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Autodesc

Monday, September 9, 2013

Wikidata offers multilingual labels for items. Since many items will have the same label with, or even across, languages, one can also add a brief description for an item in each language, to quickly disambiguate between them. Such descriptions are helpful in searches, and essential when adding claims linking to other items. However, many items […]

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How to nip a budding project

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Wikidata is booming. A huge number of editors, many of them new contributors to the Wonderful World of Wikimedia projects, are adding, fixing, and sourcing claims to the database. A ridiculously high amount of language links have been moved from Wikipedia to Wikidata. Part of the promise of this new project is to unify factoids […]

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In the pipeline

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Over the years, the toolserver, mostly organised and financed by Wikimedia Deutschland, has become an invaluable asset to many Wikimedia projects. However, the open access policy of the toolserver, which enabled many volunteers to write helpful tools, comes at a price. Most tools are “stand-alone”; they perform a single function, and the results are usually a […]

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Shoot me!

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

In my continuing “toolspam” series, I would like to introduce a tool for all Wikimedians traveling with a camera (and maybe a smartphone), and the will to use it. I call it Wiki ShootMe!.

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Commons Commander

Friday, May 27, 2011

After many years of resistance, I have finally succumbed to the temptation of blogging (just when blogs come out of fashion, it seems…). I would like to start by writing about something rather familiar to me: some of the tools I developed for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. I hope to reach more people than […]

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