Re: [Wikidata] sorting statements with quicksteps

2019-05-08 Thread Tony Bowden
On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 13:05, Andrew Gray wrote: > The every-politician people also developed a script specifically > for this sort of P39 situation > (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PositionStatements_Bot) but I > don't know if their code is available The code for PositionStatements (which us

Re: [Wikidata] Election data

2018-03-14 Thread Tony Bowden
On 12 March 2018 at 23:23, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Something I wish was available is the voting record, at least at a > country/state level. Knowing the politician's time in office is a great > start, but how that person voted is what really makes democracy work. This is something I've been work

Re: [Wikidata] dispute a claim on an item

2017-11-06 Thread Tony Bowden
In this case it was fairly easy to find some suitable sources, so I've updated the claim, and added references. As the original claim was unsourced, I think it's fine to simply replace it, rather than marking it as deprecated. Tony On 5 November 2017 at 18:39, Nicolas VIGNERON wrote: > 2017-11-0

Re: [Wikidata] Running queries on a schedule / How does Constraint Violations Reporting work?

2017-06-14 Thread Tony Bowden
On 13 June 2017 at 19:11, Jonas Kress wrote: > For using your own SPARQL queries and creating violation lists you could use > Magnus' tool listera [3] I'd like to echo this one — we recently resuscitated the Heads of State and Government wikiproject[1], and as part of that made loads of Listeria

Re: [Wikidata] Genes, proteins, and bad merges in general

2016-06-14 Thread Tony Bowden
On 14 June 2016 at 18:53, Tom Morris wrote: > A specific instance of the structural impedance mismatch is enwiki's > handling of genes & proteins. Sometimes they have a page for each, but often > they have a single page that deals with both or, worse, a page who's text > says its about the protein