ListeriaBot

ListeriaBot is a Wiki bot to automatically execute (simple) SPARQL queries to build Wikipedia tables on project pages to support e.g. edit-a-thons.^[1]

To prepare an edit-a-thon, it helps a lot to build a proactive list of subjects related to the theme, for which Wikidata items are created or amended. Using ListeriaBot one can automatically build a list of blue and red links. Red links are pages that do not exist, and can be easily created by one click of the mouse. Blue links are articles that can be extended or enhanced. Participants can easily choose their page to write. Also, the number of existing Wikipedia pages in other languages can be easily indicated. As well as an image (P18). You can execute the same query on multiple language Wikipedia's, to get the list specific to the language. Then you can put the link to the Wikipedia project page on the Wikidata WikiProject item page.

Setting up a project

Please also create a Campaign and Events activity, so you get automatic statistics about user activity.

Doing so you get an integrated project environment, interlinking all involved platforms.

Techniques

Analyse your theme, and search for example/target pages (title + a number of core properties)
Create a WikiProject in Wikidata
Using Excel and OpenRefine, link all the objects to the WikiProject by using e.g. Maintained by WikiProject (P6104)
Build a Wikidata query
Copy the query into a {{Wikidata list}} on a project page
Save the page
Execute the query once manually
Verify the results
Correct any errors, in the script, and in the data.

Documentation

User documentation

Example

Kathedralen van de industrie

Related functionality

Find images for Wikidata (WDFIST) - click on the link to find and register images. The system is searching images that are used on Wikipedia pages, to propose them to add to Wikidata with (P18)
Wikidata Query - Execute the query
Pywikibot
OpenRefine

Known problems

Automatic execution does not work

Verify the history of the Wikipedia page
Try to run the job manually (should provide OK status)

Delay in execution

It is not always clear why there is a delay in execution. Machine capacity? Technical reasons?

Try to run the job manually

Bad Gateway

Seems to frequently occur.

Content of pages possibly not updated.

Updated table not visible for not loggedin users

Perform a cache refresh

Killed by OS for overloading memory

The query is possibly too complex.

Maybe the content of page was still updated.

Field 'message' doesn't have a default value

Reason unknown.

ListeriaBot Toolforge Webservice request timed out

phab:T347672

Other errors

Wikimedia Error: Wikimedia Toolforge Error: Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again later.
503 Service Unavailable: No webservice: The tool responsible for the URL you have requested, https://listeria.toolforge.org/, is not currently responding.

External links

Notes and references

↑ By community agreement, ListeriaBot queries are not accepted in the main namespace, although it would technically work.

[1] By community agreement, ListeriaBot queries are not accepted in the main namespace, although it would technically work.

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