Wikidata Map May – November 2019
It’s time for another blog post in my Wikidata map series, this time comparing the item maps that were generated on the 13th May 2019 and 11th November 2019 (roughly 6 months). I’ll again be using Resemble.js to generate a difference image highlighting changed areas in pink, and breakdown the areas that have had the…
2019 Year Review
A year or so ago I decided to start making yearly posts reviewing one of my online list. I’m a bit late this year considering it is April already, but it’s been one rollercoaster after another during the start of 2020. Blog stats 23,940 page views, up from 12,374 (93% increase) 16,276 visitors, up from…
WBStack 2020 Update 1
WBStack has now been up and running for 6 months. During that time it has helped 70 people create 178 MediaWiki installs running Wikibase, a SPARQL query service and quickstatements, all at the click of a button, with a total of around 200,000 edits across all sites. The most active site is currently virus-taxonomy.wiki.opencura.com which…
Automatic cleanup of old gcloud container images
I have been using Google Cloud Build for a budget project for roughly a year now. Cloud Build stores built images in a storage bucket which you are of course billed for. Within the first weeks of using it I realized that I needed some automated way to cleanup unused and old images that were…
Add Exif data back to Facebook images – 0.10
In 2019 I wrote a post introducing a tool that I created to add Exif data back to images downloaded as part of a Facebook information download. The tool allowed me to download and delete my uploaded Facebook images while keeping some of the useful data such as date taken. After some Twitter pressure I…