User talk:Rar

Welcome to Wikidata, Rar!

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Mahir256 (talk) 03:12, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Given that you too are adding Ukrainian descriptions to article items, you're not by chance User:Renamerr in disguise, are you? 😉 Mahir256 (talk) 03:12, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Опис статей

Вітаю. Бачу, ви додаєте описи "наукова стаття опублікована...", але, можливо, краще "наукова стаття, опублікована..." (я цей опис узгоджував з мовознавцями у Вікіпедії – вони підтримали). Описом "наукова стаття опублікована..." ви ніби наголошуєте на даті публікації, а насправді це ж опис елемента, тобто статті. А назагал, вдячний за ваші редагування. --Renamerr (talk) 09:34, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

@Renamerr: На мій (нефілологічний) смак, різниця невелика. Але якщо Ви узгоджували з мовознавцями, то надалі додаватиму. Успіхів! --Rar (talk) 10:40, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Gordy

Hello, can you please add the Ukrainian label and description of Gordy? In case you are wondering, I am a user interested in Disney and other types of films, but have been blocked multiple times. I'm still trying to get Gordy better known. I really wish it could have Russian and Ukrainian articles. The Russian one was deleted because it was too short. I have an interest in Disney and other types of films, but too many people don't seem to care about them. I was banned for socking. This account is mainly here for requests now. Cat~idwiki (talk) 02:28, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Should the label for Gordy be Ґордй? Also, take a look at this: MediaWiki talk:Gadget-SimpleTransliterate.js#Change request: Cyrillic characters? 104.58.147.208 03:34, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, but I am very far from the topic. Phonetically it is "Ґорди". --Rar (talk) 06:07, 23 January 2021 (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)

Documentation of description preparation

Can you share the details about your the preparation of data to the descriptions in wikidata. Akbarali (talk) 11:18, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

@Akbarali: I use WikidataSPARQLPageGenerator with extremely simple request this time, just

SELECT ?item
WHERE {?item wdt:P31 wd:Q11173.} 

The simplicity is enforced: it looks like requests with "Filter" or "Service" clause are resulting with TimeoutException now (this worked few monthes ago). While not filtering on source/target description, I have to do this with pywikibot examining page.get().item_dict["descriptions"]. This is more time-expensive, but quickstatements are slow also at the moment. Please, let me know if you have better idea. Rar (talk) 15:01, 31 July 2022 (UTC)