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[Wikidata-l] Making Wikidata entries at the time of 'Article for Creation' publication
by Andy Mabbett 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

I have been helping with the backlog of "Article for Creation" requests on en.Wikipedia. It occurs to me that in doing so I often supply enough data to start a Wikidata entry (or, at least, to pre-populate one for further editing before saving). Please see : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Articles_for_creat… for more on this; help from a coder would be useful. Something for the hackathon, perhaps? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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[Wikidata-l] New introductory article on Wikidata
by Markus Krötzsch 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Dear all, Denny and I are happy to report that our first general overview article on Wikidata has now been accepted for publication at Communications of the ACM. \o/ The article has not appeared yet, but we have published our accepted manuscript [1]. The final article should be published with Open Access, and thus be available at the official CACM website without subscription, but this may still take a bit of time (and some copyediting). We hope that this will help to introduce many more people to the project. It was written with a very wide audience in mind. All statistics in the article are quite recent (based on the dumps + daily dumps up to Feb 20 2014), but we will try to update them once more before publication (if at all possible). Cheers, Markus [1] "Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledge Base" http://korrekt.org/page/Wikidata

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[Wikidata-l] difference between "instance of" and "is a list of" properties usages
by Hady elsahar 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Hi All, i got confused between the usage of the two properties "instance of " (P31<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31>) and "is a list of" (P360 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P360>) for example we can find that only 2K entities are listed as Person<http://wikidata.org/entity/Q215627> class using P31 property while the rest are mainly P360 and P107 numbers in details: 93979 <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P107> 2171 <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P31> 60024 <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P360> Thanks Regards ------------------------------------------------- Hady El-Sahar Research Assistant Center of Informatics Sciences | Nile University<http://nileuniversity.edu.eg/>

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[Wikidata-l] Queries - can they be stored as statements in Category/List items?
by David Cuenca 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

I would like to make you aware of this RFC started by Gerard: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Define_lists_on… It is interesting because in the end, what is the difference between a list, a category, and a query? Not much, really. I'm curious to know if the approach taken with queries will be the same as the WDQ http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=6573995 Items like "List of..." or "Category:" would have some use, but the development notes don't state if this is the intended path https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Queries Any thoughts about it? Cheers, Micru

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[Wikidata-l] [GSoC 2014] Proposal for page migration project under the Translate Extension
by Pratik Lahoti 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Hello everyone! I am Pratik Lahoti (User:BPositive) from Pune, India. I am willing to participate in the Google Summer of Code this year. I am interested in the project titled - "Tools for mass migration of legacy translated wiki content<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2014#Tools_for_mass_migration…> ". My mentors for this project would be Niklas Laxström<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Nlaxstrom> and Federico Leva <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nemo_bis>. With their help, I have drafted the first version of my proposal page. You can find it here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate/Mass_migration_tools Brief overview of the project: The MediaWiki Translate extension<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate> makes the task of translation easier by providing a user-friendly interface that consists of text strings splitted into translation units. Non-translatable content like images are excluded from the process of translation. Though that makes the job easy with a rich editor supporting various languages, a lot of effort is required to prepare the page for translation, i.e, the page under question first needs to be converted into a format that would be recognized by the Translate extension. The process of preparing the page for translation needs to take into consideration various markups<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_ad…> which becomes a tedious task when done manually. Plus, wikis have a lot of legacy content that still needs to be made translatable. Thus, with this motivation, the project aims to facilitate this conversion and thereby save manual time and effort. The tool developed would thus make the page translatable, and once that is done, it would import the translations (which were present before the page was made translatable) into the Translate extension. Thus, the entire process of importing translations which involved a significant amount of manual task gets automated by this project. The proposal page mentions the Project Outline and the approach/solution towards the problem statement. I am done with most of the sections and left with the Project Schedule (which I will finish off when everything is finalized). Please have a look at the proposal and give your valuable feedback/suggestions. While I have no problems in replying to the suggestions put forth over here, I would appreciate if you can do the same on the discussion page<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Translate/Mass_migration_tools> of the proposal, so that all the feedback is at one single place. Looking forward to the inputs from the community. -- Warm Regards, *Pratik Lahoti* User:BPositive <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:BPositive>

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #100
by Lydia Pintscher 08 Mar '14

08 Mar '14

Hey folks :) Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata this week. And we hit 100! \o/ Discussions[edit<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_03_…> ] - Discussion about enabling GuidedTours on Wikidata<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Extension:GuidedTours> - Open RfA: ElfjeTwaalfje<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_03_…> ] - Wikiquote will get language links via Wikidata on April 8th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikiquote<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiquote> . Did you know?[edit<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_03_…> ] - Newest properties: portal's main topic<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1204> , Finnish municipality number<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1203> , carries scientific instrument<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1202> , upper stage booster <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1201>, river basin category <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1200>, mode of inheritance <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1199> Development[edit<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_03_…> ] - Added more details to the diffs of time and geocoordinate values (will show which globe the coordinate is on and so on now as well) - More work on badges by Bene* - most work left is now in the GUI part of it - Removed unneeded and unused permissions/rights - Fixed a bug concerning spaces in quantities (bugzilla:61911<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61911> ) - Started work on taking ranks into account for queries, the property parser function and Lua. (By default only preferred values should be used if available. If not available then it should use values with rank normal.) - test2.wikipedia.org and test.wikipedia.org now use test.wikidata.orgas their data repository, instead of wikidata.org - Started work on WikibaseInternalSerialization component - Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7 - https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md - Added indexes to Wikibase QueryEngine - Improved SQLite support in Wikibase Database - Started moving virtual machine instances of various test systems to the new Wikimedia Datacenter See current sprint items<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&resolution=---&re…> for what we’re working on next. You can view the commits currently in review here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+…> and the ones that have been merged here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+…> . You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolu…> Monthly Tasks[edit<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_03_…> ] - Fix a format or content violation<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violatio…> for the sport (P641) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P641> property - Hack on one of these<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&ke…> . - Help develop the next summary here!<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> - Contribute to a Showcase item<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase> Anything to add? Please share! :) 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.

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[Wikidata-l] date for Wikiquote getting language links via Wikidata
by Lydia Pintscher 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Hey :) As planned Wikiquote will be the next sister project supported by Wikidata. We're starting with language links again and will later enable data access. I've currently scheduled the first part for April 8th. Depending on how that goes I will schedule the second part. Coordination is happening at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiquote and it'd be awesome if you added your name there if you're active on Wikiquote. We need people to act as local ambassadors to make sure everything goes smoothly. I'm excited about getting our next sister project in! 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.

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[Wikidata-l] Wikibase for a private wiki
by Luca Martinelli 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Hi there, I'm setting up a private wiki and I'd like to add Wikibase. Does it work with Mediawiki 1.22? And where can I download the whole package? Since I know this is not the place for such a private discussion, if you want to advice me, please answer me in private, so that we don't disturb the others. :) Cheers, L.

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Re: [Wikidata-l] Large scale glitch in references
by Markus Krötzsch 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Hi ValterVB, On 04/03/14 20:17, ValterVB wrote: > Hi Markus, it’s an error of my bot (ValterVBot). Thanks to noted them. I > can fix it probably on friday or saturday, source should be Q11920 not > Q11329. Sorry for this problem. Great, that should be fine. > ValterVB > PS I’m not sure if I reply to mail-archive or in you private mail, in > second case, can you post this mail? Thanks. Done. Best regards, Markus

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[Wikidata-l] "Wikidata pages linked to this item"
by Maxime Lathuilière 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

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