Author: addshore

Wikidata Map in 2024

This entry is part 16 of 16 in the series Wikidata Map

Another year on from the last generation of the Wikidata map, @tarrow and @outdooracorn spent some time in preparation for the Wikidata birthday to prepare a new map (see git commits). The latest images have already been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, and appear in the Wikidata map commons gallery. In this post, I’ll have a…

By addshore November 1, 2024 0

READ FIRST: Installing kubuntu-desktop on WSL2

This post is meant as a warning, DONT DO IT, without some research first. But if you end up here, you have likely already made the mistake ;) It in this case is, “this” is… Before you attempt this, do some reasearch, head the warning, and be casefull (maybe even backup your disk so you…

By addshore October 12, 2024 0

2 years of wikibase.cloud by WMDE

It’s been somewhere between 2 and 3 years since WMDE took over WBStack, turned it into wikibase.cloud. During this time, my techy focus has slowly shifted away from the world of Wikibase, though I still enjoy following along and working on other Wikimedia areas. Here I will ramble on about what I saw in terms…

By addshore September 22, 2024 2

Cloudflare workers for wikibase.cloud uptime & status

Recently I wanted to create a live status page for wikibase.cloud, that also tracking the status of the various services and response times, so that people in the Telegram group might be able to try and correlate their experiences (possibly slow behaviour) with what was seen by others in other locations on other sites, without…

By addshore August 8, 2024 2

Reading from USB COM port in go

If you want an easy copy and paste, no nonsense way to print the output of a COM PORT to the terminal in go, then have a look at the code at the bottom of this post. Firstly, the go.bug.st/serial/enumerator package provides a very nice interface for getting details of connected devices, and includes more…

By addshore July 30, 2024 0

Wikibase Phrase Entity, Viewing

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Wikibase ecosystem

In my previous post, we got to the point of being able to create a new Wikibase Entity, it is stored in the MediaWiki database as a page, however we can’t actually view it via any interface currently. In this post, we will work through another set of code changes, tackling each issue as we…

By addshore July 12, 2024 2

Wikibase Phrase Entity, Creation

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Wikibase ecosystem

Finally, after a long lead up of discussing what an entity is, looking at some examples of entity extensions, and one extension that chose not to make use of the Wikibase Entity system & EntityDocument. What does it take to create a new type of data entity within Wikibase that implements the EntityDocument interface and…

By addshore July 11, 2024 1