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I have put in a deletion request for List of Dewey Decimal classes as it appears to be a copyright violation. I'm notifying you as you have either made multiple edits to the article in the past year and/or on the talk page for that article and Talk:Dewey Decimal Classification. -- Marc Kupper| talk 04:28, 25 November 2013 (UTC) reply

I don't think it is a violation, but I will ask @ Merrilee: who is more of an expert. Maximilianklein ( talk) 16:08, 25 November 2013 (UTC) reply

Art & Feminism Edit-a-Thon - You are invited!

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Hi Maximilianklein! The first Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014 in San Francisco. Any editors interested in the intersection of feminism and art are welcome. Wikipedians of all experience levels are invited! Experienced editors will be on hand to help new editors. Bring a friend and a laptop! Come one, come all! Learn more here! SarahStierch ( talk) 09:03, 21 December 2013 (UTC) reply

Hi, I wondered if errors reported on Wikipedia:VIAF/errors are still being dealt with? At least it seems that the rate of new reports coming in is higher than the rate of resolved issues. :-) Is there a way to help? Chirlu ( talk) 15:01, 22 December 2013 (UTC) reply

@ Chirlu:, all the errors are made aware to the VIAF.org team. Then eventually (with what speed is hard to say) the are incorporated into VIAF.org . The best thing to do is to make Wikidata correct, then use the authority control template without VIAF parameters given, so that it fetches the authority control data from Wikidata. Once Wikipedia becomes correct then it is the onus of VIAF.org to place their merges and they will follow the look to Wikidata. Maximilianklein ( talk) 17:30, 23 December 2013 (UTC) reply

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Saturday, April 5 - WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley - You are invited!

The University of California, Berkeley's Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting our first edit-a-thon, facilitated by WikiWoman Sarah Stierch, on April 5! This event, focused on engaging women to contribute to Wikipedia, will feature a brief Wikipedia policy and tips overview, followed by a fast-paced energetic edit-a-thon. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please bring your laptop and be prepared to edit about women and women's history! The event is April 5, from 1-5 PM, at the Berkeley Center for New Media Commons at Moffitt Library. You must RSVP here - see you there! SarahStierch ( talk) 23:35, 13 March 2014 (UTC) reply

Max, is AnnBLea's identity known, or is she one of the "keep my name secret" Wikipedians? If the latter, I'm not sure you would have wanted to post a photo of her on her User page, where her nametag might give away her identity. - 70.192.131.218 ( talk) 13:41, 21 March 2014 (UTC) reply

Hi there. Thanks for signing up for the WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon at Berkeley that is happening today. I look forward to seeing you! We have changed the on-campus venue due to the response we've had, via Wikipedia and Facebook. Please take a look at the event page. If you get this message too late, we'll have a sign on the door of the former location directing you to the new one, which is only a short walk. See you then! SarahStierch ( talk) 15:38, 5 April 2014 (UTC) reply

I thought you might be interested. There's actually API docs for it now so you don't have to go digging in the code. https://pythonhosted.org/mediawiki-utilities/ -- EpochFail ( talk • contribs) 02:35, 17 April 2014 (UTC) reply

Hi Max, re the "sum of the page views of each page on which the DOI appears" altmetric at [1], where is that table kept updated? Could you please publish the top 100 monthly somewhere? Do you have scripts for it available somewhere? Thank you! EllenCT ( talk) 03:51, 28 May 2014 (UTC) reply

@ EllenCT: I will put constantly re-running these stats on my todo-list! However, I have to prioritize finishing the signalling OA project, of which that study was a part. Do you know another person that's experienced in running monthly alt-metrics? Since all my code is open and linked in that blog, its possible for somenone else to make this recurring tool before I catch up on my backlog of intention. Maximilianklein ( talk) 13:47, 31 May 2014 (UTC) reply

I used to take periodic readership stats of my watchlist to try to spot trends and readership patterns, but I've never published a periodic altmetric. The WP:SIGNPOST does a column on readership statistics. What is signalling OA? What is the URL for the code?

@ Dispenser: are you porting [2] to Tool Labs? EllenCT ( talk) 23:59, 31 May 2014 (UTC) reply

@ EllenCT: just spoke to @ Dispenser: about this. Dispenser, looks like you can run a script continuously with the

jsub -continously

self restarting command, see documentation. or use https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help#Scheduling_jobs_at_regular_intervals_with_cron. Does this intrigue you? Maximilianklein ( talk) 14:05, 1 June 2014 (UTC) reply

Yes, but the Markov alternatives to DSGE that you found for your talk intrigue me more; I wish I wasn't out of town that day. I hope to use [3] in my study of conflicts of interest. Thank you both! EllenCT ( talk) 06:55, 3 June 2014 (UTC) reply

On second thought, [4] is looking so good I might finally get around to trying graphics some day. EllenCT ( talk) 07:15, 3 June 2014 (UTC) reply

@ EllenCT: I'm pleased it was helpful. Particularly if it's for research that intriugues me. I'd love to know a bit more about your research. If you want some custom data pulled before I get around to building the monthly version, let me know.

Please, yes, please show the top 1000 and its date if a current one is more difficult than historical. I hypothesize a correlation with astroturf dollars spent. EllenCT ( talk) 06:01, 19 June 2014 (UTC) reply

Or so it claims. See the first PG in the readme @ https://github.com/earwig/mwparserfromhell.

I just got chance to sit down with this and I wanted to confirm that you were having trouble using it in python 3. -- EpochFail ( talk • contribs) 14:25, 28 May 2014 (UTC) reply

@ EpochFail: Indeed it does. I was jumping to conclusions it seems. But you mapper in xml_dumps still needs to re-raise errors faithfully :) Maximilianklein ( talk) 03:26, 31 May 2014 (UTC) reply

Pull request encouraged. :P You're right though. I'd like to fix that. -- EpochFail ( talk • contribs)

I'd like to invite you to add a Bay Area event for the Great American Wiknic. This year we're aiming to coalesce nationally around July 6, but any date that is convenient to your local community works as well. And don't be shy about putting something preliminary on the national Wiknic page, it all helps!-- Pharos ( talk) 16:55, 3 June 2014 (UTC) reply

Hi Max. Correct me if I am wrong, but this is your article? Brilliant. I was just directed to it today (unfortunately I missed earlier), but it meshes up really well with my recent idea which I described at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Extracting_biographical_data_from_Wikipedia. Perhaps you could offer me some advice (your code-fu is much greater then mine, as I lack skills to extract data from Wikipedia dumps, API, etc., and without a spreadsheet I cannot begin my work), or perhaps we could do some research together? Cheers, -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:39, 22 June 2014 (UTC) reply

@ Piotrus:, thank you for the kind words. I do not mind offering advice, but I would be more excited to collaborate on research. In fact as you mention the village pump, the next step is to consider this across the time variable. I would like to contribute some code-fu, and in return need a bit of direction in formulating the correct Research Question. Maximilianklein ( talk) 18:47, 22 June 2014 (UTC) reply

Excellent. I have started a public project page at [5]. Perhaps we can collaborate on this together! -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 19:44, 22 June 2014 (UTC) reply

In case you've not yet seen it: WP:ORCID. Are you coming to Wikimania this year? It would be good to have a chat. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:10, 24 July 2014 (UTC) reply

Lovely explanation / tutorial page @ Pigsonthewing:, gets me very excited about the possibilities. Indeed I will be at Wikimania for a chat, and hope to contribute as I can for Identifiers. Maximilianklein ( talk) 08:38, 25 July 2014 (UTC) reply

Thanks; I look forward to seeing you in London - and to seeing your ORCID on your user page ;-) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:01, 25 July 2014 (UTC) reply

Now that sa great idea @ Pigsonthewing:, ORCID registered and on user page. Maximilianklein ( talk) 15:28, 25 July 2014 (UTC) reply

Hi, MK.

Previously Anne Bishop https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460303 mixed two people, American fiction writer en:Anne Bishop and Canadian education or sociology writer Anne Charlotte Bishop, 1950– ( LAC). The one description and all Wikipedia links belonged to the fiction writer, so I "fixed" this at WikiData as follows:

1. create Anne Charlotte Bishop https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17437630
2. add to ACB all statements from AB that belong to ACB (date of birth and four authority ID)
3. delete from AB all those statements
4. make some other changes at AB, mainly update the LCNAF identifier

My history User contributions for P64 - Wikidata shows no other recent activity. Is this simple method appropriate and sufficient? Nothing more to do at Wikidata? WD documentation is too long and complex for me so I simply ask you. Thanks in advance.

What about WD "references? I added and deleted no WD references manually, so there are none for ACB and those for AB are survivors from automated import.

The crucial source for me to split these two people is LAC: Anne Charlotte Bishop. I don't see how to add this as a reference for her at WD. (When I try to "add reference", and enter freeform data in the composition window, I have only the option to "cancel", never to "save" --so I have never added any reference.) Nor see how to add LCA=7C0070F7990 as a property. Does the project not recognize the Canada authority?

(French and German Wikipedias were the references given for bad identifiers, the ones that I "moved" from AB to ACB. I did fix fr:Anne Bishop and de:Anne Bishop footers. VIAF "errors" seem to reflect mistakes by US and German national libraries. I filed error reports to both and did nothing at WP:VIAF/errors. I'll tell you what happens, and perhaps how soon it happens.)

-- P64 ( talk) 00:28, 29 July 2014 (UTC) reply

Guten morgen (hier). Automatic email acknowledgment from Germany, received 21 hours ago. Human thanks with notices that data have been corrected, received 3 hours ago from GND, 2 hours ago from Washington (8:20!). GND says VIAF update is automatic "several times a year - hopefully the next one is soon." -- P64 ( talk) 14:40, 29 July 2014 (UTC) reply

That's a great success story, thanks for all your hard effort @ P64:. Maximilianklein ( talk) 09:37, 30 July 2014 (UTC) reply

Last call for opinions on RFC at Wikipedia page for page protection extension. User:Pundit is in support of increasing gender equality at Wikipedia and another user is opposed to User:Pundit's efforts. Cheers. LawrencePrincipe ( talk) 17:31, 9 August 2014 (UTC) reply

Wikidata weekly summary #114

You are invited! → Litquake Edit-a-thon → See you there!

In the area? You're invited to     San Francisco Meetup # 22   Date: October 11, 2014   Time: 1-5 pm   Place: 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105   prev: Meetup 21 - next: Meetup 23 | All SF meetups & events The Edit-a-thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meetup and create/translate/expand/improve articles about literature and writers. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. This event will include new editor training. RSVP →here←. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 03:22, 27 September 2014 (UTC) reply

You are invited! → Litquake Edit-a-thon → See you there!

In the area? You're invited to     San Francisco Meetup # 22   Date: October 11, 2014   Time: 1-5 pm   Place: 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105   prev: Meetup 21 - next: Meetup 23 | All SF meetups & events The Edit-a-thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meetup and create/translate/expand/improve articles about literature and writers. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. This event will include new editor training. RSVP →here←. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 03:22, 27 September 2014 (UTC) reply

Hello Maximilianklein. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Joseph Matheny, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A11 does not apply to this; article is PRODed already, use AFD if appropriate. Thank you. § FreeRangeFrog ^croak 20:44, 3 February 2015 (UTC) reply

ArtAndFeminism (3/7) and International Women's Day (3/8)!

Dear fellow Wikipedian, In celebration of WikiWomen's History Month, the SF Bay Area Wikipedia community has two events in early March -- please consider attending! First, we have an ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon, which will take place at the Kadist Art Foundation from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday, March 7. We'll be one of many sites worldwide participating in this edit-a-thon on March 7th. So join us as we help improve Wikipedia's coverage of women artists and their works! Second, we will be celebrating International Women's Day with the International Women's Day edit-a-thon on Sunday, March 8 from 1pm to 5pm at the Wikimedia Foundation. Our editing focus will be on women, of course! I hope to see you there! Rosiestep ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:06, 20 February 2015 (UTC) reply To opt out of future mailings about SF meetups, please remove your name from this list.

Great work here! Very interesting and useful read. Thank you. Hmlarson ( talk) 21:29, 2 March 2015 (UTC) reply

Sam Walton ( talk) 13:36, 14 March 2015 (UTC) reply

Hi. I'm wondering if you have some ideas on adding the {{Authority control}} template en masse to the appropriate articles within WikiProject Women writers; see the talkpage post here. Thanks! -- Rosiestep ( talk) 17:34, 5 April 2015 (UTC) reply

Hello,

I am one of your members from IdeaLab. I do not want make you stressed out but I wanted to tell at least give us the scope we have to achieve in the Project so at least we could start, The designers would start in working making look good too.

Hopefully you understand.Thank You Komchi ^✉ _☆ 12:28, 26 April 2015 (UTC) reply

Hi Max

I've been reading about the Signalling OA tool, do you think it would be possible to do this with UNESCO open access publications? I'm especially interested in harvesting the graphs and other graphics in an automatic way. I have a colleague at UNESCO who understands the OA database very well who could assist technically from this end.

Cheers

John Cummings ( talk) 09:06, 26 October 2015 (UTC) reply

@ Daniel Mietchen and John Cummings: Does UNESCO tap into the NIH database by any chance? Also are the UNESCO papers using the JATS XML standard? Those are assumptions our tool makes at the moment. Maximilianklein ( talk) 15:16, 26 October 2015 (UTC) reply

@ Maximilianklein: I've asked, will let you know. John Cummings ( talk) 15:29, 26 October 2015 (UTC) reply

@ Maximilianklein: No to both questions unfortunately, do you need this for importing the content to Wikimedia Commons, or extracting the content from the publications, or both? I think realistically we can import the documents with GLAMwiki Toolset and then repair the links in metadata by hand. Its the extraction of content that would be most beneficial to make automated. John Cummings ( talk) 16:08, 26 October 2015 (UTC) reply

For our workflows, the availability of an XML version is really key. Looks like their stuff is in PDF, so I'm pinging @ Metacladistics and Petermr:. -- Daniel Mietchen ( talk) 22:28, 26 October 2015 (UTC) reply

I know how to hack up PDFs, so graphic extraction in bulk is no problem there, but I have no experience on the 'bulk upload to wikimedia' end of things... Perhaps you could point me to a test set of PDFs and we could work something out from that? Metacladistics ( talk) 08:51, 27 October 2015 (UTC) reply

@ Metacladistics:, amazing, I can sort out the copying to Commons using GLAMwiki Toolset. Here are two pdfs on Commons as a test, happy to add more if helpful. Can things like graph titles be OCRed or would they need to be done manually? I would be very happy to set up a project page to ask people to add correct file names and descriptions. I also have an spreadsheet of all the urls and metadata for the files on UNESDOC so I guess we could get the pdfs straight from there? John Cummings ( talk) 10:44, 27 October 2015 (UTC) reply

@ John Cummings: Okay, I'm starting to scrape the PDFs here: https://github.com/rossmounce/unesco-open-access-images . The extracted images may be too big to post on github. It looks like there's only ~493 unique open access publications available as PDF, which is odd as it indicates 860. Perhaps some are epub only? Some just don't have full text available despite being marked as 'open access' e.g. http://www.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=232117&set=00562F5F13_1_346&gp=1&lin=1&ll=1 Also one or two are licensed under CC BY NC SA so we'll need to watch out for that e.g. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002293/229319f.pdf

@ Metacladistics: an easy way to upload to commons is through the python package "pywikibot", you can see the code that I use to do that here https://github.com/wpoa/recitation-bot/blob/master/recitation-bot/journal_article.py#L199. Maximilianklein ( talk) 03:54, 29 October 2015 (UTC) reply

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Hi Max, I've pinged you a couple of times, but in case you're not getting them, would you mind commenting here?

It's about an edit your bot made to Wikidata that changed the infobox of a featured article about a book about the Holocaust, Night. The bot fetched data from the Italian Wikipedia, rather than from the English (the book is in English) or the French (it was first published in France).

The issue is that the Italian Wikipedia calls it fiction (a novel), rather than memoir. This is an issue because Holocaust deniers call it fiction too, so we've avoided doing the same. It's not that only Holcaust deniers call it that (it is memoir, but parts appear to have been fictionalized, so "novel" is not a horrible genre for it), but there is sensitivity around it because of them, and the author doesn't like it to be called a novel.

I'm trying to find out why your bot would have fetched the data from the Italian Wikipedia. Any light you can shed on it would be appreciated. I want to raise the issue elsewhere (not this example necessarily, but the broader topic of remote editing via Wikidata, mainly because of the BLP issues), but I want to make sure I've understood what happened first. Best wishes, SarahSV ^(talk) 02:12, 29 April 2016 (UTC) reply

Hi Max. I have just been looking at your impressive 13 June update to WHGI which contains very interesting information for those of us involved in Women in Red. As far as I know, this is the first update for quite some time. I was first of all wondering whether it would be possible to be notified of future updates and how frequently these are likely to occur. Perhaps you could also include the date of the last update on the first page. Secondly, it seems to be becoming increasingly important to ensure that basic information on biographies is fed into Wikidata as a basis for your analyses. I think I am right in saying that unless a biography is coded as "female" it will not be picked up as relating to a woman. Unfortunately there seems to be a considerable backlog of articles which have not yet been entered or which have been entered without the "female" addition - frequently because a person is not clearly identified as male or female in the biography. I suppose you are aware of the gadgets communicated by Edgars2007 which greatly facilitate the encoding of data on Wikidata without leaving Wikipedia. (See for example the WiR talk page.) I think it would be useful to draw wider attention to these as they certainly make it far easier to update Wikidata. Please keep me informed of any further progress on features documenting or facilitating work on overcoming the gender gap. And thanks for everything you have been contributing to the topic.-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:35, 15 June 2016 (UTC) reply

Hi @ Ipigott:. Thanks for your message. First of all the idea is that WHGI should update weekly. Unfortunately I didn't realize that it had stopped due to an error with the Wikidata Toolkit software, but now it is fixed. I expect it should update as promised every week, but just in case, its probably worth advertising the date of last update as you suggest. I'll put it on the bug list. You are also right in saying that "unless a biography is coded as "female" it will not be picked up as relating to a woman." I was not aware of Edgars2007's gadget. Is there a way you suggest I could advertise it. I could put some instructions about it on [10]. Do you think that is appropriate? How would you envision WHGI linking to women-focused editing communities? Maximilianklein ( talk) 21:44, 18 June 2016 (UTC) reply

Thanks for getting back to me on this. If WHGI really does continue to be updated weekly, it looks to me as if it could serve as the basis for monitoring progress on Women in Red. And if our most active editors consistently try to ensure new women's biographies are included in Wikidata, the number of new articles per month could be used as a basis for our "metrics" which have been very difficult to compile correctly. I'm sure Rosiestep and Harej would welcome progress in this direction too. As for the gadget, as far as I can gather it originated on the Russian wiki although it works very well in English too. There are one or two minor problems but I'm sure they can be ironed out. As you were unaware of it, I wonder if other Wikidata fans such as Missvain and Pigsonthewing know about it. It looks to me as if we could achieve quite a lot together if it is agreed that Wikidata can provide the level of support we need. Maybe Project X could consider using the gadget to introduce interfaces facilitating Wikidata backup for new articles? I look forward to further responses on this. Finally Max, please also keep us informed of any papers you write or publish on the gender gap as your work is closely connected to our goals.-- Ipigott ( talk) 07:13, 19 June 2016 (UTC) reply

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