User talk:Mxn

Previous discussion was archived at User talk:Mxn/Structured Discussions Archive 1 on 2023-01-15.

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Ajraddatz (Talk) 04:49, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

"Nghề sơn" / "Tranh"

Hello, you seem to be the only Vietnamese speaker here for now. I have a problem with interwikis. I wanted to merge Q1264543 and Q3305213, as they both referrred to painting (the object, not the activity). However, it appears that both items have a vietnamese sitelink ("Nghề sơn", and "Tranh"), could you have a look at that ? --Zolo (talk) 08:42, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

So this is "lacquer painting" ? I'll move it to another item, as the current one has legacy labels in other languages, and it is better not to recycle items (this one was initially used mainly for all types of paintings). --Zolo (talk) 09:51, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Re: Q8308802

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Wikisource is coming in 1 week!

Wikisource is coming in 1 week, on Tuesday, January 14! Preparations continue for the deployment at Wikidata:Wikisource.

We need your input in determining how Wikidata items will be created and used for each Wikisource page. Please join the discussion at Wikidata talk:Wikisource, and notify anyone who is interested in the discussion. --Rschen7754 08:55, 7 January 2014 (UTC) (using MassMessage)

WMF projects - translation of labels and descriptions

Dear Mxn; I have seen you contributing at Wikimedia Incubator (Q846672) and at other pages related to WMF projects. I want to let you know that the number of projects listed at Wikidata:Database reports/WMF projects has increased to more then 385; there are pages from Wikibook project pages to Wikiversity and Wiktionary project pages,
You may be interested in adding labels and descriptions in other languages, follow the discussion at property talk:P218#whats next and comment there. Best regards Gangleri also aka I18n (talk) 20:36, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

OSM scripts

Just a quick note to thank you for your overpass.js user script, which is going to be very useful for me and, no doubt, many others.

Have you seen User:Abbe98/osm.js? It would be really neat if the frame produced by your script also included the link produced by the latter. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:30, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: Do you mean that you’d like a link to a matching OSM element? The map produced by this script is interactive: you can click on any highlighted node, way, or relation to view its tags and open it in osm.org. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 18:11, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

I'd missed that. It's great as it is, thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:32, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Nôm character for Jesus

Hi Minh, may I ask where you've seen 羝蘇 as Nôm (or Chinese?) characters for Jesus? I find that 支秋 is much more common. Greenknight dv (talk) 06:14, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

@Greenknight dv: I think I blindly copied what was on vi:Giê-su, specifically in vi:Đặc biệt:Khác/55755174. 支秋 is what Girolamo Maiorica apparently used in his works. I've removed the alias from Q302. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 02:42, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Seems like this is a hoax. I'll remove it from the Wikipedia entry if not getting reply from User:Phúc Thái An. --Greenknight dv (talk) 22:57, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Call Wikiproject COVID-19 tomorrow (Monday, May 4th)

Hello Minh Nguyễn,

How are you doing?

I am here to invite you for the Wikiproject COVID-19 call tomorrow (Monday, May 4th).

I believe it is an opportunity also to discuss your suggestion of using the tabular data in in a more efficient way.

If you are able to meet, the call (in this link: https://meet.google.com/vtp-ighz-npx) will happen tomorrow at 15:00 UT.

As a note, 15:00 UTC is:

• 11:00 AM in New York, USA
• 12:00 AM in São Paulo, Brazil
• 4:00 PM in Tunisia
• 6:00 PM Eastern European Summer Time (EEST)

If you want, also feel free to add topics at the meeting page.

Thanks!

Cheers, TiagoLubiana (talk) 22:49, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation, TiagoLubiana! I'll try to sneak in between work meetings. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 22:53, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Stay-at-home orders

A spreadsheet that may be useful - links to the day that orders were put in place, via CovidTracking. Sj (talk) 03:05, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

@Sj: Thanks, I think the state-level orders are taken care of – see Special:WhatLinksHere/Q88509703 – but ended up deduplicating these items with items that were later imported from another spreadsheet. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 05:54, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Call Wikiproject COVID-19 tomorrow (Monday, May 18th)

Hello Minh Nguyễn,

How are you doing?

I am here (once again) to invite you for the Wikiproject COVID-19 call tomorrow (Monday, May 18th).

There has been clearly a lot of progress in the tabular data question in the past 2 weeks, so I bet it would be a nice opportunity to share it :).

If you are able to meet, the call (in this link: https://meet.google.com/vtp-ighz-npx) will happen tomorrow at 15:00 UT.

As a note, 15:00 UTC is:

• 11:00 AM in New York, USA
• 12:00 AM in São Paulo, Brazil
• 4:00 PM in Tunisia
• 6:00 PM Eastern European Summer Time (EEST)

If you want, also feel free to add topics at the meeting page.

Thanks!

Cheers, TiagoLubiana (talk) 23:57, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

@TiagoLubiana: Thanks, I did my time zone math wrong and wound up missing the call, but let me know if there's anything I can help clarify for the group. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 16:20, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikiproject COVID-19 call tomorrow (1st of June) - reminder

Hello, Minh Nguyễn,

How are you doing?

This is a friendly reminder of tomorrow's (Monday, 01 of June) Wikiproject meeting, at 15:00 UTC as usual, and at the usual link: https://meet.google.com/vtp-ighz-npx .

Maybe you can stop by and a bit more about your recent works on tabular data.

If you want to add something to the agenda in advance, feel free to just edit Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19/Project_meeting.

I hope you can make it! :)

Best,

TiagoLubiana (talk) 20:39, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Notes taken from your presentation + thoughts here. I'd love to help w/ this and discuss further this week. Sj (talk) 15:48, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Reminder of the WikiProject COVID-19 call tomorrow (15 of June)

Hello Minh,

I hope you are doing well there.

I am here to send you this friendly a reminder of tomorrow (15 of june) call at 15:00 UTC!

This is the link for the call: https://meet.google.com/vtp-ighz-npx

This is the link for the etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wikidata_covid_notes

The WikiProject seems to be losing momentum. Perception of the size of COVID-19 as an enormous problem is fading. That is good, but it is also dangerous.

In tomorrow's call, I would like to discuss with you two important and related questions: - How can this WikiProject best serve the anti-covid-19 effort? - what does this project can offer for the post-COVID-19 Wikidata world?

As usual, if you have any topics to add, you can do so either before at the Project Meeting Page or at the meeting.

I hope you can make it!

All the best,

Tiago

TiagoLubiana (talk) 23:56, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Interview Invitation

Greetings,

I noticed your editing stats on Wikiscan, which led me to look up your profile. Thank you for all the great work!

I’m reaching out to you because I’m working on a research project about understanding what motivates editors like you to contribute to Wikidata. We’re also interested in learning about how you feel your contributions are being used outside of Wikidata. Since you are such an active community member, I thought you might also be interested in helping to build the broader community’s knowledge about Wikidata, and why it matters.

If you’re interested, let’s schedule a time to talk over Zoom, or whichever platform you prefer. If you are interested, please fill in a questionnaire. The conversation should take about 30 min.

Hope you have a great day,

Chuankaz (talk) 03:53, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Postal service abbreviations - lexeme forms?

You've added a lot of US Postal service abbreviations as lexeme forms - for example L3755-F3 (RIV) on river (L3755). This doesn't seem right to me. There's no real grammar associated with these abbreviations, and they would only be used in addresses. Have you discussed it with anybody who's been working on lexemes? Wikidata talk:Lexicographical data would be the place to bring it up. Maybe this should instead be a special property (US Postal service abbreviation)? ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:28, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

@ArthurPSmith: Thanks for reaching out. I was going off of how Special:PermanentLink/1230867700#F3 had been tagged with the feature abbreviation (Q102786), USPS abbreviation (Q30619513) being a subclass of abbreviation (Q102786). I can see how a property would be more appropriate, though, especially considering that each abbreviation can be singular, plural, or both. I've followed up at Wikidata talk:Lexicographical data#Abbreviations. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 17:34, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Sysop in Wiktionary Vi

Please take a look at this. Thank you! Nguyentrongphu (talk) 16:42, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

OpenStreetMap numeric user ID (P8754)

Is this property supposed to replace website account > OpenStreetMap? Or should both be used together? --Trade (talk) 10:07, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

@Trade: I don't think it can, because Wikidata:Property proposal/OpenStreetMap user name was rejected. OpenStreetMap numeric user ID (P8754) is only the numeric user ID, which is more stable than the user name but not as useful for linking. Maybe OpenStreetMap numeric user ID (P8754) should be a qualifier on website account on (P553) though. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 10:10, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Q5296#Talking about Wiktionaries

You may be interested in this section because, as far as I know, the Vietnamese Wiktionary (vi.wiktionary, which you're an administrator of that) mainpage wikt:vi:Trang Chính is located at Main namespace, to which our policy said that Main namespace pages of Wiktionaries are not allowed for normal linking. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 10:49, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

vi:Wikipedia:Yêu cầu kiểm định tài khoản/Cocacolakogas

Good day Mxn. I am here to tell you that we have a account verification case that involves DHN, so we need you as our CheckUser.
Also, we are having a discussion about the importing the Oversight tools, and I would like to see your view.
Thanks for all your hard work, since the very first days of Wikimedia.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh (talk) 05:10, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Call for participation in a task-based online experiment

Dear Mxn,

I hope you are doing good,

I am Kholoud, a researcher at King's College London, and I work on a project as part of my PhD research, in which I have developed a personalised recommender system that suggests Wikidata items for the editors based on their past edits. I am collaborating on this project with Elena Simperl and Miaojing Shi.

I am inviting you to a task-based study that will ask you to provide your judgments about the relevance of the items suggested by our system based on your previous edits. Participation is completely voluntary, and your cooperation will enable us to evaluate the accuracy of the recommender system in suggesting relevant items to you. We will analyse the results anonymised, and they will be published to a research venue.

The study will start in late January 2022 or early February 2022, and it should take no more than 30 minutes.

If you agree to participate in this study, please either contact me at kholoud.alghamdi@kcl.ac.uk or use this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSees9WzFXR0Vl3mHLkZCaByeFHRrBy51kBca53euq9nt3XWog/viewform?usp=sf_link I will contact you with the link to start the study.

For more information about the study, please read this post: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Kholoudsaa In case you have further questions or require more information, don't hesitate to contact me through my mentioned email.

Thank you for considering taking part in this research.

Regards

Kholoudsaa (talk) 22:29, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

On the topic of Shell

Hi, I saw that you added a new wikidata for Shell, and was just wondering why you made a new one, it confused me since I do work on OpenstreetMap and it changed the preset. Thanks in advance. Kline | vroom vroom 17:02, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

@Kline: Yes, I created Shell (Q110716465) and switched OSM's name-suggestion-index to it for a few reasons. Like most oil companies, Shell has many operations besides it franchised gas station chain. Commons has a separate category for the gas station chain, which created a need for a Wikidata item to represent the gas station chain specifically. The chain has also formally changed ownership a couple times in its history, most recently in 2005 as part of a corporate restructuring.

My changes were prompted by another recent name-suggestion-index change to update the corporate name from Royal Dutch Shell to Shell plc, which also would've required updating tags in OSM. Shell's association with the Shell corporation has been relatively stable over the years, making this distinction somewhat pedantic. However, most major gas station chains have changed ownership in more complex ways over the years, requiring this more detailed modeling (Conoco (Q109341187) is one example). Are you seeing any problems caused by Shell (Q110716465), other than validator suggestions to retag items (which would've happened anyways due to the Shell plc renaming)?

 –  Minh Nguyễn ^💬 22:53, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the response, I appreciate it! And no, there is no other issues other than the iD validator suggestions. Kline | vroom vroom 01:58, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

m:Module:Project portal

Please see m:Module talk:Project portal#Completely removing this module (and a few sections of discussion before that, for context). There has been some discussion as to whether that module, which you created, is worth keeping. - dcljr (talk) 06:02, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

kein guter Stil

@Mxn: diese Bearbeitung von mir war zum damaligen Zeitpunkt korrekt. Nur weil die Liste jetzt ein Artikel ist, oder die Wikidata-Objekte geändert wurden, eine damals gültige Bearbeitung heute zurückzusetzen, finde ich unhöflich. Du hättest es einfach überschreiben können. Eine Rücksetzung kannst du machen, wenn jemand einen offensichtlichen Fehler begangen hat. Aber nicht Jahre später nach einer Änderung, wenn es damals korrekt war. Triplec85 (talk) 10:42, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

@Triplec85: (Entschuldigung für die automatische Übersetzung mit DeepL) Entschuldigung für die alarmierende Rückmeldung. Ja, es war unhöflich von mir, es so aussehen zu lassen, als sei Ihre Bearbeitung falsch. Leider wurden viele dieser Listenelemente fälschlicherweise mit Nicht-Listenelementen verwechselt, so dass es schwierig ist, die vielen formelhaften Beschreibungen als Teil der Dekonflationierung der Elemente rückgängig zu machen: list of Autobahns and Schnellstraßen of Austria (Q115940944). Ich habe vor allem Bearbeitungen durch Bots rückgängig gemacht, aber ich habe übersehen, dass Sie diese Bearbeitung manuell vorgenommen haben. Bitte nehmen Sie meine Entschuldigung an; ich werde versuchen, in Zukunft vorsichtiger zu sein. Minh Nguyễn ^💬 17:13, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Danke. Passt. Wünsche dir einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr. Triplec85 (talk) 20:37, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

@Triplec85: Guten Rutsch! Minh Nguyễn ^💬 20:40, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

USPS abbreviation (Q30619513) as a grammatical feature

hi, I am writing you because you made this edit. I think that USPS abbreviation (Q30619513) is not a grammatical feature. Consequently I created a separate lexeme FWY (L1142449) for it. Do you disagree with this course of action? Shisma (talk) 08:27, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

@Shisma: I don’t have a strong opinion about this, but others seem to. See #Postal service abbreviations - lexeme forms?, Wikidata talk:Lexicographical data/Archive/2022/06#USPS abbreviation (Q30619513) as a grammatical feature, and Wikidata talk:Lexicographical data/Archive/2020/10#Abbreviations. Minh Nguyễn ^💬 13:15, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

ah, I thought I had this discussion before and then somehow lost track of it 😅. It's really confusing to find out what's the general consensus when working with lexemes. Shisma (talk) 13:55, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

RUE in French or English ?

Hi,

I've seen that that added the USPS abbreviation (Q30619513) RUE on rue (L10101) and I reverted you as it's strange to have an English form on a French Lexeme. But afterward, I'm not so sure. Should we :

• keep as it was before (strange)
• keep the form but putting the language as French? do we consider the USPS to speak also French?
• create an English Lexeme "rue" to put the English form? (if we consider the USPS speak only English)
• something else?

I'll let you tell me what would be best.

Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 10:57, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

@VIGNERON: Thanks for spotting that. I had been going through this table adding the abbreviations. The table is meant to include "common" street name abbreviations, regardless of the language, but most of the words are in English because most street names in the U.S. are in English; French is only common in a few regions like Louisiana. The Spanish-derived words are in a separate table because Spanish is the official language in Puerto Rico addresses.

Unlike many local authorities, the USPS doesn't consider words in street names to be language-specific; they only acknowledge that the names may be derived from one language or another. This makes some sense because streets can be named after people speaking any language, and many other names are total nonsense. Near me there's a Rue Avati; I suppose you could say the street name is French but it has been borrowed into English verbatim.

There's no consensus on how to do about the USPS abbreviation (Q30619513) (see the section above). But since it's especially strange to put an English form on a French lexeme, how about we create a new "rue" lexeme in English and put a USPS abbreviation (Q30619513) form on both lexemes with their respective languages?

 –  Minh Nguyễn ^💬 21:27, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer.

We probably need others sources before creating lexemes. I couldn't find "rue" in any English dictionary. So maybe we should wait before creating it. For French, rue (L10101), I re-reverted myself and change the language to French.

One other small thing bothering me here is that an abbreviation is supposed to abbreviate but here "RUE" is juste the full word "rue" in all caps (I search if there are French references for abbreviating "rue" but apparently it's unclear, either R or also RUE ; I'll look more into it).

PS: indeed there is some "rues" in San Jose, see https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1zLw (including https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8969704 which is definitely a French name :D ).

Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 07:00, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Pueblo, barrio-pueblo, or name of municipality?

Hi thanks for your contributions. I wanted to mention that the downtown historical area with the government buildings and plaza in PR are in a barrio called the "pueblo". At some point in time, it began to be called "x barrio-pueblo" by the US Census office.... See Vega Baja municipio with the "pueblo" on this map. It's always the tiniest area of the municipality. https://www.vegabaja.gov.pr/feature/preset-styles/ Locals call it "el pueblo". The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 17:41, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

@The Eloquent Peasant: Thanks, I was mostly trying to align the labels with the Spanish Wikipedia article titles, minus the disambiguating suffixes, figuring that would be "correct" from a database perspective. However, Yarfpr has undone all of those changes. I'm OK with that, but we should still strip the disambiguating suffix off the Spanish labels.

According to [1] (pp. 116–117), barrio-pueblo was the legal name in the Spanish-era memorias. The Census Bureau initially called it pueblo in the 1970 census but switched to barrio-pueblo in 1990, in order to align with that legal term and also avoid confusion with places that they would call "Pueblo barrio" (in English, according to their practice of always appending the place type to the place name).

By the way, I'm making these edits in conjunction with edits to OpenStreetMap. There, GNIS-imported points that represent the human settlement were incorrectly linked to the municipio's item. I started out by changing those links to point to barrio-pueblo items, but once I got to Ponce, I realized I had made a severe error. So now I'm creating items about census-designated zonas urbanas and linking to those instead.

 – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 18:29, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Most municipios have a barrio-pueblo but Ponce has a different "pueblo". There's a nice explanation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblos_in_Puerto_Rico Regards! --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 18:33, 4 May 2024 (UTC)Italic text