User talk:Magnus Manske/old7

DNB proposal

User:Charles Matthews/WikiProject DNBMerge. Charles Matthews (talk) 05:58, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Category search on Danish Wiki

Hi, I wish to embed a search in a Wiki-page, which finds all members in da:Kategori:Flerårige urter og da:Kategori:Haveplanter.

I have read Wikipedia:Searching#Using_Wikimedia_search_to_find_category_intersections, but I can only make +incategory:"KATEGORI" work to some extent. The search +incategory:"Blå blomster" works perfectly, while +incategory:"Flerårige urter" returns 0 hits.

I am not reporting this on the JIRA system because I am not sure wether it is a bug, user error or case of partially implemented functionality. Can you clarify whats happening?

Best regards --Honymand (talk) 12:12, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Regarding Wiki2XML

Hi Magnus,

I'm doing a linguistics project which will involve using your Wiki2XML tool. I'm looking at the SVN of the tool and see that there's a php version in http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/wiki2xml/php/ , but there's also some C++ source in the directory above - http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/wiki2xml/

Does this C++ source do the same job as wiki2xml.php? It would be great to know, because I need to parse a huge amount of wiki markup, and as you know, php is quite slow....

Thanks!

Ventolin (talk) 21:33, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ventolin! Sorry to say that the C++ is an abandoned, unfinished experiment; the only (half-way;-) working version is the PHP one. --Magnus Manske (talk) 20:47, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Geohack - Maidenhead locator

Do you think you could add a {maidenhead} variable to your geohack to allow the inputted lat and lon to be converted into a Maidenhead grid square for the "Amateur Radio" section? The code you can use can be found in {{Coor Maidenhead}}. --  Denelson83  06:20, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

I would have put this request on your JIRA site, but it's blocked. Firefox gives me this error message:

“ Secure Connection Failed

jira.ts.wikimedia.org uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is not trusted. The certificate expired on 15/11/2008 2:52 AM.

(Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer)

”

--  Denelson83  11:03, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 2

Provisionally scheduled for Feburary 28. Comments welcome, & seeing you there even better! Dsp13 (talk) 18:13, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

TUSC

seems to broken. See two threads at village pump (Commons) and German WP's Fragen zur Wikipedia. Regards, --X-Weinzar (talk) 15:06, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:06, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing - and thank you for your great tools in general! Viele Grüße, --X-Weinzar (talk) 02:17, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Geohack HTML code injection patch

Index: mapsources.php
===================================================================
--- mapsources.php	(revision 10)
+++ mapsources.php	(working copy)
@@ -300,16 +300,15 @@
 			"{pagename}", "{title}", 
 			"{geocountry}", "{geoa1}" ) ;
 		
-		$r_pagename = get_request( 'pagename', '' ) ;
-		$r_pagename = str_replace ( '&' , "&" , $r_pagename ) ;
-		$r_pagename = str_replace ( '"' , """ , $r_pagename ) ;
-		$r_title = get_request( 'title', $r_pagename ) ;
-		$r_title = str_replace ( '&' , "&" , $r_title ) ;
-		$r_title = str_replace ( '"' , """ , $r_title ) ;
+		# Using REFERER as a last resort for pagename
+		$ref_match = preg_replace("/http:\/\/[^\/]+\/(.*?title=([^#&{|}\[\]]*)|wiki\/([^#{|}\[\]]*)).*/", "$2$3", $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] );
+		$r_pagename = get_request( 'pagename', ( $ref_match ? $ref_match : '' ) ) ;
+		$r_title = get_request( 'title', str_replace( '_', ' ', $r_pagename ) ) ;
+		$r_pagename = htmlspecialchars ($r_pagename ) ;
+		$r_title = htmlspecialchars ( $r_title ) ;
 		
 		if ($lon['deg'] > 0 ) $longantipodes = $lon['deg']-180;
 		else $longantipodes = $lon['deg']+180;
-
 		
 		$replace = array(
 			$lat['deg'],

This patch fixes a HTML code injection flaw, fixes underscore handling, and adds referer detection for pagename variable as a fallback. I would commit this myself, but SVN is borked for me (I emailed the admins two months ago). — Dispenser 01:43, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, it's in! --Magnus Manske (talk) 18:07, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Cambridge meetup

The second Cambridge meetup is confirmed for this Saturday, 3pm, at CB2 on Norfolk Street: Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 2. Hope to see you there. Charles Matthews (talk) 16:30, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Cottingham Castle

Sorry, Magnus. I have removed your [Image:Cottingham Castle - geograph.org.uk - 644381.jpg] from the Baynard Castle article for reasons given on the Talk Page. Regards and cheers Bjenks (talk) 02:23, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Knightshayes Court

Great photographs, many thanks.

KJP1 (talk) 07:59, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Images for Somerset

Hi, You keep popping up on my watchlist as providing great photos for some of the Somerset articles which don't have them. I was wondering if you had any more for articles at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Somerset and could I ask a favour - to keep that cat up to date by removing {{reqphoto|in=Somerset}} from the talk pages of articles where you have added them.— Rod ^talk 11:10, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll try those after I've gone through my current candidate list. If you like, feel free to try yourself with geograph.org as the source (direct upload requires TUSC account). --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for doing some of them. I've signed up but when I try to use the automatic upload (Geograph.org2Commons) I always get the error message "TUSC verification failed".— Rod ^talk 16:46, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Did you get a TUSC account for Commons and enter that data in the FIST form? The toolserver doesn't allow me to ask for your Commons password, so I have to roll my own user verification scheme... --Magnus Manske (talk) 17:22, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Yep did that & seemed fine until I tried the automatic upload, but I'll do it again.— Rod ^talk 17:30, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for all your great work adding images to the Somerset articles.— Rod ^talk 21:46, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Your feedback is greatly appreciated :-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:50, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Geohack update

When you have a moment, would you add the following types to Geohack?

				'adm3rd'         =>     100000,    # 100 thousand
				'satellite'      =>     10000000,  # 10 million
				'event'          =>     50000,     # 50 thousand

BTW, could you also include the last two lines from the end of User_talk:Magnus_Manske/old6#Geohack_new_variables. I'm not sure though if the line numbers are still correct (your code doesn't appear on Fisheye anymore).

You might already have noticed, an extension for the geo-tools was suggested at mw:Summer_of_Code_2009#MediaWiki_core_and_new_extensions. -- User:Docu

Hi, I've added the three new types. Your older code changes don't seem to fit in the current code anymore. Fisheye is not working because they nuked the SVN on the toolserver; I've asked to set it up again, but admins drag their feet... --Magnus Manske (talk) 22:35, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. The other fix is for two variables (geocountry, geoa1) that are a bit off [1] (should be US and DC in this sample). -- User:Docu

On a slightly related note: I have redesign the page format to fix a few of the issues concerning page rendering. I'm not sure how to commit to SVN, but I'll take this version live next week. — Dispenser 06:32, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Bug in less edit clutter

Hi Magnus, I'm a big fan of less edit clutter.js, but I think I might have found a bug in it. Look at these two diffs: the reference names were removed even though I didn't edit the references section. Sorry if this isn't the correct place for reporting this, and thanks for all the work you do for Wikimedia! Cheers, Pruneau^talk 17:49, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I believe I have fixed the issue, though it would help if you check as well. Cheers, Magnus Manske (talk) 10:52, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

It looks like it works now. Thanks a lot! Pruneau^talk 14:21, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Magnus, I've noticed something else in less_edit-clutter.js, which probably won't take so long to fix: Images at the top of a page appear in the "Header templates and images" only if one uses the Image: syntax; they remain in the Main text box if one uses the File: syntax. Thanks again for your work, Pruneau^talk 12:05, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. I didn't try it, though; please tell me if it's still broken, or if it broke something else ;-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:45, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Looking good! Thanks, Pruneau^talk 01:20, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

OBI missing biographies

Nice to see you editing in article space! We have been chipping away at your compiled OBI list - can you believe it's almost done? Jokestress (talk) 00:41, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

15.000 biographies sounded a lot at back then... I think I'll help writing the remaining ones, even if it's only "longer stubs" ;-) Has kind of a full-circle-feeling about it! --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:26, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Canadian grid

Would you have a look at Lester's note at Template_talk:GeoTemplate#Mapeze_-_Canada. Maybe the projection for the Atlas of Canada could be integrated into geohack. -- User:Docu

Mary Carpenter

Hi, I note your interest in the above. I have made many improvemnts, I am sure more needs to be done. Would appreciate input when you have time. Jezhotwells (talk) 21:44, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

An award

		The Articles for Creation Barnstar
		For your terrific work creating new important articles (Thomas William Gleason, Hans Ernst Krøyer, Josef von Philippovich, etc.) and improving many other new ones, I award you this snazzy barnstar! – Quadell (talk) 16:56, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Meetup confirmed

The third Cambridge meetup is confirmed for the Free Press pub, 12.30 pm on Tuesday 28 April. Charles Matthews (talk) 13:24, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, but I won't be able to make it from here for lunch... --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:52, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Open Book Initiative barnstar

		The Articles for Creation Barnstar
		For starting the OBI missing biographies list and personally completing the list 11,089 articles later! Very impressive! Jokestress (talk) 19:44, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Free Image Find Tool

When search for images for this category, I keep getting File:Neouvielle and lac d' aumar.png and a few others. Is there a stock image category I can put it into? It's used in some template in fr wikipedia.

Besides that, I got several additional images from commons compared to last month, not images that were new there, but they have most likely been better categorized since. I like the tool. -- User:Docu

Try this. --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:51, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, it works! -- USer:Docu

Geoportail IGN France to GeoHack

Hello,
Could you add "Géoportail IGN" to GeoHack ? The problem may be to link geographical co-ordinates and zoom level (or geographical scope) to a coded line parameter to Geoportail. Example: municipality of [Bunzac], 0°20'53"E, 45°41'56"N. From my side, I can try and contact IGN to know about the coding of this parameter, unless you can guess more quickly than me ;-). It would be a very nice feature if implemented. Regards, Jack ma (talk) 07:23, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

They are already linked at Template:GeoTemplate#France. Please contact them and ask them how to link with latitude and longitude. -- User:Docu

Sorry Magnus, I couldn't resist taking a look at this one! Turns out it's a long base64 encoded parameter, where the scale value is between 4 and 21. From Wikipedia scales that's something like log(wpscale/1000,2)*1.3. I put up a redirecting tool on the toolserver with that logic, and added links on GeoTemplate. Hope the reference grid is the same as here, seems to be working at a few test points at least. --Para (talk) 13:39, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Good work, Para. I really should stop answering questions on other people's talk page. I'm glad this is one is finally solved.

BTW, maybe it helps if I say that Canada and Italy can't be done either -- User:Docu

Upload Bot

Please have a look at Commons:User talk:Magnus Manske#Verbesserungen am Upload Bot. --::Slomox:: >< 16:36, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

problem with GeoHack in Spanish

Hi!. I have problems with GeoHack in Spanish language. I do not know the reason, but the page doesn't work properly (tested on Firefox, IE6 and Chrome, Spanish translated versions). It only shows a large list of incongruent signs like �Nj+���Ϊ�ͷv�mj��9m��m��M�֭Ri���6����R����W�[,:n���Ou�����'�, but in other languages in works in the correct way. GeoHack use to work fine in Spanish for a long time on my computer, I dont know if there is some bug in my pc or in GeoHack, but please check it. Compare this vs. this. Thanks! Felipealvarez (talk) 21:36, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

SOLVED. It was a redirection problem at Spanish Wikipedia. Thanks!. Felipealvarez (talk) 22:04, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

GeoHack needs minor URL fix

Hey, Magnus, I love your GeoHack tool! I just noticed the WikiMapia links don't work correctly, because the "www." prefix needs to be dropped. The WikiMapia server no longer responds to requests with a www. Cheers! --Specious (talk) 02:25, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Audio Barnstar

		The Audio Barnstar
		For the many, many Sylvia Kind audio files you've added to the wiki. Thanks! Yintaɳ  11:03, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

User:Magnus Manske/less edit clutter.js

I've been testing your javascript revision of the editing interface, which definitely reduces a lot of the confusion that editors experience. I'm hoping to recommend using it to a brand new bunch of hard science editors, as well as making it a gadget. But I've found that it's not compatible with another script that I also want to recommend to the new editors: User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js, and I also think highly of that script.

I asked Anomie to take a look at the incompatibility; here's what he said:

I haven't tested it, but it looks like this is what's happening: Magnus's script screws up the text in the edit box, and unscrews it just before any of the standard buttons are pressed. My script adds an alternate button, which misses Magnus's "unscrew" operation and thus does a preview on the screwed-up text.

I've added a hook to my script, so the "get editbox text content" function can be replaced. Magnus's script needs a function like less_edit_clutter_rejoin() that returns the unscrewed text without actually modifying the text boxes, and when window.AJAXPreview is defined it needs to assign that function to AJAXPreview.getTextContent inside less_edit_clutter_init() (e.g. if(window.AJAXPreview) AJAXPreview.getTextContent = less_edit_clutter_unscrew_text;).

Would you be able to change your script to make it compatible, or suggest changes to Anomie for his script, to resolve this?

Thanks! -- John Broughton (♫♫) 13:42, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

I appreciate the change you make: when I try the "Ajax Preview w/Refs" button, it works! -- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:07, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Your bot

Hi, we have a problem with your bot that could result in featured pictures getting deleted. Your bot has moved File:Military aviary2.jpg to Commons, and in the process has removed the following text from the image description: Original text : Pre-1923 public domain in the United States. Artist's full name and lifespan could not be determined; cannot upload to Commons because this image has unknown copyright status in France. PD-1923 is sufficient for local en:wiki hosting but is not compliant with Commons policy, where public domain status in the country where it was published is also necessary. Could we discuss this please? Durova^Charge! 16:11, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi Durova! First, I am traveling right now, will be back at home (computer) next week. Second, I am very sorry if the bot ate some text. Do I understand correctly that the problem stems from someone using the bot to upload an unsuitable image to Commons? I can block/allow images with certain templates for Commons transfer, I just need to know which ones. Also, the bot has "grown" to a state where the current free-text parsing doesn't cut it anymore. I am working on a successor bot, but I'm generally busy with other things, so progress is slow. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby.jpg

File Copyright problem

Thanks for uploading File:Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, their copyright should also be acknowledged.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 03:52, 21 May 2009 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

Please provide source, author, and date for this image. Jappalang (talk) 03:52, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Dates

Hi, I noticed that you linked a date or two when you created Frederick Hermann Knubel. This practice is now deprecated. Please see WP:LINKING and WP:MOSNUM. I'm happy to respond to any inquiries you may have about the matter. Ohconfucius (talk) 09:00, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

ty

Thank you for creating Morbid map. Keep up the fine work, Kingturtle (talk) 14:41, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

CommonsHelper

I have a question regarding this. Is it possible to pass a parameter/argument in a url that will automatically untick Use WikiSense to suggest categories and tick Remove existing categories? I already use this url to pass a few settings.--Rockfang (talk) 17:24, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Try this. --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:43, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

That works. Thank you for the help.--Rockfang (talk) 16:08, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

fixdisambig.js

Hi. I'm wondering if User:Magnus Manske/fixdisambig.js is still working? It doesn't seem to be, or I might be doing something wrong (I have it installed in my user.js), or maybe it's conflicting with one of the others I have installed. Thanks for any help :) -- Quiddity (talk) 17:42, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Should work again now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:38, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Great stuff. Could you also add in the "Human name disambiguation pages" category, as a trigger? Thanks again. :) -- Quiddity (talk) 18:13, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Done. --Magnus Manske (talk) 18:53, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Worcestershire

Hi! A WikiProject Worcestershire has now been created to better manage all articles that relate in any way to the county even if they overlap with other categories or projects. Please visit the project pages and if you see listed any articles you have written or contributed to, or if you would like to see more active development of them, don't hesitate to join the project.

Happy Magnus Manske/old7's Day!

User:Magnus Manske/old7 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Magnus Manske/old7's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Magnus Manske/old7! Peace, Rlevse ~ A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:37, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

You deserve more than one! — Rlevse • Talk • 12:04, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Support for dim: implemented in GeoHack

I've implemented support for the dim: parameter that's used on the German Wikipedia. I figured it would be best to get this out ASAP as the other changes planned (scaling to city/country size and precision scaling) needs more testing and better formed code. The assume view port size is 10 cm by 10 cm. — Dispenser 10:43, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Guyhirn

We're having a bit of a discussion over images at User talk:Jenuk1985. Any ideas? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:15, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Ulysses_simpson_grant.jpg

File Copyright problem

Thanks for uploading File:Ulysses_simpson_grant.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, their copyright should also be acknowledged.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 01:11, 11 July 2009 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 01:11, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

ODNB

Hi Magnus, I was wondering if you'd be able to set up a list of missing articles like you did for this, but for the ODNB instead? I noticed there are several non-existent articles that have counterparts on there, but aren't listed anywhere here. Thanks, Majorly talk 18:45, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Problems with the Move-to-Commonshelper and Files from wikipedia.de

Hi Magnus,

I know your page says you don't want to be asked about this, but I'm filing it here, because there are a couple of request that haven't been answered on the page; some of them for more than nine months. I'm not so much asking to solve these problems immediately, but I'd like to have more information on how the tool works and on how one could create workarounds. One example:

If you upload a file containing the Vorlage:Bild-PD-US it should be converted to Template:PD-USGov. It is converted to Template:PD-US instead. On Commons there is actually a redirect from Vorlage:Bild-PD-US to Template:PD-USGov. It would be nice, if you could shead some light on this situation.

Cheers --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 19:42, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

I tweaked CommonsHelper so it should now translate Bild-PD-US to PD-USGov. As to the general workflow, I know there's lots of things waiting in JIRA, but somehow I can manage to avoid looking at them for month ;-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 20:26, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very very much. It's really great that that works now. I'm sorry to bother you again, but could you make that:

1. Vorlage:Bild-PD-Amtliches Werk -> Template:PD-GermanGov
2. Vorlage:Bild-PD-Amtliches Werk (Deutsche Briefmarke) -> Template:PD-GermanGov

Thanks a lot --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 11:22, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Done. --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:16, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 18:56, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Cambridge meetup 1 August

FYI, the fourth Cambridge meetup will occur on the afternoon of Saturday 1 August. Charles Matthews (talk) 14:23, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Geohack OSGB problem

Hi, Could you take a look at this, please? --Cavrdg (talk) 18:32, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

MetaWatchlist suggestion

Hi Magnus. MetaWatchlist isn't in the JIRA system, so I'm writing here. Thanks for the excellent idea, but could you create an option to hide certain edits (own, bots, prior to own edits, etc)? Thanks, Waldir ^talk 06:59, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

PS - And what about turning the entries into links? :)

Hi Waldir, thanks for the suggestions! I'll implement them (and others) as soon as my overfull schedule allows :-) The list entries are already double-clickable, and should open the respective diff if your browser. I tried to put individual links into the list entry, but that didn't seem to work... --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:59, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick answer, I'll be looking forward to the new features :) However, the double-click doesn't seem to work here, you might want to look into that (I'm using Ubuntu 9.04, if that is of any help) --Waldir ^talk 10:51, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Paging through the list

Neat tool. As far as I can see, only the 10 most recent changes are displayed. Would be great to be able to go further in the list of changes. -- Dandv (talk) 07:36, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Right click options

• "copy link address"
• "mark as reviewed"

-- Dandv (talk) 07:36, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Ask for duplicate_images.across.pl source

Are you kind enough to give me the source of this file? I would like to run it for vi.wiki but currently your tool doesn't support that project and your SVN doesn't have it. Thank you. Tân (talk) 10:10, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

I've added vi.wikipedia to the list and started the update process, so it should show up in the "regular" tool soon (hours), and will be updated daily. I am currently organizing the SVN; this particular tool consists of a frontend, an update script, a wrapper script, and a cronjob entry, spread over several directories. Some of my code includes hardcoded passwords. I will make all code available as things progress. Unless you really need the code urgently NOW, please give me a few days :-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:19, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

That's too much for me when you add vi.wikipedia to the list :). Thank you very much. Tân (talk) 15:02, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

OK, it's live. --Magnus Manske (talk) 19:16, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Post I made to Charles Matthews

Just like to give your attention to this post I made over at Charles Matthews talk page (See here: User talk:Charles Matthews). I am basically suggesting that your DNB list and Charles Matthews list (which is one and the same as far as I can tell) be merged or combined as one to make things less confusing. Kind regards. Calaka (talk) 12:20, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

CommonsHelper2 Bugs

Hallo Magnus, ich schreibe das jetzt hier, obwohl du oben auf deiner Seite einen roten Kasten hast, dass Bugs bitte in JIRA gemeldet werden sollen, aber dort stehen nach wie vor die Bugs für den alten CommonsHelper und der neue hat mich direkt hierhin geleitet. Folgendes ist mir beim Transfer von de:Datei:DRKMobUHS.jpg aufgefallen:

• Zuerst mal kommt oben zweimal die Meldung "Unknown tag SMALL"; ich vermute mal, dass das an den <small>-Tags in meiner Signatur liegt. Vermutlich musst du das zu einer Liste akzeptierter HTML-Tags o.ä. hinzufügen.
• Es wird nicht wirklich klar, ob die Datei jetzt verschoben wurde. Ich hatte den Haken bei TUSC reingemacht und es hat auch funktioniert, aber man bekommt davon nichts mit. Dafür bekommt man nochmal einen Link zum Download der Datei und zum Commons-Uploadformular. Besser wäre es, mitzuteilen, dass der Upload stattgefunden hat, so wie bei der alten Version.
• Die Ersetzung von Vorlagen findet nicht statt. Ich habe heute extra die entsprechende Seite auf Meta bearbeitet, um die entsprechenden Vorlagen richtig zu verknüpfen. Beim Transfer ist das aber nicht passiert, so ist z.B. die OTRS-Vorlage nicht, wie gewünscht, in PermissionOTRS umgewandelt worden und auch die Lizenzvorlage ist nicht umgewandelt worden.
• Gleich zu Anfang der Commons-Beschreibungsseite wird zweimal die BotMoveToCommons-Vorlage eingebunden; eine Einbindung ist defekt. Eigentlich sollte auch eine Einbindung alleine ausreichen.

Tut mir leid, falls das hier der falsche Platz war; ich werde es gerne nochmal woanders posten, wenn du mir sagst wo. Beste Grüße, -- ChrisiPK (talk) 18:51, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

CatScan 2

Hi, an element available in the previous version is missing now: the display of replag. -- User:Docu at 23:20, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

ter Meer

Thanks for the image! I like the irony in the fact that the only image of supervisory board chairman of a world leading chemistry company is the image when he was convicted as a war criminal.--Stone (talk) 17:42, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

CommonsHelper 2

I was going to post this on JIRA, but it isnt a bug or feature request. At least not yet.  :) Is it possible to pass CommonsHelper 2 the parameters I used with the first CommonsHelper as shown here?--Rockfang (talk) 03:19, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Try this. --Magnus Manske (talk) 07:54, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

That appears to work. Thank you for the help. And thank you for writing both CommonsHelpers :) Rockfang (talk) 09:59, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Images from Commons

At first, I was going to post this on the JIRA system, but at it is not a bug or a feature request, and I would like User:Redrose64 to follow this issue, would you take a look at the above? Via the toolserver, I reached the duplicate images and started making the changes as indicated. Am I correct in the believe that commons is to be the database for all the images on all wikipedia projects and that images are to be named "files". Thnks for your comments. Ida Shaw (talk) 08:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi. Commons is our shared, free media repository. Thus, images with a free license should be on Commons rather than on a specific wikipedia, as this benefits all wikipedias and users beyond. That said, there are a lot of exceptions, specific to individual wiki(m|p)edia projects. Some projects have decided not to store local images at all, and use Commons exclusively. Most, like en.wikipedia, allow either. Some files cannot be transfered to Commons at all, for example, fair use images from en.wikipedia or Panoramafreiheit images from de.wikipedia, and thus have to remain locally stored. And yes, the official namespace for images is "File:", with "Image:" still working as an alias. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:37, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your explanation. Ida Shaw (talk) 05:45, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Cambridge meetup 14 November

Another Cambridge meetup is planned for the afternoon of Saturday 14 November. Please contribute to the page and come along if you can. Charles Matthews (talk) 14:31, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

CatScan2 bug

Hello, I tried to report this on that JIRA thing but it seems to be broken. It kept giving me a totally brain-damaged message "Errors: Reporter: Reporter is required" without giving me a box to type it in.

Here is the bug. CatScan2 links are broken if the titles contain single quote / apostrophe characters as the anchor href attribute is delimited using single quotes too and the URLs are not being encoded/escaped properly. For example, viewing enwiki category "Hells Angels", the article "Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs", links to just "Hell". • Anakin ^(talk) 08:57, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Cambridge meetup

Hey Magnus, you coming to the next meetup? If you are, I'll be bringing some Club mate. :) --rainman (talk) 20:47, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Now THERE's an argument :-) Just signed up... --Magnus Manske (talk) 22:07, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Defective image used in Paula West

The image you used was 90° counter clockwise from the correct orientation. Please correct this. -- allen四names 23:14, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

I have already added a rotate template to have it bot-rotated. You could have done the same thing, with less keystrokes than leaving me a message. --Magnus Manske (talk) 23:16, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

 Done I did not notice that you had responded to my message until today. -- allen四names 01:20, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Azkue

Thank you so much for drawing my attention to that Basque image source, it was totally new to me and there's a great many pics under CC license there that will help illustrate many Basque articles beautifully! I've already uploaded another couple for the Basque rural sports page - going to wait for a few days though before doing more to see what happens in case I misread the license and someone objects. Akerbeltz (talk) 18:44, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

CatScan and accents

Hi, there seems to be some problems with apostrophe.

Difference depth 10 between (fr) "Métro de Paris" and "Station du métro de Paris" works ok,

but difference depth 10 between (fr) "RER d'Île-de-France" and "Gare d'Île-de-France" shows:

MYSQL error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'Île-de-France' )' at line 1 [INSERT IGNORE INTO cat2 ( catname ) VALUES ( 'RER_d'Île-de-France' )]

Gonioul (talk) 00:01, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Appears to be fixed now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 23:18, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

MakeRef - quick question

Quick question about your excellent tool, MakeRef - is there a way to make it so that if a field is left blank, that field is not added with the blank parameter in the final output - but instead is simply omitted? Thanks for your time, Cirt (talk) 13:36, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Also, some sort of "clear" button to clear the fields out when done, would be very helpful. :) Cirt (talk) 22:45, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Fehlermeldung

Ich wollte mit deinem wirklich tollem commonshelper2 ([2]) das Bild Globespin.gif von der engl. Wikipedia nach Commons rüberschieben und bakam dann die Fehlermelung: UNKNOWN TAG : 'SPAN'!. Aber die Fehlermeldung auf dem offiziellen Wege abzusetzen ist für den Laien ein Ding der Unmöglichkeit, bie der Meldung: "Reporter is required" mußte ich aufgeben. --Politikaner (talk) 22:03, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Sollte jetzt funktionieren. --Magnus Manske (talk) 23:15, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Copyvio images moved to Commons

Hi, earlier today File Upload Bot moved two images to Commons that were being discussed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2009 November 20 and which have recently closed as "Delete". AFAIK the {{move to commons}} tags had been removed, so I'm not sure how or why this happened, but it may be something you want to look into. The images in question are File:Kimokbin2006.jpg and File:Kimokbin2009.jpg, both now tagged for speedy deletion on Commons. Regards. PC78 (talk) 18:00, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Formatting

Hi Magnus- you're correct that I'm somewhat new here. With regards to the formatting issue, at least on my screen, subheading show up as bold while main headings show up in regular font with a horizontal line across the screen. I was initially confused as to which were the main headings and which were the subheadings because the text in the subheadings was so much more prominent. Thus my attempt to remedy things by putting the headings in bold as well. Is this a browser issue with Safari? If not, who is in charge of setting the basic visual style of the site? I understand the need to have some standards to keep the site from looking like a giant ransom letter (i.e. made from individual characters cut from different newspapers), but a standard style that confuses all but the experienced veterans who make the rules doesn't seem like a good thing. ScienceGeekling (talk) 15:12, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

hallo from Uwe Kils

can you please vote again on http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Uwe_Kils_(3rd_nomination). Best wishes Uwe Kils 13:44, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Flight of the Bumblebee ogg

Brianboulton suggested that I get in touch with you since you created the Flight of the Bumblebee ogg. I was told in the PR for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov that the permission links for the ogg were broken and to fix them, but I have no idea how to do so. Could you please help me out? Thanks. Jonyungk (talk) 12:47, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Try the Wayback Machine :-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:35, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

I've taken a trip in the Wayback Machine and am overwhelmed. Let me be a little more specific. I have never worked with oggs and even find getting copyright permission for photos a daunting task. I looked at the information on the site and still don't know what I'm doing, plus I do not have sound on my computer. Help, help, help. Jonyungk (talk) 19:41, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Well, I didn't create the file, I just copied it. The original site (pandora) is gone, so the link to the license leads to nirvana, which (I suppose) is the problem. Replace it with the link to the wayback machine, which is a perfect copy of the site at the time and contains the license. That should do it, unless there are complications you didn't mention. --Magnus Manske (talk) 19:50, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the help—I pasted in the new permisssion file as you suggested. Is there any other music by Rimsky-Korsakov that could be converted into oggs and used in the article? As I menteioned earlier, I have never worked with oggs, so I have zero capability for doing this myself. Thanks again. Jonyungk (talk) 13:05, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks again for all your help. Just one more question: how would I fix the "is interchangeable" link on the Bumblebee ogg? Jonyungk (talk) 00:39, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Fixed. --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:14, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks very much. Jonyungk (talk) 03:58, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Magnus Manske! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 3 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 230 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

1. Xuxa - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
2. Thomas Eugene Kurtz - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
3. Nakamura Nakazo I - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 06:01, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Use if Geohack for project

Always loved Geohack. I notice it is GPL. Thought I'd query it's use here anyway for the Exploration Commons project. Do you think it would be suitable for the purpose of giving outside resources from a location on a WMS map served from the Exploration Commons site ? Might Geohack be too Wikipedia specific ? Or is it possible to insert it into a running installation of Mediawiki ? DJ Barney (talk) 14:22, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

First, fell free to use geohack under GPL! I'm sure it will have its use outside Wiki(m|p)edia as well. When you look at the code, you'll see that it was originally an extension, and I hope it will run within Wikipedia one day. For now, I'm not sure it will work as an extension out of the box, but it shouldn't need too much fixing. Also, feel free to link to the existing installation, but be aware that the URL will change in the coming months. --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:30, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

I can't work the JIRA system!

Hey Magnus; like your save-the-BLP tool, but would it be possible to tweak the display, mainly font-family? Everything defaults to Times with <h1> tags rendered huge; it's just a bit ... ugly. Cheers   pablo_hablo. 23:52, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

CatScan translated to ES

I discovered CatScan last week. It' a great tool!! I just write to Spanish (ES) version translating it from EN.

• I created CatScan2/es
• I added ES secion to CatScan2/Interface

Do you need any other page to add ES version to your tool? Aadrover (talk) 11:18, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for that! And it works great! --Magnus Manske (talk) 15:10, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

On good deeds and punishments

Hey Magnus. I thought I'd note this post to you, as it involves one of your tools. Hope you're doing well. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:34, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

CatScan

Seems broken at the moment.Dsp13 (talk)

Thanks, fixed. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:08, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

ta! (sorry not to use JIRA - I had a quick look but couldn't work out what to do) Dsp13 (talk) 23:20, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 6

Talking about March 27. Charles Matthews (talk) 21:39, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Now confirmed. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:10, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

TUSC token 77750f230eadd8b22e3bb1e7a25fb2e1

I am now proud owner of a TUSC account!

CatScan2beta interface translating bug

CatScan2beta with non-english interface was generate incorrect links to files/pages, because namespace translatings applies not only to the interface block, but also to prefixes within the links in search results.

Example:

1. "RU" interface
2. "commons" language
3. "wikimedia" project
4. place "Murino" in categories box (This category contains quite a bit of files)

First item in the result - "Autostation in Devyatkino.JPG", but link to this file is incorrect - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Файл:Autostation_in_Devyatkino.JPG

Correct link must be: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autostation_in_Devyatkino.JPG

That is the namespace in the URLs cannot be translated, or translations can be used only in language sections, corresponding to the interface language. --Kaganer (talk) 11:55, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 18:52, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Cambridge meetup

The next Cambridge meetup will take place on 29 May. Hope to see you there. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:21, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Media Wiki Book Project

Hi, Magnus. My apologies if this isn't the best way to contact you, but I couldn't find your email address. I'm working on a book about Media Wiki and Wikipedia, and I was hoping to get a chance to talk to you (or possibly even meet face to face) about your work on the early versions of MW. I'd be happy to tell you more about the book and provide details. Could you drop a note on my user page, or (preferably) send me an email at jimbrown@wayne.edu ?

Thanks!

Jamesjbrownjr (Talk) 21:32, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

geohack.php request

Hello Magnus Manske. I've just modified fr:Modèle:GeoTemplate to improve "France, Geoportail, communes", but I cannot see my modifications reflected to the GeoHack page when I call the fr:Modèle:Coord. Should I ask you to modifiy the geohack.php as well ? (I've purged all the caches, mystery for me...). Regards, Jack ma (talk) 07:59, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

joanjoc tools

You write on User talk:Joanjoc I've cloned your tools under my account. It doesn't work after the cloning. Can you fix it? --78.70.221.227 (talk) 23:33, 22 May 2010 (UTC) http://toolserver.org/~magnus/joanjoc/ --78.70.221.227 (talk) 07:14, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Should work now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:07, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Thomas Overbury.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:Thomas Overbury.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of that website's terms of use of its content. However, if the copyright holder is a party unaffiliated from the website's publisher, that copyright should also be acknowledged.

If you have uploaded other files, consider verifying that you have specified sources for those files as well. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged per Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion, F4. If the image is copyrighted and non-free, the image will be deleted 48 hours after 07:09, 26 May 2010 (UTC) per speedy deletion criterion F7. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. FASTILY_sock^(TALK) 07:09, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

GeoHack, map for Slovenia

Hi Magnus, I wanted to ask you if you could add a free 3D map service on Java for Slovenia:

|-
| Gaea+
| colspan=3 | [http://gaeaplus.si/webstart?version=gaeaplus&command=FlyLookAt;{latdegdec};{londegdec};400;WGS84;0.0;45.0; 3D Satellite]

You can test it with this link

Thank you, Mariano(t/c) 13:28, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Feel free to add it yourself to Template:GeoTemplate, after discussion on the talk page there. --Magnus Manske (talk) 20:03, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

CatScan 2 - escaping characters in pages like Emirates Business 24/7

Hi Magnus. A very minor bug in CatScan 2: if you e.g. use it to look for pages in Category:Media of Dubai with HTML output, you get a link to the wikipage http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Emirates_Business_24%2F7, which gives a 404 (I was using a Mac with Safari at the time). Presumably some character escaping going on which shouldn't be. It's a lovely tool. Best, Dsp13 (talk) 19:35, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Should be fixed. --Magnus Manske (talk) 20:24, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Dundee Cake

Are you sure the image you added is Dundee Cake? The flickr page doesn't specifically say it is, and a google image search of the term brings back images that are much different. Thanks --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 13:08, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

barnstar

		The British Museum barnstar
		Thank you for your tools - Treeviews, baGLAMa and GLAMorous Witty Lama 07:51, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! :-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 19:52, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

CatScan2

Hi, I'm a Chinese user. Chinese have two write language - Traditional and simple. But if I set a language called ZH-HANT, I have to set to zh by manual. Can you set ZH-HANT's and ZH-HANS's language to zh? Sorry about my English... Frankou (talk) 07:08, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Done. And your English is fine :-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 19:56, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Macedonian for CatScan2

Hello Magnus, I added the complete Macedonian translation (mk) of CatScan2 on m:CatScan2/Interface and the manual (m:CatScan2/mk) and I was wondering if you could tell me when we can expect to see it implemented. Thank you! --B. Jankuloski (talk) 05:24, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

See my reply on meta. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:45, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Cambridge Meetup 8

Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 8. As always you would be most welcome. Charles Matthews (talk) 14:00, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Dictionary of Biography

Hi I came across your user page and I saw your big missing list. Why didn't you let me know?? Can you check something for me. Is John Burneyeat correct? If not quite sure from your note form whether date comes before or after what you are trying to say. So was he imprisoned in Ireland in 1659 or 1658?? I'd be happy to help start these missing articles gradually.. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 16:27, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

I just imported and formatted these lists; I have no idea what the correct entries would be. The way to find out is looking them up in the "real" DNB, I guess. Sorry. --Magnus Manske (talk) 20:25, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Re:Wikipedia interwiki and specialized knowledge test

Interesting. I'd suggest splitting the "no_en_link" into "no link to other wikis at all" and "link to no-en wikis but not to en wiki" (I hope that makes sense). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 07:29, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

GeoHack request

I tried to use JIRA to raise this, as requested, but apparently did so in the wrong place. So here it is:

Per discussion at Template talk:GeoTemplate#New map of Mars, please provide the outputs:

• {latdegdec+n}
• {latdegdec-n}
• {londegdec+n}
• {londegdec-n}

or similar, allowing for 'wrapping' at extremities, and for both 0-180 an 0-360 ranges; where 'n' is either a user-specified value, or is repeated for a range of values (e.g. 5, 10, 20, 45, 60, 90).

Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 00:12, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Any news? 78.86.201.175 (talk) 10:49, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

User:Magnus Manske/Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

Hi there. I hope you don't mind, but I have considerably re-structured User:Magnus Manske/Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. In its former state it was taking forever to load and sometimes freezing my computer because of its large size. I decided to split the list up onto several pages to make it easy for everyone to navigate and edit the list. Cheers.4meter4 (talk) 17:01, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Always looking for people to organize my junkyard :-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:10, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Less edit clutter issue?

Hi Magnus. Could you take a look at this edit? I think that LEC removed a reference group name and a reference name. Thanks much, and love the script! Haus^Talk 22:02, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

I don't think it supports the group attribute, and maybe has problems with hyphens in the name. Will fix later, when I have time... --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:56, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

I believe I fixed the issues. Also, I now move more stuff into the header section, as by example of the page you gave. --Magnus Manske (talk) 20:33, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Looks good so far. Thanks again for the excellent tool! Haus^Talk 21:10, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!

Just a quick thank you for changing the name of the Christen Kold article :) Tamino (talk) 17:48, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

help me

Sir please help me to upload this image to wikipedia.

Ajaysandy || talk 14:15 23 july,2010 (UTC)

Do you own the copyright to the image? Or is it just some image you found on the web that you'd like to have on Wikipedia? --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:27, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

yes

sir i don't have the copyright of the image.

Ajaysandy || talk 16:58 23 july,2010 (UTC)

Well, since this is a living person, and Ajay Devgn already has an image, you are not allowed to upload it to Wikipedia. Sorry. --Magnus Manske (talk) 15:41, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Open Library links

I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't add these links to articles for now. Some editors (and I am among them) feel that in many cases the Open Library pages offer no worthwhile content and thus that the links should be excluded per WP:ELNO. (In other cases, however—as when OL has actual e-copies of texts not available elsewhere—the links may be acceptable.) A user has requested permission to use a bot to add the links in cases where they may be acceptable, and the approval process is ongoing; see the discussion at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/OpenlibraryBot and the related discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 63#Adding Open Library links to articles. Perhaps it is best to wait and see how the bot works before indiscriminately adding the links to articles. Deor (talk) 21:06, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:ATP.png

Thank you for uploading File:ATP.png. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of that website's terms of use of its content. However, if the copyright holder is a party unaffiliated from the website's publisher, that copyright should also be acknowledged.

If you have uploaded other files, consider verifying that you have specified sources for those files as well. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged per Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion, F4. If the image is copyrighted and non-free, the image will be deleted 48 hours after 18:55, 27 August 2010 (UTC) per speedy deletion criterion F7. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 18:55, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

New DNB WikiProject

For information: I have set up Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography, since the time has certainly come when there should be a place for collective discussion of the DNB adaptation effort. Please come and participate. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:38, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Book 2 scroll

Hi!

I was trying to use this tool at pt.wikisource, but I was told to bother you about the portuguese support. So here I am. How can I use it?

(sorry for not using the JIRA system, but I just can't login there - and I don't know why =/ [do you know who is an admin there?]).

Best regards, Helder (talk) 22:42, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I just need to add a few parameters (page namespace name and number etc.) for each language, once. I've done so for pt, it should work now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:59, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! Helder (talk) 21:51, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Geograph.org2Commons

Hi Magnus. Sorry, but I couldn't fathom out how to get a message to you on the JIRA system (not exactly user friendly, is it?). Over the last week, Geograph.org2Commons has become increasingly impossible to use. Attempts to upload files are invariably producing messages such as the following:-

• File:Clay empties cross Golant harbour - geograph.org.uk - 738713.jpg
• From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
• Jump to: navigation, search
• No file by this name exists, but you can upload it.

• File usage on Commons
• There are no pages that link to this file.

I would estimate, this is now occurring in 90 per cent of instances. Repeated attempts will overwrite the page eventually with the upload required, but it is becoming increasingly time consuming and irritating. Has the new look Wikimedia Commons page buggered up the bot? Skinsmoke (talk) 10:32, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi, maybe I'm slow, but I can't find anything wrong with your example. Since there are no other edits for the page, not other uploaded versions of the file, I'd say the upload succeeded on the first try. Clearly I'm missing something? --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:39, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

It did subsequently succeed - on the ninth attempt! Let me see if I can find one that I gave up on for you to have a look at. Skinsmoke (talk) 14:25, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Try [[File:Gate & flowers, Trelowarren House - geograph.org.uk - 492794.jpg.]] I must have tried at least 20 times (possibly more) with that one! Skinsmoke (talk) 14:32, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

I have begun an investigation. It does not seem to be a fault of my tool, rather the toolserver or Commons upload, or a strange combination of both. I'll keep you informed. --Magnus Manske (talk) 22:17, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Whatever the reason, Wikimedia Commons seem to have reverted their page format, and the problem seems to be no more. Everything seems to be working first time (famous last words?). Except for the Trelowarren House image, which still won't load. Skinsmoke (talk) 08:59, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi Magnus. Just to let you know that geograph_org2commons.php has been down for four days. Attempts to open the page result in:-

The website cannot display the page. HTTP 500. Most likely causes:

•The website is under maintenance.

•The website has a programming error.

What you can try: Refresh the page. Go back to the previous page. More information

Skinsmoke (talk) 08:17, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Periodic table (big)

The article Periodic table (big) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Even though this has been around since 2001 it never developed into a proper article. If somebody wants to know the name of a specific element he can either click the link in the Periodic table (standard version) or use the the featured list Periodic table (large version).

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Yoenit (talk) 12:48, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

TUSC account deletion request

I created a TUSC account using enwiki before I created one with commons. Now, I have 2 TUSC accounts, one of which is useless. Can you please delete it? — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 00:30, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Sure, but if I may ask ... why? --Magnus Manske (talk) 17:50, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

I created the enwiki one because I wasn't aware you needed to use Commons. Now I have a duplicate account, which is useless. — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 18:34, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Blue Plaque

Hi Magnus, I've dropped you a mail with a photo of the missing blue plaque. Best, --JN466 20:01, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

HTML to Wiki Converter

Hi Magnus,

I saw your HTML to Wiki converter for tables. I'd like to integrate a similar feature in my own tool, WikiCleaner, for helping people on easily fixing some errors for Check Wikipedia project.

What is the best way for doing this ? Is there a way to call your converter from my tool (without going through a web browser), like the MediaWiki API ? Or do I have to code something similar in Java in my tool ?

Thanks in advance, --NicoV (talk) 09:12, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

proposal to improve CommonsHelper

Hello, I wrote a strategy:Proposal:Improve CommonsHelper that might interest you. Matthias M. (talk) 15:17, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

UK Community Notice - IRC meeting

Dear Wikipedian,

This is the first of what will hopefully be a regular notice to help bring together the UK community so that you can be involved in some amazing things. To kick things off, there will be a UK community IRC meeting at 1800 UTC, December 7, 2010 to discuss the future growth and developement of Wikimedia UK. Without huge community support and involvement, the chapter cannot be successful and to get the most out of it, get involved.

For information on the community IRC meeting please go here

More to come about:

• Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Events
• 1st Annual UK Wiki-conference
• Trustee interest meeting - an event for those community members with even just a fleeting interest in becoming trustees of Wikimedia UK.

Many Thanks

Joseph Seddon

User:Seddon

Delivered by WMUKBot (talk) on 05:36, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

GeoHach

I was referred to you concerning GeoTemplate on Lithuanian Wiki. I wrote there additional resource from Vlasenko.net, but it does not appear among maps alternatives somehow... User CD —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.219.163.219 (talk) 08:44, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

UK IRC community meeting

Just a quick reminder about the IRC meeting at 1800 UTC tonight to bring together the Wikimedia community in the UK to help the growth and success of the UK chapter and community activities. For information see wmuk:Community_IRC_meetings

Many Thanks

Joseph Seddon

User:Seddon

Delivered by WMUKBot (talk) on 17:27, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Wikiprojects

I'm user in the pt.wiki, there de stats of wikiproject are uptated via bot, but these pages were updated every 2, 3 or 6 months, and many things happend in this time. It's possible, an tool like Catscan, who can generate an file like this? The script used is pt:Usuário:Rei-artur/python/statsmicro.py. Fabiano Tatsch (talk) 14:43, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Geograph_org2commons

Hi Magnus. Just to let you know that geograph_org2commons.php has been down for 22 days. Attempts to open the page result in:-

The website cannot display the page. HTTP 500. Most likely causes: •The website is under maintenance. •The website has a programming error. What you can try: Refresh the page. Go back to the previous page. More information

I had notified you above, but you've obviously missed it.

Skinsmoke (talk) 19:44, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, fixed (I hope). --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:54, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Yup, seems to be back and working. Thanks for that: ultra-efficient as always! Skinsmoke (talk) 03:29, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

File:Activation.png listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Activation.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. JaGa^talk 00:31, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

MissingTopics

Greetings, sorry to bother you here... I have been using the MissingTopics tool for years, to generate a list of redlinks for the entire category structure on Amharic wikipedia. The last time I used it successfully was Nov 16. Something must have changed in the algorhythms since then, because it will no longer read any page starting with an Amharic character... Is it broke? ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 19:21, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

I don't think I changed anything there since November. Maybe some temporary toolserver issue, or the root category name has changed? Try again, maybe just with a subcategory; if it still doesn't work, try this just to see it it works. --Magnus Manske (talk) 22:56, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

No, I can't get either of those tools to work with the Amharic wikipedia any more. It doesn't seem to be able to read the Amharic font any more. That's a real shame, because this was a great tool, and I don't know any other way to get a current list of redlinks for the wiki. ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 18:27, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

MAGNUS-216

Hi Magnus, can you please look at the bug MAGNUS-216 and my comments on it and throw your input? This bug is stopping me move files from my local wiki Malayalam Wikipedia to commons. Thank you. --Sreejith K (talk) 15:11, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

File:Feedback inhibition.png listed for deletion

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WYSIFTW

I want to ask that is it just for enwiki? I can't use it in zhwiki.--HW (talk) 01:16, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

There seems to be an issue that on enwiki, the jQuery object can be accessed as "$", while on other wikis it cannot. I'll look into it. --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:54, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

OK, I've got it running on dewiki. It should run on zhwiki, but might have funny side effects, for example large images instead of thumbnails, where the zh translation of "thumb" is used. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:51, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

I've also got it running on zhwiki, but I can't use the Chinese input methods for computers since it is not a wordbox. Test under Windows with IE8.--HW (talk) 12:07, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Also, a suggestion: WYSIFTW button should not be appear to the page that the user do not have permission to edit, for example, Main Page - which only allowed sysop edit. I am testing the function... hope it will be useful.--HW (talk) 12:09, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for a lot of comment :) . I want to report to you that it will mix the Vector infobox. Try to edit (not using WYSIFTW) with installing this script and use vector skin, click "Advanced" in the edit toolbar => the create form button OR the link button on the edit toolbar (3rd start from left), you may see some style problem. I am very sorry for leave you a lot of comment... however, may you fix them? Someone are now promo this tool on Chinese Wikipedia VP. --HW (talk) 12:20, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

If you need, I can provide the Chinese (hant) translation.--HW (talk) 12:22, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Davy Crockett.jpg

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Davy Crockett.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. --Kelly ^hi! 07:57, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Geograph.org2Commons (again)

Hi Magnus. Afraid Geograph.org2Commons is playing up again. Not sure how long it's been buggered, but I think it may have been two or three weeks. Noticed it wasn't working between Christmas and New year, but thought I'd leave it a few days to see if it was sorted (and to give you a bit of peace over the Christmas period). Still seems faulty. On the last attempt, the script at the bottom got as far as:

• TESTING!Loading Peachy (version 1.0)... Logging in to http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php as File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske), using a saved login cookie Getting image info for File:St Marks Church, Ampfield - geograph.org.uk - 860214.jpg... Getting page info for File:St Marks Church, Ampfield - geograph.org.uk - 860214.jpg.. Uploading /tmp/geograph_org2commons_BZaqBD-dir/St_Marks_Church,_Ampfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_860214.jpg to File:St Marks Church, Ampfield - geograph.org.uk - 860214.jpg..

I was attempting to upload http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/860214 Skinsmoke (talk) 18:45, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Can't test, because http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/860214 says "offline"... --Magnus Manske (talk) 19:15, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Now sorted. Geograph bot got it where human efforts failed! Skinsmoke (talk) 08:19, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Hint

I'm very interested in WYSIFTW - I like the idea of editing the actual article, instead of an 'edit box'. However, WYSIFTW is the most confusing thing I have ever heard of...a random sequence of letters for a tool aimed at making editing less difficult for newcomers? I suggest Visual Editor or something less scary. Cheers, --Mono (talk) 03:03, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

File:Davy Crockett.jpg listed for deletion

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Less Edit Clutter.js

Hi Magnus. Your excellent script Less Edit Clutter is still functional but seems to have had its formatting broken by the javascript update in MediaWiki 1.17. If you get a chance, anything to update that very useful tool (which should probably be hardcoded into the interface!) would be great. Thanks for all of your work.

• Problem: On all edit pages, the titles/header for your cleaned up fields (refs, cats, magic words, etc.) are all getting 'pinched' and are not legible because they are basically covered by the text fields.

• Screenshots: [3]

Thanks again, Ocaasi (talk) 03:16, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Geohack and MAGIC

Sorry, couldn't figure out JIRA. The MAGIC website has changed: http://magic.defra.gov.uk/. Thanks for this excellent piece of kit! --Old Moonraker (talk) 16:44, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

JIRA

Hello

Usually how long its from reporting something in JIRA to start resolving problem ? Because its more than week and no respond. PMG (talk) 00:59, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm a volunteer, so it takes as long it takes. I have quite a few JIRA tickets dating back several months, but that's far from my only Wikipedia-related backlog. Then there is work, and wasting time on things like eating and sleeping (known to some people as "a life"). If I give precedence to the people who complain loudest, all I will get is everyone complaining loudly. So, to answer your question: two years. Maybe sooner. Maybe not. --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:00, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Ok. I was just asking, because I don`t know have I should check status of defect every day or every month. Now its clear that every year it will be quite ok :]. PMG (talk) 07:10, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Magnus Manske

This actually redirects to MediaWiki#History! --Deryck C. 21:26, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Damn, I'm history! ;-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:32, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Geograph.org2Commons (again)

Hi Magnus. Can you have a look at what's going wrong with http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2265555 when you get a chance. It just stubbornly refuses to move across. Gets as far as:-

Usage counter unavailable TESTING!Loading Peachy (version 1.0)... Logging in to http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php as File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske), using a saved login cookie Getting image info for File:Church of St Theobald, Great Musgrave - geograph.org.uk - 2265555.jpg... Getting page info for File:Church of St Theobald, Great Musgrave - geograph.org.uk - 2265555.jpg.. Uploading /tmp/geograph_org2commons_c6a4AG-dir/Church_of_St_Theobald,_Great_Musgrave_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2265555.jpg to File:Church of St Theobald, Great Musgrave - geograph.org.uk - 2265555.jpg..

Skinsmoke (talk) 08:18, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1981952 Skinsmoke (talk) 12:50, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Hmm... It looks like that one worked - many times... --Magnus Manske (talk) 23:16, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Ha! This is one of the problems, of course. There is no way of telling whether the image has crossed over or not when this happens. The link to the image page is missing, and if you search Wikimedia Commons, it's too early for it to show up. It appears that sometimes it has crossed over, but is not giving the link, while other times it is just not crossing over full stop. With the Nateby image, I actually tried about 15 times: just under half of those attempts seem to have crossed over. Skinsmoke (talk) 00:06, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Photo

Hello Could you tell me, on the wiki page for Coffee Culture, who shot the photo for the coffee shop in Damascus, if known? Much appreciated

Chris "90.199.174.99 (talk) 11:54, 24 March 2011 (UTC)"

Sorry, but there is no page Coffe Culture. On Coffee, I can't see any image specifically from Damascus. There is this image, originally from here, apparently uploaded by this guy, who doesn't really give a lote of information. In general, if you click on the image you talk about, you will get all the information we have about it. --Magnus Manske (talk) 20:16, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject East Anglia

Would you be interested in WikiProject East Anglia?

If yes, please support us here at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/East Anglia. Wilbysuffolk talk 13:19, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

reprinting photo

We would like to reprint your hp-sodium spectrum photo in a commercial book. Please let me know if this is possible. maureenbell4 at gmail ˜˜˜˜ —Preceding unsigned comment added by MB4 (talk • contribs) 01:44, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi MB4, I assume you are talking about this image. This image was made by User:Skatebiker, and only uploaded using a bot of mine. As stated on the image page, you can use the image (even in a commercial book) under either GFDL or CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. I would recommend the latter, as it causes less hassle. You will have to mention the authors name and the image license; this does not affect the rest of your book. You do not even have to ask User:Skatebiker, but I'm sure he would love to hear about his image being used in your book! --Magnus Manske (talk) 07:56, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Rung (band)

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History question for you

Were page names and account names case-sensitive in your "Phase II software"? We're curious. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:02, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Mail

I've sent you some. Graham87 16:08, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Idol of Somnath

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Nomination of Rung (band) for deletion

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Less edit clutter - font rendering

For some reason, this .js script, which is one of my favorites is no longer rendering properly. The core function still works, but the layout is overlapping and the font is not showing up properly. Here's an image: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Z7VD8D_T5Rn_fKc43462Y8caskaZn36u0832V6Lehzw. If you could take a look at it it would be great. I'm using Vector and a Chrome browser, but the same happens in IE9 and Firefox 4/5. Thanks for all your scripts! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 00:10, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Geograph.org2Commons description problem

Hello, I'm sorry, I can't work out how to report a problem on the JIRA system. There seems to be a recent problem with the Geograph.org2Commons tool. As you can see here, some code is getting copied over into the description field, which is quite hard to decipher. Is there any way to prevent this? Thanks, --BelovedFreak 20:07, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

User Kusurija blocked??

Excuse me for troubling, but in every case, when I try use MagnusManske [4], I get no results. It means, that I personally in no way can transfer any file from other wikipedias (i.e. lv:, lt: and so on) to Commons. So please, help me transfer this file: lv:Attēls:Ezere River.jpg ([5]) to Commons. And if You can, say me, what mistakes I do, so that I in no way can transfer it myself (=personally) and in all cases I must beg our collegues to help with it. Maybe I'm blocked? If it is so, please explain me why? Thank You in advance. --Kusurija (talk) 14:01, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

lv:Attēls:Zaņas upes dīķis Pampāļos.jpg, en:File:LCC.jpg... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kusurija (talk • contribs) 16:16, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

http://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Att%C4%93ls:Ezere_River.jpg is already on Commons. http://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Att%C4%93ls:Za%C5%86as_upes_d%C4%AB%C4%B7is_Pamp%C4%81%C4%BCos.jpg has a custom template "Sedols" which does not exist on Commons. CommonsHelper does not block you, unless you are blocked on Commons itself. I suspect these are just the "odd cases" that don't work. Try if it works for you for other images. --Magnus Manske (talk) 19:29, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

That's interesting, but all cases, when I try to transfer file from any.wikipedia to Commons, I can't do it (transfer, not simply "do it", OMG) myself. I don't believe, that all cases are "odd cases" :-D. "Odd cases" :-D may be one, two, ... five... but not absolutely all since last year! (when I succesfully transferred several images). It is impossible, that absolutely all are "odd cases" :-D, unless I'm blocked somewhere. Moreover, other users - collegues, after my request, very quickly can transfer it themselves. Thanks. --Kusurija (talk) 20:15, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

More CommonsHelper info consolidated

I created a CommonsHelper 2 page on the Commons. I also categorized some pages I found concerning both versions of CommonsHelper. See:

• Commons:CommonsHelper 2
• Category:CommonsHelper - on English Wikipedia.
• commons:Category:CommonsHelper --Timeshifter (talk) 21:05, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

New Page Patrol survey

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Coherent Backscattering listed at Redirects for discussion

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Geograph.org2Commons

Hi Magnus. Afraid it's throwing a hissy fit again! More often than not, it's not working, though after four or five attempts, it is getting through. However, it's producing a mangled file description at Wikimedia Commons (see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Border_Road_Sign_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2026679.jpg). Skinsmoke (talk) 01:57, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Duplicate images across

Hi! Looking at http://toolserver.org/~magnus/cgi-bin/duplicate_images_across.pl?lang=en&max=1 I noticed that the text on the top says "The following files are identical in file size and SHA1 checksum. Using 1 of 3748 entries." Can I find a list of the 3748 files somewhere? I would like to use a bot to mark the files with a "NowCommons". --MGA73 (talk) 20:53, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi. I added a link to the "X entries". Plain text results, tab delimited, single header line, file MD5 and size for paranoia. That should do the trick. --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:15, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot :-) --MGA73 (talk) 21:32, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Joanjoc's articles from other wikis tool

Hi Magnus! Nice to see you at the meetup. The interlanguage tool I mentioned to you was at https://toolserver.org/~joanjoc/sugart.php?uselang=en . The form allowed a source wiki, a category in the source wiki (with also I remember a depth to descend the category tree), and a target wiki to be set. Then the output was a list of pages in the source wiki which lacked interwiki links to the target wiki. (I think in his original tool the results were sorted by the number of interwiki links which were there on the source page - so you could find pages which were present in several wikis but not in the target language wiki). It was a great tool - any resurrection or reimplementation would be fabulous! Best, Dsp13 (talk) 09:24, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Dsp13... I was wondering exactly the same as you a few months ago, but after intensive searching, I at last discovered that Magnus has already been there and done that. Look here: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/joanjoc/sugart.php?uselang=en

Cheers, Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 13:27, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

d'oh! thanks to both of you! Dsp13 (talk) 20:19, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

ADB

• Wow, nice one! I've commented. Dsp13 (talk) 22:46, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Bot-jobs

There's an outstanding BOTREQ to fix dates in microformats; I've been told that's something you could help with. Is it, please? There's also a current request relating to album/ song durations. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:03, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi Andy, I usually do tools rather than bots, which seem to be needed in this case. I could probably write a bot, but it would take me much longer than people who already have a framework or two lying around. --Magnus Manske (talk) 20:30, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

File:Potosi Mines (71625784).jpg needs rotating

Hi! This image (which you uploaded several years ago) needs to be rotated 90 degrees and I don't know how to do it myself. If it's an easy fix, please tell me how and I won't need to bother you any more :-). Thanks and all the best, Miniapolis (talk) 16:08, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks again! Miniapolis (talk) 15:06, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

DICE-logo

Hi,

Can you fix the logo on the EA Digital Illusions CE's page, so it appears properly on facebook? It's now invisible there as it seems its standard size is like 5px or something, I don't know, not too into graphics. It's also not the companys real logo, the textures are too thick. What the original should look like: http://www.eteknix.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/DICE-logo.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.225.14.144 (talk) 13:20, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch,

b@et.se — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.225.14.144 (talk) 13:18, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

File:Francois de la Rochefoucauld.jpg needs authorship information

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File:Hans Lippershey.jpg needs authorship information

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Suggest articles from interwiki tool

It's a fabulous tool, but doesn't seem to work well with the French wikipedia atm: e.g. this query gives the error 'Unknown database 'frwiki_p'ERROR: No result returned.', while a similar query with the German wikipedia works fine. Dsp13 (talk) 20:47, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

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A New Year for the DNB, and launch of "volume of the month"

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You have an illegal first name

I saw this and thought of you. It appears you have an illegal first name in Iceland. Bgwhite (talk) 10:13, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Darn! If I visit Iceland, I'll have to disguise myself with an ú! :-) Magnus Manske (talk) 23:13, 11 January 2012 (UTC)