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Emma Rayne Lyle ImagesEdit

Hi - I noticed you deleted the Emma Rayne Lyle's Image from Commons. NC Lyle the photographer sent approval to commons when the image was initially placed on the page. Please advise how to place the image on the page.

NC Lyle Copyright holder 2/9/2018 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Varsity5a (talk • contribs) 19:18, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

JCVDEdit

Special:Contributions/Darren_McCord

Special:Contributions/Darren_MacCord

Same as w:en:user:SatanManson

Len Lye ImagesEdit

Hi - I noticed you had deleted the Len Lye Images (found on Andrew Patterson architect page) from Commons. Davor Popodich the photographer sent approval to commons 13/6/17. I have checked back with him and he said he forwarded this:

I hereby affirm that I am Davor Popadich the creator and sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the media work as shown here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Len_Lye_Exterior.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Len_Lye_Interior.jpg and have legal authority in my capacity to release the copyright of that work. I agree to publish the above-mentioned content under the following free license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.[5] I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work, even in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites. I am aware that the copyright holder always retains ownership of the copyright as well as the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by the copyright holder. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.

Davor Popadich Copyright holder 13/06/2017

Should he resend? ```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by EditorforGS (talk • contribs) 21:45, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #307Edit

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

Events
- Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th
- Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
- Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
- Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
- Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Some improvements have been made on the search results
- The administrative territorial entities of the Ottoman Empire are now largely complete. They include the elayets, vilayets and their sanjaks.
- A new version of Denelezh, a tool to monitor the gender gap in Wikidata, has been released, including a new methodology to produce the data (explained at the top of the main page and in the documentation), and an overview of the gender gap by Wikimedia project.
- Items now contain an average of 9 statements.
- Item Q2937606, created 5 years ago, got its first statement
- New tool: The property explorer sorts and displays properties per category (developed by Stevenliuyi based on a suggestion from Micru)

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: Wikimedia project focus list, complies with, special rank, last update, test taken, test score, activity policy in this place, choral conductor, gens, lighting designer, number of representations, sound designer
  - External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Territographie ID, Prazdne Domy building ID, Welsh Rugby Union women's player ID, Welsh Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Digital Typhoon typhoon ID, Digital Typhoon cyclone ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System (Taiwan)
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: majority opinion, KMC Heritage Building Grade, accreditation, Number of spoilt votes, Number of blank votes, Number of abstentions, greater than (2), subdomain URL, International Classification for Standards, Wind speed, Wikimedia outline, list combines topics
  - External identifiers: Authorea Author ID, Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, FOGIS ID, Behind the voice Actors character ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Harvard designation, Yahoo Answers category, UMAC ID, Internet Adult Film Database film ID, Adult Film Database film ID
- Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
  - Berlinische Galerie artist ID (P4580), Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID (P4582), Argentinian Historic Heritage ID (P4587), National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID (P4591), Mountain Project ID (P4592), arXiv author ID (P4594), post town (P4595), NIOSH Publication Number (P4596), monomer of (P4599), Lives of WWI ID (P4601)
- Query examples:
  - Timeline of weather satellites (source)
  - Map with lighthouses all over the world (source)
  - Number of articles about humans by gender on Welsh Wikipedia (source)
  - List of French rivers with different names and SANDRE ids on Sophox (SPARQL endpoint querying OpenStreetMap and Wikidata) (source)

Development
- Differences between range constraints now work only if both properties are present (phab:T185480)
- Work on a new constraint unit which defines which units are alowed for a given property (phab:T164372)
- Make the Special:ConstraintReport easier to understand (phab:T188728)
- Work on a Lua function which checks if an item is a subclass of or instance of another item (phab:T179155)
- Started deleting old autopatrolled from the loggin table (phab:T190447, phab:T184791)
- More work on setting up permissions for Lexeme (phab:T189480)
- Fixing a bug about removing the last Lemma (phab:T189185)
- Disabling the possibility to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)

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) 14:02, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #308Edit