Works for me now.
This is fantastic. :)
Please consider adding it to Hay's tools directory, so more people can
discover it.
https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/directory/?search=taxonomy#/search/taxonomy
A.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Dario Taraborelli <
dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I’m constantly getting 500 errors.
>
> On Oct 22, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Thomas Douillard <thomas.douill...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Great tool ! The error detection is precious !
>
> 2015-10-22 17:31 GMT+02:00 Markus Kroetzsch <
> markus.kroetz...@tu-dresden.de>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am happy to announce a new tool [1], written by Serge Stratan, which
>> allows you to browse the taxonomy (subclass of & instance of relations)
>> between Wikidata's most important class items. For example, here is the
>> Wikidata taxonomy for Pizza (discussed recently on this list):
>>
>>
>> http://sergestratan.bitbucket.org?draw=true=s0=177,2095,7802,28877,35120,223557,386724,488383,666242,736427,746549,2424752,1513,16686448
>> <http://sergestratan.bitbucket.org/?draw=true=s0=177,2095,7802,28877,35120,223557,386724,488383,666242,736427,746549,2424752,1513,16686448>
>>
>>
>> == What you see there ==
>>
>> Solid green lines mean "subclass of" relations (subclasses are lower),
>> while dashed purple lines are "instance of" relations (instances are
>> lower). Drag and zoom the view as usual. Hover over items for more
>> information. Click on arrows with numbers to display upper or lower
>> neighbours. Right-click on classes to get more options.
>>
>> The sidebar on the left shows statistics and presumed problems in the
>> data (redundancies and likely errors). You can select a report type to see
>> the reports, and click on any line to show the error. If you search for a
>> class in the search field, the errors will be narrowed down to issues
>> related to the taxonomy of this class.
>>
>> The toolbar at the top has options to show and hide items based on the
>> current selection (left click on any box).
>>
>> Edges in red are the wrong way around (top to bottom). This occurs only
>> when there are cycles in the "taxonomy".
>>
>>
>> == Micro tutorial ==
>>
>> (1) Enter "Unicorn" in the search box, press return.
>> (2) Zoom out a bit by scrolling your mouse/touchpad
>> (3) Click on the "Unicorn" item box. It becomes blue (selected).
>> (4) Click "Expand up" in the toolbar at the top
>> (5) Zoom out to see the taxonomy of unicorn
>> (6) Find the class "Fictional Horse" (directly above unicorn) and click
>> its downwards arrow labelled "3" to see all three children items of
>> "fictional horse".
>> (7) Click the share button on the top right to get a link to this view.
>>
>> You can also create your own share link manually by just changing the
>> Qids in the URL as you like.
>>
>>
>> == Status and limitations ==
>>
>> This is a prototype and it still has some limits:
>>
>> * It only shows "proper" classes that have at least one instance or
>> subclass. This is to reduce the overall data size and load time.
>> * The data is based on dumps (the date is shown on the right). It is not
>> a live view.
>> * The layout is sometimes too dense. You can find a "hidden" option to
>> make it more spacy behind the sidebar (click "Sidebar" to see it). This
>> helps to disentangle larger graphs.
>> * There are some minor bugs in the UI. You sometimes need to click more
>> than once until the right thing happens.
>> * The help page at http://sergestratan.bitbucket.org/howtouse.html does
>> not explain everything in detail yet.
>>
>> It is planned to work on some of these limitations in the future.
>>
>> The hope is that this tool will reveal many errors in Wikidata's taxonomy
>> that are otherwise hard to detect. For example, you can see easily that
>> every "Ship" is an "Event" in Wikidata, that every "Hobbit" is a "Fantasy
>> Race", and that every "Monday" is both a "Mathematical object" and a "Unit
>> of measurement".
>>
>> Feedback is welcome (on the tool; better start new threads for feedback
>> on the Wikidata taxonomy ;-),
>>
>> Markus
>>
>>
>> [1] http://sergestratan.bitbucket.org
>>
>> --
>> Markus Kroetzsch
>> Faculty of Computer Science
>> Technische Universität Dresden
