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Question from Maxmudov Jonibek on Empire State University (16:59, 12 April 2024)
i want to get admission in united states university please help me --Maxmudov Jonibek (talk) 16:59, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- Maxmudov Jonibek Good day. This is Wikipedia and I help editors on Wikipedia editing and issues they are facing and not about university admission. You might want to check out Empire State University website - see HERE and seek the info you are looking for. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 22:37, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #622
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-04-15.
Translations are available.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- AzBot - Task: adding a space in over 7k malformed Dutch descriptions per this request.
- DifoolBot 3 - Task: fill in empty English/French/German labels and basic statements for persons with VIAF ID (P214) and a VIAF authority source GND ID (P227), IdRef ID (P269), Bibliothèque nationale de France ID (P268) or Library of Congress authority ID (P244)
- The next Wikidata Bug triage hour is happening on April 15th at 16UTC. It will focus on mobile editing of statements.
- Telegram Office Hour - 04-10-2024 log - if you missed all the exciting updates, you can see them all here on the Archived log.
- The Leveling Up Days 2024 was concluded, you can watch the videos available on the program page and contribute to the captions on Wikimedia Commons.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 16, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 16 April, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is, amazingly, 5 years old this month, and we are planning a very Zoomy celebration befitting our virtual community. We are hoping you can join and share some reflections. Feel free to sign our anniversary card and update your Zoom background to something festive! Agenda
- Documenting Nigeria's Supreme Court Cases - this online event is a contest to enrich and connect the verdicts and sitting Judges of Nigerian Supreme Court cases. Points will be awarded for contributions. Event ends: 28 April 00:00 UTC.
- Edit-A-Thon of the LOD user group: Midwest Collaborative Library Services - registration is now open for this online event, taking place 22 - 26 April.
- II International Convention on GLAM Wikiverse and Gender - June 5, Aula Rubió, Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media, University of Barcelona (UB), 9:30-1:30 p.m.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Working towards a Brazilian History Knowledge Graph - Mike Young describes the progress towards building a KG on Brazilian history and how Wikidata supported this endeavour, especially for linking poiticians, movements, constitutions, laws and events that may not be notable for individual Wikipedia articles.
- Reimagining cultural heritage data - this article by Jason Evans documents the efforts of the Llyfgrell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales) to open their archives and datasets to Wikidata and the creation of their Wikibase-powered SNARC Tool (Semantic Name Authority Repository Cymru).
- Improving geodata accuracy on OSM and Wikidata how to remove the mismatches between Wikidata and Openstreetmap for villages of a district in Andhra Pradesh (India)
- Andhra Pradesh/Notes/Arjunaraoc/Improving geodata accuracy on OSM and Wikidata
- Presentations
- Wikidata: your friendly (University's) knowledge graph - Christian Erlinger on behalf of the University of Innsbruck has produced this slidedeck showing how Wikidata can be used for science and research communication.
- Workshop: Making the Colombian public domain visible on Wikidata (in Spanish) - Fundación Conector with the support of Wikimedia Colombia presented this workshop to create items in Wikidata about Colombian authors. This is part of the directory of Colombian authors in Public domain
- Papers: Assessing knowledge organization systems from a gender perspective: Wikipedia taxonomy and Wikidata ontologies - analyze the ontologies of Wikidata and the taxonomy of Wikipedia. Centelles, M. and Ferran-Ferrer, N. (2024)
- Videos
- Wikidata per la ricerca (Wikidata for research): online conference, organized on 9 April 2024 by Wikimedia Italia, by Epìdosis (in Italian: slides and video)
- Demonstration of the XML-TEI Wikidata Geocoder Tool (French) - This tool from PhilippGam will showcase how the Wikidata Geocoder tool can extract information such as PersName, PlaceName, geographic coordinates and images from XML-TEI files. Try it here.
- Live Wikidata Editing #113 with User:Abbe98 and User:Ainali explain the thought process behind how they edit whilst looking at biographies of climate scientists and glaciologists, during the Leveling Up Days 2024 event.
- WikiConference NA 2023
- Open scholarly communication with Wikidata - Daniel Mietchen talks about the benefits of Wikidata and the Wikimedia platforms to enhance researcher and collaborative workflows.
- Wikidata for open museum data sharing - Rhonda Yearwood explains how Wikidata can facilitate and provide a platform for the open sharing of Museum and Gallery datasets.
- Wikidata's usefulness for university knowledge sharing- Will (Wiki Ed) hosts workshops on Wikidata and advocates Wikidata as a way for Universities to share general reference knowledge.
- FOSSGIS 2024 Modelling with 'Fuzziness' / 'Wobbliness' in Geodata (German) - Florian Thiery presents a paper on data-driven use cases for modeling vague or uncertain georeference data, to adhere to FAIR principles as closely as possible.
- Notebooks: Medias by country
Tool of the week
- Missing biographies, a companion tool which helps identifies people without a biography in a given Wikipedia using Wikidata
- It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners will be unveiled at Wikimania 2024.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Join the Wikidata Open Online Course starting April 22, 2024! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
- Only 6 more days to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.
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- Imagehash difference hash (hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical)
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- RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
- API formatter URL (URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data)
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- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- official gazette (periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution)
- follows spelling paradigm (spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form)
- WEM facility code ()
- Type of representation (Property to indicate the '''representation type''' as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image).)
- EBITDA ()
- Authorised capital ()
- is fake of (the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for)
- image decay (image decay suffered by an old photograph)
- number of submissions (number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference)
- number of accepted contributions (number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference)
- risk group (Risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification {{Q|125449255}})
- electoral symbol (symbol allocated to a political party / candidate for use on ballots)
- tartan image (image of the item's tartan)
- tartan (subject's tartan)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RERO+ ID, Peertube Channel Address, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, az.lib.ru author ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID, Zillow zpid, Cemu Wiki article ID, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, Algerian Government ID, Génération Nintendo game ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, mosff.ru staff ID, Hanslick Online person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID, HCERES organisation ID, CPV profile ID, SPV profile ID, Duden Sense ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID, Algerian trademark number, YList ID, WDF players ID, GovTrack person, Algerian commune ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID, pressball.by football manager ID, The Islamic World: Past and Present ID, Delisted Games ID, PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID, Brill ID, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID, Kritikanstvo IDs, case number (mainland China), myabandonware.com game id, FürthWiki article ID, IAFD film UUID, English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID, Rugby Romania ID, Scottish Register of Tartans ID, A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID, NICE Paintings ID, AccessAble venue ID
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- MLA Linked Data Working Group - The Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) is a Music Library Association (MLA) working group convened by the MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC). Members are music catalogers and other library metadata workers exploring linked data topics through Wikidata projects, discussion of BIBFRAME and linked data cataloging, and other areas of interest.
- Albums - A WikiProject about music album releases
- Algeria - Aims to collaborate on Algeria-related topics
- Showcase Items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062) - Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
- Showcase Lexemes: kone (L6888) - Finish noun, translate to "machine"
Development
- mul langauge code: We are finishing the polishing for the first proper release coming soon.
- EntitySchema: We are continuing the work on the new datatype that will make it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
- REST API:
- We continued work on creating an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
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April 2024
Hello, I would like to inform you about some error in this page (Arman Tsarukyan), the sources of his nationality are reading error. I would like to fix it but I think you would do it better. Thanks. Articlread (talk) 03:48, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
(UPDATE) The bot came to the rescue and did it 2 minutes before I sent to you, nevermind. Stay safe and best. Articlread (talk) 03:53, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- Articlread Good day and thank you for the question. I believe THIS bot edit you mentioned. How we get the ref back (usually the bot will do them but not always) is that we go back previous edits to find the removing of the "re-used ref" edit so such we can find the actual full ref - see HERE. If you not familiar with re-used ref then pls read References and citing sources. Actually reading the who page of Help:Wikitext would serves a great help in editing for any editors. Thank you for your contribution to MMA related article. Pop back here if you have any questions regarding editing, creating articles, vandalism, Wikipedia guidelines and etc. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 04:29, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you so much Cassiopeia. I do have a question regarding the system (metric or imperial) we use in fighter articles. Should we change the system used based on the nationality of the fighters, e.g. a Brazilian fighter would have metric in their page instead of the American imperial system. Articlread (talk) 13:28, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- :Articlread Hi, it does not matter if we use metric or imperial as the info mma fighter template will convert both systems and shown both systems in the infobox - see the full template here - Template:Infobox martial artist. However, since we use Sherdog for the info and Sherdog uses imperial system so often we follow the same. (note: Any info we cant get from Sherdog we need to provide source for verification). Since you in the discussion of Wikipedia MMA project, it will be beneficial for you the project guidelines - see here Wikipedia:WikiProject Mixed martial arts and add your name on "Participants List" if you want to and place of MMA editor user box on your talk page (see Userbox section) if you choose to do that. I will send you a list of MMA editing info and norm on your talk page, so pls kindly go through them and re-read it if needed. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 03:48, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Conor McGregor method
Hey brother, I that it would change the method lastest fight of Cornor against Dustin Poirier and method per Sherdog that a TKO (leg injury) but the page that doctor stoppage. AddedUpdatePoster (talk) 12:53, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
- AddedUpdatePoster Good day and thank you for the message. As per Sherdog - see HERE is "TKO (Leg Injury)" so all UFC 264 and Conor's articles follow the same fight method. (Diamond's article is as per Sherdog). Thank you for your time and efforts to improve Wikipedia MMA related articles. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk
Tech News: 2024-16
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Problems
- Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [1][2]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [3][4]
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Name Translation
Hi, just wondering why I need a source for the Japanese name for Tatsuro Taira when there already is a Japanese wikipedia page for him that shows it. Creatorial (talk) 18:14, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Creatorial and Nswix: Looped in user NSwix here. Good day and thank you for the question. I have answered your questions at [Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mixed martial arts#Nickname translations|Nickname translations]] for the above question. Since you are here, I would like to let you know that many of your edits regarding the subject full names have been reverted by User Nswix due to WP:BLPPRIMARY guidelines. I strongly suggest you to read the guidelines so you edits wont be reverted or in long run warning messages will placed in your talk page. If after you have read it and still need help to explain the guidelines, pls pop back here and for I am always here to help. Thank you for your contribution and stay safe. Cassiopeia talk 02:38, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- I actually have been going through and reverting the ones from government sources. Creatorial uses non-BLPPRIMARY sources, as far as I know. Nswix (talk) 02:50, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Nswix Thanks for comment here. I have seen some primary source from Creatorial in the pass. Since they are here, I just mentioned it. Since you are here, thank you so much of your contribution and spending so much time to improve MMA related articles and being just a helpful, polite editor. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 02:55, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah the government/Nevada State of Athletic Commission sources that Nswix removed were not put there by me. I've made sure to follow WP:BLPPRIMARY guidlines with my all my sources. Not sure which primary sources I used in the past but my apologies. Thanks. Creatorial (talk) 03:27, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Creatorial: Ok. Thank for informing. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 03:30, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Creatorial: Saw your edit on Tatsuro Taira page. Pls note UFC is not a reliable or independent source (they are private company). Also are also social media sites. ESPN has contract with UFC so that makes ESPN not independent. Pls find other independent, reliable sources such as from newspapers, reliable MMA sites or books for that matter to replace the UFC source. Thank you. Cassiopeia talk 03:53, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- I just changed it and put an independent source. Thank you. Creatorial (talk) 04:01, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Creatorial: Saw your edit on Tatsuro Taira page. Pls note UFC is not a reliable or independent source (they are private company). Also are also social media sites. ESPN has contract with UFC so that makes ESPN not independent. Pls find other independent, reliable sources such as from newspapers, reliable MMA sites or books for that matter to replace the UFC source. Thank you. Cassiopeia talk 03:53, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Creatorial: Ok. Thank for informing. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 03:30, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah the government/Nevada State of Athletic Commission sources that Nswix removed were not put there by me. I've made sure to follow WP:BLPPRIMARY guidlines with my all my sources. Not sure which primary sources I used in the past but my apologies. Thanks. Creatorial (talk) 03:27, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Nswix Thanks for comment here. I have seen some primary source from Creatorial in the pass. Since they are here, I just mentioned it. Since you are here, thank you so much of your contribution and spending so much time to improve MMA related articles and being just a helpful, polite editor. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 02:55, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Creatorial: Thank you for the new source. Since you in the discussion of Wikipedia MMA project, it will be beneficial for you the project guidelines - see here Wikipedia:WikiProject Mixed martial arts and add your name on "Participants List" if you want to and place of MMA editor user box on your talk page (see Userbox section) if you choose to do that. I will send you a list of MMA editing info and norm on your talk page, so pls kindly go through them and re-read it if needed. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 04:03, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
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TWA not working
It seems TWA is glitching. It asks me to log in (I am) then when I click "I'm logged in" it does nothing. Can I do your AFC/NPP review course instead? Thanks --- thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 18:48, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- TheTechie TWA does not work well with mobile sometime, but laptop/desk top is always good. Try again with laptop, if you still find it hard to get it start up, then I will let you some (no all since I dont remember all the info and questions of the program) in summaries. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 23:13, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- I am on laptop when I tried. Seems to be a bug. No buttons work at that screen, not "login", not "sign up", not "logged in". Also tested the buttons logged out and they do nothing. But if it's fine with you, I'd like to do CVU and AFC/NPP, if it isn't too much of a hassle. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 23:55, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- TheTechie I will send you the TWA summeries later and set up the CVUA for you. However, NPPS is a lot harder and compressive than CVUA. It is not recommend to take both at the same time. Once you have finished CVUA program and graduated then you can move on to take NPPS. Most ppl finish each program in 3 months; however, there is no time frame to complete the program as each editor take work on the program on their own pace. Pls note that there will be reading (guidelines) material and questions to answer for a total of 10 assignments plus a final exam which means it will take some of your free time to work on the above. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 00:14, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- I am on laptop when I tried. Seems to be a bug. No buttons work at that screen, not "login", not "sign up", not "logged in". Also tested the buttons logged out and they do nothing. But if it's fine with you, I'd like to do CVU and AFC/NPP, if it isn't too much of a hassle. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 23:55, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- TheTechie I have provide you all the TWA topics and links on your talk page so you dont need come back to my talk page to find them if you need to refer them later in date. Pls read all the links thoroughly and understand them well (dont rush). I will set up the CVUA program for you this weekend. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 01:01, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Cassiopeia - How can you be a proper editor of anything when you enter such as in the following with missing words and extremely poor grammar ??? -
With corrections -
Pls read - the following links since you { can't } access to TWA. Pls read them through and understand the info and guidelines well{,} especially { if } you want to { be } a trainer as the below are the basic fundamental guidelines { in } Wikipedia. ( { Don't } rush) . It is a lot of reading as { the } TWA program is a lot faster and easier.
Without corrections -
Pls read - the following links since you cant access to TWA. Pls read them through and understand the info and guidelines well especially you want to a trainer as the below are the basic fundamental guidelines Wikipedia. (Dont rush) . It is a lot of reading as TWA program is a lot faster and easier. - 69.159.70.156 - 69.159.70.156 (talk) 13:32, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- I am sorry my English standard does not meet your requirements as English is not my first nor second nor third language. I know 4 languages and I am master of none and in addition I have Irlen syndrome which the texts on print/screen do not appear the same way as my brain process them. By the way, I didnt revert your edits nor offend you. I merely explained the situation as they made a mistake and not you. Cassiopeia talk 13:38, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- @69.159.70.156 Stop attacking other editors. You have been warned on your talk page. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 15:25, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- thetechie@enwiki - Sir - The Colonel has left this office for today to attend to yet another military funeral, however we felt it necessary to respond to you now as per your threat / warning / etc. - Nobody is ' attacking ' any of you so called ' editors '- However, some are plainly and simply not up to snuff - Just read what this Cassiopeia person states / admits right above who does not seem to be anyone Wikipedia would want making remarks or offering opinions on anything whatsoever !!! - Do any of you have any sports or military experience of any kind to be able to properly look over and want things changed in any entries as most people do not ever sensibly want to comment on things out of their sphere - Lastly, please do try to lighten up with so many of you always making threatening responses toward people only trying to help / assist Wikipedia where so many wrong things are often found, much more so now in recent years. We shall not enter anything further in this regard so you can just carry on as you are and will. Thank You. - 69.159.70.156 - 69.159.70.156 (talk) 18:01, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- @69.159.70.156: nobody is threatening you. We are advising you that Wikipedia editors, even editors without an account, are required to treat each other with respect. Comments like the one you left above which refer to "so called editors" being "not up to snuff", and editors "not seem[ing] to be anyone Wikipedia would want", are personal attacks, which are not allowed under any circumstances. The notices you received are not threats, they are statements of fact: we would be pleased to discuss the problems you have observed with content in articles, but only if you can do so respectfully and without casting aspersions about the abilities or competence of others. Wikipedia does not require editors to have perfect command of the English language, but we do require editors to treat others with dignity and respect. If you can't, you'll be asked to leave. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:12, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- @69.159.70.156: First of all, all of us are volunteers, spending our free time to help Wikipedia project the best we can. We are not the employees of Wikipedia to work on particular articles or areas of work. In addition user thetechie reverted you edit (it is their mistake) was not any about about sport or military knowledge but a copy edit that they reverted your edit from " .....during the 2013 season, but his contract was not renewed for 2014." to "......during the 2013 season, although his contract was not renewed for 2014.". Secondly, no body threatening you but to educate and let you know the situation and the guidelines of Wikipedia. Lastly, comments on the edits and discuss in civil matter and not attacking the editor. If you want to learn the guidelines of Wikipedia, we are happy to work with you but if you continuing attacking me or other editors then you will be blocked. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 23:44, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- @69.159.70.156: nobody is threatening you. We are advising you that Wikipedia editors, even editors without an account, are required to treat each other with respect. Comments like the one you left above which refer to "so called editors" being "not up to snuff", and editors "not seem[ing] to be anyone Wikipedia would want", are personal attacks, which are not allowed under any circumstances. The notices you received are not threats, they are statements of fact: we would be pleased to discuss the problems you have observed with content in articles, but only if you can do so respectfully and without casting aspersions about the abilities or competence of others. Wikipedia does not require editors to have perfect command of the English language, but we do require editors to treat others with dignity and respect. If you can't, you'll be asked to leave. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:12, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- thetechie@enwiki - Sir - The Colonel has left this office for today to attend to yet another military funeral, however we felt it necessary to respond to you now as per your threat / warning / etc. - Nobody is ' attacking ' any of you so called ' editors '- However, some are plainly and simply not up to snuff - Just read what this Cassiopeia person states / admits right above who does not seem to be anyone Wikipedia would want making remarks or offering opinions on anything whatsoever !!! - Do any of you have any sports or military experience of any kind to be able to properly look over and want things changed in any entries as most people do not ever sensibly want to comment on things out of their sphere - Lastly, please do try to lighten up with so many of you always making threatening responses toward people only trying to help / assist Wikipedia where so many wrong things are often found, much more so now in recent years. We shall not enter anything further in this regard so you can just carry on as you are and will. Thank You. - 69.159.70.156 - 69.159.70.156 (talk) 18:01, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Vandalism Academy
Help me learn please Pilotnance (talk) 17:48, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from Lensandpen (22:00, 19 April 2024)
Hello - I want to add references to existing articles. How do I do that? --Lensandpen (talk) 22:00, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- Lensandpen Good day and thank you for the question. You can use the horizontal format of Template:Citeweb if the sources are from the web and use Template:Citebook if the sources are from the book. I have sent you a welcome message on your talk page, pls read the guidelines (links). If you are interested in editing Wikipedia regularly, then pls take the short WP:TWA program to familiar with some of the fundamental guidelines of Wikipedia. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 04:34, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
UFC
You say essential sports is not considered reliable about sportskeeda? NorixNGU (talk) 03:55, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- I misspelled that I meant what about sportskeeda NorixNGU (talk) 03:56, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- NorixNGU Good day. Thank you for your message. Both Essential sport and Sportkeeda are not reliable. Use the normal mma media sites (such as mma fighting, mma junkie, cageside press, sherdog and etc.) and all major newspapers as they are independent and reliable. Pls note that UFC is consider not reliable and not independent and since ESPN has a 7 years business contract with UFC (and they work extremely closely) thus make ESPN on UFC info not independent. Btw, thank you for your contirbution as I saw you have edits some of MMA fighters articles. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 04:01, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for the feedback I’ll be sure to keep that in mind next time. NorixNGU (talk) 04:21, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- NorixNGU Good day. Thank you for your message. Both Essential sport and Sportkeeda are not reliable. Use the normal mma media sites (such as mma fighting, mma junkie, cageside press, sherdog and etc.) and all major newspapers as they are independent and reliable. Pls note that UFC is consider not reliable and not independent and since ESPN has a 7 years business contract with UFC (and they work extremely closely) thus make ESPN on UFC info not independent. Btw, thank you for your contirbution as I saw you have edits some of MMA fighters articles. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 04:01, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- NorixNGU You are welcome. If you have any questions or need assistance in MMA related article/info or need help in Wikipedia editing /guidelines in general, pop back here and let me know as I am here to help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 04:26, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
Please ease up on the warnings
I noticed that User talk:Jtx186 is littered with warnings from you after checking against one of his their uncited contributions. Please ease up on these warnings for this type of edits[8][9] per WP:BITE and WP:HOUND. The account is editing exclusively from mobile platforms, and the interface does not make citing things easy. The person may never learn how. I realise that it may be annoying that this person never provides citations for any edits given the stringent BLP policies, but this gnomish edit is mundane and non-disruptive and should not be punished given WP:BOLD. Morbidthoughts (talk) 19:14, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- Morbidthoughts Good day. Thank you for the message above, I understand you wrote the message in good will and good intention. Since you have been edited Wikipedia since 2007 with average of 500 edits per year in Wikipedia main space and I would like to thank you for being a long time Wikipedia contributor. I am one of the counter vandalism trainers - see HERE-1 and have about (estimated) 50K counter vandalism edits in Wikipedia so I am familiar with counter vandalism work.
Adding/change content to the article is not gnomish work. Gnomish works in Wikipedia are improving punctuation, fixing typos, correcting poor grammar, creating redirects, adding categories, repairing broken links, adding ISBNs of books, adding short description tag in the article, organizing word pairs into tables, repairing links to disambiguation pages, adding wiki links, adding useful categories, adding redirects, finding sources for "citation needed" tags, providing helpful advice to new editors, posting welcome messages, providing help to other editors, at various forums and various pages around Wikipedia, such WP:Help Desk, etc., helping to maintain "project pages", and many other tasks.
- If you look at the editor talk page and history log, you would notice that the editor started editing Wikipedia since August 30 2018. They are not new editor and have been warned many times since October 2022. The editor was blocked 3 times (June 2023, September 2023 and April 2024) for vandalism, disruptive editing and unsourced so BITE, HOUND and BOLD do not apply there as the editor is a repeat Wikipedia guidelines violator. The most important guidelines in Wikipedia if I have to choose only one is verifibility as this is the core policy of Wikipedia and the editor who add/change the content is the one who need to provide the source for verification. So if an editor repeatedly not provide source and have been warned so many times and continuing to do so, the editor will be blocked and indeed they just got indef block for unsourced - see HERE-2.
- Lastly, I thank you for adding the source on half of the said editor on Ryan Garcia page and once again thank you for time, effort you spent on contributing to Wikipedia for last 17 years. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 06:37, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- I spend a lot of time on the BLP noticeboards and just don't consider these edits disruptive or vandalism. The indef block was harsh if they were just adding uncited but verifiable information. This is the type of enforcement that drives casual but useful contributors away. Even though the user created their account in 2018, I still consider them a casual contributor who is trying to improve the project so WP:BOLD matters. They are making the same type of edits that an ip address would make in updating sports articles with the latest record or mundane news. Their mistake was creating an account to accumulate these warnings. Morbidthoughts (talk) 07:50, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- Pinging @Callanecc: since they made the block off your AIV request[10]. Morbidthoughts (talk) 08:17, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- Morbidthoughts If they are new or just have one of two unsourced content added that is a different things, but the editor habitually and repeatedly adding unsourced content, vandalized article and made disruptive edits after many warnings and guidelines provided. Repeatedly adding unsourced content after many warnings will result a block for IP editors or register users, so are continuing/repeating edit disruptively, vandalized articles, personal attack other editors and etc. All warnings are accumulated and all edits are recorded for they can always be viewed in the history log regardless if they are IP or registered users. I know you dont share Wikipedia way of conducts of the admins or the counter vandalism editors, but this is Wikipedia and to edit in Wikipedia we have to adhere to the guidelines. If there is still some doubt in you of this issues, please take a moment to ponder why the user have been blocked 3 times by 3 different admins in three different occasions. Lastly, it is not about mundane content added to the articles but it is about repeatedly violating the core policy of Wikipedia. Once again, I thank you for your long time contribution to Wikipedia. Stay safe are and have a wonderful weekend. Cassiopeia talk 08:34, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- They are not vandalism edits within the meaning of WP:VANDALISM, as in deliberate edits meant to obstruct Wikipedia. It may be frustrating and annoying to see these content additions uncited, but they fall under WP:BOLD. Wikipedia is not meant to be a bureaucracy. Morbidthoughts (talk) 08:43, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- Morbidthoughts, As mentioned, a user being blocked is not only violating VAL guidelines but also by other means especially for a repeated violator for so many times in a year where warnings and guidelines are placed in their talk page (sorry I am repeating myself here). A violator is a behavior issue as violator is "a person who breaks or fails to comply with a rule and/or a person who treats something with irreverence or disrespect. Even for a new editor continuing adding unsourced contain after many warnings, they will be blocked temporary (31hrs/3 days) let a lone a repeated violator. See Wikipedia:About - "Anyone can edit Wikipedia's text, references, and images. What is written is more important than who writes it. The content must conform with Wikipedia's policies, including being verifiable by published sources." In short verifiability is the essence of Wikipedia work. Cassiopeia talk 09:47, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- The problem with your argument is that the information being added is easily verifiable even if they didn't provide a citation. You seem to be an experienced editor with the subjects of MMA and boxing to recognise what is verifiable or not without a citation. WP:FULLCITE acknowledges this interpretation with "When tagging or removing material for lacking an inline citation, please state your concern that it may not be possible to find a published reliable source, and the material therefore may not be verifiable. If you think the material is verifiable, you are encouraged to provide an inline citation yourself before considering whether to remove or tag it." You did not remove or challenge the information on Islam Makachev.[11] Instead you gave this person a warning.[12] Then when I told you to ease up after my experience with this editor. You gave a final warning for the Islam Makachev article when they didn't edit that article further,[13] gave a final warning for a similar edit for Ryan Garcia,[14] and filed an AIV.[15] That is WP:POINTy. Morbidthoughts (talk) 23:35, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- Morbidthoughts, As mentioned, a user being blocked is not only violating VAL guidelines but also by other means especially for a repeated violator for so many times in a year where warnings and guidelines are placed in their talk page (sorry I am repeating myself here). A violator is a behavior issue as violator is "a person who breaks or fails to comply with a rule and/or a person who treats something with irreverence or disrespect. Even for a new editor continuing adding unsourced contain after many warnings, they will be blocked temporary (31hrs/3 days) let a lone a repeated violator. See Wikipedia:About - "Anyone can edit Wikipedia's text, references, and images. What is written is more important than who writes it. The content must conform with Wikipedia's policies, including being verifiable by published sources." In short verifiability is the essence of Wikipedia work. Cassiopeia talk 09:47, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- They are not vandalism edits within the meaning of WP:VANDALISM, as in deliberate edits meant to obstruct Wikipedia. It may be frustrating and annoying to see these content additions uncited, but they fall under WP:BOLD. Wikipedia is not meant to be a bureaucracy. Morbidthoughts (talk) 08:43, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- Morbidthoughts If they are new or just have one of two unsourced content added that is a different things, but the editor habitually and repeatedly adding unsourced content, vandalized article and made disruptive edits after many warnings and guidelines provided. Repeatedly adding unsourced content after many warnings will result a block for IP editors or register users, so are continuing/repeating edit disruptively, vandalized articles, personal attack other editors and etc. All warnings are accumulated and all edits are recorded for they can always be viewed in the history log regardless if they are IP or registered users. I know you dont share Wikipedia way of conducts of the admins or the counter vandalism editors, but this is Wikipedia and to edit in Wikipedia we have to adhere to the guidelines. If there is still some doubt in you of this issues, please take a moment to ponder why the user have been blocked 3 times by 3 different admins in three different occasions. Lastly, it is not about mundane content added to the articles but it is about repeatedly violating the core policy of Wikipedia. Once again, I thank you for your long time contribution to Wikipedia. Stay safe are and have a wonderful weekend. Cassiopeia talk 08:34, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- I dont always go to my user page when I start editing. I have about 2K watchlist and many notifications. You can check my daily working pattern on my contribution log of my editing patterns. (not sure what you meant by tagging - so I explain here) Tagging is not the same as violation of guidelines. Tagging the article is a considered gnomish work. We tag the "article" not the editor when we find some issues needs to be solved such as copyedit, missing categories, lack of wikilinls, article needs to have more section, and etc. The tag(s) appear at the top of the article. Here is a different topic". As per WP:BURDEN - All content must be verifiable and the burden lies on the editor who added/change the content to provide source (inline citation) for verifiability. As mentioned, if a editor continuing violate the Wikipedia guidelines (vandalism/unsourced/disruptive/ personal attack and etc.), after warnings "many times" that informing they will be blocked and if they are continuing to do so after that then he will be reported especially the editor has been informed of such since one year and had been blocked twice prior to another recent block -that is the point which I hope you can understand which I have been trying to explained to you a few times it is long standing behavior issues. Have a good weekend and best. Cassiopeia talk 06:32, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Submitted Assignment (NPPS)
Hello @Cassiopeia, I have submitted and notified you on my assignment talk page but still no response. Kindly go through and assess my work.
Thank you, Best resgards Uncle Bash007 (talk) 07:52, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- Uncle Bash007 Hi, I had reply you on the program page of the above. I have a few reviews to do and have blocked ou 5-6 hours tmr to review them including yours. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 09:15, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- Uncle Bash007 Reviewed. Cassiopeia talk 06:47, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
- Alright. Thank you sir Uncle Bash007 (talk) 06:50, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #624
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-04-22.
Translations are available.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- OpeninfoBot - Task: Importing financial data (assets, equity, revenue, EBIT, net profit) from openinfo.uz to entries on public Uzbek companies in Wikidata.
- IntegrationBot - Task: retrieve information from Wikidata and contribute data back
- It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners will be unveiled at Wikimania 2024.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: Wikimedia begins mapping of Anambra MDAs, streets, markets on Wikidata - The Wikimedia Anambra Network and the Anambra State ICT Agency are collaborating on a project to map ministries, departments, agencies (MDAs), streets, and markets in Anambra State on Wikidata.
- Papers
Tool of the week
- Mishramilan (মিশ্রমিলন), a tool listing words/phrases in different language catalogs and allowing users to match the entries in those catalogs to existing Wikidata lexemes or to create new lexemes based on those entries.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- It's not too late to join the Wikidata Open Online Course, open from April 22 to May 31! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
- There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A new proposal for the split has also been published, feedback will be open until May 15th 2024.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- General datatypes:
- Imagehash difference hash (hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical)
- image of construction (image showing the building/object/work under construction)
- derived from base unit (the base unit(s) that this derived unit is derived from)
- International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations (industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations)
- RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
- API formatter URL (URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data)
- leaf morphology (characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves)
- creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions)
- beneficial owner (natural person or persons who ultimately owns or controls a company or organisation)
- official server list URL (website, officially recommended by the developer of the software, that lists public server instances of the software)
- EBITDA (accounting measure: net earnings, before interest expenses, taxes, depreciation, and amortization are subtracted)
- date popularized (point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception)
- number of accepted contributions (number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference)
- electoral symbol (symbol allocated to a political party or candidate for use on ballots)
- authorised capital (maximum amount of share capital that the company is authorised to issue to shareholders)
- number of submissions (number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference)
- follows spelling pattern (spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form)
- Newest External identifiers: ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, droitne.ch author ID, Statbunker player ID, ffspb.org player ID, beachsoccer.com team ID, WildTangent Games ID, HCERES organisation ID, az.lib.ru author ID, Hanslick Online person ID, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, mosff.ru staff ID, PeerTube channel address, WDF player ID, The Spriters Resource game ID, Cemu Wiki article ID, Génération Nintendo game ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID, Zillow zpid, Aragonario ID (6th version), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID, Algerian trademark number ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, Delisted Games ID, Algerian commune ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID, The Islamic World: Past and Present ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID, pressball.by football manager ID, Duden sense ID, GovTrack person ID, PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID, Kritikanstvo game ID, Kritikanstvo publication ID, Kritikanstvo critic ID, myabandonware.com game ID, FürthWiki article ID, IAFD film UUID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- WEM facility code ()
- Type of representation (Property to indicate the '''representation type''' as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image).)
- is fake of (the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for)
- image decay (image decay suffered by an old photograph)
- risk group (risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification defined by the WHO laboratory biosafety manual)
- tartan image (image of the item's tartan)
- tartan (item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group.)
- hasFeldpostNumber (Property to link German military units to their respective Feldpost numbers, referencing the specific identifier used during the military communications in the world wars.)
- total deposits (total value of deposits held by a bank or financial institution)
- Total loans (total value of loans given out by a bank or financial institution)
- source of transfer & destination of transfer (entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity (the destination of transfer) [aliases: source / sender])
- type of deterioration (to indicate types of deterioration presented by an artwork, building, artifact, etc.)
- rythme narratif (video game mechanic based on the rhythm of the player's actions)
- event role (item that describes a role in an event class)
- Patent Abstract (Abstract of the patent)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, CPV profile ID, SPV profile ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID, YList ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Brill ID, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID, case number (mainland China), English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID, Rugby Romania ID, Scottish Register of Tartans ID, A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID, NICE Paintings ID, AccessAble venue ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ID, Asociation Espanola de Amigos de los Castillos ID, Pitchbook Company Profile, Cbonds Company Profile, Sonic Retro article ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Kunstenpunt Knowledge Graph ID, identifiant Encyklopedia Medyków Powstania Warszawskiego, Algerian district ID, The Spriters Resource platform ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics ID, PEGI game ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person id, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture ID, Flora Croatica Database taxon ID, Algerian province ID, more kaino.kotus.fi identifiers, World Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Gentoo Guru ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject NZThesisProject Wikidata library training Christchurch 2024 - The aim is to organize an event to show participants how adding New Zealand collections to Wikidata can be useful, and to train participants to improve Wikidata Items so that tools such as Scholia, which builds academic profiles, will be demonstrated.
- WikiProject Islam - Aims to collaborate on Islam-related topics
- WikiProject Algerian History - The goal of this project is to ensure the completeness of the history of Algeria (Q473761) during its historic period to modern time in Wikidata.
- WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject India/General Elections 2024 task force - is an initiative to create and up-to-date information related to general election (Q1076105) in India (Q668).
- Newest database reports: Merge candidates based on same sitelink name
- Showcase Items: Bertus Aafjes (Q353003) - Dutch poet and writer (1914–1993)
- Showcase Lexemes: dismesso (L1200000) - "discontinued/disused" in Italian
Development
- mul language code: We are continuing the roll-out. It is now available on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org.
- REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the following:
- Create an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
- Modify data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)
- EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
- Leveling Up Days: We are wrapping up the event.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Other objects and tools
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- 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!
Tech News: 2024-17
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [16]
- You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [17][18]
Future changes
- This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [19]
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