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The Ip claimed to not be an involved party, Lightbreather was involved and continued that involvement despite being advised of WP:SCRUTINY violation of the sockpuppetry. Hell in a Bucket (talk) 00:08, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

I didn't see a diff to that effect. I'm not sure that it would change my viewpoint. If Lightbreather wanted to contribute to the discussion without reactivating old animosities then admitting to being involved would have lead to a succession of guessing games. I am aware I have a more relaxed attitude to users editing logged out and socking than many, it is predicated on the results of the practice, rather than moral outrage that folk should hide their identities. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:36, 1 December 2014 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #135

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm
  • Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin
  • Picture this!
  • Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next?
  • Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process
  • IRC office hour on Wednesday
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday
  • Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming
  • VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier
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  • Newest properties: China Vitae ID, Formatter URL, subject item, equivalent property, SIL code, Thai cultural heritage ID, has melody, MarineTraffic Port ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer
• Development
  • Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now)
  • Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance)
  • Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before
  • Fixed more issues with geocoordinates
  • Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access)
  • Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup)
  • Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix phabricator:T74348
  • Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing
  • JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on
  • Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar
  • Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs)
  • Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:14, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Template syntax

Your edit to {{Canadian election result/top}} earlier today has broken the template, because the templates are now generating redlinked titles with an extraneous space in an inappropriate place (i.e. Canadian federal election , 2011) instead of the titles they're supposed to be generating (i.e. Canadian federal election, 2011). I'm not an expert in template coding, and don't know what to fix — so you need to fix this as soon as possible, because it can't be left as is. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 00:12, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:User ISO templates

Template:User ISO templates has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Sardanaphalus (talk) 10:56, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Automated renaming of pages in dated series

Hi Rich,

There is a little job for WMUK that could do with someone who is familiar with bots. I am sure they'd appreciate it if you could help out.

Have a look at wmuk:Volunteer jobs#Automated renaming of pages in dated series.

Yaris678 (talk) 15:18, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

I am looking at this. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:09, 4 December 2014 (UTC).

Arbitration amendment request

Hi Rich, just letting you know that I've archived the amendment request you filed as declined. Regards, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:40, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

@Callanecc: I had not finished discussing this matter. Sure it's like talking to a brick wall, but I see no other option. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:59, 4 December 2014 (UTC).

Thanks

Thanks for listing the various articles on 2/3 December at WP:PNT. Si Trew (talk) 12:08, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Welcome. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:43, 5 December 2014 (UTC).

Orphaned non-free image File:T10LSboxset1989.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:T10LSboxset1989.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 00:08, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

@Stefan2: The page was redirected to a list. The appropriate details should be added to the list and the image used to illustrate it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:43, 5 December 2014 (UTC).

Register article on Jimbo's talk

Orlowski is not all that wrong. See [1] – the Foundation is richer than ever, yet the fundraising banners make it sound like they're down to their last penny. Have a look at [2], [3], [4], [5] and other posts in that thread. There are far more people perturbed by this than just Orlowski. Best, Andreas JN466 12:27, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

I didn't argue that he was totally wrong. I have some concerns of my own. He has however so consistently written against Wikipedia that he has little credibility. Even people with little credibility are not wrong all the time, nor are the most outlandish arguments often without a grain of truth in one of their assumptions. That does not mean they are worth wasting time over. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:16, 5 December 2014 (UTC).

Proposed deletion of Phyll Opoku-Gyimah

The article Phyll Opoku-Gyimah has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

no actual evidence for notability

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Wikidata weekly summary #136

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • IRC office hour (log)
  • Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
  • Statements on properties are now live
  • Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
  • The Game has a new mode: alma mater
  • Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
  • Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
  • English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: working title, undercarriage
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Wikidata for research aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted.
• Development
  • Started work on units
  • More work on evaluating options for querying
  • Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
  • Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
  • Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
  • Work on improved label lookup performance
  • Wrapping up work on usage tracking
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Category:SWR Big Band albums

Category:SWR Big Band albums, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:58, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia genealogy project

Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:59, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Syrian civil war map

Hi, please do NOT try to improve the Syrian civil war page.
The navbar which you removed is absolutely essential to edit the map. I reverted your last edit.
I know you are trying to help, but Jackmcbarn who converted the previous template to a scribunto module knew what he was doing, and it works quite well, considering the size of the page.
Thanks. André437 (talk) 22:06, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Y Answered on user's talk page.All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:24, 9 December 2014 (UTC).

Indeed. Although it looks out of place, it actually does belong there. Jackmcbarn (talk) 22:21, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

I realised, and have changed it so that it doesn't say "This box". You could perhaps set it to "This map".... I was mislead because the talk link took me to the talk page of the article (it was, of course, via a redirect). @Jackmcbarn: I pinged you on this matter over at VP(T). All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:24, 9 December 2014 (UTC).

Category:Italian novelist

Category:Italian novelist, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. BDD (talk) 18:43, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

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Shortcut

The thread at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests#Need Acronym for GGTF Case may be of interest because you created the WP:ARBGGTF shortcut. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 19:18, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #137

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Running Wikidata queries on scientific publications
  • Finding ORCID identifiers used in Wikidata & Wikipedia
  • past: Wikidata workshop in NYC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Ancient philosopher communities visualized based on Wikidata data
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
• Development
  • More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
  • Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
  • Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
  • Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
  • Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
  • Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
  • Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
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Close review, second closing

You participated in the Overturn of the first closing of the Media Viewer RfC. You are invited to comment on the Close Review Request of the second closing of the same RfC: wp:Administrators'_noticeboard#Close_Review_Request_after_overturn_and_reclose. Alsee (talk) 14:28, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper. Since you had some involvement with the Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Fram (talk) 20:49, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Media viewer RFC close

With regard to this comment, it took me about 30 hours in total to close the RFC (I archived it only 8 hours before my effective closure, but I had started reviewing it long before), and my closing statement was one of the longest on the record, so I do not believe that I have been hasty or that I lacked diligence in closing this RFC that had been overdue for weeks. Cenarium (talk) 02:21, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

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Seasonal Greets!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!!

Hello Rich Farmbrough, 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 a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2015. Happy editing, The Herald : here I am 11:16, 20 December 2014 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Wikidata weekly summary #138

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

To you and yours

FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:32, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:04, 22 December 2014 (UTC).

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Seasonal Greets!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!!

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Thank you! A Merry Christmas! Rich Farmbrough, 17:01, 30 December 2014 (UTC).

Murder of Kylie Maybury

Can you give Murder of Kylie Maybury a general look over? Also, I just added this in brackets - "a little girl's handbag like Maybury had is not the same as the type used by adult women", but now it looks unweildly and awkward. Can you fix it. I know what I'm trying to say with that addition but i don't know how to fix it. Maybe a footnote or NB note would work - but i don't know how to create those :( Paul Austin (talk) 17:53, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

 Done 17:04, 30 December 2014 (UTC)