Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Patrick Cassidy
If one is interested in a functional “category” system, it would be very helpful to have a good logic-based ontology as the backbone. I haven’t looked recently, but when I inquired about the ontology used by DBpedia a year ago, I was referred to “dbpedia-ontology.owl”, an ontology in the format of

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Michael Hale
I think you need to start redesigns by considering scenarios with specific examples. What are the tasks that I want to do that I can't currently do? What are the tasks that I do so much that they should be easier? Can you provide an example of some DBpedia queries that are awkward due to the cur

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Chris Maloney
I'd really like to see this evolve into a Wikiproject, if one doesn't already exists. What's the next step? I started a sister conversation about this on the GLAM-US mailing list, here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/glam-us/2013-May/000157.html. There was a suggestion about starting a page

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
Hi Pat, I've been involved with DBpedia for several years, so these are interesting thoughts. On 5 May 2013 01:25, Patrick Cassidy wrote: > If one is interested in a functional “category” system, it would be very > helpful to have a good logic-based ontology as the backbone. > > I haven’t looked

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Michael Hale
As far as checking the import progress of Wikidata, the category American women writers has 1479 articles. 651 of them currently have a main type (GND), 328 have a sex, 162 have an occupation, 111 have a country of citizenship, 49 have a sexual orientation, 39 have a place of birth, etc. > From

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Chris Maloney
Doug from WikiSource started a page over at meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Beyond_categories I'll be trying to fill in some of my understanding of the problem and the scope of a possible solution. I recognize there's been a lot of prior art on this issue, and a lot of existing overlapping t

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread emw
There's a related essay on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Next_generation_categories . The Wikidata properties instance of(formerly "is a") and subclass of are

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le dimanche 05 mai 2013 à 16:28 +0200, Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt a > The ontology is maintained by a community that everyone can join at > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/ . An overview of the current class > hierarchy is here: > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/ontology/classes/ . You're more > th

Re: [Wikidata-l] Finding Wikipedia pages that include Wikidata values

2013-05-05 Thread Luca Martinelli
2013/5/4 Innovimax SARL : > Good point Luca > > Please vote for it if you care > > Mohamed Finally done. :) -- Luca "Sannita" Martinelli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lis

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Luca Martinelli
2013/5/5 Michael Hale : > As far as checking the import progress of Wikidata, the category American > women writers has 1479 articles. 651 of them currently have a main type > (GND), 328 have a sex, 162 have an occupation, 111 have a country of > citizenship, 49 have a sexual orientation, 39 have a

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Michael Hale
I just wanted to throw in a few more thoughts after looking at the Commons and Meta pages about improving categories. Wikidata does have items that correspond to category pages. These store translations and we can use them to add any extra relations between categories that we need. http://www.w

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-05 Thread Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
On 5 May 2013 20:48, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: > Le dimanche 05 mai 2013 à 16:28 +0200, Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt a >> The ontology is maintained by a community that everyone can join at >> http://mappings.dbpedia.org/ . An overview of the current class >> hierarchy is here: >> http://mappings.dbpedi