Lydia Pintscher, 13/05/2015 17:20:
* 1. June: Italian Wikipedia, all remaining Wikisource
A great way for Italian Wikipedians to feast on the 2nb june, Festa
della Repubblica! :)
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Lydia Pintscher, 08/05/2015 09:45:
I think we have a
lot of experience here of running services that are different
technically but unified by common goals and common purposes and linking
them.
I would argue we are actually really really bad at it;-)
+1. The Wikimedia community has been long
Bene*, 08/05/2015 11:15:
So having a Wikibase installation only for Wiktionary makes more sense
in my opinion as that is the same plan we currently have for
Commons/Wikiquote etc.
We? Please remember that's only a personal proposal, which no Wikiquote
community has ever subscribed to (yet).
Paul Houle, 08/05/2015 18:30:
Concepts and words are different things, or better yet, words (word
senses, ...) are a special kind of concept.
I think however that Sannita's point is important and interesting.
It can perhaps be illustrated with a simple point: Wikidata items (like
Andy Mabbett, 07/05/2015 22:53:
The Wiktionary communities tend to strongly disagree that splitting entries
per language would be easier for either editors or readers.
How many languages are currently used? How will this scale to ~300 languages?
Hm? Last time I counted, the English Wiktionary
Valentine Charles, 07/04/2015 15:21:
What I mean is that it would be good to have list of properties that can
be used for a given thing.
Autocompletion often guesses well, but you can set a non-mandatory
constraint:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:Properties_with_constraints
Really,
Stas Malyshev, 04/04/2015 09:29: away from the old layout and that is
very welcome. Singling out the
external resources does not make sense at this time.
It is true that more structure in general would be good, but I think
there's some difference between external IDs and other properties -
Amir E. Aharoni, 22/03/2015 09:40:
Is there any reason not to make it it on by default in all (or most)
projects?
IMHO not. Some projects (mainly French and Italian projects) need to
tweak their interproject templates, but they've mostly completed the
process during beta.
Nemo
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette is probably the
best/reference document here...
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Daniel Kinzler, 29/01/2015 11:24:
As far as I recall, there is some very silly technical reason that
this is not
easy to change at all. We tried to do this right when we introduced
the other
widget, of course.
I don't recall what exactly the problem was though, and it might have
been
Amir E. Aharoni, 29/01/2015 02:42:
My dream solution for some of those issues with integration of Wikipedia
and Wikidata is letting people edit Wikidata without leaving Wikipedia
(or Wikivoyage, or whatever).
This is not quite a dream, for sitelinks. We already have an in-place
dialog for
Tom Morris, 17/01/2015 17:17:
Denny discusses importing all missing VIAF keys from Freebase using
multichill (unclear what that is from the context)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill
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The main example is ru.wiki.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Universal_infocard
Several wikis use a module Wikidata, which you can usually track
usages of:
https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speciale%3APuntanoQuitarget=Modulo%3AWikidatanamespace=10
Nemo
Nice data generation. We also have
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/List_of_properties/Top100
Paul Houle, 11/01/2015 18:11:
None of those are a surprise at all: the two great hierarchies (spatial
and biological) are represented and there are properties about people,
Jasper Deng, 04/01/2015 08:40:
@Andy: no, the terms of use /are/ the minimum because since a user must
legally accept them when editing a project, everyone is bound by them by
virtue of editing. Local projects cannot override that.
Correct in general, but not for the last paragraph of article
rupert THURNER, 28/12/2014 17:08:
in some combination. l was wondering how these categories can be
matched with what is stored in wikidata:www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76,
or, e.g. query wikidata for afro-american politicians from hawei.
https://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html ?
Nemo
rupert THURNER, 28/12/2014 20:05:
many thanks for the hint! i tried, i tried reading the documentation.
i seem to be not intelligent enough for this*blush*. would you be
able to enter this in autolist1, so it gives a reasonable result and
send a link with explanation?
There are too many
Federico Leva (Nemo), 28/12/2014 23:43:
There are too many politicians and Hawaii is not a citizenship so it's
not a statement in your example, here's e.g. a list of Peace Nobels born
in a certain place of Kenya:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/index.php?language=enproject
Neta Livneh, 18/12/2014 13:35:
As a first step, I need to create a list of of articles in one language
(i.e. HE) that have corresponding articles in another language, starting
with English.
Sounds like https://tools.wmflabs.org/not-in-the-other-language/
I recommend that you send patches for
Neta Livneh, 18/12/2014 19:31:
Does it mean that there are not a lot of inline interlanguage links
(that is, information that is not in wikidata, or contradicts wikidata)
so it is ok (and obviously easier) to use the language data in wikidata?
The amount of local interwikis is negligible,
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-November/079546.html
Stas will be working in the MediaWiki Core team, mostly focused on
performance issues (though right now is getting up to speed on the
Wikidata Query Service[4], figuring out what we need to do to make it
suitable for
Amir E. Aharoni, 17/11/2014 11:34:
Screenshot:
https://twitter.com/aharoni/status/534292798430650369
Thanks!
The technical questions should be directed to the mobile apps team -
Monte, Brion, Dan et al.
Well, I ask where there is interest. :)
Crossposted at
Amir E. Aharoni, 15/11/2014 20:56:
I haven't seen this mentioned in the context of Wikidata yet, so here:
The latest beta version of the Wikipedia app for iOS (iPhone, iPad,
iPod) shows descriptions from Wikidata as summaries in the search results.
Interesting; screenshots appreciated. How
Jean-Baptiste Pressac, 03/11/2014 14:55:
Claims with surname properties are sometimes impossible. For instance, I
tried to add the surname of René Grivart
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18330867, but as I typed Grivart in
the property value, the save link stays unclickable. Should we
Marielle Volz, 16/10/2014 14:25:
Right now we could make a page attenborough brothers, put
onlyinclude tags around the intro to all three articles, and boom,
article! This would somewhat ameliorate the problem Andrew was talking
about with incomplete linkage across languages.
This argument
In my opinion how many items will X add is a false problem. If p.a. we
moved file categories to subpages as we do on templates, we'd have 20
millions new Commons pages: but the question would be, are they as
accessible as they were before? Similarly, the only danger is when
items' statements
Katie Filbert, 27/09/2014 13:47:
It's not really urgent, but it made me curious: What is the
deployment schedule for Wikidata extensions?
We normally deploy every two weeks, except perhaps around holidays or
Wikimania, we skip deployment.
Our schedule is here:
P. Blissenbach, 27/09/2014 19:46:
tere must be working exort scripts to github, since we translate e.g. etherpad
lite,
which is maintained on github, and there are commits from translatewiki.net,
see:
https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/tree/develop/src/locales
That's not the l10n-bot
Permanently looming above us:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Filling_red_links_with_Wikidata
Thomas Douillard, 06/09/2014 12:51:
One other solution could be to allow to associate items to yet non
existing articles to reserve them, allow redlinks into the Wikidata
interwiki list ?
This is
Lydia Pintscher, 31/08/2014 14:30:
We are aware of the following gadgets that will need to be adapted but
those might not be all:
Adapted on wikidatawiki only, that is? I don't remember if those gadgets
are all wiki-specific (SimpleTransliterate in particular). Please notify
any other affected
David Cuenca, 12/08/2014 10:15:
Actually that feature was introduced during the Wikidata meetup by
User:Vlsergey :)
See:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Edit_directly_from_infocard_.2F_infobox
AFAIK, at the moment it is only deployed on ruwiki, but it works! Check
also
Jeremy Baron, 13/09/2014 21:25:
Would rewriting a sentence from a book and then entering that sentence in
Wikipedia violate copyright?
We have some documentation on that. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Close_paraphrasing
I fail to see how this is relevant. We're talking of
Susanna Ånäs, 02/08/2014 16:09:
Wikimedia Finland calls for a Wikidata developer/advocate to present
Wikidata at Avoin Suomi 2014 fair http://avoinsuomi2014.fi/ September 15–16.
Nice! Too bad I'll leave Finland on the 11th.
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Lydia Pintscher, 04/05/2014 09:03:
If fallback languages aren't going to be available soon, then we
really need to think - at the very least - about disabling this
message.
Yes I think that makes sense. Does anyone know details about that? As
in: how to turn it off?
Very easy.
Christian Thiele, 27/04/2014 11:16:
the german wikipedia has persondata for over 525.000 persons, the raw
data could be found as csv at
http://tools.wmflabs.org/persondata/data/pd_dump.txt
Sure, that's a useful source as well. Not as complete for each of the
items, though.
The german
David Cuenca, 27/04/2014 12:21:
@Nemo, Apper: Do you think you could import that data into the wd-repo
AND make use of it via an inclusion template?
The Italian Wikipedia has a track of early adoption of Wikidata as a
source. Almost everything that was added to Wikidata was immediately put
Amir Ladsgroup, 27/04/2014 14:04:
I also wrote the code to import dates of birth and death but I'm not
running it yet because there is one important question: What is the
colander model you use as date of birth and death?
Consensus has mostly been to force gregorian calendar everywhere. I'll
David Cuenca, 27/04/2014 15:38:
One of the things I would like to see in Wikidata is the replacement of
imported from:Wikipedia X by another property (or function), that
would show data shown on:Wikipedia X.
That's like a crosswiki WhatLinksHere or a globalusage for data. I don't
find a bug
Wikidata feels empty... even data on people is almost non-existing.
The Italian Wikipedia has the most complete persondata dataset in
Wikimedia world, ready for import. Legoktm's bot was almost ready to
parse the {{bio}} template, some code tweaking will be needed. No
takers, really? This is
Thomas Tanon, 12/04/2014 10:53:
[1]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/114979/ (the main change in Wikibase
code)
Thanks. I've linked bug 54374 to bug 708.
@NemoBis
I've written a beginning of documentation
Thanks for working on this, it's epic! I really miss the links though...
Please update:
*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Interproject_links_interface
;
* documentation of the extension(s) offering this feature;
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708 .
I
Lydia Pintscher, 25/02/2014 22:03:
We should probably look into the possibility of this. But first there
are a few other speed improvements to do first. Once those are done I
will shift focus more to the UI redesign, queries and Commons though
for a while.
Is there a tracking bug to follow for
Any way Wikidata and other semantic data in our wikis can work with this?
«Yandex Islands, a new search platform, gives website owners an
interface and tools to create interactive snippets for their websites.
If you have a website, you can now use Yandex’s search results page to:
feature
Andrea Zanni, 09/12/2013 12:40:
I think there is only one (paid) user working on the site right now.
That's my definition of inactive :-)
I exhibit a counterexample: https://openlibrary.org/recentchanges shows
at least 2 users editing in the last hour. Your lemma is disproven. ;-)
Nemo
Denny Vrandečić, 07/12/2013 00:59:
Thanks for reviving this thread, Luiz. I also wanted to ask whether we
should be updating parts of DNB and similar data. Maybe not create new
entries, but for those that we already have, add some of the available
data and point to the DNB dataset?
Or maybe
Again, I didn't do anything, it's all Magnus' merit. :) And on it.wiki,
Jalo's and Rotpunkt's.
Andrew Gray, 03/12/2013 13:29:
Would it be worth moving the Reasonator results up to the top right,
in a box? There's a lot of white space on the search page, because the
result snippets are less
Matthew Flaschen, 23/11/2013 08:30:
This is the purpose of
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Nilesh.c/Entity_Suggester . I'm not
sure what the current status is.
PENDING per https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013#Projects
, cf.
Jared Zimmerman, 20/11/2013 10:27:
Do we have any other instances where we link to external sites within
search results, this seems slightly concerning to me.
And also OT for this list. :)
But yes, there are plenty of instances of Special:Search sending users
to other search engines if they
Klein,Max, 11/11/2013 21:22:
I just went back into the email Archives and a discussion started on
6/14/2013 by Google Developer Relations person Shawn Simister[1] first
proposed this property. There is large thread there about licensing,
ending with Micru having an unanswered question to Shawn
Amir Ladsgroup, 03/11/2013 18:36:
Two questions:
*Why don't you add Wikiquote?, It's pretty look like Wikipedia in
concept (you don't have to make so many new items when you add
Wikiquote as client of Wikidata)
Very true! Perhaps the proposal needs more supporters, it should be very
trivial
Andy Mabbett, 23/10/2013 20:00:
The links in the forwarded email are 404.
The diff for the recent change is actually:
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q594curid=873diff=81001648oldid=81001613
I've seen this in several such mails in the last few days.
Works for me. There's
Andy Mabbett, 23/10/2013 22:16:
What works for you?
The diff in the enotif,
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q594diff=nextoldid=79436893
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Luca Martinelli, 24/09/2013 19:40:
Hi all,
sorry if I burst in with a simple question, but... is there a tool to
count how many sitelinks for a single project are there in Wikidata?
I mean, if I want to know how many (and which) items in Wikidata have
a sitelink to, say, Yoruba Wikipedia, what
Jan Kučera, 12/09/2013 14:47:
This is nice but does not solve multilingual categories which Commons
desperately needs :(.
It doesn't solve world famine either, for that matter. It's still very
good news though!
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Jane Darnell, 13/08/2013 13:19:
Now that I think about it, if you want to create a relationship where
Wiki Commons is a client of WikiData, then I think this should be done
for galleries only, not categories. Galleries can be easily split
and/or merged, reside in more than one category, and
Gerard Meijssen, 13/08/2013 15:58:
Hoi,
If anything Wikidata has replaced the interwiki links for both Wikipedia
and Wikivoyage. Wikidata DOES allow links to images on Commons and
Commons categories already. In Commons it is known where images are used.
There is no way in which it is wise to
John Erling Blad, 12/08/2013 01:30:
You can't use no as a language in ULS, but you can use setlang and
uselang with no if I remember correct. All messages are aliased to
nb if the language is nb. Also at nowiki will the messages for
nb be used, and this is an accepted solution. Previously
Jiang BIAN, 10/08/2013 18:48:
Hi,
Is there a place that I can find the slides used on this Wikimania?
They have to go here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2013_presentation_slides
Poke by email the presenters who didn't upload them...
How
about link them on the
provides some mappings. For example, it maps zh-yue to yue. Yet,
Wikidata use both of these codes. What does this mean?
Answers to Nemo's points inline:
On 04/08/13 06:15, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Markus Krötzsch, 03/08/2013 15:48:
(3) Limited language support. The script uses Wikidata's
Markus Krötzsch, 04/08/2013 17:35:
Are you sure? The file you linked has mappings from site ids to language
codes, not from language codes to language codes. Do you mean to say:
If you take only the entries of the form 'XXXwiki' in the list, and
extract a language code from the XXX, then you get
Markus Krötzsch, 03/08/2013 15:48:
(3) Limited language support. The script uses Wikidata's internal
language codes for string literals in RDF. In some cases, this might not
be correct. It would be great if somebody could create a mapping from
Wikidata language codes to BCP47 language codes (let
Denny Vrandečić, 08/07/2013 13:16:
I just wanted to say thank you! That's truly amazing work.
As far as I can tell, more than 200 Million lines of wikitext have so
far been removed from the Wikipedias. That's 200 Million lines that do
not have to maintained anymore.
(I have not run the actual
legoktm, 28/06/2013 23:45:
Hi Denny,
I'm really excited to see a sister project getting included,
+1
I've no idea why start with Wikivoyage, but it's very good that the
central interwiki management is being extended to other projects when
it's easy to do so (as it would be for Wikiquote and,
Doesn't
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/draft/TablesWikipediaWIKIDATA.htm
answer the question (database edits)?
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Nicholas Humfrey, 18/06/2013 12:57:
On 18/06/2013 09:57, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Barry Norton, 18/06/2013 00:08:
One can't license something for which one does/can not have the
copyright.
Are you saying they have no way to use CC-0? For past or even future
content
Tom Morris, 15/06/2013 14:11:
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 3:52 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
wrote:
For a closer integration with MusicBrainz, they'd probably have to
change their (non)licenses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/__wiki/MusicBrainz#Licensing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Shawn Simister, 14/06/2013 23:18:
There are several ways that this would benefit both Google and Wikidata.
First, we currently extract a lot of data from WP infoboxes and load
that data into Freebase which eventually makes its way into the
Knowledge Graph so linking the two datasets would make
Cebuano and Waray are definitely outliers because they're
bot-Wikipedias, 70 and 95 % articles bot created respectively.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/BotActivityMatrixCreates.htm
sv should soon reach about 75 % bot creations and nl is rather stable
around 50-60 %, so that explains most weird
, it makes sense to log by whom
and when it was patrolled, but for an autopatrolled edit that is kinda
useless.
Getting rid of this would already eliminate the vast majority of log
entries.
2013/4/23 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
mailto:nemow...@gmail.com
Sven, 23/04/2013 02:02
Sven, 23/04/2013 02:02:
Please pardon the non-tech person, as I may be asking a question with obvious
answers, but what, exactly, is the problem here? Storage space is cheap and
logs are text, which takes up very little space...
I suppose it's related to what below.
Nemo
Messaggio
Denny Vrandečić, 22/04/2013 18:35:
We want to understand how that influences your workflows and what we can
do about that.
Please speak up if this change would be an issue.
What change? I don't understand from your email what you're actually
going to do.
This RC patrolling setup is quite
Jiang BIAN, 14/04/2013 16:25:
Could you explain a little more about what the lag here refers to?
(or point me some document about it if it's a common mediawiki
concept/stuff)
It isn't. It's described at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation
Normal MediaWiki only
Lydia Pintscher, 07/04/2013 23:59:
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:43 PM, swuensch swuen...@gmail.com wrote:
As the dispatch lag is getting bigger again (nearly one day) should wikidata
maybe stop all botwork for one day an discuss stricter rules for bots? Or
will there be software solution to handle
Lydia Pintscher, 08/04/2013 00:14:
The bot was blocked and backlog grows by 400.000 items every 24h, so I doubt
that's the point.
It is no longer blocked afaik. And there are more bots :)
But they're not editing faster that in the last few months, so something
is broken. There was that
Denny Vrandečić, 04/04/2013 12:10:
This is in my opinion an upstream issue for MediaWiki proper. I do not
think that templates and images from Commons are that different [...]
...and that's already been rejected (for now):
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34778
One way would
Michael Hale, 02/04/2013 07:31:
Oh, I thought bot approval was just for tasks that have an indefinite
running time like cleaning vandalism, etc. I added a user-agent string
to identify my IP address, but I hadn't run into problems on Wikipedia
without one before. Am I supposed to re-apply each
Data: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:40:43 +0100
Mittente: Federico Leva (Nemo)
A: Wikimedia Translators translator...@lists.wikimedia.org
As a result of a recent software update, a change requested by some
Wikidata users has been enabled on Meta.[1]
Now the outdated translations, marked by the !!FUZZY!! markers
Steven Walling, 29/03/2013 19:39:
The thread is at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Wikidata_phase_2_is_coming_soon
Doesn't seem to be en.wiki-related, so I'll reply here: normal users
are not able to edit infoboxes anyway, so Wikidata is the first step to
Guillaume Paumier, 22/03/2013 14:27:
* Status quo: We keep the current glossaries as they are, even if they
overlap and duplicate work. We'll manage.
Ugly.
* Wikidata: If Wikidata could be used to host terms and definitions
(in various languages), and wikis could pull this data using
Denny Vrandečić, 11/03/2013 14:52:
There is currently a number of things going on re the future of Wiktionary.
There is, for example, the suggestion to adopt OmegaWiki, which could
potentially complicate a Wikibase-Solution in the future (but then again,
structured data is often rather easy to
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