Re: [Wikidata-l] Publicity for Wikidata and Wikivoyage
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, I'm curious what folks here think about making some noise about the two most recent additions to the Wikimedia family around January or February. Wikivoyage is still finishing up the beta phase (image transfers, logo import etc.) this month, and Wikidata isn't live as a repository yet -- but we could set a target date that would work for both projects. What I'm imagining is an actual banner on Wikimedia projects announcing the launch of both Wikivoyage and Wikidata, pointing to a landing page explaining what these projects are, how to participate, etc. That page could be drafted on Meta. Then interested folks would visit the projects to learn more and get involved. Wikimedia projects obviously have an enormous reach and I think this could help create awareness and build community -- but it could also be an unwelcome influx in the early stages. This could be regulated by running a banner only for logged in users, or x% of readers. Thoughts? Hey :) As others have already said this seems good but too early for Wikidata. I would wait with this until at least February (probably even later) to give the community time to settle a bit and grow before the huge storm. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 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 27/681/51985. ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata deployment schedule
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Marco Fleckinger marco.fleckin...@wikipedia.at wrote: Sorry, Bináris, I'm not Lydia, but I have the answer for this question: Yes, as Denny described in http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-December/001346.html Lydia impersonation, you're doing it right ;-) Bináris: Are you still getting errors? There were some glitches yesterday. What errors are you getting? What were you doing? Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 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 27/681/51985. ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions
I think it would be good to make clear which specific content
additions will be possible in future. I think we should have a list
which states what content will be in next deployment and what content
will be later on. I read somewhere about Link_FA, Link_GA, but also
IMDb, IBDB, VIAF, but also of course Commons. A lot others are too on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control
Neither of those will be in the next deployment. It is pretty certain
that all of them will be possible at some point.
Currently VIAF is in discussion and willing to be added on some
wiki's, but with Wikidata it can be done much easier. Any plans for it?
Linking to a VIAF id? That will be possible. I can't tell you when.
It is probably time for me to chime in on this, as the author of VIAFbot which
just pushed 250,000 links on English Wikipedia. (BTW, if you want to see
in-depth statistics I've written a blog post about it
http://hangingtogether.org/?p=2306).
I've been receiving a lot of emails asking to replicate VIAFbot on different
Wikis (Commons, French, Italian, Dutch, Swedish) and my reply has always been
that the most important next step is to write Wikidata. The only thing that
needs to be possible on the Wikidata side is to be able to write properties,
because a VIAF ID is a property of a Wikidata cluster.
Then my plan is to run through the lists of pages that transclude any authority
control template {{en:Authority control}} /Union {{de:Normdaten}} /Union
{{fr:Autorite}} /Union {{it:Bio}} / Union {{commons:Creator}} and load the
interwikis for each link. Then find or create the Wikidata concept for that
multilingual cluster. If all the different sources are in agreement, write a
VIAF ID property, and if there is disagreement use the Wikidata 'source' method
to note which language thinks what.
Since VIAFbot was written in pywikipediabot, and pywikidata exists I think the
bot will be relatively easy. How do I apply for a bot flag on Wikidata?
Cheers
Lydia
Cheers,
Max
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