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Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. When in the cloud, do as the APIs do Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook. File:Cloud-API-Logo.svg Logo of Cloud API on Google Cloud Platform The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API. APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web. Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of "Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do. Links Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative, 2016 paper by Andrawaag and others, commenting inter alia on the role of the API on Wikidata Working With Wikibase From Go, Digital Flapjack blogpost 26 November 2018, Michael Dales, developer for ScienceSource using golang, with a software engineer's view on Wikibase and the MediaWiki API Dealing with the Rust, Magnus Manske blogpost 12 March 2019, on the Rust language and the MediaWiki API mw:API:RecentChanges, mediawiki.org page on the API for access to "recent changes" on a wiki wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews, wikitech.wikimedia.org for the Pageview API, giving Wikimedia traffic information xkcd cartoon, API Guide If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:45, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

SourceMD and 'published in' statement

Hi, SourceMD doesn't seem to be adding WikiJournal of Science as the published in property when importing WikiJSci articles using the doi. Do you know if there's a way to fix it or is the problem on the crossref side? T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 12:43, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Completely clouded? Cloud computing logo Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point. Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around. Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs. What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list. Links Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/In focus#The_Wikipedia_SourceWatch by Headbomb. Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Questionable1 d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/Beall's list: Beall's list, final version, matched into Wikidata. SPARQL query for Quackwatch: query to find items on Wikidata for articles subject to the Quackwatch blacklist of "Nonrecommended Periodicals", under "Journals (Fundamentally Flawed)". SPARQL query to find retracted articles on Wikidata. d:Wikidata:ScienceSource project/NCBI2wikidata dashboard, metadata for biomedical articles being built up, sourced from PubMed and PubMed Central. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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ListeriaBot

Shouldn't this have a global bot flag? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:31, 6 May 2019 (UTC).

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

Dear Magnus Manske/Archive 9,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, Urhixidur (talk) 16:18, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

ListeriaBot

Hi, could you please tell your bot to add two points ":" before "Category" when updating lists? :-) example ("Category:Uta Falter-Baumgarten‏‎"). Thank you, bye. --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 08:52, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019 Text mining display of noun phrases from the US Presidential Election 2012 The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page. To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see the footer. Back numbers are here. Semantic Web and TDM – a ContentMine view Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while. It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM (text and data mining). Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?" The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata. The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right. ScienceSourceReview, introductory video: but you need run it from the original upload file on Commons Links for participation http://sciencesource-review.wmflabs.org/, review tool link in the left-hand sidebar at http://sciencesource.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list and d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue. Please be aware that this is a research project in development, and may have outages for planned maintenance. That will apply for the next few days, at least. The ScienceSource wiki main page carries information on practical matters. Email is not enabled on the wiki: use site mail here to Charles Matthews in case of difficulty, or if you need support. Further explanatory videos will be put into commons:Category:ContentMine videos. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:52, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Exclude commons.wikipedia from GLAMorous search

Hey, how to exclude commons.wikipedia line in the results. If I have all projects selected I have a usage of lets say 44 %. So if I toggle selection and look for usage in Wikipedia only, I still have usage 44 %. And that is because the line "commons.wikipedia". So if I type in this to URL trying to figure out what stays behind commons.wikipedia (usage) - I type commons.wikipedia.org I get to commons.wikimedia.org so in fact to Wikimedia Commons itself. So I probably get the usage on Wikimeda Commons and Wikipedia projects. Or what is this about? Juandev (talk) 06:15, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Bug in edit summary of CommonsDelinker

Hello Magnus Manske, it seems a new small bug has appeared in the last 1-2 days, when CommonsDelinker generates an edit sumary for deleted Commons files in en-Wiki article histories.

A message from 28 May ([1]) looked OK like this:

• "Removing Ruthin_school.jpg, it has been deleted from Commons by Majora because: per c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Ruthin school.jpg"

Newer messages from today ([2]) corrupt the user link and name:

• "Removing Elisha_Kriis.jpg, it has been deleted from Commons by c:User: because: Copyright violation: ..." (emphasis mine)

Probably just a minor parameter problem, but just wanted to point it out in case you haven't seen it yet. GermanJoe (talk) 15:16, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Use of Bitbcuket

Hi :-) thank you for all your tools. Nevertheless, I don't think it's quite convenient that you "force" people to use Bitbucket in order to report bugs of your tools. They are tools used on WMF projects, so users should discuss about them on WMF projects, and they should not register on another site and learn another way of report/discuss potential bugs (that's only my opinion). --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 07:27, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Change of url in mix'n'match catalog

Hi Magnus, in the catalog https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/1218 FIFA.com changed the site and the urls are not working anymore. Can you change the "es.fifa.com" to "static.fifa.com" in the external_url in the mysql database of mix'n'match? Otherwise, I'll upload the corrected catalog again, but it's a pretty big catalog. Thanks! Regards! Jmmuguerza (talk) 14:01, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Usualsuspects

This very useful tool does not seem to work any more. — Racconish ^💬 08:28, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

GLAmorous broken again

Hi,Magnus, GLAmorous broken again.
Please see my used images.
Error message:
There was an error running the query [Unknown column 'img_user_text' in 'where clause']
With best regards, -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 14:36, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

I am receiving the same error message - thank you for repairing. Packa (talk) 21:10, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

WMF is changing the underlying database. Fixed. --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:25, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! Packa (talk) 11:44, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Adding Images from The Cleveland Museum of Art to Baglama 2

Hello Magnus, I'd like to ask your help in adding Images from The Cleveland Museum of Art [3] to baglama2 [4]? Can you please advise? I've been working with User:Multichill on Wikiproject Sum of All Paintings to add The Cleveland Museum of Art images there too. Appreciate your consideration and time in this regard. Nealstimler (talk) 19:59, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

This was done. --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:10, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

ListeriaBot

Hi, could you please tell your bot to add two points ":" before "Category" when updating lists? :-) example ("Category:Uta Falter-Baumgarten‏‎"). Thank you, bye. --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 08:26, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

I created a bitbucket issue for you

Dear Magnus

I created a bitbucket issue for you but I guess you read wikipedia notification more often.... https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/wikidata-todo/issues/110/add-readme-to-teach-contributor-how-to-run

Xinbenlv (talk) 00:02, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome

Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:26, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Missing Topics not work

Hi Magnus! Today (3 hours ago) I tried to run great Missing Topics tool - but oops... it display error messages something like "Warning: parse_ini_file(/data/project//replica.my.cnf): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/ToolforgeCommon.php on line 162" and don't work correctly. Thanks for your great job! -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 23:12, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Probably connected: ToolforgeCommon.php / sighting/random_out_of_sight.php database issue:

Warning: parse_ini_file(/data/project//replica.my.cnf): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/ToolforgeCommon.php on line 162

Warning: assert(): Unable to connect to database [Access denied for user @'10.64.37.14' (using password: NO)] failed in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/ToolforgeCommon.php on line 223

Warning: mysqli::query(): Couldn't fetch mysqli in /data/project/sighting/public_html/random_out_of_sight.php on line 27

Warning: main(): Couldn't fetch mysqli in /data/project/sighting/public_html/random_out_of_sight.php on line 27

MarMi wiki (talk) 12:29, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

OK it works again. Thank you Magnus! -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 18:24, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

CatNap throws errors

See e.g. https://tools.wmflabs.org/catnap/?language=cs&project=wikipedia&category=Liberec&min_group=5&ignore=&doit=Do+it --Dvorapa (talk) 18:27, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

"Who is responsible for these pages" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Who is responsible for these pages. Since you had some involvement with the Who is responsible for these pages redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. UnitedStatesian (talk) 18:12, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

So thank you about your work! Đông Minh (talk) 10:41, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Not in the other language tool doesn't work

Hi, Not in the other language tool doesn't work, it shows warnings when trying to run a query. --Emptyfear (talk) 08:23, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

I checked it today - it works, thanks Magnus! -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 06:41, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

glamorous bugs

Dear Magnus Manske,

I noticed two bugs in your tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php .

1. When inputting my user name 維基小霸王 and deselecting Wikisource, Wikisource are still searched. Because it only shows the top 1000 images and many of the files I uploaded are scans that are included in many Wikisource pages, it cannot show my images used in Wikipedia.
2. When inputting Category:Images_from_Gujin_Tushu_Jicheng,_section_"Military_Administration", it does not show anything. Quotation marks are mistakenly escaped.--The Master (talk) 02:30, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Usual Suspects

Hi. Usual suspects is not working for some reason. Here’s the link to the problem. 1989 (talk) 19:16, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

On ListeriaBot

Hi, Magnus. Thank you for your contribution in lots of projects of Wikimedia.

In jawp your bot edited like this and I suspect it has made a malfunction. Could you check and modify the page again? Regards. --Ohtani tanya (talk) 03:53, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

GLAMorous language selection

Hey,

I am sorry, I dont know, how to fill BitBucket. Id just like to report a bug in GLAMorous. If I set Wikidata only, it still shows results for other projects. Juandev (talk) 02:52, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Listeriabot for WIktionary

Dear Magnus Manske,

At nl.wiktionary we are currently experimenting with Wikidata to improve and increase our links to Wikipedia(s) in an efficient way. The people involved in this project would like to use some lists generated from Wikidata. So I would like to ask you if is possible to use Listeriabot for this purpose and if so, kindly invite you to have ListeriaBot join nl.wiktionary. --MarcoSwart (talk) 07:32, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

ListeriaBot

Hi! First of all thanks for updating Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Turkey. As I check the list from yime to time for missing articles on women, I sometimes recover entries of males. I remove them from the list because they are not the object of this project. However, your bot reinserts them every time. I suppose, you don't read the edit summary, where a comment is posted for the resason of removal. I think it must be possible for your bot to ignore the re-insertion of such emtries. CeeGee 15:46, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

• I'd appreciate any reply or comment. CeeGee 17:25, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

• Weird behavior. CeeGee 10:51, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker Bot

Hello there. Do you maintain a list of images de-linked by CommonsDelinker bot and the articles from where they are removed? —Sarvatra (talk, contribs) 01:33, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker Bot Issue

Hi Magnus Manske, Hope everything good. I'm here to report that when CommonsDelinker remove Commons image links from bnwiki in the same time leave "চিত্" on that place. Could you please fix it. Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 05:01, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Noticeboard Notice

Hello Magnus Manske, you have been mentioned at the bots noticeboard, please see Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#MfD_of_a_Bot’s_page. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:05, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

glamorgan problems?

Hi there,

For the past month or so I've been having trouble using glamorgan. The category I most often use is commons:Category:Files uploaded by Rhododendrites (all). No problems before, but now it just gives me a perpetual "Loading file usage data...". I've tried this in multiple browsers with different year/months. If I try a smaller category it seems to work just as before. Has the maximum number of files in the tree been significantly lowered? Thanks. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 16:10, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

Herding tool

Hi, the tool to compare users editing at the same time doesn't work anymore. There was a link to: this. I filled in the fields. I do something wrong? If I only fill in myself, I get a list, but only without a category. Regards, - Richardkiwi (talk) 13:01, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

SourceMD queue

Hi Magnus,

The SourceMD batch queue currently has unprocessed items from last month. Would it be possible to reserve a smaller partition/queue for small batches (1-20 items), like a supermarket isle? It could help for introducing new users to the tools so that they can see their batch being processed. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 05:46, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:06, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Kennaquhair

The article Kennaquhair has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No indication this passes WP:GNG. Perhaps soft delete by redirecting to parent first novel?

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:33, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Problem with Facebook full URL encoding and Glamorgan partial URL decoding

Magnus, @Paul Hermans: would like to publish the following link on Facebook:

• https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorgan.html?category=Files_by_User:Paul_Hermans&depth=1&month=last

Facebook actually performs a full URL encoding, what results in:

• https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorgan.html?category=Files%5fby%5fUser%3aPaul%5fHermans&depth=1&month=last

The problem is now that you seem not to do a full decoding of the URL which makes that Glamorgan searches the category "Files by User%3aPaul Hermans" instead of "Files by User:Paul Hermans".

Could you please apply a full URL decoding in your application?

Thanks, Geertivp (talk) 10:10, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Logged in https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/magnustools/issues/43/problem-with-facebook-full-url-encoding Geertivp (talk) 22:39, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

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Proposed bugfix for OS grid ref in geohack

See mw:talk:GeoHack#Fix for incorrect conversion to Ordnance Survey for more information, thanks! — hike395 (talk) 20:50, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Good luck

豊かな十年へようこそ/WELCOME TO THE D20s

Miraclepine wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade of change and fortune.
このミラPはMagnus Manskeたちのメリークリスマスも新年も変革と幸運の豊かな十年をおめでとうございます！
フレフレ、みんなの未来！/GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FUTURE!
ミラP 04:49, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

"Tips on contributing to Wikipedia" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Tips on contributing to Wikipedia. Since you had some involvement with the Tips on contributing to Wikipedia redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. UnitedStatesian (talk) 21:20, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Error in upload with commonshelper (Wikisource -> Commons)

An error occurs when I try to move s:es:File:Autoridades-I-002.jpg to Commons with commonshelper, the error that appears is:

Querying image data ...done.
Retrieving image description ...done.
ERROR: The file you submitted was empty.

Whats wrong?, Thanks Shooke (talk) 13:21, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

running Get_item_names on a longer list

Hi Magnus, thank you for get_item_names, just what I was looking for. However, I need to get names for a list of ~300,000 items -- wondering what you recommend? I've tried making a PagePile of the items as well, still too large a list (and unwieldy to cut up). Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks, Generish (talk) 19:43, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Magnus, I had asked a photographer to upload a photo he took of Kari Stefansson to the commons so that I could use it in an infobox on his page. However the Regasterios bot, which I beleive you run, deleted it, mistakenly citing a copyright violation. Christopher Lund is definitely the copyright holder, and has released it for use on the commons. Can you please undelete it? The record is: 19:02, 29 January 2020 Regasterios talk contribs deleted page File:Dr-Kari-Stefansson-CEO-of-deCODE-genetics.jpg (Copyright violation, found elsewhere on the web and unlikely to be own work (F1): Copyright violation: https://brcasymposium.ca/index_fr.php) (thank) (global usage; delinker log) The fact that someone else used it, under license, does not mean it is a violation. Thanks! Lehmansson (talk) 12:09, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

zzzother

Hey, doing some WP:WCW stuff and ran across a page with your bot on it. It seems to be behaving strangely [5]. It also later after the begin part got commented out removed the closing part of that and blanked the page. Jerod Lycett (talk) 23:56, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Noticeboard Notice

Hello Magnus Manske, a discussion regarding edits by your bot is currently open at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#ListeriaBot_behaving_poorly. Please attend to the discussion. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:36, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

I've blocked it pending a solution to the problem (and mistakenly linked to WP:BN instead of WP:BON). Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 19:37, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Auth not OK ?

Hello,

When I try to copy File:Petrinearcher.jpg from en, I have this message : Auth not OK/

Thank you to help me, Jacques Ballieu (talk) 16:37, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

It's OK now, sorry Jacques Ballieu (talk) 17:49, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Maps of geotagged articles?

Hello Magnus, I do quite some effort to geolocalise the Wikipedia articles. I have been wondering whether there is a way to get an overview of geotagged articles for a specific region. On Google Maps, some Wiki articles pop up but others not, how comes? There is this link to the OSM rendering of geotagged locations: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme Again this is far from complete, most of my geotagged pages are not there. Also this seems work in progress: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Anwendungen/OpenStreetMap/en - I could not find any link to an up-to-date OSM or other map with comprehensive display of Wikipedia articles. What is your advice? Jnyssen (talk) 12:30, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Petscan is almost dead.

Please take a look at ticket. Petscan returns empty or very old data. My bot almost stopped to work from morning of 7 March. ~Nirvanchik~ ^⊤άλҟ 09:41, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Deine Bot-Änderungen sind falsch

Hallo, ich weiß nicht, ob ich hier richtig bin, aber dein BOT (?) hat bei Wikidata zu Christoph Gutknecht, einem Professor aus Hamburg, falsche Infos hinzugefügt, nämlich die eines Druckers, der auch Christoph Gutknecht hieß, aber 1545 gestorben ist ... Das ist eine Namensgleichheit, aber falsch. Ich habe keine Ahnung, wie man das korrigiert, aber du bist sicher ein Profi und machst das. Hoffe ich. Es geht hierum: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1085050 und die Hinzufügungen CERL und Deutsche Biographie sind beide falsch, das ist ein anderer Gutknecht! Grüße! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:E3:D70B:E200:D845:7FA9:443A:F10D (talk) 19:41, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Jiří Svoboda

Hi. I´d like to inform you that this was wrong [6], because Q12025538 (cs:Jiří Svoboda (režisér) is still alive) is not Q12025540 (cs:Jiří Svoboda (skladatel) died in 2004). --Vlout (talk) 09:34, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

mediawiki_rust

Hi! Made a trivial PR to mediawiki_rust because at the moment API queries aren't being continued, so only the first page of results gets returned, if you wouldn't mind taking a look. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:01, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Delinker

Hallo Magnus & pinging Steinsplitter: Der Delinker hat seit einer Woche nicht mehr auf CDC zugegriffen. Gruß, --Achim (talk) 19:43, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

@Achim55: Delinker hatte ein Problem beim login, läuft nun wieder. +115k edits Rückstand. --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:55, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Steinsplitter: Schön wärs. Er macht nur die Kategorieverschieberei, die ist schon die ganze Zeit problemlos gelaufen. Aber "Removing replace commands, will be executed soon" hat das letzte Mal am 17. März stattgefunden. --Achim (talk) 15:43, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Bot Noticeboard Notification

A discussion involving a bot you operate has been started at the Bots Noticeboard. Barkeep49 (talk) 14:40, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

ListeriaBot blocked

I've blocked ListeriaBot for repeatedly violating the Non-free content policy. — JJMC89 (T·C) 00:04, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

@JJMC89: Might you be persuaded to provide any evidence of the supposed violations? --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:51, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Ah. Presumably it's this - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Capankajsmilyo/List_of_Indian_actresses&action=history - and more particularly that https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1749508 points to a filename which on commons is CC By 3.0 (allegedly) but on en.wiki is a non-free image. Blocking the bot, rather than renaming one or other of the two images, seems a huge & very dull sledgehammer to crack a small edgecase nut. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:18, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Looks for any prior notice of this issue at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:ListeriaBot&action=history - nope. At https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Magnus_Manske&action=history - also nope. See also WP:POINT. FWIW, JJMC89, this poor decision and your lack of communication on the matter render you IMO unfit to be an administrator. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:42, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

The operator has been inactive here for two months. The issue was raised previously here and here over 2.5 years ago without any response or action by the operator. — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:20, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

It has been going on since at least May 2019August 2017. The most case recent is the addition and repeated restoration of File:Silk Smitha.jpg over the course of about two weeks. — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:09, 11 April 2020 (UTC) Updated: 02:20, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Given that you do not understand that English Wikipedia has the privilege to have its own pictures and not compulsory use Commons, it is a strange vector to seek a solution. Given that you have killed off an essential tool to English Wikipedia. From my point of view, this is a serious lack of judgement. Many projects rely on Listeria to function including within the Corona information, Women in Red.. Please mend your ways.. soon. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 05:32, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

GerardM, it is clearly you that isn't understanding the situation here. It's not that "English Wikipedia has the privilege to have its own pictures"; the problem is that (many of) those pictures that English Wikipedia has locally are non-free pictures and as such may not be mechanically copied into all sorts of lists by a bot, because that violates our non-free content policy. The other, technical, problem is that in the cases at hand, a (supposedly free) image on Commons and a (non-free) local file were accidentally stored under the same filename, and the bot was mistaking the one for the other. Frankly, I'm not sure whether we should expect of the bot that whenever it's taking a reference to a (supposedly free) Commons file it should first double-check whether that file reference might be shadowed by a non-free local file before inserting it into articles. But, well, I do suppose it would be possible for it to do that. Inserting images, anywhere on the project, is a highly risky operation for a bot to do, so if it's going to have that functionality it had better be written with an abundance of safety checks. Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:34, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

It seems very unconscionable to host an unfree file under the same filename as a free file: whoever chose to do this is responsible for the unfree file being served to users who were looking for the free file. Luckily, the solution is easy: just rename the local file. The uploader should however be warned so that they're more careful with the licensing policy in the future. Nemo 08:23, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

As pointed out in the parallel discussion on WP:AN, in most of these cases, the non-free local image is in fact older than the Commons one (and the Commons ones are very often short-lived copyvios too). Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:36, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

@JJMC89: 1. Can you point to where you alerted Magnus to the problem of Silk Smitha.jpg before reaching for a block? 2. Can you explain why a block is preferable to sorting out the issue when it arises, e.g. by renaming one of the files. You do, I presume, concede this is an edge case requiring the following line-up of factors: a) a non free image in en.wiki b) a free image with the same filename on commons c) a pointer to that filename on a wikidata item and d) that the item and image value is included in a Listeria query result set. Given the widepread dependency on Listeria amongst wikiprojects, and noting WP:POINT, how exactly is your response proportionate? Right now you seem to be able to point to three occurrences over three years. But I see they're in the area you've chosen to make your own special concern; you give the impression of a petulant response after your bot lost a pissing contest. --Tagishsimon (talk) 07:51, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

I have now erased the link on Wikidata from the actor to the deleted (probably) non-free image [7] and Multichill has deleted the "Silk Smitha.jpg" [8] on Commons based on it is probably a copyvio, so now the ListeriaBot should not include the image in the English Wikipedia, unless there is some strange technicality that I cannot foresee. In the future, I think that these kinds of problems should be solved by editing Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. I feel that Listeria in some cases is an essential tool for some Wikiprojects, — much too valuable to block based on unfortunate copyviolations made in Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. — fnielsen (talk) 09:07, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

The specific problem here seems to have been resolved, so I have unblocked the bot. @JJMC89: I think this block was at the level of 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater'. I would suggest next time raising the issue at Template talk:Wikidata list as that gets more related traffic than this talk page does. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:02, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

@Mike Peel: Since this has clearly been a long-term and historic problem, with no certainty of receiving the prompt attention of the operator, the block was both urgent and necessary. ——SN54129 11:19, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Do we know how often this happened in edits by human editors? Probably more than 3 times in a few years? Improper use of images happens from time to time and we tackle the issue when it arises. Blocking the bot over a few incidents that can be solved does not look urgent or necessary. Specially when it is desirable to solve the name conflicts anyway, because humans will make the same mistake. --MarioGom (talk) 20:09, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Just as an FYI, I've restored the block as there seems to be consensus for it. TonyBallioni (talk) 21:52, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thank you for being here since the beginning, for literally writing the software with which we make every single contribution, and for always thinking about how to build an encyclopedia at scale. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 00:36, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

prepbio

I really like prepbio :-)

One suggestion, could it use Infobox person/Wikidata instead of Infobox Person

I like it too, could the template {{Authority control}} and a references section with {{reflist}} Back ache (talk) 08:08, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Commons helper

Hello! How can I translate this page into Azerbaijani?--Turkmen ^talk 21:20, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

sourcemd queue broken

Hi, the batch queue seems to be broken for sourcemd: https://tools.wmflabs.org/sourcemd/?action=batches it is stuck on some jobs from last year and new ones are not being processed. I tied to report this at bitbucket, but that also had an error! --Onco p53 (talk) 09:18, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

PetScan

Many thanks for creating and maintaining Wikipedia:PetScan. It's invaluable for category/tag maintenance for the georeferencing project. Unfortunately, it seems to have been down for some days now; would it be possible for you to take a look at this? I've also pinged m:User:BDavis (WMF) on his MediaWiki talk page. -- The Anome (talk) 13:24, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Petscan Outages

Hi Magnus, Petscan seem to have several outages over the last couple of days...anyone working on this!? :) CommanderWaterford (talk) 09:39, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Don't have rights to edit in Quick Statements

Hi,

I try this tool, press Do It button, but nothing happened.

In the javascript console, I see the fillings errors :

Origin https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/?action=get_rights&botmode=1 due to access control checks.

Failed to load resource: Origin https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

Is it possible to display a user friendly error message ?

Could you tell me what right should I ask ? Where ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pyrog (talk • contribs) 10:40, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Unaussprechlichen Kulten

The article Unaussprechlichen Kulten has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

What makes this fictional book notable? I can't find any in-depth discussion of it that is not WP:PLOT. At best I think we can redirect this to Books in the Cthulhu Mythos, since there is really no content to merge outside a sentence about the origins of the title (and the Book of Eibon seems to a primary source too...).

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:47, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Flickr2Commons log in problem

Hi there, For the past week or so I've been trying to log in to Flickr2Commons to upload some photo's, but however many times I "Allow", the tool doesn't recognise me. It worked in the past and I have no trouble using Geograph2Commons. Can you help me? --Judithcomm (talk) 16:49, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata Generic Tree

Hi Magnus, I reached your user page from the Wikidata Generic Tree. Since a while, the page loads the Q data but then is not able to load the labels. The JS console of Chrome reported "Refused to load the script 'https://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive:...". I really appreciate the tool, I hope you can fix it soon. Greetings from Italy --FabC (talk) 18:23, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Unaussprechlichen Kulten for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Unaussprechlichen Kulten is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unaussprechlichen Kulten until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:59, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

migrate book2scroll webservice?

Hi Magnus. Do you have plans to migrate the webservice to the new schema? I see https://book2scroll.toolforge.org/ is not functioning. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:29, 21 June 2020 (UTC)