Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-05 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 04.05.2014 22:50, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: Hoi, When you see a label in Reasonator, you will find that when it is not in *YOUR* language, it is underlined in red. You can hover over a label and you will be prompted to add a label in the named language. Nice. Label and Description should

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-05 Thread P. Blissenbach
Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de writes: Am 05.05.2014 01:35, schrieb Joe Filceolaire: I agree with Gerard that you only edit your language label in the 'label' edit box. If the label box is showing the label in a fallback language then it should be visually different -

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-05 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 05.05.2014 10:41, schrieb P. Blissenbach: There are two things which are not directly related to variants but imho could be fixed in one go with them: - Entries are using up much too much valuable space. I wish to delete all whitespace, and use a more list orientated approach. At least

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-05 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When you want to do the stuff you are talking about, you do it in Wikidata in the area where all the aliases, descriptions and stuff is. That is for that specific item. When you see fall backs in the statement area of an item, it is a SERVICE that you can add missing labels. When they are

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-05 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When the other languages box needs to become more flexible, it is a different problem that has nothing to do with the ability to understand what statements are made. At this time it is an absolute inability when there is no label in *YOUR* language. Thanks, GerardM On 5 May 2014 10:21,

[Wikidata-l] When the source says the information provided is dubious

2014-05-05 Thread David Cuenca
Hi, I'm having some cases where a work has been attributed to an author by a source, but the source itself says this attribution is dubious, or it is contesting a previous attributions as spurious. As I see it, the rank of the statement is not deprecated (in fact it is normal or even preferred),

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-05 Thread Jane Darnell
Hi all, What I don't understand is the need to keep all labels blank until they are updated by hand. Especially for biographical articles, it would be nice to have original spellings of the person's name, even if it's Chinese or something else really far away from English. That might serve as a

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-05 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, What I don't understand is the need to keep all labels blank until they are updated by hand. Especially for biographical articles, it would be nice to have original spellings of the person's name, even if it's

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-05 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 05.05.2014 10:57, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: Hoi, When the other languages box needs to become more flexible, it is a different problem that has nothing to do with the ability to understand what statements are made. At this time it is an absolute inability when there is no label in *YOUR*

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-05 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 05.05.2014 10:55, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: Daniel, what you suggest is overly complicated and the notion that it has to be perfect stands in the way of implementing a working solution. A solution that is the difference between statements that are useful and statements that are absolutely

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-05 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am talking about statements.. I am not asking for selecting items that have no label in a language.. This would only work if auto descriptions are in use. Thanks, GerardM On 5 May 2014 12:52, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de wrote: Am 05.05.2014 10:57, schrieb Gerard

Re: [Wikidata-l] When the source says the information provided is dubious

2014-05-05 Thread Jane Darnell
David, I assume you are referring to books. The same is true for works of art. The reason why these statements are still valuable is because it is an attribution based on grounds determined by someone somewhere and based on that loose statement alone are therefore considered of interest. You

[Wikidata-l] Classification of properties?

2014-05-05 Thread Fredo Erxleben
Hello all, I am playing around with properties at the moment, especially filtering out a certain kind of properties. So I wondered if it wouldn't be a nice thing, if properties were classified in some way. Example: (Numbering is just for readability and does not hold any semantics) P… is

Re: [Wikidata-l] When the source says the information provided is dubious

2014-05-05 Thread David Cuenca
Hi Jane, No, I was not referring to books in particular, but of course it could be applied to books as well, and to works of art, and to many things in general. I agree that the statement is valuable and that it should be included, but I don't know how to represent it. Following your examples,

Re: [Wikidata-l] When the source says the information provided is dubious

2014-05-05 Thread Jane Darnell
Hmm, I guess I am still not getting it - both of your examples wouldn't make it into one of my Wikipedia articles, and I would probably remove them from an existing article if I was working on it. If it's not factual enough for Wikipedia, then it's not factual enough for Wikidata. I recall a

Re: [Wikidata-l] Classification of properties?

2014-05-05 Thread Joe Filceolaire
See Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/How_to_classify_items:_lots_of_specific_type_properties_or_a_few_generic_ones%3F#Subproperty_of for a discussion of a 'subproperty' relation. where a property can have a statement that it is a 'subproperty' of another property and the query engine could search on

Re: [Wikidata-l] When the source says the information provided is dubious

2014-05-05 Thread Jane Darnell
Well in the case of attributions of artworks, these things tend to go back and forth a lot, so museums take a fairly pragmatic approach when they invent a pseudo-artist. They will attribute something like a previously attributed B to school of B or follower of B and sort it as B for all other

Re: [Wikidata-l] When the source says the information provided is dubious

2014-05-05 Thread Joe Filceolaire
Mark it deprecated and include a quotation (It's a string property) about how dubious it is in the source statements. Joe On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: Well in the case of attributions of artworks, these things tend to go back and forth a lot, so

Re: [Wikidata-l] Classification of properties?

2014-05-05 Thread Thomas Douillard
We can't at the moment make statements on properties, nor use properties as value in statement, so this is a little premature. It's on the devs high priority list , amongst queries though. Atm, properties classification is not really something we do well. We got a list of properties wikipage and

Re: [Wikidata-l] Classification of properties?

2014-05-05 Thread Paul Houle
I think the best scheme I've seen like this yet is at https://developers.google.com/freebase/v1/search-metaschema In the RDF model it is easy to make statements about predicates ?p a :SocialRelation . the key is that it is multi-dimensional so probably a given predicate will be a member of

Re: [Wikidata-l] When the source says the information provided is dubious

2014-05-05 Thread P. Blissenbach
 David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com writes: Jane, this info is in Wikipedia. For instance see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltzes_(Chopin)   N. 17 was attributed to Chopin (Kobylańska and others), Chomiński says that claim is spurious. And that is just one of many examples. According to

[Wikidata-l] Subclass of/instance of

2014-05-05 Thread Markus Kroetzsch
Hi, I got interested in subclass of (P279) and instance of (P31) statements recently. I was surprised by two things: (1) There are quite a lot of subclass of statements: tenth of thousands. (2) Many of them make a lot of sense, and (in particular) are not (obvious) copies of Wikipedia

Re: [Wikidata-l] Subclass of/instance of

2014-05-05 Thread emw
Hi Markus, You asked who is creating all these [subclass of] statements and how is this done? The class hierarchy in http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/tree.html?q=Q35120rp=279lang=enshows a few relatively large subclass trees for specialist domains, including molecular biology and