I wanted to send someone a URL to show them how a data item looks in
Japanese (so we could see which items have a translation). But am I
right in thinking there is nothing I can put in the URL to do this?
I also tried changing my accept-language header to put "ja" first, but
it is ignored. Was this a feature that was discussed and rejected; or
just an itch that no-one has got around to scratching yet?
Darren
P.S. I realize I can login, change my UI to another language, and see
the data that way. But that is quite a long-winded process, especially
if the person has not created an account yet.
It also changes the whole UI, not just the data, which is painful if I
just want to see what has been translated but cannot read the language.
I think for a project about data, you should be able to set the UI
language and the content language separately.
E.g. I just put a page into Greek (I think), and now I can see the few
items that have been translated, but cannot read the property names! Let
alone navigate the site.) (The switch back to previous language link at
the top was a great idea, though - thank-you to whoever thought of that
shortcut.)
I wondered if anyone else is actively working on fleshing out the
company data within Wikidata?
Is
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Companies/Properties
the best reference guide?
Looking to chat, on- or off-list, with interested people, hear about
academic research being done, challenges you are facing, etc. Even set
up a meetup if there is anyone in or near London.
As background we're organizing (paying) some people to improve the
quantity and quality in a couple of areas (*), with the ulterior motive
of reaching a critical mass, so the information becomes useful and other
users or even the companies themselves start maintaining it.
Some of the above page is still vague, and the examples are simple. We
want to be able to cope with complex business structures, joint-venture
child companies, companies in multiple industries, with many brands and
products, etc.
Darren
*: Not coincidentally, areas that are useful to a couple of our clients.
"We" is my company, QQ Trend Ltd., a small data/AI company.
Hi,
I have a set of specific querie that my programme shoukd make to Wikidata.
How to best make such queries (information search) in terms of query
response time?
One approach that I am familar is to use APIs, such as Wikidata Toolkit API
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit>, to query documents in
Wiki and parse each document (and perhaps follow hyperlinks) for obtaining
the specific feature values. I have tested this, but the queries could take
seconds. Now there could be many factors responsible for this such as
internet connection, the scheme for parsing wikidata graph, etc.
Another approach would be to use the Wikidata Query Service
<https://query.wikidata.org/> and SPARQL queries. This is also slow
sometimes.
My questions:
- Are there benchmarks on response time performance of Wikidata Query
Service <https://query.wikidata.org/> SPARQL queries?
- Is there a JAVA API to the Wikidata Query Service
<https://query.wikidata.org/> interface?
- Can SPARQL be used to query a dump of Wikidata?
Thanks and regards
Raveesh
Hi,
The next "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on Wednesday the 23rd of January,
on a time to be chosen via Doodle poll:
https://doodle.com/poll/5mf5cfkuxpprk727. The plan is that for January's
meetup we will focus on Wikidata. Bluerasberry
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bluerasberry>, who works extensively
with Wikidata at the University of Virginia's Data Science Institute, plans
to participate.
The Zoom online meeting link will be the same link that we have used for
previous Wikimedia Café meetups; see below.
The Café meetups are usually small, so they are a good place to ask
questions or to discuss ideas, regarding Wikidata or other Wikimedia topics.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:15 PM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Based on comments that I received on Wikimedia-l, I would like to invite
> people to a casual online meetup one hour before the monthly WMF Metrics
> and Activities Meeting.
>
> There will be no set agenda. You can come with questions or ideas that you
> would like to discuss. Please be willing to listen to questions and ideas
> from other Wikimedians.
>
> I will host the meeting with the Zoom software. You can join with software
> or by using your phone. If you join by phone then your phone number will be
> visible to other participants.
>
> The primary language of the meeting will be English, but if people would
> like to communicate in diverse languages then that is okay too. We can
> facilitate translation by text chat. Many Wikimedians, myself included, are
> multilingual in varying degrees, so we might try to have live
> interpretation also.
>
> Here is information about how to connect:
>
> Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/136978210
>
> Or iPhone one-tap :
> Argentina: +543415122188,,136978210#
> Or Telephone:
> Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current
> location):
> Argentina: +54 341 512 2188
> Australia: +61 (0) 2 8015 2088 or +61 (0) 8 7150 1149
> Canada: +1 647 558 0588
> Hong Kong, China: +852 5808 6088
> France: +33 (0) 1 8288 0188 or +33 (0) 7 5678 4048
> Germany: +49 (0) 30 3080 6188 or +49 (0) 30 5679 5800
> Israel: +972 (0) 3 978 6688
> Italy: +39 069 480 6488
> Japan: +81 (0) 3 4578 1488 or +81 524 564 439
> Mexico: +52 229 910 0061 or +52 554 161 4288
> Spain: +34 84 368 5025 or +34 91 198 0188
> Sweden: +46 (0) 7 6692 0434 or +46 (0) 8 4468 2488
> Russia: +7 495 283 9788
> United Kingdom: +44 (0) 20 3051 2874 or +44 (0) 20 3695 0088
> US: +1 408 638 0986 or +1 646 558 8665
> Meeting ID: 136 978 210
> International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/ekaPibJIy
>
> The first "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on 30 August 2018, at 17:00 UTC
> / 10:00 Pacific.
>
> Let me emphasize that the environment won't be like this
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Hartford,_Connecticut_health_care_r…>,
> so please don't feel intimated if you are nervous about public speaking.
> (If a conversation feels to me like it is becoming uncivil or intimidating,
> then I will ask the debaters to quiet themselves or to move to somewhere
> else.) The meeting will generally have an environment that is more like
> this <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caf%C3%A9_M%C3%A9lange,_Wien.jpg>
> or this
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Takamatsu-Castle-Building-Interior-M3488…>.
> I anticipate that few people will come, which is okay. I hope that if you
> come then you will enjoy the environment and conversation.
>
> Until next time,
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
(sorry for cross-posting on wiki-research and wikidata)
For an event, I am trying for find statistics about the gender gap. At
one point there was a nice website with some information. Now it seems
to be gone.
https://denelezh.dicare.org/gender-gap.php
redirects to https://wdcm.wmflabs.org/WDCM_BiasesDashboard/ but I get
"502 Bad Gateway"
For http://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-date-of-birth.html I see changes
statistics on a web page. (when I view this page it seems as if the CSS
is missing)
I have trying Wikidata Query Service. I have a few results here:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Fnielsen/Gender
The bad news is that more complex SPARQL queries time out, e.g. Persons
across Wikipedias and genders, - I can only do it on Wikisource and
Wikiquote.
For instance, I find the ratio of female biographies on the Danish
Wikipedia to be 17.2% compared to the total number of biographies. It
would be interesting to know how this number compares with other
Wikipedias. If I include Wikipedia as a parameter in the SPARQL query it
times out. (Writing a script could possibly solve it).
For WHGI, I see som CSV files. For instance,
https://figshare.com/articles/Wikidata_Human_Gender_Indicators/3100903
It reports 9447 and 51774 for women and men, respectively. My SPARQL
query does not give these values...
Do we have updated statistics on contributor gender, particularly for
Danish Wikipedia? I know we have some papers on gender and Wikipedia,
see https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/topic/Q17002416
"Gender Markers in Wikipedia Usernames" displays 4,6% or 1.2% for
females, while "The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing
Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation" estimates up to
23%. The old UNU survey
https://web.archive.org/web/20110728182835/http://www.wikipediastudy.org/do…
seems not to do gender statistics per Wikipedia.
https://stats.wikimedia.org seems not to have any gender statistics.
--
Finn Årup Nielsen
http://people.compute.dtu.dk/faan/
18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019)
“knowledge graphs, linked data, linked schemas and AI on the Web”
Auckland, New Zealand, 26-30 October, 2019
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/
In this announcement - extended deadlines:
1. Call for Workshops
Proposals deadline: *** January 23, 2019 *** (extended)
Further info:
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-workshop-proposals/ (page to be
updated)
2. Call for Tutorials
Proposals deadline: *** January 23, 2019 *** (extended)
Further info:
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-tutorial-proposals/ (page to be
updated)
3. Call for Semantic Web Challenges
Proposals deadline: *** January 25, 2019 *** (extended)
Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-challenge/
(page to be updated)
*** All deadlines are midnight Hawaii Time (GMT-10) ***
The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the premier venue for
presenting fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications
concerning semantics, data, and the Web. It is the most important
international venue to discuss and present latest advances and applications
of the semantic Web, knowledge graphs, linked data, ontologies and
artificial intelligence (AI) on the Web.
ISWC attracts a large number of high quality submissions every year and
participants from both industry and academia. ISWC brings together
researchers from different areas, such as artificial intelligence,
databases, natural language processing, information systems, human computer
interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate,
develop and use novel methods and technologies for accessing, interpreting
and using information on the Web in a more effective way.
Follow us:
Twitter: @iswc_conf , #iswc_conf ( https://twitter.com/iswc_conf )
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13612370
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISWConf/
Become part of ISWC 2019 by submitting to the following tracks & activities
or just attend them!
1. Call for Workshops
*******************************************
Besides the main technical program, ISWC will host several workshops on
topics related to the general theme of the conference. The role of the
workshops is to provide a setting for focused, intensive scientific
exchange among researchers and practitioners interested in a specific
topic. As such, workshops are the primary venues for the exploration of
emerging ideas as well as for the discussion of novel aspects of
established research topics.
We invite you to submit a proposal for workshops on a research topic of
interest to ISWC attendees.
Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-workshop-proposals/
(page to be updated)
== Important Dates ==
Proposals deadline: *** January 23, 2019 *** (extended)
Notification: February 15, 2019
== Program Chairs ==
Contact: iswc2019-workshop-tutorial(a)inria.fr
H. Sofia Pinto, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
2. Call for Tutorials
*******************************************
In addition to the regular research and workshop program, ISWC 2019 will
feature a tutorial program addressing the diverse interests of its
audience: Semantic Web practitioners that wish to learn about new
technologies, novices to the Semantic Web interested in introductory
tutorials to key Semantic Web / Linked Data topics, government and industry
representatives focusing on the applicability of Semantic Web / Linked Data
technologies in practical settings.
We hereby invite you to submit a tutorial proposal on a research topic
relevant to the ISWC 2019 audience.
Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-tutorial-proposals/
(page to be updated)
== Important Dates ==
Proposals deadline: *** January 23, 2019 *** (extended)
Notification: February 15, 2019
== Program Chairs ==
Contact: iswc2019-workshop-tutorial(a)inria.fr
H. Sofia Pinto, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
3. Call for Semantic Web Challenges
*******************************************
ISWC 2019 will run multiple Challenges (SWCs) with the aim to evaluate and
compare software solutions for the Semantic Web in a systematic way. Each
SWC will:
* Define a task to be addressed,
* Provide a training and a test dataset and
* Define evaluation measures to compare the performance of participating
systems.
The organizers of each SWC will be responsible for the selection of the
participants who will be invited to present their solutions at ISWC 2019.
For ISWC 2019, SWC proposals are invited for any challenge involving
Semantic Web tasks, including but not limited to:
* Ontology alignment
* Fact checking
* Sentiment and Emotion analysis
* Entity resolution
* Link prediction
* Attribute prediction and validation
* Query and reasoning scalability
* Energy efficiency of computation (e.g. green processing)
* Stream processing
Selected SWC systems will be presented at ISWC 2019 on October 30, 2019.
Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-challenge/ (page to
be updated)
== Important Dates ==
Proposals deadline: *** January 25, 2019 *** (extended)
Notification: February 15, 2019
== Program Chairs ==
Contact: iswc2019-challenge(a)inria.fr
Gianluca Demartini, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Valentina Presutti, STLab-ISTC, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
Axel Ngonga, Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany
See you all in Auckland!
The ISWC 2019 Organising Team (
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/organizing-committee/ )
Forwarding because this (ambitious!) proposal may be of interest to people
on other lists. I'm not endorsing the proposal at this time, but I'm
curious about it.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 6:32 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Semantic Web languages allow to express ontologies and knowledge bases in a
way meant to be particularly amenable to the Web. Ontologies formalize the
shared understanding of a domain. But the most expressive and widespread
languages that we know of are human natural languages, and the largest
knowledge base we have is the wealth of text written in human languages.
We looks for a path to bridge the gap between knowledge representation
languages such as OWL and human natural languages such as English. We
propose a project to simultaneously expose that gap, allow to collaborate
on closing it, make progress widely visible, and is highly attractive and
valuable in its own right: a Wikipedia written in an abstract language to
be rendered into any natural language on request. This would make current
Wikipedia editors about 100x more productive, and increase the content of
Wikipedia by 10x. For billions of users this will unlock knowledge they
currently do not have access to.
My first talk on this topic will be on October 10, 2018, 16:45-17:00, at
the Asilomar in Monterey, CA during the Blue Sky track of ISWC. My second,
longer talk on the topic will be at the DL workshop in Tempe, AZ, October
27-29. Comments are very welcome as I prepare the slides and the talk.
Link to the paper: http://simia.net/download/abstractwikipedia.pdf
Cheers,
Denny
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