Wikidata February 2015

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[Wikidata-l] cfp: ACM Hypertext 2015: call for workshops and tutorials
by Federica Cena 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

Apologies for cross-posting ==================== CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ======================= In conjunction with Hypertext 2015, the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus, Cyprus September 2-4, 2015 http://ht.acm.org/ht2015/ http://ht.acm.org/ht2015/cfp_workshoptutorial.html March 13, 2015: Tutorial and workshops proposals due ========================================================================= The ACM Hypertext conference focuses on all aspects of modern hypertext research including social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. The 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media conference is pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be held with the conference. The goal of tutorial is to present state-of-the-art theories, methodologies and techniques from experts in the field. Topics of interest should be related to the main conference tracks, in relation on novel aspects to be examined in deep. Interdisciplinary tutorials are also encouraged.We expect proposals for half-day tutorials. The goals of the workshops are to provide a more informal setting for exchanging opinions, to share experiences, presenting ideas, foster research community and identify open problems and/or explore directions for future research. As such, they also offer a good opportunity for researchers to present their work and to obtain feedback from an interested community in an interactive atmosphere. Proposals are especially encouraged on emerging topics, somehow related to the main conference tracks (links and connection between people, open data and the semantic of things, user experience and adaptive linking), but are not limited to other (novel) topics which might be of interest for the hypertext community. Acceptance of workshop proposals will be based on the experience and background of the organizers in the topic, and on the relevance of the subject matter with regard to the topics addressed in the main conference.We welcome proposals for different types of workshops, from working groups on a specific topic to more traditional conference-like workshops. However, we prefer interactive workshops that guarantee richer active interactions among participants and provide significant room for controversial and stimulating discussions.We preferentially would rather proposals for half-day workshops. The need for a full-day workshop should be motivated by some particular reason. Potential proposers are invited to discuss their ideas with the workshop chair before working out a detailed proposal. ====================== PROPOSAL FORMAT (TUTORIALS) ========================= The tutorial proposals – not longer than 3 pages - have to be sent by email to the workshop chairs, and must contain the following information: - Title of the tutorial - Tutorial presenters (affiliation, contact details, homepage, and prior experiences with tutorial organization, if any). - Keywords (describing the main themes of the tutorial) (from 3 to 5) - Abstract (up to 70 words) - Description of the tutorial (topics and goals of the tutorial) (up to 500 words) - Motivation (why the topic is of interest for the conference audience) - Tutorial format (lessons, exercises, etc) - Intended audience and expected attendance (with historical data of past versions of the tutorial, if available) - Previous editions of the tutorial (if applicable) (URLs, conference it was co-located with, number of participants , and any other relevant information) The organizers of accepted tutorials are then expected to prepare a tutorial Web Site with the information about the tutorial. ====================== PROPOSAL FORMAT (WORKSHOPS) ========================= The workshop proposals – not longer than 5 pages - have to be sent by email to the workshop chairs, and must contain the following information: - Title of the workshop and acronym - Workshop organizers (affiliation, contact details, homepage, and prior experiences with workshop organization. - Keywords (describing the main themes of the workshop) (from 3 to 5) - Abstract (up to 70 words) - Description of the workshop (topics and goals of the workshop) (up to 500 words) - Motivation (why the topic is of interest for the conference audience) - Workshop format (paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demo, discussion, etc) - Submissions format (position papers, research papers, demo, poster, presentations..) and, for each type of submission, specify the features (length of the papers, template, etc) - Intended audience and expected attendance (with historical data of past versions of the workshop, if available) - Initial list of (potential) members of the program committee - Requested duration (half day or full day- in this case, motivation for the need of a full day) - Previous editions of the workshop series (if applicable) (URLs, conference it was co-located with, number of registrants, number of submissions, number of accepted papers, and any other relevant information) The Workshop Proceedings will be published in the ACM Hypertext Extended Proceedings. If the organizers have addition plans for dissemination (for example, a special issue of a journal) this needs to specified in the proposal. =============== ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOP=============== After the acceptance of a workshop proposal, the organizer(s) should: - Create and distribute a Call for Papers and a Call for Participation; - Create a Web page for the workshop, with the call for papers and the information about the workshop organization and timeline. The link of the web site will be published on the Conference Web site; - Create a Program Committee; - Review and select contributions to be included in the workshop proceedings (at least 2 reviewers for each paper); - Schedule and coordinate the workshop activities. - Put together accepted papers into electronic workshop proceedings, to be published in the Extended Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2015. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== March 13, 2015: Workshop and tutorial proposals due March 23, 2015: Decisions announced September 2, 2015: Workshop and Tutorial day =============== SUGGESTED TIMELINE =============== Workshop web site: March 24, 2015 Workshop Call for Papers: March 24, 2015 Paper submission deadline: June 12, 2015 Notification to authors: July 10, 2015 ================== WORKSHOP CHAIRS ================== Alvin Chin, Microsoft, China E-mail: alvin.chin(a)utoronto.ca Web: http://www.alvinychin.com Ethan Munson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA E-mail: munson(a)uwm.edu Web: https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/munson/www/ -- Federica Cena, Ph. D. Assistant Professor - Researcher Dipartimento di Informatica Universita' di Torino Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy Phone +39 0116706779 Fax +39 011751603 email: cena(a)di.unito.it web: www.di.unito.it/~cena/

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #145
by Lydia Pintscher 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hey folks :) Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy! Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Past: Europeana Tech - Wir lieben Freie Software <http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/02/14/wir-lieben-freie-software/> - Mapping resources using open knowledge: starting with books! <http://blog.inventaire.io/post/110540440753/mapping-resources-using-open-kn…> - New recommendations outline ways to strengthen Europeana’s future relationship with Wikimedia <http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/new-recommendations-outline-ways-t…> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Spiffy new project building on top of Wikidata: inventaire.io. Check out this example entry <https://inventaire.io/entity/wd:Q535>! - You will now see when a language fallback for a label is used on an item or property. The language name will be shown next to it. - Automatic descriptions for Wikidata items by Magnus <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=265> - The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc) to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to be getting close. Did you know? - Newest properties: Journalisted ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1714>, Biography at the Bundestag of Germany <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1713>, Metacritic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1712> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Identical Twins <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Identical_Twins> Development - <3 - We are hiring! Passionate about Wikidata and know your way around Java Script and co? Apply! <https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Software_Developer_Frontend_Development> - We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move queries forward in Berlin - Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering. This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia infoboxes. - Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only) - Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code with the parser functions - Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding the actual input and not very useful there - Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data - Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install Wikibase - Fixed icinga notification that tests if dispatch lag gets high - Investigated several issues regarding storage of time values and started fixing them - Fixed editing of qualifiers - Fixed most browser tests after introduction of new header design You can see all open bugs 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 fix these items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - 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! 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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[Wikidata-l] descriptions in mobile app
by Gerard Meijssen 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hoi, I understand that item descriptions are going to be used in a mobile app. In my opinion that is seriously disappointing because it is not realistic to expect enough coverage in any language. Particularly in the small languages it will not be really useful. My question is: we have had automated descriptions for a long time. What is it that they makes that they are not used.? Thanks, GerardM

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[Wikidata-l] annotating red links
by Amir E. Aharoni 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

Hi, TL;DR: How can a red link be annotated in a semantic way with a foreign article title or a Wikidata Q item number? Imagine: I'm writing a Wikipedia article in Russian. There's a red link in it. I don't have time to write the target article for that link now, but I'm sure that it should exist. In fact, that article does exist in the English Wikipedia. I want the link to be red (fr the usual wiki reasons), but until the Russian article is written, I want to give the software a hint about which topic it is supposed to be about. Telling it the English article name would be one way to do it. Giving it the Wikidata Q item number would be an even better way to do it. Unfortunately, MediaWiki does not currently have true syntax to do either. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Some Wikipedias may have templates that do something like this (e.g. Russian: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:En ). But there's nothing that is uniform to all projects. *Why* is it useful to give the software this hint in the first place? Most simplistically, it's useful to the reader - in case that reader knows English, she can at least read something. But there's something bigger. When the ContentTranslation extension translates links, it automatically adapts links that can be found. What to do about those that can't be auto-adapted? It frequently happens when Wikipedians translate articles that many links in the created articles turn out to be red. We'd love to get ContentTranslation to help the translators make those articles by writing relevant articles with as few clicks as possible, and that is only possible by annotating the red links with the topics to which they belong. So, any ideas? What do other Wikipedias for such annotation? Is it imaginable to add wiki syntax for such a thing? Can anybody think of a hack that reuses the current [[link]] syntax to add such annotation? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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[Wikidata-l] We're hiring a frontend developer for Wikidata
by Lydia Pintscher 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Hey folks :) Since one of our frontend developers is transitioning to doing more design work we are looking for someone to join the Wikidata dev team to work on Wikidata's frontend. If you know your way around JavaScript and related technologies and are passionate about Wikidata then this is your gig! Please apply and join an awesome team. Or do you know someone else who'd be a good fit? Please forward them the ad. Details and how to apply are here: https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Software_Developer_Frontend_Development 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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[Wikidata-l] mapping resources using wikidata
by Maxime Lathuilière 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Dear wikidata lovers, it took me some months but I'm finally more than happy to announce you that my prototype of a resources mapper based on wikidata data is now online! Inventaire.io <https://inventaire.io> It offers the possibility to make a list of books you have using either the ISBN or the wikidata Qid. So far, the best use of wikidata's power is authors' books lists. Example here with Mr Q535: https://inventaire.io/entity/wd:Q535 You can find the project's code here http://github.com/maxlath/inventaire but for what is of wikidata, I extracted the helpers I use in a separated library https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-sdk (javascript). Hope it might help others. I would be delighted to have your feedback on all that :) Bests, Maxime -- Maxime Lathuilière maxlath.eu <http://maxlath.eu> @maxlath on wikidata: Zorglub27 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Zorglub27>

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[Wikidata-l] (no subject)
by Sorawit Mtech 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #144
by Lydia Pintscher 07 Feb '15

07 Feb '15

Hey folks :) Here's your weekly dose of catching up with Wikidata. Discussions - Open RfAs: BlackBeast <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Upcoming: Europeana Tech - Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata (slides <http://www.slideshare.net/andrewsu/ucsd-dbmi-seminar-2015026>) - Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships>. - Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education <http://teemuleinonen.fi/2015/02/02/internet-archives-wikidata-and-open-educ…> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks>. - Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/ - Mix'n'Match got a face lift <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/> - Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/ - RStats client for Wikidata <https://github.com/Ironholds/WikidataR> - Reasonator <https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q42&lang=fr> now also supports biography texts in French Did you know? - Showcase items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>: Lucy (first name) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13365715> Development - Did more work on Capiunto <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Capiunto> to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites. - Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88550>) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing>) - Further work on header section redesign - Tweaks to the sitelink section - Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages - Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used - Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes - Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. ( phabricator:T76213 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76213>) You can see all open bugs 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 fix these items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - 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! 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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[Wikidata-l] Wikibooks is coming!
by Lydia Pintscher 06 Feb '15

06 Feb '15

Hey folks :) It's time to welcome another sister projects into our rounds. It'll be Wikibooks. They'll get access to the interwiki links on Wikidata on February 24th. Depending on how that goes I'll set a date for data access. The page for all things Wikibooks is at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks. Please help by giving them a warm welcome in 2 weeks. 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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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #143
by Lydia Pintscher 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Hey folks :) Here's your update on what has been happening around Wikidata last week. Enjoy! Discussions - Closed RfAs: Eurodyne <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> (unsuccessful) - Open RfAs: BlackBeast <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Past: MediaWiki Developer Summit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015> - Past: FOSDEM <http://fosdem.org> - Upcoming: ArtBytes hackathon <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artbytes-3-hackathon-tickets-15166279751> Other Noteworthy Stuff - ATOM feeds for changes in Wikidata Query results. Define your own to keep an eye on changes in specific topics <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wdq_feed.php> - Overview of the number of visual artworks items on Wikidata by creator (>5 items) <http://www.zone47.com/crotos/creators.php> - The Wikidata Free Image Search Tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/> can now also search Commons (not just follow language links) Did you know? - Newest properties: British Museum person-institution <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1711>, Sächsische Biografie <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1710>, equivalent class <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1709>, LfDS object ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1708>, DAAO identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1707> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Authority control <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Authority_control> Development - Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the left side (phabricator:T87096 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87096>) - Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (phabricator:T87764 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87764>) - Further work on header section redesign (phabricator:T75654 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T75654>) - Started redesign of statements section (phabricator:T87316 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87316>) - Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is used on an item or property (phabricator:T85105 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85105>) - Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase Repo code base - Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code quality - Released Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3 <https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelSerialization#130-2015-01-28> with language fallback support You can see all open bugs 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 fix these items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - 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! 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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