Wikidata November 2012

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[Wikidata-l] Deadlines - phases #1-3
by Jan Kučera 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hi there, can we have ONE place where there will be info about current progress and WHEN will be particular phase really launched? I also would like to see reasons why original deadlines were not met... I guess phase #1 was due to about two months ago? Can it be you already are coding phase #2 while #1 still is not launched? What is the reasoning behind this? I dont want to be pain in the ass but I think more people might be interested in clearly watching the project progress without having to dig for info themselves. One is getting confused and demotivated for future volunteering seeing targets are not met without much reasoning (or at least much publicly readable communication). Thx. Jan

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[Wikidata-l] Bots and the new API
by Sven Manguard 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Hey there. To those of you that are American, happy Thanksgiving! To those of you that are not American, happy "Why can't I reach any of the the Americans today, and what's with all this talk of stuffing? day!". So a while back when Denny gave a talk in Boston about Wikidata, he mentioned that he didn't want bots running until after the new API hit and we had a chance to make sure that nothing was broken. I reposted that on the project chat and we all agreed to stop the bots. That was on November 13. Today I wake up to find that there is a bot running, and another to-be-bot-op is asking if he can run his too. Does anyone know if the new API has hit? Denny had no idea when it would. If it has, and nothing is on fire, does anyone have any other objections to running bots again? On a final note, I would ask that the bots stop running at Q99900 and resume once we're at Q100001, as Denny did make a point to me in private that day that I agree with, that it's great for the milestones in projects (and Q100000 is a big one) to be reached by humans and not bots. Donno if that's possible to program in though. Gosh, I remember creating things with four digits after the Q. I'm feeling old. :D Sven

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #33
by Lydia Pintscher 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Heya folks :) Here's your summary of the last week around Wikidata, delivered to you from India for a change. = Development = * Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/ * Refactored and improved change propagation code * Add option for client and change propagations to work with job queue * Added filter and preference for recent changes on the client, to show/hide Wikidata edits * Pruning of changes table * Fixed some issues in the Wikidata Vagrant * Added puppet recipe for Wikidata on WMF labs * Worked on making statements editable in the frontend * JSON of entities is sent to the frontend now * Finalized DataTypes extension’s $.valueview system * Improved entity selector widget * Added Selenium tests for special pages * Tracking separate revision ids in Javascript to fix the edit conflict handling * Fixed fatal PHP error in Special:SetLabel * Entities with just whitespaces as label/description are not allowed anymore 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… You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolu… = Discussions/Press = * http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/wikidata-wikipedias-game-changer = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * upcoming: Offener Sonntag at WMDE’s membership assembly * upcoming: SWIB * foss.in * local meetup in Bangalore = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Wikidata has been added to wikistream: http://wikistream.inkdroid.org/#wiki=wikidata.wikipedia * We now have nearly 800 active users \o/ * We are still looking for partners for https://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/wiki/Mass_collaboration Any pointers? = Open Tasks for You = * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Task_forces and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Contribute are a good starting point * Hack on one of 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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[Wikidata-l] Storage of claims and statements
by Jeroen De Dauw 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hey, We have had a createclaim API module for a while now, and although we have not deployed it on wikidata.org, some of you might have played around with it on local installs. Yesterday changes where merged vastly improving how claims are stored. The current code no longer supports the old format and you might get errors when trying to load entities that have claims in the old format attached. If this causes any problems, you can delete these entities. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. --

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Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata-l Digest, Vol 12, Issue 10
by Michael Hopwood 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Hello Gregor, Thank you for your clear and convincing summary of 3rd party data licensing. Could you or someone else on- or off-list tell me if Wikimedia is planning some sort of comprehensive technical separation of 3rd party data to ensure attribution, clearance of rights for downstream reuse etc.? My current project, www.linkedheritage.eu, is looking at this type of question right now so I'm happy to discuss. Best wishes, Michael Hopwood Linked Heritage Project Lead EDItEUR United House, North Road London N7 9DP UK Tel: +44 20 7503 6418 Mob: +44 7811 591036 Skype: michael.hopwood.editeur http://www.linkedheritage.org/ http://editeur.org/ The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform the sender and delete this e-mail immediately. The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. 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Registered Office: United House, North Road, London N7 9DP, United Kingdom -----Original Message----- From: wikidata-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikidata-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of wikidata-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: 17 November 2012 12:00 To: wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Wikidata-l Digest, Vol 12, Issue 10 Send Wikidata-l mailing list submissions to wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikidata-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikidata-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikidata-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Wikidata license (was "Introduction and some questions on Wikidata") (Gregor Hagedorn) 2. Re: Wikidata demo repo is being spammed. (Vito) 3. weekly summary #32 (Lydia Pintscher) 4. A framework for policies & similar stuffs (Vito) 5. Property specification on-wiki (Jeroen De Dauw) 6. Re: Property specification on-wiki (Daniel Kinzler) 7. Re: Property specification on-wiki (Gregor Hagedorn) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:06:00 +0100 From: Gregor Hagedorn <g.m.hagedorn(a)gmail.com> To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was "Introduction and some questions on Wikidata") Message-ID: <CADCRvwZeOZqWV7MdUyaw_z9-dwpzEJbsR5tSBY-ubjzGBaCJ1Q(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Just to clarify, my concern is about externally made databases, > regardless of whether these are imported directly into Wikidata, or > have been incorporated into Wikipedia first and imported into Wikidata > from there. For example, the population data in Wikipedia's list of > ceremonial English counties > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ceremonial_counties_of_England), > which also features in the infoboxes of the articles on each county, > would I think be covered by database right under U.K law. Like other > ONS material, it has been made available under the OGL, which does > impose some obligations on re-users (somewhat similar to CC-BY). This is in interesting case. However, while the database right gives you certain rights, it does not give you a copyright (i.e. the conent may be legally problematic, but it cannot be covered by CC BY-SA). Thus, the use on Wikipedia is either exclusively licensed with an obligation to prevent re-use by third parties (which is not the case, WMF does not do this), or it is illegal, or acceptance of open re-use is an implicit waiver of database rights. I believe you can not allow it on Wikipedia but then NOT allow further reuse. However, to clarify: 1. It is much preferable to add such data to Wikidata and include their source in a structured way. Whether OGL or other licenses need to be explicitly supported by Wikidata in the future will have to be a separate discussion, on Wikidata.org. 2. My goal in participating in this discussion is to avoid the impression that re-use of Wikipedia content is not possible at all without looking at each invidivual data element and record. 3. Wikidata plans to support a hierarchy of multiple data for the same statement (multiple values from different sources for a single property in a single item). This makes it possible (although not required) to mix Wikipedia-harvested information with poor sourcing with clean, well sourced data. 4. Not harvesting from Wikipedia implies to verify that almost all information from Wikipedia is in WIkidata, but cleanly sourced, before it si possible to migrate a class of infoboxes to Wikidata. I believe this is an impossible task, making some import of Wikipedia-harvested data necessary. Where better, sourced information exist, these would take precedence. Gregor ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:12:45 +0100 From: Vito <vituzzu.wiki(a)gmail.com> To: wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata demo repo is being spammed. Message-ID: <50A649DD.2090003(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Il 16/11/2012 07:24, Katie Filbert ha scritto: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Snaevar <snaevar-wiki(a)gmx.com > <mailto:snaevar-wiki@gmx.com>> wrote: > > Hello, > > I wanted to let you guys know that there is spam being added to > items (descriptions and labels) on the demo repo. > > > Thanks for reporting this. > > I've deleted the spam. > > Cheers, > Katie > Unfortunately I already saw spambots doing sul on wikidata, so a spam attacks are at the hand. Please report any spam to stewards in order to let them check&lock everything. Vito

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[Wikidata-l] Semantic Web Journal: Special Issue on Multilingual Linked Open Data (MLOD) 2012 -- Deadline extended to Dec. 7
by John McCrae 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

Dear all, We have extended the deadline for submissions to the Special Issue on Multilingual Linked Open Data (MLOD) 2012 to *December 7th*. Continuing the great success of the MLODE 2012 workshop<http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode>, we welcome novel submission to this special issue of the Semantic Web Journal. We also produced a new version of the linguistic linked open data cloud image as a result of the workshop: http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod The call is here (and also attached as an HTML file) http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-multilingual-linked-open-data- mlod-2012-data-post-proceedings Kind regards, John McCrae (on behalf of all MLOD guest editors: Steven Moran, Martin Brümmer, Sebastian Hellmann)

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[Wikidata-l] A framework for policies & similar stuffs
by Vito 16 Nov '12

16 Nov '12

Hi all wikidatians! I don't know if the matter has been already took in consideration but I think we should state a framework for policies, help and community pages. There's not so much to do, we already have a working model which is Commons. For example I've just seen https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Descrizione which is quite fine with me but it should be a translation of a common policy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Description placed under https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Descrizione/it currently our {{autotranslate}} is transcluded only into another template, I hope the list will increase asap ;) Vito

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #32
by Lydia Pintscher 16 Nov '12

16 Nov '12

Heya folks :) Here's the summary of what's been happening over the last week around Wikidata. = Development = * Implemented patching and automatic resolution of edit conflicts so you wont get as many edit conflicts anymore https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39836 * Worked on $.valueview system for DataValues editing in the user interface * Started implementing DataType constructor in JavaScript * Added ValueValidator and ValueFormatter factory * Improvements to Diff extension * Construct PropertyValueSnak objects in the create claim API when needed * Improved Entity serialization (is now more concise and better encapsulated) * Added newFromArray to all DataValue objects and created DataValue factory using this * Worked on development environment distribution with Vagrant * Improved code that handles changes from the repository and reporting them in the client’s RecentChanges * Fought with broken selenium tests & refactored/fixed them * Reviewed tons of JS code * Set up QUnit test coverage report (will be online soon) * Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de 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… You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolu… = Discussions/Press = * Translate Wikidata’s user interface and open it to the world http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/10/translate-wikidata-user-interface/ * Licenses and importing data http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-November/thread.html#1… = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * Wikimedia Conferentie and hackathon * ISWC * Wikidata intro and Q&A in Cambridge, MA * Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * We had to turn off language switching for anonymous users because of caching issues for now http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#language_switching_turne… * Vagrant setup for Wikidata so you can start testing and hacking easily https://github.com/SilkeMeyer/wikidata-vagrant = Open Tasks for You = * Hack on one of 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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[Wikidata-l] Wikidata demo repo is being spammed.
by Snaevar 16 Nov '12

16 Nov '12

Hello, I wanted to let you guys know that there is spam being added to items (descriptions and labels) on the demo repo. Regards, Snaevar

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[Wikidata-l] language switching turned off for anonymous users
by Lydia Pintscher 16 Nov '12

16 Nov '12

Heya folks, We unfortunately had to switch off language switching for anonymous users because of caching issues and people seeing random languages on wikidata.org because of it. It still works for logged-in users. We're working on getting it back for anonymous users too. You can follow https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42064 for the progress. Sorry for that. 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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