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Facto Post – Issue 2 – 13 July 2017

Editorial: Core models and topics

Wikimedians interest themselves in everything under the sun — and then some. Discussion on "core topics" may, oddly, be a fringe activity, and was popular here a decade ago.

The situation on Wikidata today does resemble the halcyon days of 2006 of the English Misplaced Pages. The growth is there, and the reliability and stylistic issues are not yet pressing in on the project. Its Berlin conference at the end of October will have five years of achievement to celebrate. Think Wikimania Frankfurt 2005.

Progress must be made, however, on referencing "core facts". This has two parts: replacing "imported from Misplaced Pages" in referencing by external authorities; and picking out statements, such as dates and family relationships, that must not only be reliable but be seen to be reliable.

In addition, there are many properties on Wikidata lacking a clear data model. An emerging consensus may push to the front key sourcing and biomedical properties as requiring urgent attention. Wikidata's "manual of style" is currently distributed over thousands of discussions. To make it coalesce, work on such a core is needed.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).

Administrator changes

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I apologise if this is a form of canvassing but it is in my mind more like counselling. I eppreciate the support you have given to date and so I'm now crying on your shoulder about the current rash of AfDs targeting my bios. As is quite obvious my area of interest is a school and its alumni and staff. I have no commercial interest in the subject and even if my entries are of borderline notability they are not trivial or even controversial. I'm very tired of the attack by one suspicious contributor who has done this all before in 2007 under a different guise. What really distresses me is the following that person has of two or three editors who seem to delight in tearing me down. In one case, where the subject is the long dead head of another school, it all comes down to this erroneous belief that a headmaster has no notibilty on Misplaced Pages. As for the hatred of mayors, public servants, all national instructions, and Australian and Imperial honours I dispair. Sorry to bother you but I'm feeling battered, bruised and sorry for myself. On a practical level what can be done to at least have these deletion discussions listed in the right category. Thanks again. Castlemate (talk) 22:05, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

@Castlemate: To answer your last question first; see Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Deletion sorting. I'm sure this must be frustrating for you, and I do sympathise. Still, it seems likely that many of the articles will be kept. Any that are deleted can always be restyored, if and when new material, reinforcing their notability, comes to light. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:12, 7 December 2017 (UTC)


@Pigsonthewing: I really appreciate your clearheaded support as I am rattled. As of the latest comment on Aubrey Murphy (mayor) I now see 'more notable' has become a requirement. With Sandy Phillips we are now being asked to delete based on my arguments for delete. Castlemate (talk) 20:01, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

  • Having posted a photo of Murphy and the Queen today he has been deleted. I suppose the rationale for that will be "every MBE and mayor hangs out with the monarch". Now Sandy Phillips has gone. The administrator who has listed them in incorrect categories is the person who has closed them. Given the extraordinary personal attacks and institutional attacks I give up! Castlemate (talk) 07:18, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your support but I give up. The comments of the last few days suggest I am in the wrong community. I can't be bothered any more to deal with the attitude inherent in this attack. CheersCastlemate (talk) 18:48, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXL, December 2017

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Wikidata weekly summary #290

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Tech News: 2017-50

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17:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Pigsonthewing, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

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Facto Post – Issue 7 – 15 December 2017

A new bibliographical landscape

At the beginning of December, Wikidata items on individual scientific articles passed the 10 million mark. This figure contrasts with the state of play in early summer, when there were around half a million. In the big picture, Wikidata is now documenting the scientific literature at a rate that is about eight times as fast as papers are published. As 2017 ends, progress is quite evident.

Behind this achievement are a technical advance (fatameh), and bots that do the lifting. Much more than dry migration of metadata is potentially involved, however. If paper A cites paper B, both papers having an item, a link can be created on Wikidata, and the information presented to both human readers, and machines. This cross-linking is one of the most significant aspects of the scientific literature, and now a long-sought open version is rapidly being built up.

The effort for the lifting of copyright restrictions on citation data of this kind has had real momentum behind it during 2017. WikiCite and the I4OC have been pushing hard, with the result that on CrossRef over 50% of the citation data is open. Now the holdout publishers are being lobbied to release rights on citations.

But all that is just the beginning. Topics of papers are identified, authors disambiguated, with significant progress on the use of the four million ORCID IDs for researchers, and proposals formulated to identify methodology in a machine-readable way. P4510 on Wikidata has been introduced so that methodology can sit comfortably on items about papers.

More is on the way. OABot applies the unpaywall principle to Misplaced Pages referencing. It has been proposed that Wikidata could assist WorldCat in compiling the global history of book translation. Watch this space.

And make promoting #1lib1ref one of your New Year's resolutions. Happy holidays, all!

November 2017 map of geolocated Wikidata items, made by Addshore

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Wikidata weekly summary #291

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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    • Additional languages for monolingual values got approved by the language committee: ami (Amis), bnn (Bunun), fos (Siraya), ppu (Papora / Hoanya), pwn (Paiwan), pyu (Puyuma), ssf (Thao), trv (Seediq / Taroko), uun (Pazeh) (see gerrit:374052, phab:T144272)
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Project Life

Maybe we should start "WP:Project Life" so that we can add a flower onto the Talk page of every new article that doesn't involve any deaths? It all looks a bit juvenile, doesn't it? Martinevans123 (talk) 12:23, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

I'm concentrating now more on WP:Project Billy-no-mates, for dead decapitees (especially Argentine pirates, of course). Martinevans123 (talk) 23:08, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Precious
Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:11, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Martin, nice to see that the very day I picked a flower per month for a 2018 calender. friendly vision. - Andy, it's five years that you helped me, making me understand and joining me in missing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:11, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Coords precision

Six decimal positions is far too precise for this case, per WP:COORDPREC. Please self-revert. ―Mandruss  20:41, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Six DP is fine. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:49, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Berg operas

Template:Berg operas has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 18:45, 22 December 2017 (UTC)