Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 June 2017)

If it is from UNESCO does that mean it is under a Wikimedia compatible license? One could put it on Wikisource :-) James On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Gerard Meijssen &lt;gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com wrote: > Hoi, > I found a complete history of Africa that is available in PDF format from > UNESCO.. It is in eight parts and I am happy that it exists.. I added the > data in Wikidata but this is the link for the English version.. There are > versions in other languages as well :) > Thanks, > GerardM > http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/ > themes/general-history-of-africa/volumes/ > On 27 June 2017 at 05:18, Pine W &lt;wiki.pine(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > I like a tool for Wikidata that Hay created which is called VizQuery. > More > > information about it is below. > > > What's making you happy this week? > > > Pine > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Hay (Husky) &lt;huskyr(a)gmail.com&gt; > > Date: Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:10 PM > > Subject: [Wikidata] A visual way to query Wikidata > > To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." < > > wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; > > > > Hey everyone, > > i've made a tool that allows you to query Wikidata in a visual way > > without using SPARQL. It's called VizQuery: > > > http://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/vizquery/ > > > The possibilities of using Wikidata to do interesting queries are > > endless, and the current query service allows for very powerful > > queries indeed. However, i feel that for the general public, > > especially those who are not that technical, it might be a bit > > overwhelming and difficult for them to learn a complex language such > > as SPARQL. To make people familiar with the concept of queries i > > believe a somewhat less intimidating approach might be useful, hence > > this tool. > > > VizQuery is only capable of doing a subset of possible queries. It's > > basically simple triples, variables (prefixed with '?') and literals > > (between "quotes"). You can do pretty powerful queries with only those > > things though. For example, here's a query with vegetarians who are > > married to a vegetarian: > > > http://bit.ly/2sydpmW > > > Under the hood VizQuery uses Ruben Verborgh's SPARQL.js library to > > convert between JSON and SPARQL, so theoretically every SPARQL query > > you could do in the regular query service can be done in VizQuery. > > However, many queries won't work because the visual interface only > > supports a subset of options: it's pretty hard to create user-friendly > > GUI representations of many of the complex SPARQL features. :) > > > Anyway, i'd like to hear what you think. Bugs, feature request and > > pull requests are also welcome on my Github page: > > https://github.com/hay/wiki-tools > > > Kind regards, > > -- Hay > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikidata mailing list > > Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>