Wikidata-tech August 2014

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Monolingual texts
by JWbot 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

Hey, Can somebody give us an answer at these questions? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team#Monolin… Regards, JW

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Compare person data
by Gerard Meijssen 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Hoi, Amir has created functionality that compares data from en.wp de.wp and it.wp. It is data about "humans" and it only shows differences where they exist. It compares those four Wikipedias with information in Wikidata. The idea is that the report will be updated regularly. The problem we face is: what should it actually look like. Should it just splatter the info on a page or is more needed. At this time we just have data [1]. Please help us with something that works easily for now. Once we have something, it can be prettified and more functional. Thanks, GerardM [1] http://paste.ubuntu.com/8079742/

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Breaking serialization change!
by Lydia Pintscher 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Hey folks :) Are you a tool author relying on dumps or Special:Export or use Lua on Wikidata to access data in items? Please read on. The JSON format returned by the API and what we use to store the data internally has been different for a long time. This has been a headache as people had to deal with two different JSON serializations. We've fixed this now to only use one. This means the format you get in the XML dumps, via Special:Export and when accessing the raw item page content via Lua will change to be the same as what you get from the API. We plan to deploy this change on August 26th. This is one of the remaining blockers for statements on properties and further progress on Commons support. I'm sorry for the disruption. If you need help with adapting your tools please let me know. 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 27/681/51985.

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Data fixtures
by Jeroen De Dauw 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

Hey, While doing Wikibase development work, I've often run into the need to construct some items and properties to be able to test something. While writing some code outside of my Wikidata work time, I figured it'd be nice to do this in a reusable format. Sharing here as it might also be of use to others. https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/WikibaseDataFixtures I've also been thinking of doing something similar for data that is not manually defined in PHP. Both Wikibase DataModel Serialization and Wikibase Internal Serialization already have this, though that is not done in a fully reusable way. https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelSerialization/tree/master/tests/da… https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseInternalSerialization/tree/master/tests/data Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3

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assertTag will be deprecated
by Jeroen De Dauw 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

Hey, PHPUnits assertTag function, which is used 32 times in Wikibase.git, will be deprecated in PHPUnit 4.2. https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/1292 Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3

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Description of Wikidata in DCAT_AP
by Jan Ainali 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Hello, Wikimedia Sverige has the chance to apply for around €10 000 from the Swedish Innovation Agency for creating a metadata description in DCAT-AP for LOD datasets.[1] Obviously we want to use this to benefit Wikidata. DCAT-AP is a standard used by the EC and is also a W3C recommendation[2]. As I have understood it so far, to make this work there is a file that we need to make (in RDFa) and publish.[3] Do you see anything that could be a blocker for this? [1] http://www.vinnova.se/sv/Ansoka-och-rapportera/Utlysningar/Effekta/Oppna-da… [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/ [3] https://theodi.org/guides/marking-up-your-dataset-with-dcat *Best regards,Jan Ainali* CEO, Wikimedia Sverige <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida> *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.* Bli medlem. <http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se>

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Refactor Entity for DataModel 1.0
by Bene* 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Hey guys, I am currently doing some refactoring in WikibaseRepo to make it compatible with DataModel 1.0. One aspect I realized is that there are lots of places in which the code assumes that every entity has claims (which is wrong eg. for queries). Thus this code and the assumption have to get moved out of the entity specific classes. However this will lead to lots of code being duplicated in item and property specific classes which isn't good at all. We therefore need a proper way to inject such code without inheritance. Thus I ask you how to handle such cases like EntityContent or EntityHandler. Best regards, Bene

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