Re: [Wikidata] WCQS Beta Downtime beginning Feb 4 18:30 UTC

Hi Ryan and Guillaume, Last time I checked WCQS was short for "Wikimedia Commons Query Service" ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service ) so I'm a bit puzzled why you posted this on the Wikidata mailing list instead of the Wikimedia Commons list? I hope it will be

Re: [Wikidata] ACM UMAP 2021: Third Call-for-Papers - Updated submission information

Hi Violeta, On 12-01-2021 00:01, Violeta Ilik wrote: I want to say I am surprised but no, I am not. This list is full of unwelcoming people who somehow continue to thrive here. This list is very welcoming to people who want discuss anything related to Wikidata, off-topic spammy conference

Re: [Wikidata] ACM UMAP 2021: Third Call-for-Papers - Updated submission information

Hi Oana, On 11-01-2021 08:58, Oana Inel wrote: --- Apologies for cross-posting --- Apologies not accepted. This doesn't seem to be on topic for this list. Have a look at https://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2014/01/31/apologies-for-cross-posting/ Maarten

[Wikidata-tech] Remote hackathon (May 9 - 11, 2020)

Hi everyone, The first weekend of May the Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 in Tirana was supposed to happen. As an alternative, we're organizing a remote hackathon. Please have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2020/Remote_Hackathon and sign up if you're interested in

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Blank node deprecation in WDQS & Wikibase RDF model

Hi David, Peter brings up some very valid points and I agree with him. I don't really like how you present this as a done deal to the community. Now it looks like you have some software performance problem, you think you found some solution and without any community consultation, you're

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikidata-tech] Blank node deprecation in WDQS & Wikibase RDF model

Hi David, Peter brings up some very valid points and I agree with him. I don't really like how you present this as a done deal to the community. Now it looks like you have some software performance problem, you think you found some solution and without any community consultation, you're

Re: [Wikidata] WDQS and SPARQL Endpoint Compatibility

Hi Egon, On 31-03-20 09:02, Egon Willighagen wrote: My bot produces a weekly federation report at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/Federation_report The WikiPathways SPARQL endpoint URL has changed, and I have requested an update (Jan 2020, [0]), but no

Re: [Wikidata] WDQS and SPARQL Endpoint Compatibility

Since Stas left last year, unfortunately nobody from the WMF has done anything with https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_federation_input . I don't know if the new SPARQL people are even aware of this page. My bot produces a weekly federation report at

Re: [Wikidata] Notability and classing "notable" properties

Are you looking for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties ? On 19-11-19 22:15, Thad Guidry wrote: When viewing Items on Wikidata that I am researching or quickly having to disambiguate, I often end up scrolling down endlessly to see important "notable" properties

Re: [Wikidata-tech] How to respect throttling and retry-after headers on the Wikidata Query Service.

Hi Andra, Pywikibot should take care of that for you, see https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot/blob/master/pywikibot/comms/http.py#L317 Maarten On 02-11-19 11:36, Andra Waagmeester wrote: Hi,     I hope this is the right mailing list to discuss this issue. Some time ago I ran into a

Re: [Wikidata] searching for Wikidata items

Hi Tim, Pywikibot has generators around the API. For example for search you have https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/master/api_ref/pywikibot.html#pywikibot.pagegenerators.SearchPageGenerator . So basically anything you can search for as a user can also be used as a generator in Pywikibot.

Re: [Wikidata-tech] wb_terms redesign

Hi Alaa, On 25-04-19 16:38, Alaa Sarhan wrote: > This is really a defective redesign. It reintroduced numeric IDs to be removed by T114902. See also T179928. We should reconsider reintroduce a new table to link unperfixed and perfixed entity ID. The new schema has been optimized as much as

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikidata-tech] wb_terms redesign

Hi Alaa, On 25-04-19 16:38, Alaa Sarhan wrote: > This is really a defective redesign. It reintroduced numeric IDs to be removed by T114902. See also T179928. We should reconsider reintroduce a new table to link unperfixed and perfixed entity ID. The new schema has been optimized as much as

Re: [Wikidata] Semantic annotation of red links on Wikipedia

especially for Wikipedias with a smaller amount of articles and therefore naturally a higher amount of red links. On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 21:06, Maarten Dammers <mailto:maar...@mdammers.nl>> wrote: Hello, On 27-09-18 01:16, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 24 September 2018 at

Re: [Wikidata] Looking for "data quality check" bots

Hi Ettore, On 26-09-18 14:31, Ettore RIZZA wrote: Dear all, I'm looking for Wikidata bots that perform accuracy audits. For example, comparing the birth dates of persons with the same date indicated in databases linked to the item by an external-id. Let's have a look at the evolution of

Re: [Wikidata] Semantic annotation of red links on Wikipedia

Hello, On 27-09-18 01:16, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 24 September 2018 at 18:48, Maarten Dammers wrote: Wouldn't it be nice to be able to make a connection between the red link on Wikipedia and the Wikidata item? This facility already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wikidata] Semantic annotation of red links on Wikipedia

/2018 18:48, Maarten Dammers wrote: Hi everyone, According to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLuM4E6IE5U : "Semantic annotation is the process of attaching additional information to various concepts (e.g. people, things, places, organizations etc) in a given text or any other content. U

[Wikidata] Semantic annotation of red links on Wikipedia

Hi everyone, According to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLuM4E6IE5U : "Semantic annotation is the process of attaching additional information to various concepts (e.g. people, things, places, organizations etc) in a given text or any other content. Unlike classic text annotations for

[Wikidata] Mapping Wikidata to other ontologies

Hi everyone, Last week I presented Wikidata at the Semantics conference in Vienna ( https://2018.semantics.cc/ ). One question I asked people was: What is keeping you from using Wikidata? One of the common responses is that it's quite hard to combine Wikidata with the rest of the semantic

[Wikidata] Indexing everything (was Re: Indexing all item properties in ElasticSearch)

Hi Stas and Hay, On 28-07-18 02:12, Stas Malyshev wrote: Hi! I could definitely see a usecase for 1) and maybe for 2). For example, let's say i remember that one movie that Rutger Hauer played in, just searching for 'movie rutger hauer' gives back nothing:

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikimedia-l] Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

Hi Mathieu, On 04-07-18 11:07, mathieu stumpf guntz wrote: Hi, Le 19/05/2018 à 03:35, Denny Vrandečić a écrit : Regarding attribution, commonly it is assumed that you have to respect it transitively. That is one of the reasons a license that requires BY sucks so hard for data: unlike with

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata in the LOD Cloud

GMT, when a new version of the cloud was generated. It's probably a mistake/bug in that generation process. El 29/06/18 a las 15:13, Maarten Dammers escribió: Looks like after the last update Wikidata dropped out again? https://lod-cloud.net/versions/2018-30-05/lod-data.json contains Wikidata

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata in the LOD Cloud

. Maarten On 27-06-18 22:26, Maarten Dammers wrote: Hi Léa and Lucas, Excellent news! https://lod-cloud.net/dataset/wikidata seems to contain the info in a more human readable (and machine readable) way. If we add some URI link, does it automagically appear or does Lucas has to do some manual work

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata in the LOD Cloud

Hi Léa and Lucas, Excellent news! https://lod-cloud.net/dataset/wikidata seems to contain the info in a more human readable (and machine readable) way. If we add some URI link, does it automagically appear or does Lucas has to do some manual work? I assume Lucas has to do some manual work. I

Re: [Wikidata] Wikiata and the LOD cloud

It almost feels like someone doesn’t want Wikidata in there? Maybe that website is maintained by DBpedia fans? Just thinking out loud here because DBpedia is very popular in the academic world and Wikidata a huge threat for that popularity. Maarten > Op 4 mei 2018 om 17:20 heeft Denny

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata + Wikipedia outreach

On 05-01-18 22:55, Jane Darnell wrote: I object to your use of the catalog property to link to something that is not a catalog. I don't see why my objection leads you to expect me to offer an alternative way to track your project. I am not responsible for your project and don't understand what

Re: [Wikidata] claim change ignored

Hi Marco, Op 21-10-2017 om 14:48 schreef Marco Neumann: in any event it's a false claim in this example and I will remove the claim now. 2-2=0 ;) I undid your edit. You seem to be mixing up father ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2650401 ) and child ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15434505).

Re: [Wikidata] Which external identifiers are worth covering?

Hi Marco, On 07-09-17 20:51, Marco Fossati wrote: Hi everyone, As a data quality addict, I've been investigating the coverage of external identifiers linked to Wikidata items about people. Given the numbers on SQID [1] and some SPARQL queries [2, 3], it seems that even the second most used

Re: [Wikidata] Script and API module for constraint checks

Hi Léa, On 27-04-17 14:47, Léa Lacroix wrote: Hello all, In the past few months, the development team has mentored a student, Olga, to help us developing a user script that displays the constraints on the item

Re: [Wikidata] Sitelink removal in Wikidata

Hi Amir, On 26-04-17 05:30, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: Hey, One common form of vandalism in Wikidata is removing sitelinks (we already have an abuse filter flagging them). Yes, that seems to happen quite a lot. One of my friends in Persian Wikipedia (who is not a wikidata editor and only cares

Re: [Wikidata] Joining May 29, National Plan Open Science meeting in Delft, The Netherlands

Hi Egon, Yaroslav is one of our (very active) users/admins/bureaucrats and a professor at TU Delft. Maybe he can join you? Maarten On 23-04-17 12:34, Egon Willighagen wrote: Dear Amit, you make me painfully aware of something I should have mentioned (my apologies for haven forgotten

Re: [Wikidata] Federation in the Wikidata Query Service

Hi Stas, On 01-04-17 00:54, Stas Malyshev wrote: Hi! How about adding an ODbL licensed service? Would it be possible? I am thinking about SPOI and their SPARQL endpoint .. ODBL seems to be in the same vein as CC-BY-SA, so if CC-BY

Re: [Wikidata] New Status Indicator Icon about Relative Page Completeness

Hi Simon, On 15-11-16 09:51, Simon Razniewski wrote: It can be enabled by adding the following line to your /common.js/: /importScript( 'User:Ls1g/recoin-core.js' );/ Why don't you turn it into a gadget before promoting it? That would lower the barrier a lot for people just wanting to try

Re: [Wikidata] SPARQL power users and developers

Hi Denny, On 30-09-16 20:47, Denny Vrandečić wrote: Markus, do you have access to the corresponding HTTP request logs? The fields there might be helpful (although I might be overtly optimistic about it) I was about to say the same. I use pywikibot quite a lot and it sends some nice headers

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata for cultural heritage?

Hi Richard, I think that persons are probably most mature. All humans have instance of (P31) human (Q5) and for some subsets (like artists) a lot properties have a high coverage. Wikidata already connects to a lot of other sources on the web making it a central node for linked open data. For

Re: [Wikidata] Status and ETA External ID conversion

Hi Luca, Op 5-3-2016 om 16:45 schreef Luca Martinelli: Point taken, I apologise for using too dramatic tones. Looks like more people are eager to get this over with and can't wait to get everything converted Nonetheless, I stick to the point that probably a ">99% unique identifier" threshold

Re: [Wikidata] Status and ETA External ID conversion

Hi Luca, Op 5-3-2016 om 14:30 schreef Luca Martinelli: Probably the threshold we set up for the conversion is too high, and this might be one of the causes why the whole process has slowed down to a dying pace. You call https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Maintenance_script a

Re: [Wikidata] Place name ambiguation

Hi Tom, Op 29-12-2015 om 19:33 schreef Tom Morris: Thanks Stas & Thomas. That's unambiguous. :-) (And thanks to Jdforrester who went through and fixed all my examples) Please keep the long label around as an alias. This really helps when you enter data. I wonder if someone ever ran a bot to

Re: [Wikidata] Mix'n'match: how to preserve manually audited items for posterity?

Hi Dario, Op 21-11-2015 om 18:34 schreef Dario Taraborelli: - shouldn’t a manually unmatched item be created directly on Wikidata (after all DBI is all about notable individuals who would easily pass Wikidata’s notability threshold for biographies) If the person in question is notable, you

Re: [Wikidata] Welcome Meta, MediaWiki and Wikispecies

Op 21-10-2015 om 12:32 schreef Magnus Manske: Anyone running a bot to integrate Wikispecies pages? This moved to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests#Wikispecies_sitelinks :-) Maarten ___ Wikidata mailing list

Re: [Wikidata] We plan to drop the wb_entity_per_page table

Hi Marius, hoo schreef op 7-8-2015 om 19:55: Hey folks, we plan to drop the wb_entity_per_page table sometime soon[0], because it is just not required (as we will likely always have a programmatic mapping from entity id to page title) and it does not supported non -numeric entity ids as it is

Re: [Wikidata] Mexico / Building up Wikidata, country by country

Andrew Gray schreef op 15-6-2015 om 14:00: The map can also be used to highlight other country-specific differences, such as the unusually large amount of orphan items in The Netherlands and UK. WLM-related historic site imports, I think... That's probably the 60.000 Rijksmonumenten (historic

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Labs-l] Yet another partial labs outage

Hi Andrew, Andrew Bogott schreef op 16-5-2015 om 6:31: I did shut off one instance: wikidata-wdq-mm. I don't have a personal grudge, but it was gobbling CPU cycles and the system really needs a rest. If loss of that instance is a disaster for anyone, contact me and I'll see if I can revive

Re: [Wikidata-l] annotating red links

Hi Amir, Amir E. Aharoni schreef op 11-2-2015 om 13:12: If I may dream for a moment, this should be something that can be used in all Wikipedias, and without copying this template everywhere, but built into the site's software :) Exactly, the template based approach doesn't scale at all. You

Re: [Wikidata-l] Precision of globe coordinates

Hi Markus, Markus Krötzsch schreef op 11-1-2015 om 2:15: Hi, Does anybody know the current documentation of the precision of the globe coordinate datatype? This precision was introduced after the original datamodel discussions. No clue, I do know we have to do some conversions. See

Re: [Wikidata-l] Python bot framework for wikidata

Benjamin Good schreef op 29-8-2014 19:39: It does, but only on the very bottom with a see also. Hmm, that doesn't look very good. Pywikibot has full Wikidata support and contains several scripts you can run without writing a line of python, see

Re: [Wikidata-l] Python bot framework for wikidata

Don't use compat, use core. Amir Ladsgroup schreef op 29-8-2014 2:27: Hey, It's pywikibot: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PWB Both branches support Wikidata Best On 8/29/14, Benjamin Good ben.mcgee.g...@gmail.com wrote: Which python framework should a new developer use to make a wikidata

[Wikidata-l] WikiProject sum of all paintings

Hi everyone, I'm starting a new project. Let's get all paintings on Wikidata! I could use some help. I already imported 4 museums in the Netherlands, but that's of course just a start. More information at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings . Maarten

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Heads up: Changes to API error codes

Hi Daniel, Daniel Kinzler schreef op 15-4-2014 19:16: Today, Thiemo merged my patch introducing the ApiErrorReporter class: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124323/. This should help us with providing error reports from the API in a consistent manner; This way, we will hopefully soon be able

[Wikidata-tech] Typing of globe-coordinate

Hi everyone, I ran into some pretty annoying problems with coordinates specifically the precision. The valid values of precision aren't properly documented and enforced at the moment, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62105 I would like to know what is supposed to be valid

Re: [Wikidata-l] Countries ranked

Hi Katie, Op 4-10-2013 23:29, Katie Filbert schreef: As many folks enjoy country rankings, I have generated a list of countries (Property:P17) ranked by number of coordinates (P625) in Wikidata. Note this data is from the September 22 database dump. Did you consider doing this as a query on

Re: [Wikidata-l] Dexbot problem

Hi Andy, Op 23-9-2013 17:18, Andy Mabbett schreef: There's a problem with Dexbot adding bogus values. For example, place of death = Welsh People on the entry for Catrin Collier (still very much alive): http://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q13416998diff=72279065oldid=49769674 Since

Re: [Wikidata-l] Commons is coming \o/

Hi, Op 9-9-2013 12:10, Lydia Pintscher schreef: In the end this is a decision of the Commons community what they want to link their pages and categories to and should probably be discussed there. As I said it'll be possible one way or another. See also

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

Hi Jane, You completely missed my point. This is about galleries and categories, not about creator, institution, etc etc. That's all next phase. Please reread my original post. Maarten Op 12-8-2013 20:32, Jane Darnell schreef: geocoordinates can be linked to places; creator templates, book

[Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

Hi everyone, At Wikimania we had several discussions about the future of Wikidata and Commons. Some broader feedback would be nice. Now we have a property Commons category (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P373). This is a string and an intermediate solution. In the long run Commons

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

Hi Patrick, Op 8-5-2013 17:19, Patrick Cassidy schreef: Should we have more than one ontology? Back in 2001 when I was doing some artificial intelligence courses, the semantic web was the next big thing. What I remember about ontology is that an ontology of all is next to impossible. Most