Wikidata September 2018

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Advice for storing retail product data on Wikidata or a self-hosted Wikibase instance
by Abe Voelker 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Hello, I was checking out Wikidata and was wondering if it would be a good fit for a website I wanted to make to crowdsource data about retail products, storing properties like product name, description, UPC/GTIN, MPN, manufacturer, color, size, and so on. I take it that due to Wikidata's Wikipedia notability requirement I'd have to operate my own Wikibase instance separate from Wikidata? In that case, is it still possible to integrate with Wikidata's ontologies, or do I have to have my own completely separate ontology from scratch (I'd hate to have to reinvent the real basic properties and constraints)? Are there similar projects I could look at to get an idea how to partially-fork Wikidata in this way? Another thing I'm wondering about is how I would integrate data that wouldn't necessarily fit into the product data ontology, like customer reviews of the product, or sale offers (offers having their own properties like price, availability, condition, and hyperlink to seller's site) - things that aren't inherent characteristics of the item and change often. I was wondering if it would be easier to have a "wrapper" website that stores this data separate, while still integrating with the core product data from Wikibase. Does anyone have any experience or references to projects doing an integration like that? I'm wondering what the easiest way to integrate the two would be - connect directly to the MySQL database, sync databases with hooks, SPARQL, etc. Also, some of the data for this website I'd wish to populate by crawling online retail stores and manufacturers and performing edits with a bot. Some of these sites provide schema.org metadata, so I was wondering if that makes integration with Wikidata/Wikibase any easier, or do I still have to do some kind of manual mapping process between the two. Thanks for your patience with this braindump as I'm new to Wikidata and still trying to wrap my head around things. I did the Wikidata tutorials, messed around with a local Wikibase install using Docker Compose, and a lot of clicking around Wikidata and reading about ontologies but it feels like I've just barely scratched the surface! Thank you, Abe Voelker

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Join Us on The AfroCine Project
by Sam Oyeyele 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

Greetings! Apologies for cross-posting. This is to introduce a new Wikimedia project called "The AfroCine Project".[1] This new project is dedicated to improving the coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this (or you're already active in this area), by coordinating local programmes around African cinema (independently or otherwise) in your community or local Wiki, kindly list your username or organization as a participant on the meta project page cited above. Furthermore, In the months of October and November, we are organizing a global contest and edit-a-thon tagged: "The Months of African Cinema".[2] If you would love to join this exciting event, also list your username as a participant on the English Wikipedia contest page. If you would love to lead this contest (or any other relevant program) for a non-English Wikipedia community, please feel free to translate the English Wikiproject page to your local language Wikipedia, or you can create one from scratch! If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally or right here on the mailing list or the project talkpages. Thank you! Sam Oyeyele. [1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_AfroCine_Project [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Af… [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine

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Join Us on the AfroCine Project!
by Sam Oyeyele 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

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WikiCite 2018 applications (including travel funding requests) are now open
by Dario Taraborelli 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

We're thrilled to announce that applications to attend WikiCite 2018 are now open <https://goo.gl/forms/hV6rXRCdQ3fAK9v13>. [image: WikiCite 2018.png] WikiCite 2018 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018> is a 3-day conference, summit, and hack day dedicated to the vision of creating an open repository of bibliographic data to support the citation and fact-checking needs of Wikimedia projects, and possibly, to serve as an open infrastructure for research, education, and information quality across the web. WikiCite 2018 expands efforts started with WikiCite 2016 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016> and WikiCite 2017 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017> to explore these possibilities by leveraging Wikidata—Wikimedia’s structured knowledge base—and to develop open source tools to improve citation management and verifiability strategies for free knowledge. Since then, the amount of bibliographic data in Wikidata has grown exponentially, allowing us to glimpse the possibilities of a truly open, universal library and citation graph, while also exposing significant social and technical challenges. This year presents a pivotal moment for WikiCite, wherein its emergent community — consisting of Wikimedians, librarians, LODLAM practitioners, software engineers, data scientists, and open knowledge advocates — must grapple with possible growth scenarios, address critical gaps, and set a course for the project’s future <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiCite/Roadmap>. If you are passionate about tending Wikipedia’s root system (references!), or believe in the broader possibilities of contributing to the bibliographic commons, WikiCite 2018 presents an unprecedented opportunity to meet fellow dreamers and hackers, and to help shape this vital effort. This year’s event will be hosted at the David Brower Center <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brower_Center> in Berkeley, California, USA, November 27-29, 2018. Applications to attend the event (including travel support requests <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018/Travel_funding>) are open until *September 17, 2018*: *WikiCite 2018 application form* <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfZdLgVZYUQfj99SSeUsj-uwe3BdHgjRQ…> We hope you will join us! –The WikiCite 2018 organizing committee <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018#Organizing_committee> This application will be conducted via Google Forms—a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018_Application_Form_Privac…> .

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Participate in research to support Wikipedia editors
by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

Hello everyone, We are PhD researchers at the University of Southampton working on supporting underserved language communities in Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata information. We need your help! We work on generating text and want to understand how to support editors when creating new articles. We are currently conducting a series of interviews to understand the needs of the community better. We are looking for editors of Wikipedia, that would be available to do said interviews remotely (via google hangout or skype) in English. (The editing will still be in your native language of course.) We focus on under-resourced languages, meaning any but the top 5 Wikipedias in terms of article and editor count. It should take about 30 minutes of your time and would get us a better insight into how to support small-language communities better. The interviews will take place in the next two weeks. All of the data will be anonymized. Please find more information in the Participant Information Sheet: https://github.com/luciekaffee/Announcements/blob/master/Interviews-Partici… If you want to participate and help us improving access to Wikipedia for under-resourced language communities, just send me an E-Mail at kaffee(a)soton.ac.uk or sign up to be contacted here: https://goo.gl/forms/gL9wPuYAt8zcpVbA3 You don’t need any prior experience beside Wikipedia editing. Looking forward to hearing from you! Thanks, Lucie (User:Frimelle) -- Lucie-Aimée Kaffee Web and Internet Science Group School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton

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Weekly Summary #330
by Léa Lacroix 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

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Re: [Wikidata] Educational Organizations funding/affiliation
by Tobias Zeumer 13 Sep '18

13 Sep '18

Hi everyone, I recently needed the same distinction for german universities. I used these three qualifiers as "instance of" for the institutions, primarily because they were already predominantly set for existing universities: Q875538 (public university); "university that is predominantly funded by public means"; http://tinyurl.com/yapa6owx Q1743327 (church college); roughly translated the german description says "university in church sponsorship"; http://tinyurl.com/ycy8rpjf Q23002042 (private educational institution) "educational institution not primarily funded by public means"; http://tinyurl.com/yc6gn3zt The last is not exactly the best match, but at least it's a subclass of educational institution like the others. But since it was my first try with Wikidata I'm by no means sure I decided for the best ones. So, I'd be interested in the answers too :) @Victor: Regarding the funding maybe P749 "parent organization" could be used - at least I think it is (sometimes) used this way too... Best regards, Tobias ------------------------------------------------------- PGP: 4731 C371 DD3B D8A0 7C09 BE05 DBAE 4607 8E20 748E > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:23:19 +0000 > From: Victor Villas Bôas Chaves <villasv(a)outlook.com> > To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project > <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikidata] Educational Organizations funding/affiliation > Message-ID: > <DM6PR08MB404136EE19D4175D0561FBE0A71B0(a)DM6PR08MB4041.namprd08.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi there! > > I'm planning to do a mass import of the Brazilian database of Higher Education Institutions (2011 census) to Wikidata, updating existing institutions and add the missing ones. (I could use some help :) > > One of the issues I foresee is the distinction between private and public educational institutions is done via subclassing instead of properties. There's a university subclass public university that I can use, but how should I indicate that the institution is maintained with federal, state or city funds? > > Should I put the country in affiliation in the former and the state in affiliation in the latter? Should I propose a new property? > > Or even better and hopefully the case, is there an even more specific property that I can use for this? > > Also, how to indicate that some are non-profit and some are for-profit? > > Thanks, > Victor >

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Educational Organizations funding/affiliation
by Victor Villas Bôas Chaves 12 Sep '18

12 Sep '18

Hi there! I'm planning to do a mass import of the Brazilian database of Higher Education Institutions (2011 census) to Wikidata, updating existing institutions and add the missing ones. (I could use some help :) One of the issues I foresee is the distinction between private and public educational institutions is done via subclassing instead of properties. There's a university subclass public university that I can use, but how should I indicate that the institution is maintained with federal, state or city funds? Should I put the country in affiliation in the former and the state in affiliation in the latter? Should I propose a new property? Or even better and hopefully the case, is there an even more specific property that I can use for this? Also, how to indicate that some are non-profit and some are for-profit? Thanks, Victor

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Wikidata service - fetch labels.
by Olivier van D'Huynslager 12 Sep '18

12 Sep '18

Dear, Is it possible to fetch labels and/or descriptions within Open Refine by using the function add column from reconciled values ? This would be useful to add new descriptions where necessary and avoid overwriting existing ones. kind regards, Olivier

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Re: [Wikidata] Register for FORCE2018 by this Friday and save $100
by Pine W 12 Sep '18

12 Sep '18

I'm going to ask the opinion of the Wikidata list moderators here. This email appears to be a soloicitation to pay for attendance to an event, which I would consider to be a junk email and would treat accordingly including by blacklisting the sender. Do the Wikidata list moderators agree? Thanks, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) null

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