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The Wikipedia Library Survey[edit]

As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 14:53, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Copy and paste[edit]

These changes are not enough [1]. You need to put the text in your own words. We have "function or fails to progress beyond a prolonged plateau after a period of relatively normal development." Text says " function or fails to progress beyond a prolonged plateau after a period of relatively normal development" This is exactly the same. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 17:04, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: November 2013[edit]



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The Signpost: 11 December 2013[edit]

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A cup of coffee for you![edit]

വിവരങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് നന്ദി 
Adeebmuhsin (talk) 10:35, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

thanx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fahizkp (talk • contribs) 10:37, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you![edit]

Netha, thank you for sharing all of your expertise on the Individual Engagement Grants Committee again this round! I know you are so very busy, and I've really appreciated you lending your insights to these proposals. Best wishes, Siko (WMF) (talk) 00:24, 21 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the barnstar, Siko! Congratulations on steering the IEG committee successfully so far! -- Netha (talk) 10:35, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure![edit]

Hi ! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

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Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue[edit]

Books & Bytes

Volume 1 Issue 3, December/January 2013

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Happy New Year, and welcome to a special double issue of Books & Bytes. We've included a retrospective on the changes and progress TWL has seen over the last year, the results of the survey TWL participants completed in December, some of our plans for the future, a second interview with a Wiki Love Libraries coordinator, and more. Here's to 2014 being a year of expansion and innovation for TWL!

The Wikipedia Library completed the first 6 months of its Individual Engagement grant last week. Here's where we are and what we've done:

Increased access to sources: 1500 editors signed up for 3700 free accounts, individually worth over $500,000, with usage increases of 400-600%
Deep networking: Built relationships with Credo, HighBeam, Questia, JSTOR, Cochrane, LexisNexis, EBSCO, New York Times, and OCLC
New pilot projects: Started the Wikipedia Visiting Scholar project to empower university-affiliated Wikipedia researchers
Developed community: Created portal connecting 250 newsletter recipients, 30 library members, 3 volunteer coordinators, and 2 part-time contractors
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Broad outreach: Wrote a feature article for Library Journal's The Digital Shift; presenting at the American Library Association annual meeting
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Thank you![edit]

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UserBoxes[edit]

I noticed the cool user boxes you have on your page. How do one get that? Parul :) (talk) 05:21, 20 February 2014 (UTC)Parul :)[reply]

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Books & Bytes, Issue 4[edit]

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Volume 1, Issue 4, February 2014

News for February from your Wikipedia Library.

Donations drive: news on TWL's partnership efforts with publishers

Open Access: Feature from Ocaasi on the intersection of the library and the open access movement

American Library Association Midwinter Conference: TWL attended this year in Philadelphia

Royal Society Opens Access To Journals: The UK's venerable Royal Society will give the public (and Wikipedians) full access to two of their journal titles for two days on March 4th and 5th

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International women's day in Telugu wikipedia[edit]

I have created a page for International Women's Day 2014 in Telugu Wikipedia. The link is here: [2]. We are planning a physical meeting at TOU, Hyderabad on March 8. Kindly advise me for improving the women's participation in Wikipedia. Thank you.Dr. Rajasekhar A. 04:18, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

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You've got mail![edit]

Hello, Netha Hussain. Please check your email; you've got mail!
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Happy 8th of March[edit]

Hey Netha, here's wishing you a wonderful International Women's Day. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 04:20, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Rsrikanth05! -- Netha (talk) 18:40, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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This Month in GLAM: February 2014[edit]



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Event date[edit]

Aren't tomorrow and the day after tomorrow the event dates? I'll be there. I have heard you are going to award a 4 days' 4 nights' South India tour package to the prominent editors of this edit drive? Is it true? Tito☸Dutta 18:29, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Happy 14th of March[edit]

Happy 14th of March. I can see someone has wished "happy 8th March" above. I forgot to wish on that date. Never mind, I wish happy 14 March. Every day is women's day, baki sab Allah Rakha. Tito☸Dutta 18:32, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: Everyday[edit]

I have started. A good number of those articles will face WP:Notability issue. Let's see. Tito☸Dutta 00:18, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep this article in your task list, I am expanding now: Rajeshwari Chatterjee. This woman stood first in both B.Sc and M.Sc exams. I'll try to hook it at DYK, Don't know if they will reject it as ""common event".
    Let me know the articles you'll be starting, I'll attend those. --Tito☸Dutta 03:27, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker) @Titodutta: As for the hook, you can try something like she was the first woman engineer from Karnataka. —Vensatry (Ping) 05:53, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Talkback message from Tito Dutta[edit]

Hello, Netha Hussain. You have new messages at Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/International_Women's_Day,_India_(2014)#Lead_image_change_proposal.
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Indian kitchen[edit]

We created an Indian kitchen Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Indian cuisine personal user awards. If you give people PUA, those cupcakes, baklavas are excellent, please consider giving some Indian foods too. Thanks Tito☸Dutta 23:07, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Help me[edit]

Hello Netha I came to know about you from the news paper that you have been working for women to keep in wikipedia. I deeply appreciate your work and effort. I have a request just go through this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Atmaprajnananda_Saraswati Swamini Atmaprajnananda Saraswati is a living Indian philosopher, as well as a published author. Her books on the Vedas (most ancient literature in the world) are extensively research-based and are meant for highly educated scholars with scientific temper.She has done a lot of Work. This article stay for 2 years then it was deleted reason non existence of links.I go through all the points and correct it and resubmit it. But it still it was rejected Could you help me out ? Yes, you may see or expand it. Thank you. --Stallion444 01:47, 20 March 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stallion444 (talk • contribs)

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A cup of coffee for you![edit]

-Srikar :) Ananthulasrikar (talk) 16:35, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Reminder of previous post[edit]

Stallion444 17:47, 4 April 2014 (UTC) Hello Netha Hussain I know you are very busy but kindly go through my request which is posted on 20th March and help me out. For your reference I am posting it again. Thank you very much. I deeply appreciate your effort. 

I came to know about you from the news paper that you have been working for women to keep in wikipedia.
I deeply appreciate your work and effort. I have a request just go through this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Atmaprajnananda_Saraswati Swamini Atmaprajnananda Saraswati is a living Indian philosopher,
as well as a published author. Her books on the Vedas

(most ancient literature in the world) are extensively research-based and are meant for highly educated scholars with scientific temper.She has done a lot of Work. This article stay for 2 years then it was deleted reason non existence of links.I go through all the points and correct it and resubmit it. But still it was rejected Could you help me out. Thank you --Stallion444 17:47, 4 April 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stallion444 (talk • contribs)

A barnstar for you![edit]

The Rosetta Barnstar
You deserve this for your extra-ordinary efforts with the translations. A belated honour, but think it has come at the right time! —Vensatry (Ping) 17:34, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The Wikiwomen's Ally Award[edit]

My Pleasure Neetha :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.203.5.6 (talk) 18:41, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Form[edit]

I can not understand this question First Time Editor
Are You editing for the first time ? — Where? At Wikipedia? — Tito☸Dutta 19:02, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks[edit]

Thanks for the award, but I feel that I do not deserve it as I was not able to contribute. I will surely try next time to dedicate time. Thanks. -- Abhijeet Safai (talk) 07:42, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for kind words. I have restored the award on talk page. Thanks. --Abhijeet Safai (talk) 09:27, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes - Issue 5[edit]

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Leaflet for Wikiwomen's Collaborative at Wikimania 2014[edit]

Hi User: Netha Hussain,

Hope you are well. Thanks for submitting a leaflet for Wikiwomen's COllaborative.

We're doing our best to make these leaflets intelligible to non-wikipedians, and we think your leaflet could be confusing for them; try and include a clearer "call to action" - what are some specific ways they could get involved? We think Wikiproject Military History is a good example to follow.

Additionally, I noticed that the text you have used for the "longer description" is currently over the word limit as per the template at the top of the page. Please try and reduce that as well.

Thanks in advance. Adikhajuria (talk) 14:59, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the message. I have made some changes to the leaflet. Let me know if this version is okay. If it is not, I will seek help from other volunteers of the Wikiwomen's Collaborative and get it re-written. -- Netha (talk) 15:56, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes, Issue 6[edit]

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The Pulse (WP:MED newsletter) June 2014[edit]

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Verifiable process needs some more accuracy[edit]

I felt some data provided by a contributor seems to be irrelevant by casting a religion name over it, also no proper evidence apart from a fabricated so called can be data is provided. What i found is some contributors tried to edit the same, the falsified data is overwritten all the time. It means a purposeful lobbying is going around here to spread wrong information. I am not a regular contributor nor a scholar, how can people like me will get the true data ensured by Wikipedia. The major fault is when the war or riots normally occurred during any conquests is purposefully tied to a religion to communalize the matter thereby destroying the harmony. The topic i found this issue is: Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent

I hope you as a well versed contributor could do something to avoid falsified data. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arenishr (talk • contribs) 08:14, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

BMJ offering 25 free accounts to Wikipedia medical editors[edit]

Neat news: BMJ is offering 25 free, full-access accounts to their prestigious medical journal through The Wikipedia Library and Wiki Project Med Foundation (like we did with Cochrane). Please sign up this week: Wikipedia:BMJ --Cheers, Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: May 2014[edit]



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  • Netherlands report: Libraries; Wikidata & DBpedia; Wikipedians in Residence; Open Culture Data
  • Norway report: 2 x GLAM edit-a-thons
  • Sweden report: Award, competitions and Coat of Arms
  • UK report: No trouble at t'mill; Assisting Metropolitan Police with image licensing enquiries; Wikimania is coming
  • USA report: New Edit-a-thons; GLAM at Wikiconference USA; Activities in New York City
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The Wikipedia Library: New Account Coordinators Needed[edit]

Hi Books & Bytes recipients: The Wikipedia Library has been expanding rapidly and we need some help! We currently have 10 signups for free account access open and several more in the works... In order to help with those signups, distribute access codes, and manage accounts we'll need 2-3 more Account Coordinators.

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Ada Camp Awesomeness Barnstar[edit]

AdaCamp Awesomeness Barnstar
To Netha, I award you the first ever AdaCamp Awesomeness Barnstar with thanks for your good cheer and for co-facilitating the session on "How to Edit Wikipedia" with me. I hope there are many more co-facilitated edit-a-thons in our future. Rosiestep (talk) 20:23, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Great to meet you![edit]

Hi Netha - It was great to meet you at AdaCamp. It seems Rosie already gave you a AdaCamp Barn Star so just know that I echo that too. You were awesome and clearly are an editing powerhouse! --LibraryGurl (talk) 18:04, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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A Barnstar for you![edit]

The Guidance Barnstar
Thanks a ton for helping me understand about the Wikimedia lists and guiding me to subscribe to them! You deserve this! Cheers, ƬheStrikeΣagle 17:51, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The Signpost: 02 July 2014[edit]

This Month in GLAM: June 2014[edit]



Headlines
  • Belgium report: Bouchout Declaration on Open Access to Biodiversity data; Virtual collaboration in the government
  • France report: Round table in Brussels; Video at Sèvres; 70th anniversary of the D-Day
  • Germany report: Exhibition photography
  • Mexico report: Edit-a-thon of Museo Soumaya; simulthaneous edit-a-thon in Argentina, Mexico and Spain about Spanish Exile; new cultural partner of Wikimedia México
  • Netherlands report: Music edit-a-thon; Library workshops; Videos, maps and Japanese art donations; Wiki Loves Earth
  • Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments is being prepared for Sweden
  • UK report: Free Culture; Image releases
  • USA report: A GLAM Day Out! in Philadelphia; Local History at the Local Library
  • Wikimania report: GLAM presentations at Wikimania
  • Open Access report: Open biodiversity data; Automated import of scholarly journal articles into Wikisource
  • Calendar: July's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #117[edit]

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Medical Translation Newsletter[edit]


Wikiproject Medicine; Translation Taskforce

Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 1, June/July 2014
by CFCF, Doc James

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This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Wikipedia available to the world, in the language of your choice.

note: you will not receive future editions of this newsletter unless you *sign up*; you received this version because you identify as a member of WikiProject Medicine

Spotlight - Simplified article translation

Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.

Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:

We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.

What's happening?

IEG grant
CFCF - "IEG beneficiary" and editor of this newsletter.

I've (CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.

Wikimania 2014

For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.

Integration progress

There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.

  • Swedish
    Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
    Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May.
  • Dutch
    Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie.
  • Polish
    Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Wikipedia has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Wikipedia does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article.
    (This is somewhat alleviated by a commissioned Template bot - to be released). - List of articles for integration
  • Arabic
    The Arabic Wikipedia community has been informed of the efforts to integrate content through both the general talk-page as well as through one of the major Arabic Wikipedia facebook-groups: مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربي, something that has been heralded with great enthusiasm.
Integration guides

Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.

Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [5]

News in short

To come
  • Medical editor census - Medical editors on different Wikis have been without proper means of communication. A preliminary list of projects is available here.
  • Proofreading drives

Further reading



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Wikidata weekly summary #118[edit]

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The Signpost: 23 July 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #119[edit]

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Books and Bytes - Issue 7[edit]

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 7, June-July 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

  • Seven new donations, two expanded partnerships
  • TWL's Final Report up, read the summary
  • Adventures in Las Vegas, WikiConference USA, and updates from TWL coordinators
  • Spotlight: Blog post on BNA's impact on one editor's research

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Wikidata weekly summary #120[edit]

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  • Discussions
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  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Created CLI script to import entities into the QueryEngine store (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jpg)
    • More work on redirects (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
    • More work on the monolingual datatype
    • Started work on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface (that’s the first coding steps of getting us a new user interface design)
    • Final touches on badges (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
  • Monthly Tasks
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Newsletter[edit]

[6] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 13:01, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 06 August 2014[edit]

Invitation to a walk[edit]

Hello - are you still at Wikimania? You might like to know that there's a walk around feminist London on Monday afternoon: https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London-statue-walk All are welcome! Carbon Caryatid (talk) 20:52, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #121[edit]

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This Month in GLAM: July 2014[edit]



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Wikidata weekly summary #122[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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  • Discussions
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email.
    • Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
    • Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
    • We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates.
    • Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design
    • Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database
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    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
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The Signpost: 13 August 2014[edit]

The Signpost: 20 August 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #123[edit]

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The Signpost: 27 August 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #124[edit]

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The Signpost: 03 September 2014[edit]

This Month in GLAM: August 2014[edit]



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WikiProject Women writers Invitation[edit]

Hello Netha Hussain/Archive 4! Thank you for your contributions to articles related to Women writers. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject Women writers, a WikiProject aimed at improving the quality of articles about women writers on Wikipedia.

If you would like to participate, please visit the WikiProject Women writers page for more information. Feel free to sign your name under "Members". I look forward to your involvement!

Also wondering how are you doing, my friend? --Rosiestep (talk) 15:13, 13 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #125[edit]

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The Signpost: 10 September 2014[edit]

The Signpost: 17 September 2014[edit]

Medical Translation Newsletter Aug./Sept. 2014[edit]

Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 2, Aug./Sept. 2014
by CFCF

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Feature – Ebola articles[edit]

Electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion

During August we have translated Disease and it is now live in more than 60 different languages! To help us focus on African languages Rubric has donated a large number of articles in languages we haven't previously reached–so a shout out them, and Ian Henderson from Rubric who's joined us here at Wikipedia. We're very happy for our continued collaboration with both Rubric and Translators without Borders!

Just some of our over 60 translations:
New roles and guides!

At Wikimania there were so many enthusiastic people jumping at the chance to help out the Medical Translation Project, but unfortunately not all of them knew how to get started. That is why we've been spending considerable time writing and improving guides! They are finally live, and you can find them at our home-page!

New sign up page!

We're proud to announce a new sign up page at WP:MTSIGNUP! The old page was getting cluttered and didn't allow you to speficy a role. The new page should be easier to sign up to, and easier to navigate so that we can reach you when you're needed!

Style guides for translations

Translations are of both full articles and shorter articles continues. The process where short articles are chosen for translation hasn't been fully transparent. In the coming months we hope to have a first guide, so that anyone who writes medical or health articles knows how to get their articles to a standard where they can be translated! That's why we're currently working on medical good lede criteria! The idea is to have a similar peer review process to good article nominations, but only for ledes.

Some more stats
Further reading


-- CFCF 🍌 (email) 13:09, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikidata weekly summary #126[edit]

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Contact me if u can[edit]

I want to talk to u but unfortunately i am unable to send u an email and i don´t know why. If u can plz write to my email adress medsa880302@ucm.cfg.sld.cu I am also a medical student doing House job in Cuba. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.220.215.12 (talk) 07:04, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikidata weekly summary #127[edit]

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  • Discussions
    • [[:d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/User conduct policies|Closed RfC: User conduct policies]
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikidata Toolkit 0.3.0 released - Wikidata Toolkit
    • ProteinBoxBot is making Wikidata the canonical resource for referencing and translating identifiers for genes and proteins from different species
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Investigated and fixed issues with time values
    • Investigated issues with coordinate value precision
    • Fixed a number of issues related to HHVM
    • Further work on usage tracking
    • Created smoke tests for items and properties
    • Created a widget to edit badges directly on the item without going through the special page
    • Prepared for a week of work with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers next week to get more planning done for structured data support for Commons
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Books and Bytes - Issue 8[edit]

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 8, August-September2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

  • TWL now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moves on from grant status
  • Four new donations, including large DeGruyter parntership, pilot with Elsevier
  • New TWL coordinators, Wikimania news, new library platform discussions, Wiki Loves Libraries update, and more
  • Spotlight: "Traveling Through History" - an editor talks about his experiences with a TWL newspaper archive, Newspapers.com

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Some stroopwafels for you![edit]

Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2014 Duckduckstop (talk) 18:32, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #128[edit]

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Wikidata weekly summary #114[edit]

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  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
    • Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
    • When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
    • Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
    • Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
    • Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
    • Work on entity usage tracking
    • Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
    • Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
    • Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
    • Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
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The Signpost: 29 October 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #131[edit]

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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)[edit]

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:

  • DeGruyter: 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
  • Fold3: 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
  • Scotland's People: 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
  • British Newspaper Archive: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers
  • Highbeam: 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives
  • Questia: 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
  • JSTOR: 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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Wikidata weekly summary #132[edit]

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Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Lydia, Magnus and Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the ODI award gala
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Dear Netha Could you help me reviving the article. Thank you for your time and effort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:%C4%80tmapraj%C3%B1%C4%81nanda_Saraswati --Stallion444 14:56, 10 November 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stallion444 (talk • contribs)

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മലയാളം എൽജിബിടി[edit]

വിക്കിപീഡിയ മലയാളം എൽജിബിടി സംരംഭവുമായി സഹകരിക്കാൻ താത്പര്യമുണ്ട്

Wikidata weekly summary #133[edit]

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  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page.
    • GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
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    • Help make sure these items have labels in your language
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
    • Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
    • Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage)
    • Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
    • Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance.
    • Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
    • Improved calendar model display
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A kitten for you![edit]

Thank You too for your endless contributions!

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Wikidata weekly summary #134[edit]

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The Signpost: 26 November 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #135[edit]

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The Signpost: 03 December 2014[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #136[edit]

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  • Events/Blogs/Press
  • 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?
  • Development
    • Started work on units
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    • Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
    • Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
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    • Work on improved label lookup performance
    • Wrapping up work on usage tracking
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Wikimedia genealogy project[edit]

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) 17:48, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Great Huffington Post article[edit]

Hi - Just wanted to tell you that was a great article about User:Rosiestep, and I shared it with some of my friends at work today. Great work! KConWiki (talk) 01:38, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 10 December 2014[edit]

This Month in GLAM: November 2014[edit]



Headlines
  • Australia and New Zealand report: ALIA partnership goes countrywide
  • Belgium report: Workshops for collection holders across Europe; Founding event of Wikimedia Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg; Plantin-Moretus Museum; Edit-a-thon at faculty library in Ghent University; Image donation UGentMemorie; Upcoming activities
  • France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; mass upload; Musée de Bretagne
  • Germany report: Facts, fun and free content
  • Ireland report: Ada Lovelace day in Dublin
  • Italy report: National Library Conference; Wiki Loves Monuments; Archaeological Open Data; BEIC
  • Netherlands report: Video challenge; Wikidata workshop and hackathon; Wikipedia courses in libraries; WWII editathon
  • Norway report: Edit-a-thon far north at the Museum of Nordland (Nordlandsmuseet)
  • Spain report: Picasso, first Galipedia edit-a-thon, course in Biblioteca Reina Sofía and free portraits
  • South Africa report: Wiki Loves GLAMs, Cape Town
  • Sweden report: Use, reuse and contributions back and forth
  • UK report: Medals, maps and multilingual marvels
  • Special story: ORCID identifiers
  • Open Access report: Open proposal: Wikidata for Research; Open Access signalling
  • Tool testing report: Tools for references, images, video, file usage; Popular Pages
  • Calendar: December's GLAM events
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)[edit]

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:

Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

Hello Netha Hussain, 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 2025.
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New Year 2015 Greetings[edit]

Wishing you a Prosperous 2015!!!

Hello , New Year begins, let us pray that it will be a year with New Peace, New Happiness and abundance of new friends, God bless you through out the New Year.--Nvvchar. 03:43, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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HAPPY NEW YEAR Hoping 2015 will be a great year for you! Thank you for your contributions!
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Books and Bytes - Issue 9[edit]

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Issue 9, November-December 2014
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  • New donations, including real-paper-and-everything books, e-books, science journal databases, and more
  • New TWL coordinators, conference news, a new open-access journal database, summary of library-related WMF grants, and more
  • Spotlight: "Global Impact: The Wikipedia Library and Persian Wikipedia" - a Persian Wikipedia editor talks about their experiences with database access in Iran, writing on the Persian project and the JSTOR partnership

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    • Spiffy new project building on top of Wikidata: inventaire.io. Check out this example entry!
    • You will now see when a language fallback for a label is used on an item or property. The language name will be shown next to it.
    • Automatic descriptions for Wikidata items by Magnus
    • The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc) to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to be getting close.
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    • We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move queries forward in Berlin
    • Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering. This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia infoboxes.
    • Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only)
    • Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code with the parser functions
    • Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding the actual input and not very useful there
    • Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data
    • Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install Wikibase
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Books and Bytes - Issue 10[edit]

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Issue 10, January-February 2015
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  • New donations - ProjectMUSE, Dynamed, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Women Writers Online
  • New TWL coordinator, conference news, and a new guide and template for archivists
  • TWL moves into the new Community Engagement department at the WMF, quarterly review

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Viquimarató del Dia de la Dona / Editatón del Día de la Mujer[edit]

Last August we promised you some event in Spain during the Mont of Women's History. We've done three (or four, for the last one we just gave technical support), in Valencia, Valladolid and Madrid. We shared the Valencia event with the Amical, an association of Catalan-speaking Wikimedians.

A member of Wikimedia España and another of Amical explaining Wikimedia projects to a local journalist.

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Wikipedia Forum[edit]

Hello Netha, Is Wikipedia have any active forum that I can get answer fast? If so may I get the link? my talk page — Preceding undated comment added 05:14, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you![edit]

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The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015[edit]

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A new reference tool[edit]

Hello Books & Bytes subscribers. There is a new Visual Editor reference feature in development called Citoid. It is designed to "auto-fill" references using a URL or DOI. We would really appreciate you testing whether TWL partners' references work in Citoid. Sharing your results will help the developers fix bugs and improve the system. If you have a few minutes, please visit the testing page for simple instructions on how to try this new tool. Regards, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:47, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Books and Bytes - Issue 11[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 11, March-April 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - MIT Press Journals, Sage Stats, Hein Online and more
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    • Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
    • Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
    • Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
    • Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
    • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
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    • Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
    • Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
    • Improvements to calendar handling
    • More work on RDF export for query service
    • Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
    • Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
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The Signpost: 20 May 2015[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #159[edit]

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Wikimedia Hackathon 2015

The Signpost: 27 May 2015[edit]

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Wiki Loves Pride![edit]

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

  • What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
  • When? June 2015
  • How can you help?
    1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
    2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
    3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.


Thanks, and happy editing!

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The Signpost: 03 June 2015[edit]

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The Wikipedia Library needs you![edit]

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The Signpost: 10 June 2015[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #162[edit]

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The Signpost: 17 June 2015[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #163[edit]

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    • Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
    • Worked more on unit support
    • Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
    • Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
    • The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
    • The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
    • More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
    • Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
    • Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
    • Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
    • Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
    • Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
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The Signpost: 24 June 2015[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #164[edit]

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The Signpost: 01 July 2015[edit]

The New Indian Express profile (June 26)[edit]

Hi Netha, Your The New Indian Express profile was mentioned in the latest Signpost. So nice! Hope all is well with you, and I look forward to seeing you again at Wikimania!!! --Rosiestep (talk) 22:00, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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With only a couple hours per week, you can make a big difference for sharing knowledge. Please sign up and help us in one of these ways:

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Books and Bytes - Issue 12[edit]

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Issue 12, May-June 2015
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  • New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
  • Expansion into new languages, including French, Finnish, Turkish, and Farsi
  • Spotlight: New partners for the Visiting Scholar program
  • American Library Association Annual meeting in San Francisco

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The Signpost: 22 July 2015[edit]

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The Signpost: 29 July 2015[edit]

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The Signpost: 05 August 2015[edit]

Wikidata weekly summary #170[edit]

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    • Successful request for oversight rights: Sjoerddebruin
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Wikimedia UK is organizing a Wikidata training session. You can sign up here.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Talk pages on Wikidata can now be converted to use Flow. You can request migrating your talk page at d:Wikidata:Flow.
    • Mix-n-Match got a bunch of new catalogs for you to match up with Wikidata. Currently matching is happening at about 500 items per day. Pretty sweet :)
    • @happybirthdayauthors is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
    • Arbitrary access is rolling out to a large number of wikis over the next two weeks.
    • Duplicity can help you match up unlinked Wikipedia articles to a Wikidata item.
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks so they are easier to notice and understand
    • Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
    • The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
    • The number of entities loaded via the {{#property:…}} parser function and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be found below a page preview or within the Html of a page)
    • Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
    • Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects is not too high.
    • Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
    • Moved two extensions (Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to Gerrit. More will follow.
    • We'd like to drop a database table. Discussion is ongoing.
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The Signpost: 12 August 2015[edit]

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The Signpost: 19 August 2015[edit]

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The Signpost: 09 September 2015[edit]

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  • Special story: New toolkit on Photo Events documents best practices, strategies and more
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