Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-13 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Jane, You completely missed my point. This is about galleries and categories, not about creator, institution, etc etc. That's all next phase. Please reread my original post. Maarten Op 12-8-2013 20:32, Jane Darnell schreef: geocoordinates can be linked to places; creator templates, book

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, As far as I am concerned, the categories used for images are not really helpful , While there are many images about Kiribati, you find only a few in the category by that name. The rest can be found in subcategories. In the proposal for Commons there is a provision for tags. These tags can

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-13 Thread Jane Darnell
Maarten, thanks for that clarification! Gerard, I totally agree with you. Personally I was hoping for a way to use WikiData to find Commons images that was *not* through the gallery/category structures as we know them, for all the reasons Gerard has mentioned (in this and previous mails). Now

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
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

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
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 abandon all that. Once Wikidata

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
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

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF export available

2013-08-13 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 8/12/13 12:56 PM, Nicolas Torzec wrote: With respect to the RDF export I'd advocate for: 1) an RDF format with one fact per line. 2) the use of a mature/proven RDF generation framework. Yes, keep it simple, use Turtle. The additional benefit of Turtle is that is addresses a wide data

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-13 Thread Paul A. Houle
I’d like to see assertions of the sort “Picture B represents topic X” in commons. One can easily infer this for some pictures by noticing that “Picture B is included in the encyclopedia entry for topic X”, but often there are so many pictures of the topic that they aren’t all included in the