User talk:Billinghurst/2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #39

 

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

• Development
  • Updates for selenium testenvironments (browsers, ruby, selenium-tools)
  • Extended tests for statements user interface
  • Refactored snakview user interface to handle other property-snak types than PropertyValueSnak
  • Layout improvements in the user interface
  • Several minor bugfixes in the user interface
  • Updated Vagrant for Wikidata
  • More work on AbuseFilter
  • Deployed new version of Wikibase and MediaWiki core to wikidata.org and test2.wikipedia (bugfixes - all Wikibase changes here)
  • Fix for bug 43595 which was seen on Wednesday during attempted deployment of the wmf7 version of MediaWiki core. Thanks Marius!
• Discussions/Press
  • Created prototypes for parsing coordinates and time in Wikidata that need feedback
  • Bureaucrat support requirements
  • Defining administrators
• Events
  • 29C3
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We’ve reached item ID 2.000.000
  • You can now enable the SitelinkCheck gadget in your preferences that makes it easier to check if a certain link is already in use in an existing item
• Open Tasks for You
  • Give feedback on prototypes for parsing time and coordinates
  • Help translate the client extension (especially to Hungarian in light of the upcoming deployment)
  • Hack on one of these

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Special Barnstar

Latest comment: 12 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

		The Special Barnstar
		Thank you for stopping me from those stupid behaviors. Makecat 03:30, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Oh dear. Not one ever sought. I do hope that we can find you a good spot to work. Chin up, and focus on good contributions. :-) — billinghurst sDrewth 08:21, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

User ZubacGleb

Latest comment: 12 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hello! I am a sysop on ro.wiki and I noticed that you have placed a global lock on the account of ZubacGleb, mentioning "spambot" as the reason. His contributions at ro.wiki do not seem to be like a bot. Could you please tell me some more details about the reason of this block? Thanks, Rsocol (talk) 19:01, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the contact, that is obviously an error on my behalf. I was working off a series of spambot account creations that pattern aligned through a short period of time. An account that originates in Europe and editing through an abused Canadian proxy through a methodology that has been exploited by spammers recently and pattern aligns is usually a really good indicator. I misfired on that one. I have unlocked the account. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:38, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Rsocol (talk) 07:00, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Timeline activation on the Swahili Wikipedia

Latest comment: 12 years ago5 comments2 people in discussion

Hello, Billinghurst/2013! I need your help on our Wikipedia regarding the timeline which I barely copied it from the English Wikipedia to Swahili Wikipedia. Regrettably, it's not working on ours. Please check the sw:Bob_Marley_&_The_Wailers where you could be able to find the problem on Wanachama paragraphy. The timeline does not working the same as the en:Bob_Marley_&_The_Wailers#Members English one. I was wondering if you could provide some technical details or clearing out the trouble by yourself.

With best regards,

Muddyb or,--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 09:20, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Your wiki would seem to not have mw:Extension:EasyTimeline installed, eg. as per Special:Version (compared with sw:Special:Version) You will need to seek the consensus of your wiki, and if the consensus is to install the extension, then to create a new bugzilla: request to have it done. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:07, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Wow, that was a fail. Don't answer questions late into the night. I have just repasted the text, and it works fine. [1]]. You will need to dig into mw:Extension:EasyTimeline to see if/how you can change the id of the components, or ask at the talk page of the extension. I don't know it that well. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:03, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

I have checked the site, however, was not so helpful to put it into my native language. Any idea how I could be able to change the script into multilingual? 'cause all I see is English on the timeline. Please! Oh, thank you though!--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 11:17, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

You will need use the talk page for the extension to ask questions. I am not up-to-date with the extension. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:30, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #40

 

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

• Development
  • Bene* developed a new tool to show existing or missing items for a given Wikipedia category
  • Selenium test-groups for (non)experimental features (bugzilla:43828)
  • Notification for IP edits that IP will be logged (bugzilla:42954)
  • Verified fix & added Selenium tests for broken error-reporting on label/description uniqueness constraint (bugzilla:43301)
  • Label-edit-button links to Special:SetLabel when JavaScript disabled (bugzilla:43814)
  • Updated PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Selenium, etc.. on internal test server and enabled APC + memcached
  • Work on AbuseFilter to make it work with Wikidata content (bugzilla:42064)
  • Implemented length constraint for labels, descriptions and aliases (configurable with a default of 2500 UTF8 characters)
  • Implementing a new mechanism for dispatching change notifications to client wikis
  • Worked more on how Wikidata changes are handled in the client watchlist (bugzilla:43124)
  • Some work went into using Solr for the search. Still very simple
  • Prepared improvements to our puppet files on labs
  • Worked on statements UI (snaktypes/references)
  • Fixed bugs in UI event handling of widgets
  • Put EntityId parsing code into a dedicated class
  • Finished EntityDiff cleanup
• Discussions/Press
  • Reworked inclusion syntax completely 1 2
  • Updates to time and space model
  • Is there a need for bureaucrats?
  • Planned improvement to the search field
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia is still planned for Monday (Jan 14th)
  • Jens writes a bit about Wikidata’s mascots
• Open Tasks for You
  • Give feedback on inclusion syntax draft version 3, the updated time and space model and the plans for improving the search field
  • Hack on one of these

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Re: User:COIBot/XWiki/foodexpert.pl

Latest comment: 12 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi. Thx for info, I've removed all links - it was hidden ads. LeinaD (t) 12:20, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Thx. Pretty much what I suspected. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:50, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

en:True Love (song)

Latest comment: 12 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Hello! Today you deleted in Russian article ru:True Love (песня) link to "Patsy Cline’s Recording Sessions — The Decca Years" cite because (you wrote) "rm fan site, non-encyclopaedic". Please do the same in English article (see title) too: I only translated it today on Russian (the whole content - text, links etc.). I don't know is it (what you did) correct or not (I'm not expert in Wiki-rules :) ) - I'm only "translate machine" :)) Oh! I found now the same "not-the-best" link in Norwegian article no:True Love (sang). Let's go to fight! :) I wish you success in your part of our common great Wiki-work! Алексей Густов (talk) 16:59, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

• Hi! It's me again ;) I found link to Patsy Cline's Showcase album at Discogs cite - http://www.discogs.com/Patsy-Cline-Showcase/master/170127 . It is "serious" resource I think - isn't it?.. So I put this link to my Russian article. Bye! Алексей Густов (talk) 17:41, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't doubt the information, I just don't find the source is authoritative to be a reference. Just because someone mentions it doesn't make it an authority. We should find a credible source for the information, eg. Decca records, or someone is a noted expert and has written about the matter, the person who wrote the FB page has obviously got it from somewhere. See en:Wikipedia:External links or ru:Википедия:Ссылки на источники — billinghurst sDrewth

More fecking ubiquity

Latest comment: 12 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

Just spammed en wb. Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:28, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Nice for 3mo. Not much else, but interesting at 67.58.96.0/20 — billinghurst sDrewth 11:33, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Hum - blocked the four accounts here - maybe they should be locked. One blocked elsewhere and I've just deleted and blocked no:wikt:Spesial:Blokker/Adanieves --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:42, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Yep, spambots at the wiktionaries. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:46, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #41

 

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

• Development
  • We are live on the Hungarian Wikipedia \o/
  • We have an intern for a week, Marius aka User:Hoo man. He’ll be working on the wizard for linking a new Wikipedia article to an existing item or creating a new item for it if none exists yet. (the first two stories here)
  • Refactored sites code to improve design
  • Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
  • Added lots of new Selenium tests
  • Changed AbuseFilter so Wikibase can hook into it
  • Implemented new change dispatcher script
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Working on combining successive changes to avoid watchlist clutter
  • Claims error handling (i.e. they now show error messages when needed)
  • Implemented initial version of Solr-based search for Wikidata in extension WikibaseSolr
  • Started investigating use of Lua/Scribunto for the Wikibase client
  • Updated the Wikidata Vagrant development machine
  • Improved the setup via puppet on Labs
• Discussions/Press
  • Latest updates on time and coordinate datatypes
  • Schedule for the reconfirmation of the first round of admins
  • RFC on en:wp about the transition to language links from Wikidata
  • Signpost, among others, covers the deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Congrats to our sister Wikivoyage on their official launch
  • There’s now a manual for using the Pywikipediabot on Wikidata
  • Deployed new code on wikidata.org
  • Community Portal got a rework
  • Tried to drop www from Wikidata URLs but that was more difficult than expected. Sorry for the issues it caused. We're working on resolving the remaining ones.
• Open Tasks for You
  • d:Wikidata:Press coverage needs some love and attention
  • Hack on one of these

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