Re: [Wikidata-l] Pulling item name translation from a linked Wikipedia article name

2013-05-06 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, will this be implemented? Sounds like a reasonable feature to me... Maybe it could be actually prohibited to locally specify (or actually override) a name of Wikidata item in certain Wwikidata viewing language if that

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

2013-05-06 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: Now to give my own opinion of the representation/ontology you are building, I would say that it's based on exactly the opposite premisses I would use. Wikidata Q1 is universe, then you have earth, life, death

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

2013-05-06 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-05-06 11:14, Lydia Pintscher a écrit : On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: Now to give my own opinion of the representation/ontology you are building, I would say that it's based on exactly the opposite premisses I would use. Wikidata Q1

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

2013-05-06 Thread Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
Hi Mathieu, I think the DBpedia mailing list is a better place for discussing the DBpedia ontology: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion Drop us a message if you have questions or concerns. I'm sure someone will answer your questions. I am not an ontology expert, so

[Wikidata-l] development list for Wikidata

2013-05-06 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Heya folks :) We've created https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech to keep all the development discussions around Wikidata in one public place. Feel free to subscribe if you are interested. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community

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

2013-05-06 Thread Jane Darnell
Yes, there is and should be more than one ontology, and that is already the case with categories, which are so flexible they can loop around and become their own grandfather. Dbpedia complaints should be discussed on that list, I am not a dbpedia user, though I think it's a useful project to

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

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Hale
I agree they are extremely useful for many scenarios already. Earlier today I sorted the human proteins category by popularity, and by reading the articles for the most popular ones that I didn't know I felt like I was browsing the table of contents of a live molecular biology book that was

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

2013-05-06 Thread Chris Maloney
Michael, that's really closely in line with what I was thinking. Why don't you take a crack at improving http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Beyond_categories? I am not sure if this is just a crazy pipe dream or not, but I can't help but be a little bit excited at the possibility that it might

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

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Hale
I added a section for Wikidata query potential. I'd estimate we've imported about 1/4 to 1/3 of the data we'd need to start getting comparable results for a significant number of categories. I think we should iterate on the query prototype considering scenarios where you link to an existing