Hi! I want to share the idea and some progress on a recently created Wikidata-GUI (realized as a simple web service client) to empower researchers, users and developers of wikidata worldwide. We would be happy to turn the current state of development into a wikimedia-labs-project and with that, make it accessible and more visible within the wikiverse but also accessible to users and researches from other interested communities.
We documented the research which led us to realize this in our wiki [1]. Now, after a first hands-on session with two wikidata-developers it became apparent that looking at wikidata through this UI can provide new views onto actual wiki-data through allowing users to explore any "item" on-demand along its relations. Furthermore it gives us a look at "properties" which the various communities use (in their resp. language) to express relations between "items", "items" and other "data". # What you can do with it? - Query (by text/name) for wikidata "items" and "properties" - Navigate relations of "items" along "claims" and "properties" to "items" (and other "data") - Create personal and structured visualizations based on wikidata search results with free placement on an infinite canvas # How can you do that? Have a look at some of the examples, maybe you want figure out the specialities (and oddities) of our current UI by yourself. A wikidata-Topicmap about a search which lead me to "Indonesia: (.. the country in Southeast Asia and Oceania) http://malts.infokitchen.net/topicmap/2548/topic/3807 An intro-Topicmap to start exploring wikidata: http://malts.infokitchen.net/topicmap/20555/topic/17041 Additional help: - Open the URL below and log in (e.g. with test-user credentials) - Create a new "Topicmap" for yourself and use the "Wikidata Search"-Mode (via "By Text") - Choose a "Wikidata Item" from the search results and load all it's relations to other wikidata items through triggering the "Show Claims"-command - Reveal (to your current item) related wikidata of interest In the following webpage you see a "Topicmap" which renders a "Wikidata Search Bucket", a couple of "Wikidata Entities" (of type=item), "Wikidata Claims" and an "Intro" explaining what you can do with this web service client for the moment: http://malts.infokitchen.net/topicmap/20555 Please note that your topicmaps and searches may still be lost and you need to be logged in (use demo-account) to fire new wikidata-queries. # Questions towards turning this into a Wikimedia Labs project 1. Is manual creation of a new/sperate user account an issue? What are the best alternatives (regarding very limited dev-resources)? 2. Regarding the Wikimedia Labs "Terms of Use": 2.1 The tool is realized as a simple plugin [2] for DeepaMehta 4 [3] (a FOSS software platform for collaboration and information work). 2.2 We do not store any other "Private Information" except any of the data entered by the user, see details [4] below this mail. 3. A Java-capable VM (with OSGi, Karaf, Jetty) with an Apache Webserver (with Reverse Proxy) set up as a "puppetmaster-self" would be needed. # Process Looking forward to your feedback, we will meet at the 22nd of May in WM-Office Berlin for a dev-meeting related to this project and it would be classy if we could by then, present this as a wmflabs.org project. Thanks for your interest & Cheers! -- [1] https://trac.deepamehta.de/wiki/WikidataSearchPlugin%20 [2] http://www.github.com/mukil/dm4-wikidata [3] http://www.deepamehta.de [4] Details on private information processed by this labs-project: 2.2. Private Information accumulating while using this tool would be: 2.2.0 Not be given to any third party (on purpose). 2.2.1 The chosen username (would be public readable) 2.2.2 The password (would be SHA256 encrypted) 2.2.3 IP-Addresses, Time of Request, Browser-Agent String (in Apache Log Files, may be anonymized to 192.168.xx.xxx, deleted any 30 days) 2.2.4 No E-Mail Address should be associated with a "User Account" _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
