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Cheshunt Lock and other notes

Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer https://www.eternalwall.org.uk/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fm77
Another Gorka source [1]
http://www.leeandstort.co.uk/Cheshunt_Lock.htm
Dictionary of Kongo
Faith hope and charity
Colour list
Queen's Hospital, Croydon see Fay Allen , Queen's Hospital (disambiguation)
Chirurgeon
Arnold Birkman ditto, insignia foxes shaking hands, ditto (heirs of, 1555, dubious) Also Collen = Cologne (Koln). booke-for-all-the-grefes-and-diseases-of-the-bodye/oclc/14317345 qv, [2], [3]
COvid vit D (dubious?)
RAC cites Pettigrew.
Regulation, rent-seeking, and the Glorious Revolution in the English Atlantic economy
A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester (iss 1-3?) Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Demy-Octavo (corrigenda P 214): bound in with Rutland Words 1891 Kegan Paul, Trubner & Co (Paternoster House, Charing Cross) [4]
Odiham Hundred
County Magazine re twelfth cake, and Pompeii/Hereculaneum?
Oppression in 19th century Britain
Winter 1966]
420 [5] [6]
Coastal eutrophication & plastic density
NHS funding
Bennet and Kerr books
Dr Johnsons's Dictionary
Captivity of Mrs Rowlandson
Sari Bear see also A Duty Clear Before Us : North Beach and the Sari Bair Range, Gallipoli Peninsula 25 April-20 December 1999., [7], [8]
- JJC
Cat and Bagpipean soc. see also Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue infra, See also: A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Study of circs of TMWWBQ
Catamaran [9]
F. Grose Classical Dic., catamaran, chuffy
Ubuntu bash multi-terminal history
Author's alliance fair use guidance
Language speeds (sieve)
Pesticide Properties Data Base (Glyphosate)
Mandy Rice-Davies Seven Magnificent Gladiators
Warlike Operations Area Committee
Laser Activated Remote Phosphor (LARP)
PASC
There seems to be confusion between Spiraea arguta and Spiraea prunifolia, only the former I think is correctly dubbed "bridal wreath".
Meadowsweet <- Meadow sweet Meadow-sweet
Find out whether dry-point [A Catalogue of Manuscripts Known to Contain Old English Dry-Point Glosses] (de: Griffelglossen) includes/is metalpoint. DNC drypoint. Ans. Blackwell Ency.c Ag-Sax England, entry Glosses cited therein - 'with a stylus' 'scratched'
Investigate Bald's Leechbook and Lacnunga.
Wynde Monah 1845 see alsoBailey
John Eversely https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58673/supplement/4/data.pdf https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-princess-royal-shakes-hands-with-mr-john-eversley-news-photo/834710966 https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2008/04/23/enterprising-individuals-get-queens-award https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business/2211450.best-uk-business-recognised-awards/ https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Award+recognises+John%27s+contribution%3B+in+association+with+RBS.-a0178074996
https://www.europeana.eu/en
Broken symmetry https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/04/13/clinical-trial-should-probably-wont-close-book-ivermectin-16244
Sort order, name https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Ann_Brock_Putnam&diff=prev&oldid=880695609
Barret M82 an 11/12 round mag was made [10] need a better ref if possible. perhaps or [11] [12]
[13]
[14]
Hilary English
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-sanctions-family-syria-asma-assad-end-war
probably WISEA J100115.86+555344.3 move to WISEA 1001+5553 (needs refs)
'Top 400' political scientists (US, Phd granting institutions only, tenure or tenure track, by citation count) [15]

Extended content

Nomination for deprecation of Template:EngvarB

Template:EngvarB has been nominated for deprecation. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page.

Hi Rich Farmbrough. You made a comment at this discussion, but you did not make a clear vote in favour or against deprecation. Would you consider making one? Thanks cagliost (talk) 07:18, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The World Destubathon

Hello. You are invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It's currently planned for June 16-July 13. There is currently $3338 going into it, with $500 the top prize. As 250 countries and entities is too much to patrol, entries will be by user, but there is $500 going into prizes for editors covering the most countries. Sign up if interested! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:34, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:VoR

Template:VoR has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Legend of 14 (talk) 00:13, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

May 2025

Hello. I have noticed that you often edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. To help yourself remember, you may wish to check the "prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" box in your preferences. Thanks! Legend of 14 (talk) 15:10, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your 'often' link doesn't work. Also your section heading is meaningless. See also WP:DTTR. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 16:15, 31 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]

May music

Reasons to look at Bach (and listen): it's a recent GA (not by me), he assumed the position of Thomaskantor on 30 May in 1723, he's up for PR, and several of his cantatas for GA, and his Easter Oratorio for FAC. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:39, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Very nice! All the best: Rich Farmbrough 16:59, 31 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Template redirect issue

This edit caused every single page about Premiers of Ontario to post a good portion of the article about the position at the bottom of each Premier's page, between two other templates. Not sure what happened exactly, but I guess a bot came along and didn't realize it was supposed to go to a template?

I fixed the redirect, just thought you would like to know it happened. Paris1127 (talk) 00:49, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough 05:53, 2 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Squared

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Oh my! All the best: Rich Farmbrough 20:05, 2 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Please document new templates

When you create a new template page, please add documentation and categories, per the template guidelines. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:37, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Asking again. Template:Articles needing a legend progress. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:55, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #682

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #681.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

New requests for permissions/Bot: Wikidata Translation Bot - task/s: Automate translation of Item Labels and Descriptions across supported languages and submit them using the official Wikidata API.
New request for comments: Mass-editing policy
Closed request for comments:
- Rename PeakFinder ID (P3770) - Property was renamed.
- Domain name as data - property domain name (P13337) was created.

Events

Upcoming events:
- New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our first event will include guests from the Wikidata Search team to discuss the recent graph split project. Join us Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #77 June 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- Revitalizing UK History #June 7 Time 16:00 UTC Revitalizing UK History
Just missed it?
- Wikidata and Sister Projects: full day videos and presentation slides are being made available on the program page.
- Coordinate Me 2025, the contest to add geographic coordinates (P625) for countries with low representation has ended. Who will be declared winner?

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
- Wikidata promotes Sister Projects through interwiki links SLUB Open Science Lab writer Jens Bemme has put together a comprehensive article covering the recent online event and many examples of Wikidata being used.
Papers
- MAKIEVAL: A Multilingual Automatic Wikidata-based Framework for Cultural Awareness Evaluation for LLMs By Zhao et al., (2025) - This paper presents MAKIEVAL, a framework for evaluating cultural awareness in LLMs across languages, showing that models exhibit stronger cultural awareness when prompted in English.
- Conversational Lexicography: Querying Lexicographic Data on Knowledge Graphs with SPARQL through Natural Language By Sennrich & Ahmadi (2025) - This paper develops a natural language interface for retrieving lexicographic data from Wikidata, creating a taxonomy and dataset, and evaluating language models, with GPT-3.5-Turbo showing the best generalization despite scalability challenges.
- UAQFact: Evaluating Factual Knowledge Utilization of LLMs on Unanswerable Questions By Tan et al., (2025) - This paper introduces UAQFact, a bilingual dataset for evaluating LLMs on unanswerable questions, showing that models struggle to fully utilize stored factual knowledge even with external support.
Videos
- Listful Thinking:Using Wikidata to support editing workflows By Dr Thneed
- (French) Using Wikidata to gain visibility on the internet? By Nelly Darbois
- How to create a SPARQL Query to search Wikidata Item Description By vlogize
- (Spanish) Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata tutorial for the subject of Virreinal Art By Luis Alvaz
- Wikidata and Sister Projects (YouTube Playlist) - full daily recordings from the Wikidata and Sister Projects event.

Tool of the week

Wikidata Qrank is a ranking signal for Wikidata entities. It gets computed by aggregating page view statistics for Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikibooks, Wikispecies and other Wikimedia projects. For example, according to the QRank signal, the fictional character Pippi Longstocking ranks lower than Harry Potter, but still much higher than the obscure Äffle & Pferdle.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Should I watch this? - Enter a film title or IMDb ID to get a recommendation, uses data from Wikidata.
Job Openings - want to help shape the future of Wikidata or Wikibase?

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
  - ‎reason for no value (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value")
  - cosplay of (characters that are cosplayed in this image or video)
- External identifiers: espn.com soccer team ID, ‎Yale LUX ID, Židovski biografski leksikon ID, verkiezingsuitslagen database ID, Norwegian soldier register 1940 ID, Polish Music Library PBM ID, ‎MCW-PL article ID
New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
  - UK Mutual Registration Number (identifier for an organisation in the UK's Mutuals Public Register)
- External identifiers: Scilit organization ID, paleo.ru person ID, identifiant Assemblée nationale du Québec non-élu, ThinkyGames genre ID, Letopis of MSU person ID, MAI person ID, istina.msu.ru journal ID, MultimediaWiki page ID, Submarine Cable Map ID, Nederlands Film Festival person ID, CTS URN, Scientific heritage of Russia person ID, Virtual necropolis of Ukrainian emigration person ID, Russian Cycling Federation person ID, The Memories of the Gulag and Their Authors person ID, Yandex Books author ID, Theatre museums of Russia person ID, Reabilitovani istoriyeyu person ID, CARLA ID, Boosty author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
- All lexemes in Minangkabau (sorted chronologically by their entry time)
- Film Directors who are still alive
Schema examples:
Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject WordNet
WikiProject Highlights:
Newest database reports:list of the most linked category page items
Showcase Items: Captain America: Civil War (Q18407657) - 22016 film by Anthony and Joe Russo
Showcase Lexemes: (L1250690) spegnere (L1250690) - Italian verb "switch off" or "to die"

Development

Vector 2022 skin: We enabled dark mode for Items, Properties and Lexemes on Wikidata (phab:T389330)
Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with the technical investigation.
Diffs: We merged a volunteer patch by Matěj Suchánek to format quantity diffs a bit more sensibly (phab:T394585)
Search in the UI: We enabled the new search on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org. It lets you easily search in other entity types as well now, not just Items. Please give it a try.
Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on integrating simple search, specifically phrase matching (phab:T389011)
Query Service: We are working on an experiment to add a small dialog to inform people about alternative access methods for very simple queries that don't require SPARQL (phab:T391261)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
Govdirectory weekly focus country:
Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2025-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

The Chart extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy Graph extension.

Updates for editors

It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's citation generator. Administrators can now set a default template by using the _default key in the local MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json page (example diff). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when new item types are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template. [17]
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using action=login or action=clientlogin will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using bot passwords or using a loginless authentication method such as OAuth are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; using action=login without a bot password was deprecated in 2016. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses. [18]
From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is async/await syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015. [19]
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

Scholarship applications to participate in the GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can apply here. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.

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Proposed deletion of Protector of the Slaves

The article Protector of the Slaves has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Article contains no sources and I've been unable to locate any to verify the information. I checked the Edward Howard-Gibbon article, and mention of his time as Protector of the Slaves was also unsourced.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Se7enNationArmy2024 (talk) 18:26, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

The Trust and Safety Product team is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project, see this update. If you have any comments or questions, write on the talk page, and join a CEE Catch Up this Tuesday.

Updates for editors

The watchlist expiry feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The preferences also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback. [20]

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (some have already received this design change, a few will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt out of these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). [21][22]
Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts revealed automatically during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards. [23]
This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [24]
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are available on Phabricator.
Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on some wikis to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on mw.title objects, named pageImage and pageAssessments. [25][26]
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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