Hi folks!
We've gotten a lot of great proposals for the Wikidata logo and now
it's time to chose. All the details about the vote are here:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/07/03/wikidata-logo-its-time-to-pick-a-winner/
I'd be delighted if you all took part in the vote and we decide on a
great logo for Wikidata.
Cheers
Lydia
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Just to give you a heads up (the official announcement will follow soon,
lot's of changes still to come):
http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode
There will be a session for "Best Practices for Multilingual LOD" .
We will also talk about a road map for DBpedia, so it might be really
interesting to stake common goals there. Large parts of DBpedia dev
will be there.
Please contact the whole MLODE orga team, if you have ideas or want to
join it: mlode2012(a)lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de
or write to mlode2012-sponsor(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de , if you are
interested in sponsoring the event.
All the best,
Sebastian
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Projects: http://nlp2rdf.org , http://dbpedia.org
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Heya folks :)
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-06-29.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_06_29 has
the wiki version of it.
= Development =
* Had a short one week sprint
* Differences between revisions of items are being displayed now. It
is not exactly pretty, but it works.
* Many changes in the underlying code that will lead to a number of
features to be seen after next week’s sprint, preparing for our demo
at Wikimania in two weeks
* Started Sprint #8, another one week sprint -- and picked up a crazy
amount of items
* Sitelinks are now verified doing a call to the according Wikipedia.
Normalized article name is then displayed in the sitelinks UI.
* It is now possible to enter links to articles which do not appear on
the suggestions list. Verification is then done by the API.
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint
for what we’re working on next.
= Discussions/Press =
* Denny investigated the current interwiki link state and what impact
Wikidata’s first phase can have:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-June/000776.html
= Events =
see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Code4Lib meetup
* report about Wikidata to the United Nations Economic Commission for
Europe's conference
http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/documents/ece/ces/ge.45/2012/Bergm…
* right now: Wikipedia Academy
* upcoming: Wikipedia meetup New York City
= other noteworthy stuff =
* logo contest ends on Saturday:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/06/09/wikidata-needs-a-logo-and-you-can-help/
* we applied for the Knight News Challenge and could use your help
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/06/25/wikidata-applies-for-the-knight-news-ch…
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/w/index.php?namespace=0&title=Specia…
Some spam was added to the wikidata-repo yesterday.
Here are a few regexes that can be added to the MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist:
\bmusic-software-programs\.com\b
\btwitter\.com/#!/(software_music|licensing_music)\b
\blicensing-of-music\.com\b
\bpaydayloansonline0\.com\b
I am an beginner in writing regexes though.
Hi!
We've finally gotten everything sorted and we can start the official
search for a Wikidata logo. If you're a skilled artist please read
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/06/09/wikidata-needs-a-logo-and-you-can-help/
for details and make a submission. If you're not then please spread
the word to your friends who are ;-)
Cheers
Lydia, who is really looking forward to many rocking submissions
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Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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www.wikimedia.de
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Hi all,
the first phase of Wikidata will help to centralize many of the
Wikipedia language links. We did a small analysis to figure out the
possible impact of this step.
Here are a few highlights:
* there are more than 240 million language links in the Wikipedias
* they are responsible for about 5 GB of wikitext
* on average, 33% of a Wikipedia language edition's wikitext is due to
language links - in several Wikipedias, more than 75% of the wikitext
are just language links!
The full data set is available here:
<http://simia.net/languagelinks/>
It would be interesting to also figure out how many of the edits are
due to changes to the language links. If anyone wants to try that...?
Enjoy the data,
Denny
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Language links are commented out to stop bots from consistently adding the same link, while also preventing it to appear under "In other languages" in the sidebar.
This is essentially an inproper way for those who only want to prevent the bots from re-adding a link on one page, while not caring about pages with the same content in other languages. This method is mentioned in the following section on an en.wikipedia help page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Interlanguage_links#Bots_and_links_to_and…
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From: denny.vrandecic(a)wikimedia.de
Sent: 06/25/12 02:39 PM
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project.
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Impact of Wikidata phase I
I am surprised by the amount of commented out language links -- there seem to be plenty of them, and I do not fully understand why.
Heya folks,
We applied to the Knight News Challenge to push Wikidata even further
during a second year of development. You can find out more here:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/06/25/wikidata-applies-for-the-knight-news-ch…
and see our proposal here:
http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/post/25575917516/wikidata-as-a-central-free…
It would be awesome if you could support the proposal by clicking
"like" on the proposal page. Keep your fingers crossed ;-)
Cheers
Lydia
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Community Communications for Wikidata
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www.wikimedia.de
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Heya folks :)
I was happy to see on twitter that Petr did a intro to Wikidata at a
Czech Wikipedia meeting. Thanks! How did it go?
If you are planning one of them too please let me know. I can give you
some tips, flyers and more and help you promote the event via the
Wikidata channels. One place where they should definitely be listed is
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstr. 72
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www.wikimedia.de
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Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.