I have been helping with the backlog of "Article for Creation"
requests on en.Wikipedia.
It occurs to me that in doing so I often supply enough data to start a
Wikidata entry (or, at least, to pre-populate one for further editing
before saving).
Please see :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Articles_for_creat…
for more on this; help from a coder would be useful.
Something for the hackathon, perhaps?
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Dear all,
Denny and I are happy to report that our first general overview article
on Wikidata has now been accepted for publication at Communications of
the ACM. \o/ The article has not appeared yet, but we have published our
accepted manuscript [1]. The final article should be published with Open
Access, and thus be available at the official CACM website without
subscription, but this may still take a bit of time (and some copyediting).
We hope that this will help to introduce many more people to the
project. It was written with a very wide audience in mind. All
statistics in the article are quite recent (based on the dumps + daily
dumps up to Feb 20 2014), but we will try to update them once more
before publication (if at all possible).
Cheers,
Markus
[1]
"Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledge Base"
http://korrekt.org/page/Wikidata
Hello everyone!
I am Pratik Lahoti (User:BPositive) from Pune, India. I am willing to
participate in the Google Summer of Code this year. I am interested in the
project titled - "Tools for mass migration of legacy translated wiki
content<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2014#Tools_for_mass_migration…>
".
My mentors for this project would be Niklas
Laxström<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Nlaxstrom>
and Federico Leva <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nemo_bis>.
With their help, I have drafted the first version of my proposal page. You
can find it here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate/Mass_migration_tools
Brief overview of the project:
The MediaWiki Translate
extension<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate> makes
the task of translation easier by providing a user-friendly interface that
consists of text strings splitted into translation units. Non-translatable
content like images are excluded from the process of translation. Though
that makes the job easy with a rich editor supporting various languages, a
lot of effort is required to prepare the page for translation, i.e, the
page under question first needs to be converted into a format that would be
recognized by the Translate extension. The process of preparing the page
for translation needs to take into consideration various
markups<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_ad…>
which
becomes a tedious task when done manually. Plus, wikis have a lot of legacy
content that still needs to be made translatable.
Thus, with this motivation, the project aims to facilitate this conversion
and thereby save manual time and effort. The tool developed would thus make
the page translatable, and once that is done, it would import the
translations (which were present before the page was made translatable)
into the Translate extension. Thus, the entire process of importing
translations which involved a significant amount of manual task gets
automated by this project.
The proposal page mentions the Project Outline and the approach/solution
towards the problem statement. I am done with most of the sections and left
with the Project Schedule (which I will finish off when everything is
finalized).
Please have a look at the proposal and give your valuable
feedback/suggestions. While I have no problems in replying to the
suggestions put forth over here, I would appreciate if you can do the same
on the discussion
page<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Translate/Mass_migration_tools>
of
the proposal, so that all the feedback is at one single place.
Looking forward to the inputs from the community.
--
Warm Regards,
*Pratik Lahoti*
User:BPositive <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:BPositive>
Hey :)
As planned Wikiquote will be the next sister project supported by
Wikidata. We're starting with language links again and will later
enable data access. I've currently scheduled the first part for April
8th. Depending on how that goes I will schedule the second part.
Coordination is happening at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiquote and it'd be awesome
if you added your name there if you're active on Wikiquote. We need
people to act as local ambassadors to make sure everything goes
smoothly.
I'm excited about getting our next sister project in!
Cheers
Lydia
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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.
Hi there, I'm setting up a private wiki and I'd like to add Wikibase. Does
it work with Mediawiki 1.22? And where can I download the whole package?
Since I know this is not the place for such a private discussion, if you
want to advice me, please answer me in private, so that we don't disturb
the others. :)
Cheers,
L.
Hi ValterVB,
On 04/03/14 20:17, ValterVB wrote:
> Hi Markus, it’s an error of my bot (ValterVBot). Thanks to noted them. I
> can fix it probably on friday or saturday, source should be Q11920 not
> Q11329. Sorry for this problem.
Great, that should be fine.
> ValterVB
> PS I’m not sure if I reply to mail-archive or in you private mail, in
> second case, can you post this mail? Thanks.
Done.
Best regards,
Markus