#wmhack travel thread starts!
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almost left the hotel without my cat ears!!
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good morning #wmhack!! (ec selfie)

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the hackathon opening is being streamed, if you want to watch from home: https://youtube.com/live/7ZoQdPNt1nc
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the hackathon opening is being streamed, if you want to watch from home: https://youtube.com/live/7ZoQdPNt1nc
@LucasWerkmeister unfortunately the audio is very low on youtube...
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the hackathon opening is being streamed, if you want to watch from home: https://youtube.com/live/7ZoQdPNt1nc
approx. two minutes between me sitting down at a table and me getting out the power strip I brought “just in case” (we didn’t have one on the table o_O)
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approx. two minutes between me sitting down at a table and me getting out the power strip I brought “just in case” (we didn’t have one on the table o_O)
well the good news is that the fix for my broken #wmhack project was really simple, I was just missing one hyphen
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well the good news is that the fix for my broken #wmhack project was really simple, I was just missing one hyphen
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well the good news is that the fix for my broken #wmhack project was really simple, I was just missing one hyphen
update: the bad news is my “optimization” is a 2× slowdown

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well the good news is that the fix for my broken #wmhack project was really simple, I was just missing one hyphen
@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
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update: the bad news is my “optimization” is a 2× slowdown

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> implying the rest of #wmhack is not nerd HQ

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> implying the rest of #wmhack is not nerd HQ

@LucasWerkmeister nerd affiliate
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@LucasWerkmeister nerd affiliate
@bvibber nerd chapter
nerd user group
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> implying the rest of #wmhack is not nerd HQ

@LucasWerkmeister establishing rank on day one, pro move
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> implying the rest of #wmhack is not nerd HQ

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

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

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





