Introduction to technical
Wikimedia world
Wiki
Wikipedia
Wikimedia
MediaWiki
Wiki CMS
Built mostly in:
- PHP
- JavaScript
MediaWiki: Content
Namespaces
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Main
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Talk
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User
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Category
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Template
Infoboxes
Templates
MediaWiki functions
Templates
Ordered parameters
{{MyTemplate | Hello | World }}
{{{1|Hi}}}, {{{2|Moon}}} !
Template:MyTemplate
Templates
Named parameters
{{MyNamedTemplate | greeting=Hello | recipient=World }}
Template:MyNamedTemplate
{{{greeting|Hi}}}, {{{recipient|Moon}}} !
Bots
The hidden ones
MediaWiki API
Accessing MediaWiki programatically
Example:
MediaWiki API clients / libraries
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Perl (MediaWiki::API, MediaWiki::Bot)
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Python (Mwclient, Pywikibot)
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JavaScript (nodemw)
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etc.
Infrastructure and resources
Wikidata
Wikidata: Namespaces
- «Wiki ones»: User, Category, etc.
- Wikibase ones: Item, Property (both Entities)
Wikidata: Overview
Wikidata: Concepts
- Labels
- Descriptions
- Aliases
- Sitelinks
- Statements
- Qualifiers
- References
- ...
Wikidata: Statements
Wikidata: Exports
Machine-friendly
Wikidata: triples
Paul Schuster was born in Dresden
Wikidata: RDF
(Resource Description Framework)
Wikidata: Querying
SPARQL
SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language
Similar to SQL, but for the Semantic Web
Wikidata Query Service
3rd party visualizations: Scholia
3rd party visualizations: Reasonator
3rd party visualizations: tempo-spatial
Wikidata: dumps
- JSON
- XML
- RDF
- etc.
Entities
Linked Open Data
Wikimedia ♥ Docker
Official or popular Docker images
Docker images I used in courses
We build the one above following README instructions, modifying Bash scripts and Dockerfile if desired
We can build this one as well. Alternately we can reuse it from:
https://hub.docker.com/r/toniher/debian-python-mediawiki/
However you need to mount example scripts provided in the repo above
Wikimedia Hackathon 2018
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