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--Ricordisamoa 15:50, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

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RollbackEdit

Hey, thanks for reverting vandalism around here! I've given your account rollback rights, so you can revert just a bit faster :). If you don't want them, then let me know, I can remove them too. Thanks again! Ajraddatz (talk) 02:12, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

@Ajraddatz: I'm glad to help. :) The rollback rights are appreciated, thanks! - Nikki (talk) 02:39, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

en-gbEdit

Hello, why did your bot you make this change? -- FriedhelmW (talk) 18:49, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

@FriedhelmW: Hi :) It's updating British English labels/descriptions where the main English label has been changed, since most people only change one of them and then they get out of sync.
To be more specific, in this case, British English label has two parts separated by a comma and no description, where the first part (Ostenfeld) is the English label and the second part (Nordfriesland) is part of the English description. That happens a lot for places, where the second part isn't part of the name, but is useful disambiguating information, and implies that the English one is more up to date than the British English one, so it updates the British English to match the English one.
The bot tries to be cautious and only edit things it's pretty confident about, but do let me know if you spot any problems! :)
- Nikki (talk) 19:45, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
What's the use of having the same texts for en-gb as for en? Isn't this completely redundant? -- FriedhelmW (talk) 15:16, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
@FriedhelmW: The use is being able to use the site properly in British English, e.g. without the labels and descriptions, item pages just say "No label defined" and "No description defined". I would like to see a better way of handling language variants like this, but for now we can only work with what we've got. - Nikki (talk) 22:07, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

RfDEdit

If you spot invalid requests (such as that item with 50+ incoming links), it is no problem if you mark it as {{Notdone}} yourself. No problem if a trusted user like you does that. Mbch331 (talk) 12:53, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

@Mbch331: Thanks, it's good to know that it's OK for me to do that. :) I'll try and be a bit bolder next time! - Nikki (talk) 14:50, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Don't be too afraid to do something. If you do something we think you better shouldn't too, we will tell you. We won't block you, just because you did something you shouldn't have done. Mbch331 (talk) 14:53, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Admin?Edit

Hey man. Are you interested to become an administrator on Wikidata? I see that you are involved in administrative areas and giving you the tools would be beneficial for the project. I can nominate you if you want to. Thanks! Jianhui67 talkcontribs 15:08, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

I would definitely vote in your favour. I think you'll be a great admin. Mbch331 (talk) 15:54, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
@Jianhui67, Mbch331: I would definitely be interested, yes. Thanks for the support. :)
There you go, Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Nikki. Accept the nomination and transclude it to the main RfA page. Good luck! :) Jianhui67 talkcontribs 05:26, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

IPAEdit

Hi! Why You've removed stress marks? --Kikos (talk) 06:11, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

@Kikos: I edited some which were using an apostrophe to use the correct character (U+‎02C8 MODIFIER LETTER VERTICAL LINE) instead. I didn't intend to remove any stress marks! :) Which change are you looking at? - Nikki (talk) 06:47, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
I mean changes You described :) I'll further use correct character. --Kikos (talk) 08:47, 21 July 2015 (UTC)


Congratulations, Dear Administrator!Edit

Deutsch | English | español | français | italiano | Nederlands | português | русский | +/−

 
An offering for our new administrator from your comrades... (our gift is better than the one at Commons or Meta)

You have your gun; now here's your badge: {{User admin}}/{{#babel:admin}} and {{Admin topicon}}. Enjoy!

Nikki, congratulations! You now have the rights of administrator on Wikidata. Please take a moment to read the Wikidata:Administrators page and watchlist related pages (in particular Wikidata:Project chat, Wikidata:Requests for comment, and Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard), before launching yourself into page deletions, page protections, account blockings, or modifications of protected pages.

Please feel free to join us on IRC: #wikidata-admin @ irc.freenode.net. If you need access, you can flag someone down at @ irc.freenode.net. You may find Wikidata:Guide to Adminship to be useful reading. You may also want to consider adding yourself to meta:Template:Wikidata/Ambassadors, and to any similar page on your home wiki if one exists. (Check Wikipedia:Wikidata/Wikidatans (Q14964498).)

Please also add/update the languages you speak to your listing at Wikidata:List of administrators. You may also like to add your username to this list if you would not like that items you delete at RfD get marked as deleted automatically. Again, welcome to the admin corps!

Best regards -- Bene* talk 12:54, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

おめでとうございます！ Thibaut120094 (talk) 13:14, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Welcome to the team. Mbch331 (talk) 13:22, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Congratulations! Jianhui67 talkcontribs 14:54, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Congratz! :) ·addshore· talk to me! 11:50, 28 July 2015 (UTC)


ProposalEdit

Hi Nikki, you had left a commment at this. Tobias1984 thinks it could need more input. Is there some you want to add? I suppose you could also directly create it. --- Jura 08:57, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

@Jura1: Sorry for the slow response, I was away for a while. I wouldn't have created the property when there's no support for it, but it looks like you got someone else to do it anyway. - Nikki (talk) 10:22, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

IMDbEdit

Can you check instance of (P31) before to add IMDb, I found a lot of imdb on album (Q482994) (ex. Grease). --ValterVB (talk) 17:03, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

@ValterVB: Thanks. I've stopped it from adding any title IDs for now. I'll look into removing the ones which are wrong in the morning. - Nikki (talk) 20:08, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

media legend (P2096)Edit

media legend (P2096) is ready. --Tobias1984 (talk) 13:44, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Top 10 primary sources tool usersEdit

Hi @Nikki,

The primary sources tool status page says that you are in the top 10 most active users of the tool, congratulations! If you have not tried it yet, I would like to invite you to activate and play with the FBK-strephit-soccer dataset: it is a small demo dataset to support the StrepHit IEG proposal. I would really appreciate if you could endorse (blue button) or comment the idea on the proposal page. Due to your involvement in the primary sources tool, your voice is really precious, so please leave a trace in the proposal if you like the general idea (even if the soccer domain does not ring a bell to you).

Looking forward to your feedback.
Cheers,

--Hjfocs (talk) 09:06, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

@Hjfocs: Done. :) I have to say I don't like the name though. In English, strep refers to a type of bacteria and the illness it causes, so it sounds like it would be something to do with biology or medicine - not my area of interest, which is why I didn't pay any attention to it before. - Nikki (talk) 12:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the endorsement, @Nikki! It would be nice to count on you as a power tester. If it sounds fine, feel free to add yourself as a volunteer (I will make the join button available again for you).
The name is actually an intentional pun: I understand it can be misleading and will definitely consider a rename after the project review process.
Cheers, --Hjfocs (talk) 13:16, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

queued quarryEdit

Just a hint: if it's queued, you have to click once more. At least, I have never seen it come out of the queue by itself. --- Jura 14:24, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

iTunes IDEdit

I know you have a bot that imports the Discogs id from MusicBrainz. Recently the property iTunes album ID (P2281) was created. Do you think you could import that information from MusicBrainz with your bot? Mbch331 (talk) 10:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

@Mbch331: I should be able to, although not right now (currently busy adding dates of birth/death :)). - Nikki (talk) 10:30, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
No problem. 1 task at the time is fine. Mbch331 (talk) 10:34, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Named after in filmographyEdit

Hi, I just saw you removed the named after I added in Sean Connery filmography. I had added it because of what I saw in Property talk:P1283:

  • Inverse property of named after (P138):
  • If [item A] has filmography (P1283) with value [item B],then [item B] should also have named after (P138) with value [item A].
  • Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist.
  • List of this constraint violations: Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1283#Inverse

Does it mean this constraint should not exist ? Koxinga (talk) 17:02, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

@Koxinga: I wasn't aware of that constraint, thanks for letting me know. I do think it should be removed, so I've asked about it on Property talk:P1283. - Nikki (talk) 19:45, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Playing range imageEdit

playing range image (P2343) is ready. Mbch331 (talk) 14:10, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Complex namesEdit

Why do you remove relations between complex names and their parts, e.g. in Juan Rodríguez (Q439399)? --Infovarius (talk) 10:49, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

@Infovarius: I removed them because they are disambiguation pages and it doesn't make sense to me to say that the disambiguation page "Juan Rodríguez" is part of the disambiguation page "Juan Francisco Rodríguez", because it's not. If you are trying to say that the disambiguation pages have similar names, I don't think part of (P361) and has part (P527) are the right properties to use. - Nikki (talk) 11:29, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
All pages that are listed on "Juan Francisco Rodríguez" can be also listed on "Juan Rodríguez". So these disambigs should be somehow connected. I don't know whether part of (P361) or maybe subclass of (P279) is the best way. --Infovarius (talk) 05:25, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Official nameEdit

Hi,

official name (P1448) is for places, for humans you should use name in native language (P1559) instead.

Regards, Thibaut120094 (talk) 12:04, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

@Thibaut120094: What about names which are not in the person's native language, or if I don't know the person's native language? Also, if official name (P1448) is supposed to be restricted to places, someone should probably change the label and/or description, it's currently very generic. :/ - Nikki (talk) 12:35, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

WMF projects - translation of labels and descriptionsEdit

lang=en : ?lang=en&props=31,218,219,220,506,1406&q=claim[1800]

Dear Nikki! I have seen your edits at some pages about WMF projects and/or about languages as Malayalam (Q36236) and want to let you know that the number of Wikidata:Database reports/WMF projects there is also the page Wikipedia versions has increased to more then 409; there are pages from Wikibook project pages to Wikiversity and Wiktionary project pages. You may be interested in adding labels and descriptions in other languages. Please follow also the discussion at property talk:P218 and comment there. Best regards Gangleri also aka I18n (talk) 23:10, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

ThanksEdit

Hi

Just wanted to say thanks for all your help matching the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger on Mix n' Match. I've started to message Wikiprojects to try to find more contributors, if you have any suggestions please ping me.

Thanks again

John Cummings (talk) 13:08, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

native label (P1705) on Mae Sot (Q475964)Edit

I don't think its within the scope of native label (P1705) to add other languages than Thai for thr administrative structures in Thailand, as the property definition states "official language". There are certainly many Burmese and Shan speakers in Mae Sot, but that does not make their languages official - we don't add the Turkish name for Berlin either. IMHO these two languages only belong to the labels, just cannot add Shan there yet. Ahoerstemeier (talk) 10:26, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

@Ahoerstemeier: The description says official or original language, which I understand to mean that names in the original languages of the area are also acceptable. The property's label is wrong and quite misleading if only official languages are allowed, because many places have native names which are not in official languages. I don't see why it would need to be restricted to official languages though, because if someone wants to only use native names in official languages, we have official language (P37) to say which of the languages are official.
I don't think labels are sufficient either. It's impossible to add labels if the language isn't supported, whereas statements can have qualifiers. The development team are also stricter about which languages they plan to add for labels, whereas they plan to add any language that is needed for monolingual text (see Wikidata:Project_chat#New_language). Labels also don't say which are the native names, e.g. you can't use labels to decide to list Thai, Burmese and Shan like en:Mae Sot District does (Berlin isn't a good comparison, because en:Berlin doesn't list a Turkish name).
- Nikki (talk) 11:40, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Auto taxobox from WDEdit

Hi, on the Bot request page you mentioned: I'm not sure if anyone has anything for taxon items yet though (and I don't have time to look for examples right now. Any chance you could point me in the right direction please? Just as reminder: We will be creating 10k new articles on cy-wiki - all birds. I would like the taxobox to come from WD rather than copy the one from enwiki. I'll create / import temlates in cywiki, to hold the info, of course. Thanks! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 10:52, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

@Llywelyn2000: Hi :) I'd forgotten about that, thanks for reminding me. I just had a look and managed to find Module:Taxobox. If I'm not mistaken, that's pretty much exactly what you're looking for, right? - Nikki (talk) 13:28, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
Looks good!!! Many thanks Nikky! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 14:03, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Taxon labelsEdit

Could I nudge you to reply at Wikidata:Bot requests#Taxon labels, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:33, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

More social media relationships from MusicBrainz?Edit

Thanks for your work in importing all that great info from MusicBrainz. Would it be possible for you to add Facebook, Youtube and Instagram? Thinkcontext (talk) 17:33, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

@Thinkcontext: It should be possible, but right now my bot can't edit because the server it's on has been blocked by an overzealous range block. :( Hopefully it won't take too long to get it unblocked and then I can test the changes I made. - Nikki (talk) 21:37, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
@Thinkcontext: It's adding stuff now. :) - Nikki (talk) 18:01, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
@Nikki: Wow, thanks! Thinkcontext (talk) 18:20, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Asian datesEdit

Hi Nikki,

Some time ago, you imported a series of Asian dates. I was wondering if you would be interested in running the same code on zhwiki or kowiki. From pages I come across at Wikidata:Database reports/Deaths at Wikipedia/1950, it seems it may be worth doing it.
--- Jura 06:59, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Is it possible that you already did them and what's left are just year-only dates? In that case, I could directly add them based on the list.
--- Jura 07:45, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
@Jura1: I did already do a lot of them, yes. :) The ones which are left are not only year-only dates (I didn't skip year-only dates). If it didn't add a date, it either couldn't parse it or it skipped it because the date was older than a particular date (for jawiki, it skips anything older than 1583, for kowiki it skips anything older than 1895 and for zhwiki it skips anything older than 1950 (because en:Adoption of the Gregorian calendar#Adoption_in_East_Asia sounds complicated and I wanted confirmation from someone who can understand Chinese before adding older dates)). I'm currently a bit busy, but I can look at improving the parsing in a couple of days and maybe see if I can figure out which years can be reliably considered Gregorian rather than Julian on zhwiki (if you want to help, feel free to ask someone who speaks Chinese about that :)). - Nikki (talk) 15:31, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
If the bulk is done, I can do the remaining ones with Pasleim's tool. As people keep adding dates at Wikipedia rather than Wikidata, you might want to re-run the same code once in a while.
Personally, I focus on 20th century dates, at least until something is done about the calendar model problem. If you want to parse more dates, you might want to try fiwiki. It doesn't seem to have that many infoboxes and the format is fairly straightforward (with a few exceptions). The wikis column on [1] can give an idea of what's left.
--- Jura 18:57, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Coordinates of asteroid featureEdit

Hi! Thanks for adding coordinate location (P625) to Vibidia (Q7924611). However, there seems to be a problem with the P625 parameter for astronomical objects, we need to have some way of qualifying that the "globe" parameter is not Earth (Q2), as otherwise other tools will believe that this location is for somewhere on Earth. Can we use any valid Q value for "globe"? If so, would a "globe" qualifier of 4 Vesta (Q3030) be appropriate here? -- The Anome (talk) 08:32, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

@The Anome: Hi :) Any item can be used as a globe, but for some bizarre reason the globe can't be changed on the website, only via the API (the ticket is phab:T56097). I don't think we need to add a qualifier because the items already have located on astronomical location (P376) statements (I also add those if they're missing so we know what the right globe is). Ideally there would be a bot regularly fixing the globe based on the P376 statements and I think someone might have already run a bot because there seem to be fewer than before, but I'm not sure if it's being done regularly. - Nikki (talk) 09:10, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Thanks! What an annoying bug. The problem is import and export of coordinates: the way I look at it is that the coordinate describes an abstract point in space anchored to the surface of a globe, and that abstract point is distinct from the entity being associated with that coordinate (consider, for example, that an entity might have two coordinates, or a single coordinate be shared by two co-located entities). Without a globe, they are meaningless. For this reason, all coordinate location (P625) values really should have explicit "globe" parameters associated with them, and they should not default to Earth (Q2) as they do at the moment -- located on astronomical location (P376) is really not enough, and P376 applies to the entity, not the coordinate (although the two should always match -- but that's a useful semantic constraint, not a modelling error.) Perhaps the absence of enforcement of this is the root cause of these problems.-- The Anome (talk) 09:29, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
@The Anome: Yeah, it is annoying. :( Note that the P625 statements do already have explicit globe parameters associated with them (e.g. if you look at the JSON representation of Rheasilvia (Q2631008) and search for "globe", you'll see that there's a "globe" parameter - which for that item is correctly set to Vesta :)), it's just that we can't change them very easily yet. I'm definitely not saying located on astronomical location (P376) is the solution (the solution is to fix that ticket so that people can enter the right globe), only that it already provides enough information to fix the P625 statement. I don't think defaulting to Earth is the wrong thing to do, the vast majority of coordinates people add are Earth ones. We just need to be able to change it when we want a different globe. - Nikki (talk) 10:58, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
I've also added a bot request here. - Nikki (talk) 11:12, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Nikki. Yes, you're quite right about all this. Thanks for clarifying things, and many thanks for filing the ticket and bot request. -- The Anome (talk) 19:52, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
@The Anome: It seems there was already a bot and it now seems to be running regularly - Special:Contributions/LocatorBot :D It fixed Vibidia (Q7924611) a few days ago as well. - Nikki (talk) 06:26, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. I guess they'll get along to fixing the user interface eventually. -- The Anome (talk) 06:55, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

G+Edit

Hi Nikki,

As you had worked on cleaning up some of the other values, what do you think of Wikidata:Property_proposal/Google_plus?
--- Jura 07:10, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

AniDBEdit

Hi, I saw you worked on fixing the Anime News Network identifier properties, so could you help me fix the AniDB property? For this one, it's much simpler, since the website has changed to a very simple format, e.g. https://anidb.net/cr24625 for Q7981253, where cr is a prefix for creators, a is for anime, etc, so changing the URL to https://anidb.net/$identifier should be easy, and won't require making new properties. This will also allow for linking to other types of entries, such as music releases. Then we'll need a bot to change the existing uses (although at least a few won't need to be changed). I'm not quite sure how to accomplish either step. Thanks, Innotata (talk) 00:09, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Welsh (cywiki) species labels should begin with uppercase letterEdit

you may remember uploading Welsh names of birds, for me. And a good job you did too. It has now been brought to my attention, however, that these names should all have a capitalised first letter. Can you bot this for me please? Llywelyn2000 (talk) 18:25, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Re: instance of (P31) and subclass of (P279)Edit

Dear Nikki, I've answered your topic in here. Regards, --Beeyan (talk) 09:00, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Strange mergeEdit

Hi Nikky you have merged Q19694975 in Myanmar (Q836) but Q19694975 was an item about a person. It was an error? --ValterVB (talk) 19:31, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

@ValterVB: The item was not originally about a person. Those statements came from an unrelated enwiki sitelink which was added much later (and then deleted). - Nikki (talk) 20:56, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

Sim MinEdit

The official name is Sim Min, accoring to her's blog @vjsimin. And Sim is surname. Thanks. --Idh0854 (talk) 07:40, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

@Idh0854: Sorry for the slow response. I can't find "Sim Min" on that page. I've spent some time searching though and I do agree now that "Shimmin" is not the best English label, but I don't think "Sim Min" is the best one either:
According to Help:Label, the label should be the the name she is most commonly known by, so the English label should be the name she is most commonly known by in English. From what I can find, that is "Shim Min". For example, I found it written that way here, here, here, here, on wiki.d-addicts.com/Shim_Min and even on the English Wikipedia: en:Cruel City. It's also written that way on her agency's page (although that page is only partly in English). The only site I found using "Sim Min" is this one.
Please don't remove aliases which are correct. There are no rules saying that names have to follow a particular romanisation system (in fact, Help:Aliases says alternative romanisations should be aliases). Her real name is given as "Shim Soon Min" here and here and as "Shim Soonmin" here and here so those should both be aliases. While she was involved in Hello! Project, she was known in English as "Shimmin" (see the last two links), so if that is no longer going to be the label, it should be an alias.
- Nikki (talk) 18:39, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Foto ausgetauscht: Bonn, "Haus der Springmaus"Edit

Hi Nikki, weil ich mich mit Wikidata nicht auskenne, frage ich mal bei Dir nach. Du hast am 31. Mai 2015 ein Wikidata-Objekt ("Haus der Springmaus" in Bonn/Deutschland) mit einem Foto versehen, dass ich 2008 vom Eingang des Hauses gemacht habe. Gestern habe ich das Haus komplett fotografiert und heute Bilder davon auf Commons geladen. Eben habe ich in Wikidata das alte Foto ersetzt durch meine gestrige Aufnahme. Ist das so in Ordnung oder muss ich noch etwas beachten? Danke & Greetings --Sir James (talk) 15:36, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

@Sir James: Ja, das ist in Ordnung. Das Foto vom Eingang war damals halt das einzige Foto bei Commons, auf dem man den Namen sehen konnte. Das neue find ich viel besser, vielen Dank dafür! - Nikki (talk) 07:29, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
Prima! Danke auch für Deine fleißige Arbeit der Zuordnungen auf Wikidata. Gruß aus Bonn --Sir James (talk) 08:07, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Village Pump in Greek WikiversityEdit

Can you replace the Βικιεπιστήμιο:Βικιβήμα with Βικιεπιστήμιο:Συμβούλιο please;--Πανεπιστήμιο (talk) 07:49, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

@Πανεπιστήμιο: Done :) - Nikki (talk) 07:54, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you!--Πανεπιστήμιο (talk) 07:57, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you!Edit

  An award for you
For your efforts and dedication in cleaning up that mess
among items for user language templates and categories. // XXN

Consider drop vote-keeping number of platform tracks (P1103)?Edit

This property has key concept leak, many concepts of platforms (not only time-or-history-related!) are mixed up by this property, so keeping it will only make hurts to WikiProject Trains (Q53051).

As a simple example: Changhua TRA station (Q5071979) has only one track between platform 1 and platform 2 (as again, Spanish solution (Q1342434)), so the de-facto value "5" is logical wrong. Then how can you define the real "number of platform-somethings"? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 15:16, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

@Liuxinyu970226: I can't change my vote there because the proposal is not clear about what will happen to the existing data. number of platform tracks (P1103) is intended for the number of tracks which are accessible from a platform. We don't yet know how to store other ways of counting. Wikidata:WikiProject Railways should discuss it and find a solution before we decide to delete any properties. - Nikki (talk) 07:47, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
@Nikki: So in your opinion what should be the correct value of P1103 in Changhua TRA station (Q5071979), keep 5? Or change to 3/4? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 22:26, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
Also, the value used on Stratford station (Q801480), 15, is doubtful. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 22:56, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Language code reviewEdit

Hi Nikki,

Are you interested in doing language code reviews for Wikidata (mainly for monolingual strings)? It seems that people that were meant to do it before either lost interest or aren't doing it.
--- Jura 16:43, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Feedback requestEdit

Greetings,

The team that made ORES is working on a new tool called JADE. The new tool is for humans to review the work of ORES, to provide human feedback and oversight. The team would like to hear about how your experience using ORES has been on your wiki, and what you might expect from a tool like the one proposed. If you are interested, you can comment on this page on mediawiki.org.

The team is also interested in sharing updates with you as JADE is developed. Short messages will be sent to this talk page every month or two, linking to a page with further information. Is this something you would like to sign up for? Simply reply to me here if so and I will put your name on the list.

Happy editing to you. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

You can also sign yourself up for updates anytime. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17:38, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Armenian Wikimedia permanent duplicate item (Q21286738)Edit

Well, as Western Armenian is now having its ISO 639-3 code iso639-3:hyw, I think it's probably the time that there should run a batch migration for them, do you have time to help on it? Anyway, what's the future of those permanent duplicate items? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:12, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Local discussion on hywiki: hy:Վիքիպեդիա:Խորհրդարան#Արևմտահայերեն_Վիքիպեդիայի_բաժանումը. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 15:30, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
@Nikki: Still waiting for your answer. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 12:11, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

RequestEdit

Hello.

Could you create simple and not too long articles about en:Architecture of Azerbaijan (Republic of Azerbaijan) and en:List of Azerbaijani film directors (Republic of Azerbaijan) in Simple English (or request them yourself to other users in Simple English Wikipedia)?

Thank you.

31.200.13.250 14:57, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

MigrationEdit

Thank you thank you thank you for helping with the Europeana Migration Vocabulary project! You seem to have singlehandedly brought Maltese from being the lowest-translated EU-official language to 70% complete (at the time I write this)!

When you're adding new labels, don't forget to also add the short 'description' field as well - this helps people get a quick understanding of what the subject is, and is used in features like link-suggesters on Wikipedia. Sincerely, Wittylama (talk) 21:19, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

location (P276) vs. located in the administrative territorial entity (P131)Edit

Hello Nikki, I saw that you changed the "location" property for Königswinterer Straße 803 (Q27435488) and similar geographical items of Bonn from the city to the local quarter item. However, Oberkassel (Q178317) is a non-administrative district/territorial entity so I think location (P276) is the right property in this case. Since many Wikidata infoboxes have been added to Wikimedia Commons using located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) for local districts of a town also has the consequence that the infobox doesn't show the name of the city. So at commons:Category:Bismarckturm (Bonn-Gronau) (before I changed the properties) only the name of the local district/quarter Gronau (Q1342525) was shown, not the name of the city which is certainly more useful for viewers. It es even unclear to me when real administrative subdivisions of a city should be used for located in the administrative territorial entity (P131). In Bonn there are four city districts as actual administrative subdivisions (as opposed to the many non-administrative quarters) but should they always appear in the Wikidata infobox? In case of Bonn (district) (Q892684) there is no problem because the name of the district is identical to the city name. The Wikidata property example Eiffel Tower (Q243) for P131 is not a standard case as well because 7th arrondissement of Paris (Q259463) luckily includes the city name. But in case of Hardtberg (Q450087) I would rather prefer the city name for the infobox. One solution would probably be to rename the item of the district and add the city name there (Bonn-Hardtberg instead of Hardtberg). But I doubt whether this is actually a systematically right solution. I think it would be preferable if the Wikidata infobox always shows the name of the city or municipality and not only the name of the administrative subdivisions in case there are any, so in Germany all items that are instances of municipality of Germany (Q262166). Maybe there are other solutions I have not thought of yet. Sincerely --Leit (talk) 11:27, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

We need to talkEdit

We need to talk--Cookingmonster123 (talk) 18:01, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

cebwiki cleanupEdit

Hi Nikki, what's your opinion on Wikidata:Project_chat#Another_cebwiki_flood?, as apparently you are doing the cleanup afterwards !?
--- Jura 05:12, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Harvesting MusicBrainz linksEdit

Hello, I noticed that your bot was harvesting links from MusicBrainz.org (for example this edit) some time ago and I wonder if you are interested in putting your bot to work for the following:

I can supply a list of WikiData items about artists and the links to their MusicBrainz entries. The bot can add the MusicBrainz link (in case it's not already added) and then harvest data from MusicBrainz about that artist. I can supply a list like this:

I got a list with 376 such lines, all about Romanian artists but I can supply even more such links, for all kind of artists. -- OneMusicDream (talk) 16:42, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

@OneMusicDream: I no longer have a copy of the database, so I'm not able to import from there any more, sorry. - Nikki (talk) 17:42, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
I see, do you know how can I find other people having a robot collecting links from MusicBrainz? -- OneMusicDream (talk) 20:29, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

I think you deleted my WiKidata page about newsapp.ioEdit

Hi Nikki, I hope you are fine and doing good. I think you deleted my WiKipedia page so I just wanted to know the reason for deletion. I am sure I made few mistakes and maybe it was against Wikidata Terms and conditions. and I read the article you suggested me on deleted page and now I am more confused. So, can you please write here!

Thank you, 182.68.134.149 07:50, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi, I deleted the item you created here because it had no sitelinks, no references, no external identifiers and was not in use by any other items and therefore did not show any evidence of being notable here, as per the criteria on Wikidata:Notability. If it's your website and you're trying to get it into Google's Knowledge Graph, you should also have a look at Help:FAQ/Freebase#By_adding_to_Wikidata.2C_I_have_a_free_ticket_into_Google.27s_Knowledge_Graph.2C_right.3F, because Wikidata is not for advertising/promotion. - Nikki (talk) 21:58, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

British Sign Language and urlsEdit

Hi, have You thought about introducing properties instead of urls to external sources? I think that all three bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk/dictionary/words and www.spreadthesign.com/en.gb/word and www.british-sign.co.uk/british-sign-language/how-to-sign can be easy converted to properties (are there any others urls?). I can manage voting around property proposals if you wish. KaMan (talk) 05:16, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

@KaMan: I have considered it, but I decided against it for now because I don't think they would be good identifiers:
  • british-sign.co.uk only contains 476 entries. We generally don't add properties for sites with such low numbers of entries and say to use described at URL (P973) instead.
  • Spread the Sign has a lot of entries, but it is for many sign languages (it currently supports 36). There are too many supported languages to make a new property for each one and signs can have multiple variants too, so the site doesn't have a single identifier we can use. For example, https://www.spreadthesign.com/en.us/word/775/can/1/ needs three things ("en.us", "775" and "1") to identify the right page. We would have to use something like "en.us/word/775/can/1/" but that's not an identifier, it's the path of the URL. Also, the entries for fingerspelling use different URLs.
  • The BSL SignBank URLs could be treated as if they were identifiers, but they are not really. For example, http://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk/dictionary/words/room-2.html and http://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk/dictionary/words/box-4.html point to the same video with the same translations. I'm also a bit concerned that these URLs might not be stable, since they seem to be dependent on the English translations and how many other videos with the same translation there are.
Therefore I decided to use described at URL (P973) for them all. It also makes it much easier for me to enter them, because I don't have to search for multiple properties nor do I have to remember which ones should use a different property. - Nikki (talk) 13:58, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

FYIEdit

this was about the web site, http://talent.yahoo.co.jp/ not the “Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID”

the Q_27048656 page was created on sept. 2016, the web site was 404 on dec. 2016. 96.74.207.218 00:56, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

We don't delete items about websites just because the website no longer exists. - Nikki (talk) 08:04, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Beynet/BeneyEdit

Hi,

please wait while I'm fixing this error: Brigitte Maurin's thesis advisor wasn't François Beney, but Michel Beynet. I've recreated another item for Beney. 92.184.101.245 12:53, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

@92.184.101.245: Please don't change the meaning of items. If a statement links to the wrong person, the statement should be edited to point to the right person. - Nikki (talk) 12:59, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
OK, apologies; I didn't knew that. 92.184.101.245 13:56, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Deprecate character identifiers in old format ("ch") ?Edit

FYI;

Yes, it was incorrect for these to be marked as deprecated, because that means the identifier was never correct and if you want to find the Wikidata item when you have an identifier for a character, that the item with the deprecated statement is not the item you want. The deprecated rank and reason for deprecation (P2241) should be replaced by normal rank and end cause (P1534). - Nikki (talk) 08:17, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Lockal (talkcontribs) Well, the actual (with preferred rank) formatter is Property:P345#P1630: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-externalid-url/?p=345&url_prefix=https://www.imdb.com/&id=$1. Then ArthurPSmith's tool builds the redirection URL. Latest archive copy would do the job.

Lockal (talk contribs) The easiest way is to ask @ArthurPSmith: to modify his tool to redirect to https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000985/ (i. e. web archive) for all ch links, this would at least give better user experience

ArthurPSmith (talk contribs) I updated the IMDB redirection to send 'ch' id's to archive.org, it seems to work (I tried the Harry Potter example linked above).

50.254.21.213 15:05, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

@50.254.21.213: I have no idea what you're saying here and what you're just copying and pasting from elsewhere, but either way, if you want to reply to my comment on the Property talk:P345, please respond there. - Nikki (talk) 15:19, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

you were right and what was done needs to be undone, if you just read the above50.254.21.213 15:45, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

a bot has updated the IMDb redirection to send 'ch' id's to archive.org,

to that end

1. the rank needs to be put back to normal.
2. reason for deprecation (P_2241) needs to be removed.
3. former IMDb character page (Q_44374960) needs to be removed

 – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 50.254.21.213 (talk • contribs).

@50.254.21.213: Those edits have nothing to do with me, so stop editing my talk page about it. I'm not interested.
If you want to discuss a property, use the property's talk page, as I already told you.
Bringing up the same topic on the multiple user talk pages is harassment. You've been blocked before for doing it and you're going to get blocked again if you don't stop. - Nikki (talk) 22:09, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Question about the nature of Wikidata searchesEdit

Hello, Nikki! Thank you for helping me out earlier here. Much appreciated. I have been reading about the main differences between DBPedia & Wikidata. They are different in nature from what I understand. I'm just still trying to understand Wikidata a bit more, though. So, for example, for the query you helped me with, the resulting occupations are coming from categories of the existing Wikipedia articles+manual entry, right? (Unlike DBpedia where info from a similar query would be sourced exclusively from the info boxes of the existing articles). It would be great if you have a link for me to read a bit more about the source of wikidata results.--Reem Al-Kashif (talk) 09:21, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

@Reem Al-Kashif: I'm not very familiar with DBpedia, so I can't comment on that. You're right that the data in Wikidata can come from a variety of sources. Data can be added manually or by bots. Some will have been imported from other Wikimedia projects (including Wikipedia), some will have been added from other databases (or websites, books, etc), and some will have been inferred from other data we have. There is a lot of data which was imported from Wikipedia but ideally all of our data would have references to external sources (you can read more about how we add references on Help:Sources). - Nikki (talk) 17:43, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Can you please exclude User:Nikki/Permanent_duplicates#Armenian?Edit

FWIW, Western Armenian is fully different from Eastern Armenian, and their community already requested a separate https://hyw.wikipedia.org/, and as I got from langcom, this request is to be approved soon, so can you please exclude this entry? Thx. --125.38.13.217 03:08, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

I'm aware of that. The page is about permanent duplicate items in Wikidata. We can't do anything about those items while the existing Armenian Wikipedia still has pages in both Eastern and Western Armenian. - Nikki (talk) 19:33, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
But now, this Wikipedia is existing, so how can't this be the reason you cancel that permanent duplicate entry too? --117.136.54.103 01:34, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
That doesn't change anything for us. We can't do anything while the original Armenian Wikipedia still has pages in both Eastern and Western Armenian. - Nikki (talk) 11:06, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
  Oppose The links to hyw.wikipedia can be added now, you can just Ctrl+X these Western Armenian titles of "permanent duplicates" on hywiki back to main item (use hyw code instead). --125.38.13.47 09:20, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata still cannot do anything. Since you don't understand my explanation, please ask someone else to explain it you. - Nikki (talk) 11:53, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Bfi M-formsEdit

Hi Nikki, Just curious, are they described somewhere? Is there way to display them in a graphic form? I was wondering if this is something that could be applied to other types of signs. --- Jura 15:37, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

@Jura1: Yes, yes and yes. I anticipated that someone would ask those questions and had already created User:Nikki/SignWriting. :) - Nikki (talk) 16:34, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
  • Thanks. Interesting. To display in lists, it would be good if the SVG would also be available as "File:" on Commons.
    Not sure if I would manage to transcribe e.g. c:diving_signals with these. --- Jura 16:45, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
  • I guess it would be good to have an item for them: Q57970512 --- Jura 05:46, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Q14944467 Template:Graphic novel list/headerEdit

Good day. I tried to add to Q14944467 Template:Graphic novel list/header a link to the template in Ukrainian Wikipedia uk:Шаблон:Graphic novel list/header, but I received an error "The save has failed. This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: Non-notable subpages". Every templates in other languages were already added to this element and I don't understand why I cannot add a similar link. Can you help or maybe tell me what I am doing wrong? Thank you and best regards. --ZxcvU (talk) 14:38, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

@ZxcvU: I've added the link for you. The problem is that /header and /footer pages are listed on Wikidata:Notability/Exclusion criteria and an abuse filter was added to stop people adding them. I'm not sure why we exclude them though. - Nikki (talk) 15:09, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
It seems this requirement was added in September 2013 after the discussion [2], so I guess there is some important reason for articles of the main scope. Anyway, you helped me a lot. Thank you! Wish you luck. --ZxcvU (talk) 15:42, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
Good day. Could you please help me to add one another subpage uk:Template:Graphic novel list/footer to the Wikidata element Template:Graphic novel list/footer? The situation is similar to the previous one. Best regards. --ZxcvU (talk) 02:17, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
@ZxcvU: Done - Nikki (talk) 09:32, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
Thank you! --ZxcvU (talk) 10:22, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Please, don't be a jerk, and don't claim some places exist just because of existion of Wikipedia articlesEdit

The Jinan North Railway Station (Q6202002) is just a kind of so-called place item, where links to an English Wikipedia article called en:Jinan North railway station, however the so-called station really doesn't exist in the real world, so how do you think that you can judge that that does "exist" just because of an article?! --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 05:38, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

I don't remember ever seeing that item before. Where did I claim the station really exists? - Nikki (talk) 10:48, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
@Nikki: Do you still remember your this diff? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:11, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
@Liuxinyu970226: Yes, I remember that diff. I don't see where I claimed that the station exists because there is a Wikipedia article. I didn't even claim the settlements exist because they have Wikipedia articles. I said that there is a settlement at those coordinates on all the maps I've looked at. That includes Google, OSM, Bing, HERE, Yandex and MapQuest, and both street maps and satellite imagery. If you have evidence that all of those maps are faked and the settlements don't exist at all, please add it to the discussion on Project Chat. - Nikki (talk) 10:21, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
But then how do you think that, just that, the Jinan North station exist in China? If not, then I don't think that this item should exist. --36.102.227.21 00:12, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
As I said above, I don't remember ever seeing the item before. Either link me to where I claimed the station exists, or stop asking me about it. - Nikki (talk) 09:27, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Q55082210Edit

Your deletion of Q55082210 pre-empts the ongoing discussion at Wikidata:Requests for deletions#Q55082210. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:33, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Likewise Q55686524 / Wikidata:Requests for deletions#Q55686524. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:42, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
@Pigsonthewing: I deleted them because there was nothing on either of those items that would potentially make the item notable, despite having been listed for deletion for over two months. I don't think it's sensible to keep items such items indefinitely pending a decision about the more borderline items and it would seem I'm not the only one, since other people had already deleted items from there much earlier (e.g. Q50310712) without any complaints. - Nikki (talk) 22:10, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Book=>Written Work revertEdit

Hi, the change you reverted is part of a larger attempt to get away from the ambiguous Q571. Please consider restoring. -- Maxlath (talk) 17:15, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

GNIS Data ImportEdit

Hi Nikki, I'm liking the NikkiBot adding references for GNIS numbers, but I'm curious what triangulation is being used to verify the GNIS is accurate to an Q item by the bot. I'm finding the GNIS data especially those imported from Wikipedia articles can be incorrectly associated with item that are sparse and the resolution process for ensuring only high probability Q's get data added. I've been working on the import criteria so the GNIS import is mapped well: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Dataset_Imports/Geographic_Names_Information_System_(GNIS)_Domestic would love thoughts and input on the import docs thus far. I've only completed resolving lakes so far (ceb) import had imported them as lagoons as I bet you've noticed. Thanks for your help, looking forward to your comments. Wolfgang8741 (talk) 21:27, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

@Wolfgang8741: At the moment it's based on GeoNames IDs, since I'm working on adding IDs/data to the items for the bot-created sv/cebwiki articles (which came from GeoNames, which imported most of its US entries from GNIS). Currently, for a GNIS/GeoNames pair to be considered a match, the names and types have to match and the coordinates need to be similar enough. I'm also only adding the matches to items which don't have any sitelinks other than svwiki and/or cebwiki, so that I can be reasonably confident that the GeoNames IDs in Wikidata either came from the bot-created articles (sv/cebwiki pages) or were manually added (no sitelinks). - Nikki (talk) 22:40, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
@Nikki: Thank you for the details, I read the bot description, but this is a more detailed and provides a fine rational to trust the bot will avoid conflicts. Keep up the good work. I need to look into building a bot eventually. :) Wolfgang8741 (talk) 03:23, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
@Nikki: Where does the NikkiBot get the "instance of" type? Do you have a mapping of GNIS classes to WikiData Items for NikkiBot? I noticed NikkiBot adds "instance of" to items like this example. This would be useful for the Import data as the GNIS classes hierarchy don't necessarily directly line up with Wikidata's taxonomy hierarchy. For instance Peninsula is above Cape and GNIS includes penninsula's under class Cape. An instance of where I'm seeing Cape broadly applied Blacklock Point (Q49861486) and Point (Q24529780) seems more applicable. Might be wise to hold off the "instance of" edits if only GNIS classes are being directly applied. A mapping is what I'm trying to achieve for the data import, so let's see what we can come up with.

Etymology of kazh (L458)Edit

Hi,

I'm curious, do you have a reference for L458derived from (P5191)  L21638?

It seems probably right but I've looked in two dictionaries about etymology of Breton and couldn't find it (and contradictory, the first saying that it doesn't come from cattus (L6872) and the second saying it does… so a third reference might help).

Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 16:08, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

@VIGNERON: Hi and sorry it took a while to respond. I don't remember exactly where I saw it, but I think I was looking at wikt:en:Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/kaθ. I managed to find a copy of the book referenced on that page and it doesn't seem to say anything about Proto-Brythonic, I can only find an entry for "*katto-" which says "BRET: MBret. caz, MoBret. kazh [m]". - Nikki (talk) 11:23, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
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