User talk:Carlinmack

Welcome to Wikidata, Carlinmack!

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Best regards! --Epìdosis 12:02, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Your edits

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q108832741&curid=104067992&diff=1808402833&oldid=1808402819 This is a redundant edit if I ever saw one. Please try to be more useful. SCIdude (talk) 14:36, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

What is your concern exactly? I've added 300k licenses to Wikidata which feels useful to me. The effects of comments like this has a chilling effect and can stop people contributing their time to OS projects. Carlinmack (talk) 17:12, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Emoji

Hello! I saw you started WikiProject Emoji on English Wikipedia way back in 2020. I want to invite you to check out Wikidata:WikiProject Emoji, which I've created recently. Enjoy! -wd-Ryan (Talk/Edits) 18:15, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Suggestion for AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot

Hi. Have you considered adding a periodic task to the bot to dynamically change the existing Letterboxd IDs based on TMDB IDs? This would be very helpful in getting rid of erroneous and outdated data.

The problem: On Letterboxd, IDs change on a regular basis. In some cases, old IDs from one film are carried over to another film. In my experience on WD ~ about 50 old redirects become new film IDs in one month. But the change of valid IDs to a new film is much harder to track. On a recent export of TMDB IDs based on Letterboxd IDs - there turned out to be about 400 duplicates of TMDB IDs, which I am slowly cleaning up.

And it seems there is already an existing solution for this kind of functionality: A similar situation exists for the Internet Game Database game ID (P5794) Internet Game Database numeric game ID (P9043) pair. There is a bot that to all alphabetic slug (non-stable) IGDB IDs adds the IGDB numeric ID that never changes as a qualifier. That is, it is the analogue to the Letterboxd ID TMDB movie/series ID pair. To update slug IDs via numeric ones such a script exists - https://github.com/Facenapalm/WikidataBot/blob/main/igdb_check_slugs.py (its author shared it with me). As far as I understand, it is possible to make a similar functionality for periodic checking of all TMDB IDs via Letterboxd API and replacing existing Letterboxd IDs if they don't match with the newly received IDs. This will also allow to not store deprecated redirect IDs that can change multiple times and accumulate in the same film entry. I would be glad if you are interested in this. Solidest (talk) 15:05, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikimania Poster Session Chat

Dear Carlinmack,

We had a short chat during the Poster session of Wikimania Katowice on Friday, 09.08.2024. I just wanted to reach out and say thank you for your interest and invite you to look at our project pages in greater detail. Here's our Poster as a reminder. We welcome any questions or comments about our project if you would like more information. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 10:53, 13 August 2024 (UTC)