Kevin Scannell

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Request

Hello.

Could you create the articles en:Architecture of Azerbaijan (Republic of Azerbaijan), en:List of Azerbaijani film directors (Republic of Azerbaijan) and en:Bodies of water of Azerbaijan (Republic of Azerbaijan) in Irish (or request them yourself to other users in Irish Wikipedia)?

Thank you.

31.200.18.113 09:08, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Translation

Hello.

Can you create en:Science and technology in Azerbaijan in Irish Wikipedia?

Yours sincerely, A2D2 (talk) 14:06, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

Bot edit summary

Hi Kevin Scannell, If it's not possible to add the full ga-description in the edit summary, could you mention that the bot edits the ga-description? Avoid asking myself what it "updated". ;) --- Jura 16:25, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for catching this - just fixed it! Kevin Scannell (talk) 16:31, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing it. BTW, maybe you noticed Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Names#Irish_names. Admittedly, it's a bit light on the Irish language part of the topic. --- Jura 14:31, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

No, I hadn't seen that. Looks great! I am very intentionally not copying the English labels over to Irish since in many cases people will have an Irish version of their name which would generally be preferred for the ga label. Kevin Scannell (talk) 16:14, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Good point. I added a count to numbers/names for that and will try to add P734/P735 based on these when some come up. --- Jura 12:09, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

About User:LogainmBot

Hi there! This bot is pretty annoying for me. It adds only the irish description, for every edit I get an E-Mail because I have certain articles on my control list. --KurtR (talk) 19:34, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Sorry about the annoyance. Do you know a way I can change the behavior of the bot so you won't be notified? I'm trying to add Irish descriptions for several hundred thousand Wikidata items. Surely this happens with other languages as well? Kevin Scannell (talk) 19:43, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

I don't think you can do something against it except you don't use the bot. :-/ --KurtR (talk) 21:14, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

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Help with Gaelic alphabet Gaelic

Can you take a look at Gaelic alphabet (Q30344912) and Latin, Gaelic type (Q1432616)? Perhaps you can expand/improve these. Thanks! - PKM (talk) 21:38, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! - PKM (talk) 21:33, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Characters of Marvel Cinematic Universe

Characters of Marvel Cinematic Universe aren't the same as Characters of Marvel Comics. That are different lists and different topics. Someone linked it wrong. Mike210381 (talk) 14:04, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Ok, thanks, I have no clue about this to be honest. I've linked the Irish page to lists of Marvel Comics characters (Q96251657) now; does that look right? Kevin Scannell (talk) 14:24, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Hungarian description

Hi Kevin! I see that you add a Irish label to the Wikidata element of many Hungarian persons. I will be happy to include the Irish descriptions in my "Automatic addiction" script, if you describe your Irish nationality and occupation. If you would, please enter here: User talk:Pallor/autoEditLists.js. Bye! Pallor (talk) 12:32, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Done — thanks! Kevin Scannell (talk) 12:54, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much! One question: is there no difference between a translator (translator (Q333634)) and a literary translator (literary translator (Q9363889))? Pallor (talk) 13:49, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

I just tweaked the translation to make the distinction clearer (and added the label to Q9363889). Thanks again! Kevin Scannell (talk) 13:59, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Use of Irish transtations of title.

I disagree with the practice of not providing Irish Translations, Albeit I accept my translation may be incorrect and I apologise.. But I'm not sure there is a particular policy or practice. On the English Wikipedia for foreign language works I believe a trans-title is extremely helpful and best practice. That transposes to Cite Q needing access to a Gaelic version of the title when used on the Irish Wikipedia. I am not likely in the best mood due to dealing with a physical violence threat do I apologise if I'm a bit curt. Getting through tomorrow OK would be good. A lot of problems are cascading of my indef block on the English Wikipedia which is where I could talk to the cite Q developers about issues. Thankyou. -- DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 20:08, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Sorry to hear you're dealing with that — hope you can resolve it soon. Regarding the translated titles, there is a long history of academic publishing in Irish, and invariably books and papers in English (and other languages) are cited according to their original published title. Check out the papers at [1] for example. This has also been the practice on Irish Wikipedia for a long time, but I'd be happy to have a discussion over there to see what the other contributors want, if you think it's worth it. In any case, I'd ask that you not do translations here without checking them with a fluent speaker. Thanks! Kevin Scannell (talk) 20:46, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

third Sunday in June

Hello! I moved the Irish label of "an dara Domhnach de Bhealtaine" to Q51155787 since some lovely vandal had changed the English label on "third Sunday in June" to the second Sunday of May from the third Sunday in June. As my Irish skills are non-existent, "third Sunday in June" no longer has an Irish label if you'd like to add one. - Yupik (talk) 11:41, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for catching this and letting me know! Fixed now. Kevin Scannell (talk) 11:50, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

LogainmBot and Irish descriptioms

Hello. Bot shouldn't add description for music artists as in this case, because it should be checked by human then someone would add that she is "Mexican actress, songwriter, singer and author", than just "Mexican actress" etc. Eurohunter (talk) 17:44, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks — do you have a suggestion for a better approach than translating the English description? I've experimented with automatically building the descriptions from Wikidata properties (nationality and occupation) but that sometimes leaves out important information. In other cases, what I generate has too much information... “Liam Neeson: British-Irish-American actor-boxer-soccer player”, etc. Kevin Scannell (talk) 18:09, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Copy to mul instead of ga

Hi Kevin Scannell, please stop copying to ga and use mul instead. Thank you, Multichill (talk) 17:20, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Can you reply please? Or do I need to stop the bot to get your attention? Multichill (talk) 21:36, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, forgot to reply. I changed the bot to only add descriptions for the time being, until the dust settles around "mul". Will that work? Kevin Scannell (talk) 21:37, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

On townlands on Logainm vs townlands on Wikidata

Hi Kevin, seeing as you are operating the bot for Logainm-related items, I was hoping to get your perspective on something. I was trying to see how far I could get reconciling Irish townlands mentioned in an older database of ecclesiastical sites to Wikidata items. By 'reconcile' I mean what OpenRefine means by that term. As you know, Wikidata is not yet complete and it's often unclear from the description exactly which townland of a particular name is intended, making it hard to match them up accurately.

An issue I'm currently facing is a structural discrepancy between Logainm and Wikidata. Townlands can exist across civil parish boundaries, just as parishes can straddle multiple baronies. Some exceptions aside, Logainm tends to treat such parishes and I presume, townlands as separate items. But the situation on Wikidata is much more confused. Sometimes they are conflated, sometimes they are not and sometimes the conflation is puzzling: for instance, Item:Q104354393 is matched to three townlands recorded by Logainm, Glebe in par. Tickmacrevan (bar. Glenarm Lower), Glebe in par. Layd (same barony) and Glebe in par. Derrykeighan (Dunluce Lower). Do you intend to make Wikidata follow Logainm, or is there room for other approaches? Rand(1,2022) (talk) 12:13, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your message, and yes Wikidata is a mess, unfortunately. My focus is primarily on the Irish Wikipedia — ensuring that the placenames that surface there are correct (we make heavy use Wikidata-powered infoboxes). As a result, LogainmBot has mostly worked on item labels — I haven't done much of anything to improve the structural issues.

Wikidata should follow Logainm, 100%. There are single-value and distinct-value constraints on Property:P5097 already, but as you've observed, there are many violations... 750ish that would need some manual fixing.

There is one subtlety in terms of Wikipedia site links that I'm not sure how to handle. Namely, Wikipedia articles about Irish placenames often cover a townland and parish together, or sometimes a "village, townland, and parish", e.g. en:Naul,_Dublin. I suppose the disciplined approach would be to have separate Wikidata items for these "places", and then the townland/parish items with Logainm identifiers could be linked with Property:P527. Could get messy because articles in different languages don't always line up in terms of their scope.

Curious to hear your thoughts. Kevin Scannell (talk) 14:07, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Many thanks for your thoughts and I'm glad to hear that P5097 works with constraints. I forgot to mention that I'm working on another 'instance' of the Wikibase software, in part because of the importance of quality control, but do attempt to align my data with Wikidata and occasionally try to improve Wikidata as I go along.

Yes, the links between Wikipedia and Wikidata present a further complication. It can make perfect sense for encyclopedic content to focus on more than one entity within the scope of a single article, but somehow Wikidata does not allow more than one link to a Wikipedia entry in a given language. So if I understand you correctly, it could mean that if that restriction stands, we need an additional hybrid entity like 'X comprising the village, parish and townland', in turn linked to those three entities through a 'part of' property - or similar, maybe the other way around ('has parts'?). I'm not sure to what extent it makes life difficult, or easier, when you are working on info boxes, but it has the advantage of being transparent. Rand(1,2022) (talk)