Wikispecies-l June 2013

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

-------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots) Data: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:30:16 +0200 Mittente: Anders Wennersten <mail(a)anderswennersten.se> Rispondi-a: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> A: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Yesterday sv:wp reached 1 M articles. The one who did the passing was a bot generated article of a butterfly http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erysichton_elaborata. The bot behind this article is Lsjbot who creates articles from the database Catalogue of Life http://www.catalogueoflife.org/services/res/2011AC_26July.zip which (complemented by other databases) which holds data of around 1.5 million species. The bot genrates about 5000 new articles per day and has generated just under 400 000 of the sv:wps million and continues... The guy who runs he bot is a member of the Swedish chapters board http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kandidater_2013/Sverker_Johansson and is in his civil life a University teacher. In this capacity he is also a guest lecturer at the university of the Phillipines where he stayed the last couple of months (and the bot was on hold). He is there active in Cebuano-Wikipedia http://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unang_Panid and supporting their local community, and he is now running his bot on their wikipedia as well as on the Warai-Warai Wikipedia http://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syahan_nga_Pakli. So perhaps at the end of the year these two language versions will also pass the 1 million mark! Anders PS out other major botgenerating effort of all lakes in Sweden is also making very nice progress, done 25% of all DS _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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Re: [Wikispecies-l] Wikispecies-l Digest, Vol 8, Issue 2
by Samuel Klein 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

> 1. Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiData and WikiSpecies (Andrew Leung) > > I agree with Nemo. Please see my message written in January 2013 that demonstrates the problem (except it's worse because Wikidata is populated with more contents now than in January) > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikispecies-l/2013-January/000076.html Hello Andrew, I believe Nemo's point is that Wikidata will become a useful tool for Wikispecies, and can hold all of the structured data Wikispecies needs; so that WS can focus on presentation and search and showcasing related information. You seem to be suggesting that WD is not useful for this and should be avoided. In contrast, I think that WS is a n obvious next client site; and hope that the community will help to make the relevant species data clean and complete within WD. @Nikola: I believe you are right. Since the core WD team is not likely to have time to work on such interfaces, this needs some interested folks to start developing and testing that interface and identifying any bugs or features needed to make it work well. Warmly, Sam. > Nemo writes: >> Nikola Smolenski writes: >> > What if this interface would exist? I believe it could be made really >> > quickly and easily. >> >> From what I understand, the interface for Wikidata data is provided by >> client sites such as Wikipedia. There are no plans for inclusion of >> Wikispecies as client site, but if/when Wikispecies' needs are >> implemented this doesn't imply Wikispecies would be useless, rather that >> it would have easier access to data and could focus on its scope i.e. >> presenting such data. Currently it tries to do both and IMHO fails at both.

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Ubuntu developer uses Wikispecies to demonstrate functionalities
by Andrew Leung 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

Similar to a previous post of an illustrated Wikispecies tree, an Ubuntu developer used Wikispecies to demonstrate some functionality of the software. See http://www.iloveubuntu.net/wikispecies-scope-demoed-handy-functionalities for description and https://plus.google.com/photos/117867558830601601230/albums/588389868549499… for how pages are presented. Andrew "Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up."

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Re: [Wikispecies-l] [Wikimedia-l] WikiData and WikiSpecies
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

Nikola Smolenski, 03/06/2013 11:44: > What if this interface would exist? I believe it could be made really > quickly and easily. It's not about interface only, for instance the search backend is completely broken and useless for Wikidata, AFAICS. From what I understand, the interface for Wikidata data is provided by client sites such as Wikipedia. There are no plans for inclusion of Wikispecies as client site, but if/when Wikispecies' needs are implemented this doesn't imply Wikispecies would be useless, rather that it would have easier access to data and could focus on its scope i.e. presenting such data. Currently it tries to do both and IMHO fails at both. Nemo P.s.: There are also connected problems like sv.wiki becoming a Wikispecies/Wikidata on its own with a million species bot-entries, but it's another story.

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Re: [Wikispecies-l] [Wikimedia-l] WikiData and WikiSpecies
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Ting Chen, 03/06/2013 11:29: > I happened to worked with a few biology interwikis on WikiData today and > saw the taxnomical data on it. Given that WikiData is growing and more > potential would not it be a good idea to merge WikiSpecies data into > WikiData Yes, > and close WikiSpecies (hope now there will no stones or rotten > tomatos flying for this naive question ;-) )? no. <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2013/02#Include…> <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikispecies-l/2013-January/thread.html> TL;DR: Wikidata offers only a partial way to store information and no real interface at all for browsing it. Nemo

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