and the development team.
Much like every Wikipedia article exists because someone decided that the
subject matter was important enough to warrant them writing article on it,
every feature (and piece of information) on Wikidata is there because
someone decided that it was important enough to add.
Sven
Why? I don't see a benefit to that.
Sven
On Jan 25, 2014 10:38 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
wrote:
Hi Lydia,
These updates are a lot like a blog. Can it be a real blog? WordPress
should be fairly easy to set up :)
--
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I proposed an up arrow, a square diamond, and a down arrow, all from the
same Unicode set, in a mockup I sent to Lydia. I still think that those are
a better idea, and not just because it was my idea.
Sven
On Dec 11, 2013 10:49 AM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 11
in the previous email, as they
appear to be unfounded.
Apologies again,
Sven
On Nov 15, 2013 5:17 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
On 15 November 2013 07:54, Sven Manguard svenmangu...@gmail.com wrote:
This is certainly an interesting idea, but I'm not sure it has a place
of any other solution.
Sven
On Nov 8, 2013 12:49 PM, Joe Filceolaire filceola...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually the problem isn't that you can only have one link from a wikisource
work from a wikidata item. We have separate wikidata items for each edition
of a work (because these have different
or annual GDP or population, well those change often. Part of the
utility of Wikidata is that on smaller projects once you set everything up
you don't need a continuous stream of edits.
Sven
On Oct 20, 2013 3:06 PM, Vito vituzzu.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Il 20/10/2013 20:30, David Cuenca ha scritto
in seeing the top 10 once we've imported all the coords we can.
Sven
On Oct 4, 2013 5:30 PM, Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com wrote:
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
This is a notice to inform the community that I have nominated myself for
Oversight on Wikidata. The request can be found at [1].
Yours,
Sven Manguard
[1]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Oversight#Sven_Manguard_2
;p is a winking smiley face. I don't think anyone thought he was being
serious.
S
On Sep 16, 2013 10:00 AM, Leon Liesener leon.liese...@wikipedia.de
wrote:
No, that's just the compliance of the global Oversight policy (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oversight_policy#Access — The candidates
This has the potential to work, but we need to be careful that the
descriptions don't only partially represent their subjects. This is
especially difficult with humans, as they are often known for several
things, and occasionally (but in a statistically significant number, I
would think), known
:44 PM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
All valid points, Sven. I would just like to say that
* this is not intended as a replacement or auto-fill for descriptions; it
is to be shown if the manual description is blank (at least, that was my
angle)
* unusual items, like your
Are there any publicly available statistics about the number of Oversight
requests [successful and not] tjat jave happened on Wikidata thus far?
S
On Sep 1, 2013 11:53 PM, Adrian Raddatz ajradd...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, just a heads-up that I've nominated myself for oversight rights at
It would appear that there is more negative feedback than positive on the
logo change...
On Aug 9, 2013 10:18 AM, adam.shorl...@wikimedia.de
adam.shorl...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Wikimania Continues! (I hope you like our current Hong Kong logo!)
Make sure you come and say hi to use if you are
call it a “concept”.) Going much further than this you’ll
run into Borges encyclopedia style risks, but aren’t the categories named
in GND upwards of 80% of the topics? Can you run a report on this?
*From:* Sven Manguard svenmangu...@gmail.com
*Sent:* Sunday, June 30, 2013 2:19 PM
.
Yours,
Sven
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Admittedly I have been crazy busy with things unrelated to Wikimedia
projects, so I haven't followed this discussion, but I'd like to ask for a
clarification on Wikivoyage interwiki links. If they're going to be on the
same item page as the Wikipedia interwiki links, is there going to be a
There are two answers that question; are you looking for the edit rate for
edits done manually only, or are you looking for the edit rate for both
edits done manually and edits done by scripts and automated programs?
S
On Jun 23, 2013 9:48 PM, Hady elsahar hadyelsa...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello All
Did you mean to say We do *not* need another Wikidata? Otherwise I am
confused by your comment.
On Jun 21, 2013 12:08 PM, Jan Dudík jan.du...@gmail.com wrote:
Ww do need another wikidata, only separate namespace for items
(words) and some separate properties
JAnD
2013/6/21 Gerard Meijssen
, over an arcminute away.
Therefore I think that we should coordinates for locations in Germany from
dewiki, locations in Spain from eswiki, locations in the Netherlands from
nlwiki, etc.
Sven
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Cristian Consonni
kikkocrist...@gmail.comwrote:
2013/6/12 Kolossos tim.al
It might be a good idea to develop a bot that automatically converts
{{#Property:Continent}} to {{#Property:P30}} and such. Best of both worlds: no
need to memorize the numbers, no need to compromise stability.
Sven
On May 22, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de
Once we get qualifiers (and can specify time periods using them) then we will
have all past values included, with qualifiers. So Obama, but also Eisenhower,
Lincoln, Taft, etc.
Any word on when we get qualifiers, anyone?
On Apr 3, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote:
A good
Seconded.
Sven
On Mar 26, 2013, at 3:27 PM, omshivaprak...@gmail.com
omshivaprak...@gmail.com wrote:
yes, a recording of this session would be good :)
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk
wrote:
I haven't been making a practice of recording workshops
No, airports and airlines use completely different ID systems. The confusion is
that the code issuing body is the same for both.
Sven
On Mar 7, 2013, at 4:02 AM, Jérémie Roquet arkano...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
2013/3/7 Sven svenmangu...@gmail.com:
I just created three properties but my
The comment up top by jpatokal is one of the best explanations of what Wikidata
aims to accomplish that I've ever seen. I'd love to have a copy on-wiki to show
people. I've copied it below.
Sven
begin quote
First of all, having worked with wikis for about ten years, finally seeing this
live
the
infrastructure on aren't officially locked in yet.
Sven
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote:
2013/3/1 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com
There will soon be a mechanism where Wikipedia can display data from
Wikidata directly, as it currently does
Can we please enact a no spam rule for this mailing list?
On Feb 12, 2013, at 5:28 PM, jmccl...@hypergrove.com wrote:
Hi,
I have applied for an WMF grant entitled SOLRSearch described as:
The SOLRSearch extension provides an opportunity to convert all Mediawiki
installations into
is good, but it's not
what people were expecting and it's not particularly valuable on its own.
I look forward to any response that the Wikidata staff or the community
might have to this.
Sven
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, especially on civil issues (which includes privacy issues,
copyright, and most legal actions).
Thank you again,
Sven
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Guillaume Paumier guillom@gmail.comwrote:
[Apologies for cross-posting; this concerns all Wikimedia projects]
Posted today on the Wikimedia
of an article, tomorrow.
Please don't sell out Wikidata's future utility for today's convenience.
Sven
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de
wrote:
First off: our target use case
units.
Sven
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_units_of_measurement
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will be no different in that regard.
Sven
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Martynas Jusevičius marty...@graphity.org
wrote:
Denny,
you're sidestepping the main issue here -- every sensible architecture
should build on as much previous standards as possible, and build own
custom solution only if a *very
later and build tools that allow there to
be a bridge between whatever we create and whatever exists already.
Sven
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, what a long thread. I was just about to chime in to agree with
Sven's point about units when he
Thanks for this Denny.
Time:
Historians **need** to be able to have date ranges of some sort. They also
need to express confidence in non-numerical terms. Take for example, the
invention of gunpowder in China. Not only do several major historians have
different ranges entirely (which would, of
invented?
Non-range answer: June 1988
Range answer: sometime between May 1988 and October 1989
Does that work?
Sven M
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Denny Vrandečić
denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Thank you for your comments, Friedrich.
It would be possible and very flexible
modules. If you could code, you could build them and offer them up for
integration.
All that being said, there are already websites that map out astronomical
features in a geolocation-like way. It's worthwhile to consider supporting
that type of geolocation data on Wikidata.
Sven
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012
The WMF has lawyers. Why not ask Geoff for an official statement?
Sven
On Dec 12, 2012, at 8:27 AM, Harry Burt jarry1...@gmail.com wrote:
(sorry, don't have the proper subject line to hand)
Are proper lawyers being consulted about this (database rights)? The quantity
of unofficial
I assume we're still talking abiut things to link into a Wikidata entry? I
could see a place for official social media accounts, and even for the related
Wikia site, but definitely not for fan sites.
On Dec 10, 2012, at 6:34 AM, Nicholas Humfrey nicholas.humf...@bbc.co.uk
wrote:
On
of epic proportions. On a more positive note, it would also give me
time to make sure that all of the project's help pages are cleaned up and
that we have a nice centralized location that lists said pages where we can
point the new people to.
Thanks for the idea,
Sven
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:03 PM
. :D
Sven
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I'm getting contradictory messages from Wikidata staff then. I mean we
already knew that we *could*, the issue is whether or not we *should*.
Sven
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Lydia Pintscher
lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Sven Manguard svenmangu
Automatically copying over infoboxes is something I don't advise. Unlike
current infoboxes, which are rarely sourced, every point of data on Wikidata
should be DIRECTLY and INDIVIDUALLY sourced. We can use the same source 37
times, but each bit of information that would ordinarily have a field
The argument above is about automatically copying over content from other
projects. My point is that the license isn't the problem with it, but that
there is a problem with it.
Sven
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Gregor Hagedorn g.m.haged...@gmail.comwrote:
On 15 November 2012 23:35, Sven
Hey there. Most of you will hopefully have already seen this, but there's a
script out that makes importing interwiki so much easier.
See http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#SlurpInterwiki_scriptfor
details.
Hope everyone is settling in as well as I am.
Sven
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