Re: [Wikidata] Controversy around Wikimania talks

2016-07-31 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
Which items, which admin, etc. A little context would help. If the items were appropriate, wait for the community to agree with you before recreating them. On 31 Jul 2016 17:50, "Gerard Meijssen" wrote: > Hoi. > Many items were created for Wikimania talks. They were created because > Wikimania

Re: [Wikidata] Possibility of data lock

2016-06-09 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
Or a new right, required to alter a statement that has a citation? On 9 Jun 2016 20:41, "john cummings" wrote: > I have been experiencing something similar although I would not call it > vandalism, just changing things that are official statistics to something > that is not and merging items that

Re: [Wikidata] Ontology

2016-05-14 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Gerard Meijssen, 14/05/2016 15:39: >> >> When an external ontology says that something is a disease and the DSM-5 >> says it is not. There is a huge problem. > > > Until recently DSM called homosexuality a disease, we must live with >

Re: [Wikidata] upcoming deployments/features

2016-02-02 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > >> Can you try again please? And in an in-cognito window? I just tried it >> and it works for me: https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649 We've had some >> issues with local store though. > > Weird, does work for me incognito but not when lo

Re: [Wikidata] Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype

2016-01-10 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
Please can https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/247080/ be added to the blockers for this, and allow clients a week or two to add support for the new datatype. On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hey folks :) > > The new identifier datatype is getting ready. Once we have it we