Wikidata December 2014

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[Wikidata-l] Tool for adding references and data to Wikidata
by Denny Vrandečić 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

Freebase was launched to be a “Wikipedia for structured data”, because in 2007 there was no such project. But now we do have Wikidata, and Wikidata and its community is developing very fast. Today, the goals of Freebase might be better served by supporting Wikidata [1]. Freebase has seen a huge amount of effort go into it since it went public in 2007. It makes a lot of sense to make the results of this work available to Wikidata. But knowing Wikidata and its community a bit, it is obvious that we can not and should not simply upload Freebase data to Wikidata: Wikidata would prefer the data to be referenced to external, primary sources. In order to do so, Google will soon start to work on an Open Source tool which will run on Wikimedia labs and which will allow Wikidata contributors to find references for a statement and then upload the statement and the reference to Wikidata. We will release several sets of Freebase data ready for consumption by this tool under a CC0 license. This tool should also work for statements already in Wikidata without sufficient references, or for other datasets, like DBpedia and other machine extraction efforts, etc. To make sure we get it right, we invite you to participate in the design and development of this tool here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary sources tool I hope you are as excited as I am about this project, and I hope that you will join me in making this a reality. I am looking forward to your contributions! [1] https://plus.sandbox.google.com/109936836907132434202/posts/bu3z2wVqcQc

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[Wikidata-l] new code deployed - language fallbacks and property datatype
by Lydia Pintscher 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

Hey everyone :) Wow. What a day... Hard to beat that but let me try anyway. We have just deployed new code. This includes a first version of language fallbacks, a new datatype to link to properties, fixes for a nasty focus issue when adding statements and more performance improvements. Language fallbacks so far only work for the linked items and properties in statements. It does not take into account your babel box. The entity selector does not do fallbacks yet. I'd love to have your feedback feedback on what we have so far to see how we need to further improve language fallbacks. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 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] NYC Wikidata workshop and hackathon this Sunday!
by Emw 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

Hi all, Wikimedia New York City will be hosting a Wikidata hackathon and beginners workshop this coming Sunday. This will be a good event to meet Wikimedians involved with cultural institutions, structure a bunch of data, and help new users. If you're in the area, come! When: Sunday, December 14,1:00 - 5:00 PM Where: 55 Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Room 321 (BLIP Outpost) Details and sign up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/December_Wikidata Cheers, Eric https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Emw

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[Wikidata-l] coordinates: Wikidata vs Wikipedias
by Amir E. Aharoni 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

Hi, There's this bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35704 Basically, the "Nearby" function in the Wikipedia Android app can only work if the coordinates template in the Wikipedia in the relevant language uses the magic word from the GeoData extension. And I wonder: Is this really needed? Updating templates in almost 300 languages doesn't scale well, and Wikidata already supports coordinates. It also makes more general sense to me to query a structured database like Wikidata instead of poking around with templates and magic words as it is done with GeoData. But that's me, and I might be missing something. Is Wikidata actually ready for this technically? Are coordinates filled for all the relevant items, or is it still better supported in Wikipedias? Thanks. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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[Wikidata-l] visualizing wikidata structures?
by Benjamin Good 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

Are there are any tools currently that could do something like this: Input: A category/class - something that hangs off subclassOf P279 relationships. For example: "gene" Q7187 Output: an interactive visual representation of the properties that are being used by the entities connected to this category entity as its members: e.g the properties used by RELN Q414043. The interactive part would be to optionally expand the visualization to include the equivalent representation for the objects of selected properties. e.g. an expanding tree of properties for example. I'm looking for something akin to a schema inspector for a more typical database. The reason for this request is to ease understanding and communication about data structures that go beyond single entities. In my example here, we have important information that people typically associate with the concept of 'gene', but to get to it, you need to hop through the connection between the gene and protein representations first. For example. RELN(gene) encodes reelin(protein) interacts with VLDR(protein). And this is a relatively simple example. This would be very helpful for the molecular biology wikiproject as we work out what are likely to be increasingly complex structures of the data we are importing. I imagine such a tool could also be very useful for other groups and could also be useful for a general visual query composer. Thoughts? thanks -Ben

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #137
by Lydia Pintscher 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

Hey folks :) Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata last week: Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Running Wikidata queries on scientific publications <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=245> - Finding ORCID identifiers used in Wikidata & Wikipedia <http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/finding-orcid-wikidata-wikipedia/> - past: Wikidata workshop in NYC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Ancient philosopher communities visualized based on Wikidata data <http://projetjourdain.org/network/index.html> Did you know? - Newest properties: departure transaction <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1643>, acquisition transaction <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1642>, port <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1641>, curator <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1640>, pendant of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1639> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: WikiProject Music <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Music> Development - More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data ( mw:Wikibase/Indexing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing>) - Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc) - Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process - Finishing touches on new sitelinks section - Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress - Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability) - Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache) - Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R> Monthly Tasks - Hack on one of these <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R>. - Help fix these items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - Help develop the next summary here! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items> Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 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] Job Offer of Information Center for Education (DIPF, Germany) - Software Engineering Web Technologies, 50%, EG 12 TV-H
by Schindler, Christoph 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

Hello, sorry for crossposting. I would like to inform you about the following job offer: The Information Center for Education of the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF, Germany) is looking for a Software Engineer in Web Technologies (mainly Semantic MediaWiki development) in the context of the BMBF-founded Frankfurt eHumanities-Center (FeHZ) at the next possible date (limited in time till 30.11.2017, 50% of regular weekly working time, payment EG 12 TV-H, Reference-No. IZB 2014-09, deadline is 06.01.2015). The complete and official job offer is published in German here: http://www.dipf.de/de/dipf-aktuell/stellenangebote/softwareentwickler-in-we… Best regards Christoph Schindler ------------------------// German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF, Germany) Information Center for Education +49 (0)69 24708-373 schindler(a)dipf.de

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Re: [Wikidata-l] Sitelinks to Redirects
by Ricordisamoa 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

I think the redirects issue has been raised here to make up for the poor Wikidata-Wikipedia integration we currently have. I imagine Winter showing a list of "related articles in other languages". Reusing one of the examples: when viewing [[en:Rob Bourdon]], the software should infer from [[d:Q19205]] that Rob Bourdon is /member of/ Linkin Park (Q261), for which the German Wikipedia has an article, that will in turn be linked. Very little brain work is needed to understand that the German article about the band is likely to contain information about individual members. While this may sound Reasonator-ish, if correctly implemented in Wikibase it could improve interlanguage and interproject links in a way that just cannot be achieved with redirects. Imagine the Wikipedia entries for "Linkin Park" linking (pun intended) to Wikiquote entries of each member.

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[Wikidata-l] Users do understand Wikidata less than before
by Romaine Wiki 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

For more than a year I am asking users to add their articles to Wikidata when they have written it. That seems succesful, they added their articles more and more and did understand how to do that. Until recently. Now I get more and more complaints from users that they do not understand any more how to add a newly written article to an item. They seem to have tried, but fail in actual getting it managed. That is a worse development! Romaine

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #136
by Lydia Pintscher 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

Hey folks :) Here's the summary of what happened around Wikidata over the last week: Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - IRC office hour (log <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2014-12-03> ) - Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit <https://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/12/05/wikidata-for-research-a-grant-proposal…> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata - Statements on properties are now live <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#statements_on_propertie…> - Sneak peek <https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/539891914922008577> at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases - The Game <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/> has a new mode: alma mater - Work is ongoing <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/wikidata> for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID - Resolver <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php> finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...) - English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:RedQ>, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have *no* Wikipedia article in *any* language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias. Did you know? - Newest properties: working title <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1638>, undercarriage <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1637> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: WikiProject Wikidata for research <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research> aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research> . Development - Started work on units - More work on evaluating options for querying <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing> - Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties) - Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients - Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore - Work on improved label lookup performance - Wrapping up work on usage tracking You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R> Monthly Tasks - Hack on one of these <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R>. - Help fix these items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - Help develop the next summary here! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items> Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 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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