Are you querying for scholarly articles on Wikidata Query Service? The graph split work that will affect you is ongoing and you can find out more about the current status and next steps in the latest update: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update/March_2025_scaling_update

@harrisonstephen Something you said during the panel was striking to me, that Wikipedia needs better "messaging" around how it works. To be frank, no amount of facts will override someone's core emotional beliefs about Wikipedia. If anything, attempting to correct the record more often than not will cause people to double down on their pre existing beliefs.

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@ainali The word itself is bad at communicating its own meaning, and highly vulnerable to semantic drift.

The word "enshittification" is newspeak, a construction of language that diminishes your capacity for critical thought and expression. Instead of using buzzwords that mean little more than "I don't like it," describe what it is you are complaining about.

Recent ideas for new Wikipedia articles:

- Fast rap (it's rap... but fast)
- Radical forgiveness (forgiving the unforgivable for your own healing)
- Cultural depictions of the United States (how Americans portray themselves and are portrayed)
- Generative constraint (when a limitation forces you to be creative)

@mlinksva then don't use it at all

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I walked out of Jimmy Wales speech at #Wikimania2024 in protest of Fandom's business practices. What the #Wikimedia community needs to understand is that when a wiki decides to leave Fandom, Fandom will refuse to take down the wiki, essentially taking the stance that it is better to keep a community forked than it is to reduce traffic to Fandom. Jimmy Wales has the audacity to run a business that is opposed to the right to fork and then show up to a Wikipedia event like nothing happened.

I will be attending #Wikimania 2024 in Poland.

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The #MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference will be held April 17-19, 2024 in Portland, Oregon: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conference_2024

This is a cached query result: https://results.orbopengraph.com/#%23%20Vaccine%20safety%3A%20vaccine%20types%0A%23%20defaultView%3ATable%0Aselect%20%3Fitem%20%3Farticle%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2A%20wd%3AQ105967696.%0A%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A//en.wikipedia.org/%3E.%0A%7D

It updates every 24 hours, as it is configured to. A backend process submits the query to a private, load-balanced query service, and makes it visible through that frontend. If you try to submit a query through that frontend, it won't work.

The next step is setting up the app that lets you enter queries into the database.

#wikidata #wikibase #sparql #rdf #query #blazegraph #graphdatabase

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Tiny proof of concept wherein I #SPARQL query #Librarybase for a particular item and then I pull an additional datum (the author) from Wikidata based on an "exact match" statement linking the two sites. #rdf

Just say the word, su, su, su, visudo!

Why do people keep signing up for new social networks as they launch? It's like falling for the same #scam over and over again.

When Disney bought 20th Century Fox, King of the Hill became a Disney property.

So if Apple were to then buy Disney, would Hank Hill become an Apple product?

#SilentSunday as a trending hash tag is a bit ironic don't you think?