Wikidata weekly summary #417
May
Did you know that we run a list of people for whose life we are thankful enough to improve their articles? - I have a FAC open, one of Monteverdi's exceptional works, in memory of Brian who passed me his collected sources. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:08, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
DYK ... that on Good Friday 2020, Benedikt Kristjánsson sang all roles in a chamber arrangement of Bach's St John Passion, broadcast live from the composer's burial place? - listen --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:08, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
today a composer pictured who wrote a triple concerto for violin, harp and double bass, in honour of the composer who died and my brother who plays double bass. - No problem with that person's infobox, - it depends on who writes an article, but never say "own" ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:19, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
Australian Wool Board. Wool as a major industry. Your quite incomprehensible behaviour
You can't see any pictures on Commons that relate to the board. The board existed to try to sell wool when synthetics began to take over. You seem to belong to a group of blind admins with an interest in categories. Marcocapelle finds it so impossible to comprehend what any of it is about. It needs to be up his nose or something! Until 50 or 60 years ago it involved one of the world's major industries, clothing people and keeping them warm. From the beginning of time. Today wool to your coterie is insignificant and unworthy of anything but a passing mention. Your statement indicates your extremely limited view of your world. Am I angry. YES ! Eddaido (talk) 09:13, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Eddaido: Please calm down. My interest here is in cleaning up the links between Wikipedia and Commons. I have nothing against the topic of this article: it just doesn't make sense to me for it to link to commons:Category:Wool but not to wool here. Looking around, I see British Wool Marketing Board links to it in the first sentence, perhaps that could be done here too? If there is any freely licensed media files about the Australian Wool Board, perhaps they could be uploaded to Commons and then we could have a Commons category for the board? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:27, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).
- CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth
- Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL
- A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
- The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.
- A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on
articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland
. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.
- A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on
Wikidata weekly summary #418
"Template:Infobox World Heritage Site/Wikidata" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Template:Infobox World Heritage Site/Wikidata. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 7#Template:Infobox World Heritage Site/Wikidata until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:04, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #419
This Month in GLAM: May 2020
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DYK for Galcerán Bridge
On 11 June 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Galcerán Bridge, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the railings on Santa Cruz de Tenerife's Galcerán Bridge were replaced in 1954 to reduce the number of suicides? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Galcerán Bridge. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Galcerán Bridge), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #420
Wikidata weekly summary #421
Commons category
Hi Mike, I would like to kindly suggest that you revert this change [1] It is not an improvement, because numerous writers of the Serbian litearture were not born in Serbia, such as Jovan Dučić, Aleksa Šantić, Svetozar Ćorović, Vladan Desnica, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Milan Milišić, Ivo Andrić etc. Therefore - the category is a bit misleading. ty -- Sadkσ (talk is cheap) 21:27, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Sadko: Done. I would suggest renaming the article to indicate that it is about the literature in the language rather than from the country. Does Category:Serbian literature also cover the literature in Serbian or is that about the country? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:37, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
- The Wiki article is Serbian literature, as far as I can see, and the description is good. We also have Category:Literature of Serbia. Maybe it would be good to make "Literature of Serbia" a subcategory? Sadkσ (talk is cheap) 21:50, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
Commons category link in Emilio Lopez Zamora dam
Hi Mike, thanks for improving my Emilio Lopez Zamora dam article. Just for my own knowledge, was the commons category link misplaced because it wasn't exactly about the article (link was about dams in Mexico)? Or was it literally in the wrong place in the article? Or maybe there was another reason. Your help is very much appreciated! Alan Islas (talk) 23:50, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Alan Islas: Because it wasn't about the article, the positioning was good. In this case it was actually straightforward to create a new category, so commons:Category:Emilio Lopez Zamora Dam now exists, and I've added back the commons category link to the article. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:05, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
- Oh ok, I tried to fit it into the closest existing category. Next time I will create the appropriate one. Thank you! --Alan Islas (talk) 14:08, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 June 2020
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Correction of a Link (lower case to upper case)
Hi there, Need some help. Can you help me to make "Mohamed_wisham" to "Mohamed_Wisham" in the url. (letter 'w' to be made "W")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_wisham
Thanks Existance 21:28, 28 June 2020 (UTC)