Wikidata Map in 2025

Another year, another map, and another Birthday for Wikidata. Last generated in 2024 by @tarrow and @outdooracorn, this year I have put the work in just ahead of the 13th Wikidata birthday to have a look at what's changed in terms of items with coordinates this past year on…

Slop in, craft out?

Earlier today, I sent this absolutely perfectly crafted piece of slop into GitHub Copilot... Right, but i want thje patche sot be / and /* always And as I already expected, due to using these LLM based coding agents and assistants continually throughout their evolution, the…

Wikidata map - Wikimedia Commons

I have a bunch of data (Wikidata item locations monthly since the dawn of time)
And I want to make map tiles, served in a web app, for nice display, also with a sort of heatmap view the more you zoom our
Akin to commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidat...
Who can help? :D

Also known as an odd looking seal!

Apparently there is quite the Google takeout delay now, my next export isn't going to start for 2 days...

Maybe I should generate a breakdown of the top 20 things in that "other" grouping too!

This includes a new pie chart with this new method for August 2025
Showing scholarly articles as ~35% (though there will be some double counting)
Interesting to see village of the People's Republic of China (Q13100073) makes it into the top 20!

I just finished generation of an analysis of P31 and P279 usage of Wikidata over time since the beginning.
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Apparently it doesn't want to show the image!

Wikimedia Commons Depicts statements over time Wikimedia Commons now uses Structured Data on Commons (SDC) to make media information multilingual and machine-readable. A core part of SDC is the ‘depicts’ statement (P180), which iden…

Wikimedia Commons depicts statements over time!
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AI Code assistant experience comparison (golang-kata-1) If you’re reading this, and thinking about trying an IDE integrated coding agent, or thinking about switching, maybe stick around, have a read and watch some of the videos. There is at least …

I spent over 6 hours and some number of $ comparing 9 different coding assistant and language model combinations (including video recordings) so that you don't have to!

The user experience really differs between the coding tools and the models

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#ai #llm #code

Toit: jag monitor –proxy

While developing on ESP32 boards at Lightbug on some of our newer products, I have repeatedly wanted to run Toit and Jaguar without WiFi enabled during a development setting. Either to have WiFi off to keep power consumption lower, turn off the default network so that I…

WikiCrowd for 2025

I wrote the first version of WikiCrowd back in 2022 and haven't really iterated on it much since, beyond adding the odd new set of image categories, and removing features that I decided were not optimum. At the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon however, WikiCrowd came up as both an…

Dammit, now I need to find a different think to power my blog reading and listening lists...

Profiling Wikibase APIs and import speed

There has been some recent chat once again on the Wikibase telegram groups around importing, and the best approach to import a large amount of data into a Wikibase instance. 2 years ago I started a little GitHub project aimed at profiling the speed of…

The day Google (almost) lost my data…

On the morning of 22nd March 2025 I received and read an email from Google giving me an "update" on my "Google Maps Timeline", little did I know this was actually telling me they had just lost some of my data... The email read... We briefly experienced a…

Made it to #MWC2025
Time to go and check out the tele2 and Lightbug booth!

I have gone deep on an X thread about Wikipedia,
Please someone come and check on me in a few days and make sure it have slept 🤣

I'm working, honest!

Woo!

So, is there a client or web app these days to help to manage X/Twitter, Mastodon and Bluesky in a simple view? :D

Vuetify app with Wikimedia OAuth login

Do you often find yourself wanting to make a basic (or complex) web app that is client side only and will log users into Wikimedia sites with ease? Me to! I have been trying this every year or so, and it's gradually been getting easier. This year it only took…

Visualizing Wikibase ecosystem, using wikibase.world In October last year, I wrote a post starting to visualize the connections between Wikibases in the ecosystem that had been found and collected on wikibase.world thanks to my bot that I occasionall…

But as there is nothing here yet, take a look at my recent post!
Visualizing Wikibase ecosystem, using wikibase.world
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Just linked this up to my blog for auto sharing! addshore.com