User talk:MarioGom

COVID-19 pandemic data

Hi. Do you know if there are other editors who are able to update this template every day? In previous months, more people edited that template regularly. LSGH (talk) (contributions) 06:22, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

LSGH: I don't think there will be ever as many users involved as in early 2020. The interest has naturally decreased, and since most of us are not under full lockdown anymore, there's probably no more people dedicated full time to this task (it used to be the case). We might need some semi-automated tools to be able to keep up with updates with less manual effort. I'm giving a try to updating a script I wrote last year to notify about updates. I'll come back to you if anything useful comes out of it. MarioGom (talk) 06:58, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. Just take your time :) It's already becoming more tedious to do the updates as less people are involved. Hopefully, we could get some more help there. It is not beneficial if only one person is trying to update the template all by himself at the expense of others. LSGH (talk) (contributions) 15:00, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

There is no available script yet, but I do not know how at least one other person can determine what time several countries are publishing their daily figures. Almost every day, he tries to be the first person to update those countries. I do not know why he thinks that updates need to be made "on time". Updates have already become less meaningful. LSGH (talk) (contributions) 03:50, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

There is an ongoing effort to implement automated updates to this template, but I do not know how much progress is being made here and here. It might take a while before the content of the template is replaced. Also, consensus and a BRFA would also be needed when the replacement is ready. Some of the few editors who were still updating the template regularly seem to have already left the topic area. In the meantime, are there any other ways to make manual editing easier? LSGH (talk) (contributions) 02:58, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

LSGH: I've been playing around with this, but I have nothing quite ready yet. I'm a bit skeptical about using ourworldindata as the source for every figure. It's a good source, but we'd probably need a way to introduce manual exceptions based on other reliable sources. MarioGom (talk) 10:17, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Retaining the manual sources is doable, but it would likely take much longer to do. Currently, TolBot updates the data subpage once every day, though I do not know yet how it will use data from sources other than OWID. LSGH (talk) (contributions) 10:33, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata help

Hi MarioGom

Thanks for your very helpful input in my talkpage discussion on the over-representation of sportspeople.

Since you have at least some expertise in wikidata, I was wondering if you could help me to use wikidata in WP:PETSCAN searches.

What I would like to do is to use the wikidata property for women to reliably identify women in a Petscan search, and/or to select only people.

For example, https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=19648552 is a search for all articles in Category:Irish writers+subcats (which in many cases includes their works). The 4th tab "Other sources" allows use of Wikidata properties, but i dunno how to do it.

From looking at the Wikidata page for the writer Maeve Binchy, I can see that Q5 is human, and Q6581072 is human female ... but I'd love to know how to use them with Petscan.

Any help would be great! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:28, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

BrownHairedGirl: In Wikidata queries this is done by checking the property sex or gender (P21) with value female (Q6581072). But it seems this is simplified in PetScan 5th tab ("Wikidata") in the "Uses items/props" field, by entering female (Q6581072). Here's a PetScan query based on yours: https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=19648651

If results are not accurate enough, let me know and I'll try to troubleshoot it. MarioGom (talk) 13:02, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Bless you, Mario. That's really helpful; much easier than I expected (and I am an eejit to have missed the 5th tab).

Now, suppose I wanted to do a slightly more complicated search: Irish non-sports women categorised by county. I'd start with Category:People by county in Ireland‎ to a depth of 12, but how do I filter that by: musthave Q6581072 (women) but mustnothave Q50995749 (sportsperson) or its subclasses? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:15, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

BrownHairedGirl: I'm looking into it. Do you need a PetScan list, or would other solution like Wikidata or ListeriaBot work too? MarioGom (talk) 13:37, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks again, Mario.

I don't mind where I get it from. My target is a list of article titles, which I can then process in various ways. I don't mind too much what format it comes in, so long as I can download or screen-grab a list which I can with regexes into a plain text list of one-title-per-line.

If I can learn some way of using Wikidata properties, it will be much more accurate than my current methods of list-making. So far I have relied on subcategories (which are often polluted) and WikiProject banners (which are not always present). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:52, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

BrownHairedGirl: Here's a Wikidata-based redlist: User:MarioGom/sandbox/Non-sports Irish women by county. Unfortunately, the logic to retrieve county from Wikidata is not trivial, as there's a few edge cases. Also, I don't know which county should Dublin (Q1761) be categorized in, as County Dublin (Q173500) is historical. In the linked list, Dublin has empty county. MarioGom (talk) 14:43, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

August Editathons from Women in Red

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Edits made on Wikipedia in Health Professions Education page

Hi MarioGom,

Thank you for fixing/reverting the changes I made to the template on the Wikipedia in Health Professions Education project page. I thought that section was local to the page and not shared. I am sorry about that and glad you fixed it.

I was trying to remove the "Meet the Participants" box and also do some styling throughout that project page especially the main page title and the section titles.

Would you be able to point me to a resource that could help me with that? Is there a way to create a local template specific to that page?

Thank you again for all of your help! Dougdraws (talk) 22:46, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Dougdraws: Unfortunately, {{Load WikiProject Modules}} does not allow such fine tuning. If you need more customization, you'll need to rework the page without it. You can see some examples at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red or Wikipedia:WikiProject Conservatism. If you try to do so, you will be better off trying in a sandbox first: Wikipedia:Wikipedia in Health Professions Education/sandbox. MarioGom (talk) 16:28, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

MarioGom: Thank you again for all of your help. I really appreciate the resources.

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Women poets Wikidata lists (by continent)

Hi and thank you for your offer of assistance on SPARQL/Listeria queries that are hanging me up! Very new to this and am grateful for guidance. I successfully made some country and a couple of region lists (listed under “Poets by country of citizenship or region” at: WP:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Redlist_index#Occupation_and_country), but for Asia and Africa it looks like it needs to be the whole continent (North and West Africa put together would have fewer than 100 names, for instance), and I’m have trouble swapping in a continent name for region—I’m sure you know the problem but it is opaque to me. If it’s convenient for you at some point, might you show me how to make, say, this Latin America list, but for Africa? And if you notice any other ways what I’ve done could be improved, I’m all ears. Thank you so much. Innisfree987 (talk) 23:28, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi Innisfree987: countries have the property continent (P30), which you can set to Africa (Q15). For example: https://w.wiki/3zMo MarioGom (talk) 07:41, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Aha! Thank you so much, that sure is the bit I couldn’t figure out! Much obliged. Innisfree987 (talk) 15:28, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Page protection

Hey Mario! Given recent events, I think it might be a good idea to semiprotect your talk page and talk archives for a bit. Would you be ok with that? --Blablubbs (talk) 19:55, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Blablubbs: Sure. Thank you for taking care of it! MarioGom (talk) 19:58, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Sure thing. Johnuniq already protected archive 1 for a year, I gave 2 and 3 a one month semi, and 1 week for your main talk page. Please give me a ping if this needs extending. --Blablubbs (talk) 20:06, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello MarioGom,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

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At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

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Editor of the Week

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		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your administrative work. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

KevinL submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I am very proud to nominate MarioGom to be the next Editor of the Week. A multi-faceted writer, MarioGom's 50+ article creations (such as Murder of Miquel Grau) include both translations and original writing. But it's on the administrative side of Wikipedia where they really shine: MarioGom is an absolutely invaluable contributor at WP:SPI, where they are primarily responsible for rooting out dozens of the most sophisticated UPE socks that Wikipedia has ever experienced. MarioGom is one of the most dedicated editors I know and is a model Editor of the Week.

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