Re: [Wikidata] #WikidataBirthday present: new release of Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on

2016-11-01 Thread David Lowe 
Yes, I'll keep playing with it, it's already saved me dozens of hours of
work, thanks. Now, just 25 letters of the alphabet to go!


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On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Thomas Steiner  wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> > I find the WIKISEARCH a bit overly permissive for general use, but it did
> > find some useful matches.
>
> The underlying Wikipedia API request is to the best of my
> understanding essentially the same as a regular on-Wikipedia search.
> You might get better results by setting the optional second parameter
> "opt_didYouMean" to true like so: =WIKISEARCH("search term", TRUE). In
> some cases it then shows the most probable alternative result that you
> might have wanted to actually search for instead. Give it a spin.
> Also, together with the pipeline I have set up for you in the sheet,
> you can filter on type, so when you know you are looking for "instance
> of: human", you can exclude anything non-human. Hope this helps!
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
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> https://twitter.com/tomayac)
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Re: [Wikidata] #WikidataBirthday present: new release of Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on

2016-11-01 Thread Thomas Steiner 
Hi again,

> I find the WIKISEARCH a bit overly permissive for general use, but it did
> find some useful matches.

The underlying Wikipedia API request is to the best of my
understanding essentially the same as a regular on-Wikipedia search.
You might get better results by setting the optional second parameter
"opt_didYouMean" to true like so: =WIKISEARCH("search term", TRUE). In
some cases it then shows the most probable alternative result that you
might have wanted to actually search for instead. Give it a spin.
Also, together with the pipeline I have set up for you in the sheet,
you can filter on type, so when you know you are looking for "instance
of: human", you can exclude anything non-human. Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Tom

-- 
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https://twitter.com/tomayac)

Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg, Germany
Managing Directors: Matthew Scott Sucherman, Paul Terence Manicle
Registration office and registration number: Hamburg, HRB 86891

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Re: [Wikidata] #WikidataBirthday present: new release of Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on

2016-11-01 Thread David Lowe 
Thanks again, Tom.
I find the WIKISEARCH a bit overly permissive for general use, but it did
find some useful matches. These tools are very helpful!

d


*David Lowe | The New York Public Library**Specialist II, Photography
Collection*

*Photographers' Identities Catalog *

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Thomas Steiner  wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> I made some additions to your document (red column headers). This
> shows the workflow to first search, then lookup the qid, and then the
> WIkidata fact "instance of". I will add the descriptions to a new
> function WIKIDATADESCRIPTIONS, let me work on that. It is easily
> possible via the API
> (https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&;
> ids=Q42&format=json&props=descriptions).
> Hope this helps!
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
> --
> Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee (http://blog.tomayac.com,
> https://twitter.com/tomayac)
>
> Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg, Germany
> Managing Directors: Matthew Scott Sucherman, Paul Terence Manicle
> Registration office and registration number: Hamburg, HRB 86891
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[Wikidata] Birthday: Wikibase documentation and artworks

2016-11-01 Thread Léa Lacroix 
Hello all,

In development, writing documentation is as important as building new
features. That's why Ladsgroup and Jonas worked on the *technical
documentation about Wikibase* for the birthday! Both PHP
 and JS
 scripts are now described
in the official Wikimedia documentation repository. Thanks also to Ashar
for the release.

The story of the day is written by Shonagon who worked a lot on artworks,
providing Crotos

that displays artwork pictures from Commons when you enter a keyword, using
Wikidata of course. You can *read the story
*
(in French) and discover his other tools .
Thanks Shonagon!
Cheers,

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Community Communication 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.
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Re: [Wikidata] #WikidataBirthday present: new release of Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on

2016-11-01 Thread Thomas Steiner 
Hi David,

I made some additions to your document (red column headers). This
shows the workflow to first search, then lookup the qid, and then the
WIkidata fact "instance of". I will add the descriptions to a new
function WIKIDATADESCRIPTIONS, let me work on that. It is easily
possible via the API
(https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q42&format=json&props=descriptions).
Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Tom

-- 
Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee (http://blog.tomayac.com,
https://twitter.com/tomayac)

Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg, Germany
Managing Directors: Matthew Scott Sucherman, Paul Terence Manicle
Registration office and registration number: Hamburg, HRB 86891

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