Hello, > Additionally, I noticed that the PersonData preview link is broken. > This is disappointing as it is the one I am most interested in (so I > had to download the full dataset). Is there any reason why this is > only created from the German data?
At the time we started the project (December 2006), the German Wikipedia hold much more structured information in the Persondata template than the English Wikipedia. This might have changed in the meantime, so it's time to extract that data from the English Wikipedia as well. Cheers, Georgi -- Georgi Kobilarov Freie Universität Berlin www.georgikobilarov.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:dbpedia- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shug Boabby > Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 5:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Dbpedia-discussion] questions about the extraction process > > Hi everybody, > > I just came across DBPedia and it looks like a really awesome project. > I noticed that the latest dump from the English Wikipedia is quite old > (January 2008, Freebase does a new release every 3 months), so I am > interested in creating a more up-to-date dbpedia from a recent > download of the Wikipedia pages and articles (which I have). Is this > possible? > > I am most interested in knowing which Wikipedia pages are people, > companies, and possible disambiguations. Perhaps if there are URLs of > the person (or company logo) on Wikipedia, that would be good too. > > I downloaded the SVN from sourceforge, but I'm afraid I am a little > lost as I was unable to find any documentation. I have a suspicion > that the entry point is the extraction/extract.php file... but I have > no idea where to put the bz2 wikipedia dump file. > > Additionally, I noticed that the PersonData preview link is broken. > This is disappointing as it is the one I am most interested in (so I > had to download the full dataset). Is there any reason why this is > only created from the German data? > > Shug > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - > Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! > Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, > along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness > and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
