Does anyone know what's going on with the Sparql service ?
Up until a couple of days ago, the most hits ever in one day was about 6000.
But according to
http://searchdata.wmflabs.org/wdqs/
two days ago suddenly there were 6.77 *million* requests, and yesterday
over 21 million.
Does anyone know what sort of requests these are, and whether they are
all coming from the same place ?
-- James.
I have been wondering about the practice of putting use-notes in item
descriptions.
For example, on Q6581097 (male)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6581097
the (English) description reads:
"human who is male (use with Property:P21 sex or gender). For
groups of males use with subclass of (P279)."
I have added some myself recently, working on items in the
administrative structure of the UK -- for example on Q23112 (Cambridgeshire)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23112
I have changed the description to now read
"ceremonial county of England (use Q21272276 for administrative
non-metropolitan county)"
These "use-notes" are similar to the disambiguating hat-notes often
found at the top of articles on en-wiki and others; and just as those
hat-notes can be useful on wikis, so such use-notes can be very useful
on Wikidata, for example in the context of a search, or a drop-down menu.
But...
Given that the label field is also there to be presentable to end-users
in contexts outside Wikidata, (eg to augment searches on main wikis, or
to feed into the semantic web, to end up being used in who-knows-what
different ways), yet away from Wikidata a string like "Q21272276" will
typically have no meaning. Indeed there may not even be any distinct
thing corresponding to it. (Q21272276 has no separate en-wiki article,
for example).
So I'm wondering whether these rather Wikidata-specific use notes do
really belong in the general description field ?
Is there a case for moving them to a new separate use-note field created
for them?
The software could be adjusted to include such a field in search results
and drop-downs and the item summary, but they would be a separate
data-entry field on the item page, and a separate triple for the SPARQL
service, leaving the description field clean of Wikidata-specific
meaning, better for third-party and downstream applications.
Am I right to feel that the present situation of just chucking
everything into the description field doesn't seem quite right, and we
ought to take a step forward from it?
-- James.
I seem to be unable to download my SPARQL query results. It does nothing
when I click any off the options, nothing happens (it's only ~8,000
results, so it shouldn't be too taxing...). Is this working for others?
Hi everyone,
I was just wondering whether any Wikidatan will be present at the
upcoming Google Summer of Code Mentor summit:
https://sites.google.com/site/gsoc2015ms/
If so, it would be cool to meet there, just ping me before the summit.
Cheers,
--
Marco Fossati
http://about.me/marco.fossati
Twitter: @hjfocs
Skype: hell_j
* Do you have small, self-contained, "easy" bugs you'd love to get fixed?
(Also see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs )
* Does your documentation need improvements?
* Do your old bugs welcome some testing?
* Does your user interface have some small design issues?
* Do you have some tasks that welcome some research?
Google Code-In (GCI) will take place again in Dec+Jan: a contest for
13-17 year old students to provide small contributions to free software
projects.
Wikimedia will apply again to take part in GCI. The more tasks we can
offer the likelier the changes Wikimedia will get accepted.
Unsure about quality of contributions and effort?
Read about tgr's post about Multimedia achievements in GCI 2014:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2015-January/001009.html
In short:
* Add the project "GCI2015" + a comment to Phabricator tasks you'd mentor.
* Tasks are welcome in five areas: Code; Outreach/Research;
Documentation/Training; Quality Assurance; User Interface.
* Make sure the task description provides pointers to help the student.
* Add yourself to the table of mentors on the wikipage.
* "Beginner tasks" (<30 min for an experienced contributor) also welcome.
* "Generic" tasks also welcome (e.g. "Fix two user interface messages from
the "Blocked By" list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40638 ").
For all information, check
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Mentors.27_corner
16 "easy" Wikidata tasks (are they still valid? are there more?):
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/zH.SGfhpQyC4/#R
Can you imagine providing a helping hand to someone fixing tasks?
Please ask if you have questions!
Thank you!
andre
--
Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
I managed to install Wikibase on a wiki farm (data repostory on one wiki
and clients on the others). I'm now struggling to set up properties and
using those to describe objects. For example, I created a page for a
ratchet wrench and a property for mass, but I haven't figured out how to
set the value of mass for the ratchet wrench.
Can you point me to a good tutorial?
Daren
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Hey folks :)
Have you ever wondered what is happening on Wikidata around you? What
does Wikidata know about the building next door? Or the tube station a
few blocks away? Now you can find out. Head over to
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Nearby and you will know.
This is another piece in the puzzle to making it easier to get an
overview of the data you care about.
Share if you find something cool and unexpected around you!
Cheers
Lydia
PS: A special thanks to everyone who helped get this out including Max
Semenik, Jon Robson, Florian, Erik Bernhardson and David Causse..
--
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.
