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== Mass draftification proposal regarding Olympians == |
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You may be interested in [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RfC on draftifying a subset of mass-created Olympian microstubs|this village pump discussion]] on the mass draftification of nearly one thousand Olympians. [[User:BeanieFan11|BeanieFan11]] ([[User talk:BeanieFan11|talk]]) 15:11, 2 March 2023 (UTC) |
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New Worldrowing.com website: tons of dead links
Worldrowing today launched their new website… and most URLs have changed so that the content is no longer accessible from the old ones. Special:LinkSearch/www.worldrowing.com can be used to assess the damage to our project. Particularly athlete bios and event result pages are not accessible any longer.
Since the new website has just launched today and is apparently not yet completely stable, I recommend to wait a couple of days until we actually change something here, in case we want to. —MisterSynergy (talk) 18:37, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
- Any word from them whether they want to map old URLs to the new ones? Or how they want to manage the transition? Schwede66 18:44, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
- Not that I knew. As I do not have a contact point at FISA, I tried to contact them via Twitter an hour ago or so. No reply yet. —MisterSynergy (talk) 19:11, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
I managed to compile a mapping table of old numeric identifiers and new UUID identifiers. At wikidata:Wikidata:Property proposal/World Rowing ID, I have proposed a new Wikidata property for the new URL scheme. I would appreciate support votes by interested users over there, in order to get this property approved. Once this is done and I have all identifiers imported to Wikidata, we can elaborate a plan to (automatically) migrate identifiers in Wikipedia as well. This should be possible in roughly two weeks from now. —MisterSynergy (talk) 14:02, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
- Alright, the new identifiers have found their way to Wikidata and I would be able to fix a good part of this here at English Wikipedia as well: basically all template transclusions of {{FISA}} outside of references—assuming we change the URL scheme in that template, of course. Procedurally, what would be the right way to do this? I would of course automate this process, just as I did yesterday in German Wikipedia (see de:Special:Contributions/MsynBot). Do I need to get a bot with botflag approved, of could I gently and slowly do this using my regular account? —MisterSynergy (talk) 21:45, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
- I'm not sure how that works, but WP:BAG would be a good place to ask about this. Schwede66 23:22, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
- I'm generally not an enthusiast for Wikidata, but (given that FISA's recent changes have screwed things up not just for enwiki but for other languages too) this does seem a suitable use for Wikidata, and for a bot where appropriate. Well done for your efforts so far. As well as the athlete IDs, I have found from my own website that many links to event pages for various championships have been broken, which is very frustrating. If you haven't a specific contact point in FISA and they're still not responding to Twitter enquiries, they have a general email address info@fisa.org but I think that many people from their office are at home at present. - David Biddulph (talk) 04:55, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
- It is not necessary to make use of Wikidata here. I would be able to replace the old identifiers with the new ones using a script, so we won't have to look up thousands of new identifiers manually. I just happen to be a Wikidata enthusiast, so I usually have a Wikidata-first workflow that makes my subsequent editing in Wikipedias easier even if no direct data use from Wikidata is involved. —MisterSynergy (talk) 12:28, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
- My reservations about Wikidata are partly about changes outside the control of enwiki but primarily the fundamental limitation to one-to-one mapping, giving severe problems when the breakdown of articles differs between different language Wikipedias. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
- It's okay to have reservations. The one-to-one mapping problem can be mitigated with several workarounds, depending a bit on the excat situation which one to choose. In fact, the same problem existed already before Wikidata, as you can only link to one interwiki page per different language Wikipedia anyways. It is just more visible now, after most of the interwiki mess had been cleaned up.
Anyways, I will figure out how to migrate these identifiers locally. Its a bureaucratic burden, since technically I would be prepared to start immediately. —MisterSynergy (talk) 19:01, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
- It's okay to have reservations. The one-to-one mapping problem can be mitigated with several workarounds, depending a bit on the excat situation which one to choose. In fact, the same problem existed already before Wikidata, as you can only link to one interwiki page per different language Wikipedia anyways. It is just more visible now, after most of the interwiki mess had been cleaned up.
- My reservations about Wikidata are partly about changes outside the control of enwiki but primarily the fundamental limitation to one-to-one mapping, giving severe problems when the breakdown of articles differs between different language Wikipedias. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
- It is not necessary to make use of Wikidata here. I would be able to replace the old identifiers with the new ones using a script, so we won't have to look up thousands of new identifiers manually. I just happen to be a Wikidata enthusiast, so I usually have a Wikidata-first workflow that makes my subsequent editing in Wikipedias easier even if no direct data use from Wikidata is involved. —MisterSynergy (talk) 12:28, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
- I'm generally not an enthusiast for Wikidata, but (given that FISA's recent changes have screwed things up not just for enwiki but for other languages too) this does seem a suitable use for Wikidata, and for a bot where appropriate. Well done for your efforts so far. As well as the athlete IDs, I have found from my own website that many links to event pages for various championships have been broken, which is very frustrating. If you haven't a specific contact point in FISA and they're still not responding to Twitter enquiries, they have a general email address info@fisa.org but I think that many people from their office are at home at present. - David Biddulph (talk) 04:55, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
- FISA have tweeted this morning: "We have experienced some issues with past events and results and everything should be back in a couple of days." https://twitter.com/WorldRowing/status/1345996757365358593 — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Biddulph (talk • contribs) 08:20, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
- The website has improved a lot meanwhile, but some things are still broken; racing split times and some info from the athlete profiles, such as club affiliations, have disappeared apparently. —MisterSynergy (talk) 01:02, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
Nov 2021 situation
It seems like WorldRowing has changed their URL scheme again, to a version that uses the old identifiers again. Since I have not used their website for a while: has anyone observed when this was changed?
Anyways, it should now be rather simple to switch enwiki profile links to the new website via Template:World Rowing. —MisterSynergy (talk) 16:36, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
Cannabis and sports
New stub: Cannabis and sports. Any project members care to help expand? ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:00, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
Guus van Ditzhuyzen at AfD
Hi. Please see this discussion. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:50, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
per WP:APPNOTE - "The talk page or noticeboard of one or more WikiProjects or other Wikipedia collaborations which may have interest in the topic under discussion"
User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
)
and turns it into something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
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Mass draftification proposal regarding Olympians
You may be interested in this village pump discussion on the mass draftification of nearly one thousand Olympians. BeanieFan11 (talk) 15:11, 2 March 2023 (UTC)