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Wikiproject Food and Drink Newsletter – March 2016

The WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter Volume III, no. 4, March 2016 Note: To opt out from receiving future newsletters, please click here for instructions.
Project News Food- and drink-related CfD discussions, Cat meat, New Liquor portal, Recent Good article promotions and Unassessed articles. (more information below) Many project-related categories are presently listed at Categories for discussion. See the project's Article alerts for more information and links. A discussion regarding cat meat is occurring at Talk:Cat meat § Legality in Canada section. The new Liquor Portal was created in late November 2015 for liquor related topics. The following food and drink articles have been promoted to Good article-class in 2016: Carrot soup Crab dip English Cuisine Esparza's Grodziskie Lemon Drop Pizza cheese Plum cake Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management Royal Stag There are presently 3,575 unassessed articles. Additional attention from the project's assessors is necessary and would be appreciated to reduce this backlog. 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Pellentesque malesuada nulla a mi. Duis sapien sem, aliquet nec, commodo eget, consequat quis, neque. Aliquam faucibus, elit ut dictum aliquet, felis nisl adipiscing sapien, sed malesuada diam lacus eget erat. Cras mollis scelerisque nunc. Nullam arcu. Aliquam consequat. Curabitur augue lorem, dapibus quis, laoreet et, pretium ac, nisi. Aenean magna nisl, mollis quis, molestie eu, feugiat in, orci. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Fusce convallis, mauris imperdiet gravida bibendum, nisl turpis suscipit mauris, sed placerat ipsum urna sed risus. In convallis tellus a mauris. Curabitur non elit ut libero tristique sodales. Mauris a lacus. Donec mattis semper leo. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Vivamus facilisis diam at odio. Mauris dictum, nisi eget consequat elementum, lacus ligula molestie metus, non feugiat orci magna ac sem. Donec turpis. Donec vitae metus. Morbi tristique neque eu mauris. Quisque gravida ipsum non sapien. Proin turpis lacus, scelerisque vitae, elementum at, lobortis ac, quam. Aliquam dictum eleifend risus. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Etiam sit amet diam. Suspendisse odio. Suspendisse nunc. In semper bibendum libero. Proin nonummy, lacus eget pulvinar lacinia, pede felis dignissim leo, vitae tristique magna lacus sit amet eros. Nullam ornare. Praesent odio ligula, dapibus sed, tincidunt eget, dictum ac, nibh. Nam quis lacus. Nunc eleifend molestie velit. Morbi lobortis quam eu velit. Donec euismod vestibulum massa. Donec non lectus. Aliquam commodo lacus sit amet nulla. Cras dignissim elit et augue. Nullam non diam. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Aenean vestibulum. Sed lobortis elit quis lectus. Nunc sed lacus at augue bibendum dapibus.	Feel free to welcome the new members who have recently joined the project. 18 new members!CamV8AeonxKar2016Lee788OmotechoLeuven2015Rich FarmbroughChiswick ChapAnna FrodesiakAtsmePrimaPreussenErpertSueDonemOff-shellBogger GunkartaBwtranchDebbiesw The project currently has 100 active members. 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Food and drink articles by quality and importance There are currently 34,340 articles attributed to the project, including 10,580 stubs. There are 38 articles at Featured article class, 176 are at Good article class and 3 are at Featured list class. Article statistics Food and Drink WikiProject article assessment Food and drink articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 15 31 53 FL 2 2 4 FM 140 140 GA 18 31 76 278 403 B 56 232 340 706 80 1,414 C 77 404 993 3,558 523 5,555 Start 22 329 1,679 12,029 3,903 17,962 Stub 17 543 9,019 4,949 14,528 List 12 71 115 535 23 277 1,033 Category 8,922 8,922 Disambig 218 218 File 3,022 3,022 Portal 811 811 Project 440 440 Redirect 10 72 640 2,866 3,588 Template 1,044 1,044 NA 8 8 Other 203 203 Assessed 185 1,103 3,833 26,798 17,697 9,732 59,348 Unassessed 14 1,977 1,991 Total 185 1,103 3,833 26,812 17,697 11,709 61,339 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 204,246 Ω = 5.12 Assessment log and Guide to Assessment Help on Editing and Sourcing Articles

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Favor to ask

Rich F,

I notice that you edit at the page Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives/Reports page. I've never been on that page before, but my interest is in Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives/Reports#MaxBioHazard. I do a bit of statistical work see, e.g. User:Smallbones/1000_random and User:Smallbones/1000_random results (check out the graph!)

Max is trying to help me do something similar on ruwikipedia and apparently needs to access my page with his Russian(?) bot to deposit the data. Anything you can do to help would be appreciated.

All the best,

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 13:00, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

I saw the graph! Incidentally the shelves should be expanded, since the original graphic demonstrated the potential size of a printed Wikipedia.

I'm sure we can resolve this. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:19, 5 March 2016 (UTC).

Duplicated content removed after 5 years

[1]. It goes to the Hall of Shame. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:04, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

March events and meetups in DC

Greetings from Wikimedia DC!

Looking for something to do in DC in March? We have a series of great events planned for the month:

• On Wednesday, March 9, we'll host our first March WikiSalon at Cove Dupont Circle.
• On Friday, March 11, the National Archives will host the Women in the Civil War Edit-a-Thon.
• On Saturday, March 19, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian will host the Color History with the Smithsonian! event, and we'll hold our second Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
• On Sunday, March 20, the American Chemical Society will host the Computers in Chemistry Edit-a-Thon.
• On Saturday, March 26, we'll host our second March WikiSalon at Cove Dupont Circle, followed by our monthly dinner meetup at Vapiano.

Can't make it to an event? Most of our edit-a-thons allow virtual participation; see the guide for more details.

Do you have an idea for a future event? Please write to us at info@wikimediadc.org!

Kirill Lokshin (talk) 16:30, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #199

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Oscars 2016: Movies that got the most attention on Wikipedia (followup with most famous cats)
  • Statements per item
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • COOL-WD has been announced to help assess the completeness of various parts of the knowledge base
  • You can apply for a grant as part of the Inspire Campaign around the topic of content review and curation
  • Wikimedia was accepted for Google Summer of Code. If you're a student this can be your chance to work on Wikidata code this summer.
  • A catalog of Uruguayan authors has been added to Mix'n'match
  • Listeria bot now has experimental support for references (example)
  • Self-portraits of women through the ages, powered by Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Québec cultural heritage directory people identifier, grammatical option indicates, Statistics Indonesia language code, Statistics Indonesia ethnicity code, village code of Indonesia, has phoneme, INSEE departement code, INSEE region code, Australian Wetlands Database Directory of Important Wetlands Reference Code, distance from Earth, J. Paul Getty Museum object id, BabelNet id, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital ID, studied by, studies, admissible rule in, UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID, measures, National-Football-Teams.com player ID, number of out of school children, Twitter hashtag, uncertainty corresponds to, Saros cycle of eclipse, contact times of eclipse, repealed by, amended by, ECHA InfoCard ID, global-warming potential
  • Query example: French heads of government by length of service, Metro stations in Paris
• Development
  • Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
  • More work on the first prototype for Commons support (phabricator:T125822)
  • Continued working on improving language support for monolingual text and labels/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T125066)
  • Conversion of properties from string to external identifier datatype is ongoing
  • Experimenting with putting query results on a map in query.wikidata.org (earthquakes, ski resorts)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 02 March 2016

• News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: Brawling

• Recent research: Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is "verifiable"?

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation details requests to alter or remove content in new transparency report

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Library fire in Northam Devon?

Back over a decade ago (!) you added a mention of "sun's rays setting fire to leaflets through the action of a hands-free magnifier in a library in Northam Devon." I'm trying to track down more details about this -- do you remember any more about it? For example, what year (or even decade) it happened? Thanks. JesseW, the juggling janitor 02:59, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

I believe it was at the time fairly recent. It may have been sourced from a local paper, or possibly something related to fire prevention. I have commented on the talk page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:40, 10 March 2016 (UTC).

There's a mention here. 3. Northam Library, Devon, England Total loss of building and 90% books. Fire thought to have started by sun’s rays setting fire to leaflets through action of a hands-free magnifier. The Times 17 June 2005 --Cavrdg (talk) 15:53, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Excellent work! Thank you! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:13, 10 March 2016 (UTC).

Great, thanks to you both! JesseW, the juggling janitor 01:53, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 09 March 2016

• News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted

• In the media: Wikipedian is break-out star of International Women's Day; dinosaur art; Wikipedia's new iOS app and its fight for market share

• Op-ed: A modest proposal for Wikimedia’s future

• Featured content: Five articles, four lists, a topic, and five images were promoted this week.

• Technology report: Wikimedia wikis will temporarily go into read-only mode on several occasions in the coming weeks

• WikiCup report: First round of the WikiCup finishes

• Blog: The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists

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You are invited to discuss a controversial article you edited previously

You are invited to comment on the article "List of expeditions ordered by Muhammad" in the Wikipedia Administrators Notice Board. Your input is highly valued as you edited this article previously.

Click here: Controversial Islamic Article-90% of page wiped out by Muslims, possible bias to comment--Misconceptions2 (talk) 03:33, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #200

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: WikiArabia
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon
  • Upcoming: digikult.se
  • Wikidata Tour Down-Under
  • Open culture session at Open Belgium
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Coming to Wikimania? Consider submitting a Wikidata related poster, training or discussion! Deadline is on the 20th.
  • Wikidata has passed the milestone of 1 Billion Datapoints (Triples) on Wednesday, 9th of March.
  • Wikidata Graph Builder now supports arbitrary SPARQL queries (example)
  • ESWC 2016 has a new Wikidata Bonus Challenge
  • Playing with Wikidata in BigQuery
  • There will be server maintenance work next week on all Wikimedia servers that will prevent editing for a short time.
  • Wikidata external ID resolver now uses SPARQL and supports lookup of properties via English name (fragment)
  • iSpecies now has multilingual summaries and links to Wikidata (example)
  • Awarder lets you add awards to a biographical item, or use the Wikipedia text of the award to add all recipients]
  • A new version of the Wikidata nuclide chart is online
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: thickness, World Heritage criteria (2005), Valencian Property of Local Relevance id, BookBrainz creator ID, PlayStation ID, ČSFD person ID, Kinopoisk person ID, Kinopoisk film ID, Hockeydb.com player ID, Eurohockey.com player ID, Geni.com profile ID, block size, serial number, Gram staining, culture, maximum gradient, Latvian Olympic Committee athlete ID
  • Query examples: Number of museums by U. S. state on map, Film directors ranked by number of sitelinks multiplied by their number of films, all museums in Barcelona with coordinates, women mushers, women scientists, women artists, air accidents, Twitter accounts of biologists, torture devices, public art in Paris, Locations of Pablo Picasso works
• Development
  • We reduced the loading time of items significantly. Enjoy a faster Wikidata :)

    

    Faster!!!

  • Wikidata Query GUI now supports maps. Check it out with one of the example queries above. (Select Map under Display results menu).
  • Pywikibot now has SPARQL endpoint support.
  • We worked on getting the first pieces of Commons support on a test system. Nothing shiny to see yet but we're making progress.
  • Converted more identifier to the new identifier datatype. Still some to go but 450 properties have been converted by now.
  • Updated the data that generates suggestions when adding a new statement
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Igbo wiki

Hi and good day, thank you for ur work at Igbo wikipedia! And - if you might have some spare time... you know, as I'm a technical blockhead it would be helpful to get your opinion on some problems there... Best wishes --Tschips (talk) 15:14, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi, saw you visited igbo wiki. Would you like to help with some template staff? Greets, --Tschips (talk) 16:03, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Sure, let me know what you need. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:04, 15 March 2016 (UTC).

Hi and - thanks for your positive answer! Here we are:

You know, when using the coordinate's template like here it always shows 'minutes and seconds, therefore I didn't add it to the west african country articles yet where degrees would be sufficient. Besides I couldn't modify it to show up at the top right of the article above the country box, therefore put it in the text which appears to be kind of "raw".

Recently I started to add the navigation board to country articles like in Togo or Senegal. I added the whole table which was a source for copy and paste mistakes, moreover it appeared to be a bit confusing when editing the article. Do you know how to create a "one line expression" to add to the article.

Furthermore I didn't find country boards for other continents - or a board for the nigerian states - don't know how to create them....

Would be nice if you could give some advice or even technical support... Greets, --Tschips (talk) 11:09, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

I have changed ig:Togo - the navigation box is simply transcluded with {{Ala no n'ime Afrịka}} the same as any other template.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:54, 16 March 2016 (UTC).

Ya, great!!! To you it might look simple, but to me it is such a great help... :-) Thanks so much!!! Greets, --Tschips (talk) 18:15, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

• I fixed the Coords template so it will work with just degrees and minutes. The display probably needs a change to the .css file.
• {{Sovereign_states_of_Europe}} is another continent:

There's a good list in the following navbox:

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:55, 16 March 2016 (UTC).

Hey, that was great work you did yesterday! Thanks a lot! For the Europe-template: I tried to fit it into Poland, but it showed like

Àtụ:Sovereign states of Europe

Did I make a mistake? And thanks for the coordinate modification. Looks better now. Might be tricky to work on that? It's seems to be fixed to north / east..., is it? Greets, --Tschips (talk) 16:31, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

We need a tech fix over there. I will contact you there. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC).

Hey Rich Farmbrough, ok, we can go on at my talk page. By the way: I tried to create a navigation board for the european countries, hope it didn't crush the system... :-) If you have some spare time could you change the country names to Igbo language? I will sort the table later then. Greets, --Tschips (talk) 23:44, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

categorization of people

Could you show me where "and converted to decimal ("Sr"=0, Jr"=1) usually one digit will suffice" was discussed? Bgwhite (talk) 22:08, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

No, however it is used, and for good reason. The first five Mr. Fred Bloggs will otherwise sort as:

• Bloggs, Fred, III
• Bloggs, Fred, IV
• Bloggs, Fred, Jr.
• Bloggs, Fred, Sr.
• Bloggs, Fred, V

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:12, 18 March 2016 (UTC).

It should, of course, read ("Sr"=1, Jr"=2), though either method should have the same effect. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC).

Then you'll need to discuss this somewhere. Roman numerals are already converted to numbers. Sr. and Jr. are not and this follows convention put out by the indexing people. 99% of Sr and Jr don't have a follow on to III, defaultsort has been this way for years, and thus tons of articles follow this. It's a very minor point when there are a couple in the list. Bgwhite (talk) 23:15, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Who are "the indexing people"? The citations to Chicago Manual of Style mix up how items should be written with how they should sort, two different things. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC).

I proposed this, to no opposition here. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:48, 19 March 2016 (UTC).

Sheila Fox - possible candidate for an article?

Is this girl worth an article - http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/732dfuk.html , http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1374545.stm , http://www.historicbolton.yolasite.com/sheila-fox.php Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 08:33, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

There are probably enough sources - newspaper coverage at the time of the disappearance, and the more recent BBC article. The Historicbolton site is probably not a RS.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:13, 19 March 2016 (UTC).

The Signpost: 16 March 2016

• News and notes: Wikipedia Zero: Orange mobile partnership in Africa ends; the evolution of privacy loss in Wikipedia

• In the media: Wales at SXSW; lawsuit over Wikipedia PR editing

• Op-ed: Hard work needed to address Wikimedia’s leadership challenges

• Discussion report: Is an interim WMF executive director inherently notable?

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!

• Traffic report: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States

• Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #119: The Foundation and the departure of Lila Tretikov

• Blog: It “revolutionized the way German-speaking people inform themselves about the world”: Fifteen years of the German Wikipedia

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Salmine Sophia Pedersen

Hi, why did you do this move? Apart from the title Salmine Sophia Pedersen everythig else is just a bio template about 'subject'. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 14:06, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, fixed. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:10, 20 March 2016 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #201

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Reforming the property creation process
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Color History with the Smithsonian!
  • Past: Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at the DC Public Library
  • Past: Admin meetup of the German-language Wikipedia
  • Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Biomedical literature
  • Identifying problematic statements in Wikidata via multi-level modeling theory
  • Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative
  • Adding disclosures to Wikidata with Bioclipse
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Dutch language Wikipedia has a consistently low number of articles unconnected to Wikidata: Duplicity statistics for nlwiki
  • MusicBrainz now uses Wikidata to fetch images for their entities
  • The query service is now linked in the sidebar
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs among them TED speakers
  • Maarten made some reports to make it easier to connect paintings on Wikidata with images on Wikimedia Commons
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: BBFC rating, German tax authority ID, ISO 9362 SWIFT/BIC code, DNF person ID, PASE ID, MetroLyrics ID, MEK ID, Companies House ID, Site of Special Scientific Interest (England) ID, ISO 15924 numeric code, Hungarian company ID, SHOWA ID, formatterURL for Wikidata ID, World Heritage criteria (2005), TED talk ID, TED topic ID, TED speaker ID
  • Query examples: distribution of public art by place
• Development
  • The query service now has Ctrl+enter as a shortcut to run a query
  • Started working on improving input for geocoordinates and dates (changing the advanced settings)
  • Worked on database performance improvements for the client (Wikipedia and co) (phabricator:T125838)
  • Experimenting with arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons on http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org
  • Converted more identifiers from string datatype to identifier datatype
  • Worked on improved localization of dates that are very far in the past or future (phabricator:T127820)
  • Fixed undo actions going through abuse filter (phabricator:T126861)
  • Fixed issues in the query service with Internet Explorer 11
  • Improved query service display on small screens
  • Improved autocompletion in the query service
  • Fixed a bug with an add button for qualifiers being shown when it shouldn't (phabricator:T128317)
  • Further work on Wikimedia Commons support (Special Pages, API)
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Please support

…efforts at Shire (pharmaceutical company), and elsewhere, to use a standard form of complete citation, including author, date, title, and (if web) data of content access. In engaging others, please remind them that URL-only citations, and other incomplete, and unstable ways of providing sources, are disallowed by WP:VERIFY, and that use of self-published and non-independent sources are likewise limited to very small roles. Cheers, and thank you. Leprof 7272 (talk) 15:14, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

This is not true. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:17, 22 March 2016 (UTC).

Please, somewhere, tie your opinions to the content of WP:VERIFY, WP:CITE, WP:OR, etc. Chapter and verse, please. It is one thing to say "I would rather" to it's my opinion. It is quite another, to declare "This is not true." Make clear the basis of what you argue, please. (Thank you.) Leprof 7272 (talk) 17:03, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Where in VERIFY does it say that URL only citations are disallowed? If it does say that it should be removed immediately. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:33, 22 March 2016 (UTC).

here you go: WP:KDL: "Do not delete a URL just because it has been tagged with for a long time." you realize there are more than 69,870 bare urls on this site? [2] Duckduckstop (talk) 19:13, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

I am not surprised (actually it's more because of multiple bare links in an article). I will do something about it if those nice people at Arbcom will let me.

And thanks, that does support my position.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:03, 22 March 2016 (UTC).

yes, we had some tools, but they need a refresh. tags are not enough. i see there is User:cyberbot II doing some #IABot: i.e. [3], but it needs some citation formating help. cheers Duckduckstop (talk) 20:10, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Stockton-on-Tees

Hi Rich. This edit changed a valid link to that of a redirect to a dab page. Redirects don't need images, nor do dab pages. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:09, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Not sure that dab pges might not benefit... All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:43, 25 March 2016 (UTC).

Request for help with TLS article

Dear Mr Farmbrough,

Apologies for contacting you out of the blue. I am currently writing a book review for the Times Literary Supplement on the history of encyclopaedias, and was hoping to use the example of the Wikipedia page on best-selling books of all time as an extended example of the benefits and perils of Wikipedia. I was wondering whether you might be willing to have a brief email correspondence about the history of the page-edits (esp. the sales figures for Tale of Two Cities)? I'd be very grateful, if so. My email address is peter.thonemannwadh.ox.ac.uk.

With all good wishes,

Peter Thonemann Wadham College, Oxford. Peter Thonemann (talk) 10:40, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Replied by email. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:42, 25 March 2016 (UTC).

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Wikidata weekly summary #202

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikidata intro at the École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes (slides)
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour
  • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon
  • Migrating pKa data from DrugMet to Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A little Easter present for the WikiVerse from Magnus
  • The page for institutions, companies, etc who want to donate data to Wikidata has been reworked and expanded by John and Jens
  • WMDE is looking for a product management intern to work with Lydia
  • Arbitrary access for Commons is getting ready and needs testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: next crossing downstream, next crossing upstream, SOATO ID, Google Knowledge Graph identifier, has parts of the class, discontinued date, variability of property value, corresponding template, Datahub page, alcohol by volume, units sold, tier 1 capital ratio (CETI), consumption rate per capita, target interest rate, topographic prominence, topographic isolation, Scoville grade, EU transparency register ID, FIFA World Ranking, Estyn ID, partnership with, CRICOS Provider Code, interested in, Cycling Quotient url (mens team), Cycling Quotient identifier (races for men), source of material, mirTarBase ID, mean lifetime, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, FedCup player ID, Davis Cup player ID, Swimrankings.net swimmer ID, Filmportal ID, TV.com ID, RARS rating, Minkultury Film ID, number of parts of a work of art, model, geography, place of detention, Turner Classic Movies film ID, cost of damage
  • Query examples: Library and Information Science journals, number of statements backed by a reference with a DOI
• Development
  • You see that you can now show labels/descriptions/aliases for all languages that have been added to an item by clicking "more languages"
  • Preparation for arbitrary access on Commons
  • Getting ready for the hackathon in Israel
  • More work on making the extended input for geocoordinates and dates less complicated to understand
  • Worked on making scrolling of large items less laggy
  • Made the query service map visualization no longer show coordinates that are not on earth
  • Fixed a bug where the removal of a sitelink couldn't be done (phabricator:T129450)
  • Query service no longer restores previous query as requested
  • Fixed a bug where adding a statement would leave a stray "add qualifier" link (phabricator:T128317)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
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Speedy deletion nomination of BoostedBoards

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Proposed deletion of Pan Am Flight 841

The article Pan Am Flight 841 has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unrefrenced. No proof of notability. Hijackings in the 60s and 70s were common.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 15:42, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

@WilliamJE: Improved, template removed. General Ization ^Talk 16:56, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I was somewhat distracted by the above speedy, followed by a little work off-wiki. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:18, 30 March 2016 (UTC).

Pan Am Flight 841

Thanks for creating that, as I meant to do so yesterday and completely forgot to! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 19:35, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Most welcome! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:37, 30 March 2016 (UTC).