User talk:Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)

Out of office notice

I am out of office from September 08-20. If you need anything please feel free to reach out to my colleague Biyanto Rebin (WMDE). Cheers -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 09:56, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Out of office notice: December 04 - December 17

I am out of office from December 04 - December 17. Queries to the development team will be delayed during that period. If you need to get in touch with anyone please reach out to Danny Benjafield (WMDE). -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 15:18, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

LintErrors in Wikidata weekly summary #608

All delivered massages have left LintErrors in german wikipedia diff 25. 12. 20:50–20:51, please check such masseges bevore delivering. Please do not create LintErrors. Same woud have happened in other wikiprojects, please fix them, even in this project missing b in * ''' Other Noteworthy Stuff = -- Lómelinde (talk) 05:44, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your feedback, Lómelinde. -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 14:10, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

LintErrors in Wikidata weekly summary #610

Again the Wikidata weekly summary creates LintErrors in the German Wikipedia de:Spezial:LintErrors/wikilink-in-extlink
This time it seems to be related to the use of template LangSwitch which does not exist in de.wikipedia --At40mha (talk) 19:37, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Special:Diff/2049577365

Hi there,

Regarding that edit, in which you removed the rfA stating that it "already got mentioned in the past issue", what was actually mentioned was the opening of the rfA, while the one you undid was the closure. Regards, Esteban16 (talk) 13:17, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Hey :)

See Wikidata:Status_updates/2024_01_02 and Wikidata:Status_updates/2024_01_08. Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 18:57, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Out of office notice: Jan 10 - Jan 12

I am out of the office from Jan 10 - Jan 12. Queries to the development team will be delayed during that period. If you need to get in touch with anyone please reach out to my colleague Danny Benjafield (WMDE). -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 19:24, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Query for a weekly summary

Hi Mohammed! I'd like to propose a query (this one) for a weekly summary, but due to it's size I'm unable to use the URL shortener to just have a short link to point to. Would there be another way to have it included in the summary? Thank you! --Jahl de Vautban (talk) 19:27, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Hey Jahl. You can use Query-Chest. Best! -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 08:58, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Problem with translatable weekly summary

Hi Mohammed, there seems to be a problem with the latest weekly summary. All user talk pages include the translate tags and are therefore listed at Special:PageTranslation. See User talk:-Zest for an example. --Ameisenigel (talk) 16:03, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Oh no :(

I forgot to removed the translation tags when I was transferring the text from Wikidata to MassMessage. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 12:01, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Translations of wikidata weekly summary

Hello, Mohammed Abdulai, thanks for your contributes of weekly summary. But when I translating the current issue, it`s hard for me to translate such a long paragraph. Next time when you preparing the page for translation, can you put less contents between translate lables? Thanks. --ChasingAir (talk) 13:04, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for reaching out @ChasingAir and also for helping out with the translations. Certainly, I can make it easier for you by breaking up the paragraphs into smaller chunks. Pinging my colleague @Danny Benjafield (WMDE) who occasionally prepares the newsletter too, so he's in the know. -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 11:56, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Out of office notice: Mar 14 - Apr 02

I am out of the office from Mar 14 - Apr 02. Queries to the development team will be delayed during that period. If you need to get in touch with anyone please reach out to my colleague Danny Benjafield (WMDE). -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 09:05, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Leveling Up Days: your feedback is needed!

Thanks for joining the Wikidata Leveling Up Days!

Hello there,

You receive this message because you added yourself on the participants list of the Wikidata Leveling Up Days. I hope you had a chance to attend the event!

If you didn't have a chance to attend, no worries: all the video materials are available in this Wikimedia Commons category. It includes captions in English and you can also contribute to adding translations in other languages.

If you attended at least one session or watched a video, we would love to have your feedback on the event! We kindly ask you to fill in this participants survey. It is anonymous and will take you 5-10min to answer.

We hope to see you around on Wikidata in the future. If you want to stay in touch with the community, feel free to join or subscribe to our communication channels!

Best, Lea Lacroix (WMDE)

Link labels, aliases and monolingual text with Lexemes

Since Benny does not answer my message on his talk page, I'm contacting to you about this proposal. Could you please check its feasibility? 5628785a 5628785a (talk) 11:44, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Out of office on August 13 untill August 26th

I'm out of office on August 13 and will return on August 26th. For assistance in the meantime, please reach out to my colleague Danny Benjafield (WMDE). Thanks for your understanding! -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 17:11, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Out of office on September 23 until October 14th

I'm out of the office until October 14th. For assistance in the meantime, please reach out to my colleague Danny Benjafield (WMDE). Thanks for your understanding! -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 19:20, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata MOOC certification

Hi Mohammed, I completed the Wikidata MOOC, but course certificate does not show up in my WikiLearn profile. Can you help? Thanks --Stefan Karl (talk) 21:11, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi Stefan,

Absolutely, you can get a certificate! I disabled the platform’s local certificate option because the ones we create outside the platform look much better. Please message me privately with your full name. If you’d like a t-shirt as well, kindly include your address.

Congratulations on completing the course! 🎉 -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 15:57, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #676

I think something got messed up when sending it. See how it's displayed at en:User talk:1AmNobody24#Wikidata weekly summary #676. Nobody (talk) 15:47, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, Nobody. I'm not exactly sure what happened this time but I'll investigate it before the next one. -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 11:03, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Again LintErrors Wikidata weekly summary #678 and #679

Please fix these errors lik I did here de:Spezial:Diff/256114439 You should never brake inlinetags, the beginning and end of the tags must stay in one line. Lómelinde (talk) 16:24, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

Anubis

Looks like the foundation have recently put Anubis (Q134301689) anti-bot software on Wikibase cloud and XTools. I couldn't find any mention of this on Wikidata. Although I recently heard there was problems with scrapers for AI. Maybe it's worth mentioning in the Weekly update? Infrastruktur (talk) 20:59, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out. Wikibase Cloud implemented this measure to prevent site outages caused by bot traffic. However, we didn’t communicate it widely so I’ll make sure to include it in the next summary. (the Wikibase.Cloud infrastructure is run by us BTW, not the WMF) and the relevant ticket is T399851.

As for XTools, I believe the corresponding ticket is T400229. -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 08:09, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Help with Wikidata Merging

Hi Mohammed,

I hope you are doing well. I wanted to ask for your help regarding some duplicate items I created. While working on a batch, I re-ran the same names using different QuickStatements, which resulted in multiple duplicates. I attempted to merge the items, but I don’t see the option to merge them on Wikidata. Could you please advise on the best way to handle these duplicates or assist with merging them?

Here is the list:

• Q137399295->Q137399659
• Q137399294->Q137399660
• Q137399278->Q137399666
• Q137399275->Q137399667
• Q137399274->Q137399665
• Q137399293->Q137399659
• Q137399292->Q137399660
• Q137399288->Q137399632
• Q137399287->Q137399632
• Q137399286->Q137399663
• Q137399269->Q137399636
• Q137399270->Q137399637
• Q137399268->Q137399641
• Q137399278->Q137399666
• Q137399274->Q137399665
• Q137399275->Q137399667
• Q137399293->Q137399659
• Q137399292->Q137399660
• Q137399288->Q137399632
• Q137399287->Q137399632
• Q137399286->Q137399663
• Q137399269->Q137399636
• Q137399270->Q137399637
• Q137399268->Q137399641
• Q137399295->Q137399659

Thank you so much for your time and guidance.

Best regards, CaliBen (talk) 14:19, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi @CaliBen, since there aren't many Items, you can merge them manually. To do this:

• Go to your Preferences, then to the Gadgets section.
• Enable the "Merge" gadget.
• After enabling it, you'll find the merge tool under the "Tools" menu on any item page.

If you run into any issues or the tool doesn't appear, please let me know. — Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 11:13, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE),

Thank you this worked! CaliBen (talk) 11:56, 17 December 2025 (UTC)