[Wikidata-tech] Remote hackathon (May 9 - 11, 2020)

2020-04-20 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi everyone, The first weekend of May the Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 in Tirana was supposed to happen. As an alternative, we're organizing a remote hackathon. Please have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2020/Remote_Hackathon and sign up if you're interested in

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Blank node deprecation in WDQS & Wikibase RDF model

2020-04-17 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi David, Peter brings up some very valid points and I agree with him. I don't really like how you present this as a done deal to the community. Now it looks like you have some software performance problem, you think you found some solution and without any community consultation, you're

Re: [Wikidata-tech] How to respect throttling and retry-after headers on the Wikidata Query Service.

2019-11-17 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Andra, Pywikibot should take care of that for you, see https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot/blob/master/pywikibot/comms/http.py#L317 Maarten On 02-11-19 11:36, Andra Waagmeester wrote: Hi,     I hope this is the right mailing list to discuss this issue. Some time ago I ran into a

Re: [Wikidata-tech] wb_terms redesign

2019-05-04 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Alaa, On 25-04-19 16:38, Alaa Sarhan wrote: > This is really a defective redesign. It reintroduced numeric IDs to be removed by T114902. See also T179928. We should reconsider reintroduce a new table to link unperfixed and perfixed entity ID. The new schema has been optimized as much as

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata for cultural heritage?

2016-07-01 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Richard, I think that persons are probably most mature. All humans have instance of (P31) human (Q5) and for some subsets (like artists) a lot properties have a high coverage. Wikidata already connects to a lot of other sources on the web making it a central node for linked open data. For

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Heads up: Changes to API error codes

2014-04-20 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Daniel, Daniel Kinzler schreef op 15-4-2014 19:16: Today, Thiemo merged my patch introducing the ApiErrorReporter class: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124323/. This should help us with providing error reports from the API in a consistent manner; This way, we will hopefully soon be able

[Wikidata-tech] Typing of globe-coordinate

2014-03-01 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi everyone, I ran into some pretty annoying problems with coordinates specifically the precision. The valid values of precision aren't properly documented and enforced at the moment, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62105 I would like to know what is supposed to be valid