What was Wikibase “Federated Properties” – addshore
The “Federated Properties” feature allows / allowed a local Wikibase instance to access and utilise properties directly from a remote Wikibase, primarily Wikidata. Its primary purpose i…| addshore
The “Federated Properties” feature allows / allowed a local Wikibase instance to access and utilise properties directly from a remote Wikibase, primarily Wikidata. Its primary purpose i…| addshore
Wikimedia Commons now uses Structured Data on Commons (SDC) to make media information multilingual and machine-readable. A core part of SDC is the ‘depicts’ statement (P180), which identifies items clearly visible in a file. Depicts statements are crucial for MediaSearch, enabling it to find relevant results in any language by using Wikidata labels, as well…| addshore
Both Wikimedia and the Internet have changed a lot over the last 25 years. Patterns that are now ubiquitous standards either didn’t exist or were still in their infancy as the first APIs allowing developers to extend features and automate tasks on Wikimedia projects emerged. In fact, the term “representational state transfer”, better known today as the REST framework, was first coined in 2000, just months before the very first Wikipedia post was published, and only 6 years before the Ac...| techblog.wikimedia.org
I wrote the first version of WikiCrowd back in 2022 and haven’t really iterated on it much since, beyond adding the odd new set of image categories, and removing features that I decided were …| addshore
Do you often find yourself wanting to make a basic (or complex) web app that is client side only and will log users into Wikimedia sites with ease? Me to! I have been trying this every year or so, …| addshore
In October last year, I wrote a post starting to visualize the connections between Wikibases in the ecosystem that had been found and collected on wikibase.world thanks to my bot that I occasionall…| addshore
mcwli includes the third of so generation of “developer environments” that I have made for MediaWiki over the years. You can see the backstory in this earlier post. Since the early days…| addshore
Expanding on our Iffy.news/Veri.FYI session at WikiCredCon (February 15 2025). Please consider supporting the new Domain-Name Property Proposal in Wikidata, that emerged from this conference… Wikim…| Iffy.news
L'équipe des sans pagEs s'est rendue à Wikimania au mois d'août, qui se tenait à Katowice en Pologne. Voici ce que nous avons vu dans notre dernier article de blog https://sanspages.org/2024/12/19/wikimania-2024-a-katowice-et-en-2025-au-nigeria/| les sans pagEs
Inspired from another project called “Anonymous Wikipedia edits from the Norwegian parliament and government offices” I decided to create something similar for the Hellenic Parliament. I downloaded the XML dumps (elwiki-20140702-pages-meta-history.xml.7z) for the elwiki from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/elwiki/20140702/. The compressed file is less than 600Mb but uncompressing it leads to a 73Gb XML which contains the full […] The post Anonymous edits in Hellenic Wikipedia from Hellenic P...| Into.the.Void.
