Hi,
I'm looking into ways to use tabular data like
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Zika-institutions-test.tab
in SPARQL queries but could not find anything on that.
My motivation here is in part coming from the time out limits, and the
basic idea here would be to split queries that typically time out into
sets of queries that do not time out and - if their results were
aggregated - would yield the results that would be expected for the
original query would it not time out.
The second line of motivation here is that of keeping track of how
things develop over time, which would be interesting for both content
and maintenance queries as well as usage of things like classes,
references, lexemes or properties.
I would appreciate any pointers or thoughts on the matter.
Thanks,
Daniel
Dear all,
personally I am quite happy that Denny can contribute more to Wikidata
and Wikipedia. No personal criticism there, I read his thesis and I am
impressed by his work and contributions.
I don't want to facilitate any conspiracy theories here, but I am
wondering about where Wikidata is going, especially with respect to Google.
Note that Chrome/Chromium being Open Source with a twist has already
pushed Firefox from the market, but now there is this controversy about
what is being tracked server side by Google Analytics and Client side by
cookies and also the current discussion about Ad Blocker removal from
Chrome:
https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-ad-blockers-extensions-api/
Maybe somebody could enlighten me about the overall strategy and
connections here.
1. there was a Knowledge Engine Project which failed, but in principle
had the right idea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Engine_(Wikimedia_Foundation)
This was aimed to "democratize the discovery of media, news and
information", in particular counter-moving the traffic sink by Google
providing Wikipedia's information in Google Search. Now that there is
Wikidata, this is much better for Google because they can take the CC-0
data as they wish.
2. there are some very widely used terms like "Knowledge Graph" , which
seems to be blocked by Google: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q648625 and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Graph without a neutral point of
view like the German WP adopted:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#Knowledge_Graph
3. I was under the impression that Google bought Freebase and then
started Wikidata as a non-threatening model to the data they have in
their Knowledge Graph
Could someone give me some pointers about the financial connections of
Google and Wikimedia (this should be transparent, right?) and also who
pushed the Wikidata movement into life in 2012?
Google was also mentioned in
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/30/wikidata-fifth-birthday/ but while
it reads "Freebase <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase>, was
discontinued because of the superiority of Wikidata’s approach and
active community." I know the story as: Google didn't want its
competitors to have the data and the service. Not much of Freebase did
end up in Wikidata.
As I said, I don't want to push any opinions in any directions. I am
more asking for more information about the connection of Google to
Wikidata (financially), then Google to WMF and also I am asking about
any strategic advantages for Google in relation to their competition.
Please don't answer with "How great Wikidata is", I already know that
and this is also not in the scope of my "How intertwined is Google with
Wikidata / WMF?" question. Can't mention this enough: also not against
Denny.
It is a request for better information as I can't seem to find clear
answers here.
--
All the best,
Sebastian Hellmann
Director of Knowledge Integration and Linked Data Technologies (KILT)
Competence Center
at the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) at Leipzig University
Executive Director of the DBpedia Association
Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org,
http://linguistics.okfn.org, https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt
<http://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt>
Homepage: http://aksw.org/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org
Hello all,
As you know, Lydia and i regularly organize Wikidata office hours, an
online meeting where we're presenting an update from the development team,
what we're working on at the moment, people can ask questions.
The next one will take place on Tuesday, *November 5th* at 18:00 Berlin
time (UTC+1)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Wikidata+Telegram…>
on the *the Wikidata Telegram channel
<https://t.me/joinchat/AZriqUj5Uag92TB4U9eBdQ>*.
<https://t.me/joinchat/AZriqUj5Uag92TB4U9eBdQ>
The previous meetings happened on IRC, and the content is later transferred
onwiki. You can see the archives here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/archive#Past_office_hours>.
Since we noticed that over the past year, more and more activity takes
place on the Telegram channel, and less on IRC, we decided to make an
experiment and run the office hour on Telegram for the first time. As
usual, the notes of the meeting will be published on wiki, so everyone can
access them.
Depending on how it works for us and for you, we may decide to continue the
experiment, to go back to IRC, or even to find another tool for such an
interactive meeting (I also plan to look at the tools that Wikimedia Space
<https://space.wmflabs.org/> is offering). I hope you won't mind us trying
new things :)
If you have any question or remark, feel free to reach out to me.
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 everyone :)
Over the past years Wikidata and Wikibase have been growing a lot.
That means a lot more to do for a product manager - more than I can
handle by now. So we've decided to open a new position. We'll have a
second product manager who will work closely with me and who will
focus on the Wikibase Ecosystem while I concentrate on Wikidata
itself. They will work with you all, partners and the development team
on making sure that we built the right things and that the Wikibase
Ecosystem is thriving.
You can find the details in the job ad here:
https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/5246357?jobDbPVId=14376022&…
If you're excited about working on making the Wikibase Ecosystem
flourish I'd love to see you apply. You know someone else who would be
a good fit for the position? Please send them the job ad.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to reach out to me.
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager 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.
Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 4-5 pm UTC**
on #wikimedia-tech.
*Note the time change due to Berlin having switched to winter time!*
Questions can be asked in English, and Spanish!
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 already know 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!
--
Leszek Manicki
Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision!
https://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 27/029/42207.
Hello all,
The *WikidataCon 2019
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019>* takes place from
tomorrow, October 25th, to Saturday October 26th. 250 participants from the
Wikidata community, Wikibase community and various organizations are
gathering in Berlin. During these two days, a lot of interesting sessions
related to Wikidata and Wikibase will take place (program
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Program#Friday,_Oct…>).
The number of available seats for this conference was unfortunately
limited, but as we wanted to make sure that the content is accessible to
everyone, here's how you can *follow what's happening* at the conference:
- Sessions taking place in rooms Kleist, Kepler and Einstein will be
livestreamed. This means that they can be followed in real time, then
accessible in replay a hours after the session, and later released under
Creative Commons.
- The streaming will take place on http://streaming.media.ccc.de (at the
moment, the link is not set up yet, it will be shortly before the event
starts)
- Slides of the speakers and other documents will be added by speakers
in a Commons category as well as on the individual pages of the sessions
(linked from the program
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Program#Friday,_Oct…>
)
- Notes of the sessions are also linked from the sessions pages.
Participants in the session should take notes in the pads, and there is a
section for remote questions
- After the event, the documentation will be collected, including blog
posts, various reviews published by participants, and videos released with
multilingual subtitles
- You can follow the hashtag #WikidataCon on Twitter or other social
networks. A Discord instance <https://discordapp.com/invite/fJcc395> has
also been set up by a volunteer.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach me. Thanks,
--
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.