Last modified: 2014-09-23 19:34:36 UTC
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
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?
Thanks Daniel, and thank you Britta! I'll take a look in October; am changing the assignee to my volunteer account.
