Re: [Wikidata] Welcome Jonas! Welcome back Adam!

2015-06-25 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Welcome Jonas and Addshore! Best, Info On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Great news ! Welcome and, welcome back!! > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 25 June 2015 at 15:09, Sjoerd de Bruin wrote: > >> Welcome Jonas and welcome back Addshore. It's good to have some

Re: [Wikidata] New Wikidata maps

2015-06-25 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Markus, Great and thanks! Cheers, Info (Scott) On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Markus Kroetzsch < markus.kroetz...@tu-dresden.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > inspired by the recent works of Adam, I have now recreated the Wikidata > maps that Denny made some years ago: > > https://ddll.inf.tu-dresden

Re: [Wikidata] New Wikidata maps

2015-06-29 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Markus, Emilio and Wikidatans, Building on the beautiful maps-with-Wikipedia entries that you just created, Markus, in what ways could such Commons' photos/images with millions of coordinates, related video resources, and other related Wikipedia items be incorporated into a 3D film-realistic inter

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

2015-06-30 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Thanks Emilio, Andrea and Wikidatans, I'm curious how Wikidata / wiki 3D interactive virtual earth libraries (building on Markus's beautiful maps, for example) will create digital libraries in all 7,929 languages re my post from yesterday, but concerning digital readable books "in the stacks" ...

Re: [Wikidata] Goal: Establish a framework to engage with data engineers and open data organizations

2015-07-01 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Quim, Sylvia, Lydia and Wikidatans, In terms of strategic partnerships with CC Wikidata, and this Wikidata Engineering Community project looking for - "* people that have been in touch with organizations willing to contribute their open data" - in what ways could CC World University and Scho

Re: [Wikidata] Goal: Establish a framework to engage with data engineers and open data organizations

2015-07-03 Thread Info WorldUniversity
ating, Quim, for which WUaS is especially grateful. Thank you and cheers, Scott On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Info WorldUniversity < > i...@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote: > >> Quim, since Wikia (e.g. WUaS is

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

2015-07-04 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Emilio, Merrilee, Markus and Wikidatans, Great. I'm curious what further approaches you might be taking to aggregating online libraries - first by languages. Emilio, concerning your reply to Merrilee: "Yes, you pointed two important issues. What I propose is creating lists (not stubs for all

Re: [Wikidata] Goal: Establish a framework to engage with data engineers and open data organizations

2015-07-07 Thread Info WorldUniversity
use >>> case are organizations having certain types of data that would be great to >>> have in Wikipedia via Wikidata. Whatever is the most urgent problem, we >>> need to be very selective in the scope we want to address in this quarterly >>> goal. >>

Re: [Wikidata] property label/alias uniqueness

2015-07-09 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Daniel, Gerard, Lydia, and Wikidatans, Long interested here in a Creative Commons' licensed Universal Translator for all 7929+ languages (that is significantly CC Wikidata/Wikipedia- informed between all its 288 languages) and that is extensible, and especially with developing machine learning and

Re: [Wikidata] property label/alias uniqueness

2015-07-13 Thread Info WorldUniversity
If Q then P, I suppose? Thank you, Scott On Jul 13, 2015 8:43 AM, "Daniel Kinzler" wrote: > Am 13.07.2015 um 15:40 schrieb Luca Martinelli: > > Providing this possibility IMHO is a good thing. If it is possible to > > allow this kind of access to data without generating the End of the > > Univer

Re: [Wikidata] tool to do multiple searches in Wikidata at once?

2015-07-24 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Great, Magnus, And so wiki-quick! Cheers, Scott On Jul 24, 2015 2:38 AM, "Magnus Manske" wrote: > Early version: > https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-reconcile/ > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:26 AM Magnus Manske > wrote: > >> On it... >> >> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:41 AM Thad Guidry wrote: >>

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata needs your votes

2015-08-12 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Can we vote daily from 2 emails (both on the Wikidata list:)? There didn't appear to be anything written about this. Scott On Aug 12, 2015 1:20 PM, "Lydia Pintscher" wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Ricordisamoa > wrote: > > Now 7th! > > \o/ > We can do this ;-) 10 more days to go. >

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata needs your votes

2015-08-24 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Congratulations, Wikidatans All! :) Scott On Aug 24, 2015 3:17 AM, "Lydia Pintscher" wrote: > Hey everyone :) > > We've done it! We're in the top 10. This means we get into the final > round starting on 9th of September \o/ Thanks everyone who helped by > voting and spreading the word. > http:

Re: [Wikidata] First version for units is ready for testing!

2015-08-31 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Great and very valuable! Scott On Aug 31, 2015 11:26 AM, "Gerard Meijssen" wrote: > Hoi, > Good news :) It is good to get things moving :) > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 31 August 2015 at 17:53, Lydia Pintscher > wrote: > >> Hi everyone :) >> >> We've finally done all the groundwork for unit s

Re: [Wikidata] Let's celebrate Wikidata's birthday next month!

2015-09-30 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Lydia and Wikidatans, To celebrate Wikidata's 3rd birthhday, and per last week's Wikidata office hours and your suggestions there ( https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-09-23-17.01.log.html), I'm preparing a realistic proposal for donating CC World Unive

Re: [Wikidata] Feedback request

2015-10-19 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Thomas, Thanks for the interesting resource you coded and shared with the Wikidata community here. In preparing to donate CC World University and School to CC Wikidata for its 3rd birthday!, World University, which is like CC Wikipedia in ~300 languages with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare (and pl

Re: [Wikidata] blog post: Poof it works - using Wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes

2015-10-21 Thread Info WorldUniversity
This is great. Congratulations! Scott On Oct 21, 2015 10:14 PM, "Gerard Meijssen" wrote: > Hoi, > The best bit is that they made the templating skills largely redundant. It > is just one template to rule them all. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 22 October 2015 at 00:00, Lydia Pintscher > wrot

Re: [Wikidata] Happy 3rd Birthday, Wikidata!

2015-10-28 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Dear Lydia, Markus, Magnus, Runa (of the Languages' Engineering Team) and Wikidatans, Re: Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to celebrate CC Wikidata's 3rd birthday! After much preparation, CC World University and School is donating CC WUaS's 720 wiki pages in Wikia - http://worlduni

Re: [Wikidata] birthday present: Special:Nearby

2015-10-29 Thread Info WorldUniversity
This is so great potentially for local face-to-face Wikidata networking, and in so many other ways. Scott On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hey folks :) > > Have you ever wondered what is happening on Wikidata around you? What > does Wi

Re: [Wikidata] qwery.me - simpler queries for wikidata

2015-11-10 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Paul and Wikidatans, Thanks, great, and this looks greatly simple and useful, and I haven't written wikidata queries in SPARQL. CC World University and School (WUaS) which just donated CC WUaS to CC Wikidata for its third birthday ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Third_Birthday/Present

Re: [Wikidata] [Wiki-research-l] Quality issues

2015-11-21 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Markus, GeratdM and Wikidatans, Quality generativity unfoldingly in Wikidata will be key for future creative Wikidata-Wikipedia achievements, and even decades and centuries ahead. Is there any focus on comparing Wikimedia "assets" in Wikidata itself or by the WMF, in terms of "quality generativ

Re: [Wikidata] input for Wikimania 2016

2015-11-25 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Lydia and Wikidatans, Thanks for the reminder so far in advance. It could be interesting and helpful to put together technical video introductions to Wikidata, Wikibase and SPARQL, OWL and machine learning, during Wikimania, in the vein of the excellent Google videos - say 2 minutes' long, 4 mi

Re: [Wikidata] input for Wikimania 2016

2015-11-25 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Thanks, Jan! Scott On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Jan Ainali wrote: > 2015-11-25 22:57 GMT+01:00 Info WorldUniversity < > i...@worlduniversityandschool.org>: > >> Hi Lydia and Wikidatans, >> >> Thanks for the reminder so far in advance. It could be interesti

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata usage within Wikipedia

2015-12-01 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Dimitris, Nemo and Wikidatans, What is Wikidata / Wikipedia planning for template statistics in these regards for between all ~ 300 Wikipedia languages (and even potentially for all 7,938+ languages)? And in what ways might the Wikimedia Foundation act as an umbrella organization to track related

Re: [Wikidata] missing labels

2015-12-01 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Gerard and Wikidatans, DragonBox Algebra's approach to dragging "tiles" to explain algebraic concepts in a computer game for 5-12 years old might be one basis for such a game. It's when we can do this without words or gestures that new fun will emerge. I tried Brainfingers, a brain wave headset, i

Re: [Wikidata] Announcing WikiBrowser - Semantically navigating ALL the knowledge

2015-12-12 Thread Info WorldUniversity
James, Gerard, Romaine and Wikidatans, Excellent. How are you planning for using voice technologies eventually (and with SPARQL, I wonder)? How does one plan for engaging all ~300 Wikipedia languages in voice (say in Android, for example) through such a WikiBrowser? And how would one anticipate ad

Re: [Wikidata] [Spam] Re: Seasons Greetings and a call to action

2015-12-24 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Is there a way or a program to concurrently add such CC photos in Monuments to Google Streetview(and thus also Maps and Earth), where end-users can also add photos, and eventually a plan to develop these into a CC virtual earth (that could also be film-realistic, 3D, group-buildable and interactive

Re: [Wikidata] talking about time

2016-01-19 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Sandra, Sjoerd and Wikidatans, In what ways would it be possible to add particular place qualifiers/claims/properties (incorporating Wikidata Geodata) to be linked with new time claims you suggest such as seasons or quarters ... for eventual use in an eventual film-realistic, 3D, interactive, g

Re: [Wikidata] Littar won second prize

2016-01-20 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Congratulations, Finn! On Jan 20, 2016 4:51 PM, "Finn Aarup Nielsen" wrote: > > > My 'Littar' (literature radar) website/app won second prize in DBC's > (Danish Library Center) app competition last week at the Data Science Day. > > Littar displays narrative locations from literary works on a map,

Re: [Wikidata] Internal server error after edit / create

2016-01-31 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Bonjour Wikidatans and Jeremy, Thanks for information about how to install Wikidata. WUaS is seeking to install Wikidata soon. Wikidatans, is there a way to integrate Google's new AI software "TensorFlow" with Wikidata? CC WUaS is planning to be in a Wikipedia/Wikidata's ~300 languages, and afte

Re: [Wikidata] weekly summary #197

2016-02-22 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Thank you, Lydia, These are ever so helpful updates about Wikidata coding progress, and bode well for WUaS's donation of WUaS to Wikidata for its 3rd birthday last October 2015. Scott On Feb 22, 2016 2:51 PM, "Tito Dutta" wrote: > That's really interesting, specially the paper "Freebase to Wiki

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata Propbrowse

2016-02-23 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Tricky to support *all* languages how, Markus? (CC WUaS in Wikidata seeks to be in all 7,943+ languages per Glottolog, beyond Wikipedia's 300). Thank you, Scott On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 4:04 AM, Markus Krötzsch < mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote: > On 15.02.2016 11:52, Hay (Husky) wrote: >

Re: [Wikidata] Wikiversity is now supported as well

2016-02-24 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Welcome, Wikiversity! Scott :) ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

Re: [Wikidata] What's the one thing you wish Wikidata had or would do but doesn't yet?

2016-03-12 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Google search ease of use with Wikidata querying with voice and interlingually. Great question. Cheers, Scott On Mar 12, 2016 4:17 PM, "Dario Taraborelli" wrote: > Hey all, > > Lydia (or somebody operating the @Wikidata handle :) posted this question > on Twitter and a few great ideas started t

Re: [Wikidata] SPARQL service timeouts

2016-04-18 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Markus and All, In what to best scale and develop Wikidata analytics to anticipate great future SPARQL use, as well querying in all ~300 Wikipedia languages and possibly in all ~8000 languages +? Are there new Wikidata job opportunities here even? Scott On Apr 18, 2016 12:31 PM, "Markus Kroetz

Re: [Wikidata] SQID: the new "Wikidata classes and properties browser"

2016-04-22 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Markus, Magnus, Michael, Markus, Georg, Ryan, Jan, Lydia and Wikidatans, SQID is really bioluminescently & fluidly great and seems like it would be very relevant for WUaS as well, and re WUaS's main SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - which is the basis for

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata and Wiktionary: an IEG proposal to build a database of etymological relationships based on Wiktionary and an associated visualization

2016-05-04 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Ester, Denny and Wikidatans, CC World University and School is interested in collaborating, if possible, and is planning to develop both in CC Wikidata's ~300 languages, but eventually in all 7,943+ languages, and potentially with Wiktionary, and with developing a Universal Translator (and incl

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

2016-05-12 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Lucie, Lydia and Wikidatans, You really are "making true on one of Wikidata's biggest promises" and re https://twitter.com/nightrose/status/730487692794970113 too. This is so great, and especially concerning far-reaching translation, including possibly a Universal Translator it would seem, eventua

Re: [Wikidata] An early preview from WikiCite

2016-06-01 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Great, Daria! Scott On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:51 AM, Dario Taraborelli < dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hey all, > > Wikimedia Deutschland and the Wikimedia Foundation hosted the WikiCite > event in Berlin last > week, bringing together a lar

Re: [Wikidata] SQID evolved again: references

2016-06-03 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Great, Markus! Scott On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Egon Willighagen wrote: > Super! > > Egon > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Markus Kroetzsch > wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > By popular demand, SQID now also shows references for most statements > > (collapsed by default, of course). You

Re: [Wikidata] editing from Wikipedia and co

2016-06-05 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Charlie, Lydia, Lucie, and Wikdiatans, It's so great to have two examples of undergraduate theses that are both Wikidata and computer science focused. (CC WUaS seeks to require an undergraduate thesis in all countries' main languages for free best STEM-centric CC OCW degrees, accrediting on CC MIT

Re: [Wikidata] Op-ed on Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing

2016-06-20 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Nicolas, Markus, Gerrard, Stas, Egon and Wikidatans, Thanks for your clarifications from within the Wikidata community about Creative Commons' licensing and possible other ones. With CC Wikidata's 358 languages, it seems to be in an important position over time to help define and come into conver

Re: [Wikidata] Drag'n'drop Gadget functionality issues

2016-07-13 Thread Info WorldUniversity
When might CC WUaS begin to use robustly this great tool, Magnus? Thank you! Scott On Jul 13, 2016 3:08 PM, "Magnus Manske" wrote: > Hi all, > > I have tried to replicate the issue in FIrefox, Chrome, and Safari. It > appears to work for me, bowever, API calls occasionally took a signisicant >

Re: [Wikidata] Drag'n'drop Gadget functionality issues

2016-07-13 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Thank you, - but WUaS isn't yet begun in Wikidata, so will have to wait still a bit! Regards, Scott On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Magnus Manske wrote: > You can start using it right now! It's been robust enough in my tests, > YMMV. > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:21 P

Re: [Wikidata] [WDQS] SPARQL sorting and collation

2016-07-16 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Any possibility to integrate these new relational database software developments out of MIT - "Democratizing databases: With a new tool, any competent spreadsheet user can construct custom database interfaces" ... https://news.mit.edu/2016/spreadsheet-databases-0708 - with Wikidata SPARQL (and OWL)

Re: [Wikidata] How many languages supports Wikibase/Wikidata?

2016-07-16 Thread Info WorldUniversity
And likewise, any possibility to integrate these new relational database software developments out of MIT - "Democratizing databases: With a new tool, any competent spreadsheet user can construct custom database interfaces" ... https://news.mit.edu/2016/spreadsheet-databases-0708 - with Wikidata/Wi

Re: [Wikidata] first Commons prototype is live \o/

2016-07-28 Thread Info WorldUniversity
So GREAT! :) Scott On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Luca Martinelli wrote: > Oh, sing osannah! :D > > L. > > 2016-07-28 18:10 GMT+02:00 Magnus Manske : > > YES! > > > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 5:02 PM Lydia Pintscher > > wrote: > >> > >> Hey everyone :) > >> > >> I just posted exciting news ab

Re: [Wikidata] Grammatical display of units

2016-07-28 Thread Info WorldUniversity
How best to anticipate and plan here for ever more accurate translation between Wikipedia / Wikidata languages with full STEM precision? What's the road map? How might this "Unit Localization" Phabricator RFC https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86528 fit into a series of Phabricator RFCs in a longer

Re: [Wikidata] Grammatical display of units

2016-07-29 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Stas, Thomas, John, Markus, Lydia and Wikidatans, What happens when one develops structured Wiktionary ( https://www.wiktionary.org/), as linked open data for every part of every word and their sounds, perhaps as Qitems in Wikidata, in Wikipedia's 358 languages, and planning for all 7,943 language

Re: [Wikidata] Controversy around Wikimania talks

2016-07-31 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Daniel and All, That would be wise of Wikipedia/WMF (and pretty easy for Wikidata too), j'pense. Regards, Scott On Jul 31, 2016 9:10 AM, "Andy Mabbett" wrote: > On 31 July 2016 at 16:25, Daniel Kinzler > wrote: > > > So you think that for every relevant conference, all talks and speakers > sh

Re: [Wikidata] Controversy around Wikimania talks

2016-07-31 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Thanks Andy for helping focus these developing process questions. What role could the new head of the WMF play here in positive regards? Regards, Scott On Jul 31, 2016 10:09 AM, "Andy Mabbett" wrote: > On 31 July 2016 at 16:43, Adrian Raddatz wrote: > > > my personal opinion is that these item

Re: [Wikidata] Controversy around Wikimania talks

2016-07-31 Thread Info WorldUniversity
t; matters of Wikidata? > > Greetings, > > Sjoerd de Bruin > sjoerddebr...@me.com > > Op 31 jul. 2016, om 19:18 heeft Info WorldUniversity < > i...@worlduniversityandschool.org> het volgende geschreven: > > Thanks Andy for helping focus these developing process q

Re: [Wikidata] Controversy around Wikimania talks

2016-07-31 Thread Info WorldUniversity
If, as Jimbo Wales' wrote the purpose of Wikipedia involves imagining "a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.—Jimbo Wales [3]

Re: [Wikidata] Controversy around Wikimania talks

2016-07-31 Thread Info WorldUniversity
a following local policies. > > Finally, just to clarify: undeletions by stewards are completely out of > our mission and policies (I, for one, would rather intervene to delete ^^), > same for the staffers. No chances to overrule a community for such trivial > reasons. &g

Re: [Wikidata] Info box proposal

2016-08-03 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Markus and All, Looking forward to when further parts of this Wikidata-Wikipedia bridging puzzle come together - and re Wikipedia Info Boxes and Wikidata Items ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Infoboxes & https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Infoboxes). I wonder in what

Re: [Wikidata] Info box proposal

2016-08-03 Thread Info WorldUniversity
I just endorsed this proposal (and CC World University and School did too) - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Putnik/Wikidata_module. Thank you, Scott CC https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Info WorldUniversity < i...@worlduniversityandschool.

Re: [Wikidata] Hello Wikidata!

2016-08-05 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Welcome, Glorian! :) Friendly regards, Scott CC http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ CC https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote: > Welcome Glorian. > > Best, > > - Enock > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Biyanto Rebin < > biyanto.re...@w

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata query performance paper

2016-08-07 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Aidan, Markus, Daniel and Wikidatans, As an emergence out of this conversation on Wikidata query performance, and re cc World University and School/Wikidata, as a theoretical challenge, how would you suggest coding WUaS/Wikidata initially to be able to answer this question - "What are most impt

Re: [Wikidata] ArticlePlaceholder is now live on Welsh and Kannada Wikipedia

2016-08-11 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Great, Lydia, Lucie and All, Thanks for these important ArticlePlaceholder developments. What are further steps ahead for Content Translation in these regards? For example, how best to chart out a possible path to an Universal Translator in Wikipedia's 358 languages from where we are now? What's n

Re: [Wikidata] List generation input

2016-09-01 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Léa, Jan, Gerard, Markus, Wikidatans and All, I've read at different times that there are anywhere from 3 to 100 million species (the latter would be a long list indeed!) and when you get probably to different lists at the cellular (neuronal) and nano (atomic?) levels, for example, the lists wi

Re: [Wikidata] List generation input

2016-09-04 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Léa, Jan, Gerard, Erika, Markus and Wikidatans, Thanks very much for the clarification, Jan. I'll explore creating a "Wikipedia-Wikidata List Generation" help page per your suggestion, and link it to - https://www.wikidata.org/ wiki/Wikidata:List_generation_input (and possibly to https://en.wi

Re: [Wikidata] List generation input

2016-09-06 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Jan and Wikidatans, Thanks very much for you good ideas and sharing of related resources, Jan. In terms of planning for list generation and "lists of lists," or very very large lists, at the cellular or neuronal level, for example, what if every cell in a human brain could somehow have an uniq

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata Query Service demo video

2016-09-06 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Thanks - helpful tutorial. Scott On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Pine W wrote: > Video demo of Wikidata Query Service: https://www.youtube.com/watch? > v=1jHoUkj_mKw > > Pine > > ___ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://li

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

2016-09-07 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Markus, Nemo and Wikidatans, In a "[Wikidata] How many languages supports Wikibase/Wikidata?" thread beginning May 26, Jan Macura writes Hi all, looking into [1] I read that Wikidata supports 358 languages. Is it still true? For example, I tried to add label in language coded as "nan" (define

Re: [Wikidata] Elevation

2016-09-27 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Daniel, Markus and Wikidatans, Thanks for your interesting "modeling elevation with Wikidata" conversation. Daniel, in a related vein and conceptually, how would you model elevation change over time (e.g. in a Google Street View/Maps/Earth with TIME SLIDER, conceptually, for example) with Wiki

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata's 4th birthday: we need you!

2016-10-05 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hey Lea, Lydia and Wikidatans, This sounds fun. I'd like to hold a Wikidata birthday party here in San Francisco on Wednesday, October 26th at the Red Door Coffee SF at 111 Minna Street (very close to the Wikimedia Foundation office - Montgomery BART stop) from 12:30 pm-1:30 pm. I need help findin

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata's 4th birthday: we need you!

2016-10-05 Thread Info WorldUniversity
s. Thanks, Scott On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Info WorldUniversity < i...@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote: > Hey Lea, Lydia and Wikidatans, > > This sounds fun. I'd like to hold a Wikidata birthday party here in San > Francisco on Wednesday, October 26th at th

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata's 4th birthday: we need you!

2016-10-05 Thread Info WorldUniversity
ay/ > Events/Meetup_in_SF,_W,_October_26th (or click the red link on the event > page). > > Mbch331 > Op 5-10-2016 om 20:58 schreef Info WorldUniversity: > > Hey Lea, > > How best to create a page like this - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/ > Wikidata:Fourth_Birt

Re: [Wikidata] Greater than 400 char limit for Wikidata string data types

2016-10-08 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Lydia and Wikidatans, If we consider atoms and nano-related entities, and other similar different scale entities, will Wikidata string data types wish for more space in char limits, I wonder (and for anticipating data for a realistic virtual earth/universe at a) street view, b) neuronal/cellular c

Re: [Wikidata] Wikimedia Grants: Every language in the world

2016-10-14 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Exciting Daniel, Denny, Lydia and Wikidatans and Wikitionarians! How might we best collaborate? (CC World University and School which donated CC WUaS to CC Wikidata last October plans wiki schools in all 7,943 languages (http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language) as well as major universities in all

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata's 4th birthday: we need you!

2016-10-25 Thread Info WorldUniversity
nts. I'm also going to bring a birthday cake for everyone. Friendly Wikidata cheers, Scott On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Info WorldUniversity < i...@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote: > Wikidatans, > > I'd like to invite you both (and all Wikidatans/Wikimedians in the

Re: [Wikidata] next IRC office hour on January 5th

2017-01-06 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Jan (and Wikidatans), Here's the log - https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-01-05-18.00.html . (Since this Wikidata office hour is relevant (last 10-15 minutes of it) to World University and School's donation to Wikidata in October 2015, as well as WUaS

Re: [Wikidata] Languages in Wikidata4Wiktionary

2017-04-07 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Denny, Yes, yet the timing is good for these great developments you're making with languages in Wikidata4Wiktionary. Cheers, Scott On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > Scott, > > I assume you realized that the article by Norvig you cited was rather > intentionally publis

Re: [Wikidata] Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference - Booking closes 27 June

2017-06-03 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Thanks, Ewan, Delyth, Gerard and All, Having studied at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies, and being familiar with its Professor of Gaelic Wilson McLeod's (http://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/wilson-mcleod - among so many others) focus on regenerating Scots' Gaelic -

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

2018-01-14 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Houcemeddine Turki, and Wikidatans, Thanks for your email. World University and School, which shared itself with Wikidata in 2015, and seeks to develop wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,099 living languages in those languages (where there are 8,461 entries in languages in Gl

[Wikidata] Is there a Q item in Wikidata for every symbol in all 8, 475 languages total?

2018-01-28 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Is there a Q item in Wikidata for every symbol in all 8,475 languages (per Glottolog - http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language) total? For example, here's the letter "A" in Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9659 . Could such be used for planning for Wikimedia developing into all of the 7,0

Re: [Wikidata] Is there a Q item in Wikidata for every symbol in all 8, 475 languages total?

2018-01-29 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Cheers, Scott On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:59 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 28 January 2018 at 22:39, Info WorldUniversity > wrote: > > > Is there a Q item in Wikidata for every symbol in all 8,475 languages > (per > > Glottolog - http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language)

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2018 Call for Submissions

2018-02-28 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Lea, Lydia and All, I just posted a call for volunteers to facilitate this creation of an online wiki South Africa University for free CC-4 MIT OCW-centric degrees' workshop, (since I won't be able to make this due to a lack of finances): Online wiki universities in South Africa and ... for fr

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

2018-05-18 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Mathieu, Rob, Denny, and Wikidatans, I'm writing to inquire about further Wikidata CC licensing clarifications. Wikidata may be heading to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ which allows for a) sharing b) adapting and even c) commercially MIT OCW uses, by way of comparison, http

Re: [Wikidata] Machine translation efforts for underserved languages

2018-06-17 Thread Info WorldUniversity
HI Irene, Wikibabel, Gerd, and Wikidatans, How does Wikidata's new lexicographical project work with regard to Swahili (since it is a Wikipedia / Wikidata language) and Google Translate / GNMT re your "Our approach leverages Google Translate to make Engli

Re: [Wikidata] Machine translation efforts for underserved languages

2018-06-18 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Hi Olya, Lucie, and Wikidatans, Very interesting projects. And thanks for publishing, Lucie - very helpful! With regard to Swahili, Arabic (both African languages!) and Esperanto, and leveraging Google Translate / GNMT, I've been looking at this Google GNMT gif image - https://1.bp.blogspot.com/

Re: [Wikidata] [libraries] Help us prioritize our work

2018-07-02 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Merrilee, Daniel, Wikimedia Librarians, WikiCite people, and Wikidatans, Thanks. Seeking here to add this thread to the Wikidata community too. Again, Wiki CC World University and School is looking for an online university library for matriculated undergraduate students (taking CC-4 MIT OCW cours

Re: [Wikidata] Please create risk factor Wikidata property

2018-08-15 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Dear Houcemeddine Turki, and Wikidatans, Thanks for this request. Sincerely, Scott Scott_WUaS On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 4:28 AM, Houcemeddine A. Turki < turkiabdelwa...@hotmail.fr> wrote: > Dear Mr. or Ms., > I thank you for your efforts. Several days ago, I created a proposal for > risk factor

Re: [Wikidata] Please create risk factor Wikidata property

2018-08-15 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Dear Houcemeddine Turki, (and Wiki Medicine discussion), Thanks for this request. Sincerely, Scott Scott_WUaS On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 4:28 AM, Houcemeddine A. Turki < turkiabdelwa...@hotmail.fr> wrote: > Dear Mr. or Ms., > I thank you for your efforts. Several days ago, I created a proposal

Re: [Wikidata] Invitation to discuss RiskData:, Wikidata as a high-scale database of risk factors for human diseases

2018-08-17 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Dear Mr. Houcemeddine Turki, Wikidatans (and Wikimedians), I would like to participate in this Skype conference (and with regard too to WUaS planned online medical schools, with online teaching hospitals for online clinical care - planned in each of all ~200 countries official and main languages).

Re: [Wikidata] Invitation to discuss RiskData:, Wikidata as a high-scale database of risk factors for human diseases

2018-08-17 Thread Info WorldUniversity
tyandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - which will connect with Wikidata as its "backend" eventually. And WUaS also seeks to emerge out of Stanford Medicine and with OpenCourseWare in multiple languages for our medical schools. Sincerely, Scott Scott_WUaS On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:4

Re: [Wikidata] Invitation to discuss RiskData:, Wikidata as a high-scale database of risk factors for human diseases

2018-08-17 Thread Info WorldUniversity
ivAndSch/status/1030503593323814912 On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Info WorldUniversity < i...@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote: > Hi Nancy, Houcemeddine, Wiki Medicine and Wikimedians, > > Thanks for your emails. > > I thought that you had written 11am PDT and not 11am GMT on S

Re: [Wikidata] Participate in research to support Wikipedia editors

2018-09-17 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Thanks, Lucy, and University of Southhampton researchers, What a great study focus - "generating text and want to understand how to support editors when creating new articles" in some 295 under-served language communities. Cheers, Scott Scott_WUaS On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 2:18 AM, Lucie-Aimée K