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Monthly Archives: April 2026

All about the images

Monday, April 27, 2026

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, […]

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Less mixing, more matching

Thursday, April 23, 2026

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 […]

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From PHP to Lua

Thursday, April 16, 2026

A minor tech announcement for Mix’n’match: Code fragments for Mix’n’match catalogs are switching from PHP to Lua. User-supplied PHP is not secure enough, and will not scale for future development. I have converted many code fragments from PHP to Lua already, and new code fragments have to be Lua. Lua is not exactly my favorite […]

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