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as requested by britta on IRC:

missing-from-wikipedia is: "A Flask web app to take a file or list of names, find out which names do NOT have Wikipedia entries"

there once used to be this:

https://tools.wmflabs.org/missing-from-wikipedia/index

made by sumanah, but meanwhile it seems gone.

britta would like it back, that would involve reinstalling it from:

https://github.com/brainwane/missing-from-wikipedia

task: bring the tool back


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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:38 AM
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For motivation for anyone interested, this is a neat tool to help with efforts to counter systemic bias. You can paste in a list of topics that are very likely to be notable, and get a quick list of articles that should be written, for example at your next local editathon.

As described by the author (http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2013/11/13/0): "For instance, I gave it the ~2100 names from the table of contents from the Oxford Dictionary of African Biography (edited by Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates), and asked about English Wikipedia. The list of people who (I think) do not have enwiki articles about them has 948 names."

What are the chances that it just needs a webservice start or something?

See also https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-July/002758.html

Hi Sumanah, welcome back. Have any comments maybe on this one?

sumanah wrote:

Thanks Daniel, and thank you Britta! I'll take a look in October; am changing the assignee to my volunteer account.

Sumana here.

https://tools.wmflabs.org/missing-from-wikipedia/index is now up - needs futzing-with, though, to improve it, and to make the link from https://tools.wmflabs.org/ actually work!

Teresa, is it ok if we assign this to you?

It's okay to assign it to me, I'll ask around to see how we can get the site back up.

Coren helped get the site up at: https://tools.wmflabs.org/missing-from-wikipedia/index

I'll keep monitoring it for a while to make sure it stays up.

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