Wikidata April 2013

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[Wikidata-l] Our log table is exploding
by Denny Vrandečić 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Hey all, I just got a warning from Ops that our log table is growing extremely fast. One write up by this is here: <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47415> Basically, a vast majority of edits on Wikidata are written to the log table as they are autopatrolled. And since we have a lot of edits, this makes the table grow very very quickly. We would like to: * stop logging so many edits * drop those logs that are already there about patrolling We want to understand how that influences your workflows and what we can do about that. Please speak up if this change would be an issue. Cheers, Denny -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | 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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Re: [Wikidata-l] Oversight nominations
by Leon Liesener 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

To be honest, I see this in the same way like Adrian and Vito. MF-W has even posted Wikidata's current OS stats on the project chat, which clearly indicates no need for oversighters at Wikidata for now, in my opinion. That's also the reason why I didn't support the requests for oversight permissions. It is clearly not like there are many requests which cannot be handled by stewards on time, anymore. Honestly, I'm also a bit disappointed because we are focussing so much on, in my opinion, pointless right discussions. Currently, the most common task is to suppress revealed admin IP addresses. There's an easy solution: check whether you are logged in and read the messages which are showing up if you try to edit a page being logged out. The target of Wikidata is still to develop a free knowledge base. Regards, Leon > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Adrian Raddatz <ajraddatz(a)gmail.com> > Date: 23 April 2013 21:51 > Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Oversight nominations > To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Meh. The oversight right in general is pointless, just a legal separation that for some reason can't be handled by admins. Oh well, I don't make the rules, and if people really want more flags we might as well let them ask. At least we aren't replacing the 40+ stewards with just two ovs, and have a whopping seven candidates. I'm not sure what to think of that, actually... Especially since that's more than past os requests done on Wikidata. > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Vito <vituzzu.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Il 23/04/2013 21:28, Adrian Raddatz ha scritto: > > I completely agree, and don't know why there is such a move towards localizing oversight (and I imagine checkuser will come next). It should be noted that stewards can still oversight as part of cross-wiki work that they are doing, per the voted-upon policy. > > Maybe I'm a bit biased since I'm a stewie but frankly I don't see so much need for local oversighters, local checkusers might be ok (but actually I saw only crosswiki issues needing a check on wikidata) but ovs are imho pointless. > > > > Vito > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > > -- > Adrian Raddatz, R.C.N. > Naval Cadet > Royal Military College Saint-Jean > Government of Canada > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

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[Wikidata-l] Fwd: Updated GND dump available with links to DBpedia, Wikipedia and STW
by Denny Vrandečić 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Here's a set mapping GND IDs to German and English Wikipedia articles, for the authority control friends here. I didn't check if we have most of the mappings in Wikidata already, but maybe it is an interesting set. Cheers, Denny ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hauser, Julia <J.Hauser(a)dnb.de> Date: 2013/4/24 Subject: Updated GND dump available with links to DBpedia, Wikipedia and STW An updated RDF dump of the Integrated Authority File (GND) [1] is available for download [2]. It includes links to the German Wikipedia, DBpedia and also 1:1-relations to the STW Thesaurus for Economics [3]. The data are also available via http, SRU and OAI. Further information about the Linked Data Service of the German National Library (DNB) can be found on our website [4]. Best regards, Julia Hauser [1] *www.dnb.de/EN/gnd* <http://www.dnb.de/EN/gnd> [2] * http://datendienst.dnb.de/cgi-bin/mabit.pl?userID=opendata&pass=opendata&cm… *<http://datendienst.dnb.de/cgi-bin/mabit.pl?userID=opendata&pass=opendata&cm…> [3] *http://zbw.eu/stw/versions/latest/about.en.html*<http://zbw.eu/stw/versions/latest/about.en.html> [4] * http://www.dnb.de/EN/Service/DigitaleDienste/LinkedData/linkeddata_node.html *<http://www.dnb.de/EN/Service/DigitaleDienste/LinkedData/linkeddata_node.html> ***Lesen. Hören. Wissen. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek*** -- Julia Hauser Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Informationstechnik Adickesallee 1 D-60322 Frankfurt am Main Telefon: +49-69-1525-1784 Telefax: +49-69-1525-1799 *mailto:j.hauser@dnb.de* <j.hauser(a)dnb.de> *http://www.dnb.de* <http://www.dnb.de/> -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | 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] New exception needed: score
by Bináris 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Hi, <score> blahblah </score> or <score foo bar> ... </score> is introduces for music notes as written below. See also http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Szerkeszt%C5%91:Grin/lilypond&act… live use. Anyone to add a new exceptcion to textlib? Not a big deal, I am just far from my own computer now where I could solve it. It should be handled in the way as syntaxhighlight in line 121 here: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/pywikibot/tex… ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> Date: 2013/4/23 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Bug 189: "Add a music wikimodule" resolved/fixed To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189 Congrats to all involved in getting bug 189 resolved! :-) Bug 189 was one of the oldest unresolved and one of the better known bugs in Bugzilla involving a request to add a music module to Wikimedia wikis. Quick stats about the bug: * Opened: 2004-08-22 * Votes: 48 * Comments: 123 The bug filer is still around and left a nice note on the bug (<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189#c123>): --- Congratulations to all ! It makes my dream comes true today ! Thanks million times! --- <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note> seemed like an easy target for demoing the newly deployed Score extension (<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score>) on a production site, if anyone's interested. I tried looking around for a point and click lilypond or ABC code generation tool (preferably Web-based), but a lot of these tools quickly went over my head. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Bináris -- Bináris

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[Wikidata-l] Oversight nominations
by legoktm 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi all, There are currently 7 editors who are requesting the oversight permission: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Oversight. They are: Hahc21, Rschen7754, Sven Manguard, Techman224, Courcelles, Stryn, and Addshore. If you have the time, please comment on these requests. Thanks! -- Legoktm

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[Wikidata-l] infobox showcases
by Lydia Pintscher 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Heya folks :) A journalist asked me for some nice examples if infoboxes using data from Wikidata already. Does anyone have any good pointers I can show him? It would be very useful to have some showcases anyway for the deployment on all remaining Wikipedias tomorrow. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Technical Projects 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] phase 2 live on the first 11 Wikipedias
by Lydia Pintscher 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Heya folks :) Data inclusion from Wikidata is now now possible on the first 11 Wikipedias. Wohoooooooo! http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/27/you-can-have-all-the-data/ has more details. 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] phase 2 live on English Wikipedia
by Lydia Pintscher 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Heya folks :) Phase 2 is not live on English Wikipedia. For more details please see http://blog.wikimedia.de/?p=14896 The remaining Wikipedias are still scheduled for Wednesday. At the same time we have enabled a new feature that lets you add another language link to an article without having to go to Wikidata if there is no other language listed on Wikidata yet. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Technical Projects 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] GSoC projects related to Wikidata
by Lydia Pintscher 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Heya folks :) 3 organizations offer projects related to Wikidata as part of GSoC 2013. More details at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:GSoC I hope the students among you consider applying. It's an amazing opportunity to get involved in a Free Software project. 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] How does wikidata handle topic redirect/merge/split
by Jianyong Zhang 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Hi, Wikidata is a very useful effort. It seems associating an item with a wikipedia article. Then I'm thinking the following scenarios to understand it further: Say, an article is associated with an item Qx. 1) It becomes redirect to another article, will Qx be changed in this scenario? 2) It is deleted. Will Qx be also deleted? 3) That article is split as 2 new articles, how will we generate items for them? 4) Or multiple articles are merged as one, how will their items be changed?

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