Wikidata talk:WikiProject Identification Keys

Launch of WikiProject Wikidata for research

Hi, this is to let you know that we've launched WikiProject Wikidata for research in order to stimulate a closer interaction between Wikidata and research, both on a technical and a community level. As a first activity, we are drafting a research proposal on the matter (cf. blog post). It would be great if you would see room for interaction! Thanks, --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 01:30, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Using ContentMine and Wikidata to extract facts about plants for the OpenFarm.cc Project

Hi all, I am working on a project called OpenFarm, a free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge. See our Kickstarter page for a good overview. Most of our content will be the crowdsourced Growing Guides - single author documents that describe the author's own method for growing a Crop. Many Guides can be created for any one Crop, there is no one right answer. This is not why I am here though. I am here because we want to support the Growing Guide content with factual data about the Crop. We'd like to import these facts from places such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, and even use ContentMine to get them from scientific literature. For example, there are many extractable facts from the Wikipedia page for Carrots, even just in the first sentence there are many: "The carrot Daucus carota subsp. sativus; is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, red, white, and yellow varieties exist. It has a crisp texture when fresh." From my understanding, much of this data might already be extracted and organized here in Wikidata, in which case it could be exported? Additionally, the facts that we mine from scientific journals may find a purpose not only in OpenFarm, but here on Wikidata as well.

We have created a preliminary list of ~900 properties that are of interest to us. You can see this list on this Google Spreadsheet. Roryaronson (talk) 01:37, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikimania 2016

Only this week left for comments: Wikidata:Wikimania 2016 (Thank you for translating this message). --Tobias1984 (talk) 11:58, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Is Extension:LifeWeb used anywhere?

@LivingShadow, Daniel Mietchen, Karima Rafes, G.Hagedorn: In T257193, I’m proposing to mark the MediaWiki extension “LifeWeb” as inactive and/or unused. It looks like this WikiProject is related to that extension – do you know if the extension is used anywhere? --Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 09:51, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know the extension "LifeWeb". --Karima Rafes (talk) 13:14, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Project goal unclear

What is meant by "identification keys for all kinds of topics"?

- a key or identifier - when talking about entries in a database - typically is an attribute (or a set of attributes) that makes the entry unique over the complete lifecycle of the entry. I am not sure that this is meant here when I read the sentence " In an identification key, you find the matching insect by answering some questions." - this looks more like a taxonomy.

- are you really looking for keys for topics, or do you mean classes of objects "belonging" to a topic (whateve that means), like a key for the entry "Archimantis latistyla" which is a species of insects = class of individuals?