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Monthly Archives: March 2023

Musings on the backend

Friday, March 24, 2023

So the Wikidata query service (WDQS), currently powered by Blazegraph, does not perform well. Even simple queries time out, it lags behind the live site, and individual instances can (and do) silently go out of sync. The WMF is searching for a replacement. One of the proposed alternatives to blazegraph is Virtuoso. It models the […]

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Monday, March 20, 2023

Lists. The plague of managing things. But also surprisingly useful for many tasks, including Wikimedia-related issues. Mix’n’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 […]

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