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Wikidata weekly summary #356

Wikidata weekly summary #357

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2   Mervyn Manningham-Buller (talk) Add sources
30   White March (talk) Add sources
4   Jack Cohen (politician) (talk) Add sources
20   John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll (talk) Add sources
9   Samuel Cleland Davidson (talk) Add sources
3   Lucy Noel-Buxton, Baroness Noel-Buxton (talk) Add sources
8   Nathaniel Bliss (talk) Cleanup
176   Bell H-13 Sioux (talk) Cleanup
164   Numeral (linguistics) (talk) Cleanup
398   New Mexico chile (talk) Expand
336   Andrea Jenkyns (talk) Expand
88   Zoltán Dani (talk) Expand
69   Far-left politics in the United Kingdom (talk) Unencyclopaedic
721   United States Air Force Thunderbirds (talk) Unencyclopaedic
15   Umbellulone (talk) Unencyclopaedic
165   Houttuynia cordata (talk) Merge
216   Endemol Shine Group (talk) Merge
9   Vietnamese eggplant (talk) Merge
9   Jim McGovern (British politician) (talk) Wikify
10   Tollmann's bolide hypothesis (talk) Wikify
213   Elmendorf Air Force Base (talk) Wikify
14   Curcumin synthase (talk) Orphan
5   Ashagi Lamiya (talk) Orphan
4   Bangkok Free Trade Zone (talk) Orphan
2   John Jenyns (talk) Stub
3   John Trevanion (talk) Stub
2   Sir Humphrey Briggs, 4th Baronet (talk) Stub
51   David Linden (politician) (talk) Stub
3   Sir Thomas Reade, 4th Baronet (talk) Stub
2   George Sandford (talk) Stub

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3   Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor (talk) Add sources
6   Thomas Graves, 2nd Baron Graves (talk) Add sources
2   Fitzpatrick Vernon, 2nd Baron Lyveden (talk) Add sources
1,132   Nicola Sturgeon (talk) Add sources
11   Malcolm St Clair (politician) (talk) Add sources
7   John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley (talk) Add sources
30   Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle (talk) Cleanup
9   Nicholas Brembre (talk) Cleanup
11   2015 United Kingdom general election debates (talk) Cleanup
9   North West Surrey (UK Parliament constituency) (talk) Expand
56   Terrebonne, Quebec (talk) Expand
4   South East Durham (UK Parliament constituency) (talk) Expand
960   Minor League Baseball (talk) Unencyclopaedic
267   Economy of Bihar (talk) Unencyclopaedic
650   Electric smoking system (talk) Unencyclopaedic
307   Sultanate of Sulu (talk) Merge
4   Para-Diethynylbenzene dianion (talk) Merge
20   Pith wood (talk) Merge
30,526   Brexit (talk) Wikify
28   Standard J (talk) Wikify
20   Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (talk) Wikify
2   Albert Johan Petersson (talk) Orphan
3   Article 16 of the Constitution of the Hellenic Republic (talk) Orphan
3   AIMS college (talk) Orphan
21   Ronnie Cowan (politician) (talk) Stub
5   Godfrey Clarke (talk) Stub
34   Gavin Newlands (talk) Stub
29   Marion Fellows (talk) Stub
4   William Forester (1690–1758) (talk) Stub
32   Patricia Gibson (talk) Stub

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Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
 

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When in the cloud, do as the APIs do

Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook.

File:Cloud-API-Logo.svg
Logo of Cloud API on Google Cloud Platform

The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API.

APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web.

Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of "Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do.

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The Signpost: 31 March 2019

Wikidata weekly summary #358

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6,515   2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum (talk) Add sources
22   Nathaniel Dance-Holland (talk) Add sources
459   Energy medicine (talk) Add sources
205   Ann Coffey (talk) Add sources
4,493   Labour Party (UK) (talk) Add sources
22   Young Scots for Independence (talk) Add sources
24   British Polling Council (talk) Cleanup
8   George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot (talk) Cleanup
18   Lincoln College, Lincolnshire (talk) Cleanup
20   Jean Nicod Prize (talk) Expand
19   The Independent Game Developers' Association (talk) Expand
140   Labour Party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn (talk) Expand
1,237   Softball (talk) Unencyclopaedic
5   Humphrey Mackworth (Parliamentarian) (talk) Unencyclopaedic
861   Power of two (talk) Unencyclopaedic
11,222   Jacob Rees-Mogg (talk) Merge
12   Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania (talk) Merge
4   The Princess (1983 film) (talk) Merge
6   Penguin poetry anthologies (talk) Wikify
125   Dead or Alive 3 (talk) Wikify
6   Gordon Stanley (talk) Wikify
2   Henry Farrington (talk) Orphan
3   Diane Barber (talk) Orphan
2   Ahrensberg (Habichtswald) (talk) Orphan
31   Douglas Chapman (Scottish politician) (talk) Stub
2   John Nicholas Fazakerley (talk) Stub
3   Charles Mills (Uxbridge MP) (talk) Stub
4   29 South LaSalle (talk) Stub
166   SNAC (talk) Stub
8   Paul Jenkins (barrister) (talk) Stub

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