#wmhack travel thread starts!

[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

update: the bad news is my “optimization” is a 2× slowdown

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[harmonia_amanda@eldritch.cafe]

@LucasWerkmeister meanwhile because I couldn't remember how to do proper subqueries I went brute force and ran my query in two parts with the always reliable VALUES {} trick

[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

the cake is not a lie

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[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

> implying the rest of #wmhack is not nerd HQ

[bvibber@wikis.world]

@LucasWerkmeister nerd affiliate

[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

@bvibber nerd chapter

nerd user group

[moebeus@mastodon.online]

@LucasWerkmeister establishing rank on day one, pro move

[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

good morning #wmhack! no selfie yet as I rushed straight into an API Portal session

[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

Halley Coplin pointed out that the search results for “Wikipedia API” aren’t great, so I had a look and now I’m intrigued by this “preview” for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API – I highly doubt that text shows up on the article…

(this is with all DuckDuckGo “AI” features disabled btw)

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[pb@chaos.social]

@LucasWerkmeister Oh, DuckDuckGo has been doing that for a while now, especially for Wikipedia articles. I think they’re getting it from Bing https://chaos.social/@pb/112812963612005171

[pb@chaos.social]

@LucasWerkmeister Or rather, I find it especially noticeable for Wikipedia articles because the tone of the snippet is so obviously off.

[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

train spotted

(slide by @manjiki, probably under some CC license ^^)

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[sl007@digitalcourage.social]

@LucasWerkmeister

Search result 1 SHOULD be https://github.com/maxlath/wikibase-sdk by @maxlath who is at #wmhack

[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

“I hate residential proxies

all my enemies are inside them”

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[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

(not a quote from the presentation, just inspired by it ^^)

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[nyanbinary@infosec.exchange]

@LucasWerkmeister wow, we hate folx having a home now?

[maxlath@piaille.fr]

@sl007 @LucasWerkmeister nop, wikibase-sdk doesn't do much wikipedia, only wikidata/wikibase

[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

dear #wmhack! in about 1½ hours (at 15:15 CEST), I’m doing a presentation about Cool New Things In JS + CSS (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423292) in space 5!

come join me to hear about loads of new JavaScript (and some CSS) features that we’re allowed to use in MediaWiki code more or less recently (since we dropped support for some older browsers)

[magnusmanske@wikis.world]

@LucasWerkmeister will there be a recording?

[lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world]

@magnusmanske no, but there will be slides (including skipped slides recapping what I'm planning to say which will be included in the upload)