Re: [Wikidata] First version for units is ready for testing!

Hi! > Then what happens with the "unit":"1" that currently we have in JSON? It > seems that one cannot enter this string in the field, and I guess it > would (rightly) be invalid as a unit. Will Wikibase continue to use this > (invalid) string as a placeholder for "no unit"? We could make a bot t

Re: [Wikidata] First version for units is ready for testing!

Hi! > We've finally done all the groundwork for unit support. I'd love for > you to give the first version a try on the test system here: > http://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Q23950 This is awesome, congratulations to Wikidata team on this milestone! > There are a few known issues still but s

Re: [Wikidata] First version for units is ready for testing!

Hi, Great news, but I have some questions ;-) It seems that the unit can be any IRI that starts with http or https, even if not referring to an entity of the wiki. Then what happens with the "unit":"1" that currently we have in JSON? It seems that one cannot enter this string in the field, a

Re: [Wikidata] First version for units is ready for testing!

Great and very valuable! Scott On Aug 31, 2015 11:26 AM, "Gerard Meijssen" wrote: > Hoi, > Good news :) It is good to get things moving :) > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 31 August 2015 at 17:53, Lydia Pintscher > wrote: > >> Hi everyone :) >> >> We've finally done all the groundwork for unit s

Re: [Wikidata] mobile improvements going live soon

Great work! Tiny visual thing: left and right margins are not balanced. On an iPhone 6 at least. Thanks, Tom -- Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee, Google Inc. http://blog.tomayac.com, http://twitter.com/tomayac -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iFy0uwAntT0bE3xtRa5Afe

Re: [Wikidata] First version for units is ready for testing!

Hoi, Good news :) It is good to get things moving :) Thanks, GerardM On 31 August 2015 at 17:53, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hi everyone :) > > We've finally done all the groundwork for unit support. I'd love for > you to give the first version a try on the test system here: > http://wikidata.

[Wikidata] weekly summary #173

Hey folks :) Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy and have a great week! Discussions - New request for comments: Merging relationship properties

[Wikidata] mobile improvements going live soon

Hey folks :) As part of his internship with us Bene has been working on making Wikidata more usable on mobile devices. We'll be redirecting users on mobile devices there soon just like it is done on Wikipedia. You can go and have a look at it here: http://m.wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Q15905 T

[Wikidata] First version for units is ready for testing!

Hi everyone :) We've finally done all the groundwork for unit support. I'd love for you to give the first version a try on the test system here: http://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Q23950 There are a few known issues still but since this is one of the things holding back Wikidata I made the cal

Re: [Wikidata] [Commons-l] Trends in links from Wikidata items to Commons

We will be moving to Commonsdata which will let us do queries to generate millions of category like groups on the fly. There is little point in messing with commons categories before then. Joe On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:54 Steinsplitter Wiki wrote: > Overwriting the commons category system needs la

Re: [Wikidata] New version of Kian, faster, general, more accurate

Hey Tom, Thanks for you review. Note that this list list of *possible* errors and it doesn't mean all of entries are wrong :) (if it was like this, I would go ahead and removed them all) On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 1:22 AM Tom Morris wrote: > After glancing at > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:La

Re: [Wikidata] [Commons-l] Trends in links from Wikidata items to Commons

the problem I see is that commons will always have more categories than wikipedia can have articles take fences, commons has wooden fences this broken into many cats including wooden fences in a country, this then grows and then gets broken into sub national entities while the number of articles

Re: [Wikidata] [Commons-l] Trends in links from Wikidata items to Commons

Overwriting the commons category system needs large consensus. And i don't think that commons community agree with such a change. So i ask again the wikidata people, please start a RRF on commons or respect our categorization schema. Commons has a own community with active users. It is not okay