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Welcome to Meta!

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Hello, Lucas Werkmeister. Welcome to the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki! This website is for coordinating and discussing all Wikimedia projects. You may find it useful to read our policy page. If you are interested in doing translations, visit Meta:Babylon. You can also leave a note on Meta:Babel or Wikimedia Forum if you need help with something (please read the instructions at the top of the page before posting there). Happy editing!

--Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 06:38, 28 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 20:34, 29 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Global user page migration

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Hello Lucas Werkmeister. I deleted your local user pages on all wikis as you requested via Synchbot, and your global user page is already active. You can see the deletion log on your archive page. :) —Pathoschild 23:26, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Great, thanks! —Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 00:00, 27 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

OAuth testing

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Hi Lucas,

you can propose OAuth consumers on beta meta. Also, you can test OAuth consumers in production before they are approved (with your own user only, but that's typically enough for testing the three-legged flow). --Tgr (WMF) (talk) 08:55, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Tgr (WMF): Thanks, I didn’t know there was a beta meta :) I managed to complete the test with the unapproved consumer, yes, but then I couldn’t find a way to withdraw the proposal – but if you can do it as an admin, feel free to reject it or something. --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 08:57, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
@Tgr (WMF): Sorry to bother you again, but next I’ll probably work on OAuth in Wikidata-Toolkit, which unfortunately seems to have Wikidata hard-coded everywhere so far, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to test that with beta meta and beta wikidata. Do you know if owner-only consumers support the full three-legged OAuth flow, so I could test with an owner-only consumer? --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 13:51, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
No, they only support one-legged OAuth. There is nothing wrong with creating test consumers, I did not mean to discourage you, I just wanted to mention some easier alternatives. --Tgr (WMF) (talk) 15:16, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
Alright, thank you! And it looks like I bad-mouthed Wikidata Toolkit more than it deserves, the API part has the api.php configurable, so perhaps I can test on beta after all. --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 15:19, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

The speedpatrolling tool

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Hi! Great video on speedpatrolling tool. We need more such videos/tutorials :) BTW, take a look at the year :) --Edgars2007 (talk) 17:02, 8 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

@Edgars2007: argh, thanks! at least it was correct in the URL :) --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 17:12, 8 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Re blog and structured data ...IAUPLOAD

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Hi. Thanks for the article. I would love to see some integration of toollabs:ia-upload to pump data through to Wikidata to create the edition of the work at the time of upload, with the other structured data.

At the moment, the process is

  1. identify the file at IA, plug it into IAUPLOAD with the IA string, where it does a light rendering of that data into c:template:book, which we then often manually jiggle around
  2. import file to Commons, in book template
  3. at the Wikisource then create Index: ns page (and we have a js gadget that extracts and inhales the book template data into numbers of the respective fields of the Index: page
  4. (sometime down the track usually following the transcription process) we will transclude the transcription pages to main namespace
  5. then create the Wikisource data and flow through to Wikidata, either manually at WD, or maybe with the WEF framework tool at the WS. Or as I see regularly often nothing is done.

It is quite an onerous and repititive process, let alone adding the structured data that you desire. For what you are talking about in your blog, to me seems to be the clear opportunity to have the Commons and Wikidata items created at the beginning of the process and to have them immediately linked, pumped and primed at the beginning of the process, rather than just a possibility at the end.

Then at some point we need a good tool to create a book item from an edition, and an edition item from a book. So much manual work at Wikidata makes it a giant PITA to the point that one can just shut one's eyes and try to ignore it all together.  — billinghurst sDrewth 06:06, 4 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

36c3 Live Querying

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The Live Querying is a really great idea and teaching instrument. Do you by any chance have a screen recording of your session? Since these are CC BY 4.0, I'm happy to provide more readable video edit. --YaguraStation (talk) 09:45, 17 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

@YaguraStation: Unfortunately not – I learned at WikidataCon 2019 that my private laptop isn’t quite powerful enough to record in real time (in this session, it would periodically lock up for a few seconds). --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 15:41, 19 January 2020 (UTC)Reply
 
 

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Hi

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I am not sure if it was you or not, but the wm-bb bot used your ID and this was the first account I found through soft-redirects. Are you able to hop on IRC? Thanks - PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 21:59, 23 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

@PotsdamLamb: I don’t usually join IRC because I can just follow the conversations in #wikimedia-cloud via the Telegram bridge, and even catch up on what I missed while I was offline. Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 12:15, 24 July 2022 (UTC) extra signature to make ping work: Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 12:16, 24 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

currency of dataset

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Hi, I came across the dataset you provided on the LOD site for WD dataset. Will you illuminate the date of extraction for this set? Thank you very much for your help. ShiehJ (talk) 15:09, 2 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

@ShiehJ: d:Special:History/User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)/LOD Cloud suggests the last update was in late April 2021. Before I remembered that page, I tried to estimate the date from the number of triples in the data set (12.5 billion) and the recent history of that number (older data is lost, unfortunately), which led me to an estimate of early January 2021; I think that more or less aligns with the page history date, if you assume that the growth in the number of triples slightly accelerated (my calculation was a very simple one assuming linear growth, so I think that explains why it yielded a slightly earlier date). Hope that helps! --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 19:17, 2 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Much appreciated... ShiehJ (talk) 20:15, 2 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

Queering Wikipedia 2022 Announcement

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Thanks, from Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:19, 20 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Queering Wikipedia 2023 conference

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Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group and the organizing team of Queering Wikipedia is delivering the Queering Wikipedia 2023 Conference for LGBT+ Wikimedians and allies, as a hybrid, bilingual and trans-local event. It is online on 12, 14 and 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia #IDAHOBIT, with offline events at around 10 locations on 5 continents in the 5-day span as QW2023 Nodes.

The online program is delivered as a series of keynotes, panels, presentations, workshops, lightning talks and creative interventions, starting on Friday noon (UTC) with the first keynote of Dr Nishant Shah entitled: I spy, with my little AI — Wikiway as a means to disrupt the ‘dirty queer’ impulses of emergent AI platforms. Second keynote is at Sunday’s closure by Esra’a Al Shafei, Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees vice chair, entitled: Digital Public Spaces for Queer Communities.

If you have been an active Wikimedian or enthusiast, supporting LGBT+ activities or if you identify as part of the larger LGBT+ community and allies in Wikimedia, please join us in advancing this thematic work. We encourage you to join online or in person with fellow Wikimedians if it is easy and safe to do so. Our working languages are English and Spanish, with possible local language support at sites of Nodes.

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Thanks, from Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:56, 9 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Wikis.world

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Hallo @Lucas Werkmeister, ich hätte gern Accounts für [https://WikiJabber.org wikijabber] und [https://WikiStammtisch.org wikistammtisch] auf wikis.world Herzliche Grüße, —Sebastian Wallroth (talk) 15:26, 9 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Sebastian Wallroth: Hab dir einen Link per Mastodon-DM geschickt. Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 18:45, 9 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hallo Lucas, I'm also interested in joining wikis.world. You probably remember me from playing the piano with you at Wikimania Montreal and arguing with you occasionally about how to model Chinese and Japanese on Lexemes! Would you please be so kind as to send me an invitation to join wikis.world? Deryck C. (talk) 08:57, 6 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Sent via email. Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 10:28, 6 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Received with thanks! Deryck C. (talk) 12:06, 6 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Wikis.world für Regiowiki.at

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Lieber @Lucas Werkmeister:, ich habe bislang für das RegiowikiAt (https://regiowiki.at) über Twitter einen Account bespielt, den habe ich aber seit Monaten geparkt und möchte ich ihn abdrehen aber über Aktivitäten aus unserem Wiki wieder microbloggen. Könntest du unsere eine Einladung für @RegiowikiAT@wikis.world erstellen? Das wäre toll! Liebe Grüsse, Christian Mfchris84 (talk) 14:47, 17 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Mfchris84: Ich hab dir einen Link über Special:EmailUser geschickt, den Namen kannst du dann selbst wählen :) Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 15:06, 17 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Lucas Werkmeister: vielen lieben Dank! :-) Mfchris84 (talk) 15:12, 17 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Lucas Werkmeister: - noch eine Frage, weisst du vlt. zufällig, wie ich den <rel me> Tag auf der Startseite von RegiowikiAt unterbringen könnte, damit der Link als verified erscheint im Profil https://wikis.world/@RegiowikiAt? Mfchris84 (talk) 15:31, 17 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Mfchris84: Ich würde dafür mw:Extension:RealMe verwenden (es gibt scheinbar eine mit MediaWiki 1.39 kompatible Version), aber möglicherweise geht es auch mit mw:Extension:Widgets (was ihr schon installiert habt). Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 18:12, 17 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Ne, Quatsch, mit Widgets könnte ja jede beliebige Seite von jedem verifiziert werden (das Einbinden von Widgets ist ja nicht geschützt, nehme ich an). RealMe ist besser. Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 18:13, 17 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Wikis.world

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Hallo @Lucas Werkmeister, könnte ich einen Zugang für Wikis.world kriegen für mein Wiki ClockupWiki? Wir möchten gerne unser horizont erweitern. Du kannst mich über @G_Utopia@mastodon.social bei Matsodon erreichen. VG G Utopia (talk) 08:37, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

@G Utopia: Sorry, aber ich glaube nicht, dass das zu uns passt. Das Wiki wirkt im Moment nicht besonders aktiv (weder die Miraheze- noch die Fandom-Version), und beim Inhalt / Thema bin ich mir auch nicht so sicher. Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 16:05, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Lucas Werkmeister Wir sind die Miraheze version. Um die Inaktivität zu bekämpfen sind wir gerade dabei alles zu nutzen was es gibt. Wir sind halt ein Wiki in Aufbau. Man kann kein vollständiges Wiki aus dem nix kreieren. Und über das Thema, zwar sind die Sachen an sich 18+ aber torzdem tuen wir alles, damit die Inhalte möglichst für alle einsehbar sind (Selbstzensierung). VG G Utopia (talk) 13:28, 10 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Request for invite to Wikis.world

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Hi @Lucas Werkmeister, I am contacting you on behalf of the Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group for an invite to wikis.world in order to open an account for our UG. Best Ritamaliqi Ritamaliqi (talk) 12:49, 4 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sent via email :) Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 12:56, 4 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thankyou! Ritamaliqi (talk) 21:58, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wikis World

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Hello @Lucas Werkmeister. Reaching out to as suggested here. Could you please send an invite to dcw@wikimedia.org for Deoband Community Wikimedia, a recognised affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Let me know if anything else is required. Best regards, ─ Aafi @ DCW (talk) 04:48, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sent via email. Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 12:31, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you. ─ Aafi @ DCW (talk) 16:09, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wikis World invite

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Hello @Lucas Werkmeister, I am an administrator of the Minecraft Wiki (PT/Portuguese) and I would like to join wikis.world. – CraftianosHard (talk) 19:26, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

@CraftianosHard: Can you set an email address on your account, so I can send you the invite link via email? (Currently, Special:EmailUser/CraftianosHard doesn’t work.) Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 19:47, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Lucas Werkmeister
I can leave the wiki's email address: minecraftwikipt@gmail.com CraftianosHard (talk) 21:01, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
  Done Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 21:06, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Lucas Werkmeister Thanks! :) CraftianosHard (talk) 21:31, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Reminder to vote now to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter

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You are receiving this message because you previously voted in the 2021 Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) election.

This is a reminder that if you have not voted yet on the ratification of the final Wikimedia Movement Charter draft, please do so by July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC.

You can read the final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter in your language. Following that, check on whether you are eligible to vote. If you are eligible, cast your vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 15:24, 5 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wikis.world invite

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Hello, I am contacting you on behalf of Metal Gear Database. I was wondering if you could send me an invite to the wikis.world Mastodon server? My email address for this would be dizzysignup[at]purelymail.com. Thank you! DoctorDizzy (talk) 03:22, 6 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Can you tell me a bit more about the wiki? At the moment it looks pretty inactive (the 50 most recent edits are apparently just a bot repeatedly updating a timestamp on User:WF Staff Bot/Maintenance). Judging by some page contents, I’m guessing it’s a fork of the Fandom wiki, and I’m generally in favor of wikis forking away from there – but at the moment I can’t tell whether there’s a community behind it… Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 22:08, 6 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wikis.world

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Hello Lucas, I'm not sure Legoktm is receiving notifications, so I'm writing to you. I changed my name on wikimedia projects but I still need to rename or migrate my account on wikis.world, can you help me (by renaming or by inviting me)? see here for more details. Una tantum (talk) 14:03, 28 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Una tantum: You’re correct that renaming the account isn’t possible; I’ve DMed a new invite link to your old Mastodon account, I hope that’s okay for you. Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 16:27, 28 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
  Done Thank you! Una tantum (talk) 10:10, 29 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata Validator branch

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Hello Lucas,

You are the listed maintainer for the shex-simple tool in toolforge. For the past months I have been working to make a new version of this tool as my masters project. For this I branched off of the main branch in the shex.js repo, but later discovered that that tool uses a different branch. I am currently looking to merge the current wikidata version with my version. I thought it was the Wikidata branch of the shex github repo, but I cannot figure out where it converts where the html says "Query Map", "Query Map Editor" and "resolving Fixed Map" into where the wikidata version says "Query" and "Entities to Check".

I was wondering if you know which exact branch of the repository the shex-simple tool is using, and/or how it converts these, and what changes there are in the wikidata version make entering queries the default rather than adding specific nodes?

M.alten.tue (talk) 14:21, 8 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

CC @Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 20:12, 8 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
@M.alten.tue: The wikidata directory (the one that’s linked from EntitySchema pages) is on commit 5d525466cee91ab3b1011ecee8c03eb3eea552bc, which I think is still the tip of the wikidata branch. And Git reports no local changes in that repo. Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 09:31, 9 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Alright, then I am at least looking in the right branch, and I just need to find the place I need to insert my code. Thanks for the help!
M.alten.tue (talk) 08:58, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
I have made a pull request: https://github.com/shexjs/shex.js/pull/409
Everything happened in one big commit because I cloned the repo at the start of my project rather than forking it, so I had to fork it properly and then move all my changes to this new repo before I could create a pull request. For much more detailed commits see the original repo: https://github.com/Mennolt/ShexJS_Table_Validator M.alten.tue (talk) 10:02, 22 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Request to update a query.

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Hello, can you update [1] to be inline with the proposal here? All the best -- Chuck Talk 19:16, 14 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Alachuckthebuck: I’ll need more context for that, I haven’t followed the proposal at all :) I assume you’re referring to the final bullet point, i.e. you want the query to return the Taxon Galleries with the following criteria which should be purged? And what are Flagged bots? Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 19:19, 15 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Account at wikis.world

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Hi Lucas, can you please send me an invite to wikis.world? I want to start an account for MyWikis. We offer MediaWiki hosting. Best, Bernhard Krabina (talk) 18:23, 19 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sent! Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 20:28, 19 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

wikis.world invitation

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Hi, I would like to migrate my DYK bot from the soon-to-be-closed Mastodon instance. Can I please get an invite to wikis.world for that? My email address for the bot is: dyk(at)whym.org. whym (talk) 10:20, 30 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Whym: 8 posts/day is over the limit described at Wikis World/Bots, but only slightly, and Talk:Wikis World#Bots, redux says it’s okay to ignore that at the moment. Invite link sent! Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 18:29, 30 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Account created - thanks a lot for this and your work in general. whym (talk) 04:41, 1 December 2024 (UTC)Reply