[Wikidata] Re: WoolNet: New application to find connections between Wikidata entities

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 3:58 PM Aidan Hogan wrote: > > Thoughts, comments, questions, etc., very welcome! > Surely you could have found more appropriate subjects than Hitler and Mussolini! Tom ___ Wikidata mailing list -- wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikidata] Questions about Mix'n'match tool

Speaking of workflow, this Mix'n'Match report page says "*If you fix something from this list on Wikidata, please fix it on Mix'n'match as well, if applicable*" without giving any directions or hints as to how one might

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata in the LOD Cloud

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 4:40 PM Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > I don't see any corresponding URL in > http://lod-cloud.net/versions/2018-30-05/lod-data.json A complete aside, but who chose the date format for that URL? That's wacky! Tom ___ Wikidata

Re: [Wikidata] NLP text corpus annotated with Wikidata entities?

I don't know of such a resource off-hand, but you might want to consider expanding your search to text corpuses annotated with Freebase or Google Knowledge Graph IDs (the same IDs are used for both). Wikidata contains mappings to Freebase IDs, although it is somewhat incomplete (and this

Re: [Wikidata] Confusion about memorials: Q5003624 (Gedenkstätte) and Q1885014 (Mahnmal)

Based on the definitions here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mahnmal I'd say the subclass relationship is backwards. It's also sounds like it's a loan word in English, so Mahnmal could be used as the English label. Tom On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Edward Betts wrote: >

Re: [Wikidata] Genes, proteins, and bad merges in general

ate a focus on making the interface more vehemently >> educational as a first step. E.g. lots of 'are you sure' etc. forms to >> click through but ultimately still letting people get their work done >> without enforcing an approval process. >> >> -Ben >> >> O

Re: [Wikidata] WDQS URL shortener

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Julie McMurry wrote: > While I agree the primary aim isn't shortening, the result is usually much > shorter by virtue of cutting out everything non essential to > identification. Except in the case of a giant query string, such as a

Re: [Wikidata] Status and ETA External ID conversion

Has the identifier migration stalled? I was just looking at this page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q622828 and the first 9 claims on the page are all identifiers. There are only two (Freebase & Disease Ontology) in the identifier section at the bottom of the page. Tom

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata ontology

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Jan Macura wrote: > > I've been using the namespace for > datatype properties for some time (more than a year). > Now I can see everywhere only the ns. > Was there some reason for

Re: [Wikidata] item / claim usage tracking

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Dan Garry wrote: > On 26 April 2016 at 08:41, Benjamin Good wrote: > >> Perhaps you could use the query log (just the list of SPARQL queries) and >> utilize an offline installation of the query service to execute

Re: [Wikidata] StatBank at Statistics Norway will be accessible through new open API

I'm not sure what this has to do with Wikidata, but since the topic was brought up, why did they feel the need to invent a new license? I'm not sure I'd consider their license "open" despite its name since, although the original license grant is perpetual and they allow redistribution, they

Re: [Wikidata] Wordnet mappings

Freebase has 40,760 WordNet synsets mapped to equivalent Freebase topics and another 2,300 mapped to broader topics. This could be

Re: [Wikidata-tech] should MathML dictate a specific graphical rendering

I agree that it's worthwhile to take a step back and consider the bigger picture, but wouldn't a more appropriate discussion for a Wikidata list be -- is there a critical need to represent mathematical notations in Wikidata and, if so, what form should that take? On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:25 PM,

Re: [Wikidata] Status and ETA External ID conversion

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Egon Willighagen < egon.willigha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > Fro

Re: [Wikidata] Status and ETA External ID conversion

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 10:56 PM Stas Malyshev > wrote: > >> Is there a process somewhere of how the checking is done, what are >> criteria, etc.? I've read >>

Re: [Wikidata] Status and ETA External ID conversion

If an identifier system provides for merging of entities along with the retention of both their previous IDs (as all good identifier systems which guarantee stable identifiers should), duplicate IDs are inevitable. Well known examples include Freebase, MusicBrainz, OpenLibrary, and yes, even

Re: [Wikidata] from Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > > > As Gerard has pointed out before, he prefers to re-enter statements > > instead of approving them. This means that the real number of "imported" > > statements is higher than what is shown in the dashboard (how

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata stats

Pick your truth. > Thanks, that's very helpful. And labels and descriptions don't count as statements, right? So, the 3M delta represents items with a label, and perhaps a description, but no other information. Are Wikipedia links also in the "not a statement" category? Tom >

Re: [Wikidata] from Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:28 AM, Markus Krötzsch < mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote: > On 22.02.2016 18:28, Tom Morris wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Markus Krötzsch >> <mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org <mailto:mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org>> &g

Re: [Wikidata] from Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Markus Krötzsch < mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote: > On 21.02.2016 20:37, Tom Morris wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Markus Krötzsch >> <mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org <mailto:mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org>>

Re: [Wikidata] Freebase to Wikidata: Results from Tpt internship

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Denny/Thomas - Thanks for publishing these artefacts. I'll look forward > to the report with the metrics. > This is now, finally, available: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/e

Re: [Wikidata-tech] On interface stability and forward compatibility

Sounds a lot like a restatement of Postel's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle Tom On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:10 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Hi all! > > In the context of introducing the new "math" and "external-id" data types, > the > question

Re: [Wikidata] Duplicates in Wikidata

need to take more care not to create duplicates because they make future reconciliation tasks much harder for others. Tom p.s. Is there a way to get the edit history for an entity in JSON or some other parseable format? On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com>

Re: [Wikidata] Place name ambiguation

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Maarten Dammers <maar...@mdammers.nl> wrote: > 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 example

[Wikidata] Place name ambiguation

I'm pretty sure ambiguation is not a word, but what are the guidelines on removing disambiguation information from names/labels of items. Usually this disambiguation information was added to a Wikipedia article name to enforce their uniqueness requirements, but Wikidata has no such need and the

Re: [Wikidata] [Spam] Re: Seasons Greetings and a call to action

> > Maxime > > > > Le 22/12/2015 22:01, Gerard Meijssen a écrit : > > > > Hoi, > > Yes, the English Wikipedia allows for "fair use". Image with fair use are > > not permissible in Wikidata. There is no such thing as automatically it > > takes peopl

Re: [Wikidata] Seasons Greetings and a call to action

Is there a reason that Wikidata can't just use the same images that Wikipedia does? For example, this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Frost_House has a nice public domain photo that someone contributed back in 2010, but it's not referenced from Wikidata

Re: [Wikidata] Photographers' Identities Catalog (& WikiData)

Can you explain what "indexing" means in this context? Is there some type of matching process? How are duplicates resolved, if at all? Was the Wikidata info extracted from a dump or one of the APIs? When I looked at the first person I picked at random, Pierre Berdoy (ID:269710), I see that both

Re: [Wikidata] WDQS updates have stopped

So, the page that Markus points to describes heeding the replication lag limit as a recommendation. Since running a bot is a privilege, not a right, why isn't the "recommendation" a requirement instead of a recommendation? Tom On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Markus Krötzsch <

Re: [Wikidata] Query Help

Freebase has another 18,000 Twitter handles which are linked to IMDB, G+, etc which don't have English Wikipedia links (as well as 13K which are linked to English Wikipedia, although those should be in Wikidata too). http://tinyurl.com/omb6bxf I know some Wikipedias actively discourage links to

Re: [Wikidata] Use of Sparql service is going through the roof

Tangential question - is there a similar dashboard for WDQ (no S)? Or better yet, one that charts both query services so that they can be compared? Tom On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:27 AM, James Heald wrote: > Does anyone know what's going on with the Sparql service ? > > Up

Re: [Wikidata] Data model explanation and protection

This is a deep-seated semantic confusion going back to at least 2006 [1] when the Protein Infobox had Entrez and OMIM gene IDs. Freebase naively adopted in its initial protein schema in 2007 when it was importing from those infoboxes. Although it made some progress in improving the schema later,

Re: [Wikidata] Data model explanation and protection

] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q414043 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reelin On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a deep-seated semantic confusion going back to at least 2006 [1] > when the Protein Infobox had Entrez and OMIM gene ID

Re: [Wikidata] Primary Sources Tool Backend Updates

Sebastian - thanks for the quick turnaround on my requests. It'll make the data analysis much easier. Tom On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Sebastian Schaffert wrote: > I've been reading mostly the archives and the GitHub tickets so far, but > given the interest in the

Re: [Wikidata] Freebase to Wikidata: Results from Tpt internship

Denny/Thomas - Thanks for publishing these artefacts. I'll look forward to the report with the metrics. Are there plans for next steps or is this the end of the project as far as the two of you go? Comments on individual items inline below: On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Denny Vrandečić

[Wikidata] Wikidata & Freebase visualizations (was internship results)

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Thad Guidry, 02/10/2015 21:44: > >> ​To my eyes, it shows that the Asia continent is still generally void of >> any useful machine-readable Knowledge, in either Freebase or Wikidata. >> (or anywhere else)​ But

Re: [Wikidata] Duplicate identifiers (redirects & non-redirects)

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 4:19 AM, Markus Krötzsch < mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote: > On 01.10.2015 00:58, Ricordisamoa wrote: > >> I think Tom is referring to external identifiers such as MusicBrainz >> artist ID etc. and whether >> Wikidata

Re: [Wikidata] Primary Sources tool backend API

don't feel like adding another one, bad fact, and any other reason for rejection? If so, it it seems like a bunch of information that would be useful for analysis is being lost. Tom On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply, Tho

Re: [Wikidata] Duplicate identifiers (redirects & non-redirects)

then clicking on the leftmost of the two tiny sets of three stacked buttons near the left of the input field. It seems like the constraint checker could check for either only one "Preferred" or all but one "Deprecated" which would allow editors to evolve in whichever way

Re: [Wikidata] Importing Freebase (Was: next Wikidata office hour)

word "architect" it seems; I could not find a >> better >> property though, and it seemed "good enough" to accept it >> (as opposed to >> the post code of the location of this structure, which >> apparently was &g

[Wikidata] Primary Sources tool backend API

What am I doing wrong with this API call? http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-primary-sources/statements/all?state=wrong I've tried with quotes, without quotes, with different state names and never get anything except statements with a state of "unapproved" Tom

Re: [Wikidata] next Wikidata office hour

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > > And here is the log for anyone who missed it yesterday and wants to > catch up: > https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-09-23-17.01.log.html Thanks! Is there any

Re: [Wikidata] Naming projects

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: > My next tool shall be called "hitlerdisneycoke". If everyone is offended, > no one is! > and Godwin's Law makes another appearance...

Re: [Wikidata-tech] API JSON format for warnings

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Markus Krötzsch < mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote: > I now identified another format for API warnings. Obviously such variability in error reporting is going to cause consumers of the API aggravation. Perhaps a single, consistent reporting style could be

Re: [Wikidata] Help needed for Freebase to Wikidata migration

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Thomas Pellissier-Tanon thoma...@google.com wrote: I have only added the most used 1000 properties in order to don't hide important properties with less important ones. But feel free to add properties that are not listed there. Most frequent isn't the same as

Re: [Wikidata-l] freebase id - wikidata id

Hi Ed. In addition to the API(s), there's a specific Freebase-Wikidata mapping dump which is a little old (18 months), but very compact and easy to work with. The identifiers are likely to be pretty stable, so if the entities you are interested in have been around for a while, it might be easier

Re: [Wikidata-l] freebase id - wikidata id

Oops! Never mind! On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com wrote: The three hits for your sample topic make me suspicious about the quality of the mapping though $ curl http://storage.googleapis.com/freebase-public/fb2w.nt.gz | zgrep 'm.04hcw' http://rdf.freebase.com

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata for light houses

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com wrote: Thad Guidry thadgui...@gmail.com wrote: I helped with the Lighthouses schema in Freebase. Some of which is based on List of Lights (NGA) USA. I have DB conversion data for the PDFs...just never got around to

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

Any chance you could put this list up on the wiki? Perhaps in your user space. It'd be interesting to see these issues end up being tracked in Phabricator and hopefully fixed. :) Yours, -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ Wikidata-l mailing list

Re: [Wikidata-l] Names, Aliases, Copyright (and a little OpenStreetMap)

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Joe Filceolaire filceola...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect these are not wikidata aliases. They are probably labels in other languages. While wikidata doesn't have a multilingual datatype it does allow you to add labels (and aliases) in any language and these

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Dbpedia-discussion] [Dbpedia-developers] DBpedia-based RDF dumps for Wikidata

://semanticsimulations.com *From:* Sebastian Hellmann [mailto:hellm...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de] *Sent:* Wednesday, March 11, 2015 3:12 AM *To:* Tom Morris; Dimitris Kontokostas *Cc:* Wikidata Discussion List; dbpedia-ontology; dbpedia-discuss...@lists.sourceforge.net; DBpedia-Developers

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Thoughts on (not) exposing a SPARQL endpoint

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote: TL;DR: No concrete issues with SPARQL were mentioned so far; OTOH many *simple* SPARQL queries are not possible in WDQ; there is still time to restrict ourselves -- let's give SPARQL a chance before going

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Thoughts on (not) exposing a SPARQL endpoint

How long has WDQ been in service? What proportion of the total aggregate lifetime Wikidata apps, presuming it survives, do the current, as of Mar 2015, Wikidata apps represent? Should the question of premature optimization (or optimisation) be considered? Tom p.s. Since your opinion doesn't

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata for light houses

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote: For example, you can see that Portugal has a lot of lighthouses while Spain has almost none -- maybe we need to look at our data there ;-) Perhaps it's a language confusion issue, but does Spain really

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Dbpedia-discussion] DBpedia-based RDF dumps for Wikidata

Dimitris, Soren, and DBpedia team, That sounds like an interesting project, but I got lost between the statement of intent, below, and the practical consequences: On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Dimitris Kontokostas kontokos...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de wrote: we made some different design

Re: [Wikidata-l] Kian: The first neural network to serve Wikidata

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: This is the result for German Wikipedia: ... so I got list of articles in German Wikipedia that doesn't have item in Wikidata. There were 16K articles ... When the number is below 0.50 it is obvious that they are not

[Wikidata-l] Freebase VIAF error rate (was next Wikidata office hour)

2015-01-17 4:27 GMT-05:00 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de: The log is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2015-01-16 for anyone who couldn't make it. Denny discusses importing all missing VIAF keys from Freebase using multichill (unclear what that

Re: [Wikidata-l] How to deal with bad data / vandalism?

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Ben McCann b...@benmccann.com wrote: I see the page for Google lists Mario Artero as the founder and CEO of Google. This is definitely not correct. What is the procedure for fixing this? I can't tell from the history page which edit added that.

Re: [Wikidata-l] Reasonator ignores of qualifier

Sad to see the Deletionists taking hold on Wikidata too. Tom On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Douillard thomas.douill...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, there seem to be some cognitive dissonance going on here, it's weird. 2014-06-16 22:08 GMT+02:00 Derric Atzrott

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #94

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: These updates look a lot like blog posts, so they should be blog posts. You've said that multiple times without getting anyone to agree with you. Personally, I liked when we got the full update via email

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Wikisource-l] DNB 11M bibliographic records as CC0

This doesn't reflect my understanding of the situation at OpenLibrary. On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.comwrote: I'd love too to collaborate with openlibrary, but at the beginning of our IEG project, me and Micru contacted them, in the person of Karen Coyle

Re: [Wikidata-l] Is Wikidata VIAF data being used in Wikipedia?

more good. Thanks, GerardM On 16 October 2013 18:34, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com wrote: If I want the most current/accurate VIAF ids, should I be looking at Wikidata or Wikipedia? When I look at the EN Wikipedia pages for these two topics: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9094 http

[Wikidata-l] Is Wikidata VIAF data being used in Wikipedia?

If I want the most current/accurate VIAF ids, should I be looking at Wikidata or Wikipedia? When I look at the EN Wikipedia pages for these two topics: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9094 http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9095 both of which have property P214, the VIAF identifer, the second displays

Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote: My error margins are far too wide to make any realistic statement about minority genders even if I had a method to consider them. This article: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8964 gives them as being

Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

So you've got an agenda that's unrelated to Wikidata or analysis thereof. Got it. Perhaps a non-Wikidata list would be a more appropriate forum. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Klein,Max kle...@oclc.org wrote: Sorry to rant. Accepted. Tom ___

Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

Naming patterns change over time and geography. If you're interested in the gender of current day authors, you should probably constrain your name sampling to the same timeframe. There's an app that works of the Freebase data here: http://namegender.freebaseapps.com/ It also has an API that

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF Issues

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.dewrote: Ok, I have now found and tackled the issue. This was indeed a bug in EasyRDF that got fixed since we forked half a year ago. [] Having to maintain the fork is really a pain, I wish there was a better way

Re: [Wikidata-l] 'Person' or 'human', upper ontologies and migrating 4 million claims

written by random volunteers on the Internet would be impossible and the anarchic dream of pot-smoking hippies. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikidata-l] The Day the Knowledge Graph Exploded

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Michael Erdmann erdm...@diqa-pm.comwrote: I just stumbled upon this report http://moz.com/blog/the-day-**the-knowledge-graph-explodedhttp://moz.com/blog/the-day-the-knowledge-graph-exploded that tells that Google's use of its Knowledge Graph hast

Re: [Wikidata-l] Cooperation between Wikidata and DBpedia and Wikipedia

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: I have been blogging a lot the last two days with DBpedia in mind. My understanding is that at DBpedia a lot of effort went into making something of a cohesive model of properties. Now that the main type GND is

Re: [Wikidata-l] The Day the Knowledge Graph Exploded

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: I understand Michael's question to be much more concrete: does the progress in Wikidata has anything to do with the changes in the Knowledge Graph's visibility in Google's searches that happened last month?

Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Luca Martinelli martinellil...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/7/31 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk: Hi Nicholas, a) Yes, it is about the person and the aliases together. As a general rule, it's one article per person, not per name. b) Different names is a

Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

Freebase does the same as Wikidata -- and actually has five different MusicBrainz IDs associated https://www.freebase.com/m/01v_pj6?props=lang=enfilter=%2Fcommon%2Ftopic%2Ftopic_equivalent_webpage It's worth noting however that this one person, one entry view isn't universal. Library cataloging

Re: [Wikidata-l] Some Wiktionary data in Wikidata

If you haven't already, it might be worth looking at the Freebase schema for Wordnet, especially how it connects synsets to Freebase topics: https://www.freebase.com/base/wordnet/synset?schema= Tom On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: Hello,

Re: [Wikidata-l] Content card prototype

Is there a way to test this without creating an account on Wikipedia? Tom On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 11:55 AM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Based on all feedback gathered during the RfC about a possible inter-project links interface [1], User:Tpt has created a content card prototype

Re: [Wikidata-l] Running Infobox film import script

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Michael Hale hale.michael...@live.comwrote: It will definitely have some errors, but I scanned the results for the first 100 movies before I started importing them, and I think the value-add will be much greater than the number of errors. Does Wikidata have a

Re: [Wikidata-l] Running Infobox film import script

The original URL is a 400 (looks like it's double URL encoded), but the version you quoted works fine. If you end up with %2527 in your browser bar, correct it to just %27 (apostrophes in the URL aren't such a great idea to start with though). Tom On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Ed Summers

Re: [Wikidata-l] Expiration date for data

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Michael Hale hale.michael...@live.comwrote: Yes, I think once qualifiers are enabled you would just have something like: ... Property(head of local government) ... Value(Elizabeth I) - Qualifier(1558-1603) - Sources() Value(James VI and I) -

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

Wow, what a long thread. I was just about to chime in to agree with Sven's point about units when he interjected his comment about blithely ignoring history, so I feel compelled to comment on that first. It's fine to ignore standards *for good reasons*, but doing it out of ignorance or

Re: [Wikidata-l] Quick clarification on infobox migration

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Roger Hyam r.h...@rbge.ac.uk wrote: *If* I were to a work on an editor tool would it be feasible to think in terms of editing existing syntax for now and in version two

Re: [Wikidata-l] wikidata.org is live (with some caveats)

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:40 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/30 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, cool trick. So, we can take October 30, 2012 as the day Wikidata was launched? I would like to

Re: [Wikidata-l] Hello from the YAGO team

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: On 4/17/12 11:32 AM, Dario Taraborelli wrote: Shall we create a Wikidata vs {Freebase, DBpedia, YAGO} comparison table on meta

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data_model: Metamodel: Wikipedialink

This is a good discussion. The true dynamics won't be known until you've got live users on the system, but based on what I've seen with existing Wikipedia edits, the dynamics will be even more complex than predicted so far (which is already pretty complex!). Some other things to consider: -

Re: [Wikidata-l] Hello from the YAGO team

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: On 4/16/12 2:54 PM, Tom Morris wrote: - the refresh cycle is every couple of weeks (ie much faster than DBpedia but much slower than DBpedia live) Why do you make the comment above? Are you not aware

Re: [Wikidata-l] Hello from the YAGO team

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Fabian M. Suchanek f.m.sucha...@gmail.com wrote: From: JFC Morfin jef...@jefsey.com Thank you for this detailed explanation. How do you see the integration/impact of Wikidata on both projects? My intuition is that the impact could be mutual: * for YAGO and

Re: [Wikidata-l] Notability in Wikidata

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/4/1 Markus Krötzsch markus.kroetz...@cs.ox.ac.uk We would rather like to support linking and data integration with external data bases than suggest *every* fact of the world to be copied to Wikidata. An interesting