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A quick heads up, since I think some of your tools use the api of stats.grok.se: the json format has changed slightly to make it a bit more clear to which entries belong to which dates. If you access stats-classic.grok.se, you get the old format, but I'm not sure how long I'll keep running that service. henrik• talk 11:46, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Hallo Magnus; du hast hier 2005 den Artikel über Urs Graf angelegt und darin geschrieben "In 1527, he vanished from the city, never to be found again, though a signed drawing from 1529 exists", was sich auch in der aktuellen Version des Artikels noch so erhalten hat. Der Artikel gibt daher in der Einleitung "died after 1529" an. Nun kann ich leider nirgends etwas über diese Zeichnung von 1529 finden, weisst du vielleicht noch, wo du die Information her hattest? Der Artikel im Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), ebenfalls von 2005, gibt als Todesdatum "vor 13.10.1528" an, üblicherweise sollte das HLS auf dem aktuellen Stand der Forschung sein. Jedenfalls haben wir so aktuell eine Diskrepanz zwischen der englischen und der deutschen Wikipedia, die ich gerne bereinigen würde. Gestumblindi ( talk) 03:08, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Magnus, How do we fix the column widths in a wikitable? (Thought you'd be the right person to ask because you invented the syntax!) Der yck C. 17:30, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
|width="20px"|blah||width="40px"|more blah
If this doesn't work, please point me to the case you're working on. -- Magnus Manske ( talk) 13:11, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello Magnus. Do you have any plans to add OAth+OpenID support to TUSC? I would love to let users log in with their Google (or other) accounts, and be associated with a Wikimedia account for tool usage. If you'd be interested in doing this, I'll create a JIRA request ticket. — Pathoschild 07:20, 04 February 2012 (UTC)
Hallo Magnus. Ich habe dein Tool als Gadget vorgeschlagen. Leider scheint es Probleme zu geben, die ich nicht lösen kann. Magst du mal vorbeischauen? -- Leyo 10:41, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed that the above file doesn't resemble those of Eric Voegelin in non-free sources such as this. Could it be a case of mistaken identity? Autarch ( talk) 21:10, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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I saw you had done some work on gadgets. We're trying to start a library for gadget authors to use. Please check it out and post any questions or comments there — ☠ MarkAHershberger☢( talk)☣ 19:06, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hallo Markus Magnus Manske, zunächst entschuldige das ich Dich nicht im JIRA-System anschreibe. Dort komme ich irgendwie nicht zurecht. CatScan arbeitet bei der Suche im deutschen Sprachraum nicht mehr richtig
[1]. Die Antwort ist :MYSQL error : The MySQL server is running with the --read-only option so it cannot execute this statement [INSERT IGNORE INTO cat2 ( catname ) VALUES ( "Wikipedia:Defekter_Dateilink" )]. Mein Betriebssystem - Win XP, Browser - Opera oder FireFox. Kannst Du das Tool wieder in Gang bringen? Danke --
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könntest du bitte meine Benutzerseite löschen? Danke, — Derschueler ( talk) - German Wikipedia 06:58, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah ( talk) 20:08, 16 April 2012 (UTC) |
Hello. Refering to https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MAGNUS-203 I've been trying to use CatScan for categories on hi-wp, but haven't been able to get it to work with either unicode or percent encoding or Hexadecimal NCRs or javascript escapes.
Two example categories whose subset shouldn't be empty are hi:श्रेणी:इलाहाबाद_जिला_के_गाँव and hi:श्रेणी:उत्तरप्रदेश_के_गाँव. I've tried using catscan with other categories on hi-wp too, but it doesn't seem to work.
Hope this is easily fixable. Thanks.-- Siddhartha Ghai ( talk) 14:44, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Magnus, I believe that you are the one that is hosting this old tool of Joanjoc's. It doesn't seem to work anymore, though (e.g. plug in "Ecuador" as the category for es.wiki articles missing from en.wiki, and nothing comes up even though es:Usuarios de Internet en Ecuador doesn't exist in en.wiki). Any ideas about what broke this tool and how it can be fixed? Calliopejen1 ( talk) 19:33, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Please see WP:COIN#External links to the Encyclopedia of Life. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 00:46, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Any chance you could confirm one way or the other?© Geni 15:28, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Could I trouble you, please, to take a look at Category:Gray's Anatomy images and its contents, much of which you created in 2004? There is an ongoing discussion about the category, but is it not clear what was the intended function of the member pages or if they are still needed. Your comments could prove most helpful. Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 23:52, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Magnus,
Sorry if this is not the right place! Could you please add http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Victoria_and_Albert_Museum , http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Freer_Gallery_of_Art and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bodleian_Library to the reports? Many thanks, Johnbod ( talk) 14:40, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Magnus, I am the Wikipedian in Residence at OCLC and Liam Wyatt suggested I talk to you about my ISBN Idea. It's to use our service xISBN (which returns a list of related ISBNs on input of single ISBN) in Special:BookSources. I've started a main discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Book_sources#Consideration_of_xISBN . Thanks for your input. Maximiliankleinoclc ( talk) 17:45, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Hey Magnus. Looks like you have developed quite a good toolbox. I would like to suggest a new one that can track the longevity of my edits as a means of doing self-appraisals, or to make comparisons with other editors. So could you develop a tool that looks at an editors article namespace edits and generate some sort of metric for their longevity? When I add content to WP I want to make sure it stays there (unless it needs updating). Is this feasible? Maybe it could be like the duplication detector tool I have seen used to check for copy vios. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 23:51, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
You have been mentioned at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera#Composer infoboxes... you may or may not want to comment. Moxy ( talk) 23:01, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, can you help me? This image
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Dana Delany article. However it is the wrong license? Is there anyway you can persuade the user to change the license, or upload another image of her? Much appreciated, thanks :) Put a talkback on my page when you reply, thank you very much! —
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On any query through CatScan, I get the error:
MYSQL error : The MySQL server is running with the --read-only option so it cannot execute this statement [INSERT IGNORE INTO cat2 ( catname ) VALUES ( "<category I looked for>" )]
It started approximately yesterday noon. Is it a known issue? Thanks, Ynhockey ( Talk) 10:29, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
MYSQL error : Access denied for user 'magnus'@'%.toolserver.org' to database 'commonswiki_p' [CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE cat1 ( catgroup INTEGER , catname VARCHAR(255) , depth INTEGER , PRIMARY KEY ca ( catgroup , catname ) , INDEX cb ( catgroup , depth ) ) STORAGE MEMORY]
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For still being a prolific and attentive 'tech' member of our community, 10,5 years after having literally laid down it's 2nd foundation. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 19:39, 22 August 2012 (UTC) |
Dear Magnus,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.
Best regards, — Hex (❝?!❞) 11:12, 1 October 2012 (UTC).
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For creating CatScan V2.0, an excellent tool, I hereby present you with The da Vinci Barnstar. GregorB ( talk) 12:41, 28 October 2012 (UTC) |
Hi Magnus, Good to meet you again last Sunday. As we discussed image copyright, I wonder if you could tell me what guidelines I can use to decide whether a historical image can be uploaded? I understand it's 70 years after the creator's death, but he/she is usually unknown. Is it fair to assume that because the oldest living person is 122 years old and noone has been verified to live longer than that, everything before 1820 (2012 - 122 - 70) is definitely fine? If the creator is unknown, what other criteria can be used? I'm specifically thinking of uploading some paintings from http://www.penangmuseum.gov.my/museum/en/museum/historical-paintings . Thanks, cmɢʟee ☎ ✉ 14:04, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
I've had some problems using your clonned version of the Joanjoc tools lately, is it a server problem or a problem with the code? And could you make it work with Wikisource? Thanks! -- Micru ( talk) 20:08, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Magnus! Sugart is failing again now, gives an SQL error which I don't know what it means. Is this because of wikidata? Will there be a new tool that does the same thing, or is this only a temporary glitch? Of all the tools I have ever seen this is one of the most crucial because no other tool I know of will produce the same list. Til Eulenspiegel / talk/ 17:25, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
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Congratulations on all the hard work on Wikipedia for over 10 years! :) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 09:38, 18 November 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks! -- Magnus Manske ( talk) 14:47, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Magnus, I've recently encountered errors with CatScan trying to find members of a category which have a particular template:
MYSQL error : Table 'enwiki_p.globalimagelinks' doesn't exist [SELECT /* SLOW_OK LIMIT:2000 NM */ /* CATSCAN2 */ pid,gil_wiki,gil_page_namespace_id,gil_page_namespace,gil_page_title FROM temp2,enwiki_p.globalimagelinks WHERE pns=6 AND gil_to=ptitle]
Is toolserver shuffling things around? I know I should learn how to report things properly with JIRA... sorry Dsp13 ( talk) 01:56, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Magnus, I reverted the infobox on the article, no slight on you, but its been discussed to death re composers, and the feelings seems to be that they are not needed or optimum for these articles. Hope your not offended. Ceoil ( talk) 02:24, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks so much for adding an image to 'Ota 'ika! I wrote it as a tiny stub three years ago, and it's turned into a decent little article, and the photo really caps it off. Thanks for helping out! MatthewVanitas ( talk) 19:25, 26 November 2012 (UTC) |
Thought this might interest you. Please inform the others who were involved in our discussion a while back of this proposal. I think even if a merger with geograph is not possible we should fund this. Blofeld Dr. ( talk) 21:51, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
It's wonderful! I thought I should give you heads up that I've mentioned it at Wikipedia talk:Authority control#Authority control tool. I'm going to file another JIRA ticket for the problem in positioning I mention there - the question is where the template should go in relation to the persondata template on en.wikipedia, and people may have strong preferences. (Until that's resolved, I won't be using it on wikipedia, but I'm loving it on wikisource!) Dsp13 ( talk) 21:47, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello Magnus. I don't know how to put an issue in the JIRA System, so i try here, sorry. The Wikivoyage is new as a WikiMedia Project - and i think they would be happy to use some of your tools. Perhaps it is only little coding required (just one more projectname and adress)? The most important would be CatScan 2.0. It is required to be able to use the categories rational. What do you think? -- NatiSythen ( talk) 07:01, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
For flickr2commons, could you an option for attribution within the CC template such as {{Cc-by-sa-3.0|1=Attribution details}}. Some of the photo-streams require a certain attribution to be present. Great tool btw! Smallman12q ( talk) 15:13, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
On another note, I just realized there isn't an article about you here! :( I've done some digging and I think I have sufficient sources to put something together. Any opposition from your side on fixing the redirect at [[Magnus Manske]]?-- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 23:06, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello Magnus, yes, I suppose it would be fine. As usual, redirects are always useful, even if working only partially. -- Nemo 17:04, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Magnus,
Someone sent me your name about help for the Scribunto extension and wikiminiatlas. I am in Canada and I want to add geographic coordinates to my wiki page so that it shows geo-coordinates like the top right corner of this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Wall_Centre but I want my locations to be specific locations from my own wiki page not from Wikipedia, is this possible? My wiki site is not connected to wikipedia and I am using mediawiki 1.20.X.
I added the wikiminiatlas code from ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.js) and pasted it into my MediaWiki:Common.js page. I then enabled js by using $wgUseSiteJs = true; and then tried this coordinate on one of our wiki page, { { #coordinates:40.744924|-74.006943 } } but I don't see a globe.
Do I need to enable Scribunto extension along with the wikiminiatlas .js file before this will work? Can you provide the steps about how to do this?? I did a lot of online searches and asked people on mw support and also mediawiki irc chat but I'm not getting any good answers and I hope you can help. Thanks for your help.
Peter in Canada — Preceding unsigned comment added by Backto1992 ( talk • contribs) 06:13, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello. I've noticed this tool doesn't work on pl.wikipedia (for example: [3]). Are there any problems with server ? Thanks, Sir Lothar ( talk) 11:35, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you so much for creating the GLAMorous tool in the first place, and thanks again for recently porting it to WMF Labs. Please accept this barnstar as a small token of my appreciation. It is a wonderful tool from which I have really benefited, for both GLAM-related and personal reasons, since you first unveiled it. I cannot thank you enough for first creating and then porting it. Vielen Dank! Michael Barera ( talk) 21:34, 9 July 2013 (UTC) |
As there is a Wikipedia article about you, you are cordially invited to contribute a short audio recoding of your spoken voice, so that our readers may know what you sound like and how you pronounce your name. Details of how to do so, and examples, are at Wikipedia:Voice intro project. You can ask for help or clarification on the project talk page, or my talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:12, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
It would be nice if a colon was added to links to File and Category entries in the wikitext output of the Category Intersection tool, as otherwise the page gets the images displayed (or is included in the category) which is not usually what is intended. Thanks for your many years of service of Wikimedia, and particularly for these tools. JesseW, the juggling janitor 08:12, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I tried to use GLAMorous on a user with a lot of images (>200.000). This does not work and I got: There was an error running the query [MySQL client ran out of memory]. It is not possible to check big collections like this? -- 91.221.58.5 ( talk) 10:11, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I started a list at mw:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Design/Patterns and components, which mentions the OpenStreetMap gadget. I see at Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals/Archive_3#OSM that it was potentially going to be added here, but it doesn't seem to be available? Possibly you could point me towards further information about its usage here and elsewhere? (I haven't investigated at all, yet, but possibly we could (or already have?) consider merging the WikiMiniAtlas and this gadget?)
Your thoughts or additions at the first link, would also be most welcome. :) – Quiddity ( talk) 20:14, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
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The categories of templates we were talking about this afternoon were Category:Attribution templates and Category:Article message templates (all subcategories to be included). Charles Matthews ( talk) 20:02, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey Magnus
Some editors have been asking me some WP history questions, and I don't trust my own memory. Can you remember when we actually got rid of CamelCase? I recall you were making mods to UseModWiki during the latter part of 2001, but my memory is too fuddled to recall if CamelCase was gone before we made the PhaseII switch in January 2002. Can you remember?
Hope you are well, cheers Manning ( talk) 05:30, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi Magnus,
I would normally heed your notice asking people to post bug reports about your tools to JIRA, but from the 13 open reports for FIST there, the latest was modified over a year ago, so I hope you don't mind me posting this here. I am trying to do a search using the tool but I get these errors:
Warning: mysqli::mysqli(): (HY000/2005): Unknown MySQL server host 'be-x-oldwiki.labsdb' (0) in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 85 Fatal error: Call to a member function query() on a non-object in /data/project/fist/public_html/fist.php on line 930
Can you take a look? -- Waldir talk 22:06, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey Magnus. I have been working on creating metrics for WP:Blake. I have been trying to use Treeviews to track whats going on in Category:William Blake, but everytime I try to run it, it doesn't create a report: it just keeps loading and loading without results. Is this a common problem? Also, would you be able to add Commons:Category:Media from the William Blake Archive to BaGlama? Sadads ( talk) 05:14, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
I'm sorry if I'm posting this in a wrong place, JIRA apparently doesn't cover CatScan...
In CatScan V2.0 if I enter e.g.:
I get:
Should be easy to fix, hopefully... GregorB ( talk) 11:55, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi Magnus. I think Andreas may have mentioned a proposal I have made here: Wikipedia_talk:Category_intersection#A_working_category_intersection_today. Could you just take a look at the proposal and share your thoughts? I'm not thinking of doing this for all facets - just for a certain section of the tree - around biographies - the point would be to get rid of gender/sexuality/etc sub-cats, and use category intersection instead. Your tool is at the heart of this proposal, so I would really value your feedback, advice, and help if possible. Cheers, -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 00:13, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Magnus. I think, besides porting the tool over to labs and (if possible) making it a bit faster, one of the things that will make this much more palatable to the wiki-audience would be a little bit of UI changes. I've been thinking of the following:
Ok, so that's basically my dream feature list... I hope you don't mind me asking - would that be possible to do any of those? I've made a revised prototype here: ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Singaporean poets - note how you can easily now look at arbitrary intersections. I think this could potentially work at scale, esp for the ethnic/gender categories, which multiply like mushrooms...
cheers and thanks again, -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 23:30, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
Victory! American writers × American men, tree intersection to depth 9, 8.5 seconds, on WMFLabs! -- Magnus Manske ( talk) 09:14, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Ok, I've tweaked the js, you can get the new version here User:Obiwankenobi/intercat.js. Changes made:
My JS skills are pretty poor so feel free to rewrite whatever I did in a better way - but first try it out - add my JS (remove yours), and then try out the page here: Category:Wikipedia_categorization_intersect_test so you can see what it looks like on a real category page. I added some illustrative intersects for American novelists.
Some FRs for Magnus:
<div class='intercat'>User:User_en|User_de</div>
, then we could pass "User" in, and use the same string as a prefix for article titles directly - that would clean up the JS and prevent need for logic to deal with converting.What really makes this magic and transformative is the speed. Getting people to wait 10 seconds was never going to work, so whatever magic you did, nice job, it is so speedy I can't believe it. -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 00:21, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Magnus. I see you've been continuing to improve the tools - that is awesome. I just wanted to centralize my high-priority feature requests here, so you can let me know which ones you might have time to do. I can also look into getting some other volunteer assistance, for example on the javascript side - let me know if that's worth doing.
Hope you're having a lovely summer. If you're ever in NYC let me know, I'd love to buy you a beer. :) -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 19:38, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
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A quick heads up, since I think some of your tools use the api of stats.grok.se: the json format has changed slightly to make it a bit more clear to which entries belong to which dates. If you access stats-classic.grok.se, you get the old format, but I'm not sure how long I'll keep running that service. henrik• talk 11:46, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Hallo Magnus; du hast hier 2005 den Artikel über Urs Graf angelegt und darin geschrieben "In 1527, he vanished from the city, never to be found again, though a signed drawing from 1529 exists", was sich auch in der aktuellen Version des Artikels noch so erhalten hat. Der Artikel gibt daher in der Einleitung "died after 1529" an. Nun kann ich leider nirgends etwas über diese Zeichnung von 1529 finden, weisst du vielleicht noch, wo du die Information her hattest? Der Artikel im Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), ebenfalls von 2005, gibt als Todesdatum "vor 13.10.1528" an, üblicherweise sollte das HLS auf dem aktuellen Stand der Forschung sein. Jedenfalls haben wir so aktuell eine Diskrepanz zwischen der englischen und der deutschen Wikipedia, die ich gerne bereinigen würde. Gestumblindi ( talk) 03:08, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Magnus, How do we fix the column widths in a wikitable? (Thought you'd be the right person to ask because you invented the syntax!) Der yck C. 17:30, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
|width="20px"|blah||width="40px"|more blah
If this doesn't work, please point me to the case you're working on. -- Magnus Manske ( talk) 13:11, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello Magnus. Do you have any plans to add OAth+OpenID support to TUSC? I would love to let users log in with their Google (or other) accounts, and be associated with a Wikimedia account for tool usage. If you'd be interested in doing this, I'll create a JIRA request ticket. — Pathoschild 07:20, 04 February 2012 (UTC)
Hallo Magnus. Ich habe dein Tool als Gadget vorgeschlagen. Leider scheint es Probleme zu geben, die ich nicht lösen kann. Magst du mal vorbeischauen? -- Leyo 10:41, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed that the above file doesn't resemble those of Eric Voegelin in non-free sources such as this. Could it be a case of mistaken identity? Autarch ( talk) 21:10, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
~~ Ebe 123~~ → report 14:48, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
~~ Ebe 123~~ → report 23:13, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
I saw you had done some work on gadgets. We're trying to start a library for gadget authors to use. Please check it out and post any questions or comments there — ☠ MarkAHershberger☢( talk)☣ 19:06, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hallo Markus Magnus Manske, zunächst entschuldige das ich Dich nicht im JIRA-System anschreibe. Dort komme ich irgendwie nicht zurecht. CatScan arbeitet bei der Suche im deutschen Sprachraum nicht mehr richtig
[1]. Die Antwort ist :MYSQL error : The MySQL server is running with the --read-only option so it cannot execute this statement [INSERT IGNORE INTO cat2 ( catname ) VALUES ( "Wikipedia:Defekter_Dateilink" )]. Mein Betriebssystem - Win XP, Browser - Opera oder FireFox. Kannst Du das Tool wieder in Gang bringen? Danke --
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Hallo Magnus,
könntest du bitte meine Benutzerseite löschen? Danke, — Derschueler ( talk) - German Wikipedia 06:58, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah ( talk) 20:08, 16 April 2012 (UTC) |
Hello. Refering to https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MAGNUS-203 I've been trying to use CatScan for categories on hi-wp, but haven't been able to get it to work with either unicode or percent encoding or Hexadecimal NCRs or javascript escapes.
Two example categories whose subset shouldn't be empty are hi:श्रेणी:इलाहाबाद_जिला_के_गाँव and hi:श्रेणी:उत्तरप्रदेश_के_गाँव. I've tried using catscan with other categories on hi-wp too, but it doesn't seem to work.
Hope this is easily fixable. Thanks.-- Siddhartha Ghai ( talk) 14:44, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Magnus, I believe that you are the one that is hosting this old tool of Joanjoc's. It doesn't seem to work anymore, though (e.g. plug in "Ecuador" as the category for es.wiki articles missing from en.wiki, and nothing comes up even though es:Usuarios de Internet en Ecuador doesn't exist in en.wiki). Any ideas about what broke this tool and how it can be fixed? Calliopejen1 ( talk) 19:33, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Please see WP:COIN#External links to the Encyclopedia of Life. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 00:46, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Any chance you could confirm one way or the other?© Geni 15:28, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Could I trouble you, please, to take a look at Category:Gray's Anatomy images and its contents, much of which you created in 2004? There is an ongoing discussion about the category, but is it not clear what was the intended function of the member pages or if they are still needed. Your comments could prove most helpful. Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 23:52, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Magnus,
Sorry if this is not the right place! Could you please add http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Victoria_and_Albert_Museum , http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Freer_Gallery_of_Art and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bodleian_Library to the reports? Many thanks, Johnbod ( talk) 14:40, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Magnus, I am the Wikipedian in Residence at OCLC and Liam Wyatt suggested I talk to you about my ISBN Idea. It's to use our service xISBN (which returns a list of related ISBNs on input of single ISBN) in Special:BookSources. I've started a main discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Book_sources#Consideration_of_xISBN . Thanks for your input. Maximiliankleinoclc ( talk) 17:45, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Hey Magnus. Looks like you have developed quite a good toolbox. I would like to suggest a new one that can track the longevity of my edits as a means of doing self-appraisals, or to make comparisons with other editors. So could you develop a tool that looks at an editors article namespace edits and generate some sort of metric for their longevity? When I add content to WP I want to make sure it stays there (unless it needs updating). Is this feasible? Maybe it could be like the duplication detector tool I have seen used to check for copy vios. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 23:51, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
You have been mentioned at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera#Composer infoboxes... you may or may not want to comment. Moxy ( talk) 23:01, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, can you help me? This image
[2] is needed for the
Dana Delany article. However it is the wrong license? Is there anyway you can persuade the user to change the license, or upload another image of her? Much appreciated, thanks :) Put a talkback on my page when you reply, thank you very much! —
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On any query through CatScan, I get the error:
MYSQL error : The MySQL server is running with the --read-only option so it cannot execute this statement [INSERT IGNORE INTO cat2 ( catname ) VALUES ( "<category I looked for>" )]
It started approximately yesterday noon. Is it a known issue? Thanks, Ynhockey ( Talk) 10:29, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
MYSQL error : Access denied for user 'magnus'@'%.toolserver.org' to database 'commonswiki_p' [CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE cat1 ( catgroup INTEGER , catname VARCHAR(255) , depth INTEGER , PRIMARY KEY ca ( catgroup , catname ) , INDEX cb ( catgroup , depth ) ) STORAGE MEMORY]
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For still being a prolific and attentive 'tech' member of our community, 10,5 years after having literally laid down it's 2nd foundation. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 19:39, 22 August 2012 (UTC) |
Dear Magnus,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.
Best regards, — Hex (❝?!❞) 11:12, 1 October 2012 (UTC).
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For creating CatScan V2.0, an excellent tool, I hereby present you with The da Vinci Barnstar. GregorB ( talk) 12:41, 28 October 2012 (UTC) |
Hi Magnus, Good to meet you again last Sunday. As we discussed image copyright, I wonder if you could tell me what guidelines I can use to decide whether a historical image can be uploaded? I understand it's 70 years after the creator's death, but he/she is usually unknown. Is it fair to assume that because the oldest living person is 122 years old and noone has been verified to live longer than that, everything before 1820 (2012 - 122 - 70) is definitely fine? If the creator is unknown, what other criteria can be used? I'm specifically thinking of uploading some paintings from http://www.penangmuseum.gov.my/museum/en/museum/historical-paintings . Thanks, cmɢʟee ☎ ✉ 14:04, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
I've had some problems using your clonned version of the Joanjoc tools lately, is it a server problem or a problem with the code? And could you make it work with Wikisource? Thanks! -- Micru ( talk) 20:08, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Magnus! Sugart is failing again now, gives an SQL error which I don't know what it means. Is this because of wikidata? Will there be a new tool that does the same thing, or is this only a temporary glitch? Of all the tools I have ever seen this is one of the most crucial because no other tool I know of will produce the same list. Til Eulenspiegel / talk/ 17:25, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
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Congratulations on all the hard work on Wikipedia for over 10 years! :) CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 09:38, 18 November 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks! -- Magnus Manske ( talk) 14:47, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Magnus, I've recently encountered errors with CatScan trying to find members of a category which have a particular template:
MYSQL error : Table 'enwiki_p.globalimagelinks' doesn't exist [SELECT /* SLOW_OK LIMIT:2000 NM */ /* CATSCAN2 */ pid,gil_wiki,gil_page_namespace_id,gil_page_namespace,gil_page_title FROM temp2,enwiki_p.globalimagelinks WHERE pns=6 AND gil_to=ptitle]
Is toolserver shuffling things around? I know I should learn how to report things properly with JIRA... sorry Dsp13 ( talk) 01:56, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Magnus, I reverted the infobox on the article, no slight on you, but its been discussed to death re composers, and the feelings seems to be that they are not needed or optimum for these articles. Hope your not offended. Ceoil ( talk) 02:24, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks so much for adding an image to 'Ota 'ika! I wrote it as a tiny stub three years ago, and it's turned into a decent little article, and the photo really caps it off. Thanks for helping out! MatthewVanitas ( talk) 19:25, 26 November 2012 (UTC) |
Thought this might interest you. Please inform the others who were involved in our discussion a while back of this proposal. I think even if a merger with geograph is not possible we should fund this. Blofeld Dr. ( talk) 21:51, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
It's wonderful! I thought I should give you heads up that I've mentioned it at Wikipedia talk:Authority control#Authority control tool. I'm going to file another JIRA ticket for the problem in positioning I mention there - the question is where the template should go in relation to the persondata template on en.wikipedia, and people may have strong preferences. (Until that's resolved, I won't be using it on wikipedia, but I'm loving it on wikisource!) Dsp13 ( talk) 21:47, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello Magnus. I don't know how to put an issue in the JIRA System, so i try here, sorry. The Wikivoyage is new as a WikiMedia Project - and i think they would be happy to use some of your tools. Perhaps it is only little coding required (just one more projectname and adress)? The most important would be CatScan 2.0. It is required to be able to use the categories rational. What do you think? -- NatiSythen ( talk) 07:01, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
For flickr2commons, could you an option for attribution within the CC template such as {{Cc-by-sa-3.0|1=Attribution details}}. Some of the photo-streams require a certain attribution to be present. Great tool btw! Smallman12q ( talk) 15:13, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
On another note, I just realized there isn't an article about you here! :( I've done some digging and I think I have sufficient sources to put something together. Any opposition from your side on fixing the redirect at [[Magnus Manske]]?-- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 23:06, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello Magnus, yes, I suppose it would be fine. As usual, redirects are always useful, even if working only partially. -- Nemo 17:04, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Magnus,
Someone sent me your name about help for the Scribunto extension and wikiminiatlas. I am in Canada and I want to add geographic coordinates to my wiki page so that it shows geo-coordinates like the top right corner of this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Wall_Centre but I want my locations to be specific locations from my own wiki page not from Wikipedia, is this possible? My wiki site is not connected to wikipedia and I am using mediawiki 1.20.X.
I added the wikiminiatlas code from ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.js) and pasted it into my MediaWiki:Common.js page. I then enabled js by using $wgUseSiteJs = true; and then tried this coordinate on one of our wiki page, { { #coordinates:40.744924|-74.006943 } } but I don't see a globe.
Do I need to enable Scribunto extension along with the wikiminiatlas .js file before this will work? Can you provide the steps about how to do this?? I did a lot of online searches and asked people on mw support and also mediawiki irc chat but I'm not getting any good answers and I hope you can help. Thanks for your help.
Peter in Canada — Preceding unsigned comment added by Backto1992 ( talk • contribs) 06:13, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello. I've noticed this tool doesn't work on pl.wikipedia (for example: [3]). Are there any problems with server ? Thanks, Sir Lothar ( talk) 11:35, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you so much for creating the GLAMorous tool in the first place, and thanks again for recently porting it to WMF Labs. Please accept this barnstar as a small token of my appreciation. It is a wonderful tool from which I have really benefited, for both GLAM-related and personal reasons, since you first unveiled it. I cannot thank you enough for first creating and then porting it. Vielen Dank! Michael Barera ( talk) 21:34, 9 July 2013 (UTC) |
As there is a Wikipedia article about you, you are cordially invited to contribute a short audio recoding of your spoken voice, so that our readers may know what you sound like and how you pronounce your name. Details of how to do so, and examples, are at Wikipedia:Voice intro project. You can ask for help or clarification on the project talk page, or my talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:12, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
It would be nice if a colon was added to links to File and Category entries in the wikitext output of the Category Intersection tool, as otherwise the page gets the images displayed (or is included in the category) which is not usually what is intended. Thanks for your many years of service of Wikimedia, and particularly for these tools. JesseW, the juggling janitor 08:12, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I tried to use GLAMorous on a user with a lot of images (>200.000). This does not work and I got: There was an error running the query [MySQL client ran out of memory]. It is not possible to check big collections like this? -- 91.221.58.5 ( talk) 10:11, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I started a list at mw:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Design/Patterns and components, which mentions the OpenStreetMap gadget. I see at Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals/Archive_3#OSM that it was potentially going to be added here, but it doesn't seem to be available? Possibly you could point me towards further information about its usage here and elsewhere? (I haven't investigated at all, yet, but possibly we could (or already have?) consider merging the WikiMiniAtlas and this gadget?)
Your thoughts or additions at the first link, would also be most welcome. :) – Quiddity ( talk) 20:14, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is
Suspicious/problematic behavior of Moheen Reeyad, TilottamaTitlee, and Leelabratee. Thank you.
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The categories of templates we were talking about this afternoon were Category:Attribution templates and Category:Article message templates (all subcategories to be included). Charles Matthews ( talk) 20:02, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey Magnus
Some editors have been asking me some WP history questions, and I don't trust my own memory. Can you remember when we actually got rid of CamelCase? I recall you were making mods to UseModWiki during the latter part of 2001, but my memory is too fuddled to recall if CamelCase was gone before we made the PhaseII switch in January 2002. Can you remember?
Hope you are well, cheers Manning ( talk) 05:30, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi Magnus,
I would normally heed your notice asking people to post bug reports about your tools to JIRA, but from the 13 open reports for FIST there, the latest was modified over a year ago, so I hope you don't mind me posting this here. I am trying to do a search using the tool but I get these errors:
Warning: mysqli::mysqli(): (HY000/2005): Unknown MySQL server host 'be-x-oldwiki.labsdb' (0) in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 85 Fatal error: Call to a member function query() on a non-object in /data/project/fist/public_html/fist.php on line 930
Can you take a look? -- Waldir talk 22:06, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey Magnus. I have been working on creating metrics for WP:Blake. I have been trying to use Treeviews to track whats going on in Category:William Blake, but everytime I try to run it, it doesn't create a report: it just keeps loading and loading without results. Is this a common problem? Also, would you be able to add Commons:Category:Media from the William Blake Archive to BaGlama? Sadads ( talk) 05:14, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
I'm sorry if I'm posting this in a wrong place, JIRA apparently doesn't cover CatScan...
In CatScan V2.0 if I enter e.g.:
I get:
Should be easy to fix, hopefully... GregorB ( talk) 11:55, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi Magnus. I think Andreas may have mentioned a proposal I have made here: Wikipedia_talk:Category_intersection#A_working_category_intersection_today. Could you just take a look at the proposal and share your thoughts? I'm not thinking of doing this for all facets - just for a certain section of the tree - around biographies - the point would be to get rid of gender/sexuality/etc sub-cats, and use category intersection instead. Your tool is at the heart of this proposal, so I would really value your feedback, advice, and help if possible. Cheers, -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 00:13, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Magnus. I think, besides porting the tool over to labs and (if possible) making it a bit faster, one of the things that will make this much more palatable to the wiki-audience would be a little bit of UI changes. I've been thinking of the following:
Ok, so that's basically my dream feature list... I hope you don't mind me asking - would that be possible to do any of those? I've made a revised prototype here: ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Singaporean poets - note how you can easily now look at arbitrary intersections. I think this could potentially work at scale, esp for the ethnic/gender categories, which multiply like mushrooms...
cheers and thanks again, -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 23:30, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
Victory! American writers × American men, tree intersection to depth 9, 8.5 seconds, on WMFLabs! -- Magnus Manske ( talk) 09:14, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Ok, I've tweaked the js, you can get the new version here User:Obiwankenobi/intercat.js. Changes made:
My JS skills are pretty poor so feel free to rewrite whatever I did in a better way - but first try it out - add my JS (remove yours), and then try out the page here: Category:Wikipedia_categorization_intersect_test so you can see what it looks like on a real category page. I added some illustrative intersects for American novelists.
Some FRs for Magnus:
<div class='intercat'>User:User_en|User_de</div>
, then we could pass "User" in, and use the same string as a prefix for article titles directly - that would clean up the JS and prevent need for logic to deal with converting.What really makes this magic and transformative is the speed. Getting people to wait 10 seconds was never going to work, so whatever magic you did, nice job, it is so speedy I can't believe it. -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 00:21, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Magnus. I see you've been continuing to improve the tools - that is awesome. I just wanted to centralize my high-priority feature requests here, so you can let me know which ones you might have time to do. I can also look into getting some other volunteer assistance, for example on the javascript side - let me know if that's worth doing.
Hope you're having a lovely summer. If you're ever in NYC let me know, I'd love to buy you a beer. :) -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( talk) 19:38, 26 July 2013 (UTC)