User talk:Jeremytarling

Welcome to Wikidata, Jeremytarling!

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Best regards, Bináris (talk) 18:09, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Creating Items

Hello. Do you use Special:createItem when creating items? Regards, Lukas²³ ^talk in German ^Contribs 18:23, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Lukas, no - should I? So far I am just using "Create a new item" in the left hand nav. The item types I am creating are all British MPs.  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jeremytarling (talk • contribs) at 18:28, 1 December 2012 (UTC).

That is the same as Special:createItem. Bináris (talk) 18:31, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Do you also add interwikilinks? --Bene* (talk) 18:32, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Bene, no although I think my buddy njh is doing that  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jeremytarling (talk • contribs) at 18:38, 1 December 2012 (UTC).

You should do that. Lukas²³ ^talk in German ^Contribs 18:41, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

(edit conflict) You should add them yourself. This would be much easiere for us. (Please sign your comments with ~~~~) --Bene* (talk) 18:42, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

interwikilinks - you mean like this: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260960 ? Jeremytarling (talk) 18:47, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, just click on "add" and add the interwikilink. Maybe you also want to enable "slurp interwiki" in your preferences at "gadgets". Than you can click on import interwikilinks on the left site of the page and all links are added automatically. Then also enable "autoEdit" and you can add all labels automatically, too. Have fun ;-) --Bene* (talk) 18:49, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

got it, thanks :-) Jeremytarling (talk) 19:14, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks too and keep the good work --Bene* (talk) 19:27, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

One thing though: Please also use "autoEdit" to add the labels of every language. Thanks --Bene* (talk) 19:30, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

ok will do Jeremytarling (talk) 19:33, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Nice, I think you're going to become a very good wikidata editor ;-) --Bene* (talk)

You do not need autoedit to add labels, just tick "autocomplete" when you import interwikis. However, "automatic addition" is still useful to add multlingual descriptions (we sprobably need to merge the two tools to make things simpler). Here is how it can be done:

• Copy the following code to User:Jeremytarling/autoEditLists.js:

  desclist['British politician'] = {
  'ca': 'polític britànic',
  'cs': 'britský politik',
  'da': 'britisk politiker',
  'de': 'britischer Politiker',
  'el': 'Άγγλος πολιτικός',
  'en': 'British politician',
  'eo': 'Brita politikisto',
  'es': 'político británico',
  'et': 'Suurbritannia poliitik',
  'fa': 'سیاست‌مدار انگلیسی',
  'fi': 'brittiläinen poliitikko',
  'fr': 'politicien britannique',
  'hu': 'brit politikus',
  'it': 'politico britannico',
  'ja': '英国の 政治家',
  'mk': 'Британски политичар',
  'ml': 'ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് രാഷ്ട്രീയ പ്രവർത്തകൻ',
  'nds': 'britischen Politiker',
  'nl': 'Brits politicus',
  'pl': 'Brytyjski polityk',
  'pt': 'político britânico',
  'ro': 'politician britanic',
  'ru': 'Британский политический деятель',
  'sl': 'britanski politik',
  'sv': 'brittisk politiker',
  'sw': 'Mwingereza mwanasiasa',
  'vi': 'Anh chính trị gia',
  'zh': '英国 政治家',
  };

• refresh Firefox (somehow, it does not work with Chrome)
• click on "automatic addition", tick "descriptions" and choose "British politician" in the drop-down list. --Zolo (talk) 18:49, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Autopatroller

Hello, Jeremytarling! I am just letting you know that I have added the autopatroller flag to your account, as you are a trusted user on Wikidata. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me or leave a message at the Project chat. Thanks, Bene* (talk) 19:39, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Actually it was me who added the right to your account. Just sayin'... Lukas²³ ^talk in German ^Contribs 20:00, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Fight! Bináris (talk) 20:04, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

I was just saying it in the chat and you were faster than me. But I told it! --Bene* (talk) 20:09, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Nope. I was on it before you mentioned it in IRC. You highlighted me there so I was slower :) Lukas²³ ^talk in German ^Contribs 20:10, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Forget it, i think it doesn't matter ;-) --Bene* (talk) 20:13, 1 December 2012 (UTC)