Re: [Wikidata] Controversy around Wikimania talks

2016-07-31 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
Which items, which admin, etc. A little context would help. If the items were appropriate, wait for the community to agree with you before recreating them. On 31 Jul 2016 17:50, "Gerard Meijssen" wrote: > Hoi. > Many items were created for Wikimania talks. They were

Re: [Wikidata] Possibility of data lock

2016-06-09 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
Or a new right, required to alter a statement that has a citation? On 9 Jun 2016 20:41, "john cummings" wrote: > I have been experiencing something similar although I would not call it > vandalism, just changing things that are official statistics to something > that is

Re: [Wikidata] Ontology

2016-05-14 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Gerard Meijssen, 14/05/2016 15:39: >> >> When an external ontology says that something is a disease and the DSM-5 >> says it is not. There is a huge problem. > > > Until recently DSM called homosexuality a disease,

Re: [Wikidata-tech] How to make a Wikibase server-installation accessible via Pywikibot local-library?

2016-03-02 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
Hi, I dont think we have tried running Pywikibot using a repository without the client also installed, however I do not believe that will be necessary. I have added a section about Wikibase to the third-party wiki documentation

Re: [Wikidata] upcoming deployments/features

2016-02-02 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > >> Can you try again please? And in an in-cognito window? I just tried it >> and it works for me: https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649 We've had some >> issues with local store though. > > Weird, does work for me

Re: [Wikidata] Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype

2016-01-10 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
Please can https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/247080/ be added to the blockers for this, and allow clients a week or two to add support for the new datatype. On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hey folks :) > > The new identifier datatype is

Re: [Wikidata-tech] [Wikitech-l] Wikidata API breaking changes

2015-09-09 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
The merged changeset included changes which were not advertised, causing pywikibot to break. See T110559 The wbgetentities JSON 'entities' is now an array/list of entities instead of a mapping/dictionary of 'Qd' => entity. On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Addshore

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata for Wiktionary

2015-05-07 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Would it not make sense to FIRST finish a few things.. Like Commons and Query ? One of the primary things Wikidata was supposed to do is manage interlanguage links for Wikimedia projects. That isnt finished

Re: [Wikidata-l] Example of Wikipedia infobox generated from Wikidata?

2015-01-14 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
There are a few infoboxes in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_using_data_from_Wikidata And more may be found via https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11985372 Spanish Wikipedia uses ISSNs from Wikidata. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantilla:Ficha_de_revista It would be good to put

Re: [Wikidata-l] Come to present Wikidata in Finland!

2014-08-20 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
contacted Stryn. He would not be able to attend either, but he would join a separate event at a different time. Best regards, Susanna 2014-08-02 18:35 GMT+03:00 John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com: Sounds very interesting. I could cover my own costs, but the distance and time

Re: [Wikidata-l] labels of renamed articles

2014-08-15 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote: Problem with that option is that on Wikipedia you cannot see what the label on Wikidata is. The Wikidata label may have been changed for another reason (in the Manning case, say, a different transcription from Latin to

Re: [Wikidata-l] Come to present Wikidata in Finland!

2014-08-02 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
Sounds very interesting. I could cover my own costs, but the distance and time is a killer at short notice. When do you need to know by? If nothing else, I would be very happy to help prepare the presentation. There appear to be two Finnish-specific properties,

Re: [Wikidata-l] Reasonator ignores of qualifier

2014-06-16 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Jun 17, 2014 3:32 AM, Thomas Douillard thomas.douill...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, there seem to be some cognitive dissonance going on here, it's weird. Andy wants an item about himself. 'The Community' said 'no, not yet'. Andy regularly raises this as an inconsistency. Items for contributors

Re: [Wikidata-l] Weekyl summary #110

2014-05-28 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On May 27, 2014 1:48 AM, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 3:38 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: John, I appreciate that you prepare these summaries so diligently. If you wouldn't do it I would miss so many important things. I agree wholeheartedly -- and

Re: [Wikidata-l] WP-geocoordinates filter by using Wikidata classes

2014-05-10 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
Hi Tim, It looks great! I also wanting to better understand which items appear. For example, I am wondering why Kangaroo Island doesnt have a marker on the 'island' map http://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-on-ol/kml-on-ol.php?lang=enuselang=enzoom=5lat=-35.83lon=137.25137classes=23442

Re: [Wikidata-l] Native Other project sidebar managed by Wikibase

2014-04-12 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
This is excellent Tpt!! A Beta Feature for this would be really helpful for people who move around the wikis a lot and would like this feature even when the local community isnt able to implement it. On Apr 12, 2014 5:53 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Thomas Tanon,