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Thanks for the greetings and the help many years ago. I have been MIA for awhile but did some minor editing today and saw your greetings. Much success and blessings in 2018. Pheasantpete (talk) 11:03, 3 January 2018 (UTC)Reply The Bugle: Issue CXLI, January 2018 edit

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Metadata on the March edit

From the days of hard-copy liner notes on music albums, metadata have stood outside a piece or file, while adding to understanding of where it comes from, and some of what needs to be appreciated about its content. In the GLAM sector, the accumulation of accurate metadata for objects is key to the mission of an institution, and its presentation in cataloguing.

Today Wikipedia turns 17, with worlds still to conquer. Zooming out from the individual GLAM object to the ontology in which it is set, one such world becomes apparent: GLAMs use custom ontologies, and those introduce massive incompatibilities. From a recent article by sadads, we quote the observation that "vocabularies needed for many collections, topics and intellectual spaces defy the expectations of the larger professional communities." A job for the encyclopedist, certainly. But the data-minded Wikimedian has the advantages of Wikidata, starting with its multilingual data, and facility with aliases. The controlled vocabulary — sometimes referred to as a "thesaurus" as term of art — simplifies search: if a "spade" must be called that, rather than "shovel", it is easier to find all spade references. That control comes at a cost.

 
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Zebra crossing/crosswalk, Singapore

Case studies in that article show what can lie ahead. The schema crosswalk, in jargon, is a potential answer to the GLAM Babel of proliferating and expanding vocabularies. Even if you have no interest in Wikidata as such, simply vocabularies V and W, if both V and W are matched to Wikidata, then a "crosswalk" arises from term v in V to w in W, whenever v and w both match to the same item d in Wikidata.

For metadata mobility, match to Wikidata. It's apparently that simple: infrastructure requirements have turned out, so far, to be challenges that can be met.

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  • 1lib1ref campaign starts today, see m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref: also #1lib1ref introductory video by Felix Nartey
  • Funders should mandate open citations, article 9 January 2018 in Nature by David Shotton
  • From snowflake to avalanche: Possibilities of using free citation data in libraries, translation from the German original of Annette Klein, Mannheim University Library
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m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource is the new ContentMine proposal: please take a look.

Wikidata as Hub edit

One way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites.

 

Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8.

Wikipedia:External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by maxlath takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL.

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  • m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect, 2018 institutional participation in the #1lib1ref campaign
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Milestone for mix'n'match edit

Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, Magnus Manske, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal.

Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders.

These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. m:Mix'n'match/Manual for more.

For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading.

Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite!

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3D printing
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  • Why Should You Learn SPARQL? Wikidata! Mark Longair, blogpost November 29 2017
  • Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?, George Anadiotis for Big on Data, March 5 2018
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G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the Military history Wikiproject is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:

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The 100 Skins of the Onion edit

Open Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.

Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron.

Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF.

 
Red onion cross section

From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.

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  • Crossref as a new source of citation data: A comparison with Web of Science and Scopus, CWTS blogpost 17 January 2018, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy Sugimoto
  • Citations with identifiers in Wikipedia, figshare dataset
  • Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!, Wikimedia blogpost 29 March 2018 by Sandra Fauconnier
  • Village pump discussion, Turn on mapframe? We’re ready if you are reaches conclusions
  • The Power of the Wikimedia Movement beyond Wikimedia, Forbes 28 March 2018, Michael Bernick
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ScienceSource funded edit

The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video.

A medical canon?

The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.

The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.

Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.

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Facto Post enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the ScienceSource project is a project page here. It contains some case studies on how the WP:MEDRS guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions.

Close to home also, a template, called {{medrs}} for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this Petscan query finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter.

This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog.

 
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The oleo strut of the F.E.2's undercarriage is of course well known - and well referenced. Just two sources that come to mind are:

  • Hare, Paul R. The Royal Aircraft Factory. London: Putnam, 1990. ISBN 0-85177-843-7, pp.208-209.
  • Cheesman, E.F., ed. Fighter Aircraft of the 1914–1918 War. Letchworth, UK: Harleyford, 1960. pp. 44-45.

I have nonetheless run into a bit of conflict with someone with interests from "a later war" who disputes this - perhaps on the authority of works documenting more modern "oleo struts". I wonder if you could apply an impartial eye on this one? --Soundofmusicals (talk) 23:52, 14 July 2018 (UTC)Reply Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018 edit

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Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town paying tribute to the southern African concept of ubuntu to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources.

 
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To grasp the nettle, there are rare diseases, there are tropical diseases and then there are "neglected diseases". Evidently a rare enough disease is likely to be neglected, but neglected disease these days means a disease not rare, but tropical, and most often infectious or parasitic. Rare diseases as a group are dominated, in contrast, by genetic diseases.

A major aspect of neglect is found in tracking drug discovery. Orphan drugs are those developed to treat rare diseases (rare enough not to have market-driven research), but there is some overlap in practice with the WHO's neglected diseases, where snakebite, a "neglected public health issue", is on the list.

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In an ideal world ... no, bear with your editor for just a minute ... there would be a format for scientific publishing online that was as much a standard as SI units are for the content. Likewise cataloguing publications would not be onerous, because part of the process would be to generate uniform metadata. Without claiming it could be the mythical free lunch, it might be reasonably be argued that sandwiches can be packaged much alike and have barcodes, whatever the fillings.

The best on offer, to stretch the metaphor, is the meal kit option, in the form of XML. Where scientific papers are delivered as XML downloads, you get all the ingredients ready to cook. But have to prepare the actual meal of slow food yourself. See Scholarly HTML for a recent pass at heading off XML with HTML, in other words in the native language of the Web.

The argument from real life is a traditional mixture of frictional forces, vested interests, and the classic irony of the principle of unripe time. On the other hand, discoverability actually diminishes with the prolific progress of science publishing. No, it really doesn't scale. Wikimedia as movement can do something in such cases. We know from open access, we grok the Web, we have our own horse in the HTML race, we have Wikidata and WikiJournal, and we have the chops to act.

 
Links
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Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's stock images, and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock.

Indeed, there is a tool. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with fair use images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists.

 
Gran Teatro, Cáceres, Spain, at night

It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred monograms, mostly of historical figures, and this query allows you to view all of them. commons:Category:Monograms and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more.

And so it is generally. The list of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more.

Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake.

 
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Just wanted to wish the best blessings this holiday season. You helped me many years ago when I was new to editing. Unfortunately I have been MIA due to schedule and difficulty of maintaining all the wiki editing knowledge required. I hope you have the best season. Pheasantpete (talk) 04:43, 15 November 2018 (UTC)Reply ArbCom 2018 election voter message edit

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GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California.

 
Wikidata training for librarians at WikiCite 2018

In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more library science is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point.

Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: "bash, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and mix'n'match. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector.

Links
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  • LD4P and WikiCite: Opportunities for collaboration, WikiCite 2018 program abstract, Christine Fernsebner Eslao of Harvard Library Information and Technical Services and Michelle Futornick, Linked Data for Production Program Manager at Stanford University
  • Shell Lessons for Librarians, Library Carpentry lesson
  • At-risk content on Flickr, blogpost 3 November 2018, Andrew Gray
  • Toward an Abstract Wikipedia, recent white paper by Wikidata founder Denny Vrandečić (Google)
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Hello Bzuk,
Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that

Nobody could have had a noisier Christmas Eve. And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?"

My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD|Talk 08:33, 18 December 2018 (UTC)Reply Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year edit
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

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Hi, Bzuk! Have a happy and safe season, and a blessed new year!
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Hi Bzuk, Merry Christmas to you! :D I hope you are well, good sir! Acalamari 09:38, 24 December 2018 (UTC)Reply Merry Christmas edit

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This, of course, is the Aerosleigh model 3, as it features the distinctive pairs of elevators, fore and aft. Ho! Ho! Ho! Clarityfiend (talk) 09:39, 24 December 2018 (UTC)Reply Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda edit  
 

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Thanks very much for your message, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to yourself as well. Kosack (talk) 17:53, 24 December 2018 (UTC)Reply Merry Christmas! edit

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Wishing a very happy Christmas for you Bzuk, and a happy new year! FeydHuxtable (talk) 18:12, 24 December 2018 (UTC)Reply A Shaker Christmas wish edit
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  A Shaker Christmas wish
Give good gifts, one to another
Peace, joy and comfort gladly bestow
Harbor no ill 'gainst sister or brother
Smooth life's journey as you onward go.
Broad as the sunshine, free as the showers.
So shed an influence blessing to prove;
Give for the noblest of efforts your pow'rs;
Blest and be blest, is the law of love.

Happy editing! --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 18:15, 24 December 2018 (UTC)Reply Seasons Greetings edit

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  Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

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It's the most wonderful time of the year. Wishing you peace and joy this holiday season!


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Hello there! Shearonink (talk) wishes you & yours the very best of the season!

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa,
Festivus (for the rest of us!) or even the Saturnalia,
here's to
hoping your holiday time is wonderful
and that the New Year will be an improvement upon the old.
CHEERS!

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Happy Christmas, a great New Year and congratulations on another year! My wife and I visited her rels in Leamington, Ontario (South of Detroit!) and her cousin in Verdun, Quebec on our North American Odyssey. I retired in September! First Christmas without looking forward to time off!Foofbun (talk) 21:31, 24 December 2018 (UTC)Reply Happy Christmas! edit

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  Happy Canadian Christmas!
Seasons greetings and good tiding to you and your family! --Jules (Mrjulesd) 22:50, 24 December 2018 (UTC)Reply Seasons Greetings edit
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Hello Bzuk: From high in the Canadian Arctic I hope you enjoy the holiday season, the Winter or Summer solstice, Quviahugvik, Eid, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah or even the Saturnalia, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 02:00, 25 December 2018 (UTC)Reply  

Adapted from {{Season's Greetings}}
CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 02:00, 25 December 2018 (UTC)Reply very merry Christmas edit
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Bzuk, here's wishing you and yours a very merry Christmas and a great new year! --Lockley (talk) 05:12, 25 December 2018 (UTC)Reply Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019! edit

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  Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello Bzuk, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019.
Happy editing,
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Merry Christmas!! edit

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Thank you Bzuk for your greeting! My best wishes for this holiday season. May your heart and the heart of those around you be filled with happiness during this special time. --Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 09:56, 24 December 2018 (UTC)Reply Cheers edit

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!
     
Wishing you and your family a joyous Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year! Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, GSS (talk|c|em) 09:31, 25 December 2018 (UTC)Reply Merry Christmas edit
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Merry Christmas to you as well. Chris (talk) 15:24, 25 December 2018 (UTC)Reply Season's greetings edit

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 Happy Yuletide!  

Merry Yuletide to you! (And a happy new year!) — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 16:27, 25 December 2018 (UTC)Reply Merry Christmas! edit

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  Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

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Thanks edit

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Got your Christmas greetings, but not sure how I got on your list. I wondered if you'd meant to send them to Chris Troutman instead? He had sent me ditto, and I replied on his Talk page. The only aviation posts I can recall offhand that I've made (out of ten thousand+ in 12 years) were back in July about the recovery of a Tuskegee pilot's remains. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tuskegee_Airmen&diff=852356051&oldid=851292001 Activist (talk) 06:45, 26 December 2018 (UTC)Reply Yuletide Greetings edit

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Hi Bzuk, thanks for your sentiments. Hope you and yours had a Merry Christmas. May you all have a safe and prosperous 2019. Cheers!Koplimek (talk) 15:20, 26 December 2018 (UTC)Reply Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018 edit

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Learning from Zotero

Zotero is free software for reference management by the Center for History and New Media: see Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero. It is also an active user community, and has broad-based language support.

 
Zotero logo

Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the Zotero translator underlies the citoid service, at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata can be imported into Zotero; and in the other direction the zotkat tool from the University of Mannheim allows Zotero bibliographies to be exported to Wikidata, by item creation. With an extra feature to add statements, that route could lead to much development of the focus list (P5008) tagging on Wikidata, by WikiProjects.

Zotero demo video

There is also a large-scale encyclopedic dimension here. The construction of Zotero translators is one facet of Web scraping that has a strong community and open source basis. In that it resembles the less formal mix'n'match import community, and growing networks around other approaches that can integrate datasets into Wikidata, such as the use of OpenRefine.

Looking ahead, the thirtieth birthday of the World Wide Web falls in 2019, and yet the ambition to make webpages routinely readable by machines can still seem an ever-retreating mirage. Wikidata should not only be helping Wikimedia integrate its projects, an ongoing process represented by Structured Data on Commons and lexemes. It should also be acting as a catalyst to bring scraping in from the cold, with institutional strengths as well as resourceful code.

Links
  • Zotero Comes to Google Docs, Zotero blogpost by Dan Stillman, 19 October 2018.
  • Category:Wikipedians who use Zotero
  • T115158 Write a Zotero translator and document process for creating new Zotero translator and getting it live in production, long Phabricator thread 2015–17.
  • Zotero Translators, documentation from zotero.org.
  • Home page on GitHub for Zotero translator Javascript
  • Example translator, for Wikisource.
  • m:Structured Data on Commons/Newsletter/2018-12-07
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Happy New Year!

Dear Bzuk,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia! All the best!
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Happy New Year!

Bzuk,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Many Happy Returns! edit

Happy New Year, Bzuk! edit
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Happy New Year!

Bzuk,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Happy New Year!

Bzuk,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Happy New Year, Bzuk! edit

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Happy New Year!

Bzuk,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
–Davey2010 Merry Christmas / Happy New Year 00:33, 1 January 2019 (UTC)Reply    Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

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Dear Bzuk,
HAPPY NEW YEAR Hoping 2019 will be a great year for you! Thank you for being my fellow Wikipedian!
From a fellow editor,
--Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk)

This message promotes WikiLove. Originally created by Nahnah4 (see "invisible note").

Gwin poeth sbeislyd i chi ... edit

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 ... gan yr hen Gymro; rwy'n gobeithio eich bod wedi cael gwyliau Nadolig gwych ac rwy'n dymuno 2019 heddychlon i chi!
That is Welsh and translates to:
Spicy hot wine for you from the old Welshman; I hope you have had a great Christmas holiday and I wish you a peaceful 2019!
Thank you for your excellent work on the 'pedia.

Sincerely, Gareth Griffith-Jones (contribs) (talk) 12:00, 1 January 2019 (UTC)Reply Happy New Year! edit
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Bzuk,
Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! North America1000 14:23, 1 January 2019 (UTC)Reply
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Best Wishes for success in 2019 edit

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May good things happen for you in 2019!

With all my thanks,    Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 22:55, 1 January 2019 (UTC)Reply Invitation to join WikiProject Brands edit

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Hello, Bzuk.

You are invited to join WikiProject Brands, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of brands and brand-related topics.
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Thanks Bill and belated wishes for the new year! Gwen Gale (talk) 04:17, 9 January 2019 (UTC)Reply Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! edit

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  Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020!

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Everything flows (and certainly data does)

Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?).

Amazon Echo device using the Amazon Alexa service in voice search showdown with the Google rival on an Android phone

Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making.

Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness.

There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.

Links
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day for 18th birthday celebrations
  • WMUK video page, with "fake news", Jimmy Wales, Wikidata and more (health warning for those with tune allergy)
  • Why Wikipedia’s Medical Content Is Superior, Stephen Harrison, 28 January 2019, Slate
  • Olivia Colman reveals struggle with Wikipedia over age, Naomi Gordon, 28 January 2019, harpersbazaar.com
  • Making Wikidata visible, Martin Poulter blogpost, 24 January 2019, Bodleian Digital Library
  • Inventory, Magnus Manske blogpost, 24 January 2019, on Wikidata tech support for an image donation by Cleveland Museum of Art
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Happy New Year

Thanks for your message and best wishes to you, too
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What is a systematic review?

Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources.

 
PRISMA flow diagram for a systematic review

Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help?

File:Schittny, Facing East, 2011, Legacy Projects.jpg
2011 photograph by Bernard Schittny of the "Legacy Projects" group

Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen.

Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.

Links
  • Evidence-Based Practice: Appraise, resources page from Duke University Medical Library & Archives.
  • What should Cochrane do next?, Bad Science blogpost 5 November 2014, Ben Goldacre.
  • Cambridge (UK) Science Festival event, How do scientific discoveries become clinical medicine?, ScienceSource workshop for ContentMine 23 March 2019, with systematic review process diagram. Also on Eventbrite for tickets, taking place in Makespace, 16 Mill Lane.
  • PROSPERO database of PRISMA, for registration of systematic review protocols.
  • Process wonkery thread, wikien-l mailing list, September 2006.
  • Meta-Analysis, xkcd cartoon.
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When in the cloud, do as the APIs do

Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook.

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Logo of Cloud API on Google Cloud Platform

The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API.

APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web.

Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of "Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do.

Links
  • Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative, 2016 paper by Andrawaag and others, commenting inter alia on the role of the API on Wikidata
  • Working With Wikibase From Go, Digital Flapjack blogpost 26 November 2018, Michael Dales, developer for ScienceSource using golang, with a software engineer's view on Wikibase and the MediaWiki API
  • Dealing with the Rust, Magnus Manske blogpost 12 March 2019, on the Rust language and the MediaWiki API
  • mw:API:RecentChanges, mediawiki.org page on the API for access to "recent changes" on a wiki
  • wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews, wikitech.wikimedia.org for the Pageview API, giving Wikimedia traffic information
  • xkcd cartoon, API Guide
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Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point.

Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around.

Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs.

What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list.

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It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM (text and data mining).

Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?"

The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata.

The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.

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Merry Christmas everybody!!!

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I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."

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  Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry

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Merry Christmas everybody!!!

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  Merry Christmas Bzuk

Hi Bzuk, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas
and a very happy and prosperous New Year,
Thanks for all your contributions to the 'pedia this past year,
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  Thank you for continuing to make Wikipedia the greatest project in the world. I hope you have an excellent holiday season. Lightburst (talk) 21:32, 22 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Cheers edit
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  Merry Christmas, Bzuk!
Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity. Onel5969 TT me 11:12, 20 December 2019 (UTC)Reply  

Going back to work, eh? edit

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Well, enjoy the holidays while you still have some free time, my once/year Wiki friend. And a Ho-Ho-Ho Merry Xmas to you!!  

 
🔔🎁⛄️🎅🏻 Atsme Talk 📧 22:42, 22 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Happy Holidays! edit
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  Happy Holidays!
Hi, Bzuk! Have a happy and safe season, and a blessed new year!
Holiday cheers, --Discographer (talk) 00:46, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Season's Greetings edit
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  Right back at ya, brother! Nightscream (talk) 01:34, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Season's Greetings! edit

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Faithful friends who are dear to us
... gather near to us once more.

May your heart be light

and your troubles out of sight,

now and in the New Year.

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Hoping you and yours have a happy and peaceful holiday my friend! Si Simon Adler (talk) 03:33, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

Some rich broas for you! edit

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  Thanks, in return for your greeting :) Feliz Natal! Londonjackbooks (talk) 04:04, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Some baklava for you! edit

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  . Prof TPMS (talk) 04:16, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Seasons Greetings edit
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please in future send season greetings/merry christmas cards to me on edit

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my main talk page User talk:Shearonink (not to User talk:Shearonink/Holiday). I didn't know that I was getting some of those cards since I didn't create that user talk subpage myself. I like to see the cards on my main, they're all so nice and it cheers me up. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 05:18, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Season's Greetings edit

 
 
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Many thanks, and same to you! GiantSnowman 08:03, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Happy Holidays! edit

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Happy Christmas Bzuk. We moved out of Kirribilli and are now in Kiama, but having lots of bushfires and things. I've a man cave to enjoy my things! All the best to you and yours!Foofbun (talk) 09:44, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Right backatcha edit

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  Have a WikiChristmas and a PediaNewYear

It's a slow motion snowball fight! SilkTork (talk) 10:16, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Seasonal Greetings to you too :) edit

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Hello Bzuk: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, --Jules (Mrjulesd) 16:25, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply  

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  Happy holidays Bzuk

Hi Bzuk, I wish you and yours an enjoyable holiday saason
and a happy New Year.
Thanks for all your contributions to Wikipedia this past year.
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Happy Holidays!

May your winter holidays be filled with joy, laughter and good health. Wishing you all the best in 2020 and beyond.

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Hope you enjoy the Christmas eve with the ones you love and step into the new year with lots of happiness and good health. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 22:11, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Seasons Greetings edit
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Bzuk, thank you for your kind words. Have a great Christmas 2019 and have an all safe and positive outlook for 2020. Be safe and may you and your loved ones enjoy the holiday season. All My BestKoplimek (talk) 23:26, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply holiday greetings to you! edit

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  Merry Christmas Bzuk

Seasons' greetings Bzuk! Here's wishing you and yours
a cracking Christmas and a happy new year to come
All best! and happy editing
   –User:Lockley 00:49, 22 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Merry Christmas edit

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Merry Christmas Bzuk! FeydHuxtable (talk) 11:42, 24 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Cheers edit
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Thanks for the greetings and happy holidays! Brandmeistertalk 12:39, 24 December 2019 (UTC)Reply
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Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, peoples rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension. Happy Holidays to you and yours.

―Buster7 ☎ 14:34, 24 December 2019 (UTC)Reply A Joyous Yuletide to you! edit

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Christmas card by Louis Prang, showing a group of anthropomorphized frogs parading with banner and band.
Carole of the Bells by Pentatonix


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"May tonight's light keep us all gently soothed"

Thank you for the Xmas message. Wishing you and all your loved ones a happy and healthy holiday season. Homeostasis07 (talk/contributions) 21:11, 24 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Season's Greetings edit

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Hello Bzuk: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, JQTriple7 talk 22:19, 24 December 2019 (UTC)Reply  

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Oh! The indignities some of us have to suffer during the festive season ......... happy XMAS Bzuk   Coolabahapple (talk) 22:50, 24 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Greetings of the season edit  
 

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I hope this holiday season is festive and fulfilling and filled with love and kindness, and that 2020 will be safe, successful and rewarding...keep hope alive....Modernist (talk) 02:13, 25 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Happy Holidays edit  
Sweet Brown Snail by Jason Rhoades and Paul McCarthy

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Thank you for all your edits and contributions this year.
Wishing you a happy holiday!
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  Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020!

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Glad to hear from you. I hope you have a great holiday season and New Year. Donner60 (talk) 06:32, 25 December 2019 (UTC)Reply A merry Charlie Brown Christmas greeting edit

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  A stub-class Christmas tree dreaming of achieving featured status. Happy holidays! Clarityfiend (talk) 07:41, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Season's Greetings edit
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Merry Christmas Bzuk!!! and thank you for your very original greeting, I just wanted to point out that given the current times you may also want to add some army tanks escort for the three kings. Very best wishes. --Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 10:58, 25 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Merry Christmas edit

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Merry Christmas to you as well. Chris (talk) 13:44, 25 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Season's Greetings! edit

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Cobatfor (talk) 18:57, 25 December 2019 (UTC)Reply A Shaker greeting edit

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  A Shaker Christmas wish
Give good gifts, one to another
Peace, joy and comfort gladly bestow
Harbor no ill 'gainst sister or brother
Smooth life's journey as you onward go.
Broad as the sunshine, free as the showers.
So shed an influence blessing to prove;
Give for the noblest of efforts your pow'rs;
Blest and be blest, is the law of love.

Apologies - I'm a bit late with my cards this year. :-)

Happy editing into 2020, and beyond! --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 02:00, 26 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Warmest wishes edit

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 Positive sentiments and emotions as we count down 2019 and prepare to greet the 2020s
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Thank you for the Christmas greeting. May 2020 bring us the clarity of vision and understanding suggested by the visual acuity nomenclature. Thewellman (talk) 16:14, 29 December 2019 (UTC)Reply Happy New Year! edit

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Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year!

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Moral lesson:  John Vanderlyn was an American painter who studied in Paris, and his life-sized
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Total number of members: 921.




Closed Discussions





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Article Statistics
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Aviation pages by quality




Quality




Total




  FA

142




  FL

15




  A

56




  GA

505




B

4,573




C

11,878




Start

15,082




Stub

18,754




List

2,539




Category

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Disambig

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File

2,713




Portal

629




Project

89




Redirect

1,518




Template

2,489




NA

66




Assessed

73,339




Unassessed

1




Total

73,340




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Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:41, 20 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are opening in a few hours (00:01 UTC on 1 September). A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:51, 31 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Just a quick correction to the prior message about the 2022 MILHIST coordinator election!  I (Hog Farm) didn't proofread the message well enough and left out a link to the election page itself in this message.  The voting will occur here; sorry about the need for a second message and the inadvertent omission from the prior one. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:40, 15 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Voting for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023 is now open!

    
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Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023! The the top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki . Cast your  votes vote here and here respectively. Voting closes at  23:59 on 30 December 2023. On behalf of the coordinators,  wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 22 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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