[Wikidata] Re: WEB references

Hi, For all, I'll answer in French and in private. It seems to be a basic confusion of homonyms. Cheers, Nicolas Le jeu. 27 juil. 2023 à 11:15, Marie-Claude Lemaire a écrit : > I want that the wikidata reference Mallet-Lemaire Marie-Claude announcing > my Joliot-Curie prize disappear from the

[Wikidata] Re: Questions about Lexicographical Data

Hmmm, This case seems rare and very hypothetical (did anybody ever did it?), but if there is really a need, one could already do this: Someone <- personal pronoun P6553 -> he L485 <- qualifier : subject form P5830 -> he L485-F2 (this is what is already done on lexemes level statements when it ap

[Wikidata] Re: New "mul" term language code available on Test Wikidata

Great news ! Now, we need to figure out how exactly to use it editorially. I'm thinking for instance about articles - mentioned in the first task - where there is a redundancy but still an actual language ; I can see several ways we could implement a new and less redundant model : just using mul a

[Wikidata] Re: Change list policy for call for papers postings?

Hi, Maybe not a full ban (or maybe, I wouldn't be against it) but at least some clear rules to avoid these spam. My 2 cents: An example of mail that should absolutely be avoided (and not just on this mailing list) is when a similar mail is sent several times in a short timespan. We had almost the

Re: [Wikidata] Gregorian/Julian dates QuickStatements

Hi, Sadly, no there is not. See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:QuickStatements#Limitations Cheers, ~nicolas Le sam. 13 févr. 2021 à 13:05, Olaf Simons a écrit : > Dear Wikidata people, > > I am trying to find out whether QuickStatements has found a way to define > Julian/Gregorian markers

Re: [Wikidata] ACM UMAP 2021: Third Call-for-Papers - Updated submission information

Hi, I don't want to be "unwelcoming" but can't we filter out all of these spammy "Call-for-Papers" unrelated to Wikidata? Wikidatian really does not seem to be the target here. Cheers, ~nicolas Le mar. 12 janv. 2021 à 00:02, Violeta Ilik a écrit : > I want to say I am surprised but no, I am no

Re: [Wikidata] Lexeme's Transliteration documentation, let's improve! ; -)

Hi, Are you really talking about transliteration, this is not clear? At least, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L348525 has a problem and does not look like a Lexeme : the lemma lemma and forms are in different languages. If I understand what you want to do (which look like to be a simple borr

Re: [Wikidata] Lexeme Translations (best practices)

Hi Thad, Yes, this is how this property is meant to be used. On a personal note, I don't really like this property, in almost all cases, this is just explicitly storing data that is already implicitly there (if two senses of two lexemes in different languages are linked to the same items, then it

Re: [Wikidata] Cannot merge 2 Lexemes and no errors in browser

Hi Thad, When you merge Lexemes, there is a trick : for a given language the lemma has to exactly match (because otherwise, you would have two lemma with the same languages which is not possible). So before merging, you can either change the lemma to be the same or change the language of one of th

Re: [Wikidata] Speed of indexing new Wikidata lexemes

Hi, I notice everyday the same issue. I've seen other people saying the same thing. This ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240328 reports this problem (or a related one at least). Cheers, ~nicolas Le ven. 3 juil. 2020 à 11:50, a écrit : > Dear Wikidata people, > > > I regularly experi

Re: [Wikidata] Language codes 'mul' and 'mis' not recognized

Hi, Yes, that's very confusing but there is a trick : the GUI doesn't propose nor "recognize" it but if you just press enter or click publish, it accepts it anyway... (same for other codes, at least "fro" and "frm" old and middle French), see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15397819#P1476 for insta

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata generic tree problem

Hi, Didn't you see Finn answer ? (I copy-paste it again under) Giving some context could also help finding a solution. At the very least a link to "Wikidata generic tree" (it's not clear to me what you are talking about: https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/ or something else) Chee

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata-powered COVID19 Dashboard

Hi, Just a suggestion but since Wikidata is multilingual why not make use of it? It's a bit sad that this page is only in English :( Cdlt, ~nicolas Le mar. 14 avr. 2020 à 09:18, Fariz Darari a écrit : > Dear WD community, > > many thanks for the input for the COVID19 Dashboard ( > https://site

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikisource-l] Memorandum of Understanding with NDLI, CIS and WMF

Hi, That's a really great news! Thanks for sharing it. I browse quickly the content they have and wow, this is really multilingual. I even found some bilingual books with Breton (mislabelled as French) and I saw a lot of other minority languages! Do you already know what the next steps will be? D

Re: [Wikidata] Reduced loading times for Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons

Great ! Two small perfectionist question: - is it finished or can we maybe go further? - can it be done/replicated on other Wikimedia projects? Cheers, ~nicolas ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/l

Re: [Wikidata] SPARQL query for wikdata no on external Wikibase

Le mer. 22 janv. 2020 à 11:36, Olaf Simons a écrit : > and I gave a mutilated link again... This is my search: > > > https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3Fplace%20%3FplaceLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_

Re: [Wikidata] SPARQL query for wikdata no on external Wikibase

Le mer. 22 janv. 2020 à 11:06, Olaf Simons a écrit : > > no, not quite. Hmm, not sure to understand what you want then, could you explain? > My problem is that the wikidata number (that appears in the Wiki-link section) is not organised as a regular Property entry - so I wonder how to ask for it

Re: [Wikidata] SPARQL query for wikdata no on external Wikibase

Hi Olaf, Is it what you are looking for: https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%2a%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Flink%20schema%3Aabout%20wd%3AQ89076%20.%0A%7D ? Cheers, ~nicolas Le mer. 22 janv. 2020 à 10:31, Olaf Simons a écrit : > On FactGrid we have matched all our items with the respecti

Re: [Wikidata] Researching Wikidata's Internal References

Le lun. 20 janv. 2020 à 14:14, Eugene Alvin Villar a écrit : > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 9:06 PM Nicolas VIGNERON, < > vigneron.nico...@gmail.com> wrote > >> In a nutshell, you can safely assume that only the property 'stated in' >> matters. >> > &g

Re: [Wikidata] Researching Wikidata's Internal References

Hi, A lot of different properties are used in the reference "space" but 'reference URL' and 'stated in' are the two main one. The third important is ' imported from Wikimedia project' whi is the most used but it's not a real reference per se (more a token for tracability). Then there is a lot of p

Re: [Wikidata] Next office hour on November 5th on Telegram

Le mar. 15 oct. 2019 à 08:33, Gerard Meijssen a écrit : > Ok so how do I not enter a phone number? > Thanks, > GerardM > I don't remember exactly how I did it back then but just search "telegram without phone" you'll find plenty of tutorial and various solutions. Cheers, ~nicolas _

Re: [Wikidata] Next office hour on November 5th on Telegram

Le mar. 15 oct. 2019 à 06:22, Gerard Meijssen a écrit : > Hoi, > Telegram is primarily a phone based system. > True. > It does not allow me to just have an account. > Wrong. I have no smartphone and do have a Telegram account on my laptop only. Cheers, ~nicolas _

Re: [Wikidata] Timeout on example queries

Hi, The "wikibase:label" service is know to consume and it timeouts often (nothing new it happens since the beginning ; but as Wikidata grows, it's more or more visible). This simplified version of the query works (without intermediate variables and without the service): https://w.wiki/9yR Cheer

Re: [Wikidata] Big numbers

Hi, The offical documentation is https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Data_type#quantity but indeed there is no indication of the limit. >From what I tested, apparently you can enter any number which is less than 127 characters long (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4115189#P1104). Cheers, ~nicolas

Re: [Wikidata] Lexical datas and automated learning – where it is answered to « I don’t believe in Wikidata senses developpment »

Hi all, As a reminder, for ideas of tool, there is https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Ideas_of_tools (feel free to add your own ideas or to take an idea to make a tool) Machine translation is a very hard and complex subject, and anyway, it needs a large set of data. It's

Re: [Wikidata] Google's stake in Wikidata and Wikipedia

Hi, You can already found some information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata#Development_history (including finance details is you follow the sources). For the "How intertwined is Google", it's a long and complex story, it goes back at least to 2005 (Wikipedia probably wouldn't exist t

Re: [Wikidata] Where did label filtering break recently and how?

Hi Thad, Did it ever works? It was my understanding that if you want to manipulate the label (or the description, or the alias), you need to explicitly call it and that the SERVICE was for display only. At least, this is with this assumption that I always wrote my query (or explained during SPARQL

Re: [Wikidata] What's wrong in Italy ?

ude former entities. >>>> >>>> My opinion on these is that if we choose a scheme where there are >>>> classes or former entities, the best would be to have the counterpart « >>>> today’s country » (with label (country) and a superclass for both, « >>>>

Re: [Wikidata] What's wrong in Italy ?

Hi, This query only search for "country" (Q6256) but Italy, like many other items, has a preferred ranking on the value "sovereign state" (Q3624078), so by default, Italy doesn't appears as a country (which is strange but not totally illogical "country" is a quite broad term). Cheers, ~nicolas L

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata and Portuguese wordnets

> Currently, there are nearly 8000 lexemes in Wikidata. There is, right now, 44262 lexemes entity (query: http://tinyurl.com/y692kszu), including 42 in Portuguese (query: http://tinyurl.com/y2f3636e) and in a total of 321 languages (it already is one of the biggest database if you count the number

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+ in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year

Congratulations ! Just wondering: how can the Wikispeech works with existing tools and structures (in particular, I'm thinking about LinguaLibre - who just pass 90 000 records this week -, Lexemes on Wikidata and Structured Data Commons, but there is probably others). Cdlt, ~nicolas Le jeu. 28 m

Re: [Wikidata] New data type: musical notation with Lilypond format

Great news ! This raise a great deal of questions but a lot of really exciting possibilities \o/ Le ven. 15 mars 2019 à 12:32, Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> a écrit : > This is great! > > Shouldn't the property be named ''modern musical notation'' to distinguish > it from oth

Re: [Wikidata] Birth dates in Wikidata

Hi, I'm not sure where the error come from. It doesn't come from the source, Trismegistos doesn't say that this person is born in 1999 (1999 is a publication date here, at least in the interface). I'm not even sure it comes from Mix'n'match (TM 7726 seems to be WD Q55088584, user:Tagishsimon did t

Re: [Wikidata] WEIRD: Inverse Property constraints for Wikipedia Categories

Hi, Is the constraint (and the warning) wrong or is it your statement? I'm pretty sure this is the second. The ideal category should be "Category:Cows in heraldry" not "Category:Heraldic figures" (which is already use on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3744866 ). Cheers, ~nicolas Le mer. 27 févr.

Re: [Wikidata] Getting usage statistics on Wikidata Items

Hi, At least for the very first point, you have the usual stat tool: https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=wikidata.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-20&pages=Q38|Q142|Q183 for « how often is a page visited ». Maybe the WDCM ( http://wdcm.wmflabs.org/ ) can help too but I nev

Re: [Wikidata] Article Size Filter on Wikidata

Le sam. 12 janv. 2019 à 15:01, Ettore RIZZA a écrit : > Hi, > > Since the Mediawiki API allows to get the size in bytes of the last > revision > > of a Wikipedia page, is it not possible

Re: [Wikidata] Article Size Filter on Wikidata

Hi Reem, If this page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Query_Service/User_Manual/MWAPI is up-o-date it's does not seem possible to get the article size of a wikipedia article (but I must I don't use and know "wikibase:mwapi" a lot, maybe it has or will changed). Cheers, Nicolas Le sam. 12

Re: [Wikidata] In case of creation of an item without an equivalent page in Wikipedia

Demat deoc'h, Ya, c'hoarvezh a ra alies doubl seurt-se (ha n'eo ket nemet dre Mix'n'Match) met dre-vras aes eo da gavout ha da gempenn. *Yes, this kind of duplicate happens often (and not just with Mix'n'Match) but can often be spotted and corrected.* A galon, ~nicolas (and thanks for allowing

Re: [Wikidata] The WikiCite 2018 program is live

Hi, Maybe I missed the info but is there any livestream? Cheers, ~nicolas Le ven. 16 nov. 2018 à 22:19, Tito Dutta a écrit : > Interesting. Thanks for letting us know. > > Thanks > Tito Dutta > Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind > me over email or phone

Re: [Wikidata] Is there an "indigenous to" for Plants ?

Le dim. 23 sept. 2018 à 18:25, Laura Soito a écrit : > Not sure if either of these would be applicable for your data, but similar > to 'Indigenous to ' for > there is a property 'Endemic to > ' that can be

Re: [Wikidata] Is there an "indigenous to" for Plants ?

Le dim. 23 sept. 2018 à 17:31, Thad Guidry a écrit : > Ah thanks Nicolas ! > No problem, this possibility is not well known so I took the chance to talk about it. > And then I see it can be queried with > https://maps.wikimedia.org/geoshape?query= ?? > is that correct ? > Yes : https://maps.

Re: [Wikidata] Is there an "indigenous to" for Plants ?

Le dim. 23 sept. 2018 à 17:14, Jan Ainali a écrit : > Species don't care much for administrative borders so until we have the > ability to store actual geographical data there is not much to do. Sure, > for some islands or lakes it might make sense to tie it to another item but > those are specia

Re: [Wikidata] Number of properties

Hi, You have this list : https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:AllPages/Property: (automatically generated) and this list : https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties (organised and curated by contributors). Cheer, ~nicolas Le ven. 21 sept. 2018 à 20:22, Adrian Bielefeldt < adrian

Re: [Wikidata] Wikimedia Sverige receives $65k+ in funding for our Library Data project

Le lun. 3 sept. 2018 à 15:55, Delphine Dallison < d.dalli...@scottishlibraries.org> a écrit : > Boo! Nicolas, I read this and thought that you’d launched the Wikiproject > Libraries, but I went to sign up to get involved and the page is empty… Are > you still doing it or were you just dangling it

Re: [Wikidata] Wikimedia Sverige receives $65k+ in funding for our Library Data project

Wonderful! I'm especially interrested on how you will structure data about libraries (a good opportunity to create and launch a project https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Libraries ;) ). Cdlt, ~nicolas Le lun. 27 août 2018 à 16:25, Alex Stinson a écrit : > This is really awesom

Re: [Wikidata] frequency of qualifier predicates

2018-07-14 1:40 GMT+02:00 Peter F. Patel-Schneider : > I'm trying to get a good estimate of how often which qualifier predicate > is used. > > > The obvious query times out, as expected, so I was trying to find a list of > predicates that are used as qualifiers so that I can craft a query for > ea

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata booth at Wikimania 2018

Hi, I won't be there but that's a great idea, we need to spread more the opportunities possible uses of Wikidata. A booth is a great and simple way to engage with other wikimedians. Cheers, ~nicolas 2018-07-04 14:57 GMT+02:00 Andra Waagmeester : > This is really an awesome idea. I added myself

Re: [Wikidata] How can I find out all food & cooking related articles

Hi, First a warning, food is known to be not-so-good on Wikidata. Then, here you're query: SELECT ?food ?foodLabel ?foodDescription WHERE { ?food wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q2095 . #everything under the class of food SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en".

Re: [Wikidata] SPARQL to retrieve a list of open source mobile apps

Hi Sebastian, There was a rank on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14565723#P31 third value. By default, SPARQL query only give the best ranked values. It is useful for series of values, like for population to give only the more cent one by default. Here I see no reason why the rank was used, I remo

Re: [Wikidata] First experiment of lexicographical data is out

THANK YOU! I've been expecting this for so long. @Eran: Q17117425 could made nice lexemes :P @Micru: even without senses, there is a lot of possible application (I'd love to have a spell-checker for Wikisource, no sense needed here). Cheers, ~nicolas 2018-05-24 10:01 GMT+02:00 David Cuenca Tudel

Re: [Wikidata] First version of Lexicographical Data will be released in April

2018-03-07 18:24 GMT+01:00 Yaroslav Blanter : > Lydia has the list but as far as I know did not yet release it. My > understanding is that L1 will not be coming from a commonly spoken > language, but I do not know what it will be. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > There as been several discussion, I've see

Re: [Wikidata] [wikidata] Digression sur l'usage des listes (était : Re: Réutilisation de données ouvertes sur Wikidata ?)

Le 2 mars 2018 à 17:19, Yaroslav Blanter a écrit : > J'imagine que ca c'est un erreur; si non, le message manque le contexte. > > Salutations > Yaroslav > Yes, this is a mistake : Mathieu answered on wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org to a discussion on wikid...@lists.wikimedia.fr (ironically the disc

Re: [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

Mathieu, I know you and like you personally, that why I can say that this mail is clearly not your best argument. Despite saying multiple times this is not a manifesto nor against Wikidata, your mail seems clearly fuelled with biases and misjudgements (especially Wikidata can't be « discontinued

Re: [Wikidata] dispute a claim on an item

2017-11-05 19:13 GMT+01:00 Marco Neumann : > Andrew, > > what would be your first choice for conflict resolution here? write an > entry into the relevant item/discuss page? or go for a Requests for > comment on the Community portal? or to contact the claim author > directly? > Hi, For resolving

Re: [Wikidata] claim change ignored

Hi, The bot removed one claim, but there was two identical claims (see the item before the removal : https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q2650401&oldid=145856801 ). 2-1=1, this is logical. Cdlt, ~nicolas 2017-10-21 13:59 GMT+02:00 Marco Neumann : > according to the Revision history of "

Re: [Wikidata] Turning Lists to Wikidata

2017-10-17 16:30 GMT+02:00 Antonin Delpeuch (lists) < li...@antonin.delpeuch.eu>: > Hi Marco, > > I agree that many of these lists and tables could be harvested (with > some care, of course). > On some are (for example, table for monuments are harvested into Heritage

Re: [Wikidata] How to split a label by whitespace in WDQS ?

Hi [snip] > > I did not see any special syntax or FILTER or Label service commands to help with splitting apart a Label by whitespace and then applying a filter on each string. > > How would I accomplish this ? Maybe with the function STRAFTER https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#func-strafter

Re: [Wikidata] Failed to added official Facebook page ID item

Hi, I think Sjoerd provided the correct answer. Friendly reminder: please, if you've got a specific case, don't hesitate to be specific too and to give concret example so we know exactly what you're talking about (for instance, the item you are talking about). Cheers, ~nicolas __

Re: [Wikidata] URIs

2017-08-29 15:13 GMT+02:00 Timothy Holborn : > Working on a 'fixing fake news' thing. It would be good if specific > values were available as a URI. > > ie: US population: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30#population20160709 > (= 323,952,889) > > Tim. > Good idea. The format should probably be

Re: [Wikidata] Which property to use for a Law that created an Item ?

Hi, Isn't it: the government body write the law that establish the park/area? (at least for France, it seems about right). @Jane: by jurisdiction do you mean https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1001? Do you have an example, I don't really see how it make sense (again France is maybe particula

Re: [Wikidata] Which property to use for a Law that created an Item ?

Hi Thad, On https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Protected_areas/Properties (it was designed only for France in the beggining, feel free to add comments) EdouardHue suggested https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P457 Cdlt, ~nicolas ___ W

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata Query Service + Mediawiki API = Love

Hi Micru, It looks like you tried on https://query.wikidata.org (where I get the same error) and not on http://wdqs-test.wmflabs.org (where the implementation is installed). Cdlt, ~nicolas 2017-04-28 8:57 GMT+02:00 David Cuenca Tudela : > Hi Stas, > > Thanks for working on this. I tried to run

Re: [Wikidata] Disputed territories in WDQS

(not 100% sure) The problem doesn't come from WDQS itself but from OSM and it should be corrected there (if possible, I don't know exactly how OSM deals with such complexe problematic). Cdlt, ~nicolas ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikidata] Query Assistance

Hi, Somtehing like this ? https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FgenderLabel%20%3FoccupationLabel%20%3FplaceBirthLabel%20%3FplaceDeathLabel%20%3FresidenceLabel%20%3FeducationLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP972%20wd%3AQ28781198%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3F

Re: [Wikidata] WDQS: Lost Cities

2017-03-25 23:46 GMT+01:00 Michael Riedel : > > Hello. I'm trying to run a quite simple query on WDQS. I would like to get > all instances of cities in Germany: > > http://tinyurl.com/kl9hvsh > > But there are a number of cities which I'm missing at the result … such as > > https://www.wikidata.or

Re: [Wikidata] Determining Wikidata Usage in Wikipedia Pages

Great idea. The first approach involves analyzing Wikipedia templates to look for > explicit references (i.e. “#property:P”) across all templates. > This syntax is rarely never used on fr.wiki (it's even now forbidden in the main namespace) where almost all calls to Wikidata is done through modul

Re: [Wikidata] use of wdq and wqd create-a-query interface

Hi, I used these sort of tools mostly to check if the data are good (like that every A that should have B indeed have B) and correct them if needed. I began with WDQ when it was pretty much the only avalaible tool. Right now, I use only SPARQL which is more difficult to master but hundred times mo