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Comments about admin flags have little to do with your PAST edits

Your edits are acceptable, but I feel if you fill admins task along with editing, both of them would be sub par. I feel that MisterSynergy can edit without distraction on admin tasks. That's why I weakly opposed on your candidate so far.

It is difficult to spot mistakes for accounts with 100K+ edits.

Feel free to fill another request, but please be more specific what you intend to maintain and how. d1g (talk) 17:23, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

What prompted you to write this? MechQuester (talk) 18:37, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Your user profile. d1g (talk) 18:49, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

@D1gggg:, I was thinking of dealing with administrative things for now on. MechQuester (talk) 18:50, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Your bot request

What do you mean by this edit? Since this is your bot request, I am afraid you can only withdraw the request, and from the discussion it does not look to me like you are withdrawing.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:09, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

I will revert that. MechQuester (talk) 19:46, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:47, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #266

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, June 26th
  • Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel wikimedia-office
  • Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some documentation in German)
  • Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata, by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project
  • ORCID Mania (in response to this call for a tool to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata)
  • I use Wikidata for multilingual names, by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot'
  • Resource discovery and Wikidata
  • Where the streets have known names - Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata
  • Extracting scientists from Wikipedia - Academic paper
  • ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es) by the Cervantes virtual library

Cheat sheet about Wikidata Query Service (de)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • What are your favorite tools using Wikidata?
  • Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata
  • New Wikidata Game: Wikidata Guessr guess the locations of random Wikidata items
  • OpenRefine 2.7 has been released, including the Wikidata Reconcile service
  • Nice graphics about Wikidata and the Query Service (in German) by Bleeptrack
  • New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed to match the catalogue
  • Some help needed to map the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger and the Glottolog catalogue

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID, MyAnimeList manga ID, MyAnimeList anime ID, MyAnimeList character ID, MyAnimeList people ID, HFC NPS unit ID, image captured with, Biodiversity Heritage Library creator ID, number of houses, Theatres Trust Database ID, SKIP code, Pizmonet ID, WorldSBK.com racer identifier, Czech Monument Catalogue Number, FFN swimmer ID, Wikia wiki ID
  • Query examples:
    • BubbleChart of Metal band by country (.com/belett/status/878587099183800323 source)
    • Viennese composers and their compositions by tonality (.com/WikidataFacts/status/877601117504503809 source)
    • Most prolific authors of scientific articles on Wikidata, who are still alive, without ORCID (.com/MagnusManske/status/877538855989252096 source)
    • Average age of members of the Landtag of Thuringia (.com/WikidataFacts/status/879351634534576129 source)
  • Newest external tools: VizQuery

• Development
  • Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example)
  • Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (phab:T167870)
  • More work on constraints checks (phab:T168629)
  • Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (phab:T46874)
  • Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (phab:T167625)
  • Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (phab:T163923)
  • Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (phab:T165567)
  • Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (phab:T163119)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:00, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Incorrect claims

Hi MechQuester. I am writing to inform you that I am removing claims that you created, see Special:Diff/432754268 for example. It seems that you added this incorrectly, since the locations aren't in UTC+8 time zone, but UTC+7. You may find the evidence by querying in Google and find "time in Central Java". Best, ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 05:07, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

@Rachmat04:, thanks for letting me know. I appreciate it. Just note, Indonesia has 3 time zones. MechQuester (talk) 12:28, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Correct. All administrative divisions located in Central Java are in UTC+7. It may cause confusion to anyone who sees that Singapore (Q334) or Malaysia (Q833) are in UTC+8, but areas in Java (Q3757) that are situated more eastern that those country, still in UTC+7. ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 14:51, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Be more carefull

Hi MechQuester, I had to fix around one hundred taxon related items created by you. Please be more carefull using your bot account. --Succu (talk) 20:57, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi @Succu:, Im really sorry. I should not have checked everything on Petscan. Thank you for notifying me. I'll go back and check some of the items. thanks. MechQuester (talk) 21:04, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Please check your method, which claims genera to be species or adding strange values for instance of (P31). It's not the first incident in this domain caused by you. --Succu (talk) 21:12, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

of course. MechQuester (talk) 21:15, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #267

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comment: When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour (read the full log here)
  • Past: Online Wikidata workshop in French (Wikipédia:Soirées Wiki en ligne)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata and SPARQL workshop and Celtic Knot Conference in Edinburgh
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during the Africa Open Data Conference, in Accra, Ghana, July 17-21
  • A Wikidata workshop conducted in Bangalore
  • Blog report about the second Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic (in Czech)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Join the Cycle 3 of the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions, and debate about the challenges identified by the research
  • Sitelinks for the new Kabiye Wikipedia (kbpwiki) can be added
  • We reached Q31000000
  • a dataset of 48,000 English questions have been mapped to Wikidata
  • New Mix’n’match catalog: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • COH Challenge: in July, add pictures from the Connected Open Heritage in Wikidata
  • We asked the followers of the Wikidata Twitter account if they know about SPARQL
  • The constraint check script has been turned into a gadget, and other news
  • Platypus has started to learn Spanish
  • WikidataCon: We reached 100 registrations, the event is complete for now. More tickets will be released in September. You can still register on the waitlist.
  • WikidataCon scholarships applications are open until July 16th
  • MySociety is hiring a community manager to work on EveryPolitician with Wikidata and SPARQL

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: parliamentary group, metrically compatible typeface, BVMC place id, MuseScore ID, RePEc institute ID, Principal Galaxies Catalogue ID, Australian Standard Geographic Classification 2006 ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2016 ID, checksum, Irish Grid Reference, Biodiversity Repository ID, Global Terrorism Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place of birth of the authors on Wikimammenn, the breton Wikisource
    • First names of current French members of Parliament (.com/framawiki/status/880821943636807681 source)
    • Timeline of the births of current members of the French National Assembly (.com/envlh/status/880835274208665600 source)
    • Family tree of Harry Potter characters (.com/WikidataFacts/status/879422840059158530 source)
    • Map of mountains located in the Basque Country (.com/euwikipedia/status/881615439255789568 source)
    • Items with higher number of child statements than number of children (.com/WikidataFacts/status/881206185365565441 source)
    • Pictures of Pharaos (.com/MagnusManske/status/880431726543216640 source)
    • Map of departemental archives in France (.com/Pymouss/status/881801591589924864 source)
  • Newest gadgets: Units converter converts from 20 currencies to a selected currency. Converts metric units (mass, dimensions, area, temperature, speed) to/from United States units. The currency amounts are inflation adjusted if data is available.

• Development
  • Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
  • Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:26, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Blocked

You have been blocked for 1 week for abusing multiple accounts. Not only were the accounts not disclosed, but they were also used on the same items, for example [1]. You are welcome to appeal using {{Unblock}}.

I will also be blocking the alternate accounts indefinitely. --Rschen7754 00:32, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

@Rschen7754:, I have already an appeal with Arbcom on enwiki. Would you like to know anymore? You also might to know that he might use this 1 week block to dominate the conversation at my bot request. MechQuester (talk) 01:00, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

What ArbCom does on enwiki has little bearing here. --Rschen7754 01:06, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Of course not. I have little to say, unless.... you actually have some interest why I used multiple accounts. MechQuester (talk) 01:08, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

The rules here are different: all accounts must be disclosed openly, per WD:SOCK. --Rschen7754 01:11, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

I know. I have to disclose them. However, its moot since the entire community already knows now. MechQuester (talk) 01:13, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

I gonna go now. I also...... will just have to leave for the time being, and perhaps indefinitely.

also, XXN, feel free to do whatever you want to that Bot request. If you are willing, you can do whatever you want with it, whether you can scream the most, take a piss on it, whatever.

Wikidata will just not receive free contributions from me anymore. I have my own life to live and it does not have to be digital avatars. 300,000+ edits is great enough, just enough for my appetite. Take care everyone. MechQuester (talk) 01:22, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #268

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Africa Open Data Conference in Accra, including a Wikidata editathon on July 17th
  • Past: Celtic Knot Conference, Edinburgh, including several presentations related to Wikidata (.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23CelticKnot%20Wikidata&src=typd tweets about Wikidata during the conference)
  • Past: WikiWomenCamp (including a Wikidata presentation by Harmonia Amanda)
  • A visual exploration of musical bands on Wikidata, by RAW Graphs team

• WikidataCon
  • Last days of the scholarship process! If you need to be funded for the WikidataCon, please fill the form before July 16th
  • Which discussions, workshops, demos should be covered during the WikidataCon?

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have some real Meta data!
  • The StrepHit team has submitted an official uplift proposal for the primary sources tool
  • Migration of constraint definitions to property statements around July 12th
  • Sitelinks for the new Atikamekw Wikipedia (atjwiki) can be added
  • Citation management tool Zotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata via QuickStatements. See Wikidata:Zotero for details.
  • New step towards structured data for Commons is now available
  • One week after Q31000000 we have Q32000000

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: PalDat plant ID, openAIP ID, Ontario Heritage Act Register ID, NLS Geographic Names Place ID, NLS-FI Geographic Name ID, National Record of the Historic Environment ID, JewAge person ID, INSPIRE ID, ADK member ID, FRED time-series ID, danskfilmogtv person, danskefilm TV Christmas calendar, Crunchyroll ID, URN-NBN, Gedbas genealogy person ID, Framalibre ID, Finnish archaeological heritage ID, EGF rating, Carnegie Hall agent ID, assets under management, Atlas of Hillforts ID, dissertation submitted to
  • Query examples:
    • Scientific articles from PubMed that mention what version of STATA was used (.com/WikiDigi/status/884407924105371648 source)
    • 1000 places in UK that have no label in Welsh (.com/Auregann/status/883318497694056448 source)
    • Wikivoyage banners for French municipalities (.com/ash_crow/status/882912263753134080 source)
    • Paintings with musical instruments from Spain or related to Spain (.com/archivienne/status/882892279152861185 source)
    • Images of things or persons in Wikidata with a Github account (.com/fnielsen/status/882571405488992256 source)
    • Map of birthplaces of women who were educated in Edinburgh university (.com/emcandre/status/882206623225319424 source)
  • Newest database reports: reports with items that only have a P641-statement (sport)

• Development
  • Search results will not only show labels but also descriptions with language fallbacks (gerrit:362215). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
  • Fixed link to the file description page in the Image Header gadget (phab:T169558)
  • Forms of the Lexeme are multi-variant (phab:T165575)
  • Preparing a demonstration of referencing Forms and Sense of a Lexeme in statements (phab:T169716)
  • Property constraint definitions will be migrated to statements (phab:T169647, Project chat)
  • Implemented “Format” constraint (phab:T102752, help page)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:16, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue VI, June 2017 Headlines Argentina report: Campaign #1lib1ref in Buenos Aires, new material donated and guidelines for cultural institutions Basque Country report: Idazlezainak: librarians as writers' curators Belgium report: GLAM seminar Sharing is Caring Bulgaria report: Bulgarian GLAM activists were awarded with the "Friends of the Archives" Award Côte d'Ivoire report: Strategy discussion with GLAM partners Czech Republic report: WikiCity Litovel Estonia report: Summer school about photographic collections France report: Conference for Archives of Gironde Germany report: "Wiki Loves Music" project features musical instruments from two museums, and more Italy report: Edit-a-thons & libraries Macedonia report: New collaboration of GLAM Macedonia user group with the City Library in Skopje Netherlands report: Workshop children's books, Sharing is Caring Brussels, short WiR period at Utrecht University Library & Preparations medieval image donation Russia report: WikiProjects of students of Petrozavodsk State University Spain report: Wikipedia and the Museum of Málaga Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Wiki Loves Earth; Water data on Wikidata UK report: Summer of data Ukraine report: Sharing images in print and digital USA report: June is bustin' out all over Wikidata report: Requesting your input; news from MySociety WMF GLAM report: Welcome; Documentation Update; Other updates Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #269

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: talk about Wikidata at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing by Lydia
  • Past: Wikidata hackathon during Africa Open Data Conference in Accra
  • Upcoming: Café OpenStreetMap e Wikidata, July 22nd, in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Report of the workshop about election data (in German)
  • Integrating Wikidata and other linked data sources – Federated SPARQL queries, on The SuLab

• WikidataCon
  • The scholarship process is now closed. Recipients will be informed around July 25th.
  • You can still suggest ideas for the program, or submit a project until July 31st. The program of the conference is made by the attendees, only what you bring will be in there :)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We now have a page describing our use of RDF
  • We now have Q33000000
  • The database reports about items without statements are updated again. English Wikipedia is up at 4.8% (from 4.6%). Dutch Wikipedia remains low at 0.8%.
  • Check out some improvements to the Query Service, and a new prototype for the Query Helper
  • New Wikidata maps with a comparison between October 2016 and July 2017
  • Help improving Wikidata documentation during the Wikimania hackathon

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: NPSN Indonesian school ID, EmbassyPages.com ID, ESEC person ID, Titan ID, Who's Who in France biography ID, French National Assembly ID
  • Query examples:
    • Graph of operating systems (.com/WikiDigi/status/885540466237767681 source)
    • Couples of Members of Parliament in UK (.com/everypolitbot/status/885467159916412929 source)
    • People who have the same person listed as both their parent and their child (.com/generalising/status/885261646389817346 source)
    • Map of “railway things” in Berlin, as classified by LinkedGeoData.org (.com/WikidataFacts/status/884691401816014848 source)
    • Map of discovery locations of the objects stored in the Musée Saint-Raymond (.com/christelmolinie/status/885935704139853824 source)
    • metro stations in Germany with public domain images on Commons (.com/robbi5/status/884842705137827842 source)
    • UK Members of Parliament who are born out of the UK (.com/everypolitbot/status/884723973216489474 source)

• Development
  • Preparing Lexemes demo for Wikimania
  • Fixing links to non-entity namespaces (phab:T169221) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
  • Tracking labels of quantity units in parser and Lua functions (phab:T170167) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
  • Fixing checking of constraints on deprecated statements (phab:T170391)
  • Improving the Query Service UI (phab:T170279)
  • Improving wbsearchentities (phab:T103875)
  • Removing links from printable version (phab:T87108)
  • Adding customizable fallback to Special:GoToLinkedPage (phab:T166473)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:33, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #270

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata SPARQL workshop, July 25th in Rennes (France)
  • Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS, July 26th in Berlin
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Montreal, August 14th (in French). We're looking for trainers!
  • Using Wikidata as an open, community-maintained database of biomedical knowledge, by Andrew Su

• WikidataCon
  • You can submit projects for the program until July 31st. See the list of ideas, existing submissions, and submit!
  • Special tickets for scholarship recipients will be released on July 25th. The last 50 tickets will be released on September 1st.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wbEntity config variable will be deprecated
  • Scores in ORES will be more accurate
  • A new version of the Query Helper will be deployed
  • Sitelinks for the new Dinka Wikipedia (dinwiki) have been added
  • On Wikidata:Usability and usefulness you can see an overview of the work done by the UX people in the Wikidata team on usability
  • There's a brand new newsletter about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can subscribe to receive next updates.
  • Ma Commune Wikipédia is a website developed by Wikimedia France to give information about the state of the Wikipedia articles for every French municipality and encourage people to edit the Wikimedia projects. It uses Wikidata to identify the communes.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Patrimonioculturale-ER ID, linguistic typology, annual energy output, USHMM person ID, Cinema Treasures ID
  • Query examples:
    • Properties with most “statement disputed by” qualifiers (.com/WikidataFacts/status/888787899029884928 source)
    • Last meals of people (.com/WikidataFacts/status/888789207950520321 source)
    • Colors on national flags (.com/belett/status/888756671278927872 source)
    • images of all winners of Free Software Foundation's Free Software Awards (.com/WikiDigi/status/888041091211177984 source)
  • lib.reviews now allows searching Wikidata directly to choose subjects to review. (more info)

• Development
  • The wbEntity JavaScript variable will not miss elements any more but contain empty arrays instead (gerrit:365604). Please check if this affects your scripts, and have a look at the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook as a possible replacement.
  • Fire-fighting dispatch backlog: phab:T171263.
  • Slowly making progress on wb_terms migration to full entity IDs: phab:T114903.
  • Constraint statements have been enabled (announcement).
  • Distinguish between non-mandatory and mandatory constraints: phab:T164254.
  • Work on supporting unit conversion for more units: phab:T168582

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #271

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikimania is coming! Check out all the things related to Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon during Repository Fringe 2017, in Edinburgh, August 4th
  • Data Partnerships with Wikidata: beaTunes (version in German)
  • Wikidata visualizes SMILES strings with John Mayfield's CDK Depict
  • Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community

• WikidataCon
  • Today is the very last day to submit projects in the program! (deadline: July 31th)
  • You can also subscribe to the existing submissions to show your interest and support your favorites

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wbsearchentities with ElasticSearch test
  • Quantities with units are now supported in the new QuickStatements.
  • Property talk pages now include queries for items with the property and most sitelinks, statements or identifiers.
  • We now have Q34000000
  • Wikidata Constraint Violations tool visualizes changes in constraint violations for last few weeks. Some of constraints produce millions of violations (marked as red).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: maximum age, WIGOS station ID
  • Query examples:
    • Which White House chief of staff had the shortest tenure? (.com/wikimediadc/status/891131373293113349 source)
    • Total number of sister city statements per country (.com/WikidataFacts/status/889883321546805248 source)
    • Pictures of tube stations in London (.com/betatim/status/889857451658444805 source)
    • Works created with the software Maya (.com/WikiDigi/status/890961633165684737 source)
    • Do I cite works from Nobel Prize winners? (.com/egonwillighagen/status/890151632469708801 source)
    • ...or do Nobel prize winners cite me? (.com/egonwillighagen/status/890151906957553669 source)
    • Timeline of Humanitarian personality of the year (.com/K_rho/status/889480611215405057 source)
  • New feature/gadget requests: Gadget for changing property

• Development
  • Added Special:NewItem to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T169456) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek
  • Making possible to check constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
  • Working on showing non-mandatory and mandatory constraints differently (phab:T164254)
  • Improving Special:PagesWithProp for Wikidata use cases (phab:T66950)
  • Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania
  • Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to delays in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:26, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue VII, July 2017 Headlines France report: WikiTrain in Rennes Italy report: Edit-a-thon in Pieve Tesino UK report: Politician pin ups USA report: Dog days of summer Wikimania report: GLAM at Wikimania 2017 Wikidata report: Zotero for Wikidata; Changes to Constraint Handling WMF GLAM report: Edit-a-thons, Structured Commons and Wikimedia Blog Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #272

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikimania hackathon and documentation sprint, August 9-10, Montreal
  • Upcoming: Wikimania, August 10-13, Montreal. Check out all the things related to Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in French, August 14, Montreal

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • w:en:Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata has now more than 1000 articles
  • Wikidata passed 6 average statements per item

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: offset, File format magic numbers, game mechanics, weather history, conjugate base, conjugate acid, Atheneum museum ID, Atheneum person ID, Atheneum artwork ID, Finnish List of Lights ID, RIWAQ Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine ID, Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID, energy storage capacity, National Assembly of Nigeria ID, Treasury of Lives ID, muzzle velocity, WIGOS station ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the programming languages created in the past 10 years (.com/WikiDigi/status/893167958272421889 source)
    • Countries where no european language has official or national status (.com/PoulpyWP/status/892850151177334784 source)
    • Gallery of Star Trek characters (.com/gobfrey/status/893411288990310401 source)
    • Timeline of female medieval writers (.com/philbarker/status/893422736894242816 source)
  • Newest script: moveClaim.js allows moving claims across items. Try it and give feedback to Matěj Suchánek
  • Newest external tools: d3-sparql allows you to query a SPARQL endpoint and get the data in a d3js-useful format

• Development
  • Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component.
  • Released the DataValues Interfaces component in version 0.2.3.
  • Released the ValueView component in version 0.20.0
  • Fixed a problem with suggestions of P279 (phab:T169060)
  • Preparing everything for Wikimania and the hackathon

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Wikidata weekly summary #273

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Restrict merging rights to autoconfirmed users
  • Change "Nearby" link to list items nearby the item?
  • New request for comments: P31 or P279 for geo-objects

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikifying Westminster: Wikidata workshop around UK political data, August 19th, London
  • Past: Wikimania, Wikimedia hackathon. A lot of things happened during these events, reports and news should be published in the next days.
  • Exploring the world with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, by Mapbox
  • Enriching catalogue pages in Evergreen with Wikidata by Dan Scott
  • Why data partners should link their vocabulary to Wikidata: a new case study on Europeana blog

• Wikimania
  • You can try the demo system for lexicographical data
  • Talk: Structured Commons: what changes are coming? by Sandra Fauconnier
  • Talk: New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons by Jarekt
  • List of wishes during the "Wikidata pink pony session"
  • Talk: the (Wiki)data (R)evolution, by Lydia Pintscher
  • Talk: Wikidata and performing arts by Beat Estermann during Wikimania
  • Talk: How to use Wikidata in infoboxes (panel)
  • New template: A fully automated template system was presented: Oh!WTFs
  • Talk: WikiCite: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge
  • Notes about the Wikispecies & Wikidata session
  • Documents to organize a Wikidata translathon: level 1, level 2, level 3 (by Kvardek_du) and the translathon tool (by Envel)
  • Talk: Sum of all paintings is just the start, by Multichill

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Share your feedback on the draft strategic direction, a basis on which strategic plans will be built.
  • Wikidata reached d:Q36000000. The number of items has been increased by 20% in less than three months

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: YCBA agent ID, IEDB Epitope ID, Dagens Næringsliv topic ID, Georgian National Register of Monuments ID, CODECS ID, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ID, magnification, AUR package, Michelin Voyages ID, Michelin Restaurants ID, WeRelate person ID, autores.ar id, MEG ID, Czech Registration ID, separator, National Forest Foundation ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most-depicted musical instruments (.com/WikidataFacts/status/896146542507114496 source)
    • People who died in 2017 without a French label (.com/Harmonia_Amanda/status/896816010577227776 source)
    • Moar goats (.com/ash_crow/status/896224747155058689 source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Goats, WikiProject Torture
  • Newest external tools: WD edits stats counting edits mades on a certain dataset between two dates

• Development

Most of the team was at Wikimania, talking to people, getting meaningful input from the editors, giving talks, hacking around :)

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Wikidata weekly summary #274

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Open Source Ladies, meetup for women who want to start coding for Mediawiki and other open source projects, August 22nd, Berlin
  • Data Partnerships in Wikidata: Project Durchblick with Humboldt University by Jens Ohlig (in German)
  • What do Wikidata and Wikipedia have in common? An analysis of their use of external references by Alessandro Piscoppo et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New documentation page: How to use Wikidata data on Wikimedia projects (feel free to help improving it)
  • The growth of items continues: we have Q37000000 and even Q37500000; Scientific article (Q13442814) becomes the most used Wikidata item (source)
  • More than 80K locations in Belgium added to Mix'n'Match

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: World Heritage Tentative List ID, eParks unit ID
  • Query examples:
    • Surnames, similar to Muller, according to Cologne phonetics, Caverphone and Soundex algorithms
    • Shortest streets in Moscow
    • A timeline of theologians with a connection to Berlin (.com/andersoncliffb/status/898520000796950528 source)
    • Timeline of the life of Honoré de Balzac (.com/SciHiBlog/status/898539789963677697 source)
    • Twin cities of places in South Africa (.com/EvoMRI/status/897566209511763969 source)
    • 51st UK parliament (1992) was the first one with more women than Johns (.com/WikidataFacts/status/898918062661017600 source)
    • All places that are named "earth" in at least one language (.com/envlh/status/897499609844535297 source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Parliaments

• Development
  • Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (phabricator:T170531)
  • Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
  • Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T172592)
  • Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
  • Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.

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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

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This Month in GLAM: August 2017

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This Month in GLAM: September 2017

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incorrect edits on railroad infrastructure

Hi:

I noticed a bunch of incorrect edits attributed to you, such as adding Q28197431 as an isntance of railroad and transport. Although the definitions of these classes are typically much too sketchy I don't think that a light-rail station can be considered as a railroad or a transport. I suggest that you go through all these edits and fix them up.

Peter F. Patel-Schneider (talk) 19:46, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2017

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This Month in GLAM: November 2017

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Citation needed for your this edit of Hailin (Q117542)

[2] --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 07:58, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

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April 2018

You have been blocked indefinitely for abuse of editing privileges. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest it by editing this page and adding the following template with a suitable reason: {{unblock|1=<the reason for your unblock request>}}. If you are logged in, and the option has not been disabled, you may also email the blocking administrator (or any administrator from this list) by using this form. See Wikidata:Guide to appealing blocks for more information.

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⁠ Rschen7754 18:21, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

The block was for sockpuppetry as discovered on enwiki, using User:Artix Kreiger. --Rschen7754 18:21, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

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Possible unblock in the future

MisterSynergy Jura1

I know its not the proper time but I think I want to say, I wish to com plete the task of descriptions. Terms and conditions to be applied by admins. HOw do I convince the community to not commit sockpuppetry?

As you h ave seen, I have only done good edits. The only destructive thing is the abuse of trust with sockpuppets and new accounts. With the block of the 2 bots, I am now saddened it cannot be finished. I have pasted translations below.

PS, I have cancelled the QS batches.

MechQuester (talk) 12:27, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Well, it is certainly going to be difficult.

• On your sockpuppetry history: prepare a list of *all* your accounts and how/when they were used in Wikidata. As far as I remember, socking was more severe in other projects than in Wikidata. Here we at least have the most recent activity which is a clear block evasion; maybe there was more, I cannot look for details right now.
• There was also that testwikidata adminship incident last summer which probably some editors have not forgotten about.
• On your current batch: it is not about time to discuss this now, although I understand your motivation. Since server load is another issue that was recently related to your edit behavior, you should take measures to streamline your efforts. Technically it is not so complicated to add all descriptions at one swoop per item. Yet: this is not your problem right now, focus on the unblock request; if you gain edit rights back, I could help you with the streamlining.

I suggest to file a *really well-prepared* {{Unblock}} request on this page. Take your time to prepare it, and make sure that you don’t forget or hide anything which other users would debunk for you. I am not sure whether it works out for you in the end, it really depends on *your* credibility and honesty. Feel free to ask questions, I’m watching here. —MisterSynergy (talk) 12:57, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

MisterSynergy, How long should I wait before making a request for an unblock? I hope wikidata community is more forgiving though. I just want to finish and leave. MechQuester (talk) 14:51, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

I leave this decision up to you. Based on the reaction in this short discussion (April 2018) I would be very careful if I was you. You don’t have many attempts left, and today’s episode doesn’t help you either. I guess the more you are able to deliver a brutally honest, self-critical statement of your criticized past behavior, particularly in the light of the three aspects listed above, the earlier an unblock request would be accepted. You really need to try to convince the community to trust you again. Such a statement is very difficult to compile, however. —MisterSynergy (talk) 15:23, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

MisterSynergy, request posted below. MechQuester (talk) 16:25, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Okay, seen and read. I will post a comment on the administrators' noticeboard to raise attention for it, and maybe also involve myself in the discussion. Yet I will of course not be the one to finally make a decision. —MisterSynergy (talk) 16:55, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Village in China

list by User:MechQuester [3]

Just to understand the task: your plan is to add all of these 52 descriptions to each of these 589k items, right? With one edit per descriptions this would sum up to ~30M edits or around 1 year of continuous editing at 1 edit/s; if all descriptions were set in a single edit, which is technically rather simple, the task would reduce to 589k edits or 1 week of continuous editing at 1 edit/s. I guess we can only permit the latter, if at all. —MisterSynergy (talk) 17:04, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

yes. If the latter is fine, I guess that can be implemented, if ever. I plan on adding a few more translations soon enough. MechQuester (talk) 19:24, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

MisterSynergy, anything? MechQuester (talk) 20:06, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

See Special:Diff/680124935. Technical things like the ones in this section should wait now. —MisterSynergy (talk) 20:56, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

MisterSynergy, did you already know since beginning? or you choose to not pursue the issue? MechQuester (talk) 23:11, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

You mean the Artix Kreiger = MechQuester identity? Yes, this was pretty obvious all the time to me. Artix came here and made tons of edits, so I worried about edit rates and looked at those accounts to see what’s on. Since the MechQuester account wasn’t blocked and didn’t interfere with Artix, I assumed you wanted a “fresh start” just as you confirmed in your own statement. However, I didn’t see a reason to complain about socking. —MisterSynergy (talk) 04:56, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

I see several here which appear to be incorrectly capitalised. Have you actually checked them with native speakers? If you want to add these to over half a million items, you should really make sure they are correct first. We've had enough trouble already with people adding huge numbers of descriptions in languages they don't speak which have mistakes in them. - Nikki (talk) 17:26, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Nikki, MisterSynergy, All of them were responded by NATIVE speakers. Capitalization corrected. Can someone use a bot to deal with it? I don't have the skills to do so. Also, please see the note below by Green Giant. Conversation in OTRS says I can edit again, if an unblock is decided first. 185.212.171.13 18:52, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

As it stands, I still don't trust these translations. Could you explain how you've sourced them? Are you sure the people who checked them are actually native speakers? You've got some languages there with very few native speakers (not to mention Classical Chinese). I still see a number of capitalisation mistakes (I counted 9 that I would question), there's also one with multiple scripts (kk) and two using the wrong code (no and bh - you should definitely not be using those or you'll trigger another half a million edits moving the descriptions to the right codes). An Estonian speaker (albeit non-native) I asked says that the Estonian text you have does not actually mean the same as "village in China" and says "küla Hiinas" would be better. - Nikki (talk) 20:22, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

I understand if you don't trust them. Are there any specific ones, besides Literary Chinese, you don't trust? I could point out specific sources of them. Also, for Estonian, I got them --> c:User:Taivo/Archive18 Jan–Mar#A request for a translation. Taivo is an admin on commons and Estonian Wikipedia. 185.212.171.13 20:54, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Nikki, For starters, the Dfa and Daz is from a steward. here. Swedish is from here, Dam is from Til Euspanigel, who's alt is the bureaucrat on am.wikipedia. Dga and Dgv are from here, who is an admin on enwiki, gawiki, and gvwiki. (as well as functionary on enwiki. Those are a few samplers. 185.212.171.20 16:05, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

I would question the capitalisation of az, bar, eu, gsw, kk, pfl, tr and uz (assuming I didn't miss any). I'm pretty confident that bar, gsw and pfl should start with a capital letter because their wikis follow German capitalisation where all nouns are capitalised. For az, kk, tr and uz, I don't know much about the grammar of Turkic languages but I think they may be using the structure "China-LOC village" (i.e. China in the locative case). As for eu, I know even less about Basque but a quick search suggests that this could be "China-GEN village". In those cases, someone who speaks the language needs to confirm what the correct capitalisation is. I can't comment on the actual content for most of them, but the one for pfl doesn't seem to match the most common spellings in pflwiki (Dorf and Schina are a lot more common than Doaf and China). The one for gsw doesn't match alswiki usage (which uses China, not Kina - the only references to Kina are talking about the currency of Papua New Guinea). I wouldn't include gv, the person you asked said they're not a fluent speaker and didn't even seem that confident. If that one is not by a native speaker, are you actually sure all the rest are by native speakers? - Nikki (talk) 20:22, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

As for bar, gsw,pfl, we could follow the standard German capitalization where nouns are capitalized. That can be done. A;sp. we could use Dorf and Schina. As for not including items, we could scratch out gv, and others you could include.

Are you sure that all of them are fully familiar with Wikidata’s description guidelines? —MisterSynergy (talk) 20:30, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

MisterSynergy, the ones with cyrillic script, such as kk, and Latin alphabet, the letters we are familiar with, can be easily converted to lower case. Other ones, such as Dfa, Dmai, Dbh, Dar, do not distinguish between capital and lowercase letters. Capital and lowercase only exist for languages written in Latin and Cyrillic scripts. 185.212.171.19 22:14, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Nikki, Template:MisterSynergy, As for the description guidelines, Number 2 is satisfactory. I think. As for Number 1, the subheadings 1.1,1.2, and 1.3 are not applicable, as they are uncontroversial, neutral, and is respectful of the namespaces. As for 1.1, the villages are unlikely to change, if at all. I hope all are satisfactory. 185.212.171.18 15:31, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Changing half a million items is not easy even if all you're doing is changing the capitalisation of one letter. It takes a long time to do all the edits and tends to lead to problems with dispatch lag if done too fast (e.g. with QuickStatements). The number of descriptions is so large that the query service times out when trying to query them. That's why I'm keen for the descriptions to be right the first time, even if it seems like I'm being really pedantic. From the examples you've provided, it wasn't clear that the capitalisation matters (some people responded with the same capitalisation you used, i.e. with capitalised "village" or lowercased "China"). It also seems that you've changed some of the capitalisation yourself (e.g. for the Estonian one I mentioned above, I was told that changing the capitalisation changes the meaning). - Nikki (talk) 20:22, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

No worries about being pedandic. It is necessary for quality control. As for estonian, we can go with what you feel is proper. If it means anything, we can cross out and not edit/add several descriptions. 185.212.171.18 20:55, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Nikki, MisterSynergy, anything? 185.212.171.38 18:37, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Hopeless honesty. 185.212.171.40 15:10, 10 June 2018 (UTC) Hi Nikki, has there been any developments recently? I'd like to contribute thanks. 185.212.171.50 02:47, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi, sorry I haven't responded for a while. The past few weeks have been a bit chaotic for me. I also spent quite a bit of time extracting the existing descriptions, tracking down the original requests, checking them capitalisation and had been waiting for some clarifications from people. I'm now waiting to see if the person who already ran a bot for adding "village in China" descriptions minds running it again to add the new descriptions and fix the mistakes you already made. - Nikki (talk) 20:20, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

meaning? I still want to contribute some of the edits. Specifically, I rather have the edits corrected by someone, and performed by me. 185.212.171.9 17:54, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

And how are you going to do them? This is something which should be done with a bot and you said you don't have the skills to run a bot. QuickStatements is not suitable for this task and you weren't given permission to do the task using QuickStatements either (see Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/MechQuesterBot 2). - Nikki (talk) 16:45, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Well, a year has passed since then. I have learned some programming skills, although they have to be fine tuned. There is another editor here on wiki who is willing to perfect it (He prefers to be anonymous until I am unblocked). Then, I can convince the community, per crat, with the endorsement of the editor (who is well-established here).

However, I will concede I will not use Quick statements at all. then. It is totally in-efficient.

185.212.171.18 19:05, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Background Information

Information here for a formal unblock request.

Point 1 - Previous accounts

1. User:TheDwellerCamp – made a few edits before blocked on enwiki
2. User:MechQuester - master
3. User:MechQuesterBot - bot
4. User:Artix Kreiger – intended “fresh start” (locked)
5. User:Artix Kreiger 2 – alt for fresh start (locked)
6. User:Cayleigh elise – for QSbot
7. User:Tim Hardcastle – for Qsbot

I want to note that these are all the accounts I have used on Wikidata. Key importance is “active” use.

Of course, there are other accounts listed in en:Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Winterysteppe. Winterysteppe is the master account on enwiki, but MechQuester on wikidata. I should mention that the edits from other accounts have by-products edits that originate from other wikis ie. Renaming pages, adding stuff to interwiki links. Those were “passive” edits.

Point 2 – Testwikidata

I have no excuses for that. I will not run for admin powers

Point 3 Edits

To be discussed afterwards.

Statement

I am truly sorry and apologetic to the community for the deception. There is little commentary in which the displeasure can dissipate or be forgiven.

In this unblock statement, I will address the sockpuppetry issue.

Previously, my issues are very very stupid and rabid. I had my chance to acknolwedge my mistakes and reconcile with the issues and solutions presented to me. I had ignored them all. Previously , I had operated under the assumption that I can “ignore all rules” for the better and that people will thank me future. I presume I am terribly incorrect. Sockpuppetry is a very deep would healed only by repentence and apology.

Therefore, I apologize to the entire community for my actions. I apologize to every person who has trusted me in helping this wiki. I also deeply apologize to Mahir256, who was close to a “friend” on wikidata that I had. I also, apologize to the community of people, as I am the first of the wiiki's history that I have legitatemly broken the collective trust of the wiki, that is, en masse. Previously, no one else, as far as I can tell, caused deep wounds for sockpuppetry, something that I acknoledge.

Apologies are only for forgivness and an willingness to unblock. An actual technical unblock needs a solid plan of action to be accomplished. As you can see below, I have listed numerous translations I have accumulated below. They were the result of asking multiple people about translations in various languages. I intend to continue and contribute to greater success in translations. I will do nothing more, nothing less. Just those translations. Each of the translations will make 588545 edts per run, so I have several million more to go. Upon completion of the edits, I will leave Wikidata a better place. I will be 100% satisfied and will not need to edit anymore. That will be my legacy. In short, If I am to be unblocked, I will make up to 20 million edits, although 5 million is already done, and be done editing on Wikidata, leaving never to return.

Conditions I accept below, subject to more admin requirements.

• 1. I know tat any further breaches can be grounds to a indefinite block and ban from Wikidata
• 2. This is my aboslute FINAL Chance at this community.
• 3. Absolutely no other accounts.
• 4. Only User:MechQuester and User:MechQuesterBot
• 5. No usage of QuickStatementsBot to avoid scrutiny.

Formal Unblock

Unblock request declined This blocked user asked to be unblocked, but one or more administrators has reviewed and declined this request. Other administrators can also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason. MechQuester block log • ipblocklist • crossblock • luxo's • unblock • remove gblock • contribs: +/-

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Request reason:

With the statement above, I here by request a formal unblock on Wikidata for me and my bot account.

Decline reason:

I have tried to help you getting unblocked and appreciate your efforts, but I cannot grant this request at the same time. I would support if another admin would take on this case, but unfortunately there is apparently nobody willing at the moment. I thus formally decline this request here, and invite you to stay in contact with us if you like to, maybe for another unblock request at some point in the future. I keep this page on my watchlist, and you may also ping me and ask for advice if required. —MisterSynergy (talk) 13:57, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

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NB: For the reviewing administrator, an unlock request has been made through stewards OTRS. We do not wish to intervene in the block discussion but just wanted to let you know that if it is decided to unblock the user on WD, then the global lock will be reconsidered. Cheers. Green Giant (talk) 18:14, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

I was asked to review this unblock request but given that MechQuester appears to be unhappy with me following the descriptions section above, I don't think it would be appropriate for me to be the one to accept or decline it. That said: I find it very hard to take such a request as being sincere when the last known edits by one of the socks were just six days before the formal unblock request and the unblock request was created just a few hours after the last block. I also came across Special:Contributions/OceanAtoll which appears to be yet another sock (making the same edits and globally locked at the same time as all the others) and which made one edit here after the unblock request. - Nikki (talk) 17:55, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

@MisterSynergy, Nikki: As global locked user can not log in to account (and make an appeal via talk page or email), I propose a global unlock (leaving any local blocks intact) for appeal local blocks only. Any thoughts? (note per above this user already contacted stewards).--GZWDer (talk) 14:42, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I did indeed not consider the global lock while writing the decline message above. I have no idea what happened in other projects, so I have no opinion whether or not they should be globally unlocked. For Wikidata only, however, I do not have any concerns about their participation in future, but I guess someone else should make the formal decision. —MisterSynergy (talk) 14:47, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

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