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Wikipedia label by Gmhofmann<\/a> on Commons<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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 some definition) Wikidata items that lack a label in a specific language. This can be very powerful, especially in languages with low Wikidata participation; setting the label for teacher (Q37226<\/a>) in a language will immediately allow all Wikidata items using that item (as an occupation, perhaps) to show that label. A single edit can improve hundreds or thousands of items, and make them more accessible in that language.<\/p>\n

Well, Wikidata has grown a lot since I started that tool, and the Terminator didn’t cope well with the growth; it was limited to a handful of languages, and the daily update was compute intensive. Plus, the interface was slow and ugly. Time for a rewrite!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So without further ado, I present version 2<\/strong><\/a> of the Terminator tool. Highlights:<\/p>\n