Re: [Wikidata] Multiple properties/identifiers for the same resource

2016-04-28 Thread Julie McMurry
>"One should also point out to the authorities maintaining these IDs that they should spend some effort on producing a workable solution for this. It seems they should be the first to provide a resolver service (or maybe it would be an "ID search engine" if it is so complicated). With the qualifie

Re: [Wikidata] Multiple properties/identifiers for the same resource

2016-05-02 Thread Julie McMurry
> "For instance: in the following contexts expand the CURIE to the chembl webpage, in these other contexts, expand to the (sometimes unresolvable) HTTP URI, in these other contexts, expand to the wikidata page for the entity. " This context-specific expansion is of course not to preclude the use o

Re: [Wikidata] WDQS URL shortener

2016-06-01 Thread Julie McMurry
I suggest considering w3id Julie On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, Dario Taraborelli wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) > wrote: > >> Dario Taraborelli, 01/06/2016 10:33: >> >>> I don't, it probably depends on what shorteners are most used for spam >>> purposes across

Re: [Wikidata] WDQS URL shortener

2016-06-01 Thread Julie McMurry
Hi there, may I ask what link shorteners provide you that w3id does not? Eg baked in metrics or 10char urls? Just curious why you would want to reimplement. Julie On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > that makes sense. It sounds like in the short term (and until we >

Re: [Wikidata] WDQS URL shortener

2016-06-01 Thread Julie McMurry
While I agree the primary aim isn't shortening, the result is usually much shorter by virtue of cutting out everything non essential to identification. I say this as a non stakeholder in w3id, just a fan. Nevertheless I take your point that it isn't automated. I would like to understand the use ca

Re: [Wikidata] WDQS URL shortener

2016-06-03 Thread Julie McMurry
Makes perfect sense now, thanks for explaining. Julie On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 12:51 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Julie McMurry > wrote: > >> While I agree the primary aim isn't shortening, the result is usually >> much shorter by virtue of

Re: [Wikidata] Possibility of data lock

2016-06-09 Thread Julie McMurry
How big a problem is fact vandalism? It may be less likely to be detected/fixed in languages for which there are fewer editors. Only if a big problem, I'd suggest that specific text (not whole articles) be protected, but not locked. Eg implementing a requirement for confirmation by multiple editors

Re: [Wikidata] Possibility of data lock

2016-06-10 Thread Julie McMurry
I concur both with Markus K and with Ben. What sets Wikipedia apart is its democratic approach. Exerting too much control, especially if in the hands of a "trusted few", is at cross-purposes with the Wiki way and moreover not scaleable. The question regarding edit drift and notifications raises an

[Wikidata] Communicating corrections back to data source

2016-06-10 Thread Julie McMurry
It is great that WikiData provides a way for data to be curated in a crowd-sourced way. It would be even better if changes (especially corrections) could be communicated back to the original source so that all could benefit. Has this been discussed previously? Considered? Julie __

Re: [Wikidata] Communicating corrections back to data source

2016-06-11 Thread Julie McMurry
Thanks Sandra for introducing ResourceSync. The web page and it appears up to date, but according to the video footer, the original presentation was from 2014. I would like to know who if anyone has implemented it so far and how it is going? Has anyone on this listserve heard of it before? My coll

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

2016-10-12 Thread Julie McMurry
Chris Mungall & co were just awarded a grant to develop tooling for mere mortals to create ontologies. Copying him in here to comment. On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > I don't know if Jakob Voss is on this list, but he had a recent paper on > using Wikidata (not Wikibase

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata logo

2016-10-27 Thread Julie McMurry
I didn't know that about wikidata logo, but love it all the more for it thanks. ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata