Re: [Wikidata-l] [Labs-l] Yet another partial labs outage

2015-05-16 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Andrew, Andrew Bogott schreef op 16-5-2015 om 6:31: I did shut off one instance: wikidata-wdq-mm. I don't have a personal grudge, but it was gobbling CPU cycles and the system really needs a rest. If loss of that instance is a disaster for anyone, contact me and I'll see if I can revive

Re: [Wikidata-l] annotating red links

2015-02-11 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Amir, Amir E. Aharoni schreef op 11-2-2015 om 13:12: If I may dream for a moment, this should be something that can be used in all Wikipedias, and without copying this template everywhere, but built into the site's software :) Exactly, the template based approach doesn't scale at all. You

Re: [Wikidata-l] Precision of globe coordinates

2015-01-11 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Markus, Markus Krötzsch schreef op 11-1-2015 om 2:15: Hi, Does anybody know the current documentation of the precision of the globe coordinate datatype? This precision was introduced after the original datamodel discussions. No clue, I do know we have to do some conversions. See

Re: [Wikidata-l] Python bot framework for wikidata

2014-08-30 Thread Maarten Dammers
Benjamin Good schreef op 29-8-2014 19:39: It does, but only on the very bottom with a see also. Hmm, that doesn't look very good. Pywikibot has full Wikidata support and contains several scripts you can run without writing a line of python, see

Re: [Wikidata-l] Python bot framework for wikidata

2014-08-29 Thread Maarten Dammers
Don't use compat, use core. Amir Ladsgroup schreef op 29-8-2014 2:27: Hey, It's pywikibot: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PWB Both branches support Wikidata Best On 8/29/14, Benjamin Good ben.mcgee.g...@gmail.com wrote: Which python framework should a new developer use to make a wikidata

[Wikidata-l] WikiProject sum of all paintings

2014-08-09 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi everyone, I'm starting a new project. Let's get all paintings on Wikidata! I could use some help. I already imported 4 museums in the Netherlands, but that's of course just a start. More information at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings . Maarten

Re: [Wikidata-l] Countries ranked

2013-10-05 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Katie, Op 4-10-2013 23:29, Katie Filbert schreef: 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 the September 22 database dump. Did you consider doing this as a query on

Re: [Wikidata-l] Dexbot problem

2013-09-23 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Andy, Op 23-9-2013 17:18, Andy Mabbett schreef: There's a problem with Dexbot adding bogus values. For example, place of death = Welsh People on the entry for Catrin Collier (still very much alive): http://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q13416998diff=72279065oldid=49769674 Since

Re: [Wikidata-l] Commons is coming \o/

2013-09-09 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi, Op 9-9-2013 12:10, Lydia Pintscher schreef: In the end this is a decision of the Commons community what they want to link their pages and categories to and should probably be discussed there. As I said it'll be possible one way or another. See also

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

[Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-09 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi everyone, At Wikimania we had several discussions about the future of Wikidata and Commons. Some broader feedback would be nice. Now we have a property Commons category (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P373). This is a string and an intermediate solution. In the long run Commons

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-09 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Patrick, Op 8-5-2013 17:19, Patrick Cassidy schreef: Should we have more than one ontology? Back in 2001 when I was doing some artificial intelligence courses, the semantic web was the next big thing. What I remember about ontology is that an ontology of all is next to impossible. Most