Wikidata June 2017

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Last call for the Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference
by MCANDREW Ewan 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Please disseminate to interested colleagues as appropriate. Last call: registration is closing for the Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference this week. The Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference<https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_nr4uufq9>– This full day conference on 6 July is for colleagues interested in how technology can support language communities. Guest speakers from all across Europe will be joining us in Edinburgh to showcase and discuss a range of exciting open education, open data and open knowledge initiatives. Registration for this event closes 27th June so don’t delay in booking your place<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017>. New satellite event: Introduction to Wikidata and the Wikidata Query Service<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-wikidata-and-wikidata-query-…> – this event is now scheduled 11am to 1pm on Tuesday 4 July presented by Léa Lacroix (Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland). Léa will also be joining us at the Celtic Knot as part of the Wikidata workshop on 6 July too. Just one of the many great speakers<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Speakers> and presentations<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017/Programme> at the Celtic Knot discussing community engagement and how to make Celtic and Indigenous languages a shared hub of online knowledge. Includes presentations from Catalan Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Scots Gaelic Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia and more. Navino Evans from Histropedia will also be joining us for Wikidata I/O: a showcase event at the Repository Fringe 2017<http://www.repositoryfringe.org/> conference in August. Three workshops will include: (1) how to add data in bulk (2) the wide variety of ways the data can be consumed, queried and visualised and (3) how to build SPARQL queries. 4th August 2017<http://rfringe17.blogs.edina.ac.uk/registration/> Very best regards, Ewan McAndrew Wikimedian in Residence Tel: 07719 330076 Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia(a)mlist.is.ed.ac.uk My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR. www.ed.ac.uk

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Weekly summary #266
by Léa Lacroix 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/ Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Upcoming: Wikidata workshop <https://docarennes.wordpress.com/2017/06/21/26-juin-19h-21h-aux-champs-libr…> in Rennes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q647>, June 26th - Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Berlin>, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office - Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel wikimedia-office - Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some documentation in German <https://github.com/okfnat/offenewahlen-wikidata> ) - Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata <https://i9606.blogspot.de/2017/06/building-communities-of-knowledge-with.ht…>, by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project - *ORCID Mania <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=464>* (in response to this call for a tool <https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forum/#%21topic/wikicite-discuss/…> to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata) - *I use Wikidata for multilingual names <https://medium.com/mysociety-for-coders/i-use-wikidata-for-multilingual-nam…>*, by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot' - *Resource discovery and Wikidata <http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2017/06/21/resource-discovery-and-wi…>* - *Where the streets have known names <http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/15720/1/2016-Ballatore-Streets_known_names.pdf>* - Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata - *Extracting scientists from Wikipedia <http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/article.asp?issue=126&article=003&volume=>* - Academic paper - ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es) <http://data.cervantesvirtual.com/blog/2017/06/26/sabes-usar-la-base-datos-w…> by the Cervantes virtual library Other Noteworthy Stuff - What are your favorite tools using Wikidata? <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168057> - Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary/Sitelinks> - New Wikidata Game: Wikidata Guessr <http://guessr.morr.cc> guess the locations of random Wikidata items - OpenRefine 2.7 has been released <https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases/tag/2.7>, including the Wikidata Reconcile service - Nice graphics about Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Was_ist_Wikidata%3F.png> and the Query Service <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Cheat_Sheet_SPARQL.png> (in German) by Bleeptrack - New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed to match the catalogue <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/487> - Some help needed to map the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Mapping_languages_on_Wi…> and the Glottolog catalogue <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Languages_on_Wikidata.2…> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4088>, MyAnimeList manga ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4087>, MyAnimeList anime ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4086>, MyAnimeList character ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4085>, MyAnimeList people ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4084>, HFC NPS unit ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4083>, image captured with <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4082>, Biodiversity Heritage Library creator ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4081>, number of houses <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4080>, Theatres Trust Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4079>, SKIP code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4078>, Pizmonet ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4077>, WorldSBK.com racer identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4076>, Czech Monument Catalogue Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4075>, FFN swimmer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4074>, Wikia wiki ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4073> - Query examples: - BubbleChart of Metal band by country <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fcoun…> (source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/878587099183800323>) - Viennese composers and their compositions by tonality <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23TEMPLATE%3D%7B%20%22template%22%3A%20%22Comp…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/877601117504503809>) - Most prolific authors of scientific articles on Wikidata, who are still alive, without ORCID <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Most%20prolific%20authors%20of%20scientif…> (source <https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/877538855989252096>) - Average age of members of the Landtag of Thuringia <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20average%20age%20of%20members%20of%20the%2…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/879351634534576129>) - Newest external tools: VizQuery <https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/vizquery/> Development - Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P247#constraints>) - Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements ( phab:T167870 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167870>) - More work on constraints checks (phab:T168629 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168629>) - Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (phab:T46874 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T46874>) - Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget ( phab:T167625 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167625>) - Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (phab:T163923 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163923>) - Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (phab:T165567 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165567>) - Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (phab:T163119 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163119>) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. Monthly Tasks - 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> - Suggested and open tasks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks> ! - 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 the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- 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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Autocomplete API? [From A visual way to query Wikidata]
by Alex Stinson 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

> > Concerning keywords in the description field of properties: i think > that is a shortcoming of the current autocomplete API that i'm using, > which is the same one Wikidata uses for the searchbox in the top-right > corner. Apparently they're not indexing those keywords, which makes it > difficult for me to also include them in my search. > > Where is the documentation for this feature? I have been getting a number of interesting comments from GLAMs about the difficulty of using Authority Controls within their in-house Content management systems. I feel like this API might be a really tangible way of promoting Wikidata as facilitating consistent identifiers for metadata. Cheers, Alex

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A visual way to query Wikidata
by Hay (Husky) 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Hey everyone, i've made a tool that allows you to query Wikidata in a visual way without using SPARQL. It's called VizQuery: http://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/vizquery/ The possibilities of using Wikidata to do interesting queries are endless, and the current query service allows for very powerful queries indeed. However, i feel that for the general public, especially those who are not that technical, it might be a bit overwhelming and difficult for them to learn a complex language such as SPARQL. To make people familiar with the concept of queries i believe a somewhat less intimidating approach might be useful, hence this tool. VizQuery is only capable of doing a subset of possible queries. It's basically simple triples, variables (prefixed with '?') and literals (between "quotes"). You can do pretty powerful queries with only those things though. For example, here's a query with vegetarians who are married to a vegetarian: http://bit.ly/2sydpmW Under the hood VizQuery uses Ruben Verborgh's SPARQL.js library to convert between JSON and SPARQL, so theoretically every SPARQL query you could do in the regular query service can be done in VizQuery. However, many queries won't work because the visual interface only supports a subset of options: it's pretty hard to create user-friendly GUI representations of many of the complex SPARQL features. :) Anyway, i'd like to hear what you think. Bugs, feature request and pull requests are also welcome on my Github page: https://github.com/hay/wiki-tools Kind regards, -- Hay

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Mix'n'Match with existing (indirect) mappings
by Osma Suominen 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

Hi Wikidatans, After several delays we are finally starting to think seriously about mapping the General Finnish Ontology YSO [1] to Wikidata. A "YSO ID" property (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2347) was added to Wikidata some time ago, but it has been used only a few times so far. Recently some 6000 places have been added to "YSO Places" [2], a new extension of YSO, which was generated from place names in YSA and Allärs, our earlier subject indexing vocabularies. It would probably make sense to map these places to Wikidata, in addition to the general concepts in YSO. We have already manually added a few links from YSA/YSO places to Wikidata for newly added places, but this approach does not scale if we want to link the thousands of existing places. We also have some indirect sources of YSO/Wikidata mappings: 1. YSO is mapped to LCSH, and Wikidata also to LCSH (using P244, LC/NACO Authority File ID). I digged a bit into both sets of mappings and found that approximately 1200 YSO-Wikidata links could be generated from the intersection of these mappings. 2. The Finnish broadcasting company Yle has also created some mappings between KOKO (which includes YSO) and Wikidata. Last time I looked at those, we could generate at least 5000 YSO-Wikidata links from them. Probably more nowadays. Of course, indirect mappings are a bit dangerous. It's possible that there are some differences in meaning, especially with LCSH which has a very different structure (and cultural context) than YSO. Nevertheless I think these could be a good starting point, especially if a tool such as Mix'n'Match could be used to verify them. Now my question is, given that we already have or could easily generate thousands of Wikidata-YSO mappings, but the rest would still have to be semi-automatically linked using Mix'n'Match, what would be a good way to approach this? Does Mix'n'Match look at existing statements (in this case YSO ID / P2347) in Wikidata when you load a new catalog, or ignore them? I can think of at least these approaches: 1. First import the indirect mappings we already have to Wikidata as P2347 statements, then create a Mix'n'Match catalog with the remaining YSO concepts. The indirect mappings would have to be verified separately. 2. First import the indirect mappings we already have to Wikidata as P2347 statements, then create a Mix'n'Match catalog with ALL the YSO concepts, including the ones for which we already have imported a mapping. Use Mix'n'Match to verify the indirect mappings. 3. Forget about the existing mappings and just create a Mix'n'Match catalog with all the YSO concepts. Any advice? Thanks, -Osma [1] http://finto.fi/yso/ [2] http://finto.fi/yso-paikat/ -- Osma Suominen D.Sc. (Tech), Information Systems Specialist National Library of Finland P.O. Box 26 (Kaikukatu 4) 00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO Tel. +358 50 3199529 osma.suominen(a)helsinki.fi http://www.nationallibrary.fi

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Weekly Summary #265
by Léa Lacroix 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - New requests for comments: - How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel? <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/How_would_you_s…> - Findagrave removed as a source for information <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Findagrave_remo…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/ Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Upcoming: Hackathon about election data <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata-Wahldaten-Workshop> in Ulm, Germany, June 23-25th - Upcoming: Peer-to-peer Wikidata workshop 2017 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mezi_bajty/Workshop_2017>, June 24th, University of Pardubice <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q728840>, Czech Republic - Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Berlin>, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office - Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel wikimedia-office - Wikidata as authority linking hub <https://hackmd.io/p/S1YmXWC0e> (PDF <https://www.slideshare.net/jneubert/wikidata-as-authority-linking-hub>). Presentation by Joachim Neubert (ZBW) and Jakob Voß (GBV) at ELAG 2017 <http://elag2017.org/> conference in Athens - *Facto Post* newsletter, first issue and comments on Wikidata at Wikidata:Project chat#Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Facto_Post_.E2.80.93_Is…>. Contains a number of blog links, particularly about WikiCite. WikidataCon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017> - Registration is now open <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Attend/Register>! Check the information and fill the form to register. - Let's build the program by proposing a project <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program> until July 31st - Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can apply for a scholarship before July 16th <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Scholarships>. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th. Other Noteworthy Stuff - We have reached 500,000,000 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Diff/500000000> edits. - You can now query the Mediawiki API from the Query Service <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2017-June/010832.html> ( documentation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/User_Manual/MWAPI> ) - Your feedback is still welcome on the prototype for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Client_editing_prototype> - beaTunes 5’s new Album Info pane is powered by Wikidata <https://twitter.com/beaTunesApp/status/875012397148364800> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Zemereshet song ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4072>, Zemereshet artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4071>, identifier shared with <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4070>, CONI athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4069>, CIS Chinese Athletes Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4068>, COSR athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4067>, MOB athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4066>, COA athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4065>, Team USA athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4063>, ČOV athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4062>, LTOK athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4061>, COB athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4060>, Irish National Monument ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4059>, FINESS medical facility ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4058>, Irish Sites and Monuments Record ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4057>, NZOC athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4056>, Norwegian List of Lights ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4055>, Team Canada athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4054>, Deutsche Olympiamannschaft athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4053>, Academia.edu institutional ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4052>, Ukrainian regulations base ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4051> - Query examples: - Gallery of monsters of the Japanese folklore <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%2…> - Lang by number of label <https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/19574> (with quarry.wmflabs.org) - The 10 smallest countries with some kind of urban rail transit system <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3FcountryLabel%20WHERE%20%…> (source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/875800240162557952>) - Occupations with highest rate of deaths by homicide <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20occupations%20most%20likely%20to%20result…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/875706686048272388>) - Software titles ranked by number of readable file formats <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fapp%…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/875637785864019971>) - Newest external tools: Causegraph <http://causegraph.org>, a tool to visualize and analyze cause/influence relationships using Wikidata Development - Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI - Continued work on importing property constraints from statements ( phab:T102759 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102759>) - Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (phab:T160053 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160053>) - More experimenting with the new front-end framework - Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (phab:T167951 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167951>) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. Monthly Tasks - 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> - Suggested and open tasks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks> ! - 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 the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- 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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Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Research Showcase Wednesday June 21, 2017
by Leila Zia 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

Hi all, Below you can find the announcement for the upcoming Research Showcase. [1] I'm forwarding the announcement to this list as the second speaker of this month's showcase is Markus Kroetzsch and he will talk about Understanding Wikidata Queries. Please find more details below. Best, Leila [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase -- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sarah R <srodlund(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:47 AM Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Research Showcase Wednesday June 21, 2017 To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi Everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jpKRwPT-Q As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And, you can watch our past research showcases here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#June_2017>. This month's presentations: Title: Problematizing and Addressing the Article-as-Concept Assumption in Wikipedia By *Allen Yilun Lin* Abstract: Wikipedia-based studies and systems frequently assume that each article describes a separate concept. However, in this paper, we show that this article-as-concept assumption is problematic due to editors’ tendency to split articles into parent articles and sub-articles when articles get too long for readers (e.g. “United States” and “American literature” in the English Wikipedia). In this paper, we present evidence that this issue can have significant impacts on Wikipedia-based studies and systems and introduce the subarticle matching problem. The goal of the sub-article matching problem is to automatically connect sub-articles to parent articles to help Wikipedia-based studies and systems retrieve complete information about a concept. We then describe the first system to address the sub-article matching problem. We show that, using a diverse feature set and standard machine learning techniques, our system can achieve good performance on most of our ground truth datasets, significantly outperforming baseline approaches. Title: Understanding Wikidata Queries By * Markus Kroetzsch* Abstract: Wikimedia provides a public service that lets anyone answer complex questions over the sum of all knowledge stored in Wikidata. These questions are expressed in the query language SPARQL and range from the most simple fact retrievals ("What is the birthday of Douglas Adams?") to complex analytical queries ("Average lifespan of people by occupation"). The talk presents ongoing efforts to analyse the server logs of the millions of queries that are answered each month. It is an important but difficult challenge to draw meaningful conclusions from this dataset. One might hope to learn relevant information about the usage of the service and Wikidata in general, but at the same time one has to be careful not to be misled by the data. Indeed, the dataset turned out to be highly heterogeneous and unpredictable, with strongly varying usage patterns that make it difficult to draw conclusions about "normal" usage. The talk will give a status report, present preliminary results, and discuss possible next steps. -- Sarah R. Rodlund Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation srodlund(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

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External ID URL format
by David Lowe 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

NYPL's Photographers' Identities Catalog (P2750) has a new data view that would be preferable for use in WD (the IDs are, of course, unchanged). The current formatted URL is http://pic.nypl.org/map/?DisplayName=$1 But I'd rather it point to: http://pic.nypl.org/constituents/$1 I can't seem to edit it (perhaps because I'm on my phone, or more likely it's restricted for security purposes). How can we get this switched? Many thanks in advance! David -- *David Lowe | The New York Public Library**Specialist II, Photography Collection* *Photographers' Identities Catalog <http://pic.nypl.org>*

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New satellite event for the Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference - Booking closes 27 June
by MCANDREW Ewan 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Dear colleagues, How can technology support language communities? Join us at the Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language conference<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017> taking place Thursday 6 July 2017 at the University of Edinburgh Business School to find out. Booking closes 27 June so don’t delay! The main objective for Celtic Knot 2017 is the coming together of those working to support Celtic and Indigenous Languages in the same room at same time; strengthening the bonds into a 'knot' and leading into action. We welcome diverse attendees ranging from Wikimedians, linguists, educators, researchers, information professionals, media professionals, translators, learning technologists and more coming together to share good practice and find fruitful new collaborations to support language communities as a result of the event. New satellite event: Introduction to Wikidata and the Wikidata Query Service<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-wikidata-and-wikidata-query-…> – this event is now scheduled 11am to 1pm on Tuesday 4 July presented by Léa Lacroix (Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland). Léa will also be joining us at the Celtic Knot as part of the Wikidata workshop on 6 July too. Just one of the many great speakers<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Speakers> and presentations<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017/Programme> at the Celtic Knot: Keynote speakers * Professor Antonella Sorace<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh<http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/%7Eantonell/> and founding director of Bilingualism Matters<http://www.bilingualism-matters.org.uk/> will be speaking on ‘Bilingualism in minority languages: a resource and an opportunity’. * Jason Evans<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_th…> will discuss his strategy for working with Wikimedia UK and the Welsh Government to develop the Welsh Wicipedia using a combination of community engagement, data manipulation and the implementation of Open Access policies. Confirmed speakers also include: * Susan Ross – Gaelic Wikipedian in Residence<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2017/01/wikimedia-uk-and-national-library-of-…> at the National Library of Scotland.<http://www.nls.uk/news/archive/2017/01/gaelic-wikipedian-begins> * Dr. Sharon Arbuthnot<http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/sharon-arbuthnot%28519b4b40-d075-4b…> - Research Fellow, Queen's University, Belfast. Presenting on the AHRC-funded eDIL project<http://www.dil.ie/> (Irish Language dictionary) on Wednesday 5th July. * Gareth Morlais – the Welsh Language Unit, Welsh Government. Gareth will speak about how mapping how much importance major companies (Google, Twitter, Apple) attach to creative activity on Wikipedia led to the Welsh Government helping to fund two Welsh-language Wikipedia initiatives. * Delyth Prys – Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University, will speak on Welsh/Celtic speech technology and why text-to-speech and speech recognition are becoming increasingly important in our digital world. * Àlex Hinojo<http://www.alexhinojo.cat/en/bio/> – Executive Director, Amical Wikimedia<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia> on the Catalan language project. * Iñaki Lopez de Luzuriaga – Developing the Basque Wikipedia: From corpus expansion to outreach. * Astrid Carlsen – Executive Director, Wikimedia Norge speaking on Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and building a project to revitalize the Northern Sami Wikipedia. * Robin Owain – Wales Manager, Wikimedia UK, speaking on recent developments supporting the Welsh language community. * Mina Theofilatou presenting on ‘The Kefalonian Dialect in Wiktionary and how Wikitherapy addresses social equality in open-source language projects’. * Duncan Brown - Llên Natur<http://www.llennatur.com/Drupal7/llennatur/>, presenting on ‘Y BYWIADUR: the dictionary of life’. * Rémy Gerbet - Wikimedia France; presenting on the Lingua Libre project<https://www.lingualibre.fr/> for massive open audio recording. * Käbi Suvi - Wikimedia Estonia on the ‘Miljon+’ project as part of Estonia’s 100th anniversary. * Ilario Valdelli - Wikimedia Switzerland, speaking on the Digital Library in Romansch and the new initiatives to map the archeological sites connected with Celtic culture in the Alps. * Wikipedia’s new Content Translation tool and how it has been successfully employed in Higher Education to share knowledge between different language Wikipedias and give students meaningful published practice – Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence. It promises to be a great event – including a panel on the Politics of Language Online, excellent papers, workshops and discussion spaces. Please feel free to forward this event to interested colleagues in your network. If you would like to learn more then please contact me direct at ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk>. Very best regards, Ewan Ewan McAndrew Wikimedian in Residence Tel: 07719 330076 Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia(a)mlist.is.ed.ac.uk My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR. www.ed.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Multilingual and synonym support for M'n'm / was: Mix'n'Match with existing (indirect) mappings
by Neubert, Joachim 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Hi Magnus, Osma, I suppose the scenario Osma pointed out is quite common for knowledge organization systems and in particular thesauri: Matching could take advantage of multilingual labels and also of synonyms, which are defined in the KOS. For the populating STW Thesaurus for Economics ID (P3911), my preliminary plan was to match with all multilingual labels and synonyms as search string in a custom WD endpoint (Fuseki, with full text search support), and display in the ranked SPARQL results of the search with a column with a valid insert statement that can be copied and pasted into QuickStatements2. Since Stas just announced an extension for WDQS with fulltext search (if I haven’t misunderstood his mail of 2017-06-12), it is perhaps now possible to do this kind of matching in WDQS. It would be great if such an extended matching could be integrated into M’n’m. Cheers, Joachim Von: Wikidata [mailto:wikidata-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Magnus Manske Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Juni 2017 16:07 An: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Betreff: Re: [Wikidata] Mix'n'Match with existing (indirect) mappings On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:44 PM Osma Suominen <osma.suominen(a)helsinki.fi<mailto:osma.suominen@helsinki.fi>> wrote: By the way, we also have multilingual labels that could perhaps improve the automatic matching. YSO generally has fi/sv/en, YSO places has fi/sv. Can you make use of these too if I provided them in additional columns? Sorry, mix'n'match only does single language labels.

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