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

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • More WikidataCon 2019 reports:
    • WikidataCon 2019 report on the Latvian Wikipedia
    • Wikidata+OSM at State of the Map 2019 and WikidataCon 2019

• Tool of the week
  • Recoin displays information about the relative completeness of a Wikidata item by comparing its statements with those found on other similar items. Especially useful for editors working in a knowledge area that is new to them.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Following a discussion on generalizing P2572 to all hashtags and the rejections of Instagram hashtag, Flickr tag, and Gfycat tag properties propositions, the formerly 'Twitter hashtag' property is now a platform-agnostic hashtag (P2572) property. A tool was created to be used as formatter url and link to those different platforms regrouping content by hashtags: toolforge:hashtags-hub.
  • New tool: WDumper, generating customized Wikidata RDF dumps. More information
  • Call for Proposals for grants to support WikiCite satellite events
  • MediaWiki Technical Advice IRC Meetings will not continue in 2020

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: superfamicom.org ID, nominalized form, PlayStation DataCenter ID, implies
    • External identifiers: Aberdeenshire HER ID, e-WV ID, Français libres ID, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, Musée de la Résistance ID, National Library of Lithuania ID, Slovak National Library ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Spanish Quora topic ID, Europeana Entity, SNESmusic.org company ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Joconde author ID, Joconde domain ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, tDAR creator ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, Vaare falne ID, Complex Portal accession ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Differential diagnosis, part of terminology, voice gender, verifiability of property, study type, NIPS Proceedings author ID, field of training, litter size, Copyright status of author, academic appointment, written at, legislative committee, Member of military unit, access status of contents, EAN-13, filename in archive
    • External identifiers: Computer Emuzone ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PlanetMath, Natural Product Atlas ID, EEPS ID, screenscraper platform ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, ScreenScraper game ID, Nonfiction ID, ScreenScraper company ID, National September 11 Memorial ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID, PS photographer ID, deviantArt, Frick Art Reference Library Artist File Names ID, LiverTox ID, ScreenScraper group ID, ZX81 Collection ID, Netherlands Photo Museum photographer ID, Movie Walker person ID, ZX81 Collection publisher ID, IDFA film ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata properties > 7000
    • Wikidata External identifiers > 4590
    • Map of locations of "big cities" (source)
    • Seats which changed party in the 2019 UK General Election (source) (mapped)
    • artists in Wikidata mapped to the Swedish National museums but are not an entity in Europeana (image view)
  • Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Human Rights (created to support m:WikiForHumanRights)

• Development
  • Work on deploying the first version of tainted references on test Wikidata
  • Bridge: show an error dialog if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
  • Set up a shared Vue component library for Wikibase (phab:T240329)
  • More work on the new term store
  • Add Wikidata support for mnwwiki" (phab:T235745)
  • New languages for monolingual strings: mfa, ckt, abq-Latn, dag
  • Help identifying an issue with QuickStatements when one user is blocked on Wikidata (phab:T240316)
  • Hide non-supported languages in the termbox (phab:T227083)

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.

• 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) 18:24, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	Rosguill (talk)	47,395	Patrol Page Curation
2	Onel5969 (talk)	41,883	Patrol Page Curation
3	JTtheOG (talk)	11,493	Patrol Page Curation
4	Arthistorian1977 (talk)	5,562	Patrol Page Curation
5	DannyS712 (talk)	4,866	Patrol Page Curation
6	CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk)	3,995	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	3,812	Patrol Page Curation
8	Boleyn (talk)	3,655	Patrol Page Curation
9	Ymblanter (talk)	3,553	Patrol Page Curation
10	Cwmhiraeth (talk)	3,522	Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last 2 weeks.

• Discussions:
  • New request for comments: Handle genealogical information, Sort identifiers

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Data Roundtripping: a new frontier for GLAM-Wiki collaborations, by Sandra Fauconnier
  • Leveraging open data at the National Library of Wales, by Jason Evans
  • Context-aware Entity Linking with Attentive Neural Networks on Wikidata Knowledge Graph, Isaiah Onando Mulang et al. (on Arxiv)
  • Celebrating FactGrid’s Q100000: Conrad Alexandre Gérard
  • Descartes, social networks and popular culture: An excursion into digital scholarship
  • How to select your Christmas movie using SPARQL and Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • The revised version of the very powerful PetScan offers to edit or create items based on Wikipedia categories, search, SPARQL, links with filters by label or properties

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool: Dwynwen, adapted from Crotos, provides users with a search interface designed specifically for artworks and other visual digital content from Commons, using Wikidata.
  • MichaelSchoenitzer is looking for co-maintainers for the tool MachtSinn and the Lexeme Python library
  • We now have Q80000000
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer to work on Wikidata and Wikibase as well as a technical writer

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
    • External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
    • External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map showing objects named after a person represented in Europeana
    • Locations where paintings were made (source)
    • Swedish citizens who died in 1949 and whose works will enter the public domain on 1 January 2020 with profession and image, ordered by number of Wikimedia articles (source)
    • Oldest subways (source)
    • Popes who were children of other popes (source)
    • Colorful flags (source)

• Development
  • Worked on better error dialogues for the Wikidata Bridge
  • Investigated and fixed labels for some Properties not being shown (phabricator:T237984)
  • Continued working on the new database tables that replace wb_terms
  • Expanded documentation for 3rd party Wikibase installs
  • Continued working on making sure components in different areas of Wikibase can easily be shared to make development easier (phabricator:T240329)
  • Enjoying the holidays. Hope so are you :)

• 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 · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 19:17, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

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

• Events
  • New: you can Wikidata-related events in the calendar of Wikimedia Space
  • Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, 18:00 (UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble, France, January 16th

• Tool of the week
  • Resolver allows you to quickly find an item based on a property+value string pair. It is especially useful for checking whether an external identifier such as a VIAF ID (P214) or Getty AAT ID (P1014) is already in use in Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: copyright status as a creator, serving temperature, egg incubation period, member of military unit
    • External identifiers: ZX81 Collection publisher ID, ZX81 Collection ID, DAF ID, Computer Emuzone game ID, console music history ID, Czech cohesion region ID, Czech territorial region ID, deviantArt person ID, EEPS ID, garaph.info game ID, garaph.info group ID, IDFA film ID, Lithuanian Football Encyclopedia player ID, Microworld ID, Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia ID, Movie Walker person ID, Natural Product Atlas ID, NES Cart Database ID, NIPS Proceedings author ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, Nonfiction ID, portable music history ID, Prague territorial district ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PS photographer ID, ScreenScraper company ID, ScreenScraper game ID, ScreenScraper platform ID, SPIE profile ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Tubi movie ID, Tubi series ID, VBProfiles person ID, Archives Portal Europe ID, DES ID, Bob ID, Australian National Maritime Museum object ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Atlas Obscura identifier, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, The Good Old Days ID, RationalWiki ID, SSNE person ID, AdoroCinema film ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: literary form, HASC, Stairway To Hell ID, number of reviews or ratings, armament used, equipment used
    • External identifiers: bauhaus.community, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, OpenBibArt ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, Saregama artist ID, openSUSE package, LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID, Orthodox Wiki ID, Wien Geschichte Wiki ID, What is the Apple IIGS? ID, BookBrainz work ID, NMVW id, David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base ID, FandangoNow ID, CPCWiki ID, Sarvavijnanakosam ID, Punjabipedia ID, Open Churches ID, Apple IIGS France ID
  • Query examples:
    • Horses sorted by age of death (source)
    • Affiliates of the USA organization Peace Action (source)
    • 100 random paintings related to Haarlem (source)
    • Timeline of adaptations of Little Women and actresses who played Jo's character (source)
    • Indian people whose work is entering public domain in 2020 (source)

• 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) 16:30, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

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

• Events
  • Registration for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana (May 9-11) opened
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: getting started in Wikidata, labels, and aliases, 14 January. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Report of Wiki Techstorm 2019 by Jsamwrites
  • Aberdeen Plaques – Part Two: Visualisations, calculations, and analysis using wikidata by Ian Watt
  • Overview of Wikidata gadgets and user scripts - slides from LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Meetings
  • Wikipedia Rolls Out Our Research on Providing Semantic Information for Mathematical Formulae - this feature uses Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • Tabernacle creates a tabular view of a set of data items from a SPARQL query, PagePile list, or manual list of items. You can select which languages and properties to display. The tool lets you drag-and-drop statements from one item to another, and manually add or edit statements without leaving the page. Tabernacle is great for harmonizing a set of related items or identifying items that need their labels and descriptions translated.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can test a new feature highlighting mismatched references
  • The next Weekly Summary (January 20) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: exonerated of, Commons category for ship name, heading, filename in archive
    • External identifiers: Russian PFL player ID, J-GLOBAL ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, Époques ID, openSUSE package, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, DLE RAE ID, NTIS accession number, PubAg ID, Games Database developer ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Beta Masaheft ID, ordered by, university of the third age, period of lactation, position, grape variety, merged into, distribution map of taxon
    • External identifiers: Ogólnopolska Baza Kolejowa - stacja ID, Livelib.ru person ID, ScummVM wiki ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Arcade PCB database game ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, eu-football team ID, Museen in OÖ ID, Voetbal International player ID, Museums in Salzburg (AT) ID, C64.COM ID, Museen in Burgenland (AT) ID, FlashScore.com team ID, Soccerdonna team ID, c64games.de ID, Museums in Austria Code, Canmore thesaurus ID, The Cutting Room Floor ID, NPDRIM record ID, EFIS person ID, coinop.org game ID, EFIS film ID, EFIS filmmaker ID, EFIS film festival ID, WeChangEd ID, marterl.at ID
  • Query examples:
    • Locations depicted on album covers
    • Forts and heritage-scheduled sections of the Antonine Wall in Scotland (source)
    • Number of Lexemes including recordings from Lingua Libre by language (source)

• Development
  • More work on finishing the migration of wb_terms table
  • Don’t check constraints on “Wikidata property example for media” statements (phab:T227865)
  • Warn users that they're not nogged-in before performing restore or undo (phab:T234430, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
  • Remove edit link from Special:NewPages if page is not directly editable (phab:T240561, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
  • Introduce MwEraParser and improve i18n of dates BCE (phab:T140541, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
  • Bridge: show error dialog if the user isn't allowed to edit Wikidata (phab:T235154)
  • Bridge: ask the user if the change is a fix or an update (phab:T237333)
  • Enabled tainted references on test.wikidata.org

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.

• 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) 15:44, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata OpenRefine Workshop in Prague (Q1085)
  • Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel. Topics: presenting the roadmap for 2020 and some news from the development team

• Tool of the week
  • The Wikidata Card Game Generator generates printable cards based on a topic (eg chemical elements) and some statements of the item.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New gadget added to Preferences, "Show UnpatrolledEdits" (see discussion): it shows if the last edit to the item has not been patrolled
  • Pywikibot deprecates Python 2 support. Any scripts running via Python 2 should be migrated soon, see more at [1]
  • The next Weekly Summary (January 27) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: National September 11 Memorial ID, BeWeb person ID, BeWeb entity ID, BeWeb family ID, Apple IIGS France ID, bauhaus.community ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Decine21 person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Games Database publisher ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 (foundation), kino-teatr.ru person ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID, LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID, Macintosh Garden game ID, Macintosh Repository ID, Open Churches ID, OpenBibArt ID, textove.com artist ID, textove.com song ID, Electronic library Ukrainica ID, article in French Vikidia, OrthodoxWiki ID (English), Punjabipedia ID, Sarvavijnanakosam ID, article in Italian Vikidia, BookBrainz work ID, CPCWiki ID, UCUM code, VGMPF ID, article in Spanish Vikidia, What is the Apple IIGS? ID, article in English Vikidia, LiverTox ID, NMVW id, article in Basque Vikidia, Authenticus ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Livelib.ru person ID, Nederlands Fotomuseum photographer ID, Polish Nationwide Railway Database - station ID, Saregama artist ID, ScummVM wiki ID, article in Armenian Vikidia, Vienna History Wiki ID, article in German Vikidia, Joconde object type ID, MarketScreener business leaders ID, Beta maṣāḥǝft ID, DigitaltMuseum ID, Frick Art Reference Library artist file ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, Joconde location ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: local to a language context, category for files created with program, Used with verb, Commons postcards category, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, IP address or range, Commons map category V2, necessary property for class, 8-bits ID
    • External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, The Cover Project game ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Eurogamer ID, VR GameCritic ID, GameStar ID, Media Art Database ID, IGCD game ID, GameTDB game ID, identifier HAL for article, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, VGMRips composer ID, Historical Marker Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Contributors to Jacob Heyblocqs vriendenboek and their occupations (source)
    • Number of Co-Authors by Country using ORCID to identify the "searched author" (source)

• Development
  • More work on wb_terms table migration: information about property terms is no longer updated and removed from wb_terms table.
  • Add "wikibase-statementsection-identifiers i18n message key to Wikibase (phab:T240356)
  • Stop using $wgUser in Wikibase (phab:T241947)
  • Document possible configuration options for Wikibase Repository and Wikibase Client installations (phab:T165973)
  • Document Wikibase Usage Aspects (phab:T236772)
  • Document Wikibase tables (phab:T124603)
  • Wikidata Bridge: add the RadioButton to the component library (phab:T239799)
  • Showing error dialogs if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
  • Tainted references: work on keeping the warning visible when users cancel an edit

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.

• 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) 16:21, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed yesterday that the link to the diagram maker isn't working. Do you know what's going on with the tool? Jay Coop · Talk · Contributions 23:06, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Jay, the webservice has stopped and needs to be restarted. I am at work, so I can only do that in about 5 hours, but I've posted a request on the mailing list, so maybe someone will do it before then. I've also asked for help to understand why it's been going down, because this is now the third time since December! --Slashme (talk) 12:34, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Alright, thank you for letting me know. Jay Coop · Talk · Contributions 21:18, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Actually when I was making a diagram it just suddenly broke down. Seafoxlrt616 (talk) 14:01, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Seafoxlrt616, I've made some changes to the code to check for valid integers, so hopefully that will help with random crashes. If this happens again, you can message me here or mail me using the "email this user" link on the left. I'll be keeping an eye on the error log for the site from now on. --Slashme (talk) 18:23, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

• I was just trying to show the tool to some people and then it was down. Nothing is urgent but I did come here to check in with you. Also I have some notes from our talk at

• Wikimania 2019 – Parliament diagrams

I never shared this with you. My intent is to use these notes to produce a news article in The Signpost probably in the context of United States election coverage. I have a colleague here at the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia who was looking at Parlitools and asking how Wikidata could host some of this data and if Wikidata can generally ingest all sort of election data, and consequently generate data visualizations. I know this all is steps removed from the diagram tool but I wanted to share with you that I present your tool to others. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:31, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

@Bluerasberry: Crap, this is becoming a recurring problem. Thank you for letting me know! I've restarted the service, so it's running again. There's nothing in the error log, so I've asked again on the mailing list.

Thanks for your writeup! I might have a small correction or two, if you're interested. The two programmers who helped me with the interface improvements and WikiData integration, User:Ranjithsiji and User:Ambadyanands might be interested in Parlitools, because especially Ranjith was very keen to find tools which can hold politicians to account based on data and data visualisations! --Slashme (talk) 22:06, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Trying to look into the problem. Update soon --Ranjithsiji (talk) 05:03, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello Slashme,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources

• There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
• A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
• A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
• A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

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16:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Please look at this edit.

right: n/d + 1

wrong: n/d+1.

Digits should not be italicized in this context (nor punctuation, nor things like sin, cos, det, max, sup, log, etc.). And proper spacing surrounds the "plus" sign. See WP:MOSMATH. Michael Hardy (talk) 21:59, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi Michael, I didn't write that, that was the anon who edited before me: here. --Slashme (talk) 13:08, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I would like to suggest the addition of some sort of tool for moving parties up and down a list as I like using the tool for multiple elections and of course occasionally parties gain more seats then other parties and in the case of that it is annoying having to type in all the information for each party again just to move it up a list. Just a mild inconvenience but this feature would be very useful Thanks, --SammySnail1 (talk) 21:11, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi SammySnail1, that's a good suggestion. I won't have time to code it any time soon, but can you please add it to the project's to-do list? Then I (or someone else) can add the feature later. --Slashme (talk) 12:53, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

The last entry needs to be corrected. Doesn't the title "HRO Today Launches First Annual Most Admired Employer Brand Awards for North America..." merit better than "No (Doesn't mention HRO Today)" To repeat from my Author Comment: Thanks; your source review chart shows effort and care. Pi314m (talk) 17:58, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi Pi314m, it's actually mislabeled: the real title of the article also doesn't mention HRO today, so I think someone messed up there. --Slashme (talk) 18:36, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Today I tried the Westminster-style diagram in the parliament diagram tool and when setting the Spot shape options I noticed that the corner radius only accepts whole numbers. Hope I could help you.  C₂₁H₂₂N₂O₂ (V • T • E) 20:52, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Greetings my toxic friend! I just checked, and you can type any value into that box. Maybe the problem is that the spinner arrows increment by 1? I can change that in the interface, I guess. --Slashme (talk) 07:33, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Exactly that. And when I enter a non-whole number, like 0.2, the box becomes red, so I didn't think it would accept that value. Probably better to change that. Thanks for the fast response! – C₂₁H₂₂N₂O₂ (V • T • E) 11:42, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

User:C21H22N2O2 what browser are you using? I haven't yet seen the box turn red! --Slashme (talk) 13:09, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Firefox. I've been doing a little Javascript in my free time and if an input box doesn't get the required input, it will get a red border. – C₂₁H₂₂N₂O₂ (V • T • E) 13:42, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

User:C21H22N2O2 That's strange, it's just a standard numeric input: input class="right" type="number" name="radius" value = 0.0. I'm really crap at front-end / user-interface programming, so if you can suggest any improvements, feel free to send me pull requests on GitHub! --Slashme (talk) 14:48, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

There are specific attributes for input boxes: <input type="number" min="0" max="1" step="0.1">. These are really helpful when dealing with numbers as its possible to limit the input range to anything necessary. Hope I could help you. – C₂₁H₂₂N₂O₂ (V • T • E) 16:08, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

User:C21H22N2O2 I'm aware of that, but surely an input without these limits shouldn't get any red borders. Can you reproduce the situation where you got the red border and inspect the element in your browser, and let me know whether you can find any error? --Slashme (talk) 07:18, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

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Hi, I have made a discography page for The Head and the Heart, but my edit was reverted. May I know why that is such? And to clarify, was it because the band didn't make enough albums/singles to qualify as such? Daerl (talk) 08:56, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi Daerl, The main page for The Head and the Heart isn't so long that it's necessary to split out the discography as a separate page, and I don't think their discography is so independently notable that it needs its own article. --Slashme (talk) 09:00, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

I would disagree, seeing, for instance, that Michael Kiwanuka has a discography page and his main page is quite short too, but to each their own, I guess. Daerl (talk) 09:08, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

@Daerl, the fact that other similar articles exist isn't that relevant. The question is always, what serves the reader best. In this case, I think it's best to have all the information in one place. --Slashme (talk) 11:02, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Fair enough. Daerl (talk) 11:34, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi Slashme,

A little thank you for going over the Brandon Lee page. I think it is my best work on Wikipedia, and you made it better.

So thank you. If you ever need citations just ask.Filmman3000 (talk) 01:47, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

@Filmman3000 what a pleasant message to get at the end of a strenuous day! I landed on the article after reading about the Legend of the Bat and clicking through some links, and greatly appreciated it. --Slashme (talk) 22:26, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

49.195.154.134 (talk) 04:19, 14 June 2020 (UTC) Just wondering if I can make perfectly horizontal charts that are commonly used in things like Supreme Courts, just that. 49.195.154.134 (talk) 04:19, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

How about a diagram like this? It's made with the Westminster tool and cropped in Inkscape. --Slashme (talk) 09:20, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

How Can i set border color for westminister parliament chart?

Hi EhsanAhmed, I haven't implemented border colours for the Westminster charts yet! I think that's a good idea. Can you raise it as a request at https://github.com/slashme/parliamentdiagram/issues/new/choose so that I don't forget? --Slashme (talk) 09:37, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

And to answer your question, until I implement it, you can make a border in two ways. Either edit the file in Inkscape, or edit the SVG directly in a text editor and change <g style="fill:#FF9933" id="Party1"> to <g style="fill:#FF9933; stroke:#000000" id="Party1">. If the line is too thick or too thin, you can add "stroke-width", like this: <g style="fill:#FF9933; stroke:#000000; stroke-width:2" id="Party1"> I hope that helps!

Also how could i make the chart background transparent?

It is transparent! If your browser is showing it as black, that's just the browser's fault. Many of these diagrams have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, and you can see that the background is transparent. If you open the example diagram in Inkscape you'll also see that the background is transparent.

and why the #ffffff color dont show? Like i used this on speaker spot but it didnt filled.please help and answer all the question.Thank You! EhsanAhmed (talk) 21:53, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

If you make the spot colour white (#FFFFFF), and the background is transparent, and you show the image on a white background, the spot will be invisible. It's still there, though! If you open this example diagram in Wikimedia Commons, you'll be able to see a light grey checkerboard pattern background to show that it's transparent, and you'll see that the speaker spot is white, with no pattern. --Slashme (talk) 09:35, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply i really appreciate it. EhsanAhmed (talk) 10:33, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

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Hello. We've had some good interactions before: I animated your excellent Blender model, and you informed me of WP:MEDRS when I was still very new and overzealous in helping a Redditor add a site that seemed like a good resource because it was written by medical doctors, and thought it was better if I added it for free than if they violated our policies. You handled that case with a lot of professionalism, and I've admired you since then, especially as I've become more established as an editor and seen how some treat those who could be in violation of WP:PAID: shoot first, ask questions last.

Before I go on, I should say, please read my user page, the name on the emails before was a pseudonym, and I edit under my real name now. I previously used a pseudonym as I'm (in Wikipedia's eyes) notable, and lived in Philippines, so I was worried about possible action against me for writing articles like Republic of Philippines v. Pimentel.

I've recently been struggling with Wikipedia and animations. You seem like a good person to ask. What can be done about the requirement that we use the GIF format? Why can't animated PNG be used - don't most browsers support it now? If not, why don't animated SVG automatically thumbnail to animated PNG/GIF?

In particular, I want to make an animation for Bézier curve § Offsets (a.k.a. stroking) of Bézier curves. But, the requirement it be a GIF has frustrated me, and I wonder why we can't take the opportunity to improve Wikipedia technically at the same time.

All the best, Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) ^{please always ping!} 07:06, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Psiĥedelisto! I've also made a few animated SVGs, for example File:DragonCurveAnimated13.svg and File:RootsBlower3LobeAnimation.svg, and would love to see them play on load or play on click, but as far as I know there's no immediate plan to make that happen. User:Cmglee has done a lot of work on animated SVGs and might know more. The problem as far as I can tell is that SVG support can be tricky, and maybe a big SVG or a buggy one can break some browsers? This is quite a technical question, and a look at Phabricator didn't get me much further, so I don't really have an answer. Maybe you can raise it at WP:VPT? That kind of thing gets discussed there quite a bit, but I couldn't find a direct match with this search. --Slashme (talk) 19:48, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Slashme and @Psiĥedelisto: Quite a coincidence that I just made this animation last night! Embedding SVG animation has been an issue since 2016, and I don't expect it to be solved any time soon.

I've found a satisfactory compromise using a link={{filepath:FILENAME}} thumbnail parameter. Clicking the thumbnail of my image directly loads the SVG. In case readers are unaware of this feature, I added an (animation) link. The file description page can still be accessed with the icon to the right of the caption. It may be a good thing that the thumbnail itself is not animated: some people find motion in peripheral vision distracting. It's best to ensure that the thumbnail still looks good – counter-example: File:Toy_train_SMIL.svg.

By the way, File:DragonCurveAnimated13.svg is impressive. How did you make it, Slashme? Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 11:56, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, the link={{filepath:FILENAME}} suggestion is very good! The source code to generate the dragon curve is here: https://github.com/slashme/Sieve/blob/master/dragon.py --Slashme (talk) 12:17, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks all, great idea in re: filepath! I assume it wouldn't be a problem to use the parameter on a GIF, either? So, upload two versions to Commons: a GIF for thumbnailing, and the SVG for link. Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) ^{please always ping!} 01:19, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

@Psiĥedelisto and Cmglee: I don't see why that shouldn't work. One problem with this idea: then you don't have a link to the Commons file page. Maybe include it in the description? --Slashme (talk) 09:24, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

By "Commons file page", do you mean the file description page? That can still be accessed with the Enlarge icon to the right of the caption:

Other drawbacks are that a file linked this way does not appear under File usage on other wikis, and filepath always uses https (can't link to http version – older browsers may not understand TLS). Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 16:05, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

P.S. An alternative that adds a prominent i symbol is to use an imagemap that has just one region covering the whole image (for some reason, filepath doesn't work and one has to add the full URL – note that "b/b9" in this example changes if the file is renamed):

<imagemap>
File:SVG_animation_using_SMIL.svg|200px
default [//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/SVG_animation_using_SMIL.svg]
</imagemap>

Hi Slashme / @Slashme:, I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this. I'm writing to thank you for the review of the Gehenna Press page! But I'd also like to ask you a couple of questions.

(1) My sandbox redirects to an earlier article too, and I'm not sure how/if to blank this out. In fact, I've had terrible trouble with anything sandbox-related despite a lot of research and questions. (2) I also just moved another small press draft into an article, but I made a hash of the title. Thus it's currently published as "It is. A Magazine for American Art Draft. Obviously "draft" needs to be deleted, but on the basis of parallel examples (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Art_(journal)) I realize the title should be (without terminal punctuation after Art): It is. A Magazine for Abstract Art [in italics] and in parenthesis it should probably say either (journal) or (magazine) —— I think, or should it? Can you help, fix or advise?

Appreciatively, EditGirl99 (talk) 23:46, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Replying on User talk:EditGirl99 --Slashme (talk) 09:37, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi. A question, so as to help me better understand process, if you would please indulge me... I looked at Brian Armstrong (CEO) for review. It had been converted from a redirect and some promo text added. I removed the promo text and still thought I'd revert it to a redirect. But first I checked to see if he was independently notable. I found a number of what I consider to be independent reliable sources, which to me reading gave the impression he is independently notable. I added the sources but left the article (in this state)) unreviewed as I wasn't 100% sure, and thought it better to have a second opinion. You reverted it to a redirect, so I'm interested to learn why you thought that should happen, given that to me he looks independently notable and the stub had enough sources. Hopefully I can learn something. Thanks. -Lopifalko (talk) 10:19, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi Lopifalko, all of those sources talk about him as the CEO of Coinbase. As far as I can tell, he's not famous for anything else, and the version of the article that you linked doesn't make a claim for any notability beyond Coinbase. That's the basis for my decision to make it a redirect again, but I don't feel terribly strongly about it. If you can find clear evidence of independent notability, go ahead. --Slashme (talk) 07:32, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

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Hi Lefcentreright, thanks so much for the reminder! Unfortunately I'll be traveling next weekend, so I won't make it. Hope to see you at another meetup, though! --Slashme (talk) 15:28, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Hello! The meetup has been rescheduled to the 25th of July. I hope that you can now make it. Regards, LefcentrerightDiscuss 19:47, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi! I want to warn you your beautiful Parliament diagram tool is not working! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Giacitogiammi (talk • contribs) 16:16, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the notification, Giacitogiammi! It's working again now. Please let me know if it goes down again. --Slashme (talk) 21:37, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

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@Slashme: Hi David. I hope you don't mind me pinging you here. I am contacting you about Talk:Foodporn#Redirect_or_article. You said you don't see evidence of vandalism, however if you look at contribs, you can see that he/she created their account 2 days ago, and all they have done is blanket deleted content made by me and others on food porn and foodporn, and removed the redirects. They have done no other edits to any other wiki pages or been active on wiki at any other time. Seems a little suspicious to me. I tried to have a conversation with them on my talk page, they responded once and I thought we were in agreement, and despite this they deleted further content. What constitutes vandalism if this doesn't? I edit lots of other food related pages and the only times I have never experienced this is when a competitor's employees jump into wiki and try to vandal their competitor's wiki entries (uber eats employees often do it to doordash, for example. Thanks in advance. H — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hazelsletterings (talk • contribs) 07:19, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Hazel, you don't have to ping me when you put a message on my talk page - I automatically get notified. It's a great idea to ping me when editing other talk pages, though. And please do not hesitate to contact me or any other Wikipedian: we need more discussion, if only because it helps us to see each other as humans and build relationships!

I strongly urge you to read WP:AGF carefully. In the case of User:Hogohit, there isn't clear evidence of vandalism. For example, the Food Porn article contained the claim that the term comes from the foodporn website, which is certainly incorrect, and was cited to a Forbes article which says nothing of the kind. Removing that isn't vandalism, but rather the opposite. The first edit by that account was in fact removal of frank vandalism from a sports article.

On the other side, I am convinced that you also are working hard to improve Wikipedia, so we're all on the same team. Let's try and find consensus. --Slashme (talk) 07:17, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Undid your redirect, my apologies. We were both working simultaneously, and I had just begun to nominate Scotland Probables, and was adding this article to the AfD. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 14:29, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

onel5969 All good, thank you! --Slashme (talk) 06:46, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Hello David. You deleted most of the content from the "Mark Jonathan Davis" Wikipedia page, stating it was "Not independently notable. All the references are about the Richard Cheese character."

But that isn't accurate. The original page clearly documented numerous examples of Davis as an established American actor performing under his own name. You can see his numerous credits as Mark Jonathan Davis on IMDB.com [ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0205104/ ] as a voice-over actor in many Warner Brothers Cartoons, and he appeared on many TV shows as himself, including The Late Show with David Letterman, NBC's Friday Night, and Newsradio. Davis created numerous popular parody songs that aired on The Dr. Demento Show including "The Star Wars Cantina" and "Jeannie's Diner". Davis is also a published author.

Thank you. 2605:E000:60C5:4800:8537:85EA:7A9D:FFAE (talk) 08:07, 22 August 2020 (UTC)Carrie

I suppose this is the logged-out User:Richardcheese2 who is under a topic ban for this article, so I've alerted some other interested users on the talk page. --Slashme (talk) 08:30, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

I am not a Wikipedia expert, so I'm not sure what you mean. It is not my intention to intrude or bother anyone. I am just a fan of Richard Cheese. I don't understand your rationale; you said "All the references are about the Richard Cheese character" but if you read what was on the page, it was not all about Richard Cheese. As I explained, Mark Jonathan Davis is an actor and has an entire career separate from Richard Cheese; how is that not "notable"? The Mark Jonathan Davis page has been on Wikipedia for years. Why remove it now? Again, I am not a Wikipedia expert; I'd appreciate it if you could explain this more clearly. Thank you. --Carrie — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:60C5:4800:D092:6F03:764E:6072 (talk) 20:27, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Carrie,

I Replied at Talk:Mark_Jonathan_Davis, so that we can keep the discussion available for later authors. --Slashme (talk) 21:15, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Here's the code I mentioned in our chat earlier today: User:Vexations/list sources. (remember: I'm not a qualified programmer) Vexations (talk) 17:48, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Vexations, thanks for sharing! I'm also not a qualified programmer, so no worries on that score. I got it working without any problems. You also said something about keeping your own database of sources that you'd checked. Do you have code that checks the parsed URLs against that list? How do you add items? --Slashme (talk) 20:25, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Slashme, I've used something I made up in JSON so I can do something like list_sources.py Article_name | xargs -n1 unreliable_sources .py. The database looks something like this:

"id": {

"name": "Example Times",

"domains": [

"example.com"

],

"type": "newspaper",

"description": "Examplian daily newspaper",

"discussions":["Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 123",

"Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 234"],

"reliable": true,

"independent": true,

"PA": "Centrist",

"country": "Exemplia",

"num_src": 5000,

"article": "[[Example Times]]",

"RS/N": "generally reliable",

"consensus": "generally reliable"

}

unreliable.py then reads unreliable.JSON Then I match the URL against the the domain. It's all very messy, but it works for me (most of the time). I'm afraid I can't share the database because it is full of notes about editors who I suspect of sockpuppetry and UPE.

Resources that might work for you (and that I'm inspired by) are User:Headbomb/unreliable.js and Rosguill's Wikipedia:New page patrol source guide. Of course we should always read the sources and not just look at a list, but as a quick guide, it's a useful tool. Vexations (talk) 20:57, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you!! --Slashme (talk) 21:16, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Hope you are doing well! Thanks for reviewing my article Royal Bhutan Consulate, Guwahati. This is an important consulate general office of Bhutan as Guwahati is nearest Indian city of landlocked country Bhutan and lots of diplomatic collaborations are happening here. Can you please allow this page to be an article instead of a 'redirect'. I want to expand the article. Thanks. Nalbarian (talk) 07:34, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Nalbarian, let's discuss this at Talk:Royal Bhutan Consulate, Guwahati. --Slashme (talk) 07:43, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for helping me Ihfshkahduahkjevrwgaljekdvhrwlhefjkd (talk) 09:18, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Ihfsh, glad to help! If you need any advice or support, let me know. --Slashme (talk) 09:46, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

• Election apportionment diagram

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Hi evrik, I just did a bit of Google searching, and I can't find that term used in any published books. The first page or so of Google searches all seem to lead back to Wikimedia projects, so I think this is a term that originated here and hasn't really achieved general currency. I think the topic as such is notable, but I'm not sure about the right title for the page. --Slashme (talk) 07:12, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Anyway, I've done a bit of editing on the article and added a few alternative styles of diagram. --Slashme (talk) 07:55, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! --evrik ^(talk) 20:15, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

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Hi! I've recently been editing the File for the House of Representatives of Cyprus. I found the Parliament Diagram Tool extremely useful but I was wondering if it is possible to change certain aspects of the automatically generated diagram. Specifically, the number of MPs in a column in Cyprus is 3, but the automatic diagram sets it to four because the Parliament has 56 seats. I was wondering if this can be changed in any way. KnolGua (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi KnolGua, I'm glad you find the tool useful! I frequently get requests about whether one can make the diagrams more accurately represent a specific seating plan, but that's not something I plan to implement: the layout algorithm is simply aimed at producing a reasonable half-circle, as well filled as I can manage. It might make sense to actually create a reasonably accurate seating layout if that information is readily available. I can help here, because I'm a heavy user of Inkscape :-) --Slashme (talk) 09:19, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for offering your help, I myself have near zero knowledge on graphic design (the most I have ever done is make charts on Numbers). The House of Representatives of Cyprus has 56 seats and ten parties. I've watched sessions of the House (from its Youtube channel) to try to understand how its seating arrangement works. First of all, there is an issue straight away for anyone trying to graph the seats: the House changed from its old building to a larger one due to the pandemic. The seats in the new chamber are arranged differently. While this probably wouldn't be an issue, since a graph could just show the house in its old layout, some MPs have changed their parties, and hence seats, since the temporary change. Nevertheless, I have guesses for where they would sit if the House convened in its old building, but more on that later.

If you are willing to make a graph on Inkscape (in which case I would be extremely thankful), then I can describe what it should look like. First of all, the 10 parties, in order of size, are: DISY (centre-right politically, 18 seats, blue), AKEL (left-wing, 16 seats, red), DIKO (centre/centre-right, 7 seats, orange), EDEK (centre-left, 3 seats, dark green), the Coalition of Democratic Forces (3 seats, centre-left, 4 colours but I think the main one is light blue) the Solidarity Movement (right-wing, 2 seats, dark blue), the Movement of Ecologists-Citizens' Cooperation (2 seats, centre-left, green), ELAM (far-right, 2 seats, black), the Citizens' Alliance (1 seat, centre-left, olive green), and The Independents (leftish, 1 seat, Purple) and one vacancy. Originally, there were 8 parties, and the Citizens' Alliance had 3 seats (of which one left and joined The Independents and 1 left and joined DIKO), DIKO had 9 seats (while one new member joined 3 original members left and formed the Coalition of Democratic Forces) and the Solidarity Movement has one vacancy from its original three seats for complicated reasons. The exact colours are in the file I linked to

The seats are divided into three arches. The innermost arch has 18 seats. The one in the middle has 21 seats. The outermost arch has 23 seats. This means there are physically 64 seats, 8 more than 56. This is because there are 3 seats for observer MPs representing ethnic minorities and 4 unused ones which I have no idea the purpose of. Each arch is divided into four directions, some seats are on the left half of the house, and do not curve, some are on the left half and continue in a curving direction outwards, some are on the right half and continue in a curving direction inwards, and some are on the right and do not curve. The innermost arch has 6 seats on the left and 6 on the right, and 3 curving seats on the left and 3 curving seats on the right. The middle arch has 6 seats on the left and 6 on the right, and 5 curving seats on the left and 5 curving seats on the right. The outermost arch has 6 seats on the left and 6 on the right, and 6 curving seats on the left and 6 curving seats on the right. By the way, I doubt there is a need to show the observers.

Now, regarding the actual seating arrangement of the parties: first of all, there are 18 straight seats on the left and on the right. Those on the right are all occupied by DISY. Those on the left are occupied by AKEL, with the last one in the innermost arch occupied by The Independents’ MP and the last one in the outermost arch unoccupied. However, the President of the house (basically the speaker) belongs to AKEL and sits in the middle of the house, at the bottom. There are also two secretaries but I think most parliament graphs don’t show them. The original seat of the President on the arch, which would be blank if he is depicted in the president’s seat, is the third seat in the middle arch.

The other 7 parties are in the curling seats (the "centre"). In the left-side curving seats there are 4 parties and the one vacancy. The innermost arch’s 3 curling seats in the left are the 3 seats of EDEK. The 5 seats on the left are, from bottom to top, (or left to right) the Citizens’ Alliance, unoccupied, vacant, the Solidarity Movement, and 2 Solidarity Movement seats. The outermost arch’s 6 left-side curving seats are all unoccupied, except for the two bottom/first/leftmost ones, which are the seats of the ecologists. In the right-side curving seats there are 3 parties. This is the part I am unsure about. DIKO and ELAM were here before the house changed. I assume the Coalition of Democratic Forces would also be here, even though it was formed after the temporary relocation. My assumption for how they are would be: the 3 leftmost seats here would be those of the Coalition of Democratic Forces. Then, in the 3 seats of the innermost arch, besides the one in the top left being the Coalition’s, the two remaining would be of DIKO. In the middle arch, the one on the top left would be the Coalition’s while the 4 remaining are of DIKO. In the outermost arch, the one on the top left would be of the Coalition, the one immediately next to it would be of DIKO, the two in the middle are unoccupied, and the two in the bottom right are those of ELAM.

If you have trouble understanding this based on the verbal description offered, I can send a rough sketch via email.KnolGua (talk) 15:46, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi KnolGua, that was a very comprehensive description; it would still be very helpful if you would send a rough sketch by email! I am away from my normal workstation all weekend, but I can do the diagram on Monday. I'll also make it easy for you to update it when political changes happen: you will be able to make simple edits in a text editor to assign seats to different parties. --Slashme (talk) 18:50, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I hope this isn't a hustle. I'll send you a rough sketch via email.KnolGua (talk) 19:47, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Actually, I can't send attachments through wikipedia. Unfortunately I may not be able to send a rough sketch. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KnolGua (talk • contribs) 19:50, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello again! I’ve sent you the file, so if you want you can make the diagram.KnolGua (talk) 19:55, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello Slashme, on October 24th you tagged the article Trend Receiver with the COI and the Notability tag. Thanks a lot for your attentiveness! Like you can see I have strongly edited the article since then to deliver a more precise message, also highlighting how the topic is positioned within academia and prectice. In this course I also revised the relevant literature. In my opinion, the issues are solved and the tags can be removed. I am always open for comments and suggestions! Thank you and best regards, ForesightExpert — Preceding unsigned comment added by ForesightExpert (talk • contribs) 13:37, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi there Slashme. Nice to virtually meet you! :) My name is Jessica and I work at foodporn. I was trying to work out why our company wasn't appearing on wikipedia and then I came across your 'proposed for deletion' request at Talk:Foodporn. I have been looking into it further and see that there has been quite a bit of edit warring and vandalism going on at this page in the past. As you probably are aware, the space is super competitive and we get haters filtering through all of our social media. Anyway, our company has just been featured for a second time in Forbes so I was wondering what we could do to get the page put back up again? I understand there is currently a redirect going to Food_porn which would need to be removed for this to happen. I have reviewed wikipedia's rules and understand that as I work for the company I can't put the article back up myself as I have a conflict of interest, but I assume you can do it if you consider the subject is notable enough to appear on wikipedia? I have pasted the Forbes article below and a number of other articles (which are based off the Forbes article). Can you please tell me what you think? PS: I only joined wikipedia yesterday so apologies if I haven't completely worked out how to approach this and how to contact you. Appreciate your help :)

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/eveturowpaul/2020/11/23/restauranteurs-look-to-australia-for-a-guide-on-surviving-a-winter-lockdown/?sh=1bae34da279a
• https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2107944610540/restauranteurs-look-to-australia-for-a-guide-on-surviving-a-winter-lockdown
• https://momenttrip.com/restauranteurs-look-to-australia-for-a-guide-on-surviving-a-winter-lockdown/
• https://worldnewsera.com/food/restauranteurs-look-to-australia-for-a-guide-on-surviving-a-winter-lockdown/
• https://instant.com.pk/australia/346797/
• https://www.latestnigeriannews.com/news/9166739/restauranteurs-look-to-australia-for-a-guide-on-surviving-a-winter-lockdown.html
• https://travelnewshubb.com/2020/11/23/restauranteurs-look-to-australia-for-a-guide-on-surviving-a-winter-lockdown/

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Hi Jessica,

First off, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you'll stay around here, and not just for marketing purposes. It's really one of the greatest projects of humanity, and every little helps.

I don't know whether you've had a chance to read the General Notability Guideline, but it basically says that an topic is considered notable if it's been discussed in depth in multiple reliable sources that are independent of each other and of the subject.

The new reference that you've linked here in its many syndicated locations doesn't help the notability of the article. Forbes is a big name, but this was a Forbes contributor / blogger, not part of the main magazine, and therefore not under the same level of editorial oversight, and not a reliable source as such. It also only mentions the company in passing, so it doesn't count as an in-depth discussion.

I have no strong feelings about Foodporn either way, and if you can show me that the company meets Wikipedia's notability criteria, I'd be willing to reinstate it. I would, however, be very concerned about anybody with a strong connection to the company editing the article, because it's so far been a magnet for non-neutral and unverifiable language.

Now one last point: your username. I personally think it would be great if users who are closely connected to certain companies were allowed to make this clear in their usernames, and in fact that's required in the German Wikipedia, but in the English Wikipedia, there is a policy against such usernames, and you are recommended to request a username change if you would like to edit Wikipedia.

I would be very willing to have an in-person chat with you to help you to understand Wikipedia. I'm in the German time zone - I assume you're in Australia, so your afternoon is my morning. I'm open to most VOIP and Video chat platforms. --Slashme (talk) 12:15, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your long and detailed reply. I will take a look at this in more depth after the Thanksgiving weekend and come back to you. Happy thanksgiving! Foodporn2020 (talk) 06:26, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

PS: I got my username changed at your suggestion ;) JessBless2020 (talk) 04:49, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Slashme, your version of Mogadishu under Italian rule has been erased again....why? may be by mistake, but anyway you can revert it, as you did months ago. Mark — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.117.66.2 (talk) 15:29, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Hmm, I remember there was a big debate about whether the article should exist, and whether it's a content fork for fascist purposes. I've reverted it to the last version by User:Vituzzu for now, but it probably needs some cleanup. --Slashme (talk) 18:48, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. Mark — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.117.66.2 (talk) 21:33, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Greeting sir, I have been using the popular parliament diagram tool, but I've saw a message quote below when I am trying to make the diagram:

Oops, your diagram wasn't successfully generated! Maybe you have more than 31061 seats. If not, please raise a bug report.

I've checked the seats and didn't exceed the limit, so there could be a bug. It would be very appreciatied if it can be fixed. Thank you at first and looking forward to your reply! Cypp0847 (talk) 10:17, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Oh I figure out that the bug came from the commas in the name column, e.g. "SA/CA/ICA" is okay but "SA, CA, ICA" is not. Cypp0847 (talk) 11:15, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi Cypp0847! Well done on figuring it out. That's a bug that I'm aware of. I plan to fix it "real soon now"™! --Slashme (talk) 13:18, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very much xD Cypp0847 (talk) 13:22, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Just one more little request. May I ask if it is possible to add "Hong Kong" into the party list of countries? Thanks! Cypp0847 (talk) 12:21, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Cypp0847, I don't maintain a list of countries: it gets taken straight out of WikiData, using this query. Maybe you can check what the status of political parties in Hong Kong is on Wikidata, and if necessary make some updates! --Slashme (talk) 08:19, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

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You reverted my changes too quickly. Deepblue1 (talk) 18:34, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Deepblue1, if you're still working on it, you can put the {{inuse}} template at the top of the page; that way people are less likely to revert while you're still busy. --Slashme (talk) 18:37, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Firstly, thank you for guiding me to improve the article on Chowdary Satyanarayana. As per your suggestion, I have added the lead section to the article and would you please remove the tag put by you? If you, think I need to improve further, please let me know. Thank you.

Hi Bagathikishore, I see that John B123 has already removed the tag. Happy editing! --Slashme (talk) 21:50, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

How will I use it in case of election procedure.Dipankar2005 (talk) 13:50, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Dipankar2005, I don't understand the question. Can you explain more completely what you want to do? --Slashme (talk) 15:29, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

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Hello sir, I was wondering maybe you can add a U Shaped Diagram to the parliment diargam creator. Some countries uses that layout and it's quite common. Fab1442006 (talk) 14:05, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi Fab1442006, can you give me an example of the kind of diagram you're talking about? Are you referring to something like the Australian layout on this page? --Slashme (talk) 08:02, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Sure Slashme. Absolutely, it's like the Australian layout. Here's another example but with the Malaysia Dewan Rakyat . I hope the picture from the news article helps in the visualisation better. --Fab1442006 (talk) 12:57, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Fab1442006, in principle it would be possible to design that, but it would not be a great solution. The purpose of the semicircular diagram is not to directly represent the layout of a legislature, but rather to represent its makeup, independent of how the seats are actually laid out. Any program which tries to approximate the actual layout of a legislature will not be able to automatically assign the actual seats that are occupied by each particular party.

However, if you want to make a diagram which shows government on one side, opposition on the other, a "cross-bench" with non-aligned parties and one or more office holders like the Speaker in the front, you can try out the Westminster layout page. It might not be as attractive as a plain arch, but it makes the political alignment a bit clearer.

Another option that you might consider, is to simply make an arch diagram first, then edit it in Inkscape to get a U-shaped diagram by copying the bottom row downwards. If you're not confident in your ability to do this and you have less than 10 of these, I can do them for you if you make a rough sketch on paper. Or I can show you how, using desktop sharing and video conference. --Slashme (talk) 15:08, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

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Hi Slashme, have you seen this merger proposal? I noticed that you are the creator of Octanol-water partition coefficient. --Leyo 23:49, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, I've commented there. --Slashme (talk) 10:23, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your useful edit to the Hydraulic Ram article. Also, do you have any idea why 50,000 people looked at this in the last few days? Perhaps some TV program about rams? JNRSTANLEY (talk) 23:12, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

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Skipping this one: already enough voices here that agree with my POV. --Slashme (talk) 08:57, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi David, I though of you when looking at Filtration, which is a huge level 4 vital topic with very little of its scope covered. If you feel inclined, take a look and maybe add a bit of structure, some links, or examples, maybe even some content relevant to chemical engineering. I think the article will grow faster if there is more structure suggesting what can usefully be added. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 09:01, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for the note, Peter. That's going straight onto my to-do list! --Slashme (talk) 07:41, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

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How can I put the Speaker or the Presiding Officer in the Arch-style diagram at the Parliament diagram tool? Greetings --Dragonlord73 (talk) 10:31, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi Dragonlord73, that feature has been requested, but not yet implemented. At the moment, the best way to do this would be to edit the diagram with Inkscape after making it with the diagram layout tool. --Slashme (talk) 03:43, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

In the Arch-style diagram at the Parliament diagram tool, please:

(a) try to also give an option to segregate the government seats on one side and the opposition seats on the other side (by this, I meant half of the seats on one side and the other half on the other side), just like this:

(b) add a deputy presiding officer above the dot for the presiding officer

Thank you very much!

09:10, 04 June 2021 (UTC)

I wonder whether the Westminster style diagram isn't a better solution for what you're trying to do. That diagram can separate government from opposition, even when they're different sizes, and it allows as many "presiding officer" / "speaker" spots as you want. --Slashme (talk) 06:21, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Please can you try to add a feature to make symmetrical all arch style parliament diagrams, just like and ?
Also, if possible please do make provision of a horse-shoe type diagram, along with the presiding officer.

Thanks! —— User:Anish M. Nagpal 14:01, 05 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi User:Anish M. Nagpal, I'm not sure I understand the request. Can you give me an example of an asymmetrical diagram? --Slashme (talk) 10:58, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Good morning!
By symmetrical, I meant that when one draws a vertical line such that the image gets split into two haves (i.e., left half and right half), the number of seats are same on both halves. For example, as seen in the first diagram, 24 seats can be halfed into 12 and 12 exactly. Similarly, if the second diagram is equally split, 19 seats lie on one side and nineteen on the other.
The sole reason why I was asking for symmetrical diagrams is because it is more convinient to notice the halfway mark that should be crossed to obtain a majority. An example of this problem: Once in the Indian state of Karnataka, its legislative upper house (of 75 members) had reached a situation, where the majority and minority caucuses had equal seats (37-37), due to which the chairman (also a member) had to, for two whole years, go on breaking ties. In such a situation, it is difficult to make out that both have same number of seats (if chart is not in symmetry). Hence, I requested symmetry.
Please also add a spot for the speaker.
Please can you have these put in the Arch style?
Here are some asymmetrical diagrams and .
Thank you very much! —— User:Anish M. Nagpal 11:21, 07 June 2021 (UTC)

@User:Anish M. Nagpal: OK, now I understand! The option to put a speaker spot in the diagram has already been requested, so you can follow the progress there. By a symmetrical diagram, I see you mean one where each row has an even number of spots. This is possible for diagrams with an even number of representatives, and for odd numbers, there would be two possible ways to make it work. I've created a task on GitHub to remind myself to do it. I've just moved to a new city and started a new job, so I won't have time to work on this project in the next few weeks, though. --Slashme (talk) 18:27, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Good morning and thank you very much! I understand that you are a bit busy, so please take your own time!
I think option 2 and the outermost row would be better for the extra spot: https://github.com/slashme/parliamentdiagram/issues/102 (because in most legislatures, a party gets a seat in the innermost row depending on how many seats it has in the middle and outermost rows).
Thanks once again! — User:Anish M. Nagpal 10:29, 09 June 2021 (UTC)

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Hi David, because there are 2000 or more appointment diagrams, I made for them the license {{PD-wpdc}} which is a version of {{PD-shape}}, showing its ineligibility. At the moment it's ready for English and German, in other languages it is just PD-shape until I (or somebody else) expands the language versions. May be you want to point at this license in your descriptions? The SVG-script makes everything automatically. sarang♥사랑 12:31, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

I had been thinking that you will avoid the W3C-errors about numeric starting IDs, as e.g.
<g style="fill:#E4003B; stroke-width:0.00; stroke:#000000" id="0_Labour-Party">; with e.g. an id="_0_Labour-Party" (almost every other not-numeric letter will do it as well) it will be error-free. sarang♥사랑 13:07, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi sarang, thank you for the suggestions! I'll implement them both this weekend. --Slashme (talk) 07:06, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

You know: W3C-invalidity is nothing bad – but may be your fine work looks a bit nicer without that tagging? sarang♥사랑 09:44, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

I hope not to "get on your nerves" when I suggest some more possible changes.

• With a width=360 and text-anchor=middle an x=180 gives a better centered number than the x=175 you are using;
• a text-align=center is obsolete because the text-anchor does it.
• An r="10" will do the same as an r="10.00". sarang♥사랑 07:44, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi sarang, you're not at all getting on my nerves: those are excellent suggestions! I didn't get around to any useful activities this weekend, but as soon as I can, I'll implement them. --Slashme (talk) 13:33, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Don't distress yourself – I canot see any urgency sarang♥사랑 14:43, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Slashme. I feel like we got off on the wrong foot, so I'm just here to apologise. Hopefully we can patch things up. I also wanted to ask if Andrea Somers's storyline section is condensed enough to have the tag removed? Thanks. Hope you have a good day. - Therealscorp1an (talk) 22:30, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Therealscorp1an, thanks for the kind message! Honestly, I felt bad about raising the issue and then stopping engaging, but I've been really busy at work lately, and have been coming home with no energy to do anything productive. I'll respond on the talk page again, because it's best to keep the discussion of the article there. --Slashme (talk) 07:51, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

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Please, note that the pictures of "Alzheimer type II astrocytes" in Hepatic encephalopathy page are NOT Alzheimer type II astrocytes, these are neurons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Signamax (talk • contribs) 10:20, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi Signamax, you should raise this issue at Talk:Hepatic encephalopathy. I didn't put that picture there and I don't know the topic at all. Pinging User:Doc James as somewhat recent editor of the page. --Slashme (talk) 13:14, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Person one should ping would be the expert who uploaded the images User:Nephron. While I am not a pathologist, they are... Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:34, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

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Instead of deleting the Overtime Sports Network, which is a major US company, can you please restore and provide feedback as to where it is promotional? It does not make sense that Overtime and Overtime Elite, do not appear on wiki. Bankrupt305 (talk) 14:27, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi Bankrupt305, I am not an administrator, and therefore can't restore the article or see what it was like before it was deleted. At any rate, there is no reason to have separate articles about Zack Weiner, Overtime and Overtime Elite. Weiner is notable only in reference to those companies, so my suggestion is to have the Overtime Elite and Zack Weiner articles be redirects to the Overtime article, and to recreate it in a neutral way.

Might I ask what your connection to Overtime is? If you have a particularly close connection to a specific topic, it can be difficult to write from a neutral point of view. Also, if you're used to reading articles in the trade press, you might have habits of writing in a style that comes across as non-neutral and promotional in the context of Wikipedia. --Slashme (talk) 15:39, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I work for Overtime - however I didn't write the Overtime wikipedia page as it long predated my arrival and have no idea who did. I disagree on the points about Zack and Overtime being two separate pages. Being the co-founder of both a major sports brand and a sports league should provide enough notability to have their own page, no? Bankrupt305 (talk) 16:13, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi Bankrupt305, Please check out the policy about inherited notability. If Zack is primarily or wholly notable for Overtime (the brand and the league), he should be discussed on the page about Overtime.

Thank you for being open about your affiliation to Overtime! This means that you should take a close look at the conflict of interest policy. For example, I work for Mondelez International, so I don't edit articles about the company or its brands. There are narrow exceptions to this policy, but you certainly shouldn't be creating or editing articles about the president of your company, with very limited exceptions, for example to fix straightforward errors which aren't a matter of opinion, and which have clear references to support them. --Slashme (talk) 16:49, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi David, just I made a test with your Wpdc tool. I used dummy party names "1_first", "2_second" which your tool tool converted to id="0_1-first">, id="1_2-second">.
Such id names are W3C-invalid ! Id's must not start with a numeric value.
But names starting with e.g. an understroke, as "_1..." are W3C-valid; as long as they don't contain spaces. Greetings sarang♥사랑 11:18, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! I'll change this behaviour when I get some time to work on the tool again. --Slashme (talk) 06:37, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

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Hey, your map thing isn’t working for ios. Maybe it is just me but I tried to click to generate a map. Nothing 2603:800C:1A44:3300:945F:5713:FB21:ED61 (talk) 03:45, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

It seems to work for me right now: please try again! --Slashme (talk) 13:50, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

You try to click on generate button, nothing shows up. I think it’s broken 98.155.211.81 (talk) 23:46, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the bug report! I recently updated the other diagram generator and I guess I must have broken something. Will check some time this week. --Slashme (talk) 16:40, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

The map button is still broken. Doesn’t generate anything 2603:800C:1A44:3300:C0F9:438F:358D:35AA (talk) 09:57, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Would love your thoughts. Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) ^{please always ping!} 09:21, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Really cool, thanks for the render! --Slashme (talk) 10:29, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

I'm gonna upload both L and R versions separately and also maybe render the glowing version? That sound OK? Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) ^{please always ping!} 11:22, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Sounds like a great idea! --Slashme (talk) 14:44, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

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Sorry this took a while! Do you want my derivative .blend? Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) ^{please always ping!} 20:28, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi Psiĥedelisto, that would be great, thank you! How big is the file? --Slashme (talk) 08:04, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

@Slashme: ≈31MB…at least the version that generated this is:

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@Psiĥedelisto: - can you try submitting it as a pull request to the github repo? --Slashme (talk) 11:19, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

As the title says the button does not seem to be working currently.

Kind regards,

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The US-style diagram "Make my diagram" button is not working 108.52.158.93 (talk) 14:46, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, still haven't gotten around to fixing that! --Slashme (talk) 06:35, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

FYI, there is a proposal to transfer the content of the article Reducing equivalent (an article you created) into the article Reducing agent. See Talk:Reducing equivalent#Merge proposal — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:204:D101:4C60:AD21:1C65:1620:759C (talk) 15:40, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! --Slashme (talk) 09:13, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

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Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

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This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

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Hello Slashme,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000^[a] at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.^[b]

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

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Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 8225 articles, as of 22:00, 5 October 2025 (UTC), according to DatBot

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Hello! You created a derivative version of File:Subprime diagram.png, and you released it into the public domain. However, the original image requires that any derivative versions be licensed under a compatible license. The easiest way to clear up this issue is to add {{Self |cc-by-sa-3.0| GFDL}} to your derivative version. Would you be able to quickly do so? Thank you for vectorizing the image, and sorry about this issue! HouseBlaster^talk 17:41, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the note! I've made the change. --Slashme (talk) 18:06, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

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Hello Slashme,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

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MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.

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The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.

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Thank you! This motivates me to get back to work on the backlog! --Slashme (talk) 07:02, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

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Thank you! --Slashme (talk) 10:33, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

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Thank you! --Slashme (talk) 09:47, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Your contribution to Wikipedia is outstanding and much appreciated. Thank you :D Aitor22 (talk) 14:34, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

I've been so inactive lately, but this is motivating and kind, thank you Aitor22. --Slashme (talk) 06:02, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

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Hi Slash Me,

I have requested a page protection for Brandon Lee's page for which you have shown concern a while back. That person who comes around to spam this page is clearly mentally unstable as well as insensitive. While most spam are about his partner many are creepy and brutally impolite.

Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Increase#Brandon Lee

Thank you Filmman3000 (talk) 18:05, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi Filmman3000, thanks for letting me know! --Slashme (talk) 08:03, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi Slashme, I want to notify you that your post done on "Mogadishu under Italian rule" has been reverted again. Can you kindly fix it? It seems there are wikipedians who like to damage our wonderful encyclopedia because of personal hate...... 73.125.116.150 (talk) 14:17, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Actually, I don't think that article is worth keeping. I worked to keep it up so that it could be improved, but nobody is putting in the effort, and it doesn't add anything that isn't well enough explained at Mogadishu. It also contains some problematic neo-colonialist wording, so I'm happy to allow the redirect to stay in place, as preferred by User:Vituzzu and User:JalenFolf. I don't think it's fair to describe their efforts as "damaging Wikipedia because of personal hate". --Slashme (talk) 18:38, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

I've just globally blocked 73.125.116.150 as a lock evasion of brunodam's. Indeed he can't be trusted with writing a single comma. As soon as I'll have a couple hours to waste I'll clean-up his gibberish again. --Vituzzu (talk) 20:10, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi Slashme, those two (Vituzzu & JalenFolf) have erased 2306 posts I have created in wikipedia and destroyed 46 of my articles. How do you call all this? I call it: "personal hate" (because I have denounced their abuses & mistakes). I write on "Academia" and other websites, I have published books, but they never allow me to defend myself....like in the "Mogadishu under Italian rule", that in en.wiki originally it was like it is now in my blog ...BD — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.139.225.232 (talk) 17:40, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Just stop. You've been blocked from Wikipedia for good reason. --Slashme (talk) 19:48, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Ok...no problem (but the "reason" is a shameful mistake done to me when a relative visited me 15 years ago in my Florida home (and used my own computer) and an "histerical" italian administrator forever blocked me because in his wrong opinion I and the "relative" were the same person writing posts while using my florida computer in the same italian article: since then I have been blocked indefinitely without possibility of explain what happened....and my "rage" for this block has made me to write on thousands of articles and pushed me to create hundred of voices in many wikis -even if blocked- with sockpuppets). So, I respect you and a have a forever farewell. BD — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.139.225.232 (talk) 14:11, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

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I am not sure if it is a problem with my computer or the software on the Parliament diagram maker, but it does not appear to be working when I try to create a diagram. Wikieditor019 (talk) 21:25, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi Wikieditor019, I just tried it, and it worked for me. Can you check again? --Slashme (talk) 08:06, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi, yes I have. It is when I click "Make my Diagram" the link doesn't appear for me. Wikieditor019 (talk) 15:06, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Have you previously used the tool? I've just tested again, and the link is generated normally. --Slashme (talk) 19:47, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

No, I haven't. Wikieditor019 (talk) 20:50, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Maybe send me screenshots of you using the tool, so that I can see what is going wrong. You can use the "email this user" link. --Slashme (talk) 08:40, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Okay. Wikieditor019 (talk) 15:51, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Hello, for some reason it does not give me a link to email you. Wikieditor019 (talk) 15:58, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Oh! It has started working for me. Sorry for taking up your time. Wikieditor019 (talk) 16:00, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

No problem, just glad it's working now. --Slashme (talk) 20:25, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I have this same problem. How did you get it to work for you? Bryson08 (talk) 00:23, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

If you are trying to use the American one. It does not work. Try using the arch tool instead and enter details for the Democratic and Republican parties. Wikieditor019 (talk) 17:09, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Got it, thanks. Bryson08 (talk) 22:38, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I'm having the same issue. Whenever I click on the "Make my diagram" part on the US-Style Diagram page, nothing happens. I'm unsure why that's the case. AG202 (talk) 18:21, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

If you are trying to use the American one. It does not work. Try using the arch tool instead and enter details for the Democratic and Republican parties. This is the way I got around it. Wikieditor019 (talk) 18:34, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Slashme. I was attempting to use your toolforge tool, Parliament Diagram. I used it as normal, but when I clicked on the "make my diagram" button, the file was incomplete and it had an error message. I've provided an image link below. Have a good day.https://parliamentdiagram.toolforge.org/svgfiles/2023-04-30-19-57-46-459156-10274394702907832489.svg Repulsiveairline (talk) 21:30, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi Repulsiveairline, I was too late - that file had already been deleted by the time I read your message. Can you try again, and mail me the incomplete diagram at [email protected] ? Thanks! --!!!!

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I keep getting a 504 error when I load into the tool forge and I’ve reset my phone but it keeps happening. 2601:98A:C102:5E50:450D:BB0E:E36D:9B80 (talk) 21:39, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

I see, I'm getting the same error. I'll check tomorrow what's going wrong. --Slashme (talk) 17:14, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Update: it's fixed now! --Slashme (talk) 17:25, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

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Hi David, I came across some of your earlier contributions at af.wiki and I am sorry to see you have retreated to anglophonia. As you may know I am Dutch and a solid state chemist and I have returned to af.wiki to find how much Chemistry and other stuff like geology etc. is missing. Even pages of elements like kopper or kalium had no references at all but loads of red links. And very few compounds had any info. Kopper got 14 hits a day, which is a lot for Afrikaans. Looking at the variation over time much of that comes from schoolkids. I'm now trying to brush it up a bit. But it is bit lonely. I could use another chemist, especially because my Afrikaans is sometimes a bit -how to say- northerly? As in: north of the equator.

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hi @Slashme i see your 3d model on scetchfab, i want that for my powerpoint but it dont show that animation like that in scetchfab, can you help me?Aro Salar (talk) 17:52, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi Aro Salar, you want an animation for PowerPoint? I can get you an animated GIF, if that helps. --Slashme (talk) 06:01, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

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Hi, big fan of the tool. Unfortunately, it seems to be down at the moment. Can you fix it please? I guess it has been down for a couple of days (going by [2]). Thanks for your work on the tool. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:24, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi MPGuy2824, thank you for letting me know! I'm away from my computers this weekend but I'll fix it tomorrow. --Slashme (talk) 09:27, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi MPGuy2824, it's working again! --Slashme (talk) 17:57, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

The US style diagram doesn’t seem to work FantinoFalco (talk) 07:48, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

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Skipping this one - I have no knowledge about the topic. --Slashme (talk) 08:21, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

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Hello, your website no longer works to create Westminster style parliament diagrams. Pressing the “make my diagram” button does nothing. Is it possible for you to fix this? 2600:1014:B0C6:FAAA:AD:3F84:5A0C:A14C (talk) 20:32, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

This is a real problem Gammawammallama (talk) 14:43, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Same for US style. I was wanting to make a fresh one for Louisville Metro Council. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 21:28, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes Gammawammallama (talk) 10:58, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello, David: I have found this audio made by you: En-uk-analyses.ogg and you described it as "UK English pronunciation". However, you are South African. Did you pronounce it with a british accent? Greetings Adelpine (talk) 14:57, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you for creating the article for South Africa's first black ambassador to the United States. I would have thought that it would have existed by now. The Knowledge Pirate (talk) 05:19, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

I was also amazed that it didn't exist. Next I'll create some translations. Slashme (talk) 06:44, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

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Thanks for helping out with the categories! They came like this from the translation tool, and I see that they weren't quite right. --Slashme (talk) 07:55, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Hello my friend I believe you are its maintainer and currently the website is not working, I'd like to know what the problem is.

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L'rd Of The Fish (talk) 23:48, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi L%27rd_Of_The_Fish, I'm away from home this weekend without access to a computer, but I've asked the other authors to take a look. If it isn't working by Sunday evening I'll see whether I can fix it. --Slashme (talk) 14:13, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi L'rd Of The Fish, I've restarted the web service - it should be working again now. Thanks for letting me know! --Slashme (talk) 16:57, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

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