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Village in China again
editHi :)
If I send you a pull request with more descriptions, would you mind running your bot on the "village in China" items again?
The translations I'd like to add come from MechQuester, he asked a lot of people for translations and had been adding them with QuickStatements but is currently blocked (for sockpuppetry, not because of the descriptions). QuickStatements isn't ideal for that and when I checked them I found quite a few mistakes which need fixing, so if you can do it with your bot, that would be great.
- Nikki (talk) 19:38, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Nikki: Sure, send me the translations in a pull request. Emijrp (talk) 08:35, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
- Done :) - Nikki (talk) 13:53, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Nikki: Wouldn't more specific descriptions be preferable? If we add "place on earth" to any item with coordinates in 500 languages, would this advance us?
--- Jura 11:39, 20 June 2018 (UTC)- @Jura1: There is a saying that's appropriate here: en:Perfect is the enemy of good. We don't have translations for more specific descriptions, so the choice is between an informative description and no description. Even when it doesn't provide enough information to distinguish villages in China which have the same name, it still helps to distinguish things which are not villages or not in China from things which are. Nobody is proposing to add "place on Earth" to everything with coordinates, so that question is irrelevant. - Nikki (talk) 13:53, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
- I don't think the description is much more explicit than "place on Earth". Even if it can be seen as step towards a better description, we found that bots just add chunks of descriptions in countless languages and don't maintain them going forward (bot users who add them don't routinely correct them when they are found to be incorrect). The result is that we have countless items with 100 descriptions that are incorrect and can't be efficiently corrected.
--- Jura 04:59, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
- I don't think the description is much more explicit than "place on Earth". Even if it can be seen as step towards a better description, we found that bots just add chunks of descriptions in countless languages and don't maintain them going forward (bot users who add them don't routinely correct them when they are found to be incorrect). The result is that we have countless items with 100 descriptions that are incorrect and can't be efficiently corrected.
- @Jura1: There is a saying that's appropriate here: en:Perfect is the enemy of good. We don't have translations for more specific descriptions, so the choice is between an informative description and no description. Even when it doesn't provide enough information to distinguish villages in China which have the same name, it still helps to distinguish things which are not villages or not in China from things which are. Nobody is proposing to add "place on Earth" to everything with coordinates, so that question is irrelevant. - Nikki (talk) 13:53, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Summer 2018
editWelcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter and contribute to the next issue. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!
- Community updates
- Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd webchat
- Since our last newsletter, the Structured Data team has moved into designing and building prototypes for various features. The use of multilingual captions in the UploadWizard and on the file page has been researched, designed, discussed, and built out for use. Behind the scenes, back-end work on search is taking place and designs are being drawn up for the front-end. There will soon be specifications published for the use of the first Wikidata property on Commons, "Depicts," and a prototype is to be released to go along with that.
- A workshop on what Wikidata properties Commons will need. This workshop will be open for the entire month of July 2018 at minimum.
- Join the community focus group!
- Do you want to help out translating messages about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.
- Contribute to the next newsletter.
- Discussions held
- In late February there was a discussion around how Commons generally sees data being modeled.
- The first discussion on copyright and licensing with Commons was held in March. This was a "high level" discussion, there will be a consultation later this summer about the deeper mapping of copyright and licensing in a structured way.
- In April there was an exercise for GLAM partners in metadata and ontology mapping.
- A discussion about the design for Multilingual Captions on the file page took place in May. You can still review the designs and leave feedback.
- There was an IRC office hour in June to discuss progress so far and future plans.
- Wikimania 2018
- Three sessions about Structured Commons are officially scheduled for Wikimania 2018 - Cape Town, South Africa - July 2018.
- Wikimedia Commons and GLAM needs around the world (Friday 20 July, 10:30 local time)
- Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons and knowledge equity (Friday 20 July, 14:00 local time)
- Design challenge workshop: How can multilingual structured metadata bring knowledge equity to Commons? (Friday 20 July, 14:30 local time)
- Structured Data on Commons is also a focus area during the Wikimania 2018 Hackathon. We will, among other things, do 'live' modelling of Wikidata properties for Commons - an offline spin-off of the community consultation taking place on wiki.
- Partners and allies
- We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!
- Structured Data on Commons was presented to GLAM audiences during EuropeanaTech 2018 in Rotterdam (15 May 2018) and at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Forum in Berlin (4 June 2018).
- Research
Two research projects about Wikimedia Commons are currently ongoing, or in the process of being finished:
- Research:Curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons—a project that seeks to understand the current workflows of Commons contributors who curate media (categorize it, delete it, link to it from other projects, etc.).
- Research:Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media—soliciting feedback from individuals and organizations that re-use Commons content outside of Wikimedia projects, in order to understand their current painpoints and unmet needs.
- Prototypes will be available for Depicts soon.
- Stay up to date!
- Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
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- Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! The date for next quarter will be announced soon.
-- Keegan (WMF) (talk)
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Structured Data Newsletter - Research link fix
editGreetings,
The newsletter omitted two interwiki prefixes, breaking the links on non-meta wikis as you might see above. Here are the correct links:
- m:Research:Curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons—a project that seeks to understand the current workflows of Commons contributors who curate media (categorize it, delete it, link to it from other projects, etc.).
- m:Research:Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media—soliciting feedback from individuals and organizations that re-use Commons content outside of Wikimedia projects, in order to understand their current painpoints and unmet needs.
My apologies, I hope you find the corrected links helpful.
This Month in GLAM: June 2018
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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Fall 2018 edition
editWelcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!
- Community updates
- Multilingual Captions, the first feature release for Structured Data, is coming in January of 2019
- Be on the lookout for the beta testing announcement
- Help using captions has been set up, if you'd like to go ahead and see the workflow
- Two IRC office hours were held since the last newsletter
- Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd webchat
Current:
- Help determine and propose properties on Wikidata for Commons
- Review designs for structured licensing and copyright
- Join the community focus group!
Since the last newsletter:
- Review a prototype for searching structured Commons (October 2018)
- "Good coverage" for depicts tagging (Sept. 2018)
- Review and discuss mockups for displaying the new metadata section of the file page (18 September - 9 October 2018)
- Depicts statements draft requirements (14 August - 31 August 2018)
- Identify Wikidata properties that Commons will need (26 June - 14 August 2018)
- Presentation by Keegan on the first features to be released for Structured Data, presented at Wikiconference North America, Columbus, Ohio, October 2018.
- Sandra presented a project update at the GLAM-Wiki conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, November 2018, as part of an update and panel discussion.
- Structured Data on Commons was the subject of a keynote presentation by Sandra (see slides) at the Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council conference in Tallinn, Estonia, November 2018.
- Partners and allies
- The info portal on Structured Commons now includes a section on GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).
- We are currently planning the first GLAM pilot projects that will use structured data on Wikimedia Commons. One project has already started: the Swedish Heritage Board researches and develops a prototype tool to provide improved metadata (translations, data additions...) from Wikimedia Commons back to the source institution. Read the project brief.
- The documentation for batch uploads of files to Wikimedia Commons will be improved in 2019, as part of preparing for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. To prepare, the GLAM team at the Wikimedia Foundation wants to understand better which types of documentation you already use, and how you like to learn new GLAM-Wiki skills and knowledge. Fill in a short survey to provide input!
- Stay up to date!
- Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
- Subscribe to this newsletter to receive it on a talk page of your own choice.
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Captions in January
editStructured Data - file captions coming this week (January 2019)
editMy apologies if this is a duplicate message for you, it is being sent to multiple lists which you may be signed up for.
Hi all, following up on last month's announcement...
Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:
- Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons.
- Test out using captions on Beta Commons.
- Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you have anything you'd like to say prior to release.
Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as well as a link to join, are on Meta.
Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to the IRC office hour on Thursday. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:09, 7 January 2019 (UTC)This Month in GLAM: December 2018
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editHallo Emijrp
your bot is very smart. It can export information from articles, which never existed. There is nothing like en:Hannah Epperson --Bahnmoeller (talk) 22:01, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Bahnmoeller: I see. It was a bug, it said in comment that info was extracted from enwp, though it added dewp as reference correctly. I fixed the code now. Thanks for the notice. Emijrp (talk) 22:09, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
Adding Descriptions
editHello Emilio,
I add German descriptions and now I think about get involved in a project for descriptions. Are you interested to participate in a WikiProject for descriptions to coordinate the translations of descriptions and the adding to Wikidata. The WikiProject already exists at Wikidata:WikiProject_Labels_and_descriptions but as far as I see is there no activity at this page at the moment. -- Hogü-456 (talk) 20:47, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Hogü-456: Sure, most of my work here is on descriptions. My scripts are on GitHub and I frequently receive new translations. I check User:Pasleim/Language statistics for items weekly to see progress. The language with more descriptions is NL because Edoderoo work, but some descriptions are poor. Emijrp (talk) 21:25, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
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This Month in GLAM: January 2019
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bonjour !
edit"La page Antoine Pecqueur a été reliée à l’élément Wikidata Q61671739, où les données relatives au sujet peuvent être récupérées." merci bien pour le message ! mais pourquoi voudriez-vous donc que je récupère ce que j'ai donné 
? Mandariine (talk) 17:08, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
- Bonjour Mandariine,
en faite, je crois que le bot te prévient qu'il a relié la page que tu as crée Antoine_Pecqueur sur wp avec la page wd qu'il a crée ici https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61671739, et que donc que tu n'as pas besoin de faire. Cdt Speltdecca (talk) 03:07, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
wrong import of birthdate
editEven in the first version of de:Kurt-Ulrich Jäschke his date of birth was exactly mentioned. Your bot just transfered the year. --Bahnmoeller (talk) 10:25, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
Dein Bot arbeitet schlampig
editund trägt ungenaue Geburtsdaten ein. --Bahnmoeller (talk) 10:06, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
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Don't send me a message
editPlease, it is possible do not to send me any more notifications ? thank you. Speltdecca (talk) 03:10, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Speltdecca: You can disable it in your preferences. Preferences -> Notifications -> Wikidata (uncheck). Emijrp (talk) 09:02, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you Emijrp, have a nice day Speltdecca (talk) 21:51, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: February 2019
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wrong import of birthdate again
editPlease import the full birthdate. In german articles you will find it usually under "Personendaten" - do not use the Category "geboren xxxx" --Bahnmoeller (talk) 10:41, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
- I can't at this moment to do that. Emijrp (talk) 10:55, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hello Emijrp, it could be done using Harvest Templates. For examples see User:M2k~dewiki/Tools#Geburtsdatum. --M2k~dewiki (talk) 11:28, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019)
editHello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:
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Question about Emijrpbot creations
editHello! Thanks for creating Emijrpbot. I've noticed it automatically creates items remarkably quickly after Wikipedia articles are created (e.g. Sally Hoyt Spofford a mere 10 minutes after the creation of her Wikipedia article). Are there certain triggers that make the bot more likely (or more quickly) to automatically create items, such as if categories for birth/death year or occupations are added, a new Wikidata item with instance of human? And if so, does Emijrpbot work with similar rules for non-human entities on Wikipedia or Commons? For Commons, one shortcut might be to utilize the Commons:Category:Categories by name, where individual entities are named, thus any category in Category:Newspapers by name might automatically get a new item with "instance of: newspaper", and similar for Category:Companies by name, with subsequent properties (country of origin, year of establishment, etc.) added based on sub-categorization. Just a thought, please ping me with reply. Cheers! Animalparty (talk) 19:23, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Animalparty: Hello! Yes, the bot checks Special:Newpages on English Wikipedia (and French/German editions), detecting biographies through birth/death/living_people categories and other features (counting he/she his/her words for gender, and occupation categories). At the moment it doesn't create items for other kind of entities, but I will try to expand it in the future for movies, books, and other examples, which aren't error-prone. Regards! Emijrp (talk) 15:30, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks! All the best. Animalparty (talk) 19:51, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
Two entries on Princess Awata
editQ62598523 is a fork of Q11604627. Sorry -- I didn't notice ja.wiki had an article before I published the en.wiki one. Hijiri88 (talk) 04:39, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Hijiri88: There is a feature in the tabs to "merge" duplicated items. I just did it. Emijrp (talk) 08:25, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 March 2019
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Editing speed of User:Emijrpbot
editHi!
It seems that User:Emijrpbot does not comply with the maxlag mechanism at the moment, or that the value of the maxlag parameter used is too high. Please ensure you set maxlag=5 to all your requests and respect the Retry-After headers sent by the server. This should enforce a 30 edit/min rate, by which most other bots abide.
The editing throughput of Wikidata is a limited resource, so it is important to share it with others.
Thanks! − Pintoch (talk) 09:58, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Pintoch: Who says my bot isn't complying with maxlag? Maxlag is set to 5 in my user-config.py. Editrate and maxlag are different things. My bots has been editing at 65 edits/min on average in the last 24 hours. Around 60 edits/min was the last consensus I remember we discussed in Phabricator. Where is the 30 edits/min discussion? Emijrp (talk) 10:12, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Emijrp: well, I am saying that, because I am observing that the tools that use
maxlag=5generally edit at around 30 edits/min now that the WDQS lag is taken into account for the lag computation (see this list). Is it possible that this configuration parameter might not be taken into account properly by your bot? Or would you be willing to voluntarily halve your editing speed to adjust that? It would be great if you could inspect the HTTP requests actually made by your tool to check that. Note that this is not specifically about your bot, I will also try to get QuickStatements v2 to comply (at the moment, it seems that maxlag is only used in background mode, not in browser mode). − Pintoch (talk) 10:29, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Emijrp: well, I am saying that, because I am observing that the tools that use
- @Pintoch: I don't know if the 30 edits/min by the bots in the list is due to the maxlag or a coincidence. My bot uses wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Pywikibot (I assume it is updated, I haven't control over it) and my user-config.py has maxlag=5. I have reduced the tasks of my bot regardless, so it should edit slower now. Emijrp (talk) 10:48, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Emijrp: thank you very much! − Pintoch (talk) 10:54, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Emijrp: ah, now I get it. The difference between the 60 edits/min and the 30 edits/min tools is that the faster ones only use maxlag for the API queries which perform the edit, whereas the others also apply it when getting editing tokens (which does not do any edit by itself). So you were surely right about your tool respecting maxlag. Sorry about that and thanks again for slowing down! − Pintoch (talk) 14:21, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Emijrp: thank you very much! − Pintoch (talk) 10:54, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
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Emijrpbot down?
editHello! It appears that Emijrpbot has been inactive since 30 April 2019. This is most unfortunate, as it was an incredibly efficient time- and energy-saver in starting items for recently created Wikipedia articles, especially people. Is there a reason for the inactivity, and/or are there plans to revive it (or a similar bot that serves the same purpose)? Thanks again for all you've done, -Animalparty (talk) 23:04, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- Hello! Another editor wondering about the status of the wonderful Emijrpbot. Please ping me if/when you respond. Thanks! WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 19:32, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
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Small error with your bot
editWhen your bot write French descriptions for scientific papers, the correct description is : "article scientifique (publié en YEAR)". So, it forgets the "en". Please, correct it! Thanks :) Zarisi (talk) 06:57, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
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translate articles
edithi I can help you to translate articles in Persian with your bot example this https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66966485
article published in 2010 مقاله منتشر شده در ساله 2010
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Typo in Hebrew
editThis edit added דיפולמט which is typo of the word דיפלומט. Please correct all 7K appearances of this typo. Uziel302 (talk) 18:13, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
- I fixed 8000 typos, please don't upload another Hebrew typo.Uziel302 (talk) 14:42, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
Structured Data - blogs posted in Wikimedia Space
editThere are two separate blog entries for Structured Data on Commons posted to Wikimedia Space that are of interest:
- Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister, discusses some ways that editors can work with structured data. Topics include tools that have been written or modified for structured data, in addition to future plans for tools and querying services.
- Structured Data on Commons - A Blog Series, written by me, is a five-part posting that covers the basics of the software and features that were built to make structured data happen. The series is meant to be friendly to those who may have some knowledge of Commons, but may not know much about the structured data project.
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- WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report
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- News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia
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- WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report
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- Humour: The Wilhelm scream
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- News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
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- In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story
- Discussion report: Rethinking draft space
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- Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19
- From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
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- In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia
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Wrong description "Anna Mghwira"
editHi, i'm from Catalan Wikipedia and I realized that when I was doing the general elections in Tanzania, one of its candidates, Anna Mghwira, had all wrong description put by your bot in WikiData. Mghwira is a politician of Tanzania, not Nigeria, two completely different countries. I would appreciate it if you would monitor whatever the bot has done in WD similar to Mghwira. I will change her profile now. --KajenCAT (talk) 08:04, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Collections Now Available (September 2020)
edit
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:
- Al Manhal – Arabic journals and ebooks
- Ancestry.com – Genealogical and historical records
- RILM – Music encyclopedias
Many other partnerships are listed on our partners page, including Adam Matthew, EBSCO, Gale and JSTOR.
A significant portion of our collection now no longer requires individual applications to access! Read more in our recent blog post.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 09:49, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
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- Special report: Wiki reporting on the insurrection
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- Recent research: Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers
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- Featured content: New Year, same Featured Content report!
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2020
- Obituary: Flyer22 Frozen
New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now (February 2021)
editHello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up to access research materials on the Library Card platform:
- Taxmann – Taxation and law database
- PNAS – Official journal of the National Academy of Sciences
- EBSCO – New Arabic and Spanish language databases added
We have a wide array of other collections available, and a significant number now no longer require individual applications to access! Read more in our blog post.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
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--12:57, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
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New translator for da and sv
editI added myself to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Friendly_users_for_translations#Translators, how do we proceed?--So9q (talk) 09:33, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
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Welcome back?
editHi, welcome back? I see you and your bot have started editing again recently. While you've been away I've been running Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/Emijrpbot 6 (following a request) using User:Pi bot, did you want to take that task back over again? I've also made various tweaks to the code, see the links on the bot user page for the latest version. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 13:21, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
- ... or not? If you are around, you might be interested in phab:T290718 to improve matching between new Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items, which I'm proposing as an Outreachy project. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:55, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library collections and design update (August 2021)
editHello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is pleased to announce the addition of new collections, alongside a new interface design. New collections include:
- Cabells – Scholarly and predatory journal database
- Taaghche - Persian language e-books
- Merkur, Musik & Ästhetik, and Psychologie, Psychotherapie, Psychoanalyse - German language magazines and journals published by Klett-Cotta
- Art Archiv, Capital, Geo, Geo Epoche, and Stern - German language newspapers and magazines published by Gruner + Jahr
Additionally, De Gruyter and Nomos have been centralised from their previous on-wiki signup location on the German Wikipedia. Many other collections are freely available by simply logging in to The Wikipedia Library with your Wikimedia login!
We are also excited to announce that the first version of a new design for My Library was deployed this week. We will be iterating on this design with more features over the coming weeks. Read more on the project page on Meta.
Lastly, an Echo notification will begin rolling out soon to notify eligible editors about the library (T132084). If you can translate the notification please do so at TranslateWiki!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 13:23, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
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Your bot
editHi. We are grateful to your bot for its contributions, but sometimes it serves as a conductor of typos as I explain here. Please do the necessary. Thanks. --E4024 (talk) 19:02, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
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Inappropriate alias(es) by your bot
editHello. Your bot has been repeatedly adding as an alias to Firouz Nosrat-ed-Dowleh III (Q983416) : « Prince Firouz Nosrat-ed-Dowleh III », which I had to repeatedly revert. May I remind you that a title or function followed by a name (Mr, Mrs, Prince, King, General, President, Surgeon general, etc) does not constitute an alias of the said name. I hope the bot has not been doing this to too many other pages. Can you please do the necessary. Thanks. --Sapphorain (talk) 20:48, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
- Sapphorain: Why isn't appropiate? Where can I read such Wikidata policy about aliases? Thanks. Emijrp (talk) 18:05, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
- Alias means « otherwise known as ». As a substantive it means « pseudonym » or « false name » or « nickname » or « pen name » . A title or quality is not part of such: "Mister John Smith" is not an alias for "John Smith". "Jijé (Q741204)" is an alias for "Joseph Gillain" (and conversely), but "Mr Joseph Gillain" is not. « Charles the Bald (Q71231) » is an alias for "Charles II" (and conversely), but not "King Charles the Bald", nor "King Charles II" .--Sapphorain (talk) 23:54, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
- ... And may I add that apparently your bot indiscriminately add as aliases unsourced names read in Wikipedia article, and even stupid pranks put there by a vandal, as it recently did in Gabriel Cramer (Q122331) ("Gabriel Guzzy" for Gabriel Cramer). Aliases should not be retrieved automatically by a bot, but should be verified by a human. Can you please do the necessary. Thanks.--Sapphorain (talk) 07:38, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
- Alias means « otherwise known as ». As a substantive it means « pseudonym » or « false name » or « nickname » or « pen name » . A title or quality is not part of such: "Mister John Smith" is not an alias for "John Smith". "Jijé (Q741204)" is an alias for "Joseph Gillain" (and conversely), but "Mr Joseph Gillain" is not. « Charles the Bald (Q71231) » is an alias for "Charles II" (and conversely), but not "King Charles the Bald", nor "King Charles II" .--Sapphorain (talk) 23:54, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
- Sapphorain: Mister ABC is not comparable to Prince ABC. Mister could apply to any person (male), so it is redundant. Prince ABC is a possible search term, and it helps. Think about General Douglas MacArthur or General Augusto Pinochet. Aliases work as redirects here. Gabriel Guzzy is an unfortunate case, it is a vandalism (thanks for the revert), and it applies to any automated copy of data from Wikipedia to Wikidata. Any bot importing data from Wikipedia (birth dates, names, birth places) can be fooled by vandals, it happens in a little percent of cases. Please, can you show the Wikidata policy on aliases or it is just your opinion/feeling? I think that Prince/General, etc, are valid aliases. Still, in good faith, I am going to stop that bot script by now. Emijrp (talk) 17:47, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
- Concerning the sense of the word « alias » I don’t really care if a Wikidata policy on aliases exists or not. If I need an information on lexicography or grammar I look in a dictionary or encyclopedia, not in Wikidata which has no authority whatsoever in that matter. The fact that Augusto Pinochet was a general is well documented in his Wikidata page. But this title of general is not part of any name, and a fortiori cannot be part of any alias, by definition of the word « alias ».--Sapphorain (talk) 08:30, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
- Your view of the scope of aliases is needlessly narrow and myopic, Sapphorain. They're strings which help users, human or software, to find items. Far from "a fortiori cannot be part of any alias, by definition of the word", any string which can or might be used to locate the item is useful and is for WD purposes, an alias. The probability that somewhere, someone or something will try to access the Pinochet article starting from strings such as 'General Pinochet' or 'General Augusto Pinochet' is pretty much certain. It is better that the item is found when either of those strings is the start point, than that the item is not found because you have a limited conception of the functions of an alias. In general the robustness principle applies to aliases: be liberal in what you accept as aliases; don't try to whittle alias lists down on spurious & irrelevant grounds. --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:47, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
- (after edit conflict) @Sapphorain: Wikidata is a multi-lingual project. Relying on the dictionary definition of a word in one language is a very poor basis for an argument here. If we have a case where there are small variations in meaning between English, Arabic, Russian and Spanish, whose language takes precedence in an argument? That is why the consensus of editors takes precedence here. I am not sure what the consensus is on this subject but the dictionary definition of a word in a single language is not relevant. From Hill To Shore (talk) 19:51, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
- If the purpose of an entry called « alias » is « any string which can or might be used to locate the item », then please do not call it an « alias », because nearly any other denomination would be more appropriate.
- Also, the « multi-lingual project » argument doesn’t appear convincing. Each language (should) use its correct description for … how did you say? … « any string which can or might be used to locate the item ».--Sapphorain (talk) 22:28, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
- Concerning the sense of the word « alias » I don’t really care if a Wikidata policy on aliases exists or not. If I need an information on lexicography or grammar I look in a dictionary or encyclopedia, not in Wikidata which has no authority whatsoever in that matter. The fact that Augusto Pinochet was a general is well documented in his Wikidata page. But this title of general is not part of any name, and a fortiori cannot be part of any alias, by definition of the word « alias ».--Sapphorain (talk) 08:30, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
- Sapphorain: Mister ABC is not comparable to Prince ABC. Mister could apply to any person (male), so it is redundant. Prince ABC is a possible search term, and it helps. Think about General Douglas MacArthur or General Augusto Pinochet. Aliases work as redirects here. Gabriel Guzzy is an unfortunate case, it is a vandalism (thanks for the revert), and it applies to any automated copy of data from Wikipedia to Wikidata. Any bot importing data from Wikipedia (birth dates, names, birth places) can be fooled by vandals, it happens in a little percent of cases. Please, can you show the Wikidata policy on aliases or it is just your opinion/feeling? I think that Prince/General, etc, are valid aliases. Still, in good faith, I am going to stop that bot script by now. Emijrp (talk) 17:47, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
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Adding (human) data to Wikimedia disambiguation pages
editConsidering your bot's recent edits to Ove Hansen (Q108532650) (and a few others which I've reverted today), I suggest that your bot does not add data to any Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410) items.--Hjart (talk) 09:34, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Hjart: Thanks for the notice. I have fixed the bot code. Regards. Emijrp (talk) 14:29, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Why not import the more precise dates?
editWhy doesn't your bot import the more precise birth/death dates from i.e. Palle Hansen?--Hjart (talk) 18:49, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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What's going on?
editWhat prompted these edits? Is that intentional? Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:41, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- A response would be appreciated, thank you — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:38, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, it was intentional. Just a test. Emijrp (talk) 21:02, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Okay, copying unicode characters to different language labels does not seem helpful, would you agree? Should the bot be blocked if it makes these kinds of edits again? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:38, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- What edits are you talking about? Emijrp (talk) 17:01, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- @MSGJ And why are you reverting the aliases added in that edit? Other languages include those unicode emojis as aliases. Why other languages aren't allowed to have them? Emijrp (talk) 17:16, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- Suppose we put aside, for the moment, whether these edits are actually "allowed" or not by policy. What benefit does that edit serve the project? And does your bot have approval to make such edits? I didn't really understand what you meant above when you said "just a test" - please can you explain? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:40, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- Wikidata:Aliases doesn't say anything about excluding emojis. That is the nearest thing to a policy about aliases we have. If you want to exclude emojis from being added to aliases, please open a discussion for community input. Currently, they are used in many items.
- I don't need a bot request to add aliases to Q2. It is just an item, that is why I said it was a test.
- Reading your comment, I think that you have deleted emojis from aliases before, right? 🤔 Emijrp (talk) 21:40, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- Suppose we put aside, for the moment, whether these edits are actually "allowed" or not by policy. What benefit does that edit serve the project? And does your bot have approval to make such edits? I didn't really understand what you meant above when you said "just a test" - please can you explain? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:40, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- Okay, copying unicode characters to different language labels does not seem helpful, would you agree? Should the bot be blocked if it makes these kinds of edits again? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:38, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, it was intentional. Just a test. Emijrp (talk) 21:02, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
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the 1.5 billionth edit
editAlthough this edit was made last September, But I still want to inform you that your robot has made oldid=1500000000's edit. Congratulations!--Q28 is not live in Q28 05:27, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
- Q28: Thanks for the notice. That's cool, I didn't know about it. Emijrp (talk) 16:53, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Unicode characters
editSince I saw special:Diff/1569658645, feel free to add "символ Юникода" as the Russian translation and "Unicode-Zeichen" as the German one. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 13:26, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Esperanto descriptions
editHi, why isn't your bot adding feminine descriptions in Esperanto, as it does in Spanish, French etc.? Is that on purpose? See here for an example (it should have added brazila aktorino). Regards, —capmo (talk) 02:06, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
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[fr] for scientific articles
editHi Emijrp !
Can you please change your description article scientifique (publié xxxx) in article scientifique publié en xxxx please ?
Thanks you,
Chaton (Wyslijp16)
- Pull request: https://github.com/emijrp/wikidata/pull/86 -Framawiki (please notify !) (talk) 18:07, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
- done, thanks. Emijrp (talk) 19:35, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Vandalism in Amber Heard (Q229166)
editHi, the bot keeps including a vandalic alias in Amber Heard (Q229166) [1][2]. I don't know how that works but it seems something to bring it to your attention.—Frodar (talk) 16:02, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
Vandalized aliases
editHello! Just curious, where does the bot pull the information to add to the aliases? This edit is vandalism, so the bot must have copied bad data from somewhere – wondering where, so it can be fixed. :) –FlyingAce✈hello 05:51, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
- @FlyingAce: Bot gets it from the Wikipedia in that language, in this case Spanish (es), in that date. Emijrp (talk) 14:38, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks! I'll keep it in mind in case I see similar, more recent edits. –FlyingAce✈hello 16:31, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
- I completely understand that this edit was the result of the bot responding to enwiki vandalism. But when the vandalism was reverted some days later, shouldn't the bot have responded to that also, by undoing its own addition to WD? DS (talk) 22:02, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks! I'll keep it in mind in case I see similar, more recent edits. –FlyingAce✈hello 16:31, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
knowledge panel
editHello. It is a knowledge panel that I created; however, it only appears after I add the following link to my browser: https://g.co/kgs/RmhvoG And it does not appear after a Google search. There might be a technical problem. It worked a couple of months ago, before I remove a website (an expired website). Thank you in advance! HoumanKia (talk) 18:03, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
Irish grammar
editHi — unfortunately it looks like your bot has added many Irish language descriptions with incorrect grammar. For example, "Viciméid catagóir" should be "catagóir Wikimedia"... wrong word order. Is there source code somewhere where I can provide the correct translations? Do you have a way of having the bot go back and correct these errors? Thanks. Kevin Scannell (talk) 12:26, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
- Sure, the code is here (line 1593 for gaelic). Thanks for your comment. Emijrp (talk) 16:32, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
Slovene descriptions: kategorija Wikimedije > kategorija Wikimedie
editHello, Emijrp. You've added kategorija Wikimedije to a number of pages for description in Slovene (sl) (e.g. here), but the correct spelling would be kategorija Wikimedie (for the rationale, see e.g. [3], [4]). Could you please correct that? It will be much appreciated. --TadejM (talk) 14:01, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, Emijrp. Are you still active here? I look forward to your reply. Thank you. --TadejM (talk) 03:00, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
- @TadejM: Hello! I can add your fix to the code, but I don't know when I will run the bot again. I am a bit busy right now. Thanks. Emijrp (talk) 18:49, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, Emijrp. This is much appreciated. I have posted a request to fix this at Wikidata:Bot requests, so I expect it will get fixed by somebody else in the meantime. --TadejM (talk) 18:54, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
monotypic taxon
editЗдравствуйте. Бот неправильно себя ведёт: не делает такие правки [5], если P31=monotypic taxon (Q310890), а не P31=taxon (Q16521). Я думаю, что с остальными подклассами Q16521 аналогично. Исправьте, пожалуйста. Online translation: Hello. Bot behaves incorrectly: does not make such edits [6], if P31=monotypic taxon (Q310890), and not P31=taxon (Q16521). I think it's the same with the rest of the Q16521 subclasses: Q713623, Q857968, Q855769, Q2612572, Q58051350; Q2568288, Q59278506, Q47487597. Please fix it. -- VladXe (talk) 15:11, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hello @VladXe:. I am only adding labels. In Gomontiellales (Q122842224), why is "Gomontiellales" label correct for English but not for Spanish or German? Thanks. Emijrp (talk) 20:27, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- В Q122842224 всё правильно, ошибка в том, что, например, в Q122832363 и любых других элементах, где P31=Q310890, такой правки нет. Online translation: Everything is correct in Gomontiellales (Q122842224), the error is that, for example, in Geitlerinematales (Q122832363) and any other elements where P31=monotypic taxon (Q310890), there is no such edit. -- VladXe (talk) 05:49, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
- Как я понял по отсутствию правок бота, исправлять недочёт Вы не собираетесь? Печально. Online translation: As I understand from the lack of edits of the bot, you are not going to fix the flaw? Sadly. VladXe (talk) 06:58, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
Здравствуйте. Элемент Microcaldia (Q124380516) создан месяц назад, а бот до сих пор не добавил метки. Online translation: Hello. The Microcaldia (Q124380516) element was created a month ago, and the bot still hasn't added labels. --VladXe (talk) 06:23, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Footballers from Wikipedia
editHello, when you create an item for a footballer on Wikidata based on Wikipedia data, could you add the full date of birth, and not only the year of birth ? Regards Frenchl (talk) 08:33, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
- Can you answer please ? Full date of birth are important for matching with external websites. Frenchl (talk) 14:36, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- I accept pull requests with code. Emijrp (talk) 15:37, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
citizenship
editHello,
I see you are automatically adding claims about citizenships people have. Based on what information do you make such claims? If for example all it is is that a description contains words like "Algerian-German rapper" and then you add claims that they hold an Algerian passport that has high likelihood of claiming wrong information. Double citizenship/passport/laws/immigration are highly complex topics and vary from country to country and each individual case. I would highly suggest to refrain from making such claims where people have migrated from one country to another in their lifetime and without knowing the actual facts. Best, Mutante (talk) 18:56, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Mutante Can you provide a diff? I don't think I am adding claims, but references. Emijrp (talk) 19:32, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Human?
editWhy does the bot believe that an elephant is human? This has led to Wikipedia, particularly Women in Red, looking ridiculous in a national newspaper: see https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/08/the-guardian-view-on-wikipedias-female-volunteers-a-hive-heroism-that-changes-history "Though this can lead to some eccentric entries (Louis XIV’s elephant is among Women in Red’s additions)" .... PamD (talk) 23:24, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- PamD, I have removed the properties human and female from Q1326205. TSventon (talk) 21:49, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
inferring from full name
editHi! Can you please check this edit? Label is not necessarily the full name. There are many items for people with alias/pseudonym set as the label. -- Meisam (talk) 21:15, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
Inferred from person's full name - incorrect script
editHello. I've noticed that your bot adds Latin script names for Russian names of Kazakhstani citizens instead of Cyrillic variant: diff. Nyuhn (talk) 23:56, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Emijrpbot adds incorrect description in Bengali
editEmijrpbot translates "Palestinian" as "ফিলিস্তিনীয়" in Bengali. But the correct translation is "ফিলিস্তিনি". Please make necessary correction to your bot. — T@hmid (T@lk) 13:17, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
- I just noticed that the edit where I saw this error had been made in 2017. So, if you already made correction, plase ignore this message. — T@hmid (T@lk) 13:20, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Hola, @Emijrp, como operador del bot, te solicito por favor de no insistir en colocar el alias del idioma bretón ya que además de los apellidos del presidente contiene un término (un cubanismo) cuyo significado es un insulto. Ya he limpiado manualmente, deshecho las ediciones (en el resumen de edición mencioné que es un insulto) y el bot insiste en agregarlo. Al artículo en bretón le acabo de corregir su entradilla. Gracias por tu colaboración. Madamebiblio (talk) 16:22, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hola. Al haber corregido el vandalismo de la página en bretón, ya no será copiado más a Wikidata. Saludos. Emijrp (talk) 16:35, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
Ted Schwinden
editThe date you added to the picture in Ted Schwinden (Q880356) can not be 2022. Se text in [7]. I do not think the bot can use the date in commons since it can be anything. Maundwiki (talk) 20:36, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
![[7]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ted-Schwinden-as-Governor.jpg){kind=link}
- Hello. I have added some more checks. The date in the infobox, EXIF and SDC must be the same. Also, dates after death are discarded. And photos must have valid EXIF (camera manufacturer, to exclude scans pictures not made with a digital camera). Thanks. Emijrp (talk) 06:29, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Similar case: [8]. Photography said to have been taken in 2017, yet the depicted person died in 2014. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 07:15, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
- Same here. Please, fix it. — Draceane talkcontrib. 18:26, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
Wayne Wickelgren
editI am very worried about the reliability of your bot's edits. In Wayne Wickelgren (Q126733830) it added a date of birth which looks completely incorrect and was never included in the article en:Wayne Wickelgren. Is also added an incorrect occupation. Where did it get this data from? How can we trust all of its other edits? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:51, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
mul support
editHi there! Wikipedia rolled out mul for labels today, which allows us to specify a default label for an item. By adding a mul label, we no longer need to duplicate that value for each language.
Are we able to update the bot to check if a "mul" label is defined, and avoid adding any new language labels with the same value?
If the value is different from the mul's value, it should continue to be added.
Keep in mind that mul has not been fully rolled out, and mul values shouldn't be added by bots yet.
Thank you for your consideration, and let me know if I can provide any additional details or examples. Iamcarbon (talk) 07:19, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi, +1. Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 11:05, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Iamcarbon: Hello. As soon as I learnt about one month ago that mul: was going to be deployed, I stopped the scripts which added labels for multiple languages. That was a feature should has existed from the beginning, but it's fine, it's here finally. Anyway, I think it will establish a difference between big languages and small languages. I think that nobody is going to remove English labels, even if they are the same than in mul:. For example, you removed many small languages labels here but you kept en: es: it:, etc. Finally, there is plenty of stuff to do here in Wikidata, my bot will focus now in those areas. Congratulations for the new awesome feature. Cheers! Emijrp (talk) 13:23, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi! Thank you for your work, and I want to double-check that we are not missing anything. This is a today's edit. What needs to be done to prevent the bot from adding these labels? Does it copy from another language label that hasn't been removed then? —putnik 14:30, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- That's from a script that reconciles sitelinks and labels. Now it checks for mul: before adding. Tell me if you see more from now. Thanks. Emijrp (talk) 15:04, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi! Thank you for your work, and I want to double-check that we are not missing anything. This is a today's edit. What needs to be done to prevent the bot from adding these labels? Does it copy from another language label that hasn't been removed then? —putnik 14:30, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
I came here to mention the same thing, thanks for already been on top of it all! :) ·addshore· talk to me! 10:39, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
Samson Colebrooke
editI fixed but I could not see how the bot 31 juli 2021 kl. 04.56 in Samson Colebrooke (Q107722217) added date of birth (P569) 1999 with English Wikipedia as reference. In the English Wikipedia from 04:46, 31 July 2021 it was 10 May 1997. Maundwiki (talk) 12:52, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hello Maundwiki. Check the categories, it says 1999 births. Bot parses from categories. Thanks. Emijrp (talk) 16:17, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, one of the places with typos. Maundwiki (talk) 20:59, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
Venetian language
editgood morning. Sorry to bother you. I wanted to ask if it would be possible to add the Venetian language to the list of languages supported for item descriptions on wikidata. Many thanks and thanks for your time. Fierodelveneto (talk) 22:34, 17 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hello Fierodelveneto. I could add Venetian language descriptions to my bots, I would be happy, but currently Wikidata can't handle many automated edits, so I slowed down my edit rate and my bots are practically stopped, waiting for Wikidata database/graph/infrastructure problems to be solved. Thanks for reaching me. Let's hope this situation is solved some day. Regards. Emijrp (talk) 17:37, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
- in the meantime, would you have a template to send me with all the translations you usually do of the descriptions? so you can integrate it for the future. Or tell me the page where the other translations are contained, so I can send you the Venetian equivalents. I have not noticed if you also take care of the descriptions. Thank you very much for your kind reply and for your availability.Fierodelveneto (talk) 20:25, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
- Sure, here in this GitHub repo I upload my scripts. Particulary, this one has many descriptions to translate, but you can browse the repo and find more stuff to translate: scientific articles, human descriptions... Emijrp (talk) 17:32, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
- in the meantime, would you have a template to send me with all the translations you usually do of the descriptions? so you can integrate it for the future. Or tell me the page where the other translations are contained, so I can send you the Venetian equivalents. I have not noticed if you also take care of the descriptions. Thank you very much for your kind reply and for your availability.Fierodelveneto (talk) 20:25, 18 November 2024 (UTC)