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Tool for reporting on FAC data

Hi -- WhatamIdoing tells me that you're an expert on writing data reporting tools, and have written tools to report on RfA activity and other areas. I have detailed data on all featured article candidates from September 2006 to today, including the nominator(s), dates, article names, and all the reviewers, including what the reviewer declared (support or oppose). I currently have this in an off-wiki SQL database (about 100K rows of data) and have started writing some reporting scripts for it but it would make much more sense to make it a toolserver page.

WhatamIdoing pointed me at an introductory page for cloud services, wikitech:Help:Cloud Services Introduction. I have an IT background, but little experience in web development (most of my coding is in SQL, though I've written in many languages over the years) or in github, so I'm going to have a bit of a learning curve. I was hoping WhatamIdoing would know someone who could help me get started in writing a tool, so if you have time to answer questions (or know where else I should ask) that would be great. But if you've already written similar tools, I should ask if you have any interest in having the data and creating a tool yourself? Either way, any help you can give me would be much appreciated. Thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:28, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Mike Christie: Hi there, unfortunately you've caught me a few years too late. I haven't written any tools for Wikipedia in quite some time, and I don't have much time to devote to it at the moment. If you have any specific questions, I can try to answer them, but I'm not very up-to-date on how WP tools are structured these days. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 19:41, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No problem; thanks for the reply. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:21, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

RfA Vote Counter

Hello friend. Thanks for making the RfA Vote Counter. Something strange is happening when I use it. I type in a username, leave the other boxes blank, and click submit. For some reason, it's causing my browser to download a .cgi file with source code, instead of displaying an HTML results page. Probably a bug, right? Maybe investigate when you get a chance? Thanks for your time. –Novem Linguae (talk) 07:49, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I don't maintain that tool anymore, someone else took it over. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 19:41, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Divya Khosla Kumar

Someone once again edited the page say her DOB is 1987. They put in some sources, but are they actually reliable? It completely contradicts an interview from back in 2013 with Divya herself saying she was 20 when she moved to Mumbai and worked on a movie that was released in 2004-2005.99.21.95.87 (talk) 09:43, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]