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Monthly Archives: June 2019

Batches of Rust

QuickStatments is a workhorse for Wikidata, but it had a few problems of late. One of those is bad performance with batches. Users can submit a batch of commands to the tool, and these commands are then run on the Labs server. This mechanism has been bogged down for several reasons: Batch processing written in […]

Bad credentials

So there has been an issue with QuickStatements on Friday. As users of that tool will know, you can run QuickStatements either from within your browser, or “in the background” from a Labs server. Originally, these “batch edits” were performed as QuickStatementsBot, mentioning batch and the user who submitted it in the edit summary. Later, […]