User talk:Magnus Manske

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[edit] Missing images

Hi Magnus, I think your very useful tool doesn't recognize those little images used in the italian stub template. See for example it:Eivind Aadland or it:Jacques Abbadie, in both articles your tool finds an image. I don't know, maybe is fault of the (complex) italian template it:template:S. Thank you. --79.0.164.129 15:32, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

If the image name is "constructed" from template variables, or set in <includeonly>, there is no way for the script to filter it. However, it should be filtered by the "80x80px" limit, but it isn't. I'll look into that. --Magnus Manske 15:49, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Should now work as advertised :-) --Magnus Manske 20:55, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Magnus, I'm sorry to annoying you again. Now something wrong in the opposite side :)
See it:Andrew S. Tanenbaum or it:Leonhard Euler (missing images says "Leonhard Euler ... has no images, and neither do the 61 other languages"). Thank you again. --87.8.52.151 21:41, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I was checking if the used images were larger than 80x80px - but only for the wikipedia, not for images from commons... Try it now. --Magnus Manske 19:45, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Thank you Magnus, now seems to work much better because in the local wikipedia the tool recognize little images, though I think that when it looks in other wikipedia something is still wrong: see it:Francis Fukuyama when "Ignore images smaller than 80x80 pixel" and "Find only images on the commons" are both selected no image is found. Without "ignore images..." it finds an image on the commons. However, deselecting "ignore images...", now I can find hundreds of useful images and thanks to your fix I've work for at least a year. :D So no big deal if you haven't the time.
Another question: the 80x80pixel limit is based on the actual size of the image or is based on the size showed in the page? --87.14.62.132 08:08, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Odd result from "Missing Topics" tool

Hi Magnus! I tried your "Missing Topics" tool for the category "Rugby union" - [1]

Got some great results, what an excellent idea for a tool! But it lists Taniela Fuga as having 9 results - going to that redlink's "what links here" page ([2]) reveals nothing at all. Any idea what that's about? --Stormie 04:46, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

There is apparently a known weirdness in MediaWiki where templates can generate these "virtual" links. I don't think I can do anything about it. Anyway, would your guy be Tani Fuga? --Magnus Manske 06:53, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Aha! Yes, it looks like most/all of the links to Tani Fuga are from Template:Samoa Squad 2007 World Cup.. which, if you look at the history, had a redlink to Taniela Fuga until the last edit [3]. Guess it's a caching issue or something? Thanks! --Stormie 10:41, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
The s1 toolserver database has a replication lag of ~80h. That might explain it. If so, it should work correctly in about a week ;-) --Magnus Manske 11:14, 25 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] How many people use a certain skin?

On the mostly undated historical page Wikipedia:User interface ideas, circa 2002 you wrote "Accidentially, I just changed statistics so it shows how many people use a certain skin...". Where are the current version of these statistics web-accessible, or where could I request them?
More generally, is it possible to get other non-personal statistics on how many people make various kinds of changes to My preferences? (Please reply here) Milo 02:36, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Watch Flickr typo

Typo in the following: "...has no photos, and not hits on flickr either". Should be "no hits on flickr either". — Zaui (talk) 21:33, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, fixed. --Magnus Manske 21:58, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Watch Flickr

Hi, I just wanted to pop in and congratulate you on building such an excellent tool. Well done. -- Waggers 08:45, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bug

The tool is excellent; bravo. One problem: when the title of the photo on Flickr has a non-English script, the photo doesn't upload properly. Allowing the uploader to Commons to change the title of the photo would solve this, I think. Badagnani 07:48, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I WatchFlickr, I offer three ways (flinfo, Bryan's upload tool, and my own direct method) to upload an image from flickr to commons. Which one are you refering to? --Magnus Manske 08:58, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm just using the gray button that says "Upload." It works the best and the others didn't work for me. Out of the approximately 25+ photos I've uploaded to Commons with the toold, about 5 or 6 didn't upload properly because they had Japanese characters, hyphens, or some other non-standard character. When I go to the Commons page where it's supposed to be, there is nothing there. Yet apparently it's been uploaded somewhere, only I can't find it. Badagnani 00:03, 18 October 2007 (UTC) OK, I just figure out how to find the upload history for the bot. I found the three problematic titles and made "move" requests. It seems that one cannot move photos to a different title, so I just made "move" requests. Can you please let me know on my talk page when they're moved, so I can put the photos in the correct articles? In the meantime, if you could fix the bot so it allows one to assign a new image title (the way the Wikipedia image upload software allows for this), this would solve this problem for future uploads. Badagnani 00:20, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

That's good! Wikipedia is really being enriched by your tool. Badagnani 07:31, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Watch Flickr

Damn, that is an awesome script! --Padraic 20:03, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] One more idea

Can you create a way that, instead of searching categories for Flickr images, if I find a Flickr image that is free but doesn't show up in the category search (for the reason that, for example, the title of the image on Flickr is in Chinese or something), one can cut and paste the URL of that Flickr image and upload it with your tool? I found a way of doing it but it was a little difficult and cumbersome. Badagnani 07:33, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Ooh, exactly! Did you just make that? Badagnani 09:38, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

No, it is the "sub-tool" that watchflickr uses to upload images. I just slapped a form on it so you don't have to edit the URL directly ;-) --Magnus Manske 09:55, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

(Rubbing hands together): Excellent! Badagnani 10:01, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Question: I've found the new FIST tool; can you tell me, as before, the URL of where I can upload a specific Flickr image if I already know the Flickr URL? That will be useful. Badagnani 22:36, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Eh, that didn't change? It's still at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/flickr2commons.php AFAIK... --Magnus Manske 22:46, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Watch flicker

Thats really cool. One problem i noticed however is that if you change the project name it still goes to wikipedia (I was trying wikinews). Happy editing. Bawolff 00:54, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FIST

@missing images, i liked the "search google for entries in other wikipedias" if no language links were available... could you include this option in FIST, too? Thx --77.179.89.130 11:35, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Done. --Magnus Manske 20:51, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Over the past days, I've uploaded about 6 or so photos that required rotation. They showed up right-side-up on Flickr, but after being uploaded to Commons, they were turned 90 degrees and had a tag saying "Images requiring rotation." They were good ones, so is there a way to find those in the "Images requiring rotation" category, and get them rotated so that I can put them in the proper articles? Many thanks, Badagnani 06:24, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

The underlying problem is that Flickr correctly uses the EXIF rotation data, while Commons does not. My upload script checks the EXIF data and adds {{rotate}} if neccessary; that should automatically place them in "Images requiring rotation". The queue there is usually very short, so your images will be rotated shortly. If that doesn't answer your question, please rephrase it :-) and maybe give an example... --Magnus Manske 08:38, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

That answers it; the main problem is that the photos weren't uploaded under my username so it might be hard to find them, as I don't know how to find the "images to be rotated" category. I think I probably added categories to some of them, so I could find them in my Commons edit history that way. If you let me know if you find them, it would be great. Badagnani 09:06, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, either they're here, or they were never marked with {{rotate}}, or someone removed {{rotate}}, or they have been rotated already. --Magnus Manske 10:18, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Uh-oh, none of them are there. How can I find them so I can put them into the correct articles? That's a problem, because the software uploads the photos to Commons, not under my username. I really would like to find them and put them into articles now. Badagnani 00:40, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm wondering if you could help at all with this; I'd be very appreciative. Thank you, Badagnani 16:27, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Unless the images have been deleted (doubtful), try the upload gallery of my bot. It's a lot of stuff there, but if you approximately remember the dates, you should find them quickly. I don't know how else to find them. Maybe I should add an option to put a username into the upload form? --Magnus Manske 18:37, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you; I think that will work! Badagnani 19:28, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I've just gone through all of them and only found one that wasn't in the proper article. I also can't find that any of them have been rotated, in the individual photos' page histories. Is it possible that whoever rotated them just went ahead and put them into the proper articles themselves? Whatever the case, this is a bug in the system, in that there's no way to check this, because there's no way to limit uploads to ones that have been uploaded by a specific user, no record of photos "to be rotated," and no record of photos that have already been rotated. Badagnani 22:17, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Part of the problem is MediaWiki's upload system, and the rule to not ask for user passwords on the toolserver. I have put an option into CommonsHelper to state your own user name; the image description page will then contain a backlink to your user page. I plan to do the same for my flickr upload tool, and then add it centrally to FIST. I hope that will suffice. --Magnus Manske 22:32, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Ad: IMHO the rotation issue is separate. If it needs rotation, {{rotate}} will be added automatically, or you can do so immediately after the upload. Rotation should then occur eventually, once someone gets around to it. --Magnus Manske 22:35, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Wow, that option would be really good; I will certainly use this. Regarding rotating, I do think it would be good to keep a history of photos that have been rotated, and photos that need to be rotated. Badagnani 22:38, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Commons helper helper tool won't work

When I try to use the tool it says " The tools by this user is deactivated. The author should email the roots." Wikidudeman (talk) 17:39, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Users in it.wikipedia are experiencing this problem too (see it:Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Visualizzazione mappe). It seems that all your tools on toolserver are down... What have you do? Have you quarrel with toolserver's roots? I'm joking ;-). Seriously I'm here only to adivise you of this problem. Goodbye. -- ELBorgo (sms) 00:34, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
Your joke was indeed not one. --Magnus Manske 09:26, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
What's the news on the tool? Wikidudeman (talk) 14:53, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
Should be OK again. --Magnus Manske 01:30, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Error 404 bei http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/missingtopics.php --Atamari 13:46, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Fixed. --Magnus Manske 14:01, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Dupes-Tool doesn't work yet. Also 404. -- CecilK 07:15, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
It does now :-) --Magnus Manske 20:10, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Error 404 http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/isbn2wiki.php --Atamari 22:10, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Fixed. --Magnus Manske 11:12, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks - aber ISBN 3-88908-481-8 funktioniert trotzdem nicht. --Atamari 21:02, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Error 404 http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/pages_in_cats.php?project=wikipedia&language=de&category=Afrika&depth=30&doit=Run --Atamari 21:57, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
OK, ist wieder da. Aber depth=30? Kein Wunder, dass meine Tools verrückt werden ;-) --Magnus Manske 23:43, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Another question

I have another question. Oftentimes the category search doesn't bring up every photo in that particular subject, because it searches only under the exact terms/spellings in the WP articles. If I want to search for something using a different spelling, or a foreign script (such as Chinese characters or Korean hangul), is it possible with your tool? So, for example, if I search for Category:Dim sum for "jiaozi" dumplings, I'll find only the photos on Flickr where it's spelled that way, but if I search under 饺子, it will pull up many more, from the Flickr pages of Chinese users. So, is there any way I can customize a search by putting in a search term (in whatever language) rather than a WP category? Badagnani 22:40, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

You can write a list of search terms in the box and select that it's list of articles. It doesn't matter if these articles exist or not; only the "other languages" search will (obviously) not work in the latter case. --Magnus Manske 20:13, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Which box? I thought the box was only for putting in valid WP categories. Badagnani 20:34, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I see--I tried putting in some Chinese and it worked. You've got the answers to everything! :-) Badagnani 20:36, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Now I tried it for 甜麵醬 and it didn't work. It pulled up photos that were unrelated to the Chinese term 甜麵醬 I had put in. I don't think this works. Can you try to explain more carefully to me how to do it? I think the code may need to be modified to allow for such foreign-language searches. Badagnani 20:42, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

It might well be an UTF bug somewhere (in my stuff, most likely). Anyway, here's my recipie:
  1. Put your search term into the big text box
  2. Change the radio button right of the box from "Categories" to "Articles"
  3. Under "List", chose "All articles"
If that doesn't do it, then there's indeed something broken with my script. Please tell me. --Magnus Manske 11:50, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Structural chem

Please be careful with inserting structures of inorganic compounds. Only at well above 1000C is BeF2 is a linear triatomic! While this linear structure is of theoretical interest, it is quite misleading because for most people that are looking for info, BeF2 is a britle rock, a quartz-like polymer. We do not normally represent SiO2 as a linear triatomic. The antimony halides are also quite complicated structurally. A great source of information is a book Greenwood and Earnshaw or another by by Holleman and Wiberg. --Smokefoot 22:23, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DNB

Magnificent job, but perhaps it needs to be given explicitly that your list is the summaries, not the articles, and that people should not be writing articles based only on them--and the the full current DNB is available at almost all UK public libraries. DGG (talk) 23:33, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PDF's

Hi, Magnus. I recently heard about a wiki to pdf converter at a Wikisource mailing list (http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/pdf.php), but it now seems to have desapeared. I find it a good invention and perhaps in the future some wikis, as wikibooks or wikisource, could have links on them to a wiki to pdf converter as that. Does is still exist? Is there any prevision of working on it? Or it has been cancelled? Thank you! -Aleator (talk) 21:53, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

I had it deactivated after some nonspecified error on the toolserver. It shiould be back now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:46, 21 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Image:Max-Planck-und-Albert-Einstein.jpg

Hi Magnus: I noticed that one of your bots has moved Image:Max-Planck-und-Albert-Einstein.jpg to commons. Can you please revert that? You know, this picture has a torturous history. It was first uploaded to commons, but then deleted because of copyrights concerns. The rules that prevail in commons are very strickt, and this picture didn't meet that standard. I re-uploaded it to en:wiki with a fair use tag rather than a PD tag. However, after some debate someone else changed that to PD (which I thought was not the right thing to do, but I did not dispute it). But now your bot took the bait, and moved it back to commons. I am pretty sure that one of these days the sh*t will hit the fan, and it will be deleted from commons once again. All of this debate is archived at Image_talk:Max-Planck-und-Albert-Einstein.jpg. Cheers, JdH 23:44, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I didn't move the image, someone did it using my tool; I don't have anything to do with that. My tool only checks for "valid" license tags and helps copying the upload history over correctly; no other magic involved. The "bot" is just the name for tool to upload the stuff, no actual bot is running. If you want it back here, just upload it again. As for the license: It it's valid PD, it will stay on Commons; if it's not, it should stay marked as fair use here. That way, my tool won't allow transfer. --Magnus Manske 11:41, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
I don't think that PD wishful thinking will survive the scrutiny it has to face in Commons, and fair use is not allowed there. Re-uploading it to en.wiki is no option either, because the problem is that not only has the image been deleted from en.wiki, but also the description and history that came with it. Some time in the past there was a fair use justification, and now I can no longer access that, and I am not in a mood to re-write it from scratch. In summary: someone with admin privileges has to undo the deletion from en.wiki, and then revert the description to the earlier fair use version, see discussion. JdH 04:02, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
Oh, I thought you wanted to tell me I/my bot did something wrong which I should fix, when you were looking for an admin to restore the local image. I've looked at the image description, and someone seems to make a strong case that it is PD. Since it is used quite a lot (over a dozen instances in several wikipedias), I doubt it will just be nuked (again) on Commons. Anyway, I've put it on my watchlist there, and when I catch it undergoing per-deletion procedures, I'll restore it here. Otherwise, IMHO we should wait and see. I'll try to keep an eye on it. --Magnus Manske 13:45, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I need some help, please

Very Honourable Magnus Manske,

May I ask you, please, to help me to fix the GeoTemplate Arabic page of Map sources/GeoHack:

  1. In fact, very Honourable Magnus Manske, the Arabic text must be aligned to the right (not to the left) on the Arabic page of Map sources/GeoHack. Would you mind to fix the text to the right. Thank you.
  2. Then, I want to change the letters [(N, S) of latNS and (E, W) of lonEW] to their Arabic equivalents using the #switch function, but with no success. So, would you mind also to help me fixing that --> you may put North instead of N, South instead of S, East instead of E, and West instead of W (and I will change them to Arabic later). Thank you.

While waiting for you favourable response, please accept very Honourable Magnus Manske, my profound respect. DrFO.Jr.Tn (talk) 15:28, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Danke schön

Vielen Danke Herrn Magnus Manske, Thank you very much indeed. Well, the Arabic page of GeoHack looks good, now (thanks to you).

  • And about {latNS} --> N = شمالا and S = جنوبا
  • And for {lonEW} --> E = شرقا and W = غربا

So (with this way), in the Arabic page of GeoHack, the coordinates must be like this (the given example is for Tunis):

الإحداثيات الجغرافية القيمة الستينية القيمة العشرية
إحداثيات خط العرض: 36° 49′ 0″ شمالا 36.816667°
إحداثيات خط الطول: 10° 11′ 0″ شرقا 10.183333°

That is to say, in the Arabic page of GeoHack, the coordinates in the table must appear like this :

  • After the latitude: شمالا or جنوبا (and not N nor S),
  • And after the longitude: شرقا or غربا (and not E nor W).

Thank you very much for your kind help. Hochachtungsvoll, --DrFO.Jr.Tn (talk) 01:06, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hallo, nochmals

Danke schön. Ja, Ich kann gute Deutsch sprechen (hoffe ich, natürlich)... Sage auch dass, für mich, deutsche Sprache die beste Sprache der Welt ist... Ja, denke ich... Ich habe Deustch 2 Jahre lange gelernt im Gymnasium (Deutsch ist ein Wahlfach im Gymnasium in Tunesien)... Ich war, danach, in Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein) in August 2001 (IFMSA Medizinstudentenaustauschprogramm) als Famulant in UKL (Universitätsklinikum zu Lübeck) in Gastrologie Station (41b) und Chirurgie Station (43c)... (IFMSA = International Federation of Medical Students' Associations)
Now, for the GeoHack page, I can't visualize it no more... in Arabic or even in English... (by the way, Arabic GeoTemplate is under construction). Danke sehr. Hochachtungsvoll, --DrFO.Jr.Tn (talk) 17:12, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, Honorable Sir. --DrFO.Jr.Tn (talk) 23:45, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 404er

Was da nur immer passiert? ts --Atamari (talk) 18:12, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Commons question

Sorry to ask at such an early hour. What does uploading an image to Wikipedia Commons do? Simply south (talk) 01:35, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

It makes it available to all wikimedia projects, e.g., wikipedias in all languages, wikibooks, wikinews, etc. --Magnus Manske (talk) 15:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GeoHack maintainer

Hello, I'm interested in becoming a maintainer for the stable version of the GeoHack. Some of the features I'd like implement are:

  • Fix validation errors in output
  • Possibly move to the standardize stable if one is ever decided
  • Decoupling from the framework so it can run completely standalone.
  • Support of the native language sidebar (maybe)
  • Better URL?

A while back I attempted to implement some features which I haven't bothered submitting and also assisted some wikipedian with uncovering some of the undocumented features. You can see my previous work running on the Toolserver. —Dispenser (talk) 07:49, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tom Paddock

Hi, just to let you know that yesterday I added an article about a boxer who appears on your list of people from the Dictionary of National Biography. Feel free to add anything to improve the article. -- Roleplayer (talk) 15:06, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Yi_Hwang.png

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As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. 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 {{non-free fair use in|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.

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Avicenna.jpg)

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[edit] Music that you've uploaded to Wikimedia

Hi. I thought you might be interested in this discussion I started at Wikimedia Village Pump.Ferrylodge (talk) 04:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject

I've started a new wikiproject for people interested in obtaining permission for/uploading/incorporating/cataloging freely licensed full length music recordings. See Wikipedia:Wikiproject free music Raul654 (talk) 18:10, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Helpful redirects

Ah! It is always nice to know that a redirect I created has turned a redlink blue: User:Magnus Manske/Dictionary of National Biography/12. :-) Carcharoth (talk) 04:56, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Strange

I see from the edit history that the talk page seemed to be functioning fine, yet I couldn't see most of the text, and fixed it here. Is that one of those bugs from the new preprocessor? Carcharoth (talk) 05:02, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki ToDo tool, congrats! and a bug report

Wonderful new tool, this Wiki ToDo tool, as always you've created something excellent.

But I just spotted something: I hit it up, and it picked Photoelectrochemical cell, analysed it, and concluded "There seems to be nothing wrong with this article, trying next one...". The next pick was Chmielów, a disambiguation page. It suggested I fix direct links to the page which should probably point to the respective specialized page. However, the links it listed were: Solar cell, Photochemistry, Photohydrogen, Photovoltaics, ..., Chmielów, Lublin Voivodeship, Chmielów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

i.e. it listed all the links to Photoelectrochemical cell AND all the links to Chmielów. I guess you're not clearing out some data structure when you go on to pick another article?

Cheers! --Stormie (talk) 08:28, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Fixed now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:46, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Oxygen at FAC!

Hey Magnus - just thought you might want to know that our old friend, oxygen, is at FAC. IIRC, this article started life at the Nupedia chalkboard and was moved to Wikipedia by you. Boy have we come a long way. :) Regards, mav (talk)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:GeoTemplate

A tag has been placed on Template:GeoTemplate requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:31, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] EDNA kRAMER

god bless your soul Dear Magnus Manske for the stub on the author and the mathematician Lady Edna Kramer.You might have seen the voluminous and the authentic book, History and growth of mathematic, which could be one of the earliest attempt to popularise Math. Will you please take the trouble of creating one more article on the Engish auhor Margaret Nicholas who has written some interested books, most notably,The world' Greatest Crackpots and Eccentrics'

warm regards subzbharti India– —Preceding unsigned comment added by Subzbharti (talk • contribs) 10:04, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] DNB source

FYI, original DNB articles are available from the ODNB site, a login for which is available to anyone with an account at a UK library. Easier than scraping Archive.org's badly OCRd versions. There's a link to the left of the majority of ODNB entries with the anchor "DNB Archive", which provides the 1885-1900 text. --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:48, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] EOL

Hi. I've added a basic doc page for {{eol}} at Template:Eol/doc. Feel free to rewrite, as it's probably overly complex, as I just adapted the instructions from {{imdb title}} :) Plus, with their servers overwhelmed right now, it makes testing of or adding the template anywhere kind of tough... ;) -- Quiddity (talk) 23:10, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:45, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Editbox js experiments

Saw less_page_clutter.png on the mailinglist. Zow! Pleaseohpleaseohplease yes please. Double-plus good. That's all :) -- Quiddity (talk) 22:32, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Also, re "I could try to whip up some "monitoring script" that constantly checks where your cursor is ..." Makes me think of the google translate hover effect (see this page translation for example). I'm sure their ajax would be hell to dissect though ;) -- Quiddity (talk) 22:38, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Odd behaviour when comparing revisions of Sarah Lacy

Hi, I found some odd behaviour when viewing the history of Sarah Lacy. Can you have a look (vidcap below) and let me know if it's expected/known or not? When not logged on to Wikipedia as a registered user and comparing the first (13:57, 10 March 2008) and second (18:13, 10 March 2008) revision of the article via the history page it shows that the second revision is the current revision of the page, even though it's not. There are a few edits after that second revision and that second edit is not identical to the current revision. It does the same when comparing the first and third (18:46, 10 March 2008) revision. It doesn't do it when logged on as a registered user. Confused? There's a video (gif) of the whole affair here [4]. Thanks AntHolnes (talk) 18:21, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

I can confirm the bug. There are some funny effects with history sometimes because the internal revision numbers are not necessarily ascending, and some special pages order by these because it's faster. This one is rather extreme; I'll take it up on the wikitech mailing list. BTW, what software did you use to record the cool GIF? --Magnus Manske (talk) 20:34, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
OK. Thanks for the info. The app for recording the gif (or Flash and others) is Camtasia Studio. AntHolnes (talk) 23:19, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] less edit clutter.js

Great script! Thanks!

Osias (talk) 22:17, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Magnus! Congrats on the excellent script :) I'd like to request you to change it in one detail, though: It currently detects categories marked as [[Category:Something| ]] (so the article stays in the first position of the listing in the category page) and changes them to [[Category:Something|Something]], which is at least useless, since it is the same thing than just [[Category:Something]]. Can you please look at that? Regards, Waldir talk 20:45, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Query about commons again

If i had an updated image i wanted to upload but the old version is on commons, would i have to get a commons account, or could i upload it and your bot uploads thhe new version? It is nearly finished. Simply south (talk) 22:36, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I'd recommend a Commons account. Takes about 30 sec to create one, and you'd be listed as uploader (instead of the bot). --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:40, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CommonsHelper tracking

Is it possible to track how many images CommonsHelper moves to Commons in a given month? What about by a given user? (Of course, they would have to provide their username, but could it sort out how many they moved over in a month.) This is for a planned project at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Image Monitoring Group#Wikipedia Image Cleanup Month .28June.29 and would be used to help validate the project (number of images moved in a month compared to a normal month) and awards for the most and for people that move a certain number during the project. Thanks for the information. MECU≈talk 13:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, I just realized that my tool usage counter stopped working around and of January because databases were moved around on the toolserver. But, it hase been used 123929 times in almost exactly one year, so you're looking at ~10.000 moves per month through CommonsHelper. That does not include images transfered from flickr through my other tool, which uses the same "bot" name to upload. I don't have data on this, though. I'll start collecting now... --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:30, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
I've added a simple log where stats can be added. I'll try to remember to update it occasionally, but you can do it yourself to better get the timeframe you want. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:13, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki2xml

Hello Magnus Manske !

Thanks a lot for Wiki2xml that is very useful to me.

The online service (http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wiki2xml/w2x.php) has been closed for about 2 weeks.

When will it be open again ?

Thanks in advance.

Peter17 (talk) 22:35, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging commons:Image:Philibert_II_of_Savoy.jpg

I transfer a message that I receive on Commons about a picture you uploaded in Wikipedia EN and I transfered on Commons. Odejea (talk) 20:12, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Warning sign
This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Philibert_II_of_Savoy.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikimedia Commons (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the content is a derivative of a copyrighted work, you need to supply the names and a licence of the original authors as well.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag, then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} to release it under the multilicense GFDL plus Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike All-version license or {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find all your uploads using the Gallery tool. Thank you. Lupo 15:03, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the DNB stuff

Thanks for User:Magnus Manske/Dictionary of National Biography. I recently started two articles based on the 1903 DNB entries, plus a few others sources. See Augustus Matthiessen and George Fownes. Is there a template to acknowledge 1903 DNB entries, or link to a wikisource version of the entries? Carcharoth (talk) 04:31, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Allan_Ramsay.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Allan_Ramsay.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, then 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, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. 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 {{non-free fair use in|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 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 05:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Kelly hi! 05:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Audiovideo

Hi Magnus. You may remember me a little bit from the Sound/List/Free Music Wikiproject. Anyway, I was wondering if you could help with an audiovideo problem. I mentioned it to Raul, but he seems very busy.

I've put an audiovideo into an article, here. It seems to be acting funny though. The video is fine, but the audio only seems to work when I run VLC(Activex), and not when I run Cortado(Java). Any idea what the problem is, or how it can be fixed? Thanks.Ferrylodge (talk) 16:25, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

I think the problem is fixed now.Ferrylodge (talk) 18:55, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] wiki2xml

Hallo Magnus,
ist es möglich eine Prognose abzugeben, ab wann [5] wieder verfügbar ist? Grüße und Dank, Conny (talk) 16:21, 1 May 2008 (UTC).

Ich hoffe, dass ich am Wochenende mal Zeit habe. Ohne Garantie... --Magnus Manske (talk) 17:23, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portuguese wikipedia new feature

Hi. Can you help me, please? The portuguese wikipedia community is debating if we should implement a wizard similar to Wizard introduction. The only difference would be that, after the unresgistered user completes the wizard, the new article would be immediately created rather than being sent to revision. Could you please let me know if this new feature can be implemented in wiki pt, how i make it? Thanks and regards, --Rodrigofera (talk) 10:31, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TUSC token bc3dcaeb75edf220e711805ab8979210

I am now proud owner of a TUSC account!

[edit] CommonsHelper

Sounds good. Thanks for writing it, it's a very useful tool! :) —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 21:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Stonewall jackson.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Stonewall jackson.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. BlueAzure (talk) 22:09, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Password

This is getting very, very frustrating. Why did you not add a clear explanation about how to put in the password? I have tried my Wikipedia password, and also the very long, complicated password and nothing works. I have work to do and want to do it. I assume dozens, if not hundreds of other editors are having this trouble, and many may be giving up, unlike myself, who is persistent. Is that what you want? You added a post to my talk page saying "should work now if you enter username/password in FIST." But that's very unclear, and I had asked earlier that you add a very clear explanation of how to put the password in, on the actual upload page itself. Badagnani (talk) 06:33, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

1. Go to TUSC, enter your user name at commons, set "language" to "commons", click "next step"; 2. Click on button "click me" and save the edit; 3. Chose new password and click on the large button; 4. Go to FIST and enter your commons user name and the TUSC password you chose in (3.) at the end of the FIST form. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:56, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

It's done, I've followed all the steps, and I am still denied the ability to get in and do my work. There is still no clear description of how to get or find one's password on the page, as I'd asked, and when I attempt to go into TUSC to check my password, I cannot do it. Can you please make things very clear by adding a very clear description on all the relevant pages, so that I, and any other user, will not have any more problems? I and many others have important work to do, and there is something wrong with the new feature, as well as the lack of a very clear description of how it works and how to obtain one's password. Many thanks for your attention to this, Badagnani (talk) 01:09, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

It seems the toolserver admin has moved the main URL to toolserver.org, which posed a problem. I've adapted the script; please try again. If it still doesn't work, I wrote a checking script here. Please try to log in and copy me the first line (starting with "TUSC verification :") here. That will be more informative for me. --Magnus Manske (talk) 18:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SUL and CS Wiki

Done it. Just make a account there. I made usurpation for you, there is now (propably) space for your nickname :) Enjoy it :] --Chmee2 (talk) 20:02, 29 May 2008 (UTC)