September 2015 – addshore

Downfall of Orain

August 10, 2019September 23, 2015 by addshore

So, from where I am sat right now, it looks like Orain is dead. It could just be me but Orain has been struggling with issues for a while now and the events that took place last week were basically the final nail in the coffin. As final nails in coffins go, I don’t see … Read more

Un-deleting 500,000 Wikidata items

August 10, 2019September 7, 2015 by addshore

Since some time in January of this year I have been on a mission to un-delete all Wikidata items that were merged into other items before the redirect functionality of Wikidata existed. Finally I am done (well nearly). This is the short story… Reasoning Earlier this year I pointed out the importance of redirects on … Read more

Wikimedia Grafana graphs of Wikidata profiling information

May 17, 2020September 4, 2015 by addshore

I recently discovered the Wikimedia Grafana instance. After poking it for a little while here are some slightly interesting graphs that I managed to extract.