Wikidata October 2013

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[Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias
by Markus Krötzsch 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

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…

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[Wikidata-l] Wikiflashcards at Open Source Day - Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
by David Narvaez 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Crossposting to all lists of interest, sorry for the fancy long title but should be easier to search for future reference. I recently had the opportunity to mentor during the GHCOSD[0] for the Wikimedia Foundation. We were two mentors from the Foundation, and I took on mentoring what we called the challenging tasks: collaborating your first patch and writing your first bot. This e-mail is about my approach to the writing your first bot task, posting it here for future reference in case someone finds it useful, and for comments/opinions. My approach consisted of challenging the participants to write a game called Wikiflashcards. The game would use pygame[1] to display an index card with the name of a country and, after clicking, it would reveal the name of the capital city of that country. The frontend was all given[2] so that participants wouldn't have to worry about pygame at all (yet, we learned all the possible ways to install pygame on a relatively old Mac, pretty complicated), instead their task was to implement the backend using pywikibot to generate the list of cities and getting the capital for each city. This would naturally introduce the concept of listing a set of pages of interest, searching through the wikicode, mining templates, filtering links, etc. This approach differs from that of teaching people how to use pywikibot to collaborate directly with the wikipedia. My hypothesis is that teaching how to use these tools to "scratch your own itch", personal research, hobby, etc would make people match pywikibot with their own interest, make them active users of the framework and that will eventually lead them to use their expertise to collaborate with any of the WMF projects. After finishing a first version of the backend, I introduced the concept and purpose of Wikidata, challenged the participants to rewrite the backend using Wikidata items and properties and compare the two approaches - in particular, the complexity of the first approach vs the advantages of having a new backend ready for i18n and whatnot. The goal was to naturally introduce the need of a structured way to store and retrieve data, since I believe a direct introduction to Wikidata to someone that has never been involved in a task of mining data out of a Wikipedia looks very artificial. At the end the challenge seemed to be very engaging for the participants, and I had positive feedback about it but that doesn't really tell if the goals listed above were achieved or not. If you have further comments or questions just let me know. Disclaimer: I'm not implying this is a good idea (in particular, I'm not implying this was the best idea for this particular event), just my idea. David E. Narvaez [0] http://gracehopper.org/2013/conference/grace-hopper-open-source-day/ [1] http://pygame.org/news.html [2] https://gitorious.org/wiki-flash-cards/wiki-flash-cards

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Re: [Wikidata-l] [Wiktionary-l] contributing automatically built dictionaries
by Gerard Meijssen 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

Hoi, I think it makes more sense to contribute it to the upcoming Wiktionary effort on Wikidata. Thanks, GerardM On 8 October 2013 12:21, Judit, Ács <acs.judit(a)sztaki.hu> wrote: > Dear Wiktionary Community, > > We have been working on a triangulation method to expand existing > dictionaries in many languages. We were able to parse translations from 40 > Wiktionary editions and using these as seed dictionaries (appr. 3.6M > translation pairs), we created an additional 16M pairs in 50 languages. It > is possible to extend the number of languages. > > While the automatically generated dictionary is not a 100% correct, with > correct filtering, 90%+ can be reached. > > One version of the parsed Wiktionaries and the generated pairs can be found > here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r95tdr52o5rzzrw/a54Y66YGOJ > We used dumps from August to create these. > The software used to build dictionaries: > https://github.com/juditacs/wikt2dict > > Do you think there is a way to contribute this dictionary back to > Wiktionary? > > Best, > Judit Ács > _______________________________________________ > Wiktionary-l mailing list > Wiktionary-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiktionary-l >

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[Wikidata-l] Weekly Summary #79
by John Lewis 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

Hello everyone, Since Lydia stated her last summary update was last week, I have spoken with her and have taken on the summaries myself in order to keep these active. With that said, here is the summary of all the things that have happened this week. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_10_11 This week includes some sourcing statistics, a request from the development team to help priortitise their work and an interesting interview with Lydia. John --

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[Wikidata-l] stats needed for sources
by Lydia Pintscher 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

Hi everyone, As I said previously one of the major topics we need to work on is trust in our data. This among other things means adding reliable sources for statements. I would like us to keep an eye on the actual numbers there and track the progress. Is there anyone who'd like to hack up a small script/bot/page that shows us: * number of statements over time * number of sourced statements over time * number of statements with a source other than "imported from foo Wikipedia" etc Having that would be really sweet. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager 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 DBpedia Dump Release v.0.2
by Hady elsahar 08 Oct '13

08 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. 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] Speak fo WM CEE Meeting
by Michal Matúšov 07 Oct '13

07 Oct '13

Hi. In Wikimedia Slovakia we are preparing Wikimedia Central and East Europe Meeting, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2013 [1] There is interest about Wikidata and I would like to invite Wikidata representative to have speak there. Unfortunately, core WD team can not attend so I would like to invite a community member. We prefer a member from CEE region; travel costs will be reimbursed. The main goal of the meeting is to fortify interstate and international collaboration between various Wikimedia chapters, thematic organisations, user groups and other communities in Central and East Europe and its regions so it would be great if speak about Wikidata could be in line with this topic. Of course, it is good but not compulsory ;) Please contact me if you feel qualified for such speak / seminar. Thanks in advance for your respond! -- Michal Matúšov [[:w:sk:Redaktor:KuboF]] Wikimedia Slovenská republika Dom služieb ALFA Februárová 1478/2 958 01 Partizánske predseda / president Web: http://wikimedia.sk [2] Facebook: www.facebook.com/WikimediaSK [3] Twitter: https://twitter.com/WikimediaSK [4] Links: ------ [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2013 [2] http://wikimedia.sk [3] http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaSK [4] https://twitter.com/WikimediaSK

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[Wikidata-l] creator template, wikimedia commons
by rupert THURNER 07 Oct '13

07 Oct '13

hi, we are currently experimenting to have, after zb zürich earlier the year[1], a second museum from switzerland uploading full quality images (i.e. tif format)[2]. i was wondering what is the most "wikidata compatible" way of adding a creator information to an image like this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soleure_Aa_0012.tif the painter winterlin is in the category, has a template including personal information, just like the wikipedia article, and the wikidata entry. rupert. [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Zentralbibliothek_Solothurn

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[Wikidata-l] Please create option for two links to a Commons category
by Romaine Wiki 06 Oct '13

06 Oct '13

In an item there is since recently a section for a link to Commons. I noticed that only one item can be linked to one category on Commons, while we have for many years two places where we would like to the same category on Commons. Example: We have a category and an article about Germany. From both the article as the category we would like to link to the Category:Germany on Commons. This system is in use on many Wikipedias. So please enable the possibility for items that contain categories only two add the Commons category also to that page. Now we keep having Commonscat links in the section "Statements" and in the section "Wikimedia Commons page linked to this item" and it is only implemented half... Secondly I also would like to know in the sidebar on Commons both which articles and which categories on Wikipedias link to this Commons category. So please split the section in the sidebar in two sections of interwikilinks, one section for categories on Wikipedia about that subject and one section for articles on Wikipedia about that subject. Romaine

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[Wikidata-l] Interview Lydia
by Gerard Meijssen 05 Oct '13

05 Oct '13

Hoi, I am happy that Lydia answered some questions ... I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did. Thanks, GerardM http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/10/10-wikidata-questions-for-lydia.…

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