Re: [Wikidata] Import of redirects as aliases

Ricordisamoa, 19/06/2015 09:07: I've seen countless inaccurate aliases 'inferred' from redirects by bots. And I've seen countless simple searches failing due to lack of obvious redirects/aliases. Are there reasons to believe that redirects are in majority bad aliases? (Surely there can be

Re: [Wikidata] Lists of things as entities in Wikidata

By this reasoning we should also delete items about categories or disambiguation pages. Thad Guidry, 15/06/2015 17:21: Ex. List of tallest buildings in Wuhan - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6642364 What's the issue here? The item doesn't actually contain any list, there is no duplication

Re: [Wikidata] Lists of things as entities in Wikidata

Thad Guidry, 15/06/2015 18:11: I think Wikidata needs to decide going forward if it will be a strict Entity Graph...or if it will be a Big Graph of all things Wikipedia. I understand the question, but why are the two things in contradiction? Nemo

Re: [Wikidata] No links, wrong data: Scottland's orphans need help

Markus Krötzsch, 01/06/2015 22:42: How do you know that the data comes from this tool? The history does not mention it: I know from memory. IIRC it's stated on the user page of the account, but might be stated elsewhere. Nemo ___ Wikidata mailing

Re: [Wikidata] [libraries] How can Wikidata get over 30, 000, 000 facts added a year ?

Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada, 04/07/2015 14:20: Being most libraries non-profit and educational resources, I think that it is a special case. Not for the paperwork. Let's avoid throwing unwitting librarians into crime. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use#paid-contrib-disclosure Nemo

Re: [Wikidata] Properties for family relationships in Wikidata

Andrew Gray, 17/08/2015 13:29: In some ways, merging seems more elegant. We do have fairly good gender metadata (and getting better all the time!), so we can still do gender-specific relationship searches where needed. It also avoids having to force a binary gender approach - we are in the odd

Re: [Wikidata] New version of Kian, faster, general, more accurate

Amir Ladsgroup, 28/08/2015 20:17: Another thing I did is reporting possible mistakes, when Wikipedia and Wikidata don't agree on one statement, Nice, with this Wikidata has better quality control systems than Wikipedia. ;-) Nemo ___ Wikidata

Re: [Wikidata] Trends in links from Wikidata items to Commons

James Heald, 27/08/2015 11:29: I believe we have clear policy on only sitelinking commons categories to category-like items, and commons galleries to article-like items; No, we don't, or at least none has been shown. Please don't spread unsubstantiated policy claims. Nemo

Re: [Wikidata] Naming projects

Mathias Schindler, 14/09/2015 10:48: no issue with this bot name and that the recommendation only applies to picking names in general without any assertion that this wasn't duly taken into consideration this time? +1. It's odd to say Magnus doesn't put enough consideration into names: he

Re: [Wikidata] Importing Freebase (Was: next Wikidata office hour)

Denny Vrandečić, 28/09/2015 23:27: Actually, my suggestion would be to switch on Primary Sources as a default tool for everyone. Yes, it's a desirable aim to have one-click suggested actions (à la Wikidata game) embedded into items for everyone. As for this tool, unrelatedly from the data

Re: [Wikidata] Importing Freebase (Was: next Wikidata office hour)

Thomas Steiner, 28/09/2015 23:32: Note: as far as I can tell, the stats available at https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-primary-sources/status.html so far do not differentiate between "fact wrong" (as in "Barack Obama is president of Croatia" [fact wrong]) and "source wrong" ("Barack Obama is

Re: [Wikidata] Italian Wikipedia imports gone haywire ?

Peter F. Patel-Schneider, 28/09/2015 22:27: >I'm aguing against making such inference part of wikibase/wikidata core >functionality, and hiding it's working ("magic"). > >However, I very much hope for a whole ecosystem of tools that apply and use such >inference, and make the results obvious to

Re: [Wikidata] Freebase to Wikidata: Results from Tpt internship

Thad Guidry, 02/10/2015 21:44: ​To my eyes, it shows that the Asia continent is still generally void of any useful machine-readable Knowledge, in either Freebase or Wikidata. (or anywhere else)​ But this is already a known state of affairs and probably will not improve until 1 Million USA

Re: [Wikidata] Italian Wikipedia imports gone haywire ?

Thad Guidry, 27/09/2015 18:51: OK, it seems that Wikipedia does have a few nice features. :) I was able to quickly search History Congratulations for using action=history! Those interested in learnign more features of a wiki can check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Principles > then you

[Wikidata] Fwd: Internationalisation of people names

Given the recent discussions on how to deal with person names in Wikidata (e.g. how many properties to use, how to handle scripts, automatic vs. manual labels/aliases/descriptions...) and the importance username display has in MediaWiki (e.g. gendered namespaces, log system restructure since

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata Analyst, a tool to comprehensively analyze quality of Wikidata

Useful and very pretty, I can't wait for the analysis by import source. I'll try to dig the data to find interesting evidence/examples of data to use more. Nemo ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarship Deadline for Wikimania is Today

Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto:[Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarship Deadline for Wikimania is Today Data: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 14:55:30 -0600 Mittente: Ellie Young Reminder: Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 which is being held in Esino Lario, Italy on June

Re: [Wikidata] Duplicates in Wikidata

Is this something for a Wikidata game? :) Nemo ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

Re: [Wikidata] Preferred rank -- choices for infoboxes, versus SPARQL

Gerard Meijssen, 28/11/2015 07:05: A big city is what? A city with more than a given number of inhabitants? If so it is redundant because it can be inferred. Criteria might be defined by local law and/or require some administrative act. That's how it works in Italy, for instance. Nemo

Re: [Wikidata] data access for Wikispecies, MediaWiki, Meta and Wikinews is coming

Lydia Pintscher, 01/12/2015 16:28: We chatted with fundraising and agreed to postpone this a bit on Meta to not interfere with fundraising on the most successful days of the year. Funny how WMF always gets in the way of sister projects. We'll move it to the 15th. Let's cross fingers! Nemo

Re: [Wikidata] Mix'n'match: how to preserve manually audited items for posterity?

Dario Taraborelli, 21/11/2015 18:34: I spent most of my time manually auditing automatically matched entries from the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani [2]. Thank you! That's very useful. I did some thousands too. :) My favorite example? Mix’n’ match suggested a match between /Giulio

Re: [Wikidata] Communicating corrections back to data source

Sandra Fauconnier, 10/06/2016 21:12: Recently his team has developed an initiative called ResourceSync , that seems to be addressing exactly this - keeping distributed databases on the web mutually up to date. It’s the closest thing I’ve ever seen that seems

Re: [Wikidata] Possibility of data lock

john cummings, 09/06/2016 19:19: I don't know what the solution is but the current situation doesn't seem to work, I spent at least 40 hours (+ Nav's time) to import the 670 items and the data I imported has already started to become less correct through user edits and bot edits. If you start

Re: [Wikidata] WDQS URL shortener

Dario Taraborelli, 01/06/2016 10:33: I don't, it probably depends on what shorteners are most used for spam purposes across Wikimedia projects. Maybe someone familiar with URL blacklisting from major wikis can comment? Nearly all URL shorteners get blacklisted, eventually. Nemo

Re: [Wikidata] Is there a dump of wiki media items?

Melvin Carvalho, 29/05/2016 19:31: Is there a way I can get a dump of media items in wikidata or wikimedia commons https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps#Media_tarballs Nemo ___ Wikidata mailing list

Re: [Wikidata] Strict mode for TeX/Math extension (was: upcoming deployments/features)

Daniel Kinzler, 04/02/2016 19:02: I agree that it would be nice to have a "strict TeX mode" for the math extension. I'm not sure whether we would enable that on wikidata. While it would make the life of consumers easier, it would make the life of people importing from wikipedia harder. But

Re: [Wikidata] Maintenance scripts for clients

John Erling Blad, 06/08/2015 17:13: A couple of guys at nowiki has started using this tool, and if they continue at present speed the list will be emptied in two weeks time. Can you please add nnwiki too and I will inform the community there that there is a tool available. 4941 items in list,

Re: [Wikidata] Other sites

Lydia Pintscher, 03/02/2016 14:47: What sites are allowed in the item "other sites" section? I haven't found documentation about it. Currently MediaWiki, Wikispecies, Meta, Wikidata and Commons are in this section. What section are we talking about? Is this a part of the entries

Re: [Wikidata] from Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration

Lydia Pintscher, 18/02/2016 15:59: Thomas, Denny, Sebastian, Thomas, and I have published a paper which was accepted for the industry track at WWW 2016. It covers the migration from Freebase to Wikidata. You can now read it here: http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/44818.pdf Nice! >

Re: [Wikidata] Photographers' Identities Catalog (& WikiData)

David Lowe, 15/12/2015 00:00: Once PIC is actually launched and at a permanent url (January sometime), I'd love to get PIC ID #s into the WD records. Have you proposed the property yet? If not please do: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Authority_control Nemo

Re: [Wikidata] Photographers' Identities Catalog (& WikiData)

David Lowe, 03/04/2016 17:10: Also, I should have pointed out that I have 11,000 Wikidata entities matched in PIC already. Is there a quick & easy way to get those in? IIRC you said you already added those matches

Re: [Wikidata] Photographers' Identities Catalog (& WikiData)

David Lowe, 03/04/2016 18:42: Actually, Nemo, I haven't yet added them to mix-n-match (though we've discussed previously). Ah, sorry. Then follow James' suggestion. I recommended QuickStatements to the national central library of Italy (BNCF) too, AFAIK it worked well for them. One advantage

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikimedia-l] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

Lydia Pintscher, 13/05/2016 18:28: Ok search integration should be fixed now. I see a link at the very end of https://eo.wikipedia.org/?search=Paolo+Monti (not so convenient; using right side, as for the interwiki search results, may have been better) but nothing with phrase search, after

Re: [Wikidata] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

Thanks! Lydia Pintscher, 11/05/2016 21:48: * Odia: https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:AboutTopic?entityid=Q131074 * Napolitan: https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A0le:AboutTopic?entityid=Q2613697 * Esperanto:

Re: [Wikidata] Ontology

Gerard Meijssen, 14/05/2016 15:39: When an external ontology says that something is a disease and the DSM-5 says it is not. There is a huge problem. Until recently DSM called homosexuality a disease, we must live with conflicts.

Re: [Wikidata] Aren't pages too long?

My main issues are * there isn't a TOC, which is sorely needed to be able to jump to the various sections (e.g. identifiers, sitelinks); * there is only one "add statement" button and it's in an unpredictable position. The two issues are very easy to fix IMHO: just add a TOC and a second

Re: [Wikidata] Info box proposal

Brill Lyle, 03/08/2016 13:30: Huge barrier for Wikipedia end-users. What makes you think so? Did you interview or observe users editing? In my experience, Wikidata is much easier for newbies to grasp than wikitext or even VisualEditor: like VisualEditor's template editor, Wikidata resembles

Re: [Wikidata] Info box proposal

Brill Lyle, 03/08/2016 18:53: Speaking of: Where's the user documentation for Authority Control? Have you tried to update and/or add Authority Control on Wikidata manually? Sure. I've also taught dozens of persons and none of them preferred entering said data via wikitext (despite being

Re: [Wikidata] Info box proposal

Brill Lyle, 03/08/2016 19:20: I am not saying editing Wiki Markup on Wikidata. Is that what you are describing? No. Nemo ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

Re: [Wikidata] List of WP-languages and language short code

Markus Bärlocher, 07/09/2016 13:27: But I'm not a programmer - I need a format like CSV, or TXT as table, with this columns: - ISO-639-3 short code - name of language in English - name of language local in local writing system https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix , copy and paste

Re: [Wikidata] List of WP-languages and language short code

Markus Bärlocher, 07/09/2016 16:16: I need the relation between ISO 639-3 and WP-shortcuts I still have no idea what you mean by WP-shortcuts, but if you mean the MediaWiki/Wikimedia language codes then https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Language_code has all the pointers you need and

Re: [Wikidata] Request for Property help (Schema.org mapping taskforce)

Thad Guidry, 10/09/2016 17:03: Does anyone know if a useful property like 'external subclass' is available to use to help us with our mapping ? Why can't you create an item for the subclass and link from there? Nemo ___ Wikidata mailing list

Re: [Wikidata] Request for Property help (Schema.org mapping taskforce)

Thad Guidry, 13/09/2016 19:38: There is no need, therefore, to replicate those same definitions in Wikidata by creating a new Wikidata item (topic / entity) for each external vocabulary class or subclass or property. Instead, the best practice is to simply POINT to those external definitions,

Re: [Wikidata] Request for Property help (Schema.org mapping taskforce)

Thad Guidry, 12/09/2016 15:46: Not sure I understand what you mean by 'item' ? Do you mean a Wikidata topic ? I don't know what a "Wikidata topic" is, no such term is found on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary . Your example Q474191 already has an "equivalent class" link to

Re: [Wikidata] Request for Property help (Schema.org mapping taskforce)

Thad Guidry, 12/09/2016 21:29: The reason is that our definition in Schema.org is slightly different than which is the biological definition (a mixture of food sources that sustains a living thing) and from that derives the nutritional definition, the one

Re: [Wikidata] signing license declarations

Benjamin Good, 05/10/2016 23:33: somewhere the world can see Like http://www.uniprot.org/help/license ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

Re: [Wikidata] signing license declarations

Benjamin Good, 05/10/2016 19:44: As a specific example, we have informal (e.g. an email to us) permission to import data from the Disease Ontology [2] and UniProt [3] but would like to make those informal agreements 'official' and public. Just make them add such a note to

Re: [Wikidata] A property to exemplify SPARQL queries associated with a property

Dario Taraborelli, 23/08/2016 20:35: would it stretch too much the scope of properties of properties? One can always use the talk page, like with all the templates documenting usage and monitoring. Nemo ___ Wikidata mailing list

Re: [Wikidata] Master thesis

For those who have ideas, there's also http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_open_questions to expand. Nemo ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

Re: [Wikidata] Using wikibase for creating structured vocabularies collaboratively

Claudia Müller-Birn, 12/10/2016 21:11: wonder if there are other projects than Wikidata that are using Wikibase for structuring their data http://www.eagle-network.eu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page , as documented on http://wikiba.se/projects/ . You can ask on this list if you have questions.

Re: [Wikidata] Tool to identify the articles versions across Wikipedia language editions?

Reem Al-Kashif, 31/10/2016 20:24: I'm wondering if there is a way/tool to identify the articles that exist in the one edition of Wikipedia and have counterparts in another. Reading your request literally, Special:MostInterwikis suffices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MostInterwikis

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata ontology

Markus Kroetzsch, 08/01/2017 00:12: The subclass of and instance of statements are actually used in very many WDQS queries, often with * expressions to navigate the hierarchy. I think that's what Gerard meant: you don't have to know what's under the hood, as long as it works. When you get

Re: [Wikidata] Extending public wikidata with a stand alone version

Satya Gadepalli, 08/01/2017 09:23: I have done a local wikidata stand-alone service. Now i want to make this as an intermediary on top of public wikidata and extend few concepts related to enter specific Item / labels. Cf.: *

Re: [Wikidata] Writing a Bot for data Import

Thanks for asking those questions. Marisa Nest, 28/06/2017 20:01: - The first section is for all bots thus also for our bot. One of these requirements is to be able to set a limit for maximum edits per minute. But what does “edit" exactly mean in that case? Is to create an item and to add a

Re: [Wikidata] Coursework involving Wikidata?

For a six hours course on Wikidata or more, I see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_Wikidata_SUPSI There was also recently something in eastern Europe but I forgot the details. For something a bit smaller, most Wikidata teaching WMIT does is for librarians, often as part of courses

Re: [Wikidata] Coursework involving Wikidata?

Daniel Mietchen, 06/06/2017 05:24: The process of building these puzzles is actually more instructive than solving them, but it's not yet simple to leverage Wikidata for the building process. Would be great to have some Wikidata games/ tools similar to

Re: [Wikidata] wikipedia site link to a subtitel wrong

The usual https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54564 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74347 If Wikidata cannot be fixed to support the needs for interwiki links, I guess you must use the tradional interwiki syntax for those cases. A blacklist on the corresponding Wikidata item for the sites

Re: [Wikidata] Kickstartet: Adding 2.2 million German organisations to Wikidata

This is an area where I would very much like to see some important properties created and populated, to the benefit e.g. of various infoboxes on Wikipedias which contain data in need of frequent updates (especially income, revenue, market capitalization, number of employees, links to most

Re: [Wikidata] Identifiers: Multiple VIAF numbers

Finn Aarup Nielsen, 12/12/2017 21:29: Yes, I think you should add all VIAFs. That is what I have done. When I edit an item manually, I usually also mark one of the identifiers as preferred. In Wikimedia Italia events I regularly mention this as one of the benefits of Wikidata: it's the only

Re: [Wikidata] New dashboard on the Wikidata Concept Monitor: Geo dashboard

Léa Lacroix, 19/12/2017 17:29: The usage of the items being the count of the number of pages in the Wikimedia projects where the Wikidata item is used. What do you mean by "used"? That some statement from the item is fetched/transcluded on the page? Federico

Re: [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

mathieu stumpf guntz, 01/12/2017 03:00: Actually, as far as I know, CC-by-sa-3.0-undeed states nothing about /suis generis/ rights I don't know what's -undeed, but 3.0-it and 4.0 do, which is for instance why ISTAT data can be imported in Wikidata despite the less than ideal license

Re: [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

Leila Zia, 02/12/2017 22:48: ​(​Side-note. We should take this part offline but for the record: I couldn't find a place where transparency was listed as an agreed upon and shared value of our movement as a whole. There are subgroups that consider it a core value or one of the guiding

Re: [Wikidata] Where are wikidata to wikipedia links available

Rune Stilling, 11/12/2017 17:55: Another question. What happens if a Wikipedia title/url changes. How do you handle this? Do you update Wikidata manually (the link from Wikidata to Wikipedia)? If the page is renamed, the same action also updates the linked Wikidata entity, so there is no

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata prefix search is now Elastic

Thanks! Stas Malyshev, 25/10/2017 23:22: Wikidata and Search Platform teams are happy to announce that Wikidata prefix search (aka wbsearchentities API aka the thing you use when you type into that box on the top right or any time you edit an item or property and use the selector widget) Is

Re: [Wikidata] stats on WD edits and WDQS uptime

Andrew Su, 20/12/2017 20:19: In any case, pointers on the two stats I'm looking for are still welcome! Ok. I don't think the number of edits is especially meaningful, but Wikidata easily wins this metric over any other project, even if you combine all Wikipedias.

Re: [Wikidata] stats on WD edits and WDQS uptime

Andrew Su, 20/12/2017 20:11: I've scanned stats.wikimedia.org but can't find that summarized. This link [1] seems to say that there were 18726 WD edits in Nov 2017 That's the number of *users* making at least one edit. We generally consider the 5+ figure, which

Re: [Wikidata] DBpedia Databus (alpha version)

Sebastian Hellmann, 08/05/2018 14:29: Working with data is hard and repetitive. We envision a hub, where everybody can upload data and then useful operations like versioning, cleaning, transformation, mapping, linking, merging, hosting is done Sounds like Wikidata! automagically Except

Re: [Wikidata] Wikiata and the LOD cloud

Andy Mabbett, 05/05/2018 20:50: The statement I questioned was "never able"; that's not a matter of "a long way to go". I see. I'm not sure about the long run. On the other hand, in the long run we're all dead. Federico ___ Wikidata mailing list

Re: [Wikidata] Wikiata and the LOD cloud

Andy Mabbett, 05/05/2018 17:33: Both Wikidata and DBpedia surely can, and should, coexist because we'll never be able to host in Wikidata the entirety of the Wikipedias. Can you give an example of something that can be represented in DBpedia, but not Wikidata? More simply, there's still a

Re: [Wikidata] Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

Olaf Simons, 18/05/2018 23:48: Facts don't*have* licenses. They have sources, and we track those. Works well in an environment of no original research. Things get onto another level if I have a fact that is of value in other fields of research. I'm not sure what your message means, but I

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikimedia-l] Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

Info WorldUniversity, 18/05/2018 20:45: Wikidata may be heading to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ which allows for a) sharing b) adapting and even c) commercially No way. CC-BY-SA-4.0 handles, but doesn't waive, the sui generis database rights. It might be fine for folks in

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata in the LOD Cloud

Tom Morris, 29/06/2018 18:09: A complete aside, but who chose the date format for that URL? That's wacky! Whoever it was, clearly not a xkcd fan. :) https://xkcd.com/1179/ Federico ___

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata in the LOD Cloud

Maarten Dammers, 27/06/2018 23:26: Excellent news! https://lod-cloud.net/dataset/wikidata seems to contain the info in a more human readable (and machine readable) way. If we add some URI link, does it automagically appear or does Lucas has to do some manual work? I assume Lucas has to do some

Re: [Wikidata] Wikiata and the LOD cloud

Peter F. Patel-Schneider, 30/04/2018 23:32: Does the way that Wikidata serves RDF (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q5200.rdf) satisfy this requirement? I think that part was already settled with: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2017-October/011314.html More

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata is becoming a proper citizen of the linked open data web

Lydia Pintscher, 26/10/2017 20:21: I’m looking forward to seeing what new things are going to be built with this and how we will show up on http://lod-cloud.net. Me too! Things seem to be changing rapidly over there, unless it's just an optical effect. For instance my main take-away used to

Re: [Wikidata] About the support of Arabic dialects by Wikidata

How many of those are supported by MediaWiki? Can you help find translators for the missing ones? Federico ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikidata] Wiki Workshop @ The Web Conference 2018: call for contributions

Leila Zia, 01/01/2018 15:16: The 5th annual Wiki Workshop [1] will take place in Lyon on April 24, 2018 and as part of The Web Conference 2018 (a.k.a. WWW2018) To clarify, does this mean that attendance requires registration to WWW2018 (https://twc2018.insight-outside.fr/ )? Federico

Re: [Wikidata] Election data

Yuri Astrakhan, 13/03/2018 01:23: Something I wish was available is the voting record This is available for some parliaments in open data: https://www.votewatch.eu/blog/guide-to-votewatcheu/ Or from . Federico

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata Logo on DBpedia HTML Website

Sebastian Hellmann, 29/10/2018 13:20: If nobody objects, we would just go ahead and use the logo to link to Wikidata. In my opinion only good things can come from that and it will help with new editors for Wikidata. Logos next to links are ok at least when it comes to the the trademark

Re: [Wikidata] Mapping Wikidata to other ontologies

Maarten Dammers, 22/09/2018 14:28: What ontologies are important because these are used a lot? Some of the ones I came across: * https://www.w3.org/2009/08/skos-reference/skos.html * http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/ * http://schema.org/ Since 2016 there was some progress:

Re: [Wikidata] Looking for "data quality check" bots

Ettore RIZZA, 26/09/2018 15:31: I'm looking for Wikidata bots that perform accuracy audits. For example, comparing the birth dates of persons with the same date indicated in databases linked to the item by an external-id. This is mostly a screenscraping job, because most external databases

Re: [Wikidata] Company data and properties

Darren Cook, 23/01/19 12:07: I wondered if anyone else is actively working on fleshing out the company data within Wikidata? There's also . What always puzzles me is that Wikidata

Re: [Wikidata] Wikibase as a decentralized perspective for Wikidata

Yuri Astrakhan, 29/11/18 04:14: The "Q" prefix has a strong identity in itself.  Anyone will instantly say - yes, it's a Wikidata identifier But that's because most people only know one Wikibase installation, not the other way around. Federico

Re: [Wikidata] Birth dates in Wikidata

Andrew Black, 12/03/19 18:36: Is it possible to change this behavior? Someone made a mistake in the corresponding mix'n'match catalog: https://www.wikidata.org/?diff=830322643 See: https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/76 Federico ___

Re: [Wikidata] Handling roles in multiple languages

Thank you for this interesting question. Darren Cook, 14/02/19 14:13: The idea of adding lots of new property children, descended from P169, for each possible combination of the Japanese and English name for the title, feels very wrong. What about the opposite? We could have a super-property,

Re: [Wikidata] Language codes for Chinese

Vladimir Ryabtsev, 19/06/19 03:04: How can I get the COMPLETE list of language codes (desirably with description) for Chinese that is supported by Wikidata? Languages supported by a MediaWiki instance are expected to be all listed at siprop=languages in the API:

Re: [Wikidata] Are we ready for our future

Erik Paulson, 12/05/19 01:54: It's probably less about splitting the dumps up and more about starting to split the main wikidata namespace into more discrete areas [...] In fact that was one of the proposals in "The future of bibliographic data in Wikidata: 4 possible federation scenarios".

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikidata-tech] wb_terms redesign

Alaa Sarhan, 25/04/19 17:38: Full migration is not possible unfortunately due to the current capacity of database master node. Can you clarify whether it would also be too much load to write both to the new table and the old wb_terms table for a transition period (controlled by a

Re: [Wikidata] Dead or alive ? Probably dead

Fabrizio Carrai, 07/09/19 09:53: Since the oldest know person was 122, what about to set "date of death = unknown value" for all the persons resulting older such age ? It seems to me a sensible thing to do. It's good you asked because it's better to avoid the risk of conflicting mass changes.

Re: [Wikidata] dcatap namespace in WDQS

Stas Malyshev, 29/07/19 04:14: As part of our Wikidata Query Service setup, we maintain the namespace serving DCAT-AP (DCAT Application Profile) data[1]. How many of the endpoints we federate with support DCAT-AP? I suppose federated queries may benefit the most from it. DCAT-AP is

Re: [Wikidata] "Wikidata item" link to be moved in the menu column on Wikimedia projects

Nice! The "tools" section of the sidebar is an unrelated mess to avoid (ah, from the task it looks like 2014 me agrees). The overall crowdedness of the sidebar has only got worse in the last few years, so there's still more to do in the future to make sure it's not just a cemetery of unused

Re: [Wikidata] Personal news: a new role

Denny Vrandečić, 19/09/19 19:56: I had used my 20% time to support such teams. The requests became more frequent, and now I am moving to a new role in Google Research, akin to a Wikimedian in Residence That's very interesting! Is it the first free culture project for which something of the

Re: [Wikidata] Google's stake in Wikidata and Wikipedia

Sebastian Hellmann, 20/09/19 11:22: Maybe somebody could enlighten me about the overall strategy and connections here. You can add more links to grants and other Wikimedia pages on . Google and the Wikimedia movement are on opposite sides for most

Re: [Wikidata] References to newspaper articles behind paywalls like newspapers.com

Let's not spread publisher FUD on Wikimedia lists, please. Liam Wyatt, 13/11/19 02:03: is there any bot that is systematically going around and collecting new URLs that are added with the Reference URL property (P854), adding them to Internet Archive, As long as MediaWiki is not broken, and

Re: [Wikidata] Notability and classing "notable" properties

Thad Guidry, 19/11/19 23:15: Some of them we are familiar with such as "award received" or "notable work" . It seems that first of all you should create a super-class of

Re: [Wikidata] [libraries] COVID-19 & EduWiki response: Wikipedia & Education User Group Open Meeting

LiAnna Davis, 26/03/20 19:45: The board of the Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our user group's next Open Meeting, one week from today, on Thursday, April 2, at 15:00 UTC, as always via Zoom Thank you. What are you doing to mitigate the privacy risks of such

Re: [Wikidata] academic/scientific articles on Wikidata

Andrew Su, 20/09/20 07:21: > Is anyone aware of a list of academic articles that use Wikidata? Manual lists and keyword searches tend to be a bit messy, but with enough work you might be able to find what you're looking for. Do you consider you have too many results, or too few? (There are about

[Wikidata] Community open letter on renaming Wikimedia

[To all Wikimedia projects, minus mailing lists with an active discussion already.] On August 2020, the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees may decide a rename to "Wikipedia Foundation" and various other things.

Re: [Wikidata] Language codes 'mul' and 'mis' not recognized

Thomas Francart, 22/06/20 16:21: > I also cannot use these 2 codes when editing through the human interface. Language code validation on Wikidata is sometimes confusing. See also: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39459 Why "mis" instead of "und"? See also

[Wikidata] Fwd: wikidata mailing list migration complete

FYI No action required, but feel free to click the links to get some extra joy courtesy Ladsgroup and Legoktm. :) Speaking of which, should we have some more information on the mailing list description? Federico

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