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Wikidata weekly summary #49

• • Development
  • Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
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  • Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
    • bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
    • bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
  • Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
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  • Implemented in-process caching for entities
  • Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
  • rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
  • Improved error reports from the API
  • Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
  • Added a table of content to item pages
  • Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Misplaced Pages
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About Kike San Martín

Hi The Banner. I have been looking at the references of Kike San Martín, done some small editions as well. So far, everything written seems to be true (except for the "branding" part, which frankly speaking I don't really understand what the concept is all about, and thence I cannot judge if it is stated in any of the references given). In short: yes, Kike San Martín is famous, and he has photographed lots of stars. Hope this helps! Regards, --Fadesga (talk) 13:24, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi, The Banner. Im the user Misty2011. Warmings Greetings from Miami, Florida, USA! I dont have a close connection with its subject. Im working as a journalist for The Miami Herald (spanish version) (newspaper) and after 20 years in the entertainment industry, you know 'everybody', any artist in Miami. Regards, no intention to "advertise" nothing in Misplaced Pages, never! I like to make contributions, articles and specially my photos with high definition. Im sorry if I caused any conflict, but it is not my style. Feel free to correct my article, but let me apollogize if I did something wrong. Thank you so much. --Misty2011 (talk) 14:37, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #50

• Development
  • Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
    • Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
    • Fixed the prev/next links in diff view (bugzilla:45821)
    • d:Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets you filter by language and entity type
  • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
  • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
  • Made it so that the “edit links” link on Misplaced Pages is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
  • Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
  • Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
  • Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the Wikipedias.
  • Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
  • Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
  • Support for multi-line references in diff view
  • Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
  • Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
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  • Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
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Michelin stars

You may want to have a look at this: Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of three Michelin starred restaurants in the United Kingdom. The user who created the nomination seems to have a secret list of Michelin star related articles he wants to delete which includes yours on the Netherlands and Ireland stars, and also someone is quoting your two star deletion discussion already in the arguments.

Obviously I'm not asking for you to go in and yell keep at the top of your lungs, because if this actually a copyright problem then we might as well fix it before either of us pile anymore work into the subject. But I thought you would want to know before he/she starts to use the arguments from this deletion discussion when they get around to requesting the deletion of your articles too. Miyagawa (talk) 18:02, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Even after a short look at it, I get a persistent sockpuppet smell in my nose... The Banner talk 18:59, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

My first guess for sockpuppets were the notorious anti-Michelin editors Pyrope and Jeremy43. But looking at their edits, this dirty trick seems way out of their habit. So I have deemed them unlikely candidates.

His opinion that my templates about Michelin restaurants in the Dutch provinces are copyvio, is quite hilarious. I like him to prove that! I have developed those (and the one about Ireland) completely by myself... The Banner talk 19:50, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

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Could you please stop deleting my contributions to the page "Dromoland Castle" and other pages.

I am getting somewhat exasperated of you deleting the information which I add to the page that is "Dromoland Castle", more specifically the section concerning famous guests who have stayed at the castle. Also, just as a note for your awareness, I am not a hotel marketer in any way; I am just a guest who has stayed at these hotels, and I believe that the material on these hotels Misplaced Pages pages are to a degree mediocre and are far from detailed enough. I add new information to these pages to make them more beneficial to the viewer, so that they can learn something interesting about the hotel, I am not trying to approach some kind of marketing strategy, like you have suggested, whatsoever. Of another note is the correctness of your punctuation, it is rather inadequate, my reason for editing the page also because, there is a clear negligence concerning the addition of a comma in between "Juan Carlos I of Spain" and "Nelson Mandela". In the future, I shall be appeased if you abstain from erasing the additional information that I bring to the page.

Many thanks,

B.R.E. Corkhill. — Preceding unsigned comment added by B.R.E. Corkhill (talk • contribs) 13:23, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Summerized: NO.

To be true, I take your request to "f**k off" as an alarm bell connected to a spam-alert. The Banner talk 15:32, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

I tried to put my point across in an intelligent manner, but however you reply in a polar opposite manner, an immature manner. Sorry, I wasn't aware that you own this site, and that no one else can contribute to Misplaced Pages but yourself. And, you have also shown that you don't just have poor punctuation but also poor vocabulary by using expletives, how refined of you. This is a free country, I can put whatever I want on this site, perhaps yourself would be better off in an un-free country, China for example. Maybe you should consider getting a proper job instead of surveying what people are doing on Misplaced Pages. The comments which I have placed on the "Dromoland Castle" page and other Misplaced Pages pages regarding hotels are based on first-hand and personal experiences of staying at these hotels on multiple occasions, what "experience" are your comments based on? B.R.E. Corkhill (talk) 15:53, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Instead of throwing in personal attacks, you could also read the comments on your talkpage and comments other people made on your edits. The Banner talk 16:21, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

your signature

FYI, your signature violates WP:SIG#NT. it would be great if you could make WP:BOTREQ to substitute all transclusions (or just substitute them by hand), and use a standard non-template signature in the future. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 15:17, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Working on it. Only started using in the 23th. The Banner talk 16:08, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the timely warning. As far as I know all the (luckily few) uses of the template are now reverted and the related pages referred to speedy deletion. It is an unfortunate situation, as on the Dutch WP the signature template is the preferred option over a long signature. I did not notice that it was plain illegal here. The Banner talk 16:27, 25 March 2013 (UTC)