Re: [Wikidata] External link Twitter --> Wikidata

On 09.10.2016 19:46, Brill Lyle wrote: So if this is not the place to discuss these issues, should I be going to the Wikipedia-l with them? Issues that directly relate to Wikidata? I would really appreciate some clarification on this. Hi Erika, I guess the starting point would be to contact

Re: [Wikidata] Controversy around Wikimania talks

Andy Mabbett писал 2016-08-04 22:45: On 1 August 2016 at 01:05, Vi to wrote: Finally, just to clarify: undeletions by stewards are completely out of our mission and policies (I, for one, would rather intervene to delete ^^), same for the staffers. No chances to

Re: [Wikidata] Geo-coordinates?

Brill Lyle писал 2016-07-12 18:35: Thanks so much Stas. Apologies for not following up sooner. I think in order for this to work, we would need to create Wikidata pages that link to Wikipedia:Meetup event pages, I think. 1. Is this possible? 2. Do other chapters do this? We don't typically

Re: [Wikidata] Undoing merges (bibliographic articles are not humans)

On 2016-02-18 22:35, Markus Krötzsch wrote: Hi all, What is the correct process to undo merges? There are three cases where a bibliographical article (in Wikisource) has been accidentally merged with the human the article is about: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q85393

Re: [Wikidata] Mexico / Building up Wikidata, country by country

On 2015-06-11 08:59, Markus Krötzsch wrote: Hi Yaroslav, On 10.06.2015 22:01, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: On 2015-06-10 17:46, Markus Krötzsch wrote: On 10.06.2015 17:05, Magnus Manske wrote: Some country-specific things to do on Wikidata: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/?country=96

Re: [Wikidata] Orphaned items

On 2015-05-30 20:42, Stas Malyshev wrote: Hi! The problems are often items which never had any links. Many of them are spam, but some of them can be used for structural needs and can be kept. If they are structural (like wikidata-only classes, etc.) shouldn't they have some incoming

Re: [Wikidata-l] Arbitrary access is coming to the first wikis

On 2015-05-06 21:34, Lydia Pintscher wrote: Hey folks :) When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects there is currently a limitation in place which hinders some use cases. Data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So for example the article about Berlin can

Re: [Wikidata-l] Auto-transliteration of names of humans

On 2015-04-23 01:21, Stas Malyshev wrote: Hi! Careful, this is one of the most debated and dramatic style issues after citation format! Actual transliteration should clearly follow scientific/ISO standards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_transliteration_of_Cyrillic . Well,

Re: [Wikidata-l] Auto-transliteration of names of humans

On 2015-04-26 22:33, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi My point is that it is not a given that we should follow any WIkipedia for anything. Also the point of romanisation of Russian is not for the benefit of Russian speakers, it is for the speakers of English. Thanks, GerardM On one hand, yes.

Re: [Wikidata-l] Auto-transliteration of names of humans

On 2015-04-26 22:26, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, Let us be clear that what whatever Wikipedia does is for that Wikipedia to decide. It does not follow automatically that it must be the label for that language.. Thanks, GerardM This is fine with me, but using ISO is really really weird

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

On 2015-03-10 16:46, Daniel Kinzler wrote: Am 10.03.2015 um 16:32 schrieb Yaroslav M. Blanter: Hi Amir, anything which can be remotely considered as a tourist attraction, as well as shops, hotels, reataurants and such are withing the scope of Wikivoyage and thus of Wikidata. For streets, we

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

On 2015-03-10 20:47, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 10 March 2015 at 15:32, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: For streets, we have now an approved bot task adding all Dutch streets on Wikidata Approved by whom? I foresee the majority of those being deleted as non- notable. By me

Re: [Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

On 2015-03-10 22:51, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 10 March 2015 at 20:20, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: On 2015-03-10 20:47, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 10 March 2015 at 15:32, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: For streets, we have now an approved bot task adding all Dutch

Re: [Wikidata-l] labels of renamed articles

On 15.08.2014 00:39, Andrew Gray wrote: Could we integrate it into the Wikipedia side? So when you move a page, you get a set of options: [x] Move associated talk page [x] Leave a redirect behind [x] Watch source page and target page ... [x] Rename associated Wikidata item to new page title

Re: [Wikidata-l] badges support on Wikidata

On 15.08.2014 20:04, Lydia Pintscher wrote: Hey folks :) Just an update on badges support on Wikidata. We will be rolling out support for badges on Wikidata on August 19th. At this point you will be able to store the information that a given article is a good or featured article on English

Re: [Wikidata-l] badges support on Wikidata

On 15.08.2014 20:54, Lydia Pintscher wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: Are badges for Wikivoyage planned? We have four categories of articles by quality (in English): Outline; Usable; Guide; Star. Outline is just a usual article, and others

Re: [Wikidata-l] badges support on Wikidata

On 15.08.2014 22:27, Daniel Kinzler wrote: Am 15.08.2014 20:54, schrieb Lydia Pintscher: On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: Are badges for Wikivoyage planned? We have four categories of articles by quality (in English): Outline; Usable; Guide; Star

Re: [Wikidata-l] All interwikis from nl.wikivoyage have been moved to Wikidata

On 29.07.2013 14:20, Romaine Wiki wrote: Hello all, I am happy to announce that all interwikis from all articles, templates, project pages (except some archive pages) have been moved to Wikidata. This includes the removal of all local interwikis. With this I roughly checked all pages if they

Re: [Wikidata-l] accepted GSoC proposals

This is really exciting to have you all on board. Welcome, and I am looking forward interacting with you and using the end products of your work. Cheers Yaroslav On 28.05.2013 06:37, Chinmay Naik wrote: Hi, I am Chinmay Naik and I shall be working on converting Gene Wiki bot to write to

Re: [Wikidata-l] data inclusion by lables is now available on Wikipedias and time datatype is getting closer

On 23.05.2013 05:36, Sven wrote: It might be a good idea to develop a bot that automatically converts {{#Property:Continent}} to {{#Property:P30}} and such. Best of both worlds: no need to memorize the numbers, no need to compromise stability. Sven We badly need an analog of the Commons

Re: [Wikidata-l] Browsing Wikipedia categories by popularity

On 13.04.2013 01:56, Michael Hale wrote: Thank you. Yeah, Mathematica doesn't seem to be very popular. They have a very large, well-designed function library, so you can get things done very quickly, but then very few people will be able to use what you make. To start with, they are too

Re: [Wikidata-l] phase 1 live on the English Wikipedia

On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:14:19 -0500, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: I think it might take some time to rewrite and test the new interwiki bot. If the bot operators simply download the latest version, they will continue running the old one until its fixed. If we plan to deploy wikidata to all sites soon,

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #30

On Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:23:02 +0100, Lydia Pintscher wrote: Heya folks :) What a week! Here's your summary of what happened over the last week around Wikidata. You can find the wiki version at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_11_02 Hi Lydia, thanks for the updates,

Re: [Wikidata-l] wikidata.org is live (with some caveats)

I am intrigued by the idea as well. Yes, it is not system messages of the wikibase extension, it is system messages of a wikibase instance as Denny correctly explains. But then, sharing theses translations in a central place would tremendously help those who need to set up their own wikibase