Hello all,
For information, the TwoColConflict extension is now enabled on Wikidata!
This doesn't impact the item and property pages, but all the other pages
(Wikidata: namespace, WikiProjects, help pages, talk pages that don't use
Flow, etc.)
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From: Birgit Müller <birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: 2017-05-10 14:28 GMT+02:00
Subject: Two Column Edit Conflict View as a beta feature on all wikis
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org
- my apologies for cross posting -
Hey all,
today the TwoColConflict extension (= Two Column Edit Conflict View) [1]
got deployed as a beta feature to all wikis.
The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict
resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the
conflicting changes to make it easier to copy and paste pieces of the text
and resolve the conflict. [2] [3] The feature aims to fulfill a request
for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the German-speaking
community's Technical Wishlist. Therefore, the focus of the feature lays on
providing a more user-friendly interface and does not aim to improve the
current diff engine. The concept & implementation of the feature was widely
discussed with many different users onwiki and in real life and got
developed over the past months. [3]
The beta feature has already been available on deWP, meta, heWP, arWP for
more than 2 months and on fiWP for a few weeks.
As much as we don't want anyone to run into an edit conflict, we'd love to
receive feedback on the new interface in case you have one! The feature can
be activated in the beta feature section, and the feedback link provided
there will bring you to: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki
/Help_talk:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View.
Thanks to everyone who gave feedback so far and helped us to further
improve the feature!
Birgit (for WMDE's Technical Wishes team)
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TwoColConflict (extension
manual for developers)
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View
(Multilingual help page & central feedback page for all users)
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts
(English-speaking project page with documentation of research, prototype
testing and feedback loops)
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes (Technical Wishes
project page)
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Birgit Müller
Community Communications Manager
Software Development and Engineering
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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
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10963 Berlin
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hi!
I am developing functionality that will allow WDQS query to get data
from Mediawiki API [1].
Currently, the design is as follows:
- The API should have a pre-defined template
- The template also specifies which results are available from the API
The need for template is currently because we need to convert data from
API's treelike format to tabular format that SPARQL needs, and the
template allows to specify how the conversion is done.
See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WDQS_and_Mediawiki_API for
detailed description of how it works.
The prototype implementation is running on http://wdqs-test.wmflabs.org/
(only Categories API described in the page above is configured now, but
more will be soon). I'd like to hear feedback about this:
- does template model make sense at all? Is it enough?
- what APIs would we want to expose?
- any other features that would be useful?
Other comments and ideas on the matter are of course always welcome.
Please comment on the talk page[2] or reply to this message.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148245
[2]
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata_talk:WDQS_and_Mediawiki…
Thanks,
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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org
Where are the RDF dumps for wikidata? I've found this directory https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to download.
Is there any "latest-all.ttl.bz2" (similar to "latest-all.json.bz2")?
Hi,
Is there any API call that does a string search for entities on their
labels and aliases, accross all languages?
(As a test case, it should return results both for "Universität
Toulouse" and "university of toulouse" without changing any other
parameter.)
I have tried:
- action=query&list=wbsearch -> monolingual
- action=wbsearchentities -> monolingual
- action=query&list=search&srnamespace=0 -> multilingual
The last one is multilingual but performs a full text search instead of
a search on labels and aliases, which gives less reliable results.
I also wonder what is the meaning of the "wbsstrictlanguage" parameter
described here:
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query+wbsearch
I am looking for such an API call to improve the OpenRefine interface:
https://github.com/wetneb/openrefine-wikidata
One possibility would be to first try action=wbsearchentities with the
language of the user and then fall back on action=query&list=search if
no result was returned by the first one, or only use the second one and
rely on my reranking which ignores the initial order of the results.
Any thoughts?
Antonin
Hi all,
In case you didn't notice Denny posted a great RFC yesterday. Apparently
Schema.org is considering to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common
entity base for the target of the sameAs relation.
To read more and to give feedback, check:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Schema.org
In my opinion this is great news. Thanks for reaching out, Denny! :)
Cheers,
Micru
Hi Wikidatans,
I'd like to share with you a Wikipedia article-draft-generator we're
working on for the Metropolitan Museum of Art project:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Met_Open_Access_Artworks_Challenge
For an example of its use, click on any of the redlinks on this page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pharos/Mbabel#painting
We're also trying to internationalize the "Museum of Babel" (
Template:Mbabel ) that this works from.
I've translated the most basic functionality from English to French, but
that could be improved, and also would be great in other languages. The
various languages Wikipedias have Module:Wd for Lua, but the specific
templates are different in each, and it's a bit confusing, so would
appreciate help in that area.
Here are the basic templates that enable its use on English Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Mbabelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Mbabel/MET
Thanks,
Pharos