Wikidata Map March 2018
It’s time for the first 2018 installation of the Wikidata Map. It has been roughly 4 months since the last post, which compared July 2017 to November 2017. Here we will compare November 2017 to March 2018. For anyone new to this series of posts you can check back at the progression of these maps…
From 0 to Kubernetes cluster with Ingress on custom VMs
While working on a new Mediawiki project, and trying to setup a Kubernetes cluster on Wikimedia Cloud VPS to run it on, I hit a couple of snags. These were mainly to do with ingress into the cluster through a single static IP address and some sort of load balancer, which is usually provided by…
AggregateIQ Brexit and SCL
UPDATE 02/04/2018: Looks like AggregateIQ may have had a contract with Cambridge Analytica, but didn’t disclose it because of an NDA… But all spoilt by a unsecure gitlab instance. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/03/28/cambridge-analyticas-secret-coding-sauce-allegedly-leaked/ I wonder why AggregateIQ state that they have never entered a contract with Cambridge Analytica, but don’t mention SCL. Except they do mention they have never…
gitgraph.js and codepen.io for git visualization
I was looking for a new tool for easily visualizing git branches and workflows to try and visually show how Gerrit works (in terms of git basics) to clear up some confusions. I spent a short while reading stackoverflow, although most of the suggestions weren’t really any good as I didn’t want to visualize a…
Spike in Adam Conover Wikipedia page views | WikiWhat Epsiode 4
This post relates to the WikiWhat Youtube video entitled “Adam Conover Does Not Like Fact Checking | WikiWhat Epsiode 4” by channel Cntrl+Alt+Delete. It would appear that the video went slightly viral over the past few days, so let’s take a quick look at the impact that had on the Wikipedia page view for Adam’s article.
Cambridge Analytica, #DeleteFacebook, and adding EXIF data back to your photos
2019 Update: This script now exists with an easy to use GUI Back in 2016 I wrote a short hacky script for taking HTML from facebook data downloads and adding any data possible back to the image files that also came with the download. I created this as I wanted to grab all of my…
WMDE: Event Logging intro
This is an internal WMDE presentation made to introduce people to Event Logging. MediaWiki extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EventLogging Guide: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EventLogging/Guide
WMDE: Wikibase Docker intro
This is an internal WMDE presentation made to introduce people to Docker and the Wikibase docker images already introduced in this post.
Wikidata Map November 2017
It has only been 4 months since my last Wikidata map update post, but the difference on the map in these 4 months is much greater than the diff shown in my last post covering 9 months. The whole map is covered with pink (additions to the map). The main areas include Norway, Germany, Malaysia,…
Wikibase docker images
This is a belated post about the Wikibase docker images that I recently created for the Wikidata 5th birthday. You can find the various images on docker hub and matching Dockerfiles on github. These images combined allow you to quickly create docker containers for Wikibase backed by MySQL and with a SPARQL query service running…