Wikidata June 2016

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Genes, proteins, and bad merges in general
by Tom Morris 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

Bad merges have been mentioned a couple of times recently and I think one of the contexts with Ben's gene/protein work. I think there are two general issues here which could be improved: 1. Merging is too easy. Because splitting/unmerging is much harder than merging, particularly after additional edits, the process should be biased to mark merging more difficult. 2. The impedance mismatch between Wikidata and Wikipedias tempts wikipedians who are new to wikidata to do the wrong thing. The second is a community education issue which will hopefully improve over time, but the first could be improved, in my opinion, by requiring more than one person to approve a merge. The Freebase scheme was that duplicate topics could be flagged for merge by anyone, but instead of merging, they'd be placed in a queue for voting. Unanimous votes would cause merges to be automatically processed. Conflicting votes would get bumped to a second level queue for manual handling. This wasn't foolproof, but caught a lot of the naive "these two things have the same name, so they must be the same thing" merge proposals by newbies. There are lots of variations that could be implemented, but the general idea is to get more than one pair of eyes involved. A specific instance of the structural impedance mismatch is enwiki's handling of genes & proteins. Sometimes they have a page for each, but often they have a single page that deals with both or, worse, a page who's text says its about the protein, but where the page includes a gene infobox. This unanswered RFC from Oct 2015 asks whether protein & gene should be merged: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Oxytocin_and_OX… I recently ran across a similar situation where this Wikidata gene SPATA5 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18052679 is linked to an enwiki page about the associated protein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPATA5, while the Wikidata protein is not linked to any wikis https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21207860 These differences in handling make the reconciliation process very difficult and the resulting errors encourage erroneous merges. The gene/protein case probably needs multiple fixes, but many mergers harder would help. Tom

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[CfP] ISWC 2016 - Call for Posters and Demos
by Heiko Paulheim 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

******************************************** 15th International Semantic Web Conference October 17-21, 2016 Kobe, Japan http://iswc2016.semanticweb.org Call for Posters and Demos ******************************************** The ISWC 2016 Posters and Demonstrations complement the paper tracks of the conference and offer an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results, on-going research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters and Demonstrations encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research Track; the Application Track; and the Resource Track. Technical posters, reports on Semantic Web software systems (free or commercial), descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and technologies, both in academia and in industry. We explicitly welcome entries from the industry. However, submissions for posters and demos should go beyond pure advertisements of commercial software packages and convey a minimal scientific contribution. Authors of full papers accepted for the Research Track; the Application Track; and the Resource Track are explicitly invited to submit a demonstration. The submission should be formatted as the other posters and demonstrations but must cite the accepted full paper and needs to include an explanation of its added value with respect to the conference paper. The added value could include: a) extended results and experiments not presented in the conference paper for reasons of space, or b) a demonstration of a supporting prototype implementation. Submission Information Authors must submit a four-page extended abstract for evaluation. All submissions will undergo a common review process, including those related to already accepted full papers. For demonstrations, authors are strongly encouraged to include in their submission a link to where the demo (live or recorded video) can be found. They should also make clear what exactly will be demonstrated to the participants (e.g., what datasets will be used, which functionalities will be shown). All submissions must be made electronically via the EasyChair conference submission system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2016pd Submissions must use the PDF file format and must adopt the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Details are provided on Springer's Author Instructions page. Submissions that exceed the page limit will be rejected without review. For details on the HTML format, see the HTML submission guide. At least one of the authors must be a registered participant at the conference, and attend the Poster/Demo Session to present the work. The abstracts of accepted posters and demonstrations will be given to all conference attendees and published on the conference web site, but will not be published by Springer in the printed conference proceedings. They will, however, be compiled into a CEUR-WS Proceedings for easy Web retrieval and archival. Metadata for all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus. Detailed information about metadata creation will be provided with the acceptance notification of the successful submissions. As in previous years, student-authors of accepted papers will be able to apply for travel support to attend the conference. Review Criteria All papers submitted to the Posters & Demos Track will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, potential significance, relevance, and clarity. The purpose of the track is to allow the presentation of preliminary results to the community, provided that originality and significance of the contribution are ensured. Authors submitting a demo are strongly encouraged to include in the paper a pointer to the online demo or video of the application to be presented. The absence of a pointer will affect the overall evaluation of the paper. Important Dates * Poster & Demo Submission: July 7th, 2016 * Notifications: August 7th, 2016 * Camera-Ready Versions: August 30th, 2016 All deadlines are midnight Hawaii time. Posters and Demos Track Chairs * Takahiro Kawamura, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan * Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany

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WikiProjects Languages in Indonesia (Was: Re: Possibility of data lock)
by Andy Mabbett 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

On 9 June 2016 at 05:42, Biyanto Rebin <biyanto.rebin(a)wikimedia.or.id> wrote: > PS: I'm making WikiProjects Languages in Indonesia, anyone who want to join > please let me know :) This is great news, and deserving of its own thread. Subject changed! -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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weekly summary #213
by Lydia Pintscher 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

Hey everyone :) Here is your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Discussions - New request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements - feedback on the Primary Sources Tool <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Semi-automatic_…> - Others: Discussion about currency conversion rates <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests#Currency_conversion_rat…>, P2893_-_wrong_datatype <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team#P2893_-…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Upcoming: Wikimania - find all the Wikidata things happening here <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata> - Upcoming: Repo-Fringe 2016 <http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2016/06/10/coming-soon-wikidata-wikisource-…> - Past: HackHPI <http://hackhpi.org/> - Past: ELAG <http://elag2016.org/> (slides <http://www.slideshare.net/jneubert/using-wikidata-as-an-authority-for-the-s…> ) Other Noteworthy Stuff - Passionate about Wikidata and a great communicator? We are looking to hire a community communications person. <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-June/008874.html> - Gujarati, Latvian and Nynorsk Wikipedia now have the ArticlePlaceholder as well. <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-June/008910.html> - Catalan and Polish Wikipedia will show Wikidata descriptions on the mobile website starting soon. More Wikipedias will follow. ( phabricator:T135429 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135429>) - Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Association_football/Eur…> could use your help. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: RateBeer brewery ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2905>, Beer Advocate brewery ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2904>, Molendatabase verdwenen molens ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2903>, fax number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2900>, minimum age <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2899>, Swedish county letter <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2898>, Eldoblaje Movie ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2897>, publication interval <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2896>, maximum sustained winds <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2895>, day of week <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2894>, Skype <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2893>, UMLS CUI <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2892>, FamilySearch ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2889> - Query examples: Eiffel Tower in art <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3…> (source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/740207536230551552>), popular surnames among humans <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fsurn…> (source <https://twitter.com/Coyau/status/740505485045039104>), popular surnames among fictional characters <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fsurn…> (source <https://twitter.com/Coyau/status/740506077410807808>), average lifespan by occupation <https://query.wikidata.org/#%0A%23%20Select%20the%20desired%20columns%20and…> (source <https://twitter.com/cdrini/status/740814425188368384>), German breweries <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Locations%20of%20breweries%20in%20Germany%0A…> (source <https://twitter.com/MonsieurBraun/status/740911815736078336>), years with 3 popes <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fyear%20%3Fpope1Label%20%3Fpope2Labe…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/741234399002406912>), people who died by burning - on a timeline <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fperson%…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/741236311793774592>) - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Lighthouses <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Lighthouses>, Roller Coasters <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Roller_Coasters> Development - Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons. - Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at https://jonaskress.github.io - Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service. - Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari. - Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias. - Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates. - You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (phabricator:T137061 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137061>) - Fixed a bug with terms sometimes not showing up, language fallback not working correctly in Lua modules and connection to master database - Fixed a bug with URL encoding in the query service. You can see all open tickets 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 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! - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. 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 27/029/42207.

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Wikidata and DBpedia as spatial data sources
by Jan Macura 12 Jun '16

12 Jun '16

Hi all, announcing another thesis, that focuses on Wikidata and DBpedia data: [1]. Unluckily for most of you, it is not written in English, but in Czech language. Although, I guess you may want to know about it's existance and you can check the use case examples, which are in English: [2]. Regards Jan [1] https://www.academia.edu/26060646/Comparison_of_Wikidata_and_DBpedia_projec… [2] http://home.zcu.cz/~jmacura/bp/

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Communicating corrections back to data source
by Julie McMurry 11 Jun '16

11 Jun '16

It is great that WikiData provides a way for data to be curated in a crowd-sourced way. It would be even better if changes (especially corrections) could be communicated back to the original source so that all could benefit. Has this been discussed previously? Considered? Julie

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Wikidata activities at Wikimania
by Lydia Pintscher 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

Hey folks :) Wikimania is coming up and quite a few Wikidata things will happen there. I tried to summarize them all here: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata. If you know of more please add them. Hope to see many of you at the meetup! 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 27/029/42207.

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ArticlePlaceholder rolled out to next wikis
by Lydia Pintscher 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

Hey folks :) Just a quick heads-up that for the second round 3 more Wikipedias (Gujarati, Latvian, Nynorsk) requested the ArticlePlaceholder be enabled. We have done this last night. This means it is now live on the following Wikipedias: * Napolitan * Esperanto * Odia * Haitian Creole * Gujarati ( https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%B5%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%B6%E0%AB%87%E0%AA%B7… ) * Latvian (https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AboutTopic/Q308928) * Nynorsk (https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spesial:AboutTopic/Q2013) If your Wikipedia would like to be included in the next round please start a discussion on-wiki and then let me know or file a ticket on Phabricator. 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 27/029/42207.

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No RDF dump this week?
by Eric Scott 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

Hi all - I note that there is no RDF dump at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/20160606/ this week, just the json version. Does anyone know why? Thanks,

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Looking for a great person to do the community communication around Wikidata
by Lydia Pintscher 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

Hey everyone :) Over the past 4 years - since the beginning of the development - I have been doing the community communications around Wikidata. The main objectives being that there is good communication between the editors, the development team and everyone else around Wikidata and that the project is a healthy and welcoming place. Since then Wikidata has grown massively and I have also taken on the product management for Wikidata. Both tasks are getting too big to be handled by one person while still giving editors and the development team the attention they deserve. Because of this I am now looking to hire someone who takes over the community communications part. I hope we can find an enthusiastic and knowledgeable person who can support you all. The job add is here: https://wikimedia.de/wiki/Project_Manager_(m/f)_Community_Communication_Wik… If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me. If you know someone who would be a good fit please do reach out to them and encourage them to apply. Cheers Lydia PS: Don't worry. I'll still be around and available to you all but focusing more on the product management. Wikidata and you all are still very precious to me. -- 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 27/029/42207.

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