Re: [Wikidata-l] WikiData Categories

2014-07-04 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 04.07.2014 07:10, schrieb Rohan Badlani: I had downloaded the wikidata dump from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/latest/ There is a file wikidatawiki-20140420-pages-articles-multistream-index which consists of triplets like: 537:114:Q17 I couldn't find documentation for the

Re: [Wikidata-l] WikiData Categories

2014-07-04 Thread Jane Darnell
Q17 is Japan, and if you are interested in people from Japan for example, you can do this: http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=7463305 (thanks to Magnus' reasonator tool that can extract category-like info from Wikidata based on properties and qualifiers) On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 9:01 AM,

Re: [Wikidata-l] WikiData Categories

2014-07-04 Thread Scott MacLeod
Jane, Lydia and WikiDatans, These are great and helpful developments, which seem to be quite far along now. Jane and WikiDatans, can you point to similar helpful examples that would distinguish how WikiData Categories and what one can extract with Magnus' reasonator tool from what one can

Re: [Wikidata-l] WikiData Categories

2014-07-04 Thread Magnus Manske
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Scott MacLeod worlduniversityandsch...@gmail.com wrote: Jane, Lydia and WikiDatans, These are great and helpful developments, which seem to be quite far along now. Jane and WikiDatans, can you point to similar helpful examples that would distinguish how

Re: [Wikidata-l] WikiData Categories

2014-07-04 Thread Scott MacLeod
Magnus, Thanks for the clarification. Adding some of the resources you shared to the Wiki subject page at WUaS. Cheers, Scott On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Scott MacLeod

Re: [Wikidata-l] WikiData Categories

2014-07-04 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, To confuse you even more, Reasonator knows about Wikipedia categories. What is so exciting is that it is possible to include statements in Wikidata that Reasonator interprets as statements for a query. Reasonator shows you the results from that query. I blogged about a Mr Sinegal [1], in the

Re: [Wikidata-l] WikiData Categories

2014-07-04 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On 04/07/14 14:49, Magnus Manske wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Scott MacLeod worlduniversityandsch...@gmail.com mailto:worlduniversityandsch...@gmail.com wrote: Jane, Lydia and WikiDatans, These are great and helpful developments, which seem to be quite far along now.

Re: [Wikidata-l] WikiData Categories

2014-07-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I do not get it.. Wikidata has items not categories, so you get access to the item for a category in the same way as you get access to any other item. Thanks, GerardM On 3 July 2014 11:03, Rohan Badlani rohan.badl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I am new to WikiData. I wanted to know how

Re: [Wikidata-l] WikiData Categories

2014-07-03 Thread Magnus Manske
Hi Rohan, if by category you mean item, e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q537 the easiest way to get the corresponding JSON is: https://wikidata.org/entity/Q537.json If you want a JSON object for all items with property P537, try: http://wdq.wmflabs.org/api?q=claim[537] See here for many

Re: [Wikidata-l] WikiData Categories

2014-07-03 Thread Rohan Badlani
Thanks for an early response. @Magnus: I was able to get the json of the items. Still thanks. However, my exact problem is the following. I had downloaded the wikidata dump from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/latest/ There is a file wikidatawiki-20140420-pages-articles-multistream-index