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Replicator: Wikidata import tool

2016-01-25 Jeroen 1 Comment

I’m happy to announce the first release of Replicator, a CLI tool for importing entities from Wikidata. Replicator was created…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: EntityStore, JSON Dump Reader, Open Source, Planet Wikimedia, Plugins, QueryR, Release, Replicator, TermStore, Wikibase, Wikibase QueryEngine, wikidata, Wikidata dump

EntityStore and TermStore for Wikibase/Wikidata

2015-11-14 Jeroen 1 Comment

I’m happy to announce the public release of two new PHP libraries that provide services around Wikibase, the software behind…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Components, composer, EntityStore, Library, Open Source, packagist, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, QueryR, TermStore, Wikibase, wikidata

Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader

2015-11-08 Jeroen 3 Comments

I’ve created a small PHP library to read from, and iterate through, Wikidata/Wikibase JSON dumps. Wikidata is the free knowledge…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Iterator, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, wikidata, Wikidata dump

Rewindable PHP Generators

Jeroen 2 Comments

Today I was refactoring some code in one of my libraries, and ended up replacing a named Iterator class with…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Adapter, Generators, Iterator, Library, Open Source, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Rewindable Generator

PHPMD: TooManyPublicMethods and allow-underscores

2015-09-30 Jeroen Leave a comment

Earlier this month, PHPMD 2.3 was released. It contains several new features, including two that I added primarily for use…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Code Quality, PHP, PHPMD, Quality Assurance, Wikibase, WMDE

Wikibase DataModel Services

2015-08-11 Jeroen 3 Comments

I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of a new Wikibase library: Wikibase DataModel Services (which I’ll in this blog…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Clean Code, Component design, Legacy code, Open Source, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Refactoring, Release, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, Wikibase DataModel Services, wikidata, WMDE

Semantic MediaWiki news

2015-02-20 Jeroen Leave a comment

It’s been a while since I last wrote about Semantic MediaWiki, even though several noteworthy things have happened since. In…

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Posted in: News, Software Filed under: Conference, MediaWiki, MediaWiki extensions, Open Source, Release, Semantic MediaWiki, Semantic Web, SMW, SMWCon, Wiki

Wikibase DataModel 1.0

2014-09-02 Jeroen Leave a comment

I’m happy to announce the 1.0 release of Wikibase DataModel. Wikibase DataModel is the canonical PHP implementation of the Data Model…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Open Source, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Release, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, wikidata

Doctrine QueryBuilder table alias

2014-08-02 Jeroen 2 Comments

The Doctrine project, best known for its Object Relational Mapper, also includes a database abstraction layer, used by the ORM.…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Database, DBAL, Doctrine, Open Source, Planet Wikimedia

Semantic MediaWiki 2.0 RC3

2014-07-24 Jeroen Leave a comment

I am happy to announce the third release candidate for Semantic MediaWiki 2.0 is now available. Semantic MediaWiki 2.0 is…

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Posted in: News, Software Filed under: MediaWiki, MediaWiki extensions, Planet Wikimedia, Release, Semantic MediaWiki, SMW

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