Hello,
We are conducting a survey to better understand the ontology issues within
Wikidata and their impact on data reuse.
You may recall that in 2021 and 2022 we run the Data Quality Days, which
generated a lot of very useful discussions on the processes around
increasing/maintaining data quality and utility on Wikidata. We identified
various types of ontology issues, and we would like to get input on which
of these are the most problematic for you in your use of Wikidata's data.
This survey has two sections and will take 20-25 minutes to complete.
Optional open-ended questions may lengthen the completion time.
In the first section, we will present descriptions of the ontology issues
we have found. We will ask you to evaluate the impact of these issues on
your work, and you are also invited to share any other ontology issues you
have detected in case we missed them.
The second section focuses on how you use data from Wikidata. Most of the
questions in this section are optional, meaning you do not have to share
details of your work unless you find them relevant to the issues you would
like to share with us. They are helpful to us in understanding the context
of your issues better, however.
This survey is anonymous, but there is an optional email field at the end
for follow-up questions. Providing an email will make your responses not
completely anonymous. A summary of the results of the survey will be
published as a whole at Wikidata:Ontology issues prioritization
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Ontology_issues_prioritization> and
will not include any identifying information.
If you would like to participate, please use this link (LamaPoll):
https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/ontology-issues/
We kindly request your participation by Friday, February 17th at 23:59 UTC.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to let us know by
replying directly to this message or leaving a note at Wikidata
talk:Ontology issues prioritization
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Ontology_issues_prioritization>
.
Many thanks in advance for your participation.
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Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466
https://wikimedia.de
Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: calendly.com/masssly.
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Hello all!
The Search Platform Team usually holds an open meeting on the first
Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to
Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query
Service (WCQS), etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi
Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927
Have fun and see you soon!
Guillaume
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*Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him)
Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone,
Here are a few updates from the Wikidata development team.
You can find the *development updates of 2022* on this page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan/archive2022/status_…
This page will give you an overview of the outcomes of the various
development goals of last year, both for Wikidata as a platform and the
Wikibase ecosystem.
You can find the *development plan for 2023* on this page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan This page gives you
an overview of the main goals of the development team, and the activities
we plan to run in the first part of the year (updates will be added
throughout the year).
If you have any *questions or feedback*, feel free to use the related talk
page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Development_plan
On behalf of Mohammed that will soon be back and will follow up on this
topic,
Best,
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Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Hi everyone,
We are working on making it easier to use Wikidata's data to build
applications. A big part of that is a better API. Over the past months
we have been developing the first version and gotten testing and
feedback for it. Last week we made it available on test.wikidata.org.
Today the first version of the new Wikibase REST API is available on
Wikidata. I'd like to thank everyone who helped along the way by
providing feedback and testing.
You can find more information on what you can already do with the new
Wikibase REST API at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:REST_API.
We will continue to build out its functionality and your input on what
would be most useful for you will help prioritize the next steps.
Please leave your thoughts at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:REST_API_feedback_round#The_Wik….
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher - WD:Q18016466
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
https://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
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Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Dear SPARQLists
could you help me with the trick that will bring units into this search?
https://tinyurl.com/2globymn
The Tutorial (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPARQL/WIKIDATA_Precision,_Units_and_Coordina…) tells me that I will even manage conversions - once I understand how I get the units into the picture...
much obliged,
Olaf
Dr. Olaf Simons
Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt
Am Schlossberg 2
99867 Gotha
Büro: +49-361-737-1722
Mobil: +49-179-5196880
Privat: Hauptmarkt 17b/ 99867 Gotha
The deadline for the Semantic Web Journal Special Issue on Wikidata was
extended to 14.02. More information can be found here:
https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-wikidat…
We are looking forward to your contributions! The full call for papers is
below.
Call for papers: Semantic Web Journal Special Issue on
Wikidata: Construction, Evaluation and Applications
Wikidata is an openly available knowledge base, hosted by the Wikimedia
Foundation. It can be accessed and edited by both humans and machines and
acts as a common structured-data repository for several Wikimedia projects,
including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikisource. It is used in a variety of
semantic web applications by researchers and practitioners alike.
In recent years, we have seen an increase in the number of publications
around Wikidata. While there are several dedicated venues for the broader
Wikidata community to meet, none of them focuses on publishing
comprehensive, peer-reviewed research. This special issue fills this gap -
we hope to provide a forum to build this fledgling scientific community and
promote novel work and resources that support it.
The special issue seeks original contributions and extended conference
papers that address the opportunities and challenges of creating,
contributing to, and using the global, collaborative, open-domain,
multilingual knowledge graph Wikidata.
Topics
Topics of submissions include, but are not limited to:
- Data quality and vandalism detection in Wikidata
- Referencing in Wikidata
- Anomaly, bias, or novelty detection in Wikidata
- Algorithms for aligning Wikidata with other structured or
semi-structured resources
- Representation, Semantic Annotation, Enhancement and Enrichments using
Wikidata
- Semantic Parsing and Question Answering using Wikidata
- The Semantic Web and Wikidata
- Community interaction in Wikidata
- Multilingual data in Wikidata and its reuse
- Data quality in Wikidata: Approaches for problem detection, evaluation
and improvement
- Tools, bots, and datasets for improving or evaluating Wikidata
- Participation, diversity, and inclusivity aspects in the Wikidata
ecosystem
- Human-bot interaction
- Managing knowledge evolution in Wikidata
- Abstract Wikipedia
- Wikidata in NLP applications
Deadline
- Submission deadline: 14 February 2023 (extended!). Papers submitted
before the deadline will be reviewed upon receipt.
Author Guidelines
Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at
http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Prospective authors must take notice
of the submission guidelines posted at
http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors.
We welcome four main types of submissions: (i) full research papers, (ii)
reports on tools and systems, (iii) dataset descriptions, and (iv) survey
articles. The description of submission types is posted at
http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors#types. While there is no upper
limit, paper length must be justified by content.
Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a
paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the "Wikidata"
special issue. All manuscripts will be reviewed based on the SWJ open and
transparent review policy and will be made available online during the
review process.
Also note that the Semantic Web journal is open access
<http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/open-access-swj-going-gold>.
Finally please note that submissions must comply with the journal’s Open
Science Data requirements, which are detailed in the corresponding blog post
<http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/open-science-data-impending-change…>
.
Guest editors
The guest editors can be reached at wikidata-swj(a)googlegroups.com .
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, University of Copenhagen, lucie.kaffee(a)gmail.com
Simon Razniewski, Max Planck Institute for Informatics,
srazniew(a)mpi-inf.mpg.de
Pavlos Vougiouklis, Huawei Technologies, pavlos.vougiouklis(a)huawei.com
Guest editorial board
to be expanded
Fariz Darari, University of Indonesia
Houcemeddine Turki, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Alasdair Gray, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Seyed Amir Hosseini Beghaeiraveri,Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Daniel Garijo, UPM
Nikos Papasarantopoulos, Huawei Technologies
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Lucie-Aimée Kaffee
*(apologies for cross-posting)*
Hi everyone,
The Wikidata+Wikibase office hours
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours> for the next
quarter will be held on Wednesday, January 18th 2023 at 17:00 UTC (18:00
Berlin) in the Wikidata Telegram group
<https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>.
*The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the
development teampresents what we have been working on over the past
quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss
important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.*
We hope to see you there.
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466
https://wikimedia.de
Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia,
Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now
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