User talk:Magnus Manske/Archive 5

List of national parks of Australia
Hi Magnus Manske. I assume that you are the person responsible for User:ListeriaBot. For your information, I spent about an hour and half this morning upgrading the South Australia section of the article to add missing national parks and adding additional information. I just logged on again to check the coordinates for the South Australian NP as I am concerned that out-of-date sources may have been used to discover that all of my edits have been reverted without any explanation. Can you please reply here to explain what is going with this article? Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 23:14, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Problem with CommonsHelper moving from he Wikipedia
I tried to transfer |this file] from he Wikipedia to Commons, but for some reason the tool won't recognize the filename. Not sure what is causing this. Kelly hi! 12:42, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Autolist/WiDaR: Updating a property
Hello Magnus,

I didn't find any desciption of the statement syntax besides the footer of the WiDaR box at Autolist2, so I'm asking here if it is possible to update a property with Autolist2/WiDAR? At the moment I do two lines, but having one statement (like ) would double the speed given the current rate limiting.

Thanks,

--S.K. (talk) 08:45, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

commons helper
Hallo Magnus Manske, warum lassen sich mit dem commons helper keine Bilder mit dieser Lizenz übertragen? Gruß --Jean11 (talk) 18:02, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

commons helper
Hi. I tried to transfer en:File:The expulsion of King Otto in 1862.jpg to Commons. (Login-s, Oath uploader: all OK). Response on is as follows:
 * Querying CommonSense ...done.
 * Querying image data ...done.
 * Retrieving image description ...done.
 * ERROR: Warning
 * duplicate-archive : Oton.jpg

And nothing is done. (File NOT trasferred, no new contribution on Commons). Can You please verify and fix it. Thanks. Akela (talk) 22:12, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker on pl.wiki
CommonsDelinker changed one filename too much. Malarz pl (talk) 20:12, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Incomplete removal
. -- Magioladitis (talk) 05:59, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Unused files
Hello Magnus, I've found your tools Unused files for Categories and Used files for Users, but I am interested by a tool wich search "unused files sorted by user". I would like to know the files on Commons I didn't used yet ... or than a particular user did not too. I didn't found this tool, does it exist ? or is it possible to modify the results from one of the two above ? Thank you a lot, Roumpf (talk) 14:03, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

AutoList 2
Hi. Sometimes this tool not found anything in categories in wiki. For examlpe: |tool - 0 pages, and really in ruwiki in this category: http://joxi.ru/5mdMdLPcvewag2. What's wrong? ShinePhantom (talk) 06:18, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Your first link is 404, and I'm not typing Russian characters from a screenshot... --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:42, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

QuickStatements: Please add "ndswiki" to set_sitelink
Hi Magnus, Would you be so kind to add the capability to set ndswiki sitelinks via QuickStatements, please. I currently get "ERROR (set_sitelink) : Unrecognized value for parameter 'linksite': nds". I guess that also adds it to the input box above the text area. Thanks --Aeroid (talk) 14:08, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Works for me. Adding a page to the Sandbox item (please remove again if you try):

Q4115189	Sndswiki	"Linux op Platt" --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:57, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

You've got mail!
Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 21:03, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Listeriabot
Hi,

Could you please modify your bot's parameters ? I noticed on the French wikipedia that it generates direct links to wikidata, which are completely useless since we have redirects on wikipedia for many of these notions. Thanks a lot. Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 06:59, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * My bad, it appears that your bot was not at fault, and that the problem lies with a script. Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 13:20, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

wikidata-terminator
Hello there!

I'm sorry for typing this message here-I saw your request in this page's title, so I entered to BitBucket, but then I saw you haven't opened a page for it yet

This tool has a great potential but most of the results I get (when searching for 1000 articles that don't exist in hewiki) are categories or templates. Is it possible to allow a user to exclude that kind of results? Hummingbird (talk) 03:38, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Incomplete removal
. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:33, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:37, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

"Delinking" deleted files is undesireable
I don't see the point of removing the references to a deleted file. I think it would be better to simply leave the dead link in the article, thus making it obvious that some other image might be substituted. By "delinking" you're also removing the caption, which may contain valuable information for the reader, even if there's temporarily no image.  E Eng  03:57, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I suggest taking that discussion here. --Magnus Manske (talk) 16:03, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I did. Would you mind responding there?  E Eng  19:44, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

glamorous funktioniert nicht...
... vielleicht hast du Zeit danach zu schauen. Vielen Dank im Voraus. --Berthold Werner (talk) 14:33, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata Duplicate Item Finder
I've been not able to use this wonderful tool in the last days. I want to know if the problem is mine or if there is something I have to know about it. Thanks. Bye. --Ermanon (talk) 10:18, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Catscan2 is dead
Hello, catscan2 is unresponsive for last week. Do you know what happened? Will you take a look at it? Is it going to be recovered? I'm worried, an important bot can't work without it. It was so reliable always! ~ Nirvanchik ~ ⊤άλҟ 20:09, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi! I don't know if it was your help or just lucky coincidence but thank you anyway! The service works! Not so good as before but good enouph for us not to panic. ~ Nirvanchik ~ ⊤άλҟ 21:37, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Notification about disabling the Wikipedia collections tool
Thank you for using the collections feature in Wikipedia beta! Due to technical and moderation issues, we will be turning off this experimental feature. Your collections will be available for viewing and export until March 1st. If you would like to save your collection as links on a special Wikipedia page, please fill out the following [ http://goo.gl/forms/ZyYQm6uu7e form]. If you are interested in giving your feedback about Wikipedia Collections please do so here.

Thanks,

Jon Katz

Product manager, Wikimedia Foundation

Jkatz (WMF) (talk) 23:51, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker
Are you the operator of the CommonsDelinker bot? Why are edits made the CommonsDelinker not flagged in the page history as bot edits? Robert McClenon (talk) 21:15, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

dragref
Hi! I am sorry, I speak English a little bit. I have the Dragref tool, but not working. Come your popup window, with suggested items, one click, and script not working. With my boyfrend account (User:B.Zsolt) working, my not! Why? --Adaree (talk) 22:57, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Quick intersection
Hi Magnus. This tool just made my day. You are, as always, a blessing to this movement. --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 10:06, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Problem edit
Problem edit Paul August &#9742; 17:02, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It's a bot. There will always be instances where editing goes wrong, for example, when someone spreads a single "File:" link over multiple lines (!). --Magnus Manske (talk) 07:16, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Frustrations on da-wiki: ListeriaBot not using bot-flag on edits
Hello! There are some frustrations and confusion on da-wiki. Why is ListeriaBot not using bot-flag on its edits? It is flooding "Recent changes" (Seneste ændringer). --Madglad (talk) 09:48, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It is using bot flag, it just hasn't been granted bot status on da-wiki. I don't speak Danish, so I wouldn't really know where to go, much less request it. If someone else would request it for me and translate all the discussions, great! --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:14, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your answer. I guess we'll find somebody to take a further look into it without disturbing you. If you want, a can copy-paste you the IRC-chat, but nothing interesting the except what I told you. --Madglad (talk) 10:30, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Find a Grave
Template:Find a Grave has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Niteshift36 (talk) 16:31, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Addding support to more language projects at most-wanted tool
Dear Magnus,

Will it be possible for you to add te (Telugu), mr (Marathi) and kn (Kannada) projects to most wanted tool?

--Rahmanuddin Shaik (talk) 05:12, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Done! --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:37, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

QuickStatements date reference
Hi Magnus, I am trying to add a date as a reference using QuickStatments, but it does not work. Is it possible to add the text in this format or I am using bad syntax? Q1018551	P2788	"16594"	S248	Q24023889	S577	+2016-05-16T00:00:00Z/11 Thanks a lot, -- Jagro (cs.wiki) 09:03, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

I had a similar problem. My input: Q1000178   P1082    974    P585    +2010-01-01T00:00:00Z/9    S143    Q465 This encoded the triple just fine, but wouldn't encode the P585 or the S143. It eventually came to light that I was misreading the documentation for Quantity values [+|-]d* to assume the sign on the values was optional. It is not. Fixing that solved the problem. Lisp.hippie (talk) 23:32, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

New PR for flickr2commons
Hey, I made a pull request fixing a bug with flickr tags in flickr2commons. It's a pretty trivial change; would you mind checking it out and accepting if it looks good? Thanks, Iago Qnsi  (talk) 02:29, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Done. --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:26, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Pls Add Tamil to Terminator
Hi,

Could you please add Tamil to Wikidata Terminator in wmflabs Tools.

--Sivakosaran (talk) 09:35, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Please add Kannada to Wikidata Terminator
Please add Kannada also to Wikidata Terminator--Pavanaja (talk) 05:56, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

support

 * ✅--Ananth subray (talk) 05:58, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅--Gopalakrishna A (talk) 06:05, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Hello Magnus, I hope you are doing well. Some of our Indic Wiki community members met recently and we feel it'd be great if this tool is available in Indic languages as well. In addition to the requests ahead, please include Bengali also (bn). Please let me know if anything is needed from our side. Regards. --Tito Dutta (talk) 06:03, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
 * For Bengali as well

Adding Marathi to WikiData Terminator
Please add Marathi to Wikidata Terminator

IShrinivas (talk) 06:02, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

support

 * ✅--Abhinavgarule(Bot) (talk) 06:04, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

support

 * ✅ Sankoswal (talk) 06:05, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

ListeriaBot
You are listed as the point of contact for ListeriaBot on the Interlingua wikipedia. It appears that it's acting on the Wikidata entries, and we're having to recover from a long-term vandal who targeted Wikidata as part of his targeting of iawiki. Could you disable ListeriaBot from acting on iawiki for a month or so, while we try to get things sorted out? Thanks! Almafeta (talk) 07:32, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker removing from galleries
No great harm done here as the leftover text doesn't render, but in case it's not intended behaviour, I'm just flagging the fact that when cleaning out a deleted image from a gallery here, your bot removed only the filename and left the "|thumb|description" remainder of the line in place. --McGeddon (talk) 08:39, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks
Having got going recently on Wikidata, I came upon QuickStatements - Brilliant! And Reasonator is pretty cool too. Any chance of a tool that does the reverse of QuickStatements (item => text that can be edited and input into QuickStatements)? Should I put in a request at Bitbucket? Robevans123 (talk) 09:08, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

GLAM
(I'm leaving this here instead of on BitBucket because I really don't want to start a new account on yet another forum)

Whenever GLAM shows a link to Wikidata, it points to "wikidata.wikipedia.org", an invalid URL. I can correct the URL bar manually, of course, but wouldn't it be easier to correct GLAM? Thanks. DS (talk) 18:44, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

About es:User:ListeriaBot
Hi Magnus Manske! I only want inform you that your bot (ListeriaBot) is infringing the Bot's Policy of Wikipedia in Spanish. Your bot is editing without an autorization. The Bot's Policy fixes the limit in 30 test edits for an account bot without autorization. If you think to make more edits, please visit es:WP:BOT/A. Thank you, and excuse me for my low level in English. --Metrónomo's truth of the day: "That was also done by the president" not an excuse. 23:46, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata Game
Hallo,

Wikidata Game gerade das Objekt Q1328078 als Objekt ohne Bild gefunden. Das (einzige) vorgeschlagene Bild hast du anscheinend selbst als "Bild des Grabes" am 2.4.2016 eingetragen. Ist das ein Fehler? Wäre es nicht vielleicht sinnvoll, wenn das Game nachschaut ob ein vorgeschlagenes Bild schon irgendwie in dem Objekt verwendet wird? --Berthold Werner (talk) 12:00, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

QuickStatements "sandbox"
Hi Magnus,

is there a sort of "sandbox" to try out QuickStatements online?

Nvitucci (talk) 17:39, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Try the sandbox item. --Magnus Manske (talk) 18:30, 11 July 2016 (UTC)


 * What if I want to try the creation of a new item? Is there a way to try this safely? Nvitucci (talk) 10:08, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Not really, but if it's just one test item, I say go ahead, then mark it for deletion. But it's just the same as editing, except you write CREATE into a line on top, and use LAST instead of Qxxx for the first "column". --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:09, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Photo
Hello, On the photo uploaded it was public domain-- it came from the internet, (Richard G. Thomas) but it was removed, by the delinker bot, okay with that. It doesn't have to be on the page, I guess I didn't upload file correctly; however the page is fine without it. I thought that photos taken off the internet were public domain and okay to use, sorry my mistake. -- Sam SamLippman (talk) 20:25, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The bot only removes uses of files that are already deleted. --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:34, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Not in the other language down
Hi Magnus -- looks like "not in the other language" is down. Could you take a look when you have time please? --Rlandmann (talk) 04:26, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Works for me. --Magnus Manske (talk) 18:32, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * WFM now too; thanks for checking. --Rlandmann (talk) 19:31, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments experimental tool
Hi Magnus. I love the Wiki Loves Monuments experimental tool and would also love to build on this work. Specifically I am keen to: Is it better that I:
 * offer it with a Welsh language interface
 * add new campaigns as searchable content
 * 1) fork it then run a separate instance on Wikimedia Tool Labs, or,
 * 2) is there some way of collaborating on the existing tool please?

Thanks for reading. --Oergell (talk) 15:18, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Dear Magnus, I have decided to try forking your code for my Welsh language adaptation. I know you are busy so don't worry about replying - but do feel free to let me know if you know a better way of doing this. Thanks again for your hard work on a cool project. --Oergell (talk) 15:26, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I would recommend not forking this - having multiple versions virtually guarantees it's for the bin. To add new campaigns, all you need to do is edit Wikidata. I get the campaigns like this. Essentially, it shows all properties that are instance of:Q18618628. I am working on something for translation at the moment, I'm sure you'll like it :-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 18:31, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * See here. --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:59, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

PagePile down?
Looks like it might be related to the SQLite database. On the list of recent piles everything says "unavailable" &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  05:18, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I am trying the "new, improved" webserver on Labs, but it has some side effects. Switched pagepile back to the old one, for now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:03, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

QuickStatements down?
Hi Magnus,

it looks like QuickStatements is down. Can you check? Nvitucci (talk) 15:53, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing. By the way, is QuickStatements rate-limited? Nvitucci (talk) 18:11, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

"Abusing" QuickStatements
Magnus, is it ok to "abuse" QuickStatements to update/insert some hundreds of items? Any limitation there? Nvitucci (talk) 10:43, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Considering that I used it on about half a million so far, fire away :-) Browser becomes sluggish if it's more than a few thousand though. Only one tab, two max please, think of RecentChanges! --Magnus Manske (talk) 16:36, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Great, good to know! I've got another question: I don't see any way to delete or replace an existing claim with QuickStatements, is there one? NVitucci (talk) 07:35, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * You can use PetScan for that. Get a list with Wikidata items, the option should show up. --Magnus Manske (talk) 17:21, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Not in the other language
About the tool Not in the other language, can it be modified so that one more than one language could be added in the Not in language field? Ionutzmovie (talk) 00:13, 26 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Agreed, this would be a very helpful feature to have. And it would be marvelous if the tool would also tell how many interwiki links articles have, which would indicate articles' importance. --M.Kaikkonen72 (talk) 00:18, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Listeria and Margaret M. Davies
Hi! Listeria has added Margaret M. Davies to the List of Women Botanists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_botanists. However she works on frogs, not plants (it was a mistake on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_scientists/Worklist#Articles_to_be_created that said she was a botanist rather than a herpetologist - I corrected this now). However, please can listeria take her off the list of women botanists, please? MerielGJones (talk) 14:12, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * ListeriaBot only shows what's on Wikidata. I have changed the offending statement and manually updated the list by clicking on "Manually update list". Both actions could have been performed by anyone. --Magnus Manske (talk) 17:26, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for doing that, and knowing the right thing to change. MerielGJones (talk) 20:56, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Deep out-of-sight on plwikipedia
Hello. Polish version of de:Spezial:Seiten_mit_ungesichteten_Versionen is pl:Specjalna:Zdezaktualizowane_przejrzane_strony. Could you possibly change it in your deep out-of-sight tool? Right now, whenever I click on category I am going to unexisting on plwikipedia page. Example: click. Thanks in advance, Tufor (talk) 18:56, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Changed it to the canonical English page, which will auto-resolve in all languages. Also fixed DeepInsight accordingly. --Magnus Manske (talk) 15:23, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

WikiData - Terminator
Hi Magnus. Would it be possible to add Welsh (cy) to the Terminator tool please? Many thanks Jason.nlw (talk) 09:54, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Added, should run initial update today. --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:05, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Fantastic! Diolch yn fawr! (Thanks) Jason.nlw (talk) 13:08, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi Magnus. I would like hungarian language (hu). Thank you! --B.Zsolt (talk) 20:38, 21 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Magnus Manske Please enable Terminator for Kannada (kn). We had requested for this on git [ https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/wikidata-todo/issues/43/add-kannada-to-terminator here]. Thank you. Omshivaprakash (talk) 16:34, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Done.--Magnus Manske (talk) 12:40, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Duplicity
Hi :) I know I should write on BitBucket, but I'm not registered there, so... just wanna say that this one would be very useful :) every time I don't notice that the link already existed and Duplicity overwrites it without warnings. -- Superchilum (talk to me!) 11:36, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Done. --Magnus Manske (talk) 15:17, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you! ;) -- Superchilum (talk to me!) 12:03, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Information Request
Hello. I would be grateful if you could provide me a specific academic article for reading. It's details : Rosengarten, D (2002). "Y Chromosome Haplotypes among Members of the Caucasus Jewish Communities". Ancient Biomolecules. Hebrew Mountain Man (talk) 18:11, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, not sure why you ask me, but I can't find that one. The only mention I can find is here. There are two articles by the same author, 2003 and 2004, respectively, both freely accessibly. Maybe you can find what you want in there. --Magnus Manske (talk) 18:51, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello and thank you. I know that Jstor enables some wikipedians to have access to academic articles. I saw that you are a veteran in Wikipedia and therefore I have decided to write you a massage. Moreover, I see that you have knowledge on the subject that I'm interested in. I search for information about genetic studies on mountain Jews (specifically on this group). As far as I know, there were two scientific works on the subject: one focused on mtdna and the other on Y haplogroups. Do you have access to Jstor? Do you know about other works on the subject? Hebrew Mountain Man (talk) 17:52, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

E-mail on TUSC
Hi, since I'm changing my e-mail address, is there an e-mail address associated to TUSC when creating log in? I made an account a long time ago and I don't remember if I put an e-mail address somewhere, and I can't find if there is one. Thanks, bye :-) -- Superchilum (talk to me!) 15:49, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * TUSC is outdated, and none of my tools use it anymore. It's still around for a single third-party tool, IIRC. There is no email associated with TUSC. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:08, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks :-) -- Superchilum (talk to me!) 10:08, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Copying image to commons
Hello Magnus Manske I have been attempting to copy an image (File:Garid magnai.jpg) to Wikipedia commons. I have tried multiple times using commons helper and OAuth uploader and despite the file even being tagged that it should be transferred to commons it just is not working. Is there any help or advise you can give me? Thanks Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 19:24, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * First, next time, please report any error messages or details what exactly failed, instead of "it's not working". That said, it appears that a file with that filename was deleted on Commons earlier. Chosing a different file name under "New name" in the form should fix that. --Magnus Manske (talk) 19:53, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Magnus Manske, thank you very much for your response. I tried uploading File:Garid magnai.jpg to commons, but commons helper said that the file name (Bayasgalangiin Garidmagnai in 2008) was not valid. Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 20:22, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Odd, I tried, and it doesn't say that for me. It says "bad file name" if I omit the ".jpg", which is as it should be. But, using a correct name, it still fails, because Commons remembers that this exact file was once uploaded and deleted there. Nothing I can do about that. --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:20, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay thank you very much for your help on this issue though. Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 14:41, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

QuickStatements: "wikidata" as first column?
I have a CSV file containing Wikidata identifiers and properties to add.

People suggested I use QuickStatements to do this, but when I enter "wikidata" in the "First column are articles from" field I get an error "Cannot parse wikidata".

Can QuickStatements accept wikidata as the first column? Or is there a better tool to feed my CSV file to?

Thanks! Syced (talk) 03:12, 29 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Someone tipped me that leaving the field empty default to Wikidata... it seems to work :-) Thanks! Syced (talk) 07:20, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Not sure what you are doing, but it probably doesn't work that way. The first column should be the "Q number" of the Wikidata item, and the "wiki" field on top should be blank. --Magnus Manske (talk) 17:22, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

an help for Ursula Karven
Good morning from Calabria, I'm writing to say hello and know how you are. In addition to this because for a while 'time I met him in a virtual Mrs. Ursula Karven, an extraordinary woman, actress, model and writer and great soul, I was wondering if you would do me a great kindness, to widen it in English since the article in question is reduced this lily. As for me, I will reward you amply, with items of your interest in Italian, Sicilian and Neapolitan..e a little also in Milanese and Piadmontese dialect, I would be very happy if you help me, it takes very little of your time. Well I said that I thank you in advance with all your heart and all your soul for what you will do for me. a warm greeting from Campora San Giovanni--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 15:33, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Pausing Quick Statements
It would be great to have a button to pause the current task with Quick Statements. -- abián 21:03, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * That would be great indeed. I usually run a single request before, but even then I check items as they get modified, and even though I have made no mistake so far, I can imagine that one day I realize my requests are doing something bad, and would love to have a way to stop the damage when that happens :-) Cheers! Syced (talk) 08:09, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Human name pages
Hi Magnus. I can't remember if it has been blogged about or discussed somewhere, but is it possible to use Wikidata to update or create human name disambiguation pages? Edits like this are done because people rarely update such pages. For those surname pages, it is less useful to have a list, but where articles have the same name (e.g. John Smith) it can be useful to have Wikidata-generated lists suggesting what changes or additions could be made. Would that be feasible, or has it already been done? Also, those with very long memories might remember the MfDs and DRVs over List of people by name. See the deletion review and the final MfD discussion at Miscellany for deletion/List of people by name. Back then (in 2007!) I said "I guess what I am asking for is a way to query Wikipedia and get back the result: "List of people with names beginning with B", or whatever letter you want to chose. Or even "Ba", or "Ch" or "Fra". Essentially, I was asking for an index of Wikipedia's biographical articles. Is this now possible in some way using Wikidata? Has it always been possible, but just 'difficult' to do? Carcharoth (talk) 16:37, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Carcharoth, it is certainly possible, for items where the "family name" property has been set. Example for "Salter". Likewise, one could do people beginning with a certain character or string, like Rock bands starting with M. There is also a way to automatically generate and update such lists (see Wikidata list), but using it in the article namespace is somewhat controversial, for now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 17:19, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Added to that would be a tool to compare with the existing page (Salter (surname)) and to suggest changes. A bonus would be to generate the 'description' bit automatically. I've seen this done elsewhere: "NAME(S) SURNAME (BBBB-DDDD), Nationality Profession". Trivial, I'm sure. Might impress quite a few people as well it it works (more so than edit wars between bots). Carcharoth (talk) 17:49, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Urdu wikipedia
Hi, please add Urdu Wikipedia in this tool, thanks. Muhammad Shuaib (talk) 02:47, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Done. --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:54, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Quick Statements Tool: Adding publication date of sources
Hi Magnus, I've run into a problem using the Quick Statements Tool today. What I would like to do is adding a "publication date" qualifier to a reference. If you look at the example item, P17 = "Switzerland" and P131 = "Basel-Land" have a publication date qualifier for their reference. I've added them by hand. So far, I haven't been able to find a way to add such a qualifier using the Quick Statements Tool. I have tried three different approaches:

First, by adding the qualifier putting P577 after the reference statement. This results in adding the qualifier to the main statement (as on the example item for P1435 - heritage status), but that's not what I want. Q2179606	P131	Q66515	S248	Q26933296	P577	+2016-06-19T00:00:00Z/11 Second, by adding the qualifier putting S577 after the reference statement. The "publication date" statement seems to get ignored. Q2179606	P131	Q66515	S248	Q26933296	S577	+2016-06-19T00:00:00Z/11 Third, by writing two lines. Here again, the "publication date" statement simply seems to get ignored. This is even the case when I invert the order of the statements. Q2179606	P131	Q66515	S248	Q26933296 Q2179606	P131	Q66515	S577	+2016-06-19T00:00:00Z/11 Is there a way to achieve what I want to do in the Quick Statements Tool? Or is this case not supported (yet)? Do you have any suggestions how to proceed? --Beat Estermann (talk) 16:12, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Quick Statements help
Hi. I want to input a mass P2067 as Gross Register Tons using Quick Statements but don't see how to format it - on Wikidata the option to add a unit type is a pop up box, and no qualifier is added to specify unit type. Do you know how i would do that? Thanks! Jason.nlw (talk) 10:44, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Help with adding data.
Hello, I do not understand the documentation/instructions. I tested this code:

but it gave an erroneous entry which I had reverted. I would have wanted to:
 * add the statement   of
 * add the qualifier   of
 * add the qualifier   of
 * add the reference property   of.

Could you please advise what the correct code/format is? Thanks. Sanglahi86 (talk) 02:58, 29 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi, make sure that you put strings in quotation marks (Q1719 P1082 "96,061"), and use the standard date/time format for the dates (see example above). On second thought, you should probably enter the population number as quantity, i.e. Q1719 P1082 +96061 --Beat Estermann (talk) 18:48, 28 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the advice. I see the missing quotation marks, date & time format, as well as the  for references caused the error/s. Sanglahi86 (talk) 03:12, 29 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Hello. By default, the rank of a statement added using QuickStatements is . Is it possible to use QuickStatements to set the rank as   or  ? If yes, could you kindly advice on what to do? Thanks. Sanglahi86 (talk) 16:40, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Turkish "Featured articles" category not working
Hello, I just found your tool "Not in the other language," and it seems that the tool can't recognize articles that are in the "featured" category in the Turkish Wikipedia, even though there seems to be at least a hundred or so. I apologize if I posted this at the wrong place, I wasn't sure where to post this! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chicowales (talk • contribs) 04:23, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata list w/ multiple language labels and wdedit
Seems like wdedit gets confused with multiple lables (label/en, label/de, label/fr) in the same list. See label/fr at Gau Baden-Elsaß in User:Aeroid/List Gaue--Aeroid (talk) 07:39, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Problem in adding decimal numbers
Is there a way to use QuickStatements in adding decimal figures with the unit such as ?

Both

and

either adds only the whole number and ignores the decimals or don't work at all. Please advise on what the correct code should be. Thanks. Sanglahi86 (talk) 17:21, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Misfolded protein listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Misfolded protein. Since you had some involvement with the Misfolded protein redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew (talk) 22:43, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Happy Mole Day.
I hope you're enjoying Mole Day. Thank you again for your long history of contributions to Wikipedia. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 16:09, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

CommonsHelper
Hi! How can I translate CommonsHelper on Serbian language? —Ранко Николић (talk) 21:06, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Add a new section here. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:50, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Done. —Ранко Николић (talk) 17:55, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:CasTemplate
Template:CasTemplate has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 14:01, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Magnus Please Help Me
Magnus there is a huge problem with certain article that can only be fixed by an admin. Please respond to this or on my talk page, this is very important. thank you. Obeyel (talk) 05:21, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

QS and Julian dates
Hi Magnus,

is it possible to insert a Julian date using QuickStatements? If yes, how?

By the way, I've tried to understand which calendar I should use for an event occurred in 79 AD but I don't yet understand how to choose, since I've found statements such as https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2411998 where the dates are Gregorian but marked with https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26961029... NVitucci (talk) 10:41, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Add me again as GeoHack maintainer
Could you re-add me to the GeoHack maintainers? — Dispenser 17:17, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Done. --Magnus Manske (talk) 22:23, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've updated the CSS so the theme responsive.  — Dispenser 11:54, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

MissingTopics
Hi Magnus! Thanks again for very helpful tool MissingTopics - but today I tried to use it and (when pushed "Run") receive this: Warning: parse_ini_file(/data/project//replica.my.cnf): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 55

Warning: mysqli::mysqli: (HY000/1698): Access denied for user ''@'10.68.21.253' in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 124 Note: This may take several minutes, especially for queries with 5000 articles and more. Please be patient and do *not* hit reload! Looking for pages in (sub)categories...

Fatal error: Call to a member function real_escape_string on boolean in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 138 Parameters is here. Can you please fix it? Thank you again! -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 01:39, 15 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) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Your Paintings
Hi Magnus, I just created an article for one of the artists (Ernest Greenwood (artist)) on your list of "Your Paintings" and I was wondering if there's anything there I could use, but I don't really know what I'm looking at.. What is it exactly?

Thanks Jdcooper (talk) 21:38, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Not sure which list you mean (the mix'n'match catalogue maybe?). The only information I have is in the sites linked under "identifiers" in the Wikidata item. --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:32, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Autolist
... doesn't load results... Or help me please, how to see a table of properties in PetScan? --Infovarius (talk) 13:20, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
 * A "table of properties"? You'll have to be a little more specific. Maybe this is what you are looking for? --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:34, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

CrossCats improvement
Hi! I have just discovered your CrossCats tool, which I really like, and I would like to suggest you a little improvement: when the local article doesn't exist, instead of showing only "No local article!", I would suggest to show also the label in the same language, if there is one. Thank you, --Epì dosis 12:40, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I also have a problem with this tool: a lot of times it gives "Fatal error: Call to a member function options on boolean in /data/project/catscan2/public_html/omniscan.inc on line 508" as a result (example). Could you fix it? Thank you, --Epì dosis 14:19, 6 November 2016 (UTC) P.S. I didn't find a "CrossCats" repository on BitBucket.
 * Fatal error on line 508 still affects CrossCats: in some cases using it is impossible. Could you have a look? Thank you, --Epì dosis 16:29, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

TABernacle
Hello. Don't you have the feeling that we should be able to choose the language of the output? I believe it would be a nice addition. Thierry Caro (talk) 22:59, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker for HuWiki
Hello Magnus, there was a query if we also could have a delinker bot for our local huwiki. Either with CommonsDelinker or with atobot or with a totally new bot. Could you help us somehow? Thank you for all in advance. Ato 01 (talk) 07:10, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

WQD and Sparql
Hi Magnus,

I run a few bots to improve the contents of Wikidata and I encounter the following problems:

1) My bots relies on WDQ but it seems that this too has been broken for a few days: http://wdq.wmflabs.org/api returns "504 Gateway Time-out" so I cannot run any query and my bot is now useless. Can you please do something about it? Also, this may be related to the HTTP server so is there a way to use WDQ from a tool located on wmflabs without using HTTP?

2) I understand that WDQ is obsolete and may close soon. I have tried to convert one of my queries to Sparql but I can't get it work. My query is:

claim[31:(TREE[1370598][][279])] AND tree[142][150][17,131]
 * 1) All religious buildings in France (country = France OR located in a French 'commune')
 * 2) I need both conditions so I can add P31=France where P31 is mission and find the commune where P131 is missing

Converting it using wdq2sparql gives:

SELECT ?item WHERE { ?item wdt:P31 ?sub0. ?sub0 (wdt:P279)* wd:Q1370598. ?tree0 (wdt:P150)* ?item. ?tree0 (wdt:P17|wdt:P131)* wd:Q142. }

It seems to work but I always get a "Query timeout limit reached". I have tried a few variants but I can't manage to have the same results as now using Sparql. So I don't know what to do. My bot has been running very well for two years and I would like it to continue working... Do you have any suggestion?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best regards. Peter17 (talk) 15:43, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

+ I came with my own question but I saw this topic so just adding here. Is it correct that WDQ is closed and down in favour of SPARQL over WDQS? The service is "Server timeout" for days now (test link: ). I thought it was some major server problem being fixed. If it is closed then it is a bummer of course (my project is based on it), but no is no. I just would love to know exactly the situation. --Neolexx (talk) 22:16, 4 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Magnus,
 * Any thoughts about this? I have been trying to run my own instance of WDQ on the Tool Labs, but I always get a "MySQL server has gone away"...
 * Best regards. Peter17 (talk) 20:43, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Electric light bulb listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Electric light bulb. Since you had some involvement with the Electric light bulb redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Thryduulf (talk) 19:48, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Geige listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Geige. Since you had some involvement with the Geige redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -  C HAMPION  (talk) (contributions) (logs) 01:37, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

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wikisource.org
Any hints what values should be set for moving files to Commons from wikisource.org (sourceswiki) using http://tools.wmflabs.org/commonshelper/ ? Ankry (talk) 20:34, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata lists in mainspace up for deletion
(I already notified you above but it occurs to me it might not have been obvious why, so apologies if this is repetitious.)

Two lists maintained by your bot using Wikidata are currently up for deletion: Articles for deletion/List of female Egyptologists and Articles for deletion/List of women linguists. The bulk of the discussion is around the fact that they're bot-maintained/draw from Wikidata, so I thought they might be of interest.

Similarly, an editor has been mass-removing the Wikidata list template from other lists in mainspace:. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 14:16, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata transparency with ListeriaBot updates
Hi Magnus. Would you have time to look at this edit? It is my attempt to summarise over here, changes I made on Wikidata to specifically import the changes to a list maintained by ListeriaBot. Is there a way to make such changes transparent and obvious to people trying to follow the editing history of such articles? I know it may not be possible on large lists with lots of changes by lots of people between updates, but for smaller (less active) lists it would be very useful. Carcharoth (talk) 12:28, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I added references like this and forced an update like this. But I doubt many people will learn how to do this unless the documentation and tools to do this improve markedly. This all has the feel of being too early. The easy-to-use and easy-to-learn-to-use tools need to be there to copy references across and to make working on such lists easy. Or some Wikidata guru needs to demonstrate what can be done here, otherwise the whole process will take a massive reputation hit (more than it already has). Carcharoth (talk) 16:01, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata reconciliation service in Open Refine
Hi Magnus. I have used the Wikidata reconciliation service (https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-reconcile/) in my Open Refine in November and it worked perfectly, but lately it keeps hanging and doesn't want to start. Do you have an idea on why the service suddenly stopped working via Open Refine? Thank you for looking into this! Alina data (talk) 15:17, 4 January 2017 (UTC)