User talk:Mcampany

Merging Q12046850 and Q12046831

That was wrong. The spring is not the same as a natural monument. They are completely separate entities. Please be careful when using Wikidata Game. I'd prefer if this game wasn't operated at all because it introduces all sorts of issues. --Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 15:35, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

sexual orientation on Harriet Bouslog

Hi, I removed the sexual orientation (P91) property on Harriet Bouslog (Q68897247) because it didn't have any references. Claims of sexual orientation should have references, and I couldn't find any for Harriet Bouslog (Q68897247).

"exhibition stand builder" (Q1924077)

Why do you remove "instance of (P31): human (Q5" ? Taylor 49 (talk) 06:25, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi @Taylor 49: I removed it because the item seems to refer to an occupation or profession. Isn't Q5 for items about individual people? Please feel free to revert if I'm mistaken. Mcampany (talk) 06:33, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick answer. Indeed the item is supposed to be an occupation or profession. The reason why I had added "human" is that "manufacturer (P176)" whines at item "exhibition stand (Q70729168)" if item "exhibition stand builder (Q1924077)" does not have "instance of (P31): human (Q5)". But I discovered very same problem with "baker" and "bread". Either all occupations need "human" or "manufacturer (P176)" is broken. Taylor 49 (talk) 06:43, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

@Taylor 49: I have no idea what to do if P176 is broken, but I suspect that's the problem here. You should ask about it at the Project Chat. All I know is that the occupations I often assign, like military commander, monk, and politician don't have "human" associated with them. Sorry, I'd link to them but I'm on my smartphone and am not too familiar with linking on wikidata. Cheers! Mcampany (talk) 06:57, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Q16906192

When adding family relationship statement, make sure to add them both sides. By the way consider using PetScan to add country of citizenship (P27)/occupation (P106) statements as it is not pratical to add many statements manually.--GZWDer (talk) 21:57, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

In addition, if you find labels like XX (YY), you should remove (YY) in the label.--GZWDer (talk) 22:01, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

@GZWDer: Thanks for the note. I'll be more careful and I'll consider using PetScan. Mcampany (talk) 23:01, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

• Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
• Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
• Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:33, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Importing items

Hi. I notice you importing Wikidata items from Chinese Wikipedia articles (I think you're likely using #petscan and quickstatements). Some of the items you imported from zhwiki are tagged with {{notability}}, which are most likely to be deleted through AFD within two months per local policy and community's habits. Like Q105718253 and Q105717704, they don't have much notability which may probably got deleted very quickly in other wikis through PROD, AFD, or SD. The zhwiki policy requires one to wait for 30 days to see if there are more sources within the period so a longer time is required until they got deleted. The notability tag will be removed when the article is decided to be kept. Thus, I think you can foul out the articles tagged notability on zhwiki when importing. (in "Template & links" on Petscan) Sun8908 💬 13:13, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Sun8908:! Thanks for letting me know about the local policy! I'm not very active on zhwiki, so are there any other local policies I should bear in mind when I import? Right now I filter out anything that is currently tagged for AfD, and I'll definitely filter out anything tagged with notability in the future. Mcampany (talk) 07:00, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Well, importing doesn't violate the local policy but creating items that may be deleted shortly can be avoided in order not to waste community resources and to lower the work load of admins (although those items are usually deleted by an admin bot :D). Sun8908 💬 09:32, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

@Sun8908:, yeah I get that, but I don't really want to spend time importing things that the admin bot will delete, especially since I read Chinese so slowly. ;) Anyways, thanks for the help, it's much appreciated! Mcampany (talk) 20:39, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Q97378298 = Q133778?

A few weeks ago, you added the name "Dendrobium" to Q97378298. Q133778, a plant genus, has the same name. So, what is Q97378298? Both entries link to Japanese Wikipedia articles w:ja:セッコク属 vs. w:ja:デンドロビウム) with images of the plant genus Dendrobium. --PaulSch (talk) 13:14, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

I'm not great at taxonomy in English or Japanese, so I'm not sure what the difference between the two articles are. That's why I didn't put a P31 on Q97378298 or merge them. In the Wikipedia article セッコク属 says it refers to the genus, while デンドロビウム says it's the common name for the genus. I suspect that means that it's a duplicate article on jawiki. It certainly looks similar to other duplicates I've resolved. But I really don't know enough about plants to be sure.

I put the English label in because that's what the Japanese Wikipedia says it is. Having the English label makes it more likely that another bilingual editor who knows more about plants will come and sort this out. All I know is that I'm definitely not knowledgeable enough to figure out this one. Mcampany (talk) 16:56, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Ok. So neither of us can clear this up. But it would be nice if you could put a note in the two Japanese discussion pages hinting to the problem. --PaulSch (talk) 17:19, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Q109599840 country or historical country

Hello. Could you check this object Q109599840?

You wrote that this is a country. Why this country exists only in Japan Wikipedia?

I suppose that this is a historical country, not a country. --Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 17:18, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

@AKA MBG: Yes, it's a historical country. The Japanese Wikipedia says that the German name is "Sozialistische Republik Deutschland", but I'm not able to put a German label on that item. Thank you for the correction, I didn't know that the historical country Qid existed. Mcampany (talk) 18:36, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

NDL linkage

Hi Mcampany,

I've found a better NDL than you. But I'm not a Japan expert, so may you please check my work?--Γεσθημανή (talk) 20:14, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

@Γεσθημανή: I think you're right and I think that means that the Viaf and other identifiers might be wrong too. I'll look into it and clean things up. Thanks for the correction! Mcampany (talk) 20:21, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

The old IDs are probably correct for Masao Nagasawa (Q112196024) the mathematician.

BTW: I've wasted a lot of time finding anything about Hiroshi Tanaka (Q112190001) (* 1932) at NDL and J-STAGE and found nothing. You don't need to waste your time as well, but is such absence of data possible for Japan?--Γεσθημανή (talk) 20:30, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

@Γεσθημανή: I think you're probably right, but since I'm not 100% sure I created a separate item for the person with the old IDs.

I don't read German very well so I'm not certain, but it looks like the documents mentioned on the Wikipedia page are papers? Did this person write a full-length book? If not then NDL wouldn't have a record. They only create identifiers for people who write entire books. There isn't a complete absence of information because I found a listing for them on KAKEN, and I added that to the item. But in the case of NDL I'm not super surprised. Mcampany (talk) 20:49, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

I felt sure enough about the mathematician to merge the items.

Good to know e-Rad as a rich source!--Γεσθημανή (talk) 21:03, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Re: wwwyzzerdd

Hi, I noticed that you are a user of my browser extension wwwyzzerdd. I am considering applying for a Wikimedia grant to further its development (for one thing it needs to be rewritten to be compatible with manifest v3 before the 2023 deadline). As part of that I'm contacting some users to get some feedback. If you have some time I would appreciate if you could tell me:

• How do you find the extension? Is it useful to your work?
• What features / functionality would you like added? Are there bugs that you'd like fixed?
• What browser/OS do you use?

Thanks, any feedback is appreciated. BrokenSegue (talk) 03:31, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

@BrokenSegue: Thanks for reaching out! I LOVE wwwyzzerdd. It's super helpful and I'm so glad you've created it.

1. It's very useful. I especially love that it automatically adds a reference to the wiki I pulled the information from. I often pull data from Japanese wikipedia, and in the past I had a difficult time adding the "place of birth" property using petscan and openrefine because Japanese wikipedia's place of birth categories don't usually go below the prefecture level. With wwwyzzerdd I can add a place of birth at the most specific level available (city, town, or district) and automatically include a reference. The reference being automatically included is a huge time saver because if a reference isn't included with "place of birth", it causes a constraint violation. It's so many extra clicks to add a reference manually, so I appreciate how much time you've saved me by having this happen automatically.

2. Similar to the "place of birth" reference issue above, I'd love to be able to add date of birth and date of death with wwwyzzerdd. However, I know that this might be a long shot since most wikis record this information as strings, rather than as links. However, jawiki and zhwiki sometimes link the month/day and year portions of dates (see a jawiki example here), so there might be some possibilities? Even if I can add just the year with the automatic reference, I don't mind going back and adding the specific date manually.

Also, sometimes the bubble to add an external link (for example, to a Facebook page) doesn't show up depending on how the link formatted. I'll send you an example next time I come across one. Usually when an external link in a wikipedia article can't be added with wwwyzzerdd, I just skip it. (Edit: here is an example. A bubble doesn't show up for the JudoInside link at the bottom of the page, possibly because it's in a template?)

3. I use google chrome on a windows computer.

Thank you so much for all the hard work you do! Please know that it is much appreciated! Mcampany (talk) 14:42, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the feedback. Very appreciated.

You're not the first person to suggest adding the ability to link dates. My current thinking about linking dates is that you would 1) highlight a date with your mouse 2) right-click and pick "wwwyzzerdd parse" from the context menu 3) it will autodetect/parse it as a date 4) you select a property to link the date under.

Yeah there are some known bugs involving external links but the example you show here is actually not a bug. The URL that jawiki is using doesn't match the regex on Property:P2767. BrokenSegue (talk) 18:37, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

@BrokenSegue: That makes sense to me, as long as the autodetect can parse the dates correctly (ie, xxxx年yy月zz日 = xxxxyear yymonth zzday).

Ah, it makes sense why that link didn't work then. Thanks for explaining! Mcampany (talk) 20:01, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with non-English dates. My hope though is that I will be able to learn how they work and support parsing them (and whatever other date formats my users want). At the very least you should be able to highlight just the year and it will let you link that. BrokenSegue (talk) 01:27, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Keiichi Kobayashi (Q98668793)

Hi Mcampany,

are you Japanese? If so, may you please improve this item?

Kind regards U. M. Owen (talk) 06:06, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

@U. M. Owen, I've added some basic information and a Japanese description, but a lot of the information at the Japan Golf Tour Player ID that is already linked on the item is in English. If you want more details, please pull from it yourself. Thanks! Mcampany (talk) 18:22, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Fukami

Hi Mcampany,

there is also Maki Fukami (Q56952539). IMHO VIAF 251587154 is a conflation of both and shall not be used.

Kind regards U. M. Owen (talk) 15:58, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't notice the conflation. I've reverted my addition. Mcampany (talk) 17:31, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

ISO 639-5 code (P1798)

The ISO 639-5 code (P1798) statements you're adding, like Special:Diff/2091130619 and Special:Diff/2092540018, are wrong. ISO 639-5 code (P1798) is not the same as ISO 639-3 code (P220). All of the values for ISO 639-5 code (P1798) are already in Wikidata and all of the values for ISO 639-3 code (P220) should already be in Wikidata as well. If you think a value for either property is missing, the item is probably either a duplicate, or Wikipedia is using the same code on multiple pages (which usually means it doesn't belong on the current item).

- Nikki (talk) 06:03, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi Nikki, thanks for reaching out! I figured since the Wwwyzzerdd tool showed that they were missing from the Wikidata item just like the glottolog identifiers, they should be imported with other missing properties. I'll skip the ISO codes in the future. Thanks for pointing out my mistake! Mcampany (talk) 15:26, 5 March 2024 (UTC)