Hey folks,
we plan to drop the wb_entity_per_page table sometime soon[0], because
it is just not required (as we will likely always have a programmatic
mapping from entity id to page title) and it does not supported non
-numeric entity ids as it is now. Due to this removing it is a blocker
for the commons metadata.
Is anybody using that for their tools (on tool labs)? If so, please
tell us so that we can give you instructions and a longer grace period
to update your scripts.
Cheers,
Marius
[0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95685
Hoi,
Jura1 created a wonderful list of people who died in Brazil in 2015 [1]. It
is a page that may update regularly from Wikidata thanks to the
ListeriaBot. Obviously, there may be a few more because I am falling ever
more behind with my quest for registering deaths in 2015.
I have copied his work and created a page for people who died in the
Netherlands in 2015 [2]. It is trivially easy to do this and, the result is
great. The result looks great, it can be used for any country in any
Wikipedia
The Dutch Wikipedia indicated that they nowadays maintain important
metadata at Wikidata. I am really happy that we can showcase their work. It
is important work because as someone reminded me at some stage, this is
part of what amounts to the policy of living people...
Thanks,
GerardM
[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_Brazil
[2]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_the_Netherlands
Hello all,
The Photographers' Identities Catalog (PIC) is an ongoing project of
visualizing photo history through the lives of photographers and photo
studios. I have information on 115,000 photographers and studios as of
tonight. It is still under construction, but as I've almost completed an
initial indexing of the ~12,000 photographers in WikiData, I thought I'd
share it with you. We (the New York Public Library) hope to launch it
officially in mid to late January. This represents about 12 years worth of
my work of researching in NYPL's photography collection, censuses and
business directories, and scraping or indexing trusted websites, databases,
and published biographical dictionaries pertaining to photo history.
Again, please bear in mind that our programmer is still hard at work (and I
continue to refine and add to the data*), but we welcome your feedback,
questions, critiques, etc. To see the WikiData photographers, select
WikiData from the Source dropdown. Have fun!
*PIC*
<http://mgiraldo.github.io/pic/?address.AddressTypeID=*&address.CountryID=*&…>
Thanks,
David
*Tomorrow, for instance, I'll start mining Wikidata for birth & death
locations.
Hi Stas, hi all,
I just noted that BlazeGraph seems to contain a few erroneous triples.
The following query, for example, returns a blank node "t7978245":
SELECT ?superClass WHERE {
<http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q595133> p:P279/ps:P279 ?superClass
}
https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3FsuperClass%20WHERE%20{%0A%20%20%3Ch…
I stumbled upon six cases like this (for P279): Q595133 (shown above),
Q1691488, Q11259005, Q297106, Q1293664, and Q539558. This would be less
than 0.001% of the 623,963 P279 statements, but it's still enough to
have application code trip over the unexpected return format ;-).
Best
Markus
--
Markus Kroetzsch
Faculty of Computer Science
Technische Universität Dresden
+49 351 463 38486
http://korrekt.org/
Hey everyone :)
Thomas, Denny, Sebastian, Thomas, and I have published a paper which was
accepted for the industry track at WWW 2016. It covers the migration from
Freebase to Wikidata. You can now read it here:
http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/44818.pdf
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hey all,
I've been working to make vandalism detection easier and I was able to
build an AI tool that scores each and every edit for being vandalism. It's
one step forward but not enough, since using these scores is hard. So I'm
working on building tools that makes these scores more useable for you. The
long-term goal is using the ORES extension. it is working now in beta
cluster [1] and you can test it in [2] as well. Once we are done with
Wikidata:Edit labels [3] we are good to deploy this as a beta feature in
Wikidata (we are waiting for something else too but hopefully it's done
very soon)
But I wanted something helpful in short-term too. So in this weekend*, I
registered #wikidata-vandalism IRC channel in freenode and I made a bot
that reports unpatrolled edits with high scores every six minutes if they
are made in the last six minutes. So If you join that channel you can see
the bot adds edits that need review very soon after the edit has been made
(basically it's a live reporting edits needing review)
Source code is in github and PRs are very welcome :) [4]
[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChang…
[2]: https://mw-revscoring.wmflabs.org
[3]: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Edit_labels
[4]: https://github.com/Ladsgroup/ORES-IRC-Wikidata-bot
* My weekend is Thursday and Friday :)
Best
Hi!
It looks like all the issues that we have had with Blazegraph 2.0 are
now fixed, so I will attempt to upgrade our install to 2.0 again
sometime around noon PDT tomorrow. There should be no visible changes
except for brief restart for each server that should not be externally
visible (since we have two so the other one would just take over).
However, if something bad happens, there might be a brief disruption of
service.
I'll send a message when it's done, and if you notice anything weird
after the upgrade, please ping me or submit issue in Phabricator.
Thanks,
--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org
Hey everyone :)
We have now enabled support for Wikiversity on Wikidata as well. For now
sitelinks to Wikiversity can be added. They will receive access to the data
in a while when everything else is working smoothly.
Welcome, Wikiversity!
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hi all – heads up that we extended the submission deadline for the Wiki
Workshop at ICWSM '16 to *Wednesday, March 3, 2016*. (The second deadline
remains unchanged: March 11, 2016).
You can check the workshop's website
<http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/> for submission instructions or
follow us at @wikiworkshop16 <https://twitter.com/wikiworkshop16> for live
updates.
Looking forward to your contributions.
Dario