My Mix’n’match tool has a little-known feature that I think deserves a little attention. A catalog in Mix’n’match is a list of entries in other datasets that should be matched to Wikidata. Besides some required core data for each entry, the user importing the catalog can add key-value-pairs for Wikidata statements that can help to […]
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WikiFlix is one of my tools that got some press when it started, but had stalled a bit due to lack of development. Thanks to recent developments, I was able to pay some attention to it again. First, there are a lot of invisible changes to the code itself, moving the front-end to refactored ES6 […]
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Some of my tools are JavaScript scripts on Wikidata. They are added by users on their commons.js page and run in their web browser when browsing Wikidata. I have about a dozen of them, of various ages. Some of them I had updated four years ago, and put a “shared library” sort-of-thing in place. One […]
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I have a collection of tools around images (or these days files in general) and their use on the various Wikimedia projects, that run under a single Toolforge tool name. These are: FIST, the Free Image Search Tool, where you can find images for Wikipedia articles on various sources, including Commons, Flickr, the Internet Archive, […]
Mix’n’match is one of my more popular tools, and with over 262 million entries one of the largest. It also has been around for awhile (November 2013), almost as old as Wikidata. It started out as a PHP script, which then grew into a collection of classes, but eventually the size of the data, as […]
AutoDesc has been a longstanding tool to generate descriptions for Wikidata items. Originally a spin-off from Reasonator, it started as my only JavaScript-based server application, generating both short and (for biographical items, and two languages) long descriptions. When the usual bitrot set in, I decided to move it over to Python, hoping to attract more […]
A while ago I wrote about WD-infernal, an API to infer some information about a Wikidata item, that needs to be checked by a user (somehow). The idea was to offer standardized inference to multiple tools and Wikidata user scripts. I have now added two new functionalities: 1. referee, which follows extrnal IDs and external […]
The new Wikibase REST API brings standardized and simplified querying and editing of items, properties, statements etc. to Wikibase installations, first and foremost Wikidata. Last year, Wikimedia Sverige was entertaining the idea of a grant application to Wikimedia Deutschland. Part of the proposal was for me to write a Rust crate (i.e. library) for easier […]
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
So many Wikidata items have a “described at URL” (P973) statement, where we do not have a property to use an ID, or the source does not use IDs. I was wondering if some URL domains have accumulated in larger numbers for P973, which would make them candidates for properties. So I listed and counted […]
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
After I recently wrote a small on-Wiki tool that can suggest statements to add to a Wikidata item, I thought that something like this might be useful in other tools as well. So, using the same concept and technology (Rust/axum) from my Authority Control API, I wrote WD-Infernal, an API that takes data, such as […]