Dear Wikidatians,
Before porting World University and School (
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - like Wikipedia
with MIT OCW) to WikiData, I'd like to learn of wikis which work on obscure
handheld browsers, particularly for older internet phones in the
developing/emerging world.
For example, Wikipedia doesn't work on my Palm Treo mobile phone using Palm
OS 4.0. For WUaS to be helpful as wiki to all 3000-8000 languages, easy
usage on all or many older mobile phone browsers will be key.
Does anyone know of a list of diverse wikis I can try on my old, internet
mobile Palm Treo OS phone (at least as readable as New York Time's
articles, which aren't wiki, on my Palm OS), which might in turn work with
WikiData, WikiBase and SemanticWiki?
WUaS is planning for ALL ~200 countries and 3,000-8,000 languages, as wiki.
Thanks.
All the best,
Scott
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Heya :)
Just wanted to let you know that we have updated the demo system today
with the latest code: http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de Please go and
have a look, try stuff and let us know about problems. Also do spread
the word to your Wikipedia friends who have not yet heard about
Wikidata or the demo system as it is really important for us to get
feedback early. We only have a year - let's make it count.
I hope we can update the demo system a lot more regularly from now on.
Cheers
Lydia
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Have you tried the mobile version of Wikipedia (for example en.m.wikipedia.org) ?
This is probably a bit out of scope for Wikidata, becouse the issue of how mobile versions of wikis work with older browsers is an wider issue that also affects MediaWiki and MobileFrontend.
Hey :)
Silke, Guillaume and others did a great job taking notes at the
sessions during the Wikidata/RENDER summit. They're published here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Berlin_summit_2012
Most of the team will be at the MediaWiki hackathon until Sunday. I'm
traveling to the admin meeting of the German language Wikipedia right
now. Say hi if you're at either of them.
Cheers
Lydia
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10963 Berlin
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 20:28:58 +0200
From: emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Who to talk to about integrating WolrCat
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2012/5/25 Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de>
>> A decision hasn't been made. We're looking at cc-0 for the beginning
>> for the data but the community might decide to change this later.
>>
>>
>I think that CC-0 is a good choice.
The answer is that WorldCat is published under Open Data Commons,
Attribution (ODC-BY).
For more information http://opendatacommons.org/category/odc-by/ .
I know CC0 is tempting choice, but I hope a choice is made that can
accommodate willing partners.
Max Klein
kleinm(a)oclc.org
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Hello Wikidata Wizards,
Phoebe Ayers from the Board recommended I talk to you. My name is Max
Klein and I am the Wikipedian in Residence for OCLC. OCLC owns
Worldcat.org the world's largest holder of Library data at 264 million
bibliographic records about books, journals and other library items. We
would really like to partner with you as Wikidata is being built, in
incorporating our data into your project.
What we can offer:
* WorldCat.org metadata http://www.worldcat.org/ .
o Typically, for any work we have most of the following: title,
authors, publisher, formats, summaries, editions, subjects, languages,
intended audience, all associated ISBNs, length, and abstract.
* APIs to this data http://oclc.org/developer/
o And some other cool APIs like xISBN which returns all the ISBNs of
all the editions of book on the input of any single one.
* Library finding tools
o When viewing a record on our site, we show you the closest library
which has that work, and links to reserve it for pick-up.
* The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
http://viaf.org/, which is an Authoritative Disambiguation file
o That means that we have certified data on disambiguation of Authors
* WorldCat Identities, an Analytics site
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/
o It gives you for Author metadata and analytics: Alternative names,
significant dates, publication timelines, genres, roles, related
authors, and tag clouds of associated subjects.
What's in it for us:
* We are a not-for-profit member cooperative. Our mission is
"Connecting people to knowledge through library cooperation."
* Since I work at the research group, for now this is just a
research project.
o If at some point this goes live - and you want to - we'd like to
integrate the "find it at a library near me" feature, that means
click-throughs for us.
The ideas:
There are a lot of possibilities, and I'd like to hear your input. These
are the first few that I've can come up with.
* Making infoboxes for each book or author that contains all
their metadata.
o Ready to incorporate into all language projects.
* Using authority files to disambiguate or link works to their
creators.
o Solving DABs
* Using our analytics (e.g. author timelines) as Wikidata data
types to transclude.
o Curating articles with easy to include dynamic analytics
* Populating or creating works/author pages with their
algorithmically-derived history and details.
o Extremely experimental semantic work.
I'm roaring and ready to get this collaboration going. I know Wikidata
is at an early stage, and we are willing to accommodate you.
Send me any feedback or ideas,
Max Klein
Wikipedia in Residence
kleinm(a)oclc.org
+17074787023
Hi folks,
I made some effort to draft Wikidata in Hungarian Wikipedia. Although it is
not quite up-to-date, but is a useful overview for Hungarian language
community. As far as I remember, this was the first national language
article on Wikidata except German, preceeding the current system. I created
a soft redirect to it on Meta which was eradicated by Fuzzybot (
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata%2Fhu&diff=3728047&oldi…)
and now I cannot edit it at all. I don't want to translate that whole stuff
from week to week again, and seemingly nobody else does it, but could we
get back the link to huwiki please? I think a long English text that is
identical to the English version and very-very up-to-date and meanwhile
states that it *is* the Hungarian version is much less useful for Hungarian
speakers than a link to the Hungarian article that backlinks to the
original one for those who want to read the current version in English.
This solution is very uniform and easy to handle by bot and very aggressive
-- whoever made it had no regard on previous content and I am really
disappointed to face this. So what is the way to have at least a sentence
on top of this nice text that leads to the useful version and will not be
ruined by the bot again and again?
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Bináris
Hello all
I have created a first preliminary draft of how data items from the Wikidata
repository may be accessed and rendered on the client wiki, e.g. to make infoboxes.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Inclusion_syntax
It would be great if you could have a look and let us know about any
unclarities, omissions, or other flaws - and of course about your ideas of how
to do this.
Getting this right is an important part of implementing phase 2 of the Wikidata
project, and so I feel it's important to start drafting and discussing early.
Having a powerful but not overly complex way to create infoboxes etc from
Wikidata items is very important for the acceptance of Wikidata on the clinet
wikis, I believe.
Thanks,
Daniel
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für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.