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Welcome to Wikidata, Bill william compton!

Wikidata is a free knowledge base that you can edit! It can be read and edited by humans and machines alike and you can go to any item page now and add to this ever-growing database!

Need some help getting started? Here are some pages you can familarise yourself with:

If you have any questions, please ask me on my talk page. If you want to try out editing, you can use the sandbox to try. Once again, welcome, and I hope you quickly feel comfortable here, and become an active editor for Wikidata.

Best regards, --Ajraddatz (talk) 14:14, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hindi page

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Please have a look here. Also invite others please. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 17:58, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you're interested

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I made {{Rfd group}} a while back for situations where a bunch of items need to be deleted for the same reason; there's a button to use it at the top of the RFD page. If you prefer to do it the way you've been doing, that's fine, of course, and keep up the good work! But I thought I'd let you know about that, since some people find it more convenient. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 02:55, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think I'll be using it much. I patrol new pages and open many tabs. I don't move on to next item before reviewing the current one. So, there's no way for me to know whether I'll be clicking on [Mark this page as patrolled] or Request deletion.--Bill william compton (talk) 15:59, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sponge

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Hi. Why did you change the label "sponge" to "Sponge"? It's not a proper noun. If in doubt, see Help:Labels. - Soulkeeper (talk) 18:14, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I was in impression that titling is done alike Wikipedia. Thanks for the clarification!--18:21, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Q2419334

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Hi Bill :)

Please double-check before reverting good edits: most IPs are good contributors ;-)

Thanks for all your work on Wikidata, best regards — Arkanosis ✉ 22:21, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I usually do. It was an honest mistake. Je m'en souviendrais la prochaine fois.--Bill william compton (talk) 00:27, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #48

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User talk:Vanischenu

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Thanks for welcoming me :) You have got new replies there···Vanischenu「mc|Talk」 18:20, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Q4648296

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This must be linked to Q6659106. How to do it? --Drajay1976 (talk) 18:24, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've merged Q6659106 with Q4648296. There cannot be two items for a same subject. Cheers.--Bill william compton (talk) 18:32, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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For example Rated R (Rihanna album) article has a link to Armenian article (Հայերեն), however the Armenian article does not have any interwikis. How can we enable wikidata interwikis on that Armenian article?

Thanks, -Սահակ (talk) 02:53, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done. Many times a link to Wikidata appears if you click on 'edit'. If it does, then save the artcile without doing anything; link to Wikidata shall be enabled.--Bill william compton (talk) 04:54, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]


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Hello Bill..

Question from a new user... Regarding duplicate data..

RDF, and object oriented programming languages in general, have the concept of referring to an object, so many entities can share the same data.

But as I see it in Wikidata, you have an entity (ie: United States of America), and it has a list of States. Currently, it seems that data is part and parcel of that entity. So, if you have another entity that needs a list of States, it has to have its own.

It seems the latter is how Wikidata works, yes? If so, why? Wouldn't the RDF way be better?

(Not that you had any say in the matter, I'd just like your opinion..)

Thank you in advance,

Haxwell (talk) 19:58, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #49

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    • Development
    • Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
    • More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia
    • More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia)
    • Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
      • bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
      • bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
    • Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
    • Selenium tests for multiline references
    • Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client
    • Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox
    • Selenium tests for language-table
    • Implemented in-process caching for entities
    • Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
    • rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
    • Improved error reports from the API
    • Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
    • Added a table of content to item pages
    • Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia
    • Finished implementation of References-UI
    • Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript
    • Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information
    • Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation
    • Minor bugfixes in Statements-UI
    • More work on RDF export
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  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language
    • Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page
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Wikidata weekly summary #50

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  • Development
    • Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
      • Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
      • Fixed the prev/next links in diff view (bugzilla:45821)
      • d:Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets you filter by language and entity type
    • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
    • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
    • Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
    • Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
    • Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
    • Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the Wikipedias.
    • Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
    • Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
    • Support for multi-line references in diff view
    • Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
    • Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
    • Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and visibility of bad dependencies
    • Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • 3rd Media Web Symposium 2013
    • Wikidata trifft Archäologie
    • SMWCon Spring NYC
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse. “Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but it is unknown to us.
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Wikidata weekly summary #51

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  • Development
    • The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their articles (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at it:Torino)
    • Worked on automatic summaries for statements
    • Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of {{#property:p169}} for example
    • Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.)
    • Selenium tests for qualifiers
    • Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
    • Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • Newline 2013
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that.
    • Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed!
    • Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri!
    • We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis
    • We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful.
    • In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you.
    • We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at bugzilla:44228
    • Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: bugzilla:46461
    • Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? This is for you
    • The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again. At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted.
    • Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata
    • Wikidata was added to wikipulse
    • A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set
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    • See note at the end of this weekly summary
    • Help test qualifiers (m:Wikidata/Notes/Data model primer#Qualifiers - see also example statements there) on the test wiki so we can roll it out with the next release
    • Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!)
    • Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label?
    • Hack on one of these

Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk)

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Deletion

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Hi, Bill. Could you please delete [3] ? Takabeg (talk) 05:03, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Deleted --Bill william compton (talk) 05:17, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Bill william compton. The Danish Wikipedia has an article called da:F-35 Lightning II covering both the "Joint Strike Fighter program" and "Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II". Is it possible to hyperlink in Wikidata? If someone looks at the English en:Joint Strike Fighter program, clicks "Edit links", lands on d:Joint Strike Fighter program without finding a Danish Interwiki, it could be useful. A kind of notice that the Danish article covering "Joint Strike Fighter" is found at d:Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. --Necessary Evil (talk) 10:45, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's impossible to link two different items on Wikidata. What is the major subject of F-35 Lightning II article? If it is Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, then the article should only be linked with it.--Bill william compton (talk) 13:53, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
It could be useful if d:Squadron (disambiguation) had links to d:Squadron (army), d:Squadron (naval) and d:Squadron (aviation). It worked in the 'Summary' text [4] --Necessary Evil (talk) 00:25, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #52

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  • Development
    • The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
    • Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
    • Worked on improving recent changes code in client
    • Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
    • Implemented string formatter
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
    • There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
    • There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
    • We hit Q10000000
    • A Wikidata item in the wild ;-)
  • Did you know?
  • Open Tasks for You

Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.

Q7603429

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This needs to be deleted as the correct page to which the malayalam article must be added is Q228564. --Drajay1976 (talk) 06:21, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Deleted. Such requests can be made at WD:RFD. Regards.Bill william compton (talk) 11:16, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #53

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  • Development
    • Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
    • Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
    • Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
    • Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
    • Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
    • Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
  • Events/Press
    • right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
  • Discussions
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
    • Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
    • There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
    • If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
    • There is a new user right: property creators
    • There is now a page to request deletion of a property
    • We now have Bureaucrats
    • Reasonator was improved and extended (1 2)
  • Open Tasks for You

Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.

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Got one for you

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Hey Bill. Mind checking out Talk:Q3938? Given the nature of the item and a shaky Google translation it looks unrelated to me, but, as I said, the translation was shaky, so I'd appreciate if you could take a look. I'll be in and out of cyberspace the next day or so, so no "finders keepers" on this one; feel free to delete it yourself if it's indeed a test page. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 05:34, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It was indeed a test page. Regards.--Bill william compton (talk) 11:26, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #54

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  • Development
    • Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
    • wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (bugzilla:45005)
    • Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (bugzilla:45140)
    • Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
    • Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
    • Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
    • Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
    • Work on the storage code for answering queries
  • Events/Press
    • GLAM-WIKI 2013
    • upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
    • upcoming: Opensource Treffen
    • upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
  • Discussions
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Open Tasks for You
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Wikidata weekly summary #59

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  • Events/Press
    • Linked Data in Business
    • currently: Hackathon in Amsterdam
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: catalog code (P528), runway (P529), diplomatic relation (P530), diplomatic mission sent (P531), diplomatic mission sent (P531), port of registry (P532), target (P533), streak color (P534), Find a Grave (P535), ATP id (P536), twinning (P537), fracturing (P538), Museofile (P539)
    • Newest task forces: Ship task force
    • d:Template:Constraint:Item allows to check if items using a given property also have other properties. To find items to fix, it links to one of Magnus' tools and to a daily report. Sample: items with property mother should also have main type (GND) with value person.
  • Development
    • A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
    • Worked on content negotiation for the RDF export
    • Bugfixing for editing of time datatype
    • Added validation in the api for claim guids. This also resolves bug 48473, an exception being thrown in production, whenever a bot or api user requested a claim with an invalid claim guid
    • Improved error message popup bubbles to show HTML and parse the links correctly
    • Fixed bug 48679, to hide the view source tab for item and property pages
    • Testing on Diff extension and SQLstore
  • Open Tasks for You

Wikidata weekly summary #60

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Wikidata weekly summary #63

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  • Discussions
  • Events/Press
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
  • Development
    • Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
    • Further work on input validation
    • Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
    • Use Serializers for generating API results
    • Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
    • Changed globe coordinate value input to use backend coordinate parser
    • Fixed issues with data type definitions not being available in the frontend
    • Wrote a little hack so that on statements with a long list of values you will always be able to see the name of the property of the current section you are in (since the label moves when scrolling the page)
  • Open Tasks for You

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Wikidata weekly summary #71

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  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
    • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
    • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
    • Newest task forces: Physics task force
    • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
  • Development
    • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
    • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
    • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
    • Started improving API and Special Page tests
    • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
    • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
    • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
    • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
    • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
    • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
    • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
    • Hack on one of these.
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  • Discussions
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Average edits per page is nearly 5 now.
    • Wikivoyage is still scheduled to get access to data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on August 26.
    • Developers are working hard to also make the URL datatype available by August 26 but there are factors that are not in their hands so it might have to be delayed until the next deployment in 2 weeks. URL as a datatype will soon be available on test.wikidata.org. Please give it some thorough testing and report bugs.
    • Outsch! (Help collect and fix paper cuts.)
  • Did you know?
    • 20 undescribed monsters
    • Newest properties: separated from (P807), code Bien de Interés Cultural (P808), WPDA id (P809), academic minor (P811), academic major (P812), date retrieved (P813), IUCN protected areas category (P814), ITIS TSN (P815), decays to (P816), decay mode (P817)
  • Development
    • Prepared deployment of phase 2 on Wikivoyage
    • Worked on ability to sort qualifiers and references inside a statement
    • Started work on an api module to merge items
    • Worked on special page to query for items with one specific property and value
    • Cleaned up code for handling recent change entries from Wikidata in the clients (Wikipedia/Wikivoyage)
    • Worked on generic script for populating sites table and better integration with WMF process for creating new wikis
    • Setup new git repo for WikibaseMobile skin and extension
    • Fixed SetClaim api module to properly mark bot edits in recent changes and advised pywikipedia maintainers about adding support for the module. SetClaim can be used to create claims with references in a single edit.
    • Reviewed code for Google Summer of Code students
    • Updated doxygen documentation
  • Open Tasks for You
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    • Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
    • Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
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Hi Bill. I'm just going through the list of items linking to the disambiguation page Male (Q360210). I came across several items where you have linked this instead of male (Q6581097) (e.g. Harry Fidler (Q15131843), Y. Radhakrishnamurthy (Q15132653), Harry Hosier (Q15131840)). Such mistakes can happen, and in this case it's not tragic at all, as it's easy to fix and that task I'm doing has to be done anyway (because it's a common type of vandalism to replace someone's sex). However, if you're mixing up items here, you may do so elsewhere, too, and maybe those other cases are not that obvious. So I'd like to remind you to check whether you are linking the right item, in order not to create junk data. That said, I want to thank you for your work for Wikidata, and wish you a nice day. --YMS (talk) 13:01, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi YMS, the problem is that many times drop-down list selects an item so quickly that I don't get a chance to select the right one. However, it happens very rarely. I always give my utmost attention when I link the items, and am kind of surprised that I've done something like that. Thanks for your message, I'll be more careful in future. — Bill william comptonTalk 10:20, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Undid your revert

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I undid your revert here https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1361&diff=93645747&oldid=93578027

The ISO 3166-2 code (P300) IN-AP belongs to the Indian state Andhra Pradesh (Q1159) and not the city Hyderabad (Q1361), see en:ISO_3166-2:IN.

--Zuphilip (talk) 10:52, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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    • See the FOSDEM slides
    • Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
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    • More work on badges by Bene*
    • Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
    • Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
    • Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
    • Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
    • Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
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    • Wrote performance tests so we can track performance improvements better
    • Did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default in Wikidata. Found and fixed a performance bottleneck.
    • Work on making the interface more responsive, e. g. live preview when editing labels and updating the watchlist star when saving.
    • Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
    • Fixed an issue with OAuth on Wikidata because of permissions
    • Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
    • Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
    • Did a technical debt analysis and design review of Wikibase.git, with initial focus on WikibaseLib
    • Got (backend) EntityStore on the way, so we can test API modules without touching the database
    • Further work on TimeParsers move to the backend
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    • Continued making the UI faster
    • Fixed Wikidata changes not showing up in the watchlist on the client (Wikipedia, etc.) (bugzilla:62149)
    • Decided to turn off the inoperable wikidata.org language subdomains for now to reduce confusion
    • Created initial version of Wikibase Internal Serialization component
    • wbEntity and wbUsedEntities JavaScript variables are now cached in the parser cache
    • Ongoing refactoring to get rid of the previously used numeric ID numbers in favor of prefixed IDs
    • Made wbsearchentities aware of previously unquoted percent characters
    • Put some time into fixing longstanding oddities that made the developers cry from time to time
    • Worked on reducing internal usage of EntityContent, in preparation for redirect support
    • Worked on performance issues with JSON dump generation (hopefully we can start generating dumps soon)
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    • 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)
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Wikidata Help

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Hi Bill, I wish to contribute for Wikidata, Please guide me from where i can start. I started with Wikidata:Tours, but the link for "Start with the first tutorial" at https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q16943273&tour=wbitems is not working.( !dea4u  09:15, 19 November 2014 (UTC))[reply]

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Hi after Wikidata:Requests for comment/Redirect vs. deletion passed, merged items should not be deleted anymore. Please make a redirect in future, thanks! :) --Stryn (talk) 13:01, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello,

As Jasper Deng seems to have forgotten it last month, I hereby regretfully inform you that, in accordance with Wikidata:Administrators#Losing adminship and as a result of your inactivity, administrator rights have been removed from your account. Please see Wikidata:Requests for comment/Defining inactivity for details. Kind regards, Vogone (talk) 00:19, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

68.100.166.227

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Please ban this vandal Special:Contributions/68.100.166.227. --Esetok (talk) 05:32, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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