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Re: [Wikidata] Weekly Summary #361
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 23 Apr '19

23 Apr '19

Dear all, I thank you for your efforts. I tested OpenTapioca tool. It is an interesting tool mainly for adding missing statements to Wikidata from Internet. However, it seems that it needs several improvements. For example, when I wrote "He is from Tunisia", the tool annotated "He" as the first name of a famous person. I also think that this important tool should not only support locations, organizations and people. It should also support human diseases, drugs and other types of Wikidata entries. In fact, I am absolutely working with the significant contributions of the main research contributors of Wiki Project Med and University of Sfax on Bibliometric-Enhanced information methods for the enrichment of Wikidata with missing biomedical statements and references. Adapting OpenTapioca to support biomedical items and adding an API service for it will be an excellent contribution to our project. If Mr. Antonin Delpeuch likes to join our project beginning this summer, we will be honoured to collaborate with him. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki (he/him) Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36 GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group Member, WikiResearch Tunisia Member, Wiki Project Med Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb Founder, TunSci ____________________ +21629499418 -------- Message d'origine -------- De : Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix(a)wikimedia.de> Date : 2019/04/23 15:10 (GMT+01:00) À : "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Objet : [Wikidata] Weekly Summary #361 Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Events<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> * Past: Editathon Where iNaturalist meets Wiki<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_iNaturalist/Event_201904…>, on April 16th in Meise, Belgium * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Argentina<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Argentina>, April 25th * Upcoming; Wikidata workshop in Pardubice<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mezi_bajty/Workshop_2019>, Czech Republic Press, articles, blog posts<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> * Association of Research Libraries White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations<https://www.arl.org/publications-resources/4751-arl-white-paper-on-wikidata…> * Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs<https://ai.facebook.com/blog/open-sourcing-pytorch-biggraph-for-faster-embe…> and the example of Wikidata, on AI Facebook blog * OpenTapioca<https://opentapioca.org/>: Lightweight Entity Linking for Wikidata (paper by Antonin Delpeuch<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09131.pdf>) * Update on the Factgrid project with Wikibase and GND<https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/1527> by Olaf Simons Other Noteworthy Stuff * Plenty of documentation pages have been translated into Spanish: Wikidata in one page<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIKIDATA_EN_BREVE.pdf>, Query Service in one page<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Query_Service_en_Breve.pdf>, a new data model example based on Marie Curie<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Datamodel_in_Wikidata_Marie_Curie_e…>, and the flyer "Wikidata for developers"<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Flyer_for_Developers_Part_…>. Thanks a lot to Mlemusrojas<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mlemusrojas> and the Wikidata group in Argentina<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Argentina>! * Depicts statements were due to arrive on Commons on April 23rd<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data#Depicts_sta…> * The Wikimedia URL Shortener<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener> is live and now included in the Query Service to create short links to queries or direct results (announcement<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012958.html>) * Reminder: the application phase for the WikidataCon is open until April 29th<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Topic:Uwnvvuwlnox50iw8>: if you want to attend to the conference, don't forget to participate! * Wikidata Sign Languages Browser<https://tools.wmflabs.org/sign-language-browser/#/> * You can help by training ORES, the machine learning system, to better judge if edits are good or bad. We need another 7000 edits judged<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Edit_labels> Did you know? * Newest properties<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: * General datatypes: number of sentences<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6695>, Football Money League rank<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6697> * External identifiers: National Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6688>, MassBank Accession ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6689>, CNV-SP ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6690>, GruCultura ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6691>, CEMDP ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6692>, NGMDb Prod ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6693>, MESH Concept ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6694>, PRELIB organization ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6696> * New property proposals<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: * General datatypes: supported metadata<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/supported_metadata>, expansion<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/expansion>, CatholicSaints.info ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CatholicSaints.inf…>, Musixmatch track ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Musixmatch_track_ID>, transfer speed<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/transfer_speed>, KeyWiki page ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KeyWiki_page_ID>, художник-мультипликатор<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B4…>, Number of polling stations<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Number_of_polling_…>, music video<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/music_video> * External identifiers: The Atlas of African Frogs<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Atlas_of_Afric…>, Ming Qing Archive authority ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ming_Qing_Archive_…>, Kinosozvezdie biography ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kinosozvezdie_biog…>, RGALI ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RGALI_ID>, Referee.ru person ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Referee.ru_person_…>, NSW Capital Conviction ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NSW_Capital_Convic…>, Australian War Memorial ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_War_Mem…>, Flora of Australia (new) ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flora_of_Australia…>, Drobné památky ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Drobn%C3%A9_pam%C3…>, Identifiant IndieDB for video game<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_IndieD…>, Whitney Museum of American Art ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Whitney_Museum_of_…>, Archaeology Data Service person ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archaeology_Data_S…>, CanLII ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CanLII_ID>, Justia Patents assignee ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Justia_Patents_ass…>, interwiki<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/interwiki>, Identifiant Mod DB for video game<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_Mod_DB…>, OBIS ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OBIS_ID>, Alvin<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alvin>, FemBio ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FemBio_ID> * Query examples: * All deaths in Game of Thrones<https://w.wiki/3Fy> (source<https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1118244055404691456>) * Wikidata knows of at least 5263 buildings started before Notre Dame de Paris<https://w.wiki/3D5> (query based on this discussion<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Built_before_Notre_D…>) * Timeline for the History of Telecommunications<https://w.wiki/3FR> (source<https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/1118482236083511297>) * Graph of London Tube stations that are on at least three lines<https://w.wiki/35s> (source<https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1118137336129302529>) * Map of churches in Sri Lanka<https://w.wiki/3FV> (source<https://twitter.com/xaviaranda/status/1120031399585767425>) Development * Improved the external identifiers landscape (phab:T204440<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204440>) * Prepare process and announcement for the wb_terms migration to come * Allow configuring WDQS UI without changes to files under version control (phab:T194179<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194179>) * Configure suggestion constraint level on Beta (phab:T221107<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221107>) * Graduate suggestions based on constraints beta feature out of beta features (phab:T209879<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209879>) * Editing of labels and descriptions on mobile (phab:T216987<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216987>) * Editing aliases on mobile (phab:T218690<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218690>) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt…>. Monthly Tasks * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> * Suggested and open tasks<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks>! * Contribute to a Showcase item<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items>. * Help translate<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! * Help merge identical items<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. * Help write the next summary!<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de<http://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 #361
by Léa Lacroix 23 Apr '19

23 Apr '19

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Past: Editathon Where iNaturalist meets Wiki <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_iNaturalist/Event_201904…>, on April 16th in Meise, Belgium - Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Argentina <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Argentina>, April 25th - Upcoming; Wikidata workshop in Pardubice <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mezi_bajty/Workshop_2019>, Czech Republic Press, articles, blog posts <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Association of Research Libraries White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations <https://www.arl.org/publications-resources/4751-arl-white-paper-on-wikidata…> - Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs <https://ai.facebook.com/blog/open-sourcing-pytorch-biggraph-for-faster-embe…> and the example of Wikidata, on AI Facebook blog - OpenTapioca <https://opentapioca.org/>: Lightweight Entity Linking for Wikidata (paper by Antonin Delpeuch <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09131.pdf>) - Update on the Factgrid project with Wikibase and GND <https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/1527> by Olaf Simons Other Noteworthy Stuff - Plenty of documentation pages have been translated into Spanish: Wikidata in one page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIKIDATA_EN_BREVE.pdf>, Query Service in one page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Query_Service_en_Breve.pdf>, a new data model example based on Marie Curie <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Datamodel_in_Wikidata_Marie_Curie_e…>, and the flyer "Wikidata for developers" <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Flyer_for_Developers_Part_…>. Thanks a lot to Mlemusrojas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mlemusrojas> and the Wikidata group in Argentina <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Argentina>! - Depicts statements were due to arrive on Commons on April 23rd <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data#Depicts_sta…> - The Wikimedia URL Shortener <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener> is live and now included in the Query Service to create short links to queries or direct results (announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012958.html>) - Reminder: the application phase for the WikidataCon is open until April 29th <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Topic:Uwnvvuwlnox50iw8>: if you want to attend to the conference, don't forget to participate! - Wikidata Sign Languages Browser <https://tools.wmflabs.org/sign-language-browser/#/> - You can help by training ORES, the machine learning system, to better judge if edits are good or bad. We need another 7000 edits judged <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Edit_labels> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: number of sentences <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6695>, Football Money League rank <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6697> - External identifiers: National Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6688>, MassBank Accession ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6689>, CNV-SP ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6690>, GruCultura ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6691>, CEMDP ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6692>, NGMDb Prod ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6693>, MESH Concept ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6694>, PRELIB organization ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6696> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: supported metadata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/supported_metadata>, expansion <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/expansion>, CatholicSaints.info ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CatholicSaints.inf…>, Musixmatch track ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Musixmatch_track_ID>, transfer speed <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/transfer_speed>, KeyWiki page ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KeyWiki_page_ID>, художник-мультипликатор <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B4…>, Number of polling stations <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Number_of_polling_…>, music video <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/music_video> - External identifiers: The Atlas of African Frogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Atlas_of_Afric…>, Ming Qing Archive authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ming_Qing_Archive_…>, Kinosozvezdie biography ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kinosozvezdie_biog…>, RGALI ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RGALI_ID>, Referee.ru person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Referee.ru_person_…>, NSW Capital Conviction ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NSW_Capital_Convic…>, Australian War Memorial ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_War_Mem…>, Flora of Australia (new) ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flora_of_Australia…>, Drobné památky ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Drobn%C3%A9_pam%C3…>, Identifiant IndieDB for video game <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_IndieD…>, Whitney Museum of American Art ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Whitney_Museum_of_…>, Archaeology Data Service person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archaeology_Data_S…>, CanLII ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CanLII_ID>, Justia Patents assignee ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Justia_Patents_ass…>, interwiki <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/interwiki>, Identifiant Mod DB for video game <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_Mod_DB…>, OBIS ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OBIS_ID>, Alvin <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alvin>, FemBio ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FemBio_ID> - Query examples: - All deaths in Game of Thrones <https://w.wiki/3Fy> (source <https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1118244055404691456>) - Wikidata knows of at least 5263 buildings started before Notre Dame de Paris <https://w.wiki/3D5> (query based on this discussion <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Built_before_Notre_D…> ) - Timeline for the History of Telecommunications <https://w.wiki/3FR> (source <https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/1118482236083511297>) - Graph of London Tube stations that are on at least three lines <https://w.wiki/35s> (source <https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1118137336129302529>) - Map of churches in Sri Lanka <https://w.wiki/3FV> (source <https://twitter.com/xaviaranda/status/1120031399585767425>) Development - Improved the external identifiers landscape (phab:T204440 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204440>) - Prepare process and announcement for the wb_terms migration to come - Allow configuring WDQS UI without changes to files under version control (phab:T194179 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194179>) - Configure suggestion constraint level on Beta (phab:T221107 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221107>) - Graduate suggestions based on constraints beta feature out of beta features (phab:T209879 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209879>) - Editing of labels and descriptions on mobile (phab:T216987 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216987>) - Editing aliases on mobile (phab:T218690 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218690>) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt…>. Monthly Tasks - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Suggested and open tasks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks> ! - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> . - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- 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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Depicts statements coming to Commons this week (15 April)
by Keegan Peterzell 23 Apr '19

23 Apr '19

Greetings, (This message is also posted at the Commons Village Pump, and the SDC talk page) The Structured Data on Commons [0] team plans to release support for depicts statements this week, on Thursday, 18 April. The community's testing over the past several weeks [1] helped identify and fix issues before launch, and the development team spent time setting up extensive internal testing to make sure the release goes as well as possible. This release is very simple, with only the most basic depicts statements available. There is a significant amount of technological change happening with this project, and this release contains a lot of background change that the team needs to make sure works fine live on Commons before adding further support. More parts to depicts statements, and other statements, will be released within the next few weeks. A page for depicts has been set up at Commons:Depicts [2] As I can't actually write instructive Commons policy or guidelines, I encourage those who have tried out simple depicts tagging add a few lines to the page suggesting proper use of the tool. I also encourage the use to be conservative at first, as we wait for more advanced features within the coming month or two as additional statement support goes live. I'll keep the community updated as the plans progress throughout the week, the team will know better within the next day or two if things are definitely okay to proceed with release. 0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee… 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Depicts -- Keegan Peterzell Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata and Arabic dialects
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 22 Apr '19

22 Apr '19

Dear Mr., I thank you for your answer. This is just what I meant. If Wikidata supports Arabic dialects, there will be no need to create tens of Wikipedias and Wiktionaries. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki (he/him) Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36 GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group Member, WikiResearch Tunisia Member, Wiki Project Med Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb Founder, TunSci ____________________ +21629499418 -------- Message d'origine -------- De : Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> Date : 2019/04/21 16:18 (GMT+01:00) À : Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Objet : Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata and Arabic dialects Hoi, All Arabic languages are in principle eligible for localisation in translatewiki.net<http://translatewiki.net>. At the time, the WMF board was not all too pleased with an Egyptian Wikipedia. Having said that, localisation is not a problem from a language committee position. Having new projects in Arabic family languages requires the blessing of the board. Thanks, GerardM On Sun, 21 Apr 2019 at 16:05, Houcemeddine A. Turki <turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr<mailto:turkiabdelwaheb@hotmail.fr>> wrote: Dear all, I thank you for your efforts. It was a long time since I began working on the issue of Arabic dialects in wikis. This issue is complicated as it has many significant sides such as the linguistic side and the sociopolitical side. In 2008, Language Committee approved the creation of Egyptian Wikipedia. Nowadays, many of the articles of this Wikipedia are written in Modern Standard Arabic and not in Egyptian Arabic. Moreover, most of the articles written in Egyptian Wikipedia are stubs. This can be explained by the difficulty of writing Egyptian and finding technical terms in this language as well as many other Arabic dialects due to the lack of standardization. In 2017, I proposed in AICCSA 2017 conference (ERA C Class Conference) the that Wikidata can be used a knowledgebase for Arabic dialects (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321039195_Using_WikiData_as_a_Mult…). In fact, we can be simply done by adding labels in Arabic dialects to all Wikidata entities and we will not face the matters faced by active Egyptian Wikipedia editors as we do not need to formulate statements into sentences to put them in Wikidata. Furthermore, the database can be useful for a variety of other important tasks such as Named Entity Recognition. All what we should do is to translate Mediawiki system messages to Arabic dialects and add labels, descriptions and aliases in Arabic dialects. Since 2017, I worked to add support to Tunisian Arabic in Wikidata so that I can convince users of the accuracy of this solution. As you can know, Tunisian is represented in Mediawiki with three language codes: aeb, aeb-arab (Arabic Script) and aeb-latn (Latin Script: Arabizi). I added labels, descriptions and aliases in aeb-arab and aeb-latn. However, aeb remained without labels. I ask if you can add a module to Wikidata that adds any label, description or alias of aeb-arab to aeb. I also ask about your opinions about this Wikidata project. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki (he/him) Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36 GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group Member, WikiResearch Tunisia Member, Wiki Project Med Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb Founder, TunSci ____________________ +21629499418 _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata and Tunisian Arabic
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 22 Apr '19

22 Apr '19

Dear Mr., I thank you for your answer. I agree. We do not need aeb. In fact, we have an Arabic and a Latin Script for Tunisian. Concerning the long discussions on this issue, the problem is that before 2015 there were no reference linguistic research paper about the Latin Script. That is why we decided to create a formal Latin Script and apply it in our Wikimedia projects. However, the project failed as we failed to convince people to use the new writing system. But, nowadays, Arabizi, the main Latin Script for Tunisian, is efficiently described by the research literature. We currently have five detailed descriptions of Tunisian Arabizi. So, we can use it. Consequently, we can write the native name of AEB-LATN as "Tounsi". Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki (he/him) Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36 GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group Member, WikiResearch Tunisia Member, Wiki Project Med Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb Founder, TunSci ____________________ +21629499418 -------- Message d'origine -------- De : Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> Date : 2019/04/22 07:16 (GMT+01:00) À : Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Objet : Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata and Tunisian Arabic Hoi, Having both aeb, aeb-arab and aeb-latn available is wrong. There should be aeb that is implicitly in the default Arabic script. When you want to have both Latin and Arabic as default you do not need the aeb. Thanks, GerardM On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 at 02:54, Houcemeddine A. Turki <turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr<mailto:turkiabdelwaheb@hotmail.fr>> wrote: Dear all, I thank you for your answers. I am sure that using Wikidata to support Arabic dialects including Tunisian is simpler. Effectively, all what should be done is to translate Mediawiki system messages and add labels, descriptions and aliases to all Wikidata items and properties. However, we are facing several problems. Now, according to https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Language_statistics_for_items, we have added 3,711 labels, 3,324 descriptions and 217,740 aliases in Arabic Script. Although we were behind the labels and descriptions, we do not find how the aliases were added. I ask if I can see and track these aliases so that I can verify if they are accurate. We found as well that 196,119 labels, 3 descriptions and 23,581 aliases were added in Latin Script (AEB-LATN). After verification, we found that Mr. Marcus Cyron is who added the important output for Latin Script. In fact, he automatically considers the English name of a European or American person as the label of this person in AEB-LATN. If we consider Arabizi as the Latin Script of Tunisian, the rule should be "The French name of a person is considered de facto as the label of this person in AEB-LATN except when the person was born or lives in an OIC country (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Organisation_of_Islami…)". Mr. Marcus Cyron is kindly required to adjust this rule and he is thanked in advance to apply it on all Wikidata entities. He can also apply the rule to non-OIC towns. Concerning AEB, I ask if a module can be added to Wikidata so that it automatically considers all labels, descriptions and aliases of AEB-ARAB as the ones of AEB. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki (he/him) Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36 GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group Member, WikiResearch Tunisia Member, Wiki Project Med Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb Founder, TunSci ____________________ +21629499418 _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Wikidata and Tunisian Arabic
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 22 Apr '19

22 Apr '19

Dear all, I thank you for your answers. I am sure that using Wikidata to support Arabic dialects including Tunisian is simpler. Effectively, all what should be done is to translate Mediawiki system messages and add labels, descriptions and aliases to all Wikidata items and properties. However, we are facing several problems. Now, according to https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Language_statistics_for_items, we have added 3,711 labels, 3,324 descriptions and 217,740 aliases in Arabic Script. Although we were behind the labels and descriptions, we do not find how the aliases were added. I ask if I can see and track these aliases so that I can verify if they are accurate. We found as well that 196,119 labels, 3 descriptions and 23,581 aliases were added in Latin Script (AEB-LATN). After verification, we found that Mr. Marcus Cyron is who added the important output for Latin Script. In fact, he automatically considers the English name of a European or American person as the label of this person in AEB-LATN. If we consider Arabizi as the Latin Script of Tunisian, the rule should be "The French name of a person is considered de facto as the label of this person in AEB-LATN except when the person was born or lives in an OIC country (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Organisation_of_Islami…)". Mr. Marcus Cyron is kindly required to adjust this rule and he is thanked in advance to apply it on all Wikidata entities. He can also apply the rule to non-OIC towns. Concerning AEB, I ask if a module can be added to Wikidata so that it automatically considers all labels, descriptions and aliases of AEB-ARAB as the ones of AEB. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki (he/him) Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36 GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group Member, WikiResearch Tunisia Member, Wiki Project Med Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb Founder, TunSci ____________________ +21629499418

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Wikidata and Arabic dialects
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 21 Apr '19

21 Apr '19

Dear all, I thank you for your efforts. It was a long time since I began working on the issue of Arabic dialects in wikis. This issue is complicated as it has many significant sides such as the linguistic side and the sociopolitical side. In 2008, Language Committee approved the creation of Egyptian Wikipedia. Nowadays, many of the articles of this Wikipedia are written in Modern Standard Arabic and not in Egyptian Arabic. Moreover, most of the articles written in Egyptian Wikipedia are stubs. This can be explained by the difficulty of writing Egyptian and finding technical terms in this language as well as many other Arabic dialects due to the lack of standardization. In 2017, I proposed in AICCSA 2017 conference (ERA C Class Conference) the that Wikidata can be used a knowledgebase for Arabic dialects (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321039195_Using_WikiData_as_a_Mult…). In fact, we can be simply done by adding labels in Arabic dialects to all Wikidata entities and we will not face the matters faced by active Egyptian Wikipedia editors as we do not need to formulate statements into sentences to put them in Wikidata. Furthermore, the database can be useful for a variety of other important tasks such as Named Entity Recognition. All what we should do is to translate Mediawiki system messages to Arabic dialects and add labels, descriptions and aliases in Arabic dialects. Since 2017, I worked to add support to Tunisian Arabic in Wikidata so that I can convince users of the accuracy of this solution. As you can know, Tunisian is represented in Mediawiki with three language codes: aeb, aeb-arab (Arabic Script) and aeb-latn (Latin Script: Arabizi). I added labels, descriptions and aliases in aeb-arab and aeb-latn. However, aeb remained without labels. I ask if you can add a module to Wikidata that adds any label, description or alias of aeb-arab to aeb. I also ask about your opinions about this Wikidata project. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki (he/him) Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36 GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group Member, WikiResearch Tunisia Member, Wiki Project Med Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb Founder, TunSci ____________________ +21629499418

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Please remove me from your mailing list
by Kinan Zahed 18 Apr '19

18 Apr '19

Hi Team, I have been part of the list for quite a long time now - but have made no contribution. To be honest, I never really understood the content of the email. Requesting your or the team to kindly unsubscribe me from the mailing list. Thanks, Kinan

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[OM-2019] 1st CFP: 14th workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC
by Pavel Shvaiko 18 Apr '19

18 Apr '19

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS ON JUNE 28TH, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Fourteenth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2019) http://om2019.ontologymatching.org/ October 26th or 27th, 2019, ISWC Workshop Program, Auckland, New Zealand BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data interlinking, query answering or process mapping. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to data interlinking, process mapping and web table matching tasks. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2019 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2019/ 3. To examine new uses, similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) datasets, benchmarks and replication studies, services, software, methodologies, protocols and measures (not necessarily related to OAEI), and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data); Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios (e.g., public sector, homeland security); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., with environmental data); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching and knowledge graphs; Matching and deep learning; Matching and embeddings; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Privacy-aware matching; Process model matching; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2019 campaign. Long technical papers should be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 5 pages. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages. All contributions have to be prepared using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 and should be submitted in PDF format (no later than June 28th, 2019) through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2019 Contributors to the OAEI 2019 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2019/. DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: June 28th, 2019: Deadline for the submission of papers. July 24th, 2019: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. August 26th, 2019: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 26th or 27th, 2019: OM-2019, Auckland, New Zealand. Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Trentino Digitale, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France 3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz The Alan Turing Institute, UK & University of Oslo, Norway 4. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA 5.Cássia Trojahn IRIT, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Manuel Atencia, INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM, France Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, UK Valerie Cross, Miami University, USA Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France Warith Eddine Djeddi, LIPAH & LABGED, Tunisia AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin, USA Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Marko Gulic, University of Rijeka, Croatia Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Simon Kocbek, University of Melbourne, Australia Prodromos Kolyvakis, EPFL, Switzerland Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Oliver Lehmberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Peter Mork, MITRE, USA Andriy Nikolov, Metaphacts GmbH, Germany Axel Ngonga, University of Paderborn, Germany George Papadakis, University of Athens, Greece Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal Henry Rosales-Méndez, University of Chile, Chile Juan Sequeda, Capsenta, USA Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Giorgos Stoilos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Pedro Szekely, University of Southern California, USA Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Xingsi Xue, Fujian University of Technology, China Ondrej Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Trentino Digitale, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ https://www.trentinodigitale.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel -- Cap. Soc. Euro 6.433.680,00 - REG. IMP. / C.F. / P.IVA 00990320228 E-mail: tndigit(a)tndigit.it <mailto:infotn@infotn.it> - www.trentinodigitale.it <http://www.infotn.it> Società soggetta ad attività di direzione e coordinamento da parte della Provincia Autonoma di Trento - C.Fisc. 00337460224. Questo messaggio è indirizzato esclusivamente ai destinatari in intestazione, può contenere informazioni protette e riservate ai sensi della normativa vigente e ne è vietato qualsiasi impiego diverso da quello per cui è stato inviato. Se lo avete ricevuto per errore siete pregati di eliminarlo in ogni sua parte e di avvisare il mittente

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WikidataCon application, program submission and scholarship processes are now open
by Léa Lacroix 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

Hello all, As you may know, the *WikidataCon 2019 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019>* will take place on October 25th-26th 2019 in Berlin. The conference will host 250 people from the Wikidata community, but also the emerging Wikibase community, as well as partners, organizations and companies the organizations who may be interested in *using Wikidata and Wikibase*, or contributing in various ways to the evolution of Wikidata. The event will be focused on networking and strategic discussions around Wikidata and Wikibase, with a special focus on *languages and Wikidata*. Because the number of seats is limited and in order to make sure that the access to the conference is fair, we decided to set up a selection process. People who wish to attend the conference can now apply by filling in the application form <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Apply>. A committee equally composed of volunteers and staff will evaluate the applications against criteria that are already published onwiki <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend>. This application form aims to gather all of the useful information at once, that’s why it also contains the program submissions (limited to 3 per person) and the scholarship application if needed. You can find more information about the content of the form on this page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Apply>. Part of the attendees will be also invited directly by the organizing team, based on the connections we want to build with organizations during this conference, and the input they can bring to Wikidata’s strategy. The deadline to fill out the application form is April 26th. No application can be considered after this date. Over the following month, the committee will evaluate the applications, and the applicants will receive an answer latest on June 12th. Here are a few tips to help you prepare your application: - Read the description of the conference <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019> and the page describing the process and the criteria <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend> carefully. - Plan 20 to 30 minutes to fill out the form. - Don’t do it at the last minute :) it will be less stressful for you, as well as for the committee. - Prepare all your program submissions, as they will be requested in the same form (no submission can be done later). On this page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Program> you can check the formats and questions. - Read the Friendly Space Policy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Policy> that will apply to the entire event. - Look at the visa information <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Visa> to check if you need a visa to Germany and what actions you need to take. You can find a lot of information regarding the conference on Wikidata:WikidataCon 2019 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019>. If you have any question or issue, feel free to share it on the talk page onwiki or to reach the organizing team at info(a)wikidatacon.org Finally, feel free to share this message with your local community, networks, or projects you’re working in! We want to make sure that everyone who’s involved in Wikidata or Wikibase has a chance to apply. We're looking forward to receiving your applications! Thanks for your attention, -- 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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