Recently stumbled about #Mapcarta
Another project (like cartes.app/ and @lokjo ) building on excellent #OpenStreetmap data.
While I like Cartes for planning routes, Mapcarta is very good to get an overview and interesting things in a place / area since it integrates #Wikimedia / #Wikidata data quite nicely.
I (Evan) will be at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 in Milan, Italy this weekend (May 1-4). I’m especially interested in how we can connect Wikimedia projects and content to the Social Web using ActivityPub. I’ll be holding a session on the topic on Sunday May 3 at 9AM, but I’ll also be available for discussions throughout the weekend.
My hacking project plan is to make an ActivityPub object server for films. There are about 343,000 films in Wikidata, which compares pretty favourably with the 740,000 films in IMDB. There is a JSON-LD interface to Wikidata, but the types used don’t match up with ActivityPub types like Video. So, like places.pub, I’ll set up movies.pub to share an ActivityPub object for every Q-item for a movie, as well as a search endpoint to find films by name.
If I get ahead of the project and I’m not too jet-lagged, I’d like to add an ActivityPub API app to “check in” to a movie that you’re watching (and maybe give a little review). Similar to checkin.swf.pub with places!
If you’re at #wmhack this weekend, please come say hi. I love talking about Wikimedia projects and the open social web.
Nearly 10,000 organizations, institutions, companies, and other official groups with a fediverse presence recorded on Wikidata!
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Browse more than 5,700 accounts, courtesy of Wikidata.data.stefanbohacek.com
