Wikidata weekly summary #530
Tech News: 2022-30
19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 August 2022
- From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something
- News and notes: Information considered harmful
- In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
- Op-Ed: The "recession" affair
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)
- Community view: Youth culture and notability
- Opinion: Criminals among us
- Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement
- Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country
- Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us
- Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists
- Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
- On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
- Essay: How to research an image
- Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
- Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia
- Gallery: A backstage pass
- From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
Wikidata weekly summary #531
Tech News: 2022-31
21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
- Valereee
- Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara
- An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
- An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.
- The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
- Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)
- The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.
- You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
- Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
- Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.
Wikidata weekly summary #532
Tech News: 2022-32
19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: July 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #533
Tech News: 2022-33
21:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
NY Times obit feed
Hello, I noticed that your NY Times obit feed hasn’t updated in a few days. It has been a great tool for me. I regularly make articles for red linked individuals on it. Thriley (talk) 13:18, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Thriley: Thanks for letting me know, I'll look into it. Good to hear that it's being used! :-) There's also User:Mike Peel/Guardian obits in case that's useful. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:48, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Thriley: All fixed, it was struggling with the 'novalue' for birth date at Kamoya Kimeu (Q1395025). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:59, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #534
Tech News: 2022-34
00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Hi Mike. I hope this finds you well. Please could you assist me with an image deletion?
(1) I have accidentally uploaded a too-large image to the above non-free image file. The first upload needs to be deleted (the second upload in the file is OK). Please delete that first image for me?
(2) I have never quite discovered the exact max permissible size for a non-free thumbnail image (so I just look at it and guess). Please could you kindly tell me what is the max permissible size?
Thank you. Storye book (talk) 13:57, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Storye book: The guidance is at Wikipedia:Non-free_content#Image_resolution - around 100,000 pixels is normally OK. So here, 212*232 = 49,184 is fine, while 428*464 = 198,592 is a bit too much. I've deleted the old version now. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 06:50, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
- Fantastic, that's a great help. Thank you. And thank you for deleting the oversized one. Storye book (talk) 08:36, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:32, 26 August 2022 (UTC)