Hi,
I would like to know your opinion about having the value in the #property
parser function. Right now we have two options:
{{#property:P36}}
{{#property:capital}}
The problem with this model is that editors in wikipedia cannot see the
value unless they render the page (or possibly use the VisualEditor).
Having the value in the property parser itself would allow contributors to
see and edit the value in Wikipedia, which would in turn update the
Wikidata value. Of course updating the value in Wikidata will also update
the text field. It could look like
{{#property:P36|value=Berlin}}
{{#property:capital|value=Berlin}}
Or maybe:
{{#property:P36=Berlin}}
{{#property:capital=Berlin}}
What is your opinion about it?
Cheers,
Micru
Hoi,
I do not know if you have seen the statistics compiled by Magnus [1]. They
are up to date and useful.
I blogged about it [2]. As far as I am concerned, the biggest challenge we
face is the lack of labels. Given that 280+ languages are represented in
Wikidata it clearly demonstrates that Wikidata is useless as it is for most
languages. Please tell me that I am wrong and explain why.
Thanks,
GerardM
[1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php
[2] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/10/statistics-for-wikidata.html
Hello everyone,
This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata, also a discussion
over 'Showcase items' was started and Lydia gave a talk at Latinoware on
Wikidata. See the full summary at;
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_10_18
Regards,
John
Hoi,
Is there a bot to add labels to Wikidata ?
It seems that the majority of the Wikidata items have only one label. To be
useful, to be available to search, it is imperative that a label exists.
The obvious value is the name of the Wikipedia article. It is better to
have that as a label than no label..
Is there a bot that will populate Wikidata based on the existing interwiki
links and, is it possible to have the name of a new article added as a
label when a new Wikipedia article is added as an interwiki link?
Thanks,
Gerard
If I want the most current/accurate VIAF ids, should I be looking at
Wikidata or Wikipedia?
When I look at the EN Wikipedia pages for these two topics:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9094http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9095
both of which have property P214, the VIAF identifer, the second displays
the VIAF identifier, but the first doesn't and the one that does display
the identifier appears to be using information from the embedded
AuthorityControl template, not Wikidata.
My concern is that if the Wikidata VIAF data isn't being viewed/edit on
Wikipedia, it can easily be invisibly wrong like the infamous Persondata
template.
Tom
For a while I've noticed that your messages don't show up properly in
Windows Live Mail.
I have many circumstances that are pushing me towards gmail, but you should
correct this because you can assume that you hear maybe 1% of the time when
people have a problem.
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From: Kingsley Idehen
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 9:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF Issues
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Dear All,
by the end of the GSoC2013 period and as an output of Wikidata integration
inside DBpedia project ,
another new Updated RDF DBpedia Dumps for Wikidata Data is now available to
download<https://github.com/hadyelsahar/extraction-framework/wiki/WikiData-DBpedia-D…>
.
the main Features of those dumps than
V0.1<https://github.com/hadyelsahar/extraction-framework/wiki/WikiData-DBpedia-D…>
are
:
- properties mapped dumps from Wikidata to DBpedia
- better datatype handling dumps (automatic assignment of Wikidata (Time
, GlobeCoordinate , CommonMedia files , String ) to their equivalent values
in xsd datatypes and DBpedia equivalent properties)
your Feedback is always needed of course to review the exported data and
enhance it.
Thanks
Regards
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Research Assistant
Center of Informatics Sciences | Nile University<http://nileuniversity.edu.eg/>
We have deployed new code to Wikidata. This includes various bug fixes and
some new features.
Changes of note include:
* Item ID is displayed next to the item label (see paper cut [1])
* Improved appearance of Wikimedia Commons site link section
In the API:
* EditEntity module allows editing / adding claims and creating entities
with claims.
* API has a new merge items module.
* Precision for time values is now validated. The API no longer accepts
time values more precise than a day, as such values are handled
inconsistently in the UI. (see bug 54939 [2])
* Coordinate values with null precision are no longer accepted by the API
for new claims.
In the clients (Wikivoyage/Commons now, Wikipedia on Thursday):
* The Wikidata flag 'D' on watchlist and recentchanges is styled.
[1]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Paper_cuts#The_Q_number_is_nowhere_w…
[2] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/54939
Cheers,
Katie
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Just as a suggestion, you can turn these kind of numbers into a probability
distribution using the beta distribution. If you use (1,1) as a prior you
get something like beta(251,1) for the the probability of the probability
that somebody named "Aaron" is male.
-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Krötzsch
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 6:16 PM
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project.
Subject: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender
bias
Hi all,
I'd like to share a little Wikidata application: I just used Wikidata to
guess the sex of people based on their (first) name [1]. My goal was to
determine gender bias among the authors in several research areas. This
is how some people spend their free time on weekends ;-)
In the process, I also created a long list of first names with
associated sex information from Wikidata [2]. It is not super clean but
it served its purpose. If you are a researcher, then maybe the gender
bias of journals/conferences is interesting to you as well. Details and
some discussion of the results are online [1].
Cheers,
Markus
[1] http://korrekt.org/page/Note:Sex_Distributions_in_Research
[2]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AstQ5xfO-xXGdE9UVkxNc0JMVWJzNm…
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Hoi,
The new blog post about VIAF is really interesting.. It has many
implications so please, as far as I am concerned this is a must read..
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8964
Thanks,
Gerard