We'll have to start stealing and selling user data to fit in...
On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 10:13 AM David Gerard wrote:
> https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_2413
>
> In the same category as Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, TikTok ...
>
> On the face of it, this seems a miscatego
I also had a tweet, about gender ratio in Wikidata, grouped by external
property:
https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1224703188693069827
On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 9:25 AM Asaf Bartov wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> Back in June 2016, on this thread, I had published some data on the
> *content
>
Erik,
thanks for your great work on stats, and welcome back to the volunteer
force.
Where the real work is done :-)
Magnus
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 10:31 AM Sandra Rientjes - Wikimedia Nederland <
rient...@wikimedia.nl> wrote:
> Dear Erik,
>
> Many thanks for all the help and support you gave Wik
On-topic: All UNESCO sites on WIkidata (red=no image!)
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/#lat=11.328998809313038&lng=-14.4140625&zoom=3&layers=wikidata_image,wikidata_no_image&sparql_filter=%3Fq%20wdt%3AP757%20%5B%5D&worldwide=1
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:35 AM James Heilman wrote:
> This is
Hi Josh, all,
I am not one hell-bent on "FOSS or death"; I tend to use whatever works
best.
That said, the cost-benefit analysis of using Apple Maps seems to boil down:
* Apple Maps has slightly better rendering (didn't check, but I assume)
* Apple Maps uses less mobile bandwidth
* Apple Maps is
Looks like a cool thing indeed! Any chance to expand that to Wikidata? It's
a superset of all Wikipedias, plus things like UK National Heritage sites,
so it will give you many more candidates in some regions.
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 10:30 PM Sage Ross
wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> I made something that
Nepali seems to have come a long way since I ran my analysis:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=250
(see the big dot-plot; note that I compare the length of the articles,
rather than their number)
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:01 AM Ting Chen wrote:
> Hello Asaf, hello Florence,
>
> the inbalance
I wrote about gender coverage on Wikipedia and Wikidata, including ODNB
comparison:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=250
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:39 AM wrote:
> Hi, as some of you may know, the Wikipedia gender indicator [1] tells us
> how many articles are biographies about women x languag
While this is true, there has been some improvement on Wikipedia. Desktop
browsers now have the Wikiwand "media gallery" as the Media Viewer, and
Wikivoyage (as a test platform) has the interactive maps.
On mobile, things are even better; most of the Wikiwand mobile features are
also in the offici
Great work!
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:13 AM Yuri Astrakhan
wrote:
> The quest to bring maps to Wikipedia continues:
> * Kartographer has launched for WikiVoyage
> * Julien Girault will help maps with his UI expertise
> * Talk to us at the FreeNode IRC channel #wikipedia-interactive
>
> https://
ext on the page, rather than having it appear in a tool tip.
> >>
> >> I wish the WMF would organise that - and organise it in a way that
> screen
> >> readers can read it.
> >>
> >> Anthony Cole
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Ma
quot; argument.
> >
> > Several of your colleagues above have complained that adding references
> is
> > difficult in Wikidata. And your response is what? "Actually, it is easy
> > to add references to Wikidata, certainly not more difficult than adding
> > th
27;s way of working
> > in this, at least that's what I see in the Imageviewer case. People
> > see issues, and want them resolved. But some of those issues are so
> > large that they do not want the product at all *until they are
> > resolved*. By not only using the use
n:Graph/Demo/Sparql/Largest_disasters
>
> Limitation at the moment - not enabled for interactive graphs yet until we
> make better caching.
> On Feb 23, 2016 16:17, "Magnus Manske"
> wrote:
>
> > Especially once it supports the Wikidata query engine.
> >
> > On Tue,
Especially once it supports the Wikidata query engine.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:12 PM wrote:
> Amazing stuff! This is going to change the face of Wikipedia.
>
> Best!
> Subhashish Panigrahi
> Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
> Centre for Internet and Society
> @subhapa / https://cis-india
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:33 AM Pete Forsyth wrote:
> (Note: I'm creating a new thread which references several old ones; in the
> most recent, "Profile of Magnus Manske," the conversation has drifted back
> to Wikidata, so that subject line is no longer applicable.)
>
Be careful with that "obvious" word...
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=378
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:56 PM Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Magnus Manske <
> magnusman...@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > What you hear is "W
you so blindly condemned.
>
> -I
>
> On 20/01/16 14:16, Magnus Manske wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:58 AM Todd Allen
> wrote:
> >
> >> Once the VisualEditor was fit for purpose and a good deployment strategy
> >> had been developed, the English Wikip
eeded
> individual and social skills are done well. Tech is only tool to these
> processes. Tools are important, but not the purpose when it comes to
> disseminate knowledge.
>
I agree with this entire paragraph 100%. I would like to add, though, that
sometimes, technology opens an une
nificant arrogance problem that needs addressing, at least
> over
> > at WikiData.
> >
> > Some people may approach you arrogantly, maybe even insultingly, about an
> > innovation, and I suppose you might be justified in talking down to them
> or
> > ridiculing them (
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 3:40 PM Anthony Cole wrote:
> Magnus, in the interview you said "From the Media Viewer, the Visual
> Editor, to Wikidata transclusion, all have been resisted by vocal groups of
> editors, not because they are a problem, but because they represent change.
> For these editor
welcome here than those WMF staffers
> who thought insulting well-meaning critics was a good career move.
>
> Denny's contemptuous dismissal of valid criticisms of his project, and your
> contemptuous dismissal of the valid criticisms of the early visual editor
> and its launch are b
en smoking?
> I hope that the upcoming strategic debate is as open as it needs to be.
I also wish for that. Sadly, judging from your previous statements, by
"open as it needs to be" will mean "closed to anything new".
A strategic debate which framework is already decided
uccess
for us.
I do stand by my example :-)
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:37 PM Michael Peel wrote:
>
> > On 18 Jan 2016, at 22:35, Magnus Manske
> wrote:
> >
> > As one can be overly conservative, one can also be overly enthusiastic. I
> > would hope the Foundation by
parser-and-back, plus new interface, were bound to produce some
broken edits.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:46 PM David Gerard wrote:
> On 18 January 2016 at 20:33, Magnus Manske
> wrote:
>
> > * New things are not necessarily good just because they are new. What
> seems
> &
OK, long thread, I'll try to answer in one here...
* I've been writing code for over thirty years now, so I'm the first to say
that technology in not "the" answer to social or structural issues. It can,
however, mitigate some of those issues, or at least show new ways of
dealing with them
* New t
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 4:09 PM MZMcBride wrote:
> Pete Forsyth wrote:
> >Lisa presented some alternative strategies for revenue needs for the
> >Foundation, including the possibility of charging for premium access to
> >the services and APIs, expanding major donor and foundation fundraising,
> >
I think it might just be a question of phrasing, actually.
"Check if your new topic already exists in other languages, and connect it
to those!
Or [click here] to start a new Wikidata item for your article, so other
language editions of Wikipedia can find it more easily!"
For Wikipedians, the pur
Looking at "male-female" and "female-male", and considering the much-cited
15% female editor ratio, it seems women are much more overwrite-happy than
men.
Then again, 139:110 are not exactly numbers one does want to base
statistics on...
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:25 AM Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
> 20
So maybe it could stay, as a "technical office action" mechanism, if future
usage is clearly defined and accepted by "the community" (TM)?
Not advocating either way here...
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:13 PM Dariusz Jemielniak
wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:36 PM, John Lewis
> wrote:
>
> >
>
Out of curiosity, was it ever used again after that initial action?
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:13 PM Laurentius
wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 12/08/2015 alle 01.11 +0900, Hong, Yongmin ha scritto:
> > It has been a year (and a day) since the gerrit 153302 [1] has been
> > merged
> > and deployed to the
Erik, it's been quite a ride. Wikimedia wouldn't be where it is without you.
Good luck and success in your next endeavour!
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 7:27 PM Brion Vibber wrote:
> It's been a long journey -- I remember that 2007 office well, and the crazy
> times before even that. :)
>
> Best of l
Hah! Of course, I pick the same day to rewrite WikiShootMe...
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Andy Mabbett
> wrote:
> > An answer would be appreciated...
>
> I know you've been in touch w/ the mobile
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Fæ wrote:
> On 6 September 2014 07:11, Gerard Meijssen
> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > "We" includes anyone who wants to be involved and does not exclude him or
> > herself by his or her own actions or choices.
> > Thanks,
> > GerardM
>
> Incorrect.
>
> Erik's email inc
Or, have them filled from Wikidata. Then, {{Infobox}} would be all the
wikitext you need. This could also help to "abstract" infoboxes to load a
placeholder/hint on mobile, then loading the box on request (click).
Well, one can dream...
Magnus
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Andy Mabbett
wrot
Thanks for this.
You might want to filter it, though: For example
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85256 states "born in 1606" (no month or day
given), but your report at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup/Birth_date_report2/26 gives it
as 1606-01-01, which then conflicts with the date giv
IMHO a simple table, maybe even a wikitable, would suffice for the initial
iteration. We can get much more fancy later.
Of course, if Infoboxes/Persondata on these Wikipedias were to use some Lua
magic, biographies with e.g. mismatching birthdates could automatically be
added to a maintenance cate
Ah, I believe when the Italian (?) Wikipedia started using my JS-based
also-search-on-wikidata tool. A dependency JS file was hosted on Tools
Labs, effectively DDOSing it to a halt. Moved file to en.wp, cache can
handle it easily now.
So, not technically a Wikipedia server, but a Wikimedia server
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:20 PM, rupert THURNER
wrote:
> Am 13.08.2014 15:56 schrieb "Magnus Manske" :
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:51 AM, rupert THURNER <
> rupert.thur...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:26
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:51 AM, rupert THURNER
wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Magnus Manske
> > wrote:
>
> >> Like many other "old hands", it seems to get in the way of my workflow.
>
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Henning Schlottmann
wrote:
> On 12.08.2014 16:57, Magnus Manske wrote:
> > German Wikipedia had 1.1 billion page views in June [1]. ~300 votes (~2/3
> > against MediaViewer) do not represent the readers, IMHO.
>
> Claiming to speak for a perc
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
>
>
> These changes will need to be carefully tested/validated. If you want
> to take a look at an early early (!) prototype (!!), see
> http://multimedia-alpha.wmflabs.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo , but please
> note that anything but the basic view
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Romaine Wiki
wrote:
> 2014-08-12 16:57 GMT+02:00 Magnus Manske :
>
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:19 PM, rupert THURNER <
> rupert.thur...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > so i did not vote. because i can live with both.
as long as I can turn it off.
It's probably fine for "modern" viewing, although it's hard to guess that
you get to the file page via the little Commons icon for people who (in all
likelihood) have never seen that icon, or visited Commons.
Cheers,
Magnus
[1] https://stats.wiki
Also, 118 people (190 vs. 72 votes in the "poll" [1] on German Wikipedia)
are not "the community". They are a small part of the community.
The people who would profit [2] from the Media Viewer as a default feature
were not consulted.
Cheers,
Magnus
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Me
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:12 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
> Using the title blacklist, the AbuseFilter
> extension, site-wide JavaScript and CSS, and other techniques, it's
> possible to fully disable reading and/or editing of the German Wikipedia
> until an amicable solution can be found.
>
>
> Strange.
You're familiar with this, I take it:
http://radio.publicdomainproject.org/
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Andy Mabbett
wrote:
> This is a good read in its own right:
>
>
> http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/07/amanda_petrusich_s_do_not_sell_at_any_price_reviewed_by_sarah_o_holla.h
Until then...
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Andy Mabbett
wrote:
> "On 11 July 2014 22:34, Erik Moeller wrote:
>
> > The new Android app isn't simply an upgrade of the last version, it's
> > a complete re-write in native code
>
> This technical nicety i
live in peace.” – T. Moore
>
>
> 2014-07-04 1:35 GMT+03:00 David Gerard :
>
> > Thank you, Magnus!
> >
> > (add wikimedia-l to cc)
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
> > On 3 July 2014 21:47, Magnus Manske wrote:
> > > An attempt to alleviat
And imagine what I could do with a space rocket and a nuclear reactor!
Wikipedia Mars mission!
ANYONE can run tools on Labs for free! It's just when you ask for a huge
chunk of hardware that someone dares to ask what you plan to do with it,
once you get it for free. Calling that censorship if trol
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:14 PM, James Salsman wrote:
>
> Why does the Foundation need a proposal to do that? Where is that
> requirement documented?
>
I work in a research institute that has >20 Petabyte of spinning disk. If I
need 20TB of server-grade storage, I have to make a formal request,
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Pete Forsyth wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
>
> > than aggressively purging content in the fear that a single byte of
> > potentially non-free content may infect the repository.
> >
>
> You're attacking a straw man. I hope you do n
6:58 GMT+02:00 Magnus Manske :
>
> > The issue here seems to be "political/community" rather than technology.
> I
> > could probably set up a MediaWiki installation with WikiBase plugin on
> Tool
> > Labs within a day or so, then have a bot create/synchronize an
The issue here seems to be "political/community" rather than technology. I
could probably set up a MediaWiki installation with WikiBase plugin on Tool
Labs within a day or so, then have a bot create/synchronize an item for
each file on Commons. Community could start to create properties, and bots
c
And then, we discover tools long present:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist2.php?language=en&project=wikipedia&category=Wikipedia%20articles%20with%20ORCID%20identifiers&depth=0&wdq=claim%5B496%5D&mode=cat_no_wdq&statementlist=&run=Run&label_contains=&label_contains_not=&chunk_size=1
There's a tool for that:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator/index.php
Check the third row ("Top 1000 items with missing articles").
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:47 PM, PiRSquared17 wrote:
> On 4/10/14, Chris McKenna wrote:
> > I'm no expert, but I would expect that finding which articl
Hi Andy,
that message comes up when the JavaScript is broken. I just tried the Bach
link, and it works fine for me. Probably a stale browser cache;
force-reloading the page should help.
Cheers,
Magnus
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> Your link has "gone very wrong". I woul
projects.
> With Reasonator I see 503 female persons and 760 male persons. Not
> very helpful (yet) for generating red-link lists.
>
> 2014/1/23, Risker :
> > On 23 January 2014 15:42, Andy Mabbett
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 23 January 2014 15:12, Magnus Manske
&g
Hi Andy,
I thought about that as well. Besides the intro text, the info box would be
the main "attraction"; but if infoboxes were to fall back on wikidata
information, which they could technically already do, all we'd have to do
is add a blank infobox, and it should automatically fill up with the
On a technical note, Reasonator is pure JavaScript, so should be easily
portable, even to a Wikipedia:Reasonator.js page (or several pages, with
support JS).
git here:
https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/reasonator
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:17
Note: the [2] link goes to the test site. The correct link is:
tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?lang=oc&q=35610
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
>
> At this moment Wikipedia "red links" provide no information whatsoever.
> This is not cool.
>
> In Wikidata we often hav
There was a recent mail saying that Labs is not considered "production"
stability. Mainly a disagreement about how many 9s in the 99.9% that
represents.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Petr Bena wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can you please explain to me from where is this information:
>
> "According to
I would like to raise the option of a more "Wikipedia-like" protest. How
about, on the English Wikipedia, picking one day to make the Main Page
topic-specific, similar to the traditional April 1 selection?
Candidates, off the top of my hat:
[[NSA]] / [[Black Chamber]]
[[PRISM (surveillance program
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
>
> Really, taxonomy is tricky. FYI I have an 80 MB database with ONLY cacti
> and succulents. I learned a lot in the process.
>
> So, have you imported that to Wikidata yet?
___
Wikimedia-l mailing
Or just get the entire taxonomy for a species quickly:
http://208.80.153.172/wdq/?q=tree[4504][171,273,75,76,77,70,71,74,89]
Cheers,
Magnus
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Nik Everett wrote:
> I promise I'll get to looking at wikidata's search sometime! I sure don't
> know when that time wil
Will the affected users be given a one-time offer to have their accounts
renamed, or are they stuck forever with the "~" ones?
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:01 AM, James Forrester
wrote:
> On 29 April 2013 20:59, Fae wrote:
> > Thanks James, personally I'm comforted by your prompt reply.
>
> Happy
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:10 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 3 December 2012 09:04, Erik Moeller wrote:
>
> > For easier comparability of the two banner behaviors -
> > Activation on hover (current behavior):
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Lorenzo?banner=B12_5C_120216_SuperCondensed_Ho
To be fair, this orange banner does look a little ... out-of-place, not at
all matching the rest of the page in style.
It does the job of conveying the "we are a small poor foundation" a little
too well, maybe ;-)
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 28 November 2012 14:41
As a biologist, I'd say it's the "I need to figure this out"
mentality, which leads to frustration if the system (which you had
believed you figured out!) apparently turns against you.
My advice here is: That should not happen, but there is so much more
to do on Wikipedia; let this specific issue
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Cristian Consonni
wrote:
> 2012/8/17 Ziko van Dijk :
>> Yes, I would like to see the skin in my Preferences. Where is a wiki
>> page for comment? :-)
>
> See the "META" link in the upper-right corner i.e.:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_redefined
Tech
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Cristian Consonni
wrote:
> 2012/8/17 Risker :
>> It looks pretty clean and less cluttered. It also draws attention to some
>> of our internal issues, such as massive listing of references at the bottom
>> of the page, and all those templates linking groups of arti
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Delirium wrote:
> On 8/17/12 12:02 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
>>
>> http://toolserver.org/~magnus/redefined/?page=Pyramid
>
>
> This is quite nice, especially on a larger screen! Our current layout, which
> uses the full browser width fo
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Denny Vrandečić
wrote:
>
>
> If WMF had a Steve Jobs on staff, everyone would hate him for making
> decisions without properly consulting the community, for destroying
> the community, for reinventing Wikimedia again, for making unpopular
> decisions, for making
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Magnus Manske
> wrote:
>
>> Well, you asked for volunteers... ;-)
>>
>> I started a tool that would let you change the CSS easily. Edit your
>> common.js user page and ad
Well, you asked for volunteers... ;-)
I started a tool that would let you change the CSS easily. Edit your
common.js user page and add (pardon the "Leif Ericsson" pun...) :
importScript('MediaWiki:Live EriCSSon.js');
Once that is done, you can use a URL parameter to use any Wikipedia
page with a
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