Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-22 Thread Luca Martinelli
Il giorno 22/ago/2013 19:28, "David Cuenca" ha scritto: > Since the BookManagerv2 extension (coming soon) will be storing all metadata from any work (sourced or not) in the (new) "Book:" namespace, IMHO the best would be to link those pages to the edition items as outlined in the Books Task Force.

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-22 Thread David Cuenca
@Luca: it would be great if you could take a look to this page: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikisource Since the BookManagerv2 extension (coming soon) will be storing all metadata from any work (sourced or not) in the (new) "Book:" namespace, IMHO the best would be to link those pages to

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-22 Thread Luca Martinelli
Il giorno 22/ago/2013 18:34, "Lydia Pintscher" ha scritto: > We're currently trying to figure out how to best do this. > Great, thank you all. :) L. ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-22 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I am not completely sure if there currently is such a thing. I guess we need to implement that first. One suggestion was that AbuseFilter could do this, but there was concern raised that this may overload AbuseFilter, and a native implementation would be better. We will need to figure this out. I

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-22 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Luca Martinelli wrote: > @Denny: is it possible to temporarily disallow sitelinks to certain > namespaces for certain projects, in order to allow them when we've got a way > to deal with them? This could be a trick to be used also with Wikisource's > Index namespac

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-22 Thread Luca Martinelli
Il giorno 22/ago/2013 16:09, "Denny Vrandečić" ha scritto: > I guess we should disallow sitelinks to the File: namespace, in order to avoid people trying to add metadata about the media files themselves? +1 to this and +1 to Marten's proposal. @Denny: is it possible to temporarily disallow sitel

Re: [Wikidata-l] Help on adding a not exact date

2013-08-22 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood that the birth date is somewhere around 640 to around 568. Yes, in this given case Byrial is completely right. 2013/8/22 Byrial Jensen > At 22-08-2013 17:32, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > >> This doesn't really work yet in the UI. Basically, you could only enter >> sth lik

Re: [Wikidata-l] Help on adding a not exact date

2013-08-22 Thread Byrial Jensen
At 22-08-2013 17:32, Denny Vrandečić wrote: This doesn't really work yet in the UI. Basically, you could only enter sth like 6th c. BC which in this case would not be correct. 6. century BC for birth date and 5. century BC for death date is both correct and possible. 1st Millenium BC would

[Wikidata-l] report from Wikimania

2013-08-22 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey :) I just published my report from Wikimania. You can find it at http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/08/22/wikidata-and-other-technical-bits-at-wikimania/ Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Technical Projects Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

Re: [Wikidata-l] Help on adding a not exact date

2013-08-22 Thread Denny Vrandečić
This doesn't really work yet in the UI. Basically, you could only enter sth like 6th c. BC which in this case would not be correct. 1st Millenium BC would be possible and correct, but it is a bit too wide. That's the only thing supported right now. We will be working on improving this situation. C

[Wikidata-l] Help on adding a not exact date

2013-08-22 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Hello, I'm beginning with wikidata and didn't find how to add a date which is not exact. In fact I found [1], which would gain clarity with an example, but the given format is refused when I try to use it. For example, I want to add birth and death date for Pittacus of Mytilene[2], for which

[Wikidata-l] SMWCon Fall 2013: Second Call for Contributions. Registration.

2013-08-22 Thread Yury Katkov
(sorry for cross-posting) Dear semantic wiki users and developers, We are very happy to announce that early bird registration to the 8th Semantic MediaWiki Conference is now open! Important facts reminder: -- * Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2013 (Monday to Wednes

Re: [Wikidata-l] Make Commons a wikidata client

2013-08-22 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi Maarten, thanks. That's the best proposal I have seen so far in how to proceed with Phase 1 on Commons. I usually had pushed Commons support further to the back, but with this I think we would indeed create some real value with a small change. I will bounce Commons Phase 1 client support up on

Re: [Wikidata-l] claims Datatypes inconsistency suspicion

2013-08-22 Thread Hady elsahar
Hello Markus , thanks for pointing to wda code it's very useful , i guess by looking on the Wikidata glossary property data types and data value types are the same thing : http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary#Datatypes this may be shallow a little bit , but what i saw is that (correct

Re: [Wikidata-l] claims Datatypes inconsistency suspicion

2013-08-22 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Hi all, I think one source of confusion here are the overlapping names of property datatypes and datavalue types. Basically, the mapping is as follows right now: [Format: property type => datavalue type occurring in current dumps] 'wikibase-item' => 'wikibase-entityid' 'string' => 'string' '