So there has been an issue with QuickStatements on Friday. As users of that tool will know, you can run QuickStatements either from within your browser, or “in the background” from a Labs server. Originally, these “batch edits” were performed as QuickStatementsBot, mentioning batch and the user who submitted it in the edit summary. Later, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Thursday, January 24, 2019
The Cleveland Museum of Art recently released 30,000 images of art under CC-Zero (~public domain). Some of the good people on Wikimedia Commons have begun uploading them there, to be used, amongst others, by Wikipedia and Wikidata. But how to find the relevant Wikipedia article (if there is one) or Wikidata item for such a […]
Structured Data on Commons is approaching. I have done a bit of work on converting Infoboxes into statements, that is, to generate structured data. But what about using it? What could that look like? Inspired by a recent WMF blog post, I wrote a simple demo on what you might call “auto-categorisation”. You can try […]
Mix’n’match is one of my more popular tools. It contains a number of catalogs, each in turn containing hundreds or even millions of entries, that could (and often should!) have a corresponding Wikidata item. The tool offers various ways to make it easier to match an entry in a catalog to a Wikidata item. While […]
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As part of an exploratory census of citations on Wikipedia, I have generated a complete (yeah, right) list of all scientific publications cited on Wikispecies, English and German Wikipedia. This is done based on the rendered HTML of the respective articles, and tries to find DOIs, PubMed, and PubMed Central IDs. The list is kept […]
At the dawn of Wikidata, I wrote a tool called “Terminator”. Not just because I wanted to have one of my own, but as a pun on the term “term”, used in the database table name (“wb_term”) where Wikidata labels, descriptions, and aliases are stored. The purpose of the tool is to find important (by […]
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After my recent blog post about the TopicMatcher tool, I had quite a few conversations about the general area of “main topic”, especially relating to the plethora of scientific publications represented on Wikidata. Here’s a round-up of related things I did since: As a first attempt, I queried all subspecies items from Wikidata, searched for […]
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Wikidata already contains a lot of information about topics – people, places, concepts etc. It also contains topics that have a topic, e.g., a painting of a person, a biographical article about someone, a scientific publication about a species. Ideally, Wikidata also describes the connection between the work and the subject. Such connections can be […]