Author: addshore

EntitySchema, and the entity flip-flop

This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series Wikibase ecosystem

The EntitySchema extension, previously called WikibaseSchema, has had an interesting life since its initial creation back in early 2019. The main point this story is intended to highlight is that EntitySchema started off its planned life as an Entity within a Wikibase. As the development team started work on an initial version, it flipped away…

By addshore July 11, 2024 3

Wikibase: What is an entity?

This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Wikibase ecosystem

I left the Wikidata and Wikibase teams roughly a year ago, and at the time there were some long and deep discussions going on inside the team trying to define what an entity was, and what should and should not be an entity. At the recent Hackathon in Tallinn, this topic resurfaced to me, as…

By addshore May 31, 2024 5

2023 Year Review

What a year, I spent most of my time on a sail boat, cruising around the Caribbean etc, and working part-time for Wikimedia on Wikibase. WBStack became Wikibase.Cloud and the team now working behind it has continued to iterate on the platform, which finally made its way out of its early alpha state. That also…

By addshore February 11, 2024 0

Scanning for iBeacon advertisements in Go

I spent some time this evening faffing around trying to make a Raspberry Pi turn into a device that could detect nearby iBeacons, filtered by signal strength to find the closest, to basically create a kind of iBeacon scanner that spat out the UUID, minor and major values. Eventually, I gave up on the Raspberry…

By addshore January 10, 2024 0