Hey folks,
we plan to drop the wb_entity_per_page table sometime soon[0], because
it is just not required (as we will likely always have a programmatic
mapping from entity id to page title) and it does not supported non
-numeric entity ids as it is now. Due to this removing it is a blocker
for the commons metadata.
Is anybody using that for their tools (on tool labs)? If so, please
tell us so that we can give you instructions and a longer grace period
to update your scripts.
Cheers,
Marius
[0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95685
Hoi,
Jura1 created a wonderful list of people who died in Brazil in 2015 [1]. It
is a page that may update regularly from Wikidata thanks to the
ListeriaBot. Obviously, there may be a few more because I am falling ever
more behind with my quest for registering deaths in 2015.
I have copied his work and created a page for people who died in the
Netherlands in 2015 [2]. It is trivially easy to do this and, the result is
great. The result looks great, it can be used for any country in any
Wikipedia
The Dutch Wikipedia indicated that they nowadays maintain important
metadata at Wikidata. I am really happy that we can showcase their work. It
is important work because as someone reminded me at some stage, this is
part of what amounts to the policy of living people...
Thanks,
GerardM
[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_Brazil
[2]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_the_Netherlands
Hey all,
Lydia (or somebody operating the @Wikidata handle :) posted this question
on Twitter and a few great ideas started trickling in
<https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/708384895375163392>.
I went ahead and created an AllOurIdeas poll <https://t.co/IbsBmY6Kpg>,
seeded with the first ideas posted on Twitter, to crowdsource the
generation of new ideas and produce a robust ranking.
If you're unfamiliar with AllOurIdeas </>, it's an open consultation engine
allowing people to choose which idea they like best via pairwise
comparisons (I am cc'ing Matt Salganik, the project lead). It's very simple
on the surface but it uses algorithms such as the Condorcet method
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method> to test how strongly each
idea performs against another, reducing the weighing of the oldest ideas to
create a level playing field for newly created ideas and preventing gaming
or self-promotion of one's own ideas.
Try it out or post new ideas: the more votes it gets, the higher the
confidence of the ranking. Real-time results and statistics are here
<http://www.allourideas.org/wikidata/results>.
Dario
Hi all,
looking into [1] I read that Wikidata supports 358 languages. Is it still
true? For example, I tried to add label in language coded as "nan" (defined
in ISO 639-3) and it worked. However it didn't worked for e.g. "arb", which
is also part of the ISO 639-3 standard. So how many?
Thanks
Jan
[1] VRANDEČIĆ, Denny, KRÖTZSCH, Markus. Wikidata: A Free Collaborative
Knowledgebase. *Communications of the ACM*. 2014-10, Vol. 57 No. 10, 7885.
DOI 10.1145/2629489. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata
/fulltext
Hey folks :)
We'll do the next office hour for all things Wikidata on July 8th at
16:00 UTC. See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&d…
for your timezone. We'll meet in #wikimedia-office on freenode IRC.
We'll talk about the last quarter, what's coming up and have time for
discussion and questions. If there is a particular topic you'd like to
discuss or present please let me know.
Cheers
Lydia
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Hello everyone,
It was impossible to add any statements to items from 19:00± till 19:37 (both UTC) due to a bug that appeared after deployment of new software. More information on Phabricator [1], please check your bot runs for missing data. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Greetings,
Sjoerd de Bruin
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138974