#wmhack travel thread starts!
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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

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(not a quote from the presentation, just inspired by it ^^)
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@LucasWerkmeister wow, we hate folx having a home now?

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

@sl007 @LucasWerkmeister nop, wikibase-sdk doesn't do much wikipedia, only wikidata/wikibase
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(not a quote from the presentation, just inspired by it ^^)
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)

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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)

@LucasWerkmeister will there be a recording?


