Thanks Gerard.
I think concerning Wikidata, we should be fine, since all these articles
existed on the Russian Wikipedia before Wikidata was even created, and bots
must have moved there relevant information, but I will sample it.
Concerning the Africa project, I added quite some information to about a
half of the articles on districts in Mozambique several years ago, when
DrBlofield organized a writing competition on African topics at the English
Wikipedia. Since that, I never could find time to work on the other half.
May be now there is time. However, again, all these articles existed
already at the time, in the English, Spanish, and Portuguese Wikipedias,
and I assume that basic data is already on Wikidata. The coverage of
African physical geography is generally very poor as well, but, in contrast
to human geography, improving coverage probably requires a visit to a
library.
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 3:25 PM Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
Wonderful work congratulations .. I do appreciate your work, in my "Africa
project" I have a record for all the known administrative administrative
entities. It truly is a work in progress and it serves a few purposes.
- In Wikidata the links for the administrative entities exist and they
are linked to the one level higher up
- when the data is used in Listeria lists, the same list may be used for
multiple Wikipedias, serving multiple languages.
- it shows the known articles, the difference is straight or italic. It
is easiest to add names for the higher levels, they will then show in
the
local language properly
The problem with topics that are used a lot but have few devotees is that
it helps when lists like these are available. When you care to, I am happy
to help you set this up for Russia and have the info on more Wikipedias.
Thanks,
GerardM
PS there is a similar project for India
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 13:53, Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Now, what is making me happy this week is that
yesterday I completed the
first step of my long-term project at the English Wikipedia. I finished
creating articles on all district centers in Russia. Districts are the
second level administration divisions in Russia (the first level are
federal subjects), there are slightly less than two thousands of them.
District centers could be cities, urban-type settlements (urban
localities
toughly equivalent to towns in the UK), and rural
localities. When I
started, all articles on Russian towns were already there, but less than
a
half of urban-type settlements and rural
localities which are district
centers were redlinks. I started creating all of them more than a year
ago,
and yesterday I finished the last one remaining.
The articles I created
are
mainly stubs, with some minimal necessary
geographical information,
including population and coordinates, categories, templates etc.
Now I am back to the second step — filling these articles with
information.
This is also something I already started (in
fact, I started it the first
day I edited the English Wikipedia from my new account in 2011), and for
the time being I have completed writing articles on districts, district
centers, and urban localities in six (out of 83) federal subjects. This
is
something I am more proud of, a random example of
such an article is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezhetsky_District . The second step will
be
to bring the remaining articles to a comparable
level. Since this is not
the only thing I am doing on the English Wikipedia, I can easily imagine
it
could take ten years or more. So far nobody else
was interested in doing
this work along with me — which is not very surprising, because the
information exists mainly in Russian, and knowledge of Russian beyond the
Google Translate abilities is essential.
A spin-off project I came across and which had to be shelved for a year
was
to create articles about all Ukrainian urban
localities — I am almost
done
there, but last time I checked there were still
several dozen articles to
create. I will probably resume it now if there are still some left.
(And another thing I found recently is completely unrelated to the above
—
I just discovered that a lot of metro stations do
not have articles on
the
English Wikipedia, and a lot of those which have
do not cite any
sources. I
had some fun a couple of weeks ago creating
articles on stations of
Panama
Metro, and this week I added sources to the
articles on Prague Metro,
most
of which had zero sources previously).
I realize that many people on the list do not edit projects but edit them
occasionally, and probably do not care much about this obscure type of
the
articles, but I still think it is good not to
forget why we are here.
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:44 PM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Pictures from Armenia
-
This image
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Ararat_and_the_Araratian_plain_(cr…
,
which was the Picture of the Day for
English Wikipedia on 17
September,
shows Mount Ararat and the Araratian plain
seen early morning from
near
the
city of Artashat in Armenia. On the center left can be seen the
historic
Khor Virap monastery. The photo was taken by
User:Սէրուժ
<
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%D5%8D%D5%A7%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_Khor_Virap,_Armenia,_2016-10-…
of Khor Virap monastery
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_Khor_Virap,_Armenia,_2016-10-…
,
in a photo by User:Poco a poco
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Poco_a_poco>.
Other recent pictures of the day on English Wikipedia and Wikimedia
Commons
-
Schönbühel Castle (Schloss Schönbühel)
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schloss_Sch%C3%B6nb%C3%BChel_20180919.jpg
in Schönbühel-Aggsbach, Lower Austria, in a
photo by User:Uoaei1
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Uoaei1>
-
The Kiss (Der Kuß)
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Kiss_-_Gustav_Klimt_-_Google_Cultura…
,
a painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt.
The scan of the painting
was
made by the Google Art Project, and it was
uploaded to Wikimedia
Commons by User:Crisco
1492 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crisco_1492>.
-
Elizabeth L. Remba Gardner
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_L._Remba_Gardner,_Women%27s_Ai…
,
a member of the United States Women's
Airforce Service Pilots
(“WASPs”), in
a photo that was probably taken during World War II. The image was
uploaded
by User:Junkyardsparkle
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Junkyardsparkle>, and edited by
User:Hohum <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hohum> and
User:Bammesk
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bammesk>.
> -
>
> Cinnamon <
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cinnamomum_verum_spices.jpg>gt;:
> sticks (ceylon cinnamon from Sri Lanka), powder, and flowers.
Created
from
31 images stacked with CombineZP. The image was created by
User:LivingShadow <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LivingShadow
.
> -
>
> Fog in a valley in National Nature Park Synevir
> <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:21-224-5054_NNP_Synevyr_RB_18.jpg
,
Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, seen in a photo by User:Rbrechko
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rbrechko>.
Plans for code review office hours
WMF is considering reviving office hours for code review or events that
would serve a similar purpose. See
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-September/092565.html
.
Here is a demonstration of how to get Wikidata code review done
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:How_to_get_Wikidata_code_review_done.jpg
,
as photographed by Wikidata Product Manager
User:Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE)>.
Discovery of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2I/Borisov>
This comet is the second known interstellar object known to be observed
in
> our solar system. The comet was discovered by amateur astronomer
Gennadiy
> Vladimirovich Borisov
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennadiy_Vladimirovich_Borisov>
(Russian:
Генна́дий
Влади́мирович Бори́сов) in Crimea
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea>. The English Wikipedia article
regarding the comet was created by User:Kheider
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kheider> shortly after midnight on
11
> September 2019, which is on the same day as, and perhaps as soon as a
few
minutes
after, the publication of an article about the comet in the
popular
> astronomy magazine Sky & Telescope. A blurb regarding the comet was
> published on English Wikipedia's main page in the section "In the
news".
-
Animation of interstellar objects 2I/Borisov and ʻOumuamua
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_comparison_of_two_interstellar_objects…
> >.
> Click through to the file in order to see the gif animation that was
> created by User:Tony873004
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tony873004>.
> -
>
> ʻOumuamua is the small white dot in this photo
> <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A2017U1_5gsmoothWHT_enhanced.jpg>
that
was uploaded by User:Renerpho
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Renerpho> and later edited
by
User:Nagualgesign <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nagualdesign
> >.
>
>
>
> Wiktionary humor
>
> The Wiktionary Word of the Day for International Talk Like a Pirate Day
> 2019 was “yo-ho-ho <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yo-ho-ho>”.
>
>
> Wikiquotes
>
>
> "History is full of stories, full of triumph and tragedy and battles
won
and lost.
It is the people who speak to me, the men and women who once
lived and loved and dreamed and grieved, just as we do. Though some may
have had crowns on their heads or blood on their hands, in the end they
were not so different from you and me, and therein lies their
fascination.
> I suppose I am still a believer in the now unfashionable "heroic"
school,
> which says that history is shaped by
individual men and women and the
> choices that they make, by deeds glorious and terrible."
>
> — George R. R. Martin <
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin
,
author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels that was
the
> basis for the television series Game of Thrones
>
> "Yes; as the music changes,
>
> Like a prismatic glass,
>
> It takes the light and ranges
>
> Through all the moods that pass;
>
> Dissects the common carnival
>
> Of passions and regrets,
>
> And gives the world a glimpse of all
>
> The colours it forgets."
>
> — Writer Alfred Noyes <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Noyes> of
> England, in his poem "The Barrel-Organ"
>
>
> Closing comments
>
>
> *The Signpost*'s schedule for this month calls for the end of writing
of
> contributions on September 29th, and this
week's WMYHTW was extensive,
so
for both
of those reasons my contribution to next week's WMYHTW will be
relatively short.
Translations of the subject line of this email would be appreciated on
Meta
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations>.
Thanks
to
> User:Sigma'am <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sigma%27am> for
the
Armenian
translation.
What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any
language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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