Wikidata October 2015

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Open Science Prize launched
by Lydia Pintscher 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

Hey folks :) In case you have not seen it yet. I'm sure there is lots that can be done with Wikidata here. Cheers Lydia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 5:20 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Open Science Prize launched To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, this week, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, together with the Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute launched the Open Science Prize: https://www.openscienceprize.org/ . It invites teams to propose or refine technical infrastructure that makes innovative use of open data or that advances open science more generally, though with a focus on biomedicine. The awards will be made in two phases - 6 at $80k each in Phase 1, and in Phase 2, $230k for the winning team among these 6. Teams must have at least one member each inside and outside the US, and team members can be individuals, groups or legal entities (e.g. a GLAM, a company or a city). The abstracts of the submissions will be public, and openness beyond that is strongly encouraged. Deadline for submissions to Phase 1 is February 29, 2016. For official announcements, see http://blog.wellcome.ac.uk/2015/10/20/the-open-science-prize-harnessing-the… or https://datascience.nih.gov/openscienceprize , and for an initial blog post by one of the members of the expert panel for the prize, see http://aoasg.org.au/2015/10/22/why-the-open-science-prize-is-important/ . As I am involved in the organization of the prize as part of my work, I cannot be part of any submitting team, but I will be happy to answer any procedural questions you may have. Please feel free to forward this to communities that you think might be interested in coming up with an idea to submit. Thanks and cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- 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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blog post: Poof it works - using Wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes
by Lydia Pintscher 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

http://i9606.blogspot.de/2015/10/poof-it-works-using-wikidata-to-build.html Yes! Yes! Yes! ;-) GeneWiki people: <3 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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need help in running Wikidata-Toolkit-0.5.0 examples
by Satya Gadepalli 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Issue 1: Tests are failing as I am not able to find testdump-20150512.json.gz Any Idea where i can find this file? Issue 2: FetchOnlineDataExample is failing due to MediaWikiApiErrorException E:\temp\WikiData\Execute>call java -cp wdtk-examples-0.5.0.jar org.wikidata.wdtk.examples.FetchOnlineDataExample Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try again Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/wikidata/wdtk/wikibaseapi/apierrors/MediaWikiApiErrorException at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2701) at java.lang.Class.privateGetMethodRecursive(Class.java:3048) at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Class.java:3018) at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1784) at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.validateMainClass(LauncherHelper.java:544) at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:526) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.wikidata.wdtk.wikibaseapi.apierrors.MediaWikiApiErrorException at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ... 7 more Any help? thx

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Feedback request
by Thomas Flassbeck 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Hello everyone, [People not interested in financial data can stop reading here - this is only indirectly related to Wikidata but I asked Lydia and John for permission to post this so I hope you don't mind] my name is Thomas and I am the co-founder of a new crowd-sourcing website for fundamental financial data (that is our focus is clearly on finance, so I don't think we are a "competitor" of Wikidata) called SimFin. I am writing to you because we launched our open beta just two weeks ago and we are now looking for feedback, especially from people with experience in working in a crowd-powered-environment where data is in a structured way, just like at Wikidata. I would be especially interested in your feedback regarding the data entering and review process, since I coded and designed the whole system myself from scratch and tried to make the data entering process as easy as possible. Just to make it clear, all the data on our site is freely accessible and can be exported quickly. In fact, the core idea behind SimFin is to offer a free service that can rival professional (and very expensive) tools used to access fundamental financial data, such as Bloomberg or Factset, in terms of functionality, while still being free because of the community generated content. Some links: Homepage: https://simfin.com Sample company page: https://simfin.com/data/companies/1 The same company in wikidata as reference, there are some similarities: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156578 Thanks for reading Kind regards Thomas

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An Ambitious Wikidata Tutorial
by Emw 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Hi all, On Saturday, I facilitated a workshop at the U.S. National Archives entitled "An Ambitious Wikidata Tutorial" as part of WikiConference USA 2015. Slides are available at: http://www.slideshare.net/_Emw/an-ambitious-wikidata-tutorial https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Ambitious_Wikidata_Tutorial.pdf The demo of Wikidata's new SPARQL endpoint at https://query.wikidata.org/ was the most exciting part of the workshop for me, and caught the audience's attention too [1]. Stas Malyshev et al., thank you for developing Wikidata Query Service -- it's an incredibly awesome tool! I've added the query we used to the list of examples at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/SPARQL_Query_Examples#Poli… . We also: - Live-edited the item about Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock [2] - Saw how Wikidata is used in Histropedia [3] - Discussed *instance of* (P31), *subclass of* (P279), and *part of* (P361) and how to avoid "bad smells" [4] - Learned about the RDF/OWL exports and how to explore them locally with Protege [5] - Talked about modeling causation on Wikidata, in the context of the American Civil War [6] - Covered Wikidata vocabulary, the Wikidata API, where to find things, unit quantity properties (e.g. area, length, GDP per capita), etc. I'd estimate we had 30 to 40 attendees. Later the same day, Katie (Aude) presented on integrating Wikidata into Wikipedia through Lua. Elvira (Emitraka) also presented on how the Gene Wiki project has been enhancing Wikidata with items about genes, items about diseases, and their causal connection -- and how the Gene Wiki group is working to make corresponding infoboxes on Wikipedia more relevant to the layperson. Both talks were well-attended and excellent. Cheers, Eric https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Emw 1. SPARQL on Wikidata. Slides 39 - 43. http://www.slideshare.net/_Emw/an-ambitious-wikidata-tutorial#39 2. Barbara McClintock live edit. Slide 18. http://www.slideshare.net/_Emw/an-ambitious-wikidata-tutorial#18 3. Histropedia. Slide 22. http://www.slideshare.net/_Emw/an-ambitious-wikidata-tutorial#22 4. Avoiding bad smells in classification. Slide 35. http://www.slideshare.net/_Emw/an-ambitious-wikidata-tutorial#35 5. How to explore Wikidata RDF/OWL dumps locally. Slides 44 - 48. http://www.slideshare.net/_Emw/an-ambitious-wikidata-tutorial#44 6. Causation on Wikidata. Slides 49 - 51. http://www.slideshare.net/_Emw/an-ambitious-wikidata-tutorial#50

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weekly summary #180
by Lydia Pintscher 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Hey folks :) Here's your short summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with SPARQL! <http://ashtree.eu/wordpress/mais-combien-y-a-t-il-de-femmes-scientifiques-s…> (French) - Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint and the paintings of Goya <http://zone47.com/dozo/wikidata-enpoint-sparql-et-les-peintures-de-goya> (French) - Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register <https://www.eventbrite.de/e/wikidatas-3-geburtstag-wikidatas-3rd-birthday-r…> if you're coming to the party.) - More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: [1] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007355.html>, [2] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007358.html> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game! <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=362> Sweeeeeet! Now includes one where you can match an author and a publication <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#game=9>. And it has stats <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#mode=stats>. - Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=106> for you. - Sitelinks and P569 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/sitelinks_and_P569> compares various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth ( Property:P569 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P569>) - Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata <https://twitter.com/AmicalWikimedia/status/655022833140154368>. Congrats! Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: periapsis <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2244>, apoapsis <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2243>, Florentine musea catalogue ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2242>, reason for deprecation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2241> Development - Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query) - Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype string to upcoming datatype identifier - More work on birthday present - More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo - Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression - Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc - Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October You can see all open tickets 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 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> - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread pages in your own language! - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. 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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Application on "Open science data in wikis with data mining"
by Finn Aarup Nielsen 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

Hi, I am putting together an application (not for WMF) regarding science data in wikis. I have put up a few notes about it on a subpage on my user page on Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Fnielsen/Open_science_data_in_wikis_with… I am interested in representing science data, initially neuroimaging result data, in a collaborative environment where further data analysis can be made in the form of statistical meta-analysis. I have done a bit of testing on test.wikidata.org. I doubt that with the notability criteria on Wikidata that all such data will be appropriate for Wikidata, but Wikibase could be an interesting tool to setup. I am interested in hearing if any others would have a science Wikibase in mind. I know the Gene Wiki people are (of course) adding material to Wikidata. Daniel Mietchen pointed me to one other Wikibase instance, - the Europeana, see the pointer at http://wikiba.se/projects/ I could set my own Wikibase up, but I believe it would be more interesting with a joint effort whatever that might be. I even wonder if WMF would be interested. Comments and contributions are welcome. best regards Finn Årup Nielsen http://people.compute.dtu.dk/faan/

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Announcing wdq command line client
by Jakob Voß 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

Hi, Based on a script by Marius Hoch (https://github.com/mariushoch/asparagus) I created a command line client to access Wikidata Query Service. The current release 0.2.0 includes the following features: * adding of default namespaces if needed * multiple output formats * abbreviate Wikidata URIs if requested * directly export to Excel (requires additional CPAN module) * fancy colors Usage Examples are given at https://github.com/nichtich/wdq#examples Bug reports and feature requests at https://github.com/nichtich/wdq/issues Pull requests are welcome if you know some Perl. By now its 300 LoC and ~200 documentation, the largest contribution would be a WDQ to SPARQL translator as implemented here: https://github.com/smalyshev/wdq2sparql Cheers Jakob -- Jakob Voß <jakob.voss(a)gbv.de> Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany +49 (0)551 39-10242, http://www.gbv.de/

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StrepHit IEG proposal: last call for support
by Marco Fossati 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

Dear all, This is a last call for supporting the StrepHit IEG proposal before the formal review period (October 20th): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Va… StrepHit is a Natural Language Processing pipeline that harvests structured data from raw text and produces Wikidata statements with *reference URLs* from *reliable* sources. We have already received lots of precious endorsements for which we are grateful, but your voice is crucial and we are missing yours! If you like the idea, please consider clicking on the *endorse* blue button on the project page. Looking forward to your updates. Cheers, -- Marco Fossati http://about.me/marco.fossati Twitter: @hjfocs Skype: hell_j

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ProteinBoxBot removed human BRCA1 gene
by zehetner 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

Hi, does somebody know why suddenly the BRCA1 human gene item (Q227339) was changed into the protein by the BRCA1 bot in August? The protein was (and still is) the entry 'Breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein' (Q17487737). While the mouse BRCA1 gene Brca1 (Q14862219) is still there the human BRCA1 gene is gone. I just noticed it because it was my standard test gene for my program, I don't know if the bot has changed any other gene items. Thanks, Günther

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