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--Bill william compton (talk) 12:26, 9 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Merging items

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Hallo Kooma,

When you are merging items, please use the Merge.js gadget. It helps you nominating, gives the option to always keep the lower number (which is older, so preferable) and makes it a lot easier for the admins to process the requests.

With regards, -      - (Cycn/talk) 12:41, 12 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hi. Thanks for the notice, I’ll try to do that. The problem here is that I’ve been mainly using Wikipedia’s ”Add links” feature in articles with no interwikis, which doesn’t notify if there are duplicate Wikidata items and does the merging automatically. Sometimes the ”lone” article already has a Wikidata item (bots have made these especially for older articles), sometimes it doesn’t. I guess I should always check Wikidata first then? –Kooma (talk) 10:32, 13 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
I try to do it from within Wikidata, but sometimes that's just unpractical. In the 'lone article' cases 'Add links' is a good enough tool to use. The fact that the articles are connected, by means of whichever tool, is far more inportant that the number of the items. -      - (Cycn/talk) 13:00, 31 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

Request

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Hello.

Could you create the article en:Elections in Azerbaijan and its en:Category:Elections in Azerbaijan in Finnish?

Thank you.

31.200.16.35 10:17, 28 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

Share your experience and feedback as a Wikimedian in this global survey

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WMF Surveys, 18:57, 29 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Reminder: Share your feedback in this Wikimedia survey

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WMF Surveys, 01:40, 13 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge

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Hi!

Thanks for splitting Lotus (Q55135790) from Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (Q1871245) − this had been on my todo forever but I was always shying away from it :)

Cheers, Jean-Fred (talk) 08:59, 27 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

No problem. :) I had trouble deciding which way should I do the split. I ended creating a new item for the series since most of the statements were about the game and sitelinks were easier to move. –Kooma (talk) 15:57, 27 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

Translation

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Hello.

Can you create en:Template:Azerbaijani political parties in Finnish Wikipedia?

Yours sincerely, Noraton (talk) 09:33, 4 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Community Insights Survey

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RMaung (WMF) 17:38, 10 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Reminder: Community Insights Survey

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RMaung (WMF) 19:54, 20 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

We sent you an e-mail

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Hello Kooma,

Really sorry for the inconvenience. This is a gentle note to request that you check your email. We sent you a message titled "The Community Insights survey is coming!". If you have questions, email surveys@wikimedia.org.

You can see my explanation here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:46, 25 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Piipa

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Et sinäkään sitten tiennyt, miten Wikidataan lisätään etunimi Piipa (viite: Piipa Kämppi)... Lax (talk) 18:46, 19 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Taisi laiskottaa, kun ei löytynyt muita nimenkantajia. Ei kai tuossa muuta kuin lisää vaan: Piipa (Q106564107)Kooma (talk) 20:03, 19 April 2021 (UTC)Reply
Ahaa, se vaatii tuommoisen. Hyvä tietää. Lax (talk) 13:01, 21 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Call for participation in a task-based online experiment

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Dear Kooma,

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, in which I have developed a personalised recommender system that suggests Wikidata items for the editors based on their past edits. I am collaborating on this project with Elena Simperl and Miaojing Shi.

I am inviting you to a task-based study that will ask you to provide your judgments about the relevance of the items suggested by our system based on your previous edits.

Participation is completely voluntary, and your cooperation will enable us to evaluate the accuracy of the recommender system in suggesting relevant items to you. We will analyse the results anonymised, and they will be published to a research venue.

The study will start in late January 2022 or early February 2022, and it should take no more than 30 minutes.

If you agree to participate in this study, please either contact me at kholoud.alghamdi@kcl.ac.uk or use this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSees9WzFXR0Vl3mHLkZCaByeFHRrBy51kBca53euq9nt3XWog/viewform?usp=sf_link

I will contact you with the link to start the study.

For more information about the study, please read this post: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Kholoudsaa

In case you have further questions or require more information, don't hesitate to contact me through my mentioned email.

Thank you for considering taking part in this research.

Regards

Kholoudsaa (talk) 21:52, 25 January 2022 (UTC)Reply