Hoi,
Jura1 created a wonderful list of people who died in Brazil in 2015 [1]. It
is a page that may update regularly from Wikidata thanks to the
ListeriaBot. Obviously, there may be a few more because I am falling ever
more behind with my quest for registering deaths in 2015.
I have copied his work and created a page for people who died in the
Netherlands in 2015 [2]. It is trivially easy to do this and, the result is
great. The result looks great, it can be used for any country in any
Wikipedia
The Dutch Wikipedia indicated that they nowadays maintain important
metadata at Wikidata. I am really happy that we can showcase their work. It
is important work because as someone reminded me at some stage, this is
part of what amounts to the policy of living people...
Thanks,
GerardM
[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_Brazil
[2]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_the_Netherlands
Hi, it's first of July and I would like to introduce you a quarterly goal
that the Engineering Community team has committed to:
Establish a framework to engage with data engineers and open data
organizations
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101950
We are missing a community framework allowing Wikidata content and tech
contributors, data engineers, and open data organizations to collaborate
effectively. Imagine GLAM applied to data.
If all goes well, by the end of September we would like to have basic
documentation and community processes for open data engineers and
organizations willing to contribute to Wikidata, and ongoing projects with
one open data org.
If you are interested, get involved! We are looking for
* Wikidata contributors with good institutional memory
* people that has been in touch with organizations willing to contribute
their open data
* developers willing to help improving our software and programming missing
pieces
* also contributors familiar with the GLAM model(s), what works and what
didn't work
This goal has been created after some conversations with Lydia Pintscher
(Wikidata team) and Sylvia Ventura (Strategic Partnerships). Both are on
board, Lydia assuring that this work fits into what is technically
effective, and Sylvia checking our work against real open data
organizations willing to get involved.
This email effectively starts the bootstrapping of this project. I will
start creating subtasks under that goal based on your feedback and common
sense.
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hey!
tl;dr after the next deploy merging two items creates a redirect, merge
gadget (and every tool with a similar functionality) needs to be adjusted
to the new functionality
There was a change to the functionality of merging items. Whenever you
merge two items a redirect will be automatically created.
If you merge via the special page nothing changed - except for the item,
that is merged into another item now also redirects to that item.
The same goes for the API except for using 'ignoreconflicts'- when the item
is not left empty after the merge it won't be a redirect and still be there
as before without the data that got merged into the other item. (So it will
only have the data that would have given a merge conflict.)
Last but not least: The merge gadget will need some adjusting. That's
expected since the functionality changed.
Please keep that in mind if you have any tool, that merges items.
Cheers,
Lucie
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Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0http://wikimedia.de
Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in
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That‘s our commitment.
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Hi all,
Vladimir Alexiev has published an interesting post on issues he
encountered when using DBpedia at OntoText, drawing many comparisons to
Wikidata [1]. While this post praises the practices of Wikidata in
several places, I think there are a few important insights for Wikidata
there as well. There are certainly points where Wikidata is running into
similar issues (if you have had a look at our class hierarchy recently,
you know what I mean). Even in the cases where we are doing good, it
might be valuable to obtain some feedback and reconfirmation from
another perspective.
Cheers,
Markus
[1]
http://vladimiralexiev.github.io/pres/20150209-dbpedia/dbpedia-problems-lon…
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Technische Universität Dresden
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http://korrekt.org/
The Museum of Modern Art of New York has published a CSV on GitHub
containing the data of its entire collection under a CC0 license.
https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection
They have blogged about it.
https://medium.com/digital-moma/thousands-of-exhausted-things-or-why-we-ded…
"This data release <https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection>
includes all of the works that have been both accessioned into MoMA’s
collection *and* cataloged in our database. It includes basic data for each
work, including title, artist, date made, medium, dimensions, and date
acquired by the Museum."
"MoMA’s open data is primarily intended to be useful to scholars, so it was
important to make each version citable."
"*Thanks to the **Cooper-Hewitt*
<https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection>* and **Tate*
<https://github.com/tategallery/collection>* for paving the way by
releasing their own collection data on GitHub using CC0. Thanks also to
George Oates (**@goodformand* <https://twitter.com/goodformand>*) for
reassuring us that a CSV is not just the easiest way to start but probably
the most accessible format for a broad audience of researchers, artists,
and designers."*
They actually produced a live, on-site performance about the data released,
and blogged about it: https://medium.com/@blprnt/a-sort-of-joy-1d9d5ff02ac9
"This release of open data by MoMA is by no means revolutionary. Two years
ago the Tate Modern released its own collection on GitHub
<https://github.com/tategallery/collection>. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
has not only released its data (images and all), it has also built an API
<https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api> to allow anyone easy access to it. In
2013 the British Museum released 1,000,000 images
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/page1> under a Creative
Commons license."
Anyway, this might not be big or surprising news to those of you following
closely this scene. I just found amusing to learn accidentally about this
the day that Wiki Loves Open Data has started taking shape in a wiki page.
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hi everyone,
I’ve been in the situation quite often (edit-a-thons; various to do lists) where I had a list of terms (most usually names of a few hundreds of people, or titles of Wikipedia articles), where I wanted to do a quick search on Wikidata to retrieve each of these concept’s Q number.
Does anyone know of a tool that helps me make this easier? Enter a list of, say, 100 of these search terms, and receive Q number suggestions for each of them? I’ve looked around on wmflabs but have not found anything in that direction (also not with the help of Hay’s awesome tool directory <http://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/directory/#/>).
Till now, I’ve done all these searches manually - use an excel sheet, look for each term individually, enter Q number for each term - quite accurate but very time-consuming!
Would appreciate all help/tips !
Thanks! Sandra (User:Spinster)
I've noticed that a number of EN Wikipedia articles are starting to use
wikidata e.g. all of these templates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_using_data_from_Wikidata
This is great, and I have already started trying to encourage more of this
in the areas we are working on (genes, drugs, diseases). But concerns
raised more than 2 years ago now still seem very valid:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata/Workflow
I'm particularly concerned about the edit button. When a Wikipedia user
hits edit on an article built using wikidata content, how are they supposed
to edit the wikidata content? Obviously the well-informed can sort out
which wikidata item is relevant and which properties are being used and go
to edit at wikidata.. but this can't be the solution.
What is the status of this issue ?
thanks very much
-Ben
Hey :)
Rollout of arbitrary access is going well. So we're continuing on more
projects. Here's the schedule for the next projects to get it:
11 June 2015: all Wikiquote, all remaining Wikivoyage
15 June 2015: arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki
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
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.