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A barnstar for you!
[edit]The Copyeditor's Barnstar | |
Keep up the good work Theroadislong (talk) 10:40, 9 November 2017 (UTC) |
wtf
[edit]y do u keep deleting my edits tf Horsesuckle (talk) 02:59, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
I've responded to your inquiry on your talk page. Thank you. Beauty School Dropout (talk) 03:03, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
Vandalism Incident
[edit]Thank you very much for updating me. I hope to retire this as soon as it is all over; I had created it solely for the purpose of correcting the vandalism, and am frustrated by said warnings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThatThat92 (talk • contribs) 00:53, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
No problem! The system worked in this case as it was intended - that other person was blocked by an administrator, who investigated the situation and determined that they were the ones to be held responsible. Beauty School Dropout (talk) 00:59, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Thank you very much for all your help. I will be retiring this account now, but I appreciate all that you have done to help. Feel free to delete this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThatThat92 (talk • contribs) 00:55, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
You're welcome. Beauty School Dropout (talk) 00:58, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | |
Thanks for the help! ThatThat92 (talk) 00:57, 12 December 2017 (UTC) |
Thank you for the compliment! Beauty School Dropout (talk) 01:00, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Rollback
[edit]I have granted the "rollbacker" permission to your account. After a review of some of your contributions, I believe you can be trusted to use rollback for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, contact me and I will remove it. Good luck and thanks. – Gilliam (talk) 02:02, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Thank you! Yes, I truly am enjoying my Wikipedia experience and would be pleased to learn the rollback lingo and software (if there is any to install or use.) Thanks! Beauty School Dropout (talk) 02:04, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
- Many rollbackers use WP:HUGGLE or Wikipedia:STiki but personally I prefer to use the older User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool. You can enable WP:TWINKLE in your Preferences under Gadgets, which allows you to choose from many semi-automated different vandalism warnings to post on vandals' talk pages. Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions, and I'll do my best to answer.– Gilliam (talk) 02:14, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
- Hello Beauty School Dropout, thanks for removing your warnings on that IP editor, however I'd like to remind you that rollback is really only for obvious vandalism. Please keep that in mind in the future. Thanks! Happy editing!--Cameron11598 (Talk) 03:10, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
Absolutely! And I genuinely appreciate your input because I am brand-new at this Wikipedia rollback experience. I am totally open and receptive to any level of analysis or evaluation of my Wikipedia actions. Beauty School Dropout (talk) 03:17, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
- Any time! Thanks for the Barnstar
. Also its nice to see another ASL savvy wikipedian. --Cameron11598 (Talk) 03:49, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
- Any time! Thanks for the Barnstar
Franceska Mann edit
[edit]Hi, I saw my Franceska Mann edit was reverted, and am asking why that was done. Different accounts indeed place the incident in different locations, with Ber Mark's Scrolls of Auschwitz as an example of a source placing it at the selection ramp instead of the gas chamber, while this survivor's testimony places the incident at a work area of Auschwitz, albeit I find that version to be definitely not the truth what happened, given how it seemed Schillinger was the only Nazi casualty, and among the few established details were that Emmerich also sustained crippling leg injuries that day. 108.49.193.44 (talk) 04:23, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
My suggestion would be to start a discussion on the article's talk page [[1]] and get input from other Wikipedia editors. Beauty School Dropout (talk) 04:26, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
Pending changes reviewer granted
[edit]Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.
Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.
See also:
- Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes, the guideline on reviewing
- Wikipedia:Pending changes, the summary of the use of pending changes
- Wikipedia:Protection policy#Pending changes protection, the policy determining which pages can be given pending changes protection by administrators.
Alex Shih (talk) 09:27, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you! Beauty School Dropout (talk) 09:28, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
- And when you have just a bit more experience with that, please read WP:NPR then WP:NPP and consider applying for New Page Reviewer. There's a lot to learn and remember though, but if you need any help, don't hesitate to ask. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:15, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you!
A barnstar for you!
[edit]The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar | |
Schlong day will be here in just 45 short days. Do you have your tux and your escort lined up? Seriously, this has been going on for about a year now, I'm glad someone else is reverting this time and and I hope they don't cone after you like they did me. best of luck. Perhaps, John from Idegon (talk) 03:48, 1 January 2018 (UTC) |
Andrew Cuomo - Thanks
[edit]Thanks for helping out with reverting repeated vandalism to the Andrew Cuomo article. I have reported the IP. It is obvious he will not stop until blocked - again. I hope an administrator acts soon because it is especially bad for the project to have such repeated vandalism to a biography of a living person. Donner60 (talk) 04:43, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
You're welcome. Beauty School Dropout (talk) 04:44, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
BARNSTAR!!
[edit]The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
This is for your valuable efforts for countering Vandalism and protecting Wikipedia from it's threats. I appreciate your effort. You are a defender of Wikipedia. Thank you. PATH SLOPU 10:33, 28 September 2019 (UTC) |
Thank you! Beauty School Dropout (talk) 14:58, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
Imam Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim al Ghazi
[edit]Hi,
There seems to be a user(s) who keeps vandalising the ethnicity section of Imam Ahmed Gurey, the last paragraph refers to traditions of his Hawiye lineage which is sourced and referenced correctly but the said user(s) keep changing this to "Marehan". This is nothing but to mislead historical opinion on an important character in Somali history, can i ask if you can request to have the page protected as they are vandalizing the page daily now. I have tried to request the page be protected but possibly due to a lack of show of enough false editing (which there is now). Abshir55 (talk) 01:58, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
- I made the request on your behalf. Thank you! Beauty School Dropout (talk) 02:04, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #639
[edit]This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-05. Please help Translate.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Numberguy6Bot - Task: Add links to Wiktionary categories in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian.
- UmisBot - Task: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.
- ZLBot - Task: request SPARQLs for RAG.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call 6 August, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 6 August, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a Busy Summer Fun Wikidata Editing Hour, an hour of uninterrupted Wikidata editing time to work on your own Wikidata projects. Agenda.
- Wikimania is August 7-10. Here is a curated a list of Wikimania sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. Please add to the list if something is missing.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: Olympics medalists, not by country, but by NUTS region, By Giorgio Comai
- Papers
- Discovering life's directed metabolic (sub)paths to interpret human biochemical markers using the DSMN tool
- SPINACH: SPARQL-Based Information Navigation for Challenging Real-World Questions - The SPINACH dataset, derived from Wikidata's "Request a Query" forum, offers a more complex and challenging KBQA dataset with 320 question-SPARQL pairs, designed to test the capabilities of KBQA systems in navigating large and incomplete knowledge base schemas.
- Videos
- Using Wikidata to navigate the web (Wikimania Katowice) - Tool demo: Entity Explosion
- Use Wikidata and Lexeme to understand Minnan - COSCUP 2024 (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters)
Tool of the week
- Forage - a user script that provides an additional editing interface that makes editing easier, by showing the expected properties for a page (based on its "instance of" values), and providing simple inputs to let users add values for any such property. To install Forage, just add the following line to the common.js subpage under your user page on Wikidata, i.e. wikidata.org/wiki/User:Your username here/common.js:
importScript('User:Techwizzie/forage.js');
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page: Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).
- Abdulai Yorli Iddrisu (WMDE) has joined the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of September 2024. Welcome Yorli!
- Wikidata now has a shiny new landing page for developers: Wikidata:For developers
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
- last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
- Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
- Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
- myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
- indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
- object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
- object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
- public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
- Newest External identifiers: Google Play author ID, Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, Alle Burgen ID, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID, mandumah ID, Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID, FDC ID, French bathing water ID, Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID, Political Dictionary ID, United Nations Digital Library ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, 365scores player ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
- schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
- Military Grid Reference System ID (geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth)
- has semantic role (2nd proposal) (item that describes a role in an event/action class)
- growth rate (growth rate of something over time)
- lifespan (duration of a person's known or recorded lifespan)
- APPF registration status (status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Thinkwiki article, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, 365scores player ID, xdaforums, GamingOnLinux Database ID, Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID, TIPLOC code, IDU play ID, FolkWiki ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights: Sculptures by collection: an Integraality dashboard for WikiProject Sculpture
- Newest database reports: Dagbani Lexemes that wrongly include the grammatical gender property P5185
- Showcase Items: Chinua Achebe (Q155845) - Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
- Showcase Lexemes: Stuorra Dorskavuotna (L636928) - fjord in Hammerfest, Norway (Northern Sami proper noun)
Development
- mul language code: The new language code has been rolled out in a limited way. We are looking through feedback now.
- mul release: The full release of the "mul" language code feature to Wikidata, originally scheduled for August 12, may be delayed as we have uncovered a few issues during testing that could potentially block the scheduled release.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Bermuda
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2024-32
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
Two new parser functions will be available this week:
{{#dir}}
and{{#bcp47}}
. These will reduce the need forTemplate:Dir
andTemplate:BCP47
on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [2][3]- Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
- The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.
Project updates
- Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.
Learn more
- There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).
- Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
- Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.
- The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ
Wikidata weekly summary #640
[edit]This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-12. Please help Translate.
- Wikimania 2024 took place in Katowice, Poland. You can watch replays of the sessions on YouTube. Additionally, recordings of individual sessions are linked to each item on the Eventyay schedule.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Scholarly discussions through they eyes of CiTO (and Wikidata) - The post emphasizes how Wikidata can serve as a central hub for linking various scholarly resources, enabling better data interoperability and discoverability.
- Papers
- Talking Wikidata: Communication patterns and their impact on community engagement in collaborative knowledge graphs - a study of Wikidata's collaboration patterns reveals that a small group of highly engaged members drives most contributions, and improving discussions and engagement strategies could enhance long-term participation in the community.
- Videos
- FOSS4GE 2024 | Bridging Worlds: Integration of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap - Discover the synergy between Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, two monumental open data repositories. This talk unveils innovative web-based tools facilitating the linking of these platforms, enhancing the richness and accuracy of geospatial data.
- Setting up a Wikibase reconciliation service - Wikibase Working Hours by OlafJanssen
- Notebooks: List of countries by continent in Wikidata
Tool of the week
- New Q5 - is a form that quickly sets up a Wikidata Item for an individual by generating a QuickStatement with the basic parameters such as name and age.
- User:Nikki/SDCInfo.js - is a Userscript that shows some Wikimedia Commons statements on pronunciation audio statements on Lexeme forms.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
- object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
- object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
- public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
- relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components)
- Newest External identifiers: Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID, mandumah ID, Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID, FoodData Central ID, French bathing water ID, Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID, Political Dictionary ID, United Nations Digital Library ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, 365scores football player ID, African Music Library artist ID, Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID, GamingOnLinux Database ID, TIPLOC code, JJM Habitation ID, IDU play ID, IDU original ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
- schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
- has semantic role (2nd proposal) (item that describes a role in an event/action class)
- growth rate (growth rate of something over time)
- lifespan (duration of a person's known or recorded lifespan)
- APPF registration status (status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation)
- exponent of base unit (a qualifier of {{Q|P12571}} used to describe the exponent of the unit)
- Javanese registers (suggest the relationship between similar Javanese lexemes, between its various registers (social variants), mainly {{Q|12500634}} register (plain Javanese), {{Q|12492493}} register (high/polite Javanese), and {{Q|13091955}} register (middle Javanese))
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, xdaforums, FolkWiki ID, 365scores basketball player ID, The House of Graphs ID, SIMBAD catalog properties (used more than 1 million times), All Musicals lyrics ID, 365scores football team ID, 365scores basketball team ID, Illinois Center for the Book Author ID, Ôlyrix Person ID, Ідентифікатор відеогри Gamekombo, Slekt og Data grave ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Redundancy - The primary aim of WikiProject Redundancy is to reduce the amount of Wikidata's data—without reducing the amount of information in Wikidata!—for the well-being of Wikidata, its community, and its downstream users.
- Newest database reports: Items with instance of (P31) human (Q5) and date of birth (P569) > date of death (P570)
- Showcase Items: Cambridge (Q350): city in Cambridgeshire, England
- Showcase Lexemes: kpanjɔɣu (L651052) - A Dagbani noun described in English as hampers, baskets, or similar containers made from woven materials like reeds, grasses, or wicker, traditionally used for carrying or storing clothing.
Development
- Not much happened this past week because the team was attending Wikimania.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2024-33
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [4]
- Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.
Project updates
- Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (
w:bdr:
) [5]
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The Signpost: 14 August 2024
[edit]- In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse
- In focus: Twitter marks the spot
- News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded
- Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?
- Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing
- Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird
- Humour: I'm proud to be a template