User talk:Magnus Manske/Archive 6

Glamorous tool does not show commons usage
Hi Magnus! I was wondering if I made a mistake here or it's a bug: I enabled Commons as a project because I was looking for some image usages there (see e.g. here). As far as I can see, it gives no result although at least one file is used in. First I thought that Commons's main space (ns=0, the gallery pages) are excluded for some reason but even with all usage enabled it is still not shown. How comes? Could this be fixed easily, please? Thanks in advance! Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 15:25, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Nochmal GLAMorous
Hallo Magnus,

gibt es eine Möglichkeit bei GLAMorous, die Lsjbot-gestützten Wikipedien (vi, sv, ceb, war, cy) und Wikispecies auszuschließen? Die automatische Einbindung von Bildern, egal wie gut sie passen, verzerrt die Nutzungsstatistik.--Sascha GPD (talk) 10:13, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

captcha problem on bitbucket.org (was: Re: api-or-license-key problem within FIST.php)
Hello Magnus, I saw your red box at the top of this talkpage, and attempted to follow instructions, but was unable.


 * https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/fist/issues/new

The message I get says 'please upgrade to a supported browser to get a recaptcha challenge' but since I'm using a recent firefox_ESR version, I'm not sure what the real problem is.

I was trying to report a PHP bug in this tool:


 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/fist.php

When you put a checkmark in the checkbox next to Ipernity, and then click the 'DoIt' button, a PHP error results at the bottom of the reloaded page, complaining that the key for ipernity was invalid on line 737 -- presumably license-key-related and/or api-key-related. Tool works fine for other imagesources like flickr/etc, so the problem seems to be specific to that checkbox. Manual search via the ipernity.com webpages also works, so that imagesource is still available/functional 47.222.203.135 (talk) 14:42, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

ListeriaBot is making destructive updates - why?
Dear - I'm seeking assistance on the updates by ListeriaBot on the page WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Israel - that for the second day in a row, deleted a large amount of what appears to be valid material on notable subjects. I recently started systematic work on that list by adding content on neglected Wikidata items (e.g. labels, descriptions, aliases and statements) which includes anglicizing the names from foreign (HE, RU) alphabets. Several times after I've edited multiple items in Wikidata, I evoked a ListeriaBot update (from the "Missing articles..." page) and checked that my content appeared - great! Though I noticed at least one time serially removed, then added, then removed again. But what's happening now on the automated "periodic updates" that delete quantities of content? Kindly advise. -- Deborahjay (talk) 11:56, 24 January 2017 (UTC) ETA: Here's a link to what/where I posted my distress call yesterday after the first instance: User talk:ListeriaBot. I look forward to gaining a better understanding of all this. Thanks, Deborahjay (talk) 12:50, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * fwiw, the listeria report in question imposed a limit=1000 and I think Deborahjay's missing items fell outside the 1000 selected (perhaps after her wikidata edits?). I've removed the limit and I trust the problem is now solved. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:43, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

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Dates with Listeriabot
In this article an the Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Listeriabot has created a list with dates like "0540s". Is there any way that this could be changed to "540s" which is more correct at least in English and Gaelic? Thanks. Catrìona (talk) 14:58, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Images from Macedonia
Sorry that i whrite here, but can u or some bot to uploat ca. 300 old postcards from macedonian city Bitola. All of them are from end of 19 century till 1930. Thank u-- R   ašo  20:25, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Linked items
Hi, I have a problem with Linked items:
 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/linked_items.php

It doesn't work for me using PagePile output, I get errors like: "Warning: SQLite3::exec: unable to open database file in /data/project/pagepile/public_html/pagepile.php on line 916" and so on.

Thanks in advance, --Rotpunkt (talk) 18:01, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Anniversaries
Please have a look at m:Talk:PetScan/en

Sorry for not using BitBucket, I tried but did not manage :( --Perohanych (talk) 08:15, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

QuickStatements
I have a list with items and their area.

1) How can I also add the unit?

2) It is not adding decimals.

Xaris333 (talk) 20:30, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

TUSC account
In my talk page there is an entry about a TUSC account, which I forgot what it was all about. The broken link points to you, and I would appreciate if you could refresh my memory before I update or trash the entry. P.S. Just tried to e-mail you at your old web.de e-mail address but that obviously didn't work.--Gciriani (talk) 21:44, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker
Hi, erm,... not sure if it's the right place to write, but here goes; when clicking the "delinker log" at a recently deleted file, it switches to german with options for "action" and "result" which are blank. Even when one chooses english to see the log, it doesn't seem to work. In addition, is this the reason why CommonsDelinker haven't delinked deleted files for a while now? TherasTaneel (talk) 06:22, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Blocking Listeriabot
Hi Magnus Manske, User:ListeriaBot keeps adding non-free images to Tambayan Philippines/Task force LGU/Provinces in Wikidata. I am considering blockong the bot user if you can't get it under control. Images that are listed at Wikidata from commons are not necessarily available on English Wikipedia because they are shadowed by other images. You can discuss this at Village pump (technical). Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:31, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Template:Wikidata list
Do you know if Pxxx/Pzzz works? Xaris333 (talk) 16:18, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

GLAMorous on limit?
There was an error running the query [The table '/srv/tmp/#sql_11ed_13' is full] I mean the tool has never worked for me. It counts only 3169 files for me (details off, Main-namespace only). → User: Perhelion 10:42, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

QuickStatements
Theses days, I used the QuickStatements tool at http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/quick_statements.php. The tool does not run since Thursday.--Bertrand GRONDIN (talk) 15:56, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Same experience on my side. When clicking "Do it" the statement does not seems to be executed. --Arnd (talk) 07:54, 26 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Ι have the same experience too.--Nikosguard (talk) 06:23, 27 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I have a similar problem. When I click "Do it" the list "Processing" list is generated instantly with "All done" in the end but the data is not added to wikidata. Acka47 (talk) 12:27, 5 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Same problem at the moment. The Tool stopped working during a job at 11 April 2017 13:50 and doesen't work since that moment. Affom (talk) 07:45, 12 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Widar says I have authorized it, but last request by QuickStatements is https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/?action=get_rights&botmode=1 and returns no answer. --Aeroid (talk) 15:12, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Duplicity deutsche Liste nicht aktuell
Moin Moin Magnus Manske, ich war gestern nach längerer Zeit mal wieder mit Duplicity unterwegs und dabei ist mir aufgefallen, dass die Liste für die deutschsprachige Wikipedia nicht aktuell ist. Äußert sich wie folgt, dass Artikel schon längst verbunden sind, aber immer noch in der Liste drinnen sind. Könntest du da mal schauen? Danke dir --Crazy1880 (talk) 08:12, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

MissingTopics not works
Hi Magnus! Look at MissingTopics please. Yesterday I tried to use it - and recieved this error message:

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 57

Warning: mysqli::mysqli: (HY000/1045): Access denied for user ''@'10.68.23.240' (using password: NO) in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 126 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 140

I mean something goes wrong. Thanks! -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 08:35, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

user talkpages
Hi,

CommonsDelinker just replaced an image on my talkpage, which triggers apparently an email and notification. I guess expected behavior would be that I would *not* get a notification from this. Is there anything on your end that you can do to avoid this, for example by marking it as a minor edit (not sure that would result in the desired effect)? That would be helpful! Thanks in advance. Effeietsanders (talk) 17:34, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Noch ein Tool, das nicht funktioniert oder ich nicht richtig verstanden habe
Ich endecke auf c:Category:Bahnhof Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen eine Koordinate (auf Wikidata), die nicht übereinstimmt mit der Koordinate auf der Commons-Seite. Die Funktion "To copy Commons coordinates to Wikidata, click here" will ich ausführen. Aber nichts passiert (bei der Funktion "do it"). --Atamari (talk) 12:19, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Listeria
Hi! Great bot, soon all manually created list pages should become obsolete. Just wanted to ask, what "Status: The supplied MD5 hash was incorrect." means, and how to fix that? I guess it is the same as status "The supp" in https://tools.wmflabs.org/listeria/botstatus.php page. (probably title of that column should be fixed, because it is not clear.) --Bunyk (talk) 10:09, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Listeria II
Hallo Magnus, Listeria zeigt mir folgende Meldung: Notice: Undefined property: Listeria::$header_template in /data/project/listeria/shared.inc on line 942.

Gruß, Harry Canyon (talk) 20:12, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Hilfe
Ich fürchte, das Missing Topic Tool arbeitet zur Zeit nicht, siehe diesen Beispielaufruf.

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 57 Warning: mysqli::mysqli: (HY000/1045): Access denied for user ''@'10.68.23.240' (using password: NO) in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 126 Fatal error: Call to a member function real_escape_string on boolean in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 140 --Atamari (talk) 09:06, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
 * schaust du mal bitte vorbei? Es wäre nett, wenn das Tool wieder laufen würde. --Atamari (talk) 12:06, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Commenting out rather than deleting images
Hey Magnus. Trying to address the issue of commons deleting medical images that are under an open license. Have a phabricator ticket open here with a solution. Wondering if for medical articles you can have your bot comment out rather than delete images until this is implemented? This will help medical editors in doing follow up of inappropriately deleted images. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:14, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Help with GLAMorgan
Dear mr. Manske, I am organising a conference in Belgium to convince GLAMs to donate their collection data and images to Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons respectively. In it we will present the results of our 2016 edition of Wiki Loves Art. I was thrilled to find out about the release of the new GLAM metrics tool to see how our Category:Images from Wiki Loves Art Belgium in 2016 were doing. I am however a confused as how to use the interface. Should I always select a depth level (I am assuming this indicates if i want to include all subcategories). I'm also not sure i understand how I need to select the year and month. For instance the best performing image is of a Venus statuette has views even when i select the month previous to its addition to the birth of venus article, the sole article in which it is used.

Thank you very much for any assistance and developping this tool!

Sam.Donvil (talk) 15:36, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017
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Joanjoc
Hello, the tool doesn't work... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Al-mazeratti (talk • contribs) 12:17, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Missing Topics don't work
Hi Magnus! I tried to use Missing Topics yesterday (July 19) and right now - but it only displays "malfunction message" on screen (like it did that month or two ago) when I click on "Run":

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 57

Warning: mysqli::mysqli: (HY000/1045): Access denied for user ''@'10.68.17.89' (using password: NO) in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 126 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 140

Look at please. Thanks! -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 20:59, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Labs broken again. Restarted now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 16:36, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
 * It's working!!! Thank you very much, Magnus! Perfect tools! -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 00:27, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

QuickStatements
Hi Magnus, I tried to use QuickStatements again after it stopped working mid March. Could it be that it's still broken? The discussion section on that note disapeared into your archive end of May, but I didn't see any resolution or comment. A brief comment from you would be great. I still see a great use in it. Thanks! --Aeroid (talk) 10:41, 15 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Has anything happened here?  I've been trying since yesterday and definitely no joy.  --Jrm03063 (talk) 18:43, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

QuickStatesments worked very well for me the last couple of weeks, but today I tried the wikipedia resolving feature ("First column are articles from...") and this suddenly didn't work anymore. The error message is:
 * 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 57
 * Warning: mysqli::mysqli: (HY000/1045): Access denied for user ''@'10.68.22.147' (using password: NO) in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 126
 * 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 57
 * Warning: mysqli::mysqli: (HY000/1045): Access denied for user ''@'10.68.22.147' (using password: NO) in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 126
 * Fatal error: Call to a member function real_escape_string on boolean in /data/project/wikidata-todo/public_html/quick_statements.php on line 32

---Anvilaquarius (talk) 14:13, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Seems to work fine.--Aeroid (talk) 19:04, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

GLAM links
The GLAM tool links to "wikidata.wikipedia.org" instead of "wikidata.org". If I haven't correctly identified the person responsible for GLAM, my apologies; if I have, could you fix that? Thanks. DS (talk) 04:07, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 3 – 11 August 2017
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Wikimania report
Interviewed by Facto Post at the hackathon, Lydia Pintscher of Wikidata said that the most significant recent development is that Wikidata now accounts for one third of Wikimedia edits. And the essential growth of human editing. Impressive development work on Internet-in-a-Box featured in the WikiMedFoundation annual conference on Thursday. Hardware is Raspberry Pi, running Linux and the Kiwix browser. It can operate as a wifi hotspot and support a local intranet in parts of the world lacking phone signal. The medical use case is for those delivering care, who have smartphones but have to function in clinics in just such areas with few reference resources. Wikipedia medical content can be served to their phones, and power supplied by standard lithium battery packages.

Yesterday Katherine Maher unveiled the draft Wikimedia 2030 strategy, featuring a picturesque metaphor, "roads, bridges and villages". Here "bridges" could do with illustration. Perhaps it stands for engineering round or over the obstacles to progress down the obvious highways. Internet-in-a-Box would then do fine as an example.

"Bridging the gap" explains a take on that same metaphor, with its human component. If you are at Wikimania, come talk to WikiFactMine at its stall in the Community Village, just by the 3D-printed display for Bassel Khartabil; come hear talk at 3 pm today in Drummond West, Level 3.

Link

 * Plaudit for the Medical Wikipedia app, content that is loaded into Internet-In-A-Box with other material, such as per-country documentation.

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WikiData - Terminator
Hi, any plans to revive Terminator? I have not found it even on BitBucket, so I am asking here.--Jklamo (talk) 11:55, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Non-free images being added by Lysteria bot
Hi Mangus Manske. I am wondering if there's a way for Lysteria bot to distinguish between a freely licensed file from Commons and a non-free one uploaded locally to Wikipedia. The bot keeps adding a non-free image to Wikipedia:GLAM/Amnesty International: Human Rights Defenders as explained in WP:VP/T. In this particular case, the non-free is shadowing a Commons file, but that still is not really a good reason for the bot to keep re-adding the non-free each time it is removed. Perhpas there's a way for the bot to distingush between a freely licensed image and a non-free one based not upon file name, but rather upon the file's copyright license or file's location? -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:17, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Suggestion for QuickStatements
Hi,

When we try to add something to Wikidata using Quickstatements, it automatically adds the statements to Wikidata. But some cases, we might want to test a few Quickstatements out before actually making it live on Wikidata. Can there be an option that allows us to do the same to the Test Wikidata site? If there was an optional flag that allowed us to push to the test wikidata site, that would be pretty helpful.

Thank you Soni (talk) 09:22, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 4 – 18 September 2017
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 * Facto Post – Issue 4 – 18 September 2017

 

Editorial: Conservation data
The IUCN Red List update of 14 September led with a threat to North American ash trees. The International Union for Conservation of Nature produces authoritative species listings that are peer-reviewed. Examples used as metonyms for loss of species and biodiversity, and |theoretical discussion of extinction rates, are the usual topics covered in the media to inform us about this area. But actual data matters. Clearly, conservation work depends on decisions about what should be done, and where. While animals, particularly mammals, are photogenic, species numbers run into millions. Plant species lie at the base of typical land-based food chains, and vegetation is key to the habitats of most animals.

ContentMine dictionaries, for example as tabulated at d:Wikidata:WikiFactMine/Dictionary list, enable detailed control of queries about endangered species, in their taxonomic context. To target conservation measures properly, species listings running into the thousands are not what is needed: range maps showing current distribution are. Between the will to act, and effective steps taken, the services of data handling are required. There is now no reason at all why Wikidata should not take up the burden.

Links

 * What Makes a Good Collaborative Knowledge Graph: Group Composition and Quality in Wikidata (paywall)
 * Wikimedia and the free knowledge ecosystem by Maria Cruz
 * Another Year Again: 2017 this time (long), blog by Joe Wass of CrossRef
 * Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain, blog by User:David Gerard
 * WikiTribune in beta

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Problem with adding items to quickstatements 1 and 2
Hi Magnus,

Thank you so much for all your great work and tools, they make my work as Wikipedian in Residence so much easier! I have just recently started exploring quick statements to add items to Wikidata. I am using data formatted as below. When I run them in quick statements 1, I only get empty items. Quick statements two seems to work better, but I get an error on the date format. Can you please give me some pointers? Thank you so much in advance! Mtmlan84 (talk) 08:57, 11 October 2017 (UTC)


 * CREATE

LAST	Lnl	"NKV Heumen" LAST	Dnl	"Nederlands Katholiek Vakverbond, afdeling Heumen" LAST	Anl	"Nederlandse Katholieke Arbeidersbeweging, afdeling Heumen" LAST	Anl	"KAB Heumen" LAST	P571	+00000001928-01­01T00:00:00Z/09	S854	"https://studiezaal.nijmegen.nl/ran/_detail.aspx?xmldescid=2126489111"	S813	+00000002017-­09-12T00:00:00Z/11 LAST	P576	+00000001974-01­01T00:00:00Z/09	S854	"https://studiezaal.nijmegen.nl/ran/_detail.aspx?xmldescid=2126489111"	S813	+00000002017-­09-12T00:00:00Z/11 LAST	P1454	Q15911314	S854	"https://studiezaal.nijmegen.nl/ran/_detail.aspx?xmldescid=2126489111"	S813	+00000002017-­09-12T00:00:00Z/11 LAST	P276	Q20203420	S854	"https://studiezaal.nijmegen.nl/ran/_detail.aspx?xmldescid=2126489111"	S813	+00000002017-­09-12T00:00:00Z/11 LAST	P485	Q15881190	S854	"https://studiezaal.nijmegen.nl/ran/_detail.aspx?xmldescid=2126489111"	S813	+00000002017-­09-12T00:00:00Z/11 LAST	P217	"1246"	S854	"https://studiezaal.nijmegen.nl/ran/_detail.aspx?xmldescid=2126489111"	S813	+00000002017-­09-12T00:00:00Z/11

ListeriaBot
Hi, could you please tell your bot to add two points ":" before "Category" when updating lists? :-) example -- Superchilum (talk to me!) 13:29, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Turkey
Hi! I had spotted some discrepancies IMO at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Turkey, which were artcles of males. I marked them for possible correction. However, your bot "Listeria" reverted them. I wonder if there is a need for biographies of male in that project. Thanks for clarification. CeeGee 08:51, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi again! Can I have a reaction please. Thanks.CeeGee 15:02, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker
Hey, I guess this bot removes the redundant content on Wikipedia once an image is deleted from commons. If that is the case, there is huge need of this bot on hiwiki. Can you please run it on hiwiki too? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · [//tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Capankajsmilyo&project=en.wikipedia.org count])  13:13, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 5 – 17 October 2017
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Editorial: Annotations
Annotation is nothing new. The glossators of medieval Europe annotated between the lines, or in the margins of legal manuscripts of texts going back to Roman times, and created a new discipline. In the form of web annotation, the idea is back, with texts being marked up inline, or with a stand-off system. Where could it lead? ContentMine operates in the field of text and data mining (TDM), where annotation, simply put, can add value to mined text. It now sees annotation as a possible advance in semi-automation, the use of human judgement assisted by bot editing, which now plays a large part in Wikidata tools. While a human judgement call of yes/no, on the addition of a statement to Wikidata, is usually taken as decisive, it need not be. The human assent may be passed into an annotation system, and stored: this idea is standard on Wikisource, for example, where text is considered "validated" only when two different accounts have stated that the proof-reading is correct. A typical application would be to require more than one person to agree that what is said in the reference translates correctly into the formal Wikidata statement. Rejections are also potentially useful to record, for machine learning.

As a contribution to data integrity on Wikidata, annotation has much to offer. Some "hard cases" on importing data are much more difficult than average. There are for example biographical puzzles: whether person A in one context is really identical with person B, of the same name, in another context. In science, clinical medicine require special attention to sourcing (WP:MEDRS), and is challenging in terms of connecting findings with the methodology employed. Currently decisions in areas such as these, on Wikipedia and Wikidata, are often made ad hoc. In particular there may be no audit trail for those who want to check what is decided.

Annotations are subject to a World Wide Web Consortium standard, and behind the terminology constitute a simple JSON data structure. What WikiFactMine proposes to do with them is to implement the MEDRS guideline, as a formal algorithm, on bibliographical and methodological data. The structure will integrate with those inputs the human decisions on the interpretation of scientific papers that underlie claims on Wikidata. What is added to Wikidata will therefore be supported by a transparent and rigorous system that documents decisions.

An example of the possible future scope of annotation, for medical content, is in the first link below. That sort of detailed abstract of a publication can be a target for TDM, adds great value, and could be presented in machine-readable form. You are invited to discuss the detailed proposal on Wikidata, via its talk page.

Links

 * Jon Udell, blogpost Annotating to extract findings from scientific papers, 15 December 2015
 * TDM and Libraries, Virginia Tech report
 * Magnus Manske, The Whelming: Scaling up Wikidata editing
 * OCLC and Internet Archive collaborate to expand library access to digital collections, metadata and linking exchange
 * GLOW week in November: Wikidata workshops on politician info

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Precious
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:04, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

War of the bots in Russian wikipedia
Hello! Magnus, please take a look here: another bot deletes some of the images of your bot as non-free. Викизавр (talk) 08:37, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
 * My bot just uses images from Commons, specified in Wikidata. If these are non-free, they need to be deleted on Commons, otherwise they are good. Nothing to do with my bot. --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:53, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Magnus Manske, I believe it somehow adds file ru:File:Могила писателя Вячеслава Шишкова.JPG from Russian Wikipedia, while there exists File:Могила писателя Вячеслава Шишкова.JPG on Wikicommons. The first is marked as non-free, while the second - as free. Викизавр (talk) 22:51, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Deleting downloaded images and blocking users
Hello, your bot deleted my grandfather's photo from the article https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Никола_Николов_(офицер) The photo is public domain -- it was made in 1939 by an anonymous photographer and publicly distributed ever since. This was clearly stated when I downloaded it. Not only it was removed by some guy named Jim referring it to your bot, the latter also blocked me as a user (mintchevmp) for 3 days. My grandfather was a war hero during the war against Nazi Germany, blocking his photo on false pretenses exactly from Germany does not really look very good, does it? Please correct this immediately. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.147.89.130 (talk) 15:35, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The bot only removes images that were already deleted on Commons. If there is a dispute, please take it there. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:48, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 6 – 15 November 2017
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WikidataCon Berlin 28–9 October 2017
Under the heading rerum causas cognescere, the first ever Wikidata conference got under way in the Tagesspiegel building with two keynotes, One was on YAGO, about how a knowledge base conceived ten years ago if you assume automatic compilation from Wikipedia. The other was from manager Lydia Pintscher, on the "state of the data". Interesting rumours flourished: the mix'n'match tool and its 600+ datasets, mostly in digital humanities, to be taken off the hands of its author Magnus Manske by the WMF; a Wikibase incubator site is on its way. Announcements came in talks: structured data on Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to make substantive progress by 2019. The lexeme development on Wikidata is now not expected to make the Wiktionary sites redundant, but may facilitate automated compilation of dictionaries. And so it went, with five strands of talks and workshops, through to 11 pm on Saturday. Wikidata applies to GLAM work via metadata. It may be used in education, raises issues such as author disambiguation, and lends itself to different types of graphical display and reuse. Many millions of SPARQL queries are run on the site every day. Over the summer a large open science bibliography has come into existence there.

Wikidata's fifth birthday party on the Sunday brought matters to a close. See a dozen and more reports by other hands.

Links

 * Wikidata statistics
 * I4OC progress in its first year, with 47% of scientific citation data now open (announced two days ago)
 * The flowering ORCID, Magnus Manske blogpost on identifying authors of scientific papers
 * @querybook, a Twitter feed devoted to SPARQL queries
 * Massive progress on Wikidata coverage of the UK parliament
 * Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM

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Listeria-generated list on ptwiki and date format
Hello! * Point two: I have been using Listeria for generating lists on ptwiki, i.e., and I have faced an issue I have been unable to solve on how date format. I have been working on a list of documents, still on my sandbox, and if you look at the column on the publication date (second column) you will see it gives a format like YYYY-MM-DD. In Portuguese, the format we would expect is DD-MM-YYYY. I have tried many things on a template to shape the column, and nothing worked :( Any clue? Sorry for bothering. Thanks a lot! --Joalpe (talk) 01:51, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Point one: you rock! Thanks for being around.
 * We were able, after many trials, to make it happen. Sorry for bothering. ;) (you still rock, so not deleting point one). --Joalpe (talk) 16:54, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

BaGLAMa 2 Images from Sebastiaan ter Burg -> Photographs by Sebastiaan ter Burg
Hi Magnus, As always great respect for your work. I'll be talking in front of a group of Dutch professional photographers and would like to use some Wikimedia stats from your Baglama tool about the Dutch photographer Sebastiaan ter Burg. Unfortunately his category on Commons has been renamed from 'Images from Sebastiaan ter Burg' to 'Photographs by Sebastiaan ter Burg'. This means that his stats won't load after 2014. Can you change the cat name in your tool as well? Thanks Martsniez (talk) 14:20, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Category name changed, view data backfill running. Will be here. --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:54, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick change! Martsniez (talk) 12:41, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

GeoHack
Hallo, kannst Du wohl mal hier de:WP:FZW vorbeischauen bitte? Danke --2003:DE:729:B57A:653A:537D:B219:17B8 (talk) 17:52, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Request
Hi, I'm an admin in Azerbaijani Wikipedia and I've been referred to coders. We were just wondering is it possible to create archivebot and patrol system for Az.Wikipedia? --Azerifactory (talk) 23:54, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Cannot authorised OAuth file uploader
You may have people ask you this problem but I wanted to use Flickr2Commons tool and when I tried to authorised OAuth it will load for a few seconds then give me this:

"Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /data/project/magnustools/public_html/oauth_uploader.php:112) in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/oauth.php on line 231 Curl error: Could not resolve host: www.mediawiki.org"

I made sure my account is all logged in but it doesn't seem to work.

Many thanks. --Vauxford (talk) 00:13, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Fixed.--Magnus Manske (talk) 11:26, 13 December 2017 (UTC)


 * It works now, thank you very much. --Vauxford (talk) 16:51, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 7 – 15 December 2017
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A new bibliographical landscape
At the beginning of December, Wikidata items on individual scientific articles passed the 10 million mark. This figure contrasts with the state of play in early summer, when there were around half a million. In the big picture, Wikidata is now documenting the scientific literature at a rate that is about eight times as fast as papers are published. As 2017 ends, progress is quite evident.

Behind this achievement are a technical advance (fatameh), and bots that do the lifting. Much more than dry migration of metadata is potentially involved, however. If paper A cites paper B, both papers having an item, a link can be created on Wikidata, and the information presented to both human readers, and machines. This cross-linking is one of the most significant aspects of the scientific literature, and now a long-sought open version is rapidly being built up. The effort for the lifting of copyright restrictions on citation data of this kind has had real momentum behind it during 2017. WikiCite and the I4OC have been pushing hard, with the result that on CrossRef over 50% of the citation data is open. Now the holdout publishers are being lobbied to release rights on citations.

But all that is just the beginning. Topics of papers are identified, authors disambiguated, with significant progress on the use of the four million ORCID IDs for researchers, and proposals formulated to identify methodology in a machine-readable way. P4510 on Wikidata has been introduced so that methodology can sit comfortably on items about papers.

More is on the way. OABot applies the unpaywall principle to Wikipedia referencing. It has been proposed that Wikidata could assist WorldCat in compiling the global history of book translation. Watch this space.

And make promoting #1lib1ref one of your New Year's resolutions. Happy holidays, all!



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 * WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge, report by Peter Kraker of Open Knowledge Maps
 * This is a story of my knowledge adventure in New Zealand moths via Wikicommons, Wikipedia and Wikidata, @SiobhanLeachman
 * Wikidata and Arabic dialects, research paper, DOI: 10.1109/AICCSA.2017.115
 * c:Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/georeferencing status, Mechanical Curator project on Commons hits 50K maps milestone
 * Historical dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text: Who wrote this?, by Tilman Bayer, WMF blogpost
 * "Anyone can edit", not everyone does: Wikipedia and the gender gap (PDF), journal paper, Heather Ford and Judy Wajcman
 * Alpha Zero’s "Alien" Chess Shows the Power, and the Peculiarity, of AI, MIT Technology Review, by Will Knight, December 8, 2017
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Links in this tool
When one has selected "source Wikipedia" and clicks next to get the second hundred it switches to "wikidata". Possible to fix this? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:21, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Naming the tool would be helpful though. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:19, 11 January 2018 (UTC)