Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge
Hello Amir, Thank you for your feedback. Yes, I am aware of parts of the roadmap for Wikidata and some of its challenges. I might follow up on my work, based on some of the future developments you have mentioned. Cheers, Rohini On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Thank you very much for this article! It is coming at the right right time. It's starting up, and it needs localization. I wrote why its localization is especially important here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/10/translate-wikidata-user-interface/ That post also has relevant links. It's localization is EASY, because there aren't so many strings to translate, but its influence is going to be very large. If all goes according to the plan, in a few months Wikidata will become a repository of useful statistical data about many subjects - countries, populations, dates of birth and death, etc. So, while the data is pretty much the same for everybody, the names of the data properties, such as population, must be translated to all languages. Property names cannot be translated yet, but a crucial first step towards making this possible is to translate the Wikibase extension, which is the technical framework of Wikidata. Before you approach this, I also strongly suggest to at least read the following doc: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary ... and, it would be great to translate it, too - it will help you to translate the software. Thanks! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2012/12/8 Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com *Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge* *By Rohini Lakshané* Have you ever wished you could query Wikipedia with a question? Have you ever wanted to run a search on Wikipedia to extract data rather than trawl through reams of Wikipedia pages and interlinks? Have you ever imagined a world where everyone could freely pool knowledge even without sharing a common language? Wikidata is set to do all this, and more. Wikidata, deployed in October this year, is the newest project by the Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation that runs Wikipedia and its sister projects. It is a semantic, multilingual, structured database that anyone can read and edit. It is machine readable, which makes searching, sorting and handling of data efficient and fast. Like with its siblings, Wikidata’s content and software are published under a free license. *Central repository of links* Wikidata aims to streamline Wikipedia’s rich but chaotic linking structure. Every Wikipedia page has ‘interwiki links’ that link it to other Wikipedia pages. ‘Interlanguage links’ connect pages to other pages on the same topic published on Wikipedias in different languages, creating a mesh of links. With around 23 million articles in 285 languages, the linking structure leads to immense duplication. Wikidata will act as a central repository for all language links on all Wikipedias, with the ultimate objective of levelling off the raw data in the language versions. Under the *first phasehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Sprint_archive * of Wikidata deployment, which is now livehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Sprint_archive, editors can add interlanguage links (sitelinks) on Wikidata pages. *Ask Wikipedia a question* The *future phaseshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Technical_proposal * of Wikidata deployment involve converging the data found in*Infoboxeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox * (December 2012 or January 2013), and the enabling of the creation of lists on Wikipedia (April or March 2013). Infoboxes -- tables with the summary of the most important information on the pages -- across Wikipedias are not uniform. Internationalised export and import of data present in Wikipedia templates such as the Infobox would greatly enrich its encyclopaedic value. All information present in all Infoboxes will then come to one central repository from where it could be updated everywhere else at the same time. Wikipedia houses lists on assorted topics created by users -- episodes of the most popular TV shows, heads of state, and even inventors killed by their own inventions. However, it is currently not possible to query these lists and cull out specific information. For example, searching the string “countries with highest GDP” leads to a search results page with the entries ‘List of countries with the highest GDP per capita’ and ‘Historical list of ten largest countries by GDP’. But if you were to search for ‘ten countries with highest GDP in Asia’ you wouldn’t quickly reach the relevant information even though it exists in these lists. Wikidata will automatically create a user-queried list to answer semantic queries such as, “What were the ten
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Academy in Goa in Dec
To everyone involved in this passionate push, thank you! regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Outofindia outofin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Nitika The person who deserves all the credit and has really worked to make it possible and pull it together is Prof Alito Siqueira of the Goa University. Ref accommodation for volunteers please reconfirm with who ever you have been talking to. As far as I know, currently two rooms have been booked for you and me at the University Guest House. December is a tourist filled month in Goa so the accommodation needs to be confirmed in advance. If we don't have a formal venue...the steps of the Panjim church in the city square, in the moonlight or street lights with laptops is a great place to work. Prof. GN and I have worked there before! We have a picture too:) Regards Harriet On 12/8/12, Nitika Tandon ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Harriet Vidyasagar and Frederick Noronha for helping us kick start Wikipedia activities in Goa. They have put in a lot of hard work in the past few weeks to organise Wikipedia events. So far we have 3 confirmed events between 12th Dec and 14th Dec while they are still working on squeezing in more events during these dates. I wanted to share details of these events with everyone and also invite suggestions. Details of events A WikiWorkshop to introduce students and a few faculty on how to edit the Wikipedia on12th and 13th December from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm at Goa University, computer lab. The lab has 24 computers and we will have about 6 persons with laptops i.e a total of 30 persons. We got 60 registrations for this event but since the lab has limited capacity we'll only be able to accommodate first 30 registrations. We're trying to host another academy for the remaining 30 sometime on the 14th provided we're able to arrange for a venue. Even if no venue is available; we'll still try and do a small talk with these registrations. We definitely don't want to loose out the opportunity of touching base with 30 more interested people. We have a meeting scheduled with The Krishnadas Shama State Central Library, Patto, Panjim on 13th morning from 10.30 to 12.30 noon to discuss GLAM opportunities. Harriet and her team are still trying to organise the following: Public program to create awareness on about Wikipedia and how to contribute at Central Library Event at NIE where all are invited on the topic of Wikimedia in Schools and Wikipedia for Teachers Calling for participation as volunteers Frederick is a long time Wikipedian who lives in Goa and will be available to provide on ground support for these meetings. I wanted to check if we can have 2 more or at least one more volunteer from Mumbai or Pune who could come down to Goa for these events. CIS will be able to support train/bus travel for these volunteers and Goa University will take care of accommodation in their university guest house. Please respond at the earliest so that we can make arrangements accordingly. Looking forward to hear from al of you. Thanks a ton! Regards, Nitika On 07-Dec-2012, at 12:50 AM, Nitika Tandon wrote: On 06-Dec-2012, at 1:21 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا wrote: Dear Nitika, Is it possible to get in touch with others who have been contributing to the Goa pages in the past? Absolutely! We can invite Wikipedians from Goa and members of WikiProject Goa. Also, some of us have bandwidth problems here, otherwise we would have contributed more. Is it possible to set up a small team to continue this process, in Goa itself, after the workshop is done? The Central Library has a lot of space and tend to be supportive in such work. Its Curator, Carlos Fernandes, was even supportive when Richard Stallman of the FSF visited many years ago. They understand the importance of creating sharable resources. At the library, you can spot some displays of open journal websites, etc which researchers can freely access. You could build on such synergies. We have a meeting scheduled with the State Central Library on the 13th Dec at 10.30am. We can most definitely work out a plan with them. I'm hoping you'll be able to join for this meeting too. I have raised a ticket to lift IP rate limit: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42767. Hope it gets resolved at the earliest. Thanks Nitika -- Harriet Vidyasagar www.outofindia.net www.womenofindia.net INDIA: 91-99011 66276 USA: 1-301-649-2240 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Day Celebrations 2013
Dear Srikanth and EC, Thank you for the heads up. The Bangalore community will make a formal request. regards Arun . Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: Hi all, Wikipedia Day XII is coming up on January 15, 2013. Does anybody have any plans for any special meetup, academy, or any special event on that day? The Chapter has decided to provide support in whatever way that it can to any celebration of sorts. I hope we can have cakes being cut across the country like we had last year. Please spread this mail and post a Grant Request if needed on http://wiki.wikimedia.in On behalf of the Chapter EC. -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Member of the Executive Committee Wikimedia Chapter [India] ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India wins at globally in Wiki Loves Monuments
Great stuff, though unfortunate they couldnt locate the winner! That's rather unfortunate. regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.inwrote: Dear all, It is immense pleasure for me and Naveen to announce that India has won officially at the photo-contest Wiki Loves Monuments internationally. Two of the photos from India among 3,60,000+ have made it to the top-10. 1. Tomb of Safdarjunghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomb_of_Safdarjung,_New_Delhi.jpg from Delhi has received from the highest ranking by the international jury, as the image *wins first prize globally*. The photo plays with the light and gives a wonderful contrast between the darkness of the room and the lighted tomb, giving it a dramatic effect. The photographer is Pranav Singh, from Delhi. *Safdarjung's Tomb, a garden tomb with a marble mausoleum in New Delhi, India. It was built in 1754 in the late Mughal Empire style, and was described as the last flicker in the lamp of Mughal architecture.* *Comments from Jury: **The strong light contrast between the lighted tomb and the darkness of the room emphasizes the monument, and gives it a dramatic component. The tomb is sharp and detailed, and free of visual distractions; with gravity and a perfect sense for the angle of view and light this picture presents the object - the architecture and light forming a stage for the tomb, focusing on the details of the stone carving. All in all a nicely framed and executed picture that seems to speak of the significance of this tomb.* * * 2. The Taj Mahalhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rear_side_of_Tajmahal.jpg is no where lying behind. The winning photo from India *ranks 6th internationally*. The photographer is Narender Kumar, again from Delhi. *The Taj Mahal, is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, that was built under Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. It is one of the most famous Indian buildings and considered a symbol for love world wide.* *Comments from Jury: **The Taj Mahal is probably one of the most photographed monuments in the world - and definitely in this competition. This particular image gives an impressive view of the silhouette, showing also the adjoining buildings. The complex seems to wake up, out of the mist. It gives context and mystery at the same time showing just a bit more than on most pictures.* * * * * * * It's happy moment for the Indian community. Congratulations to all winners. Thanks to the entire Indian community and to the Wikimedia India Chapter for constant cooperation. * * * * - Official announcement: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/and-the-2012-winner-is/ - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_winners(2012 contest finalists) - Stats: More than 3,60,000 images was uploaded globally. 15,000 participants, most of them (2000+) were from India alone. -- Karthik Nadar. Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. *Donate to Wikipedia, support free knowledge.* https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India wins at globally in Wiki Loves Monuments
I was told that the 1st prize winner reached out to us after seeing the The Hindu article. -TC On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: Great stuff, though unfortunate they couldnt locate the winner! That's rather unfortunate. regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.inwrote: Dear all, It is immense pleasure for me and Naveen to announce that India has won officially at the photo-contest Wiki Loves Monuments internationally. Two of the photos from India among 3,60,000+ have made it to the top-10. 1. Tomb of Safdarjunghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomb_of_Safdarjung,_New_Delhi.jpg from Delhi has received from the highest ranking by the international jury, as the image *wins first prize globally*. The photo plays with the light and gives a wonderful contrast between the darkness of the room and the lighted tomb, giving it a dramatic effect. The photographer is Pranav Singh, from Delhi. *Safdarjung's Tomb, a garden tomb with a marble mausoleum in New Delhi, India. It was built in 1754 in the late Mughal Empire style, and was described as the last flicker in the lamp of Mughal architecture.* *Comments from Jury: **The strong light contrast between the lighted tomb and the darkness of the room emphasizes the monument, and gives it a dramatic component. The tomb is sharp and detailed, and free of visual distractions; with gravity and a perfect sense for the angle of view and light this picture presents the object - the architecture and light forming a stage for the tomb, focusing on the details of the stone carving. All in all a nicely framed and executed picture that seems to speak of the significance of this tomb.* * * 2. The Taj Mahalhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rear_side_of_Tajmahal.jpg is no where lying behind. The winning photo from India *ranks 6th internationally*. The photographer is Narender Kumar, again from Delhi. *The Taj Mahal, is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, that was built under Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. It is one of the most famous Indian buildings and considered a symbol for love world wide.* *Comments from Jury: **The Taj Mahal is probably one of the most photographed monuments in the world - and definitely in this competition. This particular image gives an impressive view of the silhouette, showing also the adjoining buildings. The complex seems to wake up, out of the mist. It gives context and mystery at the same time showing just a bit more than on most pictures.* * * * * * * It's happy moment for the Indian community. Congratulations to all winners. Thanks to the entire Indian community and to the Wikimedia India Chapter for constant cooperation. * * * * - Official announcement: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/and-the-2012-winner-is/ - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_winners(2012 contest finalists) - Stats: More than 3,60,000 images was uploaded globally. 15,000 participants, most of them (2000+) were from India alone. -- Karthik Nadar. Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. *Donate to Wikipedia, support free knowledge.* https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
