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Monthly Archives: March 2014

The OAuth haters’ FAQ

Shortly after the dawn of the toolserver, the necessity for authentication in some tools became apparent. We couldn’t just let anyone use tools to upload files to Commons, doing so anonymously, hiding behind the tools’ user account; that would be like allowing anyone to edit Wikipedia anonymously. Crazy talk! But toolserver policies forbade tools asking […]

Qualified answers

WikiData Query (WDQ), one of my pet projects I have blogged about before, has gained a new functionality: search by qualifier. That is, a query for items with specific statements can now be fine-tuned by querying the qualifiers as well. Too abstract? Let’s see: Who won the Royal Medal in 1853? Turns out it was […]