Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fresh data on the gender gap in content

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 >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell, Erik!

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UNESCO Challenge

On-topic: All UNESCO sites on WIkidata (red=no image!) https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/#lat=11.328998809313038=-14.4140625=3=wikidata_image,wikidata_no_image_filter=%3Fq%20wdt%3AP757%20%5B%5D=1 On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:35 AM James Heilman wrote: > This is wonderful.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Using non-free elements vs our values (Apple Maps vs Wikipedia iOS app)

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Pebble smartwatch tool for finding Wikipedia photo opportunities

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fresh data on the gender gap in content

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gender gap on "classical" encyclopedias

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiwand

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

upporting. The ideal solution would be highlighting the > >> supported text 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. > &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

t; 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 > > them to Wikiped

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

is, 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 user as a beta tester, but also > &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Powerful on-wiki art visualization

.org/wiki/Extension: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" <magnusman...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > > Especially o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Powerful on-wiki art visualization

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 >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

Be careful with that "obvious" word... http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=378 On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:56 PM Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Magnus Manske < > magnusman...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ethics of launching Wikidata, vs. ethics of WMF plans for Wikidata

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:33 AM Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> 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 lin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

social problems 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 <toddmal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Once the VisualEditor was fit for purpose and a good deployment strategy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

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 (though I advise against it.). But if you can't > distinguish > > them from those who approach you with genuine concerns

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

; 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 both very disappointing. > > Anthony Col

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

a success for us. I do stand by my example :-) On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:37 PM Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: > > > On 18 Jan 2016, at 22:35, Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > > > As one can be overly conservative, one can

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

parser-and-back, plus new interface, were bound to produce some broken edits. On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:46 PM David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 January 2016 at 20:33, Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > > * New things are not ne

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next step in the development

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does openly declaring your gender change the probability of having an upload overwritten?

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect's first birthday

Out of curiosity, was it ever used again after that initial action? On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:13 PM Laurentius laurentius.w...@gmail.com 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect's first birthday

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 dar...@alk.edu.pl wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:36 PM, John Lewis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A transition and a new chapter.

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 bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: It's been a long journey -- I remember that 2007 office well, and the crazy times before even

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Android Nearby Feature (was: Re: Community RfCs about MediaViewer)

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 e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: An answer would be appreciated... I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 September 2014 07:11, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata-l] Compare person data

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Compare person data

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] how global.js works? (was: Re: [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you)

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:51 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: Like many other old hands, it seems to get in the way

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:20 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: Am 13.08.2014 15:56 schrieb Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com: On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:51 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Erik Moeller e

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

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]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

, 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.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryDE.htm rupert Am 12.08.2014 14:45 schrieb Magnus Manske magnusman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-08-12 16:57 GMT+02:00 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com: 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. but i do

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Henning Schlottmann h.schlottm...@gmx.net 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 perceived

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rarest records

You're familiar with this, I take it: http://radio.publicdomainproject.org/ On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: This is a good read in its own right:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Android Nearby Feature (was: Re: Community RfCs about MediaViewer)

Until then... http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 11 July 2014 22:34, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: The new Android app isn't simply an upgrade of the last version, it's a complete re-write in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] Evacuation

to cc) - d. On 3 July 2014 21:47, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: An attempt to alleviate the tensions caused by file deletions on Commons: http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=218 ___ Commons-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:14 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The tragedy of Commons

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: than aggressively purging content in the fear that a single byte of potentially non-free content may infect the repository. You're

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata // was The tragedy of Commons

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata // was The tragedy of Commons

: 2014-06-18 16:58 GMT+02:00 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com: 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Which articles are widely shared accorss languages

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 pirsquare...@gmail.comwrote: On 4/10/14, Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org wrote: I'm no expert, but I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Generated texts

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 a...@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote: Your link has

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

Note: the [2] link goes to the test site. The correct link is: tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?lang=ocq=35610 On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, At this moment Wikipedia red links provide no information whatsoever. This is not cool. In

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

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 rlan...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiData and WikiSpecies

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 never...@wikimedia.org wrote: I promise I'll get to looking at wikidata's search sometime! I sure don't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiData and WikiSpecies

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: 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? ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Banners are too bright, too long

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:10 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 December 2012 09:04, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: For easier comparability of the two banner behaviors - Activation on hover (current behavior):

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser causing confusion

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 thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX and such

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: rant 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX and such

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Delirium delir...@hackish.org 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 for text, makes

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX and such

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/8/17 Risker risker...@gmail.com: 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX and such

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/8/17 Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl: 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.:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Apparently, Wikipedia is ugly

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.comwrote: 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