[Wikidata] Re: web reference

2023-07-28 Thread Denny Vrandečić
e cases, and try our best to help. I hope that the page now is in a state Dr Lemaire is content with. I want to extend her an apology, although I am not sure she will read this message. Best regards, Denny Vrandečić On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 1:41 PM Vi to wrote: > This mailing list

[Wikidata] Re: A Wikidata App?

2022-02-03 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I think it would be great to have a mobile app for Wikidata. On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 10:59 AM geislemx wrote: > Hey all, > > I hope this mail finds you well in this trying times. > Over the last month I invested some time and put a little project > together for personal purpose. Long story short

[Wikidata] Licensing discussion for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions

2021-12-06 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi all, We are currently looking for input on the question: what licensing structure we should apply to Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. After some initial discussion, the two following question in particular remain open and would benefit from your input or vote: 1) Should Abstract Content

[Wikidata] Re: History of some original Wikidata design decisions?

2021-07-22 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi Thad, Thanks for asking the questions, and thanks Tobi for the pointers. Man, what a lengthy post it was. I understand that the post answered most of your questions. I think that it is entirely possible to layer a prototype semantics over Wikidata, just as the DL semantics have been layered

[Wikidata] Focus languages for improvements to the lexicographic extension of Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia

2021-03-03 Thread Denny Vrandečić
The on-wiki version of this is here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Focus_languages Hello all, The Wikidata team at Wikimedia Deutschland will be working on improvements to the lexicographic data part of Wikidata during this year. The Abstract Wikipedia team at the

[Wikidata] Wikidata reaches Q100000000

2020-10-06 Thread Denny Vrandečić
A short blogpost by Lydia and me on the diff blog: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/10/06/wikidata-reaches-q1/ Congratulations to the community, congratulations to the project! ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikidata] Publishing lexical masks for Wikidata lexicographic data

2020-06-22 Thread Denny Vrandečić
We have released lexical masks as ShEx files before, schemata for lexicographic forms that can be used to validate whether the data is complete. We saw that it was quite challenging to turn these ShEx files into forms for entering the data, such as Lucas Werkmeister’s Lexeme Forms. So we adapted

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata history and discussion records

2020-06-19 Thread Denny Vrandečić
There's also this paper, which might be interesting for what you are doing: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73506477 On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 9:42 AM Denny Vrandečić wrote: > The dump with the (almost) complete edit history can be found here: > > https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata history and discussion records

2020-06-19 Thread Denny Vrandečić
The dump with the (almost) complete edit history can be found here: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/20200501/ Search for "edit history" on that page. There are two versions, in two different compression formats. It is rather big. On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 7:52 AM Elisavet Koutsiana <

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Slow loading process

2020-06-10 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Did you see this? https://addshore.com/2019/10/your-own-wikidata-query-service-with-no-limits-part-1/ On Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 12:51 Leandro Tabares Martín < leandro.tabaresmar...@uhasselt.be> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm loading the whole wikidata dataset into Blazegraph using a High > Performance

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Research on Wikidata dataset

2020-06-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Did you see this? https://addshore.com/2019/10/your-own-wikidata-query-service-with-no-limits-part-1/ On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 3:13 AM Leandro Tabares Martín < leandro.tabaresmar...@uhasselt.be> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am a researcher from Hasselt University performing research on Query >

Re: [Wikidata-tech] New technical writer for Wikibase/Wikidata

2020-05-19 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Welcome to Wikidata! Thanks for taking on such an important task for outreach! On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 3:02 AM Dan Shick wrote: > Hi all! > > I’m Dan Shick ( https://w.wiki/RDs ), the new technical writer at > Wikimedia Deutschland. My goals are to discover, improve, unify and > round out

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikidata-tech] New technical writer for Wikibase/Wikidata

2020-05-19 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Welcome to Wikidata! Thanks for taking on such an important task for outreach! On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 3:02 AM Dan Shick wrote: > Hi all! > > I’m Dan Shick ( https://w.wiki/RDs ), the new technical writer at > Wikimedia Deutschland. My goals are to discover, improve, unify and > round out

[Wikidata] Proposal for a new Wikimedia project: Wikilambda

2020-05-05 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hello all, after talking about it a few times here, the official proposal for creating the multilingual Wikipedia proposal is now on Meta. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilambda The idea is to create abstract, language-independent content in Wikidata, and then translate it into natural

Re: [Wikidata] Partial RDF dumps

2020-05-01 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Kingsley, thanks for suggesting that feature. Since you already have that feature, could you let us know how often the UI option for these output formats are used? That could help with prioritising. My uninformed hunch would be that there isn't much demand for selecting the format via the UI,

Re: [Wikidata] Partial RDF dumps

2020-04-29 Thread Denny Vrandečić
CONSTRUCT would be best, but I am not sure that there's any system to allows you to do that. What I would do is get the truthy dump in ntriples, and filter out all lines with the respective properties. The Wikidata Toolkit allows you to do that and more.

Re: [Wikidata] Weekly Summary #411

2020-04-29 Thread Denny Vrandečić
If you're interested in all new created schemas, you can actually follow a feed for that. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1=1=1=1=1=640=50=14__likelybad_color=c4__verylikelybad_color=c5=2 There's a link to the atom feed on the left hand toolbar. Cheers, Denny On

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikidata-tech] New Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase

2020-04-21 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Mohammed, welcome! I am very happy to see you join in this important role. Thank you, Denny On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 9:11 AM Léa Lacroix wrote: > Welcome onboard Mohammed! > I'm glad that you're here and to have your support in order to address the > requests from the community and to

Re: [Wikidata] Proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia and a new Wikipedia project

2020-04-20 Thread Denny Vrandečić
ge a bias. We still need a way to find people > willing to tackle this, or at least giving them enough motivation to > solve this in our current working framework. > > On the bright side, I can see so many applications of your project > that I can't wait for it to happen. :) > &g

[Wikidata] Proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia and a new Wikipedia project

2020-04-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I sent a long email to Wikimedia-l and also made the same post to Meta. I published a new paper recently with a proposal for a multilingual Wikipedia and more, and, unsurprisingly, Wikidata plays a central role in that proposal. I am trying to have the discussion not to be too fragmented, so I

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata-powered COVID19 Dashboard

2020-04-12 Thread Denny Vrandečić
It is allowed (and in fact encouraged) to embed Wikidata query results in your site. That was one of the original use cases. Also, I wouldn't worry tremendously about the load on the Query server from that as this is particularly well cachable and cached. To the best of my knowledge, embedded

Re: [Wikidata] Qualifiers/sources for YSO authority links

2020-03-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Joachim did was to set up a small > document on GitHub and refer to that in the statements. Should I do > something similar here? > > -Osma > > Denny Vrandečić kirjoitti 12.3.2020 klo 20.35: > > When we were uploading the links to Freebase, we also added references > >

Re: [Wikidata] Qualifiers/sources for YSO authority links

2020-03-12 Thread Denny Vrandečić
When we were uploading the links to Freebase, we also added references fro these. And since you've gone through all this work (thank you for that!) verifying the links, I think it would be fair to add a respective reference. On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 9:27 AM Osma Suominen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm

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

2020-02-11 Thread Denny Vrandečić
That's awesome, thanks! On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 3:46 AM Léa Lacroix wrote: > Hey, > > On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 12:30, Nicolas VIGNERON > wrote: > >> Great ! >> >> Two small perfectionist question: >> - is it finished or can we maybe go further? >> > It is finished for now, but we should continue

Re: [Wikidata] Status of Wikidata Query Service

2020-02-11 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Oh, wow, I just tried that out too, and indeed, it used to be possible to link to the L-number very quickly if I remember correctly, but now this is not the case anymore. Weirdly enough, the SPARQL endpoint got updated with the new Lexeme very quickly. So I think these two things are not related.

Re: [Wikidata-tech] how to load a dump of wikidata into a local wikibase

2020-01-16 Thread Denny Vrandečić
This should probably help: https://addshore.com/2019/10/your-own-wikidata-query-service-with-no-limits-part-1/ On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 8:27 AM Peter F. Patel-Schneider < pfpschnei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is this the recommended way to set up a local copy of Wikidata? (If not, > what > is the

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata Query Service update lag

2019-11-18 Thread Denny Vrandečić
: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:49 AM Denny Vrandečić > wrote: > >> Just wondering, is there a way to let volunteers look into the issue? (I >> guess no because it would give potentially access to the query stream, but >> maybe the answer is more optimistic) >> >

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata Query Service update lag

2019-11-14 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Just wondering, is there a way to let volunteers look into the issue? (I guess no because it would give potentially access to the query stream, but maybe the answer is more optimistic) On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:39 PM Thad Guidry wrote: > In the enterprise, most folks use either Java Mission

[Wikidata] Comparison of Wikidata, DBpedia, and Freebase (draft and invitation)

2019-09-30 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi all, as promised, now that I am back from my trip, here's my draft of the comparison of Wikidata, DBpedia, and Freebase. It is a draft, it is obviously potentially biased given my background, etc., but I hope that we can work on it together to get it into a good shape. Markus, amusingly I

Re: [Wikidata] Personal news: a new role

2019-09-20 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Thanks everyone for this warm welcome (back)! On Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 10:38 Denny Vrandečić wrote: > Off to my Todo list :) > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:46 AM Andy Mabbett > wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 17:56, Denny Vrandečić >> wrote: >> >>

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

2019-09-20 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Sep 20, 2019 at 1:32 PM Denny Vrandečić > wrote: > >> Yes, you're touching exactly on the problems I had during the evaluation >> - I couldn't even figure out what DBpedia is. Thanks, your help will be >> very much appreciated. >> >> OK, I will send a link the week

Re: [Wikidata] Personal news: a new role

2019-09-20 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Off to my Todo list :) On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:46 AM Andy Mabbett wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 17:56, Denny Vrandečić > wrote: > > > I am moving to a new role in Google Research, akin to a Wikimedian in > > Residence > > That's marvelous; congratulatio

Re: [Wikidata] Personal news: a new role

2019-09-20 Thread Denny Vrandečić
), not the Open Source office. But I plan to publish more code forthgoing, so I will continue to work with them. On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:35 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Denny Vrandečić, 19/09/19 19:56: > > I had used my 20% time to support such teams. The requests became more > > fr

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

2019-09-20 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Knowledge Graph Talk thing. I was a bit > grumpy, because I thought I wasted a lot of time on the Talk page that > could have been invested in making the article better (WP:BE_BOLD style), > but now I think, it might have been my own mistake. So apologies for > lashing out there. > &g

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

2019-09-20 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Sebastian, "I don't want to facilitate conspiracy theories, but ..." "[I am] interested in what is the truth behind the truth" I am sorry, I truly am, but this *is* the language I know from conspiracy theorists. And given that, I cannot imagine that there is anything I can say that could

Re: [Wikidata] Dead or alive ? Probably dead

2019-09-19 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I think if we wanted to do this with a bot, we should go through the usual bot approval process, and discuss this on wiki? But in general, as said, adding unknown value to people who are very very sure to be dead sounds like a good idea ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28 ) On Thu, Sep 19,

Re: [Wikidata] Dead or alive ? Probably dead

2019-09-19 Thread Denny Vrandečić
"unknown value" was made for exactly that use case - a person that has died, but we don't know when. I would just add that on the "date of death" property. On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 2:25 AM Thomas Douillard wrote: > We have already a qualifier for this kind of stuffs, I think : P887 >

[Wikidata] Personal news: a new role

2019-09-19 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hello all, Over the last few years, more and more research teams all around the world have started to use Wikidata. Wikidata is becoming a fundamental resource [1]. That is also true for research at Google. One advantage of using Wikidata as a research resource is that it is available to

Re: [Wikidata] "Collaborating on the sum of all knowledge across languages"

2019-09-06 Thread Denny Vrandečić
links. When we do we could override the delivery > of that article with a choice to the "abstract" for comparison. > Thanks, >GerardM > > > > [1] > https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/cloudy_concept.php?q=Q434706=en > > On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 at 23:53, Den

Re: [Wikidata] Virtuoso hosted Wikidata Instance

2019-08-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
That is really cool! Thanks and congratulations! I will certainly play with it. Is it in some way synced or is it a static snapshot? On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 4:10 PM Kingsley Idehen wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > A little FYI. > > We have loaded Wikidata into a Virtuoso instance accessible via

Re: [Wikidata] Ontology in XML

2019-08-12 Thread Denny Vrandečić
ich have all the predicate defined. > > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 22:23, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > >> Maybe you mean this file: >> >> >> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/master/docs/ontology.owl >> >> >>

Re: [Wikidata] Ontology in XML

2019-08-12 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Maybe you mean this file: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/master/docs/ontology.owl Cheers, Denny On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 7:20 AM Sebastian Hellmann < hellm...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote: > Hi Ali, all, > > we have this dataset: >

Re: [Wikidata] "Wikidata item" link to be moved in the menu column on Wikimedia projects

2019-08-08 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Thank you for the message, Lea, this seems like a good step. On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 8:19 AM Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Easy, my user interface is English in all of them. > Thanks, > GerardN > > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 16:39, Imre Samu wrote: > >> *> Suggestion* display the Q number in

Re: [Wikidata] Generating EntitySchema from Wikidata Lexeme Forms data

2019-07-24 Thread Denny Vrandečić
tool’s templates API > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Lexeme_Forms#Templates_API> > rather than the wiki page itself: transcribing the templates into > structured form takes some time, there’s no need for someone else to do it > again :) > > Cheers, >

[Wikidata] Generating EntitySchema from Wikidata Lexeme Forms data

2019-07-23 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hey, is anyone working on or has worked on generating EntitySchemas from the Wikidata Lexeme Forms data that Lucas is collecting? It seems that most of the necessary data should be there already for these. E.g. generating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E34 from

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Create a claim with a reference

2019-07-18 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Worked perfectly well! Thanks! On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 1:31 PM Denny Vrandečić wrote: > Thank you Antonin, that's reassuring, I'll try that! > > Cheers, > Denny > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 12:48 PM Antonin Delpeuch (lists) < > li...@antonin.delpeuch.eu> wrot

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Create a claim with a reference

2019-07-17 Thread Denny Vrandečić
ss the entire JSON serialization of the claim, including > the reference. If you are trying to create a new statement, you will > need to generate a fresh statement id client-side and include it in the > JSON serialization. > > Cheers, > Antonin > > On 7/17/19 7:49 PM, De

[Wikidata-tech] Create a claim with a reference

2019-07-17 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi, since it is possible in the UI, and the API documentation for wbsetclaim also states that it "Creates or updates an entire Statement or Claim", I am wondering how I can create a claim with a reference (wbcreateclaim does not allow adding a reference). So, my questions are: 1. Does the API

[Wikidata] "Collaborating on the sum of all knowledge across languages"

2019-07-06 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi all! I really try not to spam the chat too much with pointers to my work on the Abstract Wikipedia, but this one is probably also interesting for Wikidata contributors. It is the draft for a chapter submitted to Koerner and Reagle's Wikipedia@20 book, and talks about knowledge diversity under

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikipedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

2019-01-15 Thread Denny Vrandečić
AllPages=202 > e.g. http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/OntologyProperty:BirthDate > > You could directly use the DBpedia-lemon lexicalisation for Wikidata. > > The mappings can be downloaded with > > git clone https://github.com/dbpedia/extraction-framework ; cd core ; > ../run download-mappin

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikimedia-l] Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

2018-05-18 Thread Denny Vrandečić
< hellm...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote: > Hi Denny, > > On 18.05.2018 02:54, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > > Rob Speer wrote: > > The result of this, by the way, is that commercial entities sell modified > > versions of Wikidata with impunity. It undermines

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikimedia-l] Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

2018-05-17 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Rob Speer wrote: > The result of this, by the way, is that commercial entities sell modified > versions of Wikidata with impunity. It undermines the terms of other > resources such as DBPedia, which also contains facts extracted from > Wikipedia and respects its Share-Alike terms. Why would anyone

Re: [Wikidata] Wikiata and the LOD cloud

2018-05-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Thanks! On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 1:36 PM Lucas Werkmeister < lucas.werkmeis...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Folks, I’m already in contact with John, there’s no need to contact him > again :) > > Cheers, Lucas > > Am Mo., 7. Mai 2018 um 19:32 Uhr schrieb Denny Vrandečić

Re: [Wikidata] Wikiata and the LOD cloud

2018-05-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
there. > > All the best, > > Sebastian > > On 04.05.2018 18:33, Maarten Dammers wrote: > > It almost feels like someone doesn’t want Wikidata in there? Maybe that > website is maintained by DBpedia fans? Just thinking out loud here because > DBpedia is very popular in the

Re: [Wikidata] Wikiata and the LOD cloud

2018-05-04 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I'm pretty sure that Wikidata is doing better than 90% of the current bubbles in the diagram. If they wanted to have Wikidata in the diagram it would have been there before it was too small to read it. :) On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 7:47 AM Peter F. Patel-Schneider < pfpschnei...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata + GraphQL

2018-01-03 Thread Denny Vrandečić
That's great! I was having the same thought, but was thinking on top of the SPARQL interface - but if it works on top of the API even better. Thanks for that, this might be quite interesting. I really hope that it can integrated into Wikidata proper. On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 9:12 AM Thomas

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

2017-11-30 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Scott, The NC license clause is problematic in a number of jurisdictions. For example, at least in Germany, as I remember from my law classes, it also would definitively include not-for-profits, NGOs, and even say bloggers, with or without ads on their sites. One must always be careful in the

Re: [Wikidata] Coordinate precision in Wikidata, RDF & query service

2017-08-31 Thread Denny Vrandečić
And thanks for the use cases. This helps a lot with thinking about this. On Thu, Aug 31, 2017, 16:31 Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com> wrote: > The reason why we save the actual value with more digits than the > precision (and why we keep the precision as an explicit

Re: [Wikidata] Coordinate precision in Wikidata, RDF & query service

2017-08-31 Thread Denny Vrandečić
The reason why we save the actual value with more digits than the precision (and why we keep the precision as an explicit value at all) is because the value could be entered and displayed either as decimal digits or in minutes and seconds. So internally one would save 20' as 0.3, but the

Re: [Wikidata] Wordnet synset ID

2017-08-21 Thread Denny Vrandečić
> > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2581. This property has been > very > > little used: http://tinyurl.com/y8npwsm5 > > > > There might be a Wikimedia-Wordnet indirect link through BabelNet > > > > /Finn > > > > > > On 08/15/2017 0

Re: [Wikidata] Wordnet synset ID

2017-08-15 Thread Denny Vrandečić
we have a BabelNet Wikidata property, > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2581. This property has been > very little used: http://tinyurl.com/y8npwsm5 > > There might be a Wikimedia-Wordnet indirect link through BabelNet > > /Finn > > > On 08/15/2017 07:22 PM, Denny

Re: [Wikidata] Wordnet synset ID

2017-08-15 Thread Denny Vrandečić
That's a great question, I have no idea what the answer will turn out to be. Is there any current link between Wiktionary and WordNet? Or WordNet and Wikipedia? On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 10:14 AM wrote: > > > I have proposed a Wordnet synset property here: >

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata more prominent in Apple's IOS 11 beta

2017-07-10 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Chris, thanks. That's cute cute ultimately disappointing - I would have preferred for it to take me to "other people with this death place", which would be more interesting. Ah well, thanks on answering, Denny On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 7:48 AM Chris Koerner wrote: > Denny, > >

Re: [Wikidata] Wiki PageID

2017-05-04 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Aren't both ... uhm ... "use cases" supported by dbpedia proper anyway? On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 3:40 AM Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 5/3/17 3:37 PM, Nicholas Humfrey wrote: > > > > On 26/04/2017, 15:41, "Wikidata on behalf of Kingsley Idehen" > >

Re: [Wikidata] Languages in Wikidata4Wiktionary

2017-04-10 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Daniel, I agree, but isn't that what Multilingual Text requires? A language code? I.e. how does the current model plan to solve that? I assume most of it is hidden behind mini-wizards like "Create a new lexeme", which actually make sure the multitext language and the language property are

Re: [Wikidata] Languages in Wikidata4Wiktionary

2017-04-10 Thread Denny Vrandečić
So assume we enter a new Lexeme in Examplarian (which has a Q-Item), but Examplarian has no language code for whatever reason. What language code would they enter in the MultilingualTextValue? On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:42 AM Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Tobias' comment

Re: [Wikidata] Languages in Wikidata4Wiktionary

2017-04-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
(and > per > http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/04/falco-peregrinus-smartphone-that-could.html > ). > > Scott > > > > On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Daniel Kinzler < > daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > > Am 07.04.2017 um 01:34 schrieb De

Re: [Wikidata] Languages in Wikidata4Wiktionary

2017-04-06 Thread Denny Vrandečić
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017, 16:16 Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > - use Q-Items instead of UserLanguageCodes for Multilingual texts (which > > would be quite a migration) > > I foresee that might be a bit of a problem for external tools consuming > this data - how they would

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata ontology

2017-01-09 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I agree with Peter here. Daniel's statement of "Anything that is a subclass of X, and at the same an instance of Y, where Y is not "class", is problematic." is simply too strong. The classical example is Harry the eagle, and eagle being a species. The following paper has a much more measured and

Re: [Wikidata] I'm calling it. We made it ;-)

2017-01-01 Thread Denny Vrandečić
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/001/899/mission_accomplished.jpg On Sat, Dec 31, 2016, 02:58 Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Folks, > > We're now officially mainstream ;-) > >

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Two questions about Lexeme Modeling

2016-11-24 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi all, thanks for the two matrices and the input here. I am tending to again let Daniel convince me about using multiple representations for the lemma and the forms. Mostly because that's what's closest to Lemon, and I trust the research and expertise within Lemon. Thank you Philipp for chiming

Re: [Wikidata] New Status Indicator Icon about Relative Page Completeness

2016-11-15 Thread Denny Vrandečić
*not On Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 10:06 Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you make sure but to request the place of death or date of death on > living people? I.e. can we filter certain properties? > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 07:20 Simon Razniewski <sraz

Re: [Wikidata] New Status Indicator Icon about Relative Page Completeness

2016-11-15 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Do you make sure but to request the place of death or date of death on living people? I.e. can we filter certain properties? On Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 07:20 Simon Razniewski wrote: > On November 15, 2016, csara...@uni-koblenz.de wrote > > It would be very interesting to see the

[Wikidata-tech] Wikidata deving and vagrant

2016-11-06 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi all, I set up a vagrant environment to do some hacking on Wikibase, but the wikidata role seems to create a client only? Is there a role for the server? Cheers, Denny ___ Wikidata-tech mailing list Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikidata] Master thesis

2016-11-05 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Do you have already a few ideas? Just for brainstorming. On Sat, Nov 5, 2016, 05:26 Nazanin Kamali wrote: > Dear all, > > My name is Nazanin and I am a Wikipedia editor. I studied statistics in my > undergraduate program and recently I have begun my master

[Wikidata-tech] Why term for lemma?

2016-11-02 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi, I am not questioning or criticizing, just curious - why was it decided to implement lemmas as terms? I guess it is for code reuse purposes, but just wanted to ask. Cheers, Denny ___ Wikidata-tech mailing list Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata stand-alone service peformance problems and the Blazegraph multi-GPU architecture

2016-10-28 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Is someone trying to train a generative language model on this mailing list? On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:59 PM Ushen Kowlessar Bhin Bhinbaha Dur < ushe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Add boolean axo prompt to built from word as key base word example wiki > will be wik the denyfen works out the code

Re: [Wikidata] Wikimedia Grants: Every language in the world

2016-10-17 Thread Denny Vrandečić
to > hop on a call and learn more about your role in the project, and to share > more about what we're working on. > > Will you have any availability this week? > > Warmly, > Daniel > > On Friday, October 14, 2016, Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com> wrote: &

Re: [Wikidata] Wikimedia Grants: Every language in the world

2016-10-14 Thread Denny Vrandečić
+1 (917) 975 1410 > @dbudell > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > good luck with the proposal! Did you take a look at Wikidata's proposal to > support Wiktionary? > > https://www.wikidata.org

Re: [Wikidata] Wikimedia Grants: Every language in the world

2016-10-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi Daniel, good luck with the proposal! Did you take a look at Wikidata's proposal to support Wiktionary? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary Cheers, Denny On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 8:19 PM Daniel Bogre Udell wrote: > Hello, Wikidata community! > > My

Re: [Wikidata] Query Help - Stock Symbols and Wikipedia Pages

2016-10-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
As far as I can tell on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156578 VW indeed has three different stock symbols. On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 1:34 PM Hampton Snowball wrote: > Hi Stas - Thank you so much for your response! It seems the difference > between 1 and 2 is that for

Re: [Wikidata] Using wikibase for creating structured vocabularies collaboratively

2016-10-12 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I don't know if Jakob Voss is on this list, but he had a recent paper on using Wikidata (not Wikibase) for NKOS terminology. On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 1:32 PM Gregor Hagedorn < gregor.haged...@mfn-berlin.de> wrote: > Here some old pointers to our TDWG - biodiversity - ViBRANT work from 2013: >

Re: [Wikidata] Using wikibase for creating structured vocabularies collaboratively

2016-10-12 Thread Denny Vrandečić
ear Denny, > > Thanks for the pointers, some of them are surprisingly new to me. However, > I was wondering if there are articles that especially compared Wikibase and > Semantic MediaWiki. Any idea? > > Many thanks. > > Claudia > > > On 12 Oct 2016, at 22:05, D

Re: [Wikidata] Changing the datatype of a property in test.wikidata.org

2016-10-11 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Properties don't have an identity besides their ID - so you could in test.wd just rename the subclass of property and reclaim that name. On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 1:19 PM Loic Dachary wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to run integration tests using test.wikidata.org[1] and the >

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata weekly summary #230

2016-10-10 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Thank you! On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:10 PM Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thanks! > > > > How do I read the WDQS report that is linked? I only

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata weekly summary #230

2016-10-10 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Thanks! How do I read the WDQS report that is linked? I only see the link to the rmd source. https://github.com/wikimedia-research/Discovery-WDQS-Adhoc-Usage/blob/master/Report.Rmd On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:13 AM Léa Lacroix wrote: > > > *Hello all,Here's your quick

Re: [Wikidata] [Wikimedia-l] GPS data shift

2016-10-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Wikidata allows to set a coordinate system - it is called a globe or coordinate system - on every coordinate. This would be the natural place to specify whether it is WGS84 or GDA94 or another system. Most of them are Q2, which, as per data model, is indeed WGS84.

Re: [Wikidata] Help with SPARQL or API or something to get subcategories

2016-10-06 Thread Denny Vrandečić
DBpedia has the category data in RDF. The last release of DBpedia also included Wikidata - it should be possible to query the combined dataset there. On Thu, Oct 6, 2016, 19:47 Thad Guidry wrote: > Cool. Yeap, you got the idea now. > > OK, We'll stay tuned for a future

Re: [Wikidata] SPARQL power users and developers

2016-09-30 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Markus, do you have access to the corresponding HTTP request logs? The fields there might be helpful (although I might be overtly optimistic about it) On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:38 AM Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > I guess I qualify for #2 several times: > * The & support

Re: [Wikidata] List of WP-languages and language short code

2016-09-30 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Markus, it really depends on what you mean with "a list of all Wikimedia languages". That is why you get different numbers. Usually, you will have a use case for this list, and depending on that use case you should select the languages you really care about. Besides looking good in some marketing

Re: [Wikidata] List of WP-languages and language short code

2016-09-29 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Uhm, sorry. I meant: is this what you look for? It's based on the query by Jérémie a few mails back. http://tinyurl.com/h2zky8p On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:13 PM Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is that what yu look for? > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:56 AM M

Re: [Wikidata] Greater than 400 char limit for Wikidata string data types

2016-09-23 Thread Denny Vrandečić
ve the same distribution shape, but are overall >> slightly shorter. >> >> Best, >> Sebastian >> >> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Can you figure out what a good limit would be for these two use ca

Re: [Wikidata] Let's move forward with support for Wiktionary

2016-09-19 Thread Denny Vrandečić
And just to point out - even though there are no plans to accommodate the superstructures in the data model directly, it should be noted that the current data model already is flexible to have it, i.e. if the community so wishes they can create Lexemes which represent the "root" of a word like

Re: [Wikidata] Let's move forward with support for Wiktionary

2016-09-16 Thread Denny Vrandečić
for, and maybe yours is already sufficiently close to optimal. On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:00 AM Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Am 16.09.2016 um 19:41 schrieb Denny Vrandečić: > > Yes, there should be some connection between items and lexemes, but I am > st

Re: [Wikidata] Greater than 400 char limit for Wikidata string data types

2016-09-16 Thread Denny Vrandečić
(in particular because I expect that character limit to have to change for Wiktionary in Wikidata) On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:38 AM Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com> wrote: > Markus' description of the decision for the limit corresponds with mine. I > also think that this

Re: [Wikidata] Greater than 400 char limit for Wikidata string data types

2016-09-16 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Markus' description of the decision for the limit corresponds with mine. I also think that this decision can be revisited. I would still advice for caution, due to technical issues, but I am sure that the development team will make a well-informed decision on this. It would be sad if valid

Re: [Wikidata] Let's move forward with support for Wiktionary

2016-09-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
\o/ On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 6:18 AM Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hey everyone :) > > Wiktionary is our third-largest sister project, both in term of active > editors and readers. It is a unique resource, with the goal to provide > a dictionary for every language, in

Re: [Wikidata] Random item: Q14829494

2016-05-11 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Yes, Violeta, that would have saved me quite some time Thanks, Thad! I would, but Pasleim on the Wiki-Discussion found a source that makes it clear that they are indeed one and the same person: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q937954 http://www.tv.com/people/ed-gilbert/biography/ I think

[Wikidata-tech] Adding reference re-adds claim

2016-04-05 Thread Denny Vrandečić
The primary sources tool can add references to existing claims. For some reason, it started re-adding the claim yesterday instead. Did anything change on the Wikidata-side in the last few days that could be causing this change in behavior? Or should we look harder on the Primary sources side?

Re: [Wikidata] nice

2016-03-02 Thread Denny Vrandečić
(and to make it clear, it is unclear whether this is an error due to DBpedia or due to the companies extraction framework, I was not diving into the data) On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:59 PM Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com> wrote: > Depends how good the DBpedia data really is - a

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