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UK Wikimedian of the Year 2013/Nominations
The Wikimedia UK AGM will be held in June, and nominations for the UK Wikimedian of the Year are currently open. If there is someone who you feel has made an important contribution to the UK Wikimedia movement in the last year please go ahead and nominate them here by 09:00 (BST) on Monday 20th May at the latest. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 12:56, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Rock Drill
I gave the article the lead hook for prep area 2. Sorry for the bother this has caused you; I've had similar inconveniences when one of my DYKs had the hook changed for something that turned out to be a non-issue.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 17:41, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
- Many thanks. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:53, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Infobox university campus
just converted it, and used the microformats from {{infobox building}}, but may have made some errors. Frietjes (talk) 21:04, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
- Looks good to me. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:14, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
- another one with no microformats, {{Infobox Durham college}}, just converted to infobox. Frietjes (talk) 20:53, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #58
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Mentioned
Hello Pigsonthewing. An editor has complained about your actions at Misplaced Pages talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#Self deletion: is this subject to 3RR?. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 01:47, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
- But, typically didn't inform me. Given that I reverted him, twice, for a clear breach of our guidelines, and not more than three rimes, he seems to be in the wrong place. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:58, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
- Not informing you is surely a lapse on his part, but per WP:REFACTOR I don't see the basis for you twice moving his comment so it appears in a different thread. As the refactoring page says, "If another editor objects to refactoring then the changes should be reverted." If you want admins to look into the issue of canvassing, you know how to proceed. EdJohnston (talk) 12:46, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
- I didn't refactor his comment; I deleted a redundant subheading. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:26, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
- Not informing you is surely a lapse on his part, but per WP:REFACTOR I don't see the basis for you twice moving his comment so it appears in a different thread. As the refactoring page says, "If another editor objects to refactoring then the changes should be reverted." If you want admins to look into the issue of canvassing, you know how to proceed. EdJohnston (talk) 12:46, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Conversion of Geobox mountain and range
See WT:WikiProject Mountains#Conversion of Geobox mountain and range. —hike395 (talk) 21:54, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:12, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
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Training
This is the best training I have received about Misplaced Pages. Peter Robert Shirley (talk) 11:15, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Andy, not sure I will do this correctly because you left without giving me the tutorial material. I took me sometime to get here because I had not noticed I was in Wikimedia rather than Misplaced Pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Robert Shirley (talk • contribs) 13:02, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
ANI re your DR
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Talkback
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- That will be the extent of my involvement. Knock yourself out, but please stop removing line breaks that I leave between comments until a decision is made there. Walter Görlitz (talk) 21:17, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
My first posting
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Andy thanks for sorting out my posting, looks like I caused you a lot of work.
You might not see this because I am doing this on my iPad and I cannot work out how to do equals, it's on the button with two other characters, I cannot produce any of them! Neither can I see the tildes sign, but I have managed to avoid deleting those.
Peter Robert Shirley (talk) 21:20, 21 May 2013 (UTC) -->
- The additions were my pleasure; hope you like them. There is no need for equals signs in a talk page comment (they're for making headings, you'll recall), and there is a tool for "signing" with four tildes above or below the edit window. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:29, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue LXXXVI, May 2013
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Wagner
I just assumed it was accidental. No worries. Paul B (talk) 16:13, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Quiet afternoon in Burnley
I finally uploaded this video-- it made the 500 mile round trip worth while.
-- Clem Rutter (talk) 23:30, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
- Nice work. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:24, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Topic ban from TFA and candidate articles / Wagner article talk page
It has been brought to my attention that you are editing the Wagner article's talk page and have been since about 16 May, with it having been today's (or yesterday's) FA of the day. I would like to remind you of the year-old community imposed edit restriction on you editing the current FA and any scheduled ones upcoming .
Please stop, while I review the situation.
Were you aware during this editing of the upcoming TFA status of the article?
Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 00:14, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
- Further this - The scheduling seems to have been 13 May ( ), before you started editing the article, so it seems like you were drawn there by TFA related discussions, though if you have an alternate explanation I'm happy to discuss that with you. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 00:21, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
- As the diff you cite points out, and as you say above, I was enjoined to not edit the "FA of the day and any articles nominated or scheduled as FA of the day" (my emphasis). Despite the double-jeopardy and malicious nature of the ANI discussion which led to that, I have complied. Have you looked into the matter of live talk-page conversations being archived or hidden? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:38, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- (watching) I was pretty surprised that such a sort of ban can exist, but even more so that it should include talk pages. In German that is called "Redeverbot", and human rights are in question, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:25, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- As the diff you cite points out, and as you say above, I was enjoined to not edit the "FA of the day and any articles nominated or scheduled as FA of the day" (my emphasis). Despite the double-jeopardy and malicious nature of the ANI discussion which led to that, I have complied. Have you looked into the matter of live talk-page conversations being archived or hidden? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:38, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- Nobody has a right to participate here. And looking at the wording of the ban, I can certainly see how it could be interpreted to mean "don't go near TFA at all" as opposed to "don't edit TFA at all". But you're right that it's rare indeed for us to ban editors from talk pages as well as articles, and it's always best being explicit at the time of imposing such band if that's the case. I would firmly agree that Andy didn't think he was in violation of the ban here. GWH should certainly clarify the terms of the ban, though to be quite honest I reckon Andy should probably stop wasting his time with this horrid little part of the project entirely rather than trying to help in spite of his restrictions. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 09:47, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- More German: the manual archiving of the talk "spricht Bände" (don't know the English phrase), speeks loudly for itself. Something should be moved out of sight? I saw it and smiled. But then I didn't know automatic archiving was in place, and, had I known, I should have acted like you, Andy, to have the procedure "correct". - How that can be construed as a violation of a topic ban, better no comment. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:17, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
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Bach composition vs. Musical composition
New thoughts regarding infobox Bach composition vs. Musical composition, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:50, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Vasates Article
Andy, where did you source the box with the taxonomic information and the image which you put on the page? And ghave I done everything correctly here?
Peter Robert Shirley (talk) 09:26, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- See Misplaced Pages:Taxobox_usage for taxonomic boxes. I found the picture, elsewhere on the web. It was under an open licence so I was able to upload it to Wikimedia Commons. Everything's fine here, except you posted at the top of the page, not the bottom. Remember to use the "new section" tab to start talk page discussions. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:55, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
interwiki edit count
http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/tools/sulinfo.php?username=Pigsonthewing JackPotte (talk) 06:56, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #59
- Events/Press
- Linked Data in Business
- currently: Hackathon in Amsterdam
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- It is now possible to access data from Wikidata on the Wikipedias by using the property's label.
- The time datatype can now be tested on the demosystem and should become available on Wikidata next week.
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- Development
- A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
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- 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
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Script to convert images in image parameter in infoboxes
- Load AWB
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- Press OK.
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- Select "Category" in the Make list.
- Paste: Infobox book image param needs updating
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Sorrow (Van Gogh)
Dear Andy,
Thank you very much for your thorough explanation during the Amsterdam Hackathon last Friday! I've just started the translation of the Van Gogh article into Dutch you suggested, I intend to expand it later when I have the Van Gogh quotes in the original Dutch. Requests for translations on the Dutch wikipedia can be posted, e.g., here, or I can do it for you. Hope to see you again this afternoon, cheers, JMMuller (talk) 09:51, 26 May 2013 (UTC) PS On the Dutch wikipedia I am nl:Gebruiker:Hansmuller.
- That's great, thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:12, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Replacement keyboar
hi, you can get a replacement keyboard at www.ipmart.com/main/product/US,Laptop,Keyboard,Compatible,For,ACER,TM200,LENOVO,Y510,FUJITSU,M7400,BLACK,282518.php?prod=282518 --Vera (talk) 14:05, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Also, this is the best buy for a new laptop according to Tweakers.net last April. --Vera (talk) 14:14, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Incomplete DYK nomination
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Source Code
The image you put in Source Code is fair use for another article. Should we try to justify it or just remove it? We could try to contact the sculptor and add him to the list at http://commons.wikimedia.org/User:Canoe1967/Sculptors --Canoe1967 (talk) 22:35, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
- Meh. I usually avoid non-free images, but missed that that image was such. FoP restrictions suck. I've removed it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:52, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
- There are a bunch of images of it at commons. I mentioned this to admin. Some may be kept as de minimis and we may be able to include one. We can't crop de min images though. Help_talk:Contents#Images you may wish to chime in on to get us some better images.--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:34, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
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David MacGill
I have removed the speedy per IAR, as this was never meant to be a disambiguation page, it was originally a valid redirect which Boleyn (talk · contribs) converted without ever actually populating or explaining why. Regards, GiantSnowman 09:58, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
- Also hope my 'thanking' of your edit did not seem sarcastic, it was an accidental mis-click. GiantSnowman 11:42, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
- No problem. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:46, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
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