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Welcome to my talk page. Archives can be found ]. Welcome to my talk page. Archives can be found ].


== A cheeseburger for you! ==
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Hi. You've been ]. Should you ever return or choose to not be listed, feel free to remove your name from the list. <span class="nowrap" style="font-family:copperplate gothic light;">] (])</span> 01:22, 9 January 2015 (UTC)


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::Nice to know you are not!! :) '']'' (]) 09:55, 9 January, 2015 (UTC) |style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | You are the best admin ] (]) 07:41, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

:::Thanks. Good to see you're still here too, Antonio. ] (]) 11:42, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

== Your article has been nominated for deletion (again) ==

See ]. ] ] 17:42, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
:It would be useful if you could verify if your preference for deletion still stands, so we know whether ] is relevant. ] (]) 10:52, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

== ALUG ==
Dear Angela, since it is hard to contact you why you do not DELETE ALL the pages previous created ?
Including you. That would be an advantage.
My page created was for history since it was the first Linux User Group abroad Finland, the first big Debugging group for hardware and Software. The First Linux UserGroup in Antwerp who helped Linus Torvalds in the first years before firms came into the picture.
Thanks for Deleting this wonderfull historic info!!!
I have still a lot of historic info but since you like to delete I must save my info to the local Archive not consultative via internet !
Congratulations....

Patrick.Op de Beeck at gmail, Linux Pioneer, Chairman of ALUG till 2005

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== Award — Platinum Star ==

Hi Angela. I recently returned to Misplaced Pages after an 8-year hibernation ... only to find that you don't seem to be much around these days. But for all the work you did for so many years, I want to award you the Platinum Star. I was going to put it on your user page, but I'll respect your privacy there:-)

{{Master Editor II}} ] (]) 14:43, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

:Thanks, David! I'll add it ]. ] (]) 09:59, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 2 – 13 July 2017 ==

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===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.

===Links===
*] project pages on Wikidata, including a SPARQL library (in development).
* for adding items on scientific papers to Wikidata, by ]. It has made a big recent impact. Offline for maintenance as we go to press, it is expected back soon.
*] A personal ] library acts as an intermediary in managing and storing citation metadata.
*]. This is a good monthly round-up to follow, and welcomes contributions.
*''Exciting and Impressive!'' The ] (I4OC) was launched in April: .
*Olivia Solon in San Francisco, , opinion piece in ''The Guardian'' on 11 July.


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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 3 – 11 August 2017 ==

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===Wikimania report===
Interviewed by ''Facto Post'' at the hackathon, ] of Wikidata said that the most significant recent development is that Wikidata now accounts for one third of Wikimedia edits. And the essential growth of human editing.
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Impressive development work on ] featured in the WikiMedFoundation annual conference on Thursday. Hardware is ], running Linux and the ] browser. It can operate as a wifi hotspot and support a local intranet in parts of the world lacking phone signal. The medical use case is for those delivering care, who have smartphones but have to function in clinics in just such areas with few reference resources. Misplaced Pages medical content can be served to their phones, and power supplied by standard lithium battery packages.

Yesterday ] unveiled the draft ], featuring a picturesque metaphor, "roads, bridges and villages". Here "bridges" could do with illustration. Perhaps it stands for engineering round or over the obstacles to progress down the obvious highways. Internet-in-a-Box would then do fine as an example.

] explains a take on that same metaphor, with its human component. If you are at Wikimania, come talk to ] at its stall in the Community Village, just by the 3D-printed display for ]; come hear {{noping|T Arrow}} talk at 3 pm today in Drummond West, Level 3.

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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 4 – 18 September 2017 ==

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===Editorial: Conservation data===
The of 14 September led with a threat to North American ]s. The ] produces authoritative species listings that are peer-reviewed. Examples used as ]s for loss of species and ], and , are the usual topics covered in the media to inform us about this area. But actual data matters.
]'', a critically endangered South American herb, contained in '']'', the family of figs and mulberries]]
Clearly, conservation work depends on decisions about what should be done, and where. While animals, particularly mammals, are photogenic, species numbers run into millions. Plant species lie at the base of typical land-based food chains, and vegetation is key to the habitats of most animals.

ContentMine dictionaries, for example as tabulated at ], enable detailed control of queries about endangered species, in their taxonomic context. To target conservation measures properly, species listings running into the thousands are not what is needed: range maps showing current distribution are. Between the will to act, and effective steps taken, the services of data handling are required. There is now no reason at all why Wikidata should not take up the burden.

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==Chortle==
Hi Angela, I'd like to recreate ] as a page about the comedy website. I wanted to check with you first though as you previously ] in 2006. My thinking is that the publishing environment has changed in the years since. Chortle is now nearly 20 years old and is the recognised comedy website of record for the UK. It runs the ] (which might be a candidate to merge into the recreated page) and is a vital part of the British arts media infrastructure. It is particularly active during the ] (which is where my interest comes in - I'm working on expanding that topic). The current page redirects to ] but most of the pages that link to it are actually attempting to reference the website. Would you have any objections to me recreating the page? ] (]) 17:05, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
:Hi ]. I don't think I was involved in that deletion. You'd need to see whether it meets ]. ] (]) 06:36, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
::Sorry, Angela, my mistake. It looks like you deleted an earlier version of the page which had little content. That discussion is from later the same year. It definitely now meets ] in my view. I will go ahead and recreate with suitable commentary on the talk page. Thanks. ] (]) 09:06, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

== I'm being harassed by editor EddieHugh, please help me..... ==

Hello Misplaced Pages Administrator,

I've been trying for days now to reason with an editor. He's obsessed with removing my actual fact history as one of the premier saxophonist in Jazz. Two previous editors approved my article ] almost a year ago now. EddieHugh has come and attempted to delete most of my actual fact history with over 100 citations in the article as evidence. My talk page is filled with my attempts to reason with him and resolve without issue. But, I need the help of an authority as soon as possible. I sincerely thank you for your time. ] (]) 00:31, 15 October 2017 (UTC) ] (]) 00:31, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

:Angela, you can read all about it at ], plus bits at ] and ]. There's also an ongoing case at ]. ] (]) 10:20, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
::FYI the same note was placed on several other user talk pages. I took it seriously and penned a long, kind reply. You need not bother. The user has been indeffed, for good reason. --] (]) 02:33, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 5 – 17 October 2017 ==

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===Editorial: Annotations===
Annotation is nothing new. The ]s of medieval Europe annotated between the lines, or in the margins of legal manuscripts of texts going back to Roman times, and created a new discipline. In the form of ], the idea is back, with texts being marked up inline, or with a . Where could it lead?
] from the 13th century]]
operates in the field of ] (TDM), where annotation, simply put, can add value to mined text. It now sees annotation as a possible advance in ''semi-automation'', the use of human judgement assisted by bot editing, which now plays a large part in Wikidata tools. While a human judgement call of yes/no, on the addition of a statement to Wikidata, is usually taken as decisive, it need not be. The human assent may be passed into an annotation system, and stored: this idea is standard on Wikisource, for example, where text is considered "validated" only when two different accounts have stated that the proof-reading is correct. A typical application would be to require more than one person to agree that what is said in the reference translates correctly into the formal Wikidata statement. Rejections are also potentially useful to record, for machine learning.

As a contribution to data integrity on Wikidata, annotation has much to offer. Some "hard cases" on importing data are much more difficult than average. There are for example biographical puzzles: whether person A in one context is really identical with person B, of the same name, in another context. In science, clinical medicine require special attention to sourcing (]), and is challenging in terms of connecting findings with the methodology employed. Currently decisions in areas such as these, on Misplaced Pages and Wikidata, are often made ''ad hoc''. In particular there may be no audit trail for those who want to check what is decided.

Annotations are subject to a , and behind the terminology constitute a simple JSON data structure. What ] proposes to do with them is to implement the MEDRS guideline, as a formal algorithm, on bibliographical and methodological data. The structure will integrate with those inputs the human decisions on the interpretation of scientific papers that underlie claims on Wikidata. What is added to Wikidata will therefore be supported by a transparent and rigorous system that documents decisions.

An example of the possible future scope of annotation, for medical content, is in the first link below. That sort of detailed abstract of a publication can be a target for TDM, adds great value, and could be presented in machine-readable form. <u>''You are invited''</u> to discuss the ], via its ].

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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 6 – 15 November 2017 ==

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===WikidataCon Berlin 28–9 October 2017===
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And so it went, with five strands of talks and workshops, through to 11 pm on Saturday. Wikidata applies to GLAM work via ]. It may be used in education, raises issues such as author disambiguation, and lends itself to different types of graphical display and reuse. Many millions of ] queries are run on the site every day. Over the summer a large open science bibliography has come into existence there.

Wikidata's fifth birthday party on the Sunday brought matters to a close. See ].

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You are the best admin Robertrumson943 (talk) 07:41, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello Angela, hope you're well.  — Amakuru (talk) 23:40, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

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