[Wikidata-l] Wikidata tutorials on SMWCon Fall 2013?

2013-07-23 Thread Yury Katkov
Greetings to Wikidata team and community from Semantic MediaWiki team and community! It seems that already there are a lot of things possible to do with Wikidata. What about including some Wikidata tutorials to the tutorial day of SMWCon conference? I can already think of the following exciting to

[Wikidata-l] Wikiyoage is here and new features/bugfixes

2013-07-23 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Heya folks :) I'm super excited to welcome the first fellow sisterproject to Wikidata. We've enabled language links for Wikivoyage now \o/ Please give the travelers a warm welcome to our coozy hangout here. In addition we've deployed some new stuff and bugfixes. The ones that are probably most in

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-23 Thread Michael Hale
I've had some discussions with people on the Mathematica Stack Exchange site about the project. There is interest, but most people don't seem to have as much free time as me. So I've decided just to start the project as a way to organize and integrate my own code and code that I find. I'm just p

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-23 Thread David Cuenca
What do you think about starting a project to import data from external websites into Wikidata? If you start an "External data import task force" I'm sure there will be quite a lot of interest in creating a collection of modules/bots to import data. Looking at the project http://www.boost.org/ it

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-23 Thread Michael Hale
I've looked at Boost briefly before when I needed to train a machine learning algorithm on a C++ text corpus. I felt like the Mathematica standard library provided more functionality to start from, but of course it is not open source. I'm curious if a coding project could work in a wiki manner a

[Wikidata-l] Importing data from external websites

2013-07-23 Thread David Cuenca
I would recommend to buffer the raw data in some external service like http://datahub.io/ , that way the extracted data can be used for other purposes too and some version control can be kept. For the data extraction mechanism you could take some ideas from the DBpedia extraction framework http://d