Heya folks :)
Lazy weekend ahead? Why not have a look at the past week on Wikidata:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_06_07
Cheers
Lydia
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Community Communications for Technical Projects
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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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.
Hi everyone,
I'm happy to let you know that Yandex, an internet company from
Russia, made a donation of 150000 Euro to Wikimedia Deutschland for
further development of the core of Wikidata. It's great to see more
companies stepping up in not only using Wikidata but actively
supporting its development.
The official press release is at
https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Pressemitteilungen/PM_06_13_Wikidata_Yandex
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Cheers
Lydia
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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.
Hi!
To celebrate that Wikidata has received a fairly-sized donation (more
Wikidata, yay!), I would like to share with you some ideas about sources
for statements.
The first one, proposed by TomT0m, addresses the problem of linking one
source to several statements. It could be a two column layout where on one
side sources would be displayed or would be added, and on the other side
the statements, to connect with those sources. Another option could be an
applet to display all sources used in that item, search or add more, plus
the ability to drag&drop a source onto a statement.
Then we have the issue of how to import existing sources from Wikipedia or
free external sources, like Open Library, to support claims in Wikidata.
The main problem is the transform of text into the corresponding items:
check if an item exists, and if not create it when appropriate (author,
publisher, etc). It can be done manually, but it is tedious, so some tool
might help there to suggest which items to link to, and which ones to
create.
Verification of web linked sources is also a major issue. How to know if
the data on a web page is still current or if it has suffered changes? To
address this I propose using the OKFN Annotator together with the datatype
url. That would allow the user to "annotate" any portion of the web being
linked, store the quotation, and then a crawler would be able to check
automatically if the linked fragment has been updated. It would also
highlight the text used as source when visiting the web site. There is a
GsoC that aims to convert the Annotator into a Mediawiki extension to
comment Wikipedia articles, and I believe it could be used to annotate
texts in Wikisource (that was my original involvement in the project) and
eventually linked websites in Wikidata.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46440
Finally, as a reminder, when creating item-sources this might be useful to
create missing items: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49068
And this for checking if the linked item is the right one:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49067
Thanks,
Micru
Hi, I asked this question at
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help_talk:Lua
but I'm asking here again just in case.
In my own free time, I'm trying to reimplement w:Template:Flagicon on
Lua just for the fun of it - see the small announcement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Flag_Template#Templ…
There is a table where images of flags in Commons are identified with
the article of their territory in the project where the module is hosted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Sandbox/QuimGil/FlagTranslations
Could Wikidata help here?
For instance at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q228 we have all the ISO
codes related to "Andorra", the flag image and the translations in all
Wikimedia projects. It would be amazing if this data could be leveraged.
Maybe not for each template query (that could be expensive) but at least
to populate and maintain those local tables automatically. The master
table would be the only one maintained manually and all it would do is
to state that "Andorra" = Q228, "Berlin" = Q64...
Even that master table could be highly automated one day because we do
have the ISO 3166 entries etc in Wikidata... but let's go step by step. :)
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
In the past weeks I have cleaned up the interwikis in the template namespace on the Dutch Wikipedia. What I would like to know where is on what templates there are stille local interwikis present. Can anyone do a query/... to help me find that answer?
Thanks!
Romaine