Hello all,
As you know, Wikidata's fourth birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday> is on October
29th, and during one week, we will celebrate it IRL and online with several
events.
*IRL events*
A meetup will take place in the Wikimedia Deutschland's office *in Berlin,
on November 4th*. You can meet Wikidata editors, celebrate the birthday,
discover new tools, play board games and eat a piece of cake! If you want
to come, please add your name here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events/Berlin>.
You can't go to Berlin? That's not a problem, *you can organize your own
event* where you are! Find some other Wikidata editors or supporters, and
create your own meetup. You don't need to organize something complicated,
only choose a date, a place (bar, public location, etc.), and invite other
people to join. If you need any advice, I'll be happy to help. Please add
your events on this page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events>.
*Community stories*
This year, instead of a long editorial, we would like to collect several *short
stories from the editors*.
You want to participate? One of these questions may help you:
- How did you start editing Wikidata?
- *What is your coolest project achieved on Wikidata?*
- What task are you the most proud of?
- Or what interesting failure you encountered and what did you learn
from that?
- What was your favorite community moment on Wikidata?
The format can be anything you want: short text, blog post, comic strip,
video...
You can either post in on a subpage of your userpage, elsewhere on the web,
or send it to me by e-mail. I will link the stories on the birthday page.
The deadline is *October 28th*. If you have any questions, need ideas,
please come to me!
Thanks a lot,
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Communication 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 27/029/42207.
Hello everyone,
I continue to work on creating an interface that allows easy querying of
Wikidata for generating lists for wikipedia (and, possibly, beyond).
An existing, interface based query builder is http://wdq.wmflabs.org/
If you use (or have used it) it would be interested in hearing about the
advantages or disadvantages you perceived in regards to the functions of
wqd and their interface.
Kind Regards,
Jan
PS: In my experience, examples ("I tried to…") or context ("because I
wanted to…") can greatly easy understanding, so if giving them makes sense
for you, don't hesitate to include them.
--
Jan Dittrich
UX Design/ User Research
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
The final report for WikiCite 2016
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016> is now available:
D. Taraborelli, J. Dugan, L. Pintscher, D. Mietchen, C. Neylon (2016) *WikiCite
2016 Report*.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4042530commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
File:WikiCite_2016_report.pdf CC BY
The report includes an overview of the event, its outcomes and impact,
results from a participant survey, financial data, as well as a list of
ongoing initiatives.
The impact of the event, and the number and importance of the initiatives
it spawned, far exceeded our expectations. We're planning to host a
follow-up event <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite> in the early
summer of 2017 to continue these efforts. Thanks to all the participants
and organizations that supported or contributed to the event.
Dario, on behalf of the event organizers
*Why WikiCite?* A 10-minute introduction. https://t.co/egVUIqClbJ
Dear Magnus,
What do you suggest we do in the meanwhile?
- Wait with the data ingestion process until the overhaul has been done? - Do you have an idea when this could be the case?
- Ingest the data, providing the source without its “publication date”? – Do you think it will be possible to add the “publication date” of the source at a later stage by re-running the tool when it has been improved? Or is it better to leave out the source altogether for the time being?
Cheers,
Beat
From: Wikidata [mailto:wikidata-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Magnus Manske
Sent: Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2016 13:56
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project.
Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Quick Statements Tool: How to add publication date of sources
The tool is missing several functions, and requires a general overhaul/rewrite. Haven't gotten around to it.
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:52 PM Estermann Beat <beat.estermann(a)bfh.ch<mailto:beat.estermann@bfh.ch>> wrote:
Hi,
I’ve recently tried in vain to add a “publication date” qualifier to a reference, using the Quick Statements Tool. I’ve posted the issue on Magnus’ Talk Page, but haven’t gotten any response so far:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Magnus_Manske#Quick_Statements_Tool…
Does anyone know how to do this? Or can you suggest any other tools, work arounds etc. to properly add the source, including the publication date, in the course of a larger data ingestion job?
I’m not a software programmer; thus low-threshold tools or newbie-proof instructions would be appreciated. ;-)
Cheers,
Beat
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Coordinator OpenGLAM CH Working Group
http://openglam.ch<http://openglam.ch/>
Berne University of Applied Sciences
E-Government Institute
Brückenstrasse 73
CH-3005 Bern
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Phone +41 31 848 34 38<tel:+41%2031%20848%2034%2038>
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Hey folks,
we plan to drop the "wb-status" page prop as it's unused as far as we
can tell and of questionable value, see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146792
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146792>. This will affect you if you
use the action=query API to retrieve page props from entity pages or if
you use the page_props table (on tool labs for example), to retrieve
this page property.
Please let us know if and how you use this page prop, so that we can
find a solution for your use cases.
In case there are no issues with removing this, we will drop it in
December 2016 (or later).
Cheers,
Marius
Hi there!
My name is Ian Seyer - I am the project lead for a proposed Project Grant
called Arc.heolo.gy.
Arc.heolo.gy is a wikipedia dump to XML to graphDB (Neo4j at the moment)
engine. In its current form, it builds a database wherein all href links
are parsed as Relationships. This allows for pathfinding between articles,
and finding clusters of knowledge around a particular topic or article.
The goal of the grant is to expand the possibilities of this tool -
symantic parsing and relevance weighting using aspects of NLP,
auto-updating when new dumps are available, and a generic 2d and VR-capable
3d visualization for networks such as this.
I have longtime been a fan of the Wikidata project (originally a Freebase
user), and want the feedback of the community to gauge what features you
would like to see, which would allow for maximum interoperability. I
believe there is a huge overlap of functionality there that could be very
advantageous to explore.
You can read more about the grant here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Arc.heolo.gy
ps If you are interested in any aspect of this project, we are looking for
volunteers to expand our team.
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Hello folks,
The Wikimedia Developer Summit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit> will take place
in San Francisco on January 9-11, 2017. All Wikimedia technical
contributors, third party developers, and users of MediaWiki and the
Wikimedia APIs are welcomed.
If you're interested, please not that the deadline to request travel
sponsorship is Monday, October 24th.
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Communication 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 27/029/42207.
Hi,
I've recently tried in vain to add a "publication date" qualifier to a reference, using the Quick Statements Tool. I've posted the issue on Magnus' Talk Page, but haven't gotten any response so far:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Magnus_Manske#Quick_Statements_Tool…
Does anyone know how to do this? Or can you suggest any other tools, work arounds etc. to properly add the source, including the publication date, in the course of a larger data ingestion job?
I'm not a software programmer; thus low-threshold tools or newbie-proof instructions would be appreciated. ;-)
Cheers,
Beat
_____________________________________________________
[OpenGLAM.ch_Logo.jpg]
Beat Estermann
Coordinator OpenGLAM CH Working Group
http://openglam.ch<http://openglam.ch/>
Berne University of Applied Sciences
E-Government Institute
Brückenstrasse 73
CH-3005 Bern
beat.estermann(a)openglam.ch<mailto:beat.estermann@openglam.ch>
Phone +41 31 848 34 38
Hi Everyone,
Starting from this release DBpedia provides an alternate view of its data
with RDF dumps based on Wikidata IDs
http://wiki.dbpedia.org/dbpedia-version-2016-04
e.g.
- disambiguations_en.ttl.bz2
<http://downloads.dbpedia.org/2016-04/core-i18n/en/disambiguations_en.ttl.bz2>
(DBpedia
uris)
- disambiguations_wkd_uris_en.ttl.bz2
<http://downloads.dbpedia.org/2016-04/core-i18n/en/disambiguations_wkd_uris_…>
(the
same data but all DBpedia URIs are converted to wikidata based IDs)
We need these dumps for our ongoing tasks but we also want to share these
with the Wikidata community as we think they may be useful.
One of the side tasks that we have in our plans but never found enough
people to work on is to identify Wikipedia / Wikidata data overlaps as well
as data conflicts and identify areas where e.g. Wikidata data are fresher,
stalled or missing.
Another task that that pop up during a discussion with Lydia and Daniel in
the DBpedia meeting in Leipzig last month was to use these dumps and fix
errors in Wikidata. The example we discussed is with interlinks and
disambiguations when e.g. an interlink cluster consists of disambiguation
links except one (that is most probably wrong).
This was a real example that Daniel came up with and can be easily
identified with these dumps
Maybe there are other cases where these dumps can be useful but you can
have a better judge on this.
How to move on.
After a quick discussion, it was suggested to create tasks in Phabricator
for each task but before I proceed I wanted to get an initial community
feedback
Best,
Dimitris
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Dimitris Kontokostas
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig & DBpedia Association
Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://rdfunit.aksw.org,
http://aligned-project.eu
Homepage: http://aksw.org/DimitrisKontokostas
Research Group: AKSW/KILT http://aksw.org/Groups/KILT