User talk:Magnus Manske

For bug reports or feature requests concerning my toolserver tools, please use the JIRA system.
It helps me keeping track of all the requests. Beats spreading them over half a dozen talk pages ;-)

Welcome to Wikipedia, Magnus! -- LMS

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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's Day!

User:Magnus Manske has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Magnus Manske's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Magnus Manske! 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://en.wikipedia.org/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 11 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)