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"The Raggle Taggle Gypsy" (Roud 1, Child 200), is a traditional folk song that originated as a Scottish border ballad, and has been popular throughout Britain, Ireland and North America. It concerns a rich lady who runs off to join the gypsies (or one gypsy).
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Wikimania 2022, August 11 to 14, online event. The Hackathon will take place August 12-14. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call August 9, 2022: Pieter Vander Vennet on MapComplete, a thematic OpenStreetMap viewer and editor which uses species, language, and image data from Wikidata. Agenda.
The Wikimania Hackathon starts next Friday, August 16-22! There are still lots of spots in the schedule to add your Wikidata related sessions or project ideas (anyone can present a session)
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First online meet-up fully organized by volunteers of the Indonesian Wikidata Community has been held on 30th July where we edited items on Indonesian ethnic groups.
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Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Peroz I Kushanshah was ruler of the Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom from 245 to 275. He was the successor of Ardashir I Kushanshah. He was an energetic ruler, who minted coins in Balkh, Herat, and Gandhara. Under him, the Kushano-Sasanians further expanded their domains into the west, pushing the weakened Kushan Empire to Mathura in North India.
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Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour August 15, 2022: Fourth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be covering manually creating publisher items: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
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The Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (calendar).
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@Paul 012: 100% (one-hundred percent) him, I'm not allowed to comment there because I once used an emoji in my signature. He made the same disruptive edits at the Wikimedia Commons as he usually does. Such a shame to see his articles here get deleted as he made them about several people that we don't have many English speaking people interested in creating, but it is him, he made categories like "Literature of Imperial Annam" and "Literature of South Vietnam" and then incompetently added them to files where they don't belong.
What I don't get is how someone can still be this incompetent after over a decade of editing here, he didn't get indefinitely blocked for socking he got blocked for incompetence. Like, how is this level of incompetence even possible?! --Donald Trung (talk) 07:28, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
He is really bad at sourcing, sometimes he provides reliable sources but even then his interpretation of those sources is often flawed.
He is obsessed with adding non-sensical categorisation wherever he goes.
He often writes about Vietnamese subjects, according to the Vietnamese-language Wikipedia he's a Monarchist Fascist, but lately he's been adding a lot of pro-Democracy things and historically he seemed vocally pro-Communist, so his politics is all over the place, but whatever his political opinion at the time is shines heavily through his edits.
His main style of editing can be summed up as "Take what I say at face value", once he started deleting something he added years ago claiming that it's historically inaccurate, I then asked for sources and then he kept leaving messages telling me that I should commit suicide and have sex with my mother. He also serially sexually harassed another user here and left images of penises on her talk page and re-wrote her userpage to implies that she regularly engages in sexual relationships (promiscuity) re-writing her hobbies as "sucking dicks" and "riding dicks". This is the type of wonderful experiences you can expect heading your way from him.
He is actually intelligent, but he behaves so incompetently that he's indistinguishable from someone who is the opposite, plus he often attacks people who well intentionally try to correct him and explain to him how to be a better contributor.
He largely ignores literally everyone until he's blocked, then he starts writing insults. His style of communication can best be summed up as "dismissing plus insulting", if he tries to approach a party to request help from them he will often insult them as well, for example he kept insisting that a Chinese user knew nothing of Chinese culture, while requesting him to change an image.
Overall I like his additions, both articles and images (though he sucks at understanding basic copyright law), which is why I think that it's a shame that his articles will get deleted. --Donald Trung (talk) 13:14, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
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In the Arbour (Polish: W altanie) is an oil painting created by Polish Realist painter Aleksander Gierymski in 1882. It is displayed at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland. In the painting is shown a social gathering of a group of aristocrats portrayed in 18th-century clothes, which takes place on a summer day in a garden.
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List of created Wikidata items - a tool which combines Xtools pages created API with Wikidata API to get the list of items created by a user with their label.