[Wikidata-tech] Re: remove wikidata sitelinks

2023-04-01 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Hi Olaf, according to https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Help:QuickStatements=1847389243#Adding_labels,_aliases,_descriptions_and_sitelinks , "If you want to remove a label/description/sitelink, the value has to be an empty string and the rest of the command will be the same." So I just

[Wikidata] Re: Wikidata Atlas: a geographic view of Wikidata entities [feedback welcome!]

2022-12-19 Thread Daniel Mietchen via Wikidata
Wikidata’s querying functionality to allow for way more complex filtering > approaches to those the tool currently offers (based on popularity, > categories, keywords). > > Best, > Tassos > > On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 at 19:43, Daniel Mietchen > wrote: >> >> Dear Diego, Aida

[Wikidata] Re: Wikidata Atlas: a geographic view of Wikidata entities [feedback welcome!]

2022-12-17 Thread Daniel Mietchen via Wikidata
Dear Diego, Aidan and Benjamin, thanks for working on such functionality - both tools seem to be quite useful already. One way to abstract things out further would be to facilitate a mapping (e.g. heatmaps) of non-geo things - for example basketball players by number of points, perhaps with

[Wikidata] Re: Wikidata’s 10th birthday: contribute to the celebration video

2022-09-19 Thread Daniel Mietchen via Wikidata
Dear all, here's my contribution to the birthday video series: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Using_Wikidata_to_explore_depictions_of_nature_in_the_fine_arts.webm . No cakes, no candles, no alcohol, no glitter but paintings of frogs, rainbows, lightnings and icebergs instead, which are

[Wikidata] Re: connecting coordinates

2022-01-26 Thread Daniel Mietchen via Wikidata
Hi Olaf, you could bind the dates such that they can be used as the color layer for the dots on the map: https://tinyurl.com/y9yb6blb . This way, they are sorted in time, and you can clock your way through by looking at which dots appear or change their colour. I also looked into getting the dots

[Wikidata] Documentation of the interaction between AUTO_LANGUAGE and JSON from WDQS?

2021-08-30 Thread Daniel Mietchen via Wikidata
Dear all, we're doing a Scholia hackathon right now, and in the context of internationalization, one of the issues that came up was how AUTO_LANGUAGE can be used outside the WDQS GUI. Our intuitive assumption would have been that the AUTO_LANGUAGE gets inserted into the query, that query then

[Wikidata] Wikidata in the LOD cloud

2020-08-05 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Hi all, the newest version of the LOD cloud is just a week old,[1] but the underlying information for Wikidata is out of date by several years.[2] Has anyone looked into streamlining the data submission process? Best, Daniel [1] https://lod-cloud.net/ [2]

Re: [Wikidata] Scaling Wikidata Query Service

2019-06-06 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Thanks, Guillaume - this is very helpful, and it would be great to have similar information posted/ collected on other kinds of limits and potential approaches to addressing them. Some weeks ago, we started a project to keep track of tsuch limits, and I have added pointers to your information

Re: [Wikidata] Accessing tabular data from SPARQL?

2019-05-31 Thread Daniel Mietchen
phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181319 > > Tabular support allows any CSV-style tables to be treated as federated > sources. With minor changes it should be possible to use mediawiki's .tab > pages too. > > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 6:01 PM Daniel Mietchen > wrote: >> >&

[Wikidata] Accessing tabular data from SPARQL?

2019-05-31 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Hi, I'm looking into ways to use tabular data like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Zika-institutions-test.tab in SPARQL queries but could not find anything on that. My motivation here is in part coming from the time out limits, and the basic idea here would be to split queries that

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata SPARQL query logs available

2018-08-23 Thread Daniel Mietchen
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:44 PM wrote: > I was wondering why our research section was number 8. Then I recalled > our dashboard running from > "http://people.compute.dtu.dk/faan/cognitivesystemswikidata1.html;. It > updates around each 3 minute all day long... Such automated queries should not

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata SPARQL query logs available

2018-08-23 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Hi Stas, I had thought about putting it on Commons as tabular data, but did not know how to reuse it from there for multilingual display using the Q template on Wikidata, so went the simpler route. Can you (or someone else) perhaps demo that briefly? Thanks, d. On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:03 PM

Re: [Wikidata] Wikiata and the LOD cloud

2018-05-04 Thread Daniel Mietchen
They go by number of triples, of which Wikidata has ca. 5 billion vs. 9.5 million in DBpedia - see https://lod-cloud.net/dataset/dbpedia . On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 1:45 AM, Fariz Darari wrote: > Since DBpedia was mentioned, wondering which is bigger in the LOD Cloud, > Wikidata

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata like Social Network Based Big Data

2018-04-01 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Hi Houcemeddin, you would probably want to look at http://wikiba.se/ and https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-docker Cheers, Daniel On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 4:23 PM, abdelwaheb turki wrote: > Dear Mr. or Ms., > I thank you for your efforts. We have generated a database in

[Wikidata] Wikidata intro for film archivists?

2017-11-21 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Dear all, the International Federation of Film Archives are planning a symposium on "Sharing" on April 23-24 as part of their next annual conference (22-27 April 2018) in Prague. One of the organizers - Adelheid Heftberger, in CC - reached out to ask whether I knew anyone who would be able to

[Wikidata] Wikimedian in Residence position at University of Virginia

2017-11-09 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Dear all, I'm happy to announce that a one-year position for a Wikimedian in Residence is open in Charlottesville at the Data Science Institute (DSI) at the University of Virginia (UVA). It is aimed at fostering the interaction between the university - students, researchers, librarians, research

Re: [Wikidata] Coursework involving Wikidata?

2017-06-05 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Thanks for all the replies so far. @Shani: Certainly happy to interact over further planning. @Vojtěch: Can you send me a link to your course page(s)? One of the avenues I am exploring is the use of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Everything_is_connected , e.g.

[Wikidata] Coursework involving Wikidata?

2017-06-03 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Hi, I am preparing an elective course on Wikidata as part of a summer school (some bare-bone background at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/FSCI_2017 ) and am looking for examples of previous or ongoing coursework involving Wikidata. Thanks for any pointers, Daniel

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikitech-l] New Wikidata accounts can't edit labels?

2017-04-12 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Thanks to all your responses. There is more information in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Can_anyone_here_help_sort_out_presumed_IP_ban_for_ongoing_Wikidata_hackathon_in_Suriname.3F and at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162751 . d. On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Andy

Re: [Wikidata] Newbie feedback

2017-03-06 Thread Daniel Mietchen
t allows for subsequent addition of missing >> statements. After this inclusion of missing items is an option. This is how >> trust is build, nb the process of reconciliation of differences is best a >> continuous effort for both parties. >> Thanks, >> GerardM &g

[Wikidata] Newbie feedback

2017-03-04 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Hi all, I'm co-organizing an Open Data Day event this weekend, as part of which a group of people who did not know Wikidata tried to find their way into it on their own. Their notes are at https://github.com/sparcopen/open-research-doathon/blob/master/wikidata_for_newbies.md . I'll be seeing

Re: [Wikidata] [wikicite-discuss] Entity tagging and fact extraction (from a scholarly publisher perspective)

2016-11-02 Thread Daniel Mietchen
I'm traveling ( https://twitter.com/EvoMRI/status/793736211009536000 ), so just in brief: In terms of markup, some general comments are in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK159964/ , which is not specific to Hindawi but partly applies to them too. A problem specific to Hindawi (cf.

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikitech-l] Wikidata Query Service demo video

2016-09-07 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Now on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Sparql_Query_Tutorial.webm On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:19 AM, camelia boban wrote: > Very nice, I need it. > Thank you, CAmelia > > > > -- > > *Camelia Boban*Freelance developer | Aissa Technologies >

[Wikidata] Candidature for the European Commission Open Science Policy Platform

2016-03-19 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Dear all, the European Commission is setting up an advisory group for its Open Science Agenda: https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-policy-platform This group - called 'Open Science Policy Platform' (OSPP) - has an open call for candidates, and I am amongst those

Re: [Wikidata] [Analytics] [Wiki-Medicine] Zika

2016-02-22 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Dear all, we're currently building a template for Zika-related articles (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Zika ), and I could imagine some of these - e.g. those on the earlier Zika outbreaks - may be useful for training the models. Cheers, Daniel On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:11 PM,

Re: [Wikidata] [Wiki-Medicine] [Analytics] Zika

2016-02-14 Thread Daniel Mietchen
The link to microcephaly has become clearer this week: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zika_virus=704879995#cite_ref-11 states "A complete ZIKV genome sequence [..] was recovered from brain tissue" (of a fetus whose mother had been infected with Zika virus). Given that the mass media

[Wikidata] Zika on Wikidata

2016-02-14 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Dear all, we now have a Wikidata page to coordinate activities around Zika: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Medicine/Zika . Please leave a note there if you are active in this area. Thanks and cheers, d. ___ Wikidata mailing list

Re: [Wikidata] [REMINDER] StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar

2016-01-23 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Thanks, Marco - I just watched the video and would be interested in knowing whether you have picked your focus by now from the three domains you suggested (biographies, companies, biomedical) or perhaps something else. If you go for biomedical, there would be overlap with

Re: [Wikidata] Help with SPARQL queries

2016-01-10 Thread Daniel Mietchen
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 3:53 AM, Daniel Mietchen > <daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> What I want now is a list of (ideally) statements (or - less ideally - >> items with such statements) that have references of one of the types >> given in (1) and (2). > > It

[Wikidata] Help with SPARQL queries

2016-01-09 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Dear all, I am making my first steps with SPARQL and would appreciate some help from those in the know (got some help already, but am still getting stuck easily). Specifically, I am trying to get an overview of statements that are or could be sourced to items that are scientific papers. What I

[Wikidata] Fwd: Biocuration 2016-fellowships for Eastern Europe

2015-12-04 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Possibly of interest to some of you. Note there will be a Wikidata workshop: http://www.isb-sib.ch/events/biocuration2016/workshops#WS6 - similar to the one currently discussed for SWAT4LS next week in the parallel thread at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-December/007786.html

Re: [Wikidata] birthday present: Special:Nearby

2015-10-31 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Thanks, Andrew - I liked that. Did a few of these Australian items and then changed the coordinates to locations I know better. d. On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: > And here's a little experiment if you want to do the "nearby missing > images"

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata needs your votes

2015-08-22 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Today is the last day to vote, and we're suddenly on rank 11, so we'll need a good number of more votes to make it into the top 10: https://www.land-der-ideen.de/ausgezeichnete-orte/preistraeger/wikidata . ___ Wikidata mailing list

Re: [Wikidata] Wikimania talk input

2015-06-10 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Perhaps the Gene Wiki and other research-related stuff? The Wikidata for research session did not make it into the program. d. On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Finn Årup Nielsen f...@imm.dtu.dk wrote: On 06/10/2015 09:04 AM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: I'll be giving a talk about the state of

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data Templates

2015-03-27 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Hi Valentine, I think the following projects would also fall within the scope of your search: * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings *

Re: [Wikidata-l] WikiData for Research Project Idea: Structured History

2014-12-27 Thread Daniel Mietchen
at wikidata-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Wikidata-l digest... Today's Topics: 1. Use cases for Wikidata in research contexts (Daniel Mietchen

[Wikidata-l] Use cases for Wikidata in research contexts

2014-12-26 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Dear all, we are building the Wikidata for Research proposal [1] around use cases for Wikidata (or Wikibase) in research contexts (cf. Task 4.1). So if you are using Wikidata or Wikibase in research contexts already, or are contemplating to do so, we'd appreciate your comments. The same goes

[Wikidata-l] Collaboration with scholarly resources?

2013-12-04 Thread Daniel Mietchen
Dear all, I am exploring options of interaction between Wikidata and scholarly resources. While my focus here is on biodiversity research (and I'd be very happy to hear about your activities along these lines), a more concrete route for collaboration now becomes visible with PubChem, as mentioned