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Pine W

27 Jun 2017 27 Jun '17

11:18 a.m.

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) <huskyr(a)gmail.com> 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> 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

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen

27 Jun 27 Jun

11:50 a.m.

New subject: What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 June 2017)

What's making me happy: I'm giving a talk about transgender issues at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco tomorrow (June 27): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_QueERG/LGBTQ%2B_Speake… The talk will be livestreamed (1:30 p.m. PDT) and archived for later viewing. - Pax aka Funcrunch (Apologies if this is a duplicate; I made a typo in the "From" address the first time) On 6/26/17 8:18 PM, Pine W wrote:

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Gerard Meijssen

2 Jul 2 Jul

5:14 a.m.

New subject: What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 June 2017)

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-histo… On 27 June 2017 at 05:18, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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James Heilman

12:27 p.m.

New subject: 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 <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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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 <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I like a tool for Wikidata that Hay created which is called VizQuery.

information about it is below. What's making you happy this week? Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hay (Husky) <huskyr(a)gmail.com> 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> 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>

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rupert THURNER

1:09 p.m.

New subject: What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 June 2017)

katherine maher already made 4 edits in 6 monts: https://tools.wmflabs.org/guc/?user=Maherkr (not counting bureaucratic pages like talk, meta, as nobody gives money for them) if 2 billion persons with internet capability on this planet would do like here wikipedia would ahve 8 billtion edits in 6 months:) rupert On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 6:27 AM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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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 <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I like a tool for Wikidata that Hay created which is called VizQuery.

-- 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>

Gerard Meijssen

3:41 p.m.

New subject: What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 June 2017)

Hoi, I checked, the license is non commercial. I have been in contact with John Cummings about this, he will look into what can be done. To be honest, we are terrible at getting a public for the work that is done at Wikisource. We could do so much more and this fact should be obvious as there are websites dedicated to serving a public with the work done in Wikisource. So for me the maps and the artwork is the most we will really use under a free license. The biggest benefit will be the use of these books as a source for Wikipedia content. The existing eight books already are known in Wikidata [1], there are links to the PDF's, what is needed are ISBN numbers (the books are available in print), author info etc. to make them useful in Citoid. Thanks, GerardM [1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q31365548 On 2 July 2017 at 06:27, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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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 <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 <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> 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) <huskyr(a)gmail.com> > > 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> >

> > 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 >

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