Wikidata October 2013

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[Wikidata-l] Proposed change to the inclusion synthax
by David Cuenca 21 Oct '13

21 Oct '13

Hi, I would like to know your opinion about having the value in the #property parser function. Right now we have two options: {{#property:P36}} {{#property:capital}} The problem with this model is that editors in wikipedia cannot see the value unless they render the page (or possibly use the VisualEditor). Having the value in the property parser itself would allow contributors to see and edit the value in Wikipedia, which would in turn update the Wikidata value. Of course updating the value in Wikidata will also update the text field. It could look like {{#property:P36|value=Berlin}} {{#property:capital|value=Berlin}} Or maybe: {{#property:P36=Berlin}} {{#property:capital=Berlin}} What is your opinion about it? Cheers, Micru

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[Wikidata-l] Statistics
by Gerard Meijssen 20 Oct '13

20 Oct '13

Hoi, I do not know if you have seen the statistics compiled by Magnus [1]. They are up to date and useful. I blogged about it [2]. As far as I am concerned, the biggest challenge we face is the lack of labels. Given that 280+ languages are represented in Wikidata it clearly demonstrates that Wikidata is useless as it is for most languages. Please tell me that I am wrong and explain why. Thanks, GerardM [1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php [2] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/10/statistics-for-wikidata.html

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[Wikidata-l] Wikidata Weekly Summary #80
by John Lewis 19 Oct '13

19 Oct '13

Hello everyone, This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata, also a discussion over 'Showcase items' was started and Lydia gave a talk at Latinoware on Wikidata. See the full summary at; https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_10_18 Regards, John

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[Wikidata-l] labels for Wikidata items
by Gerard Meijssen 19 Oct '13

19 Oct '13

Hoi, Is there a bot to add labels to Wikidata ? It seems that the majority of the Wikidata items have only one label. To be useful, to be available to search, it is imperative that a label exists. The obvious value is the name of the Wikipedia article. It is better to have that as a label than no label.. Is there a bot that will populate Wikidata based on the existing interwiki links and, is it possible to have the name of a new article added as a label when a new Wikipedia article is added as an interwiki link? Thanks, Gerard

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[Wikidata-l] Is Wikidata VIAF data being used in Wikipedia?
by Tom Morris 18 Oct '13

18 Oct '13

If I want the most current/accurate VIAF ids, should I be looking at Wikidata or Wikipedia? When I look at the EN Wikipedia pages for these two topics: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9094 http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9095 both of which have property P214, the VIAF identifer, the second displays the VIAF identifier, but the first doesn't and the one that does display the identifier appears to be using information from the embedded AuthorityControl template, not Wikidata. My concern is that if the Wikidata VIAF data isn't being viewed/edit on Wikipedia, it can easily be invisibly wrong like the infamous Persondata template. Tom

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Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF Issues
by Paul A. Houle 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

For a while I've noticed that your messages don't show up properly in Windows Live Mail. I have many circumstances that are pushing me towards gmail, but you should correct this because you can assume that you hear maybe 1% of the time when people have a problem. -----Original Message----- From: Kingsley Idehen Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 9:11 AM To: wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF Issues _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

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[Wikidata-l] WikiData DBpedia Dump Release v.0.2
by Hady elsahar 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

Dear All, by the end of the GSoC2013 period and as an output of Wikidata integration inside DBpedia project , another new Updated RDF DBpedia Dumps for Wikidata Data is now available to download<https://github.com/hadyelsahar/extraction-framework/wiki/WikiData-DBpedia-D…> . the main Features of those dumps than V0.1<https://github.com/hadyelsahar/extraction-framework/wiki/WikiData-DBpedia-D…> are : - properties mapped dumps from Wikidata to DBpedia - better datatype handling dumps (automatic assignment of Wikidata (Time , GlobeCoordinate , CommonMedia files , String ) to their equivalent values in xsd datatypes and DBpedia equivalent properties) your Feedback is always needed of course to review the exported data and enhance it. Thanks Regards ------------------------------------------------- Hady El-Sahar Research Assistant Center of Informatics Sciences | Nile University<http://nileuniversity.edu.eg/>

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[Wikidata-l] New code deployed!
by Katie Filbert 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

We have deployed new code to Wikidata. This includes various bug fixes and some new features. Changes of note include: * Item ID is displayed next to the item label (see paper cut [1]) * Improved appearance of Wikimedia Commons site link section In the API: * EditEntity module allows editing / adding claims and creating entities with claims. * API has a new merge items module. * Precision for time values is now validated. The API no longer accepts time values more precise than a day, as such values are handled inconsistently in the UI. (see bug 54939 [2]) * Coordinate values with null precision are no longer accepted by the API for new claims. In the clients (Wikivoyage/Commons now, Wikipedia on Thursday): * The Wikidata flag 'D' on watchlist and recentchanges is styled. [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Paper_cuts#The_Q_number_is_nowhere_w… [2] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/54939 Cheers, Katie -- 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.

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Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias
by Paul A. Houle 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

Just as a suggestion, you can turn these kind of numbers into a probability distribution using the beta distribution. If you use (1,1) as a prior you get something like beta(251,1) for the the probability of the probability that somebody named "Aaron" is male. -----Original Message----- From: Markus Krötzsch Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 6:16 PM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Subject: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias Hi all, I'd like to share a little Wikidata application: I just used Wikidata to guess the sex of people based on their (first) name [1]. My goal was to determine gender bias among the authors in several research areas. This is how some people spend their free time on weekends ;-) In the process, I also created a long list of first names with associated sex information from Wikidata [2]. It is not super clean but it served its purpose. If you are a researcher, then maybe the gender bias of journals/conferences is interesting to you as well. Details and some discussion of the results are online [1]. Cheers, Markus [1] http://korrekt.org/page/Note:Sex_Distributions_in_Research [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AstQ5xfO-xXGdE9UVkxNc0JMVWJzNm… _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

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[Wikidata-l] Really interesting blog post
by Gerard Meijssen 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Hoi, The new blog post about VIAF is really interesting.. It has many implications so please, as far as I am concerned this is a must read.. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8964 Thanks, Gerard

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