{"id":688,"date":"2023-03-20T20:35:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T19:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.magnusmanske.de\/?p=688"},"modified":"2025-04-15T13:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:50:35","slug":"688","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/archives\/688","title":{"rendered":"GULP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lists. The plague of managing things. But also surprisingly useful for many tasks, including Wikimedia-related issues. <a href=\"https:\/\/mix-n-match.toolforge.org\/\">Mix&#8217;n&#8217;match<\/a> is a list of third-party entries. <a href=\"https:\/\/petscan.wmflabs.org\/\">PetScan<\/a> generates lists from Wikipedia and Wikidata. And <a href=\"https:\/\/listeria.toolforge.org\/botstatus.php\">Listeria<\/a> generates lists on-wiki.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a need for generic, Wikimedia-related, user-curated lists. In the past, I have tried to quell that demand with <a href=\"https:\/\/pagepile.toolforge.org\/\">PagePile<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023\/Miscellaneous\/Improve_PagePile_or_create_new_tool_for_article_lists_for_communication_metrics\">the community wants more<\/a>. So here you go: I present <a href=\"https:\/\/gulp.toolforge.org\"><strong>GULP<\/strong><\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/GULP\">Generic Unified List Processor<\/a>. At the moment, this is a work in progress, but is already usable, though lacking many nice-to-have features.<\/p>\n<p>How is this different from PagePile? Let&#8217;s see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A list can have multiple columns (so, a table, technically)<\/li>\n<li>Each column has a defined type (Wiki page, Location, Plain text)<\/li>\n<li>Lists can be updated (file upload, load from URL)<\/li>\n<li>Lists can be edited by the list owner (and by others, to be implemented)<\/li>\n<li>Lists can have <em>snapshots<\/em>; a snapshot is like a version number, but it does not create a copy of the list; rather, further changes to the list are logged as such, and the snapshot remains untouched<\/li>\n<li>Lists can be downloaded in various formats, and accessed via API<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can already create your own lists, update and modify them, and they are available for public download. Have a look at some demo lists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gulp.toolforge.org\/#\/list\/4\">a list of Wikidata items and potential images on Commons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gulp.toolforge.org\/#\/list\/18\">a short list of Wikipedia pages and coordinates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next steps for GULP include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adding\/removing rows<\/li>\n<li>More data sources and output formats<\/li>\n<li>More column types<\/li>\n<li>All API actions (including editing etc) will be available via a token system, so you can write scripts to edit your lists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For bug reports and feature requests, feel free to use the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/magnusmanske\/gulp\/issues\">issue tracker<\/a>. Also, if you want to integrate GULP into your tools , please let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lists. The plague of managing things. But also surprisingly useful for many tasks, including Wikimedia-related issues. Mix&#8217;n&#8217;match is a list of third-party entries. PetScan generates lists from Wikipedia and Wikidata. And Listeria generates lists on-wiki. But there is a need for generic, Wikimedia-related, user-curated lists. In the past, I have tried to quell that demand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rust","category-wikidata","category-wikimedia-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}