Hi all
I don't normally post these map updates to the mailing list but figured I
would give it a go this time.
I just generated so new Wikidata item maps and a new difference image
(compared to March 2018) which highlights various areas of increase in
terms of items with coordinate locations.
I have collected snippets of the map and highlighted the areas and I would
love to be able to attribute the increase in coverage to users or projects.
If you know of any users or projects that caused the areas of increase
highlighted in the blog post below then please let me know.
https://addshore.com/2018/10/wikidata-map-october-2018/
The areas are:
- Africa
- Canada & the US
- Mexico
- Columbia
- Chile
- SĂŁo Paulo & Brazil
- Iceland
- Scotland & Wales
- Finland
- Latvia
- Sri Lanka & Maldives
- Fiji
Thanks
Addshore
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deprecation) p2241 was added and is still
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From: Nicholas Humfrey
Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 7:31 AM
To: Discussion list for the
Wikidata project.
Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Wiki PageID
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Hi,
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I have finally got around to starting to decommission dbpedialite.org
Pages now redirect to Wikidata entity URIs.
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I won't be renewing the domain name when it expires 2019-05-09.
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From: Nicholas Humfrey
< nicholas.humfrey(a)bbc.co.uk >
Date: Monday, 24 April 2017 at 15:51
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project."
< wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org >
Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Wiki PageID
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Hi,
A number of years ago I was having some very
frustrating times with the identifier instability in dbpedia. Two people looking
up an identifier for the same concept at different times ended up with different
identifiers.
So I created a proof of concept, dbpedialite, which uses
Wikipedia PageIDs:
http://www.dbpedialite.org/things/87851
(At
the time there was a page title edit war between Stoat and
Ermine)
But now we have Wikidata – which solves this problem much
better – so I should really get on and decommission dbpedialite.
What are
you using Wikipedia Page IDs for? Might it be better to store the Wikidata
ID and then lookup the Wikipedia page on
demand?
nick.
From: Wikidata
< wikidata-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org > on behalf of Gintautas
Sulskus < gintautas.sulskus(a)gmail.com >
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for the Wikidata project." < wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org >
Date:
Monday, 24 April 2017 at 15:37
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata
project." <wikidata@
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Hi,
I have a couple of questions regarding the Wiki Page ID. Does it always
stay unique for the page, where the page itself is just a placeholder for
any kind of information that might change over time?
Consider the following cases:
1. The first time someone creates page "Moon" it is assigned ID=1. If at
some point the page is renamed to "The_Moon", the ID=1 remains intact. Is
this correct?
2. What if we have page "Moon" with ID=1. Someone creates a second-page
"The_Moon" with ID=2. Is it possible that page "Moon" is transformed into a
redirect? Then, "Moon" would be redirecting to page "The_Moon"?
3. Is it possible for page "Moon" to become a category "Category:Moon" with
the same ID=1?
Thanks,
Gintas
Dear fellow Wikidataists,
did you know that data in Wikidata about Asian countries is 100% complete
for the head of government, yet is only 33% complete for the central bank?
Did you know that data in Wikidata about African countries is less complete
than European countries?
As an early little birthday gift for the 6th Birthday of Wikidata, we are
proud to release ProWD - Profiling WikiData. ProWD is a tool to analyze
data completeness in Wikidata, which is based on the class (e.g., country),
facet (e.g., continent), and attribute (e.g., central bank) of the entities.
ProWD features:
(1) Know which entity has been completed? Which has not?
(2) See overall completeness of a class of entities.
(3) Compare completeness between different facets of a class.
ProWD is available online at https://prowd-prototype.herokuapp.com/
ProWD tutorial is available online at http://bit.ly/prowd-tut
We would be very happy to have your visit to play around with ProWD. We
would appreciate for any insights on how ProWD can be improved further, or
how ProWD might be useful for your Wikidata projects.
Warm regards,
Fariz Darari
On behalf of ProWD Team
Hello everyone,
I'd like to ask if Wikidata could please offer a HDT [1] dump along with the already available Turtle dump [2]. HDT is a binary format to store RDF data, which is pretty useful because it can be queried from command line, it can be used as a Jena/Fuseki source, and it also uses orders-of-magnitude less space to store the same data. The problem is that it's very impractical to generate a HDT, because the current implementation requires a lot of RAM processing to convert a file. For Wikidata it will probably require a machine with 100-200GB of RAM. This is unfeasible for me because I don't have such a machine, but if you guys have one to share, I can help setup the rdf2hdt software required to convert Wikidata Turtle to HDT.
Thank you.
[1] http://www.rdfhdt.org/
[2] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/