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Speedy deletion nomination of Julie Sussman


A tag has been placed on Julie Sussman requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

"This page used to be redirected to SICP. SICP is a book, not a person. She is an author of the book, hence it is misleading to redirect from a person's page to a book she has written. Since there is no content for this page, I am requesting a speedy deletion. Just in case, someone decides to write an article about her, it can be restored. This article seems unnecessary as of now (given that it has no content anyway)."

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. 2Dpedia (talk) 09:11, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

404 error
Hey Edward, just wanted to note I am getting a 404 error from Find Links :( Its one of my favourite tools, Sadads (talk) 23:36, 16 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Sorry about that. I've fixed it. Thanks for letting me know. Edward (talk) 08:18, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of 123-reg
Hello Edward,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged 123-reg for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. AssortedLiquorice (talk) 10:22, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Nathanael Kapner
I just undid a piping of a link you had put in at Nathanael Kapner. The existing Wikilink for War on Christmas was already being redirected to Christmas controversy, to which you piped it. For the reasons discussed at WP:NOTBROKEN, it's best to let such redirects do their work, rather than piping to the redirected page. Thanks for your efforts to improve Wikipedia! --Nat Gertler (talk) 19:49, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

trafficking in Egypt
Hi Edward,

Just curious if you have any contacts in Egypt that are working on or against trafficking or interacting with victims. Thanks! Bonita Bgparson (talk) 07:00, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

Find links
Where has find links gone? I can't find it these days. Pkeets (talk) 02:32, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Nevermind. I found it with a search. Pkeets (talk) 02:36, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Admin help request
I need some help, I need an administrator to stop a person with the IP 198.134.93.254 from undoing accurate data from the Steppenwolf Band Wiki page.... the person is married to a former band member and she has a vendetta out for other band members because her husband was fired from the band several times  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:601:C700:D3DE:65AB:E430:572B:1026 (talk) 15:50, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Category:24-hour television news channels has been nominated for discussion
Category:24-hour television news channels, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. PanchoS (talk) 16:08, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Impossibility theory listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Impossibility theory. Since you had some involvement with the Impossibility theory redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 19:45, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I decided to be bold instead. Comments welcome, though. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 19:50, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

May 2016
 Hello Edward, Peter SamFan has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!  Peter  Sam   Fan  20:15, 2 May 2016 (UTC) Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Mesoamerican region
Hi Edward - I see you've been mass linking Mesoamerican articles to Mesoamerican region - however, that article is an article on the modern economic region, not the cultural region, and it is not relevant to the vast majority of the articles you have linked - please check the target article before performing mass links like this. Thanks, Simon Burchell (talk) 19:05, 31 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for letting me know, much appreciated. Edward (talk) 19:30, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey
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Big bonus culture listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Big bonus culture. Since you had some involvement with the Big bonus culture redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 22:46, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

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Category:Commerce has been nominated for discussion
Category:Commerce, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 01:45, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Elizabeth II Queen of Great Britain listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Elizabeth II Queen of Great Britain. Since you had some involvement with the Elizabeth II Queen of Great Britain redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. --Nevé–selbert 20:15, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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Mini-job listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Mini-job. Since you had some involvement with the Mini-job redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew (talk) 16:14, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi, my name is Regina and I'm native Spanish speaker. Recently I wrote an article about Café El Jarocho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thelmadatter/Café_El_Jarocho, and i would like to know if you could please check it out and give a general opinion or advice. I will be very thankful. Regina mabe (talk) 18:10, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Financial econometrics for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Financial econometrics 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 Articles for deletion/Financial econometrics until a consensus is reached, and anyone 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. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:43, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Yo Ho Ho


 Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

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404 error for Find Link
Happy New Year, Edward! I'm getting a 404 error on your great Find Link tool. Could you please ping me when it's up and running again? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:17, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting FindLink working again. Would you be able (and willing) to use your FindLink logic to go through Category:All orphaned articles and provide a report of articles that could possibly be manually deorphaned using FindLink?  If it could be deorphaned, the user would manually remove orphan.  If not, the user could att att to orphan, and the report could ignore those articles in future runs.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 16:36, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Good idea, I'll add this to my todo list. Edward (talk) 20:38, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi there! Any chance this ever made it to the top of your to do list?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 23:32, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
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Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

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Montreal
Hi Edward, long time no speak. I've put a submission in for Montreal this year, and I was wondering if you'd have a chance to move the prototype on by then as it is still one of the best tools I use.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  15:36, 3 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Yes, I should do some more work on the prototype. I've too many ideas about how it should work. Do you have any requests, what should I change next? Edward (talk)
 * Thanks, yes in approximate order of priority:
 * batching it by fifty searches is a bit of a pain, especially on things like pubic that I'd like to patrol frequently because half the time it is vandalism not a typo. But there are over a thousand articles containing pubic so currently I'm paging through over twenty screens most of which are empty to find a handful of examples.
 * The safe pages feature currently seems to be interlinked, so if a safe page is safe for one query it can't be made safe for others. That prevents the tool from being scaled as the more queries the more often that will be an issue.
 * The user needs to be able to start new queries.
 * The user needs to be able to set the wiki that the search will run on and any alternative or additional name spaces. For example most of my current searches could run on portal and draft space as well as mainspace. In the past I've searched for certain high risk phrases in userspace and it would be good if we could build searches that just went there.
 * I'm now using AWB for some searches, especially the ones with only a handful of safe phrases and few or no "safe pages". It does have a big advantage though in that if it is just a typo you can just click save and it fixes it. Though I suppose adding such a feature would be a big complication.
 * Is the safe phrase feature case sensitive? Some searches really need to differentiate between IT manager and it manager.
 * Thanks  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  09:24, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I've uploaded the code to github and added each of these as issues: https://github.com/EdwardBetts/pagepatrol/issues?q=is%3Aissue Edward (talk) 09:46, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm down to two issues left. Edward (talk) 18:39, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * That really makes a difference, I can go through those searches very quickly now. Lifting the 50 limit and having separate safe page lists for each search have really speeded things up.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  18:40, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Christian homeschooling listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Christian homeschooling. Since you had some involvement with the Christian homeschooling redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew (talk) 20:04, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Removing "Find links tool" from Orphan template
Hi, I wanted to let you know that I have removed the "Find links tool" in Template:Orphan, as I see there are Google Ads on the tools page. Pointing to a revenue generating page is not without controversy for Wikipedians, so I'd like to hear your rationale first. Thanks. -- Fuzheado &#124; Talk 13:41, 14 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi Fuzheado, I've removed the ads from find link. They'd been there since about 2010 and helped to fund the server where the tool is hosted. Thanks for getting in touch. Edward (talk) 14:16, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Security contractor listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Security contractor. Since you had some involvement with the Security contractor redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Prisencolin (talk) 19:15, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

The Princess of Wales listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect The Princess of Wales. Since you had some involvement with the The Princess of Wales redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. --Nev&eacute;–selbert 21:13, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Category:Critics of Brexit has been nominated for discussion
Category:Critics of Brexit, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. --Nev&eacute;–selbert 11:55, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Breakfast milk listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Breakfast milk. Since you had some involvement with the Breakfast milk redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 05:46, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to Admin confidence survey
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Deletion of the page Alex Zhavoronkov
Dear Edward, Recently the page Alex Zhavoronkov was nominated for deletion. Can you please take a look if you have a minute?

Yo Ho Ho


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Neutral notice
There is an RfC at an article you have edited, to which you may wish to add your input: Talk:American Flagg!. --Tenebrae (talk) 17:58, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Find link support for Assamese Wikipedia
Hello Edward, First of all I would like to thank you for developing the Find Link too which I have been using for English Wikipedia for quite some time. The tool works wonders! My main wiki project is Assamese Wikipedia (as.wikipedia.org namespace). Even though your tool supports many language, it is still missing Assamese language. We are a small Assamese wiki community and it would be a great help if you could add support for Assamese Wikipedia as well. I appreciate your work towards the Wiki community. Thank you and best regards, --SlowPhoton (talk) 04:26, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank for adding the support for Assamese. --SlowPhoton (talk) 10:10, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Guidance needed
Is there a way to consult with an administrator for guidance on handling a user that is substantially editing multiple pages in a way that really should be discussed on the talk page first? W4chris (talk) 17:53, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018
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m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource is the new ContentMine proposal: please take a look.

Wikidata as Hub
One way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites. Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8.

External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL.

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 * What galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation blogpost, 29 January 2018, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
 * The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect, 2018 institutional participation in the #1lib1ref campaign
 * Newspeak House queries, created at 3 February 2018 event in London led by
 * Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative, Wikipedia Signpost special report 5 February 2018, by
 * What is the Last Question?, 5 February 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018
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Milestone for mix'n'match
Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author,, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal.

Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders.

These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. Mix'n'match/Manual for more.

For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading.

Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite!

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 * Wikipedia goes 3D allowing users to upload .STLs for digital reference, Beau Jackson for 3dprintingindustry.com, February 22 2018
 * WikiCite report (video)
 * Formal publication and announcement of ISBN citation dataset, see Twitter post, February 23 2018
 * Plotting the Course Through Charted Waters, workshop on data visualization literacy from Mikhail Popov, Wikimedia Foundation
 * Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos, Nancy Cooey, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, February 12 2018
 * Why Should You Learn SPARQL? Wikidata! Mark Longair, blogpost November 29 2017
 * Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?, George Anadiotis for Big on Data, March 5 2018
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reliable sources saved to Internet Archive
69.181.23.220 (talk) 10:10, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Talk:Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse

Autolinking "street photography"
I daresay this was well intended, but it wasn't beneficial. I can hardly believe that it was the work of an alert human; are you perhaps overreliant on automation? -- Hoary (talk) 02:40, 28 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks Hoary, you're right. I'll be more attentive with my editing in future. Edward (talk) 06:04, 28 March 2018 (UTC)


 * These things happen. Certainly I've perpetrated all sorts of horrors while half-asleep at the keyboard. Happy editing! -- Hoary (talk) 09:13, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018
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The 100 Skins of the Onion
Open Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.

Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron.

Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF. From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.

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 * Crossref as a new source of citation data: A comparison with Web of Science and Scopus, CWTS blogpost 17 January 2018, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy Sugimoto
 * Citations with identifiers in Wikipedia, figshare dataset
 * Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!, Wikimedia blogpost 29 March 2018 by Sandra Fauconnier
 * Village pump discussion, Turn on mapframe? We’re ready if you are reaches conclusions
 * The Power of the Wikimedia Movement beyond Wikimedia, Forbes 28 March 2018, Michael Bernick
 * Tracing stolen bitcoin, blogpost 26 March 2018 by Ross J. Anderson
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Wikidata + map question
Hello! I hope this finds you well. I have just read your proposal on the GLAMWiki Conference submissions category, and I have realized you are savvy when it comes to maps and Wikidata. And I have been facing a real issue, which I hope you might help me to sort out. I have worked with students of mine and Wikimedia volunteers in Brazil to take pictures and create Wikidata items of monuments in São Paulo. I'd love to be able to post this map with the query on pt.wikipedia --do you know if this is even possible? Thanks a lot and sorry for likely mistakes. Cheers. --Joalpe (talk) 00:50, 17 April 2018 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure if this is possible or how it could be done. I'll do some more research and get back to you. Edward (talk) 11:29, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply, Edward. So far, I can easily create maps with local points on the frame (i.e. or ), but they are of course not dynamically related to Wikidata. To some extent, what I am thinking of is not too different in principle to what the Listeria-bot does: the creation of a template (a table) fed dynamically with data from Wikidata. I have no idea on how to make this happen for maps, though. So thanks a lot for looking into this, as I believe this could lead to something really cool for the projects. --Joalpe (talk) 17:49, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

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Your OSM-Wikidata tool, a suggestion
Hi Ed, I enjoyed your talk today about your OSM-Wikidata tool tremendously and plan to use the tool in the future. Discussing with a friend, we wondered if it would be possible to allow the user to edit Wikidata coordinates in cases of discrepancy. Presumably, OSM coordinates are more precise in most cases. Do you see any issues with this, or is it maybe already a planned feature? Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 17:36, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

I'm glad that you enjoyed the talk. Copying coordinates from OSM to Wikidata isn't allowed because the licenses aren't compatible. If we started copying coordinates from OSM then we'd be making a derived work. Edward (talk) 08:38, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

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 * Thanks, I really appreciate this. I've added a random article link. Edward (talk) 11:28, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Sweet, thank you. – ♠Vami _IV†♠  05:26, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

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Hi Edward Betts,

Could you please help me review my new articles: O. A. Akinyeye Abosede George MBM Avoseh

Thanks.

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Humanitarian Wikidata
Hi Edward, I just noticed your Wikimania 2019 session Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata and was wondering whether you had seen WikiProject Humanitarian Wikidata as well as Wikimedians for Disaster Response. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 17:58, 22 July 2020 (UTC)


 * This is interesting, I hadn't seen either of these. Thanks for sharing them with me. Edward (talk) 21:27, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

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After your great work last week at Newspeak House, I was wondering if the dablinks like tool was ready for any testing?&mdash; Rod talk 20:03, 18 August 2022 (UTC)


 * This is what I have so far, it isn't finished yet. https://dab.edwardbetts.com/ Edward (talk) 07:51, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks - let me know when it is up & running & I am happy to do any testing.&mdash; Rod talk 07:56, 19 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I've finally implemented save. It is very rough, but it is usable. I need to write some documentation. Edward (talk) 21:17, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but it currently will not load for me.&mdash; Rod talk 07:22, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Try now. Edward (talk) 08:24, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The list now loads but if I click on one I get the same "Software error: KeyError" as I did before (Error in function "__getitem__": Arguments(args=['self', 'key'], varargs=None, varkw=None)).&mdash; Rod talk 09:06, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I've fixed that bug. Edward (talk) 13:46, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks - having got past OAuth, I now can see the highlighted links on an article. It would be nice if a right click from the list on the left took you to the link listed rather than another version of the highlighted entry. I tried to make my first edit using the dab mechanic tool - on Herbie Crichlow changing "De De" to De De & I get "Software error: KeyError" including "Error in function "edit_page": Arguments(args=['title', 'text', 'summary', 'baserevid', 'token'], varargs=None, varkw=None)" followed by a load of code.&mdash; Rod talk 15:29, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

I am going to be away for the next month & unable to do much in the way of testing. If you manage to sort the save bug, I would suggest posting a note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation and ask others to try it out.&mdash; Rod talk 13:23, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

I don't know if you have had a chance to work on this while I have been away, but yesterday at a wikimeet I went to show your new tool to User:RexxS & User:The wub. The link now just says "Service Unavailable, The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later." Any idea why?&mdash; Rod talk 11:28, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

I mentioned your work at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation where there was a discussion about the need for new tools - hope that is OK?&mdash; Rod talk 15:57, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

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Good morning and thank you for creating and maintaining Find Link! Women in Red is now running monthly tips in its newsletters. I suggested saying something like "Use the Find Link tool to de-orphan your articles" which they liked...but I was wondering if it's ok with you to link to Find Link in the first place, and if so, what is the right URL to use? Would it be User:Edward/Find link ? Cielquiparle (talk) 07:24, 22 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, sorry for not replying sooner. Yes, fine to link to it. User:Edward/Find link is a good one to use for now. I should make a page for it in the Wikipedia namespace. Edward (talk) 19:30, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks @Edward! I suggested FINDLINK instead which obviously points to your User page now but then could be re-directed to another target in the future. Seems cleaner. But please do let me know if that's not ok. Cielquiparle (talk) 13:40, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

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Find Link User script
Hi @Edward, I've created a user script to help with using Find Link. Hope that's alright with you. 1AmNobody24 (talk) 06:45, 29 March 2023 (UTC)


 * This is great! I love it. Good work. Edward (talk) 20:44, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

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I want to check if you have had time to look into the issue with WP:FINDLINK? I posted a comment here in the talk page but not sure if you were notified of it. -<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:105%;color:#40E0D0"> Imcdc</b>  Contact  05:25, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

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Poop patrol
Hi Wdward, hope all is well, I've been getting a lot of "sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: (psycopg2.OperationalError) connection to server at "localhost" (127.0.0.1), port 5432 failed: server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. SSL SYSCALL error: Connection reset by peer connection to server at "localhost" (127.0.0.1), port 5432 failed: FATAL:  the database system is in recovery mode

(Background on this error at: https://sqlalche.me/e/14/e3q8)

Errors recently, and was wondering whether this was at my end or yours?  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  09:09, 31 May 2024 (UTC)


 * You're right. The database is unhappy. I'll try and fix it. Edward (talk) 08:38, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * This is fixed. Edward (talk) 12:49, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thankyou very much.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  11:32, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

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