Interesting piece of info, relevant to this list.
Nemo
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Oggetto: Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Gap
Data: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:39:44 -0500
Mittente: Dennis During
English Wiktionary has made a modest step toward ameliorating the FUll Text
On the Net bias by reducing for "less-attested languages" the requirement
for three citations of a word in use to just one. The result is more
coverage at somewhat greater risk of making a mistake in the entry
(misspelling, wrong definition, etc). Similar tradeoffs must exist for
other wikis. En.wikt tends to be more tolerant, if not exactly welcoming,
of contributors of entries in underrepresented languages, many of which do
not have their own wikis, than it is of would-be contributors of English
entries.
As I see it, What en.wikt has done seems reasonable within the scope of
what volunteers can do and are willing to do. A dictionary with trained
linguists contributing has an offsetting bias toward preserving smaller
languages, which serve as data for linguistic theory.
In my opinion, we also have other biases. We have a subject matter bias
toward computer, mathematics, chemistry, and linguistics jargon and against
jargon from other fields. Our coverage of Afro-American Vernacular English
lags and is incomplete even for older terms. Our definitions are often
worded for graduate students or at least college students. We have an
antiquarian and literary bias as well. I am certain that I am blind to
many other biases.
We would welcome constructive ideas about further steps or ideas on how
en.wikt could be a better resource.
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
> In terms of specific articles to create, there is also
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_
> encyclopedic_articles
>
> That project collects articles that exist in wide range of other
> encyclopedias, but don't yet exist on Wikipedia. However that's not
> covering quite the same concerns as the systemic-bias discussion, since
> many of those encyclopedias themselves have similar biases. Nonetheless
> this kind of comparison can be useful to find specific gaps in coverage
> that, equally importantly, are "actionable" in the sense that at least one
> source to base an article on exists.
>
> -Mark
>
>
> On 12/9/13, 9:07 PM, Peter Coombe wrote:
>
>> The English Wikipedia has attempted a (non-exhaustive) list at
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> On 9 December 2013 07:35, Romaine Wiki <romaine_wiki(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> In various research and media articles is written that in several subject
>>> groups Wikipedia is missing a lot of articles and those groups are
>>> relatively unrepresented.
>>>
>>> How can we as Wikipedia get clear which subject groups are missing?
>>>
>>> How can we get lists of less represented subject groups and the articles
>>> in those groups?
>>>
>>> Let us get practical, ow can we fill the gap?
>>>
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Romaine
>>>
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1st DBpedia Community Meeting
====================
Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014
**Submission of presentations open**:
http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014
The DBpedia Project in 2014: from a hosted data set to a public data
infrastructure for the Web of Data. As the DBpedia community has grown
extensively, we think that the time has come to get everybody in one
large room and meet. We hope to get together three major groups involved
in DBpedia: the /DBpedia developers and maintainers/, the communities
of the individual /DBpedia language chapters/ and, of course, the
/DBpedia users/.
Quick Facts
=======
When: January 30th, 2014
Where: VU Amsterdam, Netherlands (behind the high main building, nr 4 on
the map )
Host: Dutch DBpedia Chapter (http://nl.dbpedia.org) and the VU Amsterdam
Call for Contribution: **Submission Open**
http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014
Registration: see http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014
Co-located with the PiLOD 2.0 meeting (http://www.pilod.nl) on January
29th, 2014
Acknowledgements
============
* We would especially like to thank Bibliotheek.nl -- Public Libraries
of the Netherlands (http://bibliotheek.nl/) for supporting the Dutch
DBpedia Chapter.
* Koninklijke Bibliotheek -- National library of the Netherlands
(http://www.kb.nl) for supporting the Dutch DBpedia Chapter and
providing lunch for the meeting.
* VU Amsterdam (http://www.vu.nl/) kindly provided the facilities for
the meeting, with special thanks to Lora Arroyo from Biography Net
(http://www.biographynet.nl/)
* OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com/) for continuous
hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint
Abstract
======
(Please see http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014 for complete
program)
The meeting will be held at VU Amsterdam on Jan 30th and is co-located
with the PiLOD 2.0 (http://www.pilod.nl) meeting one day earlier. The
first session will be a discussion about the DBpedia State-of-Play,
where core members of the DBpedia community present certain aspects of
DBpedia and the audience is invited to give feedback and ask questions.
The second session will be dedicated to users of DBpedia. We would like
to invite companies, organisations and other project to shortly present
their use cases for DBpedia and give input on how we can improve DBpedia
for users. Free slots still available, apply here:
http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014
After the lunch, we plan to have three break-out sessions for the topics
(1) DBpedia and Library, (2) Linking text to LOD entities and (3) What
is wrong with DBpedia? Developers discussion on how to improve our baby.
Finally, the last parallel sessions are planned as: DBpedia tutorial,
DBpedia I18N developers' session and a Local Dutch DBpedia Chapter
Meeting with the additional possibility to continue break out sessions.
-> Note the Local Dutch DBpedia Chapter might be held one day earlier at
the Pilod meeting, please look here for updates in a couple of days (
written Jan 14th) .
==== About DBpedia ====
Source: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj499.pdf
The DBpedia community project extracts structured, multilingual
knowledge from Wikipedia and makes it freely available using Semantic
Web and Linked Data standards. The extracted knowledge, comprising more
than 1.8 billion facts, is structured according to an ontology
maintained by the community. The knowledge is obtained from different
Wikipedia language editions, thus covering more than 100 languages, and
mapped to the community ontology. The resulting data sets are linked to
more than 30 other data sets in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. The
DBpedia project was started in 2006 and has meanwhile attracted large
interest in research and practice. Being a central part of the LOD
cloud, it serves as a connection hub for other data sets. For the
research community, DBpedia provides a testbed serving real world data
spanning many domains and languages. Due to the continuous growth of
Wikipedia, DBpedia also provides an increasing added value for data
acquisition, re-use and integration tasks within organisations. In this
system report, we give an overview over the DBpedia community project,
including its architecture, technical implementation, maintenance,
internationalisation, usage statistics and showcase some popular DBpedia
applications.
Travel Grants / Sponsorship
=================
Some of the DBpedia developers work on DBpedia in their free-time and
will not have institutional funding to come to the meeting. Therefore,
we are still looking for sponsors for travel grants (as well as coffee
and food for the sessions). If you are interested to sponsor this
meeting, please fill out this form to request more information:
http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014
Given we can acquire a sponsor, participants can apply for a travel
grant here: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014 or email Sebastian
(who will then add your request to the form ;) )
These grants will be awarded depending on the standing in the community
and community activity, e.g. Google Summer of Code participation or Git
Commits to DBpedia framework, activity on the mailing lists, etc.
We hope to see you there,
Gerard, Gerald (from Dutch DBpedia), Mariano from the Spanish DBpedia
and Dimitris and Sebastian
--
Sebastian Hellmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Events:
* *30th January, 2014*: 1st DBpedia Community meeting
(http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014)
* *Sept. 2014* MLODE
Venha para a Alemanha como PhD: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/csf
Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org,
http://linguistics.okfn.org, http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary
Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org
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