Thanks a lot all who are involved, very interesting. However, when I look at the statistics of usage,
http://wdcm.wmflabs.org/WDCM_UsageDashboard/ I see that Wikivoyage allegedly uses, in particular, genes, humans (quite a lot, actually), and scientific articles. How could this be? I am pretty sure it does not use any of these. Cheers Yaroslav On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 6:12 PM, Lydia Pintscher < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey folks :) > > As you might already have seen in the birthday presents list there is > another birthday present: the Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM - > http://wdcm.wmflabs.org). It is a tool that enables you to browse and > build an understanding of the way Wikidata is used across the > Wikimedia projects. > > Here’s the technical gist behind it: Currently 789 projects have > client-side Wikidata usage tracking enabled, which allowed us to built > a system that counts the number of pages using a particular Wikidata > item per project. The count data were subjected to statistical > modeling (1) by an unsupervised statistical learning algorithm - > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_Dirichlet_allocation (2) that is > typically used in distributional semantics - > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributional_semantics (3) to discover > the most natural groupings of Wikidata items in 14 semantic categories > - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_model (4) in respect to the way > they are used across the Wikimedia universe by the respective > communities. > > We hope for the WDCM system to become a tool that helps you discover. > Beyond Wikidata’s syntax and semantics we are now beginning to learn > about its pragmatics: the way Wikidata items will cluster in respect > to how they are used is not necessarily the same as the way they go > together in the Wikidata formal ontology. WDCM is the first step > towards building an understanding of the highly complicated structure > of Wikidata usage. This system can help you discover what Wikidata > client projects are similar and in what respect, what semantic > categories of items are used more or less frequently across 789 > projects, how do items connect in respect to how similarly they are > used by our communities, what are the most popular items per project, > and many more (hopefully) interesting things. > > Check out the WDCM and don’t forget to let us know what you think on > the WDCM Wikidata project discussion page! I'd love to hear about any > cool or interesting things you find in the visualizations. > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Concepts_Monitor > > Thanks to Goran who put in a lot of time to get this up and running > and everyone who helped him. > > > 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. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das > Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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