<slogan mode="TV-ad"> You want to work on wikipedia, but somehow aren't motivated to look for something specific to do today?
Fear no more! Enjoy now the wonderful random problem finder "Wiki ToDo" at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wikitodo.php (yes, it works even with the toolserver databases down!)
It randomly selects a page, then tries to find stuff for you to do. If it can't find anything for you to fix on this article (which rarely happens), it tries the next one... </slogan>
Suggestions for finding more things to do are welcome :-)
Happy stuff-doing, Magnus
On 02/02/2008, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
<slogan mode="TV-ad"> You want to work on wikipedia, but somehow aren't motivated to look for something specific to do today?
Fear no more! Enjoy now the wonderful random problem finder "Wiki ToDo" at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wikitodo.php (yes, it works even with the toolserver databases down!)
It randomly selects a page, then tries to find stuff for you to do. If it can't find anything for you to fix on this article (which rarely happens), it tries the next one...
</slogan>
Suggestions for finding more things to do are welcome :-)
Looks cool. One thing you've missed, though: The first time I ran it, it found a disambig page, and told me:
"This article is an orphan (except maybe for redirects). Look around and add some links!"
Disambigs being orphans is a good thing. Should be relatively easy to make an exception for them.
On Feb 2, 2008 10:18 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/02/2008, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
<slogan mode="TV-ad"> You want to work on wikipedia, but somehow aren't motivated to look for something specific to do today?
Fear no more! Enjoy now the wonderful random problem finder "Wiki ToDo" at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wikitodo.php (yes, it works even with the toolserver databases down!)
It randomly selects a page, then tries to find stuff for you to do. If it can't find anything for you to fix on this article (which rarely happens), it tries the next one...
</slogan>
Suggestions for finding more things to do are welcome :-)
Looks cool. One thing you've missed, though: The first time I ran it, it found a disambig page, and told me:
"This article is an orphan (except maybe for redirects). Look around and add some links!"
Disambigs being orphans is a good thing. Should be relatively easy to make an exception for them.
Done. I've also thrown in a link to my persondata generation tool for biographies.
Cheers, Magnus
On Feb 2, 2008 6:23 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On Feb 2, 2008 10:18 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/02/2008, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
<slogan mode="TV-ad"> You want to work on wikipedia, but somehow aren't motivated to look for something specific to do today?
Fear no more! Enjoy now the wonderful random problem finder "Wiki ToDo" at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wikitodo.php (yes, it works even with the toolserver databases down!)
It randomly selects a page, then tries to find stuff for you to do. If it can't find anything for you to fix on this article (which rarely happens), it tries the next one...
</slogan>
Suggestions for finding more things to do are welcome :-)
Looks cool. One thing you've missed, though: The first time I ran it, it found a disambig page, and told me:
"This article is an orphan (except maybe for redirects). Look around and add some links!"
Disambigs being orphans is a good thing. Should be relatively easy to make an exception for them.
Done. I've also thrown in a link to my persondata generation tool for biographies.
Cheers, Magnus
Magnus, you are *the man*. If anyone ever needed proof that you deserve your own Wikipedian holiday, this is it. A belated happy Magnus Manske day, everyone!
Johnleemk
Magnus Manske wrote:
<slogan mode="TV-ad"> You want to work on wikipedia, but somehow aren't motivated to look for something specific to do today?
Fear no more! Enjoy now the wonderful random problem finder "Wiki ToDo" at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wikitodo.php (yes, it works even with the toolserver databases down!)
It randomly selects a page, then tries to find stuff for you to do. If it can't find anything for you to fix on this article (which rarely happens), it tries the next one...
</slogan>
Suggestions for finding more things to do are welcome :-)
Happy stuff-doing, Magnus
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Cool! ~Jonathan
On 02/02/2008, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
<slogan mode="TV-ad"> You want to work on wikipedia, but somehow aren't motivated to look for something specific to do today?
Fear no more! Enjoy now the wonderful random problem finder "Wiki ToDo" at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wikitodo.php (yes, it works even with the toolserver databases down!)
It randomly selects a page, then tries to find stuff for you to do. If it can't find anything for you to fix on this article (which rarely happens), it tries the next one...
</slogan>
Suggestions for finding more things to do are welcome :-)
Happy stuff-doing, Magnus
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Thanks. You are a god.
On Feb 3, 2008 5:09 AM, Renata St renatawiki@gmail.com wrote:
Suggestions for finding more things to do are welcome :-)
Could there be an option to request similar analysis for a specific article? Some analysis there is pretty useful to know for other articles.
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wikitodo.php?title=Berlin
Cheers, Magnus
On Feb 3, 2008 7:18 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On Feb 3, 2008 5:09 AM, Renata St renatawiki@gmail.com wrote:
Suggestions for finding more things to do are welcome :-)
Could there be an option to request similar analysis for a specific article? Some analysis there is pretty useful to know for other articles.
Would it be difficult to make the Tool multi-project? I.e., I'd love to be able to access http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wikitodo.php?title=Berlin&db=dewikiped... or similar Beside this, it's awesome ;-)
Michael
On Feb 3, 2008 6:30 PM, Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
On Feb 3, 2008 7:18 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On Feb 3, 2008 5:09 AM, Renata St renatawiki@gmail.com wrote:
Suggestions for finding more things to do are welcome :-)
Could there be an option to request similar analysis for a specific article? Some analysis there is pretty useful to know for other articles.
Would it be difficult to make the Tool multi-project? I.e., I'd love to be able to access http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wikitodo.php?title=Berlin&db=dewikiped... or similar Beside this, it's awesome ;-)
There are many hardcoded strings (template and category names, keywords, etc.) in the code specific for en. I'll try to abstract this eventually, so it can be used for other languages.
Cheers, Magnus
On 2/3/08, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Cool! FYI, the "play again" link doesn't work in Opera - it just refreshes the (same) page. You have to press F5.
Steve
On 2/3/08, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Suggestions for finding more things to do are welcome :-)
Ok, because ten other people were about to suggest this anyway: a way to focus the choice of article. Instead of random, "random within a category" would be great, or it could try following links from your contributions or something. Just to improve the chance of working on something you actually know something about and care about.
Also, presenting some of the "statistics" graphically would perhaps be better, and some way of seeing at a glance if any of the stats are unusual (like 25 links of which 1 exist).
IMHO it would also be worth showing the article somewhere, so you can quickly get a feel for whether you want to jump into it or not.
Steve