Hoi, If there is one thing I have learned from Magnus, it is that a single tool is just that. Easily forgotten. The power of his approach is that he thinks about tools as part of a chain. This means that when a new tool is build, it slots in. It gains power by doing so.
Being an independent thinker, his tools fit his architecture, an architecture that is his. He is quite happy to hear ideas and when he sees reason, he will even apply himself and make it so. It is why I am grateful to him for the many small things he added to Reasonator to humour me.
It is against this light that it bemuses me. He has his day, but he did not have his day. One of the best ideas not part of either the Wikipedia or Wikidata road map is his tool for redlinks. I have said it before and I say it again. It will improve both Wikipedia and Wikidata significantly. It has only one drawback, the pundits did not find fault with it so it does not get tracktion. <grin> Thanks, GerardM
On 25 January 2016 at 00:47, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Hope everybody takes some time today to share what they have learned from using Magnus' tools. It's time to call on all posse members to share their tool tips, because it's ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Magnus_Manske_Day
Here are my top links: https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/quick_statements.php https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/prepbio.php https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/creator_from_wikidata.php
I use these to edit data about artists and their works, but you could use prepbio for preparing to publish any biography on English Wikipedia, and Mix-n-Match for any authority control for person data, not just artists. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe