Re: [Wikidata-l] Organisation Linked Data dataset

2015-01-07 Thread Bianca Pereira
Hi everyone, Thank you very much for the pointers. What I am looking for is a dataset with, at least, a list of organizations and their city, if there is more information such as founders it will be good, if there are links between organizations even better. As much context as better I should

Re: [Wikidata-l] Organisation Linked Data dataset

2015-01-07 Thread Paul
Hi Bianca, Concerning KBO there are several access points. You can dereference the identifiers e.g. http://data.kbodata.be/organisation/0476_068_080#id http://data.kbodata.be/organisation/0476_068_080#id There is a full text search facility, a OpenRefine compliant reconciliation API, a sparql

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Mediawiki-api] Freebase like API with an OUTPUT feature ?

2015-01-07 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: quote name=Thad Guidry date=2015-01-06 time=19:59:18 -0600 And so after some digging, and lack of responses on this thread, Hi Thad! I'm worried that the relevant people from the Wikidata/Wikibase project just aren't

Re: [Wikidata-l] Conflict of Interest policy for Wikidata

2015-01-07 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Back to Denny's original question: Does anybody see a specific danger of abuse if living people get to edit their own data right now? Entering wrong claims deliberately would maybe not be the biggest issue here (since it is already in conflict with other general policies -- we do not want

Re: [Wikidata-l] Organisation Linked Data dataset

2015-01-07 Thread Ruben Verborgh
Hi Bianca, In addition to Paul's answer: There is a full text search facility, a OpenRefine compliant reconciliation API, a sparql endpoint and a linked data fragment server all accessible (with examples) from the home page at http://kbodata.be/. You can easily fire SPARQL queries at the

Re: [Wikidata-l] Conflict of Interest policy for Wikidata

2015-01-07 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, English Wikipedia is not Wikipedia. It certainly is not any other project. I certainly do not want the policies of English Wikipedia. It is bad enough for en,wp itself Thanks, GerardM On 7 January 2015 at 19:26, Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com wrote: Wikipedia has

Re: [Wikidata-l] Conflict of Interest policy for Wikidata

2015-01-07 Thread Nicolas Torzec
Also, when adding information to Wikipedia/Wikidata, it is best practice (but not mandatory) to provide external references backing up your claims. Nicolas. On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 10:26 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com wrote: Wikipedia has already

Re: [Wikidata-l] Conflict of Interest policy for Wikidata

2015-01-07 Thread Scott MacLeod
Markus, Denny and Wikidatans, I don't, Markus. In the information age, this seems to be a widespread and helpful practice in general (e.g. in LinkedIn and for some medical records,, for example). On the benefits of this side, this is a way for Wikidata to get most accurate, and potentially,

Re: [Wikidata-l] Conflict of Interest policy for Wikidata

2015-01-07 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 7 January 2015 at 20:29, Nicolas Torzec torz...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: Also, when adding information to Wikipedia/Wikidata, it is best practice (but not mandatory) to provide external references backing up your claims. Some property values are self referencing; VIAF and ORCID identifiers,

Re: [Wikidata-l] Conflict of Interest policy for Wikidata

2015-01-07 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Irrespective of the general policy discussion, I have now been bold and changed my item and user page to record that relationship as by my earlier suggestion (as copied below): https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18618630 I was wondering if, given that we have single signon, website account on

Re: [Wikidata-l] Conflict of Interest policy for Wikidata

2015-01-07 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Markus, is there no public domain picture for you... Please let it be a flattering picture.. and please add it yourself... grin I love the argument people make when they want to imply that you are not that good looking /grin Thanks, Gerard

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Mediawiki-api] Freebase like API with an OUTPUT feature ?

2015-01-07 Thread Thad Guidry
Hi Lydia, It's more than that. I can get labels just fine with props=labels Ideally there were be a Number 3 a reconcile service, or an API that can be USED as a reconcile service. Given a search string of Paris, let's say... 1. Return some disambiguating properties and their labels and

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Mediawiki-api] Freebase like API with an OUTPUT feature ?

2015-01-07 Thread Thad Guidry
Yes I did try wbsearchentities, and your right, it returns more via a search operator. The problem with wbsearchentities is that it is limited and cannot additionally pipe output for the claims information (ideally important claims only, disambiguating claims/properties) Thad +ThadGuidry

Re: [Wikidata-l] Conflict of Interest policy for Wikidata

2015-01-07 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Wikipedia has already addressed this question. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autobiography. In summary, one should not add or change information about oneself, unless the change could not be considered to be non-controversial or there is some reason that a change should be made

[Wikidata-l] next Wikidata office hour

2015-01-07 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey folks :) I'll be doing another office hour for Wikidata on IRC next Friday at 18:00 UTC. It'll happen in #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC. Everyone is welcome for discussions and question answering. Logs will be posted afterwards. For your timezone see

Re: [Wikidata-l] Conflict of Interest policy for Wikidata

2015-01-07 Thread Markus Krötzsch
P.S. I also should declare a COI on this discussion: I am Q18618630. -- Markus On 07.01.2015 15:25, Markus Krötzsch wrote: Back to Denny's original question: Does anybody see a specific danger of abuse if living people get to edit their own data right now? Entering wrong claims deliberately

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Mediawiki-api] Freebase like API with an OUTPUT feature ?

2015-01-07 Thread Legoktm
On 01/07/2015 09:02 AM, Thad Guidry wrote: The closest starting point for a Reconcile API with the current API structure that I can see is hacking a bit on this one: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentitiessites=enwikititles=Parislanguages=enprops=descriptions|claims Btw,