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Pictures, reloaded

Friday, March 13, 2015

About four month ago, I blogged about Wikipedia pages vs. Wikidata items using images. In that post, I predicted that Wikidata would pass German Wikipedia in about four months’ time, so about the end of this month. Using the same metrics, it turns out that it’s a close run: Site 2014-11 2015-03 Difference Per day […]

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The OAuth haters’ FAQ

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Shortly after the dawn of the toolserver, the necessity for authentication in some tools became apparent. We couldn’t just let anyone use tools to upload files to Commons, doing so anonymously, hiding behind the tools’ user account; that would be like allowing anyone to edit Wikipedia anonymously. Crazy talk! But toolserver policies forbade tools asking […]

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Qualified answers

Friday, March 7, 2014

WikiData Query (WDQ), one of my pet projects I have blogged about before, has gained a new functionality: search by qualifier. That is, a query for items with specific statements can now be fine-tuned by querying the qualifiers as well. Too abstract? Let’s see: Who won the Royal Medal in 1853? Turns out it was […]

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Red link lists on steroids

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

I have long been a fan of red link lists, collections of topics that ought to have a Wikipedia article. Often, these are complied from other sources, such as the public domain 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, or the Dictionary of National Biography. Such lists often give a good overview over an area of knowledge such as […]

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