Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikitech-l] URL-addressable Predicate Calculus

2018-10-18 Thread Daniel Kinzler
ems quite similar to Linked Data Fragements as described on <http://linkeddatafragments.org/>. Wikidata's LDF interface can be found at https://query.wikidata.org/bigdata/ldf -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Software Engineer, Core Platform Wikimedia Foundation __

[Wiki-research-l] Registration open for the Hackathon in Berlin, May 13-15

2011-03-23 Thread Daniel Kinzler
. We’re excited to see you in Berlin, your Hackathon Team Daniel Kinzler (Program Coordinator) Nicole Ebber (Logistics) Cornelius Kibelka (Assistant) ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Web 2.0 recent changes patrol tool demo (WPCVN)

2010-08-20 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi Dimitry: Dmitry Chichkov schrieb: Some time ago as a Python/Django/JQuery/pywikipedia exercise I've hacked a web based recent changes patrol tool. An alpha version can be seen at the: http://www.wpcvn.com It includes a few interesting features that may be useful to the community (

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Demo of RC-Events over XMPP

2010-08-20 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Felipe Ortega schrieb: Hello. Nice work, Daniel. The question may be weird, but it's something we have been thinking here for a while. Could we use recent changes to recreate the same info one gets from full XML dumps? Could it be the starting point for some alternative to the current

[Wiki-research-l] Demo of RC-Events over XMPP

2010-08-19 Thread Daniel Kinzler
(I sent this to a couple of lists already, but i though it might also be interresting for the research community) Hi all! For a long time I wanted a decent push interface for RecentChanges-Events, so it becomes easy to follow changes on a wiki. Parsing messages on IRC is unreliable, and polling

[Wiki-research-l] What data would you like Wikimedia to provide?

2010-07-23 Thread Daniel Kinzler
HI all At WikiSym, there where two sessions about what data researches would like to have for their work: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2010/What+data+to+collect and http://www.wikisym.org/ws2010/XML+dumps+and+research+needs+for+WMF+projects. From that, Ariel Glenn compiled a wiki page

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index

2010-07-21 Thread Daniel Kinzler
1) The first three author names separated by slashes why not separate by pluses? they don't form part of names either, and don't cause problems with wiki page titles. I like this... however, how would you represent this in a URL? Also note that using plusses in page names don't work with all

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index

2010-07-20 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi all A central place for managing Bibliographic data for use with Citations is something that has been discussed by the German community for a long time. To me, it consists of two parts: a project for managing the structured data, and a machanism for uzsing that data on the wikis. I have been

[Wiki-research-l] Technology demos at WikiSym - one week left to submission deadline

2010-03-21 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi all Technology demonstrations are a great way to show of your research and engineering projects - no research paper is required, just a short description of what you like to present. The submission deadline for technology demos at WikiSym has been extended until March 28. For details, see

[Wiki-research-l] DEADLINE for WMDE contract applications

2009-04-16 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hello all At the developer meetup, I announced that Wikimedia Deutschland is offering contracts for a couple of projects we feel are important. We again invite anyone to apply NOW for any project that interests you. The DEADLINE for applying is SUNDAY, APRIL 19! We did not receive any offer

[Wiki-research-l] MediaWiki developer meet-up in Berlin, April 3-5

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hello All I'm happy to announce the MediaWiki Developer Meet-Up will happen April 3.-5. in Berlin, at the c-base. The event is for everyone who works on MediaWiki, writes extensions, builds bots, writes scripts for the toolserver, or is otherwise interested in the technical aspects of Wikimedia.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] A small Commons research project

2009-01-14 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Gerard Meijssen schrieb: Hoi, Is Commonist localised ? Is it usable in a Persian context ? Ok, I just checked: it does indeed use the standard property file format, and currently supports en, de, fr and sk. I don't know how well it will handle a RTL language -- Java/Swing does have support

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Regular contributor

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Desilets, Alain schrieb: Interesting. So, in summary: - Most edits done by a small core - But, most of the text created by the long tail - However, most of the text that people actually read, was created by the small core Is that a good summary of what we know about this question? Oh...

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiScience announce

2008-10-02 Thread Daniel Kinzler
I'm right now in Germany, with not very good connectivity, so I'll try to expand the main page and sections to provide more information. If you happen to be in Berlin, come to the C-Base tonight, there's a Wikipedia party going on :) - daniel ___

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiScience announce

2008-10-01 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Felipe Ortega schrieb: Hello. We would like to announce the release of WikiScience, an initiative to create a virtual space promoting interaction and interdisciplinary research among wiki researchers around the world. Great, I hope it takes off! Maybe it would hep to say what should go on

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiScience announce

2008-10-01 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Michael Reschke schrieb: a virtual space promoting interaction and interdisciplinary research among wiki researchers around the world http://en.wikiversity.org so what? Uh... from the front page: Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources and learning

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiScience announce

2008-10-01 Thread Daniel Kinzler
A technical issue: I created an account, but i'm unable to confirm my email address. I'm not getting any mail. Now, I know that my hoster is VERY strict about the mail protocol, and rejects anything that is even slightly divergent from the spec. Can you please check your log if a mail to

Re: [Wiki-research-l] WikiScience announce

2008-10-01 Thread Daniel Kinzler
To clarify: it's incorrect that Wikiversity is not focused on research; research is one of the core focuses of Wikiversity, complementing learning resources and learning activities. Just like other learning 'institutions', research is seen as an educational activity, and as a driver of

[Wiki-research-l] Put your name and project on meta:Research

2008-09-16 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi all apparently as a side effect of the about wikipedia projects thread, some people (including myself) have started to put their names and projects on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research. I encurrage everyone to do the same. It's a great way to get an overview and to find people to talk

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Inviting researchers to wiki-research-l

2008-06-04 Thread Daniel Kinzler
As a folow-up to my suggestion to invite researchers to this mailing list, here are some I was thinking of, along with some titles of the papers they wrote, to give an impression: * Andrew Gregorowicz and Mark A. Kramer (MITRE): Mining a Large-Scale Term-Concept Network from Wikipedia, 2006 *

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Luca de Alfaro wrote: This looks very interesting! Is this a thesaurus that can be used for translation of words across languages? Yes, in the sense that it (potentially) contains labels in different languages for the same concept. Is there some way to quickly have a demo or view the data?

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Desilets, Alain wrote: I was able to convert the PDF file to .txt. Not very readable, but should be good enough to allow me to gist the content through Google translate. But in order to do that, it would be useful if I posted the .txt file somewhere on the web. Do you mind if I do that?

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingualthesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Desilets, Alain wrote: Is there documentation about how to use this code? Some -- in german, in the thesis. Frankly, finishing 30k lines of code and 220 pages of thesis in 7 monthes proved to be a bit tight :) Which pages of the thesis? Well, it depends on what you mean by use the code.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Desilets, Alain wrote: PS: this must be the fastest mail exchange i have had in a while. Do you use IRC? I'm on freenode.net as Duesentrieb frequently (and right now). I use Skype myself. I am alain_desilets there. Hm, I dislike Skype... it doesn't play too well with (my) linux, and they

Re: [Wiki-research-l] thesis: automatically building a multilingual thesaurus from wikipedia

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hum... If I go to the above translation link, only the first bit is actually translated. I guess Google gives up after a while and leaves the rest in German. If you can split it into separate HTML pages, it would make it easier for people to read it with Google translate. I guess before