Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata demo repo is being spammed.

2012-11-15 Thread Katie Filbert
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Snaevar wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to let you guys know that there is spam being added to items > (descriptions and labels) on the demo repo. > Thanks for reporting this. I've deleted the spam. Cheers, Katie > > Regards, > Snaevar > > _

[Wikidata-l] Wikidata demo repo is being spammed.

2012-11-15 Thread Snaevar
Hello, I wanted to let you guys know that there is spam being added to items (descriptions and labels) on the demo repo. Regards, Snaevar ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was "Introduction and some questions on Wikidata")

2012-11-15 Thread Sven Manguard
The argument above is about automatically copying over content from other projects. My point is that the license isn't the problem with it, but that there is a problem with it. Sven On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Gregor Hagedorn wrote: > On 15 November 2012 23:35, Sven wrote: > > Automaticall

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was "Introduction and some questions on Wikidata")

2012-11-15 Thread Gregor Hagedorn
On 15 November 2012 23:35, Sven wrote: > Automatically copying over infoboxes is something I don't advise. Unlike > current infoboxes, which are rarely sourced, every point of data on Wikidata > should be DIRECTLY and INDIVIDUALLY sourced. We can use the same source 37 > times, but each bit of

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was "Introduction and some questions on Wikidata")

2012-11-15 Thread Sven
Automatically copying over infoboxes is something I don't advise. Unlike current infoboxes, which are rarely sourced, every point of data on Wikidata should be DIRECTLY and INDIVIDUALLY sourced. We can use the same source 37 times, but each bit of information that would ordinarily have a field o

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was "Introduction and some questions on Wikidata")

2012-11-15 Thread Gregor Hagedorn
> If the data is actually copyrightable, then yes. Facts as such are not > copyrightable. But if there was a bot transferring stuff from infoboxes, it > should at least check for any actual text (e.g. long values with spaces), and > not transfer it, because of license reasons. I agree. Just to cla

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was "Introduction and some questions on Wikidata")

2012-11-15 Thread Marco Fleckinger
So I don't have to mind any consequenses if I mention 42? ;-) Marco "Denny Vrandečić" schrieb: >Copyright applies to actual text (or other forms of expression), not >to ideas or the content. > >Since the items do not allow to enter wikitext, there is no >compatibility issue due to the license.

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was "Introduction and some questions on Wikidata")

2012-11-15 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Copyright applies to actual text (or other forms of expression), not to ideas or the content. Since the items do not allow to enter wikitext, there is no compatibility issue due to the license. Filling the language links based on the existing language links in the Wikipedias is not a problem re co

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was "Introduction and some questions on Wikidata")

2012-11-15 Thread Daniel Kinzler
On 15.11.2012 20:06, Helder . wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Marco Fleckinger > wrote: >> (...) >> First of all the priority lies on data already present on Wikipedia. >> Wikidata should not be a data storage for everything structured in the >> world, so we should first start to trans

[Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was "Introduction and some questions on Wikidata")

2012-11-15 Thread Helder .
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Marco Fleckinger wrote: > (...) > First of all the priority lies on data already present on Wikipedia. Wikidata > should not be a data storage for everything structured in the world, so we > should first start to transfer data already present on Wikipedia to Wiki

Re: [Wikidata-l] Introduction and some questions on Wikidata

2012-11-15 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey Bernardo On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Bernardo Najlis wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > My name is Bernardo and I work as a Business Intelligence Consultant in > Toronto, Canada. I've been reading pretty much everything about WikiData > over the past few days, and I'm really excited about this pr