Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 16 January 2015 at 07:18, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 January 2015 at 21:29, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8564001 was created on 28 March 2013‎ and is found in the left-hand navigation on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-15 Thread Isarra Yos
On 14/01/15 04:01, Keegan Peterzell wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: Sounds like just another enwiki-specific thing. ​That's a reasonable assumption. I'm only guessing, but I think the project is based on the English Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-15 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 14 January 2015 at 15:36, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: Well lets take a fairly straightforward coin. The British Florin. Hardly obscure it was in circulation for over a century in one of the world's largest economies. You won't find it through wikidata.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-15 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 14 January 2015 at 17:00, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Wikiprojects are a very important and long-standing part of the community infrastructure of Wikipedias - and (IMHO) hold the key to helping support new editors through the crucial first 20 newbie edits. Good ones do; bad ones

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-15 Thread geni
On 15 January 2015 at 21:29, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8564001 was created on 28 March 2013‎ and is found in the left-hand navigation on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_%28English_coin%29 as a link called Wikdata item. So we're back to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-14 Thread Strainu
2015-01-14 17:04 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, When Wikipedia does not have articles on a subject, what do you do... Same for Wikidata.. So again, how is Wikidata not there yet ? It just doesn't have the information required, apparently. It also might not have the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-14 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When Wikipedia does not have articles on a subject, what do you do... Same for Wikidata.. So again, how is Wikidata not there yet ? Thanks, GerardM On 14 January 2015 at 15:12, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 January 2015 at 12:33, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-14 Thread Liam Wyatt
By the way Q5869386 is really rather funny. For some reason your bots think that [[History of the English penny (1066–1154)]] is equivalent to [[History of the English penny]]. -- geni I am now slightly more educated than I was this morning on the topic of the history of English

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-14 Thread Oliver Keyes
Well, yes. Was your clue the bit where it said English-language wikipedia? Wikiproject-based things are incredibly difficult to generalize because they're so dependent on project-specific nuances and setups. Wikidata will change that, I hope, but it's not there yet. On Tuesday, 13 January 2015,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-14 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, How is Wikidata not here yet ? Thanks, GerardM On 14 January 2015 at 02:01, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com wrote: Well, yes. Was your clue the bit where it said English-language wikipedia? Wikiproject-based things are incredibly difficult to generalize because they're so

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-14 Thread geni
On 14 January 2015 at 12:33, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, How is Wikidata not here yet ? Thanks, GerardM Well at the london meetup we tried poking at it with regards to coins. It tends not to be aware when things are currency units (pounds crown florin) hasn't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-13 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: Sounds like just another enwiki-specific thing. ​That's a reasonable assumption. I'm only guessing, but I think the project is based on the English Wikipedia because that's the area where the grantee(s) are

[Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-13 Thread James Hare
(Standard apology for cross-posting.) Greetings everyone! I am pleased to announce a new project, WikiProject X, funded by a Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grant. WikiProject X's goal is to improve the experience of WikiProjects, which are subject-area (or goal-oriented)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-13 Thread Ricordisamoa
Il 13/01/2015 23:24, James Hare ha scritto: (Standard apology for cross-posting.) Greetings everyone! I am pleased to announce a new project, WikiProject X, funded by a Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grant. WikiProject X's goal is to improve the experience of WikiProjects, which