Hi
I'd also like to briefly introduce myself, although not actively working
on Wikidata or at Wikimedia Germany. I was in the board of the German
chapter the first years and active especially in German Wikipedia - my
main interest is topics in knowledge organization, library science,
computer science, which I both studied in Berlin. Now I live in
Göttingen (by the way that's were the first digital data transmission
over wire took place in 1833), working on research and development for
the GBV library union network. I hope to finish my PhD on foundations of
data structuring this summer [1]. I sometimes write in my weblog at
http://jakoblog.de/.
Cheers
Jakob
[1] http://aboutdata.org/bibliography
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Hi! I'm Sumana Harihareswara and I coordinate volunteer software
development for Wikimedia projects. I imagine I'll mostly be lurking
here but I do want to say hi and thank WMDE for leading such an
important and exciting project!
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Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
http://domainincite.com/ntia-says-icann-does-not-meet-the-requirements-for-…
This information will most probably affect the New gTLD Project and
open new possibilities to Google+ and to the emergence of the
Internet+. This may help the experimentation of ".wiki" and lead to
an opendata general approach to be tested (new architecture, users
cloud, naming plan, etc.).
jfc
Just a note: the list name for the Wikidata list has changed from
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org to wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org.
This makes the name consistent with the usual Wikimedia naming conventions.
All users should have been subscribed to the new list (thanks Philippe and
Lydia for that!).
Cheers,
Denny
2012/3/10 Mike Cariaso <cariaso(a)gmail.com>
> I don't want the tutorial to alter the users machine, so my hope is to
> allow every bot to be standalone, with no effect on the filesystem,
> except for an svn/git checkout into a removeable subdir. For every
> other language that's been easy, but pywikipediabot REALLY seems to
> want the user-config and family files. What I have seem successful
> enough, but perhaps its 1) needlessly overcomplicated or 2) too far
> removed from pywikipediabot style. I was hoping for your feedback on
> how you would write the example instead.
>
Hi Mike,
why dou you want to mix family file and user-config and the actual script
function in one file? This is simply not the concept of Pywikibot. You will
lose the flexibility of it. What is the advantage of making the script
standalone? Btw. it is no more standalone at the point you import family.py
and query.py. So why not use a proper family file?
Bináris
Hi everyone!
I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. I'm Lydia and just
started working for Wikimedia Germany. Some of you might know me from
my work in Free Software projects.
I'll be a part of the team working on Wikidata
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata) - the goal of the project is
to create something similar to Wiki Commons for data). It's a huge
undertaking for the German and global community. Wikidata is a project
I am passionate about and I am even more passionate about doing it
right. Doing it right in this case obviously means making sure
everyone's input is heard and taken into consideration. My
responsibility will be exactly that - working with all of you to make
it a successful project. A lot of things concerning how, when and
where this will be used in Wikipedia are still up for discussion and
decisions need to be found in the community. I will be here to
facilitate this.
I assume many of you have not heard from me before so let me tell you
a bit about myself. I studied computer science at the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology. There I worked on a program to plan
robot-assisted laser surgeries on human skulls and wrote my diploma
thesis on collaborative and transparent Free Software development. I'm
passionate about enabling people to make awesome happen around Free
Culture. I've spent most of my spare time in the last 7 years on
community work in KDE (http://kde.org). This includes running its
mentoring programs, co-founding its community working group, serving
on the board of the non-profit behind it and generally making sure
everything is running smoothly. I've also helped out other projects
occasionally like Kubuntu, VLC/VideoLan and openSUSE in that position.
Not long ago I released a free book called Open Advice
(http://open-advice.org) that is a collaborative effort to make it
easier for people to start contributing to Free Software. You probably
know 4 of the authors from around Wikipedia. When it comes to
MediaWiki I have done developer engagement for Semantic MediaWiki Plus
for the last two years and am on the steering committee of the
non-profit behind Semantic MediaWiki. Due to my day only having 24
hours (even if some people claim otherwise) I have not had a chance to
get into contributing to Wikipedia. Thankfully that's going to change
now. (As a very regular user: Thank you!)
For the next days/weeks my focus will be:
* collecting ideas/doubts/other input for Wikidata that you already
have for me now (I'll work through any existing discussions I can find
- if you want to make sure I see something please do send me a link.)
* creating some resources to explain the project better
* setting up some infrastructure to keep everyone updated on the
status and able to contribute
* work on collecting input in a structured manner and addressing it together
If you have any questions please let me know. I'll be around on the
English and German Wikipedia, IRC, XMPP, Skype or whatever else you
prefer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE) ).
You can subscribe to the Wikidata mailing list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l and join the
IRC channel #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode.
Cheers
Lydia, who is really looking forward to working with you
--
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Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Eisenacher Straße 2
10777 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.
Welcome Lydia! Happy to see you on doing great work for Wiki Data @WMDE.
Best
Alolita
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Wikimedia Foundation
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From: "Lydia Pintscher" <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de>
To: <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikitech-l] introduction (community communications for Wikidata)
Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 9:13 am
Hi everyone!
I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. I'm Lydia and just
started working for Wikimedia Germany. Some of you might know me from
my work in Free Software projects.
I'll be a part of the team working on Wikidata
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata) - the goal of the project is
to create something similar to Wiki Commons for data). It's a huge
undertaking for the German and global community. Wikidata is a project
I am passionate about and I am even more passionate about doing it
right. Doing it right in this case obviously means making sure
everyone's input is heard and taken into consideration. My
responsibility will be exactly that - working with all of you to make
it a successful project. A lot of things concerning how, when and
where this will be used in Wikipedia are still up for discussion and
decisions need to be found in the community. I will be here to
facilitate this.
I assume many of you have not heard from me before so let me tell you
a bit about myself. I studied computer science at the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology. There I worked on a program to plan
robot-assisted laser surgeries on human skulls and wrote my diploma
thesis on collaborative and transparent Free Software development. I'm
passionate about enabling people to make awesome happen around Free
Culture. I've spent most of my spare time in the last 7 years on
community work in KDE (http://kde.org). This includes running its
mentoring programs, co-founding its community working group, serving
on the board of the non-profit behind it and generally making sure
everything is running smoothly. I've also helped out other projects
occasionally like Kubuntu, VLC/VideoLan and openSUSE in that position.
Not long ago I released a free book called Open Advice
(http://open-advice.org) that is a collaborative effort to make it
easier for people to start contributing to Free Software. You probably
know 4 of the authors from around Wikipedia. When it comes to
MediaWiki I have done developer engagement for Semantic MediaWiki Plus
for the last two years and am on the steering committee of the
non-profit behind Semantic MediaWiki. Due to my day only having 24
hours (even if some people claim otherwise) I have not had a chance to
get into contributing to Wikipedia. Thankfully that's going to change
now. (As a very regular user: Thank you!)
For the next days/weeks my focus will be:
* collecting ideas/doubts/other input for Wikidata that you already
have for me now (I'll work through any existing discussions I can find
- if you want to make sure I see something please do send me a link.)
* creating some resources to explain the project better
* setting up some infrastructure to keep everyone updated on the
status and able to contribute
* work on collecting input in a structured manner and addressing it together
If you have any questions please let me know. I'll be around on the
English and German Wikipedia, IRC, XMPP, Skype or whatever else you
prefer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE) ).
You can subscribe to the Wikidata mailing list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l and join the
IRC channel #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode.
Cheers
Lydia, who is really looking forward to working with you
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Eisenacher Straße 2
10777 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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Hi Jan :)
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 17:38, Jan Kučera <kozuch82(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am really happy to see the Wikidata project finally form after years
> of several proposals being stacked up on meta. I hope the idiotic
Great to hear. We're really excited as well.
> Wikimedia Foundation will not screw the project up once it will be
> handed over to them...
Wikidata will only be a success when everyone is involved and does
their best. Let's not try to start off on the wrong foot ;-)
> Please keep us updated on what is happening as a lot of people are
> eager after status updates.
We'll definitely do that. There will be regular updates starting next
month from me and other people in the project. If there is ever
anything you are missing let me know and I'll see what I can do to fix
it.
> Take care!
Cheers
Lydia
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Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Eisenacher Straße 2
10777 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.
Hi Martynas,
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 02:08, Martynas Jusevicius
<martynas(a)graphity.org> wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> I just came across the Wikidata project and was excited to see that we
> share pretty much the same goals.
Excellent!
> After seeing the Wikimania video and reading the technical proposal, I
> think choosing any other data model than RDF would be a mistake.
> DBPedia has done a lot in this area (as I'm sure you must known) and
> failing to build on this work would be a bad start for Wikidata. There
> is no need to invent new models and APIs, RDF and SPARQL are standard
> and proven tools.
> Also, implementation-wise I would suggest scrapping any wiki-based
> software (Semantic)MediaWiki and build a fresh generic RDF-based
> platform.
>
> Hereby I want to present to you Graphity which is an open-source
> generic Linked Data management platform, found at http://graphity.org.
> We just released v1.0.0 for PHP which supports JAX-RS annotations for
> RESTful APIs and lightweight RDF object API very similar to Jena's.
> I hope you can find some of our code useful or even contribute to it.
> If you find it interesting, we can provide more documentation and/or
> support.
>
> Java version is on the way, as well as the most important component -
> generic Linked Data browser. It will implement most of the technical
> requirements specified in the Wikidata proposal. A prototype for O3.6
> extension can be seen here:
> http://semanticreports.com
>
> The platform was presented at W3C Linked Enterprise Data workshop last year:
> http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/
> Here is the position paper and the presentation slides:
> http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/ledp2011_submission_1.pdf
> http://www.slideshare.net/seporaitis/graphity-generic-linked-data-platform
>
> The platform is production-ready: it is running of the biggest
> scandinavian entertainment websites http://heltnormalt.dk (danish
> successor of http://wulffmorgenthaler.de).
>
> http://code.google.com/p/linked-data-api/
Thanks for the heads-up. I'll make sure this is looked at and considered.
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Eisenacher Straße 2
10777 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.