Hi everybody! I'm [[User:Sannita]], probably you already saw me around
as an admin and contributor, but today I'd like to introduce myself as
the new EveryPolitician project Community manager. :)
EveryPolitician is a mySociety[1] project, currently funded by
Wikimedia Foundation,[2] that aims to integrate data from the
EveryPolitician project[3] and/or other reliable sources, as well as
to come up with a suitable structure within Wikidata to encourage
consistency of modelling of political data.
My main task will be to involve people to become active on Wikidata,
to learn how to use the various tools we already have (from gadgets to
external tools such as QuickStatements, Mix 'n' Match, PetScan, and so
on) and to actively reuse data from the project to build New Fantastic
Tools™.
So, if you're interested in sorting out electoral/political data from
your home country, or define data models to help other users compiling
this kind of items, or you have an idea about how to visualise data,
just {{Ping}} me, and I'll be glad to help. :) We're also planning
events to add, fix, enrich and reuse data - the very first will be
held in London after Wikimania, and I really hope to come back to you
with more info ASAP.
Also, I'll be around at Wikimania all week, so feel free to tap me on
the shoulder if you wish. :)
Thank you and hope to see you around soon!
[1] https://www.mysociety.org/
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/mySociety/EveryPolitician
[3] https://www.mysociety.org/democracy/everypolitician/
--
Luca Martinelli
EveryPolitician Community manager
Due to some continued overuse of the Wikidata Query Service, and the SPARQL
endpoint, we recently implemented a throttling feature to prevent users and
bots from using too many resources on the servers.
Here are the new limits:
* any user that is identified by IP and User Agent, can use the service for
60 seconds of query time per minute (burst at 120 seconds per minute)
* any user query can generate up to 30 errors per minute (burst to 60
errors per minute)
Please let us know if there are questions or concerns with the new usage
limits, as we are able to fine tune them if it is causing problems with
reasonable use cases.
Thanks for your understanding!
--
deb tankersley
irc: debt
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all!
As part of the Connected Open Heritage project Wikimedia Sverige have been
migrating Wiki Loves Monuments datasets from Wikipedias to Wikidata.
In the course of doing this we keep a note of the data which we fail to
migrate. For each of these left-over bits we know which item and which
property it belongs to as well as the source field and language from the
Wikipedia list. An example would e.g. be a "type of building" field where
we could not match the text to an item on Wikidata but know that the target
property is P31.
We have created dumps of these (such as
https://tools.wmflabs.org/coh/_total_se-ship_new.json, don't worry this one
is tiny) but are now looking for an easy way for users to consume them.
Does anyone know of a tool which could do this today? The Wikidata game
only allows (AFAIK) for yes/no/skip whereas you would here want something
like <enter_value>/invalid/skip. And if not are there any tools which with
a bit of forking could be made to do it?
We have only published a few dumps but there are more to come. I would also
imagine that this, or a similar, format could be useful for other
imports/template harvests where some fields are more easily handled by
humans.
Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome.
Cheers,
André
André Costa | Senior Developer, Wikimedia Sverige | Andre.Costa(a)wikimedia.se
| +46 (0)733-964574
Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se
Heiya to all of you
this may very well be interesting for you, too.
Cheers Karsten
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Betreff: [Semediawiki-user] SMWCon Fall 2017 CFP news: location and
hotel information
Datum: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 17:11:45 +0200
Von: Rutledge, Lloyd <Lloyd.Rutledge(a)ou.nl>
An: Semediawiki-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net
Dear users, developers and all people interested in semantic wikis,
We are happy to announce SMWCon Fall 2017 - the 14th Semantic MediaWiki
Conference:
Dates: October 4th to October 6th 2017 (Wednesday to Friday).
Location: Rotterdam Zoo (Blijdorp), Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Conference page:
https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2017
Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in
Semantic MediaWiki, e.g., users, developers, consultants, business
representatives, researchers.
SMWCon Fall 2017 will be supported by ArchiXL B.V. [0], Wikibase
Solutions [1], The Open University in the Netherlands [2] and Open
Semantic Data Association e. V. [3].
Following the success of this format the SMWCon will have one tutorial
and workshop day preceding two conference days.
Participating in the conference: To help us planning, you can already
informally register on the conference page, although a formal
registration will later be needed.
Contributing to the conference: If you want to present your work in the
conference please go to the conference page and add your talk there. To
create an attractive program for the conference, we will later ask you
to give further information about your proposals.
Among others, we encourage contributions on the following topics:
Applications of semantic wikis:
Semantic wikis for enterprise workflows and business intelligence
Semantic wikis for corporate or personal knowledge management
Exchange on business models with semantic wikis
Lessons learned (best/worst practices) from using semantic wikis or
their extensions
Semantic wikis in e-science, e-humanities, e-learning, e-health,
e-government
Semantic wikis for finding a common vocabulary among a group of people
Semantic wikis for teaching students about the Semantic Web
Offering incentives for users of semantic wikis
Challenges and obstacles for semantic wikis in business environments
Development of semantic wikis:
Semantic wikis as knowledge base backends / data integration platforms
Comparisons of semantic wiki concepts and technologies
Community building, feature wishlists, roadmapping of Semantic
MediaWiki
Improving user experience in a semantic wiki
Speeding up semantic wikis
Integrations and interoperability of semantic wikis with other
applications and mashups
Modeling of complex domains in semantic wikis, using rules,
formulas etc.
Access control and security aspects in semantic wikis
Multilingual semantic wikis
For questions about sponsorship opportunities, please do not hesitate to
contact Ad Strack van Schijndel <ad at wikibase.nl>.
Hope to see you in Rotterdam!
Remco de Boer, Toine Schijvenaars, Esther Greefhorst, Lloyd Rutledge,
Erwin Oord, Ad Strack van Schijndel
(The Organizing Committee)
[0] http://www.archixl.nl/en/
[1] http://www.wikibase.nl/
[2] https://www.ou.nl/
[3] https://opensemanticdata.org/
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