Re: [Wikidata-l] Installing WikiData for testing and development

2013-01-18 Thread Lukas Benedix
The Problem was fixed with the help of User:Hoo man. The instruction said, that you have to install WikibaseLib before installing Wikibase. Obviously the lib is part of the Wikibase-Extension and adding it to the LocaleSettings.php results in the problems I had. I removed that line from the r

Re: [Wikidata-l] Installing WikiData for testing and development

2013-01-18 Thread Lukas Benedix
Hi, I tried to install it on a server after everything worked well in the vagrant-box. So i followed the instructions on http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension:Wikibase It worked until the update.php after adding require_once( "$IP/extensions/Wikibase/repo/Wikibase.php" );

[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #41

2013-01-18 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Heya folks :) Here's the quick version of what happened around Wikidata over the last week. The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_01_18 = Development = * We are live on the Hungarian Wikipedia: https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/01/14/first-steps-of-wikid

Re: [Wikidata-l] Coordinate datatype -- update

2013-01-18 Thread Max Semenik
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_(map) Scale (e.g. 1:10,000) is a paper cartography term, it makes little sense for computer displays especially for web view. So as a parameter that controls what should be shown on the map when an object is centered on, I chose dim(ension) which can be used

Re: [Wikidata-l] Coordinate datatype -- update

2013-01-18 Thread Gregor Hagedorn
> In order not to loose the Dim-data that is already available from the > Wikipedias, and to use this for scaling. It should really only describe the > rough dimension. I would expect that a building would still have something > like "area" or similar in its own property. Dimension is used for scal

Re: [Wikidata-l] Coordinate datatype -- update

2013-01-18 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I hope that displaying a small preview map will help with the most obvious of these bugs. 2013/1/17 > I’ll just mention a data quality problem that’s annoyed me with DBpedia > so far. > > People often get confused if longitude is east or west, so they get the > sign wrong. If you plot coord

Re: [Wikidata-l] Coordinate datatype -- update

2013-01-18 Thread Denny Vrandečić
2013/1/17 Alexrk > 1) Can you explain, what are the motives for putting a dimension value > directly down to the datatype level. I thought this is just another object > property (or qualifier?) like the name, ISO-region, type, source, > acquisition date. > > In order not to loose the Dim-data tha