Finally, we have the rest of the Wikimania videos available, including this
one of the Wikidata panel in the "sister projects" session:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi8Yf9c3wXg (starts at 22:45)
The other Wikidata session is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05HxNwxiNZ0
Cheers,
Katie
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Katie Filbert
Wikidata Developer
Wikimedia Germany e.V. | NEW: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin
Phone (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Germany - Society for the Promotion of free knowledge eV Entered
in the register of Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg under the number 23
855 as recognized as charitable by the Inland Revenue for corporations I
Berlin, tax number 27/681/51985.
Heya :)
On 18 December Denny and I will do the next round of Wikidata office
hours. Everyone with questions about Wikidata is welcome.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events#IRC_office_hours
Cheers
Lydia
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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.
Hey All
We are looking at Jan 15, 2013 as an official launch date for Wikivoyage.
We are looking at options for both on wiki and off wiki media outreach.
There is still work to be done with respect to moving images over from the
old site but hopefully things will be good enough. We are a wiki of course
which means all are invited to fix any issues they see.
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
Heya folks :)
Here's your summary what happened around Wikidata over the last week.
You can find the wiki version at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_12_14
= Development =
* Deployed new code on wikidata.org. All changes can be found at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FWikibase.g…
* Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de
* http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses wikidata.org for getting
language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles
on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden)
* Statements (think of “population: 2.000.000” and similar things) are
taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at
this point.
* It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a
statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example)
* Links are now protocol-relative
(https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42534)
* No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database
is set to read-only
* Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser
* Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
* Removed many singletons to reduce global state
* Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities
* Improved settings system
* Improved options of ValueFormatters
* Improved options of ValueParsers
* Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid
deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any
violating values
* Fixed serialization of SiteArray
* ~=[,,_,,]:3
* Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again
* Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls
for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks
* Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests
* Report URL to entity in wbsearchentites API module
* Moved the demo system to a larger server
* Fixed several bugs in Statements user interface, most notably,
adding Statements to existing sections and layout fixes
* Added wikibase API module on the client to provide information about
the associated repo (e.g. url, script path, article path)
* A bunch of messages for autocomments were fixed (they are
automatically added as an edit summary for edits on items and co in
Wikidata - for example: “Changed [en] description: Finnish rock
band”)
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 =
* “Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge“
http://tech2.in.com/features/science-and-technology/wikidata-summing-the-su…
= Events =
see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* WhereCamp
* Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
* upcoming: 29C3
* upcoming: Office hours
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* More pretty Wikidata artwork:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_logo_using_images.png
= Open Tasks for You =
* Want to help me write the next weekly summary? Let me know.
* Hack on one of
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&ke…
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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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.
(sorry, don't have the proper subject line to hand)
Are proper lawyers being consulted about this (database rights)? The
quantity of unofficial speculation on this list is in good faith but still
somewhat concerning...
Harry
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Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250)
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Marco Fleckinger
<marco.fleckinger(a)wikipedia.at> wrote:
> (...)
> First of all the priority lies on data already present on Wikipedia. Wikidata should not be a data storage for everything structured in the world, so we should first start to transfer data already present on Wikipedia to Wikidata.
> (...)
Wouldn't that kind of transfer be a violation of the CC-BY-SA license
used on Wikipedia, considering it is not compatible[1] with CC0?
Best regards,
Helder
[1] http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Can_I_combine_tw…
Hi!
The demo server is back, on an Ubuntu Precise now.
MediaWiki: 1.21alpha (0752ba7)
PHP: 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.4+wmf1 (apache2handler)
MySQL: 5.5.28-0ubuntu0.12.04.3
As before, there are 3 instances:
http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.dehttp://wikidata-test-client.wikimedia.dehttp://wikidata-test-client-he.wikimedia.de
Best,
Silke
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Silke Meyer
Systemadministratorin und Projektassistenz Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt
für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Heya :)
Just a quick note that we deployed new code to wikidata.org. All
changes can be found at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FWikibase.g…
We're still working on getting test2.wikipedia.org to properly work
with Wikidata.
Please let me know of any problems you see that might be related to the update.
Cheers
Lydia
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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.
Hello all,
Wikidata has grown rapidly the past weeks, a community of users is active now, and we are just in the beginning of Wikidata, but still already tremendous work already has been done with all the items with interwiki's added. We all have picked up Wikidata enthusiastic, and I think we all want to get further with it very much. The project fits the needs of the communities very much.
My personal background is to translate and explain the technical stuff to users on wiki's, and return the feedback to the developers, as most users consider bugzilla and technical things far far far away.
The weekly summary is great to have, but for more transparency it would be nice to have a time line, or otherwise a clear (expected) date when the next big change will be (like with the deployment of new MediaWiki versions). Reading the e-mails and reading on meta, I almost only see the technical changes which are coming, but for the communities on Wikidata and Wikipedia's it would be great to know when the next step in content adding will be possible.
Also it would be nice to have a list of those things that will be possible in the future, but have no date yet to be implemented. The reason for this is double:
* On local communities I notice a lot of stories, fables and myths of how Wikidata will be in future, but often with no ground.
* Also there are a lot of things that would have potential on Wikidata. Yes sure, I can add it to Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team but already my last comment is archived somewhere and out of sight.
I think it would be good to make clear which specific content additions will be possible in future. I think we should have a list which states what content will be in next deployment and what content will be later on. I read somewhere about Link_FA, Link_GA, but also IMDb, IBDB, VIAF, but also of course Commons. A lot others are too on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control
Currently VIAF is in discussion and willing to be added on some wiki's, but with Wikidata it can be done much easier. Any plans for it?
Romaine
Hi!
I'm going to work on the demo instances test repo, test client English
and test client Hebrew.
They won't be available for a moment!
Thanks for your patience!
Silke
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Silke Meyer
Systemadministratorin und Projektassistenz Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt
für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
