Hey folks,
we plan to drop the wb_entity_per_page table sometime soon[0], because
it is just not required (as we will likely always have a programmatic
mapping from entity id to page title) and it does not supported non
-numeric entity ids as it is now. Due to this removing it is a blocker
for the commons metadata.
Is anybody using that for their tools (on tool labs)? If so, please
tell us so that we can give you instructions and a longer grace period
to update your scripts.
Cheers,
Marius
[0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95685
Hi folks!
My name is Glorian Yapinus, but you can simply call me Glorian ;) . For the
next 6 months, I will assist Lydia in supporting you all.
Regarding to my educational background, I hold a bachelor's degree in
Information Technology and currently, I am working on my Master's in
Software Engineering and Management.
I am a warm and nice person. So, please do not hesitate to reach out to me
for any queries :-)
Last but not least, I am looking forward to working with you.
Cheers,
Glorian
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Glorian Yapinus
Product Management Intern for Wikidata
Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
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Hi all,
I think this topic might have been discussed many months ago. For
certain data types in the chemical compound space (P233, canonical
smiles, P2017 isomeric smiles and P234 Inchi key) a higher character
limit than 400 would be really helpful (1500 to 2000 chars (I sense
that this might cause problems with SPARQL)). Are there any plans on
implementing this? In general, for quality assurance, many string
property types would profit from a fixed max string length.
Best,
Sebastian
Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD
Research Associate
Andrew Su Lab
MEM-216, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
@sebotic
Dear all,
My name is Nazanin and I am a Wikipedia editor. I studied statistics in my
undergraduate program and recently I have begun my master program also in
statistics. According to my interests in Wikimedia projects, I would like
to choose a Wikidata-related project as my master thesis. I have already
worked on descriptive statistics and I look forward to working on Monte
Carlo methods for forcasting, simulation and modelling. How can I help in
Wikidara and how could we have a productive cooperation?
All the best,
Nazanin
Hi all!
I plan to add the wikibase (SQL) database schema as a stable interface.
Typically, a database schema is considered internal, but since we have tools on
labs that may rely on the current schema, breaking changes to the schema should
be announced as such. To address this, I plan to add the following paragraph to
the Stable Public APIs section:
The database schema as exposed on Wikimedia Labs is considered a stable
interface. Changes to the available tables and fields are subject to the
above notification policy.
In addition, I plan to add the following paragraph to the Extensibility section:
In a tabular data representation, such as a relational database schema, the
addition of fields is not considered a breaking change. Any change to the
interpretation of a field, as well as the removal of fields, are considered
breaking. Changes to existing unique indexes or primary keys are breaking
changes; changes to other indexes as well as the addition of new unique
indexes are not breaking changes.
If you have any thoughts ob objections, please let me know at
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Stable_Interface_Policy#Databas…>
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Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Hi,
Hope this finds you all well. I'm wondering if there is a way/tool to
identify the articles that exist in the one edition of Wikipedia and have
counterparts in another. I'm also wondering if there is a way to generate a
list of these articles' titles for certain categories.
Best,
Reem
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*Kind regards,Reem Al-Kashif*
Hello folks,
Today I start by sharing *a blog post
<http://stryn.eu/blog/2016/10/4-years-of-wikidata/> from @Stryn
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Stryn>:* who's involved on Wikidata
since the beginning of the project! Thank you Stryn :)
We received several birthday presents from editors, that's so great! Maybe
you already know about *Scholia <https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/>*, a
tool to create scholarship profiles built on the Query Service. Its creator
fnielsen <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Fnielsen> added a search
field, you can now type the name of a person (or the Qid) to see more about
researchers' education, employers and publications. Thanks Finn for your
work!
Lastly, let me introduce you a improved feature my colleagues are offering
you for the birthday: *the parser function {{#statements:…}}*.
As you may know, for three years the function {{#property:…}} is deployed
on all Wikimedia projects and allows you to display data from Wikidata,
without using LUA. For example, the code {{#property:P1559|from=Q42}} will
display Douglas Adams.
We improved this tool in a new parser function: {{#statements:…}}.
The new wikitext format renders statement values as *syntactically
meaningful elements* instead of just plain text. For example, entity IDs
are clickable links that link to the corresponding article, external
identifiers link to the external authority, and Commons media files are
rendered as thumbnails. The new output format will be available via a new
{{#statements:…}} parser function, via a new “formatStatements” Lua
function, and via the “wbformatentity” API, when used with
“generate=text/x-wiki”.
The new parser function is in early development. The output produce may
change any time. {{#statements:…}} is currently disabled on all wikis
except the beta cluster. We hope to enable it within the next weeks when we
consider the feature stable enough. For now, you can see and test it on the
beta German Wikipedia. *See an example and the difference between the two
functions
<https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements?uselang=en>*.
We are really interested by your feedbacks: please leave comments on the
Phabricator ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142940> or on
Wikidata:Contact
the development team
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team>.
This feature was built by multiple developers from the Wikidata team with
help from volunteers. Mostly hoo_man
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Hoo_man> and Thiemo Mättig (WMDE)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Thiemo_M%C3%A4ttig_%28WMDE%29> as well
as Daniel Kinzler (WMDE)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Kinzler_%28WMDE%29> and Jonas
Kress (WMDE) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jonas_Kress_%28WMDE%29>.
Special thanks to the volunteers that contributed in Phabricator
discussions, especially Izno <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Izno>!
Cheers,
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Léa Lacroix
Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.