User talk:Rich Farmbrough
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Table oddities
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Cheshunt Lock and other notes
[edit]- Another Gorka source
- http://www.leeandstort.co.uk/Cheshunt_Lock.htm
- Dictionary of Kongo
- Faith hope and charity
- Colour list
- Queen's Hospital, Croydon see Fay Allen , Queen's Hospital (disambiguation)
- Chirurgeon
- Arnold Birkman ditto, insignia foxes shaking hands, ditto (heirs of, 1555, dubious) Also Collen = Cologne (Koln). booke-for-all-the-grefes-and-diseases-of-the-bodye/oclc/14317345 qv, ,
- COvid vit D (dubious?)
- RAC cites Pettigrew.
- Regulation, rent-seeking, and the Glorious Revolution in the English Atlantic economy
- A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester (iss 1-3?) Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Demy-Octavo (corrigenda P 214): bound in with Rutland Words 1891 Kegan Paul, Trubner & Co (Paternoster House, Charing Cross)
- Odiham Hundred
- County Magazine re twelfth cake, and Pompeii/Hereculaneum?
- Oppression in 19th century Britain
- Winter 1966]
- 420
- Coastal eutrophication & plastic density
- NHS funding
- Bennet and Kerr books
- Dr Johnsons's Dictionary
- Captivity of Mrs Rowlandson
- Sari Bear see also A Duty Clear Before Us : North Beach and the Sari Bair Range, Gallipoli Peninsula 25 April-20 December 1999., ,
- Cat and Bagpipean soc. see also Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue infra, See also: A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
- Study of circs of TMWWBQ
- Catamaran
- F. Grose Classical Dic., catamaran, chuffy
- Ubuntu bash multi-terminal history
- Author's alliance fair use guidance
- Language speeds (sieve)
- Pesticide Properties Data Base (Glyphosate)
- Mandy Rice-Davies Seven Magnificent Gladiators
- Warlike Operations Area Committee
- Laser Activated Remote Phosphor (LARP)
- PASC
- There seems to be confusion between Spiraea arguta and Spiraea prunifolia, only the former I think is correctly dubbed "bridal wreath".
- Meadowsweet <- Meadow sweet Meadow-sweet
- Find out whether dry-point [A Catalogue of Manuscripts Known to Contain Old English Dry-Point Glosses] (de: Griffelglossen) includes/is metalpoint. DNC drypoint. Ans. Blackwell Ency.c Ag-Sax England, entry Glosses cited therein - 'with a stylus' 'scratched'
- Investigate Bald's Leechbook and Lacnunga.
- Wynde Monah 1845 see alsoBailey
- John Eversely https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58673/supplement/4/data.pdf https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-princess-royal-shakes-hands-with-mr-john-eversley-news-photo/834710966 https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2008/04/23/enterprising-individuals-get-queens-award https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business/2211450.best-uk-business-recognised-awards/ https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Award+recognises+John%27s+contribution%3B+in+association+with+RBS.-a0178074996
- https://www.europeana.eu/en
- Broken symmetry https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/04/13/clinical-trial-should-probably-wont-close-book-ivermectin-16244
- Sort order, name https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Ann_Brock_Putnam&diff=prev&oldid=880695609
- Barret M82 an 11/12 round mag was made need a better ref if possible. perhaps or
- Hilary English
- https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-sanctions-family-syria-asma-assad-end-war
- probably WISEA J100115.86+555344.3 move to WISEA 1001+5553 (needs refs)
- 'Top 400' political scientists (US, Phd granting institutions only, tenure or tenure track, by citation count)
- Tha Si Sunthon Heroines Monument
- Isaac Wayne For his grandfather...
- St Mary Magdalene's, Longfield lnk Thomas Plume (Also spellings of Longflield.)
- Ejidal -> Ejido
2025
[edit]- Seacoal Sea coal
- PPLAAF
- Shooting Butts School
- Cassells Paten Pangram (Connoisseur Magazine vol 57)
- COMB breach
Things to unarchive
[edit]- Space discussion.
- Engvar discussion
Wikidata weekly summary #754
[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-10-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #753.
week leading up to 2026-10-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #753.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- OKA Bot 3 - Task/s: Reference works and registers, like Task 2 (Historical Dictionary of Switzerland and Store norske leksikon). Each item-linked entry, adds statements, references, sources where value is same and missing identifiers.
- UBZH Videothek Bot - Task/s: Add external identifiers of films and film directors/people to existing items (from film catalogue of the University Library of Zurich: UZH, Videothek database).
- EZBIDsBot - Task/s: Adding EZB ID, ZDB ID, website URL, Print ISSN, and Online ISSN from EZB dataset where they are missing in Wikidata.
- Closed request for comments: Schema Virtual tour - the RfC has been inactive since 2025, but discussion can continue on a dedicated page: Schema Proposals/Virtual Tour
Events
- Upcoming events:
- The Query Service Days is currently ongoing! We still have many great sessions left so don't miss out, especially if you use SPARQL, {{Wikidata List}} or the query service (WDQS) in anyway...here's some helpful links:
- Register to get access to the live-sessions
- See the full program, including links to the previous sessions and recordings.
- Wikidata's 14th Birthday is approaching soon...see what events are planned on the Calendar or near you on the Map.
- Rutgers University is holding 2 Wikidata Edit-A-Thons, open to all students, faculty, staff and community members. No Wikidata experience is required.
- Newark Activists, Artists, Academics edit-a-thon, Oct 19, 12:00 - 14:00 EDT
- Black Bibliograohy edit-A-Thon, Oct 21, 12:00 - 16:00 EDT
- Drop in and Wikidata (Oct), a community call and live session will take place 29 Oct, 19:00 pm – 20:30 pm AEDT
- The Query Service Days is currently ongoing! We still have many great sessions left so don't miss out, especially if you use SPARQL, {{Wikidata List}} or the query service (WDQS) in anyway...here's some helpful links:
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Papers:
- Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography?, The Signpost, October 13, 2026
- Using Wikidata to find duplicates in the Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) - Librarians used Wikidata queries to identify and resolve duplicate records in the Library of Congress Name Authority File, improving 1,559 Wikidata items and reporting 166 duplicate records for deletion over six months. By Muratsubaki, (2026).
- Videos:
- Datasets: A dataset comparing Wikipedia biographies count to UN birth estimates by country, gender, and language edition". Codeberg, 2026-07-12, https://codeberg.org/pac2/biographies-vs-births
Tool of the week
- Script newentity.js Generates new items (including lexemes) from the given JSON object. The tool was created by User:GZWDer
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Upcoming changes to XML dumps
- Mobile statement editing, now available to all editors
- Wikimania scholarships
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- European Legislation Identifier (EU) (EU legislation identifier for documents published by the EU, its member states and other (non-EU) countries)
- External identifiers: YouSaid person ID, StoryGraph book ID, Scholastica scholar ID, Ohio Entity Number, Lrytas.lt topic ID, ISDCF studio identifier, ISDCF facility identifier, Calames archives ID, Hannah Arendt edition person ID, Climate Policy Radar Topics, E-CRIS.SR ID, Demko ID, Delfi.lt topic ID, Beeld & Geluid program ID, Baza osób polskich ID, BallotReady person ID, swissNAMES3D ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan article (A reference to an article in the printed National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan, identified by its volume and page number.)
- juvenile form of (taxon (or taxa) of which instances of this item may be juveniles)
- development code (code assigned by a company or research organisation to a drug substance or product during development, before or alongside its nonproprietary name)
- part of the observance of (holiday or observation on which this tradition is observed, this item is used, or with which this character is associated)
- External identifiers: ID závodiště podle českého Jockey Clubu, German War Memorial Website ID, ERef Bayreuth ID, EPub Bayreuth ID, Kansallinen Liiga player ID, SPL person ID, Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon, Inscriptions of Aphrodisias ID, The Session composer ID, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021 ID, Filmoteket, Ecocard ID, Kanalregister, IBA cocktail ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Schema examples: (E208) SPARQL endpoint - entity schema of entities with SPARQL endpoint.
- Newest WikiProjects: Project Lukion taulukot - aims to develop a source-based, mul vocabulary of secondary-school science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) (uses Finnish reference work Lukion taulukot as its starting corpus).
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Project GovDirectory have added an Estonian subpage.
- Project Library and Information Services added a Statistics subpage.
- Project Ethnomusicological descriptors from the University of Turin added an Instruments subpage.
- Newest database reports: Wikidata Query Help - with many database reports using the Query Service as a source, this will be a helpful page for the planned migration.
Development
- Mobile editing of statements: We set the new mobile statement editing UI live for all mobile users
- REST API: We are finishing the work on being able to add Senses to existing Lexemes (phab:T432569)
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- Wikidata entities used in this page in the Page Information (example) and Edit source views will now render with their local-language labels (in addition to their QID/PIDs) so it is easier to understand which Items, Properties, etc are used in an article (phab:T440430)
- We are continuing to investigate the impacts of raising the entity usage limit (phab:T441306)
- We are protyping wireframe versions of a new filter on Recent changes and Watchlist for Language Links under "Wikidata Edits" in Active Filters (phab:T441388)
- hCaptcha: We started implementation work for hCaptcha on Wikidata.org (phab:T426089)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The article Subsidiaries and affiliates of TotalEnergies has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Wikidata weekly summary #755
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-10-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #754.
week leading up to 2026-10-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #754.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Chemobot - Task/s: Add german substance name in existing wikidata entries.
- KnutuxBot - Task/s: Add "described by source" (P1343) statements citing the 1925 gazetteer Lietuvos apgyventos vietos (Q141805965) to about 14,000 existing Lithuanian settlement and rural-district (valsčius) items, with page, name-as-printed and Wikisource-URL qualifiers.
- AipAerobot - Task/s: Add described at URL (P973) (described at URL) to aerodrome items that carry ICAO airport code (P239) (ICAO code), pointing to that aerodrome's page on aip.aero, qualified with language of work or name (P407) (language of work or name).
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: all closed as successful - EZBIDsBot, Alex NB OT, Wahl.de Bot, FoxfindingBot and OKA bot 2
Events
- Upcoming events:
- 🎂 Wikidata turns 14 on 29 October! Join an event, add a birthday gift, or hop on the birthday call at 17:00 UTC (see in your own time zone). Find everything here: Wikidata Fourteenth Birthday. Share with #Wikidata14 or #WikidataBirthday. See you Thursday 🥳
- AI-BRIDGES project invites organisations to submit questions for Wikidata
- Wikidata Day NYC 2026 - this meetup is at capacity, but anyone is welcome to join the livestream. See event for details.
- (Deutsch) Share research – Basics for the participation in the Wikiverse using the example of the Gotha Research Library, a free webinar via Zoom taking place 25 November 14:00-14:30 CEST.
- Past Events: Query Service Days 2026 - catch up on all recorded sessions from the Event page.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: The Art of Information "From Wikidata to Axiell Collections: Automating Geographic Data for Museum Collections"
- Papers:
- [preprint] “A Dictionary Without Its Own Database: Building an Offline-First Dagbanli Dictionary on Wikidata Lexemes” (zenodo). Describes the Dagbanli Dictionary, reporting data-quality findings from linking recorded speech to Lexemes and noting that two-thirds of Lexemes have only one Form and some frequent words are missing from Wikidata entirely. By Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
- AC-IQuAD: Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata
- Videos:
- Wikidata Workshop: Black Artists on Wikidata Project - by Wiki Activate Africa, aims to improve representation and visibility of Black artists, creatives, and cultural practitioners in global digital knowledge ecosystem.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #126 Wikidata Query Service Days 2026 - User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 will do some livestreaming (in English), and discuss how to adapt the queries of WikiProject Govdirectory and the thought process behind it.
- Canvas vs SVG: drawing a Wikidata graph No. 10 from the "Building smollerGraph" series.
- EMCO Wikidata Community of Practice autumn meeting (Part 2)
- (zh-TW/Chinese) Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2026 - part of the Fourteenth Birthday events
Tool of the week
- A Wikidata Merge Assistance By connorshea web-based tool designed to help editors find, evaluate, and resolve duplicate items on Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Castles QA is a tool to see which data properties are still missing in Wikidata in the domain of castles, palaces and fortresses. Feedback welcome!
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- martial arts style (school or style of martial arts this person studied or practiced)
- has language or spelling variant (the (multilingual) label of the linked item is a a language, spelling or etymological variation of the label of this item)
- biome (biome in which a geographical area is wholly or partly located, according to a documented ecological classification)
- juvenile form of (instances of the subject item are juveniles of one of these class(es) of organisms)
- development code (code assigned by a company or research organisation to a drug substance or product during development, before or alongside its nonproprietary name)
- External identifiers: RETE ID, Tabularius entity ID, On Think Tanks Directory ID, Mappola ID, GBIF occurrence key, NicoNicoPedia article ID, German War Memorial ID, ERef Bayreuth ID, EPub Bayreuth ID, AbeBooks author ID, Nederlands Fotomuseum ID, Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon, AVN company ID, AVN person ID, SPL person ID, Victorian Heritage Overlay Number, Centre Delavouët catalog author ID, The Session composer ID, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021 ID, Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (2007) ID, Filmoteket ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- accumulated cyclone energy (sum of the squared maximum sustained winds at 6-hour intervals of a tropical cyclone, a tropical cyclone season, or a time period, where the winds at that particular point in time are at least gale-force (34 knots or higher), in units of 10 kilo-square-knots (unit implied))
- full work formatter URL (formatter URL for the web page containing this work; URI template from which "$1" can be automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items. If the site goes offline, set it to deprecated rank. If the formatter URL changes, add a new statement with preferred rank.)
- Key or index image (Secondary image which acts as an index or key to the contents of the subject image)
- External identifiers: The Montessorians ID, FEI Horse ID, IT History Forum Data Archive ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology equipment ID, Historical East German Biographies ID, TURKPATENT geographical indication ID, BGA ID, MEMO ID, Hong Kong Jockey Club horse ID, Der Spiegel sports data ID, GitHub Advisory Database ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Japanese Ethnic Group Claims
- Schema example: (E257) Politician - simple schema for validating a politician (occupation = Q82955)
Development
- hCaptcha support: We've added hCaptcha support to Special:Set* forms and started implementing support on Special:NewItem/Special:NewProperty forms
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We are verifying that not bundling entity usages reduces the amount of unnecessary changes coming from Wikidata in the Recent changes and Watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T440856)
- We are conducting interviews and prototype testing on wireframe versions of a new filter for language link changes under "Wikidata Edits" in the filters on Recent changes and Watchlist
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2026-44
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- An experiment launched on September 29 is testing article recommendations for new account holders who also identify as readers. By suggesting articles to read, similar to recommendations in the Wikipedia app for logged-in readers, the experiment aims to encourage new account holders to read and return to the website regularly, with the goal of increasing internal referrals by 1%. See the related Community Wishlist proposal.
- Several Wikimedia services were taken offline last week because of a security vulnerability in PHP. This is because they need to be updated before they are safe to put back online. This is not a problem just for the Wikimedia movement but affects a lot of websites. You can follow updates on Wikitech. Cloud VPS and Toolforge will take longer to bring back online. This is to make sure that applications which run on Cloud VPS or Toolforge are not affected. Tool developers can see updates and more information on the Cloud-announce mailing list.
- Last week we shared that to measure the impact of incorporating some community-requested features on logged-out reader retention, a test for the Image Carousel feature would be pushed to logged-out readers. Due to an issue, we will be restarting the test, but it will be live on October 26, not November 20 as initially announced.
Updates for editors
- A new bot detection system to better identify automated traffic that disguises itself as human visitors, is coming to the Wikimedia wikis. This might cause sudden changes to visitor statistics starting from 26 October, going back to 20 June 2026.
- The Score extension which renders musical notation inside wiki pages, has been temporarily disabled on all wikis due to a security issue. Affected pages will display a notice instead of musical scores, but the underlying code remains intact. No action is needed from editors, and a fix is in progress. A separate announcement will follow when the extension is re-enabled. Read more on Phabricator.
View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where CodeMirror syntax highlighter appears to have been enabled in error for existing editors has been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, October 28 2026 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Scholarship and sponsorship applications for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon will close on Friday, October 30th. Submit your application through Pretix before the deadline!
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Mass edit restrictions
[edit]Hello Rich. I have a few things to ask.
- Where is the consensus for the series of edits you made on 25 October pertaining to French mayors?
- Did you realize that multiple of these changes made the cosmetic change of changing
–to its Unicode representation? E.g.
You have two outstanding restrictions pertaining to both items. Izno (talk) 03:02, 28 October 2026 (UTC)
- I have written a small tool to update these, and done a quick test which is now complete. I am debating whether to offer the tool to those involved in Infobox commune or start an RFC in November. Both have downsides and upsides.
- I think you are misinterpreting COSMETIC. Replacing one date range with another is an edit which changes the article visibly and substantially.
- Hope that makes sense I saw your notification in the middle of the night.
- All the best: Rich Farmbrough 06:21, 28 October 2026 (UTC).
Nomination of Subsidiaries and affiliates of TotalEnergies for deletion
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The Signpost: 1 November 2026
[edit]- News and notes: AELECT5 concludes, a Wikimedian arrested for treason, and updates to GANs and FARs
Nine new admins, three arrests, and a lot of GAN RFCs.
- Recent research: How Wikipedians use (or don't use) LLMs; experienced editors contribute more to "underproduced" articles than newbies
And other new research findings.
- Disinformation report: Better bots or bothersome baby borgs?
Have the Borg landed on Wikipedia?
- In the media: Stop the internet, I was deleted
Can toeing the line stop the apocalypse?
- News from Diff: Why Wikimedia Is Speaking Up in a Major AI Copyright Case
When AI companies use copyrighted information, does it qualify as fair use?
- By the numbers: Wikipedian Nobel Prize 2026
Which language versions of Wikipedia had biographies of laureates before Nobel announcements?
- On the bright side: Gone fishing
Touring Thailand, exploring iridescence, and translating prairie dog.
- Traffic report: October, and the articles are stripped bare
Lots of deaths, Indian movies, and monsters. Happy Halloween!
- In focus: Two Roles, One Wikimedia Education Ecosystem
What happens when different approaches to Wikimedia education connect?
- Comix: Inactivity
Zounds!