Wikidata December 2015

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Music data, Wikidata and FRBR
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 03 Jan '16

03 Jan '16

At BEIC, to test the Wikidata ontology and the feasibility of collaborations on music data, I was assigned a seemingly simple test: add in Wikidata all the data contained in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Sugar_(The_Rolling_Stones_song) . Turns out things are not so simple: * the Wikipedia articles, from an FRBR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRBR ) perspective, often mix multiple levels or even all of them (song, recording, album, single, edition of the single) which on Wikidata need to be separate items, but the split is not obvious: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Q21887964 ; * I was unable to properly add information on per-country hit list position. Please give a look to the items I linked, to my https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Music updates and to the open questions I added in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Music . In particular, I think librarians will be interested in this proposal for a "performance of" property, which (like the existing "edition of" property) could benefit from being framed in a FRBR perspective by someone more versed in FRBR. https://www.wikidata.org/?diff=287456096 Nemo-BEIC

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Duplicates in Wikidata
by Proffitt,Merrilee 01 Jan '16

01 Jan '16

Hello colleagues, During the most recent VIAF harvest we encountered a number of duplicate records in Wikidata. Forwarding on in case this is of interest (there is an attached file – not sure if that will go through on this list or not). Some discussion from OCLC colleagues is included below. Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer OCLC Research From: Toves,Jenny Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 6:02 AM To: Proffitt,Merrilee Subject: FW: 201551 vs 201552 Good morning Merrilee, You probably know that we harvest wikidata monthly for ingest into VIAF. This month we found 315 pairs of records that appear to be duplicates. That was a jump from previous months. I am not sure who would be interested in this but Thom & I thought you might be. The attached report has 630 lines showing what viaf saw as duplicates. So this pair of lines: WKP|Q21518392 =998 $aCharles du Bois Larbalestier$2WKP|Q21341290$3duplicate WKP|Q21341290 =998 $aCharles du Bois Larbalestier$2WKP|Q21518392$3duplicate Shows that those two wikidata numbers are linked to one another by viaf. I don’t think we expect you to do anything with this unless you find it interesting. I suspect there are bots to clean this stuff up but maybe not. --Jenny. From: Hickey,Thom Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 9:47 PM To: Toves,Jenny Subject: RE: 201551 vs 201552 She probably would be interested. --Th From: Toves,Jenny<mailto:tovesj@oclc.org> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 9:35 PM To: Hickey,Thom<mailto:hickey@oclc.org> Subject: RE: 201551 vs 201552 Exact same name + dates. Do you a list of them? Do you think Merrilee or anyone would be interested? From: Hickey,Thom Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 8:04 PM To: Toves,Jenny Subject: FW: 201551 vs 201552 Noticed WKP duplicates went way up --Th From: Jenny Toves<mailto:toves@orhddb01dxdu.dev.oclc.org> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 5:12 PM To: Hickey,Thom<mailto:hickey@oclc.org>; Toves,Jenny<mailto:tovesj@oclc.org> Subject: 201551 vs 201552 REPORT for records Changed 13.51%: geographic 3369217.0 -> 3824513.0 Change in % of 8: NLR at_least_one_match 16% -> 24% Changed 19.83%: NLR all_matches 181437.0 -> 217423.0 Change in % of 88: NLR with_bibs 0% -> 88% Changed 17.99%: WKP geographic 2529990.0 -> 2985194.0 Changed -19.95%: WKP corporate 369224.0 -> 295579.0 REPORT for matches Changed 12.70%: exact corporate name 1021239.0 -> 1150899.0 Changed 14.29%: XR viafid 7.0 -> 8.0 Changed -10.42%: XR expression title to sibling 48.0 -> 43.0 Changed -16.16%: PTBNP forced 229.0 -> 192.0 Changed -37.50%: NSZL forced 8.0 -> 5.0 Changed 38.46%: NLP suggested 13.0 -> 18.0 No longer zero: NLR standard number 0.0 -> 21479.0 No longer zero: NLR exact title 0.0 -> 5166.0 No longer zero: NLR partial date and partial title 0.0 -> 618.0 No longer zero: NLR name as subject 0.0 -> 62.0 No longer zero: NLR partial title and publisher 0.0 -> 88.0 No longer zero: NLR title 0.0 -> 5093.0 Changed -47.66%: NLR forced single date 37125.0 -> 19430.0 Changed 14.29%: NLR viafid 14.0 -> 16.0 No longer zero: NLR partial date and publisher 0.0 -> 15894.0 No longer zero: NLR joint author 0.0 -> 5228.0 Changed -14.49%: LC suggested 7594.0 -> 6494.0 Changed 33.33%: CYT viafid 12.0 -> 16.0 Changed -21.08%: NLA forced 223.0 -> 176.0 Changed 233.33%: LNL forced 3.0 -> 10.0 Changed 12.50%: NLB viafid 8.0 -> 9.0 Changed 16.67%: NLB ngram corporate name 6.0 -> 7.0 Changed 25.71%: VLACC forced 35.0 -> 44.0 Changed 19.13%: DNB exact corporate name 315872.0 -> 376304.0 Changed 14.29%: DNB expression title to sibling 7.0 -> 8.0 Changed 16.67%: BNF expression title to sibling 6.0 -> 7.0 Changed 15.91%: ICCU forced 44.0 -> 51.0 Changed 25.54%: NTA forced 9699.0 -> 12176.0 Changed 28.62%: WKP exact corporate name 224787.0 -> 289112.0 Changed 23.73%: WKP longer corporate name 76057.0 -> 94106.0 Changed 584.78%: WKP duplicate record 92.0 -> 630.0 Changed -18.92%: EGAXA forced 37.0 -> 30.0 REPORT for tags Changed 11.56%: NSZL work links (993) 225.0 -> 251.0 No longer zero: NLR wrote about (955) 0.0 -> 106.0 No longer zero: NLR bibs (999) 0.0 -> 108202.0 No longer zero: NLR was a subject (960) 0.0 -> 16423.0 No longer zero: NLR relator code (941) 0.0 -> 103950.0 No longer zero: NLR language of work (940) 0.0 -> 108193.0 No longer zero: NLR issn (902) 0.0 -> 34.0 No longer zero: NLR bib title (910) 0.0 -> 107895.0 No longer zero: NLR joint corporate author (951) 0.0 -> 24235.0 Changed 146.67%: NLR compared (996) 27448.0 -> 67705.0 No longer zero: NLR rectype + biblvl (944) 0.0 -> 108194.0 No longer zero: NLR country of publication (922) 0.0 -> 108169.0 No longer zero: NLR publisher (921) 0.0 -> 93904.0 No longer zero: NLR isbn (901) 0.0 -> 78978.0 No longer zero: NLR publisher id (920) 0.0 -> 78978.0 Changed 50.05%: NLR matched (998) 19864.0 -> 29806.0 No longer zero: NLR name from statement of responsibility (930) 0.0 -> 72478.0 No longer zero: NLR noise title (912) 0.0 -> 3543.0 No longer zero: NLR lc class number (942) 0.0 -> 1.0 No longer zero: NLR joint author (950) 0.0 -> 69048.0 No longer zero: NLR was a subject (969) 0.0 -> 115.0 Changed -14.29%: XA work links (993) 7.0 -> 6.0 No longer zero: SRP work links (993) 0.0 -> 1.0 Changed 22.50%: BNL work links (993) 551.0 -> 675.0 Changed 11.16%: WKP auth title (919) 45779.0 -> 50890.0 Changed 12.56%: WKP noise title (912) 8249.0 -> 9285.0

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Place name ambiguation
by Tom Morris 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

I'm pretty sure ambiguation is not a word, but what are the guidelines on removing disambiguation information from names/labels of items. Usually this disambiguation information was added to a Wikipedia article name to enforce their uniqueness requirements, but Wikidata has no such need and the presence of the information makes it very difficult to construct things like placename hierarchies which don't look clumsy/weird. It appears that, in general, disambiguation text has been removed from names, but this isn't always the case. Is it safe/recommended to clean up those that have been missed? Here are some examples that I've collected: Linden Park, Massachusetts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6552338 boulevard carnot cannes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2921787 Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7020301 Harrington House (Weston, Massachusetts) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715508 Thomas Fleming House (Sherborn, Massachusetts) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715881 Peabody, Cambridge, Massachusetts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7157211 Is the standard the "natural" name or the invented name that Wikpedians came up with? Tom

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weekly summary #190
by Lydia Pintscher 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

Hey folks :) Here's your 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> - Ongoing: 32C3 <https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/> - Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016> - Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-December/007898.html> - Upcoming: Office hour on IRC <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-December/007918.html> - Upcoming: FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org> (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension) - Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-December/00…> - Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions>. Lydia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_%28WMDE%29> can help if needed. - Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData <http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.de/2015/12/new-edition-getting-cas-registry.ht…> - The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata <http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.de/2015/12/the-quality-of-smiles-strings-in.ht…> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Paper: Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond <http://www.swat4ls.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SWAT4LS_2015_paper_38.pdf> - The Wikidata for Research proposal has now been published in a journal <http://rio.pensoft.net/articles.php?journal_name=rio&id=7573> - New tool to turn string claims to monolingual claims <https://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/addlingue/> - Johl built a card game about German politicians using Wikidata <http://blog.johl.io/blog/2015/12/23/bundestagsquartett/> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: number of awards <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2422>, Prosopographia Attica <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2421>, Structurae person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2418>, stage classification <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2417>, sports disciplines competed in <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2416>, personal best <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2415>, substrate of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2414> Development - Some small bugfixes and tweaks. - Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :) 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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Re: [Wikidata] [ANNOUNCEMENT] StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
by Marco Fossati 27 Dec '15

27 Dec '15

Hi Dario, Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 08:04:33 -0800 > From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> > To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." > <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikidata] [ANNOUNCEMENT] StrepHit IEG project kick-off > seminar > Message-ID: > <CAHSVRZQ4kGCiHJfJYOzbSB8djBwyAB7e0zQ= > ugVJnBB-mJxsCQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi Marco, > > will the seminar be streamed or recorded? > I have to check with FBK's staff, it should be straightforward. I will take care of sharing the link with everyone. Cheers, Marco > > Dario > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Marco Fossati <fossati(a)spaziodati.eu> > wrote: > > > [Begging pardon if you read this multiple times] > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I would like to announce with great pleasure the StrepHit IEG project > > kick-off seminar. > > Of course, you are all invited to attend. > > > > The event will be held in a special day: Wikipedia's birthday! > > > > Below you can find the details. > > > > Schedule: 15 January 2016, 11:00 am, Luigi Stringa Conference Room > > Location: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive 18, Povo, Trento, Italy > > - http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/28933739 > > > > Abstract: We kick-off StrepHit, a project funded by the Wikimedia > > Foundation through the Individual Engagement Grants program. > > StrepHit is a Natural Language Processing pipeline that understands human > > language, extracts facts from text and produces Wikidata statements with > > reference URLs. > > It will enhance the data quality of Wikidata by suggesting references to > > validate statements, and will help Wikidata become the gold-standard hub > of > > the Open Data landscape. > > > > Link: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Va… > > > > Speaker's bio: Marco Fossati is a researcher with a double background in > > Natural Languages and Information Technologies. He works at the Data and > > Knowledge Management (DKM) research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, > > Trento, Italy. He is member of the DBpedia Association board of trustees, > > founder and representative of its Italian chapter. He has > interdisciplinary > > skills both in linguistics and in programming. His research focuses on > > bridging the gap between Natural Language Processing techniques and Large > > Scale Structured Knowledge Bases in order to drive the Web of Data > towards > > its full potential. > > > > See you in Trento and long live Wikipedia! > > Cheers, > > > > Marco > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikidata mailing list > > Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > > > > > > -- > > > *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation > wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter > <http://twitter.com/readermeter> >

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Seasons Greetings and a call to action
by Jane Darnell 25 Dec '15

25 Dec '15

Hi all, I cordially invite you to donate some time and add an image from Wikimedia Commons to Wikidata this year. For inspiration you may choose one of the recent Wiki Loves Monuments prize winning photos from your local competition being added to the Wikidata item about that monument, one of your favorite paintings from your local museum being added to the Wikidata item about that painting, an image of christmas cookies that you made that you could add to an item about that type of cookie, or anything else that has an item but no image yet. To help you overcome the difficulties with editing on Wikidata, here is a short film by User:Jan_Ainali_(WMSE) on how to add an image to an item: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Add_image_to_Wikidata.webm Thanks, good luck and let's hope we see some structured data for Commons in 2016, Jane https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2015_winners https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Museums https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Christmas_cookies https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Commons

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Programming question
by Ádám Harangozó 24 Dec '15

24 Dec '15

Hey all, I would like to ask about programming web apps using Wikidata. I'm completely new to programming, and I just started learning Python. My question is if I would like to make apps like Mix 'n' Match or the Wikidata Game, or stuff like Histropedia, Tree of Life, and Sum of All Paintings, what programming languages/skills do I need to learn? Also, is it worth to start learning how to use frameworks like Django or Ruby or these come latar? (And if yes, which framework do you think is suitable?) Thanks! Best, Adam

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
by Marco Fossati 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

[Begging pardon if you read this multiple times] Hi everyone, I would like to announce with great pleasure the StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar. Of course, you are all invited to attend. The event will be held in a special day: Wikipedia's birthday! Below you can find the details. Schedule: 15 January 2016, 11:00 am, Luigi Stringa Conference Room Location: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive 18, Povo, Trento, Italy - http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/28933739 Abstract: We kick-off StrepHit, a project funded by the Wikimedia Foundation through the Individual Engagement Grants program. StrepHit is a Natural Language Processing pipeline that understands human language, extracts facts from text and produces Wikidata statements with reference URLs. It will enhance the data quality of Wikidata by suggesting references to validate statements, and will help Wikidata become the gold-standard hub of the Open Data landscape. Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Va… Speaker's bio: Marco Fossati is a researcher with a double background in Natural Languages and Information Technologies. He works at the Data and Knowledge Management (DKM) research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy. He is member of the DBpedia Association board of trustees, founder and representative of its Italian chapter. He has interdisciplinary skills both in linguistics and in programming. His research focuses on bridging the gap between Natural Language Processing techniques and Large Scale Structured Knowledge Bases in order to drive the Web of Data towards its full potential. See you in Trento and long live Wikipedia! Cheers, Marco

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Edgard Marx invited you to check out Dropbox
by Dropbox 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hi there, Edgard Marx wants you to try Dropbox! Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos with you anywhere and share them easily. Accept invite[1] Thanks! - The Dropbox Team ____________________________________________________ If you prefer not to receive invites from Dropbox, please go here[2]. Dropbox, Inc., PO Box 77767, San Francisco, CA 94107 [1]: https://www.dropbox.com/l/okUWMKxsaptUUKvDKdWQ1i?text=1 [2]: https://www.dropbox.com/l/5suSpsCDYUWFAeBZ0rYUOp?text=1

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Edgard Marx invited you to check out Dropbox
by Dropbox 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hi there, Edgard Marx wants you to try Dropbox! Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos with you anywhere and share them easily. Accept invite[1] Thanks! - The Dropbox Team ____________________________________________________ If you prefer not to receive invites from Dropbox, please go here[2]. Dropbox, Inc., PO Box 77767, San Francisco, CA 94107 [1]: https://www.dropbox.com/l/J8D8B1VpFl4ZbeNIhxiexh?text=1 [2]: https://www.dropbox.com/l/gZ20XDbWXnJKRHS4yKkikp?text=1

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