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Reinheitsgebot and Alexander Lwowitsch Maly (Q28872489)

Dear Magnus Maske. On 29. April 2023 the bot Reinheitsgebot added the VIAF id 46875070 to the wiki data object „Alexander Lwowitsch Maly“ (Q28872489). This is wrong, because VIAF=46875070 refers to Aleksandr Petrovitch Rybasov, who is definitely soemone else. Could you please check this? Kind regards FerdiBf (talk) 08:27, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Dear FerdiBf, if you know what is wrong with the edit, please fix it. I have no idea what my bot did almost two years ago. As bots do automated edits, this one probably made a mistake. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:35, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Ok, I manually removed everything which is not related to Alexander Lwowitsch Maly. I don't know whether it makes sense to edit bot generated data because these might reappear by automated processes. But let's hope for the best! --FerdiBf (talk) 08:02, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Next time also remove wrong Mix'n'match matches, because without this, this can be reason to error reappear (the easiest way to do this is to install script, probably

importScript( 'User:Magnus Manske/mixnmatch gadget.js' ); - ask Manske). 87.205.242.69 11:49, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Reinheitsgebot and Q3184247

FYI Claims were made to the wrong author as Q3184247 instead of https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7579-2829 in change https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q59854832&diff=next&oldid=1797663671 Looks like an incorrect author match. I'll work to cleanup these articles/author to Q131456310. Wolfgang8741 (Ohio University) (talk) 23:34, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

6603 catalog dates

Hi Magnus. Could you scrape the dates and add them to the description and auxiliary data? Thank you. Gerwoman (talk) 11:50, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Running now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 16:43, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done Gerwoman (talk) 06:53, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

6609 catalog dates

Could you insert the dates in this catalog from the description? Thank you Gerwoman (talk) 18:26, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Running now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 15:11, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done Gerwoman (talk) 06:53, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

requesting some more info or identification

Hello, your bot created this item, but all it says is the name, the property of human, and the occupation of researcher. Based on googling, I have a faint hunch which person it might be but it could be actually a completely different person, a mere namesake. Could you please add some identifiers or field of work or something else about him? Adam78 (talk) 02:49, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

This item is linked to Serum- and glucocorticoid-regulated kinase (SGK1) gene and blood pressure (Q34526883). Nibemben (talk) 22:39, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Zoltán Hantos

Hello! This is an old edit of the bot, but maybe there is some information about why it happened this way: Zoltán Hantos (Q114446041) and Zoltán Hantos (Q114446042) have the same name and the same special field. According to the Hungarian registry (MTMT) it is the same person. The same publications that are now associated with two persons in the Wikidata database belong to one person in the MTMT database. But there may be a mistake here (e.g. father and son who have the same profession), so I ask if there is any data on why there are two Zoltán Hantos items? Thanks, bye! p.s.: if you don't answer for a few days, I'll merge these two elements Pallor (talk) 12:13, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

6622 catalog dates

Could you scrape the dates of this catalog? Thank you Gerwoman (talk) 16:45, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Not many cases but for example https://www.konschtlexikon.mnaha.lu/entry/lkl003632/ Gerwoman (talk) 17:53, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

 Done Gerwoman (talk) 08:08, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

GND reveal and country of citizenship (P27)

Hello. I found out that the "Lande" value in GND does not define country of citizenship (P27). I can't find documentation for the GND, but @Dorades: claims so (edit). I know that we can't indiscriminately add all data by the GND reveal script when it comes to citizenship (sometimes it adds anachronistic statements, e.g. Italy, when at that time there was no unified, single Italian state). Is there a way to fix this? Nibemben (talk) 22:38, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

QuickStatements batches not running for me

It says not logged in or not autoconfirmed Gerwoman (talk) 10:59, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

This is working. My bad. Gerwoman (talk) 06:52, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

 Done Gerwoman (talk) 17:51, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Benezit catalogs

Hi Magnus! Would it be possible to merge https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/143 and https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/768 into one single catalogue with IDs compatible with Wikidata? Thanks very much! --Epìdosis 08:19, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

I have converted the IDs to Wikidata-compatible, where possible. I did move entries from 768 to 143 where they did not exist, but that was only 428. Both catalogs now have the same ID schema, and are associated with the same property. I have not merged them, because they contain different descriptions, and one might be more helpful than the other; concatenating them might cause problems because descriptions are of limited length in MnM. They can (and will be) synced via WD. I hope that works for you. --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:57, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks very much, now the situation is much better. Have compared in some tens of cases the two descriptions, I think those of 768 are always more complete than those of 143; so I would propose to deactivate 143. @Nono314: do you agree? Epìdosis 17:57, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Indeed I had built descriptions for 143 out of select bit of facts from article header, so they are always a subset of the full start of article. Ids were key so if they have been updated in 768, the old catalog no longer brings added value. The catalog description can also probably be amended to reflect the fact that ids are now WD compatible. Nono314 (talk) 22:09, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

There are 9717 entries in 143 that are not in 768. Should I move those over to 768 before I deactivate 143? --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:26, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

I think it would be better to move these entries to 768 before deactivating, yes! Epìdosis 18:40, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

I have moved the missing ones from 143 to 768, and renamed 768 to indicate this is now "the" catalog. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:37, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

File:Herman Agatho des Amorie van der Hoeven.jpg

Hello Magnus Manske, is it okay to replace the image by a better quality one? Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 16:33, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Of course, thanks for that! --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:17, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

dates in 3716 catalog

Please scrape dates from web as in https://www.digitalarchivioricordi.com/en/people/display/12453/Giuseppe%20Albinati for example. Thank you. Gerwoman (talk) 10:23, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

This catalog was deactivated? --Magnus Manske (talk) 15:20, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Not by me. Gerwoman (talk) 08:30, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Apparently there is a new one, will that work? --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:08, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

OK thank you.

 Done Gerwoman (talk) 10:59, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

User:Magnus Manske/authority control.js

Would you be able to update this script to reflect the changes to VIAF's website? Huge thanks in advance. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 20:17, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Should be done, please check it! --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:28, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Seems to work, thank you! Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 14:56, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

It seems to have some trouble with HTML-escaping, see for example Avantgarde (Q131695983). Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 10:28, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Automatch 6643 catalog

by name/dates please Gerwoman (talk) 08:32, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Please automatch 6641 as well. Gerwoman (talk) 08:36, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Both running now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:20, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

 Done Gerwoman (talk) 11:18, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

geohack?

Hi Magnus Manske, could you take a look at geohack (c.f. w:en:Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#What_happened_to_Geohack?. Thank you, Xaosflux (talk) 18:18, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Some temporary toolforge issue I believe. --Magnus Manske (talk) 18:09, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Listeria bot status

Hi! I have seen that https://listeria.toolforge.org/botstatus.php is blank, all the times I tried to load it in the last weeks. Is it normal? Thanks as always, --Epìdosis 18:58, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

6651 automatch by birth date

As I created the catalog via tabbed file, there is no option to run automatches by dates. Gerwoman (talk) 07:34, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Running now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:55, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you!  Done Gerwoman (talk) 10:57, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

6652 automatch by birth date

Thank you. Gerwoman (talk) 06:31, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Done. I really need to automate this. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:52, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks.  Done Gerwoman (talk) 10:07, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Petscan is down

Hello, can you please take a look at this? DreamRimmer (talk) 18:11, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

On it. --Magnus Manske (talk) 18:44, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again, but it's down again. DreamRimmer (talk) 13:19, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

6663 automatch by dates

Thank you. Gerwoman (talk) 12:51, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Running. --Magnus Manske (talk) 16:32, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

 Done Gerwoman (talk) 12:20, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

mixnmatch:4658/Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID (P9862)

Hi, as far as I can see the URLs for mixnmatch:4658/Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID (P9862) have changed and for mixnmatch:4658 in the IDs the underscore "_" would need to be changed to hyphen-minus "-" and the formatter URL pattern changed from https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/*-$1 to https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/EIEO/$1.xml. If you have time to look into it, that would be great! Thanks in advance, --Marsupium (talk) 10:26, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Canada's Early Women Writers

We already have 5363 and 6640 catalogs. Now 6684. Gerwoman (talk) 11:26, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Oops. Deleted. --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:24, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Consideration on regex parsing error and Mix'n'Match catalog deactivation request

Hi Magnus! I would like to ask for deactivation of two Mix'n'Match catalogs (see 1, 2), as unfortunately they both failed with regex parsing error, even though I checked everything thoroughly and don't really understand what the issue is. Before I created a catalog, in preview mode (here's my configuration) nothing hinted that the regex probably or definitely won't be suitable (regex that I used for the first attempt and here for the second). It would be helpful if Mix'n'Match had some sort of advance warning about this (or did not let you create a catalog at all if there is a regex failure), because after creating a catalog you can't change anything and generated error doesn't really help to figure out what's gone wrong, maybe I should ask for Mix'n'Match administrator rights if you don't mind? In any case I will try again to re-create a catalog (3rd attempt) with another slightly modified regex, but I can not guarantee that the catalog will be created properly since I can't figure out why regex doesn't seem to fit and if the attempt fails, we will have to deactivate the catalog again.

By the way for the third attempt I will try to use this regex: {"aliases":\s+.*?,\s+(?:"birthday":\s+(?:null)?)?(?:"birthday":\s+"(.*?)")?,\s+.*?},\s+"id":\s+(\d+?),\s+"lp_name":\s+.*?,\s+"tag":\s+"(.+?)",. The text I've highlighted in yellow is where I think I made a mistake (regarding previous regexes) and that's why it didn't pass, but again I don't know if that's the case. If possible please let me know if that is or something else is the problem. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 02:15, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi Kirilloparma, this is not your fault but mine. Originally, all of Mix'n'match was PHP, and the PHP regular expression rules apply, in both interface and back-end jobs. Some years ago, Toolforge changed the way jobs are done, which was incompatible with my approach in PHP. So I rewrote the back-end jobs in Rust, which uses a simplified Regex subset. So when you test the Regex in the browser, you talk to the PHP code, but the resulting job is run by the Rust code. I am aware that this is not ideal; I have tried to use an alternative Rust crate with the full Regex syntax, but it failed for me. I can try to manually run a single job in PHP; which catalog should I use? --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:25, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, that makes sense now! Yes, that's why the previous regexes didn't apply here ([1], [2]). In Rust, there are some characters (such as {) that should be escaped or not used at all if possible, so it's best to keep the regex as simple as possible. I think it would be useful to document somewhere that when creating an autoscraper, it is recommended to check the written PHP regex against Rust, since that is what Mix'n'Match uses. By the way, as I noticed such regex parser errors are usually observed with catalogs that use API URLs (it's all about the text, which is in JSON format) as it is clearly visible from the Mix'n'Match jobs log.

> I can try to manually run a single job in PHP; which catalog should I use?

Okay, let's try the last one that was created. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 04:24, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi Magnus! I would like to ask if there is any update regarding the affected catalogs? If autoscrape can't be restarted, no worries, we can proceed with deactivating the catalogs and I'll recreate them with already tweaked regex (according to Rust). I will also ask you to deactivate this catalog, unfortunately not all entries were retrieved from the database and it's my fault because I indicated the wrong number of entries during the configuration. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 02:15, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I ran this one with the PHP autoscraper. I also upped the limit to 150K on this one and restarted the scrape. --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:03, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

automatch catalog/6699

via name/dates. Thank you. Gerwoman (talk) 11:51, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Running now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:01, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you!  Done

automatch 6702 catalog

by name/dates. Thanks. Gerwoman (talk) 13:12, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Running now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 15:12, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

 Done Gerwoman (talk) 19:30, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Xeno-Canto-ID

Hallo Magnus, könntest Du zu Xeno-canto species ID (P2426) einen Mix'n'Match-Katalog erstellen? Der Identifikator wird nach dem Schema Dermanura watsoni -> Dermanura-watsoni gebildet. Viele Grüße ChristianSW (talk) 17:50, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

In Arbeit. --Magnus Manske (talk) 17:51, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Danke schön! ChristianSW (talk) 18:32, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

autoscrape FAILED

"No Autoscraper for catalog 6711". Are you aware of this error? Thank you. Gerwoman (talk) 12:24, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

Mix'n'match catalogues

Hello, I'm writing to you regarding some Mix'n'match catalogues you've created. Specifically, I'm wondering if you could create a catalogue for Filmový přehled film ID (P7519) and fix the catalogue Kvikmyndavefurinn work since that last one just gives N/A as results. Also, the catalogue Runeberg author states that it updates automatically, yes it was soon three years ago since the last update according to the catalogue description. Sabelöga (talk) 16:45, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I have started the Runenberg scrape, but it is somwehat outdated. So I created a new one that should be more consistent with the current site. I'll look at the other ones tomorrow. --Magnus Manske (talk) 20:22, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi, how did this go? I saw you fixed the Runeberg catalog, but what about the other two catalogs? Sabelöga (talk) 23:40, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

catalog/6733

Please run automatch by name/dates. Thank you. Gerwoman (talk) 09:04, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

Done, date match running. --Magnus Manske (talk) 15:38, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. I've seen some false negatives: https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/entry/178202545, https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/entry/178202550, https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/entry/178202636. Do you know why? Gerwoman (talk) 16:45, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Not sure. Sometimes a minor difference in spelling (e or é) can prevent a match. I am running the matcher again just to be sure. Magnus Manske (talk) 16:52, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you  Done

Gerwoman (talk) 07:11, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

mentor for Google Summer of Code

Hi Magnus:

I've been working with Ege Doğan on finding and fixing problems in Wikidata. He is interested in doing some coding related to Wikidata, particularly games to fix constraint violations. I'm going to be a mentor for a Google Summer of Code proposal on this, with the Wikimedia Foundation as the participating organization.

The plan is to use your Distributed Game system as inspiration for the system. Because of this, I was thinking that you would be a good second mentor. Are you interested?

Thanks,

Peter F. Patel-Schneider Peter F. Patel-Schneider (talk) 22:29, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Please delete critify.de games

I confused IDs and names in mixnmatch:6741. Sorry. Matthias M. (talk) 08:42, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Done. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:47, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

catalog/6745

Please automatch name/dates. https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/6745 Gerwoman (talk) 08:43, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Done, running now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:16, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you Magnus.  Done Gerwoman (talk) 16:51, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

6729 catalog

Automatch by born date. Thanks. Gerwoman (talk) 16:53, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Running now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:11, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

 Done Gerwoman (talk) 06:57, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Purge entry ID in range [177048846, 177048862] for catalog 5911

In my previous attempt to import the TSV file, the remote database contained line break characters in some entry names, resulting in unexpected entries. Could you purge them out? Thanks. -- Func86 (talk) 13:01, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

 Done --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:10, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

QuickStatements issues with batches of blocked users

Hi! Recently QuickStatements is much slowed by a lot of batches which are running uselessly because they don't make edits ... since they are by indefinitely blocked users; phab:T386978 was also opened about this. I would propose the two following remedies to the issue:

1. each time the batch tries to make an edit, it checks if the user is blocked; if so, the batch stops automatically
2. Wikidata administrators should be able to stop whichever batch (as of now, when an administrator clicks "stop" on a certain batch, it restarts after a few seconds)

Thanks in advance! --Epìdosis 00:25, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Yes, please, could you stop the batches of: Anton Dannenberg, Wilhelm Heidemann, Hugo Helvetia, Gerhard Oberland, Daniel Bonin, Mario Mainz, VerifyToday, Hans Schram. Thank you. --Gerwoman (talk) 10:33, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

BTW, the situation is worsening: this evening a normal batch by a non-blocked user advances by only 4 edits a minute, i.e. a batch of 10k edits takes 41+ hours to complete. --Epìdosis 21:50, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

It's not worsening, it is like this for weeks. Sleepy admins. Vinzenz Hochstrasser (talk) 11:45, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Maybe admins too busy with searching users that make valuable contributions. https://archive.ph/https://quickstatements.toolforge.org/%23/batches Vinzenz Hochstrasser (talk) 11:57, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

I don't understand why nobody is able to stop those sockpuppets running batches. Any explanation? These are the new ones:

User:Xavier_Waldburg, User:Rich_Ingvar, User:Yves_Schneider. It's almost impossible to work with batches. Gerwoman (talk) 19:26, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Seems Admins can't do anything. See T386978. @Magnus Manske: is it possible to reboot the queue? Meanwhile QuickStatements 3 seems to be the long term fix, but I'm still not used to the new way. NGOgo (WikiProject Nonprofits!) 05:52, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

I have added a check for blocked users. It is run on every ~20th batch edit, to keep load to the API low. If the user is blocked, all their batched will be blocked. So they may be able to start batches, but they will stop after a short while automatically. Please let me know if this works, and if there are any unforseen side effects. --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:02, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you Magnus. Gerwoman (talk) 18:15, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks indeed — seems to work fine. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 23:03, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

catalog/6759

Could you launch the automatch via name/dates in this catalog? Thank you. Gerwoman (talk) 11:48, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

The same for 6757 catalog please. Gerwoman (talk) 17:28, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

And also 6764 Gerwoman (talk) 21:47, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

 Done Gerwoman (talk) 06:50, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

glamtools @ toolforge

Hello Magnus

Glamtools has been giving a 504 for the past day. Are you able to fix that? On another note, thank you very much for your development and maintenance of MediaWiki and associated tools.

Hallo Magnus, Glamtools hat in den letzten 24 Stunden einen 504-Fehler ausgegeben. Wäre es möglich, dass Sie dies beheben? Nebenbei möchte ich Ihnen herzlich für Ihre Entwicklung und Wartung von MediaWiki und den zugehörigen Tools danken. JayCubby (talk) 00:08, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

catalog/6781

WOW, now it automach via person dates just reading it from the description! Good job, Magnus! Gerwoman (talk) 18:35, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Issue with QuickStatements

See AN. Thanks! Wüstenspringmaus _talk 09:19, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

catalog/6793

Could you match by birth date and by death date. https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/6793

Thank you Gerwoman (talk) 10:38, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Running now.--Magnus Manske (talk) 14:08, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you  Done

Gerwoman (talk) 07:11, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

URL-Encoding durch Mix'n'match

Hallo, beim Katalog mixnmatch:3981 gibt es ein Problem. Die ID kann nämlich Umlaute enthalten wie bei https://historisches-lexikon.li/Jäger,_Johannes. Mix'n'match macht daraus J%C3%A4ger,_Johannes, was daher der Wert von eHLFL ID (P13079) bei Johannes Jäger (Q132132755) ist. Wenn man nun auf den Link zur Webseite klickt, landet man aber bei https://historisches-lexikon.li/J%25C3%25A4ger%2C_Johannes, wo nur eine Fehlermeldung angezeigt wird. Das Problem scheint darin zu bestehen, dass zweimal URL-Encoding durchgeführt wird. Kannst du das irgendwie beheben? D3rT!m (talk) 11:09, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Sollte jetzt erledigt sein (in MnM)--Magnus Manske (talk) 13:02, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Super, vielen Dank! D3rT!m (talk) 13:48, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

mixnmatch wrong VIAF 2 out of 2

1. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q133277002&diff=2324524997&oldid=2324516559
2. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q133276951&diff=2324516528&oldid=2324514991

I checked 2 so far and each was wrong ... Vinzenz Hochstrasser (talk) 11:44, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Matching J9U 2022 on year of birth and death? - Anything else?

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q488016&diff=prev&oldid=1722282645 - year of birth and death are the same. What else was used for matching? MergeExpert (talk) 06:34, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

Recovering old Flow discussions: a summary

Hi Magnus! Excuse me for disturbing, I took this Saturday morning to have a look at all the past discussions from 2016 to 2024 in User talk:Magnus Manske/Structured Discussions Archive 1 that I had annotated as interesting and not yet solved, and I would like to summarise them here, hoping that some interesting suggestion can emerge. I omitted the parts regarding QuickStatements, since they are all either already implemented or being implemented in the 3.0 version. I divide them by topic in subsections:

PetScan

• 2016 (Topic:Tceom35j4g82rkym): add the possibility to add qualifiers and references
• 2017 (Topic:Twwv11z4om4oiu2l = Topic:Tq14uta53h57huo2): expand PetScan using Wikidata category items
• 2018 (Topic:Ucw0n25a7b7p6za4): add the possibility to select more than one label language at the same time, with the possibility to list more than one language in order of preference (as in the Query service)

Reasonator

• 2019 (Topic:Vbvtiu85v0wqcpkb): bug of values with multiple qualifiers being shown 3 (now 5) times, e.g. Jane Belson here

Mix'n'Match

• 2020 (Topic:Vl8reqahkhkl4jq8): add the possibility to flag catalogs with "Wikidata description = no", to avoid the descriptions of the entries being used as descriptions in Wikidata items
• 2020 improvements (Topic:Vqzxlmdonip2vscc)
  • check big catalogs, such as https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/150, to see if it is possible to have sync-page work
  • add the possibility to flag catalogs with "import dates/references = no", to avoid the metadata of the entries being used as statements and references in Wikidata items (e.g. for Open Library ID (P648) = https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/98; see also Topic:Vsyg1z6xqe78o5ez regarding VIAF cluster ID (P214) = https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/2050)
• 2020 ideas (Topic:Vyiaj769g4yj6k4r)
  • make it easier to merge catalogs
  • when entries get matched to an item which is afterwards redirected, at the moment the catalog and Wikidata get out-of-sync, while there should be a botton that allows to adjust all such matches substituting the redirected item with the new item
  • it would be comfortable, in the pages of a catalog (manually matched entries, automatched entries, unmatched entries), having the possibility to show: only entries with auxdata; only entries without auxdata; all entries
  • it would be comfortable, when searching Mix'n'match, having the possibility to show one or both of the following categories of entries: manually matched entries; automatched entries; multiply-automatched entries; unmatched entries
  • the internal search at the moment searches only in the names of the entries; it would be useful having a second search-box searching only in the auxiliary data of the entries, in order to exploit both at the same time
• 2021 (Topic:W3any1pfo3ooizds): add in https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/import.php the possibility to define a formatter URL if no property is defined
• 2022 (Topic:Wo5c3sirso5yi8av): merge https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/2811 and https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/2812  Done 2025
• 2023 (Topic:Xmfn9bg8cama6zm1): add the possibility to manually delete auxiliary data from individual entries
• 2024 (Topic:Ygi0jnlh8cd1v51c): add the possibility for MnM admins of setting the flag "has_person_date" in catalog_editor; add to jobs for each catalog the possibility of trigger periodically a new check of https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/issues/

Thanks as always, --Epìdosis 09:12, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

I've imported catalog 2812 into 2811. Have a look when you can and let me know if 2812 could be deactivated. Gerwoman (talk) 18:53, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

@Gerwoman: thanks very much, I checked and it seems perfect; 2812 deactivated, 2811 renamed removing the final "1". Epìdosis 21:45, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Mix n match not adding ISNI present in VIAF and GND

Example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q133287097&action=history

ISNI in VIAF and https://web.archive.org/web/20250316044338/https://d-nb.info/gnd/130418293/about/lds Othmar Ottens (talk) 04:48, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Auto-matched via auxiliary data

Catalog 6073 seemingly has a lot of auto-matches that aren't actually linked to the target item. For example Gensō Suikogaiden (Q5533581) is supposedly matched but there is no such property on the item itself. Is there an easy way to find/fix these? —Xezbeth (talk) 14:33, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Mario Basiola

Hello Magnus Manske, wonder which one to pick for Mario Basiola (Q3848321) and Mario Basiola (Q110041160) this is the image which imo would be suitable. thank you to much for your time. Lotje (talk) 15:55, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Reinheitsgebot - minor misinterpretation of Wikispecies

The bot recently created the Austroscaeva (Q133885894) item and added the claim instance of (P31): extinct taxon (Q98961713), importing from species:Austroscaeva. This claim was incorrect, and I believe the bot may have misinterpreted the dagger character (†; see species:Wikispecies:Glossary#!) listed by one of the authors in the primary reference, indicating that it was published posthumously. Of course, the incorrect value is trivial to fix, but it may pop up as an issue again later.

Relevant revisions/pages: Austroscaeva (Q133885894), Austroscaeva (Wikispecies), Template:Mengual et al., 2018 (Wikispecies)

Thanks. --WrenFalcon (talk) 20:01, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

gelöschte Region in Vorlage:Haltestellen Actv (Venedig)

Guten Morgen, der ListeriaBot löscht in de:Vorlage:Haltestellen Actv (Venedig) schon mehrfach die Region. Dadurch kommt es zu mittlerweile über 20 Parameterfehlern in der Vorlage und dem eingebundenen Artikel. Möglicherweise liegt die Ursache ja hier auf wikidata, erschließt sich mir allerdings nicht. Kannst Du dir das bitte mal ansehen. Danke und schöne Ostern. ○●○2003:DE:715:5D5E:BC26:C5DA:8EAA:C9B 06:18, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Items without image

Dear Magnus, the "items without image" game on https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/# seems to triple each statement added with the tool. See for example Hazel Green (Q2879336). Could you please check if anything needs to be fixed, as I would like to use the game in a workshop. Thanks! Beireke1 (talk) 11:54, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Q2717060

I have just blocked your bot from editing the item as it was edit-warring with itself since August. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 08:29, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Other examples: Q10443997, Q9056669, Q10621172, Q3125620, Q15031110. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 18:20, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

I have found the code responsible, and added a log to ensure that an item only ever gets one single specieswiki lnik change (or addition) from the bot. --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:56, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Mix'n'Match Patrimonio Galego

Hi, Magnus!

Please, be careful Mix'n'Matching the items with Patrimonio Galego ID. You're doing a lot of mistakes.

Greetings from Galicia. --Estevoaei (talk) 15:17, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, I did an auto-matching based on coordinates (within 50m), name, and P31. Apologies if that did not go well, can you point me to an example? --Magnus Manske (talk) 17:12, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

Many of your editions were in items of d:Q20541692 (settlements in Galicia) and d:Q2276925 (municipalities of Galicia). --Estevoaei (talk) 17:25, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

I am trying to undo the bad ones now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 17:43, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks a lot!
Another point: I don't know if you can fix that, but in the Patrimonio Galego Mix'n'Match, instead of d:Q939644 (high cross) should be d:Q371752 (calvary), and instead of d:Q43483 (water well) it should be d:Q483453 (fountain). How could it be fixed? --Estevoaei (talk) 17:51, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi again! I'm undoing the mix-matches in P31 = Q12397176 (civil parish of Galicia). User:HombreDHojalata helped me doing this list of elements with Patrimonio Galego ID. --Estevoaei (talk) 08:45, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

I have changed the P31s in Mic'n'match. Thans for all your help here! --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:52, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

"Create scraper" form not visible

Bug: "Create scraper" form not visible

I am logged in to Mix'n'match (https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/scraper), but the "Create scraper" form does not appear. The interface loads, but I cannot see the expected fields like "Start URL", "Item selector", etc.

Tested on: - Browser: Chrome - Logged in: Yes - Tried in incognito and cleared cache

Expected: Form should be visible when logged in.

Thanks! Gerwoman (talk) 10:45, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

Regarding Reinheitsgebot's Runeberg edits from 2019

This edit from 2019 from your bot Reinheitsgebot is marked with #quickstatements; details; invoked by mixnmatch:aux2wd. It adds the property occupation (P106) with the value.writer (Q36180). This is an error as Göte Bergsten isn't a writer but instead a priest and metodist pastor. This has since been corrected but I just though I'd let you know in case the bot has other errors since. The bot has made around 400 edits adding writer (Q36180) to occupation (P106).[3] I'm intending to go through which ones are appropriate.

This was brought to my attention on sv:Wikipedia:Wikipediafrågor#Fula referenser. Sabelöga (talk) 19:34, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

ListeriaBot steht still

Lieber Magnus, ich habe dich darüber auch schon anderweitig benachrichtigt, aber ListeriaBot (talk • contribs • logs) hat seine Arbeit am 3. Juni um 06:00 eingestellt. Für Mitarbeiter wie mich ist es ein ganz wesentliches Werkzeug, weil es Übersicht verschafft über das, was bereits da ist und das, was noch fehlt. Bitte starte den Bot erneut! Herzlich, Edelseider (talk) 05:40, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Neu gestartet, bitte sag Bescheid falls es immer noch Probleme gibt. --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:43, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Der Bot reagiert immer noch nicht auf manuelle Abfragen, mein Testobjekt ist Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Creator/Max Ernst. Woran könnte es liegen? Viele Grüße, Edelseider (talk) 10:08, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Manuell sollte jetzt auch wieder gehen, hat grad für mich funktioniert. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:49, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Danke!!! Edelseider (talk) 11:49, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Duplicity is down

Hello, I've noted that your Duplicity tool has been down for a few days now. Could you have a look? Thanks. Samoasambia ✎ 19:33, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Works for me. Which wiki? Example link? --Magnus Manske (talk) 06:24, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Interesting, now it's up again. Samoasambia ✎ 08:55, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Mix'nMatch UCI rider ID - birthdates not scraped anymore

Hello Magnus, would you be so kind to look into why in this Mix'n'Match catalogue (number 5396, UCI rider ID), the birthdates from the UCI website are not displayed in the description anymore?

The first few pages are fine but at some point it stops. I noticed a Regex parse error on the jobs page and thought that might have something to do with it, but don't know how to fix it. Thank you for looking into it, and thanks for the tool! It's great :) Fallen Sheep (talk) 16:43, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

ListeriaBot steht wieder still

Lieber Magnus, ListeriaBot ist erneut untätig, könntest Du ihn bitte wieder anwerfen? Woran kann es denn eigentlich liegen, dass er neuerdings ab und zu einfach stillsteht? Jedenfalls herzlichen Dank und ein schönes Wochenende. Edelseider (talk) 17:13, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Du hast eine Mail bekommen

Hallo, Magnus Manske. Ich habe dir eine Mail geschickt. Letzter Woche habe ich dir die gleiche Mail geschickt, aber ich habe keine Antwort bekommen. Bitte, diesmal sag Bescheid ob du die Mail bekommen hast, und ob du mir helfen kannst. Es geht um die Automatisierung (mit Mix'n'match?) einer „scraping“ einer Website zu Wikidata. Ich würde mich über eine Antwort freuen. Danke. Leonprimer (talk) 19:33, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Ja, ich guck mal, brauch' noch ein wenig ;-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 06:59, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

ListeriaBot steht SCHON WIEDER still!

Lieber Magnus, es tut mir leid, dass ich dich nerve, aber die Angelegenheit wird immer ärgerlicher. ListeriaBot hat sich offenbar erneut abgeschaltet, jedenfalls funktioniert das Werkzeug seit gestern Abend nicht mehr (letzte Bearbeitung 21:40, 29 June 2025). Warum häufen sich diese Ausfälle inzwischen? Das kann doch nicht an der Sommerhitze liegen? Ratlos aber herzlich, Edelseider (talk) 06:38, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

Hm, ich sehe ~3K Seiten pro Stunde abgearbeitet. Habe mal manuell neu gestartet und and der Konfiguration geschraubt. Sag Bescheid wenn's immer noch nicht geht! --Magnus Manske (talk) 07:41, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

Es geht immer noch nicht. Mein Testobjekt ist Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Collection/Fukuoka Art Museum, da kam auch nach vier Minuten Wartezeit kein Update, trotz manuellem Befehl. Edelseider (talk) 07:53, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

Und jetzt geht es wieder! Danke, Magnus! Ich hoffe, es hält jetzt eine Weile. Beste Grüße, Edelseider (talk) 09:16, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

Irgendetwas stimmt immer noch nicht.

Lieber Magnus, ListeriaBot ist vollkommen unfähig, die folgende Liste zu aktualisieren: Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Creator/Chaïm Soutine. Woran kann das liegen? Herzlich, Edelseider (talk) 10:57, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

Habes grad mal von meiner lokalen Maschine laufen lassen, klappt. Ich gucke mal, ob Toolforge mal wieder kaputt ist... --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:03, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

Danke! Edelseider (talk) 11:06, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

Lieber Magnus, Listeria ist erneut unfähig, diese eine besondere Liste (Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Creator/Chaïm Soutine) zu aktualisieren. Es gibt mit keiner anderen Liste Probleme, aber bei dieser klappt es einfach nicht! Woran kann das liegen, vielleicht an dem ï? Beste Grüße, Edelseider (talk) 16:14, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Lieber Magnus, ich verstehe nicht, woran es liegen kann? Seitdem ich die Seite korrekt verschoben habe, hat nur ein Update funktioniert ([4]), und auch dieses musstest Du selber machen, weil es durch den Befehl an ListeriaBot nicht ging. Schaust Du einmal nach? Herzlichen Dank --Edelseider (talk) 12:15, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Ich weiss, was passiert, ich weiss aber nicht, warum... Die Seite war von vor dem Redirect mit i in der Datenbank. Aus irgendeinem Grund verwender MySQL die gleiche Seite weiter, auch wenn ich nach ï frage, bekomme ich den Eintrag mit einfachem i. ich habe jetzt manuell mal den Eintrag gelöscht, und das manuelle Update hat jetzt einen neuen Eintrag mit ï gebaut und ein Update gefahren. Irgend ein obsukrer Unicode-encoding-horror. Jetzt geht's jedenfalls für diese Seite. --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:41, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

MnM catalog admin

Hi Magnus, I've been contributing scrapers/matches to Mix'n'match for quite a while and I was wondering if I could be given admin rights on MnM. Mainly I want it so that I can fix my own mistakes when I make them (in this case, I forgot to remove the leading slashes in the IDs for #7032). If you would be willing to grant me access I would really appreciate it (and if not, could you at least deactivate that catalog?). Thanks, IagoQnsi (talk) 05:05, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi, made you admin for the front-end, though that won't let you edit entries (you can change some of the catalog info though). I have also removed the leading slashes in 7032. If you want to be co-maintainer on Mix'n'match so you can edit entries via the database, let me know please. --Magnus Manske (talk) 07:57, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

Hey Magnus, I think I might actually want to become co-maintainer as well – I've been working with some big datasets and the ~19MB limit on imports via the web interface has been a bit of an obstacle. Eventually I might also be interested in submitting some PRs with bug fixes/new features, but I'd want to become more familiar with how the backend works first. Could you add me as a maintainer? My username on Toolsadmin is the same as here. Thanks, IagoQnsi (talk) 22:21, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I added you as a maintainer to the mix-n-match tool. Main database is s51434__mixnmatch_p but you might also want to have a look at s51434__mixnmatch_large_catalogs_p which doesn't have a nice interface but serves as a convenient "dumping ground" for large datasets. --Magnus Manske (talk) 07:50, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks! I've started poking around a bit in the files and the DB replica to get a lay of the land. Is there any sort of procedure you follow when working with DB write access? Or any previous scripts I should look at in particular? I'm very comfortable in SQL and PHP land, but it's like – when someone hands you the keys to their fancy car, you're a bit more conscious of how carefully you drive, y'know? Let me know if there's anything in particular I should be aware of. Thanks, IagoQnsi (talk) 18:07, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

ORCIDator

I see that the old ORCIDator has been deactivated due to abuse. However, the new version still doesn't have a login button. Could you fix this please? Thanks, AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 00:03, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

Yes, please! The old tool was the one which worked... I frequently used it. --Infovarius (talk) 21:27, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

To check

Hallo @Magnus Manske, please check Cecilia Moreno Aliste (Q133790374) edits. Thanks. Madamebiblio (talk) 14:18, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi, there was a superfluous VIAF ID, but otherwise it seems accurate, judging from the GND in the original version. Anything specific you would like me to check? --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:22, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

ListeriaBot fallback issue with 'mul'

Hi @Magnus Manske, please have a look at this diff:[5]. I've removed the labels equal to 'mul' on Paul Signac (Q151573), but instead of displaying the 'mul' value, ListeriaBot is retrieving the Greek label. Thanks. Ayack (talk) 17:56, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

GLAMorous

Hallo, seit mehreren Wochen schon: "There was an error running the query [Unknown column 'fr_id' in 'WHERE']". Wird das mal repariert oder kann man das Tool abschreiben? Gruß -- Bwag (talk) 19:53, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Guck mal bitte ob es jetzt besser ist. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:14, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Hallo Magnus, jetzt funktioniert es einwandfrei und schnell ist es auch. Übrigens, danke für dieses Tool. Gruß -- Bwag (talk) 19:48, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Relator: Therese Levitusová

Hallo @Magnus Manske. Der Relator gibt für Therese Levitusová (Q105556640) zweimal die Tochter Berta Weidlerová aus, einmal Q105618045 und einmal Q135639453. Es gab zur gleichen Person eine Verdoppelung, die aber am 4. August 2025 durch die Zusammenlegung von Q135639453 mit Q105618045 behoben wurde. Warum zeigt der Relator beide Items an? Greift er nicht auf die aktuellsten Daten zurück? Oder habe ich etwas falsch verstanden? Danke für deine Rückmeldung. Matutinho (talk) 04:36, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Die Freuden der Konsistenz :-) Lina Levitus (Q135639322) hatte das "alte" item Q135639453 als sibling. Geändert, Relator zeigt jetzt alles wieder richtig an. --Magnus Manske (talk) 05:13, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Besten Dank für die schnelle Antwort und auch gleich noch die Lösung: super! Matutinho (talk) 09:33, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

P13600 OberpfalzWiki

Hi Magnus, Du hast schon echt vielen Items das Attribut P13600 hinzugefügt, mega, mega, mega!!! Viiiiiiiiiiiiiielen Dank! Ich habe mir nun vorgenommen, das OberpfalzWiki an Wikidata anzubinden und das über die API. Genauer habe ich mir das noch nicht angesehen. Kannst Du hier unterstützen? Du scheinst das ja irgendwie über Batches zu machen. Bebbe (talk) 13:35, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi Bebbe, ich habe ein Tool zum Abgleich von Wikidata mit anderen Datenbanken/Webseiten. OberpfalzWiki habe ich hier. Mein automatischer Abgleich funktioniert hauptsächlich über Personen-Namen mit Geburts- und Todesjahr, aber die sind schon alle erledigt. Ich sehe mal, was ich sonst noch tun kann, vielleicht mit den Straßennamen.

Alle aktuellen Wikidata-OberpfalzWiki-Abgleiche gibt es hier, das kann man auch maschinenlesbar abfragen. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:15, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

Oh und zur manuellen Bearbeitung von Personen und deren Verwandten habe ich auch ein Tool (OberpfalzWiki-Beispiel). --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:48, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

catalog 6144 deletion request

Can you delete mix-n-match catalog 6144? It's a duplicate of 5662. Thanks! Trivialist (talk) 23:01, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

@Trivialist:  Done 6144 deactivated. Epìdosis 06:13, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

"automatch people with birth year" and "purge automatches" FAILED

3849 NUKAT automatch people with birth year FAILED 2025-10-13 10:08:02 Server error: `ERROR 70100 (1969): Query execution was interrupted (max_statement_time exceeded)' @Pietrucha2137:

7195 Aranzadi Zientzia Elkartea automatch people with birth year FAILED 2025-09-04 09:34:21 Server error: `ERROR 70100 (1969): Query execution was interrupted (max_statement_time exceeded)' Gerwoman

3849 NUKAT automatch people with birth year FAILED 2025-08-25 19:19:45 Server error: `ERROR 70100 (1969): Query execution was interrupted (max_statement_time exceeded)' @CatherineSyevyerskaya:

3849 NUKAT automatch people with birth year FAILED 2025-08-19 02:30:05 Server error: `ERROR HY000 (1205): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction' CatherineSyevyerskaya

7195 Aranzadi Zientzia Elkartea automatch people with birth year FAILED 2025-08-19 02:30:05 Server error: `ERROR HY000 (1205): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction' Gerwoman

163 BNE automatch people with birth year FAILED 2025-08-19 02:30:05 Server error: `ERROR HY000 (1205): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction' Gerwoman

7195 Aranzadi Zientzia Elkartea automatch people with birth year FAILED 2025-08-15 11:30:10 Server error: `ERROR 70100 (1969): Query execution was interrupted (max_statement_time exceeded)' Gerwoman

2405 Dictionnaire des Vendéens automatch people with birth year FAILED 2025-08-14 03:49:10 Server error: `ERROR HY000 (1205): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction' Gerwoman

2405 Dictionnaire des Vendéens purge automatches FAILED 2025-08-14 03:38:59 Server error: `ERROR HY000 (1205): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction' Gerwoman

3849 NUKAT automatch people with birth year FAILED 2025-08-11 13:15:19 Server error: `ERROR 40001 (1213): Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction' CatherineSyevyerskaya

Gerwoman (talk) 15:43, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian (Q116997432)

It seems like this item was created by Reinheitsgebot in error, but I wanted to check before deleting it or anything. Thanks for any context or assistance! Emwille (talk) 18:31, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi, yes looks like a mistake, feel free to edit/delete. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:01, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

Como game

Hallo Magnus: I just see descriptions made with the Como game, a great idea, so I would like to suggest: the link regarding the style of descriptions should be added, and ensuring that the tool does not allow descriptions with female and male symbols. Many editions need to be checked and adjusted. Thank you. Madamebiblio (talk) 19:03, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

@Kristbaum: as this is not a tool by Magnus --Nono314 (talk) 19:03, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

@Nono314 Merci pour votre remarque. L'erreur vient d'ici. Madamebiblio (talk) 19:42, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Good point, I'll try to incorporated that! Kristbaum (talk) 19:34, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Literia Bot auf meiner Benutzer-Unterseite

Hallo Magnus. Ich vermute dass die fortlaufenden Ängerungen im Abschnitt von de:Benutzer:Bullenwächter/Moorarchäologie#Test durch den Listeria Bot verursacht werden. Wie kann ich das verhindern? Leider verstehe ich nicht was diese Einträge auslöst. Ich hoffe, Du kannst mir hier helfen. Vielen Dank schon mal ;-) Bullenwächter (talk) 13:20, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Ich habe mal den Bot-Müll aufgeräumt und eine Ende-Vorlage drangesetzt, jetzt scheint er keinen Müll mehr zu bauen... --Magnus Manske (talk) 17:08, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Vielen herzlichen Dank Magnus! Bullenwächter (talk) 19:27, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

 Done

AC2WD

Moin Magnus! Mit dem Script ging etwas schief. Schaust du bitte mal hier: [6] Die korrekte ID ist 12533325t, eingesetzt wurde aber 12533325p. Scheinbar sind da noch mehr BnF-Daten falsch eingetragen, kannst du mal auf deiner Seite nachsehen, was da schiefgelaufen ist? Danke für all deine Scripts und Zaubertränke. Und für deine Zeit natürlich. :-) Hedwig in Washington (talk) 06:16, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Mix'n'match catalog jobs

Hi, Magnus! Can you please investigate why the jobs (such as autoscrape, automatch by search and many others) for all Mix'n'match catalogs have been stalled for several days now? Take a look, for example, at this catalog where the current automatch by search job has been activated, but in reality, it is stalled. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 00:02, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

I just restarted the background job, let me know if that fixes things please. --Magnus Manske (talk) 07:41, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Yes, it seems to have helped the catalogs continue/complete the automatch by search task, but for some reason, the catalogs with autoscrape job are now stuck and queued. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 03:00, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Suggestion for PetScan

Hi! In the tab Wikidata, in the subsection "Uses items/props", I would suggest to add two couples of counters, similar to the "Minimum number of site links" and "Maximum number of site links" present below:

• "Minimum number of statements" and "Maximum number of statements"
• "Minimum number of identifier" and "Maximum number of identifiers"

Thanks in advance! --Epìdosis 15:54, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Done. --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:55, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

@Magnus Manske: thanks very much! Epìdosis 17:09, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Mix'n'match sync page broken

Hi Magnus! Excuse me for disturbing again: I am trying to load https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/sync/7257 - the sync page of https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/7257 - but most of it seems meaningless, since it refers to items which have never existed. Could you have a look? Thanks! --Epìdosis 17:27, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

BTW, regarding the MnM gadget: could you have a look at User talk:Magnus Manske/mixnmatch gadget.js#Performance fix? I think it would be useful :) Epìdosis 17:56, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Remove the broken entry id 177465496 in catalog 5745

It was accidentally created due to an error in the TSV file. Thank you. -- Func86 (talk) 12:14, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

I just marked it as N/A. --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:29, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Erroneous value

[7] Please take care not to introduce erroneous values, especially when the correct value is already present! I think there is a bug in ac2wd. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:20, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Agreed, ac2wd seem to be adding %20 where blank spaces exist in the Library of Congress identifier, so it doesn't recognize that it's adding a duplicate value. @Magnus Manske hopefully this is easy to resolve? Because it's annoying to clean up these kinds of silly duplicates. Thank you! Mcampany (talk) 15:07, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. Magnus Manske (talk) 15:10, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

ListeriaBot steht wieder still

Lieber Magnus, ListeriaBot streikt seit heute Nachmittag. Könntest Du ihm wieder auf die Sprünge helfen? Herzlichsten Dank, Edelseider (talk) 17:25, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Jedenfalls weigert er sich hartnäckig, die Seite Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Collection/Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse upzudaten. Auf Commons existiert das Problem übrigens nicht. --Edelseider (talk) 19:29, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Ein neuer Tag und ich kann Dir definitiv bestätigen, dass ListeriaBot unfähig ist, die Seite Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Collection/Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse zu aktualisieren. Schon seit Januar 2024! Ich hoffe, Du findest Zeit, Dir das einmal anzuschauen. Jetzt belästige ich Dich damit nicht länger. Herzlich, --Edelseider (talk) 10:55, 7 October 2025 (UTC) (Signatur nachgetragen)

Sehr komisch. Manuell läuft das Update schnell und problemlos auf meinem Laptop (siehe edits von heute). Manuelles update durch das web-interface läuft, und sagt OK, aber der edit erfolgt nicht. Ich gucke mal. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:53, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Danke, dass Du guckst! ListeriaBot verhält sich ohnehin seltsam. Heute hat er beschlossen, willkürlich und grundlos Bilder aus einer Liste zu schmeißen: [8]. Besonders bizarr ist, dass er den Maler Benvenuto Tisi (Q728512) als Property:P170 rauswirft. Das ist nun wirklich überhaupt nicht zu erklären! Viele Grüße, Edelseider (talk) 11:58, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Alsace

Lieber Magnus, Du siehst es selber: Es wird nicht besser! [9] Auf Commons hat ListeriaBot keine Probleme mit Benvenuto Tisi ([10]), aber auf Wikidata spinnt er anscheinend. Ich hoffe, Du kannst den Fehler finden. Herzlich, --Edelseider (talk) 13:13, 9 October 2025 (UTC) Es ist einfach zum Verrücktwerden! Bitte schaf Abhilfe! --Edelseider (talk) 19:57, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

• poke* --Edelseider (talk) 07:29, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Mix'n'match 4528

‎Encyclopedia of Marxism ID (P13834) was created for the Marxists Internet Archive (Q1906210). Could you link Encyclopedia of Marxism people to it? Also, remove "people" from its title and change its description, as it includes more than just the biographies. Susmuffin (talk) 21:50, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Done.--Magnus Manske (talk) 05:59, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Please reply

I don't know if you missed the notifications or didn't yet have the time to reply or are currently doing some distraction-free focus things or something else but I wrote you for many reasons several times (about different things) but didn't got any reply so far.

• Bug Shows false label because mul is not used and List doesn't get updated at User talk:ListeriaBot with an additional later ping elsewhere
• Several threads at the talk page about WikiFlix, including a ping in the latest thread (which is about what I think could be the most popular Wikidata application outside of Wikipedia that could make WD well-known)
• A few issues on phabricator like phab:T379721
• (Maybe least important since on GitHub there's many other devs and the issues do display) Several issues at GitHub mostly here
• (I'm most concerned about this one) Several issues at bitbucket for repos mixnmatch and glamtools like this one – they do not even display under issues for signed out users (so even if you don't want to reply why not change the status so it's in the issues?)

I know you're a very busy man and are doing lots of great wiki thinks (thanks!) and I don't think I'm being impatient but could you please reply to at least some of these and make the bitbucket issues visible?

Maybe you could go through repo issues more often to for example close already-solved ones and reply with the tool expertise you have where there's essentially nobody with as much knowledge about those tools so a short reply tool often would help a lot (for example devs who want to implement the feature or workarounds/alternatives for the user).
And maybe you could do some things that would get more devs to help out with the tools you initially developed because I think several of them are very useful but would benefit a great deal or basically need some code changes where there aren't any other devs working much on most of these tools (I tried Community Wishlist/W364 – Continue development of the Listeria bot that creates dynamic tables using Wikidata but maybe you could think of more things that would make it easier or encourage other devs to help out…this could be migrating from bitbucket to GitHub/Gitlab or making some of the tools like notably glamorous v2 easier to find – it was linked from basically nowhere until I linked it at a Commons tools page and still isn't linked from the v1 tool – or other things) Prototyperspective (talk) 16:48, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi Prototyperspective, I've been travelling, will look through all of these this week. Thanks for the summary! --Magnus Manske (talk) 08:21, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

PetScan and Structured Data Commons

Hi! Is there, in PetScan, a way to use the structured data on Commons? I tried https://petscan.wmcloud.org/?psid=39950130 to find in a category of files the ones not having depicts (P180) in their structured data but I obtained zero results. Thanks! --Epìdosis 13:53, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Not yet. The SPARQL server for Commons is behind an OAuth login, which makes it awkward to query from within PetScan, and the link-link information you rtied to use for P18 is not available in the database replica on Toolforge. And the category information is not available on QLever Commons, which I eventually hope to integrate into PetScan. --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:26, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

OK, I understand! Thanks for the clarification, let's wait the situation improves Epìdosis 18:12, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Feature suggestion for Mix-n-match

It would be better if the data scraper in Mix-n-match can support custom fields when creating a profile. For example when I scrape a dataset, I’d like to be able to set multiple fields based on regex, rather than putting everything into description. There are countless online datasets, each of them might be in vastly different forms. When a regex block for an entry is defined, it would be easy to include multiple regex match groups, each of them becomes a field inside the given entry. The interface logic for adding "levels" is suitable here as well. Catalog download pages should be adjusted as well, enabling user to choose what fields are included in the output file. 🐠 _{formerly U.T.} 13:14, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

Mix'n'match gadget not loading

Hi Magnus! In the last days Mix'n'match gadget is not loading for me, although Mix'n'match is working. Could you have a look? Thanks! --Epìdosis 14:04, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Fixed. --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:40, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks very much! I confirm it is now working again as usual. Epìdosis 11:46, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi Magnus, I see an issue: now the Mix'n'match gadget now shows also the entries of deactivated catalogs; it shouldn't, and before these last days it didn't do it. Could you check? Thanks! Epìdosis 17:28, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

This better? If not, give me an example to test please. --Magnus Manske (talk) 17:36, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I don't see the issue anymore. Thanks! Epìdosis 21:18, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

AKC dog breed (7418)

Could i convince you to bind this catalog to American Kennel Club ID (P13890) since the catalog creator doesn't seem to be responsive? Trade (talk) 23:31, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@Magnus Manske:--Trade (talk) 22:20, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Done, and syncing. --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:14, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Requesting catalog_editor access

Hi @Magnus Manske, see meta:Talk:Mix'n'match#c-Iketsi-20250926182200-Requesting_catalog_editor_access Thanks. --Iketsi (talk) 19:16, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Requesting catalog_editor access for ZI Jony

Hi @Magnus Manske, I hope you’re doing well. I’d like to request catalog admin access on Mix’n’Match so I can help maintain and update catalogs, including linking properties that currently have no assigned identifier. A few users have reported issues where catalogs need property connections, and I’d like to be able to fix these directly. If you need anything else from me, just let me know. Thanks for your time and for all your work on these tools. Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 16:23, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

@Magnus Manske a follow up. Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 14:53, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

Should be done now. --Magnus Manske (talk) 14:57, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, It's working now. Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 15:38, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

Any idea why the identifiers for the catalogs that Johny linked isn't transferred to Wikidata? @Magnus Manske:--Trade (talk) 19:52, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

@Magnus Manske, could you please check if there is any technical issue? Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 10:11, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

@Magnus Manske:--Trade (talk) 13:08, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Making multilingual tables using the template with Listeriabot

I think it would be a big improvement to Listeriabot to implement the q template. I would strongly prefer listeriabot give the language neutral Universe (Q1) link instead of Universe. This would allow users who use any language to see the labels in their languages. Immanuelle (talk) 06:04, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Cite web

Hello Magnus, per [11] could you make ListeriaBot format references using {{Cite web}} (use_cite_web=1) on cswiki (and also cawiki [12])? --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 18:09, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Done. --Magnus Manske (talk) 16:04, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

So I took a look and it seems to not have been applied correctly. Even if I manually trigger an update, the list is not overwritten. Can you check it once again? --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 18:05, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

MnM sync pages not loading

Hi Magnus! I am having problems recently with some sync pages in Mix'n'match: https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org//#/sync/3047 and https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org//#/sync/7257 are not loading; could you check why? Merry Christmas, --Epìdosis 12:06, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Checked it but hard to debug. Might take a bit longer. --Magnus Manske (talk) 21:04, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Correction of import tool

Hi Magnus,

I think that in

https://github.com/magnusmanske/auth2wd/blob/a44d5986803e86efdcaa6e011fa812af895fbd29/src/viaf.rs#L22,

2753 should be replaced by 3846.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography ID (P2753) seems to be confused with DBC author ID (P3846). When importing authority control, there is an error.

See this https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q137542776&diff=prev&oldid=2445601156 for an example.

Thanks Olivier.roy1 (talk) 16:49, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

+1. Simon Villeneuve (talk) 13:23, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026

Hello! I noticed you're a bot operator, so I thought you might be interested in a hackathon we're organizing: the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026, on 13–14 March in Arnhem, Netherlands.

It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Whether you want to work on bot frameworks, tools, or other technical projects, this could be a great opportunity to collaborate with fellow developers. Registration closes mid-January or when full. Let me know if there are any questions. Hope to see you there! Daanvr (talk) 08:53, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

MnM issues WD_Duplicate

Hi! I often use https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/issues/WD_DUPLICATE to cleanup duplicates, it is very useful; however, I sometimes notice couples of duplicates that have already been merged weeks or months earlier, so they do not require anymore a human intervention; would it be possible to add a mechanism that periodically removes these cases from the issues, or a button that I can press to start manually this process of cleanup, so that I can find only cases that still need to be checked and merged if necessary? Thanks very much as always! --Epìdosis 09:00, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Done, should now clean up once a day. This will ignore issues with more than two duplicate items, shouldn't be many though. --Magnus Manske (talk) 15:37, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Great, thanks very much! Epìdosis 16:11, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Löheyesen

Hallo Magnus, Du hast Q137768118 angelegt als "Erich von Löheyesen", ohne jede Quelle für irgendetwas. Die Lebensdaten entsprechen aber Q94913837 Heinrich von Löheysen, nur der Vorname Erich kommt bei dem nicht vor. --Anvilaquarius (talk) 08:40, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi Anvilaquarius, die Information habe ich aus dem Wikipedia-Artikel über den Vater der Frau. Kann gut sein, dass das ein Fehler ist. --Magnus Manske (talk) 12:36, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Danke! --Anvilaquarius (talk) 19:42, 16 January 2026 (UTC)