Wikidata October 2012

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[Wikidata-l] Expiration date for data
by Marco Fleckinger 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

Hi, regarding an actual topic in Germany about publication of the timetable-data of Deutsche Bahn (German national railway company) and their willingness of a discussion with other Open-Data-Supporters it may be a good idea of providing an expiration dates for Wikidata-records. In their open letter to Mr. Kreil [1] they announced that it may cause problems providing the timetable-data in an open way if e.g. anybody uses old data. Marco [1] http://www.db-vertrieb.com/db_vertrieb/view/service/open_plan_b.shtml

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[Wikidata-l] next Wikidata office hours
by Lydia Pintscher 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Heya folks :) Denny and I will be doing another round of Wikidata office hours. You can come and ask your questions about Wikidata - technical and non-technical. The next ones will be: * 5. November at 17:30 UTC (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=17&min=30&sec=0&d…) in German * 6. November at 17:30 UTC (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=17&min=30&sec=0&d…) in English Both of them will happen on IRC in #wikimedia-office on freenode. Logs will be published afterwards for everyone who can't attend. I hope to see many of you there. Cheers Lydia PS: Don't forget the Wikidata Main Page design that needs your hand: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-October/001104.html ;-) -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 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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[Wikidata-l] wikidata.org is live (with some caveats)
by Lydia Pintscher 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Heya folks :) The Wikidata team is excited to let you know that http://wikidata.org is now online and running the repository code \o/ You can now create items and add language links to the various Wikipedias to them. Thank you to everyone who helped. There are some caveats! We're still testing things and fixing minor bugs. Please let us know about any problems you find and go easy on the new wiki. We're now working on phase two (infoboxes) and at the same time are working on getting the client ready for deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia. I unfortunately can't yet give you a date for when that'll happen.) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 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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Re: [Wikidata-l] [Toolserver-l] Welcome: wikidata
by DaB. 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hello again, [crosspost to wikidata-l] At Tuesday 30 October 2012 17:16:45 DaB. wrote: > Hello all, > > wikidata has made it on the toolserver today. The database is called > "wikidatawiki_p" (don't ask me…) and its is home on s3. Because I guessed > that many joins to it will happen in future, I created also copies on all > clusters with the exception of s6 and s7 (will happen later); so you can > join it in the same way as commons. I found the following additional useful tables in the wikidata-database and created views for them. If I missed something, please tell me. I also interested in an URL to the wikidata-table-documentation. *site_identifiers *sites *wb_changes *wb_id_counters *wb_items_per_site *wb_terms Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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[Wikidata-l] Which language codes should be added as labels for wikis having variants
by Merlissimo 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

I have added some additional code to my bot to create more localized labels. Simple Example: My bot creates an item containing a german (de) label that contains the letter "ß". Then my bot additional creates a label for "de-ch" having this letter replaced by "ss". What i am not sure about is how to handle wikis having language variants. Lets take <http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%…> as example page. What my bot know is: * srwiki page title is "Википедија" * label in "sr-ec" is "Википедија" * label in "sr-el" is "Vikipedija" * srwiki has local language code "sr" and displays variant sr-ec by default So which labels should i add to wikidata for an item linking this srwiki page? Only sr-ec and sr-el? Or should i additionally add a label using code sr having the same content as sr-ec? Merlissimo P.S.: If different wikis have the same language code like enwiki and simplewiki (and specieswiki when enabled) my algorithm is not deterministic in choosing a normalized title as label. The normalized titles of the other wikis having the same language code are added as aliases. I hope that is ok.

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #29
by Lydia Pintscher 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Heya folks :) Here's this week's summary of what happened around Wikidata. The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_10_26 = Development = * Content Handler is now live on Wikipedia and sister sites * Prefix term search for entities * Fixed bugs that popped up after Content Handler merge * API function wbsearchentities * Discussed JavaScript refactoring * Refactored some JavaScript stuff (like options handling) * Worked on JavaScript refactoring regarding the API * Implemented entity selector jQuery widget * Continued deployment work with WMF * Poked at Vagrant * Create puppet scripts for setting up Wikibase instances * New release of Pywikidata: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-October/001134.html See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint for what we’re working on next. You can follow our commits at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extension… and view the subset awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions…. = Discussions/Press = * Discussions around bots on the mailing list = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * Bootstrapping Awesome * SMWCon = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Jenkins test results are now online: https://integration.mediawiki.org/ci/job/Ext-Wikibase/ (we’re still investigating why quite some of them are failing atm) * Nice video about the why and how of Open Data: http://vimeo.com/21711338 = Open Tasks for You = * Main Page draft is taking shape but you can still help out with it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Main_Page_draft * Hack on one of these: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&ke… Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 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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Re: [Wikidata-l] New release of Pywikidata: feature requests?
by Snaevar 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

> Any feature requests? Yes, I can think of several ones. To begin with, I would like a feature where the bot operator only needs to give the bot information on a wikipedia page. The bot would then fetch the interwiki links from that page and add them as sitelinks to wikidata. I am thinking of an command like this one: script.py -site:Hermony Granger -lang:fr Also, I have the same questions as Merlissimo has allready raised on the "features needed by langlink bots" thread. Cheers, Snaevar ----- Original Message ----- From: Joan Creus Sent: 10/24/12 05:08 PM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Subject: [Wikidata-l] New release of Pywikidata: feature requests? Hi all, I've released a new version of Pywikidata @ https://github.com/jcreus/pywikidata (not really a release, since there is no version numbering; I should begin, maybe...).

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[Wikidata-l] New release of Pywikidata: feature requests?
by Joan Creus 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hi all, I've released a new version of Pywikidata @ https://github.com/jcreus/pywikidata (not really a release, since there is no version numbering; I should begin, maybe...). New features include: - Changes pushed to the server are only the properties which have changed. This means that it is really faster, and it is the way it should be (according to the spec). - 'uselang' is no longer accepted, per spec. - Bot flag allowed. Right now there's some more stuff left to do (including adapting to changes to the API, and adding the claim system [still beta]), but is there any feature request of something which would be useful for bots? In regards to Pywikipediabot integration I think someone is working on it (thanks!); yet I think it would be better to wait. Pywikipedia is a mature project and Pywikidata is still evolving constantly (mostly due to API changes, which break it). So I'd wait until Pywikidata has matured too, and Wikidata is deployed to WMF wikis. By the way, pull requests will be gladly accepted :). Joan Creus (joancreus@freenode, Joancreus@wikipedia)

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[Wikidata-l] JSON representation
by Andreas Schultz 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hi all, I have a question or rather proposal regarding the JSON representation [1]. The "Geo" example on the JSON page[1] implies that there won't be a fixed representation for data types. Instead of the "value" key that all the other examples use, the Geo example uses "longitude" and "latitude". Wouldn't a representation like the following be more appropriate? "value": { "latitude" : 32.233, "longitude" : -2.233, } That is, if "snaktype": "value", then there has to be a "value" key with a data type specific value object. Something that imho would also be useful, is a way to specify the data type - this could be optional. For the Geo example something like the following would make sense: "datatype": "geo" Without such a definition, a consumer would have to derive the data type from the keys and/or the lexical representation of the values, which would usually be a tough task. Cheers, Andreas 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Phase_2_JSON -- Telefon/Phone +49 6441 87087-32 · Telefax/Fax +49 6441 87087-17 E-Mail a.schultz(a)mes-semantics.com · Web http://mes-semantics.com ________________________________________________________________ MediaEvent Services GmbH & Co. KG Berlin Office: Stendaler Straße 4 · 10559 Berlin · Germany Wetzlar Office: Charlotte-Bamberg-Str. 6 · 35578 Wetzlar · Germany Handelsregister/Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Wetzlar HRA 4015 USt-IdNr./VAT Reg.No. DE206509024 Komplementärin: MediaEvent Services Verwaltungs GmbH Handelsregister/Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Wetzlar HRB 5079 Geschäftsführer/Managing Director: Tim Ebert ________________________________________________________________

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[Wikidata-l] update from the Hebrew Wikipedia
by Amir E. Aharoni 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hi, Lydia mentioned in her summary a major discussion about Wikidata in the Hebrew Wikipedia. The discussion was in Hebrew of course, so I'll bring a little summary of it. Eleven people supported the installation of Wikidata. Nobody objected \o/ Despite the wide support, some issues and questions were raised: 1. How is the coordination with interwiki links bot operators progressing? Will the bots be smart enough not to do anything to articles that are already listed in the repository and have the correct links displayed? Will the bots be smart enough to update the repo in the transition period, when some Wikipedias have Wikidata and some don't? Will the bots be smart enough not to do anything with articles that have interwiki conflicts (multiple links, non-1-to-1 linking etc.)? 2. What are the numbers after the Q in the titles in the repo site? - I replied that they are just sequential identifiers without any additional meaning. Maybe it can be added to the FAQ. 3. Several people complained about instability in the links editing pages in the repo: They saw messages about network problems when they tried to edit links. I experienced this a couple of times, too. I also saw a complete crash with a "memory full" error once. 4. Somebody noticed that the testing sites don't support unified accounts (CentralAuth). The production system will, right? 5. Somebody complained that it's too easy to remove a link from a repo - clicking the "remove" link is enough. I mentioned it in a bug report: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40200 6. And this is probably the biggest issue: The workflow for adding an interlanguage link is cumbersome and in some cases the interface elements are undiscoverable. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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