Is this just affecting me, or is this something that I ought to report on
Bugzilla?
https://i.imgur.com/zzdGNYs.png
The search bar on Wikidata appears to not actually be where it appears but just
below that. Took me a few minutes to realize that is where it ended up. Looks
around using Firebug I can't see a good reason it would appear there, making me
think maybe it's just an issue with some addon I have in Firefox 32.0. Its
persistent between pages.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
Computer Specialist
Alizee Pathology
Hoi,
The latest statistics show that we may finally say that "only 50% of our
items have zero, one or two statements". No longer can we say more that 50%
of our items have zero or one statement.
THAT is in my opinion a great indication of our progress of bringing data
to Wikidata. As a consequence we become more information and useful.
It is important to know that the first statements are in many ways the most
difficult but also the most important. They often include the instances of
or subclasses.
Congratulations !!!
Thanks,
GerardM
In November of last year, Aaron noticed a spike in memcached traffic, which
we were eventually able to attribute to Wikibase client fetching the
SiteList on every request. When Katie fixed it, outbound memcached traffic
nearly halved.
We're now back to the same rate of outbound traffic as then, and the
culprit appears to be the same key.
See: http://i.imgur.com/v9ebld6.png
Tracked in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56602
Hi all,
I'd like to share a little tool with you that has been created at a
recent hackathon. Not my work but a nice idea that might inspire others:
"AnnoT" is a manual text annotation tool where you can, while typing
text into an HTML form, select Wikidata items for some of the words. You
then get (stable) hyperlinks to Wikipedia and some extra data displayed
elsewhere on the page while you hover. This has been created by a team
of PhD researchers and students (though, admittedly, rather skilled ones
[1]) in essentially one afternoon. It's got some rough edges, but it
still shows a nice use of the APIs.
* Demo of the prototype: http://ewakowalczuk.github.io/annot/
Type text, use the TAB key for starting autocompletion on words that
would have a Wikidata item. It works better for me in Chrome than in
Firefox, though I remember them testing it on both.
* Documentation and code: https://github.com/EwaKowalczuk/annot
This was done two weeks ago, at the Web Intelligence Summer School on
"Web of Data" [2], where I had the pleasure to talk a bit about Wikidata.
Cheers,
Markus
[1] The authors, in random order, are: Peter Wetz, Ewa Kowalczuk, Bojan
Bozic, Michael Luggen, Olga Parkhimovich.
[2] http://www.emse.fr/~zimmermann/WI_2014_Site/
Hi,
I just updated the data for the Wikidata classes and properties browser
[1] -- was about time -- and added some improvements on the way:
(1) Classes and properties are now always ordered by usage (most used
first), which was not possible to do before. Examples:
** properties related to humans (or anything else with sex or gender)
ordered by usage:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/miga/#_cat=Properties/Related%20p…
(for properties, usage includes the use in qualifiers and references)
** Most used months:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/miga/#_cat=Classes/All%20supercla…
Seems that May is most popular so far. Thanks to whoever added the
pretty pictures :-) You can replace the word "month" with other things,
such as "band", "building", or "mythical character" to see what kinds of
these things we have. In fact, the individual pages for the classes will
also show the same list at their bottom, but without any pictures.
(2) Classes with the same English label are no longer confused. This
fixes ambiguities and wrong links for many things.
The data is from 1st September.
Cheers,
Markus
[1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/miga/
Reload the page (CTRL+R) to get the new data.
Hoi,
I do not know if you were present at the recent chat, I could not be there
but I could read the log ... You may have been at the chat, you may have
read the log [1].
I did read the log and it did not motivate me at all. If anything it made
me sad. From what I read, people were concerned about the things they are
currently working on and it was all about ensuring that nothing would be
lost nothing would change really.
I did not get any feeling for the reasons why the Wikidatification of media
files is worthwhile. I feel really bad about this because the purpose of it
all is so important.
It is all about PEOPLE.
People that will find images with "een hond, een kat, een paard" or "ein
Hund, eine Katze, ein Pferd" ....
When these people are eight years old and "only" 50% of pictures with such
a subject like dog cat or horse can be found in this way, we have
accomplished a lot. It is a 100% improvement.
All the current categories and templates have their place and the
information that is in that data will be converted straight away or
eventually. It does not matter really, What matters is that we focus on the
application of what we do. Who benefits, how do we transition to where we
want to be. How do we make sure that we gain the most of all the work we
do, have done and will do.
It starts with obvious benefits.. Enabling people to use the media files is
what the wikidatification of media files is about. That may already be too
abstract; when it is, it is about finding doggies, kitties and horsies..
When the Wikidatification is about such tangible objectives, who will
object ? With objectives like that, the devil is still in the detail but we
will see the forest from the trees.
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2014/wikimedia-office.20…
Hey,
Wikibase, the software created for the Wikidata project, now has it's own
website. http://wikiba.se/
Among the goals of the website are promoting third party usage and
outlining the various components and applications that make up the Wikibase
software. It is not meant to hold the per component documentation, such as
installation instructions for the Wikibase Repository extension, which
remain where they are, and simply are referenced where applicable.
It's still a work in progress, and you are invited to edit the site, by
sending a pull request.
Cheers
--
Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com
Software craftsmanship advocate
Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany
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