Wikidata March 2012

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[Wikidata-l] White-papers about Wikidata
by John Erling Blad 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Is there any (important) white-papers available about Wikidata except the following? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata (previous proposal, dead) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wikidata http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata (present proposal, active) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wikidata A short note in the "Briefly" section of News and notes in the Signpost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-29/News_a… Another one in Technology report in the Signpost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-08-09/Techno… WikiData – Announcing Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing http://dataliberate.com/2012/02/wikidata-announcing-wikipedias-next-big-thi… Any other? John

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[Wikidata-l] Import from external sources
by John Erling Blad 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Is there anyone that has considered how to import data from external sources, especially those that do not have any prepared an well-defined API? A rather simple example from the website for Statistics Norway is an article on a website like this http://www.ssb.no/fobstud/ and a table like this http://www.ssb.no/fobstud/tab-2002-11-21-02.html In that example you must follow a link to a new page which you then must monitor for changes. Inside that page you can use Xpath to to extract a field, and then optionally use something like a regexp to identify and split fields. As an alternate solution you might use XLT to transform the whole page. Anyhow, this can quite easily be formulated both as a parser function and a tag function. At the same site there is something called "Statistikkbanken" (http://statbank.ssb.no/statistikkbanken/) where you can (must) log on and then iterate through a sequence of pages. Similar data as in the previous example can be found in http://statbank.ssb.no/statistikkbanken/selectvarval/Define.asp?MainTable=F… But it is very difficult to formulate a kind of click-sequence inside that page. Any idea? Some kind of click-sequence recording? Statistics Norway publish statistics about Norway for free reuse as long as they are credited as appropriate. http://www.ssb.no/english/help/ John

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Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata submissions for Wikimania
by Lydia Pintscher 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:33 PM, JFC Morfin <jefsey(a)jefsey.com> wrote: > Dear Lydia, > > I joined this list from a comment on the Wikimedia France site, but I would > like to know where I can find a road map, a charter or a page for the > project you engage on behalf ow WMDE. > Thank you ! > jfc Hi! The important things are all linked on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata. If you want to get a quick overview I suggest the timeline in the FAQ linked there. If you are looking for a detailed technical description then the Technical Proposal linked there is right for you. It has a more detailed timeline as well. We are working on publishing more there as soon as we can. Stuff starts for real in 2 weeks \o/ Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Eisenacher Straße 2 10777 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] Wikidata submissions for Wikimania
by JFC Morfin 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

At 10:49 18/03/2012, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Jan_Ku=E8era?= wrote: >Sorry for biting, but life taught me WMF is a big black hole for >money, ideas and latedy also for participation... not giving a shi* at >all about its editors... I simply do not trust anything new since some >time ago. May this project be an exception, since it actually is not >run directly by WMF but by you guys in WMDE... it really is not >surprising that WMF was not able to come up whit this project for >about 7 years, even though there surely was demand... Dear Lydia, I joined this list from a comment on the Wikimedia France site, but I would like to know where I can find a road map, a charter or a page for the project you engage on behalf ow WMDE. Thank you ! jfc

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[Wikidata-l] Wikidata submissions for Wikimania
by Lydia Pintscher 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

Heya folks :) We currently have 4 submissions related to Wikidata for Wikimania. If you'd like to see one or more of them accepted please do indicate your interest on the proposal pages. All you need to do is sign at the bottom of the page. So far we have: * http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Let%E2%80%99s_talk_abou…! * http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/How_Wikidata_fits_into_… * http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikidata_implementation… * http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikidata_as_a_platform Hope to see many of you at Wikimania. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Eisenacher Straße 2 10777 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] Introduction
by Gerard Meijssen 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hoi, The WikiData project is of real interest to me. It is very much the second coming of what is still a great idea. Providing an environment where in one central environment data is maintained. In essence data can be expressed in triples and with such a statement you get firmly into semantic web and into language technology. The original Wikidata was about "solving" the issue that Wiktionary is doing the same thing over and over again. Consider, a word like "travel" is linked on 37 wiktionaries and in essence they all say that it is an English word, a verb and has a particular meaning with translations ... on a high level all this data is the same. When you look at a word like "Nederland" at OmegaWiki, you will agree that Amsterdam is the capital of my country and this can be expressed as a "triple" and all the two other elements in this triple can be translated. Check out the word, check it out in other languages (like Arabic or Russian or Dutch) and you will find the kind of functionality that will be a challenge for this new project. Data projects, software projects have one big problem. They typically do not consider their use in other languages. They find it surprising that you can not really add all this language stuff in at a later time. Wikidata will be used by Wikipedia and Wikipedia is at this moment only some 283 languages. Not one, not two and not fifty. There are over 7000 languages in the ISO-639-3... <grin> I have been asked to be an advisor to this project and I accepted </grin> An advisor advises and my advise is to make WikiData II a tools for all our projects from the start. At OmegaWiki we learned a lot and we LOVE to share our knowledge with you. Thanks, GerardM http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/travel http://www.omegawiki.org/Expression:Nederland

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[Wikidata-l] Wikimedia Fellowships/Project Ideas/Tools for text synthesis
by John Erling Blad 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

I posted a fellowship project, basically it has grown out of work on Northern Samii Wikipedia http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Project_Ideas/Tools_fo… John

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[Wikidata-l] Introduction
by Jakob Voss 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Hi I'd also like to briefly introduce myself, although not actively working on Wikidata or at Wikimedia Germany. I was in the board of the German chapter the first years and active especially in German Wikipedia - my main interest is topics in knowledge organization, library science, computer science, which I both studied in Berlin. Now I live in Göttingen (by the way that's were the first digital data transmission over wire took place in 1833), working on research and development for the GBV library union network. I hope to finish my PhD on foundations of data structuring this summer [1]. I sometimes write in my weblog at http://jakoblog.de/. Cheers Jakob [1] http://aboutdata.org/bibliography -- Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) Digitale Bibliothek - Jakob Voß Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1 37073 Goettingen - Germany +49 (0)551 39-10242 http://www.gbv.de jakob.voss(a)gbv.de

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[Wikidata-l] Introduction
by Sumana Harihareswara 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Hi! I'm Sumana Harihareswara and I coordinate volunteer software development for Wikimedia projects. I imagine I'll mostly be lurking here but I do want to say hi and thank WMDE for leading such an important and exciting project! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikidata-l] early bird
by JFC Morfin 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

http://domainincite.com/ntia-says-icann-does-not-meet-the-requirements-for-… This information will most probably affect the New gTLD Project and open new possibilities to Google+ and to the emergence of the Internet+. This may help the experimentation of ".wiki" and lead to an opendata general approach to be tested (new architecture, users cloud, naming plan, etc.). jfc

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