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…
Wikidata Map July 2017
It’s been 9 months since my last Wikidata map update and once again we have many new noticable areas appearing, including Norway, South Africa, Peru and New Zealand to name but a few. As with the last map generation post I once again created a diff image so that the areas of change are easily identifiable…
Wikicite 2017: ‘extends’-attribute for ref-tag
This presentation was used as part of a lightning talk at Wikicite 2017 promoting the plan by the WMDE community tech team to implement an extends attribute for the ref tag in wikitext. The aim of the presentation was to prompt questions and discussion. This relates to phabricator ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151301
Wikimedia Hackathon 2017: mediawiki-docker-dev showcase presentation
This presentation was used during the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon showcase presentations. The code shown can be found @ https://github.com/addshore/mediawiki-docker-dev
Wikimedia Commons Android App Pre-Hackathon
The Wikimedia Commons Android App allows users to upload photos to Commons directly from their phone. The website for the app details some of the features and the code can be found on GitHub. A hackathon was organized in Prague to work on the app in the run up to the yearly Wikimedia Hackathon which…