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ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (source)
Development
Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (phabricator:T134259)
EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
thanks a lot for your review of Ellen Dijkhuis. I agree that it was quite similar to the text found on http://www.ellendijkhuis.nl/over/ .
I have changed the text a lot by adding new information. The new version of the article adds value by having information which is new. The style of languange has been improved, too. I hope you accept this version.
Kind regards
Fuji —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fuji2014 (talk • contribs) 20:55, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Mduvekot,
nearly a month has passed since I wrote on your talk page. Could you please comment on my previous post? Thanks a lot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fuji2014 (talk • contribs) 20:46, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello Fuji2014 I'm not sure what you expect me to do at this point. Mduvekot (talk) 02:50, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi Mduvekot,
thanks a lot for your review of Ellen Dijkhuis. I agree that it was quite similar to the text found on http://www.ellendijkhuis.nl/over/ .
I have changed the text a lot by adding new information. The new version of the article adds value by having information which is new. The style of languange has been improved, too. I hope you accept this version.
Kind regards
Fuji —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fuji2014 (talk • contribs) 20:55, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Mduvekot,
nearly a month has passed since I wrote on your talk page. Could you please comment on my previous post? Thanks a lot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fuji2014 (talk • contribs) 20:46, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello Fuji2014 I'm not sure what you expect me to do at this point. Mduvekot (talk) 02:50, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (phabricator:T89663)
Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (phabricator:T127056 and gerrit:294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long, medium, short
Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (phabricator:T138974)
Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (phabricator:T139284)
For appearing out of nowhere to add a publications list to Andrew Dutkewych that helped swing one editor's vote, and which will likely help to ensure a keep closure. HappyValleyEditor (talk) 00:07, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (phabricator:T89663)
Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (phabricator:T127056 and gerrit:294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long, medium, short
Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (phabricator:T138974)
Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (phabricator:T139284)
For appearing out of nowhere to add a publications list to Andrew Dutkewych that helped swing one editor's vote, and which will likely help to ensure a keep closure. HappyValleyEditor (talk) 00:07, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
I would seriously hug you for the Dutkewych publications list, if you were here right now.HappyValleyEditor (talk) 20:00, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Wow, thanks HappyValleyEditor. It's actually fairly straightforward to create a bibliography. I use Zotero and worldcat to generate them. Zotero has a function Export Items… > Wikipedia templates that I use to create the wikitext. All the best, Mduvekot (talk) 01:14, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
Thank you, that is excellent advice! I noticed we have identical votes at many AfD's, I think we have the same sensibilities in contemporary art. Hope to see you around again, and if you come across anything that needs more eyes, let me know on my talk page.HappyValleyEditor (talk) 01:47, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
Greetings Mduvekot:
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Hi, I noticed you marked the article Nieuwkerken-Waas as reviewed while adding a lead, which was indeed missing. However, I'd like to just note that the article also lacked categories and was not linked to the Wikidata item. I don't know whether you usually check for that, but I think it would be better to do so if you're marking a page as reviewed. Regards, SPQRobin (talk) 22:45, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
You are quite right, I forgot to check for both in this instance. Thanks for the reminder. Mduvekot (talk) 12:24, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Working on an infographic to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (phabricator:T107595)
Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (phabricator:T139509)
Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137115)
Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (phabricator:T133973)
Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (phabricator:T138413)