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Words and what not: The proof of the pudding
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Words and what not. Wednesday, June 23, 2010. The proof of the pudding. If ever there is a contest where the biggest prize is won by a community, it is the Bebaskan Pengetahuan 2010. Competition. Consider what it would take to double the number of regular editors, what it would take to have 60% of them to be female? What it would take to challenge any Wikipedia for the quality of the new articles that were written? I think the Indonesian chapter. Competition will find many encores. Contrary to what peopl...
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Words and what not: #Wikidata - #corroboration and #sourcing
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Words and what not. Monday, August 10, 2015. Wikidata - #corroboration and #sourcing. The problem with sources available on statements in Wikidata. Is that even when they are by definition the source of a statement, it is not what we understand a source to be. When I use tools to add statements to Wikidata based on lists and categories from a Wikipedia. Sourced in this way. Indicates that Nora van de Vlier. Received the Willink van Collen Prize. In 1954 I would consider it a source. And happily accept it...
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Words and what not: June 2015
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Words and what not. Monday, June 29, 2015. Wikidata - كيفين بيكن and the #Syrian #refugees. When you consider the size of the camps where Syrian refugees are kept, the people lose their face, are no longer seen as individuals. But exactly because of the size, there must be professors, engineers, soccer stars and actors among them. Seen in that light Mr كيفين بيكن. Is not that far away from any of them. I am sure that for all them it is a " significant event. Sunday, June 28, 2015. The JB. Broekszprize.
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Words and what not: #Wikidata - #Pen #awards
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Words and what not. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Wikidata - #Pen #awards. The many chapters of Pen International. Confer many awards. Mr Mazin Darwish. Now has his 2014 award and would it not be fun to have a query that shows all the people who ever were awarded one of the many, many "Pen awards". First, all the chapters have to be part of Pen International, then all the awards have to be conferred by a Pen chapter and finally all the people have to be recognised as honored with one of the Pen awards. Contr...
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Words and what not: #Wikidata - Frances Oldham Kelsey
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Words and what not. Saturday, August 08, 2015. Wikidata - Frances Oldham Kelsey. When someone like Mrs Kelsey. Dies, it is wonderful to read about her in the Wikipedia articl. E There are always some factoids that can be added to the Wikidata item. What struck me most is not the story of how Mrs Kelsey prevented the USA from the effects of thalidomide. In babies but the importance that an article in the Washington Post. Had Thanks to an article by Morton Mintz. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Code Af...
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Words and what not: #Wikidata - #Quality, #probability and #set theory
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Words and what not. Thursday, August 13, 2015. Wikidata - #Quality, #probability and #set theory. The problem with any source is that it has errors. It cannot be helped. There is always a certain percentage that is wrong. When you take all the items of Wikidata that have statements, the type of process that added those statements provides an indication of the percentage of errors that were included. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Wikipedia - the lowest hanging fruit from #Wikidata. Wikidata - Heinz ...
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Words and what not: August 2015
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Words and what not. Monday, August 31, 2015. Wikidata - Kian and #quality. Kian was very much a promise. This time, after the announcement by Amir. Kian is so much more. Kian is a tool that can be trained to identify items for what they are. Training means, that parameters are provided whereby the software can act on its own and based on likelihood will make the identification or list it as a "maybe". Yes, Kian makes use of hard scientific knowledge but as it is structured in this way, it makes a real di...
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Words and what not: #Wikipedia - Maintaining the #Akademy award
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Words and what not. Sunday, August 02, 2015. Wikipedia - Maintaining the #Akademy award. Challenged Wikipedians to update the information about Akademy. The conference in 2014 and 2015 have come and gone by now. The most interesting part of the English article. Is the information about the awards. There are three of them; one for best application. One for best non application. And a jury's award. Awards are important and Lydia has two main points:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Wikidata - Joseph Re...
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Words and what not: May 2015
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Words and what not. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Wikidata - #awards on #Wikipedia. One argument why not to have lists of awards based on #Wikidata. Is #dead. The list can include the date it was conferred and, it can be sorted in this way. I asked Magnus. How to do this and he showed me. When there are champions for specific topics like literature, it helps them when they learn that an award has been awarded again or that an article does not exist yet for an author that has been recognised with an award. When a...
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Words and what not: #Wikidata - the Forough Faroukhzad Award
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Words and what not. Saturday, August 01, 2015. Wikidata - the Forough Faroukhzad Award. When I wrote about the Radcliffe fellow Mrs Mehrangiz Kar. I mentioned that recognition came to her in the form of many awards. One of them was the Forough Faroukhzad Award. This award was only known as a string of text. I asked an Iranian friend if he could identify a few more people who received this award. He identified a few more for me and consequently, this award became incrementally more relevant. The Hartstich...
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