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Wikidata weekly summary #356

Introduction of rate limiting to the PubMed API:

Hi Mike, I hope that you are well and are having a great year so far. I was just flagged that PubMed now has a rate limiting request: "any site (IP address) posting more than 3 requests per second to the E-utilities without an API key will receive an error message" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25497/#chapter2.Coming_in_December_2018_API_Key Does effect our Cochrane Update bot?

Thanks, Jenny JenOttawa (talk) 16:01, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

@JenOttawa: Thanks for spotting that. I think we should be OK, since the bot code only fetches one page at a time, and that takes around a second before it fetches the next one. it's something to keep an eye out for in the future, though. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:17, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Mike, thanks for the information. The Cochrane bot (en) seems to be running really well. Hope that you are having a nice week. JenOttawa (talk) 02:05, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #357

DYK for Engenho dos Erasmos

On 27 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Engenho dos Erasmos, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Engenho dos Erasmos, built in Colonial Brazil around 1534 to produce sugar cane, was attacked by the English in 1591 and the Dutch in 1615? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Engenho dos Erasmos. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Engenho dos Erasmos), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

This Month in Education: March 2019

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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.

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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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Wikidata weekly summary #358

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Wikidata weekly summary #359

This Month in GLAM: March 2019





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Wikidata weekly summary #360

This Month in Education: April 2019

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