Dear all, I have been watching that space for a while and I still cannot clearly figure out where we are. So, be indulgent if I missed something.
Let me explain where I am as a potential future user of wikidata: - I do a lot of work on sports for which I have an ontology which I use in different proof of concepts in connection with my colleagues at the EBU / Eurovision, which is involved in many sport events and in relation with as many sport federations. - I need access to web resurces to collect more data about athlete but also about e.g. locations of sport events. Looking at the athlete case... - I do gather data from dbpedia. It is relatively straightforward to access dbpedia pages by formatting the url from the names of athletes, which allows me to access the rdf files and get the data I need. - I DO NOT know where to start with wikdata URL using KEYS like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104192 - Furthermore, I have been using the sparql endpoint and did some queries on some athlete, without success. I do not understand this because if I google wikidata and the name of the athlete, then I can find a wikidata page. What is the missing link. I have limited time and so far, my experience with wikidata is not conclusive. Maybe this could help you building a procedure that would help newcomers get into adopting wikidata? Best regards, Jean-Pierre ________________________________ From: Wikidata [[email protected]] on behalf of Sjoerd de Bruin [[email protected]] Sent: 01 December 2015 13:39 To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Subject: [Wikidata] Showcase items Hey everyone, Harmonia Amanda and I are thinking about adjustments to the showcase item (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items) process. Currently, making a item a showcase item takes a very long time due to a unclear process. The new process is described here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Harmonia_Amanda/Showcase_items I already added some notes to the talk page (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Harmonia_Amanda/Showcase_items) about things I want some opinions about. Please leave your comments there, so we can highlight our best content better. :) Greetings, Sjoerd de Bruin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by the mailgateway ************************************************** _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
