[Wikidata-l] Really interesting blog post

2013-10-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The new blog post about VIAF is really interesting.. It has many implications so please, as far as I am concerned this is a must read.. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8964 Thanks, Gerard ___ Wikidata-l mailing list

Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

2013-10-15 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On 14/10/13 17:52, Klein,Max wrote: Hi all, First of all I think this is fantastic research. It goes to show, it's not just properties that we can correlate, but also the Labels, Aliases, Sitelinks, and the connections between each field. I would like to point out, as Markus does in his

Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

2013-10-15 Thread Tom Morris
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote: My error margins are far too wide to make any realistic statement about minority genders even if I had a method to consider them. This article: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8964 gives them as being

Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

2013-10-15 Thread Klein,Max
Hi Markus and Tom, Markus, I understand that your report does not claim to be research. I actually happen to think it's a really fantastic and mind-expanding idea of what we can do with Wikidata. It's given me much food for thought, not only can we correlate Wikidata fields, but we can use

Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

2013-10-15 Thread Tom Morris
So you've got an agenda that's unrelated to Wikidata or analysis thereof. Got it. Perhaps a non-Wikidata list would be a more appropriate forum. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Klein,Max kle...@oclc.org wrote: Sorry to rant. Accepted. Tom ___

Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

2013-10-15 Thread Andrea Zanni
I think the results of Max are really interesting and fruitful, and should be shared with this list here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap Aubrey On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com wrote: So you've got an agenda that's unrelated to Wikidata or

Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

2013-10-15 Thread emw
Max's comment is very related to Wikidata. The sex property [1] is a model system to explore important questions for the project at large. For example, how rigorous do we want to be with automatic classification? Let's say a property can have one of three values: A, B or C. Roughly 90% of the

[Wikidata-l] New code deployed!

2013-10-15 Thread Katie Filbert
We have deployed new code to Wikidata. This includes various bug fixes and some new features. Changes of note include: * Item ID is displayed next to the item label (see paper cut [1]) * Improved appearance of Wikimedia Commons site link section In the API: * EditEntity module allows editing /