Magnus Manske

Am I missing something, or are there >4K Commons-compatible high quality paintings just waiting for someone to write a script?

https://w.wiki/Fd6D

@wikidata ecnyclopedia articles that have no "main subject":
https://w.wiki/FcFb
(first 500)

There is a lot of "Pauly-Wissowa" which probably should be filtered out, but some strange cominations like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152499 which is both a "war" and an "encyclopedia article", and […]

Even as a scientist, I got tired of getting a "scholarly article" every other time I click "random item" on @wikidata

So, I give you: Better random!
(It also "steals" the keyboard shortcut, so it just works as before)

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/better_random.js

Searched for "architects that died last year", first two results died before that

This Wikidata vector database sounds fantastic, but the interface needs just a bit of explanation/examples to understand what one can do with it, otherwise...

Links zu Webseiten kürzen Links zu von dir geteilten Seiten werden automatisch gekürzt

Die Google App ersetzt alle Links, die ihr teilt, durch eigene, womit sie deren Nutzung und die Nutzer automatisch überwachen kann!

Gut zu wissen:
Man kann diese Leecherlinks in der App von Google ausschalten:
Einstellungen, weitere Einstellungen.
Für mehr digitale Resilienz. #savesocial

GitHub - magnusmanske/tools_interface Contribute to magnusmanske/tools_interface development by creating an account on GitHub.

I feel my command line Wikimedia tools interface `ti` didn't get the attention it deserves, so I am spamming your timeline (again?) with it:

https://github.com/magnusmanske/tools_interface

If anyone knows a user "Diego S-T", please let him know that his tool needs a restart

https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/tools/toolforge-a-list-bulding-tool

With eg. Python/OpenCV, it should be easy to detect if an image contains a human or not. I would run this on Wikimedia Commons myself, but I don't want to transfer the entirety of Commons through my internet connection.

Could someone with access to the Commons file system run that on […]

I found something that might be useful for WIkimedia Commons, Wikisource, and Wikipedia references in general:

Link to specific pages in a PDF via its URL (including Commons). Open source, beautiful page flip animation etc.

Example […]

By request, I repaired (and relocated) my Wikipedia reverse category tree tool:
https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/reverse_tree.php

Fun @wikidata query of the day:
~350 people who were married, then married the sibling of their previous spouse.
https://w.wiki/FN5J

The MMR vaccine is perfectly safe. Measles is not.

MMR vaccine- studied for more than 50 years. Less than 1 in 1,000,000 chance of allergic reaction. No chance of death or permanent injury. NO evidence of increased risk of autism.

Measles- 1 in 5 will die without hospitalization. 1 in 500 will […]

WTF? I used to be able to erase objects from a picture on my Android phone, now I need to "upload the photo to use the feature"? Why did #Google degrade the functionality here for no reason?
I don't want to upload my photo to Google. So I can't use this function anymore. This is a downgrade […]

#WikiFlix passes 4200 movies

https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/

Idea: Browser plugin that, when you land on a paywalled news article, automatically suggests the same story in other, actually readable sources

WikiFlix now at 4154 films!
(film counter was a bit stuck)

I got a call today. Robot, saying it's from my bank. Said it's not marketing. That they will call me back if I hang up. I hung up and they called me back a few hours later, so I played. Knew my full name. Transfered me to a human. I asked how I can be sure they are from my bank. They said I […]

I am testing the same changes on other tools now, again please let me know if things stop working or behave slow/strange

PetScan users:
I am now using new database schemas (categorylinks, file) on the live site. WMF have been working on these and the seem complete, but I can't find any proper announcement that they are ready to use.

There **should** be no visible change, but please let me know if you suddenly […]

WikiFlix reaches 3900 movies

https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/

Mix'n'match catalog 7100:
Physicians of Georgia Biographical Dictionary
https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/7100

You have a @wikidata item with few sources? Check the references of all other items linking to that item:
https://w.wiki/Eoya

(could be expanded to include "reference URL" P854, but I leave that as an exercise to the reader...)

~30K Bavarian musicians in Mix'n'match:
https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/7043

(@wikidata property P865, long overdue!)

Ah, found it: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399281

Anyone having #toolforge problems as well? DB and container affected for me.

Die Hessen haben 93% in @wikidata :
https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/6976

Aber die Niedersachsen noch nicht einmal 58%?
https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/6981
(dafür haben sie aber insgesamt mehr...)

Today, I celebrate 20 years of Vienna, the open source macOS RSS reader.

https://www.vienna-rss.com/blog/news/2025/07/07/Celebrating-20-years-of-ViennaRSS.html

#longread #macos #opensource #macintosh

Android notification saying I spent £3.95 on sticky buns.

Holy shit! I've found a contactless payment app which works on #GrapheneOS!

Google Wallet refuses to play nicely with nonofficial OSes.

All UK credit card providers seem to go via GPay.

But Curve - the virtual card app - works perfectly! I added my credit […]

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For the historic video clip fans: FedFlix!
(not by me, or related to WikiFlix;-)

https://public.resource.org/ntis.gov/index.html