Re: [Wikidata-l] "importing data is hard" - on integrating open data projects

On 03.12.2012 07:15, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > I thought people on this list would want to read > http://infotrope.net/2012/11/30/importing-data-is-hard/ , a list of > difficulties Alex Bayley (Skud, who used to work on Freebase) > experienced when attempting to reuse open data. Excellent wr

Re: [Wikidata-l] Link FA/GA

On 01/12/12 20:17, Bináris wrote: Can or will Wikidata handle Link FA / Link GA? Or will the Wikipedias handle it in the old way? Will that fit into the system? Right now, the Wikipedias are able to handle it in the old way. It is planned that in the future Wikidata will include information a

Re: [Wikidata-l] Monday: Upgrades on wikidata-test.wikimedia.de

Hello! This is not going to happen today. I'll keep you posted. Cheers, Silke Am 30.11.2012 12:07, schrieb Silke Meyer: > Hi all! > > Our demo system needs some love to get the same software versions as > wikidata.org. On Monday the demo repo and client (on > http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/) w

[Wikidata-l] dbpedialite

Hello, This appeared on Twitter but I thought I would email as well and introduce myself. I am the author of http://dbpedialite.org/, which I created as an experiment, to try exposing linked data as RDF using the Wikipedia API. The things I was trying to improve were: 1) Stability of identifier

[Wikidata-l] Canonical URL for Wikidata pages?

Hello, What is the canonical URL for a Wikidata page? All of these currently work and none are a 301 redirect: http://wikidata.org/wiki/Q192 http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192 http://en.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192 nick. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may

Re: [Wikidata-l] Canonical URL for Wikidata pages?

Hi Nick, we are not completely decided yet, but it should be one of the first two. Personally I'd prefer wikidata.org over www.wikidata.org, but it might depend on some technical settings. By the way, we also plan to provide an URI for the entity, not just for the page of the entity, which will p

Re: [Wikidata-l] Canonical URL for Wikidata pages?

On 03.12.2012 16:16, Nicholas Humfrey wrote: > All of these currently work and none are a 301 redirect: > http://wikidata.org/wiki/Q192 This is the canonical URL if the *page* (not the URI of the item, nor of the item data). Out plans for canonical URIs are described here: https://meta.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikidata-l] Canonical URL for Wikidata pages?

On 03/12/2012 15:40, "Daniel Kinzler" wrote: > On 03.12.2012 16:16, Nicholas Humfrey wrote: >> All of these currently work and none are a 301 redirect: >> http://wikidata.org/wiki/Q192 > > This is the canonical URL if the *page* (not the URI of the item, nor of the > item data). Out plans for ca

Re: [Wikidata-l] test client system that works with the live wikidata.org

Not yet. If everything goes well, this might change today though, and test2 would become such a test client. We'll keep you posted. 2012/12/2 Amir E. Aharoni > Hi, > > Is there a test client system that works with the live wikidata.org? I'd > love to test it as early as possible. > > -- > Amir

[Wikidata-l] Wikidata deployment schedule

>From : If everything goes well, we will deploy a new version of the Wikibase extension today to Wikidata, probably around 7-9pm UTC (i.e. in the next few hours). Things might go wrong, deployment might stall, or we might ne

Re: [Wikidata-l] deployment of fixes to RTL bugs

Hopefully today. 2012/12/2 Amir E. Aharoni > Hello, > > There are a few RTL bugs that were already fixed in the Wikibase code a > while ago, but don't seem to be deployed yet. In particular, these two are > quite disruptive: > * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41005 > * https://b

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata deployment schedule

Due to an DB schema update issue we did not deploy today. The wiki was read-only for a short while, as we started deployment, but we rolled it back. Nevertheless big thanks to everyone involved. We will reassess the schedule. Cheers, Denny 2012/12/3 Denny Vrandečić > From < > http://www.wikid