Hey all,
as mentioned in a previous thread on the wikicite-discuss list, we'll have
a WikiCite presence at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Barcelona in May.
If you're planning to attend and/or wish to pitch specific projects you
want to work on, please add your name to this page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018/WikiCite
Dario
Greetings,
The first conversation about structured licensing and copyright on Commons
for the Structured Data project [0] is available for participation [1]. The
purpose of the discussion is to help identify the best way to build a model
for copyright information and licenses on Commons. More detailed
discussions will come later this year.
Thanks!
0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
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Keegan Peterzell
Technical Collaboration Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
Some of you may be interested in this, from the W3C's Semantic web mailing list:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paul Warren <paul.w.warren(a)btinternet.com>
Date: 20 March 2018 at 15:27
Subject: SPARQL users' survey
To: semantic-web(a)w3.org
Dear Semantic Web group members
I have created a questionnaire to help understand how people are using
SPARQL. As many of you will know, there have been a number of analysis
of SPARQL query logs, which offer some insight into the nature of
queries but little insight into the requirements and thought processes
of those initiating the queries. This questionnaire attempts to get a
better insight into how SPARQL is being used and what difficulties are
being experienced. The questionnaire, which takes around 20 minutes,
is available at:
https://openuniversity.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/sparql-survey All responses
to this survey are extremely valued. The results will be made
available in the public domain and this group will be notified. The
closing date for the questionnaire is 14th April.
Many thanks
Paul Warren, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, U.K.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Hello all,
The deadline for submitting talks, workshops and posters for Wikimania 2018
is Sunday, March 18th, at 23:59 UTC.
You can have a look at the submissions that have already been proposed
around Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2018>,
and you still have time to discuss with proposers or submit something
yourself.
Cheers, Léa
On 7 March 2018 at 10:20, Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> As every year, the call for submissions for Wikimania 2018
> <https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania> is running, and the
> deadline for talks, workshops and posters is *March 18th*. We hope that
> the Wikidata community will be well represented in the program and in the
> attendees.
>
> This year, the system of submission goes through OpenChair, therefore the
> submissions will not be public. You won't be able to check other
> Wikidata-related submissions. So if you plan to submit something, I
> encourage you to *describe your idea on Wikidata:Wikimania 2018
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2018>*. On this page,
> you can also see the ideas of other people, and suggest your help for one
> of them.
>
> Here are a few ideas that have been suggested by the development team,
> where we would love to support volunteers: SPARQL workshop for beginners,
> SPARQL workshop for confirmed users, how to model lexicographical data for
> your language, explaining the community processes on Wikidata, showing
> useful tools around Wikidata...
>
> When you do your submission through the official process
> <https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions>, feel free to also
> edit Wikidata:Wikimania 2018
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2018> and add your idea
> into the *"proposals submitted" section*. That will help the other
> editors to avoid duplicates.
>
> Last but not least, I also added a section "I'm attending"
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2018#I%27m_attending_to_Wi…>,
> to have an overview of who from the Wikidata community will attend to
> Wikimania this year. Please register here if you already know (even if
> you're waiting for scholarship result for example). This list can also help
> you find more volunteers to run a workshop or participate to a discussion.
> Thank you very much,
>
> --
> 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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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.
Hello all,
This year, the Wikimedia hackathon
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018> will take place
on 18-20 May in Barcelona. Several Wikidata volunteers and members of the
development team will attend. Like last year, there will also be a
documentation
sprint
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018/Documentation>
where people can work on improving documentation.
- If you are attending, which Wikidata-related projects do you plan to
work on?
- Do you have ideas of features or fixes that should be worked on during
the hackathon?
- Are there documentation pages that need to be improved? (you can also
participate remotely)
Feel free to add your ideas here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Your_ideas_of_projects_…>,
you can link to Phabricator tickets. Note that the hackathon is only a
3-days event and some projets need a longer time to be achieved ;)
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.
Hi,
Different countries have different processes for elections: registration of
political parties and candidates, the form of the ballot, the system for
counting the votes and dividing the seats in the legislature, etc.
I was surprised not to find almost any data about electoral history for
Israeli political parties. I also couldn't find it for other famous
political parties around the world, like CDU (Germany), Syriza (Greece), or
GOP (U.S.).
Representing it in Wikidata is somewhat challenging because of the
differences between the countries, because parties, candidates lists, and
fractions are different things, etc. But only somewhat: it definitely
doesn't sound impossible.
Is there any country whose electoral processes and history are represented
comprehensively in Wikidata? If not, were there any attempts to even
discuss it?
Thanks!
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hi all,
Tomás and I would like to share a paper that might be of interest to the
community. It presents some preliminary results of a work looking at
fully automated methods to generate Wikipedia info-boxes from Wikidata.
The main focus is on deciding what information from Wikidata to include,
and in what order. The results are based on asking users (students) to
rate some prototypes of generated info-boxes.
Tomás Sáez, Aidan Hogan "Automatically Generating Wikipedia Infoboxes
from Wikidata". In the Proceedings of the Wiki Workshop at WWW 2018,
Lyon, France, April 24, 2018.
- Link: http://aidanhogan.com/docs/infobox-wikidata.pdf
We understand that populating info-boxes is an important goal of
Wikidata and hence we thought we'd share some lessons learned.
Obviously a lot of work is being put into populating info-boxes from
Wikidata, but the main methods at the moment seem to be template-based
and require a lot of manual labour; plus the definition of these
templates seems to be a difficult problem for classes such as person
(where different information will have different priorities for people
of different professions, notoriety, etc.).
We were just interested to see how far we could get with a fully
automated approach using some generic ranking methods. Also we thought
that something like this could perhaps be used to generate a "default"
info-box for articles with no info-box and no associated template
mapping. The paper presents preliminary results along those lines.
One interesting result is that a major factor in the evaluation of the
generated info-boxes was the importance of the value. For example,
Barack Obama has lots of awards, but perhaps only something like the
Nobel Peace Prize might be of relevance to show in the info-box (<-
being intended as an illustrative example rather than a concrete
assertion of course!). Another example is that sibling might not be an
important attribute in a lot of cases, but when that sibling is Barack
Obama, then that deserves to be in the info-box (<- how such cases could
be expressed in a purely template-based approach, we are not sure, but
it would seem difficult).
We assess the importance of values with PageRank. Assessing the
importance not only of attributes, but of values, turned out to be a
major influence on how highly our evaluators assessed the quality of the
generated info-boxes.
This initial/isolated observation might be interesting since, to the
best of our understanding, the current wisdom on populating info-boxes
from Wikidata focuses on what attributes to present and in which order,
but does not consider the importance of values (aside from the Wikidata
rank feature, which we believe is more intended to assess
relevance/timeliness, than importance).
Hence one of the most interesting (and surprising, for us at least)
results of the work is to suggest that it appears to be important to
rank *values* by importance (not just attributes) when considering what
information the user might be interested in.
(There are limitations to PageRank measures, however, in that they
cannot assess, for example, the importance of a particular date, or,
more generally, datatype values.)
In any case, we are looking forward to presenting these results at the
Wiki Workshop at WWW 2018, and any feedback or thoughts are welcome!
Cheers,
Aidan
Dear Mr. or Ms.,
I thank you for your efforts. I have written the following query to find the languages that have a label in Tunisian in Wikidata:
SELECT ?_tre_humain ?_tre_humainLabel WHERE {
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "aeb-arab". }
?_tre_humain wdt:P31 wd:Q34770.
}
However, I found that many languages not having a label in Tunisian are sorted as well. For these languages, the featured label is the Wikidata ID of the language. I ask about how to eliminate these languages from the results of my wikidata query.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki