Hi,
I'm Saskia and I wanted to introduce myself. I started yesterday as an
intern at Wikidata in Berlin.
I am currently finishing my studies in Computational Linguistics (B.Sc.) at
the University of Potsdam and will commence a M.Sc. in Vienna, Austria,
this fall.
My task at Wikidata is to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata
[0],[1], to compare it with similar work (OmegaWiki, WordNet, etc.), and to
help in finding the best solution for Wiktionary.
I'm staying for two months and am looking forward to your questions and
inputs.
Best regards,
Saskia
[0] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary
[1]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary_%28alternative_proposal%29
Heya folks :)
So we're finally starting to get real with this sister projects thing.
We'll be starting with Wikivoyage since this is comparatively similar
to Wikipedia. We'll take it easy at the beginning and just go for the
language links between the different language editions of Wikivoyage.
On July 18th we will change test.wikidata.org to be able to store
links to Wikivoyage in addition to Wikipedia. You can test it there
then and make sure there are no huge issues we have not noticed yet.
On July 22 we will enable this on wikidata.org and the Wikivoyages.
Some things to keep in mind:
* This is only for links between Wikivoyages for now. More will follow later.
* Access to the other data like timezones, airport codes and so on
will not be enabled yet. That will follow later as well.
* There will be no automatic links to/from Wikipedia for now.
Some specific things about the language links:
* It'll no longer be needed to keep them in the wikitext like it is currently.
* It'll still be possible to do so however but this will overwrite the
links coming from Wikidata.
* With the magicword noexternallanglinks links from Wikidata can be
turned off on an article either for all languages or only specific
ones.
A page on Wikidata has been created where you can find someone to help
you in case of issues
(http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikivoyage_migration) and as
usual I am available to answer any questions you might have.
Cheers
Lydia
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In June 2012 I ran an analysis to discover how many language links were on
Wikipedia. Last week, I rerun the analysis again - and the results are
stunning.
Of the 240 Million language links, 239.2 Million have been removed so far.
This is an amazing result by the community. Congratulations.
Last year, 4.9 GB of text was required to represent the language links.
These have almost completely gone. And whereas last year for smaller
Wikipedias the language links made a substantial part of their content,
they have no almost completely disappeared.
Congratulations! Let's get ready for having the same positive effect on
Wikivoyage, starting next week!
(Note that the deployment might happen on a Tuesday for a change, as Monday
will be blocked for a few other deployments)
Here is the full data:
2013 analysis: <http://simia.net/languagelinks/2013.html>
2012 analysis: <http://simia.net/languagelinks/index.html>
Addshore is currently working on getting some actionable analytics out of
the dumps, in order to deal with the last remaining language links.
Cheers,
Denny
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Scott, are you aware of your signature (not including the quoted text)
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using a standalone mail client it would fit into merely one screen...
However it's a bit annoying. Old-style classic Netiquette suggests at most
4 lines of signature, not a double-decker.
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I am truly and deeply amazed by the Wikidata community.
A bit more than a year ago, I moved to Berlin and assembled a fantastic
team of people to help realize a vision. Today, we have collected millions
of statements, geographical locations, points in time, persons and their
connections, creative works, and species - and every single minute, hundred
of edits are improving and changing this knowledge base that anyone can
edit, that anyone can use for free.
So much more is left to do, and the further we go, the more opportunities
open. More datatypes - links are on the horizon, quantities will be a major
step. I can hardly wait to see Wikidata answer queries. And there are so
many questions unanswered - what does the community need in order to
maintain Wikidata best? Which tools, reports, special pages are needed?
What is the right balance between automation and flexibility?
Besides Wikipedia, Wikidata can be used in many other places. We just
started the conversations about sister projects, but also external projects
are expected to become smarter thanks to Wikidata. I expect tools and
libraries and patterns for these type of uses will emerge in the next few
months, and applications will become more intelligent and act more
informed, powered by Wikidata.
A project like Wikidata needs in its early days a strong, sometimes
stubborn leader in order to accelerate its growth. But at some point a
project gathers sufficient momentum, and the community moves faster than
any single leader could lead, and suddenly they might become bottlenecks,
and instead of accelerating the project the might be stalling it.
Wikidata has reached the point where it is time for me to step down. The
Wikidata development team in Berlin will, in the upcoming weeks and months,
set up processes that allow the community, that I learned to trust even
more during that year, to take over the reigns. I will stay with the team
until the end of September, and then become again what I have been for the
last decade - a normal and proud member of the Wikimedia communities.
I also would like to use this chance to reveal a secret. Wikidata items are
identified by a Q, followed by a number, Wikidata properties by a P,
followed by a number. Whereas it is obvious that the P stands for property,
some of you have asked - why Q? My answer was, that Q not only looks cool,
but also makes for great identifiers, and hopefully a certain set of people
will some day associate a number like Q9036 with something they can look up
in Wikidata. But the true reason is that Q is the first letter of the name
of the woman I love. We married last year, among all that Wikidata
craziness, and I am thankful to her for the patience she had while I was
discussing whether to show wiki identifiers or language keys, what bugs to
prioritize when, and which calendar systems were used in Sweden.
I will continue to be a community member with Wikidata. My new day job,
though, will be at Google, and from there I hope to continue to effectively
further our goals towards a world where everyone has access to the sum of
all knowledge.
Sincerely,
Denny Vrandečić
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Well, you would run into many of the same decisions we already face about how much to limit automated uploads of data if you wanted to turn it into a live programming platform. You can certainly already use DBpedia and Wikidata to get datasets for many cool demonstrations of functional programming though. Yes, I suspect we are just at the learning to walk stage of programming in the big picture. My favorite examples of AI these days are when computers do large mathematical optimization tasks. I was most impressed by a paper last year that optimized the placement and configuration of coal power plants and more farmland to reduce transport related CO2 emissions by 50% for the entire US. The paper was called "Nationwide energy supply chain analysis for hybrid feedstock processes with significant CO2 emissions reduction". A free early version was published here: http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/skoge/prost/proceedings/cpc8-focapo-2012/data/p… And to think how nice it would be if the customized optimization techniques they developed were merged into the code associated with those Wikipedia articles for everyone to easily use. The reason that task impresses me so much is that if a computer at Pixar draws a nice picture it is just matching what the artists could already partially see in their heads and if Siri on the iPhone tells me a good restaurant to visit it is just doing what a person that lives in the area could do, but if a computer redesigns the entire energy infrastructure for a country I have no idea what the solution will look like in advance. There is a lot of smart information out there if people are willing to look for it. How can the singularity get them to stop listening to the bad information? I think things like Wikipedia are definitely helping us all get gradually smarter though, so I'm optimistic.
From: dacuetu(a)gmail.com
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 19:32:37 -0400
To: wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode
Wikidata seems like a good platform for functional computing, it "just" needs Lisp-like lists (which would be an expansion of queries/tree-searches) and processing capabilities. What you say it is also true, it would be ahead of the times, because high-level computing languages never expanded as much as imperative languages (probably because the processing power and the need was not there yet).
Wikidata as an AI... how far away is that singularity? :)
Micru
copied from
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Propagation_of_changes_t…
Changes to Wikidata are currently propagated to the Wikipedias with a lag
of several hours, but this should be fixed during the next few hours.
The Dispatcher, who is responsible to push the edits from Wikidata to the
individual Wikipedias, choked yesterday on some edit. We did not notice
until the morning (thanks to the community for reporting on various
places). We got the Dispatcher running again. The backlog then was about 19
hours, and is now going down again, it seems roughly at a rate of two hours
per one hour, so it should have caught up in about half a day. You can see
the [[Special:DispatchStats|current status on wiki]].
We currently do not know why the Dispatcher got stalled, and also not on
which edit exactly. We simply skipped a few edits, and it started working
again. We will continue investigating. Because of that, it might happen
again any time. We keep watching the stats. A detailed description of our
current status can be found on the [
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikidata.technical/117Wikidata…
mailing list]. --[[User:Denny|Denny]] ([[User
talk:Denny|talk]]) 11:32, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
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Wikimedia ops staff are making some DNS changes, which may cause wikidata
to be unavailable for you at the moment. (especially if you are in North
America, apparently)
It should be back again within an hour or hopefully much sooner.
Cheers,
Katie
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