Wikidata June 2013

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #61
by Lydia Pintscher 08 Jun '13

08 Jun '13

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 -- 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] large donation by Yandex
by Lydia Pintscher 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

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 -- 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] Proposed tools for sources
by David Cuenca 06 Jun '13

06 Jun '13

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

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[Wikidata-l] (no subject)
by Nasir Mehmood 06 Jun '13

06 Jun '13

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[Wikidata-l] Wikidata country data in a Wikipedia Lua template?
by Quim Gil 06 Jun '13

06 Jun '13

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. :) -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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[Wikidata-l] (no subject)
by Nasir Mehmood 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

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[Wikidata-l] Proposed guidelines for sourcing statements
by David Cuenca 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Hi! After almost 2 months of deliberations, we are aiming to close the RfC on References and Sources on June 15. The result of the discussions has been condensed into the proposed Guidelines for sourcing staments. http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Please_review_the_.22Gui… And also these proposed enhancements will help users to enter and to display sources more easily: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49067 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49068 Cheers, Micru

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[Wikidata-l] ....
by Andrea Di Menna 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

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[Wikidata-l] Request: please tell me where local interwikis are left in template namespace (nl-wiki)
by Romaine Wiki 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

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

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