[Labs-l] Call for help to Merlbot's Death Anomalies Table

[John]

Ive done some work in this area back in 2010, If Merl wants to drop me a
like I can lend a hand, but migrating from toolserver to labs databases
shouldnt be that hard.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi.
> There is also the tool I use to find the dead that are not known in
> Wikidata ... In essence it does what is needed I use it for 2014
>
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/toolscript/index.html?pastebin=guXqaGQE
>
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
> On 24 September 2014 22:02, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I did some reporting on differences in birth dates between different
>> versions of Wikipedia and Wikidata (and freebase) [1] [2] [3] but I used a
>> complete different approach so I don't know how much I can be useful. If
>> you give me some more information about how it has been written or where
>> are scripts to run. Maybe I can help.
>>
>> [1]:
>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2014/05#Birth_dates_and_death_dates_from_Wikipedia
>> [2]:
>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2014/08#Report_on_differences_between_birth_dates_and_Wikidata
>> [3]:
>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2014/08#Another_report:_On_differences_of_Wikidata_and_freebase
>> Best
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Silke Meyer <silke.meyer at wikimedia.de>
>> wrote:
>>
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>>>
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> As you might know, Merl's bot framework Merlbot is one of the last few
>>> projects left on the Toolserver. Merl put a lot of work into
>>> modifications and rewriting code to be able to run it in Tool Labs. He
>>> is running out of time as database replication will stop on Oct 5th.
>>>
>>> Any volunteers to support him in finishing before that deadline?
>>>
>>> What you could do is work on a part of Merlbot called Death Anomalies
>>> Table [1]. It generates daily "probably dead" reports in 15 Wikipedias
>>> to point to articles about people marked dead in a different language.
>>> The code of the death anomalies table [1] consists of nine bash
>>> scripts in which SQL queries have to be adapted for Tool Labs.
>>>
>>> If you are prepared to dive into SQL, please contact Merl [2] as soon
>>> as possible.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Silke
>>>
>>> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Death_anomalies_table
>>> [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Merl
>>>
>>>
>>> - --
>>> Silke Meyer
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>> Amir
>>
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