Hi all, Sorry for coming to this conversation late.
I've been preparing for a public beta release for the WikiBrain project I have been developing with Brent Hecht and others (http://wikibrainapi.org - docs not yet finalized). WikiBrain supports a variety of state-of-the-art algorithmic layers on top of Wikipedia, include spatial relationships, multi-lingual alignment, and semantic relatedness. As part of this process, we've developed a mapping from NaturalEarth to Wikipedia at both the country and state level. I'd be happy to share it with you if you're interested. -Shilad On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:19 PM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote: > Yuri and others, I asked not long ago in Commons and there is no > opposition as long as it is for supporting visualizations. It would require > modifying what is allowed in commons, though. There are interesting > comments on the talk page > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/How_to_deal_with_open_datasets > > Data.wikisource.org could be another option, but it would require more > effort to set up, and some time for discussions. > > Cheers, > Micru > > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This can already be done by changing JsonConfig configuration. I propose >> we add a "Data" namespace to the *commons >> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/>*. Moreover, with the recent work on >> Graph <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph> extension, I was >> thinking of storing graphing related data there as well. JsonConfig >> currently supports php-code-based validation, but adding json-schema >> <https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=json%20schema&safe=off> >> validation should not be too difficult. >> >> Data:* -- accepts any valid JSON, without additional validation >> Data:SubNamespace:* -- Custom validated domain-specific data >> >> For graphs, we might have shape data as well as statistics data. So we >> could declare: >> Data:Graph:* -- accepts JSON that represents entire graph -- vega >> <http://trifacta.github.io/vega/> grammar, >> and Data:SomethingElse:* for all snippets of graphs that will be pulled >> in by the vega dynamically. >> >> Also, I could fairly easily add support for CSV and TSV if we decide that >> it is needed, so that Data:Tsv:* pages would be forced to have the same >> number of columns on each line. >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Dario Taraborelli < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> There's a proposal I posted a while ago to store generic datasets that >>> can be represented in a tabular or JSON format in a dedicated project >>> namespace with dedicated handlers: >>> >>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DataNamespace >>> <http://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/DataNamespace> >>> >>> There's some good discussion on the talk page on the differences between >>> this type of data and structure data hosted on Wikidata and where this >>> thing could live (it could live on any Wikimedia wiki, including Commons or >>> Meta). It looks like this could be a good fit for shapefiles and I'd love >>> to hear your thoughts if you have a moment to read this. >>> >>> Dario >>> >>> On Aug 5, 2014, at 8:43, Paul Houle <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I'm intensely interested in links to shapefiles from databases such as >>> Wikidata, DBpedia and Freebase. In particular I'd like to get Natural >>> Earth hooked up >>> >>> http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ >>> >>> It's definitely a weakness of current generic databases that they use >>> the 'point GIS' model that is so popular in the social media world. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Magnus Manske < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> We don't have shapefiles yet, but a lot of property types such as >>>> geographic coordinates (as in, one per item, ideally...), external >>>> identifiers (e.g. VIAF), dates, etc. >>>> >>>> A (reasonably) simple way to mass-add statements to Wikidata is this >>>> tool: >>>> http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/quick_statements.php >>>> >>>> A combination of spreadsheet apps, shell commands, and/or a good text >>>> editor should allow you to convert many CSVs into the tool's input format. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Magnus >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Brylie Christopher Oxley < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I would like to contribute data to Wikidata that is in the form of CSV >>>>> files, >>>>> geospatial shapefiles, etc. >>>>> >>>>> Is there currently, or planned, functionality to store general >>>>> structured data >>>>> on Wikidata? >>>>> -- >>>>> Brylie Christopher Oxley >>>>> http://gnumedia.org >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Paul Houle >>> Expert on Freebase, DBpedia, Hadoop and RDF >>> (607) 539 6254 paul.houle on Skype [email protected] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> > > > -- > Etiamsi omnes, ego non > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- Shilad W. 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