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Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (phabricator:T181807)
More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically phabricator:T180467)
Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (phabricator:T113468)
Incoming:Next Structured Commons IRC office hour will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 18:00 UTC.
Past: Tech-talk about knowledge technologies, featuring Wikidata, DBpedia, and Histropedia at Jakarta Digital Valley, Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec 8, 2017. Slides are available at Slideshare link.
Structured Data on Commons: Participate in this survey to help the team understand which tools and functionalities are most important to the Commons and Wikidata communities
QuickStatements now has a CSV-like import function (under "import commands")
Hello James Allison, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!
Backlog update:
The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!
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New Year New Page Review Drive
A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.
General project update:
ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
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Please desist from editing the intro section of the Deaths in 2017 page. It has to be well documented as to what goes into an entry as it is continually one of the Top 10 pages on Wiki for the last few years. Having a detailed description and examples helps to encourage editors by giving them an idea of what is needed for an entry and helps prevent conflict and edit warring because of all of the well documented rules and discussions that goes onto the page. If you feel there is an issue you would like to discuss, stop by the Talk page and drop us a line. There is already a section there with someone upset over what you did. Have a Great Day and Thanks!Sunnydoo (talk) 18:53, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
I added very important information on WiFi Map for Notability.
WiFi Map, it is one of the most popular free applications with worldwide, covering, available in 59 languages and in several operating systems. Ranked with the Nº 1 in connectivity for an entire world in this year 2017 following the GSMA Mobile World Congress celebrated in Barcelona, Spain
WiFi Map was co-founded by Dmitry Sklyarov related to the very know a criminal case United States v. Elcom Ltd. accused of been violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by creating the software company called “Advanced eBook Processor”, but finally he was declared not guilty of all the charges.
Having your last comments about this article several improvements were done following the exact model, sense and writing criteria of similar Wikipedia articles like this:
Final step towards being able to store statements on Forms of a Lexeme
Disabled RDF support for Lexemes as the mapping isn't defined yet (phabricator:T182660)
Adding some more smart tracking for Lua usage so we better know which properties from an item are used on a Wikipedia article even when the whole item is loaded (phabricator:T179923)
Hello James Allison, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!
Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!
We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!
The backlog drive will begin on January 1st and run until January 29th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.
Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:
The total number of reviews completed for the month.
The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.
NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.
Past: Wikidata team and volunteers were at 34C3. Check the videos, the tweets, a new design made by Bleeptrack for a cake. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (phabricator:T183267)
Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (phabricator:T164351)
Monthly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
28 Fundamental Beliefs Seventh-day Adventist – Removal of irrelevant text
Hi,
The passages in the article “28 Fundamental Beliefs” under the section “Theological Beliefs” were misleading the content from the actual talk of the subject. These texts have some extra background political contents that hinder the actual beliefs followed by Seventh-day Adventists. It is likely to accuse Seventh-day Adventist beliefs, which is not the real fact (these are politics in and around every Christian denomination, so let’s get rid of this). Please have a keen check on my edit. Wiki is for neutrality and we shall make it neutral for general audiences.
I disagree with your assessment of your edits. Feel free to open a discussion at the talk page in order to gain consensus for your changes. James (talk/contribs) 02:28, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
Thank you James, but I need to intimate you about the miss leading texts in the most sensitive area of a Denominations fundamental beliefs. My edits are purely the extract of 28 Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventist church 2015 Edition.
These texts literally building an negative impact on Seventh-day Adventism:
“… Adventist theologians generally reject the "verbal inspiration" position …… that the authors then expressed these thoughts in their own words.
Adventists generally reject higher critical approaches … urges Adventist Bible students to avoid relying on the use of the presuppositions”
Do these highlighted texts gives information about the 28 Fundamental beliefs? Or proclaiming Seventh-day Adventism as a non-logical denomination. These are political words against Adventism which were introduced irrelevently in this article. The topic is not anti-Adventism its about the 28 beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists. So please be keen and responsible while introducing the facts and references for a topic. Thanks for responding to my effort.
