So I have been noticing that Twitter links often found in the External link section is starting to move to Wikidata on English Wikipedia. {{Twitter}} template is used much like with {{Authority control}}
Was there consensus or discussion about this before it's implementation? I am hoping there is also really good documentation so Wikipedia editors know how to create and/or edit this value.
Apologies if I didn't see this mentioned or addressed previously.
- Erika
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Joseph Seddon <jseddon(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> currently there is no clear indication within Wikipedia articles
> and as far as I can tell within Wikidata as to both what *datum* and what
> *version* any particular coordinate relates to, there is no guarantee that
> any particular coordinate would be any more correct than it was before.
>
This definitely should be fixed on the wikidata side. Whether article
editors are savvy enough to know and enter this data is another question;
but at least the geotemplates should have fields for it and you can assume
that if those are empty some {person/bot hybrid} that understands that
nuance should fill them in.
~S
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When negotiating the import of data from resources that are not CC0, it
would be very valuable to have a somewhat formal process to allow them to
declare that some portions of their databases may be imported into wikidata
and thus join its CC0 collection.
Does wikidata have anything like this in place? I think slight
modifications to the protocol for Commons [1] ought to be sufficient.
(Though I would like to avoid the backlog there that apparently is at 88
days now..).
As a specific example, we have informal (e.g. an email to us) permission to
import data from the Disease Ontology [2] and UniProt [3] but would like to
make those informal agreements 'official' and public. I suspect this will
be a very common situation going forward.
thoughts?
-Ben
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates
[2] http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/doid.html
[3] http://www.uniprot.org
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Dear SPARQL users,
We are starting a research project to investigate the use of the
Wikidata SPARQL Query Service, with the goal to gain insights that may
help to improve Wikidata and the query service [1]. Currently, we are
still waiting for all data to become available. Meanwhile, we would like
to ask for your input.
Preliminary analyses show that the use of the SPARQL query service
varies greatly over time, presumably because power users and software
tools are running large numbers of queries. For a meaningful analysis,
we would like to understand such high-impact biases in the data. We
therefore need your help:
(1) Are you a SPARQL power user who sometimes runs large numbers of
queries (over 10,000)? If so, please let us know how your queries might
typically look so we can identify them in the logs.
(2) Are you the developer of a tool that launches SPARQL queries? If so,
then please let us know if there is any way to identify your queries.
If (1) or (2) applies to you, then it would be good if you could include
an identifying comment into your SPARQL queries in the future, to make
it easier to recognise them. In return, this would enable us to provide
you with statistics on the usage of your tool [2].
Further feedback is welcome.
Cheers,
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