Wikidata August 2014

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[Wikidata-l] Commons Wikibase
by Derric Atzrott 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

Hey, So I heard on another mailing list that Commons is getting its own installation of Wikibase along with using Wikidata? Is this true, and if so, where might I find more information about it? Thank you, Derric Atzrott Computer Specialist Alizee Pathology

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[Wikidata-l] breaking changes for gadgets
by Lydia Pintscher 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Hey folks, We are working on re-vamping a lot of the underlying code for the user interface at the moment. These changes are the first major steps for the new user interface. They are necessary to allow editing all sitelinks or label/description/alsiases at once for example. Unfortunately some gadgets will need to be adapted to these changes. Specifically it is the introduction of sitelinkview and aliasview. We are aware of the following gadgets that will need to be adapted but those might not be all: MediaWiki:Gadget-DraggableSitelinks.js MediaWiki:Gadget-KeyShortcuts.js MediaWiki:Gadget-MainLangFirst.js MediaWiki:Gadget-Move.js MediaWiki:Gadget-Preview.js MediaWiki:Gadget-SimpleTransliterate.js The new code is live on test.wikidata.org for you to test your gadgets against. The changes will go live on wikidata.org on Tuesday. Sorry for the breaking change. I hope the new UI will be worth it for you though :) 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] integration of VisualEditor and Wikidata
by Amir E. Aharoni 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Hi, There are plenty of ways in which Wikidata and VisualEditor could be integrated. Let me ask about the following one: Given: Let's imagine that the venerable {{Infobox settlement}} template is fully adapted for pulling the data from Wikidata. All the relevant data about the city of Bratislava is entered into its item page on wikidata.org, and in the source of the article [[Bratislava]] you only need to say {{Infobox settlement}} without any parameters. The people of Bratislava elect a new mayor, and I want to write it in the article. I come to the article [[Bratislava]] and press edit. I click the infobox. What happens? As far as I know, no work has been done in this area; PLEASE CORRECT ME if I'm wrong. My Super-Dream scenario is to be able to edit the Mayor's name write there in the infobox, but I realize that it might be complicated. My Dream scenario is that the VE understands that the data is pulled from Wikidata and shows a dialog that is similar to the current template parameters. I see the old mayor's name in that dialog, I write the new mayor's name, and the new value is stored in Wikidata. Of course, it must be taken into account that the name is likely not just a string, but a label of the Wikidata item. My acceptable-but-suboptimal scenario is taking the user to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6850543 . This is probably a useful workflow for the tech-savvy editors, but it's suboptimal for a casual editor. I'll go as far as saying that for a casual editor it may be (relatively) more comfortable to edit parameters in a MediaWiki template ("|mayor =[[Milan Ftáčnik]]") than to go to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6850543 and find the value. Does anybody have any more ideas about it? Am I late to the party and this has already been discussed and designed and I missed it? Please enlighten me :) 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] Linking to Wikipedia page using Wikidata ID
by Nicholas Humfrey 09 Sep '14

09 Sep '14

Hello, We have been working on associating every episode of BBC Desert Island Discs to a Wikipedia page about that person. Example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0093x3l http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Croft<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Croft> http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2072654<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2072654> Since we created some of the links to Wikipedia, those pages have changed into disambiguation pages. Is it possible to link to a Wikipedia page using the Wikidata ID, via some kind of redirect URL? Thus ensuring that we continue to link to the correct article? Ideally it would even link to the users preferred language… Thanks! nick.

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[Wikidata-l] Fwd: Structured Data on Commons
by Lydia Pintscher 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

Hey folks :) We're starting to pick up speed with structured data support for Commons now. It'd be great to have you all on board for this. Planning documents are linked below. I hope to see many of you interested in multimedia at the office hour on September 3rd. Cheers Lydia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:48 AM Subject: Structured Data on Commons To: Multimedia Mailing List <multimedia(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Greetings! We invite you to join a discussion about Structured Data on Commons, to help us plan our next steps for this project. The Structured Data initiative proposes to store and retrieve information for media files in machine-readable data on Wikimedia Commons, using Wikidata tools and practices, as described on our new project page (1). The purpose of this project is to make it easier for users to read and write file information, and to enable developers to build better tools to view, search, edit, curate and use media files. To that end, we propose to investigate this opportunity together through community discussions and small experiments. If these initial tests are successful, we would develop new tools and practices for structured data, then work with our communities to gradually migrate unstructured data into a machine-readable format over time. The Multimedia team and the Wikidata team are starting to plan this project together, in collaboration with many community volunteers active on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. We had a truly inspiring roundtable discussion about Structured Data at Wikimania a few weeks ago, to define a first proposal together (2). We would now like to extend this discussion to include more community members that might benefit from this initiative. Please take a moment to read the project overview on Commons, then let us know what you think, by answering some of the questions on its talk page (3). We also invite you to join a Structured Data Q&A on Wednesday September 3 at 19:00 UTC, so we can discuss some of the details live in this IRC office hours chat. Please RSVP if you plan to attend (4). Lastly, we propose to form small workgroups to investigate workflows, data structure, research, platform, features, migration and other open issues. If you are interested in contributing to one of these workgroups, we invite you to sign up on directly on our hub page (5) -- and help start a sub-page for your workgroup. We look forward to some productive discussions with you in coming weeks. In previous roundtables, many of you told us this is the most important contribution that our team can make to support multimedia in coming years. We heard you loud and clear and are happy to devote more resources to bring it to life, with your help. We are honored to be working with the Wikidata team and talented community members like you to take on this challenge, improve our infrastructure and provide a better experience for all our users. Onward! Fabrice — for the Structured Data team (1) Structured Data Hub on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data (2) Structured Data Slides: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Structured_Data_-_Slides.pdf (3) Structured Data Talk Page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data (4) Structured Data Q&A (IRC chat on Sep. 3): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Discussions (5) Structured Data Workgroups: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Workgroups _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) -- 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] Python bot framework for wikidata
by Benjamin Good 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

Which python framework should a new developer use to make a wikidata editing bot? thanks -Ben

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[Wikidata-l] Oversight access request
by Robin Pepermans 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

Hi all, Per the requirements of the oversight policy < https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Oversight>, I would like to inform you all that there is an open request for oversight access for me at < https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Oversight/S…>, starting now, lasting until 14 September. Any comments, opinions and questions are welcome. :) Thank you, SPQRobin

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[Wikidata-l] Delete name from lists
by Charlie Barb 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

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[Wikidata-l] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically
by Cristian Consonni 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

This may be of interest here. Cristian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Edward Betts <edward(a)4angle.com> Date: 2014-08-27 18:47 GMT+02:00 Subject: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically To: talk(a)openstreetmap.org I've written some code to match items in Wikidata with items in OSM. Currently I have found 70,849 unique matches, where there is a one-to-one mapping between OSM and Wikidata objects. I'd like to annotate these 70k objects in OSM with a Wikidata tag automatically. For example: Way: Piper's Orchard (43246411) http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/43246411 And on Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7197307 I would like to add wikidata=Q7197307 to "Piper's Orchard". The code to find the matches is here: https://github.com/edwardbetts/osm-wikidata Matching criteria: https://github.com/EdwardBetts/osm-wikidata/blob/master/entity_types.json The results are here: http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/ The best approach is probably to update 100 items with wikidata tags, then we can check them to make sure the edit looks good. If everything is fine I can go ahead and load the other 70k. Does anybody have a strong preference that the edits are split up by region, or loaded in batches? Any objections? I've read https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy - if there are no major objections I'll go ahead and create https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/edward See also: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata Edward. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk(a)openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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Re: [Wikidata-l] Structured Data on Commons
by Guillaume Paumier 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Greetings, Please note that the time of the IRC chat was changed to 18:00 (UTC) i.e. one hour earlier than previously announced. ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=next&oldid=132667852 ) You can see how it converts to your timezone using this tool: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Structured+Data+IR… On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Greetings! > > We invite you to join a discussion about Structured Data on Commons, to help > us plan our next steps for this project. > > The Structured Data initiative proposes to store and retrieve information > for media files in machine-readable data on Wikimedia Commons, using > Wikidata tools and practices, as described on our new project page (1). > > The purpose of this project is to make it easier for users to read and write > file information, and to enable developers to build better tools to view, > search, edit, curate and use media files. To that end, we propose to > investigate this opportunity together through community discussions and > small experiments. If these initial tests are successful, we would develop > new tools and practices for structured data, then work with our communities > to gradually migrate unstructured data into a machine-readable format over > time. > > The Multimedia team and the Wikidata team are starting to plan this project > together, in collaboration with many community volunteers active on > Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. We had a truly inspiring roundtable > discussion about Structured Data at Wikimania a few weeks ago, to define a > first proposal together (2). > > We would now like to extend this discussion to include more community > members that might benefit from this initiative. Please take a moment to > read the project overview on Commons, then let us know what you think, by > answering some of the questions on its talk page (3). > > We also invite you to join a Structured Data Q&A on Wednesday September 3 at > 19:00 UTC, so we can discuss some of the details live in this IRC office > hours chat. Please RSVP if you plan to attend (4). > > Lastly, we propose to form small workgroups to investigate workflows, data > structure, research, platform, features, migration and other open issues. If > you are interested in contributing to one of these workgroups, we invite you > to sign up on directly on our hub page (5) -- and help start a sub-page for > your workgroup. > > We look forward to some productive discussions with you in coming weeks. In > previous roundtables, many of you told us this is the most important > contribution that our team can make to support multimedia in coming years. > We heard you loud and clear and are happy to devote more resources to bring > it to life, with your help. > > We are honored to be working with the Wikidata team and talented community > members like you to take on this challenge, improve our infrastructure and > provide a better experience for all our users. > > Onward! > > > Fabrice — for the Structured Data team > > > (1) Structured Data Hub on Commons: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data > > (2) Structured Data Slides: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Structured_Data_-_Slides.pdf > > (3) Structured Data Talk Page: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data > > (4) Structured Data Q&A (IRC chat on Sep. 3): > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Discussions > > (5) Structured Data Workgroups: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Workgroups > > > _______________________________ > > Fabrice Florin > Product Manager, Multimedia > Wikimedia Foundation > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) -- Guillaume Paumier

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