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Tag: Wikibase

Generic Entity handling code

2017-05-24 Jeroen Leave a comment

In this blog post I outline my thinking on sharing code that deals with different types of Entities in your…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Anti-patterns, Architecture, Bounded Contexts, Clean Code, Design patterns, Domain Driven Design, Entities, Planet Wikimedia, Software Architecture, Software design, Strategic Design, Wikibase, WMDE

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

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

PHPCS and PHPMD: my experiences

2015-02-20 Jeroen 1 Comment

PHPCS (PHP Code Sniffer) detects violations against a specified coding standard. PHPMD (PHP Mess Detector) is a similar tool, though…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Code Quality, composer, Continuous Integration, MediaWiki, Open Source, PHP, PHPCS, PHPMD, Planet Wikimedia, Quality Assurance, Refactoring, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, WMDE

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

Some fun with iterators

2014-07-14 Jeroen 5 Comments

Sometimes you need to loop over a big pile of stuff and execute an action for each item. In the…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Batching, Iterator, Open Source, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Software design, Wikibase, wikidata

Wikibase and Doctrine DBAL

2014-05-06 Jeroen 2 Comments

When I started writing this blog post, I realized some introduction to the query components was first due. You can…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Architecture, DBAL, Doctrine, MediaWiki, Planet Wikimedia, Refactoring, Software design, SQLStore, Wikibase, Wikibase Query, Wikibase QueryEngine, wikidata

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