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London Gazette

Do you plan to add more properties or external links to the items for London Gazette issues beyond the four that are currently present? Mahir256 (talk) 01:54, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Yes. It's unwieldy to add more with the first batch.Theknightwho (talk) 02:11, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Just for curiosity. When you planning to add more properties and what properties? Thank you so much! --Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 16:28, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

So currently I'm adding all 63,507 issues, and will be adding the PDF links to the official Gazette website such as this. 99% of them going back to issue 1 (in 1665!) are currently uploaded. Longer-term aim is to correctly title and date them, but given the quantity that will be an ongoing process! Theknightwho (talk) 17:30, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Now that each London Gazette item exists, what's the status on adding more properties to them? Mahir256 (talk) 17:40, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

I've run into some issues in determining which issues have been uploaded and which haven't - I will try to make sure this is sorted by the end of the year, but it's slow going due to manual checking. Theknightwho (talk) 17:29, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Any updates on this? (There are at least 1500 references to just "The London Gazette" that could be migrated to the items you've created.) Mahir256 (talk) 01:48, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

I have added URLs to those issues that have them (approximately 50,000 iirc). The dates will have to be done manually and will likely take hundreds of hours, but I think having an external link where one is available is probably alright for now? Theknightwho (talk) 16:29, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

This model - diff - for dates on The London Gazette items? i.e. format of description, use of start of covered period (P7103) & end of covered period (P7104). --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:57, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Dates; work in progress: https://w.wiki/8P89 - Note that the dates in the item are Julian; WDQS produces Gregorian dates, so, for now, the report is calculating Julian dates. --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:38, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Symbols

Hello. I don't know where the general discussion can be, so let's try here.

1. How do you distinguish "letter" and "symbol"? Isn't beta (Q14382) an (indirect) instance of symbol alread? Why can't there be properties like these + TeX string (P1993)?
2. What's the relation between √ (Q87524463) and radical sign (Q11536248)? Aren't they both "symbol" of square root (Q134237)? Should they be merged (like you've done with Q3490724+Q87496146)?
3. Why do you use (e.g. for intersection (Q185837)) depicted by (P1299) and not notation (P913)? I'd prefer the latter for mathematical operators...
4. The other problem with Q3490724+Q87496146 is that
   ⟨ less-than sign (Q87496146)    ⟩ has use (P366) ⟨ chevron (Q100606170)    ⟩
   while less-than sign (Q3490724) is semantically only for relation "less than", no? Same with greater-than sign (Q3490717).
5. How can one Unicode character be depicted by (P1299) the other?
6. May be you know how to find (query) all ASCII characters? --Infovarius (talk) 11:08, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

• Hi - I think that's a good idea. My recent merges weren't really intended to be comprehensive, as I was just clearing things up anything that used the HTML entity (P4575) property before adding it en masse. Obviously in the long-term we'll want things to be consistent.
  1. My approach with Latin and Greek letters is that we need to have an item for the letter itself (e.g. the concept of the letter Beta), but the issue is that we also need items for uppercase and lowercase Beta as neither one is the "default" that can claim to be the true Beta. They're both instance of (P31) beta (Q14382), though I haven't got around to editing that yet. This is different from, say, letters that only have one character which represents them (i.e. the character is the letter), or where one is clearly a variant (e.g. a rare capitalisation, or a circle around etc.). Strictly speaking, the properties I removed weren't properties of beta (Q14382), but properties of particular instances of beta (Q14382) (i.e. they were properties of uppercase Beta and lowercase Beta). I know they had the qualifier applies to part (P518), but I'm not sure that it was being used correctly - they're instances, not parts of - and it would be good to avoid duplication to prevent divergence.
  2. I see no issue merging √ (Q87524463) into radical sign (Q11536248), agreed.
  3. I used depicted by (P1299) as I was doing that for anything where I was distinguishing the concept from the representation, but notation (P913) does seem better for mathematical operators, yes.
  4. So the question is whether less-than sign (Q3490724) and chevron (Q100606170) are semantically different (i.e. could they be used in the same document in different ways and be seen as different characters and not merely different uses?). Obviously a character can represent multiple concepts, but just because (for example) exclamation mark (Q166764) can represent emphasis (Q65044042) and factorial (Q120976), doesn't mean that they each have their own character. They're both exclamation mark (Q166764), being used in different ways.
  5. % (Q7559698) is the percent sign, while ％ (Q87544541) and ﹪ (Q87544197) are variants (fullwidth and small, respectively). The latter two depict the former, which is a bit different from letters.
  6. I don't have much experience with querying, sorry. We seem to be missing a bunch of ASCII control characters - I haven't been able to find items for a lot of them. Theknightwho (talk) 16:12, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

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The London Gazette

Hello, you may find useful the item issue of the London Gazette (Q111011066) to be used as instance of the items of the single issues of the London Gazette. -- Blackcat 18:06, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Local Acts

I've come across a number of Local Act items which I think you're responsible for, such as Argyll County Council (Arinagour and Craignure Piers, etc.) Order Confirmation Act 1961 (Q110282865). They feature P953 links to digitalarchive.parliament.uk. Could you tell me how you find Acts on digitalarchive.parliament.uk ... I'm not seeing an obvious path to the Acts from parliament.uk, nor an index of Acts on digitalarchive.parliament.uk, so what you're doing has all the characteristics of a magician pulling rabbits out of a hat. thx. --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:11, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

@Tagishsimon They're linked to from https://archives.parliament.uk/, which contains the data structure. To use that Act as an example, https://archives.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/GB61_HL_PO_PB_1_1961_9and10Eliz2cxix contains a link to https://digitalarchive.parliament.uk/HL/PO/PB/1/1961/9&10Eliz2cxix.

Not every Act has been digitised, but I think I added links for all the ones that were at the time; perhaps a few more have been added since then. Theknightwho (talk) 17:18, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. I see a little more clearly now; I've found 'Browse by Hierarchy' on the https://archives.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/GB61_HL_PO_PB_1_1961_9and10Eliz2cxix page. That's some seriously impressive work on the items; I take my hat off to you. --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:59, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

@Tagishsimon Thanks! I've been busy with Wiktionary work, but perhaps at some point I'll go back further (since I think I only did the Acts back to about 1960). The problem is that the further back you go, the harder it is to track some of them down. Theknightwho (talk) 18:03, 1 December 2023 (UTC)