[WikiEN-l] Asking for free images on living bios

[Michael Noda]

On 9/26/07, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 9/26/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 26/09/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 26/09/2007, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > Try
> > > > http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/missing_images.php
> > > > with "Living people" as category, and check "Skip articles that have
> > > > an image". Will take a while, but it's rather comprehensive :-)
> >
> > > Excellent! Is there any way to get that data as just a list of article
> > > names, rather than as formatted HTML?
> >
> >
> > Oh - does that use a database dump or the live database? It doesn't
> > pick up articles that already have a "Replace this image" placeholder,
> > but maybe that's just new ones.
>
> It uses the toolserver database, which has some replication lag,
> depending on the language (currently up to two days, but decreasing).
>
> I can add optional CSV or wiki output. Which one would you prefer?

CSV is better for AWB, pywikipedia takes flat text input (one entry
per line, no brackets)