Kooma
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Merging items
editHallo Kooma,
When you are merging items, please use the Merge.js gadget. It helps you nominating, gives the option to always keep the lower number (which is older, so preferable) and makes it a lot easier for the admins to process the requests.
With regards, -
- (Cycn/talk) 12:41, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- Hi. Thanks for the notice, I’ll try to do that. The problem here is that I’ve been mainly using Wikipedia’s ”Add links” feature in articles with no interwikis, which doesn’t notify if there are duplicate Wikidata items and does the merging automatically. Sometimes the ”lone” article already has a Wikidata item (bots have made these especially for older articles), sometimes it doesn’t. I guess I should always check Wikidata first then? –Kooma (talk) 10:32, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
- I try to do it from within Wikidata, but sometimes that's just unpractical. In the 'lone article' cases 'Add links' is a good enough tool to use. The fact that the articles are connected, by means of whichever tool, is far more inportant that the number of the items. -
- (Cycn/talk) 13:00, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
- I try to do it from within Wikidata, but sometimes that's just unpractical. In the 'lone article' cases 'Add links' is a good enough tool to use. The fact that the articles are connected, by means of whichever tool, is far more inportant that the number of the items. -
Request
editHello.
Could you create the article en:Elections in Azerbaijan and its en:Category:Elections in Azerbaijan in Finnish?
Thank you.
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Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
editHi!
Thanks for splitting Lotus (Q55135790) from Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (Q1871245) − this had been on my todo forever but I was always shying away from it :)
Cheers, Jean-Fred (talk) 08:59, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
- No problem. :) I had trouble deciding which way should I do the split. I ended creating a new item for the series since most of the statements were about the game and sitelinks were easier to move. –Kooma (talk) 15:57, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
Translation
editHello.
Can you create en:Template:Azerbaijani political parties in Finnish Wikipedia?
Yours sincerely, Noraton (talk) 09:33, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Community Insights Survey
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We sent you an e-mail
editHello Kooma,
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:46, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Piipa
editEt sinäkään sitten tiennyt, miten Wikidataan lisätään etunimi Piipa (viite: Piipa Kämppi)... Lax (talk) 18:46, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Taisi laiskottaa, kun ei löytynyt muita nimenkantajia. Ei kai tuossa muuta kuin lisää vaan: Piipa (Q106564107) –Kooma (talk) 20:03, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Ahaa, se vaatii tuommoisen. Hyvä tietää. Lax (talk) 13:01, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
Call for participation in a task-based online experiment
editDear Kooma,
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
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Thank you for considering taking part in this research.
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