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Sorry, but your version is full of grammar errors... "roman" must be capitals, Venice cannot take "who", which is used just for people etc. --'''Attilios''' (talk) 19:11, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

it was not such a lot, it took few seconds to fix it. Also "roman" is not grammar but ortography If I remember I just let you delete everything and ignore it. For the future, if anyone find something like this just fixand leaves a message, it takes you the same time.--Alexmar983 (talk) 15:12, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Jstore

Ciao Alexmar, grazie dell'informazione provo a darci un'occhiata, certo è che poter accedere agli archivi di varie riviste sarebbe molto utile, anche se il "You have a minimum of 1000 edits to the encyclopedia" dovrebbe appunto essere in senso largo, riferito non solo agli edit su en.wiki perchè altrimenti buonanotte, qui ci vengo ogni morte di Papa, cioè no, ci vengo, ma per leggere e a prendere informazioni per it.wiki, ma quasi mai edito :-)--Kirk39 (talk) 19:44, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Jstor

Ciao e, a prescindere, grazie. Non ho una gran familiarità con le altre wiki, in effetti, ma ti chiedo la gentilezza di spiegarmi meglio le finalità di 'sta cosa: ammetto di non averci capito granché da una veloce scorsa.--Ale Sasso (talk) 21:29, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Molto interessante, ti ringrazio.--Ale Sasso (talk) 11:15, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Re: Meglio tardi che mai

è vero, meglio tardi che mai. forse però è meglio dialogare sulla mia pagina italiana. non starò molto oltre Manica... --Lungoleno (talk) 17:24, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Ciao

questo è il mio contatto

Ilaria--Ilabs2015 (talk) 16:37, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Re:Segnalo

Grazie. Ho già ricevuto l'accesso, anche se non ho capito dove inserire lo username e la password che mi hanno fornito. --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 17:17, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Ho trovato la pagina che cercavo. Certo che questo sito è tutto tranne che user-friendly. Sto cercando un libro o articolo che presenti una panoramica dei macchinari solitamente utilizzati nell'industria farmaceutica, ma nel sito qualunque parola chiave inserisco spuntano risultati che hanno poco o nulla a che fare con quello che cerco. --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 14:51, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi Alexmar983! Thank you for the precious advices given me. I appreciate it very much.

But, I can see your mother language is Italian, isn't it? If it is so, you should have to know that I am Italian, too.

I cooperate mainly to the Italian pages of Wikipedia, since I can understand English very well but I'm not very fluent in writing about specific topics. My main edit concern Chemistry (that is something I'm so really fond of) and Astronomy. You can see a list of my edits on my personal Italian user page.

So, thank you again and bye bye. --Pep-k (talk) 21:33, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Ah ah. Bene, allora se avrò bisogno di una mano saprò a chi rivolgermi. Pep-k (talk) 22:03, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

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Maybe you and Opabinia regalis should hold this pretty specialized conversation about Emsley and co on your talk pages? Not trying to offend, even if this message comes off that way. --Smokefoot (talk) 23:55, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Smokefoot that's no personal conversation, even if it is specialized, that's about the editing of the Emsley's page. I can start it maybe in the article talk, but it was already there, so I finished it there. Funny, for the standard of other wikis, It may look like if I'm trying to make a conversation too personal when it is not, and that would be not appropriate... BTW, I hink that this message arrives late, because that's no really much to say anymore. I am sorry that you've spent one minute to leave a message that won't probably make a difference (no sarcasm intended).--Alexmar983 (talk) 00:23, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Lyndon Emsley

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Ciao, non ne faccio una questione di vita o morte, ma le incongruenze che ho discusso per me ci sono tutte; al di la del fatto che le regole ci sono e vanno applicate. Se ti va puoi anche fare su en.wiki una breve la pagina, d'altronde l'ammiragliato inglese descrisse il fatto. Non lo faccio io perchè il mio inglese non me lo consente. CMQ grazie--OppidumNissenae (talk) 13:12, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Potrei chiedere a mia figlia Ermesa, ma questo mese ha la laurea a Londra e non è proprio il caso, se scrivo io il mio inglese (io Tarzan, tu Jane) non mi sembra opportuno, che dirti se pensi che non ti crea tropo disturbo puoi salvare in una sandbox il testo e quanto hai tempo/voglia puoi salvare la memoria del caso. Tu dove sei, in Cina se ho capito bene?--OppidumNissenae (talk) 13:26, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

--Lena Villa Santa (talk) 17:06, 23 May 2016 (UTC)== André Laug ==

Ciao Alex e mille grazie per il tuo aiuto, innanzitutto. Ho visto che hai già risistemato tutte le note e te ne sono grata. Mi spiace ma io sono partita da una pagina in italiano già convalidata, che ho tradotto con gli stessi contenuti, e dunque non mi aspettavo questa cancellazione immediata! Ora chi può rimuovere l'avviso? Posso farlo io o deve farlo qualcun altro? Grazie ancora lena Lena Villa Santa (talk) 16:16, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Ah! Scusami. In realtà avevo già contattato un utente, prima di essere contattata da te. Io ora volevo appunto fare alcune modifiche di lingua dopo aver chiesto un check a un amico madrelingua US, però temo di non aver più accesso per editare il testo 😱 Mi puoi soltanto spiegare, se non sei ancora andato a dormire, ora cosa succede? Chi interverrà per rimuovere, se tutto va bene, l'avviso? Come posso riprendermi la facoltà di editare e migliorare il testo? Grazie ancora e buona notte Lena Villa Santa (talk) 16:24, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Ciao Alex, grazie per il tuo messaggio. Essendomi registrata da poco, capisco appena le dinamiche e gli equilibri nelle discussioni e negli interventi di rimozione degli avvisi. Comunque, farò come dici e non tocco nulla (a parte una sistemata al testo in inglese). La foto è originale e viene direttamente da sito è pagina Facebook ufficiale di André Laug — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lena Villa Santa (talk • contribs) 17:05, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Ultimi (spero) interventi

Ciao, Ho pulito la voce, tolto toni enfatici e promozionali, corretto toni stile e grammatica, che dire, resto in attesa che mi vengano rimossi tutti gli avvisi. Non so perché ma non ritrovo il mio precedente talk Sulla tua pagina utente. Forse essendo new on Wikipedia ancora non mi sono chiare le regole di netiquette. Comunque ho letto la lunga serie di mail e tuoi interventi e volevo semplicemente ringraziarti. Mi sto appassionando a wp e a tutto l'entusiasmo dei wikipedians. Ancora grazie :-) Lena Villa Santa (talk) 20:05, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

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And now?

Ciao, innanzitutto grazie per il lavorone che hai fatto (i verbi al passato li stavo cambiando anche io mentre tu stavi dentro la pagina, ci siamo sovrapposti e io a quel punto ho annullato tutto). Adesso aggiungo una fonte Harpers Bazaar, e altre due info sulla compagnia. Ho trovato online anche una Uma Thurman che, prima di diventare attrice, era modella e sfilava per Laug. Terminato tutto ciò, cosa devo fare? Pensavo di scrivere sulla pagina discussione della voce per sollecitare un intervento risolutivo al fine di far rimuovere gli avvisi ma dato che mi hai detto di "non muovermi" non so se sia giusto (e se sia quello il posto giusto per farlo). In tutto ciò, oggi ho versato il mio due per mille a Wikipedia! 👍🏼 #yeah A presto, lena Lena Villa Santa (talk) 14:36, 24 May 2016 (UTC) Buongiorno Alex, grazie ancora per tutto il lavoro che hai fatto. Oggi sono in viaggio e non posso, ma domani o dopodomani aggiungerò un altro paio di fonti. Comunque ho visto che hanno tolto gli avvisi e sono contenta. La prossima voce la farò con più attenzione, forte di tutte le cose che ho imparato in questi giorni! Si scusa ieri intendevo Wikimedia Italia, codice fiscale 94039910156, è giusto vero? Grazie lena — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lena Villa Santa (talk • contribs) 09:36, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you.. anzi, grazie per il tuo invito. Vedo che parli italiano meglio di quanto io possa fare in inglese, quindi sarà meglio usare l'idioma dantesco. Hai creato il mio utente (LaudatoSi) in en.wiki, ma non riesco a entrarci... In lingua inglese mi sono permesso solo una incursione, sulla voce relativa al Photo Drama of Creation. A suo tempo mi feci tutta una discussione con un utente testimone di Geova, che ovviamente negava di esserlo, e che sosteneva la realtà della creazione in 7000 anni; oggi la stessa Watch Tower ha cambiato idea, come ho giò aggiornato nella pagina in italiano. Va bè, non sarà la prima volta che cambiano idea, e temo nemmeno l'ultima. Già che ci sono, vorrei sottoporre alla tua attenzione una voce che mi fa penare da anni: Magnetoterapia, in italiano, o Electromagnetic_therapy_(alternative_medicine), in inglese. In primo luogo, la cosa mi interessa perchè sono un tecnico elettronico, anche se oggi ho cambiato campo di attivitò buttandomi sulla depurazione domestica delle acqua. Ho lavorato per anni con gli elettromedicali, li conosco a fondo sia negli aspetti tecnici sia in quelli biologici, e perciò vederli maltrattati come pseudoscienza da gente che non ha mai aperto un testo liceale di fisica va oltre la mia capacità di sopportazione. A suo tempo, dieci anni fa, ottenni perfino un ticket OTRS per il mio sito, per il suo contributo alla voce. In en.wiki la situazione è ancora più curiosa: viene definita pseudoscientifica, ma nei link esterni ci sono siti ottimi e peer-reviewed. Cito una frase:"The American Cancer Society says that "relying on electromagnetic treatment alone and avoiding conventional medical care may have serious health consequences." Tale affermazione conferma l'efficacia della magnetoterapia: infatti è talmente capace di migliorare la risposta biologica della cellula che è CONTROINDICATA in caso di cancro, perchè sviluppa anche le cellule tumorali. In inglese ancora, alla voce Pulsed_electromagnetic_field_therapy, c'è già qualche elemento migliore, ma ben lungi dall'essere esaustivo. Spero di averti dato qualche indicazione stimolante, e ti lascio un cordialissimo saluto. Marco. 151.38.52.89 (talk) 07:33, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

aspetta, un attimo... rispetto a altri giorni sono un po' meno in linea perché ho qualche scadenza oggi e domani quindi mi permetto solo di rispondere sulla "creazione" per ora, Non ho "creato" nulla se non la talk (pagina discussione) utente. Ti ho visto nelle ultime modifiche su itiwki, ho verificato dal SUL che fossi "attaccato" cioè già registrato su enwiki e anche se non avevi già editato, ti ho lasciato un messaggio di benvenuto. In genere mi limito alle piattaforme dove si hanno edit ma eri tornato dopo tanto tempo ho pensato che un benvenuto di incoraggiamento ci poteva stare. Quindi è il "non riesco a entrarci" che mi lascia perplesso assai e di cui mi occuprei nel mio poco tempo, perché ci dovresti entrare senza problema alcuno. Fammi un favore, prova a aprire dal tuo computer dopo che ti sei loggato su itWikipedia le altre wikipedia tipo in tedesco, francese, spagnolo... (basta che le apri, non devi editarci o nulla). Così magari provo a lasciarti un messaggio anche lì e vediamo se ti ci puoi loggare e rispondermi.--Alexmar983 (talk) 07:43, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

qui risulti creato come utenza LaudatoSi. Ti pingo perché dovrebbe arrivarti la notifica cross wiki.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:37, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Giusto... hai proprio ragione. Un salutone da Marco.LaudatoSi (talk) 20:30, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

veniamo alla seconda part del messaggio: cosa ti serve di approffondire/cpaire qui su enwiki rispetto a quelle pagine?--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:29, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Beh, hai detto che mi seguivi nelle modifiche su it.wiki, quindi dovresti sapere già quali contributi ho messo e sono stati cancellati. Nella cronologia della pagina ce ne sono vari quintali... Non è tanto un bisogno personale, ma piuttosto un desiderio di rendere la voce più aderente alla realtà dei fatti, e alla fin fine più esaustiva per chi la va a leggere. E questo, ovviamente, sia per le voci in inglese sia in italiano.LaudatoSi (talk) 06:00, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

LaudatoSi io seguo centinaia di utenti, ho visto grossomodo l'area e le modifiche, ma se vuoi che ti aiuti a parte un pistolotto su le fonti terze e il punto di vista, ho bisogno di qualcosa di specifico. Fra l'laltro non sono di quelli che solo perché leggono un titolo allarmista sulla pseudoscienza su un giornale nazionale pensano di sapere tutto, ho un dottorato in chimica, dovrei avere un po' di senso critico. non conosco nulla di Magnetoterapia però. La mia conoscenza di enwiki è parziale, ne so abbastanza su come salvare dalla cancellazione una voce considerata promozionale di azienda o persona, ma sulle "pseudoscienze" non conosco bene. Suppongo che ci siano anche qua mastini più o meno rabbiosi.

In genere comunque il mio consiglio è di rifuggire dal dibattito in talk e spostarsi in sede di progetto tematico (medicina, richiamato da altri progetti come fisica o tecnologia). Risulta altrettanto polarizzato ma a volte emergono più elementi minori interessanti.

Comunque è rischioso assai buttarsi con pochi edit in una di queste voci. Prima è consigliabile avere una certa attività esterna all'area tematica, altrimenti la discussione si sposta sulla persona.--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:12, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Va bè, alla fin fine non mi cambia la vita se le cose rimangono così. Mi dispiace un po', ma pazienza... Ti ringrazio per il tuo interessamento, e ti lascio un salutone. Marco. LaudatoSi (talk) 09:58, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

No davvero figurati... comunque LaudatoSi se devi "perdere tempo" in una talk fallo in una talk di progetto. Vai in progetto:medicina su itwiki e apri una discussione su come ridistribuire il materiale sopratutto se è il caso creare una voce su un aspetto specifico chiarendo meglio il fatto che in italiano con la stessa parola si possono indicare due cose diverse. Ogni passo alla lunga conta, e fa una differenza.

Per il resto lo so cosa significhi non poter scrivere di cosa si sa, l'ho evitato accuratamente in molti casi. So anche cosa voglia dire trovarsi in una discussione di un argomento che non è il proprio e porre un dubbio malgrado tutto lecito e essere trattati non bene. Quando mi trovo in questo dubbio per non sprecare le mie competenze alle volte mi dedico anche a lavori ancillari meno controversi come procurare immagini o anche scrivere la pagina di citazione su wikiquote. Se invece vuoi scrivere un testo corredato da fonti ma più creativo c'è wikibooks, hai provato a chiedere lì? --Alexmar983 (talk) 10:24, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

A dire la verità no, grazie ancora per l'indicazione.LaudatoSi (talk) 14:08, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Email

Ciao, scusa ma mi devo essere perso qualcosa. Wikipedia mi mostra un alert che dice che mi hai inviato un'email. L'alert non è cliccabile in alcun modo, allora ho pensato di verificare il mio account email (l'unico che uso, lo stesso con cui sono registrato a Wikipedia) e non ho ricevuto nulla. Nulla neppure nella cartella spam, che non ho svuotato di recente.

Come faccio a leggere la tua email? --TheLazza (talk) 12:41, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Grazie per la risposta gentile, veloce e anche dettagliata. :) Però non ho capito questa frase:

«Anzitutto ti volevo fare un esempio pratico che non basta la mail, se non avesse funzionato.»

Mi rassicura il fatto che tu dica che "su itwiki le regole non sono per nulla chiare in materia", allora non ero il solo a pensarlo. La pagina che mi hai linkato su enwiki mi sembra molto più chiara e precisa (oltre che, IMHO, ragionevole). Quindi davvero potrei creare un semplice link alla PU qui su enwiki e mettere in quella una lista di voci che mi interessano, le lingue che parlo e casomai un link o un'email? Non ho intenzione di violare alcuna regola, quindi preferisco capire prima di preciso cosa si può fare. --TheLazza (talk) 13:11, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Ti ringrazio moltissimo delle spiegazioni. Allora mi sa che farò così quando avrò un attimo di tempo da dedicarci. Riguardo al chiedere "come mai?"... mi sa che è troppo tardi, l'avevo fatto in modo generico prima che tu mi mostrassi degli esempi. :( --TheLazza (talk) 14:15, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Voce su S.A.

Eh eh, sì ho visto. Più che altro, l'articolo di Motherboard l'ho trovato imparziale perché ha dato la possibilità di parlare a qualcuno che non sia il diretto interessato. È stato probabilmente un caso che chiedessero a me, ma poteva essere qualsiasi Wikipediano informato sulla vicenda. Gli altri articoli che ho visto in giro (la menzione di disonore speciale va al FQ) sono stati solo una vetrina per fornire informazioni inesatte o complottistiche su Wikipedia e la presunta "lobby" che avrebbe già deciso di cancellarlo prima della PdC (ma se c'erano pure alcuni contrari...). È arrivato persino a dire che su Wikipedia c'è "chiunque". Grazie anche per il chiarimento relativo alla questione PU. --TheLazza (talk) 10:46, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Ho visto il tuo intervento. Ti dirò, può pure essere che abbia senso scrivere qualche citazione sul personaggio (non del personaggio), posto che non siano copia-incolla della sua autobiografia. Quindi escludendo quelli rimarrebbero poche cose, e a volte neppure positive. Certo che addirittura fare una voce sulla tale tizia solo perché fidanzata di un famosissimo youtuber... mi sembra un po' una cosa tirata. :D --TheLazza (talk) 13:34, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Scusa, mi sono spiegato male... la mia era una personalissima opinione sulla PdC relativa alla voce su Wikipedia, non ho detto che tu avessi in mente di creare la voce su Wikiquote. :) Per il discorso Cina: non usi VPN? --TheLazza (talk) 14:04, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Ah ok capito, grazie per avermi tolto la curiosità. Io invece ho valutato ragionevole spendere 50 USD e andare tranquillo, pure se sono in Italia. --TheLazza (talk) 14:05, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

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Copyright

To be complient of copyright, when you move content into a new article please say were you got it from [1] Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:28, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

For other readers, I've answered here. The copyright talk is in the talk page.--Alexmar983 (talk) 18:35, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

thank you

Thanks for your kind welcome. I am still at my very beginning with the Italian version of Wikipedia.--Galligr (talk) 05:26, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

RE: Fonti in russo su Tamburi

ciao, grazie per la tua risposta in effetti dopo aver spulciato da quei fonti la cosa strana è che troppo pochi sono per rendere enciclopedico e a mio parere è più che da localismo in una zona non italofona.. perciò quell'articolo meritava un bel C4.. dopotutto non tutti gli attivisti sono politici; ma se fosse come attivista sociale forse quella pagina meritava di essere enciclopedica, o meno?? --SURDUSVII 08:02, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

non so e non credo che en.wiki abbia le chance, ma dubito che ru.wiki li potrebbe cancellare, dato che è una voce enciclopedica adatta ai russofoni ;) --SURDUSVII 09:51, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

ricordati, ogni wiki ha le sue regole e non sono fisse ;) --SURDUSVII 10:19, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

ovviamente anche per Deaf activists che su it.wiki li fsarebbero subito delle PdC e per questo li metto nella sandbox miei, dato che è difficile trovare dei fonti, in quanto sono personaggi del tutto sconosciuti, ma conosciuti a più del mondo delle persone dei disabili dell'udito.. ovvio era.. --SURDUSVII 10:42, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

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by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads

• New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
• Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
• TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
• OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution

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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

thank u for coffee ;)

SURDUSVII 07:47, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

RE: cup for coffee

ciao, mi pare che in it.wiki non c'è l'iconcina.. :( --SURDUSVII 07:48, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Premiazione WIkisourceMonument

Va benissimo, grazie!! Per Genova non so dirti..! SAluti --Bieco blu (talk) 07:36, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Italo/Scozzesi

Ciao Alex, ti ricordavi bene sono a Edinburgo. Grazie per l'informazione! Paul Gascoigne (talk) 15:26, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

User Page

I'm really pleased for your welcome in en.wiki ! I currently contribute to it.wiki for over two years in rock music, expecially about English and American musician and groups of 80's and 90's. However I'm available to give my contribuition, if I'll be able to. Best regards.

Adriano 64 (talk) 18:32, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Per ora mi sono solo permesso di modificare la voce Collaborator (film) aggiungendo il nome di MAdM agli attori del film, visto che poi nessuno poi lo aveva fatto... Spero che vada bene, ciao e alla prossima.

Adriano 64 (talk) 19:56, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Era una cosa che avevo scoperto occupandomi dell'ampliamento della voce su Melissa Auf der Maur su it.wiki. Ho anche le fonti, come puoi vedere su quella voce in italiano. Volevo solo sapere se la modifica era stato fatta correttamente, secondo le Vs. regole... Ciao e grazie.

Adriano 64 (talk) 21:48, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

User:Hotepibre (Utente:Hotepibre in WP Italia)

Mi pare di aver capito che, pur essendo un English WP, tu sia italiano o che, comunque, parli perfettamente l'italiano e perciò uso tale lingua per non scrivere strafalcioni troppo grandi nel mio inglese arrugginito. Grazie per il benvenuto, sono un "vecchio" utente italiano (dal 2006) ed ho scritto parecchie voci per quella versione di WP oltre ad averne ampliato o corretto tante altre; frequento la versione inglese abbastanza spesso sia per "curiosità" o necessità di ricerca, sia per verificare notizie magari pubblicate in Italia, ma che necessitano di un esame critico per confermarle o smentirle. Qui mi sono permesso di scrivere un appunto sulla voce Eleonora Pimentel Fonseca (voce che ho di molto ampliato e corretto in italiano essendo io napoletano e appassionato della storia di Napoli) poiché mi sono accorto che c'è una grave inesattezza: la si accredita di una falsa gravidanza in previsione dell'esecuzione capitale, ma il personaggio che si trovò in quella condizione NON era Eleonora bensì Luisa Sanfelice. Ancora grazie per il benvenuto e a presto rileggerti Hotepibre (talk) 10:39, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Intanto grazie per la risposta e per la nota che hai inserito nella voce su Eleonora; a mia volta ho inserito un paio di note per valorizzare anche la voce in inglese su quella che è stata poi, fondamentalmente, la prima donna a diventare Direttore di un giornale. Avrei voluto correggere un'altra inesattezza grave, ma non sono in grado di farlo in inglese. Si legge infatti "...sham royal tribunals implemented by Horatio Nelson", ma i tribunali non furono assolutamente istituiti da Nelson. Si trattava, si, di processi "farsa", ma la "Giunta di Stato" era stata voluta dalla monarchia borbonica appena restaurata. Il coinvolgimento di Nelson, pure presente a Napoli (ma la storia è troppo complessa per scriverla qui), si manifestò semmai nell'esecuzione dell'Ammiraglio napoletano Caracciolo che avvenne a bordo di una nave, e quindi in territorio, inglese. Scusa se scoccio te, ma non sono certo in grado di modificare voci in inglese con così tante insidie per la mia conoscenza linguistica. Ancora grazie Hotepibre (talk) 11:39, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Scusa se disturbo te ancora una volta, ma sei il mio faro in questa WP dove mi sento decisamente a disagio con il mio inglese non certo perfetto. Ho aggiunto alcune precisazioni alla voce inglese Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel relative al matrimonio di Eleonora, o al sonetto scritto per lei da Voltaire. Saresti così gentile da controllare che non abbia scritto grossi strafalcioni? Vorrei inoltre correggere quell'inesattezza che riguarda la Sanfelice piuttosto che Eleonora (perché è proprio un grave errore) ed avevo pensato di cancellare la frase "incriminata" e sostituirla con la seguente, più attinente alla realtà dei fatti: "She was arrested, processed and sentenced to death, by hanging, on 20 august 1799. Furthermore, death Penalty for noble people provided beheading and not hanging and she was a noble woman (marquise), however she’s given up his title being Jacobin. She asked at least to be beheaded, not hanged, because the public hanging of a noblewoman was seen as something quite outrageous, but there was no mercy." Dimmi se va bene e provvedo. Ancora grazie per la pazienza.Hotepibre (talk) 11:09, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Grazie, sostituzione avvenuta. Ora mi piace di più; la voce è più aderente alla realtà per i pochi che credo possano essere interessati alla storia italiana o addirittura napoletana.Hotepibre (talk) 11:25, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Autopatrolling

Grazie mille Alexmar x la mia candidatura a autopatroller! Fa sempre molto piacere che qualcuno apprezzi quello che fai. Buona serata, --Pampuco (talk) 17:28, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Grazie

Grazie dell'incoraggiamento. Sono fuori uso per qualche settimana, ma conto di tornare in forma--Galligr (talk) 13:57, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Grazie mille per l'incoraggiamento e una cortesia

Buonasera a te, ti scrivo salutandoti e ringraziandoti fraternamente e infinitamente per le belle parole e il wikilove per i miei 1000 edit su Wikipedia in inglese, domani saranno 10 anni di wikipediano, eh sì, il tempo vola ne ho viste molte in 10 anni su questo portale straordinario, come un rinascimento, un nuovo illuminismo che si protrae nel III millennio, dove spesso la cultura è messa all'ultimo posto. Non sono una grande cima ma nel mio piccolo mi sforzo di fare e dare del mio meglio per costruire una nuova società, seria, matura e saggia. Detto questo ti chiedo una cortesia per il mio 10 wikianniversario, quale? di dare una mano di aiuto alla voce francese e inglese di Ursula Karven, un attrice che ho conosciuto indirettamente tramite i social, ma che ha fatto grande simpatia a questo campagnolo wikipediano, ho cercato di migliorare l'articolo in inglese, ma una tua mano saggia e premurosa non guasterebbe, ti chiedo solo 10 minuti del tuo prezioso tempo da dedicare a Ursula, non di più, poi mi sdebiterò con te in qualche modo. detto questo in pieno spirito di Wikilove ti ringrazio in anticipo di quello che farai per me e l'articolo, un caro e fraterno saluto--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 19:21, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Buongiorno! ti scrivo ringraziandoti per quello che hai fatto, ma ti chiedo la cortesia di fare un ulteriore rilettura e ampliamento in inglese, partendo da quella italiana che finora è la migliore versione esistente. Una bella revisione in queste due lingue, cosicché in meno di qualche giorno quando arriverà il materiale dalla Germania farò e faremo tutti un signor lavoro. Bene, detto questo inizio la mia giornata e il mio lavoro, oggi alle 18 saranno 10 anni esatti dal mio primo edit da loggato, sono emozionatissimo! un caro saluto da Campora San Giovanni--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 04:34, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Buongiorno da Campora San Giovanni

Buongiorno a te da Campora San Giovanni,

ti scrivo salutandoti e ringraziandoti delle cose che hai fatto per me. Oltre a questo ti chiedo di indicarmi i miei compagni di avventura che mi potranno aiutare nelle missioni future, ma veramente compagni di sicura fede! Per quanto riguarda Campora San Giovanni, sì esistono veramente le contrade Carratelli, Imbelli, Augurato, Fravitte e Cologni etc. solo che forse i colleghi serbi e slavi volevano fare del loro meglio, non so. per la foto della stazione la farò quando non pioverà, hai qualche idea di come farla venire bene? La stazione nuova è stata costruita negli anni 2000, ma adesso è abbandonata, quindi che si fa? attendo tue nuove, con la cortese ti ringrazio come sempre per quello che hai fatto e farai per me. un fraterno abbraccio--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 07:21, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Edits on German Wiki

Hi Alexmar983, I'm leaving you this meassage here on your English talk page simply because I don't write German that well. You left me a welcome note on my talk page on de-wiki and since I got a 'ping' for this, I had to check. There is something really strange going on there. On my "Contributions" page a whole bunch of edits shows up, BUT they have all been made in English on the en-wiki. I have no idea how they have ended up translated on de-wiki. It looks like someone imported the whole article along with all the original edits and then translated the article. This is the first time I've seen this. Usually just the text gets imported, not the actual edit history. Do you know someting about this? Best, cart-Talk 09:42, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Yes W.carter I sometimes answer that question from newbies on DEwiki. I don't look in detail because I don't have time but usually that's what happens. Instead of just leaving some templates in the discussion page of translated article DEWikipedia allows the whole history to be imported and later translated. As I always joke... that's a little bit German, in the end. it is "philologically" accurate, even logical, but somehow does not sound 100% right from the practical point of view to a lot of people. :) that's possible also on some other wiki, see meta:Importer--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:20, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the explanation. I do see the logic in it, we Swedes also like a bit of good historical background and proper documentation. :) Now I know what's up if I see my edits on other wikis. (Sidebar: Feels a bit strange to be a "newbie" on a wiki since I also help new editors, but on en-wiki and Commons. Otherwise I only add images and the occasional link on de-wiki, I understand it quite well but my writing is crap.^^) cart-Talk 11:00, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

W.carter I am a constant newbie. To help newbies I try to feel like one every time I can. So I invaded a lot of platforms ;)--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:03, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Re: voce ampliata su Rieti

Ciao, ti ringrazio! Scrivo soprattutto su it.wiki ma ogni tanto mi capita di fare qualche edit anche qui. La voce ha ancora bisogno di essere migliorata, magari dopo qualche altra modifica la segnalerò. --Una giornata uggiosa '94 · So, what do you want to talk about? 11:40, 30 September 2016 (UTC) PS: grazie anche della proposta di autoverifica su Commons!

Thanks

Hi Alex. Thank you so much for your warm words on my talk page. I completely agree. I had my article of the writer David Prill curated stating that it contains advertisement. When asking the curator I got the answer that he simply curates all articles as containing advertisement to instill more neutral text in general and he doesn't even look at the articles. On de.wikipedia I wrote more than 1,400 articles, for example articles like this: de:Wauwatosa, but that does not count here. When writing about the best Canadian female chess player in history Yuanling Yuan on en.wikipedia the notability was questioned. After that I decided to write articles on chess players at en.wikipedia only if they were Grand Masters, so I wrote Djakhangir Agaragimov. Again someone wanted to delete the article because Grand Master in his eyes would not mean notability. There are no criteria of notability about chess players on en.wikipedia, so not matter who you write about someone would pop up and state that your article is not notable. My consequence: I stopped writing articles on en.wikipedia, since the curation process is done partly by incompetent editor and I get more harassement than help for my effort. I can imagine that there are many more contributors with this experience. --Gereon K. (talk) 20:21, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

I am well aware which chess player has an article on which language version, so no need for Listeria or other tools. One solution would be to remove the curating rights from users who do a bad job curating. --Gereon K. (talk) 08:01, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Welcome by error ...

Dear Alexmar983: I have been contributing to the German WP for 10 years. I've never wanted to appear on the english WP, I think it happended somehow while I recently looked something up in the Italian WP and clicked the wrong button. Maybe you can take me out of here again? -- All the best, MaxBE (talk) 14:48, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 19

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Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

• New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
• New Library Card Platform and Conference news
• Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

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19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Open proxy block

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Alexmar983 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

Caught by an open proxy block. It is possible it is correct, the message says it was performed by a bot, so it is possible there is some mistake, although I am probably sharing with thousands of people here and I have no control on that. Still I am surprised because I'm sure I've been using this IP since a while with no issue. I can easily survive with one month of block on English wikipedia, I don't edit a lot here but you are missing few typo corrections here and there. Let me know. Maybe I can become IP-block exempt.Alexmar983 (talk) 14:16, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Hi! We'll need your IP address in order to find the block. If you don't wish to provide this publicly, you can use WP:UTRS. Yamla (talk) 14:23, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

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If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Not a problem Yamla my IP is 183.157.162.61. --Alexmar983 (talk) 14:26, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

That IP address used to be running an open proxy on port 8080. That's no longer the case. Either the proxy has been shut down, or the IP address now belongs to someone else. Either way, I've lifted the block. --Yamla (talk) 14:28, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you Yamla. I'm not sure what you should do with the unblock review template if it has to change or not now, but well, it's solved. Now I can fix the typo, if I remember the original page I was reading.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:32, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

There's no need to do anything with the unblock review template, but you are very welcome to remove it (or perhaps this whole section) from your page. The matter is entirely resolved now and there's no need to keep this discussion on your talk page if you don't want it here. --Yamla (talk) 14:45, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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Grazie!!

Grazie!! Mi farebbe piacere contribuire anche a Wiki in inglese. Purtroppo ero partito con il piede sbagliato (non avevo letto bene l'esclusione di quella categoria di voci sui condannati a morte negli USA) ma ora sono pronto a fare bene. Sarebbe bello riuscire a seguire entrambi i progetti. Ci proverò! Un caro saluto dall'Italia! --SnIoemon (talk) 01:43, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 20

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Books & Bytes
Issue 20, November-December 2016
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs)

• Partner resource expansions
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WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.1

Newsletter Nr 1 for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta) Participation: This is the very first newsletter sent by mass mail to members in Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise. (To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, see below) Progress report: Since the Projects very first edit 9 december 2002 by User:Dan Koehl, which eventually became the WikiProject Genealogy, different templates were developed, and the portal Portal:Genealogy was founded by User:Michael A. White in 2008. Over the years a number of articles has been written, with more or less association to genealogy. And, very exciting, there is a proposal made on Meta by User:Another Believer to found a new Wikimedia Genealogy Project, read more at Meta; Wikimedia genealogy project where you also can support the creation with your vote, in case you havnt done so already. Future: The future of the Genealogy project on the English Wikipedia, and a potential creation of a new Wikimedia Genealogy Project, is something where you can make a an input. You can discuss on the projects talk page how the project should be developed sign as member or supporter at the projects member list Check the goal, tasks and see if something interest you. put the User box on your user page by inserting the Template:User WikiProject Genealogy with the following code: {{User WikiProject Genealogy}}. develop or update the Portal:Genealogy? in case you havnt read Wikimedia genealogy project take a look support that project with your vote. Cheers from your WikiProject Genealogy founder and coordinator Dan Koehl To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery Dan Koehl (talk) 22:28, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

February 2017

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

When editing Wikipedia, there is a field labeled "Edit summary" below the main edit box. It looks like this:

Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)

I noticed your recent edit to Canton of Fribourg does not have an edit summary. Please be sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. The summaries are very helpful to people browsing an article's history.

Edit summary content is visible in:

• User contributions
• Recent changes
• Watchlists
• Revision differences
• IRC channels
• Related changes
• New pages list
• Article editing history

Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. You can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. Thanks! Eric ^talk 13:00, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Funny thing is that i forgot only because I originally inserted the image in the wrong page, the object was in that edit. i just run to fix it, It was instinct. In general pasting this warning with someone with this pattern is quite useless. I was even aware of it myself... I wish they had approved my request for a edit with object to fix this case so patroller are not "stressed". When i don't use the object is for a minor edit or a distraction. I will be distracted in any case and if I start to use a "complete" summary for typo correction, writing typo, it not really useful in any case (I will correct less typo). More in general, you don't need to explain what an object is. to someone with a thousands of edits.. Less copy-pasting template and a little bit of real human contact would have worked much better here. I am not even pinging who put this warning, just thinking about wiki-life in general. --Alexmar983 (talk) 13:19, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, Alex, I didn't mean to annoy you or hurt your feelings. I took a quick look at your contributions and didn't see many edit summaries, so I posted the message. It strikes me that the view I have of your contributions is different from the one you link above. I assume you have some setting engaged that omits certain types of edits. If I had seen the list as you link it, I would not have posted the edit summary template. Eric ^talk 14:23, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

I am not hurt, I am amused. Eric you filter by article namespace. You don't put summary in talk pages usually, it is too much. And in the articles namespace you don't put summary for all simple typos. It is too much again. And if you edit the paragraph, the title is a de facto object, which is enough for small typos. It can happen to put some more, but you don't ask for them all, the main issue is controversial change (sources, rearranging). i did patrolling myself, that's not what you need. I did retropatrolling too, when you dig in 5 years-old history. You don't need all these objects. Funny things, and that is why I am amused, I requested years ago a tool that could inform users if they forget an object for more than 5 times in a row in ns0. 4 or 5 wise wikimedians told me it was too much. You see, that was considered "harrassing". The beauty of wikiplatforms...--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:37, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

I've never thought to use the filters when reviewing a contributions page--thanks for the tip. I disagree regarding summaries for typos. Even a little summary is a courtesy that can save other editors' time. By object, do you mean summary or maybe subject? I also have wished for a way to go back and add or edit an edit summary. The only workaround I know is to make a null edit. Eric ^talk 17:40, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Sorry Eric I wrote that when it was late night for me. I meant subject (as a synonym of "summary", In other wikis you can use both). But I still think that for small typos, you can select "m", write the word "typo" or explain the typo itself but a simple paragraph title coupled with a small difference of byte is enough. My main goal for newbies based on my retropatrolling was not the summary all the time, but the editing per single section. That helped me much more when I was looking for something in a history. Whoever is going to do change a lot of things that only apparently give a small variation of size, (s)he's a "problem". But again typos are usually minimal and spotted by size. If had written something to describe them in many cases I would have spent 3-4 more times for the summary than for correcting the typo itself, and that in my experience is not an example of good sense. Even if I add a "k" and I write "k" in the summary... does anyone understand something like that? I am actually documenting 100% of my change but does that have sense? So I have to write "correct missing letter" or "added k"... I guess I can click on "minor edit" all the time, but it is in a unnatural position. I also asked to move it close at the left the summary bar on another wiki, on a another discussion... as a customized option. That didn't work too, apparently. So i will keep documenting them sometimes and sometimes I won't because I mainly spot typos when I read in small pauses and I have to be quick, that's it.--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:13, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

thanks!

Hi Alexmarge983, thanks for this. I feel very flattered indeed! Kind regards, Ellywa (talk) 23:31, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Ellywa juts saw the name and checked. It's not so special, in the end. it looks so because not enough people do it, and it's a pity because that would really improve the patrolling. Plus, you meet so many new people, too. Have a nice wiki!--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:48, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.2

Newsletter Nr 2 for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta) Participation: This is the second newsletter sent by mass mail to members in Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise. (To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please see below) Progress report: In order to improve communication between genealogy interested wikipedians, as well talking in chat mode about the potential new wiki, a new irc channel has been setup, and you are welcome to visit and try it out at: #wikimedia-genealogy connect (In case you are not familiar with IRC, or would prefer some info and intro, please see Wikipedias IRC tutorial) At m:Talk:Wikimedia_genealogy_project#Wikimedia_user_group is discussed the possibility of creating a genealogy-related Wikimedia user group: please submit comments and suggestions, and whether you would like to be a member in such a group. Prime goal for the group is the creation of a new, free, genealogy wiki, but there is also a discussion weather we should propose a new project or support the adoption of an existing project? Read more at Meta; Wikimedia genealogy project where you also can support the creation with your vote, in case you haven't done so already. Future: The future of the Genealogy project, and creation of a new Wikimedia Genealogy Project, is something where you can make a an input. You can discuss on the projects talk page how the project should be developed sign as member or supporter at the projects member list put the User box on your user page by inserting the Template:User WikiProject Genealogy with the following code: {{User WikiProject Genealogy}}. develop or update the Portal:Genealogy? in case you haven't read Wikimedia genealogy project take a look support that project with your vote. Don't want newsletters? If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list or alternatively to opt-out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Opted-out of message delivery to your user talk page. Cheers from your WikiProject Genealogy coordinator Dan Koehl. To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

Entro stasera

ti faccio sapere qualcosa, un abbraccio--Fcarbonara (talk) 13:49, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Alex qui ci sono sue foto, salvatene una sul desktop e poi? Che ci fai? Anche se la ritagli chiunque può risalire all'originale.--Fcarbonara (talk) 19:24, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Ho visto con dovizia fra i miei libri di fotografia a casa, ma non ho trovato nessuna sua foto, un po come per Carlo Bavagnoli che con Ruthven ci ha fatto dannare , ma nisba in assoluto, esiste una sola sua immagine fatta a Dallas, ma è in mano ad un agenzia (gettyimages), per cui il riprodurla ci procurerebbe solo mal di pancia. Poi strano, la più qualificata ad avere una foto di Stroobant sarebbe la famiglia, se non ce l'hanno neppure loro, stiamo freschi! Ma Alex è cosi' assolutamente importante metterla in voce?--Fcarbonara (talk) 05:01, 16 March 2017 (UTC)ù

No assolutamente, ho visto bene (e ti assicuro ne ho diversi). L'editoria generalista sui fotografi è strana, ho anche edizioni particolari di raccolte sui fotografi, ma mettono solo i più famosi graditi alla casa editrice (nemmeno tutti "i più" famosi). Ho visto anche sulle due edizioni che ho della TASCHEN, ma nulla di nulla. Bisogna consultare un'enciclopedia sulla fotografia, io ce l'ho, ma è sepolta in un box fra migliaia di altri libri, e non ho mai avuto tempo di mettere ordine, a mio avviso trovi tutto in una buona biblioteca della tua città.--Fcarbonara (talk) 05:12, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Non è vero Alex, il suo (quello di Stroobant) è un settore molto "verticale", poi quando un fotografo è anche pittore, scultore, disegnatore, grafico e.... "cuoco" (leggi: fa di tutto) è non ha lavorato con quotidiani e riviste, e ha lasciato poche tracce (o molte, che la critica comunque ignora) è chiaro che non avrà la stessa rilevanza anche di un "semplice fotografo" di glamour che (attenzione è più citato per gli scandali, se ti riferisci ad Alberto Magliozzi, scandali che ha visto come controparte Il Ministero della Difesa Americana e il Vaticano) presenta bellissime foto B/N di altrettanto belle donne, svestiste. Giusta invece la rilevanza, p.e. per altre voci, come Federico Patellani, Carlo Bavagnoli e Caio Mario Garrubba, ma li le cose sono molto più semplici, perchè parliamo di dei dell'olimpo della fotografia, straconosciuti all'estero ed in Italia, e vedi un pò, che hanno avuto a che fare con giornali, riviste e agenzie internazionali.--Fcarbonara (talk) 05:36, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Alex, l'immagine stereotipata del fotografo di Antonioni (film: Blowup) o che il famoso fotografo sia ricchissimo, è piuttosto falsa. La maggioranza dei famosi italiani, p.e. non avevano molte disponibilità finanziarie, hanno fatto la gavetta ed erano poveri in canna. Pensa al "clan" dei frequentatori del famoso Bar Jamaica di Via Brera a Milano, si in andavano in Via Brera, ma a prendere un caffè, poi dividevano un miniappartamento in tre o quattro :) --Fcarbonara (talk) 06:54, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Ragionamento giustissimo e dici la pura verità, il "giusto" ambiente di frequentazioni non solo "aiuta" ma potrebbe decidere anche il futuro di un fotografo, tutto vero! --Fcarbonara (talk) 07:12, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Re

Secondo me va benone! Ciao! --Carlomartini86^{(Knock-Knock)} 08:02, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

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Ti ringrazio, ma non saprei come muovermi, e poi dubito sia che pagine dedicate a singoli quartieri di una città italiana sarebbero così popolari su en.wiki, sia della qualità dei miei testi in inglese.--Bbruno (talk) 09:12, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

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Request reason:

"Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy". It has already happened some months ago. My IP is 183.157.160.22. I mainly edit enwiki to correct typos (but recently I've also added some scientific sources). I have no hurry, but it would be nice to keep working.Alexmar983 (talk) 13:57, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Accept reason:

At some point ProcseeBot found Port 80 to be open, but it appears closed now. I've unblocked the IP. Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 20:55, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

also, maybe I can ask to become ip-block exempt? Or should I wait this to happen another time? If anyone has any advice, I am listening.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:59, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Well I go to bed in few minutes, I hope someone will see my request... --Alexmar983 (talk) 14:41, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

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Books and Bytes - Issue 21

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Grazie!

Grazie, Alexmar983. Mi sei simpatico e ti tengo molto in considerazione per la tua competenza e l'equilibrio che dimostri sempre. Sì, ho creato alcune voci anche in inglese tempo fa e vorrei proseguire l'opera con altre... Effettivamente enWiki la trovo meno "noiosa" per certi versi e utenti un po' meno "spigolosi"... e forse anche più collaborativi. Tuttavia restiamo in contatto! Se vuoi puoi anche scrivere alla mia mail personale: enrico.cabianca@gmail.com, dove potremo parlare più liberamente. Spero poi, un giorno, di poterci anche incontrare di persona a Torino o dalle tue parti (Toscana? Lunigiana? Non ricordo...) per conoscerci meglio davanti a un buon bicchiere di vino! :) --Enryonthecloud (talk) 19:24, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Caspita... Per quella data sarò via, tuttavia non mi dispiacerebbe partecipare a uno di questi raduni!! --Enryonthecloud (talk) 08:15, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

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draft

I've accepted your article on Bodenhausen. DGG ( talk ) 05:47, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you DGG. I was waiting because I wasn't 100% sure about some data such the name of a NRM centre that he told me by email was different but it is reported in another way in a source. Or the fact that I couldn't write about the translation of its book. I was stucked mainly for those reasons. Let me check if you removed some unfinished sentences.--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:15, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

an article doesn't have to be perfect to be accepted.Articles are expected to be gradually improved, not just by the original contributor, but other who are interested. No many how exoteric the topic, there are others at WP who will also want to add material. The best way is to move it to article space as soon as it's good enough to show clear notability , and not contain any grievous faults, and let the wiki processes happen. DGG ( talk ) 09:56, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

DGG that draft was shown twice to Wikiprojects, noone helped. So I doubt that that article will be soon improved. Maybe edited by an anonymous IP close to Bodenhausen stating something without any source, but that's not an improvement, IMHO. I had no problem to publish other articles that had a real possibility to be improved but that one I would have waited a little bit more, just the time to find those 2 or 3 missing sources as soon as I could reuse google with calm outside China. In the end, it has been slowly but constantly improving over the last 12 months, so I saw no problem in waiting a little bit more.

That being said, I think we should create some list of old drafts because I am quite sure there are hundreds of less controvertial articles (no living biography) that are waiting since much more time, I was kinda hoping those would have been noticed first.--Alexmar983 (talk) 12:25, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Also, I wanted to use this article for the DYK home page snippets, since he created one of the basis of 2D NMR so it is a well known technical improvement (plus, as an old and almost retired professor there is no risk of "advertisement"), but I can't do it if I am not 100% sure about its quality.--Alexmar983 (talk) 12:27, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

there are indeed thousands of old drafts , some of which might have possibilities. Dealingwith this is one of our unmet needs. DGG ( talk ) 02:23, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

User:DGG start with a list of drat space abandoned with non active users (it is quite easy to do, for those who get the syntax), than send a message informing them that based on a new policy draft of inactive users that are unedited should be revised for deletion or insertion (bot), than send the list to projects. In few months you can simply cut them of a 50%-70% with no big effort. It's just that sometimes wikimedians lack effort to do things consistently, and some of them just like it. Not talking about you but if someone act border-line in a discussion we call him/her a troll or at least inconsiderate, if he or she acts border-line on content, discussing issue that can be solved by themselves instead of older one that can be dealt with less effort, we might make him/her sysop. There is no solution for that if people like it this way.--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:47, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 22

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Thank you!

Hi Alex! Thank you very much, I love kitten :) --CoolJazz5 (talk) 19:45, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

E bravo per l'italiano! --CoolJazz5 (talk) 21:15, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Ottimo! --CoolJazz5 (talk) 02:28, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Grazie

Grazie di cuore Alex! Jacopo Werther ^iγ∂ψ=mψ 07:04, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

welcome message

thanks! :) Wikit2006 (talk) 01:45, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Re: You work too much!

Hellò, my dear. No problem for all;) --Geoide (talk) 11:11, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Coming back

Thank you. I'm back --EH101 (talk) 12:18, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Ma sì. Mi va di fare un po' di sano lavoro in relax questa estate. Comincio a studiarmi Wikidata e poi cerco di mettermi in contatto. --EH101 (talk) 07:31, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 2 – 13 July 2017

Facto Post – Issue 2 – 13 July 2017 Editorial: Core models and topics Wikimedians interest themselves in everything under the sun — and then some. Discussion on "core topics" may, oddly, be a fringe activity, and was popular here a decade ago. The situation on Wikidata today does resemble the halcyon days of 2006 of the English Wikipedia. The growth is there, and the reliability and stylistic issues are not yet pressing in on the project. Its Berlin conference at the end of October will have five years of achievement to celebrate. Think Wikimania Frankfurt 2005. Progress must be made, however, on referencing "core facts". This has two parts: replacing "imported from Wikipedia" in referencing by external authorities; and picking out statements, such as dates and family relationships, that must not only be reliable but be seen to be reliable. In addition, there are many properties on Wikidata lacking a clear data model. An emerging consensus may push to the front key sourcing and biomedical properties as requiring urgent attention. Wikidata's "manual of style" is currently distributed over thousands of discussions. To make it coalesce, work on such a core is needed. Links WikiFactMine project pages on Wikidata, including a SPARQL library (in development). Fatameh tool for adding items on scientific papers to Wikidata, by User: T Arrow. It has made a big recent impact. Offline for maintenance as we go to press, it is expected back soon. As of July 2017, Zotero has a Wikidata translator. A personal Zotero library acts as an intermediary in managing and storing citation metadata. GLAM Newsletter June 2017, Wikidata report. This is a good monthly round-up to follow, and welcomes contributions. Exciting and Impressive! The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was launched in April: Infodocket on the first three months. Olivia Solon in San Francisco, Why the net neutrality protest matters, opinion piece in The Guardian on 11 July. Editor Charles Matthews. Please leave feedback for him. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Opted-out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

Puoi risolvere per me

Ciao, c'è un problema qui. Le immagini sono tutte di mia proprietà, quasi tutte di vecchia data e avevo ottenuto l'ok per l'utilizzo dai fotografi in qualsiasi forma. La più parte le aveva scattate la mia compagna Karin Hemp https://www.discogs.com/artist/4296017-Karin-Hemp e altre le ho scattate io personalmente. Quella riguardante mio padre File:Arturo Prestipino G.jpg è conservata nel mio archivio-immagini ed è stata scattata da un amico di mio padre negli anni 30. Grazie mille! Se venissero cancellate sarebbe un grosso guaio! Se necessario posso inserire i nomi dei fotografi che mi hanno concesso l'utilizzo. --CoolJazz5 (talk) (alias Pino Presti) 18:15, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Ho cominciato a scrivere qui. Un saluto --Pino Presti (talk) 18:55, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

ma CoolJazz5 e Pino Presti sono la stessa utenza? Un'utenza vecchia? Comunque se si tratta di foto scattatate altri di tua proprietà (nel senso che sono ereditate) si ha il diritto di farne cosa si vuole. Sulla compagna la cosa potrebbe essere ambigua nel senso che forse è più corretto se fa l'upload lei. Per seguire meglio la cosa con l'aiuto di qualche sysop andare in c:commons:bar italiano. Non escludo che si faccia prima a risolvere con un OTRS, cioè un permesso formale. Fai prima a parlare con i sysop italiani.--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:30, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Grazie per il brownie!

Ciao Alexmar983, grazie per il simpatico e gustoso brownie. Sono ben consapevole che da oltre tre mesi i miei contributi sulla Wiki inglese (come del resto anche su quella francese e spagnola) si sono interrotti. La "colpa" è di Wikiquote che, insieme con la Wiki italiana, assorbe completamente il mio tempo. Il tuo brownie (un garbato rimprovero?) potrebbe essere l'occasione per riprendere i contributi, dosando meglio il mio impegno. Un saluto cordiale e grazie ancora, --Gaux (talk) 08:58, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

La monotona tipologia di voci alle quali ho contribuito (sempre disambigue) ha una desolante ragione pratica: la modesta dimestichezza con la lingua inglese non mi consente di spaziare oltre. Ho fatto di necessità virtù. --Gaux (talk) 09:11, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 3 – 11 August 2017

Facto Post – Issue 3 – 11 August 2017 Wikimania report Interviewed by Facto Post at the hackathon, Lydia Pintscher of Wikidata said that the most significant recent development is that Wikidata now accounts for one third of Wikimedia edits. And the essential growth of human editing. Internet-In-A-Box Impressive development work on Internet-in-a-Box featured in the WikiMedFoundation annual conference on Thursday. Hardware is Raspberry Pi, running Linux and the Kiwix browser. It can operate as a wifi hotspot and support a local intranet in parts of the world lacking phone signal. The medical use case is for those delivering care, who have smartphones but have to function in clinics in just such areas with few reference resources. Wikipedia medical content can be served to their phones, and power supplied by standard lithium battery packages. Yesterday Katherine Maher unveiled the draft Wikimedia 2030 strategy, featuring a picturesque metaphor, "roads, bridges and villages". Here "bridges" could do with illustration. Perhaps it stands for engineering round or over the obstacles to progress down the obvious highways. Internet-in-a-Box would then do fine as an example. "Bridging the gap" explains a take on that same metaphor, with its human component. If you are at Wikimania, come talk to WikiFactMine at its stall in the Community Village, just by the 3D-printed display for Bassel Khartabil; come hear T Arrow talk at 3 pm today in Drummond West, Level 3. Link Plaudit for the Medical Wikipedia app, content that is loaded into Internet-In-A-Box with other material, such as per-country documentation. Editor Charles Matthews. Please leave feedback for him. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Opted-out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Books and Bytes - Issue 23

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World Science Photo Competition 2017

I just saw [2]. I might be able to help if you still need people, otherwise I hope the competition goes well - the more science pictures we can have on Commons, the better! Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:57, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

Mike Peel send me an email and I put you in CC to the organizer. So I see you work(ed) in Brazil and UK, which have no national jury, and you have an [3] international profile. I have a strong candidate for astronomy now, so maybe you'll end in the second-level international jury with young post-docs and Ph.D. for the pre-selection of images. BTW, gimme your mail and I write asap. Thanks!--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:28, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I've sent you an email. If that doesn't work, see [4]. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 13:11, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 4 – 18 September 2017

Facto Post – Issue 4 – 18 September 2017 Editorial: Conservation data The IUCN Red List update of 14 September led with a threat to North American ash trees. The International Union for Conservation of Nature produces authoritative species listings that are peer-reviewed. Examples used as metonyms for loss of species and biodiversity, and discussion of extinction rates, are the usual topics covered in the media to inform us about this area. But actual data matters. Dorstenia elata, a critically endangered South American herb, contained in Moraceae, the family of figs and mulberries Clearly, conservation work depends on decisions about what should be done, and where. While animals, particularly mammals, are photogenic, species numbers run into millions. Plant species lie at the base of typical land-based food chains, and vegetation is key to the habitats of most animals. ContentMine dictionaries, for example as tabulated at d:Wikidata:WikiFactMine/Dictionary list, enable detailed control of queries about endangered species, in their taxonomic context. To target conservation measures properly, species listings running into the thousands are not what is needed: range maps showing current distribution are. Between the will to act, and effective steps taken, the services of data handling are required. There is now no reason at all why Wikidata should not take up the burden. Links What Makes a Good Collaborative Knowledge Graph: Group Composition and Quality in Wikidata (paywall) Wikimedia and the free knowledge ecosystem by Maria Cruz Another Year Again: 2017 this time (long), blog by Joe Wass of CrossRef Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain, blog by User:David Gerard WikiTribune in beta Editor Charles Matthews. Please leave feedback for him. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Opted-out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 5 – 17 October 2017 Editorial: Annotations Annotation is nothing new. The glossators of medieval Europe annotated between the lines, or in the margins of legal manuscripts of texts going back to Roman times, and created a new discipline. In the form of web annotation, the idea is back, with texts being marked up inline, or with a stand-off system. Where could it lead? 1495 print version of the Digesta of Justinian, with the annotations of the glossator Accursius from the 13th century ContentMine operates in the field of text and data mining (TDM), where annotation, simply put, can add value to mined text. It now sees annotation as a possible advance in semi-automation, the use of human judgement assisted by bot editing, which now plays a large part in Wikidata tools. While a human judgement call of yes/no, on the addition of a statement to Wikidata, is usually taken as decisive, it need not be. The human assent may be passed into an annotation system, and stored: this idea is standard on Wikisource, for example, where text is considered "validated" only when two different accounts have stated that the proof-reading is correct. A typical application would be to require more than one person to agree that what is said in the reference translates correctly into the formal Wikidata statement. Rejections are also potentially useful to record, for machine learning. As a contribution to data integrity on Wikidata, annotation has much to offer. Some "hard cases" on importing data are much more difficult than average. There are for example biographical puzzles: whether person A in one context is really identical with person B, of the same name, in another context. In science, clinical medicine require special attention to sourcing (WP:MEDRS), and is challenging in terms of connecting findings with the methodology employed. Currently decisions in areas such as these, on Wikipedia and Wikidata, are often made ad hoc. In particular there may be no audit trail for those who want to check what is decided. Annotations are subject to a World Wide Web Consortium standard, and behind the terminology constitute a simple JSON data structure. What WikiFactMine proposes to do with them is to implement the MEDRS guideline, as a formal algorithm, on bibliographical and methodological data. The structure will integrate with those inputs the human decisions on the interpretation of scientific papers that underlie claims on Wikidata. What is added to Wikidata will therefore be supported by a transparent and rigorous system that documents decisions. An example of the possible future scope of annotation, for medical content, is in the first link below. That sort of detailed abstract of a publication can be a target for TDM, adds great value, and could be presented in machine-readable form. You are invited to discuss the detailed proposal on Wikidata, via its talk page. Links Jon Udell, blogpost Annotating to extract findings from scientific papers, 15 December 2015 TDM and Libraries, Virginia Tech report Magnus Manske, The Whelming: Scaling up Wikidata editing OCLC and Internet Archive collaborate to expand library access to digital collections, metadata and linking exchange GLOW week in November: Wikidata workshops on politician info Editor Charles Matthews. Please leave feedback for him. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Opted-out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Jurors for WikiScienceCompetition 2017

Hi!

Yes I want to participate. Thank you. Best regards! Ricardo Ferreira de Oliveira (talk) 13:47, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi, my email is [AVOID SPAM]. Best regards, Ricardo Ferreira de Oliveira (talk) 13:59, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

I'll discuss the matter with my boss and decide next week. David N. Jansen (talk) 11:21, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

I can join you. Please contact me by email if it is still available. You may easily find my email address from my research papers. Sincerely, Hyeonggyu Kim (talk) 11:09, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. I have added my ORCID myself. Hyeonggyu Kim (talk) 12:19, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi! I am sorry for late response. Due to change of my workplace I suspended my WIKI activities. As a result, I just read your talk. I will be happy to be a part of next year edition. This year, I would pass anyway... Good luck, Przemyslaw D. Gacia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Przemyslaw D. Gacia (talk • contribs) 14:32, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 24

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Re:Giurati per concorso

Grazie per il tuo messaggio. Per ora bazzico di meno su Wikipedia, per cui non ho avuto modo di venire a conoscenza di questa iniziativa. Forse non sarebbe cambiato molto, dato che mi trovo quasi sempre impegnato. Sono rientrato in Italia ormai da due anni, ma da qualche parte non avrò aggiornato questa informazione. Provvedo subito a rivedere le mie pagine utente. A presto. --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 11:21, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Ok

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Facto Post – Issue 6 – 15 November 2017

Facto Post – Issue 6 – 15 November 2017 WikidataCon Berlin 28–9 October 2017 WikidataCon 2017 group photo Under the heading rerum causas cognescere, the first ever Wikidata conference got under way in the Tagesspiegel building with two keynotes, One was on YAGO, about how a knowledge base conceived ten years ago if you assume automatic compilation from Wikipedia. The other was from manager Lydia Pintscher, on the "state of the data". Interesting rumours flourished: the mix'n'match tool and its 600+ datasets, mostly in digital humanities, to be taken off the hands of its author Magnus Manske by the WMF; a Wikibase incubator site is on its way. Announcements came in talks: structured data on Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to make substantive progress by 2019. The lexeme development on Wikidata is now not expected to make the Wiktionary sites redundant, but may facilitate automated compilation of dictionaries. WD-FIST explained And so it went, with five strands of talks and workshops, through to 11 pm on Saturday. Wikidata applies to GLAM work via metadata. It may be used in education, raises issues such as author disambiguation, and lends itself to different types of graphical display and reuse. Many millions of SPARQL queries are run on the site every day. Over the summer a large open science bibliography has come into existence there. Wikidata's fifth birthday party on the Sunday brought matters to a close. See a dozen and more reports by other hands. Links Wikidata statistics I4OC progress in its first year, with 47% of scientific citation data now open (announced two days ago) The flowering ORCID, Magnus Manske blogpost on identifying authors of scientific papers @querybook, a Twitter feed devoted to SPARQL queries Massive progress on Wikidata coverage of the UK parliament Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM Editor Charles Matthews. Please leave feedback for him. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Hi, thanks for your welcome message that gives me an idea for improving our welcome message on Wiki Ligure. I actually wrote something on Wiki English already, usually connected to my place of origin, i.e. Liguria. You are not from Liguria, are you? Luensu1959 (talk) 12:58, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Ogni tanto scopro pagine nuove... Sarebbe bello entrare in contatto con qualche ligure di Carloforte (Sardegna), Bonifacio (Corsica), Briga (Francia). ma mi accontenterei di qualche ligure nostrano che abbia voglia di scrivere qualcosa per una Wiki trascurata dai suoi stessi creatori (che non ho mai conosciuto, neanche indirettamente). L'ambiente genovese dialettale è diviso e rischia di sgretolarsi, utenti delle altre province liguri sono rari. Paradossalmente ricevo più aiuto da non-liguri che però conoscono poco il dialetto. Non so se riuscirai a mettermi in contatto con gente volenterosa, ad ogni modo grazie anticipatamente per il tuo aiuto. Luensu1959 (talk) 13:59, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Ultima cosa: la pagina che mi hai indicato (Informaçioin in sce l'utença globâ) contiene qualche inesattezza in genovese. Come posso fare per migliorare la grafia e correggere gli errori? Luensu1959 (talk) 14:06, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Mamma mia che ginepraio! Cmq grazie per i tuoi tips, e se puoi dammi anche un riferimento per contattare il "gruppo meta". Non avevo ancora notato la tua presenza sul bar della nostra Wiki, sto nuotando in un mare magno sprovvisto di bussola! Luensu1959 (talk) 14:13, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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Facto Post – Issue 7 – 15 December 2017

Facto Post – Issue 7 – 15 December 2017 A new bibliographical landscape At the beginning of December, Wikidata items on individual scientific articles passed the 10 million mark. This figure contrasts with the state of play in early summer, when there were around half a million. In the big picture, Wikidata is now documenting the scientific literature at a rate that is about eight times as fast as papers are published. As 2017 ends, progress is quite evident. Behind this achievement are a technical advance (fatameh), and bots that do the lifting. Much more than dry migration of metadata is potentially involved, however. If paper A cites paper B, both papers having an item, a link can be created on Wikidata, and the information presented to both human readers, and machines. This cross-linking is one of the most significant aspects of the scientific literature, and now a long-sought open version is rapidly being built up. The effort for the lifting of copyright restrictions on citation data of this kind has had real momentum behind it during 2017. WikiCite and the I4OC have been pushing hard, with the result that on CrossRef over 50% of the citation data is open. Now the holdout publishers are being lobbied to release rights on citations. But all that is just the beginning. Topics of papers are identified, authors disambiguated, with significant progress on the use of the four million ORCID IDs for researchers, and proposals formulated to identify methodology in a machine-readable way. P4510 on Wikidata has been introduced so that methodology can sit comfortably on items about papers. More is on the way. OABot applies the unpaywall principle to Wikipedia referencing. It has been proposed that Wikidata could assist WorldCat in compiling the global history of book translation. Watch this space. And make promoting #1lib1ref one of your New Year's resolutions. Happy holidays, all! November 2017 map of geolocated Wikidata items, made by Addshore Links WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge, report by Peter Kraker of Open Knowledge Maps This is a story of my knowledge adventure in New Zealand moths via Wikicommons, Wikipedia and Wikidata, @SiobhanLeachman Wikidata and Arabic dialects, research paper, DOI: 10.1109/AICCSA.2017.115 c:Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/georeferencing status, Mechanical Curator project on Commons hits 50K maps milestone Historical dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text: Who wrote this?, by Tilman Bayer, WMF blogpost "Anyone can edit", not everyone does: Wikipedia and the gender gap (PDF), journal paper, Heather Ford and Judy Wajcman Alpha Zero’s "Alien" Chess Shows the Power, and the Peculiarity, of AI, MIT Technology Review, by Will Knight, December 8, 2017 To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below. Editor Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Books and Bytes - Issue 25

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WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.5 -2017

Newsletter Nr 5, 2017-12-30, for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta) Participation: This is the fifth newsletter sent by mass mail to members in Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise. (To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please see below) A demo wiki is up and running! Dear members of WikiProject Genealogy, this will be the last newsletter for 2017, but maybe the most important one! You can already now try out the demo for a genealogy wiki at https://tools.wmflabs.org/genealogy/wiki/Main_Page and try out the functions. You will find parts of the 18th Pharao dynasty and other records submitted by the 7 first users, and it would be great if you would add some records. And with those great news we want to wish you a creative New Year 2018! Don't want newsletters? If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list or alternatively to opt-out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Opted-out of message delivery to your user talk page. Cheers from your WikiProject Genealogy coordinator Dan Koehl. To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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If you find time for it could you take a look at my recent noms at TAFI Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Nominations. Would appreciate no matter what !vote as no one is attending the TAFI nom page anymore to give input. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 19:46, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

BabbaQ I am busy with a grant and Wiki Science Competition... that's why I am not on enwiki in these months. But I will be back one day. In any case I take a quick look.--Alexmar983 (talk) 03:40, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

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Ti ringrazio ma non sono proprio fisicamente in grado. Spero che prima o poi anche lì ci sarà la modifica visuale che inserisce il cita web in automatico. Del resto sono intervenuto solo per correggere un problema di vandalismo che su wp in italiano ha portato a un blocco infinito, non ho intenzione di collaborare perché non mi trovo molto a mio agio con la lingua purtroppo. Buona giornata e grazie ancora--Frullatore Tostapane (talk) 08:54, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Ma no, è solo discalculia. Compenso con altre qualità ma credo che se WP fosse senza editor visuale anche in italiano non avrei mai collaborato, nel tempo mi è capitato e ho sempre avuto problemi. Ciao! --Frullatore Tostapane (talk) 09:06, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Almeno tu hai la scelta :-D Senti, una cortesia, daresti una controllata Transparency (record label) qua per vedere se è tutto ok? Voce creata da utenza che ha fatto un po' di spam interwiki ;-) Grazie, buona giornata--Frullatore Tostapane (talk) 10:53, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Grazie della risposta! Non ho ricevuto la notifica su wp in italiano, vista solo ora ;-) buona giornata! --Frullatore Tostapane (talk) 08:23, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018

Facto Post – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018 Metadata on the March From the days of hard-copy liner notes on music albums, metadata have stood outside a piece or file, while adding to understanding of where it comes from, and some of what needs to be appreciated about its content. In the GLAM sector, the accumulation of accurate metadata for objects is key to the mission of an institution, and its presentation in cataloguing. Today Wikipedia turns 17, with worlds still to conquer. Zooming out from the individual GLAM object to the ontology in which it is set, one such world becomes apparent: GLAMs use custom ontologies, and those introduce massive incompatibilities. From a recent article by sadads, we quote the observation that "vocabularies needed for many collections, topics and intellectual spaces defy the expectations of the larger professional communities." A job for the encyclopedist, certainly. But the data-minded Wikimedian has the advantages of Wikidata, starting with its multilingual data, and facility with aliases. The controlled vocabulary — sometimes referred to as a "thesaurus" as term of art — simplifies search: if a "spade" must be called that, rather than "shovel", it is easier to find all spade references. That control comes at a cost. SVG pedestrian crosses road Zebra crossing/crosswalk, Singapore Case studies in that article show what can lie ahead. The schema crosswalk, in jargon, is a potential answer to the GLAM Babel of proliferating and expanding vocabularies. Even if you have no interest in Wikidata as such, simply vocabularies V and W, if both V and W are matched to Wikidata, then a "crosswalk" arises from term v in V to w in W, whenever v and w both match to the same item d in Wikidata. For metadata mobility, match to Wikidata. It's apparently that simple: infrastructure requirements have turned out, so far, to be challenges that can be met. Links 1lib1ref campaign starts today, see m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref: also #1lib1ref introductory video by Felix Nartey Funders should mandate open citations, article 9 January 2018 in Nature by David Shotton From snowflake to avalanche: Possibilities of using free citation data in libraries, translation from the German original of Annette Klein, Mannheim University Library outreach:GLAM/Newsletter/December 2017/Contents/WMF GLAM report Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won't happen again: Copyrights from the 1920s will start expiring next year if Congress doesn't act, Timothy B. Lee, 8 January 2018, Arstechnica To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below. Editor Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Books and Bytes - Issue 26

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Issue 26, December – January 2018

• #1Lib1Ref
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Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018

Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018 m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource is the new ContentMine proposal: please take a look. Wikidata as Hub One way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites. Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8. Wikipedia:External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by maxlath takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL. Links What galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation blogpost, 29 January 2018, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect, 2018 institutional participation in the #1lib1ref campaign Newspeak House queries, created at 3 February 2018 event in London led by Magnus Manske Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative, Wikipedia Signpost special report 5 February 2018, by JenOttowa What is the Last Question?, 5 February 2018 To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below. Editor Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018

Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018 Milestone for mix'n'match Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, Magnus Manske, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal. Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders. These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. m:Mix'n'match/Manual for more. For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading. Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite! Links 3D printing Wikipedia goes 3D allowing users to upload .STLs for digital reference, Beau Jackson for 3dprintingindustry.com, February 22 2018 WikiCite report (video) Formal publication and announcement of ISBN citation dataset, see Twitter post, February 23 2018 Plotting the Course Through Charted Waters, workshop on data visualization literacy from Mikhail Popov, Wikimedia Foundation Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos, Nancy Cooey, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, February 12 2018 Why Should You Learn SPARQL? Wikidata! Mark Longair, blogpost November 29 2017 Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?, George Anadiotis for Big on Data, March 5 2018 To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below. Editor Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Your draft article, Draft:Superphylum

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Updates from the class

Class is useful.--Nadyacaro (talk) 10:37, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018

Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018 The 100 Skins of the Onion Open Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that. Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron. Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF. Red onion cross section From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart. Links Crossref as a new source of citation data: A comparison with Web of Science and Scopus, CWTS blogpost 17 January 2018, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy Sugimoto Citations with identifiers in Wikipedia, figshare dataset Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!, Wikimedia blogpost 29 March 2018 by Sandra Fauconnier Village pump discussion, Turn on mapframe? We’re ready if you are reaches conclusions The Power of the Wikimedia Movement beyond Wikimedia, Forbes 28 March 2018, Michael Bernick Tracing stolen bitcoin, blogpost 26 March 2018 by Ross J. Anderson To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below. Editor Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Books & Bytes - Issue 27

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Issue 27, February – March 2018

• #1Lib1Ref
• New collections
  • Alexander Street (expansion)
  • Cambridge University Press (expansion)
• User Group
• Global branches update
  • Wiki Indaba Wikipedia + Library Discussions
• Spotlight: Using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: LGBTQ+ advocacy as a wiki-librarian
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Help us design granular blocks!

Hello :-) The Anti-Harassment Tools team at the Wikimedia Foundation will start building these granular blocking tools in a few weeks and we've asked WMF designer Alex Hollender to help us make some wireframes so the tools are intuitive to MediaWiki users.

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T190350

We have a first draft of how we think this tool should work. You can read the full proposed implementation here but here are the significant parts:

• Granular blocks (page, category, namespace, and file uploading) will be built on top of Special:Block. These blocks will function as if they were regular blocks and allow for the same options, but only take effect on specific pages.
• We will add a new checkbox for "Block this user from the whole site" which will be checked by default. When it is unchecked the admin will be able to specify which pages, categories, and/or namespaces the user should be blocked from editing.
• Granular blocks can be combined and/or overlap. (For example, a user could be simultaneously blocked from editing the articles Rain, Thunder, Lightning, and all pages inside the Category:Weather.)
• Only one block is set at a time, to adjust what the user is blocked from the administrator would have to modify the existing block.
• Block logs should display information about the granular block
• When a blocked user attempts to edit an applicable page, they should see a block warning message which include information on their block (reason, expiration, what they are blocked from, etc.)
• If a category is provided, the blocked user cannot edit either the category page itself and all pages within the category.
• If the File: namespace is blocked, the user should not be allowed to upload files.

We like this direction because it builds on top of the existing block system, both a technical and usability wise. Before we get too far along with designs and development we'd like to hear from you about our prosposal:

1. What do you think of the proposed implementation?
2. We believe this should be an expansion of Special:Block, but it has been suggested that this be a new special page. What are your thoughts?
3. Should uploading files be combined with a File namespace block, or as a separate option? (For example, if combined, when a user is blocked from the File namespace, they would neither be able to edit any existing pages in the File namespace nor upload new files.)
4. Should there be a maximum number of things to be blocked from? Or should we leave it up to admin discretion?

We appreciate your feedback on this project's talk page or by email. For the Anti-Harassment Tools team, SPoore (WMF) (talk) , Trust and Safety Specialist, Community health initiative (talk) 20:54, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

My poem is bad but my apology for the bad links is sincere!

Roses are red,
Good message links are blue,
My proofreading stinks,
So here's a good link for you SPoore (WMF), Trust & Safety, Community health initiative (talk) 16:27, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

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Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018 ScienceSource funded The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video. A medical canon? The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen. The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm. Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help. Links OpenRefine logo, courtesy of Google d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data, Wikidata's multi-lingual dictionary project gets going Ordia tool, a basic search interface for Wikidata lexemes and forms OpenRefine tool 3.0, May update allows wrangling of tabular information into Wikidata d:Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians pushes ahead with data modelling and imports #1Lib1Ref Returns for a Second Time in 2018, IFLA blogpost 25 May 2018, second chance this year to participate in referencing Wikipedia To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below. Editor Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. ScienceSource pages will be announced there, and in this mass message. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Cut-and-paste moves

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:Catalysts (journal) a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Catalysts (journal). This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:08, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Headbomb I saw it, I did not know how to ask for that, that's it. In any case in other wikis this is not strictly compulsory. It does not mean I don't support it (I do) and as you can see, I actually put the link to the copied page in the object. so the information was not lost. Instead of other users, I actually left a trace to investigate the history of the content (and the object is the minimal request also to keep trace of copyright for translation, and move of content in general). So it was not exactly a careless copy and paste, I did something to actually fulfill the general wikimedia platform terms of use.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:52, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Well, the best way to do this in the future is via a {{db-move}} request. More of a FYI/best practices than anything particularly wrong. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:59, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 28

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Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018

Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Respecting MEDRS Facto Post enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the ScienceSource project is a project page here. It contains some case studies on how the WP:MEDRS guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions. Close to home also, a template, called {{medrs}} for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this Petscan query finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter. This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog. Evidence pyramid leading up to clinical guidelines, from WP:MEDRS Links World Cup scorers bubble chart, by the league in which they play, query run on Wikidata Timeline of discoveries of natural satellites in the solar system, query run on Wikidata 4800 Welsh portraits added to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, National Library of Wales blogpost 27 June 2018, by Jason.nlw The "deaditors" of Wikipedia, Hay Kranen blogpost, 15 June 2018 Six dimensions of open access, polemical tweet, 17 June 2018 If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018

Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Plugging the gaps – Wikimania report Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town paying tribute to the southern African concept of ubuntu to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources. Hackathon mentoring table wiring Facto Post interviewed Jdforrester, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an eventualist he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume. If that may not sound like radicalism, the Decolonizing the Internet conference here organized jointly with Whose Knowledge? can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online". Plugbar buildup at the Hackathon Links ScienceSource focus list (shortcut WD:SSFL on Wikidata), project to tag a first-pass open access medical bibliography on Wikidata, and also overcome the systematic biases in the medical literature by curation. Wikimedia Foundation and Kiwix partner to grow offline access to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation blogpost 18 July 2018. Wikipedia's upcoming Cape Town conference will tackle the issue of diversity, Jamie Matroos, 2 July 2018. VideoWiki, a video version of Wikipedia. Search Full-Text within 4M+ Books, by MEK, The Open Library Blog, 14 July 2018 More than 5,000 German scientists have published papers in pseudo-scientific journals, NDR, 19 July 2018. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018

Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Neglected diseases Anti-parasitic drugs being distributed in Côte d'Ivoire What's a Neglected Disease?, ScienceSource video To grasp the nettle, there are rare diseases, there are tropical diseases and then there are "neglected diseases". Evidently a rare enough disease is likely to be neglected, but neglected disease these days means a disease not rare, but tropical, and most often infectious or parasitic. Rare diseases as a group are dominated, in contrast, by genetic diseases. A major aspect of neglect is found in tracking drug discovery. Orphan drugs are those developed to treat rare diseases (rare enough not to have market-driven research), but there is some overlap in practice with the WHO's neglected diseases, where snakebite, a "neglected public health issue", is on the list. From an encyclopedic point of view, lack of research also may mean lack of high-quality references: the core medical literature differs from primary research, since it operates by aggregating trials. This bibliographic deficit clearly hinders Wikipedia's mission. The ScienceSource project is currently addressing this issue, on Wikidata. Its Wikidata focus list at WD:SSFL is trying to ensure that neglect does not turn into bias in its selection of science papers. Links Wikipedia, Wikidata, and citations, a census, August 2 2018, blogpost by Magnus Manske The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source August 6, 2018, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura on OCLC Research blog Where do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL, August 1 2018, Parametric Thoughts blog Newspapers On Wikipedia Update: Initial Wikidata Pass 9 August 2018, Mike Caulfield Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: a systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories Alberto Martín-Martín, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Mike Thelwall, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar, arxiv.org, submitted on 15 August 2018 If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Books & Bytes – Issue 29

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Un aiuto urgente per migliorare Coreca, Coreca Reefs, Coreca Caves, Fanny Cadeo

Buongiorno da Coreca, ti scrivo per salutarti e sapere come stai. Io sto abbastanza per ora. Ti scrivo per chiederti un favore, quello cioè di dare un aiuto alle fonti di questi primi articoli su Coreca, le fonti sono presenti su Wikipedia in francese e tedesco, ti chiedo la cortesia di dare una mano alle voci, anche una leggera traduzione in inglese. Per quanto riguarda Fanny Cadeo, una miglioria generale e ampliamento qua e là. Naturalmente se posso fare qualcosa per te chiedimi pure. un caro saluto e a presto, grazie ancora per quello che hai fatto, fai e farai per me.--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 09:05, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

User:Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino ho un corso wiki di 48 h e sono "a capo" di una giuria di WLM di 7500 immagini. Credimi, non ho alcun grammo di tempo residuo fino a novembre. Ma ci provo ma non so quando.--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:04, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Slides

Hi Alex. In case they're useful, feel free to use any of the slides in this presentation. I put it together focused at at biochem/medicine audience, but it's got a few general slides that might be useful. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 10:08, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

User:Evolution and evolvability I have lamost finished mine and tommy's I will check tonight for minor details to improve. thanks.--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:39, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Best of luck! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 11:08, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi I have inserted in further reading. It's a excellent presentation, if I had to talk to a public of academicians in a P.R. situation and not to students to be trained I'd do something like that. Some of these concepts in the final presentation are howevere present but reduced, ten minutes. I am thinking of replace one slide of mine with yours.--Alexmar983 (talk) 21:12, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

hello!

Hi this is a test.--Yapadaryko (talk) 11:55, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

hello

this is another test!

--Masterofdewetting (talk) 11:55, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

New Adolphe Merkle draft

Take a look at my draft Draft:Adolphe Merkle.--Phulzar (talk) 08:07, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018

Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. The science publishing landscape In an ideal world ... no, bear with your editor for just a minute ... there would be a format for scientific publishing online that was as much a standard as SI units are for the content. Likewise cataloguing publications would not be onerous, because part of the process would be to generate uniform metadata. Without claiming it could be the mythical free lunch, it might be reasonably be argued that sandwiches can be packaged much alike and have barcodes, whatever the fillings. The best on offer, to stretch the metaphor, is the meal kit option, in the form of XML. Where scientific papers are delivered as XML downloads, you get all the ingredients ready to cook. But have to prepare the actual meal of slow food yourself. See Scholarly HTML for a recent pass at heading off XML with HTML, in other words in the native language of the Web. The argument from real life is a traditional mixture of frictional forces, vested interests, and the classic irony of the principle of unripe time. On the other hand, discoverability actually diminishes with the prolific progress of science publishing. No, it really doesn't scale. Wikimedia as movement can do something in such cases. We know from open access, we grok the Web, we have our own horse in the HTML race, we have Wikidata and WikiJournal, and we have the chops to act. Links ImageGrid SPARQL query for the Art+Feminism focus list on Wikidata. Run and then scroll ... The TABernacle tool for Wikidata editing, by Magnus Manske, has been upgraded. Demo with the ScienceSource focus list and main subjects: with a WiDar login you can edit directly in the table cells. Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade, Michigan State University project for a linked open data platform. Quote: "Disambiguating and merging individuals across multiple datasets is nearly impossible given their current, siloed nature." As the Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project finishes its initial two-year cycle and moves into LD4P2, a list of its BIBFRAME and other RDF tools. Machine Learning with and for Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs, detailed slide pack by Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim. In Europe, Scientists Need to Share Their Research for Free if They Want Government Funding, Futurism, by Kristin House, 5 September 2018. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Books & Bytes, Issue 30

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Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018

Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Wikidata imaged Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's stock images, and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock. Indeed, there is a tool. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with fair use images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists. Gran Teatro, Cáceres, Spain, at night It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred monograms, mostly of historical figures, and this query allows you to view all of them. commons:Category:Monograms and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more. And so it is generally. The list of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more. Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake. Birthday logo Links Now Wikidata is six, Signpost Special Report Find out how @TheContentMine are attempting to mine scientific and medical literature to improve the accuracy of Wikipedia., Wikimedia UK tweet and video ScienceSource and the Semantic Web sciencesource-pmc-licenses tool by Oravrattas to extract Creative Commons license information from PubMed Central pages, created at the Cambridge Wikidata Workshop Whizzy use of SPARQL to map the London Underground system, whizzed past on Twitter. Wikidata birthday events mapped by SPARQL, too d:Wikidata:Sixth Birthday/Message from dev team If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Adolphe Merkle Institute Draft finished

Hi Alex, I was working on the Adolphe Merkle Institute article during the PlaMatSu University of Fribourg+WMCH workshop together with User:Phulzar. The draft is now finished. Is the Articles for creation WikiProject the best way to submit it? (Same message to User:Flor WMCH here) --User:AntoG AMI (talk) 10:05, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

User:Flor WMCH, User:AntoG AMI, User:Phulzar the Articles for creation is for people who knows nothing at all, you were followed and the article is structured, the process will be too long considering I am here. Of course, I need to revise it, it's faster. Please notice that I will remove some part. It is too detailed, you want to be sure people don't think it's spam. Ok? Give me (or Flor) some days to trim some part.--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:44, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Alex. Just let us know when you're done. There is no rush from our side. --User:AntoG AMI (talk) 10:49, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

with these articles "no rush" is the key, trust me. I will show it (and I am showing) it also to some specific wikiprojects--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:50, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

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Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018

Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. WikiCite issue GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California. Wikidata training for librarians at WikiCite 2018 In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more library science is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point. Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: "bash, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and mix'n'match. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector. Links Wikidata and Libraries: Facilitating Open Knowledge, book chapter by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, metadata librarian and Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata Product Manager, from Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge (2018) LD4P and WikiCite: Opportunities for collaboration, WikiCite 2018 program abstract, Christine Fernsebner Eslao of Harvard Library Information and Technical Services and Michelle Futornick, Linked Data for Production Program Manager at Stanford University Shell Lessons for Librarians, Library Carpentry lesson At-risk content on Flickr, blogpost 3 November 2018, Andrew Gray Toward an Abstract Wikipedia, recent white paper by Wikidata founder Denny Vrandečić (Google) Account creation is now open on the ScienceSource wiki, where you can see SPARQL visualisations of text mining. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Re Caramelli

La cosa appare complicata. Io sono convinto che se non ci fosse stato il precedente della cancellazione anche in inglese (perché la voce era stata se ho ben capito scritta da un bloccato che ha aggirato il blocco o simili) si sarebbe potuto fare. Adesso non saprei come cavarmela. Io non ho mai lavorato con Caramelli anche se lui lavora nel mio dipartimento, ma se ti accade di passare da Firenze una tua visita sarebbe assai gradita. Mi fai sapere? Intanto cosa mi consigli? facciamo decantare un po' la cosa? --Ricce (talk) 14:26, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Grazie mille per il tuo consiglio che seguirò senz'altro! Cordialmente--Ricce (talk) 14:53, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Inoltre...

Caro Alexmar approfitto ancora della tua gentilezza per segnalarti che proprio oggi su Repubblica è uscito un grosso articolo su Caramelli (non so come inviarti l'immagine!)--Ricce (talk) 10:22, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Grazie mille e non preccoparti! non c'è fretta! Cordialmente--Ricce (talk) 13:08, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

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WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.6

Newsletter Nr 6, 2018-12-25, for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta) Participation: This is the sixth newsletter sent by mass mail to members in Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise. (To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please see below) Now 100 supporters At 3 December 2018, the list of users who support the potential Wikimedia genealogy project, reached 100! A demo wiki is up and running! You can already now try out the demo for a genealogy wiki at https://tools.wmflabs.org/genealogy/wiki/Main_Page and try out the functions. You will find parts of the 18th Pharao dynasty and other records submitted by the 7 first users, and it would be great if you would add some records. And with those great news we want to wish you a creative New Year 2019! Don't want newsletters? If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list or alternatively to opt-out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Opted-out of message delivery to your user talk page. Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019! Hello Alexmar983, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 25 December 2018 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. Cheers from your WikiProject Genealogy coordinator Dan Koehl. To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018

Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Learning from Zotero Zotero is free software for reference management by the Center for History and New Media: see Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero. It is also an active user community, and has broad-based language support. Zotero logo Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the Zotero translator underlies the citoid service, at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata can be imported into Zotero; and in the other direction the zotkat tool from the University of Mannheim allows Zotero bibliographies to be exported to Wikidata, by item creation. With an extra feature to add statements, that route could lead to much development of the focus list (P5008) tagging on Wikidata, by WikiProjects. Zotero demo video There is also a large-scale encyclopedic dimension here. The construction of Zotero translators is one facet of Web scraping that has a strong community and open source basis. In that it resembles the less formal mix'n'match import community, and growing networks around other approaches that can integrate datasets into Wikidata, such as the use of OpenRefine. Looking ahead, the thirtieth birthday of the World Wide Web falls in 2019, and yet the ambition to make webpages routinely readable by machines can still seem an ever-retreating mirage. Wikidata should not only be helping Wikimedia integrate its projects, an ongoing process represented by Structured Data on Commons and lexemes. It should also be acting as a catalyst to bring scraping in from the cold, with institutional strengths as well as resourceful code. Links Zotero Comes to Google Docs, Zotero blogpost by Dan Stillman, 19 October 2018. Category:Wikipedians who use Zotero T115158 Write a Zotero translator and document process for creating new Zotero translator and getting it live in production, long Phabricator thread 2015–17. Zotero Translators, documentation from zotero.org. Home page on GitHub for Zotero translator Javascript Example translator, for Wikisource. m:Structured Data on Commons/Newsletter/2018-12-07 Diversitech, the latest ContentMine grant application to the Wikimedia Foundation, is in its community review stage until January 2. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Olga Napoli

So the article seems to be in place. It doesn't seem to have been reviewed yet. There will need to be wikilinks added from other articles to Olga's. If the Italian article is ever reintroduced in Italian Wikipedia, I'll go there and speak up for it. Good luck! Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 20:49, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Johanna-Hypatia you are not autropatrolled, I did not know that. So technically someone could have patrolled the article. Well, I did show the article around and so far I haven't heard a critical voice so I think it can remain. About Itwikipedia, let's hope a new source emerges and someone will start from there to debate the presence of the article again. In any case, I believe that an additional comment or vote from another project will not be apreciated in such context. About possible wikilinks, there aren't. Mostly because there are other missing articles which should be created. So far this is the most critical article I have ever created also for this reason but it was not fair to keep it there for months. Let's wait for enwiki overall feedback.--Alexmar983 (talk) 21:07, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Re:A volte ritornano

Hello, maybe you confuse me with some of my colleagues (Remo or Alessandra probably), I don't think we ever talked about Olga Napoli. Anyway, I think it's a good thing and as you can imagine, I was in favor of maintaining the article on it.wiki: it seemed to me a forced PDC and without a large base (I think that part of the criteria was met), considering how much stuff on the specific topic is a little more (often a little less) than a stub, compared to a rather good voice with sources that may not be very rich but still appreciable. I think that sooner or later there will be space on it.wiki, it would be good to have enough serenity and costance to reason together about a greater malleability of the criteria ... constance that unfortunately I just can not have in some periods, except for Wikidata that is closer to my work. See you soon and thanks for the news :-) --Uomovariabile (talk) 12:55, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

If I remember well, User:Alessandra Boccone and User:Taniamaio have curated the Italian article during A+ 2017. Anyway, it's an excellent achievement! Cheers! --Uomovariabile (talk) 10:17, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

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Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019

Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Everything flows (and certainly data does) Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?). Amazon Echo device using the Amazon Alexa service in voice search showdown with the Google rival on an Android phone Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making. Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness. There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it. Links Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day for 18th birthday celebrations WMUK video page, with "fake news", Jimmy Wales, Wikidata and more (health warning for those with tune allergy) Why Wikipedia’s Medical Content Is Superior, Stephen Harrison, 28 January 2019, Slate Olivia Colman reveals struggle with Wikipedia over age, Naomi Gordon, 28 January 2019, harpersbazaar.com Making Wikidata visible, Martin Poulter blogpost, 24 January 2019, Bodleian Digital Library Inventory, Magnus Manske blogpost, 24 January 2019, on Wikidata tech support for an image donation by Cleveland Museum of Art If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Hamlets of the Province of Pisa

Grazie, Alexmar, per il tuo interessamento. Ho già scritto le frazioni della provincia di Grosseto, ora sto facendo quelle di Pisa e poi passerò a Livorno. In un futuro prossimo vorrei completare anche quelle di Siena. Se vuoi dare una mano creandone alcune ho già preparato degli elenchi con link rossi di frazioni che possono a mio avviso avere una voce su en.wiki.--Alienautic (talk) 22:11, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 32

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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019

Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. What is a systematic review? Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources. PRISMA flow diagram for a systematic review Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help? File:Schittny, Facing East, 2011, Legacy Projects.jpg 2011 photograph by Bernard Schittny of the "Legacy Projects" group Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen. Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit. Links Evidence-Based Practice: Appraise, resources page from Duke University Medical Library & Archives. What should Cochrane do next?, Bad Science blogpost 5 November 2014, Ben Goldacre. Cambridge (UK) Science Festival event, How do scientific discoveries become clinical medicine?, ScienceSource workshop for ContentMine 23 March 2019, with systematic review process diagram. Also on Eventbrite for tickets, taking place in Makespace, 16 Mill Lane. PROSPERO database of PRISMA, for registration of systematic review protocols. Process wonkery thread, wikien-l mailing list, September 2006. Meta-Analysis, xkcd cartoon. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. When in the cloud, do as the APIs do Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook. File:Cloud-API-Logo.svg Logo of Cloud API on Google Cloud Platform The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API. APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web. Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of "Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do. Links Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative, 2016 paper by Andrawaag and others, commenting inter alia on the role of the API on Wikidata Working With Wikibase From Go, Digital Flapjack blogpost 26 November 2018, Michael Dales, developer for ScienceSource using golang, with a software engineer's view on Wikibase and the MediaWiki API Dealing with the Rust, Magnus Manske blogpost 12 March 2019, on the Rust language and the MediaWiki API mw:API:RecentChanges, mediawiki.org page on the API for access to "recent changes" on a wiki wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews, wikitech.wikimedia.org for the Pageview API, giving Wikimedia traffic information xkcd cartoon, API Guide If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Re: University templates and removal of red links

Hi if you are interested, you can see also my comment about the Switzerland template. Most of the times such rigid interpretation do not hold on the long term, but after so many years of similar discussions on varipous platforms I have learned it's no point in insisting. User:Aspects can delete all the red links, I hope he can also take care of reinserting them when they are blue because I am not. This also include the effort to put decently standardized title so that pages whould not be created with incorrect title and maybe moved after creation, which also took me some time to check in the sources.

Also, I am quite sure that if you dig you will discover what we have here is some intepretation that is not fully supported, or partially intepreted or too rigid (I saw your link in the talk page) but it would take me hours to state something I consider reasonable since I am not a frequent user here.

If you have time and you manage to get it reverted with less effort than it would cost to me, this is the diff on the other template of which I took care. For sure, untill I don't see it reverted or something similar, I am not creating navboxes anymore. have a nice wiki.--Alexmar983 (talk) 19:14, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I understand your point, and I believe that way too. Navigation templates are not just a list of written pages about something, they provide comprehensive list of the context. Maintaining newly added pages are more workload. Red links are red links, I dont understand why does this bother some people too much.

"If only we had believed in adding, not deleting. (inspired from Bitmemiş Tango)"--Joseph (talk) 19:33, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Completely clouded? Cloud computing logo Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point. Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around. Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs. What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list. Links Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/In focus#The_Wikipedia_SourceWatch by Headbomb. Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Questionable1 d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/Beall's list: Beall's list, final version, matched into Wikidata. SPARQL query for Quackwatch: query to find items on Wikidata for articles subject to the Quackwatch blacklist of "Nonrecommended Periodicals", under "Journals (Fundamentally Flawed)". SPARQL query to find retracted articles on Wikidata. d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/NCBI2wikidata dashboard, metadata for biomedical articles being built up, sourced from PubMed and PubMed Central. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019 Text mining display of noun phrases from the US Presidential Election 2012 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Semantic Web and TDM – a ContentMine view Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while. It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM (text and data mining). Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?" The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata. The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right. ScienceSourceReview, introductory video: but you need run it from the original upload file on Commons Links for participation http://sciencesource-review.wmflabs.org/, review tool link in the left-hand sidebar at http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list and d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue. Please be aware that this is a research project in development, and may have outages for planned maintenance. That will apply for the next few days, at least. The ScienceSource wiki main page carries information on practical matters. Email is not enabled on the wiki: use site mail here to Charles Matthews in case of difficulty, or if you need support. Further explanatory videos will be put into commons:Category:ContentMine videos. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Books & Bytes, Issue 33

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Buongiorno!

Carissimo Alessandro, buongiorno! ti scrivo per salutarti e sapere come stai. Io sto abbastanza bene per ora, frequentando Scienze Turistiche all'Università della Calabria, ti scrivo per chiederti un favore se puoi. Se sei super impegnatissimo da non poter aiutarmi in alcuni articoli, ti chiedo se puoi consigliarmi e/o presentarmi un utente di sicura fede, pazienza e affidabilità di tua conoscenza che parli e mastichi inglese bene bene. Naturalmente io nei miei limiti ricambierò la tua cortesia. un caro saluto e a presto!--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 03:28, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

User:Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino sono impengatissimo per WLM e poi lo sarò per Wiki Science Competition (sono stato on line fino a poco fa sui social media), spiegami di che tipo di articoli parliamo, e vediamo cosa posso fare.--Alexmar983 (talk) 15:07, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 35, July – August 2019

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un aiuto per Draft:Nabiha Akkari

Ciao carissimo, spero che vada tutto bene lì da te. Io sto abbastanza bene per ora, ho provato stamane a tradurre questo articolo diventato un draft. Mi chiedevo se potresti darmi tu una mano o sottolinearlo a qualche amico di fiducia. Naturalmente se posso fare qualcosa per te non esitare a chiederlo. cordialmente Luigi--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 15:35, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

User:Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino non ho tempo libero per settimane, mi spiace. Anzi per due mesi tutti.--Alexmar983 (talk) 15:47, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

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vandal

Hi, I don't know how vandalism works in Wiki EN, but I want to report you Gabibbointernationalfanclub's intervention. Only one contibution with false informations about Gabibbo, with ironical and invented contents --Moxmarco (talk) 19:35, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

@Moxmarco Hi, I am not an expert of patrolling, there might be some template to put in the talk so future patroller can be reminded of his behaviour, but I have no idea, i could not find it with a quick search. Iif you assume good faith, the edit might simply be wrong bu not a vandalism, I am not sure I did not look into that. I have no time but you could leave a message in the talk page of the user stating in any case why the edit was false.--Alexmar983 (talk) 19:47, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:Millionaire (magazine)

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In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Lapablo has already been deleted by the time you get there ? Like it's deleted the same date of this message :D 11:22 vs 12:07 UTC time :D If you inform decently I can edit it... if you delete it this way I say, keep it that way. My personal policy is that if something is deleted I don't waste my time recreating it, this policy is not efficient. You should spend more time improving it than applying it.--Alexmar983 (talk) 12:11, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Salvatore Aranzulla

Hey don't get discouraged! Its good your keeping an eye on the page and protecting it from vandalism. The admins mean nothing bad its just protecting a page even pending changes protection is used as a last resort in keeping with the spirit of the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. They are looking for vandalism from the past 30 days and the month is young. If the vandalism continues or there is an uptick in vandalism later in the month please resubmit the article for protection. Currently at this page it seems it will get a small bout of vandalism and after it is reverted it will usually die down for about a month or two which is why it doesn't warrant protection. I would say if you or another editor reverts vandalism 3-5 more times from an IP/non-autoconfirmed editor within 30 days then try resubmitting it for protection. Alucard 16_{❯❯❯ chat?} 02:58, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

User talk:Alucard 16 I mean nothing bad as well. Look, Italian IPs will keep vandalizing and apparently they can successfully because the system allow them and I cannot act on time. i am an editor, not a patroller. I would like to open the page once in a while simply to edit it. Somebody else should notice the problem, or it will never be fixed. Let's wait the moment that randomly there will be more trolling edits than usual, at that point somebody will accept to allow some protection. And I will happy to spend time checking the history and clean up just one time. Let's wait.--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:37, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

European Young Chemists' Network

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it's been a while, but you have suggested to upload an image of the current conference or the board of director on Wikimedia Commons. How could I do this? The board is changing every 2 years, should the image be updated as well? Thank you!--DimitraP

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Fisogni Museum

Hi, I've just created the voice Fisogni Museum (translated from Italian Wikipedia), but I'm not very good with technical aspects of English Wikipedia. Can you check the voice (text, images, references)? I'm sure I've mistaken something (particularly with references and categories). Kind regards --Moxmarco (talk) 14:12, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

I have also links for some of the articles used in the voice --Moxmarco (talk) 14:15, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi [[User:Moxmarco|Moxmarco], I try to bring some en-N to revise it using the monitoring template, but please use template:cite web in the references. In any case, it's fine overall.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:37, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you ;) --Moxmarco (talk) 15:09, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

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Ciao

Ciao, nessun disturbo, figurati! Sono sempre meno attivo su wikipedia, ma perché non la crei tu stesso su wikipedia italiana? --Bieco blu (talk) 12:40, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Ah ok, ho capito :-) Quando riesco vedo se trovo qualche fonte in merito, magari su riviste. Saluti --Bieco blu (talk) 17:34, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

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User:onel5969 just delete it. Bye.--Alexmar983 (talk) 15:38, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

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ok since it was reverted after few minutes, I suspect I can delete this, it gives a wrong impression if people don't link to the talk page which is not linked here.--Alexmar983 (talk) 00:15, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

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