Pictures from Armenia
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This image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Ararat_and_the_Araratian_plain_(cropped).jpg, 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 . - Closer view https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_Khor_Virap,_Armenia,_2016-10-01,_DD_25.jpg of Khor Virap monastery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_Khor_Virap,_Armenia,_2016-10-01,_DD_25.jpg, 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
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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_Cultural_Institute.jpg, 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_Airforce_Service_Pilots,_NARA-542191.jpg, 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: 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".
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Animation of interstellar objects 2I/Borisov and ʻOumuamua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_comparison_of_two_interstellar_objects_passing_through_our_solar_system.gif. 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.
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@gmail.com wrote:
Pictures from Armenia
This image < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Ararat_and_the_Araratian_plain_(cro...
,
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
.
- Closer view
< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_Khor_Virap,_Armenia,_2016-10-0...
of Khor Virap monastery < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_Khor_Virap,_Armenia,_2016-10-0...
,
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_Cultural...
,
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_Air...
,
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%3E: 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.
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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@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@gmail.com wrote:
Pictures from Armenia
This image <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Ararat_and_the_Araratian_plain_(cro...
,
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
.
- Closer view
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_Khor_Virap,_Armenia,_2016-10-0...
of Khor Virap monastery <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_Khor_Virap,_Armenia,_2016-10-0...
,
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_Cultural...
,
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_Air...
,
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%3E: 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.
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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@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@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@gmail.com wrote:
Pictures from Armenia
This image <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Ararat_and_the_Araratian_plain_(cro...
,
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
.
- Closer view
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_Khor_Virap,_Armenia,_2016-10-0...
of Khor Virap monastery <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_Khor_Virap,_Armenia,_2016-10-0...
,
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_Cultural...
,
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_Air...
,
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%3E: 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%3E
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.
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