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[Wikidata-l] GSoC 2014: Annotation tool for feeding wikidata
by Amanpreet Singh 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Hi! I am glad to know that mediawiki is selected as one of the mentoring organization for GSoC 2014, Cheers to Quim and all. I have selected a mentorship project from Project list<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects> named Annotation Tool that extracts information from the books and feed them on wikidata<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Annota…> in February start. I have been in contact with the mentors ( Cristian Consonni<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CristianCantoro> , Andrea Zanni <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aubrey>) since then and we have proposed a rough proposal based on our discussions and thoughts. Further information about the project has been provided on the Proposal page. Link for proposal page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Apsdehal We need community's valuable suggestions to improve the proposal, add possible features, and views on the project so that this project can be success. Thanks a lot. -- apsdehal Amanpreet Singh, IIT Roorkee -- Amanpreet Singh, IIT Roorkee

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

04 Mar '14

Hi all, Doing some fresh Wikidata statistics, I just noticed that about 107122 statements on Wikidata give "imported from Garrigàs" (Q11329) as their source (Garrigàs is a municipality in Spain, not noted for its export of statements). This seems to be caused by a systematic technical error, maybe in some bot or helper script that is used. Examples I found are certain Spanish category pages [1,2]. Merges have happened there, making it hard to trace the original source of the statement (if not the merge itself). Markus [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6259723 [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6275207 P.S. If you are interested, the following are currently the main reference items used in Wikidata (in dumps up to 20 Feb 2014) with how often they appear in references (listing all items with more than 10k appearances -- the long tail behind this is, well, long): Q328 6849677 enwiki Q48183 1880595 dewiki Q10000 1793439 nlwiki Q30239 1721524 zhwiki Q206855 1400056 ruwiki Q15241312 1151388 Freebase Data Dumps Q8447 728891 frwiki Q11920 684660 itwiki Q8449 404117 eswiki Q54919 388811 Virtual International Authority File Q169514 354040 svwiki Q4026990 299225 JPL Small-Body Database Q48952 247059 fawiki Q82575 238941 Integrated Taxonomic Information System Q423048 188784 International Standard Name Identifier Q14005 182063 MusicBrainz Q191168 151431 cswiki Q654724 119838 SIMBAD Q1071027 113210 personal name Q11329 107122 Garrigàs Q15628808 95994 Q110874 89570 Q1345229 74950 Q15235026 62666 Q4330203 60916 Q565 54270 Q11921 52608 Q278487 51846 Q522039 48161 Q156705 36610 Q856636 36236 Q177837 34262 Q1648786 33224 Q1551807 32196 Q199698 30106 Q1344256 27151 Q13561342 23950 Q15728928 22372 Q32059 20230 Q6272367 19993 Q1662358 18394 Q191769 16761 Q4115441 16180 Q199700 15905 Q922063 15024 Q181163 14612 Q155214 14170 Q192582 13676 Q200060 12393 Q11918 12266 Q199693 12093 Q905695 10886 Q11913 10587 Q53464 10505 Q200180 10154

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #99
by Lydia Pintscher 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

Heya folks :) It's been a busy week around Wikidata. Here's your summary: Discussions - Discussion about defining lists<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Define_lists_on…> - Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> , Pamputt<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> - Closed RfAs: Epìdosis<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> (Successful) Events/Press/Blogs - Wikidata scholarships for the Zürich Hackathon<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014> - Wikidata FOSS Outreach Program for Women<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_8#Wiki…> Did you know? - Newest properties: unemployment rate<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1198> , manner of death <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1196>, file extension <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1195>, received signal<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1194> , prevalence <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1193>, connecting service <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1192>, first performance<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1191> , Universal Decimal Classification<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1190> , Chinese Library Classification<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1189> , Dharma Drum Buddhist College place ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1188> , Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1187> , MEP directory identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1186> , Rodovid ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1185>, handle<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1184> , Gewässerkennzahl <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1183>, LIBRIS editions <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1182>, numeric value<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1181> , visitors per year <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1174>, Geokod <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1172>, approximation algorithm <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1171>, transmitted signal <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1170> - Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>: Why not improve Kleinmachnow (Q104192)<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104192> to showcase standard? - Wikidata's presence: vici.org are using Wikidata identifiers in their data storage Development <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Item_Loading_Time.png> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Item_Loading_Time.png> Made it faster! \o/ - Made loading items a lot faster - Enabled access to the data on Wikidata for Wikisource - Fixed the diff view sometimes showing the wrong revision - Attended ConFoo and learned all of the things - Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 0.1 - Continue work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache - Started to make Wikidata even faster by removing StaticExpert and BifidExpert - Started reviewing interface animations. You should be able to disable them all by setting $.fx.off = true; in your Special:MyPage/common.js<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.js> . - Fixed Wikidata looking a bit odd when enabling the Typography refresh<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh> Beta feature. 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 - Fix a format or content violation<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violatio…> for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P604> 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] MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
by Lydia Pintscher 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

Hey folks :) >From 9th to 11th of May there will be a [[mw:Zürich Hackathon 2014|MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich]]. Scholarships are available for this and some of them are given out by Wikimedia Germany for MediaWiki developers who are from Germany or work on Wikidata or the migration of tools from Toolserver to Tool Labs. You can apply for a scholarship directly via the registration form for the hackathon at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nlrQ7cox36xaNK1u9iKP-thogY5TVrilOGJR79DqQ9… The registration deadline is 16th of March. I’m looking forward to seeing many of you there to work on Wikidata together. The whole Wikidata dev team will attend. 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] How does Wikidata work?
by Sherlock Holmes 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

Hello everybody! Glad to join the team! I'm a freshman to use the Wikidata, and face some confusions: 1. I though Wikidata gathered data from Wikipedia infobox, but I also find that, the statements and infobox are not entirely corresponded. Some infobox data are missed in statements and the Statements also have more data than infobox. Then how does Wikidata actually create a new item? What's the detailed process? If there are new or updated articles in Wikipedia, how does Wikidata catch these updates? 2. I think there are more valuable information in Wikipedia but not included in Wikidata, e.g. categories, infobox data. How can I enrich the Wikidata? I know I may use & follow WikiData Bot's process, any directions? Any suggestions or guidance are welcome! BRs, Sherlock

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[Wikidata-l] Input on Selection of attributes for Extension Catalog Project
by Aditya Chaturvedi 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Hie, I am working on the project for a Catalog for Mediawiki Extensions. The catalog will be just like a store for extensions where users can find the best suited extension for their need and we were thinking if we could use wikidata as a backend for attributes? If that is possible, then I need some assistance in deciding that list of attributes which wikidata can provide. Please suggest how to proceed. A proposal page for the project can be found here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Gallery_of_extensions Some of the attributes we thought for extensions are: # Name # Description # Image # Version # Category # Version supported # Added on ...and more. Regards, Aditya. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Adi.iiita

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[Wikidata-l] Question about progressive loading
by David Cuenca 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

While reading this [1] and observing how other website load large pages without freezing my computer, I was just wondering why progressive loading of items was not an option for Wikidata. Is it too difficult to implement? Or impossible with mediawiki? Or just undesirable for some other reasons? Thanks! Micru [1] docforge.com/wiki/Web_application/Progressive_loading

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[Wikidata-l] Massive category move on it.wiki
by Vito 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Hi all! I had to move (via category.py) ~3200 categories on it.wiki, as you know moving a category actually means replacing&deleting so I don't think bots will be able to update the relevant wikidata's entries. Any suggestion to update them? Anyone would be able to update it from a list of all those replacements? Vito

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[Wikidata-l] New code, speed, Wikisource and more
by Lydia Pintscher 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Hey folks :) We have just deployed new code. The most important changes are: * We cut down loading time of items significantly. Have a look at this graph: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Item_Loading_Time.png We're not done yet with performance improvements but this is already a huge step. * Wikisource now has access to the data on Wikidata via the property parser function and Lua. * We have extended the Lua interface significantly to make it easier to use Wikidata data in Lua. Hoo will publish more info about this soon. If you can't wait the documentation is up at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseClient/Lua (To use it on Wikipedia you will have to wait until Thursday.) * Bugfixes 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] Wikidata Toolkit: key facts, roadmap, how to join
by Markus Kroetzsch 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Hi all, The new Wikidata Toolkit project has started this week, so here is a brief update. You are invited to participate and to comment. Early users will enjoy a special first-level support: if you have an interesting use-case for our project, we will help you get started and prioritize your requirements. Wikidata Toolkit is going to be a Java library to work with Wikidata (and Wikibase in general). It will allow you to load, query, and analyse the data, and to export it to a variety of formats. Key facts: * Homepage: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit * Code: https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit * Planned milestones: https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/issues/milestones * Project plan (high level): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata_Toolkit Our current team consists of four people: Fredo Erxleben, Julian Mendez, Michael Günther, and myself. Development is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation and by the German Research Foundation. The project is initially planned for six months. You are invited to contribute code/feature requests/use cases. If you have a concrete task that you would like to solve, please let us know, and we will see what we can do. Our first release 0.1 should be able to create data exports in RDF and maybe in other formats from the internal Wikidata dump files. If you need Wikidata in other formats, please let us know. Our later releases will be able to load data and add query capabilities that allow you to analyse the data. Again, your requirements are welcome. Cheers, Markus -- Markus Kroetzsch Faculty of Computer Science Technische Universität Dresden +49 351 463 38486 http://korrekt.org/

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