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The Query Service Tutorial for Wikidata: An interview with Dr. Keren Shatzman from Wikimedia Israel

With the Wikidata Query service tutorial, Wikimedia Israel aims to empower new users to query Wikidata, which currently holds almost 90 million items.

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Wikimedia’s CDN

The 1st of a 3 part series that will describe some of the changes, which included replacing Varnish with Apache Traffic Server (ATS) as the on-disk HTTP cache component of the CDN.

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Bot or Not? Identifying ”fake” traffic on Wikipedia

We have been working this past year to better identify and tag the “bot spam” traffic so we can produce top pageview lists that (mostly) do not require manual curation.

MediaWiki History: the best dataset on Wikimedia content and contributors

Learn about using the Mediawiki History Dataset to explore the every day experience of editors on Wikipedia.

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One year of Small Wiki Toolkits initiative–and more to come!

By Srishti Sethi, Senior Developer Advocate Overview Small Wiki Toolkits is an initiative that focuses on building technical capacity in…

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Diving into Wikipedia’s ocean of errors

This blog post documents how we prioritized debugging an issue on mobile; how we went about implementing a solution; and what we learned from the experience.

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