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Question from Veech409 (22:12, 19 January 2023)

Hello....Howcan I download a few images of the museum? --Veech409 (talk) 22:12, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

@Veech409, which images specifically? You can see more information if you click on the image, including its filename. — Qwerfjkltalk 22:16, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #556

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past
    • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2023-01-18
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 24, 2023: We will be discussing plans for 2023, and requesting feedback and ideas for future programming. Based on a previous recommendation to host a discussion on advocacy for Wikidata within libraries, we will introduce and provide time to complete a short survey to foster conversation in a future Group Call. Please come ready to share your thoughts Agenda
    • Introductions to Wikidata, online meetings organized by Wikimedia Australia on January 25, 26 and 31

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Is there something better than Blazegraph for Wikidata?
  • Videos
    • [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Featuring a presentation of the paper Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata Editors.
  • Podcasts
    • Civic Hacker Podcast: Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government

• Tool of the week
  • Romain de Bossoreille has generated a map named Space Industry around the World using data from The Space Devs, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [WMDE Survey for Wikidata data Reusers] Help us Improve Wikidata by Sharing Your Experience on Ontology Issues and Data Reuse Impact.
  • Second round of Research Fund proposals are under review. They include Wikidata related proposals. Your input is welcome!
  • Wikimedia Foundation's Community Survey: The proposals submission and discussion phase is open until February 6th.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Jeju's culture and language ID, J-STAGE journal ID, Film.ru serial ID, IRIS UNITN author ID, IRIS FBK author ID, IRIS-OpenPub author ID, Muse Open Archive author ID, ARCA author ID, Air Iuav author ID, Intercontinental Dictionary Series unit ID, Hungarian Football Federation player ID, Knowledge portal ID, MangaSeek work ID, MangaSeek magazine ID, MangaSeek award ID, Oroklini Library ID, elexiko ID, Neologismenwörterbuch ID, Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch ID, Sprichwörterbuch ID, Kommunikationsverben ID, Kleines Wörterbuch der Verlaufsformen im Deutschen ID, PR TIMES company ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: attracts (organisms attracted by this taxon), salary level (level of someone's salary), change of (property this process changes), database contains records about (indicate the types of items that the database has records about)
    • External identifiers: Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden), Norwegian prisoner register detentioncamps ID, Glitchwave franchise ID, Glitchwave game company ID, Glitchwave game ID, Ushakov Dictionary ID, Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Glitchwave character ID, WW1 fallen/missing soldier ID (MHA), Glitchwave platform ID, Spotify user ID (Jan 2023), Livres Hebdo author ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID, TikTok place ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, identifiant SFMTA, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database character ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, Tribal Council number, Aragonario ID (6th version), Rate Your Music venue ID, Rate Your Music concert ID, Dicionário inFormal ID, Qobuz artist numeric ID, TOOI identifier, Fonts In Use ID, Rate Your Music film ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, Spreaker show ID, Sjøfolk Ship ID, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry
  • Query examples:
    • Map of places that places in Rennes are named after (source)
    • Map of places named after a place in Rennes, color coded by distance of the place from Rennes (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: The new API is now available for testing on Test.Wikidata
  • Ontology issues: We finalized and published the survey to better understand which types of ontology issues are most problematic for reusers of our data.
  • Wikipedia and co: Fixing a regression where there is no entry in recent changes and watchlist when an Item is deleted that was connected to an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2023-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [1]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
• If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [2][3]
• The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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Question from Veech409 (21:22, 25 January 2023)

How can I upload several photos of the museum interior? --Veech409 (talk) 21:22, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

@Veech409, see Help:Uploading images. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:52, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

"Landing platform vessel" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Landing platform vessel and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 January 26 § Landing platform vessel until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Tim Starling (talk) 02:44, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Mick Lauer article

This seems to be meet all the criteria for moving to draft, only there was already a redirect. If there was only a redirect I would take it to RFD where it would probably be deleted. I don't know if it should be moved to draft including the first two redirect revisions of if it needs splitting. Peter James (talk) 11:09, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

@Peter James, I ahead and draftify it if you want. You can then restore the redirect. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:32, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

I moved it to draft, and proposed to delete the redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 January 29#Mick Lauer. Peter James (talk) 12:33, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #557

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • A citation hunt program was organized for secondary school students at IIS School in Dubai as part of the 74th Republic Day celebration of India. 16 students participated, with different mother tongues and from different states of India living as expatriates in Dubai. The goal was to increase references for Wikidata statements based on research. The students were introduced to the importance of protecting India's history on the internet, and were taught how to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata. They were given a special event page on Wikidata with instructions and a list of Wikidata items to add citations to, and they searched for references in their textbooks and search engines to add to the Wikidata items.More details are given here.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour January 30, 2023: The #1Lib1Ref campaign is afoot, so we will be working on adding references to Wikidata statements. We'll have some data for you to work with, but you're welcome to bring your own. We'll be mainly working with adding webpages as sources, but if you want to get experience using books or articles as sources, we recommend bringing some to the session to use as references for Wikidata items you have identified. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Building a Life Sciences Knowledge Graph with a Data Lake (uses Wikidata as a main source)
  • Papers
    • Systematic review of Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects
  • Videos
    • Interoperable Europe: First workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase

• Tool of the week
  • theyrule.net is a website that helps to explore the boardroom connections of the largest US companies.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • AfLIA's online course Wikidata is open. Participation is free for all librarians, museums, archives and other information professionals in Africa. Call is open until 7th February 2023 (12 midnight GMT).
  • LetsQuiz is a new website generating quizzes using data from Wikidata.
  • from WMF Wishathon: The Autosuggest linking Wikidata item after creating an article Wish is complete and the work merged. It is available for testing in Beta, and will be deployed to users with the first train of 2023 scheduled for this week. Learn more about the gadget created at meta
  • Building cool apps and services on top of Wikidata's data but running into ontology issues? We'd love to hear from you in this survey to make things better for you.
  • Status update on the 2022 Wikidata and Wikibase development plan
  • Development plan and activities for 2023 for Wikidata as a platform and the Wikibase ecosystem

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: applies to use with property (qualifier that specifies that the statement refers to usage with the property)
    • External identifiers: Dicionário Priberam ID, NPB umpire ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, addons.mozilla.org user, Packagist username, Hackage username, RubyGems username, PyPI username, Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ID, Ushakov Dictionary ID, Glitchwave franchise ID, Glitchwave game company ID, Glitchwave game ID, Glitchwave platform ID, Glitchwave character ID, Artlog artist ID, pixiv comic work ID, pixiv comic product ID, British Music Collection composer ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: place of resident registration at death (the place or administrative unit where the deceased person was registered as having his or her residence at the time of their death), has instance (thing(s) which this subject describes or encompasses, inverse property of P31), Norwegian media rating (In short, the Norwegian version of Denmark's Medierådet rating (P5970), an age rating system for motion pictures, video, internet and tv content), iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme), credits URL (URL of an official webpage with a list of credits and roles attributed to various people, organizations or applications that contribute(d) to this item's existence), alternate universe counterpart (this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject), number of penalty kicks scored, precedes/follows various things (this lexeme form appears only when preceding another lexeme form with this phonological feature)
    • External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary entry, Professional shogi player number, Women's professional shogi player number, LPSA professional shogi player number, esid, Real Academia de Doctores de España ID, authors.gr ID, GLANSIS ID, literatura.lv ID, Fallout Wiki ID, Base de Dados de Livros de Fotografia profile ID, Vintage Fashion Guild Labels, Enciclopedia dell'Italiano ID, Soprintendenza di Salerno e Avellino place ID, World Loanword Database word ID, numéro d'une installation sportive en France, Waddi Punjabi Lughat entry, Pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo entry, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID, Podbay show ID, Walt Disney movie ID, The Counted person ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, World Sailing sailor ID, Internet Game Database franchise ID, Mosfilm IDs, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID, DOSBox Compatibility ID, HAA member ID, Sindhi English Dictionary ID
  • Query examples:
    • Modern descendants of the Achaemenes (Achaemenid dynasty of rulers of Persia, 7th century BCE)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: The first version of the new API is released on Wikidata now \o/ We'd love to hear your feedback on what to improve next in the API.
  • Property Suggester: We updated the data for the Property Suggester so suggestions for new statements to add to an Item should be more in line with current Property usage on other similar Items again.
  • Fixed an issue with Item deletions not showing up on Wikipedia and co if they affect an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)
  • Vector 2022: Made it possible to add a new sitelink on Wikipedia and co in the new Vector 2022 language selector (phab:T310259)
  • Lua: Working on two new Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2023-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar).

Future changes

• Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Live, Die, Repeat talk: Edge of Tomorrow

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Speedy deletion nomination of Edge of Tomorrow talk: Live. Die. Repeat.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Edge of Tomorrow talk: Live, Die, Repeat

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Speedy deletion nomination of Live. Die. Repeat. talk: Edge of Tomorrow

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Live. Die. Repeat. talk: Edge of Tomorrow requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Superman talk: You'll Believe a Man Can Fly

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Growth team newsletter #24

Welcome to the twenty-fourth newsletter from the Growth team!

Newcomer experience projects

The Growth team partnered with other WMF teams to conduct several experiments around increasing account creation and new editor retention. Results from four of these experiments are now available:

• Thank you pages & banners - Encourage donors to create accounts through thank you pages and banners.
• Marketing experiment - Run ads on-wiki and off-wiki to see how this impacts account activation.
• "Add an image" GLAM events - Host GLAM events that focus on using the "Add an image" tool.
• Welcome emails - Experiment sending welcome emails to newly created accounts.

Newcomer tasks

• Several communities suggested improving "add a link", by suggesting underlinked articles first. We released this change to Growth pilot wikis. We will review the data and collect feedback before considering releasing it to more wikis. [5]
• The deployment of the "add a link" to all Wikipedias is still in progress. Suggested links use a prediction model, which has to be trained. The deployments will resume after we finish training all models. [6]

Mentorship

• When someone wants to signup as a mentor, they are now informed if they don't meet the defined criteria. [7]
• Workshop hosts asked us to have workshop attendees assigned to them. They can soon use a custom URL parameter. This way, workshop hosts will continue mentoring the event's attendees after the workshop. It will be available in February. [8]
• Have you considered to help new editors on your wiki, by signing up to be a Mentor?
  • Please visit Special:MentorDashboard to check on the conditions to be a mentor, and sign up.
  • If your wiki does not have Mentorship enabled, consider setting it up. The Growth team can provide advice and assist as needed. Please ping Trizek (WMF) for assistance.

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• In Special:SpecialPages, Growth experiments now have their own section. [9]
• This newsletter will have a new publication period, 6 times a year: January, March, May, July, September, November.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Edge of Tomorrow talk: Live Die Repeat

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Edge of Tomorrow talk: Live Die Repeat requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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@Fram, these are due to an error in the WP:AFCRC script. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:49, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Converting Wikidata redirects

You have doing a lot of replacement of {{Wikidata redirect}} to {{R with Wikidata item}}, such as this one at Erfüllungspolitik but I'm not sure this is correct. According to the template instructions at Template:Wikidata redirect/doc, "Wikidata redirect may be used on all redirects." Perhaps you should stop doing these, until it's clear that these changes are desirable. Mathglot (talk) 22:15, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

@Mathglot, see Template talk:Redirect category shell#Restarting discussion on automatically sensing wikidata redirects. — Qwerfjkltalk 22:17, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

(The end of that thread.) — Qwerfjkltalk 22:20, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Administrator changes

Gimmetrow

• Bjelleklang
• Bob the Wikipedian
• Leithp
• WhisperToMe
• 100 inactive admins

CheckUser changes

• BDD
• Bradv
• Donald Albury
• Maxim
• MusikAnimal

Oversighter changes

• BDD
• Bradv
• Donald Albury
• Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
• Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:38, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

"Wikidata redirect should only be used on soft redirects."

I'm not really sure how {{Wikidata redirect}} and {{R with Wikidata item}} differ (they both fill the same category, it seems; is it just aesthetics to fit with other rcats?), but {{Wikidata redirect}}'s documentation does say While similar to {{Wiktionary redirect}}, that template is only used on soft redirects, while Wikidata redirect may be used on all redirects, so you may want to edit it/clarify the situation. eviolite (talk) 04:01, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

@Eviolite, see my response to #Converting Wikidata redirects. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:03, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

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Your signature, excluding timestamp, is currently 349 characters long, which is well over the indicated maximum. Please consider trimming it down somewhat. Thanks. Primefac (talk) 08:09, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

@Primefac, really? [[User:Qwerfjkl|<span style="background:#1d9ffc; color:white; padding:5px; box-shadow:darkgray 2px 2px 2px;">Qwerfjkl</span>]][[User talk:Qwerfjkl|<span style="background:#79c0f2;color:white; padding:2px; box-shadow:darkgray 2px 2px 2px;">talk</span>]] is 252 characters. — Qwerfjkltalk 08:19, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

sigh my apologies. Factotum seems to be adding ~100 characters of nonsense to your signature. I feel like I've raised this issue with Alexis Jazz before and if so I doubt it will ever be removed. Primefac (talk) 14:36, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

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pywikibot

Hi. I have been using pywikibot since December 2021. I have had various experiences of many types. I saw your conversation on Novem's talkpage, and Discord as well. But your issues were solved by the time I saw them. Please feel free to ask any doubts/quires that you may face in the future. I am not an expert in pywikibot/toolforge, but have faced many problems, so I know many answers as well. Regards, —usernamekiran (talk) 06:59, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran, I'm stuck trying to login, as I mentioned on Discord. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:58, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

I thought it was resolved. I forgot how I did the installation on my windows setup (whether it was git clone from gerrit, or pip install like you did), but the high chances are I followed the steps from this older version of the guide. I checked the link on that older version, and it leads to toolforge, which seems to have latest version of pywikibot. So you would have to download, and extract it C:Users\<user>pywikibot, but before that you need to remove your previous installation. Then just to be sure, run C:\Users\<user>\pywikibot>python pwb.py version If the version command runs successfully, then the first step is done. In second step, you will need a Special:BotPasswords. Once you have botpass, run the command C:\Users\<user>\pywikibot>python pwb.py generate_user_files This will generate user-config.py interactively. If user-password.py is not generated, create it in same directory as of user-config. Your username, and other details go in user-config file, where as user-password would have only one line (in my case there are two lines, as I run two bots by two different usernmaes on two projects - en, and mr). The line should be tuple, here is my line for en: ('en', 'wikipedia', 'KiranBOT', BotPassword('<bot-name>', '<auto-generated-botpass>')). Regarding the login, you don't have to login from your script, you have to define a site then user-config logs you in accordingly. For example, if my script defines the the site as en.wikipedia, then I am logged in en credentials, in case its mrwiki, then its KiranBOT_II. You can download and run this script by Mz7 as it is for a better idea. Just change TABLE_LOCATION = 'Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SPI/Cases' to TABLE_LOCATION = 'User:Qwerfjkl/Sandbox'. Also, even if you already have a botpass, I would recommend to revoke the bot's permission to create new pages, in case you don't have botpass, keep the permission unchecked while creating botpass. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:43, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

more details of user-config on mediawiki. I recommend running the command, and then editing/customising the files per personal requirements/preferences. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:46, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran, okay. I guess I'll try pip uninstall pywikibot or something. Does the pywikibot installation come with mwparserfromhell? — Qwerfjkltalk 20:41, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

I am not sure, I use the parser though. After installing the new pywikibot, try pip. If it's present it will say so, and skip, if not then it will install it. —usernamekiran (talk) 20:46, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran, Where do I need to keep pywikibot relative to the script I'm running? E.g. if I have my script at FILEPATH, do I need the pywikibot folder at FILEPATH/pywikibot? — Qwerfjkltalk 17:42, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

I did some experimenting after reading your question. The script you want to run should be in the same folder/directory where pwb.py is located. You also need to be in the same directory on your command prompt while executing/running the script. Were you able to login? —usernamekiran (talk) 02:16, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran, Yes, I got it to work. Now I just need to move it to Toolforge. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:02, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

if you got putty working, then moving it to toolforge wouldn't be difficult. I think I configured putty with toolforge after a month I started using the bot from toolforge. —usernamekiran (talk) 07:57, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran, do you know how to update python on Toolforge? It says it's 2.7.16 on Toolforge, and I need python 3 for pywikibot to run. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:54, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

I don't think we need to install python on toolforge. Which steps are you following? —usernamekiran (talk) 21:24, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

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@Usernamekiran, I was just testing what happens if I run the code on Toolforge (via PuTTY). It gave a bunch of errors because the pywikibot code was written in python 3. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:57, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

what error are you getting? also what method did you use to set-up the pywikibot on toolforge? —usernamekiran (talk) 01:20, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran, I got a syntax error. I just transferred pywikibot to Toolforge with WinSCP. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:06, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

it wouldn't work. You have to go through the steps provided here. —usernamekiran (talk) 07:13, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran, okay. Should I install from Git or PyPI? — Qwerfjkltalk 07:17, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

git. —usernamekiran (talk) 07:20, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran, well, that seemed to work. It says use
tools.TOOLNAME@tools-sgebastion-10:~$ toolforge-jobs run my-cool-job --command "$HOME/pwbvenv/bin/python3 $HOME/my-cool-script.py"
to run the script once. What should go in place of my-cool-job? An arbitrary name? — Qwerfjkltalk 20:11, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

yes, it is an arbitrary placeholder name, can be anything. —usernamekiran (talk) 20:55, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

a little bit off topic

How good are you with python? I am a little stuck with my current script. Would you be able to help me? —usernamekiran (talk) 22:02, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran, I'm fairly good. What's the problem? — Qwerfjkltalk 22:18, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Well, I have one working script, and I want to update it with a new logic/methodology. I have most of the work with the new script, but it still has some syntax errors, and some other minor flaws. Finalising the new script is not much of a work, as almost most of the coding has been done. It just needs to be re-arranged, and fixed. —usernamekiran (talk) 22:26, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran, sure, I'm happy to help. — Qwerfjkltalk 22:29, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Can you please send me an email thorough wikipedia, then I can reply to it including my scripts attached. —usernamekiran (talk) 23:07, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran, done. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:46, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

• Hi. Do you know how to use "concat" instead of "append" with pandas? I am getting error when I am trying that. —usernamekiran (talk) 03:30, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
  • @Usernamekiran, sorry, I missed this. Is this still a problem? — Qwerfjkltalk 14:27, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

  no worries. I am getting a warning to update my method that I am using: FutureWarning: The frame.append method is deprecated and will be removed from pandas in a future version. Use pandas.concat instead. But I don't know the syntax to use pandas. concat —usernamekiran (talk) 16:27, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

  @Usernamekiran, does this stackoverflow thread help? — Qwerfjkltalk 16:49, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

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