Re: [Wikidata] Tinyurls no longer operable

2019-09-11 Thread Lucas Werkmeister
I didn’t do anything – but yeah, while I could reproduce the issue earlier today, it seems to be working again right now. My guess would be that the TinyURL folks fixed it. Cheers, Lucas On 11.09.19 18:26, Olaf Simons wrote: > seems someone very nice (Lucas?) has fixed it. > > thank you all, > Ol

Re: [Wikidata] Tinyurls no longer operable

2019-09-11 Thread Olaf Simons
seems someone very nice (Lucas?) has fixed it. thank you all, Olaf > Olaf Simons hat am 11. September 2019 um > 16:35 geschrieben: > > > The new Wikidata tinyurl (substitute) is > > https://w.wiki/8DN > > ours are still > > https://tinyurl.com/yyt67ewc > > ...and these are no longer su

Re: [Wikidata] Tinyurls no longer operable

2019-09-11 Thread Léa Lacroix
Hello, I saw some information on Twitter about the fact that TinyURL apparently implemented some url-encoding that causes various issues, but I couldn't find any official announcement yet. The new Wikimedia URL shortener

Re: [Wikidata] Tinyurls no longer operable

2019-09-11 Thread Olaf Simons
The new Wikidata tinyurl (substitute) is https://w.wiki/8DN ours are still https://tinyurl.com/yyt67ewc ...and these are no longer supported. They create messy error notes on our QueryService. > Andy Mabbett hat am 11. September 2019 um 16:16 > geschrieben: > > > On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 at

Re: [Wikidata] Tinyurls no longer operable

2019-09-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 at 14:38, Olaf Simons wrote: > The use of tiny urls has changed over night Changed in what way? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikim

[Wikidata] Tinyurls no longer operable

2019-09-11 Thread Olaf Simons
The use of tiny urls has changed over night - in a welcome move towards more independence. The problem for us (FactGrid, an external wikibase) is now that all the given links have stopped working. Is there an elegant way to fix this? Best wishes, Olaf ___

[Wikidata] Prepare your small tasks to mentor a new contributor! (Google Code-in early heads-up)

2019-09-11 Thread Andre Klapper
(Note: This is only an early heads-up, to be prepared. Google Code-in has NOT been announced yet, but last year, GCI mentors asked for more time in advance to identify tasks to mentor. Here you are. :) * You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed? * Your documentation needs specif

[Wikidata] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

2019-09-11 Thread Raz Shuty
Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Questions can be asked in English, Persian, Spanish! The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time d

[Wikidata] [ANN] DBpedia’s Databus and strategic initiative to facilitate 1 Billion derived Knowledge Graphs by and for Consumers until 2025

2019-09-11 Thread Sebastian Hellmann
** [Please forward to interested colleagues] We are proud to announce that the DBpedia Databus website at_https://databus.dbpedia.org_ and the SPARQL API at_https://databus.dbpedia.o