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Of cats and pets

Sunday, March 27, 2016

CatScan is one of these workhorse tools that are familiar to many Wikimedia users, all the way back to the toolserver. Its popularity, however, has also caused problems with reliability time and again. As Labs became usable, I added QuickIntersection to the mix, allowing for a quicker and more reliable service at the expense of […]

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Add it to the pile!

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

I have previously blogged about Wikipedia-related page lists, and how they relate to many tools and activities. I also lamented my previous, failed attempts at introducing a “tool pipeline system”. Well, I am not one to give up easily! The latest, greatest iteration in this vein is PagePile. Essentially, this new tool is managing piles […]

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Reductionism

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

While I do occasionally write Wikimedia tools “to order”, I wrote quite a few of them because I required (or just enjoyed) the functionality myself. One thing I like to do is adding images to Wikidata, using WD-FIST. Recently, I started to focus on a specific list, people with awards (of any kind). People with […]

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Picture this!

Monday, November 24, 2014

Recently, someone told me that “there are no images on Wikidata”. I found that rather hard to believe, as I had added quite a few using my own tools. So I had a quick look at the numbers. For Wikidata, counting the number of items with images is straightforward. For Wikipedia, not so much; by […]

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Evacuation

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Wikimedia Commons is a great project. Over 21 million freely licensed files speak a clear language. But, like all projects of such a magnitude, there are some issues that somewhat dampen the joy. The major source of conflict is the duality of Commons: on one hand, it is a stand-alone repository of free files; on […]

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