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

2022-12-19 Thread Daniel Mietchen via Wikidata
Dear Tassos, thanks for the example - that map is interesting but still arranged in terms of geocoordinates, and based on Wikipedia data. What I had in mind is a map that positions Wikidata items generically (i.e. without the need for geolocation statements via P625) but somewhat reliably (for a