Hi,
I have a couple of questions regarding the Wiki Page ID. Does it always
stay unique for the page, where the page itself is just a placeholder for
any kind of information that might change over time?
Consider the following cases:
1. The first time someone creates page "Moon" it is assigned ID=1. If at
some point the page is renamed to "The_Moon", the ID=1 remains intact. Is
this correct?
2. What if we have page "Moon" with ID=1. Someone creates a second-page
"The_Moon" with ID=2. Is it possible that page "Moon" is transformed into a
redirect? Then, "Moon" would be redirecting to page "The_Moon"?
3. Is it possible for page "Moon" to become a category "Category:Moon" with
the same ID=1?
Thanks,
Gintas
Hello everyone,
I'd like to ask if Wikidata could please offer a HDT [1] dump along with the already available Turtle dump [2]. HDT is a binary format to store RDF data, which is pretty useful because it can be queried from command line, it can be used as a Jena/Fuseki source, and it also uses orders-of-magnitude less space to store the same data. The problem is that it's very impractical to generate a HDT, because the current implementation requires a lot of RAM processing to convert a file. For Wikidata it will probably require a machine with 100-200GB of RAM. This is unfeasible for me because I don't have such a machine, but if you guys have one to share, I can help setup the rdf2hdt software required to convert Wikidata Turtle to HDT.
Thank you.
[1] http://www.rdfhdt.org/
[2] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/
Hey all,
A Masters student of mine (José Moreno in CC) has been working on a
faceted navigation system for (large-scale) RDF datasets called "GraFa".
The system is available here loaded with a recent version of Wikidata:
http://grafa.dcc.uchile.cl/
Hopefully it is more or less self-explanatory for the moment. :)
If you have a moment to spare, we would hugely appreciate it if you
could interact with the system for a few minutes and then answer a quick
questionnaire that should only take a couple more minutes:
https://goo.gl/forms/h07qzn0aNGsRB6ny1
Just for the moment while the questionnaire is open, we would kindly
request to send feedback to us personally (off-list) to not affect
others' responses. We will leave the questionnaire open for a week until
January 16th, 17:00 GMT. After that time of course we would be happy to
discuss anything you might be interested in on the list. :)
After completing the questionnaire, please also feel free to visit or
list something you noticed on the Issue Tracker:
https://github.com/joseignm/GraFa/issues
Many thanks,
Aidan and José
Hello all,
The call for submissions for Wikimania 2018 is now open!
If you have any idea regarding Wikidata, if you plan to submit something,
if you're looking for people to help with running a workshop... feel free
to coordinate on Wikidata:Wikimania 2018
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2018>.
The deadline for all kind of submissions is March 18th, pretty soon
already. Don't miss it!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com>
Date: 5 February 2018 at 07:21
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2018 Call for Submissions
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Program committee list <wikimania-program(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedia community,
We are pleased to announce that Wikimania 2018 is now accepting proposals
for workshops, discussions, presentations, or research posters to give
during the conference. To read the full instructions visit the event wiki
and click on the link provided there to make your proposal:
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
The deadline for submissions is 23:59 UTC on *Sunday March 18, 2018*.
This is approximately 6 weeks away. Whether you are a community member of
one of the Wikimedia projects, or a fellow open content creator or
consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session.
*Theme*
This year, the conference will be taking place in Cape Town, South Africa,
where the organisers are giving this Wikimania a unique flavor — an
explicit theme based in African philosophy:
“Bridging knowledge gaps, the *ubuntu* way forward.”
Read more about this theme, why it was chosen, and what it means for the
conference program at the Wikimedia blog:
*https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu/
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu/>*
Throughout the conference program, this theme will be tightly held, but
loosely defined - in order to encourage a diverse range of responses to the
theme. It is our hope that this theme will give us the opportunity to
further our goal of creating the “sum of human knowledge”, by encouraging
greater diversity and inclusion in who participates and what we discuss at
Wikimania.
To learn more, and to make a proposal for the conference, please visit:
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
Please forward this announcement to other lists and groups across the
Wikimedia movement.
<https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions>
We look forward to reading your submissions. Sincerely,
*Program committee co-chairs Emna Mizouni, Felix Nartey, and Liam Wyatt.*
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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.
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Greetings,
There is a new feedback request up on Wikimedia Commons regarding
Structured Data on Commons. The topic is a very important discussion:
between wikitext-in-Mediawiki, Wikibase on Commons, and Wikibase on
Wikidata, what file metadata gets store where?
The discussion is here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
[0]
It will formally run for two weeks, closing on 1 March. There will not be
decisions made at that time, this is a part of the information-gathering
process in order to make the informed decisions.
Thank you for your time, see you on the wiki.
0. Plaintext link: <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
>
--
Keegan Peterzell
Technical Collaboration Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello all,
If you read the weekly Wikidata newsletter, written by volunteers and the
Wikidata team, we would be very interested by your feedback. The newsletter
reached its 300th edition
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2018_02_19> and we
are wondering how we together could improve it and make it even more useful
for the community.
You can find *a page with a few questions
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Feedback_300th_edition>*.
You don't have to answer to all of them.
If you're not reading the Weekly Summary, or used to but stopped reading
it, there is a section just for you
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Feedback_300th_editio…>
!
And as a reminder, the Weekly Summary is collaborative and you can add
information for the next edition on this page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>. Your
participation would be very appreciated :)
Thanks in advance for your help,
--
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.
At PIDapalooza 2018
https://pidapalooza.org/
I discussed with a few people - not Wikidatans - how to document
Persistent (or Unique) Identifiers.
As an example, I created 'KoreaMed Unique Identifier':
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47489994
How could we improve that? What additional properties might we need?
What properties already exist, that we could make use of?
Also, this query:
http://tinyurl.com/y6wdrbhd
returns over 5000 instances/ subclasses of "unique identifier"
(Q6545185) but includes both /types/ of identifiers (like the example
above) and individual identifier values, like ".ar" as an internet TLD
(domain name itself - Q32635 - is a subclass, not an instance, of UID)
- how should we distinguish between the two classes?
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Hello,
If some of you are attending to the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin, I'm
happy to announce that a Wikidata meetup will take place on Friday, April
20th, at 19:30.
The meetup will take place in the conference venue (no sitting in a park
#berlinerstyle this time). People who are not attending the Wikimedia
Conference are, of course, welcome to join. In order to estimate the number
of attendees, please sign up on the page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Thematic,_regiona…>
.
As a general reminder, if you're looking for Wikidata events in your area,
or are organizing some, the best place to list them all is Wikidata:Events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>.
Cheers,
--
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.