User talk:Taylor 49

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Best regards! Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:12, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Gears

Hi, I think that the correct category at Commons is Gears (same name as the article at en.wikipedia), Cog wheels is a subcategory of it. Could you restore it? Bye, --Elisardojm (talk) 09:05, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

@User:Elisardojm: Hi, thank you for the message. Look at gear train (Q2644088) (a mechanism with at least 2 cogwheels), cogwheel (Q143873) (a single cogwheel), and Talk:Q143873 (complaints about ambiguity). Indeed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gear is pretty exhaustive and linked to commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cog_wheels and defined as "A gear or cogwheel is a rotating machine part having cut teeth". commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gears is a huge category but its scope is unclear. IMHO a Q-item should refer to a distinct subject (either a single wheel or a mechanism), not an English word with 17'000'000 meanings (en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gear#Noun lists 10 of them, "landing gear" is still missing). A broader consensus is needed to fix the category commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gears. By now the images are placed pretty randomly in "Gears" or "Cog wheels" or elsewhere. Maybe the amount of categories should be reduced if people can't distinct them reliably and use them properly. Taylor 49 (talk) 10:28, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Talk:Q5296#Talking about Wiktionaries

You may be interested in this section because, as far as I know, eo.wiktionary (which you're an administrator of that) mainpage wikt:eo:Ĉefpaĝo is located at Main namespace, to which our policy ruled that Main namespace pages of Wiktionaries are not allowed for normal linking. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 23:56, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks ... I will take care of the issue. Taylor 49 (talk) 07:25, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

This is fixed now. wikt:eo:Vikivortaro:Ĉefpaĝo Taylor 49 (talk) 17:03, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Call for participation in the interview study with Wikidata editors

Dear Taylor 49,

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 that develops a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. I am collaborating on this project with Elena Simperl and Miaojing Shi.

I would love to talk with you to know about your current ways to choose the items you work on in Wikidata and understand the factors that might influence such a decision. Your cooperation will give us valuable insights into building a recommender system that can help improve your editing experience.

Participation is completely voluntary. You have the option to withdraw at any time. Your data will be processed under the terms of UK data protection law (including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018). The information and data that you provide will remain confidential; it will only be stored on the password-protected computer of the researchers. We will use the results anonymized to provide insights into the practices of the editors in item selection processes for editing and publish the results of the study to a research venue. If you decide to take part, we will ask you to sign a consent form, and you will be given a copy of this consent form to keep.

If you’re interested in participating and have 15-20 minutes to chat (I promise to keep the time!), please either contact me at kholoudsaa@gmail.com or kholoud.alghamdi@kcl.ac.uk or use this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmmFHaiB20nK14wrQJgfrA18PtmdagyeRib3xGtvzkdn3Lgw/viewform?usp=sf_link with your choice of the times that work for you.

I’ll follow up with you to figure out what method is the best way for us to connect.

Please contact me if you have any questions or require more information about this project.

Thank you for considering taking part in this research.

Regards

Kholoudsaa (talk)

@Kholoudsaa Form sent. Taylor 49 (talk) 17:03, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

perpetual motion (Q12623)

May you please remove the relict German description?-- Litzig (talk) 20:57, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

@User:Litzig  Done ... but why can't you do it yourself? Taylor 49 (talk) 21:02, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

sheave (Q1057381)

Hi Taylor,

are you or the other editor wrong about this item? Sorry for asking so bluntly since I don't have a clue about "pulleys" and "wheels".

--Phylax Lüdecke (talk) 15:11, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

I just made some minor adjustments but would not claim that some "other editor" would be inherently wrong. Taylor 49 (talk) 16:38, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Q1422487

Scientific names above the rank of species are always capitalized, including taxonomic classes. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:19, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Emptying items

Hi, I have reverted some of your recent edits, because you were emptying items and placed the word "delete". Please use Wikidata:Requests for deletions and do not empty items beforehand. In this case there were still interwiki links (to articles pending deletion), so the items did still fulfill our notability criteria. Thank you. Kind regards, Lymantria (talk) 08:29, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Answered at Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard, the spammer is laughing at us. Taylor 49 (talk) 10:37, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in the WQT UI requirements elicitation online workshop

Dear Taylor_49,

I hope you are doing well,

We are a group of researchers from King’s College London working on developing WQT (Wikidata Quality Toolkit), which will support a diverse set of editors in curating and validating Wikidata content.

We are inviting you to participate in an online workshop aimed at understanding the requirements for designing effective and easy-to-use user interfaces (UI) for three tools within WQT that can support the daily activities of Wikidata editors: recommending items to edit based on their personal preferences, finding items that need better references, and generating entity schemas automatically for better item quality.

The main activity during this workshop will be UI mockup sketching. To facilitate this, we encourage you to attend the workshop using a tablet or laptop with PowerPoint installed or any other drawing tools you prefer. This will allow for a more interactive and productive session as we delve into the UI mockup sketching activities.

Participation is completely voluntary. You should only take part if you want to and choosing not to take part will not disadvantage you in any way. However, your cooperation will be valuable for the WQT design. Please note that all data and responses collected during the workshop will be used solely for the purpose of improving the WQT and understanding editor requirements. We will analyze the results in an anonymized form, ensuring your privacy is protected. Personal information will be kept confidential and will be deleted once it has served its purpose in this research.

The online workshop, which will be held on April 5th, should take no more than 3 hours.

If you agree to participate in this workshop, please either contact me at kholoud.alghamdi@kcl.ac.uk or use this form to register your interest https://forms.office.com/e/9mrE8rXZVg Then, I will contact you with all the instructions for the workshop.

For more information about my project, please read this page: https://king-s-knowledge-graph-lab.github.io/WikidataQualityToolkit/

If you have further questions or require more information, don't hesitate to contact me at the email address mentioned above.

Thank you for considering taking part in this project.

Regards Kholoudsaa (talk) 17:08, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Request "Category:Companies"

Hello. Can you add the Ido category io:Kategorio:Kompanii in the Wikidata page "Category:Companies" (Q9935594)? The page is protected and that is why I cannot add it. I thank you in advance. 31.200.16.28 07:47, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Taylor 49 (talk) 19:53, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much. 31.200.16.28 11:05, 16 April 2024 (UTC)