Hello all,
We are about to make some changes to edit summaries that appear when an
edit is made using wbeditentity API, which includes for example editing
terms (labels, descriptions, aliases) from the new mobile termbox. The
summary messages currently contain “Changed an Item” as a comment. The new
summaries will include the message "*Changed label, description and/or
aliases in # languages*", where # is the count of distinct languages that
terms in them have been affected.
This change will be deployed on Wednesday, October 2nd, and the new edit
summaries will start changing from that point. The old edit summaries will
not be changed. More improvements will follow in the future (for example,
more details regarding the terms that have been changed and the languages).
You can see more details in this ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220696>. If you encounter any issues,
please let me know. Thanks,
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Hi all,
I'd need help on the Wikidata/Wikibase reconciliation service for
OpenRefine.
Context: I have my own Wikibase and WDQS instances in production, and I
want to set up a reconciliation service on top of it, so that users can
perform matchings from their local OpenRefine. I'm using the same tool as
Wikidata, i.e. https://github.com/wetneb/openrefine-wikibase. The web
service works fine, I can reconcile strings in OpenRefine against the data
stored in my Wikibase instance...
Issue: But there is a noteworthy difference compared to how the
Wikidata reconciliation service works:
- with Wikidata, i.e. by using the web service URL with the "en" language
prefix (https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/en/api), I am able to
find matches among labels in any other language of a Wikidata item. For
instance, if I send a request for "Jacopo de Fazio", which is an alias in
French and Italian for Q313460 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313460>,
OpenRefine will match Q313460 as expected, even if I'm using the "en"
language code in the web service url.
- Whereas in my own instance, i.e. by using my own "openrefine-wikibase"
reconciliation service, it can only perform matching of labels/aliases in
the same language: e.g. if I use "
https://my-service.org/openrefine-wikidata/en/api", the web service only
searches for labels in English in my Wikibase. This means that I am forced
to launch the reconciliation process in OpenRefine for every single
language, one by one.
I do not know how the Wikidata reconciliation service is able to take into
account all the labels/aliases in all the languages of a given Wikidata
item. The data is modeled in the same way in Wikidata and in my Wikibase,
and I do not see any difference between the two in the way the RDF data is
structured into the respective triplestores...
How can I enable the same behaviour as in the Wikidata reconciliation
service? (i.e. to look for labels/aliases in every languages in one API
call)
This would heavily improve the reconciliation process in OpenRefine for my
users.
Thanks a lot for your help!
Régis
I am new the the list and fairly new to wikidata.
Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask for help.
The following SPARQL query does not return Finland:
SELECT ?country ?countryLabel
{
?country wdt:P31 wd:Q6256 .
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" }
}
ORDER BY ASC(?countryLabel)
This is despite Finland being an instance (P31) of country (Q6256):
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33
Have I got something wrong?
Many thanks,
AJP
p.s. this query gets a list of countries the exist on cities but not as
entities being an instance of country. Though actually most of them do
have "instance of" country.
SELECT ?country ?countryLabel {
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language
"[AUTO_LANGUAGE]" }
{
SELECT ?country WHERE {
{
?city wdt:P31 wd:Q515 .
?city wdt:P17 ?country .
}
MINUS
{
?country wdt:P31 wd:Q6256 .
}
} GROUP BY ?country
}
} ORDER BY ?countryLabel
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