Wikidata September 2019

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Re: [Wikidata] Personal news: a new role
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

Dear Sir, I thank you for your efforts. I was honoured to see your recent return to Wikidata mailing list. Your contributions were important for the Wikidata community to develop the project. Concerning the paper we began to write in 2016 about Medical Wikidata but has been interrupted due to many important reasons, I am honoured to inform you that it was accepted for publication in Journal of Biomedical Informatics and will be issued online within two weeks. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki (he/him) Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group Member, Wiki Project Med Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb ____________________ +21629499418 -------- Message d'origine -------- De : Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)google.com> Date : 2019/09/21 00:55 (GMT+01:00) À : "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Objet : Re: [Wikidata] Personal news: a new role Thanks everyone for this warm welcome (back)! On Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 10:38 Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)google.com<mailto:vrandecic@google.com>> wrote: Off to my Todo list :) On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:46 AM Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk<mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>> wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 17:56, Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)google.com<mailto:vrandecic@google.com>> wrote: > I am moving to a new role in Google Research, akin to a Wikimedian in > Residence That's marvelous; congratulations. Please bear in mind this project: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Voice_intro_project and the Googlers who have Wikipedia articles about them (or, indeed, Wikidata items). -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ 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] Lexical datas and automated learning – where it is answered to « I don’t believe in Wikidata senses developpment »
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

Dear all, I thank you for your efforts. To know more about word embedding and semantic similarity, please refer to the survey of our research group about the issue available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0952197619301745. If you would like that we work on using these techniques to enrich Lexicographical Data on Wikidata, we will be honoured to do this. However, we will face two main problems. The first one is absolutely funding and the second one is that we need people to validate the information returned by these two techniques and adjust it if needed. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki (he/him) Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36 GLAM, Research and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group Member, Wiki Project Med Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb ____________________ +21629499418 -------- Message d'origine -------- De : Thomas Douillard <thomas.douillard(a)gmail.com> Date : 2019/09/20 12:08 (GMT+01:00) À : "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Objet : [Wikidata] Lexical datas and automated learning – where it is answered to « I don’t believe in Wikidata senses developpment » I recently read the french sentence « Je ne crois pas au développement des sens. » — translation : I don’t believes senses with develop much (following links in a Wikidata Weekly summary, the slides on a french meeting about Wikidata lexicographical datas). I believe in it, (regardless of the arguments exposed in the slides), and I write this email to try to explain why. I’m curious to know if there is already some work on the automated discovering of lexicographical datas / senses thanks to the help of Wikidata items. There is tools for automated tagging of terms with the corresponding Wikidata item, that appeared on this mailing list and/or on the wikidata weekly summaries. There is also methods that can discover senses into texts using only the terms with no reference to any external « sense » like https://towardsdatascience.com/word-embedding-with-word2vec-and-fasttext-a2… and can discriminate several usages of the same word according to the context. Wikidata lexicographical datas and Wikibase items could close the loop between the 2 methods and allow us to semi automatically build tools that annotate texts with Wikidata items it there is something relevant in Wikidata, but if there is nono try to suggest to add datas on Wikidata, wether it’s a missing item or a missing sense for the term. It may even be possible to store word embeddings generated by word2vec methods into Wikidata senses. In conclusion, I think Wikidata senses will be used because they allow to close a gap. It does not depends only on a strong involvement in a volunteer traditional lexicographic community. If reasearchers of the language community dives into this and develop algorithms and easy to use tools to share there lexicographical datas in Wikidata, there could be a very positive feedback loop where numerous data ends to be added on Wikidata, where the store datas helps the algorithm to enrich text annotations, for example, and missing datas are semi automatically added thanks to user feedback. This is all just wishful thinking, but I thought this deserved to be shared, hopefully this will launch at list a thread of ideas/comment in here :) Thomas

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Lexical datas and automated learning – where it is answered to « I don’t believe in Wikidata senses developpment »
by Thomas Douillard 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

I recently read the french sentence « Je ne crois pas au développement des sens. » — translation : I don’t believes senses with develop much (following links in a Wikidata Weekly summary, the slides on a french meeting about Wikidata lexicographical datas). I believe in it, (regardless of the arguments exposed in the slides), and I write this email to try to explain why. I’m curious to know if there is already some work on the automated discovering of lexicographical datas / senses thanks to the help of Wikidata items. There is tools for automated tagging of terms with the corresponding Wikidata item, that appeared on this mailing list and/or on the wikidata weekly summaries. There is also methods that can discover senses into texts using only the terms with no reference to any external « sense » like https://towardsdatascience.com/word-embedding-with-word2vec-and-fasttext-a2… and can discriminate several usages of the same word according to the context. Wikidata lexicographical datas and Wikibase items could close the loop between the 2 methods and allow us to semi automatically build tools that annotate texts with Wikidata items it there is something relevant in Wikidata, but if there is nono try to suggest to add datas on Wikidata, wether it’s a missing item or a missing sense for the term. It may even be possible to store word embeddings generated by word2vec methods into Wikidata senses. In conclusion, I think Wikidata senses will be used because they allow to close a gap. It does not depends only on a strong involvement in a volunteer traditional lexicographic community. If reasearchers of the language community dives into this and develop algorithms and easy to use tools to share there lexicographical datas in Wikidata, there could be a very positive feedback loop where numerous data ends to be added on Wikidata, where the store datas helps the algorithm to enrich text annotations, for example, and missing datas are semi automatically added thanks to user feedback. This is all just wishful thinking, but I thought this deserved to be shared, hopefully this will launch at list a thread of ideas/comment in here :) Thomas

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SPARQL search for Wikipedia Link
by Olaf Simons 18 Sep '19

18 Sep '19

Hi, I am trying to bring some light into this query: https://w.wiki/8Xv Many of the listings have no labels in any language - is there a simple way to get the Wikipedia-title in whatever wp with the q-Number? cheers Olaf Dr. Olaf Simons Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt Schloss Friedenstein, Pagenhaus 99867 Gotha Büro: +49-361-737-1722 Mobil: +49-179-5196880 Privat: Hauptmarkt 17b/ 99867 Gotha

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Weekly Summary #382
by Léa Lacroix 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '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: Wikidata et Wiktionnaire <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConvention_francophone/2019/Programme/W…> session at the French-speaking WikiConvention by Pamputt <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pamputt> (slides <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_et_Wiktionnaire_-_retour_s…> ) - Upcoming: WikidataWednesday in Vienna <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Vienna/WikidataWednesday>, September 18th - Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Paris>, September 20th - Upcoming: #4 Wikidata tea party/第4回ウィキデータ茶話会 <https://www.facebook.com/events/2456357704647897/>, 20 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan - Upcoming: Wikibase Workshop/ウィキベースワークショップ <https://peatix.com/event/1301388/>, 28 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan Press, articles, blog posts <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Wikidata gets wordier <https://magazine.multilingual.com/previewissue/sept-oct-2019/wikidata-gets-…>, by Christian Lieske and Felix Sasaki on Multilingual - *Non-Parametric Class Completeness Estimators for Collaborative Knowledge Graphs -- The Case of Wikidata <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.01109.pdf>* - Michael Luggen, , et al. Tool of the week - Hauki <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Vesihiisi/Hauki> lets you browse existing Lexemes, add Senses to them, and easily create new Lexemes for common languages and lexical categories. Other Noteworthy Stuff - мир (L99999) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L99999> (peace), мир (100000) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L100000> (world/earth) and L166666 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L166666> were created Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: cumulative elevation gain <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7297>, climbing route <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7309> - External identifiers: Lower Austrian Museum ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7296>, Auckland Museum ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7298>, MUBI film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7299>, MUBI person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7300>, Al-Jazeera topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7301>, Digital Giza ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7302>, Grammy Awards artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7303>, Highland Historic Environment Record ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7304>, Online PWN Encyclopedia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7305>, Downdetector ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7306>, TOP500 System ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7307>, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7308>, Maine Trail Finder ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7310> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: Masters Thesis <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Masters_Thesis>, OFLC classification (New Zealand) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OFLC_classificatio…>, worn by <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/worn_by>, station type, interchange, status, first, last and so on <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/station_type,_inte…>, front and backside <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/front_and_backside> - External identifiers: Archnet Site ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archnet_Site_ID>, Trail Finder ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Trail_Finder_ID>, ExplorePaTrails ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ExplorePaTrails_ID>, code DANE <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/code_DANE>, ICD-11 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ICD-11>, SMHI drainage basin ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SMHI_drainage_basi…>, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Letteraturaitalian…>, NMM artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NMM_artist_ID>, Pathway Ontology ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pathway_Ontology_ID>, Mixer game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mixer_game_ID>, Vudu video ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Vudu_video_ID> - Query examples: - Number of times a Wikidata item for Carl von Linnaeus was created <https://w.wiki/8Tb> - Picture of species were the author(s) of the first scientific description is in WD and connected to Uppsala University Alvin database <https://w.wiki/8TM> - same query but where we miss a picture in Wikidata <https://w.wiki/8TQ> - Twins with different places of birth <https://w.wiki/8TX> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1172905478902505472>) - Places in Scottish local government areas <https://w.wiki/8TY> ( source <https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1172506297985654784>) - Libraries in Austria <https://w.wiki/8Ta> (source <https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1171748646980902912>) - Schema examples: - space probe <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E119> - Tsunami <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E115> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Textile arts <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Textile_arts>, Dark <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Dark> Development - Started working on two new projects: improving the resource loader module <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/4268> and tainted references <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4242> - Wikidata Bridge: save the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226999>) - Show the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227759>) - Warn user about blank edit summary on EntitySchema (phab:T230399 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230399>) 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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[CfP] Welcome to ISWC 2019
by International Semantic Web Conference 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019) “Knowledge Graphs, Linked Data, Linked Schemas and AI on the Web” Auckland, New Zealand, 26-30 October, 2019 https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/ The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the premier venue for presenting fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications concerning semantics, data, and the Web. It is the most important international venue to discuss and present latest advances and applications of the semantic Web, knowledge graphs, linked data, ontologies and artificial intelligence (AI) on the Web. ISWC attracts a large number of high quality submissions every year and participants from both industry and academia. ISWC brings together researchers from different areas, such as artificial intelligence, databases, natural language processing, information systems, human computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate, develop and use novel methods and technologies for accessing, interpreting and using information on the Web in a more effective way. Follow us: Twitter: @iswc_conf , #iswc_conf ( https://twitter.com/iswc_conf ) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13612370 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISWConf/ Become part of rich and diverse activities: Program: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/program-conf/ Keynote Talks: - For knowledge byJérôme Euzenat https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/keynote-euzenat/ - Extracting Knowledge from the Data Deluge to Reveal the Mysteries of the Universe by Melanie Johnston-Hollitt https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/keynote-melanie/ - Semantics: the business technology disruptor of the future by Dougal Watt https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/keynote-dougal/ Panel: How much semantics goes how long a way? https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/panel/ Workshops: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/program-workshop/ Tutorials: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/tutorials/ Challenges: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/challenges/ Don’t forget to register: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/registration/ See you all in Auckland! The ISWC 2019 Organising Team ( https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/organizing-committee/ )

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Cannot add identifiers
by Raffaele Costanzo 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Good afternoon, I'm Raffaele, AKA Japponcino. Because of I'm an artist, I created with the help of a friend my Wikidata page. My Wikidata page is this: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64154408 My friend suggested me to add identifiers like socials, so I went to the page I listed above and I tried to add identifiers, but I only found "add statement" at the end of the page, while my friend has identifiers and can add them. His page is this: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61758300 How can be this issue solved? Best regards, Raffaele

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Contact for Wikidata Query Service related things
by Guillaume Lederrey 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Hello all! I'm Guillaume, you might have read about me already. At the moment, I'm the primary contact for things related to Wikidata Query Service. Feel free to ping me on Phabricator, or via direct email if you think I can help unblock something. We are in the process of hiring 2 new engineers to work on WDQS, I'll keep you posted when that happens! Thanks all! Guillaume -- Guillaume Lederrey Engineering Manager, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation UTC+2 / CEST

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Wikidata geo-coordinates
by Olaf Simons 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

I am trying to synchronise FactGrid data with Wikidata. A strange question: If I run a SPARQL search such as this one: https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3FGemeinde_in_Deutschland%20%3FGemein… I get the coordinates with what looks like swapped values: "Point(10.7183 50.9489)" on the QueryService table output "50°56'56"N, 10°43'6"E" on P625 at the respective Wikidata Item Q6986 any idea why this is so? Best, Olaf Dr. Olaf Simons Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt Schloss Friedenstein, Pagenhaus 99867 Gotha Büro: +49-361-737-1722 Mobil: +49-179-5196880 Privat: Hauptmarkt 17b/ 99867 Gotha

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Raz Shuty 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Questions can be asked in English, Persian, 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 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! -- Raz Shuty Engineering Manager Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment. 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.

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