Wikidata September 2017

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Adding pageviews/ranking to Wikidata Query Service
by Yuri Astrakhan 06 Sep '17

06 Sep '17

I would like to propose that we add how popular is each sitelink to WDQS. This would allow queries that order results by wiki article popularity. For example, this query lists Wikidata items without French labels but with French articles, ordered by how often they gets viewed in frwiki. http://tinyurl.com/y7sr9j5g The link above is using my experimental server that combines both Wikidata and OpenStreetMap data in one database. Take a look at some other examples related to "pageviews" (in the examples list). In depth information about the server: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata%2BOSM_SPARQL_query_service Phab ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174981

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Navigation to Wikipedia links on Wikidata
by Tito Dutta 05 Sep '17

05 Sep '17

Hello, If I am on a Wikidata item page (QXXXXX), what's the easiest way to navigate to the Wikipedia links other than manual scrolling? Sometimes (actually a lot of times) I need to check Wikipedia articles (not only English) before I add description part. Is there any user script or something that puts Wikipedia links above statement or any other suggestion? Thanks Tito Dutta Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind me over email or phone call.

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Weekly Summary #276
by Léa Lacroix 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '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 in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10 - Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties <http://www.simonrazniewski.com/2017_ADMA.pdf>, by Simon Razniewski et al. - ctj rdf: Part One <https://larsgw.blogspot.nl/2017/09/ctj-rdf-part-one.html>, showing linking text minded data to Wikidata with SPARQL. - Creating parliament charts with Wikidata <https://blog.k-nut.eu/wikidata-parliament-svg> by Knut - The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/08/30/wikipedia-bot-pocalypse/> by Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog - When Westminster Was Wikified <https://www.mysociety.org/2017/08/23/wikifying-westminister/>, by Luca Martinelli Other Noteworthy Stuff - New admin: congrats to علاء <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A1> - Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here <https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL32772A/%C3%89mile_Zola>; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column). - With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017> is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information. - The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4189>, Tibetan pinyin <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4188>, Wylie transliteration <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4187>, Australian Women's Register ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4186>, iconographic symbol <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4185>, slope <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4184>, angle from vertical <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4183> - Query examples: - The most famous painting from each country <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20Carte%20des%20pays…> (source <https://twitter.com/shona_gon/status/904357380997165057>) - Ranking universities according to PageRank <https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20vrank%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Fvoc…> (source <https://twitter.com/thalhamm/status/902624787071164425>) - Actors who were casted in two different films with the same name <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20actors%20who%20were%20cast%20in%20two%20d…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/902163625388978177>) - Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 <https://maps.wikilovesmonuments.org/> displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata - Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/Filmography/Mirei…>, given names by soundex <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Names/lists/given_names_…> Development - Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages. - Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173696>) - Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168532>) - Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174318>) - Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (phabricator:T96553 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96553>) - Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red ( phabricator:T170531 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170531>) - Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input ( phabricator:T151186 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151186>) - Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (phabricator:T172987 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172987>) - The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (phabricator:T174692 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174692>). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time. - Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages ( phabricator:T171725 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171725>) 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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YAGO open source
by Thomas Pellissier Tanon 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

[On behalf of the YAGO team] Dear Wikidata community, YAGO is a large general-purpose knowledge base derived from Wikipedia and other sources. It contains more than 10 million entities (like persons, organizations, cities, etc.) and more than 120 million facts about these entities. It also contains time and space information, and unifies data from Wikipedias in 11 languages. YAGO is available for free at https://yago-knowledge.org We are happy to announce that the source code of YAGO is now available as well as open source under the GPL v3 license. This allows everybody to use the extraction code, and also to contribute to YAGO. Please find the GitHub link here: https://github.com/yago-naga/yago3 We are very grateful for the work of the Wikimedia community (including Wikipedia and Wikidata), and we hope that our project can be of use. Sincerely, the YAGO team at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Télécom ParisTech University http://yago-knowledge.org

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New research paper + dataset on property ranking
by Simon Razniewski 03 Sep '17

03 Sep '17

Hello, I wanted to make you aware of our new paper "Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties", which deals with the problem of determining the interestingness of Wikidata properties for individual entities. In the paper we develop a dataset of 350 random (entity, property1, property2) records, and use human judgments to determine the more interesting property in each record. We then show that state-of-the-art techniques (Wikidata Property Suggestor, Google search) achieve 61% precision on predicting the winner in high-agreement records, which can be lifted to 74% by using linguistic similarity, but remains still significantly below human performance (87.5% precision). Paper: http://www.simonrazniewski.com/2017_ADMA.pdf (to appear at ADMA 2017). Dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/srazniewski/wikidatapropertyranking Best wishes, Simon Razniewski

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Wikidata Query Service and SPARQL endpoint usage limits
by Adrian Bielefeldt 01 Sep '17

01 Sep '17

Hello everyone, I just wanted to ask since when this limit has been in effect. We are analyzing the logs for the SPARQL endpoint and are seeing quite a change in the spread of the workload across the month, but it seems to start as early as the end of may. Greetings, Adrian

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SMWCon Fall 2017 CFP news: The early bird deadline (6 sept.) is approaching fast!
by Rutledge, Lloyd 01 Sep '17

01 Sep '17

**News: The early bird deadline (6 sept.) is approaching fast!** 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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