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Monthly Archives: August 2016

All your locations are belong to us

Saturday, August 20, 2016

A recent push for a UK photography contest reminded me of an issue I have begrudged for a quite a while. On the talk page for that contest, I pointed to several tools of mine, dealing with images and locations. But they only show aspects of those, like “Wikidata items without images”. What about the others? WDQS can show maps of […]

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Livin’ on the edge

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

A few days ago, Lydia posted about the first prototype of the new structured data system for Commons, based on Wikidata technology. While this is just a first step, structured data for Commons seems finally within reach. And that brings home the reality of over 32 million files on Commons, all having unstructured data about them, in the […]

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