(sorry for cross-posting)
Dear semantic wiki users and developers,
We are very happy to announce that early bird registration to the 8th
Semantic MediaWiki Conference is now open!
Important facts reminder:
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* Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2013 (Monday to Wednesday)
* Location: A&O Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Lehrter Str. 12, 10557 Berlin, Germany
* Conference wiki page: https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013
* Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in
Semantic MediaWiki, e.g. users, developers, consultants, business
representatives and researchers.
We welcome new contributions from you:
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* We encourage contributions about applications and development of
semantic wikis; for a list of topics, see [1]
* Please propose regular talks, posters or super-short lightning talks
on the conference website. We will provide feedback to you and do our
best to consider your proposal in the conference program
* Tutorials and presentations will be video and audio recorded and
made available for others after the conference.
* If you've already announced your talk it's now time to expand its description
News on participation, tutorials and keynote
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* You can now officially register for the conference [2] and benefit
from early bird fees until September 14, 2013
* The tutorial program has been announced and available [3]. This year
we have two tutorial tracks:
** The beginner's tutorials are focused on business applications of
semantic wikis
** The developer's tutorials will help you to become Semantic
MediaWiki programmer: contributing to core and and writing extensions
for your specific needs
* Professor Yolanda Gil from the University of Southern California [4]
will give a keynote on scientific data curation
Organizers and sponsors
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* Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. [5] has become the official organiser of
SMWCon Fall 2013
* Thanks to our sponsors WikiVote [6] (platinum) and ArchiXL [7]
(gold) fees for this SMWCon remain low
If you have questions you can contact Yury Katkov (Program Chair),
Benedikt Kämpgen (General Chair) or Karsten Hoffmeyer (Local Chair)
per e-mail (Cc).
We will be happy to see you in Berlin!
Yury Katkov, Program Chair
[1] <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon Fall 2013/Announcement>
[2] <http://de.amiando.com/PVADAOV.html>
[3] <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013#Program>
[4] <http://www.isi.edu/~gil/>
[5] <https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Hauptseite>
[6] <http://wikivote.ru/>
[7] <http://www.archixl.nl/>
Hello All,
i was wondering if there's a wikiData item that hasn't links to
wikipedia.org and instead for wikivoyage or any other wiki
for example this triple wouldn't be available for any xx language and LL label :
<http://xx.wikipedia.org/wiki/LL> <http://schema.org/about>
<http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1111> .
also if it's not only wikipedia what are the main sources that wikidata
depended on when created their Items ?
thanks
Regards
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Hady El-Sahar
Research Assistant
Center of Informatics Sciences | Nile University<http://nileuniversity.edu.eg/>
Hi there,
how is the development of phase #3 (lists) going? Is it due to soon?
Sub-question: I guess sorting feature in lists will be implemented in
default as list without sorting would be a bad idea?
Thx for answer.
Cheers,
Kozuch
Heya folks,
Here's your weekly serving of Wikidata news. This time it includes a
bit of mushroom and easter eggs ;-)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_08_16
Cheers
Lydia
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Hi,
Is there a place that I can find the slides used on this Wikimania? How
about link them on the submission page, e.g. State of
Wikidata<http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/State_of_Wikidata>
.
Thanks
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Heya folks :)
I just posted a note about this to the Wikivoyage Traveler Pubs. We
plan to enable access to the data on Wikidata for Wikivoyage on 26th
of August. Data like the international calling code, time zone or
currency in a Wikivoyage article can then come from Wikidata.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Cheers
Lydia
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There are many applications that require of complex structures to represent
data, like the proposal for a multilingual Wikipedia [1] or a possible
OpenMath implementation [2].
In Wikidata there is already support for 1-depth trees (qualifiers) and I
am wondering if n-depth trees it is something that could be implemented in
other namespaces, like multilingual statement, or math formula.
Would that be possible or are there better approaches?
Cheers,
Micru
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_proposal_towards_a_multilingual_Wikipedia
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmath#Example
I’d like to see assertions of the sort
“Picture B represents topic X”
in commons. One can easily infer this for some pictures by noticing that “Picture B is included in the encyclopedia entry for topic X”, but often there are so many pictures of the topic that they aren’t all included in the topic page.
Often I see people use categories in Commons for this purpose, and I think that this function be done in some way synchronized with Wikidata, which would come with many benefits.
It would also be nice to some have some way to mark an image as
“A photograph of X”
“A piece of art created by X”
“A 3-d molecular rendering of X”
as well as that matter. There will be a fringe of tasks that categories will be necessary for, but it’s a good idea to make as many of them machine readable as we can.
From: Gerard Meijssen
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 5:08 AM
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project.
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client
Hoi,
As far as I am concerned, the categories used for images are not really helpful , While there are many images about Kiribati, you find only a few in the category by that name. The rest can be found in subcategories.
In the proposal for Commons there is a provision for tags. These tags can be populated to some extend by the categories they are in.
The reason to have categories is because they are intended to help find images. Without them and without tags we would not have Commons as a functioning entity. However, the way they work with all these subcategories and stuff prevent many people including myself to use Commons as the source of images when I need them.
So yes, having categories are good in a half arsed way but we should get rid of them as we can have something better.
One other big advantage of tags is that they are typically single concepts that have typically have translations either in the labels in Wikidata or in Wiktionary. This allows us to make Commons a truly multi-lingual resource.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 10 August 2013 06:19, Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> wrote:
Hi everyone,
At Wikimania we had several discussions about the future of Wikidata and Commons. Some broader feedback would be nice.
Now we have a property "Commons category" (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P373). This is a string and an intermediate solution.
In the long run Commons should probably be a wikibase instance in it's own right (structured metadata stored at Commons) integrated with Wikidata.org, see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Commons for more info.
In the meantime we should make Commons a wikidata client like Wikipedia and Wikivoyage. How would that work?
We have an item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9920 for the city Haarlem. It links to the Wikipedia article "Haarlem" and the Wikivoyage article "Haarlem". It should link to the Commons gallery "Haarlem" (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Haarlem)
We have an item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7427769 for the category Haarlem. It links to the Wikipedia category "Haarlem". It should link to the Commons category "Haarlem" (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Haarlem).
The category item (Q7427769) links to article item (Q9920) using the property "main category topic" (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P301).
We would need to make an inverse property of P301 to make the backlink.
Some reasons why this is helpful:
* Wikidata takes care of a lot of things like page moves, deletions, etc. Now with P373 (Commons category) it's all manual
* Having Wikidata on Commons means that you can automatically get backlinks to Wikipedia, have intro's for category, etc etc
* It's a step in the right direction. It makes it easier to do next steps
Small change, lot's of benefits!
Maarten
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