June 2015 – addshore

Letting a Joomla component assign View Levels to Users

June 9, 2019June 28, 2015 by addshore

So I recently came across an issue with my speedy rewrite of the component that is used to power the SWA website. Here is a quick summary of the issue and how I went about fixing it! The rewrite maintains information about users and members in tables that it has created. A User, in Joomla … Read more

Review of the big Interwiki link migration

May 17, 2020June 13, 2015 by addshore

Wikidata was launched on 30 October 2012 and was the first new project of the Wikimedia Foundation since 2006. The first phase enabled items to be created and filled with basic information: a label – a name or title, aliases – alternative terms for the label, a description, and links to articles about the topic in all the various language editions of Wikipedia.

On 14 January 2013, the Hungarian Wikipedia became the first to enable the provision of interlanguage links via Wikidata. This functionality was slowly enabled on more sites until it was enabled on all Wikipedias on the 6th March.

The side bar that these interlanguage links are used to generate can be seen to the right.

Wikidata Map – 19 months on

July 8, 2023June 4, 2015 by addshore

This entry is part 4 of 17 in the series Wikidata Map

The last Wikidata map generation, as last discussed here and as originally created by Denny Vrandečić was on the 7th of November 2013. Recently I have started rewriting the code that generates the maps, stored on github, and boom, a new map! The old code The old version of the wikidata-analysis repo, which generated the maps (along with other … Read more