User talk:Magnus Manske/Archive 3

Where is the List of Contributors?
Hello

Where is the useful List of Contributors that used to be accessible from the History page of each article? It seems to have been replaced by a Cat Scan (I thought that was a medical procedure!) which has your name on it, and which I find totally incomprehensible. What is it supposed to do? Is there some way to restore the List of Contributors (perhaps in addition to the Cat Scan), so that one can find out quickly who are the principal contributors to an article? Dirac66 (talk) 02:22, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I have no idea what you are talking about. No such thing happened, as far as I am aware. Please provide an example. --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:42, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * When I go to the History page of a random article and click on Contributors, I am taken to a page such as this example . The first line says CatScan V2.0β by Magnus Manske, which is why I have written to you. Until a few weeks ago, clicking on Contributors led to a list of contributors to an article in descending order of number of edits (e.g. Editor A 124 edits, Editor B 71 edits, etc.) Then for a few weeks there was a notice about modifications in progress, and now it leads to this form which I do not understand. Is there a way to use the form to obtain the List of Contributors as formerly? Dirac66 (talk) 19:11, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * This is news to me, and not my doing. On an example page, the URL points to https://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense. This is a URL on the toolserver, which is to be scrapped at the end of the month. That user account has expired, and someone redirected the URL to my tool. Again, I did not to this, I don't know why this was done, or who did it; nor can I change it. Daniel may know, or the toolserver admins. --Magnus Manske (talk) 22:08, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for your reply. I have now found another solution to the problem. From the discussion at Village pump (technical)/Archive 127, I realized that a list of contributors is now available using the Revision history statistics tool, in the section named Top editors. This solves my problem, but perhaps you can help publicize the solution for other editors. I see that you placed a notice on the form which is reached by clicking on List of Contributors, saying "If you're upset because you wanted WikiSense and got this page instead, complain to Daniel, not me!". I think it would be more helpful to place a notice saying "For a list of contributors to an article, click on Revision history statistics on the History page, and then scroll down to Top editors." I would do this myself but I don't know how to edit that form. Dirac66 (talk) 19:59, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Quick Intersection Question
I tried to use the quick intersection tool on Mathematics. It gave me this error. Do I need different permissions? I think there are more than 30,000 pages in this category. This seems like a very useful tool, if I can get it to work. I would like to look at several larger categories and standardize them. Thanks.

https://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/quick_intersection.php?lang=en&project=wikipedia&cats=Mathematics&ns=0%7C14&depth=12&max=30000&start=0&format=json&redirects=&callback=

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 524288000 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 32 bytes) in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 104

21:10, 14 June 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by RC711 (talk • contribs)
 * You can increase the expected result number in the form. Also, try the "sparse" mode if all you want is page titles. Huge, deep category trees tend to branch into other, unrelated categories; one bad categorization is all it takes. Try depth 7 instead of 12, it should work fine. --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:52, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Mathematics is a problem because it includes space/dimension/and a few other incredibly broad categories, which themselves include almost everything else. I think mathematicians like it that way, that basically the whole universe is technically just a subset of math according to wikipedia.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 01:19, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Image link broken on GLAMorous
Hi,

I didn't find how to log that one on JIRA,

In the GLAMorous tool, when asking for details, there is a link to find the page where an image is used.

This link is not working for wikipedias having a "-" in the language code, the one I know of are: bat-smg.wikipedia, be-x-old.wikipedia, nds-nl.wikipedia

The link is pointing to same URL but with lower "_", respectively: bat_smg.wikipedia, be_x_old.wikipedia, nds_nl.wikipedia

To check, you can look at my images, activate the details and look at the first image, Feu de tourbe.JPG, you will see a page to each of the 3 sites above.

Note that changing the URL replacing the "_" by "-" by hand give a valid URL.

Sorry for spaming on your Talk page, and thanks for the tool,

Cqui (talk) 14:56, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Terminator - non-articles given as articles
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator/?list&lang=en&mode=tx - great tool, thank you!

"Top 1000 items with missing articles" - but shown are also items that are categories and templates.

I made my own link for geo-items http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator/?list&lang=en&mode=tx&q=claim[31:(tree[15916867,618123][][279])]

But would be nice if the main list would be free or free-able from templates and categories. Cheers Tamawashi (talk) 02:15, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

CommonsHelper
CommonsHelper appears to be broken. In fact, none of the tools listed on WP:MTC seem to be working. Do you know what's wrong? Thanks! Laura1822 (talk) 22:39, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Should be back now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 07:49, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, thank you! Laura1822 (talk) 13:56, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Is there something I can do so that I don't have to keep re-authorizing OAuth? It asks me to re-do it almost every time I use it.  Laura1822 (talk) 19:52, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It shouldn't. Maybe some third-party-cookie filter in your browser/plugins? --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:32, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I changed a setting and will see how that works.
 * Feature request (sorry but I do not know how to use the JIRA system) : add ==== above the information template.   I had to add it manually to all the new files I moved to commons, even though the old ones on WP had them.
 * Done. Not sure why this is necessary though; doesn't really make a difference to humans, and bots couldn't care less...
 * Second feature request: Comparing a file I moved with one someone else had moved, I noticed that the upload log section of their file was a lot prettier than mine.  I looked at the wikicode to see why and realized that it had been moved with a different tool, For the Common Good.  I'm not a coder so I didn't understand how it worked and didn't think I could make it work with copy/paste.  But it might look simple to you and be something you could add really easily.
 * You know, linking to an example would have been ... helpful. I finally found this example. Hacked CommonsHelper to produce something similar now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:02, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for all you do. Your tools help so much!  Laura1822 (talk) 19:22, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Problems with FIST
As a side note, the "my toolserver tools" link at the top of this Talk page goes to a "403: User account expired" warning. What I actually want to report is that FIST searches result in a "Fatal error: Call to undefined function db_get_articles_in_category in /data/project/fist/public_html/fist.php on line 425" error message. --82.136.210.153 (talk) 18:00, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, fixed the link, but FIST works fine for me. Example where it doesn't work? --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:26, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * When I go here, type "test" (without the quotes) in the top left textarea (under en.wikipedia.org), then scroll down and press the "Do it!" button, it loads for about a second and then the bottom of the page reads: "Copy the URL of this link to get a pre-filled search for the values you have entered above. Retrieving article list ... Fatal error: Call to undefined function db_get_articles_in_category in /data/project/fist/public_html/fist.php on line 425" I've tried other queries, but all yield the same result. I don't understand how this could work for you if it doesn't for me... --82.136.210.153 (talk) 15:53, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Confirmed. I'm having the same problem, and have ha it for a few months. I believe I sent in a JIRA-report a long time ago... (t) Josve05a  (c) 16:01, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry. The report was about another problem. But the problem reported here on the talk page still happens to me. (t) Josve05a  (c) 16:05, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * This appears to happen when the category you enter does not exist. Until I fix it, I suggest you stick to categories that could actually yield a result. --Magnus Manske (talk) 18:09, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Commons Commander
Moin Magnus

ich verzweifle gerade daran meinen Bilder eine weitere Categorie zu verpassen und bete dafür das der Commoander irgenwann wieder geht. ;) Oder geht er nur bei mir nicht, frag ich mich und da ich keine Ahnung habe somit Dich. Tschüß und ach ja, nur das ich es mal geschrieben habe, finde Deine Arbeit/Leistung klasse. Tschüß --Raboe001 (talk) 12:33, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Funktioniert das hier? --Magnus Manske (talk) 16:01, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

WikiShootMe limited to 10km?
I love the WikiShootMe tool, but it doesn't seem to return any results if I search for articles in a radius larger than 10km. Is that a deliberate limitation? Thanks! —Tim Pierce (talk) 17:46, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Not hard-coded, but the tool is currently limited to 500 candidate articles; if you have a "busy" location like central London, this might get "flooded" with articles having an image. I need to re-write the thing to use Wikidata in any case... --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:49, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Hmm. When I ask the tool for articles in a sparsely populated location (e.g. Franklin County, Maine) it reports that it's searching 12 articles. But if I select the same starting article and change to 12km, it says "Loading list" and a spinning wheel, and never even gets as far as reporting the number of candidate articles it's searching. Have you not been able to reproduce that behavior? Thanks - —Tim Pierce (talk) 19:52, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * You are correct; no idea why though. Re-write moving up the priority list... --Magnus Manske (talk) 15:58, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata tempo-spatial display - problem
There's a problem with the BCE dates: your tool visualize them like CE dates (see, e.g., )! For the rest, I really like your tool. Thank you, --Epìdosis (talk) 16:33, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

More languages for WikiData Terminator
Hello. Terminator is a great tool. However, is is possible to add more languages to support? Does it support non-latin text, such as Chinese (zh) and Cantonese (zh-yue)? Thanks.--Yaukasin (talk) 03:43, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * da. &mdash; fnielsen (talk) 16:48, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Can you add Czech, please?--Kohelet (talk) 14:59, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * All done, should become live within 24h. --Magnus Manske (talk) 16:04, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * If possible, please add Hungarian too. Thank you!--Aaytrem (talk) 05:45, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Tool to find frequently used PNG image within category
Hello Magnus,

I have just seen some of your tools (especially the wikidata game was very nice :-) ).

Do you know if there is a tool with which I can find images within the mathematics category (for the German wiki) that are PNG (or even worse: JPG or gif (when its not animated)) images and then sort those images by how often they are used in Wikipedia?

I like creating images for mathematics of high quality (see de:Benutzer:MartinThoma/Visualisierungen), but as it takes a long time to create those images I want to make good choices what to improve.

Best regards, --MartinThoma (talk) 14:10, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata item creator error
I got error when using Wikidata item creator to create Wikidata items from zh-yue wiki, no matter I fill in "zh_yuewiki" or "zh-yuewiki" in the "on site" field, just getting an error message "Problem creating item".--Shawdeersoom (talk) 08:12, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Move-to-commons assistant
Hi Magnus, after transferring files to commons with the Move-to-commons assistant there is a button to delete the original image. Since i am not an admin i cannot do it and get an error message. Wouldn't it be reasonable that for users with insufficient rights, a template for deletion is inserted into the page (such as Template:NowCommons)? Gruß, --Aschroet (talk) 07:13, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Additions to BaGLAMa2
Hi Magnus! I hope this is the right place to ask. Could the following please be added to BaGLAMa2, as of July or August:

Commons categories:
 * Images released by the Royal Society
 * Images from Cancer Research UK

Many thanks, Johnbod (talk) 00:26, 5 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Added, July and August running. --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:42, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Fantastic, thanks, Johnbod (talk) 00:04, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Autolist2
Hello, Magnus. It seems that I cannot remove property with "unknown" value. --Infovarius (talk) 18:57, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Invitation


Hello! As there is a Wikipedia article about you, you are cordially invited to contribute a short audio recoding of your spoken voice, so that our readers may know what you sound like and how you pronounce your name. Details of how to do so, and examples, are at Voice intro project. Please feel free to ask for help or clarification on the project talk page, or my talk page. --1Veertje (talk) 14:07, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

WDQ data dump updates
Hi, I am greatly interested in your WDQ query interface and currently testing it. It says "the data used here is from WikiData "dumps", so it can be a few hours old". The question is how old it is or can be? and is there a way to find the timestamp of the current dump? The question arose from this discussion in Russian. Bridges across the Danube returns 38 items. It is much lesser than should be because many bridges entries do not have P177 (crosses) set at all or having it set wrongly. Yet I manually set this property for one of bridges at Sep. 11. Today is Sep. 16 and still nothing is changed in query results. --NeoLexx (talk) 14:14, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Also I just wrote a WDQ interface decription in Russia with some bugs and critics added, see w:ru:Проект:Списки/WDQ. --NeoLexx (talk) 20:45, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:From Commons
Template:From Commons has been nominated for merging with Template:Deleted on Commons. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 17:02, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Reasonator - 404 Not Found
Hey there! Arrived here from https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnus-toolserver/ts2/main/index.html

Looks like your link for Reasonator needs updating.. new URL is http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/ -- &oelig; &trade; 00:51, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Flommons attribution
It looks like the flommons attribution system needs a bit of work, as the current "From [LastUploader]" attribution seems to be pissing off some original uploaders.

The page she talks about is. While the image description is technically correct (the author is the original author from Information but the picture displayed is the latest version, with the corresponding uploader and date), the images list is only listing the latest uploader as author. This is a breach of license for CC-BY-SA, since theoretically all users should have been credited, but more importantly, it lists an user that might have had no creative involvement in the making of the image (such as RotateBot).

I suggest you replace the latest uploader with the first uploader in the image lists. Thanks.-Strainu (talk) 15:36, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Tools question
Hi Magnus, I'm importing a tool to Tool Labs and having no luck getting Perl to run via cgi-bin. The URL is:
 * http://tools.wmflabs.org/ext-lnk-discover/test.pl

The source for test.pl is:
 * #!/usr/bin/perl
 * print "Content-type: text/html ";
 * print "Hello World!";

test.pl is located in the document root (~/public_html) with 755 perms.

It's using the default lighttpd configuration (no ~/.lighttpd.conf). The interesting thing is when looking at 'view source' for the output it says: The URI you have requested,  , appears to be non-functional at this time." . However the script runs fine from the command line. Any ideas? I've had the same trouble with similar bash and csh test scripts as well. Thanks. -- Green  C  18:11, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Update: I was able to work around this by using PHP to launch the script with a system.. never could figure how to run scripts (bash, perl, csh) via CGI. If you have a .lighttpd.conf that does I would be curious to see. -- Green  C  02:51, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Update2: Figured out the problem with CGI. Nothing to see here :) Thanks. -- Green  C  14:47, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

CatFood
Hallo Magnuns, Danke für dieses Tool. Kannst Du Dir vorstellen, es um eine Option zu erweitern: Änderungen an zugehörigen Diskussionsseiten einschließen? Ich fänd das sehr hilfreich. --Anka Friedrich (talk) 12:30, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

сatscan2 broken
Hello. catscan2 doesn't work on Russian Wikipedia, or may be something is broken on Labs. Check please meta:Talk:CatScan2. ~ Nirvanchik ~ ⊤άλҟ 16:10, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Neither does it on Catalan Wikipedia. It produces There was an error running the query [Table 'cawiki_p.page' doesn't exist].
 * I think there is something broken in the labs with Catalan Wikipedia, because category maps don't work, too. For example, https://tools.wmflabs.org/osm4wiki/cgi-bin/wiki/wiki-osm.pl?project=ca&article=Categoria%3AEdificis_modernistes_de_Barcelona (cawiki) doesn't work, while https://tools.wmflabs.org/osm4wiki/cgi-bin/wiki/wiki-osm.pl?project=de&article=Kategorie%3ABauwerk_in_Katalonien (dewiki) works fine as usual. I suppose both problems could be related.--Pere prlpz (talk) 21:46, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Last week catscan2 has been working but it was too slow and with large periods (1-2 hours) of offline time. My bot did its every-day job with the help of catscan2 in 4 hours usually, now - up to 24 hours. ~ Nirvanchik ~ ⊤άλҟ 11:19, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * It seems that someone started to research this problem on Labs ~ Nirvanchik ~ ⊤άλҟ 11:21, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Commonshelper bug
It just keeps saying ERROR: Warning when I try to upload. No other information. Magog the Ogre (t • c) 22:25, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

add-information tool
Thanks for this, and sorry for reporting this here, jira doesn't seem to be there at the moment. The tool does some strange things with [//tools.wmflabs.org/add-information/?language=commons&project=wikimedia&image=Allenopithecus_54722194.jpg&doit=Do+it this] file, which has "int:license-header" and "int:filedesc" headers, but a non-standard template for the information. I'm not suggesting you should handle the random template cases, but it seems odd that the headers get broken, and the info template is placed outside of "int:filedesc". --jnkyrdsprkl (talk) 22:01, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

image transfer from italian wikipedia
I create this it:template:PD-text-logo (same name of commons) that is redirect to it:template:PD-logo testuale. I insert the redirect in it:File:Agi.jpg and tried to transfer it with commons helper. But i received a warning message. I suppose because the template it's not allowed. What have to do? or where to ask? Thanks a lot--Pierpao (talk) 09:48, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata Autolist is down
Greets Fundriver (talk) 21:21, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

CommonsHelper for files of Armenian Wikipedia
Hello Magnus, i currently trying to transfer photos with Armenian file names with your tool. But it always complains that the file does not exist on Armenian Wikipedia. Example: For file hy:Պատկեր:Տառերի_պուրակ,_հայոց_այբուբենի_հուշարձան_(7).JPG it complains "Image "Տառերի_պուրակ,_հայոց_այբուբենի_հուշարձան_(7).JPG" does not exist on hy.wikipedia!". Seems that internally, the filename is properly stored. Maybe the URL request needs some urlencode. Can you help, please? --Aschroet (talk) 11:08, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Maybe because the file is already on Commons and not on hy.wikipedia.org anymore? --Magnus Manske (talk) 15:43, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiData game down
I'd like to point out that the WikiData game is out of service. It gives me the error "The URI you have requested, /wikidata-game/, is not currently serviced.", it then pointed me towards your talk-page to report the bug. I hope this issue can be resolved, George.Edward.C (talk) 18:04, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Ukrainian wikipedia
Hello! I'm writing you from Ukrainian wikipedia and want to tell you that almost all tools, which I use, don't work here. I'm telling you about ″Missing topics″, ″catscan″, ″Suggest articles from interwikis″ and some other. They don't work on other slavic wikipedias too. Can you help me?--Шиманський Василь (talk) 06:04, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, first, which one is Ukranian? I'll assume it's "uk" for now. In that case, it appears that CatScan works fine. "It does not work" is never, ever, a good bug report. Tell me an example of what you do, what result you expect, and what happens instead. Preferably something that happens always in the wrong way, so I can see that it goes wrong, figure out how it goes wrong, and confirm that I fixed it. --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:48, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry that my request is like a Neanderthal's speech, but I will try to explain (It will not be easy - my English is bad). Try to refresh this page, for example, with «Донецька_область» category, with depth 10, do not «filter out links from templates used in category pages» and «do not list links that are wanted only» 6 time(s). If you get a result — write how you get it. Also I use JoanJoc's tool «Suggest articles from interwikis». But when I «Look articles in» ru, «Project» wiki, «Without interwiki to» uk, «Inside category:» Донецкая область «depth» 3 it does not generate anything — in bottom left corner is «expect on tools.wmflabs.org...» and nothing happens.--Шиманський Василь (talk) 06:24, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

CatScan rewrite?
Hi Magnus,

I am writing about the apprent rewrite that's being made on the CatScan right now. Are you involved in this? Unfortunately for the Wiki Loves Monuments organizing team, this rewrite is coming at the worst time, as we've been relying on the CatScan's specific format to extract image data from Commons.

I can modify my WLM tool to work with the new version, but need extended image data. Do you have any idea when the "Extended data for files" option will again be available?

Even better, is there an old version of CatScan still around that I can use?

Sorry to bother you, but this is just super-important for WLM which is just wrapping up now with the judging.

Thanks in advance, —Ynhockey (Talk) 19:46, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * And take my big THANKS from me as an owner of a bot which updates 400-600 portals every day using catscan2. I'm happy that catscan2 come back alive. New look looks pretty nicely) ~ Nirvanchik ~ ⊤άλҟ 07:48, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Useful things?
Is this link (on your user page) correct? I get a 403. http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus

Gordo (talk) 11:40, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

CrossCats
Hello! CrossCats does not work with the apostrophe '. Can you fix that? It wouold be very helpful for the French Wikipedia, where this is quite common in category names. Thierry Caro (talk) 15:20, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Flickr-to-Commons
Is just excellent thank you. But I do wonder why when I have settled down to an evening of uploading images from Flickr I am so often denied transfer to Commons because I am unauthorised. How much delay is permitted between each upload? I am sure it used to be a little more than it is now. I have just received a slightly different message "Transfer failed [1] : Not authorized (bad API response[isAuthOK]: null)" Is this telling me any more than it failed?

And why can't it just say what other errors are instead of type 2 or whatever - not that i've ever managed to find an explanation of them.

But its great to have Flickr2commons and Thank you. Eddaido (talk) 10:29, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

CommonsHelper on mediawiki.org
Is it possible to transfer files from www.mediawiki.org website? --Rezonansowy (talk | contribs) 16:53, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Catscan2 broken2
Catscan2 broken again. I get this: ~ Nirvanchik ~ ⊤άλҟ 21:47, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Today Catscan2 is offline :( Only one day of good job last month and again disappointment. What are we to expect? Will catscan2 live? Will it die? ~ Nirvanchik ~ ⊤άλҟ 20:08, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * With usual category search it works, but it crashes with new pages search. An example of buggy link RU category Древний Рим last 500 hours EN category Rome last 500 hours ~ Nirvanchik ~ ⊤άλҟ 20:15, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Should be fixed now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 23:02, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks alot! Today's morning bot run was successfull. ~ Nirvanchik ~ ⊤άλҟ 07:16, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Catscan2 not responding today
I am trying this canned report on catscan2 today, and I get the error "No webservice. The URI you have requested ... is not currently serviced."

Also, you have a link to a toolserver page at the top of this Talk page. It does not respond. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:58, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

GLAMorous
Hello Magnus. We (Wikimedia Spain) use your tool to get information. Thank you very much for your work. The previous version let us discover how many diferent pages were using files from a category, but not now. Now I can only know how many images were being used, and it doesn't say if they are distinct files or only the total one. How could we get this information? Thanks. --Millars (talk) 00:30, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you! --Magnus Manske (talk) 22:47, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

jira.toolserver.org
For your information, this site is currently offline. (See the top notice of your talk page)--GZWDer (talk) 04:29, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

William Stone Building
Thanks very much for taking the photos of the William Stone Building. I've categorised the things and added them to the article but I'm afraid I'm clueless when it comes to Wikidata. - Sitush (talk) 17:17, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Added to Wikidata (also in pretty). --Magnus Manske (talk) 18:59, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Match on string with space char broken ?
Hi Magnus, User:Jheald and I were experimenting with a query that had space chars in one of the values. We know that there should be a match, but for Republic of Ireland, it returns a result on 'Republic' where it should return a result for 'Republic of Ireland'. We tried other forms incl. underscores and %20 encoding, but those did not seem to work either. I suspect that there is a escaping problem in WikiDataQuery ? —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 16:52, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry, we made a mistake, there was a problem with these examples ... Data can be so illogical at times :) —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 17:13, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Items without statements
Moin Moin Magnus, in einem Newsletter war folgender Link [//tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/no_statements.php dieser] kann man diesen Link [//tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/ hier] einbauen? Das wäre sehr hilfreich, damit es später nicht im Newsletter untergeht. mfg --Crazy1880 (talk) 18:41, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

How can we add this list to Mix'n'match?
Hi. Please see User_talk:Piotrus - I have updated the List of Poles page with a dropbox link to the xls file I got in 2005. I am checking if we can get an updated version, but for now - can you tell me what would need to be done to convert this XLS into a file that you could process in M'n'M? (And if you can tell me who can help with such a conversion, please do; I probably don't have skills to do it - I am, unfortunately, not a hacker/coder, not even a decent spreadsheet one). PS. If you reply here, please ping/echo/talkback me, thanks. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:29, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, usually I do "proper" external catalogs, and want the following columns: external ID, external name, external description, external URL. I can make do with just the external name, and create fake IDs; description and URL are optional, but a description with birth/death date is usually really helpful. The list would initially be "blank", that is, not associated with Wikidata items; I have some scripts that can make an automated guess, though. I'd rather not use the page links in the Wikipedia lists because, frankly, I have no idea if they link to the right person, or if maybe a redlink was silently "converted" to blue, but with the wrong article. So you'd have to start from scratch, more or less. On the plus side, you'd gain access to the Polish Wikipedia via Wikidata, that should match some entries. Which is the "canonical copy" at the moment - the Wikipedia lists? --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:03, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Update: I have extracted ~25K Poles from the wiki lists. Should I go ahead and create the mix-n-match entry? Does the source encyclopedia have a website I can link to? --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:18, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Magnus, thank you for quick reply. Let's wait a day or two - maybe we can receive the list updated with the new volume (through it would only add entries). Source encyclopedia is Polski Slownik Biograficzny; it is not fully available online (I thought it wasn't at all, but now I'll have to explore the through it doesn't seem finished); in either case it does have a webpage (English one is here). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  03:49, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Magnus, at this point I haven't gotten any reply from MJM, but Chris did make his original files available for us in case we find them useful at . Let me know if there's anything else I can provide or help with; otherwise I think we are good to go? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:47, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The Poles have assembled! About 1/3rd auto-matched, but require confirmation. https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ --Magnus Manske (talk) 19:18, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Do you mean we have to manually review all of those entries? What about the 2/3rds that didn't auto-match? I am not sure what can be done, and how. If there's some kind of "next step how-to/FAQ/manual", please direct me to it; otherwise I'll wait to be told how can I help :) PS. What's up with the "Not on Wikidata" section? I thought every biography was imported...? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:47, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * As explained above, yes, all 24K entries will have to be manually assigned, or at least verified, unless you know a way to do that automatically; and Wikipedia lists don't count, as explained above. (Maybe I could use them for auto-matching, though.) The next step is "dig in" and assign Wikidata items - that's what the tool is for. As for the "Not on Wikidata" section, it is precisely what it says - there is no entry for these people on Wikidata yet. These items can, of course, be created at some stage. I'm not sure what else you expected from this? --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:57, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

(collapsing list) Here is why I don't trust the Wikipedia lists: These two entries, about two different people who happen to have the same name, link to the same Wikipedia article. One of these links is obviously wrong. I really don't want to "contaminate" the mix'n'match lists with this. --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:01, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) Mikołaj Abramowicz d. 1651 generał artylerii litewskiej
 * 2) Mikołaj Abramowicz 1788 - 1835 marszałek szlachty; sędzia; szambelan


 * I am happy to help, but I don't know what to do. Should I click the S? The D? One of the percentage links? And then, click what? Is there a how-to-help guide? I am afraid to mess things up, so I don't want to click at random - would hate to delete the list, or something. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  01:58, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
 * First, you can't delete the list :-) And no, there is no manual; the number of contributors is too small at the moment to warrant that. You can, of course, start your own; try "discuss" in the top bar... As for things to do: In the PSB row, you can click on the the first "number column" link (header "Automatic"); that is a list of name-based matches to Wikidata, they have "just" to be confirmed or removed. Or try [G], which is the "game mode" for names to be matched; click on the appropriate Q number in the suggested list, or manually enter it if you find it via Google search etc. Always remember, this is supposed to be a "quality list", so when in doubt, don't match an item to an entry. And make sure you are logged into WiDaR first! --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:48, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Also, a way to help would be to bring more volunteers to work on this tool! :-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:49, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok, more n00b questions.At, I see of example an entry with an error: surname of "Piotr Korzbok WITKOWSKI" should be decapialized. How can I fix it? Also, how can we mark an item as "not in any Wikipedia yet" so that it would be removed from the game/queue (at least for few weeks/months)? (Figured that one out). Finally, in the game mode, the message state "pl.wikipedia search results". A tiny number of entries may have entries on English or other Wikipedias but not on Polish one; how to check for that? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 11:05, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Ok, I joined the party. Sadly, there's plenty of contaminated links. A typical example is "Feliks Kramsztyk Izaak": the entry takes its description from wikidata:Q1676102, but part of the name is apparently from Izaak's son, pl:Feliks Kramsztyk. In short: probably two PSB entries got merged into one. Any idea what to do when I stumble upon such situation? Ping me if you do :)  // Halibutt 00:12, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * In order: (a) A "wrong" name can ATM only be fixed by me editing the database (which I don't scale to;-) The important thing is not the proper display in mix'n'match, but the connection of the source name/ID with a Wikidata item; just ignore the spelling. (b) The tool can only search only one Wikipedia directly at a time, so I chose the most likely one. The Google search links at the bottom are pre-filled to search across all Wikipedias/Wikidata. (c) If there can be no single match for an entry, you could tag it as "not on Wikidata", or as not applicable (N/A); that option is not available in Game mode though. Just skip it for now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:23, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Ok, after tagging a couple hundred names I can definitely pinpoint some bugs and possible improvements:
 * 1) The Mix'n'match script apparently doesn't like the first name of "Ignacy" for some reason. On a number of occasions it got added after the surname of the person, with the first name taken from the preceding entry. It seems weird, but apparently that's how it works. Examples: "Aleksander Kozikowski Ignacy" (real name: Ignacy Kozikowski, preceding person: Aleksander Kozikowski), "Ferdynand Kozłowski Ignacy" (real name: Ignacy Kozłowski, preceding person: Ferdynand Kozłowski). Any idea how to fix that?
 * 2) Adding dates to search criteria for Google searches might indeed improve the results a little (not sure if that's the case). However, it completely breaks internal pl.Wikipedia searches. The new search mechanism gets lost most of the times with the date, the user has to erase the date manually to find anything. Every time.
 * 3) Wikipedia CirrusSearch and Google are also lost when they encounter two first names. Example: PSB often uses both first names of a person while Wikipedia only uses the first, with the second often added in the lead. Result: when I click the search buttons next to, say, "Władysław Ryszard Kozłowski" Wiki search shows no results at all while there's plenty of Google links - none of them valid (articles on specific dates and such). Yet we have no less than 8 people named Władysław Kozłowski to chose from.  // Halibutt 23:28, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Glamorous funktioniert nicht
Hallo, nach langer Zeit ist glamorous anscheinend down. Vielleicht kannst du mal nachsehen was da los ist. Vielen Dank! --Berthold Werner (talk) 18:54, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Anfrage Catscan
Hallo, ich fand die Commons-Kategorie https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fungi_of_Switzerland etwas leer und habe mit der Abfrage http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/catscan2.php?language=commons&project=wikimedia&depth=10&categories=Fungi%0D%0ASwitzerland&ns[6]=1&ext_image_data=1&file_usage_data=1&doit=1 geschaut, ob es bei Commons nicht doch mehr Bilder von Pilzen aus der Schweiz gibt. Die Abfrage spuckt 3177 Treffer aus, vor allem aber, und deshalb meine Kontaktaufnahme, Bilder von Pilzen die nichts mit der Schweiz zu tun haben. Zwei Beispiele: (aus Burgenland/Österreich) und  (keine geografischen Kategorien, aber Geotag im Elsass/Frankreich). Was läuft falsch? --Figugegl (talk) 14:00, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Habe Dir extra dafür ein Tool geschrieben. Das zeigt alle (!) Kategorien, in deren Baum Dein Beispiel-Bild ist. Volltext-Suche nach "Switzerland", dann über die vorderen Links "hocharbeiten". tl;dr: Commons categories are broken. --Magnus Manske (talk) 15:49, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Danke. Ich fass es nicht. Die Habsburger sind schuld. Wieder einmal. --Figugegl (talk) 15:55, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Glamourous vs. pywikibot
Hi Magnus. Let me start by saying this is just a question, but if you want, I can log a bug in Bitbucket.

I tried running http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=Images+from+Wiki+Loves+Monuments+2014+in+Romania&use_globalusage=1&show_details=1&projects[wikipedia]=1&projects[wikimedia]=1&projects[wikisource]=1&projects[wikibooks]=1&projects[wikiquote]=1&projects[wiktionary]=1&projects[wikinews]=1&projects[wikivoyage]=1&projects[wikispecies]=1&projects[mediawiki]=1&projects[wikidata]=1&projects[wikiversity]=1 on glamourous and I got that 1197 of the images were in use.

I also have a similar piece of code written in Pywikibot, which reports 1636 used files (from the same number of total files). The part that does the calculation is: used = False p = pywikibot.FilePage(pywikibot.Site, title) for linked in p.usingPages(total=1): used = True break

Do you have any idea what could lead to such a huge difference? Thanks.--Strainu (talk) 21:22, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Add information tools suggested data from exif data wrong
Hi Magnus Manske,

In I used the suggested exif-data date from the add-information tool, however the actual date in the exif data was the same day and month but a different year (2001), the year suggested (2005) is the year before the upload.

Greets, Basvb (talk) 23:35, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Message from Magnus
Magnus says, on Twitter:

"Friends, I am in hospital. Your tool fixes may have to wait a few days."

-- Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:55, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata Terminator (need help)
Hello Magnus!
 * 1) Can you make a Top 1000 wikipedia-linked items without an article in be.wikipedia list (for be language) at wikidata-terminator ?
 * 2) Another question is: can you make output there in Wiki format with titles given in 1 or 2 or 3 (the best) desired languages (or random language if no page in desired language found)?
 * 3) If no, can you help me to do this list myself, can you give an example of such sql request in wdq.wmflabs.org. I'm a newbie on this :( ~ Nirvanchik ~ ⊤άλҟ 23:18, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Glamorous funktioniert nicht
Hallo, bist du noch da? --Berthold Werner (talk) 18:36, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Sympathy and well-wishes

 * I see u r in a hospital. Take care and have a good rest and I wish you to get better soon! ~ Nirvanchik ~ ⊤άλҟ 23:33, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm very sorry to learn you are in hospital. Best wishes, Walter Siegmund (talk) 17:54, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Don't forget to add {{subst:ncd}}
You forgot to add this when you copied File:1901, Samuel H. Bernstein Bloom, grayscale original.jpg to. Maybe you could tell Commons Helper to do this automatically so that there won't be problems with users forgetting about this? --Stefan2 (talk) 19:15, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Loads a random article from a category tree - bug report, Swedish non-Ascii-letters
I have a bug report regarding "Loads a random article from a category tree".

In page sv:Wikipedia:Utmärkta listor is there a link to your tool with the text: "En slumpvald utmärkt lista". When the random generator "hits" articles with "Swedish" letters like Å, Ä and Ö, the tool instead links to a pages with an error in the title, forexample instead of "Lista över tränare som vunnit titlar i Uefa-klubbtävlingar" you are linked to "[//sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_%C3%83%C2%B6ver_tr%C3%83%C2%A4nare_som_vunnit_titlar_i_Uefa-klubbt%C3%83%C2%A4vlingar Lista Ã¶ver trÃ¤nare som vunnit titlar i Uefa-klubbtÃ¤vlingar]". This has been found using both Windows/IE and MAC/Safari or Chrome.

Regards! -- 78.73.94.165 (talk) 18:57, 25 December 2014 (UTC)


 * This should be fixed now, please verify! --Magnus Manske (talk) 17:32, 26 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes it's now fixed. Thank you, Magnus! --Hastaro (talk) 20:37, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata tempo-spatial display - problem
There's a problem with the BCE dates (I wrote you about it the 27 August 2014): your tool visualize them like CE dates (see, e.g., )! Could you solve it? Excuse me for having written here, but I haven't understood how to use BitBucket. Thank you, --Epìdosis (talk) 13:26, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I've added it to my to-do-list, not sure when I can get around to it though. --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:49, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata Terminator question
How is it is possible to remove all categories and templates and leave only articles? I've been trying to do it through WikidataQuery API - but I just can't find out.--62.89.24.58 (talk) 10:16, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for not answering my question. You're not being very kind to me and others who want to put the tool to some use. I digged around in your old talk and your blog and found out it will apparently be a hard thing to do - Wikidata doesn't seem to be well suited to this kind of task.--186.43.201.213 (talk) 11:58, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Your research into the gender issues
I've just read. We did try to advertise our work (it was on meta...) but I do realize it's not very efficient. I hope you don't abandon your research. In fact, I wonder if we could collaborate on a follow-up research that would pull together both yours and ours (mine and Max's) efforts? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 23:34, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
 * To be explicit our research was online at meta:Research_talk:Wikipedia_Gender_Inequality_Index, but Piotr was right, it wasn't advertised that widely. One thing we could also talk about is merging our two results, into one paper, and all being coauthors on the same paper. Might be able to get a more prestigious journal. Our paper is on google docs here. Maximilianklein (talk)
 * Well, my stuff was more spur-of-the-moment; we had a "volunteer meeting" in Birmingham last year, and someone said "gender stats", so I started prodding Wikidata, and before I knew it I was doing R plots, so I thought "I should publish this" :-) Then I fell sick in December and am still recovering, so nothing was added in that time. I've shared my Google doc with Maximilianklein, feel free to share it with Piotr; too embarrassing for public release in its current state ;-) I don't want to bully myself onto your author list, but if there's anything you like in my results, let's talk! --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:52, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Adding property+ unknown value
After a query I tried to process the result of AutoList2 this way:


 * -P170:Q4233718
 * P170:Q4294967294

but Q4294967294 instead of "unknown value" is not accepted. Is there any way to add properties with "no value" or "unknown value"?--Giftzwerg 88 (talk) 10:06, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

userspace
would you mind disabling the bot so that it doesn't run on userspace,because it spoils the syntax--Regisaurusjacobi 07:44, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

EOL review results
Hi Magnus. Erik Moeller just pointed me to your work with EOL. I was wondering, do you know if anyone has collected and analysed the results of the quality assessments (numbers of WP articles that passed and failed review)? --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 10:29, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

BaGLAMa 2 hiccup and request
Hi Magnus, I'm sorry that it's taken me so long to notice this but there's a typo in the entry for York Museums Trust in the BaGLAMa tool - so we're not getting any stats! It's currently checking: Category:Images Donated by York Museums Trust  instead of  Category:Images donated by York Museums Trust  Also, we now have a new category for images transferred from the online collections: commons:Category:Images from the York Museums Trust Online Collection. It would be great if that could be on baGLAMa too. Thanks ever so much! PatHadley (talk) 11:23, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker Bug
Hi, found a problem with the CommonsDelinker bot: in its latest edit on Caruaru here, it removed all images ending in Caruaru.jpg so also broke Montagem Caruaru.jpg, Bandeira caruaru.jpg, Brasão Caruaru.jpg and Autodromo Caruaru.jpg. Filedelinkerbot had a similar problem last year here. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 18:08, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * This should be fixed now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 23:57, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

File:Altay SK logo.png
CommonsDelinker should not delink interwiki links to Russian Wikipedia when a file is deleted on Commons. The interwiki link even used a Russian namespace name. --Stefan2 (talk) 17:57, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Flickr2Commons down?
I think Flickr2Commons may be down. I tried to go to http://tools.wmflabs.org/flickr2commons/index.html and I got this error message:

No webservice The URI you have requested, /flickr2commons/index.html, is not currently serviced.

Just a friendly notice. Love the tools that you make! --GrapedApe (talk) 04:21, 28 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Glamorous seems to have a similar problem. https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php
 * "The URI you have requested, /glamtools/glamorous.php, is not currently serviced."
 * Best wishes, Walter Siegmund (talk) 05:17, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Baglama request
Hi Magnus, noob question, how do I add a GLAM category to baglama? I was hoping to add my LACMA uploads. --Fæ (talk) 23:52, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Done, running December now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:29, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Cool thanks. --Fæ (talk) 11:43, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker deletes equal signs in infoboxes
Hi, I hope this is the right place to make a report about CommonsDelinker. It has made recently deletions in infoboxes inclusive equal-sign ("="). Could you have a look at it? Equal signs would be better not to touch. Thank you in advance. Ato 01 (talk) 06:17, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Should be fixed now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:19, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Several errors with ISBN2Wiki
I've tried your webtool "ISBN2Wiki" with three different ISBN but all queries results error messages. Here you could find a screenshot of them. Could you fix this issue please? Thanks in advance. --Ak ccm (talk) 11:44, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * No issues to fix; Labs updated to a new PHP version, which spews more (useless) warnings than the previous one. Deactivated minor warnings, all well now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:47, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks --Ak ccm (talk) 22:26, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

extension CategoryIntersection
Hi, you once created an extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryIntersection which seems unmaintained.

Can I still bother you with it?

On Mediawiki 1.24.1, I get this error: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method LinksUpdate::dumbTableUpdate in /www/docs/wiki/extensions/CategoryIntersection/CategoryIntersection.php on line 86,

There does not seem to be a function dumbTableUpdate anywhere, now.--Aloist (talk) 13:03, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Problems with FIST
Related to my previous Problems with FIST post: I don't think FIST is currently returning any results no matter what users type. For example 'test' and 'Obama' and 'animal' all give 0 results. --82.136.210.153 (talk) 11:26, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Still broken. --82.136.210.153 (talk) 06:31, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Still broken. --82.136.210.153 (talk) 15:24, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker.
I am the author of image File:Benetton assassina.jpg which was deleted and I'm not finding the CommonsDelinker.

The image was important to the Wikipedia, and de CommonsDelinker is the site of deleted files. - Daniel Steinman (talk) 21:37, 10 February 2015 (UTC)