Denny Vrandečić / is on Nostr

Husband. Dad. Cat owner. Works on Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions at Wikimedia Foundation. Wikidata founder. Previously: ontologist at Google, Wikimedia Trustee, and RPG author. Berkeley, CA, roots in Brač, Croatia, grew up in Germany. he/him. Views my own.

Posting cat pics and occasionally other stuff.

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2024-11-04 12:17:43

Picture of the Year 2023 on Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Incense_in_Vietnam.jpg
All finalists:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2023/Results/All
Previous winners: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2023
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/424/636/852/589/687/original/155b68d9dbe25808.png

2024-10-17 06:16:50

TIL that the "My" in MySQL is not the English word my but the Swedish name My, for the daughter of #MySQL co-founder Michael Widenius. ♡
The name My was introduced by Tove Jansson for the #Moomins character Little My, who is named after the Greek letter mu.
So you could pronounce My as [ˈmyː] or as [maɪ].
Never mind how to pronounce SQL.
MySQL documentation defines the official #pronunciation as “My Ess Que Ell” but the devs in Swedish say "mü-ess-ku-ell".
Sources in reply.
#linguistics

2024-10-05 06:17:08

This initiative asks to introduce a European Wealth Tax for the very rich, and to earmark the money for the ecological and social transition. European citizen initiatives need a million signatures and meet a threshold in seven member states.
So far, a third of a million citizens have signed, and the threshold has been met in only three countries. Please spread the word and consider signing. If you can, please spread the word in your language too, to reach more people.
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home/allcountries

2024-09-04 14:39:16

Wikidata is getting too big, and the graph is being split
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update/September_2024_scaling_update

2024-06-02 14:02:51

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 that sounds fascinating! I just started reading it for the first time in English, and would love to listen along. Do you have a link to the podcast?

2024-06-02 14:02:51

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 that sounds fascinating! I just started reading it for the first time in English, and would love to listen along. Do you have a link to the podcast?

2024-05-24 15:44:46

Putting the UK General Election on the Fourth of July, where nothing of importance ever happened in UK history, is an interesting choice.
#ukpol #elections #fourthofjuly

2023-08-16 09:11:52

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@npub1zp3…9n8x that screen