Re: [Wikidata] Documentation sprint for Wikidata during the Wikimedia Hackathon

2017-03-02 Thread Léa Lacroix
On 2 March 2017 at 20:48, Adelheid Heftberger wrote: > Hi Lea, > > just a quick question: When will we find out if we actually can > participate? I have registered already but haven't heard anything yet. > Hello, I don't know. I'll ask the organisation team :) > > Thanks a lot for a quick reply

[Wikidata] Use of Wikidata as a source for "mainstream" media

2017-03-02 Thread Aidan Hogan
Hi all, Is there a list somewhere of instances where the "mainstream" media has used Wikidata as a source? I found two thus far: [1] BuzzFeed checking if 2016 really was a bad year (relatively speaking) in terms of celebrity deaths. [2] Le monde checking if 27 is really a dangerous year fo

Re: [Wikidata] Documentation sprint for Wikidata during the Wikimedia Hackathon

2017-03-02 Thread Adelheid Heftberger
Hi Lea, just a quick question: When will we find out if we actually can participate? I have registered already but haven't heard anything yet. Thanks a lot for a quick reply! All best, Heidi 2017-03-02 12:03 GMT+01:00 Léa Lacroix : > Hello all, > > As you know, the Wikimedia hackathon >

Re: [Wikidata] Documentation sprint for Wikidata during the Wikimedia Hackathon

2017-03-02 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/2/17 11:48 AM, Rick Labs wrote: > Perhaps high quality documentation already exists? Would be great to > have at least a syllabus (learn this first, then move on to this, then > on to... Might be good to also have common / high value "use-case" > scenarios with pointers to documentation/tuto

Re: [Wikidata] Documentation sprint for Wikidata during the Wikimedia Hackathon

2017-03-02 Thread Brill Lyle
Hello Wikidatans, I have been very vocal about the lack of documentation -- and critical need for documentation regarding Wikidata. I haven't had a chance to watch the recent intro to Wikidata video that Asaf did here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrAx3AmUvA but I think it is in essence and co

Re: [Wikidata] Documentation sprint for Wikidata during the Wikimedia Hackathon

2017-03-02 Thread Rick Labs
Might want to consider beginner, streamlined documentation to learn SPARQL (including WikiData specifics). Most census/demographic statisticians, economists and business people are coming from the relational database world (SQL and spreadsheets), so making the hop over to RDF / linked data inv

[Wikidata] Documentation sprint for Wikidata during the Wikimedia Hackathon

2017-03-02 Thread Léa Lacroix
Hello all, As you know, the Wikimedia hackathon will take place on May 19-21 in Vienna. During this event, we will organize a documentation sprint to help volunteers to improve the user-level documentation for Wikidata. During these 3 day

Re: [Wikidata] What kind of bot for wiktionary in wikidata needs?

2017-03-02 Thread Léa Lacroix
Hello Amirouche, Thanks a lot for your interest in this project and your proposal to help. Currently, the development team is still working on the new datatype structure for lexemes, and we don't have something to demo yet. As soon as we can provide a viable structure to test, we will announce it