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Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue
Volume 1 Issue 3, December/January 2013
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Happy New Year, and welcome to a special double issue of Books & Bytes. We've included a retrospective on the changes and progress TWL has seen over the last year, the results of the survey TWL participants completed in December, some of our plans for the future, a second interview with a Wiki Love Libraries coordinator, and more. Here's to 2014 being a year of expansion and innovation for TWL!
The Misplaced Pages Library completed the first 6 months of its Individual Engagement grant last week. Here's where we are and what we've done:
- Increased access to sources: 1500 editors signed up for 3700 free accounts, individually worth over $500,000, with usage increases of 400-600%
- Deep networking: Built relationships with Credo, HighBeam, Questia, JSTOR, Cochrane, LexisNexis, EBSCO, New York Times, and OCLC
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DYK nomination of Nicole Johnson (monster truck driver)
Hello! Your submission of Nicole Johnson (monster truck driver) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 19:16, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
- Absent any action in over a week and a half to address the identified issues, this is being marked for closure as unsuccessful. The actual close could be within hours or days, so there may still be time to save it. Best of luck. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:16, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
QRpedia bug - Apostrophes. HELP!
Hi Andy, hoping you can help.
Something seems to have changed since QRpedia was transferred to Wikimedia UK... Codes for the following articles were generated and printed prior to the project's transfer:
They worked just fine but that's no longer the case... Common factor? The apostrophe!
The problem seems to be that although the URL for the article is https://en.wikipedia.org/St._Jago's_Arch, when it is copy-pasted into QRpedia it displays as https://en.wikipedia.org/St._Jago%27s_Arch and gives you a code for the latter URL. It used to work fine but if you were to scan that code now it returns en.qrwp.org/St._Jago%2527s_Arch, i.e. adding an extra '25' to the URL and this returns an HTTP 400 Bad request.
These codes have been integrated into wider information panels which will be costly to replace, so in an attempt to find a short-term fix I tried to create an in-wiki redirect (]), but as you can see it doesn't let me create an article with this title.
Help please! --Gibmetal 77 23:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
- This should now be resolved. For future reference, you can report issues using Bugzilla. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:11, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
- Cheers Andy. --Gibmetal 77 08:01, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
The Film programme
Hi Andy. I tidied the dab but the incoming links need some attention. Regards Widefox; talk 21:52, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
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Prunus nipponica
Can you confirm this photo is Prunus nipponica (Japanese Alpine Cherry)? It turned up on a photo search for that tree and I just started an article on it. Thank you. HalfGig talk 22:50, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, in as much as that's what it was sold to me as. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:57, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- OK. I will copy it to WikiCommons as the license seems to allow that. I've used a cropped version at Prunus nipponica and it's at the DYK nomination page. Thanks! HalfGig talk 02:46, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata - Infobox settlement - Geobox/type/settlement
I think it would facilitate the exchange of data between English Misplaced Pages and Wikidata, if Template:Geobox/type/settlement is converted by a bot to Template:Infobox settlement.
- 413000 for Infobox settlement http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&name=Template%3AInfobox+settlement#bottom
- 22685 for Geobox http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&namespace=10&name=Template%3AGeobox#bottom
But I found no tool that displays how many articles use Geobox/type/settlement. Do you know such a tool?
CatScan gives:
- 13909 for http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/catscan2.php?depth=5&categories=Rivers&templates_yes=Geobox
- 513 for mountains http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/catscan2.php?depth=5&categories=Mountains&templates_yes=Geobox
- but several of the articles listed seem to be river articles.
Maybe it is just 8000 for settlements, i.e. 2% of Infobox settlement.
Do you know a bot that can convert? Androoox (talk) 23:36, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
- I agree entirely; it's ridiculous two have two infoboxes for a subject; or to have one infobox for multiple disparate subjects. The statistics you quote speak for themselves (see also Category:Geobox usage tracking). A bot could easily be found, by asking at WP:BOTREQ, to make the conversion. Unfortunately, though, previous attempts to resolve the matter, by merging the best of each type of Geobox into the respective Infobox, have met with resistance. It seems that some people have an almost emotional attachment. See, for example, Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 3#Template:Geobox and Template talk:Infobox river#Geobox, again. I am at a loss as to how this can be resolved, while such attitudes prevail. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:52, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the tracking category. Only 229 use Category:Geobox usage tracking for region type. Compare that with the thousands counties, provinces, departments, municipalites, districts ... around. One ugly example: Talamanca (canton) uses Geobox, but if one clicks upwards to the province, or downwards to a district, one finds that they use Infobox settlement. Androoox (talk) 04:18, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
Infobox pig breed
Hi! Someone seems to have screwed up {{Infobox pig breed}}. I think it's just that the documentation has not been updated in line with recent changes. In any case, the result is that it only displays what it wants to. I don't want to make things worse by messing with it - could you take a look? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:14, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- Can you give an example of an article where this issue is apparent? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:58, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- I think it's apparent in the example on the template page, where the code
| image_caption = Cumberland boar, late 19th centuryis ignored because the relevant line of the template is|caption = {{{caption|}}}. At Mora Romagnola I added some (apparently uncalled-for, and surely unnecessary) underscores with this edit, and got the altnames to show up; adding anstonotegot the notes to show up too. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:35, 29 January 2014 (UTC)- Thank you; that's fixed; I hope. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:12, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for looking at it, Andy. But no, I don't think it's fixed. Cinta Senese uses the syntax transcluded to the infobox page from Infobox pig breed/doc (at least, I think it does!), but the weights do not show up. They don't show at Hereford (pig), either, so it isn't just me. It seems to be because Underlying lk either made changes to the template without making corresponding changes to the documentation or made changes to the template that didn't correspond with the docs. I've tried copying some stuff from the sheep breed infobox to the pig breed sandbox; it seems to work, I think. Any good? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:59, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you; that's fixed; I hope. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:12, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- I think it's apparent in the example on the template page, where the code
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DYK nomination of Nicole Johnson (monster truck driver)
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Wikidata weekly summary #95
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata is at FOSDEM in Brussels, Februrary 1st-2nd
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Quantities released on Wikidata!
- Wikisource phase 2 coming Februrary 25th.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: attendance, refractive index, electronegativity, proportion, sandbox-quantity, number of pages, number of platforms , flattening, floors above ground, number of cylinders, masts, number of speakers, g-factor, orbital eccentricity, gross tonnage, total produced, redshift, Mohs' hardness, ELO rating, atomic number, LibraryThing work identifier, EUL control number, capacity, population, Human Development Index, from narrative, launch contractor, valvetrain configuration, KOATUU identifier
- Development
- Deployed quantities to Wikidata! :)
- Made patch to make wbmergeitems more reliable Bugzilla::55960
- Wikidata edit permissions now included in wikimedia OAuth edit groups
- Moved Diff repo to Github
- Work put into make the frontend use backend formatters through the api
- Refactoring of the ValueView extension
- MergeItems special page merged as an experimental feature
- Our easy RDF fork is now included using composer
- Fixed wbmergeitems issues
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BSBI name change
Hi Andy. We've got a centralised discussion going on here about which references to the BSBI's old name should be updated to reflect their new nme, and which should be left as is. I'd welcome your input. SP-KP (talk) 13:07, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
DYK nomination of The Crescent (Birmingham)
Hi, just letting you know that your nomination of The Crescent (Birmingham) is waiting for your input. DoctorKubla (talk) 16:34, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Hilary Wayment
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DYK nomination of Reginald Mount
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- Final call for QPQ review, requested back on January 20. Will allow until February 4, unless an extension is requested. I hope you'll follow up on this. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:35, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
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Infoboxes amendment request
Hi Andy, just a message to let you know that I've closed and archived the Infoboxes amendment request because both motions had failed to pass. For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:13, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
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Heard you on the radio...
...so I added the story to Misplaced Pages:Press coverage 2014#February. Nice work! - Eureka Lott 00:04, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
- David Gerard twittered about it; Bravo! Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 01:31, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
- Ditto. Caught the story in mid-stream and did not hear your name until the end. I will have to pull it up online later today. -- Gadget850 13:35, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
- Adding my voice to the bravo-chorus, da capo ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:36, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
- Ditto. Caught the story in mid-stream and did not hear your name until the end. I will have to pull it up online later today. -- Gadget850 13:35, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Like Montanabw 21:19, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Nic Fiddian-Green
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Unreferenced BLPs
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You have been here more than long enough to know not to create them (Csaba Sógor the latest), please can you add some sources? GiantSnowman 19:58, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
My Two Cents: Andy, you need to either (a) hang a { { construction } } template on the top if you're coming back to source out the microstubs you are churning out; or (b) take another 30 seconds to add one source. That's really pretty much a mandatory minimum for BLP, is it not? Hell, it's a minimum for anything at WP these days. Don't get your backhair up, just do what we all know needs to be done for each and every new start. Carrite (talk) 05:27, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
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GLAM accounts/usernames
I would be glad of your input, as a multiple Wikimedian-in-residence, at WT:GLAM#Usernames for GLAM participants. The question arose because of the creation of user Swiss National Library (talk), which I have blocked because they declined an invitation to change username and declared that "The account is already used by more than one person and always will be." When told that role accounts were not allowed here, user Micha Rieser (one of the operators of the account) said that in that case they would not contribute. Has this ever been a problem in any of your residences? I hoped that other GLAMmers would chip in and contribute, and maybe try to persuade them that the "User:Micha at SNL" solution would work, but nobody else has commented yet. See also WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive259#Block review request. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:55, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
DYK for Hilary Wayment
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--Allen3 18:30, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you for another good one, and enjoy Strasbourg! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:10, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
DYK for Nic Fiddian-Green
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Hortefeux
I'm sorry, Pigsonthewing. I didn't notice you had already added a Wikipedians in European Parliament photo to the article about Hortefeux. Mathonius (talk) 06:42, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
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DYK for The Crescent (Birmingham)
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Orlady (talk) 18:57, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #96
- Discussions
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- See the office hours logs at meta
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- See the FOSDEM slides
- Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
- Development
- More work on badges by Bene*
- Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
- Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
- Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
- Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
- Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
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Style guidelines for disambiguation hatnotes
Hi there,
Thank you for expanding the Film Programme redirect into a full article in its own right.
I notice that you included a disambiguation ("dab") hatnote at the start, which was useful, but please note that- to the best of my knowledge- such dab lines should follow similar rules to the full disambiguation page style, i.e. only link variants of- or items likely to be confused with- the "The Film Programme" itself and not (e.g) Claudia Winkelman, since that name doesn't require disambiguation there.
Hope this explains things. All the best, Ubcule (talk) 17:40, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Andy!
Thanks for all your help. You can buy us all a beer. Matchstickgeezer (talk) 10:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Andy
Thanks for the very interesting training today! :) Allen 56285 (talk) 10:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Andy
This is the best course on how to use Misplaced Pages I've ever been on. Edders8 (talk) 10:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Thank you for coming today this has been very interesting HilaryHopker (talk) 10:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Andy!
Hello Andy,
Thank you very much for all your help today. The wiki-love has been a highlight! Ramona De Souza (talk) 10:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Andy
Thanks for teaching us how to edit Misplaced Pages. HanLouNew (talk) 10:24, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Der Kontrabaß
as discussed before, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:09, 10 February 2014 (UTC)