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Releasing prepbio to bitbucket

Hi, even though prepbio leads to your bitbucket, the source code for it is not to be found there? Would you be willing to reveal it? Thank you, --Wesalius (talk) 10:07, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Sorry - don't know how to use bitbucket. Is prepbio down or is it just me? I use it heavily (I love it thank you). If I type in the content it's fine but it's not doing anything when I input a Q number. ☕ Antiqueight chatter 13:08, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

wmflabs vs. toolforge what is comparable?

What changes have been made to Glamorous? What is a comparable for the old results?

Old wmflabs link https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php returns 404.html

New link is https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorous/

Running a monthly report, for "Portraits, Science History Institute" I get some numbers from the toolforge version that I'm not sure how to interpret. Last month I released 16 new files in this category, but I also reviewed all 671 files, creating and adding to Wikidata items.

overall wikidata en.wikipedia de fr ar es
Last month's results (wmflabs): 1055 326(1) 445(2) 93 66 75 50(3)
Total file usages (toolforge this month) 1754 573 634 145 93 96 213
Pages using files (toolforge this month) 1281 510 406 103 57 88 117
Distinct files used (toolforge this month) 1302 516 396 99 78 74 139

(1) Wikidata usage substantially increases for all three toolforge columns, as expected, since I spent a lot of time adding existing portraits to wikidata items.

(2) However, English usage (445) either increased much more than I would expect (Total file usages, 634) or dropped (pages using files, 406, or Distinct files used, 396).

(3) Also, there's a huge increase for Spanish Wikipedia on all counts, from 50 last month to 213, 117, or 139.

I can't run the old version to see what it would have given me for the current data. What from this new version is comparable? Can you give me some insight about what is happening here? Many thanks, I appreciate that you have built a number of valuable tools which I use for tracking. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 20:12, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Listeria bug during WLE

Hi Magnus, sorry disturbing as this, but could you check this issue: [1]? We are running the WLE, and this is kind important. Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton (talk) 05:36, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

A goat for you!

I was checking something to see if the User:ListeriaBot would make an error in a list. It did not. Nicely done! Have a goat (instead of an error report).

Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:56, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

catscan2 - No webservice

Could you reactivate https://catscan2.toolforge.org/catscan2.php ? --Andyrom75 (talk) 08:46, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You may be looking for https://petscan.wmflabs.org/ – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:54, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
Which is where it is supposed to redirect to. The redirect worked on the old domain, and I really hope it’s unintentionally broken, as many links may point to this URL. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 14:10, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Help with page publications

Dear Magnus Manske, I have attempted to create a page - Draft:Hopster - for Hopster, the preschool entertainment platform, however, it got rejected by you. I have requested help in order to be able to publish it and was advised to contact you directly. When creating the page, I believe I've met the guidelines. It has received the Kidscreen Awards, the most prestigious children's media awards in the US, 3 years in a row in 2020, 2019 and 2018. It is also listed on the Wikipedia list of Children's Interest Channels.

Please look at how the company is trending as opposed to Baraem, a similar page that has been granted a wiki page: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=hopster,baraem

Please help me get this page live or advise me on the required edits. Thanks in advance. Agneslesti1 (talk) 15:22, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Listeria

Hi Magnus, Listeria ist not working (Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'WDI' not found in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/wikidata.php:59 Stack trace: #0 /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/wikidata.php(89): WikidataItemList->parseEntities(Object(stdClass)) #1 /data/project/listeria/shared.inc(480): WikidataItemList->loadItems(Array) #2 /data/project/listeria/shared.inc(1229): Listeria->runQuery() #3 /data/project/listeria/shared.inc(1537): Listeria->getWikiText() #4 /data/project/listeria/public_html/index.php(38): Listeria->updatePage('User:HarryN\xC2\xBA2/...') #5 {main} thrown in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/wikidata.php on line 59)

Best Regards, --HarryNº2 (talk) 13:47, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Expired API key

Hi Magnus. Some of us are having problems using your Flickr2Commons and getting the error message:"Invalid API Key (Key has expired)". Can you help ? Bengt Nyman (talk) 18:06, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello Magnus! Few days ago (evening of 28 July as I remember) I looked that Missing Topics works but not updated "red links list" for Category:Curling (number of new articles created days before it and yesterday and today, but MT "didn't see" that adds - and reported the same "Now checking links on 4400 pages" and "21846 missing pages found" as before this adds). Fix it please ASAP. MT is great tool for "watch how work goes on"! -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 17:41, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Glamtool error

When I enter do it! button in your glamtool I get a 404 error. Cybularny (talk) 22:31, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Came here to report the same error. Sorry for not using BitBucket, but I'm not familiar with that tool and couldn't find the GLAMorous tool there. Gestumblindi (talk) 23:11, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Same error and same inability to use BitBucket.
I think the problem is that the actual link starts with https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorous.php? but the Do button produces a link to https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamtools/glamorous.php which yields the 404 error.--Pere prlpz (talk) 17:52, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I have the same problem. 404 when using search from "Do it!" button --Jakubhal (talk) 06:47, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Moving Category:RTT

Hi Magnus, per the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_June_28#Category:RTT, I am planning to close this discussion as a rename from Category:RTT to Category:Wikipedia medicine articles ready to translate and Category:RTT(full) to Category:Wikipedia medicine articles ready to translate (full). There's some consensus there to rename it to be less ambiguous. However, it appears that the category is related to a tool that you are involved with here. I wanted to notify you first so that you can fix the tool if necessary. Thanks, bibliomaniac15 21:49, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/quick_statements.php

Hi, I think I screwed something up on wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/quick_statements.php. I'd meant to create a single item, but it seems to be creating hundreds of blank items (see list). Is there a way to undo? T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 06:09, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

317 in move-to-commons

Hi. I noticed a stray "317" was continuously displayed on Move-to-Commons. Is it a typo? Does it have any special meaning?
acagastya 15:01, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

@Acagastya: I don’t think so, it just sits at the top of the PHP file. I created a pull request to remove it. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:45, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
Okay. Thank you!
acagastya 00:06, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, merged/pulled now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 15:41, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Catfood died because of schema update

Hi! I tried to find CatFood’s source code on BitBucket, but I couldn’t. (Consequently I can’t open an issue there as requested at the top of this page.) So first of all, please publish it, or if it’s already there, please make it more discoverable. Second, it doesn’t work (example query). RSS has very strict rules, and if the page isn’t valid, newsreaders simply reject it. The output of your script is invalid: it contains

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$img_user_text in /data/project/catfood/public_html/catfood.php on line 308

multiple times (which is invalid RSS and should obviously not be there). Apparently you try to use the column image.img_user_text, which is deprecated since MW 1.31 and removed as of 1.34 (the last wmf version of 1.35 has just been deployed this week, so 1.34 appeared quite long ago on Wikimedia). I can try fixing it, but please publish the source code on BitBucket (or anywhere else) so that I can send a pull request. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 16:45, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

This is still broken, please do something about it. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 09:16, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

And still. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 10:01, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Fixed now. Sorry for the delay, I'm not often on enwiki these days...--Magnus Manske (talk) 18:12, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks! Do you plan to publish the source code? It would have been a lot faster to just create a pull request (or at least create an issue right where the code lives, instead of a random Wikipedia talk page). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:57, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

"Suggest articles from interwikis" is down

Hi Magnus. I notice that "Suggest articles from interwikis" is down for some time already. Although it is a tool with a long history, it is still very useful today, as it can sort the results by the number of site links, and can search the whole site when the "Inside category" field leaves blank. These features are not in PetScan at the moment, so PetScan still cannot replace that tool yet. --Kwgulden (talk) 01:01, 31 August 2020 (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. Graywalls (talk) 10:46, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Quick intersection

I'm sorry, I have no idea how to leave a comment on BitBucket, so I'll just post this note here... did you see this concern that the tool site is broken? - AppleBsTime (talk) 18:02, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Not in the other language

Hello, where i can get files common.php and wikidata.php in Not in the other language project? I do not can search in git, and do not can download from site.--Khan Zamay (talk) 17:11, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

@Khan Zamay: https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/not-in-the-other-language/. By the way, it’s always a good idea to help others by linking what you’re talking about. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 00:00, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
@Tacsipacsi: I do no can launch this file in my host, becouse don't have file common.php and wikidata.php, i will ask where i can get this file?--Khan Zamay (talk) 09:06, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
The files in question are here: https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/magnustools/src/master/public_html/php/ --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:02, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:59, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

ListeriaBot

Hi, there is a problem with ListeriaBot on bnwiki. ListeriaBot keeps updating bn:উইকিপিডিয়া:উইকিউপাত্ত/বাংলাদেশের প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল 100 times in a day (see). I even added |freq=7 but same result. ListeriaBot also has bot status on bnwiki but it's edits showing up on recent changes. Please take a look. --আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 23:23, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Listeria-bot bugging on Wikipedia in Portuguese

Hello Magnus. How are you? I hope this message finds you well. There is a systemic bug going on with Listeria-bot on Wikipedia in Portuguese: most pages that rely on the bot to produce tables are including all sorts of errors. This is especially worrisome in our Wikipedia as Listeria-generated lists are available on the main space. Could you please take a look? I could not identify any local change, so I am assuming this is something happening at a different level. Thanks a lot! --Joalpe (talk) 11:08, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Bot application

Hi. I am chansey from trwiki. I applied for ListeriaBot bot flag on trwiki. Its on this page. Could you mind to comment it? Thanks. chansey msg? 20:21, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
The G.O.A.T! East6 (talk) 22:32, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Missing Topics not answered anyway

Hi Magnus! Last two days I tried to run Missing Topics tool. But it's not answer anyway - only "503 Service Not Available". Troubles on hosting or site or?.. -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 18:53, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

webservice on toolforge had failed for some reason. Restarted. --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:25, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
It runs again, great thanks! -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 12:15, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Bug in Listeria V2

Hello Magnus! There is a bug in Listeriabot V2:

If there is a category in the list that is not created on Wikipedia, incorrectly formatted link to the category. A colon is missing and isn't put it in the table, but add it as a category.

Condition: link=red

  • Example: November 15 (V2) (at the bottom of the categories) Category link: Kategória:Magyarország követei, nagykövetei Azerbajdzsánban
  • Good version: October 15 (V1) Category link: :Kategória:Magyarország követei, nagykövetei Azerbajdzsánban

Thanks for the correction! Bye! Palotabarát (talk) 10:56, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Tracking this here now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:27, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Listeriabot banned

Hello Magnus! Listeriabot banned from Hungarian Wikipedia :( I made him new issues https://github.com/magnusmanske/listeria_rs/issues/20 (I hope it's good). Bye: Palotabarát (talk) 08:25, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Adopted tools

Hello! The tools you have adopted from JoanJoc (https://joanjoc.toolforge.org/) doesn't seem to work. --Fredde (talk) 09:47, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

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Listeria Spam/abuse filter

Hello, some of my manual update requests of pages using Listeria are listed in the Spam/abuse filter of the bot status page: which is the threshold to avoid to be blocked? Thanks, Pietro (talk) 12:02, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Bot flag is required for ListeriaBot in trwiki

Hi Magnus. Due to high volume edits (flood), ListeriaBot is temporarily blocked in Turkish Wikipedia. The bot may continue to operate upon having a bot flag. Some outreach projects, WikiProjects, and collaborations rely on this tool; so, Turkish language community will happily in favour of bot flag. Please reply on this bot request. Thanks.--[evolutionoftheuniverse] @enwiki 19:00, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations! The bot request is approved. --[evolutionoftheuniverse] @enwiki 07:36, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

ListeriaBot v2 in data namespace

Hi, in your blogpost you wrote Foundation to use the Commons Data namespace to store the lists, then display them on a wiki via Lua. This would allow lists to be updated without editing the wikitext of the page, and no part of the list is directly editable by users (thus, no possibility of the bot overwriting human edits, a reason given to disallow Listeria edits in main namespace). The code is actually pretty complete already (including the Lua), but it got bogged down a bit in details of encoding information like sections which is not “native” to tabular data. An example with both wiki and “tabbed” versions is here.

Is there already a way to configure what will be stored to Commons data? I was not able to find any configuration (=SPARQL query) for data-namespace list so is it currently hardcoded in server side? I would like to try out the feature with population data. --Zache (talk) 08:04, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

ListeriaBot issue in it.Wiki . Please check: [2]. --No2 (talk) 17:50, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Not sure what you are trying to do, but you cant select the red linking based on decision if the topic is notable on wikipedia or not as there is no such data in Wikipedia. You can only choose between "link all" OR "link all with existing Wikipedia article" OR "without links". I changed it now so that it will link only items with existing wikipedia articles. [3]. --Zache (talk) 10:00, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Ok. Now seems fine. The idea of such recurrent bot adding all links in a very long article is almost always wrong. Btw, does Listeriabot understand the nobots template? --No2 (talk) 13:13, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Mix'n'Match sets variation for Wikisource articles?

Hi Magnus. With the reproduced works at enWS (and presumably the other WSes), I am trying to work out a reasonable means of matching biographical articles to subjects, to try and automate the process rather than straight manual matching. Is there a means to do this with your Mix'n'Match tool, especially where we have already created the items? I looked at the importer, though that just scared me away as potentially creating duplicates. What I am wanting to do is place a main subject (P921) property at the biographical article item linking to existing person-items, and looking for a better way to do it. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:54, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Bot not working anymore?

Hi Magnus Manske. Your bot doesn't update nl:Wikipedia:Wikidata/recent overleden anymore. When I try to do it manually I get the message "Killed by OS for overloading memory." Is there something wrong with it? Trijnsteltalk 11:46, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Wrong behaviour with Orcidator ORCID metadata

Hi:

Seems to me the Orcidator (at https://sourcemd.toolforge.org/orcidator_old.php) author metadata importing is not working. The only thing it does is adding a wrong Twitter ID to the element, the ORCID Twitter indeed, as you can check. This Twitter value is the same for many actual elements.

Just reporting. Thanks.

Olea (talk) 10:01, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Activating listeriabot on enwikiversity

Hi Magnus! What're the necessary steps to activate listeriabot on enwikiversity? I want to use it to replace the manual work on pages like:

T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 10:08, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

I've made a post at the Wikiversity main discussion page, where it was indicated that all that is needed is to fill in this short form, which I'm happy to do if you can show me how to add wikiversity to the list of sites looked at by listeriabot for pages to edit. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 03:16, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Minor fixes to userscripts

Hey Magnus, it looks like you've got some user scripts used by others that have bare javascript global wg-style variables. These are phab:T72470 deprecated, and while I don't think there's a timeline for their removal, it's been that way for a while. It's usually a straightforward fix, all uses need to use mw.config.get, such as converting wgTitle to mw.config.get('wgTitle'). There's some more info at mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users)#Global wg variables. Some are quite old, not sure if you want to hold on to them. I can take care of cleaning them up for you if you like, or give you a full list if you want to handle it, just let me know! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 12:22, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Took care of these, even the older ones. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 12:56, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Missing Topics - 503 Service Not Available

Hi Magnus! Yesterday and today I tried to run Missing Topics, answer is "503 Service Not Available" ((( -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 09:55, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Today it's running again, great! -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 07:14, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello Magnus! Today (and yesterday) it's again "503 Service Not Available" ((( Look please -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 15:29, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Could you teach me how to activate a new listeriabot?

Hi Magnus!

Sorry to pester, but I want to try to progress this asap as it'll save a huge amount of manual copy-paste labour.

I'm really keen to get listeriabot activated for enwikiversity. Could you show me how to set it up if - or point me to the relevant documentation/readme (happy to videochat at a time of your choosing if that's easier). I've also left a note on the github repo in case that's a better place to reach you. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 03:40, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

I think I'm getting closer to finding the bug (documenting on listeria_rs/issues/54), but could still really use some help. The test on meta works fine, but the test on enwv results in the following message:
Done.
Last line: OK: User:Evolution_and_evolvability/sandbox not edited

So something must be going wrong with save_wikitext_to_page. It needs to submit to en.wikiversity.org/w/api.php. Is the wikitext being sent to the api incorrect? Does it need a token? T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 04:47, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Missing Topics not answered

Hi Magnus! Yesterday and today I tried to run Missing Topics, answer is "503 Service Not Available" ((( -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 06:30, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Listeriabot aborts update of Women in Red page for over two months

Since the last successful Listeriabot update on 21 December 2020, all [my] manual attempts to engage Listeriabot for updating the following English-language Women in Red page, fails with this message:

  • Trying to update Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_nationality/Israel...
  • Killed by OS for overloading memory

The parallel page in the Italian WP, with even more line items (presently 5K), had a similar difficulty with my numerous attempts, but succeeded in an update on 31 January and 28 February. Am I now reporting this in the right place (EN WP)? I previously wrote in Wikidata on User talk:Magnus Manske starting on 28 January (with descriptive updates), but received no response, and the problem persists. Thank you! -- Deborahjay (talk) 11:55, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Database reports/Recent deaths

Hello, Magnus,

ListeriaBot is supposed to update this page daily (or several times a day) but hasn't since November 2020. Some editors have edited the page and I wonder if that has affected the bot's activity. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Liz Read! Talk! 19:09, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

It also looks like Wikipedia:Database reports/Birthday today is not updating regularly either. Liz Read! Talk! 19:12, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Provenance of the fourth image at Backscatter (photography)

Hi Magnus. Wikimedia lists you as having uploaded the image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FortGhost.jpg that appears as the fourth image in the article Backscatter (photography), and also lists you as the owner. What do you know about the provenance of this photo? In particular do you know (or can you tell) whether it was taken with or without flash? If without flash, it would be a nice example of how an "orb" doesn't need to be lit by a flash. Vaughan Pratt (talk) 23:27, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

picture of emil strub

hi you put a portait of emil strub in the Emil Strub article. Can you indicate me where it comes from ? have you a reference ? thanks 195.132.128.48 (talk) 11:01, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Listeriabot

Hi Magnus. We have seen that when Listeriabot inserts the pictures in the tables it adds an | at the end which is considered as a syntax error and there are bots that have to fix it. Would it be possible that it does not appear? Thank you very much. --Vanbasten 23 (talk) 20:44, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:58, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

a problem in Magnus counter

Hi Magnus, sorry I write you here - I know you asked to report issues in your tools through Bitbucket, but I didn't understand how to do it.
When I use your counter to get my counters on Hebrew Wikipedia, I get this message:
"There was an error running the query [Unknown column 'rev_user' in 'where clause'] select page_namespace,count(*) AS cnt from revision_userindex,page WHERE page_id=rev_page and rev_user=153567 group by page_namespace order by cnt desc"
I use the following parameters: user= Ritai on = he.wikipedia
could you help me? thanks. --Ritai (talk) 21:27, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Which tool? URL? --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:27, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
hi, edit counter , thanks --Ritai (talk) 01:27, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Checking CommonsHelper license

Error: This image has no verifiable good license, and can thus not be uploaded to commons through this tool. on the file: s:id:Berkas:Wasiat_Jang_Beharoe.djvu, even though it has template d:Q12270136. How should I fix this? Bennylin (talk) 14:59, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

[4] Using FileExporter also yield the same error type. Bennylin (talk) 06:56, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) @Bennylin: I don’t remember how CommonsHelper works, but FileExporter considers the templates listed at mw:Extension:FileImporter/Data/id.wikisource#Templates. It doesn’t use Wikidata; you should manually list “good” and “bad” templates there. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:17, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Awesome, thanks for the reply! Bennylin (talk) 14:26, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

TABernacle

Hello, You have a new urgent message. --2001:1715:4E20:9650:29C0:ACCF:2B5B:E86F (talk) 08:47, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Listeria "Killed by OS for overloading memory"

I'm not sure whether this issue is on the correct GitHub repo. If it's in the right place for Listeria issues and you just haven't gotten to it yet, I apologize for bugging you about it again here. Is there something we can do to avoid overloading memory when using Listeria to create lists on Wikidata? Or is it a bug that needs to be fixed? It seems that a number of users are having this problem and are not sure how to procceed. Thanks for all you do for Wikidata, --Clements.UWLib (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 00:06, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Bout Not in the other language tool

Thanks for Not in the other language tool. Long time before exist an similar tool but the order was not alfabetical but the criteria "most interwiki" (most important!?). Trought this tool I find pages in 130 lenguages but not in Esperanto!!!! (mi home wiki).

Suggest articles from interwikis (https://joanjoc.toolforge.org/artniw.php?uselang=en) but joanjoc not read messages 😭😭😭. Its posible add this function to your tool?

Similar tool: https://cil2.toolforge.org/

It was powerfull tool for Editathons, list of recomends/Requested entries.

--Radioamatoro (talk) 05:24, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi, this edit replaced a valid image with a redlink, so I reverted it. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:52, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Deactivate Wikidata Distributed Game

Hi Magnus, Im trying to deactivate two bad duplicated wikidata games. Can you delete https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=76 and https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=77 ? The good one is already running in https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=78 The api games 76 and 77 are returning null, but wasnt deactivated automatically.

Thanks Regards Jmmuguerza (talk) 06:43, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Killed by OS for overloading memory

Hallo Magnus, seit einiger Zeit meldet Listria "Killed by OS for overloading memory". Bisher funktionierte das Update immer einwandfrei auf diesen beiden Seiten https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User%3AHarryN%C2%BA2%2Fsandbox und https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User%3AHarryN%C2%BA2%2Fsandbox_02. Am Script wurde nichts verändert, nur das nun auf einmal diese Fehlermeldung auftaucht. Woran kann das liegen? Mit besten Grüßen, --HarryNº2 (talk) 15:04, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

@HarryNº2: Es kann sein, dass es einfach mehr Daten gibt: mehr Zeilen oder mehr Daten je Zeile. (Aber auch, dass etwas um dem Bot sich verschlechterte, zum Beispiel er hat weniger Speicher oder benötigt mehr.) – Tacsipacsi (talk) 00:40, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

I have questions about Wikipedia

Hi Magnus – I am doing a doctorate on Wikipedia. Would you be available to talk to me about the way Wikipedia works? Thanks, ElenaFalco (talk) 11:07, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:30, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

glamorous- some tracking problems

Hi Magnus Manske. I'm Alice Fontana, I'm preparing a thesis and I'm using your glam tools. I noticed a problem with glamours, can I tell you about it? (https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorous/?). I noticed that when I try to study a category, the visualizations of the images are always zero; but if I take a subcategory of this instead I can see the views. Thanks for your attention. Regards, 

Alice  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fontanalice (talk • contribs) 09:09, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Please be careful when deleting between apostrophes

Sorry if this has been reported before. The edit of 09:47, 12 August 2012 by User:CommonsDelinker of User:Yukichigai/Memento changed

'''[[Image:Single Polaroid Photo.jpg|43x43px]]'''

to

''''''

When you remove images within bold or italics markup this way, please replace with <nowiki/>, or remove the bold or italics markup also. —Anomalocaris (talk) 22:11, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

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Duplicity

Hallo, Magnus Manske,
wir nutzen Duplicity gerne auf frrwiki. In den letzten Wochen werden jedoch zahlreiche falsch positive gelistet:
https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/duplicity.php?wiki=frrwiki&mode=list
Ist das ein bekanntes Problem? Wenn dort zuviele Einträge auftauchen, kann man sie kaum noch abarbeiten. Besten Dank für eine Antwort. --Murma174 (talk) 15:48, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
P.S. frrwiki fehlt hier: https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/duplicity.php Ist das vielleicht ein Grund? --Murma174 (talk) 22:03, 10 February 2022 (UTC) Jetzt nicht mehr... --Murma174 (talk) 12:08, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Killed by OS for overloading memory

Hello Magnus Manske, on the Dutch Wikipedia I have several pages that are sometimes updated by ListeriaBot with new information from Wikidata. That works very good, thanks. For one page, nl:Gebruiker:Robotje/TK-leden, the last update was more than half a year ago. Every time I try to manually trigger an update of that page I either get a time out or a "Killed by OS for overloading memory" message. Until August last year, updates were possible. I can imagine that a request can consume too much resources and therefore needs to be 'killed', but it was possible in the past to have that page updated. So it looks like the rules became more strict around August last year. Is there any indication those rules will be more relaxed in the near future? - Robotje (talk) 13:38, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

@Robotje: Not only stricter rules can explain it: it’s more likely that simply there’s more data – more items, more statements per item, more references etc. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 09:11, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
This really huge overview was last updated by ListeriaBot in August last year. More than 10 times bigger then 'my page' that was also for the last time updated in August. I cannot rule out that additional information in Wikidata is the root cause, but to me it seems more likely both have more to do with a change in the resources that ListeriaBot is allowed to use and/or a change in the software that ListeriaBot is using. Anyway, thanks for your reply, because the point you mentioned can certainly be one of the reasons that such an error message can occur now and didn't in the past. - Robotje (talk) 09:42, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikipédia:Wikidata/Aniversário hoje

Hallo, Magnus Manske. Diese portugiesische Wikipedia-Seite wurde seit September nicht mehr von Deinem Listeria-Roboter aktualisiert. Könntest Du es bitte wieder zum Laufen bringen? Grüße aus Brasilien --Clarice Reis (talk) 23:11, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Duplicity improvements

Hello Magnus,

You asked to use bitbucket but I do not see duplicity there, so I am still posting you here. I have been using duplicity a lot the last few weeks, and I noticed some improvements that would make it more useful:

  1. It seems duplicity does not include disambiguation page entities on Wikidata, even if the page itself is a disambiguation page.
  2. The search results seem to be badly ordened, or not at all. Because of this the most likely result might be a few pages down, or even cut off completely if there are too many results
  3. Related to this, seeing the label in some language would be more useful than just showing the Q-number as it is now. That way, having to click all to see which if any is the right one can be reduced
  4. A more minor issue, but the stats graphic would probably be more useful if it only went back one or two years rather than many years as it is now. If you don't agree, then at least add years to the key on the x-axis - whether data is from 2015 or 2016 is more useful information than whether it is from 13 or 14 May.

Thank you for listening to me, and very special thank you for building and maintaining all those tools! - Andre Engels (talk) 10:17, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

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Missing Topics not running

Hi Magnus! Missing Topics loaded, but after click to "Run" not running. For example, here. -- 20:25, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

ListeriaBot

Just a heads up, I've posted a request at User talk:ListeriaBot for a minor coding adjustment when it has to output categories to the lists it generates. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 13:24, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

You got mail!

Hi Magnus,

check your emails! -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:24, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

contact natalia markova on her twitter

natalia is looking to speak with you please contact her via her twitter or instagram thanks! 24.96.205.172 (talk) 03:31, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Missing Topics Tool

Hallo Magnus, das Missing Topics Tool liefert die Fehlermeldung 

There was an error running the query [Unknown column 'tl_title' in 'field list']

Jetzt steht zwar Please try PetScan, the designated successor to this tool! drüber, aber ob jede(r) Nutzer des Tools gewillt ist, die 5 oder 10 Minuten zu investieren, um bei den vielen Einstellungen diejenigen zu finden, die gebraucht werden, ist halt fraglich. (Bei mir stellt sich nach jedem Aufruf die eingestellte Sprache zurück auf Englisch.)

Optisch ändert sich die ausgegebene Wikitext-Tabelle auch ein wenig, und aus der Verlinkung aufs Tool in der Überschrift, die je nach Bildschirmgröße zwei bis drei Zeilen einnahm, wird nun ein Codeblock, der (zumindest bei mir) das sichtbare Editfenster füllt.

Besteht die Chance, dass das Missing Topics Tool zeitnah repariert wird? -- Liebe Grüße, 32X (talk) 15:48, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Unknown column 'tl_title' in 'field list'

Hallo Magnus,

das Tool Missingtopics gibt ab den 19. August bei einen Teil der Abfragen folgenden Fehler aus (Beispiel):

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... Now checking links on 66 pages... *There was an error running the query [Unknown column 'tl_title' in 'field list']

Schaust du mal bitte. Danke. Atamari (talk) 10:47, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

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Fast Tool

Either returns no photos, or very few. Error message "There was an error running the query [View 'commonswiki_p.templatelinks' references invalid table(s) or column(s) or function(s) or definer/invoker of view lack rights to use them]"

Thanks,

Safeguarding (talk) 22:40, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

This seems to be fixed now, but a number of queries don't return all results. "photographs in Russia", "photographs in Iran", "photographs in Poland", "people of France", "people of Germany", for some examples where the query cuts out halfway. Safeguarding (talk) 09:23, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Strange error in Missing Topics

Hi Magnus! Today I run Missing Topics tool - and recieve error message on screen "There was an error running the query [Unknown column 'tl_title' in 'field list']"

Here: https://missingtopics.toolforge.org/?language=ru&project=wikipedia&depth=5&category=%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D1%81_%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B9&article=&wikimode=1&limitnum=4&notemplatelinks=1&nosingles=1

Without parameter "Filter out links from templates used in category pages" - no error, all OK. -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 06:39, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikimedia decided to change the database which broke a few tools. This one is fixed now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:59, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
It's works fine now! Thank you! -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 13:13, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Baglama for Wikisource

Hi Magnus, are you the maintainer for Baglama tool? I've just recently stumbled into it, and it's a wonderful tool. Would it be possible to add the pageviews on Wikisource as well, since GLAM-related projects are not only Wikipedia.

Example:

And while we're at it, couldl the pageview of the file itself in Commons get added too?

Thank you! Bennylin (talk) 08:06, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Oh, apparently Wikisource has been included in another count request that I made:
So maybe it's because Balinese Wikisource hasn't been added to the Baglama code to check or something?
Also, I noticed some inconsistencies in the site names:
Site Pages Views
  • Indonesian Wikipedia Details 17 21,031
  • English Wikipedia Details 25 9,535
  • Wikisource Details 71 204 -> it should say which edition it is (i.e. Indonesian Wikisource)
  • Malay Wikipedia Details 8 94
  • Chinese Wikipedia Details 10 71
  • Italian Wikipedia Details 3 44
  • Wikidata Details 5 32
  • Spanish Wikipedia Details 2 13
  • Portuguese Wikipedia Details 3 11
  • French Wikipedia Details 1 2
  • Welsh Wikipedia Details 1 0
  • Meta Wikipedia Details 2 0
  • Wikipedia Details 2 0 -> This apparently refer to outreach:, which is not a Wikipedia; link to wrong site: https://outreach.wikipedia.org/
  • Wikipedia Details 42 0 -> This apparently refer to oldwikisource:, which is not a Wikipedia either. See other examples in here (Images from Tropenmuseum)
14 sites
And where can we help with the localization? We would like to show these stats to our GLAM partners.
Also, in addition to the number of pages and views, is it possible to count the number of images and unique images used in every project, the total images in the categories (main and subs), and the percentage of images in that category that being used, like in GLAMorous tool?
Thank you again! Bennylin (talk) 08:11, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
Bug

Found a bug in https://glamtools.toolforge.org/baglama2/#gid=1147&month=202208&giu=idwiki&server=id.wikipedia.org, where the namespace Story (from Wikistories) is not properly detected (https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story:Serat_Damar_Wulan_(bagian_1) ) and in Wikisource's Index (Indices) and Pages namespaces as well. (see: https://glamtools.toolforge.org/baglama2/#gid=1137&month=202208&giu=idwikisource&server=id.wikisource.org). Bennylin (talk) 04:32, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Questions about toolforge--duplicity

Thanks you for this great tool. But I'm confused about why there are some outdated wikis like advisorywiki and qualitywiki. Could you tell me? Thanks.--迴廊彼端 (talk) 05:27, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Renamed category stats on Baglama2

Hi @Magnus Manske, first of all thank you so much for all the awesome tools you have created that help the entire Wikimedia community. Secondly, I am having an issue with BaGLAMa 2 in which statistics for a certain category stopped being displayed after the category was renamed and now I am unable to add the new category as the renaming was just about capitalization of one letter. This is the category and these are the statistics. Any suggestions on how to proceed from here? -- Satdeep Gill (talk • contribs 13:16, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia page Peter Thomas McGuigan

Hi @Magnus Manske: Thanks for your message regarding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thomas_McGuigan. Please help me out, A couple of days ago, I received an email from someone from Wikipedia telling me that Peter Thomas McGuigan photo doesn’t have “permission” and will be deleted, I wrote back saying I took the photo about 30 years ago and I own the copyright. And I filled out the form about it while I created the page. I haven’t heard any response since then, but received the message from you. I can’t find any record on the “talk” page. Should I prove I took the photo? I already put my legal name on the photo, but I don’t use my legal name for writing with Wikipedia just like most of the wiki volunteers except for my published fiction books. In this case, what should I do to keep Peter Thomas McGuigan's photo on the page? Many Thanks! ~~1001Bookworm~~ 1001Bookworm (talk) 12:55, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

ISIN page location

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Refresh cache in Distributed game

Hi Magnus, can you please refresh cache in distributed game? There is a contest going on right now in game=83 and I've changed the descriptions but they are not refreshed. And the game=78 it's outdated and should be deleted from the list. Happy holydays! Thanks, Jmmuguerza (talk) 14:00, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

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Herding sheep

Hi Magnus, do you have any docs on how to use Herding sheep? Could you provide one example of it? I tried this, this, this, and many other variations, but didn't yield any result. Thanks! Bennylin (talk) 07:48, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Catfood

Same questions with catfood, with the default values, clicking "Do it" download the php page instead. Also MotD is broken. Bennylin (talk) 07:50, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

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