[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #35

2012-12-07 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Heya folks :) Here's the summary of what happened around Wikidata over the last week. The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_12_07 = Development = * Deployed new code on wikidata.org with a lot of bug fixes and a new Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel (all ch

Re: [Wikidata-l] Canonical URL for Wikidata pages?

2012-12-07 Thread Nicholas Humfrey
Hello Michael, I have had some trouble understanding what the problem is that you think we should be trying to avoid / solve. While it is preferable to try and minimise the number of identifiers for the same thing, I think it is unavoidable that things will be given multiple identifiers for both

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions

2012-12-07 Thread Shawn Simister
It woud be great to have keys into other databases from Wikidata. I'd be happy to contribute Freebase IDs to matching Wikidata concepts. However, I'm wondering if it really makes sense to have a separate property for every type of ID. Shouldn't it be modeled more like interwiki links so that each c