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403 errors from qwikidata scripts
[edit]Noob here, apologies if this problem has already been brought up. I'm working for a library at a large university (for privacy's sake, won't say which one) trying to use wikidata to do some demographics reporting on authors. I've been using OpenRefine reconciliation and a qwikidata script, but have run into 403 errors today. I suspect I look like a bot with the amount of data I'm trying to process, but I've got a user agent and I'm still getting the 403 errors. Am I just SOL at this point? Thanks for your help!Lupascriptix (talk)15:32, 8 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
- Are you complying with all parts of this policy?https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_User-Agent_PolicyLydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk)10:57, 2 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
- Yes, I've got my user-agent set up as in the example for python but still getting 403 errorsLupascriptix (talk)16:34, 13 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
scholarly query site points to normal site query builder
[edit]https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/ should either have its own query builder or not mention the service.Vicarage (talk)07:29, 8 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
- Your input is welcome onphab:T395273.20:21, 9 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties - move external-ids to MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedPropertiesIDs
[edit]As of todayMediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties contains 12880 lines. The section "== IDs with datatype "external-id" ==" starts at line 3304.
Separating the external-IDs to a new pageMediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedPropertiesIDs provides for:
- diffs, each focused on only one of the sets
- talk pages, each concerning only one of the sets
- shorter pages
- optional special treatments of the sort mechanisms,
- e.g. external IDs could be sorted by English label by default, or any other language specified somewhere. Tthe language does matter less here, since the ID labels sort mostly the same, independent of language, Romance languages have the order "identificator XYZ", Germanic languages often "XYZ identifier", so sorting by English would sort by XYZ, by a Romance language it would first group by "identificator" - but the English sort logic would be understandable.
- if external IDs fall into the group "=== Other IDs with type "external-id" - alphabetical order ===" (9281 lines) - they could potentially be removed from that page completely
- the list of external IDs on item pages could optionally show the titles of the section's used to group the IDs and make reading the list easier.
Maybe also other output apart from HTML can benefit.OSMan2025 (talk)16:19, 9 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
Changing datatype for a property
[edit]It has been requested onProperty talk:P12889 twice that the datatype be changed from string to external-id. LGTM.Infrastruktur (talk)11:02, 10 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
- Thanks for the report. LennardHofmann has included it inthis request , so we now have enough Properties to run the script for all of them together. -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk)11:01, 13 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
- It says more support is needed because sockpuppets participated in the discussions, but I thinkSkype username(P2893) should be converted - a username is an identifier, it just hascontinuously changes / unstable identifier(Q23611587). I'm less certain about URL-based identifiers such asmyfixguide.com ID(P12889) andpage at OSTIS Belarus Wiki(P2490), and aboutOpenStreetMap tag(P1282), which I think was not originally intended as an identifier but seems to function as one now, but I don't oppose the requests. Another property I have noticed that should have been an identifier isTÜİK neighborhood ID(P12883) - I assume it was just copied fromWikidata:Property proposal/Tüik number where I suggested separate properties for each type of administrative unit as the intended use required an identifier.Peter James (talk)11:29, 26 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
Hello,
OnQ170412#P18, the value of P18 (musical score) is not displayed in dark mode.
Cordially. —Eihel (talk)14:23, 21 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
- That’s a PNG image, not a musical score value.Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk)15:29, 21 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
- I don't quite understand your answer,Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE). The png image illustrating this element are notes on a musical staff. However, the image is still not visible in dark mode. That's why I added this section and I think we should focus on this fact instead. —Eihel (talk)01:17, 22 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
- Perhaps I should notify an interface admin directly:Putnik
—Eihel (talk)01:19, 22 October 2025 (UTC)Reply- When there is an image like this on Wikipedia, we can add
class=skin-invert-image. But this is not possible on Wikidata. Unless there is supported a similar mechanism on Wikidata, the images will display like this in dark mode and thus this is not actionable for interface admins either. --Matěj Suchánek (talk)06:24, 22 October 2025 (UTC)Reply - @Eihel, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "is not displayed." Black notes on a black/dark background? A white/light rectangle instead of an image? Just an image with a light background in dark mode? If the latter, then, as has already been answered, it is impossible to come up with a single rule for all images. If it's something else, then it's a bug, and please specify which browser this behavior occurs in. —putnik08:48, 22 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
- @Eihel: Ah, now I see the problem. I had tried Vector 2022’s dark appearance option, where the score shows in black-on-white, so it wasn’t clear to me what your problem was and I thought you wanted the score to be inverted to white-on-black. Using the dark mode toggle gadget, it appears as black-on-black instead (because the PNG is transparent and the gadget, unlike the skin, doesn’t add a solid white background to it). I agree this is an issue, but it sounds like it needs to be fixed in the gadget.Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk)09:16, 22 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
