Verifying Wikimedia user page links on Mastodon
While reviewing the ongoings of the 2023 Wikimedia hackathon, I learned about the RealMe MediaWiki extension, which is already deployed to Wikimedia sites and allows verification of URLs that appear on user pages within other software or platforms, such as Mastodon. Link verification for dummies Imagine you want to show that your online profiles, like…
Dependency injection in go using fx, and replacing services for test
I’m writing a new go application and ended up giving fx (by uber) a try for dependency injection. The getting started docs were brilliant for my use case (creating an API), but the examples for how to inject mock services for tests were lacking, so I decided to write some code examples of how I…
Wikidata query service Blazegraph JNL file on Cloudflare R2 and Internet Archive
At the end of 2022, I published a Blazegraph JNL file for Wikidata in a Google Cloud bucket for 1 month for folks to download and determine if it was useful. Thanks to Arno from weblyzard, inflatador from the WMF search platform team, and Mark from the Internet Archive for the recent conversations around this…