Hi,
The "Other projects sidebar" beta feature is already on by default in some
projects, such as the Italian Wikipedia and the French Wikipedia. Search
for otherProjectsLinksByDefault in
http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php
Is there any reason not to make it it
Hi,
[ Aude and Christian Consonni, this should especially interest you. ]
I was throwing around ideas with a friend about how OpenStreetMap could be
integrated with Wikidata.
The thing that I care the most in any software is internationalization.
Having a map in which all labels of towns, street
> Maybe we should store these internationalised templates here on wikidata?
That's precisely what my opening post is about :)
I need help from people who understand Wikidata (and possible dbpedia)
better than I do to figure out the details of getting it done.
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> "Name" would be a bit tricky since I'm not sure if we have property
called "name"
At this stage it's not actually important for me for the purposes of
ContentTranslation to map it to a Wikidata property. Any mapping between
parameter names in different languages would be enough.
One possibility
tor a student [2].
>
> What we would need from the Wikidata/DBpedia community is
> 1) more ontology links from DBpedia to Wikidata
> 2) contributions in the infobox mappings to cover more infoboxes for
> better coverage
>
> Best,
> Dimitris
>
>
> [1] http://do
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2015-03-03 20:39 GMT+02:00 Daniel Kinzler :
> Am 03.03.2015 um 18:48 schrieb Amir E. Aharoni:
> > Trying again... It's a really important topic for me.
&g
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2014-09-24 14:18 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni :
> Hi,
>
> TL;DR: Did anybody consider usin
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Hi,
The articles about the musician Eviatar Banai in Hebrew and English
Wikipedias exist fr years.
On 2015-02-04 I created one in Catalan. Today I created one in Russian.
If I look
jssen :
> Hoi,
> The obvious is painful. When you need a placeholder... Why not use
> Reasonator? It is just a call to the Wikidata item that is associated with
> the page.
> Thanks,
> Gerard
>
> On 12 February 2015 at 11:18, Amir E. Aharoni <
> amir.ahar...@mail.huji.a
lse works, then it's possible, but seems harder
to get through in practice.
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2015-02-12 12:20 GMT+02:00 Smolenski Nikola :
> Citiranje "A
The advantage of a template is that it doesn't touch core and doesn't
create new wiki syntax.
Maybe this template could be a Lua module built into the Wikibase Client
extension, so it wouldn't have to be lamely synchronized across hundreds of
projects?
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://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88580 .)
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2015-02-12 7:51 GMT+02:00 Maarten Dammers :
> Hi Amir,
>
> Amir E. Aharoni schreef op 11-2-2015 om 13:12:
am still to write.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> On 11 February 2015 at 20:26, Amir E. Aharoni <
> amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> TL;DR: How can a red link be annotated in a semantic way with a foreign
>> article title or a Wikidata Q item
2015-02-11 22:14 GMT+02:00 Ricordisamoa :
> Adding non-existing pages to Wikidata items?
> Using a syntax like [Q42[notexistingpagetitle]]?
Is this a suggestion for possible syntax or something that actually works
somewhere?
But yeah, something like this - something that includes the title of a p
Hi,
TL;DR: How can a red link be annotated in a semantic way with a foreign
article title or a Wikidata Q item number?
Imagine: I'm writing a Wikipedia article in Russian. There's a red link in
it. I don't have time to write the target article for that link now, but
I'm sure that it should exist.
t;
> gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
> > <mailto:gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hoi,
> > How does that help ? The point is exactly that there is no point to
> > descriptions. Why iterate on a dog it will still be a mutt.
> > Thanks,
I'd rather see it not as something terribly disappointing, but as an
opportunity to find a way to fill item descriptions more efficiently.
Basically, to find some cycles to resolve
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64695
בתאריך 8 בפבר 2015 10:33, "Gerard Meijssen"
כתב:
> Hoi,
> I understand th
This is probably not-entirely-useful, because it's just a complaint and not
a fix, so apologies for that, but if I may...
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).
A
” – T. Moore
2014-12-15 19:50 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett :
> It seemed to work fine with the previous version of "nearby" , in v1 of
> the app.
>
> On 15 December 2014 at 16:46, Amir E. Aharoni
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There's this bug:
> > http
Hi,
There's this bug:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35704
Basically, the "Nearby" function in the Wikipedia Android app can only work
if the coordinates template in the Wikipedia in the relevant language uses
the magic word from the GeoData extension.
And I wonder: Is this really needed? Up
lback, but I
might be wrong.
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2014-11-17 10:52 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) :
> Amir E. Aharoni, 15/11/2014 20:56:
>
>> I haven&#x
Hi,
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.
If you have an iOS device and want to see it in action, see the
instructions he
ZOMFG, the tool that Denny introduced yesterday as a birthday gift is
unbelieavably useful and fun.
Here are a few thoughts I had about it:
I went over all the pages for the Hebrew-English pair. There were only 36,
and that is suspiciously low. Were all the articles in these languages
tested by t
Cool, thanks for the pointer!
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2014-09-27 14:47 GMT+03:00 Katie Filbert :
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
Hi,
The following little change by myself was merged by Aude on September 9:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159070/
As far as I can see, it is not deployed to Wikipedia yet.
It's not really urgent, but it made me curious: What is the deployment
schedule for Wikidata extensions?
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Hi,
Several Wikidata-related extensions are not translatable on
translatewiki.net.
The ones I could find are:
* Wikibase DataModel
* Wikibase DataModel JavaScript
* Wikidata build
* WikimediaBadges
* The various DataValues extensions
All extensions need at least a translatable description for
Sp
Hi,
TL;DR: Did anybody consider using Wikidata items of Wikipedia templates to
store multilingual template parameters mapping?
Full explanation:
As in many other projects in the Wikimedia world, templates are one of the
biggest challenges in developing the ContentTranslation extension.
Translati
2014-09-15 16:16 GMT+03:00 Lydia Pintscher :
> As for simply allowing sitelinks to non-existing articles in Wikidata:
> I fear we can't easily do that. If someone adds the link to a specific
> item and then another person comes and creates an article under the
> same name but for a different topic
One other thing that I thought about it is to use it in ContentTranslation
(a.k.a CX).[1]
In ContentTranslation we have a link adaptation feature - if an article is
available in the target language, it's automatically inserted as a link to
the translation. In the current code, if the article doesn
I'd like to join Luca - there are a lot of wonderful updates here.
Ceterum censeo Vicidatam esse utenda :)
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Hi,
I just changed the Russian label of the Chelsea Manning item from Bradley
to Chelsea. The Russian Wikipedia article was already moved to Chelsea, but
nobody noticed that the label probably needs a change, too.
How can such things be handled better?
One thing I can think of is that after the
2014-08-13 22:52 GMT+03:00 James Forrester :
> On 13 August 2014 20:27, Bene* wrote:
>
>> Afaik the infoboxes won't have any parameters once they use Wikidata and
>> be fully constructed using Lua. If I'm not correct I have to apologize but
>> that's the latest thing I know.
>>
>
> If the infobo
>
> That RFC was closed due to a lack of votes to start it. I don't know if
> the arrival of Wikidata has changed the perspective during the last 2 years.
>
> Cheers,
> Micru
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
> amir.ahar...@mail.huji.a
2014-08-12 22:48 GMT+03:00 Andy Mabbett :
> On 12 August 2014 14:00, Amir E. Aharoni
> wrote:
>
> > What does it entail?
>
> In part, resolving the vehement opposition to infoboxes in parts of
> the English Wikipedia, and the decision not to use them for
> biograph
Thanks to David's comment earlier today about editing , I found this page
in the Russian Wikipedia:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Universal_infocard
It's a Lua module that shows a person infobox, pulling the data from
Wikidata and without giving any parameters in the wiki source code.
This
2014-08-12 13:33 GMT+03:00 Andy Mabbett :
>
> On 12 August 2014 08:53, Amir E. Aharoni
wrote:
>
> > My Dream scenario is that the VE understands that the
> > data is pulled from Wikidata and shows a dialog that
> > is similar to the current template parameters. I see
Hi,
There are plenty of ways in which Wikidata and VisualEditor could be
integrated. Let me ask about the following one:
Given: Let's imagine that the venerable {{Infobox settlement}} template is
fully adapted for pulling the data from Wikidata. All the relevant data
about the city of Bratislava
> The only concern is that Wikidata is a single wiki and
> not all users on a given wiki will be concerned (except for adding
> interwiki links but technically ll is done on this subject).
> The rest is about data that will be used by tricky templates
> and whose readers would be more technical use
GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen :
> Hoi,
> The integration of lexical content is not planned for some time yet. This
> is very much an issue that is lexical / lexicographic in nature.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
>
> On 9 May 2014 12:16, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>&
Hi,
I am at a the Multilingual Web Workshop in Madrid. I had a discussion here
with a person who specializes in multilingual terminology translation about
how Wikipedia and its sister sites can be more useful and reliable for
people who search for translations of terms from different professional
I want an RSS feed, and the current RSS feed is pretty awful, because it
shows a diff of wiki syntax.
These updates look a lot like blog posts, so they should be blog posts.
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2014/1/25 John Lewis
> The point of posting here is purely to inform people who don't check
> MetaWiki or aren't subscribed to the talk page notifications.
>
> John
>
>
> On Saturday, 25 January 2014, Amir E. Ahar
further.
>
> John
>
>
> On Saturday, 25 January 2014, Sven Manguard
> wrote:
>
>> Why? I don't see a benefit to that.
>>
>> Sven
>> On Jan 25, 2014 10:38 AM, "Amir E. Aharoni"
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Lydia,
>>>
&g
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2014/1/25 Sven Manguard
> Why? I don't see a benefit to that.
>
> Sven
> On Jan 25, 2014 10:38 AM, "Amir E. Aharoni"
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lydia,
>>
>> These updates are a lot like a blog. Can it
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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2014/1/25 Lydia Pintscher
> Hey
2013/7/16 Saskia Warzecha :
> Hi,
>
> I'm Saskia and I wanted to introduce myself. I started yesterday as an
> intern at Wikidata in Berlin.
>
> I am currently finishing my studies in Computational Linguistics (B.Sc.) at
> the University of Potsdam and will commence a M.Sc. in Vienna, Austria, this
I prefer to make the API call and not to check by a list of languages.
Several reasons:
1. It's more robust in general.
2. Wikibase extension, as well as pywikipedia, can be used on other wikis, too.
3. There are dark corners in Wikimedia wikis - non-standard codes,
redirects, locked wikis, non-la
2013/1/29 Samat :
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Lydia Pintscher
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Samat wrote:
>> > I agree with you.
>> > I am also waiting for "somebody", who can change pywiki compatible with
>> > wikidata. I have no time and knowledge for it, but I have a bo
Spin off from the "Phase 1" thread.
2013/1/29 Magnus Manske :
> Why not just block the bots on wikis that use wikidata?
This looks like the right thing to me, but I don't want to be too rude
to the bot operators and I do want the bots to keep doing useful
things.
Imagine the scenario:
* Wikidata
2013/1/10 Nicholas Michael Bashour :
> Is there a way to make the names of languages appear in the language of the
> wiki on which they are displayed? For example, the language links now are in
> whatever that language is called in that specific language, but in the
> future, would it be possible,
Yay, all my right-to-left fixes are live :)
Thank you!
2012/12/10 Lydia Pintscher :
> Heya :)
>
> Just a quick note that we deployed new code to wikidata.org. All
> changes can be found at
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FWikibase.git;a=shortlog;h=refs%2Fheads%2F
Hi,
There are several unanswered questions at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Glossary . Can any developer
please answer them or just edit the Glossary to make the answers obvious?
Thanks!
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Hi,
Is there a test client system that works with the live wikidata.org? I'd
love to test it as early as possible.
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Hello,
There are a few RTL bugs that were already fixed in the Wikibase code a
while ago, but don't seem to be deployed yet. In particular, these two are
quite disruptive:
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41005
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40247
What is the dep
This would probably be a good place to note that Wikidata is the big
testing ground for the Universal Language Selector extension and for
the new generation of WebFonts and IME (Narayam) extensions (more
precisely, the first after translatewiki.net). There are still some
issues, and Santhosh was wo
2012/10/30 emijrp :
> Cool, nice work.
>
> SUL is not enabled?
It is, we just discussed it on IRC :)
Log out, then log in again to some other existing project (like
https://ca.wikisource.org ) and then to https://www.wikidata.org , and
it should work.
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2012/10/12 Lydia Pintscher :
> Ok will add it to
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions as soon
> as I can. Anyone want to link that page from the FAQ?
I linked it.
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2012/10/12 Denny Vrandečić :
> 2012/10/12 Lydia Pintscher :
>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
>> wrote:
>>> 5. Somebody complained that it's too easy to remove a link from a repo
>>> - clicking the "remove" link is enoug
Hi,
Lydia mentioned in her summary a major discussion about Wikidata in
the Hebrew Wikipedia. The discussion was in Hebrew of course, so I'll
bring a little summary of it.
Eleven people supported the installation of Wikidata. Nobody objected \o/
Despite the wide support, some issues and question
... In case it wasn't clear, I referred to removing a link to an
article in foreign Wikipedia from an item page in the repository.
2012/10/5 Amir E. Aharoni :
> Hi,
>
> An issue brought up in the discussion about Wikidata in the Hebrew
> Wikipedia: To remove a link, you just
Hi,
An issue brought up in the discussion about Wikidata in the Hebrew
Wikipedia: To remove a link, you just click the "remove" link... and
that's it. Looks too easy. No asking for confirmation or anything. Is
it a good idea?
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Hi,
I wanted to make sure that the English and the Hebrew demo sites have
the same version. I can see the precise Git version of MediaWiki in
Special:Version, as well as the versions of most extensions. But the
versions of the Wikibase* extensions only appear as "Version 0.2
alpha" without the Git
Hi,
Geekiness warning: this email mentions software in general and free
software licenses in particular. It mentions them because it's a
useful example, but the ideas can be applied to many other domains.
Automatic generation of list articles is frequently named as one of
the main use cases of Wi
2012/8/14 Denny Vrandečić :
> In general I am a strong believer of "let's start with the simple
> thing", which is to let editors add transliterations (that is why we
> have a label field for every entity in every language).
>
> I may see a use case for a transliteration-bot that does some of the
>
2012/8/14 Nikola Smolenski :
> On 14/08/12 08:57, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>>
>> 2012/8/14 Nikola Smolenski:
>>>
>>> I believe it should be possible to alleviate this problem to an extent by
>>> introducing automatic transcription between languages an
2012/8/14 Nikola Smolenski :
> I believe it should be possible to alleviate this problem to an extent by
> introducing automatic transcription between languages and specifying what
> language the mayor's "default" name is in. If automatic transcription gets
> it wrong, it could still be overriden w
Yes.
בתאריך 14 באוג 2012 00:14, מאת "Samat" :
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Snaevar wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>> Bináris and Andre Engels have volunteered to make pywikipedia compatible
>> with wikidata. Bináris said on the 24th of July that he is busy, in a
>> response from Lydia to translate the
Hallo,
Preamble 1: This email probably falls under this FAQ question:
Q: How will Wikidata change the way articles are edited?
A: That’s part of what we have to figure out during the development,
together with the community.
Preamble 2: It's possible that there's an answer to this issue
already,
like
> http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday, where the title would be LTR,
> would be declared as RTL. Is there a way to avoid that?
>
> I guess the answer is no, but I wanted to ask.
>
> Cheers,
> Denny
>
>
>
>
> 2012/8/11 Amir E. Aharoni :
>> Hallo,
>&
2012/8/13 Snaevar :
> > For example:
> > * The interwiki bots' will definitely have to be modified for the
> > Wikidata age. Did anybody start a conversation with the operators of
> > these bots?
>
> MerlIwBot is the only bot that is compatible with Wikidata.
Is there any reason not to make the ot
Hi,
I'm not sure that it was discussed already. If it was discussed,
please point me there. I read the Technical proposal and the
translatable pages on Meta and couldn't find it there.
Is there any concrete plan to start the migration of the current
interlanguage links to Wikidata storage?
For e
Hallo,
It's my first email on this list, so in case you don't know me: I am
Amir, I'm from Israel, I'm a wikipedian since 2004, I write mostly in
Hebrew and English, I care strongly about language issues in software
in general and about right-to-left support in particular, and I work
in the WMF's
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