As some of you may know, I write the occasional tool to help support Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, and other projects in the WikiVerse. Most of my tools work on the same basic principle: Get some data to start with, think about it, and present a result. The input data is often a list of pages […]
Wikidata has beautiful mechanisms to associate individual claims with sources for that claim. However, finding and adding such sources is surprisingly complex, and, between multiple open tabs and the somewhat sluggish interface, can strain the patience of the most well-meaning editor. I had previously attempted to simplify adding sources to Wikidata statements; and while I […]
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Now that I got your attention … Prompted by a post from Jane Darnell, I thought to quickly run some gender-related stats on artists in Wikidata. Specifically, the number of articles on Wikipedias for artists with a specific property, by gender. First, RKDartists (at the moment of writing, 21,859 male and 2,801 female artists on […]
So I recently blogged about automatic descriptions based on Wikidata. And as nice as these APIs are, what could they be used for? You got it – demo time! Linkin Park band member Dave Farrell has no article on English Wikipedia (only a redirect to Linkin Park, which is unhelpful). He does, however, have a […]
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Ever since Rambot effectively doubled the size of English Wikipedia in a matter of days, automatic text generation from a dataset has been met with suspicion in the Wikiverse. Some text is better than none, for most readers, say some; but number-heavy, boring bot text is not really an encyclopaedia entry, and it could also […]
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Recently, @notconfusing has been living up to his name by presenting us with preliminary results from the Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index. For me, that report is also an annoyance, because I was not aware this was going on, and had started to prepare my own research, with intend to publish, about the same topic. Fact […]
Open source projects like Linux, and open content projects like Wikipedia and Wikidata, are fine things indeed by themselves. However, the power of individual projects is multiplied if they can be linked up. For free software, this can be taken literally; linking libraries to your code is what allows complex applications to exists. For open […]
Monday, November 24, 2014
Recently, someone told me that “there are no images on Wikidata”. I found that rather hard to believe, as I had added quite a few using my own tools. So I had a quick look at the numbers. For Wikidata, counting the number of items with images is straightforward. For Wikipedia, not so much; by […]
Wikidata and its web of interconnected items lends itself to automated clustering. I have used my Wikidata query tool to quickly (as in, a few minutes) check all clusters of humans, that is, items about humans connected by properties such as mother, child, spouse, brother, etc. At the time of writing, there are 11,784 clusters […]
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Two weeks after releasing the first version of The Wikidata Game, I feel a quick look at the progress is in order. First, thank you everyone for trying, playing, and feedback! The response has been overwhelming; sometimes quite literally so, thus I ask your forgiveness if I can’t quite keep up with the many suggestions […]