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Monthly Archives: May 2019

The Corfu Projector

I recently spent a week on Corfu. I was amazed by the history, the culture, the traditions, and, of course, the food. I was, however, appalled by the low coverage of Corfu localities on Wikidata. While I might be biased, living in the UK where every postbox is a historic monument, a dozen or so […]

Papers on Rust

I have written about my attempt with Rust and MediaWiki before. This post is an update on my progress. I started out writing a MediaWiki API crate to be able to talk to MediaWiki installations from Rust. I was then pointed to a wikibase crate by Tobias Schönberg and others, to which I subsequently contributed […]

Deleted gender wars

After reading the excellent analysis of AfD vs gender by Andrew Gray, where he writes about the articles that faced and survived the “Article for Deletion” process, I couldn’t help but wonder what happened to the articles that were not kept, that is, where AfD was “successful”. So I quickly took all article titles from […]