Re: [Wikidata-l] Testing

2012-06-25 Thread benedix
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:05 PM, bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: I read that you are developint with scrum and I wonder who fulfills the Customer- and the User-Roles... In my opinion the customers are either the Foundation or the Wikipedia-Community. The User is definitely not the

Re: [Wikidata-l] demo system updated

2012-06-25 Thread benedix
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:39 PM, bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Hi, I don't see any of my previously mentioned bugs fixed... Hehe yeah. We are not quite _that_ fast. But I found new ones ;) Thanks for testing! * I tried to remove lots of links and after a few the message:  An

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata intros at local events

2012-06-25 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Marco Fleckinger marco.fleckin...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Good idea! May I jump onto this bandwagon? Of course! Actually I can think of several possibilities where this could be done. Unfortunately it is not possible to be at every of those: * Sat, June,

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #11 (Wikidata-l Digest, Vol 7, Issue 19)

2012-06-25 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 06/22/2012 02:28 PM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: Hi folks! Here's the summary of what happened in Wikidata during the last week. The wiki version is here:

[Wikidata-l] Impact of Wikidata phase I

2012-06-25 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi all, the first phase of Wikidata will help to centralize many of the Wikipedia language links. We did a small analysis to figure out the possible impact of this step. Here are a few highlights: * there are more than 240 million language links in the Wikipedias * they are responsible for about

[Wikidata-l] we applied for the Knight News Challenge and could use your support

2012-06-25 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Heya folks, We applied to the Knight News Challenge to push Wikidata even further during a second year of development. You can find out more here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/06/25/wikidata-applies-for-the-knight-news-challenge-and-you-can-help/ and see our proposal here:

Re: [Wikidata-l] Impact of Wikidata phase I

2012-06-25 Thread Daniel Kinzler
On 25.06.2012 16:39, Denny Vrandečić wrote: A full parse would have been to expensive to perform. I will update the explanatory text to reflect that. Thank you for finding this issue! A full parse is out of the question, but stripping comments should be simple enough: /!--.*?--/s -- daniel

Re: [Wikidata-l] Impact of Wikidata phase I

2012-06-25 Thread Snaevar
Language links are commented out to stop bots from consistently adding the same link, while also preventing it to appear under In other languages in the sidebar. This is essentially an inproper way for those who only want to prevent the bots from re-adding a link on one page, while not caring

Re: [Wikidata-l] we applied for the Knight News Challenge and could use your support

2012-06-25 Thread Scott MacLeod
Congratulations and good luck, Wikidata. World University and School ( http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University), like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare, plans on working with Wikidata, if possible, and developing in all 3000-8000 languages and ~ 200 countries, as an open, free,

Re: [Wikidata-l] we applied for the Knight News Challenge and could use your support

2012-06-25 Thread Scott MacLeod
By the way, I also added the two Wikidata links above to World University and School's 'Wiki,' and 'Fundraising,' wiki, subject pages: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wiki http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Fundraising The two, following, WUaS Data subjects, as they develop, and