Incredible work. I hope to see a lot of great submissions about Wikidata for Wikimania this summer! https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
*Edward Saperia* Chief Coordinator Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.org> email <[email protected]> * facebook<http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> * twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> * 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG On 8 February 2014 12:00, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Wikidata-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikidata-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Generated texts (Gerard Meijssen) > 2. Re: Thiemo joins the dev team \o/ (Scott MacLeod) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:42:39 +0100 > From: Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]>, > WikiData-l <[email protected]> > Subject: [Wikidata-l] Generated texts > Message-ID: > < > cao53wxwlre1xpxopskdf5ene44ajk6m0bka-83ndat3kv8c...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hoi, > > We have often had discussions about generating texts to be used in > Wikipedia articles. The drawback of articles that are generated in this way > is that they do not get updated as more information becomes available. > > The data in Wikidata is comparable with the kind of data often used in such > processes. > > The first kind texts that are generated bu the Reasonator are based on the > biographic information of a person. As Johann Sebastian Bach is a great > example of the power of both Wikidata and Reasonator, I invite you to have > a look [1]. > > The text is completely generated based on the information in Wikidata and > Magnus is very much in the process of iterating this functionality. What I > hope you will see as a challenge is writing similar functionality for other > languages. > > What I hope for is that the Wikidata development team will appreciate this > for what its potential and support it when it is found that additional > technology is needed. > Thanks, > GerardM > > > [1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q1339 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/attachments/20140207/b87d8037/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 10:45:44 -0800 > From: Scott MacLeod <[email protected]> > To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Thiemo joins the dev team \o/ > Message-ID: > <CADy6Cs-C6QhCqVpJGEvB= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Welcome, Thiemo, > > So glad you think "code is poetry" and that you love every object > oriented programming language ... Happy coding! :) > > Scott > > > > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hoi, > > Have fun and, make a difference :) > > Thanks, > > GerardM > > > > > > On 5 February 2014 16:07, Lydia Pintscher <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> Hey everyone :) > >> > >> I'm really happy to let you know that we have another addition to > >> Wikimedia Germany's software development department. Thiemo is a > >> long-time Wikipedian and will help us out especially in Wikidata's > >> frontend development. Here's a bit more from him: > >> > >> "My Name is Thiemo (simply spelled "Timo") and I'm proud to have the > >> chance to become part of the software development department as a > >> front-end developer. Previously I coded interfaces for Windows Mobile > >> devices, helped coding games and DJ software as well as several > >> typical enterprise solutions (resource planning, warehouse management). > >> I'm an active Wikipedia user for 10 years now, mainly working on > >> technical stuff (templates, JavaScript gadgets, mangling bugs) as well > >> as organizational tasks (e.g. moderating deletion requests and > >> requests for comments). > >> To quote a colleague: I think "code is poetry" and I love every object > >> oriented programming language (JavaScript being kind of an exception > >> here) and supports regular expressions, my all-day Swiss army knife." > >> > >> > >> Cheers > >> Lydia > >> > >> -- > >> Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher > >> Product Manager for Wikidata > >> > >> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > >> Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > >> 10963 Berlin > >> www.wikimedia.de > >> > >> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. 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