Wikidata-tech September 2015

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Re: [Wikidata-tech] [Wikidata] next Wikidata office hour
by Daniel Kinzler 24 Sep '15

24 Sep '15

Am 24.09.2015 um 20:35 schrieb Lydia Pintscher: > The primary sources tool and the extension that helps us check against > other databases are two independent things. Wir sollten mal darüber nachdenken, ob das so sein muss. Wäre doch prima, wenn sich das kombinieren ließe... Und selbst wenn nicht: Per Klick Fakten aus den Quality-Daten zu importieren sollte nicht schwer zu machen sein. Auch ein schöndes Projekt für 'nen Studie... -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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Wikidata API breaking changes
by Addshore 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

Hi all! We have some breaking API changes that will soon be deployed to wikidata.org. The deployment date should be: 9th September 2015 (just under 2 weeks) The change making the breaks an be found at: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/227686/ The breaking changes are: - XML output aliases are now grouped by language - XML output may no longer give elements when they are empty - XML any claim, qualifier, reference or snak elements that had an '_idx' element will no longer have it - ALL output may now give empty elements, ie. labels when an entity has none If you want to see a wikipage explaining these changes take a look at: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Addshore/API_Break_September_2015 If you have any questions regarding these breaking changes please ask! Addshore

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API JSON format for warnings
by Markus Krötzsch 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

Hi, I am wondering how errors and warnings are reported through the API, and which errors and warnings are possible. There is some documentation on Wikidata errors [1], but I could not find documentation on how the warning messages are communicated in JSON. I have seen structures like this: { "warnings" : {"wbeditentity": {"messages": [{"name":"wikibase-self-conflict-patched", "parameters":[], "html": { "*":"Your edit was patched into the latest version, overriding some of your own intermediate changes."} }] } } } I don't know how to provoke more warnings, or multiple warnings in one request, so I found it hard to guess how this pattern generalises. Some questions: * What is the purpose of the map with the "*" key? Which other keys but "*" could this map have? * The key "wbeditentity" points to a list. Is this supposed to encode multiple warnings of this type? * I guess the "name" is a message name, and "parameters" are message "arguments" (as they are called in action="query") for the message? * Is this the JSON pattern used in all warnings or can there also be other responses from wbeditentity? * Is this the JSON pattern used for warnings in all Wikibase actions or can there also be other responses from other actions? * Is there a list of relevant warning codes anywhere? * Is there a list of relevant error codes anywhere? The docs in [1] point to paraminfo (e.g., http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=wbeditentity) but there are no errors mentioned there. Thanks, Markus [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/API#Errors

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How fast should I edit? (as user/as bot)
by Markus Krötzsch 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

Hi, Users without a bot flag will quickly receive an error when trying to make too many edits in a row [1]. I noticed that I am getting this even when editing at a rate of 0.5 edits/second. What is permissible there? I would like to use this as a default throttling in WDTK. Moreover, when editing as a bot, this limit does not apply. Is there a recommended edit rate for bots? Of course there is the dispatch statistics, but I guess it is better to avoid pushing this to a high value before stopping. Thanks, Markus [1] "[failed-save] As an anti-spam measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes." -- Markus Kroetzsch Faculty of Computer Science Technische Universität Dresden +49 351 463 38486 http://korrekt.org/

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how is the datetime value with precision of one year stored
by Raul Kern 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

I run into this datetime problem in et.wiki, with displaying wikidata population date in city infobox. For example in article https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius the wikidata population date "2014" becomes "30.11.2013". And when I modify the wikidata module to take the precision into account then "2013" is displayed as date. It could be something I'm overlooking in wikidata module https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodul:WikidataDev or in city infobox template https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall:Linn. No problems with population dates were the precision is one day. -- Raul

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Semantic MediaWiki Conference Fall 2015: Call for Participation
by kghbln 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

Dear users, developers and all people interested in semantic wikis, We are very happy to announce that early bird registration to the 12th Semantic MediaWiki Conference is now open! *Important facts reminder:* * Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2015 (Wednesday to Friday) * Location: Fabra i Coats, Art Factory. Carrer Sant Adrià 20 (Sant Andreu), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. * Conference page: https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015 * Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in Semantic MediaWiki, e.g. users, developers, consultants, business representatives and researchers. *We welcome new contributions from you:* * We encourage contributions about applications and development of semantic wikis; for a list of topics, see [1]. * Please propose regular talks, posters or workshops on the conference website. We will do our best to consider your proposal in the conference program. An interesting variety of talks has already be proposed, see [2]. * Presentations will generally be video and audio recorded and made available for others after the conference. * If you've already announced your talk it's now time to expand its description. *News on participation and tutorials:* * You can now officially register for the conference [3] and benefit from early bird fees until October 5, 2015. * The tutorial program has been announced and made available [4]. *Organization:* * Amical Wikimedia [5] and Open Semantic Data Association e. V. [6] have become the official organisers of SMWCon Fall 2015 * Thanks to Institut de Cultura - Ajuntament de Barcelona [7] for providing free access to the conference location and its infrastructure If you have questions you can contact Lia Veja and Karsten Hoffmeyer (Program Chairs), Alina Mierluș (General Chair) or Toni Hermoso (Local Chair) per e-mail (Cc). We will be happy to see you in Barcelona! Lia Veja, Karsten Hoffmeyer (Program Board) [1] <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015/Announcement> [2] <https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015#Program_proposals> [3] <https://ti.to/wikisofia/smwcon2015-fall> [4] <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015#Program> [5] <https://www.wikimedia.cat/> [6] <https://opensemanticdata.org/> [7] <http://lameva.barcelona.cat/barcelonacultura/en/>

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how is the datetime value with precision of one year stored
by Raul Kern 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

Hi, how is the datetime value with precision of one year stored? For example for birt date in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q299687 fine grain value for "1700" is "1.01.1700" But for population date field in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216 the fine grain value for "2014" is "30.11.2013" Which is kind of unexpected. -- Raul

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