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User talk:Magnus Manske/old4Wikisort ProjectHey, I have started the WikiSort Project. Come on over and check it out!the1physicist 20:22, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Article ValidationI just stumbled upon the fact that the article validation feature will be enable shortly. I'm slightly concerned that no one told me considering my involvement in the wikisort project. Anyhow, I've got a couple of questions and/or couple of comments. How similar will it be to the test page at [1]? (I really hope we aren't using those categories. Excluding NPOV, those categories seem bogus, particularly the 'funny' rating.) What (if any) features/ideas have been included from the wikisort project? Also, will each category have it's own range (1-3, 1-5, 1-7, etc), or will it be standardized? Is this the much anticipated initial data collection phase? This is getting to be pretty darn exciting. Thanks again for all your hard work, it is very appreciated. EDIT: I almost forgot: when exactly is it going to be turned on? the1physicist 03:16, 24 November 2005 (UTC) Image:Pieta.jpg has been listed for deletion
Image:Alexander Langmuir (large).jpg has been listed for deletion
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Harrie Irving HancockI notice you moved the article H. Irving Hancock to Harrie Irving Hancock. The most predominant form of his name as used in published books is with the inital "H." In fact I don't know if he ever used his full first name. So for wikipedia purposes, is it desirable to use the form of a name a person is most well-known by for the title of the article? Andrew Sly 17:33, 28 October 2005 (UTC) Thank you for your vote on my RFANow that the voting has officially closed, I would like to thank you very much for supporting my candidacy for adminstrator and as of 18:36, 28 October 2005 (UTC) I am an administrator. I will make sure to use the additional power judiciously and I welcome any comments you may have. --Reflex Reaction 19:42, 28 October 2005 (UTC) I blocked this user because he was changing User pages very rapidly, turns out he was doing very efficient sockpuppet labelling. So I unblocked him straight away but later on he was apparently autoblocked. (block log) The user sent me an e-mail containing the autoblock message:
On the advice of someone on IRC I blocked him for 15mins in an attempt to get rid of the autoblock glitch, but I doubt it was successful as the autoblock appeared to have already expired. I'm hoping you would be able to ensure the autoblock doesn't come back. Much thanks. - RoyBoy 800 16:10, 3 November 2005 (UTC) Thanks for uploading BP photosHi, thanks for uploading your Bletchley Park photos to Commons. I'll try and get round to adding some of them to Bletchley Park articles once the image servers are working a little faster ;-) I had been trying to find out more information about a cipher machine on display at BP, and one of your photos included the caption card which had been added to the display since I last visited (the machine was Singlet; I blogged about it here). Cheers! — Matt Crypto 18:32, 14 November 2005 (UTC) Joris Karl Huysmans in Project Gutenberg catalogOn my talk page, you mentioned that there were two different entries for this author in the PG catalog. Thanks; I'll take a look at it. New entries are being automatically added every day so keeping up with this is a never-ending task, and there are always more inconsistancies that could be found if one wants to look closer. You are welcome to mention any further potentential problems on my talk page, or at the address catalog [at] pglaf. org, which will often get a swifter responce. Andrew Sly 07:19, 23 November 2005 (UTC) HI, I tried to upload a higher quality version of this image, redered from the .svg file created by you. It looks fine here, but really bad over here. Do you known what's wrong? Cheers, —R. Koot 20:05, 27 November 2005 (UTC) Thanks for starting his article! One of those things I've been meaning to do and never got a round to it. I'm frankly surprised to see that he was mentioned at all in the 1911 Britannica. I amended it with some data translated out of French Wikipedia. Smerdis of Tlön 19:04, 4 December 2005 (UTC) Importing Wikipedia into MySqlI downloaded one of the wikipedia database dumps today for research purposes (20051127_pages_articles.xml.7z), but I'm having trouble importing it into mysql. Google suggested I use Navicat, but the import wizard keeps freezing on step 5. Do you know what could be causing me grief, or is there a better way to import xml into MySql? Thanks a bunch. the1physicist 01:12, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
EncartaDo you have the original, completely unpruned list of entries in Encarta? I've already gotten your deleted list, but I don't know if it was pruned at all. I need the completely unpruned list. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-12-10 13:13 What was wrong with the Harold Clifton image? Hi Magnus, you proposed the image of Harold Clifton for deletion, but failed to notify it on my talk page (I was the uploader), nor did you notify it on the Harold Clifton page. In the deletion process, without anyone looking, this image was deleted. And now we can't find what was wrong with it. Wim van Dorst 21:12, 11 December 2005 (UTC). Image:Lorenzo II de Medici.jpg has been listed for deletion
Looks like they just made two sneaky number-changing edits on the 24th. That's not good, but it doesn't look like any action is needed now. Jkelly 21:30, 26 December 2005 (UTC) Problem on your test site with stable versionsPlease see here for details. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 10:23, 30 December 2005 (UTC) PG list pruningThanks for the note about the PG list. I've extracted a list, compared them with what's already in the PG catalog, and begun adding links back to wikipedia, checking for inconsistancies as I go. I don't really have any easy way to make a list of "relevant" authors. However, I have started to make a list of PG authors I come across that seem significant enough to be worthy of note (i.e., I can find information about them online in other places) but do not seem to have wikipedia articles yet. So here is a preliminary list:
Would more like this in the future be helpful? Andrew Sly 01:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC) New crossover lists?Magnus, There have been lots of new lists created at WP:MEA and I was wondering if you could cross some of them with the hotlist and general list. I have a feeling that the individual lists won't be very long so can I suggest that instead of separate pages a "GeneralxAll" and a "HotlistxAll" pages be created where the individual subprojects are listed as headers. If you don't have time I understand but I think it would be useful for directing creation. Thanks! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 16:34, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Image:ThomasHenryHuxley.png listed for deletion An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:ThomasHenryHuxley.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.
Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Germany is being replaced by a categoryHello! You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Germany page as living in or being associated with Germany. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, or one of the Bundesland-based subcategories, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Germany for instructions. --Angr (tɔk) 15:10, 15 January 2006 (UTC) name transcriptionHello, I would like to write your name in Thai language in Mediawiki article. But I don't really know how to pronounce your name. I'm wondering if anyhow I can make a transcription your name. ;) --manop 01:30, 22 January 2006 (UTC) Magnus Manske available on IRC?Are you (Magnus Manske) using IRC? I would like to discuss a few things with you regarding the biochemistry wikibook. Laz Happy Magnus Manske Day!Today is Magnus Manske Day, isn't it? Because of your incredibly important contributions during the early days of Wikipedia, you are now highly esteemed and considered "a really cool person" by the Wikipedia community. Here's to your godkingship. May your edits be neutral, civil, and efficient today and for many years to come. --TantalumTelluride 21:28, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Image:James Harrington.jpg listed for deletion An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:James Harrington.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. dbenbenn | talk 18:09, 14 February 2006 (UTC) you are studying computer sciences, not informaticsThat term is as English as the term "handy" (DE) or as French as "friseur" (DE). -justme 217.91.47.231 13:39, 16 February 2006 (UTC) Immage of PCR cycleI'm curious: You show the original primer templates re-annealing to each other and not participating in futher cycles. I was under the impression that they continued to participate in every cycle of PCR. Do you have any references to back this up (I admit that I don't have any to back up my statement)? This would be as much for my own interest as for accuracy. Friedgreenkillertomatoes 16:54, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Image Tagging Image:John Burdon Sanderson Haldane.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:John Burdon Sanderson Haldane.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{GFDL-self}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Matt 04:17, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Image Tagging Image:François Quesnay.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:François Quesnay.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{GFDL-self}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Please dont forget to consider if arbitrary modification is permitted. For most 'public domain', 'copyright free', 'for publication purposes', 'promotion' pictures etc. only the permission for free copying and use in certain contexts is intended, but generally not for unrestricted use (they usually don't want a picture to be commercially exploited for itself for example in a mere picture collection, but only allow commercial use in contexts of an article in which reference to the image is made etc.) and especially not for modification. --Rtc 22:37, 31 March 2006 (UTC) Image:Daniel Turner.jpg listed for deletion An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Daniel Turner.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Weatherman90 13:45, 9 April 2006 (UTC) Image:Duke of Wellington.jpg listed for deletion An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Duke of Wellington.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Weatherman90 13:46, 9 April 2006 (UTC) Use of gutenberg author templateHi Magnus. I've just noticed that in the article Margaret Penrose you had modified the gutenberg template so that it read
instead of
In that case, and other examples of Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonyms I intentionally put in the quote marks because there never was any such person. It was a house pseudonym. Andrew Sly 06:36, 17 April 2006 (UTC) In the article Arthur Middleton you added a gutenberg author template. I deleted it, and put my reasoning on the talk page, as to why I believe it is not the same person. Just recently I see that you have put the template back again. If you have reasons to believe this is the same person could you please mention it on the appropriate talk page? Andrew Sly 05:18, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Saints WikiprojectI noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints. I invite you to join the WikiProject Saints. You can sign up on the page and add the following userbox to your user page. Thanks! --evrik 17:12, 8 May 2006 (UTC) Image tagging Image:Baldassare Galuppi.jpgHi, File:Baldassare Galuppi.jpg has a disputed source / license. Fred-Chess 09:19, 14 May 2006 (UTC) I have a sense that the biochem bits of this project will interest you.Cheers! -- Paleorthid 07:03, 8 June 2006 (UTC) According to the logs 14:25, 10 May 2006 Magnus Manske deleted "Image:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg" (Now on Commons). Unfortunately there is one small problem: Where did that picture come from in the first place? That information is not provided on commons:Image:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg, and AFAIK pictures without "source" information are mass deleted from commons. So I was wondering whether it is possible to retrieve the source information from the deleted image on en wiki? JdH 01:26, 23 June 2006 (UTC) bad old onesAre there any way to brevent the bad old ones to force sidescrolling, while the page loads the Description part of the table does always seem to grow so I have to scroll sideway. /Grön sv 10:20, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Push for Commons bugHi, Magnus. I've been giving your push-for-Commons script a try, and it certainly makes mass migration of images a lot easier. There's a slight issue I think could help with es.wiki images, though. Quite a few of our images make use of es:Template:Propio, a local variation of commons:Template:Self. The script does not properly recognize these, though, listing them as without a valid license. I guess fixing that wouldn't require too much extra code, and would certainly make it easier for us. Since I'm asking, I'll mention a wishlist item as well. With GFDL-tagged images, specially those using the above template, it would be nicer if the tag applied in the upload text weren't simply TIA, Taragüí @ 11:22, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
I just got done explaining this tool to some one who doesn't speak English. The instructions are about as simple as can be, but that's only if the user speaks English. Is there a way to internationalize your tools? That would be great, thanks.--Orgullomoore 18:40, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
--Orgullomoore 19:55, 6 July 2006 (UTC) CommonsHelper: questionHello, I have a question about CommonsHelper - why does it enclose original image history in <nowiki> tags? It produces wrongly formatted descriptions, for example * 20:39, 23. 11. 2005 [[:cs:User:Zp|Zp]] 704×1200 (226 733 bajt?) <span class="comment">(obrázek kru?tíka bahenního ze starého n?meckého herbá?e zdroj:http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/max_schulze/high/IMG_5854.html)</span>. Thanks, Timichal 05:51, 20 July 2006 (UTC) Thanks for your explanation. I found out the description template breaks without <nowiki> only when there's a template tag in the summary (e.g. ''* 20:39, 23. 11. 2005 User:123 800×600 (100 000 bytes) (Picture of a picture. {{GFDL}}). I didn't mean broken UTF-8, which is also a bit uncomfortable, but I fix the characters manually. Anyway, you did a good job with that utility! :) Timichal 09:46, 20 July 2006 (UTC) Commons helpperHi, I have 2 things to improve in commons helpper.
Here is sample how i think it should look like: commons:Image:Augustine_Abbey.jpg --Tomia 21:18, 28 July 2006 (UTC) Commons Helper, etc.Hi magnus, I have used your tool to upload more than 100 images. I like it a lot.
Thanks. --evrik 18:26, 3 October 2006 (UTC) links to stubshi magnus, i recently asked myself if it wouldn't be a good idea to mark links to stubs in a third color; this way people like me could create lots of stubs (i would e.g. like to create several thousand spider taxon pages with only systematics and etymology in it), and users would not be disappointed because they expected a full article. and who feels so inclined could fill in the missing information in the years to come. Any idea if this has already been proposed before (probably), or where i could discuss this with a broader circle? thx for any info :) --Sarefo 21:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC) Bad old onesHi! I thought you might want to know that Bad old ones seems to have a problem. When I try to load any category, for example http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/bad_old_ones.php?category=Images_with_unknown_source_as_of_19_June_2006 or http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/bad_old_ones.php?category=Images_with_unknown_source_as_of_20_June_2006, the page will show "Checking en.wikipedia ... ****************" and then stop. -Samulili 20:08, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
MakeRef suggestionCould you add a automatic accessdate bit to m:MakeRef? I envision it being a normal textbox, only with the current date (in ISO standard form) pre-filled in. To handle varying parameter names, just require the MakeRef parameter name to be "accessdate" and only do the auto-filling if there is a parameter of that name in the given template. Great tool, BTW - I'm busy adding all the rest of the options. JesseW, the juggling janitor 06:20, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello! I'm reading right now your article, and it seems you asked someone to correct the French names. So, I guess that you meant Nain jaune réfugié (Refugee Yellow Dwarf) when you spoke about the Nain jaune réfug review. I'll correct as follow, correct-me if wrong. I'll do some others modifications, mainly based on the French article (mainly, you seem to have mistaken all kinds of Royalists with the Legitimists, which was the name given to the Ultra-royalists after the 1830 July Revolution - more royalists than the king himself, thus. The other well known royalists were the Orleanists, in favor of a constitutional monarchy and whom exerciced power under the July monarchy.) Fare well, Tazmaniacs 12:37, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Weight articlesThe programm is facing problems with brackets in the lemma. They are 'translated ' into -38 and -39 respectively. http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geschichte_Irlands_-381801%E2%80%931922-39 --Bahnmoeller 22:52, 26 July 2006 (UTC) Feature Request(?): Wiki -> DocBookHi! I was on irc and one of "Brillant!" ideas came on to me, and Tim Sterling said I should talk to you: how about a feature that allows exporting the contents of mediawiki into DocBook format, either for a single article or for the entire wiki, starting from MainPage and proceeding according to some user-defined rules: like per article, alphabetically, or per Category, Alphabetically... Well, after an article has been turned into a DocBook document, the user can format it anyway s/he wishes to. Danke shön for your time :) Project2501a 22:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC) Unicode in MakeRefI customized the MakeRef tool for the various citation templates at the Vietnamese Wikipedia, but apparently the tool has problems with accented Vietnamese characters in Unicode. I hear that's an issue with PHP, but could you fix the issue in this tool somehow? MakeRef would be very helpful in getting editors to include citations at vi:. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 05:09, 3 August 2006 (UTC) Missing imagesHi. If its not too much trouble for you, could you please check if your Missing images tools works/why doesn't work with characters like áéűúőüóööí, if they are part of the url. I suspect this might be a bug of Firefox (beta 2), so I would be really glad if you could point towards a browser that works. BTW I find your script most useful on categories without these special characters (unfortunately they are hard to find on the Hungarian wikipedia) Keep up the good work! Best regards, --Dami 10:10, 11 August 2006 (UTC) Disregard my last comment please, it works fine on Opera, so i guess its Firefox's fault--Dami 13:09, 11 August 2006 (UTC) Wikipedia 1.0 (Wikisort)A while ago, you said you had completed the rating feature but hadn't enabled it. I wrote a script that does this, so that feature does not have to be enabled. Do you know how to write a bot? Once we have a bot, people can start rating articles. Eyu100 14:45, 25 August 2006 (UTC) Image:Marie antoinette.jpg listed for deletion An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Marie antoinette.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Fritz S. (Talk) 10:03, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Question about Missing Images toolHi! I was wondering if your great missing images tool counts image links that are parts of infoboxes? The tool's report for Supercharger (album) read neither this nor any of the 2 other languages have images., but the infobox on :en's did have one. I just thought I should bring this to your attention. Happy editing! --Merovingian - Talk 19:45, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Image:Elizabeth Barrett Browning.jpg listed for deletion An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Elizabeth Barrett Browning.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. howcheng {chat} 19:51, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Image:Louis XVI of France.jpg listed for deletion An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Louis XVI of France.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Fritz S. (Talk) 11:33, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Freedom fightersI read what you said on the Freedom fighter talk page (the quote about what freedom fighters fight). Very astute observation, I like it! -- Paddyman1989 09:17, 16 September 2006 (UTC) MapsourcesAs kvaleberg.com is currently not available, I defined your map source page at Template:Coor URL. -- User:Docu Map script problems: bug reportThere seems to be something wrong with the map source page: for example, if you go to the URL http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=51_25_N_0_12_W_region:GB_type:adm1st the page is convinced that the location is 51° 25′ 0″ N 0° 12′ 0″ E rather than the correct 51° 25′ 0″ N 0° 12′ 0″ W However, the URL http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=51_25_N_1_12_W produces the correct result. This seems to be a general problem with the degree parsing or rounding code around zero degrees: for example, the URL http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=0_31_S_0_31_W resolves to 0° 31′ 0″ N 0° 31′ 0″ E |
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