Re: [Wikidata-l] Welcome Helen and Anjali!

2014-04-28 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am really pleased with more attention for Wikidata.. When and where I can help / collaborate I will.. Of particular importance is the need to explain Wikidata.. Really credible Wikimedians find Wikidata hard, too hard to invest their time. Thanks, GerardM On 28 April 2014 23:56, Micha

Re: [Wikidata-l] Bot request: 250+ thousands person data

2014-04-28 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
On 4/28/14, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Am 27.04.2014 11:16, schrieb Christian Thiele: >> The german dates have to be parsed, and I think the uncertainty for many >> persons >> is the main problem ("born 5th of July 1716 or 15th of July 1718", >> "between 1918 >> and 1921"). But of course for a lot of

Re: [Wikidata-l] Welcome Helen and Anjali!

2014-04-28 Thread Michał Łazowik
Ho hey! Wiadomość napisana przez Lydia Pintscher w dniu 28 kwi 2014, o godz. 21:29: > Anjali Sharma of India will be focusing on the design of mobile app > concepts and promoting Wikidata on social media platforms. Her > original project proposal can be found here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/w

[Wikidata-l] Welcome Helen and Anjali!

2014-04-28 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey folks :) Last week, the GNOME Foundation announced the interns that were accepted for the May - August 2014 round of the Outreach Program for Women (OPW). Eight interns were selected to work on Wikimedia projects, including two who will contribute to Wikidata outreach efforts. I will be mentor

[Wikidata-l] Autocomplete API for a search field in an external app

2014-04-28 Thread Maxime Lathuilière
Hi, I'm looking for a way to reproduce the autocomplete on wikidata search field in an external app (to tag resources with wikidata entities ids), but so far I couldn't find what could allow me to do this in the API doc. In a little experiment , I

Re: [Wikidata-l] Bot request: 250+ thousands person data

2014-04-28 Thread David Cuenca
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Luca Martinelli wrote: > I recalled the fact quite correctly: > https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo:Bio takes dates of birth and > death from Wikidata. I think we can talk to extend the possibility to > gender, and later to other fields. > That's perfect, because

Re: [Wikidata-l] Bot request: 250+ thousands person data

2014-04-28 Thread Luca Martinelli
2014-04-27 15:38 GMT+02:00 David Cuenca : > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Luca Martinelli > wrote: >> >> If I'm not mistaken, there are (or were) already some experiments going on >> with {{Bio}} using data from Wikidata, possibly for the image field. > > That is definitely a big advantadge. It

Re: [Wikidata-l] Bot request: 250+ thousands person data

2014-04-28 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 27.04.2014 11:16, schrieb Christian Thiele: > The german dates have to be parsed, and I think the uncertainty for many > persons > is the main problem ("born 5th of July 1716 or 15th of July 1718", "between > 1918 > and 1921"). But of course for a lot of persons there are accurate information,