MassiveEartha

Josiah Henson Dictionary of Canadian Biography ID value change

Just thought I would explain why I removed the E from the end of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography ID (P2753) for Josiah Henson (Q9013442). It wasn't until recently that I figured out that the E is a language code for English (F = French). Since all of the biographies have both English and French versions, the E should not be a part of the identifier. --Bamyers99 (talk) 02:06, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

@Bamyers99: Thanks for letting me know. Eartha78 (talk) 07:14, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

Thank you for your creation of Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Q47443928)! Wikidata is an amazing resource: thank you for being one of the people who makes it so. -- The Anome (talk) 16:15, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

@The Anome: thank YOU!! MassiveEartha (talk) 16:39, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020

Hi MassiveEartha - you have added yourself to the list of people who are interested in the WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 meeting. The call for submissions is still open and we would love to see your contribution! Let me know if you have any questions. Best wishes!

Konrad Foerstner (talk) 18:34, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Revision history of "John Newton" (Q357301)

Hello. “Enslaved person” Q12773225 is an instance of a “social class,” and IMPORTANTLY, a subclass of “human.” I added this item as a subclass “human” in order to be able to query and find enslaved persons who are human and that are not fictitious characters, paintings which depict enslaved persons, etc. I see that you have removed my enhancement. Please undo any other revisions you performed related to this work. BethGuay (talk) 20:05, 06 May 2021 (UTC)

@BethGuay:

1. enslaved person (Q12773225) is not a subclass of human (Q5). Enslaved persons are fully human, no subclasses. To be enslaved person is not a instance of (P31), subclass of (P279) or occupation (P106). For fictional characters please use:

instance of (P31) → fictional character (Q95074) or literary character (Q3658341) there are other options see

For example:

Josiah Henson (Q9013442) → instance of (P31) → human (Q5)

Uncle Tom (Q2035679) → instance of (P31) → fictional human (Q15632617)

Both are

social classification (P3716) → enslaved person (Q12773225)

For wholesale changes you're proposing please take your suggestions to the discussion page of enslaved person (Q12773225) and alert others who have taken part in previous conversations and editing about enslaved person (Q12773225), eg:

* User_talk:Sadads#Your_to_do_list_-_occupations_and_enslavement

* Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2018/04#Category:Devşirme

2. In the case of someone like John Newton (Q357301) who was not enslaved under a particular legal system (eg: racialised chattel slavery) it might be more appropriate to use significant event (P793) → captivity (Q28100974) see: Fernão Gonçalves da Arca (Q106512616)

MassiveEartha (talk) 02:51, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Hello @User:MassiveEartha. RE: John Newton (Q357301) the devil is in the details. Please take another look at enslaved person (Q12773225) which is clearly a subclass of human (perhaps my vocabulary is imperfect) as well as an instance of (P31) a social class.

I was able to weed out non-human instances of "enslaved person" with the query:

#Humans who were enslaved

select distinct ?item ?itemLabel ?itemDescription ?sitelinks where {

   ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q5;  # Any instance of a human.
         wdt:P31 wd:Q12773225;  #  Who was an enslaved person.

1. Note. Excludes fictious characters, paintings, related topic, etc.

            wikibase:sitelinks ?sitelinks.
  
   SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en,nl" }

} ORDER BY DESC(?sitelinks)

Thank you. I will take your suggestion to discuss this on the discussion page of enslaved person (Q12773225)

BethGuay (talk) 20:31 7 May 2021(UTC)

Thanks for your presentation at Wikiconnl

In the case of the various aspects of Wikidata you would like to track, on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008) is your friend. You can make a general project and develop queries which you can park there. For difficult things that you cannot select with common methods, just use this property and query that way, especially if you are unsure how to proceed. See e.g. for inspiration on the types of things that have been linked to WikiProjects using P5008, see this query for types of artworks used as P31 in WikiProjects. Jane023 (talk) 13:26, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Call for participation in a task-based online experiment

Dear MassiveEartha,

I hope you are doing good,

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I am inviting you to a task-based study that will ask you to provide your judgments about the relevance of the items suggested by our system based on your previous edits. Participation is completely voluntary, and your cooperation will enable us to evaluate the accuracy of the recommender system in suggesting relevant items to you. We will analyse the results anonymised, and they will be published to a research venue.

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Kholoudsaa (talk) 20:17, 5 January 2022 (UTC)