Re: [Wikidata-l] Notability in Wikidata

2012-04-02 Thread Tom Morris
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/4/1 Markus Krötzsch markus.kroetz...@cs.ox.ac.uk We would rather like to support linking and data integration with external data bases than suggest *every* fact of the world to be copied to Wikidata. An interesting

Re: [Wikidata-l] Hello from the YAGO team

2012-04-16 Thread Tom Morris
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Fabian M. Suchanek f.m.sucha...@gmail.com wrote: From: JFC Morfin jef...@jefsey.com Thank you for this detailed explanation. How do you see the integration/impact of Wikidata on both projects? My intuition is that the impact could be mutual: * for YAGO and

Re: [Wikidata-l] Hello from the YAGO team

2012-04-17 Thread Tom Morris
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: On 4/16/12 2:54 PM, Tom Morris wrote: - the refresh cycle is every couple of weeks (ie much faster than DBpedia but much slower than DBpedia live) Why do you make the comment above? Are you not aware

Re: [Wikidata-l] Hello from the YAGO team

2012-04-18 Thread Tom Morris
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: On 4/17/12 11:32 AM, Dario Taraborelli wrote: Shall we create a Wikidata vs {Freebase, DBpedia, YAGO} comparison table on meta

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data_model: Metamodel: Wikipedialink

2012-04-18 Thread Tom Morris
This is a good discussion. The true dynamics won't be known until you've got live users on the system, but based on what I've seen with existing Wikipedia edits, the dynamics will be even more complex than predicted so far (which is already pretty complex!). Some other things to consider: -

Re: [Wikidata-l] wikidata.org is live (with some caveats)

2012-10-30 Thread Tom Morris
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:40 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/30 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, cool trick. So, we can take October 30, 2012 as the day Wikidata was launched? I would like to

Re: [Wikidata-l] Quick clarification on infobox migration

2012-11-14 Thread Tom Morris
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Roger Hyam r.h...@rbge.ac.uk wrote: *If* I were to a work on an editor tool would it be feasible to think in terms of editing existing syntax for now and in version two

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-19 Thread Tom Morris
Wow, what a long thread. I was just about to chime in to agree with Sven's point about units when he interjected his comment about blithely ignoring history, so I feel compelled to comment on that first. It's fine to ignore standards *for good reasons*, but doing it out of ignorance or

Re: [Wikidata-l] Expiration date for data

2013-03-15 Thread Tom Morris
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Michael Hale hale.michael...@live.comwrote: Yes, I think once qualifiers are enabled you would just have something like: ... Property(head of local government) ... Value(Elizabeth I) - Qualifier(1558-1603) - Sources() Value(James VI and I) -

Re: [Wikidata-l] Running Infobox film import script

2013-04-02 Thread Tom Morris
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Michael Hale hale.michael...@live.comwrote: It will definitely have some errors, but I scanned the results for the first 100 movies before I started importing them, and I think the value-add will be much greater than the number of errors. Does Wikidata have a

Re: [Wikidata-l] Running Infobox film import script

2013-04-02 Thread Tom Morris
The original URL is a 400 (looks like it's double URL encoded), but the version you quoted works fine. If you end up with %2527 in your browser bar, correct it to just %27 (apostrophes in the URL aren't such a great idea to start with though). Tom On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Ed Summers

Re: [Wikidata-l] Content card prototype

2013-06-02 Thread Tom Morris
Is there a way to test this without creating an account on Wikipedia? Tom On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 11:55 AM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Based on all feedback gathered during the RfC about a possible inter-project links interface [1], User:Tpt has created a content card prototype

Re: [Wikidata-l] Some Wiktionary data in Wikidata

2013-06-19 Thread Tom Morris
If you haven't already, it might be worth looking at the Freebase schema for Wordnet, especially how it connects synsets to Freebase topics: https://www.freebase.com/base/wordnet/synset?schema= Tom On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: Hello,

Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Morris
Freebase does the same as Wikidata -- and actually has five different MusicBrainz IDs associated https://www.freebase.com/m/01v_pj6?props=lang=enfilter=%2Fcommon%2Ftopic%2Ftopic_equivalent_webpage It's worth noting however that this one person, one entry view isn't universal. Library cataloging

Re: [Wikidata-l] Scope of a Wikidata entry

2013-08-11 Thread Tom Morris
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Luca Martinelli martinellil...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/7/31 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk: Hi Nicholas, a) Yes, it is about the person and the aliases together. As a general rule, it's one article per person, not per name. b) Different names is a

Re: [Wikidata-l] The Day the Knowledge Graph Exploded

2013-08-23 Thread Tom Morris
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Michael Erdmann erdm...@diqa-pm.comwrote: I just stumbled upon this report http://moz.com/blog/the-day-**the-knowledge-graph-explodedhttp://moz.com/blog/the-day-the-knowledge-graph-exploded that tells that Google's use of its Knowledge Graph hast

Re: [Wikidata-l] Cooperation between Wikidata and DBpedia and Wikipedia

2013-08-23 Thread Tom Morris
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: I have been blogging a lot the last two days with DBpedia in mind. My understanding is that at DBpedia a lot of effort went into making something of a cohesive model of properties. Now that the main type GND is

Re: [Wikidata-l] The Day the Knowledge Graph Exploded

2013-08-23 Thread Tom Morris
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: I understand Michael's question to be much more concrete: does the progress in Wikidata has anything to do with the changes in the Knowledge Graph's visibility in Google's searches that happened last month?

Re: [Wikidata-l] 'Person' or 'human', upper ontologies and migrating 4 million claims

2013-09-24 Thread Tom Morris
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Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF Issues

2013-10-01 Thread Tom Morris
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.dewrote: Ok, I have now found and tackled the issue. This was indeed a bug in EasyRDF that got fixed since we forked half a year ago. [] Having to maintain the fork is really a pain, I wish there was a better way

Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

2013-10-14 Thread Tom Morris
Naming patterns change over time and geography. If you're interested in the gender of current day authors, you should probably constrain your name sampling to the same timeframe. There's an app that works of the Freebase data here: http://namegender.freebaseapps.com/ It also has an API that

Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

2013-10-15 Thread Tom Morris
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote: My error margins are far too wide to make any realistic statement about minority genders even if I had a method to consider them. This article: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8964 gives them as being

Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

2013-10-15 Thread Tom Morris
So you've got an agenda that's unrelated to Wikidata or analysis thereof. Got it. Perhaps a non-Wikidata list would be a more appropriate forum. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Klein,Max kle...@oclc.org wrote: Sorry to rant. Accepted. Tom ___

[Wikidata-l] Is Wikidata VIAF data being used in Wikipedia?

2013-10-16 Thread Tom Morris
If I want the most current/accurate VIAF ids, should I be looking at Wikidata or Wikipedia? When I look at the EN Wikipedia pages for these two topics: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9094 http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9095 both of which have property P214, the VIAF identifer, the second displays

Re: [Wikidata-l] Is Wikidata VIAF data being used in Wikipedia?

2013-10-17 Thread Tom Morris
more good. Thanks, GerardM On 16 October 2013 18:34, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com wrote: If I want the most current/accurate VIAF ids, should I be looking at Wikidata or Wikipedia? When I look at the EN Wikipedia pages for these two topics: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9094 http

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Wikisource-l] DNB 11M bibliographic records as CC0

2013-12-09 Thread Tom Morris
This doesn't reflect my understanding of the situation at OpenLibrary. On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.comwrote: I'd love too to collaborate with openlibrary, but at the beginning of our IEG project, me and Micru contacted them, in the person of Karen Coyle

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #94

2014-01-27 Thread Tom Morris
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: These updates look a lot like blog posts, so they should be blog posts. You've said that multiple times without getting anyone to agree with you. Personally, I liked when we got the full update via email

Re: [Wikidata-l] Reasonator ignores of qualifier

2014-06-17 Thread Tom Morris
Sad to see the Deletionists taking hold on Wikidata too. Tom On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Douillard thomas.douill...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, there seem to be some cognitive dissonance going on here, it's weird. 2014-06-16 22:08 GMT+02:00 Derric Atzrott

[Wikidata-l] Freebase VIAF error rate (was next Wikidata office hour)

2015-01-17 Thread Tom Morris
2015-01-17 4:27 GMT-05:00 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de: The log is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2015-01-16 for anyone who couldn't make it. Denny discusses importing all missing VIAF keys from Freebase using multichill (unclear what that

Re: [Wikidata-l] How to deal with bad data / vandalism?

2015-01-05 Thread Tom Morris
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Ben McCann b...@benmccann.com wrote: I see the page for Google lists Mario Artero as the founder and CEO of Google. This is definitely not correct. What is the procedure for fixing this? I can't tell from the history page which edit added that.

Re: [Wikidata-l] Kian: The first neural network to serve Wikidata

2015-03-08 Thread Tom Morris
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: This is the result for German Wikipedia: ... so I got list of articles in German Wikipedia that doesn't have item in Wikidata. There were 16K articles ... When the number is below 0.50 it is obvious that they are not

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata for light houses

2015-03-10 Thread Tom Morris
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote: For example, you can see that Portugal has a lot of lighthouses while Spain has almost none -- maybe we need to look at our data there ;-) Perhaps it's a language confusion issue, but does Spain really

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Dbpedia-discussion] DBpedia-based RDF dumps for Wikidata

2015-03-10 Thread Tom Morris
Dimitris, Soren, and DBpedia team, That sounds like an interesting project, but I got lost between the statement of intent, below, and the practical consequences: On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Dimitris Kontokostas kontokos...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de wrote: we made some different design

Re: [Wikidata-l] Names, Aliases, Copyright (and a little OpenStreetMap)

2015-03-11 Thread Tom Morris
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Joe Filceolaire filceola...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect these are not wikidata aliases. They are probably labels in other languages. While wikidata doesn't have a multilingual datatype it does allow you to add labels (and aliases) in any language and these

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Dbpedia-discussion] [Dbpedia-developers] DBpedia-based RDF dumps for Wikidata

2015-03-11 Thread Tom Morris
://semanticsimulations.com *From:* Sebastian Hellmann [mailto:hellm...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de] *Sent:* Wednesday, March 11, 2015 3:12 AM *To:* Tom Morris; Dimitris Kontokostas *Cc:* Wikidata Discussion List; dbpedia-ontology; dbpedia-discuss...@lists.sourceforge.net; DBpedia-Developers

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata for light houses

2015-04-23 Thread Tom Morris
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com wrote: Thad Guidry thadgui...@gmail.com wrote: I helped with the Lighthouses schema in Freebase. Some of which is based on List of Lights (NGA) USA. I have DB conversion data for the PDFs...just never got around to

Re: [Wikidata-l] freebase id - wikidata id

2015-05-17 Thread Tom Morris
Hi Ed. In addition to the API(s), there's a specific Freebase-Wikidata mapping dump which is a little old (18 months), but very compact and easy to work with. The identifiers are likely to be pretty stable, so if the entities you are interested in have been around for a while, it might be easier

Re: [Wikidata-l] freebase id - wikidata id

2015-05-17 Thread Tom Morris
Oops! Never mind! On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com wrote: The three hits for your sample topic make me suspicious about the quality of the mapping though $ curl http://storage.googleapis.com/freebase-public/fb2w.nt.gz | zgrep 'm.04hcw' http://rdf.freebase.com

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

2015-04-16 Thread Tom Morris
Any chance you could put this list up on the wiki? Perhaps in your user space. It'd be interesting to see these issues end up being tracked in Phabricator and hopefully fixed. :) Yours, -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ Wikidata-l mailing list