Hello all,
We’re planning to add JSON-LD as a serialization format for Wikidata. This
will allow for example an easier access to RDF data from Javascript.
This is now deployed on https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org. Example:
https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q64.jsonld
As with the other formats we already support (like turtle or rdf/xml),
content negotiation is used if the format is not indicated by a suffix like
.jsonld. The MIME type that can be used in the Accept header to request
JSON-LD output is application/ld+json.
If you’re interested in this feature, please test it, and let us know if
you find any issues. The related ticket is this one
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207168>. If everything goes as planned,
we will enable it to wikidata.org on October 31st.
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Hello all,
As you may know, the *WikidataCon 2019
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019>* will take place
on October 25th-26th 2019 in Berlin. The conference will host 250 people
from the Wikidata community, but also the emerging Wikibase community, as
well as partners, organizations and companies the organizations who may be
interested in *using Wikidata and Wikibase*, or contributing in various
ways to the evolution of Wikidata. The event will be focused on networking
and strategic discussions around Wikidata and Wikibase, with a special
focus on *languages and Wikidata*.
Because the number of seats is limited and in order to make sure that the
access to the conference is fair, we decided to set up a selection process.
People who wish to attend the conference can now apply by filling in the
application form
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Apply>. A
committee equally composed of volunteers and staff will evaluate the
applications against criteria that are already published onwiki
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend>.
This application form aims to gather all of the useful information at once,
that’s why it also contains the program submissions (limited to 3 per
person) and the scholarship application if needed. You can find more
information about the content of the form on this page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Apply>.
Part of the attendees will be also invited directly by the organizing team,
based on the connections we want to build with organizations during this
conference, and the input they can bring to Wikidata’s strategy.
The deadline to fill out the application form is April 26th. No application
can be considered after this date. Over the following month, the committee
will evaluate the applications, and the applicants will receive an answer
latest on June 12th.
Here are a few tips to help you prepare your application:
- Read the description of the conference
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019> and the page
describing the process and the criteria
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend>
carefully.
- Plan 20 to 30 minutes to fill out the form.
- Don’t do it at the last minute :) it will be less stressful for you,
as well as for the committee.
- Prepare all your program submissions, as they will be requested in the
same form (no submission can be done later). On this page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Program> you
can check the formats and questions.
- Read the Friendly Space Policy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Policy>
that will apply to the entire event.
- Look at the visa information
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Visa> to
check if you need a visa to Germany and what actions you need to take.
You can find a lot of information regarding the conference on
Wikidata:WikidataCon
2019 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019>. If you have
any question or issue, feel free to share it on the talk page onwiki or to
reach the organizing team at info(a)wikidatacon.org
Finally, feel free to share this message with your local community,
networks, or projects you’re working in! We want to make sure that everyone
who’s involved in Wikidata or Wikibase has a chance to apply.
We're looking forward to receiving your applications!
Thanks for your attention,
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Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
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Hello developers at WikiData,
This is Ke from Information Sciences Institute of USC. We find WikiData really easy to use, and it may be a great help to our research. Thus we want to keep a whole copy of your services locally. But here’re some problems. Hope you can address these for us.
First, we need to upload our own data, so that we need the whole services from you. How can we download and implement the whole bundle including GUI, Triple Store, WikiBase and ES as well.
Second, we found you provided an API (https://github.com/filbertkm/WikibaseImport) to load data from Wikidata.org<http://Wikidata.org>. But it seems the script queries one item once and upload it into our WikiBase. It’s really time consuming. So that do you provide any method to load the dumps and upload them into our WikiBase (not Triple Store)? Also, we want our database auto updated with yours.
Thank you for reading this letter. Hope to hear from you.
Best Regards,
Ke Xu
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I found a 404 on 5000 Q pages, because the data base was turned off,
it should have been fixed, but all they did was to deprecate the entry.
I contacted the 2 main creators, editors. the one told me not to talk to
her on
her page, or she would have me blocked and to put it on the wikidata
discussion
page which she did not go to to answer me, the other one contacted a bot
owner who
changed all the URL’s to the wayback URL.but when wayback took down some of
the
last entry's, and i tried to talk to that bot direct he refused to talk to
me.
this all makes me feel like a whistle-blower.
SEE: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs
From: Caroline Becker
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 4:51 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing
List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata now officially has more total
edits than English language Wikipedia
But...
bots are operated, written, and reviewed by real humans ? Like if I
spend 2
hours adding "painting by Vincent van Gogh" manually on every
relevant item
by hand, how is that more valuable than spending 20 minutes
to write a bot
that does that for me (and can be used for similar tasks)
?
Caroline
Le mer. 20 mars 2019 à 10:45, Gabriel Thullen
< gabriel(a)thullen.com > a
écrit :
> Sorry about this mail, I
hate to rain on somebody's parade but:
> Ever since Wikidata was set up,
there have been more edit made by bots than
> by humans (registered
contributor + anonymous contributor), except for a
> few periods in 2017
and 2018. On the other hand, the activity of the bots
> on the English
Wikipedia has almost always been lower than the activity of
> anonymous
contributors, and that activity has always been well below that
> of
registered contributors. There was one exception, in 2013 where there
>
was a spike of bot activity.
> We could also talk about the average number
of edits per contributor which
> appears to be around 100 on the English
Wikipedia and 1,200 on Wikidata
> (these numbers are after removing the
estimated edits done by bots). Quite
> a difference.
> The different
Wikimedia projects rely on the community to police and curate
> the
content of these encyclopedias and data collections. I am therefore a
>
bit wary of what is happening with Wikidata where more edits are still
>
being done by bots than by real humans (by "real" I mean "real" not like
>
"real" as in the TV series "real humans")
>
> Best regards
>
Gabe
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:25 AM Olushola Olaniyan
<
> olaniyanshola15(a)gmail.com >
> wrote:
>
> >
This is a good news.
> >
> > Cheers!!!
> >
>
> Olaniyan Olushola
> > CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd
> >
President, Wikimedia Nigeria
> > Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia
Foundation)
> > Co-director Wiki Women Radio
> > www.wikimedia.org.ng
> > shola(a)wikimedia.org.ng
> > olaniyanshola15(a)gmail.com
> > +2348167352512
> >
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 08:52 Ziko van Dijk
< zvandijk(a)gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Ariel
Glenn,
> > > Thanks for the notification, very interesting. Well, we
all know that
> > > making a lot of edits on Wikidata is "easier" or
happens quicker than
> on
> > > Wikipedia, for various
reasons. But still it is a nice milestone to
> > > congratulate to
Wikidata. Hereby. :-)
> > > Kind regards
> > >
Ziko
> > >
> > >
> > > Am Mi., 20. März 2019
um 07:58 Uhr schrieb Gerard Meijssen <
> > > gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com >:
> > >
> > > >
Hoi,
> > > > So in stead of calling us all Wikipedia, let us be
known as
> Wikidata...
> > > > HUUUUU
> > >
> Thanks,
> > > >
GerardM
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at
07:48, Ariel Glenn WMF < ariel(a)wikimedia.org >
> > >
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Wikidata surpassed the
English language Wikipedia in the number of
> > > > >
revisions in the database, about 45 minutes ago today.I was tipped
> >
off
> > > > by a
> > > > > tweet [1] a few day
ago and have been watching via a script that
> > > displays
>
> > > > the largest revision id and its timestamp. Here's the point
where
> > > > Wikidata
> > > > > overtakes
English Wikipedia (times in UTC):
> > > > >
> > >
> > [ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./get_revid_info.py
-d
> > > > > www.wikidata.org -r 888603998 ,888603999,888604000
> > > > > revid 888603998 at
2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > > > revid 888603999 at
2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > > > revid 888604000 at
2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > > > [ariel@bigtrouble
wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./get_revid_info.py -d
> > > > >
en.wikipedia.org -r 888603998 ,888603999,888604000
> > > > >
revid 888603998 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > > > revid 888603999 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > > > revid 888604000 at
2019-03-20T06:01:00Z
> > > > >
> > > > >
Only 45 minutes later, the gap is already over 2000 revsions:
> > >
> >
> > > > > [ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3
./compare_sizes.py
> > > > > Last enwiki revid is 888606979 and last wikidata revid is 888629401
> > > > > 2019-03-20
06:46:03: diff is 22422
> > > > >
> > > > >
Have a nice day!
> > > > >
> > > > >
Ariel
> > > > >
> > > > > [1] https://twitter.com/MonsieurAZ/status/1106565116508729345
> > > >
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Forwarding in case anyone on this list doesn’t follow wikitech-l – if you
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Date: Do., 14. März 2019 um 10:53 Uhr
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Possible change in schedule of generation of wikidata
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