Great work!
I'm happy with the new naming, Commons Datasets.
For historical maps we have been waiting to have a way to store data about
the rectification with the map image. Here it is! It brings us one notch
closer to being able to work with zoomable historical maps in Wikipedia.
Some have noted that the datasets are contrary to what Wikidata is about.
Instead, they are complementary! Not all data is either suitable for
Wikidata or licensed openly enough. Or not yet. Many great datasets can be
introduced to the Wikimedia online communities. The data owners will pay
attention to more open licensing, seeing their data being used. The
wikidatans will pick up interesting datasets and work to prepare missing
properties for them in Wikidata and ignite their bots. Sometimes the data
can just be used as is.
This is one part of the puzzle and it will be interesting to see how the
pieces fall into their places and evolve further.
In the coming few days there'll be time to digest and experiment.
Happy holidays
Susanna
2016-12-23 5:22 GMT+02:00 Bohdan Melnychuk <base-w(a)yandex.ru>ru>:
Yay :)
As someone who already has plans to actively use it in both my metapedian
role (e.g. CEE Spring article writing contest statistics data for building
Graphs from being stored like
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/
index.php?title=User:BaseBot/CEES/MMXVI/Per_country_sums_(
general)&action=edit
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:BaseBot/CEES/MMXVI/Per_country_sums_(general)&action=edit§ion=2>
to a better format of
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Data:Wikimedia/CEE_Spring/Statistics/MMXVI/Per_
country_sums_(general).tab which can be turned by Lua to the same output
but now with it being controlled on wiki rather than bot code part) and
exopedianish for actual articles I think it is wonderful.
I do think that it needs tight cross linking with Wikidata and perfectly a
way to run queries against both the sources at the same time (e.g. "give me
the weather in all the current capitals in the date the comet Whatever was
closest to the Sun the last time" or whatever else more useful thing may
come into one's mind), but that does not deny the fact that it is very
useful already.
It can also be used as an intermediate location for data on the way to be
imported to Wikidata, IMHO.
--Base
22.12.2016, 21:31, "Yuri Astrakhan" <yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Gift season! We have launched structured data on Commons, available from
all wikis.
TLDR; One data store. Use everywhere. Upload table data to Commons, with
localization, and use it to create wiki tables, lists, or use directly in
graphs. Works for GeoJSON maps too. Must be licensed as CC0. Try this
per-state GDP map demo, and select multiple years. More demos at the bottom.
US Map state highlight
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Graph:US_Map_state_highlight>
Data can now be stored as *.tab and *.map pages in the data namespace on
Commons. That data may contain localization, so a table cell could be in
multiple languages. And that data is accessible from any wikis, by Lua
scripts, Graphs, and Maps.
Lua lets you generate wiki tables from the data by filtering, converting,
mixing, and formatting the raw data. Lua also lets you generate lists. Or
any wiki markup.
Graphs can use both .tab and .map directly to visualize the data and let
users interact with it. The GDP demo above uses a map from Commons, and
colors each segment with the data based on a data table.
Kartographer (<maplink>/<mapframe>) can use the .map data as an extra
layer on top of the base map. This way we can show endangered species'
habitat.
== Demo ==
* Raw data example
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Weather/New_York_City.tab>
* Interactive Weather data
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Weather_monthly_history>
* Same data in Weather template
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/WeatherDemo>
* Interactive GDP map
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Graph:US_Map_state_highlight>
* Endangered Jemez Mountains salamander - habitat
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemez_Mountains_salamander#/maplink/0>
* Population history
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Population_history>
* Line chart <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Lines>
== Getting started ==
* Try creating a page at data:Sandbox/<user>.tab on Commons. Don't forget
the .tab extension, or it won't work.
* Try using some data with the Line chart graph template
A thorough guide is needed, help is welcome!
== Documentation links ==
* Tabular help <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tabular_Data>
* Map help <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Map_Data>
If you find a bug, create Phabricator ticket with #tabular-data tag, or
comment on the documentation talk pages.
== FAQ ==
* Relation to Wikidata: Wikidata is about "facts" (small pieces of
information). Structured data is about "blobs" - large amounts of data like
the historical weather or the outline of the state of New York.
== TODOs ==
* Add a nice "table editor" - editing JSON by hand is cruel. T134618
* "What links here" should track data usage across wikis. Will allow
quicker auto-refresh of the pages too. T153966
* Support data redirects. T153598
* Mega epic: Support external data feeds.
,
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