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Gerard Meijssen

2 Mar 2016 2 Mar '16

6:57 p.m.

Hoi, A mix of maps Wikidata and DBpedia.. I wonder what DBpedia has that we do not. Thanks, GerardM

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Denny Vrandečić

2 Mar 2 Mar

7:07 p.m.

My mindreading skills tell me that you forgot to add this link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/12180516/Geography-of-violence-Ma… On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:58 AM Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Hoi, A mix of maps Wikidata and DBpedia.. I wonder what DBpedia has that we do not. Thanks, GerardM _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

Gerard Meijssen

7:13 p.m.

Hoi, Yup I missed that one.. this [1] was my source :) Gerard [1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35685889 On 2 March 2016 at 20:07, Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Lydia Pintscher

9:14 p.m.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:14 PM Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Hoi, Yup I missed that one.. this [1] was my source :) Gerard [1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35685889

This is really great. I am thrilled about this because this isn't coverage about Wikidata but coverage _with_ Wikidata on major news sites for the second time this week ( http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kino/academy-awards-die-oscars-von-19… being the other one). They're using Wikidata data to do meaningful reporting. Our data and the project as a whole got (at the very least) good enough for this. It feels to me like we've broken through a wall. High5 everyone! :D Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product 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.

Daniel Kinzler

9:53 p.m.

"They found 12,703 battles which had an exact location and date, 2,657 of them are from Wikidata, the others are from DPpedia." Maybe we can do better? Am 02.03.2016 um 22:14 schrieb Lydia Pintscher:

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On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:14 PM Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com <mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>> wrote: Hoi, Yup I missed that one.. this [1] was my source :) Gerard [1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35685889 This is really great. I am thrilled about this because this isn't coverage about Wikidata but coverage _with_ Wikidata on major news sites for the second time this week (http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kino/academy-awards-die-oscars-von-19… being the other one). They're using Wikidata data to do meaningful reporting. Our data and the project as a whole got (at the very least) good enough for this. It feels to me like we've broken through a wall. High5 everyone! :D Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de <http://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. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Denny Vrandečić

9:59 p.m.

Depends how good the DBpedia data really is - as the BBC article says, some 2007 football match in the UK was extracted as a "Battle"... On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:54 PM Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:

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"They found 12,703 battles which had an exact location and date, 2,657 of them are from Wikidata, the others are from DPpedia." Maybe we can do better? Am 02.03.2016 um 22:14 schrieb Lydia Pintscher:

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:14 PM Gerard Meijssen <

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<mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>> wrote: Hoi, Yup I missed that one.. this [1] was my source :) Gerard [1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35685889 This is really great. I am thrilled about this because this isn't

coverage about

Wikidata but coverage _with_ Wikidata on major news sites for the second

time

this week (

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kino/academy-awards-die-oscars-von-19… being

the other one). They're using Wikidata data to do meaningful reporting.

Our data

and the project as a whole got (at the very least) good enough for this.

feels to me like we've broken through a wall. High5 everyone! :D Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de <http://www.wikimedia.de> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg

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Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Denny Vrandečić

10 p.m.

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"They found 12,703 battles which had an exact location and date, 2,657 of them are from Wikidata, the others are from DPpedia." Maybe we can do better? Am 02.03.2016 um 22:14 schrieb Lydia Pintscher:

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:14 PM Gerard Meijssen <

gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com

coverage about

Wikidata but coverage _with_ Wikidata on major news sites for the

second time

this week (

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kino/academy-awards-die-oscars-von-19… being

the other one). They're using Wikidata data to do meaningful reporting.

Our data

and the project as a whole got (at the very least) good enough for

this. It

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James Heald

10:45 p.m.

We have bad data too. Until very recently, a number of suburbs of South London had P31 = battle, for no apparent reason. (Presumably, because a parameter hadn't been updated in a script being used to extract from templates or a category). Battles (I think) are something that haven't been extracted very systematically -- I was hoping for better coverage, because quite a lot of the maps in the British Library georeferencing project are maps of battlefields, but I found it wasn't very good. (Another problem even then is that really I would have needed the extent of the battlefield, rather than just central co-ordinates, and that information is currently almost totally lacking). Had Freebase done much extraction of battlefield info? I do rather agree with Gerard and Tom, that I had hoped the Freebase migration would have brought with it rather more of the information extractable from Wikipedia categories. -- James. On 02/03/2016 22:00, Denny Vrandečić wrote:

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(and to make it clear, it is unclear whether this is an error due to DBpedia or due to the companies extraction framework, I was not diving into the data) On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:59 PM Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Depends how good the DBpedia data really is - as the BBC article says, > some 2007 football match in the UK was extracted as a "Battle"... >

Tom Morris

6 Mar 6 Mar

5:52 p.m.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:45 PM, James Heald <j.heald(a)ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

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Had Freebase done much extraction of battlefield info?

They did some, e.g. Military Conflict data extracted from Wikipedia Infoboxes, April 24 2012 <https://www.freebase.com/m/0jbcvt2> (which also shows the type of detailed provenance info they keep for bulk data loads). There are 5,581 battles <https://www.freebase.com/queryeditor?lang=%2Flang%2Fen&q=%5B%7B%22id%22%3Anull%2C%22name%22%3Anull%2C%22type%22%3A%22%2Fmilitary%2Fbattle%22%2C%22%2Fmilitary%2Fmilitary_conflict%2Flocations%22%3A%5B%7B%22id%22%3Anull%2C%22name%22%3Anull%2C%22%2Flocation%2Flocation%2Fgeolocation%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22%2Flocation%2Fgeocode%22%2C%22longitude%22%3Anull%2C%22latitude%22%3Anull%2C%22elevation%22%3Anull%7D%7D%5D%2C%22%2Ftime%2Fevent%2Fstart_date%22%3Anull%2C%22%2Ftime%2Fevent%2Fend_date%22%3Anull%2C%22return%22%3A%22count%22%7D%5D> (a subset of the 10,529 military conflicts <https://www.freebase.com/queryeditor?lang=%2Flang%2Fen&q=%5B%7B%22id%22%3Anull%2C%22name%22%3Anull%2C%22type%22%3A%22%2Fmilitary%2Fmilitary_conflict%22%2C%22%2Fmilitary%2Fmilitary_conflict%2Flocations%22%3A%5B%7B%22id%22%3Anull%2C%22name%22%3Anull%2C%22%2Flocation%2Flocation%2Fgeolocation%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22%2Flocation%2Fgeocode%22%2C%22longitude%22%3Anull%2C%22latitude%22%3Anull%2C%22elevation%22%3Anull%7D%7D%5D%2C%22%2Ftime%2Fevent%2Fstart_date%22%3Anull%2C%22%2Ftime%2Fevent%2Fend_date%22%3Anull%2C%22return%22%3A%22count%22%7D%5D>). There's a list of all the military conflicts available here <https://www.freebase.com/military/military_conflict?instances=>, but now that Freebase is read-only there isn't an easy way to generate a table of dates & locations through the GUI, so some (a tiny bit) of programming would be required to extract the info. Tom

Andrew Gray

9 Mar 9 Mar

2:12 p.m.

I remember seeing a question from someone asking about dates-of-battles a few months ago; I don't know if it was related to this. One issue that came up in the discussion is that a lot of battles don't have a "date" - instead, they have a "start date" and "end date". (This is more of an issue in the last couple of centuries; not many older battles lasted more than a day). It looks like they've managed to cope with this - for example, their system picked up https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q911448 which has start and end - but it's a good reminder that eg/ looking for "date" may not always tell you quite what you expect on the first glance :-) Andrew. On 2 March 2016 at 21:53, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:

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"They found 12,703 battles which had an exact location and date, 2,657 of them are from Wikidata, the others are from DPpedia." Maybe we can do better? Am 02.03.2016 um 22:14 schrieb Lydia Pintscher:

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