Wikidata Topic Curator

This a webapp to help wikimedians curate groups of items on Wikidata with topics.

Yet another rewrite

This project contains a rewrite mostly done by chatbot. It has all the features of the former flask app except user defined prefix/affix.

Rewriting it had lots of benefits including:

• up to 100x faster page load time
• async in the browser is way nicer from the user prespective
• easier to maintain not that there is very little backend code at all
• I got to learn React :D

Features

See the documentation.

Documentation

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata_Topic_Curator

Participating

See the issues in Github. Feel free to open a new one or send a pull request. :)

License

GPLv3+

History

• 2025 React + Vite rewrite done (3 weeks development time using ChatGPT 4o to convert and improve existing code)
• 2024 Python flask rewrite done (months of development time)
• 2022 Python terminal app ItemSubjector (months of development time)

Statistics

This is a 2k lines React app with 4 pages, 7 components and 10 models.

$ scc
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Language                 Files     Lines   Blanks  Comments     Code Complexity
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
TypeScript                  41      2195      267       132     1796        202

What I learned

• Chatgpt 4o is very good at React and TyepScript but I had to wrestle it a bit to get good OOP code