User talk:Billinghurst

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I am now proud owner of a TUSC account!

Re: SBHandler

I had it enabled in gadgets, but I forgot to use it. I did remember to add it to the log, but I guess I didn't realize you needed to write {{removed}} (etc.). In the future, I'll remember to use the gadget. PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:24, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

The only way to stop me is to globally block my IP range! I know how to change it whenever I want! HAHAHAHA!! >:D

Blah blah blah <zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz> Too hard to actually be useful? ... to do something positive with your life? Any idiot can be a vandal. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:29, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #57

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Development
  • Implemented basic editing of Time values
  • Worked on advanced editing of Time values (having a preview, defining precision and calendar model while editing the value)
  • Work on RDF mapping/export
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Solving issues with WMF Jenkins
  • Migrating Selenium test from RSpec to Cucumber
• Events/Press
  • Interview on dradio.de
  • PHP Unconference Europe 2013
  • PHP Days 1013 Berlin
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
• Discussions
  • RfC: Bureaucrats' role in removal of permissions
  • RfC: Disambiguation pages guidelines
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Blog post by Magnus Manske about the Wikidata tool ecosystem
  • New mailing list for discussion of development of Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ISO 4217, CBDB ID, ORCID, country of origin, ICD-10, ICD-9, OMIM ID, orbit diagram, provisional designation (astronomy), currency symbol description, chairperson, Unicode character, MeSH ID, archives at, IMA Number
  • Newest task forces: Baseball
• Open Tasks for You
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Request for your help in connection with a problem @ Hindi WP Embassy

Hello. I am writing to you on behalf of a Tamil Wikipedian who could not log into Hindi Wikipedia due to some technical glitch. I've suggested one or two solutions but that didn't transform into a workable solution. I request you to either directly help in solving this problem or please refer this to a person who can be of some help. Thanks in advance. Regards, Hindustanilanguage (talk) 10:24, 12 May 2013 (UTC).

Thank you very much! for your speedy intervention. Hindustanilanguage (talk) 13:21, 12 May 2013 (UTC).

IPBE through your rangeblock??

en:User talk:Blackgaia02 has been caught in your rangeblock of IP 112.207.35.0/24. Although not entirely in good standing (currently on a "last chance" unblock after edit-warring) this is a long-serving user, and is unlikely to be the target of your rangeblock since that is aimed at a spambot. Do you have any objection if I give the user IPBE? JohnCD (talk) 08:09, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, ignore this, I have just read the note at the head of this page. I will ask at Steward requests/Global permissions. JohnCD (talk) 08:19, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Having read that page, it seems it is for global permissions, and being local this request would be referred back to en:wp admins, i.e. me. So I have gone ahead and granted IPBE. If that was the wrong thing to do, please let me know; otherwise, forget it, and apologies for bothering you. JohnCD (talk) 08:48, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Gday. Asking for comment is totally okay, I am more trying to have stewards' requests filed, seen and documented in that place, not tucked away in my archives. The block is definitely not aimed at your person, it is very specifically aimed at spambots, I found 20+ at two wikis. You have done exactly as we would have wanted. If there is improvements that we can make to our documentation, or suggestions that we can make to enWP's, that feedback would be fantastic. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:53, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #58

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • What should be done with the property stable Version?
  • Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
  • The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata
• Events/Press
  • A lot of Wikidata-related submissions have been accepted for Wikimania
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
  • upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Amsterdam
  • upcoming: Linked Data in Business
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • d:Help:Lua is now the place for all things Lua on Wikidata
  • Item d:Q13000000 is Devarakonda, a village in India.
  • The geographic relation "exclave of" is the property with the ID 500.
  • English Wikipedia discussion closes allowing for use of Wikidata
  • Template to display a tree based in Wikidata data
  • Deployed new bugfixes on wikidata.org including a fix for pages not being added to the watchlist automatically plus the first version of the RDF exort
  • The ability to include data using the property label is planned to be deployed on English Wikipedia on Monday and all others on Wednesday (You can then for example use {{#property:logo image}} in addition to {{#property:P154}}.)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: exclave of, enclave within, HURDAT identifier, ISO standard, home port, general manager, ISO 15924, Swedish county code, BNFC Thesaurus, cause of death, brother-in-law (sister's husband), honorific prefix, academic degree, birth name, interleaves with, state, phase, powerplant, interaction, part concerned, armament, scheduled service destination, type of orbit, temporal range start, temporal range end, Swedish municipality code, located on island, consists of
  • {{Property|123}} can be used on Wikidata to get the label of the given property (P123) in the readers language. {{label|Q123}} does the same for items.
• Development
  • Simplified the inclusion syntax (this is one way how you access data from Wikidata in a Wikipedia article - the other one is via Lua)
  • Result of the external codebase review has been published
  • Worked on implementation of editable time values in frontend
  • Selenium tests for false edit-conflicts and old-revision-view
  • Jenkins setup improvements
  • Made many improvements to the unit test configuration and bootstrapping code in Ask, Diff, DataValues, WikibaseQueryEngine and WikibaseDatabase
  • Automatic class loading based on PSR-0 convention in Ask, Diff and WikibaseQueryEngine
  • Added new array comparison code and started work on merging diffs together in Diff
  • Progress on the SQLStore
  • Improved many unit tests by removing unneeded dependencies they had
  • Bug fixing
  • Made property parser function code more robust
  • Worked on EntityPerPage rebuild script, to enable it to run for Wikidata to fill in missing entities in the wb_entity_per_page table
  • Making the Settings system more robust, preparing split of client and repo settings
  • Work on RDF mapping and serialization
  • Work on content negotiation for Special:EntityData
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Determine statements to add to Wikidata based on Wikipedia categories
  • Map a Wikipedia infobox to Wikidata properties (advanced sample)
  • Select a rarely used property and add values to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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User:Kolega2357/global2.js

Please delete. --Kolega2357 (talk) 12:17, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Done generally admins will pick it up when tagged, no need to prod anyone unless it is urgent. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:31, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the alert about spam on te.wikipedia. I have initiated a corrective action--Arjunaraoc (talk) 10:10, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #59

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• 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.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: catalog code (P528), runway (P529), diplomatic relation (P530), diplomatic mission sent (P531), diplomatic mission sent (P531), port of registry (P532), target (P533), streak color (P534), Find a Grave (P535), ATP id (P536), twinning (P537), fracturing (P538), Museofile (P539)
  • Newest task forces: Ship task force
  • d:Template:Constraint:Item allows to check if items using a given property also have other properties. To find items to fix, it links to one of Magnus' tools and to a daily report. Sample: items with property mother should also have main type (GND) with value person.
• Development
  • A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
  • Worked on content negotiation for the RDF export
  • 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
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add statements to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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stopforumspam.com blacklist

Hello, if you find the list useful can you please update the manual at mw:Manual:Combating spam#$wgProxyList? There are very varying opinions on its effectiveness: most claim it's completely useless and a waste of CPU (Dantman, Thingles, others) but we have no clear indication about it. --Nemo 08:43, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

I am not sure that I can speak to it as part of an automated function as a 'binary spam prevention switch', all I can speak to is its usefulness as an information source as complementary and independent reference. My comment to the mailing list was a wish to see it as part of a Bayesian approach. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:47, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Trusted on huwiki

Hello, for this request on huwiki you've got the Trusted/confirmed user bit (Megerősített szerkesztői jog), see here. Best regards, --ELVe (talk) 10:36, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your community's kind consideration of my edits. Appreciated. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:44, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #60

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press
  • Deutschlandfunk interview about Wikipedia, Wikidata and more
  • Hackathon in Amsterdam
  • Linked Data in Business
  • Upcoming: Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
  • Upcoming: SemTechBiz
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The time datatype is now available allowing you to enter dates in Wikidata (this also includes a short rundown of what the developers are going to work on next)
  • 5 students are working on projects related to Wikidata as part of Google Summer of Code 2013
  • prototype of a multilingual map using Wikidata
  • Many Wikimedia wikis got a new account creation and login page - among them Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: venue (P540), office contested (P541), officially opened by (P542), oath made by (P543), torch lit by (P545), docking port (P546), commemorates (P547), version type (P548), MGP ID (P549), chivalric order (P550), residence (P551), handedness (P552), social media account on (P553), social media address (P554), doubles record (P555), crystal system (P556), DiseasesDB (P557), unit symbol (P558), terminus (P559), direction (P560), NATO reporting name (P561), central bank/issuer (P562), ICD-O (P563), singles record (P564), crystal habit (P565)
  • Newest task forces: Tennis task force, Taxonomy task force, Iranian Persian task force, Medicine task force
• Development
  • Made good progress on moving the sitelinks on Wikidata too when a page on Wikipedia is moved (bugzilla:36729 - currently the bug with most votes)
  • Fixed some bugs in the time value user interface
  • Worked on coordinate value support
  • Worked together with Wikimedia Foundation ops staff on Apache configuration changes to enable “pretty urls” for item pages. (e.g. https://en.wikidata.org/wiki/New_York_City goes to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60 in the future)
  • Added MediaWiki setting wgLogAutopatrol to allow wikis the option to disable logging of autopatrol actions
  • Improved EntityPerPage rebuild script, which is needed to fix the situation where some Wikipedia articles can't access data from Wikidata (bugzilla:48506)
  • Fixed bug in SetQualifiers API module; Moved both SetQualifiers and RemoveQualifiers out of experimental mode
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Your message??

Hi, I saw your message, and I saw that you counted my global request as "Not Done" after your talk with Vituzzu. I don't know if you know exactly what the situation was or how it happened, I wasn't vandalizing in those pages and the whole thing was my fault for not making myself clear. I actually reached an agreement with Administrators in es.wiki, en.wiki and it.wiki if Vituzzu actually told you about that, and as you said, I can totally guarantee you that I will never do the mistakes I did. I appreciate you trying to protect Wikipedia and being honest in what you are doing, but I don't think that you know exactly how the whole thing started. (68.33.8.192 21:06, 2 June 2013 (UTC))

checkuser request

Can you please reply at Steward_requests/Checkuser#Lia_2013.40hy.wikipedia. I'd like to get an answer either way, whether you are denying the request or performing it and giving a result. Thanks. ― Teak (talk) 20:53, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

IP block

Hello. My current IP (204.12.217.234) is blocked by you (Cross-wiki spam: spambot: http://whois.domaintools.com/204.12.234.122). However I have to use this IP to bypass the en:Great Firewall of China to edit on zhwiki and other wikis. Could you please change the block to anonymous only? Or should I request for global IP block exempt? Regards, --Stevenliuyi (talk) 12:10, 5 June 2013 (UTC)