Re: [Wikidata-l] next 2 rounds of arbitrary access coming up

2015-05-19 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hi Egon, The main use of the codes is to test it in the Wikidata sandbox or in the user sandboxes. Other usage is so far I know not implemented. The basic reason for that is that there is no consensus about the usage of Wikidata data in templates on the Dutch Wikipedia. The usage of properties

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata for Wiktionary

2015-05-08 Thread Romaine Wiki
I personally am waiting for Meta to be added. Romaine 2015-05-07 14:08 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk: On 7 May 2015 at 11:57, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: Let's focus on Commons, OpenStreetMap, queries, arbitrary access, new datatypes? OSM in what

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata for Wiktionary

2015-05-08 Thread Romaine Wiki
Only for some templates, project pages and categories. The only way it makes sense to link to an article of Wiktionary is when someone wants to look up what a word can mean. Romaine 2015-05-07 14:56 GMT+02:00 Yair Rand yyairr...@gmail.com: Task 1 as described on the proposal page isn't

[Wikidata-l] Can we make this item a featured one?

2015-05-06 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hi all, Can we expand this item in such way that this can be a featured item: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q267877 ? What properties can be added to make this sufficient to feature? I think the subject is excellent for this as it is a worldwide food. Thanks! Romaine

Re: [Wikidata-l] Using Special:Unconnected Pages? Please read.

2015-04-29 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hi Lydia, The Dutch community (on the Dutch Wikipedia) had a voting in which was decided to get rid of all the interwikis on articles, categories, templates, project pages and help pages. The moving or removal of all interwikis has been completed a few days ago, with what we have tried to fix all

Re: [Wikidata-l] External identifiers vs. Wikidata-internal links data

2015-04-07 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hi Lydia, If a separate section is needed for identifiers, I do not care. From the user perspective point of view my question would be what happens when a user tries to add an identifier in the statements section instead of the identifiers section? Besides users are used to add identifier

Re: [Wikidata-l] Please help test next step for header redesign

2015-03-14 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hi Lydia, Perhaps it is for many users handy to have the collapsible option, but I personally like to know and I hope that I can disable the collapsible option in my .css. Otherwise it would be unhandy for those users who speak multiple languages and edit in multiple languages and do want to see

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

2015-03-10 Thread Romaine Wiki
Maybe we should ask the question how many translations already are in OpenStreetMap that can be used/added to Wikidata? Romaine 2015-03-10 14:31 GMT+01:00 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il: Hi, [ Aude and Christian Consonni, this should especially interest you. ] I was throwing

[Wikidata-l] Impossible to add interwiki links

2015-01-28 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hi all, Again, for already so many times, many users have complained on nl-wiki that it is for them impossible now to add interwikilinks on Wikidata. They are sick of all the changes all the time, especially if they experience the new design as impossible to use, as it now is. They are lost with

Re: [Wikidata-l] Users do understand Wikidata less than before

2014-10-12 Thread Romaine Wiki
you say it is a high priority. Romaine 2014-10-12 8:39 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de: On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 4:01 AM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: For more than a year I am asking users to add their articles to Wikidata when they have written

Re: [Wikidata-l] Users do understand Wikidata less than before

2014-10-11 Thread Romaine Wiki
, many reasons. Flourishing users and editors are one of the most important communities to nurture, as I see it. How best to help users understand wikidata? Scott On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: For more than a year I am asking users to add

Re: [Wikidata-l] Re-enable quick editing in Wikidata please

2014-10-10 Thread Romaine Wiki
seen all the huha around Flow and the visual editor. I loathed the way people bullied their opinion on everybody else. PLEASE let us not go that way with Wikidata. Thanks, GerardM On 10 October 2014 04:20, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry Lydia, but I can't read

Re: [Wikidata-l] Re-enable quick editing in Wikidata please

2014-10-09 Thread Romaine Wiki
this not working situation? Thanks! Romaine 2014-10-09 9:27 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Recently Wikidata was changed which caused it much more work for especially power users

Re: [Wikidata-l] Re-enable quick editing in Wikidata please

2014-10-09 Thread Romaine Wiki
the workflow of users is restored to a workable situation? Romaine 2014-10-09 18:08 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lydia, I can understand that it is not restored back in the previous

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] badges support on Wikidata

2014-08-19 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hello Lydia, I wrote a text with explanation, why, what, where, etc to inform the Dutch community about the long wanted change at: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_kroeg#Vooraankondiging:_Verhuizing_ster-icoontjes_in_interwikilijst_naar_Wikidata Another short announcement is placed at:

Re: [Wikidata-l] Time for some selfies!

2014-07-06 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hello all! Today we had a Wikinic [1] in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Photos in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiknic_Eindhoven_2014 We brought food and drinks, at the site Dutch pancakes were baked and a diverse selection of food was brought in, like: strawberry pie, rice pie (both

Re: [Wikidata-l] Time for some selfies!

2014-07-04 Thread Romaine Wiki
Does this count: https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_BE/status/484506937720324096 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014-07-03-vergadering-2.jpg The guy on the right wears a t-shirt with the logo. Romaine 2014-07-04 14:59 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de: On Mon, Jun

Re: [Wikidata-l] Time for some selfies!

2014-07-04 Thread Romaine Wiki
It was an attempt to make a group selfie in the middle of a discussion... Romaine 2014-07-04 16:29 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de: On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: Does this count: https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_BE/status

[Wikidata-l] We should have a property for WikiMapia

2014-04-02 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hello all, I think we should create a property for the items of Wikimapia, they are of additional value to Wikipedia articles as they mark the area of a certain subject instead of only a coordinate. http://wikimapia.org Romaine ___ Wikidata-l

[Wikidata-l] Please create option for two links to a Commons category

2013-10-05 Thread Romaine Wiki
In an item there is since recently a section for a link to Commons. I noticed that only one item can be linked to one category on Commons, while we have for many years two places where we would like to the same category on Commons. Example: We have a category and an article about Germany. From

[Wikidata-l] All interwikis from nl.wikivoyage have been moved to Wikidata

2013-07-29 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hello all, I am happy to announce that all interwikis from all articles, templates, project pages (except some archive pages) have been moved to Wikidata. This includes the removal of all local interwikis. With this I roughly checked all pages if they are connected to the right article on

Re: [Wikidata-l] All interwikis from nl.wikivoyage have been moved to Wikidata

2013-07-29 Thread Romaine Wiki
@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Monday, July 29, 2013, 12:28 PM That's amazing! And so fast! Any idea how many links there have been? (Just curious). Thanks for reporting!Denny 2013/7/29 Romaine Wiki romaine_w...@yahoo.com Hello all, I am happy to announce that all interwikis from all

[Wikidata-l] Update nl-wiki request for bot

2013-07-07 Thread Romaine Wiki
Today we reached at nl-wiki the situation that + 64% of the interwikiconflicts have been solved. A lot of this work has been done by the Dutch community, but also a lot of work is done by users form other projects, thank you very much for the help! I have checked the complete template

[Wikidata-l] over 51% of interwikiconflicts are solved on nl-wiki

2013-06-25 Thread Romaine Wiki
Today we have reached the cleaning up of half of all our interwikiconflicts. With this a lot of interwikiconflicts on other Wikipedias have been solved as well. Romaine ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikidata-l] 20% of interwiki conflicts solved at nl-wiki, others?

2013-06-16 Thread Romaine Wiki
In the past weeks the community of the Dutch Wikipedia has been working hard to solve interwiki conflicts. A few months ago we had more than 14000 interwiki conflicts, today less than 10800. With fixing these interwiki conflicts, often we also fix them on other wikis. But are other Wikipedias

Re: [Wikidata-l] Is an ecosystem of Wikidatas possible?

2013-06-12 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hello GerardM, Interwikis between categories and disambiguation pages serve a purpose, they form a navigational structure to enable people to find information. Certainly navigational pages make information also reachable. I use them, many other users use the interwikilinks, and so on.

Re: [Wikidata-l] Request: please tell me where local interwikis are left in template namespace (nl-wiki)

2013-05-31 Thread Romaine Wiki
for the Wikidata project. wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Friday, May 31, 2013, 8:11 AM Look at http://tools.wmflabs.org/addshore/addbot/iwlinks/index.html?lang=nl , but its not updated last few days JAnD 2013/5/31 Romaine Wiki romaine_w...@yahoo.com: In the past weeks I have cleaned up

[Wikidata-l] Good to know tools, tools, tools

2013-05-31 Thread Romaine Wiki
Good to know: * The Dutch Wikipedia had on its own more than 14.000 interwikiconflicts. I have created weeks ago on nl-wiki a project page where all those interwiki conflicts are mentioned and users started to clean up those conflicts.

[Wikidata-l] Request: please tell me where local interwikis are left in template namespace (nl-wiki)

2013-05-30 Thread Romaine Wiki
In the past weeks I have cleaned up the interwikis in the template namespace on the Dutch Wikipedia. What I would like to know where is on what templates there are stille local interwikis present. Can anyone do a query/... to help me find that answer? Thanks! Romaine

Re: [Wikidata-l] Interlanguage-link-bug?

2013-04-07 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hello Marco, Here I see a lot of articles in the section ''Other languages''. Most likely an older version of the page is shown due caching somewhere. If not all languages are shown, purging a page (go to the history page and changing =history in =purge in the url) would help mostly.