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Hi! Would you consider to run your bot on Ukrainian Wikipedia for removing interwiki links? The approval page is here. Thanks in advance. --DixonD (talk) 10:19, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Please, use the following summary: [[Користувач:Addbot|Бот:]] Переміщення $counter інтервікі, відтепер доступних на [[Вікіпедія:Вікідані|Вікіданих]] у [[d:$id]] --DixonD (talk) 07:35, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #49
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Development
Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia
More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia)
Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
Selenium tests for multiline references
Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client
Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox
Selenium tests for language-table
Implemented in-process caching for entities
Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
Improved error reports from the API
Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
Added a table of content to item pages
Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia
Finished implementation of References-UI
Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript
Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information
Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation
If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language
Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page
Remove cbk-zam interwikis in Spanish municipalities
In cbk-zam Wikipedia created pages of all municipalities from Spain, France, etc, a month ago. But after they deleted interwikis, and now the cbk-zam interwikis are in all pages of all Wikipedias (English, Spanish, ...), like O Rosal. So, please remove the cbk-zam interwikis. --Vivaelcelta {discussion·contributions} 14:14, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
The project is still active so I cant really go and delete all cbk-zam interwiki links. These will however be removed in the next stage or by another bot! ·Add§hore·Talk To Me!10:47, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Addbot/Wikidata appear not to handle an article having two interwiki links for the same language
The English-language article Disco (TV series) describes a TV series and has a list of its programmes; in German, there are different articles for the TV series de:Disco (Fernsehsendung) and its list of programmes de:Liste der disco-Sendungen. The English-language article includes both of the Greman-language articles in its list of interwiki links.
Is the problem handling an article with two interwiki links for the same language in Addbot or in Wikidata? Can it be solved easily? Peter Loader (talk) 21:28, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
I notice that you recently contributed to the TRS-80 article and wondered if you were interested in adding your opinion to the discussion on the proposed article split. If you have no strong opinion either way, or don't wish to contribute, please feel free to ignore this message. Thank you for your time. Ubcule (talk) 16:08, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
This bot should be probably stopped
When anyone moves an article with interwiki links previously removed by this bot, the links do not appear automatically in the moved article,
so a user should do something like this. Not everyone will notice disappearance of interwiki links during the move, so a lot of damage can be done. Unless this bot can automatically
move interwiki links to moved article, it should be stopped. My very best wishes (talk) 22:00, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
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.
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)
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.
Hi, when Addbot removes all the H:ILLs from a template and leaves an empty <noinclude></noinclude> as it did here, would it be possible to remove that <noinclude></noinclude> as well? Thanks. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:46, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
Would you be willing to give Peachy a try for your bots? I'm looking for a few PHP botops to test run the alpha version.—cyberpowerChatOffline23:51, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Like I said, I'm extremely busy working on the framework. I hope to release it into public domain once it's done. I'm going to call it Peachy 2. Minimum mw version required is 1.21 (current version).—cyberpowerChatOnline00:40, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
I don't have much time to do it myself today so could you help me debug this The code changes made to the script stopped every task of my bot.—cyberpowerChatOnline11:35, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
I made this huge change and I'm having difficulty isolating the bug this time. I've been looking at it for hours. Could you help me out again? :p The change is supposed to add support for chunked uploads where the end-user gives the framework an array of file locations that are chunked files and the framework uploads chunks to be pieced together into one file.—cyberpowerChatOnline02:04, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
This bot has moved the link Saturation (telecommunications) to wikitionary (or whatever the thing is). However, your bot has failed to fix all of the links found here. I tried to edit them as an anonymous user, but then I get blamed for spamming wikipedia. Please look at having the bot fix all the links. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.94.244.179 (talk) 21:48, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Could you please elaborate on what the exact problem is? The only edits made to that article by Addbot was interwiki link migration to Wikidata which from my understanding is irrelevant to your point. John F. Lewis (talk) 00:56, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Before the bot's changes, there were many referring pages that linked to Saturation (telecommunications). After the bot's changes, they do not link directly to the Wikidata, but instead are at the Wikipedia stub. Couldn't the bot have updated all of the referring **linked** pages when/before the migration to Wikidata happens? Now every place where someone was referring to *Saturation (Communications)* as a concept they didn't want to explain in-line must go and fix the links to point directly to the migrated location. 216.94.244.179 (talk) 17:31, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
There aren't so many pages now as I have changed many of them. The additional problem is that anonymous user's are then flagged as spamming when a direct link to WikiData is used. Maybe there is a better way to link to WikiData than externally. Something like,
[[Wikidata:Saturation_(telecommunications)]]
I didn't find that hint either. If you don't update the links, the Wikipedia stub should have a hint on how to link directly. Sorry, if I sounded short. I hope you can see how the behavior is annoying. 216.94.244.179 (talk) 17:35, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Sorry it has taken me such a long time to reply, to link to wikidata you have to link to the data entry number , eg. d:445 or d:789 but as far as I know you can not link via an article name. ·Add§hore·Talk To Me!13:03, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Good day Graham, I believe (without looking to the code) that this is due to the lowercase on Wikipedia but capitalisation on Wikidata. It may be a nice idea to introduce a check and also remove if capitulation is not a match. Though Addshore may provide a better answer to you. John F. Lewis (talk) 08:13, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello, this is Emily. I would like to edit the article for Vivian Hsu. For the new content that I plan to add to this article are the advertising works of Vivian Hsu and some of the lyrics that she wrote for other singers. Do you have any suggestions about this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emily88zhang (talk • contribs) 18:48, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Hallo. I saw this [5], there is two wikilinks to de. The one on wikidata is removed, but the remaining is now the one used at enwiki... Christian75 (talk) 21:35, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
If I go to the english "Ionocraft" voice, there is no link to the italian version of that page (Lifter), but if i try to add it... Wikidata shows me that the italian link is already there.
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
Denny wrote down how we’re planning to support queries on Wikidata. Feedback welcome.
Now that improvements for references have been deployed here’s a discussion on the best way to use them. (You can see an example of how it could be used in the source for “CAS registry number” on d:Q153)
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
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!)
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)
Can you add me interwiki, with your bot? I can not Wikidata on not to have my item. Please add me if you interwiki wigh your bot on my user page. Greeting! --Kolega2357 (talk)21:40, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello Addshore, I need some advice. I am thinking about requesting adminship to be able to block users at WP:AIV, help out at WP:RPP, and do some work at WP:EWN. The problem is, I am not sure if any of the Wikipedia community will support my RFA. I am aware that I have a relatively low edit count, and have only been here for a few months. Notwithstanding, I understand all the policies behind administrator actions and I feel that I am capable of handling the responsibility. So my question is: should I give RFA a shot now, or should I wait? If I should wait, how long? Thanks — nerdfighter21:09, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
I feel like you should probably wait for a few more months before you give it a shot! Try and get involved in as many areas as possible before your RFA, you have named some but I am sure there are more you are yet to dive into! :) ·Add§hore·Talk To Me!13:19, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I hope you remember the time in IRC what I said I'd attempt changing your code to Python. I'd actually done this some time ago, but was quite busy and hadn't tested it successfully until now (the script takes a long time to execute, and the last time, it had an error near the end, so it couldn't save after all that time, and I had to go offline soon, meaning it wouldn't have had the time to complete). Instead of saving to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User talk templates, however, I saved it in Wikipedia:Sandbox. I've noticed there was a fairly large drop in the number of pages. Also, the list isn't properly sorted (I had it sorted in the code, but I just moved the sorter to after it removed duplicated titles, so maybe it's fixed now). How does it look? Hazard-SJ ✈ 04:05, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
There are obvious things I need to remove from it like those ending with /sandbox and those in the talkspaces, but that would make the list even smaller :O Hazard-SJ ✈ 01:07, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
No repo yet. That file was sliced into 35 chunks and uploaded individually using the API and pieced together with the API. All you do is feed Peachy and array of files instead of one and it automatically takes care of the rest. You can download the current stable alpha release here—cyberpowerChatOnline18:03, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
Too slow and too clunky for me. Besides, I never can quite seem to get GitHub to work and online instruction manuals hasn't proven effective. If you can help me with a step by step instruction, I would like that. :p—cyberpowerChatOnline18:14, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
Download the windows program, install, make an account online, create a peachy repo, clone the empty repo to your computer, bump the code in it, commit from the app :) From my experience it is a bad idea to leave the windows app open as it will freeze after a while :) ·Add§hore·Talk To Me!11:27, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Addshore. How do I get Huggle to work for me? When I sign in, it says: "Huggle is not enabled for your account, check user configuration." But I have WP:Rollback. So I figured that I needed an administrator to enable the tool for me. I emailed Alison about it earlier this month, on March 15, but she has not yet gotten back to me about it. Today, an hour ago, I downloaded and tried to use WP:STiki, but it did not work correctly; it froze. Flyer22 (talk) 19:21, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
No problem! Sorry I was a bit slow, but it is in the manual linked above ;p
Step 1: Go to Special:Mypage/huggle.css on a project where you want to use huggle (project needs to be have huggle installed, in case you need to enable it there, please contact developers in #huggleconnect), insert
enable:true
onto the first line. This enables Huggle to run on your user account.
The entry for the artist Carlos Betancourt may not measure up to scrutiny for a profile of a living person. One of the four citations is from the web site "Soul of Miami" which simply reprints press releases. Other citations are self-referential, to artist bios in shows. Surely there must be additional outside sources that can be quoted. (Most of the information is unattributed.)Beauhanks (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:12, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
Uhm, please correct the link, enwiki at the lowiki page (and likely at the other pages) is a bit "wrong" and useless... mabdul16:19, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
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”
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
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.
Ok, should probably have thought of that. By the way, thanks very much for the work on the lists at WMFLabs. Comes in really useful in finding interwiki conflicts and links that need adding to items. Del♉sion23(talk)22:20, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Hehe, np! Although I am not sure how up to date I am going to be able to keep it when there are still millions of articles in my DB. Once we get down to a few million rather than 13 things should become easier! ·Add§hore·Talk To Me!23:25, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Plant ABCB transporters
Hi there,
I'm assuming your one of the editors for the ABC Transporter page?
I would like to make a contribution to the ABC Transporter page. I'm a researcher that would like to talk about plant ABC transporters, while shedding some light on the B subfamily (ABCBs) because they have unique features that distinguish them from the general eukaryotic ABC transporters. I'd like to add about 3 paragraphs: 1) General unique characteristics of Plant ABC transporters 2) Specific ABCB's (ABCB1,ABCB19, and ABCB4, and possibly one more), and then 3) How recent research ties into the MDR and chemotherapy benefits that plant ABC transporters suggest.
My issue is I don't know where in the page to put it. Since I'm focusing just on the plants, I was thinking right below the Eurkaryotic. not sure, please let me know what you think. I just want it to blend nicely into the page. Thank you in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duar9035 (talk • contribs) 15:23, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, and sorry for a very slugish reply (6 days really is bad on my part)!
I spotted your message over at Talk:ATP-binding_cassette_transporter. In regards to undoing one of your edits take a look at this page where you should be able to check each revision of the page and undo any where you have made errors!
If you still need any help feel free to post again on this page! :)
Looking for an Unblock over Heavy Opposition, Addshore
Chanced across the "Eguor Admin" grouping. Chose you and Nihonjoe at random after rejecting a couple with no recent activity. "Eguor administrators promise to offer a fair hearing to editors who present a well-documented case that they've been mishandled in some way. Burden of evidence rests squarely on the shoulders of the person who makes the assertion."
I was indef. blocked for sockpuppeting last May, but I didn't do it. The block was by way of Timotheus Canens who provided no warning, diff, or discussion. He was an admin at the time, now he's an arb. I see at Eguor I'm supposed to prove my case, but I can't prove a negative. I can say there's no proof I socked and no-one's ever furnished any circumstantial argument either. I've edited for several years, and did a WP:CLEANSTART after a WP:OUTING. You can see this in the first edit of my account[6].
It's accurate that I had a rough few early edits in the then-new account. I had only been a content editor, for years, but then got hauled into WP:ANI for trying to defend a WP:BLP. I encountered this whole new group of Wikipedia members that dwell almost entirely on the administrative side, no content. Not having any experience I didn't know how to respond. I was railroaded after the indef. I decided that I wasn't going to be bullied, and they weren't going to turn me into a sock which would be giving truth to the lie, so I started editing via IP and signing with my user ID. That is not a sock. Nobody ever listened and I didn't know what to do.
What else? I appealed to ArbCom, who rejected without explanation and demanded I divulge my previous account. I appealed to ArbCom again, by this time Timotheus Canens my blocker was an arb, and did not recuse himself. ArbCom however (this is important) did not block me, it only declined to lift my block. Any admin as far as I know can lift my block under policy, and an arb told me this. Why am I writing two Equor admins? Because if you decide to unblock me, you better be prepared for blowback, and I figure each of you could help the other. Anyhow, this is four paragraphs already, I better wrap it up. If you help me I promise I'll be straight with you, and try to fly high if I ever get back. This is Colton Cosmic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.128.6.21 (talk) 00:02, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, I have looked at everything you have said and looking into past edits actions of yours and others and I do not really think i am in a position to do anything. You have been blocked (in ways) by 3 admins who at the time would have had a much better idea (or proof) of what was happening and potentially with different data to hand (which can no longer be accessed). Also after your first block, you evaded your block by continuing to edit through ips which is in violation of policy which doesn't make your position any better :/.
In my eyes your best bet is to respect the block on Colton_Cosmic and decisions made by the admins involved and wait it out. You said that you "really cared about the articles" with your previous account, if you do there is technically nothing stopping an anonymous user from caring for those articles! (if you catch my drift).
Sorry I can't really help your current situation any more than with the above words but if you ever find yourself in need of advice again feel free to contact me (just don;t violate policy to do so) :)
Interwiki links have not reappeared on some articles
In relation to Addbot's massive project of migrating interwiki links, at least two connected articles have undergone interwiki link migration, but those links have not reappeared in English Wikipedia. Links to Danish Wikipedia and Dutch Wikipedia for Frederik van Pallandt as well as for Nina and Frederik were migrated on March 16, but [as of this writing, on April 9] have not reappeared in English Wikipedia [both Danish and Dutch articles, in each case, still retain their respective links to the two other languages]. In contrast, a third article, connected to the other two, Nina van Pallandt, whose links to German Wikipedia and Finnish Wikipedia, were also migrated on March 16, has no technical problems, with her interwiki links properly appearing across all three languages. —Roman Spinner(talk)(contribs)21:11, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
(Talk page stalker replies): The second one, I'm afraid to say, you broke. Addbot, as near as I can tell, got the interwikilinks correct at the time (the NL and DA entries had been added in January by BeneBot, and Addbot removed the links on the ENWIKI article in March.) but when you moved the page on April 9th, the interwiki link didn't go with it. because our infrastructure doesn't deal correctly with articles being moved out from under WikiData. (I corrected the Wikidata entry.) --j⚛e deckertalk01:24, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Don't worry, this is only a problem in the short term, Things such as this will be resolved automatically in the not too distant future! :) thanks for the links! ·Add§hore·Talk To Me!03:40, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Yep I know :/ this is due to the database being too big to do what I need to (and set the fields to be unique)... I have just re written the main bot execution and this should slowly solve the problem :) Take a look at this page and the graph that says 'DB enteries pending deletion'. I don't have the main script which checks the pages delete duplicates as this wastes too much time, instead I have a seperate script read from another list and slowly delete them. Also a quick note about that page, the number of links are not going to be changing each time the bot checks any more :/ it is just too much to maintain at such a high speed for such a number of articles. They will still be removed from the list when they have no links left. ·Add§hore·Talk To Me!16:19, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Cool! I'm having trouble getting to those pages right now, permissions fu, but thanks for the info about updates, and thank you for making this work, it is very cool. :) --j⚛e deckertalk21:01, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Something change the permissions of the folder the web files were stored in so you couldn't access them, Have fixed it now as you can see :) And np :) its all for a good cause right? ;p ·Add§hore·Talk To Me!03:38, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
If you cant get to the old page this should work :). Also just to let you know everything is being updated on those pages again (including the number of links left) ·Add§hore·Talk To Me!18:29, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Hmm, I just found 217 in another db table, I will try to move them into the current db now! (also remember the bot is always running but it just hasn't got around to getting back to the lo articles apparently...(it does have 10,000,000 articles to look at after all))·Add§hore·Talk To Me!21:07, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
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
We need feedback from contributors working on references addition or having tried to add references to statements. Please comment about your problems or your trials at d:Help:Sources
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)
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.
Hi! Could you please install python-twisted, sqlite, sqlite3, and the latest JRE (1.7) on bots-gs? It would be much appreciated --Rschen775402:42, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I have some concerns about the closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mabel Richardson as keep, as I am not sure how you came to that conclusion. There were two keep !votes for every delete, but of the six people who suggested keep, two were new users who went straight to deletion debates upon signing up, one was user who has made a few edits since signing in late December, all of which were to longevity articles, one was the article creator, and no one provided any policy-based or source-based rationale for their !vote, but instead used their subjective judgement on what they felt was notable. While I certainly don't believe that there was a consensus to delete, given the history of canvassing offline about longevity articles (among other problems with articles such as these), I believe that relisting the debate to allow for more unbiased/neutral opinions would have been appropriate in this case. I'm considering a deletion review, but I figured I'd discuss it with you first. CanadianPaul20:58, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
I've gone ahead and done it here. Nothing personal here at all; I just want a few extra eyes on the situation. If I'm in the wrong on this one (it happens more than sometimes), I'll be over it, haha. CanadianPaul20:51, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey there i just added a new photo to Weymouth Beach page and i seen you uploaded the last thing. This is my first upload to Wikipedia and think ive saved it the wrong way or buggered up.
Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jake6411 (talk • contribs) 08:13, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
I've started a Peachy project space on Labs. I'm also transitioning Cyberbot I and II over. I'll invite you to the project once I have it set up. It will host a MediaWiki installation.—cyberpowerChatOnline00:10, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
The task now ignores pages with no bots on until such a time that I can think of a way to make the task ignore such incoming links automatically. ·Add§hore·Talk To Me!09:01, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
Initially when I looked at the image the licence looked fine and had not been changed in years. Apparently I did not spot the deletion discussion on either EN or Commons in this case and went ahead and deleted the file under F8 which I now agree was wrong. Looking further into this further I feel this image should be merged with File:Hidy_and_Howdy.jpg which is identical and uploaded around the same time. For now I will restore the image and reopen the deletion discussion on en. ·Add§hore·Talk To Me!09:18, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
A glitch [not due to any action by Addbot] can be spotted at the William Henderson disambiguation page interwiki link to German Wikipedia, which goes to German Wikipedia's sub-disambiguation page for Bill Henderson (to limit proliferation of sub-disambiguation pages, English Wikipedia combines all William/Will/Willie/Bill/Billy redirects under the overall umbrella of "William"). However, German Wikipedia's disambiguation page for "William Henderson" has no such problem and properly points its interwiki link to "William Henderson" in English Wikipedia. Thus, German Wikipedia's interwiki link points in the right direction, but the equivalent link in English Wikipedia goes to German Wikipedia's "Bill", instead of "William". —Roman Spinner(talk)(contribs) 21:45, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
hiu — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.96.9.219 (talk) 23:40, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Thank you very much, Addshore, for all you have done improving my awful English at "Julian Bourdeu". And I really mean it.--Febusmefe (talk) 19:25, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Assistance request neutrality dispute Haller's Blue Army (Poland) page
Hello, to resolve an ongoing neutrality dispute on the Blue Army (Poland) page, I'm requesting any assistance possible from experienced Wikipedia editors to look at the 'Controversies' section of the Blue Army page, and review the text for possible bias. I'm not an seasoned Wikipedia contributor myself, in fact I don't really edit much at all. But, when I came across the Blue Army page, I was taken aback by the blunt and inaccurate way in which the subject matter was portrayed! The list of possible neutrality violations is extensive, and due to my novice editor status all my past attempts to modify the text have been dismissed as being disruptive, and subsequently reversed:
Possible neutrality issues found on the Blue Army (Poland) 'Controversies' section:
Neutrality Tag is constantly being taken down without reaching a final consensus on the subject matter. Weasel word are used to create an overall exaggerated impression of the events in question, and others are used to cast doubt on anything reported by the Polish side as being legitimate. POV and the use of questionable secondary source references, which contradict primary source accounts of the events. In this case the investigation conducted by the United States envoy to PolandHugh S. Gibson and his subsequent State Department report on the issue. The American envoy found that: many of the newspaper reports alleging antisemitism were planted by the German and Soviet governments, and had been inflated or even based on hearsay and confabulation. Also, the envoy reported that many of the "pogroms" were in fact food riots, where an even larger number of Christian shops were ransacked. Undue Weight specific events are taken out of context, such as: abuse of civilians during the military campaign by the Blue Army troops is automatically labeled as antisemitic. Thus, taken out of context, when in fact looting was not only restricted to jewish households.
In the end, I understand that this is a difficult subject matter, and that some of the troops did engage in open antisemitism. But, by breaking the above listed neutrality rules, the editor (Faustian) who wrote much of the section, is creating a false picture of the Blue Army, in which the reader comes away with the bias impression that "Pogroming" is the only thing the Blue Army did.
Again, for a quick snapshot of the primary source's account of the events, please see the United States envoy Hugh S. Gibson Wikipedia page. And, thank you for any assistance in this matter. --68.191.79.36 (talk) 21:35, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
No more autoreports
Dear Addshore, I've been using Huggle for a while now, but since a few months, it stopped autoreporting users after a final warning. I think it may have something to do with me becoming a steward late February. Huggle probably thinks I'm an administrator here. Do you know if/how this can be fixed? Kind regards, Mathonius (talk) 03:54, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
If it is detecting you as an admin you should be able to go into the option window, click on the 'Admin' tab and untick the two boxes in there. I think this should then report users to AIV again :) ·Add§hore·Talk To Me!09:23, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi Addshore, I had the time and the opportunity to try it out this morning. Both boxes on the admin tab were unticked, but it didn't autoreport this user after the final level warning, so I used Twinkle for reporting instead. It's not a big problem, but it would be awesome if Huggle autoreported again. There's a local configuration folder on my PC mentioning "Block user;66;-1;0;0," and "Report user;66;0;0;0,", among other things. Maybe a change there could fix it? Mathonius (talk) 04:18, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello Addshore, I noticed your bot is active with moving interwikis from Wikipedias to Wikidata. Is it possible to request for handling some interwikis on the Dutch (nl) Wikipedia first? In specific the interwikis from the template (sjabloon) namespace and the category (categorie) namespace, later perhaps also the article namespace. Currently I am working on cleaning all these pages from interwikis, solving all interwiki conflict, but I noticed that the moving of interwikis has slowed down the past days, so I hope that the moving of interwikis can be completed. Also it would be nice if we can get a list of templates and other pages where there is some interwiki conflict. Can you help me with this request? Thanks in advance! Romaine/Romaine (talk) 22:19, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
I had noticed the bot had slowed down recently too. I looked into it and it turns out I had removed it from the crontab on the server meaning it was slowly stopping. I have re added the bot to the cron and it is now running again. It should manage to scan over every article on the wiki in its DB ion a matter of hours or a day so keep your eye on the list. Any further problems just post a message here! Cheers! ·Add§hore·Talk To Me!10:30, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello Addshore, I just did a check with my bot on what templates an interwikilink to the English Wikipedia still is present and I found more than 850 templates where this was the case. Also I have seen a lot of interwikilinks to other languages too. You would make me really happy if you would process those interwikilinks soon. I want to get the namespace of templates and categories clean. Thanks! Romaine (talk) 07:15, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
bot report
Hi, In bot report the links which has space replaced with + and it is broken for example here please click on الگو:جعبه اطلاعات حزب سیاسی/توضیحات it redirects to الگو:جعبه+اطلاعات+حزب+سیاسی/توضیحات. yours, Yamaha5 (talk) 21:23, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Still are up their.
Dairy Farm Simulator is an unique. It is the first and only game out their that ever was create of this genre being as realistic as possible.
That's why it should be up on wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PatrickNZVDM (talk • contribs) 01:56, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi there! The reason the article was deleted was because the article did 'not indicate the importance or significance of the subject'. If you look at the differences between the article on Dairy Farm Simulator and the other articles that you have linked to you will see that all of the other articles carry references in the references section to other sources, Dairy Farm Simulator did not have any. Try to find some to reference the content in the article and it may then stay! ·Add§hore·Talk To Me!11:48, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
I'll take your word for that: Nerds to the rescue and so on. To be honest, I only know that a root name server is something to with teh interwebs. On the other hand, I think the ability to speak Middle English or tell the difference between a Manet and a Monet at a glance is being well-educated, and in no way nerdly. --Shirt58 (talk) 11:26, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Facepalm . Add§hore, I fed the troll. I am aware that there are things called "Unix", "C" (and its + and ++-s) "Python", and Wikipedia specifically and the Series of tubes in general uses 'em. I just don't have much of a clue how they all work. Oh, yes: the Salon des Refusés most famously refers to the "Salon des Refusés" of 1863, but also more broadly refers to the early works of the Impressionists rejected by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in the 1870s and 1880s. What? Me Nerdy? --Shirt58 (talk) 13:29, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
