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Monthly Archives: July 2022

Join the Quest

I recently came across an interesting, semi-automated approach to create statements in Wikidata. A SPARQL query would directly generate commands for QuickStatements. These would then be manually checked before running them. The queries exist as links on Wikidata user pages, and have to be run by clicking on them. That seemed useful but tedious. I […]

Orthogonal Recent Changes

Recent Changes is a core functionality of all wikis. It shows which articles or, in the case of Wikidata, items have changed in the last minutes, hours, days. As useful as this is, for Wikidata it is like drinking from the proverbial fire hose; if you look for a specific type of change, it is […]