User talk:WikiWikiWayne/Archive 32

Hi,

Wikipedia:Manual of_Style/Titles#Capital letters

. I was heading to MOS:TITLES at first, but then got sidetracked by MOS:TITLECASE, even though they both come to the same conclusion: Versus should be versus.

However, for names of Wikipedia articles and of section headings in articles and pages, generally only the first word and all proper names are capitalized.

Versus is not the first word, nor is it a proper name.

I am all ears about this. You spend more time focused on this than I do. Having fun! Cheers! {{u|

Talk

} 09:48, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Titles of works are governed by

MOS:TITLES since it has historically been very scattered.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢

 >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  02:09, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi,

Talk

} 22:27, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Have you seen the recent news about another photograph? I saw this on the ABC's site today; thought it might interest you. Let me know if you want me to pause my c/e while you add the info. [19]. Cheers,

Hi,

Talk

} 03:38, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Greetings,

Talk

} 09:14, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

No worries, and thanks for adding the new text. I'm not quite at the photographs section yet, so i can c/e whatever you've added when I reach it. I came across the article about the 'new' photo completely by coincidence while reading the ABC's news site on my tablet, the day after starting the c/e. A happy find. :) Cheers,

Baffle gab1978 (talk

) 23:39, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

 Done; Cheers,

Baffle gab1978 (talk

) 21:48, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Or what I was thinking, possibly something like a new nav template that would include links to a lot of the basic Help pages and tutorials that a new to medium-new editor would find helpful. A lot of us have our own customized tips page (here's mine) and I would've loved something that gave me just the basics stuff from existing nav templates, a sort of one-stop-shop for policies, guidelines, simple references, basic editing, basic lists, bold, italic and blockquotes; a simple model of {{cite web}} and {{cite book}}. A pile of stuff like that. I could have fun creating something like that, mining some of the links off other nav templates, but really just the ones you need in your first few days/weeks/months here. And maybe a 'bottom' section, with links to all the other, more in-depth templates. I can work on a mockup in my sandbox or in my user draft space, and we can see what takes shape. Would love your feedback. Pinging Ben Creasy also. Mathglot (talk) 05:34, 30 August 2017 (UTC)"

Hi,

Talk

} 06:47, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

A tip-of-the-day thing might be a very good fit, if there's a need for it there. I'll wait for JoeHebda and The Transhumanist to comment, if they wish to. And thanks for the, uh, tip! Mathglot (talk) 07:05, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

How 'bout, if Tips were fashioned into a user widget that people could place on their user page, with various params that might select the tip-of-the-day under criteria that interested that user, with possibly some display or rendering params for box shape or size, bg-color, borders, and so on. Or do we already have something like that? Template {{totd}} creates a largeish banner, maybe more real estate than I'd want to use on my User page, so maybe Tips could create a smaller one optimized for user page display along with other widgets, maybe a smallish box, with a briefer version of the text, with a link to the main one for those who wanted the more prolix version with the longer explanations? Mathglot (talk) 07:17, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

That seems pretty cool, altho not something I have time to work with. II | (t - c) 02:18, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

@Mathglot: (See below...)

Checkingfax, thank you for the ping. Mathglot, I like your enthusiasm. A great deal of work has gone into relevant projects, and it might be a good idea to review those first, before brainstorming ideas, to avoid duplicating what has already been done. Also, you might find something suitable for your purpose, or for adapting to your purpose. I'll do my best to provide a bit of a tour, of the areas I'm familiar with, below:

• Tip of the day department – maintains a list of 366 Wikipedia tips that redisplay (one tip per day) year after year.
  • WP:TOTD
    – lists the daily tips chronologically and alphabetically.
  • WP:TIPS
    – the tip library page, which presents the daily tips by subject or type
  • Wikipedia:Tip templates
    – lists the various templates for displaying the tip of the day.
• Wikipedia:Welcoming committee – the hand-holding society of Wikipedia, who maintain a welcome page and a huge assortment of navigation/tip templates for posting to newcomers' talk pages.
  • WP:Welcome
    – the Welcoming committee's "Welcome to Wikipedia" page, with a big hello and some basic tips for the absolute beginner.
  • WP:WT
    – extensive list of welcome templates, many of which are a customized navigation template of links for newcomers.
  • Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates/Table – gallery of welcome templates on display.
• WP:UPDC
  – the User page design center, with useful tips and resources for developing one's user page.
  • Wikipedia:User page design center/Navigation aids
    – gallery of navigation templates to choose from, itself a navigation page.
• Wikipedia:Help Project – the help department. It is dedicated to helping new and advanced users alike. It's huge, and so maintaining navigation systems to get around the material is a major subtask of the department. To survey Wikipedia's collosal collection of help pages, try the following pages:
  • Help:Menu
    • Help:Menu/Site map – all the browse pages presented on a single page
  • Help:Directory – less extensive than the Editor's index below
  • Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia – includes operational pages
  • Wikipedia:List of shortcuts#General information, help, and tutorials
  • All pages index
  • Note that Wikipedia:Department directory lists Wikipedia's operational (task-oriented) pages, but itself could be considered a help page.
  • {{Wikipedia help pages}} – help department's main navigation template
  • Wikipedia:Directories and indexes – WP's directory of directories. :)
• Category:Wikipedia-internal navigational templates – each one is a list of useful links about how to work on Wikipedia
• User tip pages
• User navigation pages
• User:Go for it!/Teleportation chamber – an example of a personal navigation page

I hope you found the above tour both useful and entertaining. Sincerely, The Transhumanist 11:39, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode
  • Proposal to add some order and structure to the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata (mailing list post)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can read the log on meta.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Prague, December 1st
  • Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best?
  • Spatial-based Topic Modelling using Wikidata Knowledge Base (in Wikidata as Q43662744)
  • Cleaning BNF identifier in Wikidata by Envlh (in French)
  • Monitoring changes to Wikidata pages of your interest by Egon Willighagen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Sandra is co-ordinating an inventory of crucial volunteer tools for Wikimedia Commons, GLAM, and structured data in general. You can provide input and prioritize your favorite tools in this Google spreadsheet.
  • Q43649390 is an item about our concept of "QID"s
  • OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: type foundry, Accademia della Crusca ID, first appearance, USGHOF athlete ID, Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID, Städel Museum artist ID, Berlinische Galerie artist ID, Tidal video ID, Tidal track ID, Tidal album ID, Tidal artist ID, HTML entity, Norwegian historical register of persons ID, Merchant Category Code, SS KL Auschwitz Garrison ID, West Australian Football League player ID, Wikidata project, BPH journal ID, SNCZI-IPE reservoir ID, BTO five-letter code, awarded for period, electoral district number, Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID, Art Museum of Estonia artist ID, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA ID, National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame ID, IJF ID, SNCZI-IPE dam ID, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame ID, FAI ID, Canada Games ID, ICRC PoW ID, RA Collections ID, mountain range, Everyone Remembered ID, CNRS research group ID, ARLIMA ID
  • Query examples:
    • People who were Time Person of the Year in two consecutive years (source)
    • Fictional characters “said to be the same as” other fictional characters from the same fictional universe (source)
    • Map of places of birth of deceased sociologists (source)
    • Map of libraries in India (source)
    • Train and subway stations in Basque Country (source)
  • Newest database reports: Decameron editions and translations

• Development
  • Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (phabricator:T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
  • Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
  • Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

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20:30, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you meant by "ping me", but in case you meant "reply on my usertalk page", see [23] The Crab Who Played With The Sea (talk) 01:36, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi,

Talk

} 02:30, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

No problem, but for your information, {{convert}} accepts |sp=us only. That changes metre/litre to meter/liter, and some other changes which rarely make a difference. Variations such as sp=US are not accepted. That applies at Hoover Dam and One Montgomery Tower. Johnuniq (talk) 09:21, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi,

Talk

} 18:44, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

The

I don't know or care whether your problem is inability to use the automation you are using or just plain incompetency, but how do you figure adding blank templates improves an article. I am beginning to understand why you seem to be constantly appearing at ANI. Some unsolicited advice. Put the gadgets away and learn what you are doing. John from Idegon (talk) 23:15, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Dear John from Idegon. I have a speck in my eye when you have a log.

{{

wikimedia

|collapsible=true|wikt=no|d=Q123456}} are hardly empty templates. They are populated from instances in items at Wikidata. Take the pebble from my hand, Grasshopper.

Sounds like you spend too much time at ANI. I do not. Are you drunk? Cheers! {{u|

Talk

} 05:04, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

But this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Laucke&diff=710551869&oldid=710540691 is terrible on multiple levels. When you don't follow the template documentation and link to the official website in the infobox, it's a problem. Please stay away from that article as you are not editing with logic or guidelines in mind. When you remove maintenance templates, twice, it's inappropriate. I will take it to a larger community if you do it again. Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:07, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

And then you tag me as being in an edit war because I'm applying correct editing guidelines and template documentation to an article that's a pet project of yours and you don't like the edits? Please don't ask for help for your projects if you are not willing to accept it. Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:26, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi

Talk

} 20:16, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

There is no need for local consensus when the documentation is clear. Walter Görlitz (talk) 21:38, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Probably about time you stopped misusing the templates and Twinkle. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:41, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: Part II (Wikidata Workshop), Washington, D.C., November 2, 2017 with Andrew Lih and Alex Stinson
  • Past: Wikidata Clinic (slides) in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017, with Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
  • Past: Wikikonference in Prague with a Wikidata workshop in Czech and a introduction of Wikidata and its community
  • Wikipedia Weekly audio podcast coverage of Wikidata:
    • Episode 126 - Introduction to Wikidata, with Andrew Lih and Rob Fernandez
    • Episode 127 - WikidataCon 2017 roundtable discussion, with Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, Stacy Allison-Cassin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Rob Fernandez
  • Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers by Joachim Neubert
  • Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
  • The Wikidata map in November 2017 and what changed during the last four months, by Addshore

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey. The voting phase is open until December 10th.
  • If you run any functionality on Wikimedia sites that uses queries to the Wikidata Query Service, please add it here (more information)
  • The 600,000,000th edit has been made.
  • The first content made specifically for Wikimedia projects in space has been added to Wikidata (see Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind)
  • The Aaron Swartz Fellowship at OSA, Budapest, Hungary, is open for applications (deadline Dec. 31). The second focus area of the fellowship may be of interest to Wikidata folks.

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: set designer, Swedish Musical Heritage composer ID, National Film Board of Canada movie ID, South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame ID, World Rugby Hall of Fame ID, Microsoft Store album ID, date of burial or cremation, Lives of WWI ID, polymer of, monomer of, FAPESP researcher ID, FAPESP institution ID, NIOSH Publication Number, post town, arXiv author ID, CPE athlete ID, Mountain Project ID, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID, Atomic Heritage Foundation ID, Dreadnought Project page, IWGA athlete ID, Argentinian Historic Heritage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline for the writer Robert Louis Stephenson (source)
    • Movies with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill (source)
    • Photographers born before the inception of the earliest photograph (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Stolpersteine, Jasmerah
  • Newest database reports: Q5 with identical P18

• Development
  • Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9th January 2018 (phabricator:T181645)
  • There were no RDF dumps last week due to problems generating them, investigation is still going on (phabricator:T181385)
  • Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata (phabricator:T180450)
  • 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)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:31, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

17:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC)