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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #90
by Lydia Pintscher 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

Hey folks :) John put together all the important things that happened around Wikidata over the last week. You can find it at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_12_27 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] Weekly Summary #89
by John Lewis 21 Dec '13

21 Dec '13

Hello all, The newest weekly summary is now available. This week has seen quite a few discussions surrounding Wikidata's notability policies and your input would be greatly appreciated to shape Wikidata's future. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_12_20 John --

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[Wikidata-l] wikidatawiki_old database on s3
by Sean Pringle 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

Hi S3 cluster has a `wikidatawiki_old` database presumably from before the move to s5. Seems to be an orphan not included in deleted.dblist or closed.dblist. Does anyone care about it? Can it be dropped? BR Sean -- DBA @ WMF

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[Wikidata-l] searching for images
by Gerard Meijssen 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

Hoi Maria, At the time I promised you to write something about how you can search for images in languages like Guarani. I finally do but many things have changed for the better making it so much easier. What has changed is that we can now provide different functionalities as a result of a positive search result from Wikidata. - images from Commons (based on categories) - visual display of Wikidata data using the "Reasonator" - link to articles in other Wikipedias - obviously a link to the Wikidata item When one of the people you know is interested in writing something for Guarani, what we still need is a place to enter a search item in Gurarni. Actually it would be a nice to have for any language. As you know, the policy of the language committee has changed and any and all languages that are ISO 639-3 registered are eligible to function in Wikidata. A place where you can enter a search for a language could help any new languages as well. Maria, I cc the wikidata mailing list as well because <grin> I know there are many smart people subscribed to this list </grin> they have often surprised me with a solution. I hope they will surprise us with good ideas and maybe even a working proto type. Thanks, Gerard

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #88
by Lydia Pintscher 15 Dec '13

15 Dec '13

Hey everyone, Busy week? Here's your chance to catch up with all things Wikidata of the past week: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_12_13 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] New stuff! (ordering, ranks and a table of content)
by Lydia Pintscher 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

Hey everyone, After a few hick-ups ordering, ranks and a table of content for item pages are now live on wikidata.org together with a load of other small improvements. I hope you enjoy them. There are still a few usability issues with ordering as well as the problem of ordering changes not showing up in diffs. If you find any other issues related to this deployment that do not go away after reloading/purging(add ?action=purge to the URL) the page please let me know. 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] DNB 11M bibliographic records as CC0
by David Cuenca 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

Hi, Maybe this is interesting as an import source for bibliographic info http://blogs.ifla.org/bibliography/2013/08/06/german-national-library-offer… Cheers, Micru

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[Wikidata-l] Distributing the Wikipedia category/pagelink graph
by Dario Taraborelli 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

(cross-posting Sebastiano’s post from the analytics list, this may be of interest to both the wikidata and wiki-research-l communities) Begin forwarded message: > From: Sebastiano Vigna <vigna(a)di.unimi.it> > Subject: [Analytics] Distributing an official graph > Date: December 9, 2013 at 10:09:31 PM PST > > [Reposted from private discussion after Dario's request] > > My problem is that of exploring the graph structure of Wikipedia > > 1) easily; > 2) reproducibly; > 3) in a way that does not depend on parsing artifacts. > > Presently, when people wants to do this they either do their own parsing of the dumps, or they use the SQL data, or they download a dataset like > > http://law.di.unimi.it/webdata/enwiki-2013/ > > which has everything "cooked up". > > My frustration in the last few days was when trying to add the category links. I didn't realize (well, it's not very documented) that bliki extracts all links and render them in HTML *except* for the category links, that are instead accessible programmatically. Once I got there, I was able to make some progress. > > Nonetheless, I think that the graph of Wikipedia connections (hyperlinks and category links) is really a mine of information and it is a pity that a lot of huffing and puffing is necessary to do something as simple as a reverse visit of the category links from "People" to get, actually, all people pages (this is a bit more complicated--there are many false positives, but after a couple of fixes worked quite well). > > Moreover, one has continuously this feeling of walking on eggshells: a small change in bliki, a small change in the XML format and everything might stop working is such a subtle manner that you realize it only after a long time. > > I was wondering if Wikimedia would be interested in distributing in compressed form the Wikipedia graph. That would be the "official" Wikipedia graph--the benefits, in particular for people working on leveraging semantic information from Wikipedia, would be really significant. > > I would (obviously) propose to use our Java framework, WebGraph, which is actually quite standard in distributing large (well, actually much larger) graphs, such as ClueWeb09 http://lemurproject.org/clueweb09/, ClueWeb12 http://lemurproject.org/clueweb12/ and the recent Common Web Crawl http://webdatacommons.org/hyperlinkgraph/index.html. But any format is OK, even a pair of integers per line. The advantage of a binary compressed form is reduced network utilization, instantaneous availability of the information, etc. > > Probably it would be useful to actually distribute several graphs with the same dataset--e.g., the category links, the content link, etc. It is immediate, using WebGraph, to build a union (i.e., a superposition) of any set of such graphs and use it transparently as a single graph. > > In my mind the distributed graph should have a contiguous ID space, say, induced by the lexicographical order of the titles (possibly placing template pages at the start or at the end of the ID space). We should provide graphs, and a bidirectional node<->title map. All such information would use about 300M of space for the current English Wikipedia. People could then associate pages to nodes using the title as a key. > > But this last part is just rambling. :) > > Let me know if you people are interested. We can of course take care of the process of cooking up the information once it is out of the SQL database. > > Ciao, > > seba > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

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[Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF Dumps
by Kingsley Idehen 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

All, We've just commissioned the latest edition of the Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud cache that we maintain [1]. As part of this effort, we included Wikidata's RDF dumps and Freebase cross references. Thus far, I am not convinced that we've actually loaded all of data out there, so I am seeking some help from those associated with the production of the following: 1. Wikidata dumps -- basic 2. Wikidata dumps -- with cross references to Freebase. To understand my concerns, here are some sample links: [1] http://bit.ly/1hDhexC -- random Wikidata entity description of one "Stephen Fry" [2] http://bit.ly/1aMwpvU -- another description of the same entity (this time from the Freebase dump which cross references Wikidata). Links: [1] http://lod.openlinksw.com -- home page. [2] http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql -- SPARQL endpoint. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder & CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen

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[Wikidata-l] XML Prague 2014
by Innovimax SARL 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

Dear WikidataLovers, In the process of organizing, the 2014 edition of XML Prague, I thought it might be interesting to cross bridges between Wikidata and XML Prague As an organizers of the conference, I wanted to see the opportunities of proposing interesting XML challenge to the XML communities via Wikidata Also, we are also interetested in advanced use of XML from WikidataLovers, that could lead to a presentation, a poster or an intervention in a hands on session. Prague is a lovely city and we will do our best to make it confortable. We don't have much money (conference fees are very cheap) but we can invite people and help them finding accomodation. The conference will be held on 14-16th February 2014 Best regards, Mohamed ZERGAOUI on behalf of XML Prague Organizers http://xmlprague.cz -- Innovimax SARL Consulting, Training & XML Development 9, impasse des Orteaux 75020 Paris Tel : +33 9 52 475787 Fax : +33 1 4356 1746 http://www.innovimax.fr RCS Paris 488.018.631 SARL au capital de 10.000 €

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