Hi, I no longer see the option to merge an item. Clicking on random items i see the star for watching an item, but no more tab for other options such as move or merge. Has this function been replaced with some other method?
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone had any advice for mapping a set of Freebase identifiers to WikiData identifiers. I’m looking to port over a few thousand entities in use in an application since Freebase is going to be shut off next month.
My apologies if this is a rudimentary question. I took a quick look at the API [1] and didn’t see an obvious way of doing it. Or is the WikiData Query API [2] a better fit for this? I was able to figure out how to do a lookup based on the FreebaseID,
https://wdq.wmflabs.org/api?q=string[646:'/m/04hcw']
Any tips or pointers would be appreciated.
//Ed
[1] https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php
[2] https://wdq.wmflabs.org/api_documentation.html
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Hi Andrew,
Andrew Bogott schreef op 16-5-2015 om 6:31:
> I did shut off one instance: wikidata-wdq-mm. I don't have a
> personal grudge, but it was gobbling CPU cycles and the system really
> needs a rest. If loss of that instance is a disaster for anyone,
> contact me and I'll see if I can revive it and shut off ten or so
> other instances to make room.
With that you basically break the edit flow of most users on Wikidata,
see
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#wdq.wmflabs.org.2Fapi .
This is one of those tools that have silently become production.
Maarten
Hey folks :)
We've been looking into performance issues of the special page
Special:UnconnectedPages (like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UnconnectedPages for example).
There are a few improvements we can make to make it work better.
However to evaluate if we can make those changes or not I need to know
what you are currently using this page for exactly.
So if you're using it it'd be great if you could tell me how you're
using it currently to achieve what exactly.
Cheers
Lydia
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Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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Hey folks :)
When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects
there is currently a limitation in place which hinders some use cases.
Data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So for example
the article about Berlin can only get data from the item about Berlin
but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. On
Monday we will remove this limitation on the first wikis. This will be
Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource. (More will follow over the next
weeks. We hope to have it rolled out nearly everywhere by the end of
June.) We invite you to play around with this new feature if you are
one of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time. If
you have technical issues/questions with this you can come to
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team
A note of caution: Please be careful with how many items you use for a
single page. If it is too many page loading might get slow. We will
have to see how the feature behaves in production to see where we need
to tweak and how.
How to use it once it is enabled:
* Parser function: {{#property:capital|from=Q183}} to get the capital
from the item about Germany
* Lua: see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua
Cheers
Lydia, who is very happy this is finally getting out
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Hey folks :)
I'm really proud to let you know that Wikidata has won another award.
The award is part of an initiative to foster innovation in Germany
called Land der Ideen. Wikidata is one of the winners for its
dedication to the future.
https://www.land-der-ideen.de/ausgezeichnete-orte/preistraeger/wikidata
Time for a high 5, everyone! Thank you for making Wikidata as
award-worthy as it is ;-)
Cheers
Lydia
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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
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I am hosting some editathons:
Thurs 28 May, Birmingham:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry/BH-…
at Birmingham Museums Collection centre (only rarely open to the
public!). We'll enjoy a 'backstage tour and the opportunity to
photograph objects, as well,of course, writing articles.
Weds 29 July, London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry/BH-…
in the library of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The focus will be
on chemistry-related topics; including both scientific and
non-scientific content (the latter including biographies, for
example). I hope we'll have someone there from the ChemSpider team.
Sat 8 August, North Cheshire
Watch this space (and keep the date free)!
In each case, lunch and refreshments will be provided; there will be
support for new editors (maybe you can help?) and we'll work on sister
projects such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikisource, as well
as Wikipedia.
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