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[Wikidata-l] next Wikidata office hours
by Lydia Pintscher 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Heya folks :) Denny and I will be doing another round of Wikidata office hours. You can come and ask your questions about Wikidata - technical and non-technical. The next ones will be: * 5. November at 17:30 UTC (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=17&min=30&sec=0&d…) in German * 6. November at 17:30 UTC (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=17&min=30&sec=0&d…) in English Both of them will happen on IRC in #wikimedia-office on freenode. Logs will be published afterwards for everyone who can't attend. I hope to see many of you there. Cheers Lydia PS: Don't forget the Wikidata Main Page design that needs your hand: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-October/001104.html ;-) -- 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.

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[Wikidata-l] Watching changes on the repository wiki from the client wiki
by Jérémie Roquet 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

Hello everyone, Some people start worrying about the fact that updates to wikidata items would not show up as changes of the Wikipedia articles that use them in their Wikipedia watchlists. Any idea of what can be done to allow regular Wikipedians to follow the changes in Wikidata that affect the articles they are watching without having to maintain and check an additional watchlist on an other wiki? Also, some people are used to follow changes to articles in a given category (on the French Wikipedia, we have thematic portals on every single article, so many people use the categories associated with the portals to follow the recent changes instead of their own watchlists). Will they still be able to do that if some content is moved to Wikidata? Amir Elisha Aharoni asked pretty much the same question back in August in a thread entitled “watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki”. He suggested that “The most practical way to solve this is to show that some piece of data that affects a Wikipedia article in the watchlist, as if it is a change in the article itself.” but didn't get any answer on that point. Best regards, -- Jérémie

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[Wikidata-l] [ANN] Semantic Web Journal: Special Issue on Multilingual Linked Open Data (MLOD) 2012
by Sebastian Hellmann 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Dear all, please find attached the call for a Special Issue on Multilingual Linked Open Data (MLOD) 2012. Continuing the great success of the MLODE 2012 workshop[1], we welcome novel submission until *Nov 23rd* to this special issue of the Semantic Web Journal. We also produced a new version of the LLOD cloud image as a result of the workshop: http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod We will produce another one after the publication of the special issue. Please have a look here, if the HTML attachment below is scrambled: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-multilingual-linked-open-data… Kind regards, Sebastian Hellmann (on behalf of all MLOD guest editors: Steven Moran, Martin Brümmer, John McCrae) [1] http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode -- Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann *Will be on a no-internet holiday from 4.11. till 24.11.* Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig Events: * SWJ Special Issue for Multilingual LOD (*Deadline: Nov 23rd 2012*) - http://goo.gl/Bkwts * http://wole2012.eurecom.fr (@ISWC in Boston) Projects: http://nlp2rdf.org , http://dbpedia.org Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann Research Group: http://aksw.org

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[Wikidata-l] wikidata.org is live (with some caveats)
by Lydia Pintscher 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Heya folks :) The Wikidata team is excited to let you know that http://wikidata.org is now online and running the repository code \o/ You can now create items and add language links to the various Wikipedias to them. Thank you to everyone who helped. There are some caveats! We're still testing things and fixing minor bugs. Please let us know about any problems you find and go easy on the new wiki. We're now working on phase two (infoboxes) and at the same time are working on getting the client ready for deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia. I unfortunately can't yet give you a date for when that'll happen.) 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.

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[Wikidata-l] Script that makes Wikidata so much easier
by Sven Manguard 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hey there. Most of you will hopefully have already seen this, but there's a script out that makes importing interwiki so much easier. See http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#SlurpInterwiki_scriptfor details. Hope everyone is settling in as well as I am. Sven

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Re: [Wikidata-l] [Toolserver-l] Welcome: wikidata
by DaB. 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hello again, [crosspost to wikidata-l] At Tuesday 30 October 2012 17:16:45 DaB. wrote: > Hello all, > > wikidata has made it on the toolserver today. The database is called > "wikidatawiki_p" (don't ask me…) and its is home on s3. Because I guessed > that many joins to it will happen in future, I created also copies on all > clusters with the exception of s6 and s7 (will happen later); so you can > join it in the same way as commons. I found the following additional useful tables in the wikidata-database and created views for them. If I missed something, please tell me. I also interested in an URL to the wikidata-table-documentation. *site_identifiers *sites *wb_changes *wb_id_counters *wb_items_per_site *wb_terms Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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[Wikidata-l] Which language codes should be added as labels for wikis having variants
by Merlissimo 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

I have added some additional code to my bot to create more localized labels. Simple Example: My bot creates an item containing a german (de) label that contains the letter "ß". Then my bot additional creates a label for "de-ch" having this letter replaced by "ss". What i am not sure about is how to handle wikis having language variants. Lets take <http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%…> as example page. What my bot know is: * srwiki page title is "Википедија" * label in "sr-ec" is "Википедија" * label in "sr-el" is "Vikipedija" * srwiki has local language code "sr" and displays variant sr-ec by default So which labels should i add to wikidata for an item linking this srwiki page? Only sr-ec and sr-el? Or should i additionally add a label using code sr having the same content as sr-ec? Merlissimo P.S.: If different wikis have the same language code like enwiki and simplewiki (and specieswiki when enabled) my algorithm is not deterministic in choosing a normalized title as label. The normalized titles of the other wikis having the same language code are added as aliases. I hope that is ok.

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #29
by Lydia Pintscher 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Heya folks :) Here's this week's summary of what happened around Wikidata. The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_10_26 = Development = * Content Handler is now live on Wikipedia and sister sites * Prefix term search for entities * Fixed bugs that popped up after Content Handler merge * API function wbsearchentities * Discussed JavaScript refactoring * Refactored some JavaScript stuff (like options handling) * Worked on JavaScript refactoring regarding the API * Implemented entity selector jQuery widget * Continued deployment work with WMF * Poked at Vagrant * Create puppet scripts for setting up Wikibase instances * New release of Pywikidata: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-October/001134.html See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint for what we’re working on next. You can follow our commits at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extension… and view the subset awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions…. = Discussions/Press = * Discussions around bots on the mailing list = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * Bootstrapping Awesome * SMWCon = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Jenkins test results are now online: https://integration.mediawiki.org/ci/job/Ext-Wikibase/ (we’re still investigating why quite some of them are failing atm) * Nice video about the why and how of Open Data: http://vimeo.com/21711338 = Open Tasks for You = * Main Page draft is taking shape but you can still help out with it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Main_Page_draft * Hack on one of these: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&ke… Anything to add? Please share! :) 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.

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Re: [Wikidata-l] New release of Pywikidata: feature requests?
by Snaevar 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

> Any feature requests? Yes, I can think of several ones. To begin with, I would like a feature where the bot operator only needs to give the bot information on a wikipedia page. The bot would then fetch the interwiki links from that page and add them as sitelinks to wikidata. I am thinking of an command like this one: script.py -site:Hermony Granger -lang:fr Also, I have the same questions as Merlissimo has allready raised on the "features needed by langlink bots" thread. Cheers, Snaevar ----- Original Message ----- From: Joan Creus Sent: 10/24/12 05:08 PM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Subject: [Wikidata-l] New release of Pywikidata: feature requests? Hi all, I've released a new version of Pywikidata @ https://github.com/jcreus/pywikidata (not really a release, since there is no version numbering; I should begin, maybe...).

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[Wikidata-l] New release of Pywikidata: feature requests?
by Joan Creus 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hi all, I've released a new version of Pywikidata @ https://github.com/jcreus/pywikidata (not really a release, since there is no version numbering; I should begin, maybe...). New features include: - Changes pushed to the server are only the properties which have changed. This means that it is really faster, and it is the way it should be (according to the spec). - 'uselang' is no longer accepted, per spec. - Bot flag allowed. Right now there's some more stuff left to do (including adapting to changes to the API, and adding the claim system [still beta]), but is there any feature request of something which would be useful for bots? In regards to Pywikipediabot integration I think someone is working on it (thanks!); yet I think it would be better to wait. Pywikipedia is a mature project and Pywikidata is still evolving constantly (mostly due to API changes, which break it). So I'd wait until Pywikidata has matured too, and Wikidata is deployed to WMF wikis. By the way, pull requests will be gladly accepted :). Joan Creus (joancreus@freenode, Joancreus@wikipedia)

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