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350		Celebrity Big Brother (talk)						Add sources
2		United Left (Argentina) (talk)						Add sources
4		Salta Renewal Party (talk)						Add sources
1,030		Great Online Shopping Festival (talk)						Add sources
3		Argentine Socialist Vanguard Party (talk)						Add sources
2		talk )						Add sources
11		Ascension Parish Burial Ground (talk)						Cleanup
62		December 2001 riots in Argentina (talk)						Cleanup
50		Wikipedia in culture (talk)						Cleanup
144		Justicialist Party (talk)						Expand
1,119		Irish people (talk)						Expand
11		Historical Enquiries Team (talk)						Expand
144		Ian Khama (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
50		Operational intelligence (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
184		Variety store (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
398		Dashboard (management information systems) (talk )						Merge
3,437		2014 Hong Kong protests (talk)						Merge
189		Seduction community (talk )						Merge
702		Columbus Day (talk)						Wikify
225		German idealism (talk)						Wikify
885		Shovel Knight (talk)						Wikify
2		Luis Viana (talk)						Orphan
3		Darío Alessandro (talk)						Orphan
2		Aale Sariola (talk)						Orphan
13		Brewer Street (talk)						Stub
12		Hannes Hegen (talk)						Stub
2		Socialist Party of the National Left (talk)						Stub
1,214		Carol Ann Susi (talk)						Stub
159		Siumut (talk)						Stub
18		Abashiri Prison (talk)						Stub

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This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue XI, November 2014 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: ALIA partnership goes countrywide Belgium report: Workshops for collection holders across Europe; Founding event of Wikimedia Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg; Plantin-Moretus Museum; Edit-a-thon at faculty library in Ghent University; Image donation UGentMemorie; Upcoming activities France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; mass upload; Musée de Bretagne Germany report: Facts, fun and free content Ireland report: Ada Lovelace day in Dublin Italy report: National Library Conference; Wiki Loves Monuments; Archaeological Open Data; BEIC Netherlands report: Video challenge; Wikidata workshop and hackathon; Wikipedia courses in libraries; WWII editathon Norway report: Edit-a-thon far north at the Museum of Nordland (Nordlandsmuseet) Spain report: Picasso, first Galipedia edit-a-thon, course in Biblioteca Reina Sofía and free portraits South Africa report: Wiki Loves GLAMs, Cape Town Sweden report: Use, reuse and contributions back and forth UK report: Medals, maps and multilingual marvels Special story: ORCID identifiers Open Access report: Open proposal: Wikidata for Research; Open Access signalling Tool testing report: Tools for references, images, video, file usage; Popular Pages Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

A plate of spaghetti and meatballs. Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement 's weekly selection: Spaghetti Previous selections: Game design • Mexico–United States border Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:22, 15 December 2014 (UTC) • Opt-out instructions

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Running Wikidata queries on scientific publications
  • Finding ORCID identifiers used in Wikidata & Wikipedia
  • past: Wikidata workshop in NYC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Ancient philosopher communities visualized based on Wikidata data
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
• Development
  • More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
  • Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
  • Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
  • Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
  • Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
  • Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
  • Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
  • Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:00, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

16:44, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi Tom, Thanks for your help a couple years ago. I've worked very hard with help from some other folks and now have a complete and proper page for Leslie Harpold. Jessamyn West helped proof it and gave me some cleanup recommendations before I just now made it live, so I think we're all good to go. Note: the slightly unusual main photo is from the conference session discussed in the Influence subsection. MetaGrrrl (talk) 21:55, 17 December 2014 (UTC) Heh. Except that it apparently got created as Leslie harpold small-H. Working with Jessamyn to fix that.MetaGrrrl (talk) 21:57, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

I've just sorted the copy-and-paste move, User:MetaGrrrl. Full response in a sec. —Tom Morris (talk) 22:03, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Okay, I've now moved the page that was in your user space to

cut-and-paste move. I've redone a copyedit that User:Jessamyn made in the meantime. And I've put some WikiProjects on the talk page. Great work on finding all the sources and writing the article, User:MetaGrrrl. —Tom Morris (talk

) 22:10, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Hooray! Thank you so much for all your help, Tom. I deeply appreciate it!MetaGrrrl (talk) 22:11, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Pushing a few admin buttons takes no work at all compared to the hard work of finding sources and writing the article. Some barnstars should be turning up on your page and User:Jessamyn's page in just a moment. —Tom Morris (talk) 22:14, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

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There have been good-faith additions that have been reverted on good faith during protection. Perhaps extend protection? --George Ho (talk) 22:20, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Um... there have been vandalism at its talk page. Wanna take action? --George Ho (talk) 06:51, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm busy.

AIV is that way. —Tom Morris (talk

) 09:34, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open RfAs: Petr Matas
  • Closed RfAs: Jared Preston (Successful)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Welcome Freebase!
    • Freebase announcement
    • Wikidata announcement
    • Wikiproject
    • Primary sources tool
    • Heise
    • Venturebeat
    • Gigaom
  • Wikidata for Research – presenting the team and a first sketch of the workplan
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New features! Language fallbacks, property data type and performance improvements
  • New tree of life based on Wikidata data
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: subproperty of, mandatory qualifier, NIST/CODATA ID, EgliseInfo ID
  • New task forces: Freebase, Sled dog racing
  • Showcase items: Lion
• Development
  • Happy holidays from the dev team, everyone :)
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Wikipedia
  • Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements, language fallback, and property data type
  • Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment
  • Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup)
  • Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign
  • Ongoing work on the WikibaseJavaScriptApi extension that was split from the Wikibase code base
  • Finished tree of life
  • Some more work on support for units
  • Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator
  • Wikidata Query has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a load balancer in front of it.
  • The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when adding new statements should be even better now.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 17:49, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you! WhatamIdoing (WMF) (talk) 23:37, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

I was wondering about ways of extending protection to all groups in

WP:BLPbiographieis of living persons]] policy, edit warring or other kinds of disruption, don't hesitate from nominating them for protection. I'll take a look through the category and see if there are articles there with problems and consider applying protection to them, but I'm not sure I'll have time to go through all of them as I'm visiting my family over the Christmas break. —Tom Morris (talk

) 19:02, 22 December 2014 (UTC)