Hi all,
as mentioned by Eric (emw) I gave a presentation about our work about
genes, diseases and drugs in Wikidata and Wikipedia.
Here are the slides:
http://figshare.com/articles/Open_Biomedial_Knowledge_Wikipedia_Wikidata_an…
Thank you to everybody who attended and for the great comments and
questions. And thank you to Katie (Aude) and Eric for their two great talks
in the morning. Made my life that much easier!
Cheers,
Elvira
FYI (+ possibly handy links).
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Oggetto: Re: [Analytics] Using wikimedia pagehits and other data for
creating statistics on exposure to culture
Data: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 12:21:48 +0200
Dear Albrecht,
as an avid Eurostat consumer let me congratulate you for a very
interesting project, which will be of great interest not only to the
general population but also to direct consumers of Eurostat such as
* Europeana,
* the European Commission (for policy implications),
* EU governments (some of which supported Wiki Loves Monuments, e.g. for
Pompei),
* the Council of Europe (for their support for Wiki Loves Monuments).
Dan already pointed out what will be the best route for your to pursue
in the future, but let me point out what data and tools people have
needed and made available so far:
* for recent raw data,
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Pagecounts-all-sites ;
* global usage of World Heritage Sites images: 190k usages for 24k
images (via
http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=World+Heri…
);
* pageviews in a wiki (e.g. English Wikipedia) for all articles
classified as world heritage sites on Wikidata: says ~3 M/month for ~800
articles (via WDQ claim[1435:9259] in Listeria > PagePile > TreeViews
https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/treeviews/?q=%7B%22pagepile%22%3A%22962…
);
* for Europeana, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Europeana/Stats ;
* for WLM images accesses in all languages, e.g.
http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/#gid=60&month=201508 ;
* for multilingual pageviews of an individual topic, e.g.
https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/langviews/index.php?url=http://en.wikipedia.o…
.
Federico
Albrecht.Wirthmann(a)ec.europa.eu, 06/10/2015 11:35:
> Dear Wikimedia Analytics team,
> My name is Albrecht Wirthmann. I am working in a task team Big Data at
> Eurostat. This is the European statistical office, which makes part of
> the European Commission. The task team is exploring new data sources
> for their feasibility of producing official statistics. We have been
> looking at various internet data sources including Wikimedia. The idea
> that we are currently following up is identifying Wikipedia pages in
> English that are referring to World Heritage sites and to analyse the
> number and development of page views of those pages as an indicator of
> exposure to culture. For this purpose we downloaded the page views files
> from _http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/_. The data should
> be later on included in a pocket book showing statistics on culture in
> the European Union.
> I am contacting you to make you aware of our intentions, to ask if there
> would be any concerns related to our project and to possibly have a chat
> with you and your team to ask some technical questions and about the
> possibility of getting some additional data. We would be interested in
> page hits by country in order to be more specific on the statistics that
> we would compile.
> We would be very glad about a positive reply and remain at your disposal,
> Kind regards,
> Albrecht Wirthmann
> TF Big Data
> Eurostat
> BECH building
> 5, rue Alphonse Weicker
> L 2721 Luxembourg
Hey folks :)
As previously announced we've now flipped the switch. Users on mobile
devices are being redirected to the mobile view on Wikidata. This will
give them a better view of the data on small devices. If needed they
can switch to the desktop site. There is still work to do until
Wikidata is truly great on mobile but this is a good step. Thanks
everyone who helped.
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.
Hey folks :)
I'm looking for an artist who can help me with a secret little thing
for the birthday. Anyone who could help me on this list?
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.
Hi all,
The municipal archive of Rotterdam (Stadsarchief Rotterdam) has recently
made a number of databases available under CC0, which might be of interest
to the Wikidata community. These include birth, death and marriage data for
the period 1811-early to mid 20th century, as well as cadastral data for
1832 and a street name database. They can be accessed here
http://www.stadsarchief.rotterdam.nl/vraagbaak/open-data (in Dutch only).
If anyone decides to reuse these data, please share it here as well so that
the archive can also be informed on any use.
Best,
Arne Wossink
Projectleider / Project Lead Wikimedia Nederland
Tel. +31 (0)6 11000505
*Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:*
Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3
3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht
I think I've seen something somewhere saying that the prevailing sentiment
is that obsolete identifiers which are just redirects to a new identifier
should be removed.
There's also the case of sites like MusicBrainz which keep the
non-canonical IDs without redirecting to the canonical ID, but will tell
you which ID is preferred, e.g. Fritz Kreisler
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78517#revision=254297158>
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/590fcad4-2ba4-43bc-a22f-a4bb9b496fe8https://musicbrainz.org/artist/627ac6c2-ee5c-4120-8af3-ab00345447f5https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bf6d6ce1-ce88-40e6-9424-11d11d2e54ea
where all the tabs for the second two pages actually point to the first,
canonical entry.
Is there an established policy for either the redirect or non-redirect case?
I'd argue that even the obsolete identifiers are useful for inbound
resolution and reconciliation. Aggressively pruning them just makes more
work for people, because they must resolve the identifier that they have in
hand to its canonical form (probably by hitting the issuing authority)
before using it for Wikidata lookups.
What do others think?
Tom
Dear users, developers and all people interested in semantic wikis,
We are very happy to announce the program of the 12th Semantic MediaWiki
Conference in Barcelona! People from business, academia and non-profit
organizations will give a variety of very interesting talks and
presentations about applying semantic wikis as well as about newest
developments in the field.
We would also like to remind you of the upcoming end to the early bird
registration registration period on October 5, 2015. Please register via
Tito [0] if you have not done so already.
Important facts reminder:
===========================================
* Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2015 (Wednesday to Friday)
* Location: Fabra i Coats, Art Factory. Carrer Sant Adrià 20 (Sant
Andreu), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
* Conference page: https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015
* Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in
Semantic MediaWiki, e.g. users, developers, consultants, business
representatives and researchers.
News on the program:
===========================================
* The tutorial program has been announced and made available [1]
* The conference program has now also been announced and made available
[2]. The keynote will be held jointly by Denny Vrandečić and Markus
Krötzsch.
* A social program is also being prepared [3].
We still welcome contributions from you:
===========================================
* We encourage contributions for workshops and poster sessions about
semantic wikis; for a list of topics, see [4]. Please add your proposals
here: [5]
* Presentations will generally be video and audio recorded and made
available for others after the conference.
Organization:
===========================================
* Amical Wikimedia [6] and Open Semantic Data Association e. V. [7] have
become the official organisers of SMWCon Fall 2015
* Thanks to Institut de Cultura - Ajuntament de Barcelona [8] for
providing free access to the conference location and its infrastructure
as well as ArchiXL/XL&Knowledge [9] for being our silver sponsor.
If you have questions you may contact Lia Veja and Karsten Hoffmeyer
(Program Chairs), Alina Mierluș (General Chair) or Toni Hermoso (Local
Chair) per e-mail (Cc).
We will be happy to see you in Barcelona!
Lia Veja, Karsten Hoffmeyer (Program Board)
[0] <https://ti.to/wikisofia/smwcon2015-fall>
[1] <https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015/Tutorial_Day>
[2] <https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015/Conference_Days>
[3] <https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015#Social_program>
[4] <https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015/Announcement>
[5] <https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015#Program_proposals>
[6] <https://www.wikimedia.cat/>
[7] <https://opensemanticdata.org/>
[8] <http://lameva.barcelona.cat/barcelonacultura/en/>
[9] <http://www.xl-knowledge.nl/index.php/Hoofdpagina/en>
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thad Guidry, 02/10/2015 21:44:
>
>> To my eyes, it shows that the Asia continent is still generally void of
>> any useful machine-readable Knowledge, in either Freebase or Wikidata.
>> (or anywhere else) But this is already a known state of affairs and
>> probably will not improve until 1 Million USA students learn Mandarin. :)
>>
>
Extrapolating from Freebase and Wikidata may not be reliable. For example,
Baidu is extracting structured microdata from web sites:
http://chineseseoshifu.com/blog/baidu-structured-data-wordpress-plugin.html
> It also shows that Wikidata and Freebase have different opinions on what's
> the centre of Europe (or maybe one of the two has tons of statements on
> Cape Town! too lazy to manually calculate labels on the axes).
I agree that labeled axes would be useful. Both graphs have a strong
vertical lines which line up with each other near the prime meridian
(Paris?), so I don't think there's a shift involved. The extra line is on
the Wikidata graph. I'm guessing it's Rome, not Cape Town. The Italians
are pretty keen Wikidatans, aren't they?
The Wikidata graph also seems to exhibit more and bigger strong horizontal
features than the Freebase graph, in particular one in ~875AD? which spans
half the globe.
If there's an intermediary form of the data that includes lat/lon instead
of just longitude, an interactive visualization overlaid on a world map
with a slider for date and selectable Freebase/Wikidata plots might be fun.
Tom