Conversion sometimes works only partly

[Daniel-Mietchen]

e.g. https://tools.wmflabs.org/author-disambiguator/?name=Ph.+Schwemling&doit=Look+for+author&limit=50&filter=wdt%3AP2093+%22Ph.+Schwemling%22
resulted in just one item being edited, despite 50 having been marked.

[arthurpsmith]

Whoah, that's broken. Looking into it now!

[arthurpsmith]

Ok, the problem is again coming from the wikidata API - it's not responding or somehow failing to create the entries for most (all but one in this case!) of the manuscripts. I'm relying on that to do the Quickstatements conversion. Hmmm...

[arthurpsmith]

Hmm, thought had a fix for this, but I had to roll it back. Still looking into it...

[arthurpsmith]

Issue was slight difference in PHP versions (a syntax line that worked locally did not work on wmflabs tools). This is fixed! The new code should be faster in some circumstances (if many of the papers had a large number of authors), but it may be slower in others (for a lot of articles with few authors). I've tested a bit and I think it's acceptable, but maybe some hybrid would be best in the long run.