Wikidata August 2018

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, Bulgarian & Persian. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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"Wikipedia and IIIF" will be topic for IIIF community call this Wednesday
by James Heald 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

Hi everybody, A heads-up that "Wikipedia and IIIF" is the proposed subject for the IIIF community call this week -- see https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/iiif-discuss/wy2uRl_ukJ0 The IIIF community call is a one-hour conference call on Zoom (people can also dial in by telephone), that happens once every two weeks, with either a technical or a community focus -- see https://iiif.io/community/call/ . This call will be in two days time, on Wednesday, the 15th of August, at mid-day Eastern time (ie 5pm London time, 6pm CET). The scope will include all Wikimedia platforms (ie Commons, Wikidata, etc), and presentations can be included by prior arrangement. It might be good if someone from the structured data team could listen in, and perhaps present the team's thoughts for upcoming IIIF-compatible and accessible annotations ? Background: IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) is a Library and GLAM led consortium developing standards for making images, image metadata, and document metadata available over the web, so that content provided by a GLAM (eg a scanned book) can be viewed in a multitude of different viewers; and documents can be created combining or annotating images, which remain served from their home institution's servers. A small test service at present exists on Toolforge, which can interpret IIIF-format requests to serve scaled Commons images or image-fragments. This is currently used to display P2677 "relative position within image" fragments, amongst other things, for example if this script is used to turn those values into blue links: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Husky/ifff-viewer-link.js A developing agenda for the call can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_QGZjyYR38HfDtqgoJ-Tc5kIZXkqCETBbeWbzlC… No pre-registration is necessary, but it may be worth checking beforehand that your computer or smartphone is set up for Zoom. It would be useful to be able to provide some input as to where we currently are, and what we're hoping to achieve in this area. James. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com

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Wikidata in the LOD Cloud
by Léa Lacroix 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

Hello all, Thanks to Lucas who filled the necessary requirements, Wikidata now appears in the LOD cloud graph: http://lod-cloud.net Currently, the graph doesn't display all the actual connections of Wikidata. The only connections that show up are the properties that link to other projects or databases, and having a specific statement on them to link to an RDF endpoint. If you see something missing, you can contribute by adding the statement “formatter URI for RDF resource” on properties where the resource supports RDF (example <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P214#P1921>). You can learn more about the procedure to update the graph and a list of the existing and missing datasets here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister_(WMDE)/LOD_Cloud>, Thanks to Lucas and John for making this happening! -- 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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Weekly Summary #325
by Léa Lacroix 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

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Wikidata workshop 29 October 2018 in Brussels
by Romaine Wiki 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

Hi all, I am happy to pre-announce that in 11 weeks, on the birthday of Wikidata on 29 October, we organise a Wikidata workshop mainly focussed on institutions, inspired on the one given on 29 May in the Netherlands. This workshop will take place in the Royal Library of Belgium <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q383931>, next to the Brussels Central railway station <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q800588>. More information will be added at: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday/Brussels PartyAfter the workshop there will be a Wikidata party with a birthday cake <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1195276>, free drinks, and more, open for Wikidata enthusiast <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28859215>. See you there! Romaine

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Please support risk factor Wikidata property
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your efforts. I invite you to support the proposal of risk factor as a Wikidata property. The property will be an excellent contribution to Wikidata as it can allow this high-scale knowledge base to be useful for digital epidemiology purposes. The proposal is available in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/risk_factor. This property is a generalization of the first property proposal I developed. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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Risk factor property proposal is discussed
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 12 Aug '18

12 Aug '18

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your efforts. I have created several days ago a property proposal for risk factor. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/risk_factor. The proposal is discussed now. So, I ask if it can be validated now and if the Wikidata property for risk factor can be consequently created. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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Fwd: [Analytics] Wikimedia Research Showcase August 13 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC
by Pine W 10 Aug '18

10 Aug '18

Forwarding. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Sarah R <srodlund(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:46 PM Subject: [Analytics] Wikimedia Research Showcase August 13 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC To: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi Everyone, The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, August 13 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPMS4YGDMk 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#Upcoming_Showcase> Hope to see you there! This month's presentations is: *Quicksilver: Training an ML system to generate draft Wikipedia articles and Wikidata entries simultaneously* John Bohannon and Vedant Dharnidharka, Primer The automatic generation and updating of Wikipedia articles is usually approached as a multi-document summarization task: Given a set of source documents containing information about an entity, summarize the entity. Purely sequence-to-sequence neural models can pull that off, but getting enough data to train them is a challenge. Wikipedia articles and their reference documents can be used for training, as was recently done <https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.10198> by a team at Google AI. But how do you find new source documents for new entities? And besides having humans read all of the source documents, how do you fact-check the output? What is needed is a self-updating knowledge base that learns jointly with a summarization model, keeping track of data provenance. Lucky for us, the world’s most comprehensive public encyclopedia is tightly coupled with Wikidata, the world’s most comprehensive public knowledge base. We have built a system called Quicksilver uses them both. _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

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Re: [Wikidata] List of the duplicate Wikidata entities of diseases
by Greg S 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

Thanks Houcemeddine, I merged most of them. A couple can't be merged because they have different wikipedia pages in the same language, there's one or two that have different terminology across external sources, and one that I made an issue on the disease ontology's github to ask about. -Greg

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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