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[edit] broken link on geo tool

Just wanted to mention that your geo tool thingy (http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=46_01_N_77_27_W_ ) has a broken link. On the this is one of mangus' toys... banner, the mangus toys links to a 404 (http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/index.html ). (you proabally meant to link to http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/index.html ). user:Bawolff 22:30, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Commons sum-it-up

Hi Magnus,

das Commons sum-it-up hat einen kleinen Schönheitsfehler: Vor der jeweils ersten Verlinkung (pro Sprache) fehlt ein Leerzeichen. Ist mir aufgefallen, als ich heute commons:Nicodemus mit deinem Tool erstellte. --Raymond de 10:53, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dupes tool thumbnails

Hi! Great work on the dupes tool. It takes quite a while to load the full pictures used as thumbnails though. Would it be possible to have an actual thumbnail file as a thumbnail, instead of the original big file? --Para 16:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm on vacation right now, with little net access. I'll get around to it in a week or so. --Magnus Manske 08:31, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aminoacids

Hi Magnus. There has been some dicussing about the accuracy of Image:Amino acids 2.png as if the NH3 would need to be NH2 (amino). Can you check? Platonides 11:39, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Never mind. It has been already cleared. Platonides 20:42, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bad old ones.

Hi Magnus.

Since a few days ago bad old ones tool is not working to delete images at commons. For example: this case gives "no images", but the category has many images.

Regards, Barcex 16:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Vasco-da-gama.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Vasco-da-gama.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the file also doesn't have a copyright tag, then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

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 uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Conscious 11:21, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CommonsHelper and nowiki tags

Hello Magnus,

I am a great fan of the CommonsHelper tool, thanks for this ! I am a bit suprised that you include "nowiki" tags around the "other version" field, as the links to the original user page and the "span class=comment" do not work ; I have to remove them every time. COuld you please fix this (or explain me the purpose of the nowiki's) ?

Thanks, Korrigan 19:11, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A few bugs

Hi Magnus, I'm playing with your toys ;) and have discovered a few bugs:

  • Missing images doesn't find missing image for the article de:Schienenwolf.
  • ISBN2Wiki has a PHP error for 86-7558-431-8

Otherwise, they're good and very useful. Why GeoHack isn't a special page like Special:Booksource? Somebody dislikes the idea or you simply haven't got the time to do it? Nikola 11:17, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

The ISBN tool doesn't report the error now, but it still works strange. It reports: Istina o RacÌŒku / Ilija Simić. which should be Istina o Račku / Ilija Simić.. It seems that one of its sources is in UTF-8 which the tool interprets as ISO-8859-1. Also, Ilija is the author of the book, though it might be a mistake in the source. Also, there is suspicious ??? at the beginning of the line.
Maybe it would be helpful if the tool would, alongside the wikicode, report where it found the data for it. Then people could look it and give you feedback.
I got the idea for the special page while looking at the Booksource and noticing how simple it is :) Nikola 15:34, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Map sources page rendering

Opera 8.54 under Win98SE. These http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=51_34_34_N_0_29_19_E_ pages are rendered for me with a slice on the left chopped off (no margin with the Earth image, heading starts at "ap sources/GeoHack"). There may be some float/margin conflict. Femto 11:26, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

It was fine on Mozilla, then someone told me the margin is too large on IE. Now that it works on both IE and Mozilla, Opera doesn't show it right. Talk about web standards. I'll look into it.--Magnus Manske 12:59, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
I downloaded Opera 9.02, and it looks fine. So, marked as WONTFIX;-) Upgrade your browser, it's free. --Magnus Manske 13:02, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Talk about web standards. What web standards? I think the whole problem is that the page doesn't tell which! Include a doctype and it works under Opera 8.54 too. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> Besides, the <link> element shouldn't get a closing slash, and there's a typo "vertial-align". You're welcome, but I usually don't bother with .0x versions (they call these changes 8.54->9 a major release?) Nah, I still won't upgrade. Not that you'd be the first one to tell me :D Femto 16:46, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the doctype; I always thought there was something I forgot ;-) All should be fixed now. --Magnus Manske 19:33, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ordnance Survey

The geohack section heading "United Kingdom" should be changed to "Great Britain": Northern Ireland uses the Irish national grid reference system so the GB Ordnance Survey grid references generated for places in NI are spurious. I know nothing about cartography, but I wonder whether the Irish system could easily be added to geohack using the parameters at Irish national grid reference system#Summary parameters of the Irish National Grid coordinate system:. The Get-a-map site can handle Irish references (even Repulic of Ireland) as well as British ones, so it would be useful. jnestorius(talk) 02:13, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Push for commons

Hi, in "Push for commons" the Swedish license tag {{Frianvändning}} is tagged as "no verificable good license" so PfC cannot be used for such images. {{Frianvändning}} is in fact equivalent to {{Attribution}}. Don't know if this is a setting which needs to be changed in PfC or in the {{Frianvändning}}-template. Cheers /Lokal_Profil 22:30, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Also noticed that the {{Logo}}-template is marked as a disallowed template (red shading) when it should be marked as a Fair Use template (yellow shading). Many thanks again. /Lokal_Profil 19:31, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CommonsHelper and fr.wikipedia

Hi Magnus,

I have seen you just updated CommonsHelper : nice ! Would it be possible to "ignore" certain templates which are not license templates, but which are included in each license template on fr.wikipedia ? Currentley they appear each time in the "license" section or in comments. Those templates are

  • Template:!
  • Template:Documentation modèle
  • Template:Méta bandeau licence
  • Template:Pour Commons
  • Template:Purger le cache

Thank you ! le Korrigan bla 23:36, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CommonsHelper and PD tag refused

dear Magnus, i was using your tool to upload files from the cs wikipedia to my great satisfaction. I don' know if it is a bug or on purpose but your tool (or something else) refuses to upload the picture when the licence is {{PD-CzechGov}}. It IS public domain so why block upload? :-( can you help? --Diligent (same name on Commons)

wonderful - it works! thanks a lot for your help. Diligent

[edit] ommochromes

hi magnus,

in Ommochrome you wrote the eye color is determined by the ommochromes. I inserted the info that spiders use them too, but was not sure where the eye color info belongs to. does it specifically refer to the eyes of cephalopodes? then i would have to change the sentence again, because this is not the case for spiders. cheers --Sarefo 06:43, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Raymond Firth

Hi Magnus - not sure if it's on your watchlist or not, but thought you might like to know that I've expanded the page on Raymond Firth that you started. Jasper33 11:16, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi again, and thanks for your nice comments. I've just now added an infobox to Raymond, and then saw your talk note to me about the Persondata template. That'll teach me not to read my new messages first! I didn't see the Persondata stuff on the article, and being a newbie I don't know how to make it appear (could only do the infobox 'cos I cut and pasted one from another article...) Jasper33 08:49, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Umm, err, how do I say this? All that reads like Double Dutch to me, Magnus. I'm afraid I've absolutely no idea what 'persondata' is, or a 'monobook.css' file, or 'hard reload'. You're dealing with a complete and total technophobe here. I'm trying to learn, but it's painfully slow. Bear with me... :) Jasper33 13:29, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Cheers Magnus - that's great. Thanks for your patience and your help! Jasper33 13:53, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GeoHack Improvement

Moved here. --PSIplus Ψ 13:14, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Western blot

Dear sir,

would you please import Image:Western blot.jpg on Commons ? It feels crap to translate the article thoroughfully in French and lack the illu.Yours - --Inyan 13:06, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lower Sorbian Wikipedia

Hello, you are suppose to be a developer (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developers) so i wnated to ask you for help with craeting Lower Sorbian Wikipedia domain (dsb.wikipedia.org). On page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_policy i have found "In case of approval The developers will set up a new project (ask them...).", so please set up this project if you could. Lower Sorbian wiki has been aproved (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Approved_requests_for_new_languages#Lower_Sorbian) and project is in incubator if you want to see it : http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/dsb. If you are not able to set up this project maybe you can tell me who is able to do this. If you have any questions please ask me here : http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pe7er thank you

[edit] GIS errors

I was browsing in Google Earth and noticed the new Geographic Web items. I see that a couple of them in my area appear in the wrong place. The coordinates on the Wikipedia pages link to the correct map locations, even the KML files, but somehow the Geographic Web layer ends up with the icons in the wrong places.

The entries in question are for Bloomington, Minnesota, USA and Richfield, Minnesota, USA. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.41.245.197 (talk) 06:47, 8 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Missing images

Hi Magnus Manske, I just found your tool "Missing images" and I think it's a really cool tool. I thank you so much for it, I wanted something similar for years!
It's so complete and useful that hardly I can find a way to improve it. :) Maybe could be useful to add an option to report the remote cases when an article has images but not interwiki links. Or to report when an important (long) article has many images in other wikipedias and only one in the local wiki. Or and option to filter false negative like you already remove "false positive" (eg. when the right image is added in a TABLE by a template without using the syntax "Image:name.ext"). But all this are little, and maybe useless, features; the core is fantastic and, again, thank you. :)
Another tool that I'm searcing for a long time is a list of red links for all articles in a category and its subcategories. Maybe you know something useful... ;) --87.8.128.163 10:03, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

You didn't use a username, so I'll answer you here. I've hacked together a script for your redlinks issue, here. Please use with caution. I'll get to the Missing images suggestions later. --Magnus Manske 20:25, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you Magnus for the redlinks tool. It works fine :)
I didn't realize the amount of stess for the servers, I will use it very wisely and I hope you will find a way to reduce the impact on servers.
If I may suggest 2 features:
  • could be useful to export the list in wiki syntax, so it could be useful to many users at the same time.
  • could be nice an option to include/exclude wikilink in templates.
Hi and thank you again. --82.60.88.97 10:28, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I added a wikitext output option. However, separating links from templates would add a new complexity, and the toolserver already works hard on this as it is, even though I just tweaked it a little. --Magnus Manske 13:27, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

You are so kind Magnus. Thank you for everything. :) --87.8.128.204 16:06, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Need help

Hi,

One of the images I uploades, Image:Saraswati-RRV.jpg, was apparently "pushed to commons" (perhaps by you?) and is now available at Image:Saraswati.jpg. In this connection:

  1. Do you use a bot or monobook code to perform this operation. If yes, can you please do the required work for my request below. If not, can you teach me how to do the needful? What I need to do is:
  2. similarly "push to commons" the other images on this page,
  3. categorise all these images under this category in the commons.

Regards, ImpuMozhi 18:13, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Commons Image move helper

Hi. Thanks for the cool tool that makes this chore much easier. I was complained to that "I was adding {{PD-Layout}} to images that I was uploading/moving. Could the tool be fixed to not include this tag, as it doesn't really help. The other user and I agreed that it was a minor problem, but I still thought I should mention it to you. Thanks. --MECU≈talk 03:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hurrah

It's Magnus Manske Day. CiaranG 16:54, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Yay! --GunnarRene 18:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, both of you! :-) --Magnus Manske 18:29, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Geohack down?

Hi. I assume the geo-hack is your tool. It now says "The tools by this user is deactivated. The autor should eMail the roots." --GunnarRene 18:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Working on it. --Magnus Manske 19:24, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] wiki2xml

Hey Magnus,

Hi. There's no user "FND" so I'll reply here.

Someone just told me about your wiki2xml tool, and it seems to be exactly what I've been looking for! (I'm desperately trying to convert MediaWiki content to OpenDocument for "post-processing".)

However, I couldn't find any version information that might tell me whether this tool can be considered production-ready; could you give me some info on that issue?

It's far from production ready, misses many features, has many bugs, and I don't have time to fix either. Trying to parse MediaWiki texts with anything other than MediaWiki might be doomed by design :-(

If it's fairly reliable, you should definitely announce it on the MediaWiki-l mailing list.

They know about it, it's been around for some time. Also, it's in the official SVN. But, no one cares...

Thanks a lot for this contribution!!

-- FND 13:22, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Push fo commons

First, thank for your great tool, I used it intensively for transferring images from fr:. It nearly covert all needs for that type of work, but it has some annoying limitations and bugs :

  • The link for file saving has a problem with unicode, don't know, if you aware of this. It's not very important because you can bypass the difficulty in opening the image description for saving the file, but maybe isn't difficult to solve in the script.
    • Can you point me to an example? I'm too lazy to look for one myself ;-)
  • The other problem, I saw is the template fr:Modèle:Art Libre equivalent to commons:template:FAL is marked as bad and don't permit upload on commons. On contrary, fr:Modèle:marque déposée is marked in may be, it must be bad because it covert copyrighted images.
    • Fixed. "Art Libre" and "ArtLibre" now convert to "FAL" on Commons, and "marque déposée" is bad, bad, bad!
  • An feature, that I would like to see (if you had time and envy ;)), it's per date range selection, eventually as a second criteria, when you select file by user or category. But It's maybe don't worth the time of coding, I don't know if it's difficult work to implement, only a suggestion.
    • I'll get to it when I have more time... --Magnus Manske 12:02, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Anyways, thank again a lot for your great tool, a daily one for me, it's great tool too, for finding the template:NowCommons and template:ShadowsCommons elgibility of files. Bilou —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.232.27.192 (talk) 10:14, 4 February 2007 (UTC).

Thanks very much for fixing tags, for the problem with unicode, try language=fr, mode=image uploaded by user, user=ChrisJ, try to upload the third one Bièvres.jpg, when you save the file with the media link in commons helper, you got a html file named Bièvres.jpg. Not relative to push to commons, it's a bug in commons helper. Simply try in commonshelper Language code=fr Image name=Bièvres.jpg, you will have the same result. Bilou

Done. --Magnus Manske 09:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Many thanks for our quick fix, life is easier now ;), you've done a great work with that tool, again thanks for that.82.232.27.192 15:02, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dupes tool

Thanks for creating the dupes tool, it is very useful. I was wondering if I could suggest something: Some images are used in many namespaces causing the page to grow. Would it be possible to allow it to break the lines so you can more easily see if one image is unused so can be deleted immediately. Thanks. Lcarsdata 09:01, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What do you think?

This user believes free images should be moved to the Commons.

Just curious. --evrik (talk) 16:49, 10 March 2007 (UTC)



[edit] William Francis Gibbs

Thank you for creating this article. It is long overdue. I have formatted it for references; if you want to use another format, feel free to do so-- the article is your creation. I do have a copy of the Brayard book and can add to the article, but probably not for a few weeks as I will be traveling. Kablammo 22:12, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] is this a bug?

Looking at the Gibraltar page, it gives reasonable co-ordinates for the place, however on clicking on them the map shown drops me in the sea, because although the URL presented is

http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=36.143_N_−5.353_E_{{{3}}}

The page thinks its at 0 degrees East.

Could this be a bug in the script ?

--Gibnews 21:54, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CommonsHelper broken?

Warning: mysql_pconnect() [function.mysql-pconnect]: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111 in /home/magnus/public_html/database_functions.php on line 27 Could not connect to mysql : Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111

=( Krimpet 02:55, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Toolserver database was broken, should be fixed now. --Magnus Manske 10:15, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
It seems to be working off and on now, it was definitely working earlier today but seems to be giving me the same error again. Krimpet 20:27, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
I know; nothing I can do about it, though. Server guys are working on it.--Magnus Manske 21:20, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Geohack

Hi. I was wondering whether the GeoHack tool could be modified so it accepts a language parameter in order to display the results page accordingly? You tool is used by many other wikipedias and having the results inserted in a template in the desired language would be very much appreciated by non-English speakers. --InfoCan 19:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I have repeatedly suggested that geohack should become part of MediaWiki via an extension, enabling each wikipedia to design their version as they see fit. So far I've received one "I might have a look" but that's it. If nothing comes of it (meaning, the server gods sit on their ears again), I might write such an option for the current one, though it would be plain crazy to not do it as part of MediaWiki. --Magnus Manske 20:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
I would appreciate it very much if you could provide some assistance now. If I supplied you with a Turkish translation of the results page, would it take you a lot of effort to modify your code so it accepts a &lang=tr optional parameter and generate the results using the Turkish template? --InfoCan 03:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
OK, OK, it's done :-) Put a copy of en:Template:GeoTemplate on your local wikipedia under tr:Template:GeoTemplate (don't forget to replace all "//en." with "//tr."), then call geohack with "language=tr". You can then adapt your local tr template as you like. --Magnus Manske 10:25, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you very much. Very kınd of you. I'll try ıt out. --InfoCan 11:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
I can't make it work. See [1]. I wonder whether the equal or & signs create complications. Instead of using this URL:[2]\ could you make your site use this one [3]? --InfoCan 17:55, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
The geolink at [4] doesn't work because your (tr's) URL-generating template is broken. For a working example, see here. As you can seen, you can put the language after the "?", as in http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?language=tr&params=41_15_N_32_41_E_region:IN_type:city which will fix all possible ambiguities of the "&" character. --Magnus Manske 19:35, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Now it works. Thanks very much. --InfoCan 04:20, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Geo microformat on GeoHack

Please see: Template talk:GeoTemplate#Geo microformat on GeoHack/ Thank you. Andy Mabbett 09:37, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

FYI, I replied to you there. Andy Mabbett 12:21, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Microformats

You might like to be aware of, or even join, WikiProject Microformats. Some of the issues might be better dealt with in MediaWiki, than Wikipedia. Andy Mabbett 23:40, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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