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Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (phabricator:T151717)
Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (phabricator:T55619)
Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (phabricator:T176062)
Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (phabricator:T121274)
Added a new mw.wikibase.getAllStatements Lua function in addition to the existing getBestStatements, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (phabricator:T176124)
Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (phabricator:T174794)
Hi there,
We talked a while back when I was young and naive and thought I could edit Wikipedia to my hearts content and get all my studies done, which hasn't turned out to be successful (in that I haven't edited not that I've failed), but I remember you as a prominent figure in the Wikiproject Perth scene. Sorry if this isn't the place to go, or if you're not interested, but I've worked excessively on the page for Point Walter and I believe it could get to Good Article status. However, I've never nominated anything for good article before, and I wanted to check some things off with someone familiar with the subject and the process, which I imagine you are for both. I have a several issues beforehand for the article which I'm not sure need to be addressed before nomination:
Things that are actually part of nomination
1b) "it complies with the
list incorporation
.
I had a bit of a read of this policy, and basically found that it's preferable for information to be listed in prose. However, in the geography section, there is a brief list which I don't know if the information contained would be contained in prose.
2b) "all
reliable sources
"
There are two sources that may raise issues, as of writing one of these is listed as source 20. It is a YouTube video, however, it is an official Melville City Council video from the official channel. The other source which I imagine will be more problematic is listed as source 22 as of writing this, and is by what appears to be a music reviewing subsidiary of Junkee, which I'm not 100% on in terms of reliability. However, it should be assessed as a standalone source, as Junkee was founded in 2013 and the article was published in 2007, so it appears Junkee bought the website 6 years later.
2d) "it contains no copyright violations nor plagarism"
The text in the geography section is highly similar to the source's text. I attempted to change up the wording but I found it difficult to keep the wording concise while maintaining all the relevant information.
It is possible for me to go into a section on conservation, pulling parts from the flora and fauna section about pests and endangered species, and the erosion section, as well as including other information on weed management. However, that could be too in detail, which leads me into 3b
I am slightly worried some of the information in the history section being perceived as too detailed, as I found it all interesting while researching, and despite my best efforts to cut information (such as about all the members of the Caporn family and the heritage listing of buildings etcetera), I feel like I may have gone too deep into it.
Things that aren't actually part of the nomination
Other issues I have with the article include: this website which is a source used expresses confusion over whether the state government purchased the site in 1907 or 1895. As later in the article it refers to it as 1907, I wrote that in the Wiki article, but should I specify that there is confusion?
There is a section in the page which says: "Point Walter is notable for the
that extends over 1 km into the river, sections of which are often submerged under high water." A spit is a different geographical entity from a sandbar, and it is called a spit in some sources and a sandbar in others. Since I couldn't get a geological survey of the land I just wrote that, which could be perceived as problematic. How would you address this?
I may have taken inline sources a bit too far, listing 2 sources 4 times in the text, and 1 source 5 times. I'm not really sure around policies around this.
Now we move onto the image section: modern photographs in the article are pretty trash (low quality), except for that nice panorama. The page image is on a noticeable tilt, and the last picture is very grainy. I am going down tomorrow to take better ones, but I won't be getting any from the other side of the river because that's a trek. According to the copyright section on the image from 1924, photographs "taken prior to 1 January 1955" are out of their copyright, which makes up most of the photographs on Trove. However, our article on Australian copyright confused me, because it makes it out that it has nothing to do with the date of the photo being taken, instead that it's all about when the author dies. Idk, and I don't really want to upload photos that could be in copyright without affirmation I'm in the right. To get some nice photos in the article, I'm trying to get in a nice collage of the birds which nest on the sandbank, so take that into account when you look at the image quality. I asked on the help desk here how I would go about doing that.
Well, they're all my grievances about the article, and looking at that, there's a lot, so if you can be bothered, can you answer some of my questions before a possible good article nomination? Cheers - JoshMuirWikipedia (talk) 13:57, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Re: great to see
Yep, exactly. I've always thought that if we could have the editor base of 2005/06/07 combined with today's technical and social infrastructure, we could do even more amazing things. Graham87 15:10, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
What's the social infrastructure around here like of late? Back when I was a wiki-kid social media was still in nappies itself. Has Wikipedia adapted much in that area? -- Longhair\talk 16:01, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base YAGO. The second keynote speaker is Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
Please volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
A mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang Lua function will be added (phabricator:T173262)
The mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (phabricator:T142903)
Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (phabricator:T174794)
Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)
Monthly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:15, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply
]
Western New Guinea
Hi JarrahTree,
I do not have yet much experience with Wikipedia, but I feel my understanding of and my skills to using the different Wikipedia tools will grow with time.
Thank you for your warnings and recommendations.
As to the edit war in the Western New Guinea page: Davidelit reverted a couple of sentences I had added based on a lack of references. Fair enough. Now that I understand how to encode new references, I have undone the suppressions by Davidelit, edited the text and added two reliable references.
As to the POV issue: I am not aware of academic work that contradicts the two references that I have added.
All the best
Philippe
Wikidata weekly summary #282
Wikidata weekly summary #282
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the events page and the birthday page
A blog post describing Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
Hello JarrahTree, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!
Backlog update:
The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.
Technology update:
Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see
User:Primefac/revdel
.
General project update:
The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look.
To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here.TonyBallioni (talk) 17:47, 21 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I am so sorry about the accidental block - I saw the accounts reported to AIV and thought it was some kind of impersonation attempt :/ I've unblocked the accounts. Regards, GABgab 01:27, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Project rater script
My new project assessment script is available, see User:Evad37/rater. It's not yet complete and may have some bugs, and might be a bit slow to load, but you can try it and see how it goes. - Evad37[talk] 04:15, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence at Historical Archives of Subotica; Model of a grain of wheat exlusivly digitized for Wikimedia Commons; Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture and Information and Wikimedia Serbia - GLAM presentations and workshops for museums, archives and libraries
Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (phabricator:T179228)
Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (phab:T176417)
Accessing mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' ) will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook instead (phabricator:T169771)
Work on caching constraint check results (phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (phab:T179844)
Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (gerrit:379669)
Just off hand. Can you help me stop going off my 'nana'?
Jarrah. Could you throw some light on a slight puzzle?
We have Ngaanyatjarra. It's just my guess, but they appear to correspond to the alternative name Tindale supplies for the Nana, i.e. Ngan:adjara (1974 p.249)
Tindale for the Warburton Ranges area has
Ngadadjara
, which I assumed is what is now written as Ngaatjatjarra. We don't have an article on these.
D'ya reckon it's okay for me to make the otherwise (speciously?)
WP:OR inference that Tindale's Ngadadjara are what we now spell out as the Ngaatjatjarra, and create a page with that data under the latter name? I've convinced myself it's okay but with all this ethnonymic confusion, ya never-never no.Nishidani (talk) 16:07, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply
As you know, I've been out of the loop for a while. What to do about the duplication of Commons links on the article
Naeraberg. You're an administrator over there are you not? Do you usually merge things of this type, since I believe we're talking about the same ship in two different places. You'll note one of the Commons categories has a list of names as a header intact. Over to your Commons expertise :D -- Longhair\talk 12:52, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply
]
Your Message
Sorry, I don't really know what you mean as to why I put the message down the bottom. Could you please explain it clearly as to what you are trying to tell me?
Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia
Monthly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!
Wikidata weekly summary #288
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The
topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy
describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
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 JarrahTree, 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!
Outreach and Invitations:
If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: {{subst:NPR invite}}. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.
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:
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.
The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. — TonyBallioni (talk) 20:27, 12 December 2017 (UTC) [reply]
Books and Bytes - Issue 25
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 25, October – November 2017
OAWiki & #1Lib1Ref
User Group update
Global branches update
Spotlight: Research libraries and Wikimedia
Bytes in brief
Arabic, Korean and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
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)
JT. No fancy template, but just wishing you all the best for the holidays and the new year. It's probably a bit warmer where I am than where you are in WA 😎 Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:37, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas JarrahTree!!
Hi JarrahTree, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,
Thanks for all your help and contributions on the 'pedia! ,
–Davey2010Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 13:40, 23 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Seasons' Greetings
...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 16:15, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Wikidata weekly summary #292
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Hello JarrahTree, 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.
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. — TonyBallioni (talk) 20:24, 30 December 2017 (UTC) [reply]
Happy New Year!
New Year cats
JarrahTree, Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a
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.
Netherlands report: Historical aerial photographs from the Ministry of Defense; Texts on Dutch philosophers released under free license; Wikipedia manual; Images from Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland
Serbia report: Two Serbian museums welcomed their first Wikipedians in Residence
It had a comma, not a full stop.--Grahame (talk) 01:05, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Javanese script
It's been two years, but I have been bothered by these edits for a while as well. This misses proper context and is irrelevant, as not everyone has installed the Javanese font and not everyone is able to read this. Meursault2004 (talk) 09:24, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Wikidata weekly summary #296
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Closed request for adminship: Mahir256 (as successful)
@The Transhumanist:, it was close to 50k :)
I see your device usefull for lists @ 10k or less JarrahTree 09:07, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Wow, fifty thousand. That's huge. Nice.
How many days do you have your watchlist set for in your preferences? It would be nice to know if WatchlistSorter.js can handle this many at 1 days, 2 days, ..., 7 days, etc. Mine is set at 30 days which maxes out at 1000 edits shown. The Transhumanist 12:26, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I would prefer offline on this stuff, I dont like sharing my inner most details that much JarrahTree 23:41, 27 January 2018 (UTC
Template:PiemanRiverPowerDevelopment has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 18:10, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
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