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Hey,
My bot finished initial part of removing all of Link GA, and Link FA
in nl, sv, pl Wikis (and some other wikis). I just removed badges that
are already in Wikidata. My bot cleaned up more than 12/13 of articles
in Ducth Wikipedia. The ratio was not good for sv and pl for some
reasons that I fixed for the next run (e.g. in Polish Wikipedia
usually they use "link FA" instead of "Link FA"). I ran a script in nl
wiki to get the list of remained Link FA templates based on target
language (to see what badges are missing)
To see the report these are links:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/dexbot/link_fa_nl.txthttps://tools.wmflabs.org/dexbot/link_ga_nl.txt
In those files "gv": ["Q183"] means in article of Germany in Ducth
Wikipedia this template exists: {{Link FA|gv}} because my bot didn't
remove it.
I managed to sort them based on number of missing badges in target language:
{1: [u'gv', u'am', u'km', u'srn', u'la', u'nah', u'lt', u'frr', u'be',
u'wa', u'fy', u'fa', u'oc', u'sk', u'sw'], 2: [u'th', u'arz', u'yi',
u'ceb', u'bn', u'bat-smg', u'lmo', u'fo', u'ml', u'tt', u'mr'], 3:
[u'af', u'mwl', u'sl', u'ms', u'uz', u'no'], 4: [u'sco', u'az', u'lv',
u'ast', u'kl'], 5: [u'cs', u'nap', u'bg', u'fi', u'zh-classical',
u'ka', u'bar'], 6: [u'sr'], 7: [u'zh', u'simple', u'el', u'hy', u'sq',
u'hr'], 8: [u'tr'], 10: [u'vi', u'eu', u'sh', u'hu', u'sa'], 11:
[u'gl', u'ko'], 13: [u'ca'], 14: [u'zh-yue', u'uk'], 15: [u'nds-nl'],
16: [u'bs', u'als', u'ar'], 19: [u'ro', u'be-x-old'], 22: [u'pt',
u'vls'], 23: [u'ja'], 24: [u'ru', u'ur'], 25: [u'eo'], 29: [u'sv'],
32: [u'en'], 35: [u'de'], 41: [u'mk'], 43: [u'id'], 46: [u'scn'], 52:
[u'it'], 65: [u'he'], 79: [u'es'], 80: [u'pl'], 95: [u'fr']}
For a wiki with more than 1335 featured article 95 missing badge seems
normal (Don't get me wrong A missing badge in this case doesn't mean
we should add the badge to Wikidata, It can be caused for a former
featured article, vandalism, or lots of other things)
But for some Wiki the number isn't normal and I checked these
languages carefully and added badges that are missing from Wikidata:
*ur, vls, be-x-old, nds-nl, zh-yue, zh-classical, nap, bat-smg
Overall about 300 badges are added to Wikidata today.
For cleaning up Wikis from former featured articles and former good
articles I wrote a feature in featured.py about four years ago but
some Wikis use it (like nl, and pl) and some of them don't (like sv).
I need to talk to them about this, If your Wiki have similar situation
just command this:
python pwb.py featured -fromall -former
(or python featured.py ... in compat)
I fixed some other issues and I'm rerunning them in lots of Wikis. I
can get this report for English Wikipedia and Persian Wikipedia by
tomorrow.
If anything else needs to be done, a Wiki is missing or anything,
please share here.
Best
--
Amir
Greetings,
Please note that the time of the IRC chat was changed to 18:00 (UTC)
i.e. one hour earlier than previously announced. (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=next&oldid=132667852 )
You can see how it converts to your timezone using this tool:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Structured+Data+IR…
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> We invite you to join a discussion about Structured Data on Commons, to help
> us plan our next steps for this project.
>
> The Structured Data initiative proposes to store and retrieve information
> for media files in machine-readable data on Wikimedia Commons, using
> Wikidata tools and practices, as described on our new project page (1).
>
> The purpose of this project is to make it easier for users to read and write
> file information, and to enable developers to build better tools to view,
> search, edit, curate and use media files. To that end, we propose to
> investigate this opportunity together through community discussions and
> small experiments. If these initial tests are successful, we would develop
> new tools and practices for structured data, then work with our communities
> to gradually migrate unstructured data into a machine-readable format over
> time.
>
> The Multimedia team and the Wikidata team are starting to plan this project
> together, in collaboration with many community volunteers active on
> Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. We had a truly inspiring roundtable
> discussion about Structured Data at Wikimania a few weeks ago, to define a
> first proposal together (2).
>
> We would now like to extend this discussion to include more community
> members that might benefit from this initiative. Please take a moment to
> read the project overview on Commons, then let us know what you think, by
> answering some of the questions on its talk page (3).
>
> We also invite you to join a Structured Data Q&A on Wednesday September 3 at
> 19:00 UTC, so we can discuss some of the details live in this IRC office
> hours chat. Please RSVP if you plan to attend (4).
>
> Lastly, we propose to form small workgroups to investigate workflows, data
> structure, research, platform, features, migration and other open issues. If
> you are interested in contributing to one of these workgroups, we invite you
> to sign up on directly on our hub page (5) -- and help start a sub-page for
> your workgroup.
>
> We look forward to some productive discussions with you in coming weeks. In
> previous roundtables, many of you told us this is the most important
> contribution that our team can make to support multimedia in coming years.
> We heard you loud and clear and are happy to devote more resources to bring
> it to life, with your help.
>
> We are honored to be working with the Wikidata team and talented community
> members like you to take on this challenge, improve our infrastructure and
> provide a better experience for all our users.
>
> Onward!
>
>
> Fabrice — for the Structured Data team
>
>
> (1) Structured Data Hub on Commons:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
>
> (2) Structured Data Slides:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Structured_Data_-_Slides.pdf
>
> (3) Structured Data Talk Page:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data
>
> (4) Structured Data Q&A (IRC chat on Sep. 3):
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Discussions
>
> (5) Structured Data Workgroups:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Workgroups
>
>
> _______________________________
>
> Fabrice Florin
> Product Manager, Multimedia
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
--
Guillaume Paumier
On 28 August 2014 13:08, Nicholas Humfrey <nicholas.humfrey(a)bbc.co.uk> wrote:
> Could you put linking to the user's preferred language
> (Accept-Language header?) on the backlog?
Good idea; we should also handle "missing" articles better, for instance:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:GoToLinkedPage/cywiki/Q732383
currently returns a form, it should instead return:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q732383
or at least an invitation to start the Welsh page, and/ or a link to
(say) Google Translate.
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk