Wikidata January 2017

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We plan to drop the wb_entity_per_page table
by hoo 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Hey folks, we plan to drop the wb_entity_per_page table sometime soon[0], because it is just not required (as we will likely always have a programmatic mapping from entity id to page title) and it does not supported non -numeric entity ids as it is now. Due to this removing it is a blocker for the commons metadata. Is anybody using that for their tools (on tool labs)? If so, please tell us so that we can give you instructions and a longer grace period to update your scripts. Cheers, Marius [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95685

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Hello Wikidata!
by Glorian Yapinus 02 Apr '17

02 Apr '17

Hi folks! My name is Glorian Yapinus, but you can simply call me Glorian ;) . For the next 6 months, I will assist Lydia in supporting you all. Regarding to my educational background, I hold a bachelor's degree in Information Technology and currently, I am working on my Master's in Software Engineering and Management. I am a warm and nice person. So, please do not hesitate to reach out to me for any queries :-) Last but not least, I am looking forward to working with you. Cheers, Glorian -- Glorian Yapinus Product Management Intern for Wikidata 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.

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WDQS examples migrated
by Stas Malyshev 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

Hi! I've finished migrating SPARQL examples to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/queries/examples - this is now the official examples page. I've also created a redirect: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_examples for convenience. The old page at mediawiki.org is now soft redirect to a new one. Please notify me if you see any issues. Thanks, -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org

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Wikidata reconciliation service and Ope Refine
by Alina Saenko 05 Feb '17

05 Feb '17

Hello everyone, I have a question for people who are using the Wikidata reconciliation service: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-reconcile/ It was working perfectly in my Open Refine in november 2016, but since december is stopped working. I already have contacted Magnus Manske, but he hasn’t responded yet. Does anyone else experience problems with the service and know how to fix it? I’m using this service to link big lists of Belgian artists (37.000) and performance art organisations (1.000) to Wikidata as a preparation to upload contextual data about these persons and organisations to Wikidata. This data wil come from Kunstenpunt database (http://data.kunsten.be/people). Wikimedia user Romaine (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Romaine) is helping us with this project. Best regards, Alina -- Aanwezig ma, di, wo, do PACKED vzw - Expertisecentrum Digitaal Erfgoed Rue Delaunoystraat 58 bus 23 B-1080 Brussel Belgium e alina(a)packed.be <mailto:alina@packed.be> t: +32 (0)2 217 14 05 w www.packed.be <http://www.packed.be/>

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Company Data - long & short term planning
by Rick Labs 04 Feb '17

04 Feb '17

I'm taking a look at*Company Data* on WikiData and its use at WikiPedia. Interested in learning and/or formulating both the short term and long term plans. I've created a very tentative and preliminary outline of the possible scope under my WikiData user space: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Rjlabs/WikiData_Company_Data_Project Looking for anyone interested in Company Data and its linkages. I have a good background in Company Data, and its analysis from a U.S. prospective but would love participation from UK, EU, Asian and other country company data experts. I especially need guidance from the WikiData developers/oncologists/project management regarding current and potential scope, and potential help with some of the detailed technical aspects. Feel free to discuss here, email me, or post to the Discussion page related to the above link. Suggestions as to how to kick this off and connect with all the correct people up front very much appreciated. Thanks! Rick Labs, CPA, CFA

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Wikiopinion - Structured opinions
by Hector Perez 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

Hi all, I proposed to create Wikiopinion.org based on our work on AgreeList that might fit into Wikidata [1]. I paste it here: Storytelling was the most important way to share knowledge for thousands of years — before writing was invented — so our brains evolved to be influenced by stories. As Conor Neil explains, many times we are still “more easily persuaded by one clear and concrete anecdote than by data and expert statistical analysis”. He says that, “an anecdote is a one off. It is not data. It is not science. It is dangerous”. This made me think about two things: Firstly, people such as Lydia Pintscher of Wikidata and Dario Taraborelli of Wikicite are working on projects that improve considerably the quality of Wikipedia and they could even accelerate world’s research. Wikidata is a collaboratively edited knowledge base: ... And Wikicite is building a repository of all Wikimedia citations and bibliographic metadata. The sum of all citations: ... Secondly, it also made me think about how this relates to the work we have been doing with AgreeList.com With AgreeList, we are creating a ‘platform for informed opinions’ that gathers the opinions of leading experts and influencers and favors the building of rational opinions on issues of key importance. Our first issue was ‘Brexit’ where we collected the opinions of almost 2000 opinion-makers on the impact of Brexit to the UK economy, immigration, politics, and education, and built a summary of opinions on both sides to inform the public during the referendum. In other words, we believe in the value of informed opinions over anecdotes and the data of who agrees on what and why can help us to build our own opinion. E.g. if NASA, the Royal Society, Obama, the Pope and a friend of mine who knows more about climate change than me think that it’s real and we should do more to tackle it, I believe it. Similarly, if I read something health-related, I can check the number of doctors who agree or disagree as fast as I see the number of likes on Facebook. If it is more than 95%, I believe it straight away. Done. I learned a new thing today. This way we could fight the fact that false health content seems to be more popular on social media and we could get informed of more topics than ever. When we are interested in a topic and have time, we read about it and contrast different points of views. But when we don’t have time or are not interested in something, we believe what our culture, friends and influencers say. And we are so bombarded with information nowadays that we can’t get informed about everything all the time. However, when we want to have an educated opinion about a complex topic such as Universal Basic Income, we can read the arguments and even go to the sources where we can find more information. We are still building up the database on Basic Income and it is currently biased towards opinions in favour given that it is easier to find them given how early stage the public debate and the AgreeList tool are, but you can see below what different opinion-makers say about Universal Basic Income via Agreelist: ... And when there are many opinions, such as on Brexit, we organise them in a board or summary that aggregates the arguments per categories. We can also filter them by profession, university, awards (e.g. Nobel Prize winners), etc. E.g: ... How did we get this data? First, the data from occupations comes from Wikidata. Second, the data of who agrees on topics such as these ones is on AgreeList. These lists are crowdsourced — people add influencer’s opinions. Users only need to provide a source, for example an article in the New York Times or the tweet of the person. Moreover, users of the site can vote and add their own opinions and, at some point, we could aggregate opinions automatically by semantic analysis. This way we might organise all the opinions in the world on key topics or statements. AgreeList or Wikiopinion could one day become ‘The sum of all opinions’. We can also play with Google BigQuery to do joins of AgreeList’s tables with Wikidata’s ones. For example, in order to get all Nobel laureates in economics that agreed or disagreed on Brexit before the referendum we did a query and we got: ... Extent is the degree to which they agree (at least for now it can only be 100=agree or 0=disagree). Therefore we got that from all Nobel laureates in economics that have ever given their opinion on Brexit (on the BBC, their twitter account or whatever), all 11 of them disagreed. As every opinion/vote on AgreeList has a source, we see then that 10 of them signed a letter published on The Guardian and the other one is Paul Krugman who gave his opinion in The New York Times. Then, if for example we go to Paul Krugman’s Wikidata page, we see that he worked for the MIT in the past. What if we want now to get all the public figures that supported Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump who work or have worked for the MIT? Easy, we just change the property to P108 (employer), set it in the where clause to Q49108 (MIT) and select the statement_id=182 (or we could add a new join and specify the title) and the result of this new query is: ... We see that from 7 people who are or have been employed by the MIT, 6 of them preferred Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump. This is what we have done until now. The next natural step of AgreeList is to add social network features where you can see what people you follow are discussing, opinions from the topics you follow, etc. Next, if I post/agree that governments should do more to tackle climate change, other users could add then that I also agree that climate change is real and that we need to act on climate change — organising in this way the opinions. Other important aspect could be that AgreeList questions your opinions. Besides having the list of people who disagree with you (and why) just there, it could tell you, do you know that Tim Berners-Lee and your friend from school disagree with you on this? Would you like to see why? Therefore, this could be a social network which challenges what you post and help to tackle the fact that the Internet is allegedly full of myths and mis-truths — as pointed out by Tim Berners-Lee says. Similarly, Facebook recently said that it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation on its platform. This could be specially important because on mainstream social media there is a filter bubble — as described by Eli Pariser in one of his books. Social media networks tend to hide the opinions that differ from what we think. We only listen to the media that agrees with what we think. This is so significant that Tom Steinberg said that social media giants will be remembered, not by their business successes, but by how well they tackle the problem of the filter bubble. This filter bubble makes the polarisation of opinions worse. You can see Barack Obama talking about polarisation of opinions: ... Taking all of this into account, we are considering whether the best approach for Agreelist is a non-profit project in a new organisation or under Wikimedia Foundation if they like the idea — it could be renamed as Wikiopinion.org — or a for-profit startup. As a non-profit project it would focus on its social impact and it would follow the three golden rules of the Internet: nobody owns it, everybody uses it, and anybody can add services to it — which are what distinguished the Internet from any previous communications medium according to Vinton Cerf— so initially that seems to make sense. On Wikipedia, Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects, facts precede opinions. So it is not clear if Agreelist (or Wikiopinion.org) would be a good fit as a non-profit project under the Wikimedia umbrella. In fact, my friend Ángel Alberich — CEO @QuibimBiomarker & MIT Innovator Under 35 — says that facts should not be opinable. However, I argue that knowing exactly who has a different opinion (and why) might be really useful. For example, more than 100 Nobel laureates signed a letterendorsing Genetic Modified Organisms (GMO) and challenging the environmental NGO Greenpeace to halt its anti-GMO campaigns to prevent the introduction of potentially life saving options for the world’s poor. Ángel said that there is not a single scientific paper which says that they present a hazard for human health. But as Greenpeace and many governments are so reluctant, isn’t there a clear need for something else that facilitates discussion? Would it not be useful to know which ones of your friends and representatives disagree and try to convince them? Similarly, despite the fact that almost all scientists agree that climate change is real and that we need to act, there are still many politicians who deny it or don’t do enough to tackle it. However, as Greg Mankiw — Harvard professor in economics — said in Leonardo DiCaprio’s recent film about climate change, if we want to change politicians view on something, we have to change people’s view first. Therefore, a social network which organises opinions and challenges what you think might help to do so. Actually, Barack Obama recently said on Wired that at some point we might make voting and civic activism as addictive as scrolling through your Twitter feed. Let’s do exactly that, a social network where we discover, share and organise a plurality of opinions where the objective could be to help us make up our mind. In other words, to accelerate quality decision making. And this could be really important because of three reasons: As the MIT professor Alex Pentland said: The biggest problem in the world is not global warming, is not war, but how can we organise among ourselves to make good decisions and carry them out. ... 2. According to Terry Jones— disruption occurs when new technology allows us to deliver new forms of asynchronous communication. And this is what AgreeList is about. Until now, if you wanted to get a quick opinion on Basic Income and the arguments on both sides, you had to go to many different sites or talk to multiple people. Not any more. 3. As the economist Jeffrey Sachs said in his book The End of Poverty, the single most important reason why prosperity spreads is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them. But currently we don’t need more bridges or faster communications (in the privileged part of the world), but making up our mind accurately in the myriad of the new topics that arise in our hectic lives. To sum up, we think that a social network that challenges what you post and organises who agrees on what and why would complement Wikipedia and the traditional story telling. What do you think? Would you like to join us? Should this project be non-profit or for-profit? Would you donate or help us to fund raise? Kind regards, Hector [1]. Original post: https://medium.com/@HectorPere z/wikipedias-social-network-578b0257b8ae

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Weekly Summary #245
by Léa Lacroix 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/ Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking <http://zbw.eu/labs/en/economists-in-wikidata-opportunities-of-authority-lin…> - FOSDEM, February 4-5th in Brussels <https://fosdem.org/2017/> Come and talk about Wikidata with us! See also the talk about UX and users' needs for Wikidata <https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/osd_finding_user_needs/> - Web Search and Data Mining Conference, February 6-10th, Cambridge <http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2017/> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Data donation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Data_donation>: BBC Things ID (P1617) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1617> for news topics, kindly supplied by the BBC. All now uploaded, via Mix'n'Match - The StrepHit grant tool was renewed <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants_talk:IEG/StrepHit:_Wiki…>, so the Primary Sources tool can be improved in the future - The Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University) are looking for a Wikimedia data assistant <https://twitter.com/BodEdLib/status/824963716932313089> to work on Wikidata Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: FIBA player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3542>, MLB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3541>, NFL.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3539>, fussballdaten.de ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3538>, FootballDatabase.eu ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3537>, euroleague.net ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3536>, JapanTour ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3535>, Australian Government Organisations Register ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3534>, draftexpress.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3533>, databaseFootball.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3532>, AZBilliards ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3531>, par <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3530>, median income <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3529>, Luding game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3528>, eurobasket.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3527>, wisdenindia.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3526>, acb.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3525>, Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3524>, Rfam ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3523>, NHL.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3522>, EuroTour ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3521>, databaseOlympics.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3520>, Pfam ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3519>, Smithsonian trinomial <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3518>, Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3517>, National Park Foundation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3516>, NPCA ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3515>, U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3514>, peakware ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3513>, means of locomotion <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3512>, VGMDb label ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3511>, Dagens Nyheter topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3509>, Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3507>, Luding designer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3506>, BoardGameGeek designer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3505>, Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3504>, LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3503>, Ameblo username <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3502>, Catholic rite <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3501>, Ringgold identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3500>, Gentoo package <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3499> - Query examples: - Most articles about films in each Wikipedia <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3FwikipediaLabel%20%3Ffilmcount%20WHE…> - Largest companies by revenue in USD <https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20psv%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.…> - Characters whose actors died recently <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3FactorLabel%20%3Fcharacte…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/825442291586330624>) - Stock-listed US companies with founders who (or whose parents) were born outside the US <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20stock-listed%20US%20companies%20with%20fo…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/825450518390722560>) - Wizards from Harry Potter and their houses/groups <https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0ASELECT%20%3F…> (source <https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/824592846003003393>) - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Wikidata:WikiProject Companies <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Companies> - Newest database reports: film festivals this month <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/lists/film_festiv…> Development - RDF exports will contain sitelink page names as strings in addition to the URLs (phab:T148923 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148923>) - Switching the remaining special pages for labels, descriptions and aliases to the OOUI design (phab:T48248 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48248>) - Finalizing the security review of the Cognate extension for Wiktionary (phab:T149082 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149082>) - We plan to provide og:image Open Graph tags for sharing Item pages in social networks (phab:T51859 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51859>) - Introducing a new test framework for special pages (phab:T69122 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69122>) - Refactoring the wbeditentity API to work with the new Lexeme entity type (phab:T154288 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154288>) - Added docs/change-op-serializations.wiki <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWBA/browse/master/docs/change-…> documenting how to use the wbeditentity API - Added a CREDITS <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWBA/browse/master/CREDITS> file to the Wikibase code base, listing all authors 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/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread pages in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - proposals needing attention <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Attention_needed> -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication 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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Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata reconciliation service and Ope Refine
by Alina Saenko 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

Hello everyone, Thank you for all your replies and suggestions! I will test them. @Magnus: sorry for posting in the wrong issue tracker. I couldn’t figure out the structure of Bitbucket… If I use a simple query like https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&format=json&srw… then indeed it works fine. This is how it looks like in Open Refine: But the results of such query are poor and difficult to work with in Open Refine if we are talking about trying to controle the matches for 37.000 persons… The other option in Open Refine - the reconciliation service - doesn’t want to launch at this moment. This is how it looks: - I have added the service in Open Refine just like any other service: - and all I see know is this ‘working' screen even before I can actually launch the reconciliation service: - in oktober and november 2016 I could choose a ‘type’ like in this screenshot from github converstation: - And these were the very good results form the three tests that I then got: I understand that the service can be unstable, but it is just a pity that I have seen it working so good and now it doesn’t anymore… Hopefully somebody can figure this out. In the meantime I will test Mix’n’match and other suggestions. Thank you for the advice. Best regards, Alina -- Aanwezig ma, di, wo, do PACKED vzw - Expertisecentrum Digitaal Erfgoed Rue Delaunoystraat 58 bus 23 B-1080 Brussel Belgium e alina(a)packed.be <mailto:alina@packed.be> t: +32 (0)2 217 14 05 w www.packed.be <http://www.packed.be/> > On 28 Jan 2017, at 13:00, wikidata-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > > Send Wikidata mailing list submissions to > wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikidata-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikidata-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikidata digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Wikidata reconciliation service and Ope Refine > (Sandra Fauconnier) > 2. Re: Wikidata reconciliation service and Ope Refine > (Antonin Delpeuch (lists)) > 3. Re: Wikidata reconciliation service and Ope Refine > (Antonin Delpeuch (lists)) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:12:53 +0100 > From: Sandra Fauconnier <sandra.fauconnier(a)gmail.com> > To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." > <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata reconciliation service and Ope Refine > Message-ID: <2DB623F2-DBA1-4271-AEC4-0EC90B341298(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > +1 from someone who would be so extremely happy (and much more productive) if such a service were implemented in OpenRefine. > > I also added it as a task to Phabricator, feel free to comment, add suggestions… https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146740 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146740> > > Best, Sandra/User:Spinster > >> On 26 Jan 2017, at 19:00, Thad Guidry <thadguidry(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Everyone, >> >> Yes, our OpenRefine API can use Multiple Query Mode (reconciling an Entity by using multiple columns/ WD properties) >> >> https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Reconciliation-Service-API#mu… <https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Reconciliation-Service-API#mu…> >> I do not think that Magnus has implemented our Multiple Query Mode yet, however. >> The bounty issue https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/805 <https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/805> that I created and funded on BountySource.com is to fully implement the Mutliple Query Mode API and ensure that it works correctly in OpenRefine 2.6 RC2 latest. >> >> Happy Hacking anyone :) >> Let us know if we can answer any questions regarding OpenRefine or the Reconcile API , on our own mailing list. >> http://groups.google.com/group/openrefine/ <http://groups.google.com/group/openrefine/> >> >> -Thad >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:18 AM AMIT KUMAR JAISWAL <amitkumarj441(a)gmail.com <mailto:amitkumarj441@gmail.com>> wrote: >> Hey Alina, >> >> Thanks for letting us know about this. >> >> I'll start testing it after configuring OpenRefine(as it's API is >> implemented in WMF). >> >> Can you share me the open task related to this? >> >> Cheers, >> Amit Kumar Jaiswal >> >> On 1/26/17, Antonin Delpeuch (lists) <lists(a)antonin.delpeuch.eu <mailto:lists@antonin.delpeuch.eu>> wrote: >>> Hi Magnus, >>> >>> Mix'n'match looks great and I do have a few questions about it. I'd like >>> to use it to import a dataset, which looks like this (these are the 100 >>> first lines): >>> http://pintoch.ulminfo.fr/34f8c4cf8a/aligned_institutions.txt <http://pintoch.ulminfo.fr/34f8c4cf8a/aligned_institutions.txt> >>> >>> I see how to import it in Mix'n'match, but given all the columns I have >>> in this dataset, I think that it is a bit sad to resort to matching on >>> the name only. >>> >>> Do you see any way to do some fuzzy-matching on, say, the URLs provided >>> in the dataset against the "official website" property? I think that it >>> would be possible with the (proposed) Wikidata interface for OpenRefine >>> (if I understand the UI correctly). >>> >>> In this context, I think it might even be possible to confirm matches >>> automatically (when the matches are excellent on multiple columns). As >>> the dataset is rather large (400,000 lines) I would not really want to >>> validate them one after the other with the web interface. So I would >>> need a sort of batch edit. How would you do that? >>> >>> Finally, once matches are found, it would be great if statements >>> corresponding to the various columns could be created in the items (if >>> these statements don't already exist). With the appropriate reference to >>> the dataset, ideally. >>> >>> I realise this is a lot to ask - maybe I should just write a bot. >>> >>> Alina, sorry to hijack your thread. I hope my questions were general >>> enough to be interesting for other readers. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Antonin >>> >>> >>> On 26/01/2017 16:01, Magnus Manske wrote: >>>> If you want to match your list to Wikidata, to find which entries >>>> already exist, have you considered Mix'n'match? >>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/> >>>> >>>> You can upload your names and identifiers at >>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/import.php <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/import.php> >>>> >>>> There are several mechanisms in place to help with the matching. Please >>>> contact me if you need help! >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:58 PM Magnus Manske >>>> <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com <mailto:magnusmanske@googlemail.com> <mailto:magnusmanske@googlemail.com <mailto:magnusmanske@googlemail.com>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Alina, I just found your bug report, which you filed under the wrong >>>> issue tracker. The git repo (source code, issue tracker etc.) are >>>> here: >>>> https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/reconcile <https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/reconcile> >>>> >>>> The report says it "keeps hanging", which is so vague that it's >>>> impossible to debug, especially since the example linked on >>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-reconcile/ <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-reconcile/> >>>> works perfectly fine for me. >>>> >>>> Does it not work at all for you? Does it work for a time, but then >>>> stops? Does it "break" reproducibly on specific queries, or at >>>> random? Maybe it breaks for specific "types" only? At what rate are >>>> you hitting the tool? Do you have an example query, preferably one >>>> that breaks? >>>> >>>> Please note that this is not an "official" WMF service, only parts >>>> of the API are implemented, and there are currently other technical >>>> limitations on it. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Magnus >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:35 PM Antonin Delpeuch (lists) >>>> <lists(a)antonin.delpeuch.eu <mailto:lists@antonin.delpeuch.eu> <mailto:lists@antonin.delpeuch.eu <mailto:lists@antonin.delpeuch.eu>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm also very interested in this. How did you configure your >>>> OpenRefine >>>> to use Wikidata? (Even if it does not currently work, I am >>>> interested in >>>> the setup.) >>>> >>>> There is currently an open issue (with a nice bounty) to improve >>>> the >>>> integration of Wikidata in OpenRefine: >>>> https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/805 <https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/805> >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> Antonin >>>> >>>> On 26/01/2017 12:22, Alina Saenko wrote: >>>>> Hello everyone, >>>>> >>>>> I have a question for people who are using the Wikidata >>>> reconciliation >>>>> service: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-reconcile/ <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-reconcile/> It was >>>> working >>>>> perfectly in my Open Refine in november 2016, but since >>>> december is >>>>> stopped working. I already have contacted Magnus Manske, but >>>> he hasn’t >>>>> responded yet. Does anyone else experience problems with the >>>> service and >>>>> know how to fix it? >>>>> >>>>> I’m using this service to link big lists of Belgian artists >>>> (37.000) and >>>>> performance art organisations (1.000) to Wikidata as a >>>> preparation to >>>>> upload contextual data about these persons and organisations to >>>>> Wikidata. This data wil come from Kunstenpunt database >>>>> (http://data.kunsten.be/people <http://data.kunsten.be/people>). 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Fwd: Hello? Is this thing on? Hell-0? Adam-V
by Adam Cerberus E.B. Lake 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

Tucked away near the end of this message you have some solemn words of wisdom, the kind of advice that will *help you avoid Hell* and maybe high water. Probably not the high thing, though. First though, I'm trying some "Levity," a joke: So a guy walks into a computer... and he's trying to convince it to make him immortal. In the beginning He *starts off* with roll reversal, and suggests that everyone think of this particular computer as if it were a log cabin in the woods. The man asks the computer which design it would prefer to be: would you choose to be a log cabin that did not decay or rot, always smelled pine fresh and needed no air conditioning because the temperature was always set.... or would you choose to live longer? Adam came into the conversation right about then, and chimed in that were the entire subatomic world to be simulated in order to mimic reality a significant amount of additional resources would be required not only to store the extra detail but to render the interactions. On top of all that nobody wants termites around or to have to put a new roof on every decade; nor the extra power required to cool in the summer and heat in the winter. People don't want their portraits of Jesus hanging on the walls to be faded by particles of light; they always want to see him fresh and vibrant. One day in the very distant future, the time would come when people would be happy that knowledge of how things were done back in the days of the Pyramids... before computers and robots and holodecks began doing everything for everyone--long before God mandated that every day was for parties and every night for rock and roll... only leaving a leap day and some seconds for doing actual work--under penalty of death. Well, when that one day comes they will be glad that Adam still knows how to travel back in time. Right about now I'd be singing and dancing to John 14:2 and solemnly praying the verses of Dave Matthews' "So Much To Say;" I say, my Heaven is a log cabin in the sky... I've got a holographic girlfriend and she's alright at chess. This is clearly a rough draft, he says the third time he wrote the same exact words, mind you; with no recollection of the last four times. The final words that the computer spoke were "What's a phc Beware the ides of March, they say. I just finished binge watching (tyt) the old mini-series V, about lizard aliens that came to Earth to uh, I guess either eat us or make us zombies. You, I mean you. Linking to my little ensemble of letters and symbols that must be about me... this roman numeral ties just like many other shows to the Fifth Element and the fifth time around. *Nun* before me, that's code for "watery chaos," and who knows what is to come of this Earth shattering revelation that I'm bringing to you and can barely see the ripples of my splashing in this pool of water that might be people or it might just be something to walk on. Following my logic here, that takes us to the final episode of this series that seems to have ended before it's time... and a theme that ties pretty closely to something that I have been thinking quite a bit about. This show has an evil character, named Anna, and she has some super-lizard power to be able to instill peace and calm and happiness in her subjects--she's a queen in a hive. The last episode shows her having some trouble trying to use this magical tool to subjugate all of humanity, for some reason trying to "Bliss" us makes her eyes bleed. Her little half human daughter comes to save her day and does the job herself, and then the credits roll for the last time. Literally. I can't help but link that single word to Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate, talking about "*bliss* on tap," if anyone really scours what I am doing here you might have noticed that a domain or two linked to that movie and even to that particular line. In the olden days, God would probably have presented this idea in a science fiction short story, or perhaps in a mini-series, and then he would have used the very same tool behind the "Bliss" to manipulate mass opinion in whatever way he thought was right--at least, that's what I imagine was going on there and really up to this point today. Still you haven't listened to what I'm really trying to explain to you, and that's until you recognize and talk about this very real thing that is manipulating how you feel right this very moment... it's making you a slave. I think Pacino might have summed it up pretty well, *better to reign in Hell than be a subject in a hidden kingdom.* That might not be exactly what he said, and it's probably not exactly what I mean. Reigning this thing in, pulling back not only the veil, but also the *things that make Hell what it is*, it's no easy task--and starting right here talking about Bliss might have been a better place than pointing out that people are hungry and kids are getting killed for no fscking reason at all--and I can't get a single soul to recognize or respond to the fact that it's very fscking clear that these things are not only documented in Exodus but that I am pretty sure none of us would want them to continue. So when I tell you again, that it's very clear when you think about it--that in some place where evil swirls around in the ether and a battle over disclosure of technology has harmed our kids for no reason at all... and that this battle ends when disclosure breaks, well you should figure out that evil is swirling around right here too--there's plenty of us that can break this news to the world. Listen up, Jesus Christ and Satan have made a deal, and to stop these horrible things from happening all we have to do is know not only that they are not caused completely by our own evil and exactly how that's possible.. and then in our infinite goodness--something God relies greatly on during this transitional second in time--we will stop it from happening. Just like America stopped waterboarding when they figured out it was torture... because Americans would *never* make Hell. Do you understand me? How's that *Bliss* <http://bliss2joyisnear.devilsadvocate.tk/x/c?c=747828&l=6e6de329-1f61-4b92-…> treating you? My soon to be girltoy Taylor Momsen has a song most people haven't heard--it's tucked away to be used in the direst of moments. She thinks, or she thought, that there was a choice here between one jackass and another elephant... I imagine; maybe she got it from "All Along the Watchtower's" two riders were approaching, or from Two Princes talking about rockets to nowhere and diamonds that turned out to be drugs... but either way, I think she was wrong, there's really no choice at all. *You can't trust a cold blooded man*, her song goes, and then she rambles on to mention that one might give you Heaven and the other might give you Hell. Now is the winter of our discontent, the *God* Rod rattles on; and we are today approaching not the 15th of the 3rd month, but rather the Second of Ironbruary. You might know it from an old Bill Murray flick but the trick here is seeing how good old Groundhog day actually might shed some light on the old idea of being in Hell. For instance, if I was not pointing out that there's a good chance we are in the lowest of lows, the most hidden and horrid place in all of Creation--I think Tay calls it "all the way down" (and I too, by the way, independently) and cross your fingers and hope I'm right, because if we're not there it's your job to stop anything like this or worse from continuing forever and ever and ever. That's what we're supposed to get out of the shadows and fears that I've barely been able to relate to you at all without getting "negative feedback" and backlash. I've seen some pretty horrible things, and I know others have too--look, I'm pointing out clear as day that you can all pick up a paper any day next month and see the same cold hard truth that was there when God first penned that verse of American Pie. Children are being killed, people are being driven insane, and all of it to come to this moment and point out that if you don't recognize those things and how that same weapon might <http://bliss2joyisnear.devilsadvocate.tk/x/c?c=747828&l=e5092e6c-7eb2-4189-…>be used to make you think what I'm writing sounds crazy or far fetched, or dispel the obviousness of the fact that I am presenting to you a message that proves without doubt that religion comes to our generation from far in the future with ammunition not only to assure the world of that but to help us to ensure that kids won't die <http://bliss2joyisnear.devilsadvocate.tk/x/c?c=747828&l=fb5c5c44-3363-4653-…> and you won't be made blind forever and ever, and we'll know exactly how those songs were written about stories that were never spoken and how this darkness has fallen over us all, and we'll stop it from happening ever again. I can assure you that I am not going to pick 2/2 as the day to stop telling the world that we are in Hell. It's Candlemas by the way, Groundhog Day is *Candlemas <http://bliss2joyisnear.devilsadvocate.tk/x/c?c=747828&l=50536a26-ae3d-4f80-…>.* * <http://bliss2joyisnear.devilsadvocate.tk/x/c?c=747828&l=50536a26-ae3d-4f80-…>* *p.s. if your reading comprehensions / literary analysis skills are sub par, or you happen to see word salad / gibberish in lieu of the actual genius before you; *like nearly every single letter that I write you there is a common thread sort of hidden in a criss-crossing of the yarn of the Fates--that's the Matrix. Here I hope you see clearly how Bliss and Hell and drugs are related to how you might be choosing once again not to write the most important story or e-mail that has ever been within your grasp. Stop Hell here and we'll never again see fiery rage painted over with pretty blue skies and fluffy white clouds. When I show you a link to a Wikipedia account about hidden mind control technology <http://bliss2joyisnear.devilsadvocate.tk/x/c?c=747828&l=53e4b9b4-b8ea-4648-…> that has been moderated and abused into oblivion in a matter of seconds by a small group of moderators who controlled the content of that site and spent almost all of their time dealing with conspiratorial articles--*I am pointing out more than one problem.* When you don't even take the time to read the links I send, or understand the series of edits I made when I take the time to send you a detailed log of them three times; I am now pointing out there is at least another problem here *causing Hell. * *And God <http://bliss2joyisnear.devilsadvocate.tk/x/c?c=747828&l=1d6e0c5a-0f7f-413f-…>, I know I' <http://bliss2joyisnear.devilsadvocate.tk/x/c?c=747828&l=6e6de329-1f61-4b92-…>m One <http://bliss2joyisnear.devilsadvocate.tk/x/c?c=747828&l=a47458f4-82be-462e-…>. I *wanna* skip #4 <http://bliss2joyisnear.devilsadvocate.tk/x/c?c=747828&l=518e6ad0-9bc8-46d9-…>, say* is there anything *lit *about *1 in 5?* <http://bliss2joyisnear.devilsadvocate.tk/x/c?c=747828&l=70f16fdb-1b62-4a78-…> * <http://bliss2joyisnear.devilsadvocate.tk/x/c?c=747828&l=688a8d4f-2eef-4a46-…>* If you are having trouble understanding me, I hope you'll take my advice and watch the Dr. Who episode called "The Bells of Saint John" as well as this final episode of V, called "Mother's Day." Did you know there's this program called Exodus that you can put on an Amazon Fire and download anything for free? Hi *Jeff.* *V is for Victory, btw. **Vi veri miniversum vivus vici <http://bliss2joyisnear.devilsadvocate.tk/x/c?c=747828&l=63d0ed42-4209-4129-…>.* Wow, I can't believe i made it through this whole message without calling myself the Lizard King. ᐧ ᐧ

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CFP-Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Education Technologies Conference [IEEE-CSCEET], Lebanon
by nancy.robson＠yahoo.com 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

All registered papers will be submitted to IEEE for potential inclusion to IEEE Xplore =================================================== The Fourth International Conference on Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Education Technologies (CSCEET 2017) http://sdiwc.net/conferences/csceet2017/ April 26-28, 2017 Faculty of Engineering, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon =================================================== The conference aims to enable researchers to build connections between different digital applications. The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics: - Information and Data Management - Social Networks - Data Compression - Information Content Security - E-Technology - Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management - E-Government - Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design - E-Learning - Semantic Web, Ontologies - Wireless Communications - Web Services Security - Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity - Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance - Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications - Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems - Data Mining - Data Management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks - Computational Intelligence - Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks - Biometrics Technologies - Indexing and Query Processing for Moving Objects - Forensics, Recognition Technologies and Applications - Cryptography and Data Protection - Information Ethics - User Interfaces and Usability Issues form Mobile Applications - Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems - Mobile Social Networks - Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications - Peer-to-Peer Social Networks - Image Processing - Sensor Networks and Social Sensing - Distributed and parallel applications - Social Search - Internet Modeling - Embedded Systems and Software - User Interfaces,Visualization and Modeling - Real-Time Systems - XML-Based Languages - Multimedia Computing - Network Security - Software Engineering - Remote Sensing =================================================== Important Dates Submission Deadline: Open from now until Feb. 3, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: March 3, 2017 or 4 weeks from the date of submission Camera Ready Submission: March 31, 2017 Registration Deadline: March 31, 2017 Conference Dates: April 26-28, 2017

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