Hoi,
Does anyone have a script that will give the Wikidata ID when a Wikipedia
article name is given ?
The script should be preferably in PHP.
Thanks,
Gerard
Hi everyone,
If you hadn't heard, the Wikimedia Foundation has started the first round
of what is planned to be be a twice-annual program to fund individuals and
small groups to work on projects that further the WMF's goals - "individual
engagement grants":
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG
I have a proposal currently in place for a project that relates to
Wikidata. It's a Javascript "data browser", that would provide a drill-down
interface to let users navigate through the data of Wikipedia, Wikidata,
and any standard MediaWiki-based wiki, without overloading the server with
queries. This would be accomplished by using browser-based data storage,
which would also enable fast navigation on mobile devices, and even offline
use. The downside is that it would mean, for the case of
Wikipedia/Wikidata, that it could only store a small fraction of the
overall data; but there could be multiple "apps" for different subject
matters - one for cars, one for buildings, one for politicians, and so on.
You can read my proposal here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_data_browser
Any feedback is welcome, here or on the proposal talk page; and there's a
section at the bottom for endorsements, if you would like to see this
project happen.
Thanks,
Yaron
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WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com
Hey :)
The next Wikidata office hour on IRC in English will be on February
16th (so in 1 week) at 20:00 UTC
(http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&d…).
It'll happen in #wikimedia-office on freenode. Denny and I will give a
short report on the current state of Wikidata and what's next and then
answer whatever question you might have for example after the
deployment on the English language Wikipedia on Monday.
I hope to see many of you there.
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstr. 72
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.
Heya folks :)
Here's your short and sweet summary of the important things that
happened around Wikidata over the last week.
The wiki version is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_02_15
= Development =
* Deployment to English Wikipedia:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/13/wikidata-live-on-the-english-wikipedia/
* Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with
preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
* Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
* Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
* Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
* Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references,
qualifiers, ranks)
* Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be
covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
* Started with valueview refactoring
* Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
* Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
* Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
* Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
* Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of
normal MediaWiki search field
* More work on Lua-based templates for entities
* Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
* Created query object
* Proper bot-flagging of edits
(https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44857)
* Use of ID to directly address an item or property
* Search should give more of the complete matches now
* Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later
on for local namespaces
* More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to
the client
* Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
* Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
See [[Wikidata/Development/Current sprint|current sprint items]] for
what we’re working on next.
You can follow {{wdchanges|our commits}} and view the subset
{{wdreview|awaiting review}}.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolu…
= Discussions/Press =
* http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties
* http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal
= Events =
see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
* Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
* Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a
database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00
UTC.
* New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on
Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
** Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
** Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
** Ability to add items to claims by their ID
** Better handling of deleted properties
** More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you
select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not
just the first few matches that are shown
* We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain
parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it
try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or
the non-www. version respectively.
* Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6
(a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow
soon)
* Check out a well-done item: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159
= Open Tasks for You =
* Help expand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata
* Help expand and translate
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions
* Hack on one https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&ke…
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstr. 72
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.
Heya :)
Third time's a charm, right? We're live on the English Wikipedia with
phase 1 now \o/
Details are in this blog post:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/13/wikidata-live-on-the-english-wikipedia
An FAQ is being worked on at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions
Thanks everyone who helped!
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstr. 72
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.
Heya,
We tried to deploy phase 1 on enwp today but ran into issues. We'll
have to reschedule. Currently it looks like we'll do this on
Wednesday.
Sorry folks.
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstr. 72
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.
Hello there. I have been an active and vocal supporter of Wikidata since
almost the day it went live, and after giving Phase II a legitimate chance,
I have to say that in my opinion the decision to deploy Phase II with only
a small number of the expected features has been a massive mistake. Yes, I
understand that the project was losing momentum and that several people
commented that they felt that there was nothing to do on the project before
Phase II hit, however the partial release has caused considerable
confusion, and worse, has caused people to make decisions *based on what is
available now* as opposed to based on *what would be the best choice in the
long term*.
It would have been one thing if Phase II were released with 80% of its
projected features and an official list from the developers of the things
that were left out. Instead we got what I have to guess is around 10% of
the projected features, and if there's an official list of things that are
missing or a timeline of when they're going to appear, I haven't seen it.
I also have to question the timing of the release, bringing Phase II live
just before Wikidata hits English Wikipedia. Was this done on purpose to
try and bring over some of the Wikipedia editors? If not, the timing is
awful. Nothing of this scale and level of technical sophistication ever
gets deployed to English Wikipedia smoothly, and I think that the near
future is going to show that the English Wikipedia deployment is going to
be competing with the Phase II rollout for the time of the coders, who will
need to fix bugs in both areas.
I'm sorry for being so pessimistic, but I really do feel let down by this
release. It's like being told that you're going to watch a feature film and
then only getting the official trailer. The trailer is good, but it's not
what people were expecting and it's not particularly valuable on its own.
I look forward to any response that the Wikidata staff or the community
might have to this.
Sven