March 2025 – addshore
Month: March 2025| addshore
I’m using percona-tools to do an online schema modification today, and thought I would document the process, especially as even the installation guides seem to be badly linked, out of date, a…| addshore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 occasionally run. That post made use of the query service visualizations, and in this post I’ll take the visualizations a step further, making…| 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 is to enable partial federation between a local Wikibase and Wikidata, broadening the base of available data without needing to create a property set from scratch. I’m split between…| addshore
I recently wrote a post looking at the history of the Wikibase “Federated Properties” feature. While at Wikimania 2025 the topic of federation came up a few times, particularly given the current discussions ongoing on the Wikidata project chat page including discussions about wikicite, and the recent Wikidata graph split. All the code for the…| 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
If you’re reading this, and thinking about trying an IDE integrated coding agent, or thinking about switching, maybe stick around, have a read and watch some of the videos. There is at least …| addshore
While developing on ESP32 boards at Lightbug on some of our newer products, I have repeatedly wanted to run Toit and Jaguar without WiFi enabled during a development setting. Either to have WiFi of…| addshore
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
I wrote a post in February 2025 looking at what the Wikibase ecosystem (might) look like, according to the data that had at that point been collected on wikibase.world. Now that data has had some t…| addshore
There has been some recent chat once again on the Wikibase telegram groups around importing, and the best approach to import a large amount of data into a Wikibase instance. 2 years ago I started a little GitHub project aimed at profiling the speed of loading using the action API, and various settings, DB versions…| addshore
On the morning of 22nd March 2025 I received and read an email from Google giving me an “update” on my “Google Maps Timeline”, little did I know this was actually telling me…| addshore
A year or so ago, I imported a bunch of existing AWS resources into a Spacelift stack using Terraform. Parts of this stack included provisioning Github actions secrets from AWS into Github itself. …| 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
As one of the initial steps in my smart home journey back in November 2023, I purchased a set of 12 Aqara Temperature and Humidity Sensors for £101 (approximately £8 each) from Aliexpress. Today, t…| addshore
A very different year when compared to 2023 (where I spent most of the year on a boat). I’m back working full-time, and primarily in a closed source space (currently) at Lightbug. I’m p…| addshore
At some point in 2024 I bought an Aqara FP2 human presence sensor to try and automate the lights in my main open-plan living space. I have been running the installation for nearly a year, now have …| addshore
