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Cheshunt Lock and other notes

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

[16]
Tha Si Sunthon Heroines Monument
[Isaac Wayne]] For his grandfather...
[17] St Mary Magdalene's, Longfield lnk Thomas Plume (Also spellings of Longflield.)
Ejidal -> Ejido

2025

Seacoal Sea coal
PPLAAF
Shooting Butts School
Cassells Paten Pangram (Connoisseur Magazine vol 57)
COMB breach

Wikidata weekly summary #693

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-18. Missed the previous one? See issue #692.

Events

Upcoming events: New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! Mark your calendars for our third session of our event series, an Introduction to Wikidata/EMCO, which is meant to introduce EMCO participants and anyone interested to Wikidata and to develop frameworks and skills for entity management in the Wikidata environment. We will review searching in Wikidata and have a practical, hands-on exercise where everyone can create a new person item and add some statements. Join us Tuesday, August 19th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST Time zone converter. Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Videos:
- What Is Wikidata? - Be App Savvy
- OpenStreetMap x Wikidata - Wikidata Taiwan

Tool of the week

Magnus Manske’s developed a Como Wikidata Game using Autodesc, this game suggests short descriptions for Wikidata items that don't have any. Review each suggestion, improve it if needed, and submit a concise, accurate description. Additioanlly the andriod application for the game is available for download at Google Play Store

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Are you a developer using Wikidata's data in your application with the action API or Query Service? The Wikidata development would love to talk to you to help improve how you can get to Wikidata's data. More details here (Great Question). User interview is 60-mins and you’ll receive compensation as a thank-you for your time.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

New External identifiers: National Library of Nigeria ID, Artfacts artist ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Código INE (Bolivia) (Official hierarchical identifier of the National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia for administrative entities such as departments, provinces and municipalities.)
- quality for (quality that is described by this sense of adjective/grammatical modifier)
- type of quality (qualifier of "item for this modifier" that specifies the type of quality)
- has wireless capabilities (type of wireless connectivity this device has/supports)
- designed for handedness (hand(s) that this object is intended to be used with)
New External identifier property proposals to review: Valais cantonal parliament ID, Arcanes ID, A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism entry ID, IGDB tag ID, TechnoMusicWorld artist ID, TechnoMusicWorld release ID, TechnoMusicWorld track ID, A Dictionary of Dentistry entry ID, CELL ID, Flemish Community Masterpieces List item ID, A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation entry ID, Hamburger Frauenbiografien ID, GamesIndustry.biz topic ID, Ophardt Team Sportevent person ID, LINDAS ID, Digital ROC people ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon object ID, Nebraska Authors author ID, InfoconDB series ID, InfoconDB conference ID, setlist.fm festival ID, Digital ROC event ID, ScholarGPS scholar ID, ScholarGPS institution ID, ScholarGPS field and discipline ID, ScholarGPS specialty ID, The Digital Ark person ID, ScholarGPS country profile ID, MHOBT ID, Letterboxd person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
- Wikidata entities shaped like businesses (Sparql source)
- Map of sub-categories of a Commons category
Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Irish Traditional Music - This project aims to enhance the representation of Irish traditional music on Wikidata
Showcase Items: Olympia (Q737062) - painting by Édouard Manet
Showcase Lexemes: spegnere (L1250690) - Italian verb (ˈspeɲ.ɲe.re) meaning "to extinguish (a fire)", "to turn off (a device)", or "to die (euphemistic)"

Development

Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work - so far on the read-only mobile version. We will start looking into editing soon. You can follow along with the development on beta Wikidata.
GraphQL: We are continuing some experiments with GraphQL to see if it is useful for specific types of access to Wikidata's data.
Dumps: We are starting to experiment with subset dumps to see if we can get meaningful smaller dumps for reusers.
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We are working on scalability issues around the number of changes from Wikidata that get sent to Wikipedia and co. As part of this we are continuing to look into how to decrease the number of changes in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co that don't actually affect an article there.
- We are investigating how the upcoming larger rollout of Parsoid affects the tracking of Wikidata usage in articles.
- We are looking into improving the Databox Lua module that is used especially in smaller Wikipedias to get Wikidata-powered infoboxes.
Federation: We are looking at the previous prototype for Federated Properties that allowed to use Wikidata's Properties on another Wikibase instance. We are checking what if anything of it can be revived for our current work to allow other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items and Properties seamlessly.
Data governance: We are concluding research around the current undestanding of people about which data should go where in the Wikibase Ecosystem.
Constraint reports: We limited Special:ConstraintReport to logged-in users to avoid AI scrapers hitting the systems too hard ([[phab:T401789]))

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: Cyprus
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!

· Previous issue · Full report . Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk . MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:20, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spaces

After nearly 20 years on Wikipedia, I still cannot figure out why some editors add or delete spaces in headings, after bullet points, etc. Sometimes one editor will come and change these, and then another will come and do the opposite. Can you explain? Is there a MOS item or guideline somewhere about this? None of it affects the way the text looks on the page.

Here are some examples: == Level 2 heading ==

===Space/no space before the immediately following Level 3 heading===

No space after the bullet point

;No space after the bolding semicolon

Thanks for any enlightenment. -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:11, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The important part is lists not having blank lines between them. This is bad for accessibility as each item will be read as a separate list by a screen reader.

For the rest, it's a preference, though there are usually expressible reasons. For example, some of my preferences:

I prefer fairly tight vertical spacing, because we often don't have a lot of lines to play with (my edit window is 24 lines, on a fairly large screen, many people edit on much smaller screens or phones).
I prefer a space after left-margin markup, just as we have a space after numbered and bulleted list markers. I think it aids readability.
I prefer no "=-adjacent" space in headers because we don't use spaces extra spaces within brackets, quotation marks, italic/bold markup, link markup or template curly brackets.
I'm undecided about inline templates - where there is a pipe, I'm beginning to think that's a good spot for a space, effectively treating the pipe as a comma. This makes it much easier to read in Chrome if you have spelling check turned on. (for example author=Smith|date= Chrome will treat "Smith|date" as a word.

My watchwords tend to be readability, simplicity and consistency. I could talk about reasons for doing things otherwise, or layout of multiline templates too, but I don't want to bore you. Hope that helps.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough 18:08, 18 August 2025 (UTC).[reply]

P.S. I only use the semi-colon for putting boxes on the left, particularly portal and sisterlinks. I would suggest that there's rarely a case where standard bold mark-up isn't better for bold, and indeed it's likely that a level 3 or 4 heading would be more appropriate. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 18:10, 18 August 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks. Yes, I would like you to "bore" me a little more about #2 and #3 above -- How do you think they aid readability? I totally agree with #1 and also agree about pipes. Also what about the spaces in this type of edit? -- In or out, and why? I'd like to be able to make a reasoned argument to editors about this, especially when one adds spaces and another deletes them. -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:40, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We generally have a space before a word starts (excluding CamelCase). Even a paragraph that isn't indented has a margin - the only exceptions in normal text are paired delimiters—and sometimes dashes—which are all lightweight. Programmers are used to exceptions, some of them inherited from mathematics sin(x) influences to_upper(my_string) but these days have started to insist on spaces around "=".

Example:

*January

*February

*March

…

* January

* February

* March

To me the second is easier to read. It's also an interesting question, if there are no spaces is it because the editor doesn't like them, hadn't thought of them, forgot them or couldn't be bothered? If there is a space it is certainly deliberate (although they may be copying something they don't necessarily agree with).

To be continued… All the best: Rich Farmbrough 23:11, 18 August 2025 (UTC).[reply]

You wrote: "To me the second is easier to read. ... if there are no spaces is it because the editor doesn't like them...." So, is it simply a matter of personal preference? If so, unless one can make a good argument that they are making inconsistent spacing consistent in an established article, I'd say that adding or deleting such spaces (unless making a major revision to the article) is a violation of MOS:VAR. ALSO: what about my last question about all the spaces added/deleted in this type of edit? -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:33, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-34

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

Updates for editors

Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools" Beta Feature enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history. Learn more about this feature. [18]
An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September. [19]
An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation Lab. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August. [20]
Five new wikis have been created:
- a Wikisource in Tagalog (s:tl:) [21]
- a Wikisource in Madurese (s:mad:) [22]
- a Wikipedia in Rakhine (w:rki:) [23]
- a Wikibooks in Minangkabau (b:min:) [24]
- a Wiktionary in Standard Moroccan Amazigh (wikt:zgh:) [25]
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MediaWiki message delivery 00:34, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for discussion of Template:Merging from

Template:Merging from has been nominated for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. FaviFake (talk) 15:18, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #694

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-18. Missed the previous one? See issue #693.

Discussions

Open request for adminship: Rubah Hitam Vukova - RfP scheduled to end after 31 August 2025 14:16 (UTC)
New requests for permissions/Bot: DifoolBot 7 - task(s): Adding a Wikipedia reference to unsourced day-precision date of birth (P569) and date of death (P570) claims.
Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dolabbot - task(s): Import module subpages from other wikis (mainly English wiktionary) to Korean wiktionary and addition of corresponding Wikidata sitelinks.
New request for comments: Pilot project for AI-Assisted Wikidata onboarding and Quality control.