Wikidata February 2013

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[Wikidata-l] Expiration date for data
by Marco Fleckinger 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

Hi, regarding an actual topic in Germany about publication of the timetable-data of Deutsche Bahn (German national railway company) and their willingness of a discussion with other Open-Data-Supporters it may be a good idea of providing an expiration dates for Wikidata-records. In their open letter to Mr. Kreil [1] they announced that it may cause problems providing the timetable-data in an open way if e.g. anybody uses old data. Marco [1] http://www.db-vertrieb.com/db_vertrieb/view/service/open_plan_b.shtml

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[Wikidata-l] gene templates -> wikidata, when?
by Benjamin Good 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

I am considering the task of converting the templates from the gene articles in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Gene_Wiki) to use/create wikidata assertions. This involves an extensive update of the template structure as well as the code for the bot that keeps them in sync with external public databases. (https://bitbucket.org/sulab/pygenewiki) More specifically I'm thinking about working with a Google Summer of Code student on this project. Given a time frame of now through August, would it make sense for us to pursue this objective directly in the context of wikidata (through the public API). Or would it be better for us to install our own version of the wikibase software (kept in sync with code updates) and develop the new gene wiki bot code locally with the aim of switching to the public API later? Or is it too early to consider this project? I want to get involved and support wikidata with this important data, but I'm hesitant to ramp up development (especially with a student) in a moving target situation. Any thoughts? thanks! -Ben

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[Wikidata-l] Demo servers are currently unavailable
by Silke Meyer 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hi! Argh... Today the update of the demo servers failed on test-repo due a puppet problem. The client thus doesn't work either. Sorry for that - I'm trying to figure out why this happened to get the demo servers back and let you know. Might be that this is only tomorrow (as in European Timezone tomorrow). Best, Silke -- 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.

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[Wikidata-l] When will be the next wikidata dump?
by Maria Miteva 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Hi and sorry for break threading, I talked to Ariel, who is responsible for dumps, and she described the schedule as follows : The dumps run in this order: new wikis with no run go next as soon as a server completes an existing run. All other wikis are done in 'longest to go without a run goes next', per list. There are two lists: large (de it pl etc) wikis, about 9-10 of those, and small wikis (the rest). En wiki runs by itself, by hand, once a month. In her estimate the next wikidata dump will have its turn in 2-3 days, which I understand as Feb 27-28. I hope that helps. Mariya

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[Wikidata-l] Next Stage From Wikidata to Free Knowledge
by Konstantin Ksenofontov 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hi, Sorry if I am a bit disturbing or my letter sent wrong time. I have a proposal regarding future. Every information has two sides like an receiver and source. When a child asks how many citizens San-Francisco has the answer is different than 744000. So, the question and answer depends on who asking, why, where etc. My proposal is to make Global Social Media like wikipedia, but with form "question - answer", where asking or answering side is computer or human being or random (time). Questions are answered by questions' "suppliers". Suppliers are organizations or humans or time, interested in answering a questions. The knowledge needs to be free but we often need less exact knowledge. Something like we need to think less every day that every sign we become older and less stronger and more probability to die. :) I have made a single page which answers only one question by this moment based on time: http://hahame.ru . What are you thinking about it?

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[Wikidata-l] When will be the next wikidata dump?
by Jianyong Zhang 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

I try to get a latest wikidata dump to play with. I have checked the site http://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/. The latest dump is for 20130215. Since I would like to get really latest version (so that if I want to get up-to-date data, I don't crawl wikidata.org with recentchange API too much), I may want to wait for the next dump to build my local copy. Do you know when we will have the next dump? Or what is the general policy/schedule to generate a dump? Thanks a lot.

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[Wikidata-l] some good news about the future of Wikidata
by Lydia Pintscher 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/20/the-future-of-wikidata/ :) 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] weekly summary 46
by Lydia Pintscher 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Heya folks :) Here's your weekly summary of everything fancy happening around Wikidata. It's was quite a week! The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_02_22 = Development = * Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_features_and_bugfixe… * Updated demo system (http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Testwiki:Main_Page) * Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit) * Implemented first version of a string data type * Worked on better error reporting from the API * Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension * Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing * Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities) * Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance * Worked on cleanup of local entity store * Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries 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 development will continue in 2013: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/20/the-future-of-wikidata/ * Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing: http://semanticweb.com/wikidata-phase-2-in-full-swing_b35445 * RFC about the Wikidata API: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-February/001763.html * Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties and new ones are being discussed at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal * RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Bot_policy * Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Proposed_guideline_chang… = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2013-02-16) * upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6 * Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata * Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/geneawiki/?q=Q1339 * “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata): http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/22/restricting-the-world/ * List of most used properties: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Popular_properties * OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles: http://omegawiki.blogspot.de/2013/02/using-wikidata-to-display-links-to.html * Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-Cat.gif * We’ve hit http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5000000 * Had a look at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools lately? = Open Tasks for You = * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&ke… * Help translate http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions * Help bring the content of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia 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] Disambiguation in property names
by Bináris 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Hi, there was a talk (here or on project talk, I don't remember) about identical names of properties. In several languages sex (=being male or female) and genus in biology have the same name which is prohibited in property names. Now, I see ország (rendszertan) (P75)<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P75> in recent changes; ország means country and it also has the biological meaning (plants, animals...) A good solution would be if these disambiguating words in parentheses could disappear when applying them in phase 2 client. Then we could encourage people to use this form. As we say in Hungary, both the goat has enough and the cabbage remains. I am not sure if I was clear, tell me if not. -- Bináris

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[Wikidata-l] Wikidata API
by Yuri Astrakhan 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

I have started an RFC, putting down my initial thoughts on how to make Wikidata API more seamless with the core API. The goal is to minimize execution time, bandwidth, and server load, while making it play nicely with the rest of the action=query, allow for continuations and multi-values data request capabilities. For now I only looked at the wbgetentities, but the RFC will be updated with the other modules. Please let me know what you think. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Wikidata_API

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