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Wikidata Query updates

Thursday, October 3, 2013

In my last post, I talked about Wikidata Query (WDQ), a web API and tool to run complex queries on the Wikidata corpus. There has been some interest in this system “as is”, but also into the possibilities of using the code in third-party tools. While the code (C++, if you want to know) is […]

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Wikidata Query

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

With over 13 million items, Wikidata is a vast repository of human- and machine-readable data, and with over 70 million edits in the last 11 month, its value as a data repository is growing fast. Much of that value is stored in statements about items, and the connections between items. 42 might take a while […]

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Autodesc

Monday, September 9, 2013

Wikidata offers multilingual labels for items. Since many items will have the same label with, or even across, languages, one can also add a brief description for an item in each language, to quickly disambiguate between them. Such descriptions are helpful in searches, and essential when adding claims linking to other items. However, many items […]

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How to nip a budding project

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Wikidata is booming. A huge number of editors, many of them new contributors to the Wonderful World of Wikimedia projects, are adding, fixing, and sourcing claims to the database. A ridiculously high amount of language links have been moved from Wikipedia to Wikidata. Part of the promise of this new project is to unify factoids […]

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