User talk:Welsh/Archives/2011/November


Red Link Recovery Live - new data set "Maritime warfare"

Howdy Welsh. I'm fiddling about with a new angle of attack on those pesky red links once again - this time by generating lists of suggestions relevant to particular 'real' WikiProjects. By way of a test, I've run up a set of suggestions related to the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Maritime_warfare_task_force which I believe is one of your areas of interest. My target was 1000 links with 85% accuracy, but the silly system's spat out over 2800 results; either the category was larger than I bargained for, or the quality's way off. Time will tell. For interest, Category:Maritime warfare task force articles contains:

  • 15 Sub-categries
  • 27970 pages, 27909 of which are articles (namespace 0)
  • 498642 red links
  • Processing the 50000 longest of these yielded 2873 suggestions

I'll not be offended if you've better things to do, this is just a test ;) - TB (talk) 15:40, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll take a look, as I do whenever I see one of your experiments! Templates are an interesting/challenging category that I've been working through. welsh (talk) 15:42, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Found the glitch - now 859 suggestions rather than 2873, hopefully of a much higher quality. Many thanks for your efforts. - TB (talk) 16:47, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

More on this. Thanks in large part to your processing of the first 'Maritime warfare' data set, I've been able to make what I hope are considerable improvements to the process. I've posted up a new set ('Maritime warfare #2' - 568 suggestions) produced with the new mechanism. All being well this should include suggestions missed the first time around, and in general be more accurate than the previous attempt. - TB (talk) 21:12, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Cheers. Closed this set off today. 49% correct (first set was 43%) - getting better, but still some way to go. I can already see three tweaks and one new feature that'll improve things further; time permitting, I'll probably have mark 3 ready around about the end of the year. - TB (talk) 23:19, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

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Arsène Lupin

Hi friend! Just about the "Arsène Lupin" item ; the point is the following sentence "...written by the celebrated mystery writing team of Boileau-Narcejac,..". What does "mystery writing" mean in this context? Thanks a lot in advance! 2.198.0.162 (talk) 06:59, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I'm not an expert on this topic, but i read it as meaning ...authorized sequels written by the well-respected group of writers known as Boileau-Narcejac who write crime and mystery novels. Hope that helps. welsh (talk) 07:15, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXVIII, October 2011

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