[Wikidata] Re: web reference

Dear Dr. Lemaire, dear wikidatans, On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 at 17:56, Marie-Claude Lemaire wrote: > I definitevely wishes that the wikidata page Marie-Claude Mallet-Lemaire > disappears from Google Chrome whatever in in it. > Perhaps this is the source of mutual misunderstanding. There is no page

[Wikidata] Re: [Significant change] Heads-up: Upcoming fixes for date parsing

Thank you for pointing this out. Now when I know, I can only hope I have not passed in any incorrect date during the last ten years The change is much appreciated! Thanks to everyone involved Jan ___ Wikidata mailing list --

[Wikidata] Re: connecting coordinates

Dear Olaf, I would never use SPARQL for a data manipulation like you desire. Up to the best of my knowledge, SPARQL (even not GeoSPARQL) is not even capable of fulfilling your needs. Simply because it can't return both a table of results (which you probably need as you query for multiple

Re: [Wikidata] WDQS status

Dear Guillaume, On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 15:23, Guillaume Lederrey wrote: > We've been hard at work on Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS) [2]. > This will be a SPARL endpoint similar to WDQS, but serving the Structured > Data on Commons dataset. Our goal is to open a beta service, hosted on >

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata geo-coordinates

On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 at 21:11, Olaf Simons wrote: > This might be then the central thing to have in the next QueryService > Version: In addition to the present download formats an option to get a csv > or tsv output that can be put into QuickStatements for another Wikibase > without tedious

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata geo-coordinates

I am afraid that those questions does not have as simple and straight-forward answers as the first one... On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 at 17:39, Olaf Simons wrote: > Is there an elegant way to get data out of wikidata in a format that you > can then fill back into another Wikibase without the pain of

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata geo-coordinates

Hello Olaf, this is a simple one. As it is common in natural language to present the world coordinates in order of [latitude, longitude], WKT standard , which is used to represent coordinates in the SPARQL endpoint, on the

Re: [Wikidata] Article Size Filter on Wikidata

Hi Reem! Your problem seems to me as a more suitable for WM Quarry (some docs ), than the WDQS. I've used it just once and some time ago, so I won't be able to help you more, but it shouldn't be complicated in

Re: [Wikidata] image re-use information available via a SPARQL query?

Hello Bob, As far as I know, I am afraid that this is not possible, and won't be possible until the Structured data on Commons will come to life. Regards, Jan ___ Wikidata mailing list

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata and OpenStreetMap

Hello Amir and all, On 27 March 2018 at 13:57, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Did anybody ever suggest importing the place names available on Wikidata > to OSM, or to synchronize them regularly? > Beside the facts already spoken in this thread, I believe it is not a

Re: [Wikidata] First version of Lexicographical Data will be released in April

On 7 March 2018 at 18:05, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > P.S. is there a list of values we want to introduce with the well known > numbers? > > e.g.peace - L1 > Hi Yuri and all, I would be more interested in L42 an alike ;-) Regards, Jan

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata intro for film archivists?

Hi Daniel, I don't know anyone active in film-related matters on WD, yet I know several people, who are very keen to Wikidata and can provide a talk in Prague. I believe, they're connected to the Wikidata-list, yet I can provide contact, if they don't response on their own. Best regards, Jan

Re: [Wikidata] Coordinate precision in Wikidata, RDF & query service

Hi Stas and wikidatans, the coordinates with (sub)millimeter precision might be imported from external dataset. With precise geodesic measurements, it is technically possible to reach such precision, yet it often decrease significantly by transformation to WGS84. Some places like important peaks

Re: [Wikidata] Improving toolbar of the Query Service

Awesome! Many thanks to the team that is constantly improving the WDQS! Jan ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

Re: [Wikidata-tech] [Wikidata] Script and API module for constraint checks

This is an excellent tool! Many thanks Olga for its development! >From technical point of view, it seems to me, to work fine, so I recommend to release this useful tool as a gadget. However, I found that the tool's interface keeps in English all the time, although the constraint templates are

Re: [Wikidata] Script and API module for constraint checks

This is an excellent tool! Many thanks Olga for its development! >From technical point of view, it seems to me, to work fine, so I recommend to release this useful tool as a gadget. However, I found that the tool's interface keeps in English all the time, although the constraint templates are

Re: [Wikidata] Disputed territories in WDQS

thanks for caring Jan On 10 April 2017 at 00:49, Andra Waagmeester <an...@micelio.be> wrote: > Hi Jan, > > Thanks for you input. Do you know how I can identify a local OSM > community? I am not an avid editor on OSM (yet). > > Cheers, > > Andra > &

Re: [Wikidata] Disputed territories in WDQS

Hi Andra, very right, the data for background maps originates from the OpenStreetMap, both at WDQS and Wikipedia (if you check the map of Suriname by clicking the coordinates in the heading of its WP page , you can see, that the Tigri Area is part of

Re: [Wikidata] Timeout querying for cities in Alaska

Hi Anatolij, On 5 April 2017 at 19:00, Anatoly Zelenin wrote: > I am building a Question Answering System for Wikidata (I will put the > demo live in May) > I think you should check Platypus ;-)

Re: [Wikidata] Correction: Federation in the Wikidata Query Service

On 31 March 2017 at 23:40, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > Are controlled by us, and they are CC-BY-SA. That needs to be fixed in > the endpoint skin (UI) and metadata. I'll have that fixed. > Thanks for your concern! I can't see any license information at the endpoint page.

Re: [Wikidata] Federation in the Wikidata Query Service

That is a great news! How about adding an ODbL licensed service? Would it be possible? I am thinking about SPOI and their SPARQL endpoint .. Thanks Jan On 31 March 2017 at 21:19, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On

Re: [Wikidata] Linked data fragment enabled on the Query Service

On 22 December 2016 at 14:52, Ghislain ATEMEZING < ghislain.atemez...@gmail.com> wrote: > > - On Chrome: > + First run: first results after 95s (3 results) > + 2nd run: first results after 25s (3 results) > + 3rd run: First results after 14s (3 results) > - On Firefox > +

Re: [Wikidata] Linked data fragment enabled on the Query Service

Hi all, just as for "testing".. from my quite old PC, running Firefox, connected to the Eduroam network via wi-fi, located in the Czechia, it gives: "Brad Pitt": 128 results in 18.9s So, Markus' 55s for the same query on better hardware, better connection, in better location (in theory), sounds

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikimedia-l] GPS data shift

2016-10-07 20:34 GMT+02:00 Denny Vrandečić : > Wikidata allows to set a coordinate system - it is called a globe or > coordinate system - on every coordinate. This would be the natural place to > specify whether it is WGS84 or GDA94 or another system. Most of them are > Q2,

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikimedia-l] GPS data shift

Hi Markus, Saying that OSM is the most accurate free DB about coordinates is very courageus. Jan Dne pátek 7. října 2016 Markus Bärlocher napsal(a): >>> would tighter integration between Wikidata and OSM help >>> with this situation > > Yes of course! > >> The

Re: [Wikidata] Grammatical display of units

2016-07-28 20:41 GMT+02:00 Stas Malyshev : > > just need one alternative label for most languages? Or are there > > languages with more complex grammar rules for units? > > Oh yes :) Russian is one, but I'm sure there are others. > > Actually, most of the slavic languages

Re: [Wikidata] user script to show Wikidata changes in article history

Hi Lydia, all This is very important tool for many wikipedians. It's great to see it rise! Where can I report bugs? Here or through the Phabricator or directly to the author H4stings? Thanks Jan 2016-06-15 22:13 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher : > Hey folks :) > >

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata and DBpedia as spatial data sources

> I wanted to download the PDF but I will not allow them to know my > contacts.. If I can get it in another way, please. > As Federico pointed out, Academia.edu is not the best place for publishing works, so I uploaded it on Zenodo: [1] Thanks Jan [1] https://zenodo.org/record/55381

[Wikidata] Wikidata and DBpedia as spatial data sources

Hi all, announcing another thesis, that focuses on Wikidata and DBpedia data: [1]. Unluckily for most of you, it is not written in English, but in Czech language. Although, I guess you may want to know about it's existance and you can check the use case examples, which are in English: [2].

Re: [Wikidata] WDQS instabilities - Incident report

Hi Gullaume, all Not sure if it's connected somehow, but WDQS GUI is not working properly this evening. For some time, the https://query.wikidata.org/ was rendering blank page with no error, now it crashes with "TypeError: wb.ui.visualEditor is undefined". Using SPARQL endpoint distantly works

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata ontology

Thanks for your answers, Markus. One last question (I hope): What advantage brings the new reification process (using different namespaces instead of {s, v, c, ..} suffixes)? Thanks Jan ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata ontology

Thank you very much! I will try to dig around it a little bit further: 2016-05-01 21:55 GMT+02:00 Stas Malyshev : > That's not the original representation inside Wikibase > (that still has separate elements and can be also seen in the JSON dump) > and not the only RDF

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata ontology

Thanks for reply. 2016-05-02 7:19 GMT+02:00 Markus Kroetzsch : > To be honest, I had not expected this to be of much importance for many > users at the time, but if there is interest in us updating our dumps to the > new format, we can certainly do this in the