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If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask on Project chat. If you want to try out editing, you can use the sandbox to try. Once again, welcome, and I hope you quickly feel comfortable here, and become an active editor for Wikidata.

Best regards!

FrigidNinja 23:30, 31 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Scripts and Gadgets

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You might want to consider enabling a few gadgets, they'll make life a lot easier here. Allow me to recommend some that I use:

  • slurpInterwiki - allows you to easily import interwiki links via the "Import interwiki" link under your toolbox. You can enable this in the "Gadgets" section of your preferences.
  • RequestDeletion - adds a link at the top of each item with a link for quickly requesting a deletion on Wikidata:Requests for deletion. Again, enable in preferences.
  • enumItems - adds arrows at the top of the page allowing you to access the next or previous item. Preferences.

I've also noticed that you've been doing a bit of work with living creatures, good for you. A script that you may find helpful is "Import statements". This adds a link in your toolbox allowing you to import statements such as "family", "taxon rank", etc. automatically from Wikipedia infoboxes. To use this, add the following to your common.js page:

importScript( 'User:Magnus Manske/import statements.js' );

Keep up the good work you're doing. Hope to see you around sometime. Regards, FrigidNinja 23:30, 31 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Have a flag!

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<shameless use of templated message>
Hello, Superm401! I am just letting you know that I have added the autopatroller flag to your account, as you are a trusted user on Wikidata. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me or leave a message at the project chat. Thanks, — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 00:21, 1 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #53

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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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Property:P412

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Hi,

The above property is now available and can be used on items. I noticed you participated in its discussion. --  Docu  at 10:56, 14 April 2013 (UTC)Reply


Property:P425

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Hi,

The above property is now available and can be used on items. I noticed you suggested its creation. --  Docu  at 17:06, 15 April 2013 (UTC)Reply


Property:P427 (taxonomic type)

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Hi,

The above property is now available and can be used on items. I noticed you participated in its discussion. --  Docu  at 17:37, 15 April 2013 (UTC)Reply


Property:P428 (botanist author abbreviation)

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Hi,

The above property is now available and can be used on items. I noticed you participated in its discussion. --  Docu  at 18:04, 15 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #54

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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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Property:P449 (original network)

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Hi,

The above property is now available and can be used on items. I noticed you first proposed its creation. --  Docu  at 19:25, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply


Property:P452 (industry)

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Hi,

The above property is now available and can be used on items. I noticed you first proposed its creation. --  Docu  at 22:04, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Property Creator

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As you have been very active in proposing and discussing new properties, I have nominated you for the property creator flag so that you can make them yourself. Please comment at Wikidata:Requests for permissions#Requests for the property creator right. Thanks, FrigidNinja 11:17, 25 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! Superm401 - Talk 18:17, 25 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Property:P467

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I have created Property:P467 (legislated by) which you proposed first. Regards, --Stevenliuyi (talk) 05:10, 27 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

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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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  • 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

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Separated from / forked from

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The property that you supported, separated from (P807), has been finally created. More participation in the property proposal pages would make property creation faster. Go ahead!--Micru (talk) 02:10, 17 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

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national team appearances (P1129)

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Just created national team appearances (P1129) --Tobias1984 (talk) 14:55, 2 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Other language descriptions

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Hi! I just read your message now.

I noticed there seemed to be some other language descriptions but I thought only certain languages were supported for their fields at this time. For future reference I'll check and see where to post descriptions in other languages.

WhisperToMe (talk) 12:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

New page for catalogues

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Hi, I created a new page for collecting sites that could be added to Mix'n'match and I plan to expand it with the ones that already have scrapers by category. Feel free to use, expand. Best, Adam Harangozó (talk) 20:01, 19 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

Call for participation in the interview study with Wikidata editors

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Dear Mattflaschen,

I hope you are doing good,

I am Kholoud, a researcher at King’s College London, and I work on a project as part of my PhD research that develops a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. I am collaborating on this project with Elena Simperl and Miaojing Shi.

I would love to talk with you to know about your current ways to choose the items you work on in Wikidata and understand the factors that might influence such a decision. Your cooperation will give us valuable insights into building a recommender system that can help improve your editing experience.

Participation is completely voluntary. You have the option to withdraw at any time. Your data will be processed under the terms of UK data protection law (including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018). The information and data that you provide will remain confidential; it will only be stored on the password-protected computer of the researchers. We will use the results anonymized to provide insights into the practices of the editors in item selection processes for editing and publish the results of the study to a research venue. If you decide to take part, we will ask you to sign a consent form, and you will be given a copy of this consent form to keep.

If you’re interested in participating and have 15-20 minutes to chat (I promise to keep the time!), please either contact me at [email protected] or [email protected] or use this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmmFHaiB20nK14wrQJgfrA18PtmdagyeRib3xGtvzkdn3Lgw/viewform?usp=sf_link with your choice of the times that work for you.

I’ll follow up with you to figure out what method is the best way for us to connect.

Please contact me if you have any questions or require more information about this project.

Thank you for considering taking part in this research.

Regards

Kholoudsaa (talk) 17:37, 7 June 2021 (UTC)Reply