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Hello Jarekt, I was wondering if you might need some help with the monthly photo challenge. I am not a programmer but able to check things by hand. Is there anything I can do for you? August Geyler (talk) 16:11, 14 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

August Geyler Thanks for the offer. There is not much of check things by hand, but there are bunch of steps which can be split among multiple users. Most of them are outlined in Commons:Photo challenge/Maintainers Manual. Many tasks require running a precompiled code on your machine and fixing submitting or voting pages, another task is creating new challenge pages. --Jarekt (talk) 02:50, 15 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

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A way to find redirects?

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Hi Jarekt, File:15th-century unknown painters - St Ursula Announces to her Father her Departure on a Pilgrimage to Rome - WGA23745.jpg contains some statements that are redirects. Do you have an idea how to flag these with a tracker category? I could set up a bot to fix redirects every once in a while. Multichill (talk) 19:31, 18 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Multichill, Module:Artwork tests for redirects and adds Category:Artworks with structured data with redirected digital representation of property and Category:Artworks with redirected Wikidata link category. Those categories take a lot of work to clear, as I did not come up with a fast way to do it. If you have some ideas, on fixing them by the bot it would be very helpful. However those categories do not apply to files like File:15th-century unknown painters - St Ursula Announces to her Father her Departure on a Pilgrimage to Rome - WGA23745.jpg where I already fixed "wikidata" field and digital representation of (P6243) but missed other fields in the SDC. The issue of redirects should be handled in some automatic way by the database, an issue I raised at phabricator:T237899. At some point I was also toying with extending this sdc query to include other properties or more files, but the sparql query times out easily. One could probably write some Lua code to test all SDC links in a given file and than sneakily add it to some often used template, but that would be putting a lot of strain on the servers (I would imagine). So I have a lot of ideas but none are easy-solutions. --Jarekt (talk) 02:22, 19 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Ok, so for finding them I can use some of the tracker categories.
On Toolforge I also have access to the Wikidata redirects dump and the entities dump. I wrote a bot to remove duplicate claims and that works on the full dump. I could probably do something similar for the redirects.
So one way or another, we find redirects. The bot should probably check if the redirect is older than say 30 days before performing the replacement. I'll see if I can write something. Multichill (talk) 10:01, 21 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Multichill, Tracker categories are only for digital representation of (P6243) / main subject (P921) and "wikidata" of Artwork templates, but redirects are probably more common in depicts (P180) and other SDC properties, and there is no tracking categories for those. Wikidata has a bot fixing redirects, I wonder if its code is published. --Jarekt (talk) 12:54, 21 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
AFAIK that's a closed source bot running on some private server. Extremely unsustainable, but nobody cares too much about it. I'll see if I can write something. Multichill (talk) 15:38, 21 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wikimania?

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Hi Jarek, coming to Wikimania this year? Multichill (talk) 11:33, 21 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Multichill, I was planning to come, but I got invited to present on another conference devoted to Witkacy (Polish painter and playwright) about my pl:Lista dzieł malarskich Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza article and decided to fly to Poland for that one instead of Wikimania. I am planning to attend virtually, but that is not the same. --Jarekt (talk) 12:44, 21 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
That's a shame, but flying twice seems a bit too much. The whole virtual/hybrid conference thing doesn't really work for me. Multichill (talk) 15:42, 21 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

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