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Monthly Archives: March 2026

Of Mixing and Matching

Friday, March 27, 2026

Mix’n’match is one of my more popular tools. It has grown over the years in both functionality and data size. It currently contains >260M entries in over 6300 catalogs. The code base has been growing organically with the data size. I felt it was time to modernize some things. First, the speed. Some pages, most […]

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APIs and Descriptions

Thursday, March 12, 2026

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 […]

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