Re: [Wikidata-l] The new Main page for Wikidata is almost ready to launch

2014-08-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Can you explain why HTPPS is so important in a tool ? It is external to Wikidata and it adds complexity to that tool. Given that I expect featured tools to just make an appearance, it probably excludes most tools.. I would argue that the point here is to show what vibrant a tool ecosystem we

Re: [Wikidata-l] The new Main page for Wikidata is almost ready to launch

2014-08-22 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: * I feel uncomfortable linking to Facebook/Twitter/etc. on the main page. Fair enough. How about we make https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Social_media prettier and link to that instead on the main page? Cheers

Re: [Wikidata-l] The new Main page for Wikidata is almost ready to launch

2014-08-22 Thread Magnus Manske
Well, if I had known people's desperate need to keep their interest in the Franco-Prussian War from the NSA... ;-) https works now for that tool. Cheers, Magnus On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 6:05 AM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: This looks really cool! I haven't really been

Re: [Wikidata-l] The new Main page for Wikidata is almost ready to launch

2014-08-22 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On 22.08.2014 09:10, Lydia Pintscher wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: * I feel uncomfortable linking to Facebook/Twitter/etc. on the main page. Fair enough. How about we make https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Social_media prettier and

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata-l Digest, Vol 33, Issue 16

2014-08-22 Thread Harry Burt
[Apologies, I get these on digest so I'm probably a bit behind.] On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: * How do you plan on localizing the black banner with English words in it? MediaWiki supports localized SVGs if I remember correctly, but doesn't have a method to

Re: [Wikidata-l] Tables

2014-08-22 Thread Jan Kučera
Can someone show me how to make use of wikidata and save following 2D table in a structured day (properties???) so that it can later be retrieved via queries into a list? https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seznam_nejv%C4%9Bt%C5%A1%C3%ADch_%C4%8Desk%C3%BDch_firem_podle_tr%C5%BEeb Thanks! 2014-06-16

Re: [Wikidata-l] Tables

2014-08-22 Thread Joe Filceolaire
Worse. It needs the currency datatype which will not be ready till after the other units. On 22 Aug 2014 14:59, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: You have to add the data to each corresponding item, for instance: ŠKODA AUTO a.s sales 268.5M (CZK) point in time 2013 ŠKODA AUTO a.s

[Wikidata-l] [Wikidata] weekly summary

2014-08-22 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey folks :) Please add all of the things: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.de/document/d/1W0Mfp-5cKxmcVfd3FKQv7atgxjyzgQ1KGm0p4fQOHN0/edit Curious animals: Today I give you Q908238. They're better prepared than we are for rain :P Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher -

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Wikidata] weekly summary

2014-08-22 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: Hey folks :) Please add all of the things: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.de/document/d/1W0Mfp-5cKxmcVfd3FKQv7atgxjyzgQ1KGm0p4fQOHN0/edit Curious animals: Today I give you Q908238. They're better

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata-l Digest, Vol 33, Issue 16

2014-08-22 Thread Helen Halbert
It would be awesome to have a tool for this purpose, especially if we end up having multiple text-heavy banners we cycle through for the Main page. As per the Commons documentation on translating SVGs (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Translation_tutorial), I was thinking it would best to

Re: [Wikidata-l] The new Main page for Wikidata is almost ready to launch

2014-08-22 Thread Chris Steipp
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Can you explain why HTPPS is so important in a tool ? It is external to Wikidata and it adds complexity to that tool. Given that I expect featured tools to just make an appearance, it probably excludes most

Re: [Wikidata-l] The new Main page for Wikidata is almost ready to launch

2014-08-22 Thread Helen Halbert
Thanks everyone for the comments so far! I tend to agree with Markus on the value of these platforms for engaging with the wider community. And while IRC obviously does not present the same concerns as Twitter or Facebook, it is simply not as widely known or used (especially by newcomers to FOSS)

Re: [Wikidata-l] Breaking serialization change!

2014-08-22 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey folks :) On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: Hey folks :) Are you a tool author relying on dumps or Special:Export or use Lua on Wikidata to access data in items? Please read on. The JSON format returned by the API and what we use to store

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata-l Digest, Vol 33, Issue 16

2014-08-22 Thread James Forrester
On 22 August 2014 05:47, Harry Burt harryab...@gmail.com wrote: [Apologies, I get these on digest so I'm probably a bit behind.] On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: * How do you plan on localizing the black banner with English words in it? MediaWiki supports