Reading Recommending Images to Wikidata Items by Miriam, which highlights missing areas of image coverage in Wikidata (despite being the most complete site in the WikimediaVerse, image-wise), and strategies to address the issue, I was reminded of an annoying problem I have run into a few times. My WD-FIST tool uses (primarily) SPARQL to find […]
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I have been looking into a JavaScript library called vue.js lately. It is similar to React, but not encumbered by licensing issues (that might prevent its use on WMF servers in the future), faster (or so they claim), but most of all, it can work without interference on the server side; all I need for my […]
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Monday, November 16, 2015
Mix’n’match has seen some updates in the past few days. There are about ~170K new entries, in several catalogs: Yle (Finnish Yle freebase => wikidata migration) Orsay Museum artists PSS-Archi architects and buildings SIKART Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz Kansallisbiografia Also, there is a brand-new import tool that anyone (who has made at least […]
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Just about a week after its inception, the Distributed Game has passed 10K (now 12K, since I started writing this text) actions. Enough to see some interesting patterns in the stats. By actions (an action is any decision made), the most popular sub-games are mix’n’match (42%) and matching new articles to existing items (36%), followed […]
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
So my Wikidata list-generating bot Listeria has become popular in certain circles, creating and updating lists of artworks, species, or ORCID ID holders. With the introduction of the Wikidata SPARQL service, Wikidata queries are becoming more mainstream, and lists are a logical next step. At the same time, many Wikipedians lack an awareness of Wikidata, […]
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015
So there is a lively discussion about using descriptions from Wikidata in places like Wikipedia search results, especially on mobile. While everyone seems to agree that this is a good idea, camps are forming with supporters of manual and automatically generated descriptions, respectively. Time for an entirely manual description of my POV. At the time […]
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Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in terms of articles/items with an image of the subject, and is now only second to English Wikipedia in that regard. As if in celebration, I added several new features to my Wikidata FIST tool, which makes adding images to Wikidata as easy as a single click (or two, if […]
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One of the early promises of Wikidata was the improvement of lists on Wikipedia. These would be automatically generated and displayed, solving a number of problems: Solve inconsistent lists on the same topic across Wikipedias Keep all lists up-to-date Track all possible members of the list via items, instead of per-Wikipedia red links A single […]
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When I first announced the Wikidata Game almost a year ago, it certainly profited from its novelty value. Since then, it has seen a few new sub-games, and quite a number of code patches from others (which doesn’t happen often for my other tools!). But how does the game fare medium-/long-term? With >200K “actions” (distinct […]
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Since November 2014, I have been collecting statistics on Wikidata by country, initially for Australia, France, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The raw, live numbers have always been online here, but staring at raw data has been known to result in aggravated academics. Therefore, I generated a few plot from said data, and accumulated […]
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