: items with property mother should also have main type (GND) with value person.
  • Development
    • A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
    • Worked on content negotiation for the RDF export
    • Bugfixing for editing of time datatype
    • Added validation in the api for claim guids. This also resolves bug 48473, an exception being thrown in production, whenever a bot or api user requested a claim with an invalid claim guid
    • Improved error message popup bubbles to show HTML and parse the links correctly
    • Fixed bug 48679, to hide the view source tab for item and property pages
    • Testing on Diff extension and SQLstore
  • Open Tasks for You

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Wikidata weekly summary #60

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #61

 
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Wikidata weekly summary #62

 
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Wikidata weekly summary #63

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Events/Press
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
  • Development
    • Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
    • Further work on input validation
    • Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
    • Use Serializers for generating API results
    • Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
    • Changed globe coordinate value input to use backend coordinate parser
    • Fixed issues with data type definitions not being available in the frontend
    • Wrote a little hack so that on statements with a long list of values you will always be able to see the name of the property of the current section you are in (since the label moves when scrolling the page)
  • Open Tasks for You

Wikidata weekly summary #73

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: interchange station (P833), public holiday (P832), parent club (P831), Encyclopedia of Life (P830), OEIS ID (P829), possible causes (P828), BBC programme identifier (P827), tonality (P826), dedicated to (P825), Meteoritical Bulletin Database ID (P824)
    • Newest task forces: Wikidata:País Valencià task force
  • Development
    • Work on allowing API module editentities to edit claims
    • Work on entity / item redirects
    • Work on support for moving qualifiers in API and Frontend
    • Adding coordinates to diff display and improving diff display code
    • Allowing site groups for language links on clients to be configurable (needed for commons)
    • EntityId changes, we are now working on 0.5!
    • Show snaktype in summary for novalue and somevalue snaks
    • Further work on merge module for the API
    • Wrote missing tests for various jQuery widgets
    • Work on value formatters
    • Continue on moving tests to cucumber
    • Bug fixes for coordinates following the latest deployment
  • Open Tasks for You
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Wikidata weekly summary #74

 
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Wikidata weekly summary #75

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
    • Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
  • Development
    • Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
    • Started work on number data type
    • Worked on simple query special page
    • Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
    • Worked on JSON dumps
    • Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
    • Continued work on the merge items API module
    • Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
    • Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
    • Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
    • Continued moving to new browsertests framework
    • Bugfixes on autosummaries
    • Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
    • Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
  • Open Tasks for You
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Yatalu reporting in

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✿(ღ✪ｖ✪)ｷﾗｷﾗ♥ This is Yatta, reporting in with the most random talk page message you've had in a while!

You should now

  • pass this on to at least 10 people (no, please don't, because it'd be horribly annoying for them)
  • try to eat air
  • say potato in three different (the more awkward the better) voices

In order to not be haunted for the rest of your life! (Even if you don't, I won't haunt you, no worry.)

Much enjoyment!

YATTA ヽ( ° ヮ° )ﾉ {wikia} ☆ |　2013年12月28日、11:45:42

^^ 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 11:49, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Template:Px

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Hi, I undid your edit to the template because it was causing significant problems in articles, e.g., Justin Bieber. I was alerted to the issue on my talk page. My template knowledge is scanty at best.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:37, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

  Whack!
You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something silly.

Template_talk:Infobox_musical_artist#Serious_malfunction --NeilN talk to me 16:45, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Well, I wasn't expecting anything like that to happen... Sorry for the problems that caused, and thanks for the speedy response (and the well-deserved trout)! 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 17:14, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Oh, I dunno, I thought seeing Justin Bieber take over almost my entire monitor was in keeping with his style.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:30, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Bbb = Big Belieber Buff? :-) --NeilN talk to me 17:35, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
I leave that to Drmies. I don't think I've ever even heard him sing. I just glance at the continuous news of his antics, and, of course, he does live in my part of the world.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:06, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Yes, that does seem in keeping with his attitude... =) I've copied over the testcases from Template:px/doc to Template:px/testcases and can see that some of them fail on the sandbox copy. I also note that {{Infobox musical artist}} uses Module:InfoboxImage, which may have contributed to the breakage, so {{px}} needs appropriate testcases of that usage added as well, but I don't know enough about using it to do so myself (and the breathless nature of the appropriate code in Infobox musical artist doesn't help with my understanding of it at all =P ). I may make another edit or two to the sandbox, just for fun's sake, but I'll leave the main template alone after that little kerfluffle. =) 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 17:48, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Regarding the "Retired" pane on your user talk page

Latest comment: 10 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hello Good Friend :) !! There is a "This user is retired" declaration on the top of this page. Since you are still editing wikipedia I think you should remove it. Sorry if I poked my nose in your matters without knowing the full context.

Thanx :)

King Of The Wise (talk) 09:28, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello King of the Wise! My view of the "retired" tag has always been that it should reflect the editor's wishes, regardless of whether they are still actually editing (so long as they are not obviously still active or attempting to use the tag for mischievous reasons). And if you look at my contributions, you'll notice that, while I do still edit, there is no regularity to it whatsoever - I might edit a dozen times in a week, then go several months without editing. It comes down to what pages I happen to be looking at and what I feel like doing. Despite this, I do consider myself to be retired from Wikipedia, so to my mind, at least, the tag is appropriate. I go into a bit more detail in my retirement message. Cheers! =) 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 16:38, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Oh, well allright then. I guess everyone has his own views. I had not opened your user page before, I guess I should have had. Anyways, sorry if i disturbed you.

King Of The Wise (talk) 18:32, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikiarchaeologist userbox

Latest comment: 10 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi, hope you don't mind that I've added your userbox to the gallery. -Ugog Nizdast (talk) 19:12, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Aah, definitely not. I'd've added it myself if I'd thought of it. =) 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 03:25, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

TheMindCrapAddict

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Check back at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TheMindCrapAddict for a response from me. Nyttend (talk) 17:01, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Incredibly overdue thanks for your 2010 efforts in my sandbox!

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Since I became chronically ill (waaay before I joined WP), I'm not good at following-up on things. I tend to deal with whatever pops up in front of me when I'm capable of recognizing & dealing with it, which of course happens randomly & doesn't last always long enough for me to finish things. I mention this to explain why I'm replying so late.

I'm grateful that WP & WPians help me keep my hand in my old talents somewhat, so that if I can ever control my illness enough to work, I'll be okay. Eh, that's not exactly what I meant to say, which shows I need to wrap things up & nap. Again. Anyway, I responded twice to you on my talk page and I finally figured out the whole redirect thing and was able to find the history of my sandbox, rather than that of the page in the article namespace.

Belated thanks! --Geekdiva (talk) 19:50, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Aah! Heh, it's been so long, I'd completely forgotten about that and had to go do a bit of looking to figure out what you were talking about. =X
If you'd still like to delete the sandbox page(s), you can let me know here, or tag them with {{db-userreq}}. =) 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 23:34, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Yes, please delete it! Thanks very much for seeing to this even though you are retired. --Geekdiva (talk) 23:56, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Not a problem; while I am for all intents and purposes retired from Wikipedia, I'm active on other wikis now and try to make it a point to keep up with messages left on my talk page here. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with. =) 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 20:13, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

TheMindCrapAddict SPI

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Hi. I'm confused by something in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TheMindCrapAddict and am hoping you can clear it up for me. You listed the IP address 50.157.164.244 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) as a suspected sockpuppet — indeed, apparently the only suspected sockpuppet here, aside from possible sleeper accounts (which a CheckUser check failed to find). But I can't see any edits at all associated with this IP address, so I'm wondering why it was listed. Did you perhaps mistype an IP address here? If you can clear up this point, I and other people working at SPI would be grateful; otherwise, it will probably be necessary to close this case without any further action. Thanks. — Richwales (no relation to Jimbo) 06:34, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Aah, I thought it was clear in my opening comment, but I suppose not: the whole reason I filed the SPI (and originally reported it to ANI) is because TheMindCrapAddict posted on my Minecraft wiki talk page their intent to engage in sockpuppetry; they did so from the IP address I listed, as can be seen by clicking the diff link I posted. Sorry for the confusion, and I hope this clarifies things! 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 06:49, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Null edit

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You have the retired tag, but you also responded to a random question yesterday. So here's hoping you see this one:

The job queue managed to fix 99.99% of the 2.5m transclusions of an obsoleted template, but your Lockbox page has been sitting there for a few days, and I can't do anything because it's fully protected. If you could just give that page a quick null edit, that should solve the issue and would be much appreciated. moluɐɯ 12:52, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

  Done, though it required a bit more than just a null edit. =) 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 19:49, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Inconsequential edits to highly visible templates

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Module:Navbox has over 2 million transclusions. Please don't make inconsequential edits to it, like Special:Diff/634041458, since it puts tremendous strain on the job queue for no real benefit. Instead, make your changes to the sandbox, and they'll get brought along next time a substantive edit is made. Jackmcbarn (talk) 05:45, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Aah, sorry about that, I've grown too accustomed to editing things (CSS and Javascript), or in places (where the most-transcluded templates' transclusions number only in the tens of thousands, or even far less), where straining the job queue isn't nearly such a concern. I'll definitely try to remember this in the future, and restrain myself accordingly here. =) 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 06:01, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Shonen Jump (magazine)

Latest comment: 9 years ago17 comments2 people in discussion

Hi, Dinoguy1000. I know that you're retired and you don't know me, but I need your help. You're listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Manga magazines as having the issues I need of the Shonen Jump magazine. My main request is a preview of Wāqwāq on the August 2009 issue. Also, there is an interview with Riichiro Inagaki on the February 2006 issue, and an interview with Hiroyuki Takei on an unspecified issue of 2005 (I only know it, unfortunately; it's cited here). I wonder if you could help me. Cheers, Gabriel Yuji (talk) 01:26, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi Gabriel, I should be able to help with those sometime in the next few days, I think. If I haven't gotten back to you in a week or so, give me a poke to remind me. =) 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 04:01, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Ok, thank you! Gabriel Yuji (talk) 18:36, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Hm... As you asked me here I'm after a week. Gabriel Yuji (talk) 19:48, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Aah, thanks for the reminder; I thought I was forgetting something. I've uploaded images of the Inagaki interview to Imgur; it was on pages 14-15. The Takei interview gave me considerably more trouble, and I spent quite a while poring over my 2005 issues before concluding the date is wrong and delving into previous issues; I finally found it in the August 2003 issue on pages 3 and 24. On my way, though, I found another interview with him in the March 2004 issue on page 7; it might have some more tidbits you can use. If you need better images or typed transcripts, let me know; I don't do much photography, and working by myself trying to manage the magazines and my smartphone while getting the angle right to minimize glare doesn't work very well. =X And if you need anything else, don't hesitate to ask, and I'll try not to take a week again to reply. =D
I'm afraid you'll have to provide more info on what exactly you need out of the Waqwaq preview issue. 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 03:59, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Wowow, I only saw it now. Thank you!!! Gabriel Yuji (talk) 02:39, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Hm, about the Takei's interviews I would wanna know what's the volume and the issue of them. About Waqwaq, I can't say with sure what I want as I don't know what info there is the magazine. However, my main focus is to get info on production (to create something similar to Shaman King#Production or Eyeshield 21#Production); all info is good, though. Regards, Gabriel Yuji (talk) 03:09, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

The August 2003 issue should be volume 1 issue 8, I think, and the March 2004 issue should be volume 2, issue 3 (though if I remember correctly, it was shown to just be issue 15) - the volume number is simply the current year of production of the magazine, starting with volume 1 in 2003 when the magazine started, and the issue number is just the number of the cover date's month.
Unfortunately, the only info on Waqwaq was just a very brief, in-universe background info page; the only real out-of-universe bit of info it had that would be remotely useful is that the series started in 2004, which is already mentioned in the article. Other than that one page, it was just the preview chapter itself and an advert or two. 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 06:03, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Hm, it's a pity there's nothing more about Waqwaq. Thank you very much, anyway!! Gabriel Yuji (talk) 19:27, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
No problem, and once again, let me know if there's anything else I might be able to help with. ^^ 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 19:46, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Hey, as you were so nice and showed to be willing to help again, here I am. Would you mind to find the page for a possible interview by Masashi Kishimoto in the May 2006 issue of Shonen Jump and tell me if there's something more on Rocke Lee (or any other character)? Gabriel Yuji (talk) 04:58, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Sure, I'll try to get to this tomorrow. =) 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 05:04, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
@Gabriel Yuji: Sorry for the delay; this completely slipped my mind (now why does that sound familiar)!
I found the interview, it's on pages 4 (here) and 6 (here) (but not page 5! that's a Yu-Gi-Oh! advert, if you're wondering) in the May 2006 issue (volume 4, issue 5). The author of the interview wasn't noted (though the Jojo inteview's author was >_> ) And since I couldn't find it before, the ISSN for Shonen Jump is 1545-7818. Again, let me know if you need a transcript or anything else. =) 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 00:41, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Don't worry; there's no rush at all, and thank you! The scans are pretty readable so there's no need of a transcription. Gabriel Yuji (talk) 01:36, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Hey, here I am again. On the same topic but on a different subject. The sources were very useful and are completely detailed, I guess. However, now Wikipedia is requiring title for publications and all them have a CS1 error "Missing or empty |title=". Could you help me giving the titles (if there is one...) of Wāqwāq#cite_note-9, Eyeshield_21#cite_note-SJ-1, Shaman_King#cite_note-shonenjump-1, Shaman_King#cite_note-5, and Rock_Lee#cite_note-May2006-4? Greetings, Gabriel Yuji (talk) 23:05, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

If I recall correctly, author interviews generally don't have any special title; they're usually referred to as something along the lines of "Interview with name". I can check the specific features you asked about to see if any of them were given a unique title, but in the meantime I'd recommend just going with the generic form. 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 02:35, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
For now, I've discovered that "title=none" works ([1]) but how you going? Gabriel Yuji (talk) 19:31, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
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