ZOMFG, the tool that Denny introduced yesterday as a birthday gift is unbelieavably useful and fun.

Here are a few thoughts I had about it:

I went over all the pages for the Hebrew-English pair. There were only 36, and that is suspiciously low. Were all the articles in these languages tested by this tool or only a subset?

Even though almost all of the tool's suggestions were correct It would be problematic to fix these automatically. There were several types of article pairs:
* Unrelated because one of the suggested pages was a disambiguation page and the other was not. Sometimes there was a link to the correct related page from the disambig page. If anybody makes a new version, this certainly should be corrected.
* Related, but with explicit interlanguage links in the articles' source code. This required old-style interwiki conflict resolution. There was a surprisingly high number of these. I managed to resolve all the conflicts manually, but it did take a few minutes for each case. Examples from en.wikipedia: [[Bombe]], [[Bomba (cryptography)]], [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]], [[PFLAG]].
* Related, with a Wikidata item for each page, but without conflicts, so easily mergeable. This can be done by a bot once it is identified for sure.

Adding links to a page without any language links shows a box to write a language and a target title, and that's it. Adding a link to a new language to a page which already has some interlanguage links opens the whole item page in Wikidata (a whole other website!) and requires scrolling, editing the links, and in many cases - merging the items manually. The result is actually the same, so it would be very nice if the second case wouldn't be so complicated.

That's it for now - I hope somebody finds it useful :)

I finished with Hebrew, and I'm going on to Russian, which has over a thousand article pairs. IT'S INSANELY FUN.

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2014-10-29 19:56 GMT+02:00 Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic@google.com>:
Folks,

as you know, many Googlers are huge fans of Wikipedia. So here’s a little gift for Wikidata’s second birthday.

Some of my smart colleagues at Google have run a few heuristics and algorithms in order to discover Wikipedia articles in different languages about the same topic which are missing language links between the articles. The results contain more than 35,000 missing links with a high confidence according to these algorithms. We estimate a precision of about 92+% (i.e. we assume that less than 8% of those are wrong, based on our evaluation). The dataset covers 60 Wikipedia language editions.

Here are the missing links, available for download from the WMF labs servers:

https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/merge_candidate.20141028.csv

The data is published under CC-0.

What can you do with the data? Since it is CC-0, you can do anything you want, obviously, but here are a few suggestions:

There’s a small tool on WMF labs that you can use to verify the links (it displays the articles side by side from a language pair you select, and then you can confirm or contradict the merge):

https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry

The tool does not do the change in Wikidata itself, though (we thought it would be too invasive if we did that). Instead, the results of the human evaluation are saved on WMF labs. You are welcome to take the tool and extend it with the possibility to upload the change directly on Wikidata, if you so wish, or, once the data is verified, to upload the results.

Also, Magnus Manske is already busy uploading the data to the Wikidata game, so you can very soon also play the merge game on the data directly. He is also creating the missing items on Wikidata. Thanks Magnus for a very pleasant cooperation!

I want to call out to my colleagues at Google who created the dataset - Jiang Bian and Si Li - and to Yicheng Huang, the intern who developed the tool on labs.

I hope that this small data release can help a little with further improving the quality of Wikidata and Wikipedia! Thank you all, you are awesome!

Cheers,
Denny



On Wed Oct 29 2014 at 10:52:05 AM Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:

Hey folks :)

Today Wikidata is turning two. It amazes me what we've achieved in
just 2 years. We've built an incredible project that is set out to
change the world. Thank you everyone who has been a part of this so
far.
We've put together some notes and opinions. And there are presents as
well! Check them out and leave your birthday wishes:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Second_Birthday


Cheers
Lydia

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