User talk:Billinghurst

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Hello dear Mr. Billinghurst,

I've noticed that you took away my userboxes. However, let me explain my intentions. I'm active on several Wikimedia projects, including ENWB and commons (hopefully the ban on ENWP, which I consider unjustified, will soon be lifted), and my current userpage is transcluded to all these projects. It would cause considerable trouble to update each one of these, so that I prefer to have it transcluded automatically. Given my engagement at Wikibooks, you'll notice that I don't have a lot of time. --Mathmensch (talk) 13:52, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

By the way, I also study mathematics, which is very time-consuming too. --Mathmensch (talk) 13:53, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

@Mathmensch: Do as you please (within reasonable practice and civility) using {{userbox}} on your user page. Please do not start proliferating meta with userbox templates and categories.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:32, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Please return to me the source code of the userboxes, so that I don't have to create anything anew. --Mathmensch (talk) 06:35, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #306

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

• Events
  • Talk by Morane Gruenpeter and Katherine Thornton, presented at LibrePlanet 2018 about software metadata in Software Heritage and Wikidata. Video of the talk. Slides for the talk.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools by Sandra Fauconnier on WMF's blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • if you're working with Lua modules, you can give input here about new functions
  • you can still fill this page if you encounter a problem with suggester ranking

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: National Governors Association biography URL, key press, number of clubs, analog or derivative of, in opposition to
    • External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID, World Para Snowboard athlete ID, METAR code, Orthodox Encyclopedia ID, Amphibians of India ID, National Thesis Number (France)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: maximum operating temperature, minimum operating temperature, maximum non-operating temperature, minimum non-operating temperature, Специальное звание или классный чин, member of the crew of, service life, Gens, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System, Wikipedia glossary entry, assistant director, choral conductor, lighting designer, sound designer, projection designer, video designer, stage crew member, number of representations, talk show guest, adaptation or arrangement of, revival or touring version of
    • External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Identifier of object at prazdnedomy.cz, Digital Typhoon ID, Territographie ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Researchmap ID, OpenEdition Books ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Animated Knots ID
  • Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
    • Spider Ontology ID (P4537), has listed ingredient (P4543), sexually homologous with (P4545), Everyone Remembered ID (P4551), ICRC PoW ID (P4554), SNCZI-IPE dam ID (P4558), Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID (P4564), electoral district number (P4565), awarded for period (P4566), BPH journal ID (P4569)
  • Deleted properties: P1124 (teu), P3484 (name shares origin with), P4990 (Statistics Canada Geographic code)
  • Query examples:
    • Most common title of paintings in English
    • Timeline for German author Heinrich Mann (source)
    • Density in kilograms per cubicmeter for books (source)
    • Books by weight (source)
    • Train stations in the UK (source)
    • Map of megaliths in Portugal and Spain (source)
  • Newest database reports: pilot and first episodes of television series

• Development
  • Work on a script to generate MassMessage target lists (phab:T190812)
  • Test validity of Wikidata IDs in Lua modules (phab:T143970)
  • Rename Lua functions in old naming scheme (phab:T190382)
  • More work on wb_terms table (phab:T188992)
  • More work on logging autopatrol actions (phab:T184485)
  • Include checksums in dumps (phab:T190457)
  • Add mobile edits to Grafana (phab:T191111)
  • Allowing to remove a Form from a Lexeme (phab:T173332)
  • Fixing bugs on Lexemes (phab:T189185)
  • Checking permissions for actions on Lexemes

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12:20, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

A blacklist question if I may

Hi Billinghurst.

Sorry. I have been away from wiki for a while.

I refer to this.

The bot inserted template at the top of the article Froggatt Awards states that it is globally blocked ? Is the template wrong ? Where do I look to see why it was locally blocked so that I can proceed further ?

Regards.

Aoziwe (talk) 06:57, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

@Aoziwe: the addition of the domain to the blacklist was reversed due to the negative consequences, then other, though less efficient, means were implemented to manage the spambot abuse.  — billinghurst sDrewth 07:58, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks - I hope what I have done here is okay then ? Aoziwe (talk) 08:17, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #307

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

• Events
  • Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th
  • Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
  • Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
  • Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Some improvements have been made on the search results
  • The administrative territorial entities of the Ottoman Empire are now largely complete. They include the elayets, vilayets and their sanjaks.
  • A new version of Denelezh, a tool to monitor the gender gap in Wikidata, has been released, including a new methodology to produce the data (explained at the top of the main page and in the documentation), and an overview of the gender gap by Wikimedia project.
  • Items now contain an average of 9 statements.
  • Item Q2937606, created 5 years ago, got its first statement
  • New tool: The property explorer sorts and displays properties per category (developed by Stevenliuyi based on a suggestion from Micru)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wikimedia project focus list, complies with, special rank, last update, test taken, test score, activity policy in this place, choral conductor, gens, lighting designer, number of representations, sound designer
    • External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Territographie ID, Prazdne Domy building ID, Welsh Rugby Union women's player ID, Welsh Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Digital Typhoon typhoon ID, Digital Typhoon cyclone ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System (Taiwan)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: majority opinion, KMC Heritage Building Grade, accreditation, Number of spoilt votes, Number of blank votes, Number of abstentions, greater than (2), subdomain URL, International Classification for Standards, Wind speed, Wikimedia outline, list combines topics
    • External identifiers: Authorea Author ID, Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, FOGIS ID, Behind the voice Actors character ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Harvard designation, Yahoo Answers category, UMAC ID, Internet Adult Film Database film ID, Adult Film Database film ID
  • Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
    • Berlinische Galerie artist ID (P4580), Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID (P4582), Argentinian Historic Heritage ID (P4587), National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID (P4591), Mountain Project ID (P4592), arXiv author ID (P4594), post town (P4595), NIOSH Publication Number (P4596), monomer of (P4599), Lives of WWI ID (P4601)
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of weather satellites (source)
    • Map with lighthouses all over the world (source)
    • Number of articles about humans by gender on Welsh Wikipedia (source)
    • List of French rivers with different names and SANDRE ids on Sophox (SPARQL endpoint querying OpenStreetMap and Wikidata) (source)

• Development
  • Differences between range constraints now work only if both properties are present (phab:T185480)
  • Work on a new constraint unit which defines which units are alowed for a given property (phab:T164372)
  • Make the Special:ConstraintReport easier to understand (phab:T188728)
  • Work on a Lua function which checks if an item is a subclass of or instance of another item (phab:T179155)
  • Started deleting old autopatrolled from the loggin table (phab:T190447, phab:T184791)
  • More work on setting up permissions for Lexeme (phab:T189480)
  • Fixing a bug about removing the last Lemma (phab:T189185)
  • Disabling the possibility to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:02, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

question

hi.how are you. is that template valid?--مصعب (talk) 14:49, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

@مصعب: You are seeing a "my" language page where there is no translation, so the English language (default) shows through. Feel free to follow the link above the template to put in the language of interest.  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:55, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

thanks. the purpose of my question is to make sure this template is useful because i don't see it different than this one --مصعب (talk) 15:06, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

No idea. Better to ask at Meta:Babel, as it is way too late for any lucid thought from me..  — billinghurst sDrewth 15:13, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

aha. Is that means that "my" is abbreviation like "ar" for arabic? thanks for answer --مصعب (talk) 15:16, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Yes, compared with Template:StrategyButton/ar and all the other existing variations at special:prefixindex/Template:StrategyButton.  — billinghurst sDrewth 21:57, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks and request

I removed comments I made about that drama not relevant to here. I just have one request. A banned Wikipedia editor whose website is blacklisted for harassment is misusing his user-page on this wiki as traffic to that website. His name is Rome Viharo. His only edits on this wiki was creating a userpage to influence google searches of his name so his website is advertised. The website Wikipedia we have a problem is blacklisted by Wikipedia, it doxes and attacks Wikipedia & RationalWiki editors. I'm a sysop from the latter and we have an article on Rome Viharo that documents more about his harassment against Wikipedians. It's not appropriate he misuses this wiki for traffic to his website.Largewarhammer (talk) 12:35, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

The page itself is no different from hundreds or thousands of others. In itself I have no scope to delete it.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:41, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Final request

I'm no longer posting here, but have a final request. Can you delete User:Abd/LTA/Anglo_Pyramidologist/User_data this and [User_talk:Abd/LTA/Anglo_Pyramidologist this]. The user Abd was recently globally banned by the WMF for harassment, as part of that he was creating LTA "studies" filled with misinformation on another user. Those separate articles were taken down, but he has two "user-data" links still up that still links to the edits; someone else recently blanked them complaining, but they should be completely deleted. Abd deceptively is linking to this on his blog still since there are still edits on that page if you view the history, as well as it comes up on a google search. Is there any chance these [here] and [User:Abd/LTA/Anglo_Pyramidologist/User_data this link] can be deleted completely?Largewarhammer (talk) 15:08, 14 April 2018 (UTC)