Wikidata: Exploring more visibility and coverage of KDE Applications

John Samuel

Akademy 2017, Almeria, 22nd July, 2017


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_KDE_applications
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:KDE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:KDE
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Palette_KDE
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predefini%C3%A7%C3%A3o:KDE
KDE Plasma 5 (English, Spanish, Italian, German)
KDE Frameworks 5 (English, Spanish)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Applications
1. Wikidata
Wikidata is free
Wikidata is free,open
Wikidata is free, open, linked
Wikidata is free, open, linked, structured
Wikidata is free, open, linked, structured, collaborative
Wikidata is free, open, linked, structured, collaborative and multilingual
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1765672
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1765672

Q-number
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1765672
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1765672
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1765672
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31

P-number
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31

Q-number and
P-number
2. What to edit?
  1. instance of P31
  2. image P18
  3. logo image P154
  4. GUI toolkit or framework P1414
  5. software version P348
  6. ...
All those numbers!!!
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Informatics/Software/Properties
Wikidata Projects
  1. WikiProject Informatics/Software
  2. WikiProject Informatics/Operating System
  3. WikiProject Informatics/Programming Language
  4. ...
3. How to edit?
Manual
  1. Quickstatements(2)
  2. HarvestTemplates
  3. PetScan
  1. Quickstatements
    • CREATE
    • LAST Len "Software Name"
    • LAST Lfr "Nom du logiciel"
    • LAST Den "description"
    • LAST Dfr "la description"
    • LAST P31 Q?
  1. Quickstatements
  2. HarvestTemplates
    • Import data from Wikipedia Templates (e.g., Infoboxes)
    • Template Name, Property Name, P-Number
  1. Quickstatements
  2. HarvestTemplates
  3. PetScan
    • Find Wikipedia articles matching categories
    • Edit Wikidata items
Writing bots
Bots using MediaWiki API
Bots using pywikibot
4. Wikipedia or Wikidata?
Integration between Wikipedia infoboxes and Wikidata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra
Automated article generation
Akregator is a news aggregator application in KDE. It was developed in QT GUI framework.
Conclusion
  1. KDE Evolution
  2. Automation and Collaboration
  3. Linguistic Diversity
  • References
    1. Wikidata in Wikipedia, Mike Peel, Wikimania 2016
    2. Wikimedia Commons
    3. MediaWiki API (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page)
    4. Article Placeholder (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder)
    5. Quickstatements (https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/quick_statements.php)
    6. HarvestTemplates (https://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/harvesttemplates/)
    7. PetScan (http://petscan.wmflabs.org/)
    8. Pywikibot (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot)
  • Acknowledgements
    1. Wikimedia Hackathon 2017
    2. Wikidata community members
Q19279214!
Gracias! Thanks! Merci!