In November of last year, Aaron noticed a spike in memcached traffic, which
we were eventually able to attribute to Wikibase client fetching the
SiteList on every request. When Katie fixed it, outbound memcached traffic
nearly halved.
We're now back to the same rate of outbound traffic as then, and the
culprit appears to be the same key.
See: http://i.imgur.com/v9ebld6.png
Tracked in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56602
Hi all,
I'd like to share a little tool with you that has been created at a
recent hackathon. Not my work but a nice idea that might inspire others:
"AnnoT" is a manual text annotation tool where you can, while typing
text into an HTML form, select Wikidata items for some of the words. You
then get (stable) hyperlinks to Wikipedia and some extra data displayed
elsewhere on the page while you hover. This has been created by a team
of PhD researchers and students (though, admittedly, rather skilled ones
[1]) in essentially one afternoon. It's got some rough edges, but it
still shows a nice use of the APIs.
* Demo of the prototype: http://ewakowalczuk.github.io/annot/
Type text, use the TAB key for starting autocompletion on words that
would have a Wikidata item. It works better for me in Chrome than in
Firefox, though I remember them testing it on both.
* Documentation and code: https://github.com/EwaKowalczuk/annot
This was done two weeks ago, at the Web Intelligence Summer School on
"Web of Data" [2], where I had the pleasure to talk a bit about Wikidata.
Cheers,
Markus
[1] The authors, in random order, are: Peter Wetz, Ewa Kowalczuk, Bojan
Bozic, Michael Luggen, Olga Parkhimovich.
[2] http://www.emse.fr/~zimmermann/WI_2014_Site/
Hi,
I just updated the data for the Wikidata classes and properties browser
[1] -- was about time -- and added some improvements on the way:
(1) Classes and properties are now always ordered by usage (most used
first), which was not possible to do before. Examples:
** properties related to humans (or anything else with sex or gender)
ordered by usage:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/miga/#_cat=Properties/Related%20p…
(for properties, usage includes the use in qualifiers and references)
** Most used months:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/miga/#_cat=Classes/All%20supercla…
Seems that May is most popular so far. Thanks to whoever added the
pretty pictures :-) You can replace the word "month" with other things,
such as "band", "building", or "mythical character" to see what kinds of
these things we have. In fact, the individual pages for the classes will
also show the same list at their bottom, but without any pictures.
(2) Classes with the same English label are no longer confused. This
fixes ambiguities and wrong links for many things.
The data is from 1st September.
Cheers,
Markus
[1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/miga/
Reload the page (CTRL+R) to get the new data.
Hoi,
I do not know if you were present at the recent chat, I could not be there
but I could read the log ... You may have been at the chat, you may have
read the log [1].
I did read the log and it did not motivate me at all. If anything it made
me sad. From what I read, people were concerned about the things they are
currently working on and it was all about ensuring that nothing would be
lost nothing would change really.
I did not get any feeling for the reasons why the Wikidatification of media
files is worthwhile. I feel really bad about this because the purpose of it
all is so important.
It is all about PEOPLE.
People that will find images with "een hond, een kat, een paard" or "ein
Hund, eine Katze, ein Pferd" ....
When these people are eight years old and "only" 50% of pictures with such
a subject like dog cat or horse can be found in this way, we have
accomplished a lot. It is a 100% improvement.
All the current categories and templates have their place and the
information that is in that data will be converted straight away or
eventually. It does not matter really, What matters is that we focus on the
application of what we do. Who benefits, how do we transition to where we
want to be. How do we make sure that we gain the most of all the work we
do, have done and will do.
It starts with obvious benefits.. Enabling people to use the media files is
what the wikidatification of media files is about. That may already be too
abstract; when it is, it is about finding doggies, kitties and horsies..
When the Wikidatification is about such tangible objectives, who will
object ? With objectives like that, the devil is still in the detail but we
will see the forest from the trees.
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2014/wikimedia-office.20…
Hey,
Wikibase, the software created for the Wikidata project, now has it's own
website. http://wikiba.se/
Among the goals of the website are promoting third party usage and
outlining the various components and applications that make up the Wikibase
software. It is not meant to hold the per component documentation, such as
installation instructions for the Wikibase Repository extension, which
remain where they are, and simply are referenced where applicable.
It's still a work in progress, and you are invited to edit the site, by
sending a pull request.
Cheers
--
Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com
Software craftsmanship advocate
Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany
~=[,,_,,]:3
[X-posted announcement]
Hello,
The Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia Foundation has been working
on a tool for easy translation of Wikipedia articles from one language to
another. The Content Translation tool has been in development since early
2014 and in July it was deployed and opened for testing on beta labs. The
tool currently provides an editing interface, limited machine translation
capability, link and reference adaptation and dictionary support. The first
rollout included machine translation support from Spanish to Catalan. Since
then, the tool has been used to create more than 100 new articles for the
Catalan Wikipedia.
On 5 September 2014, the team will be hosting a round-table conversation
with some of the editors from the Catalan Wikipedia who have been using
Content Translation. The online event is scheduled from 1600 UTC to 1700
UTC. We would like to invite everyone to join us (please use the event url
below) and add your questions to know more about this project. The same url
can be used later to view an archived version of the event.
Thank you.
Event Details:
==========
# Event url - https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ckphmp2shtnc6hadsca95thshp4
# Date: September 5, 2014 (Friday)
# Time: 1600 UTC (check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140905T1600)
Project Details:
============
# Project Home: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
# Announcements:
##
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/16/first-look-at-the-content-translation-…
and
##
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/26/content-translation-100-published-arti…
--
regards,
Runa
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hey folks :)
We're starting to pick up speed with structured data support for
Commons now. It'd be great to have you all on board for this. Planning
documents are linked below. I hope to see many of you interested in
multimedia at the office hour on September 3rd.
Cheers
Lydia
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:48 AM
Subject: Structured Data on Commons
To: Multimedia Mailing List <multimedia(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings!
We invite you to join a discussion about Structured Data on Commons,
to help us plan our next steps for this project.
The Structured Data initiative proposes to store and retrieve
information for media files in machine-readable data on Wikimedia
Commons, using Wikidata tools and practices, as described on our new
project page (1).
The purpose of this project is to make it easier for users to read and
write file information, and to enable developers to build better tools
to view, search, edit, curate and use media files. To that end, we
propose to investigate this opportunity together through community
discussions and small experiments. If these initial tests are
successful, we would develop new tools and practices for structured
data, then work with our communities to gradually migrate unstructured
data into a machine-readable format over time.
The Multimedia team and the Wikidata team are starting to plan this
project together, in collaboration with many community volunteers
active on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. We had a truly inspiring
roundtable discussion about Structured Data at Wikimania a few weeks
ago, to define a first proposal together (2).
We would now like to extend this discussion to include more community
members that might benefit from this initiative. Please take a moment
to read the project overview on Commons, then let us know what you
think, by answering some of the questions on its talk page (3).
We also invite you to join a Structured Data Q&A on Wednesday
September 3 at 19:00 UTC, so we can discuss some of the details live
in this IRC office hours chat. Please RSVP if you plan to attend (4).
Lastly, we propose to form small workgroups to investigate workflows,
data structure, research, platform, features, migration and other open
issues. If you are interested in contributing to one of these
workgroups, we invite you to sign up on directly on our hub page (5)
-- and help start a sub-page for your workgroup.
We look forward to some productive discussions with you in coming
weeks. In previous roundtables, many of you told us this is the most
important contribution that our team can make to support multimedia in
coming years. We heard you loud and clear and are happy to devote more
resources to bring it to life, with your help.
We are honored to be working with the Wikidata team and talented
community members like you to take on this challenge, improve our
infrastructure and provide a better experience for all our users.
Onward!
Fabrice — for the Structured Data team
(1) Structured Data Hub on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
(2) Structured Data Slides:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Structured_Data_-_Slides.pdf
(3) Structured Data Talk Page:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data
(4) Structured Data Q&A (IRC chat on Sep. 3):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Discussions
(5) Structured Data Workgroups:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Workgroups
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
--
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 27/681/51985.
Hey folks :)
The guys behind Histropedia are pretty awesome and they are making
cool use of Wikidata. I asked them to write a bit about how they use
Wikidata and how they think they can help Wikidata in the future.
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/09/02/why-wikidata-is-so-important-to-histrop…
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 27/681/51985.
Hey folks :)
Yesterday we deployed new code. This includes among other things bugfixes for:
* auto-comment parameter when creating redirects (bug 69750)
* link to badge items pointing to the wrong site (bug 69758)
In addition you now also get suggestions when adding a qualifier or a reference.
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 27/681/51985.
