Dear Users,
I have the great honour to inform you that the Call for Proposals for WikiIndaba 2018 is now open. WikiIndaba 2018 is the 3rd conference of African Wikimedia movement and will give to participants the opportunity to share their Wikimedia-related experience and skills with a wide and active African Wikimedia audience. The conference will be held in Tunisia from 16 to 18 March 2018. If you want to participate to WikiIndaba and share your works and thoughts with African Wikimedians, feel free to submit your proposal in https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. The deadline for giving proposals will be January 15th, 2018.
If you need a scholarship to attend WikiIndaba 2018, you can apply to it in https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJJ2I0FBqp4SuiW5ypj-9lnLaAidUmhMs….
Looking forward to seeing you in Tunis next March.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki
Felix Nartey
Isla Haddow-Flood
Dear Users,
I have the great honour to inform you that the Call for Proposals for WikiIndaba 2018 is now open. WikiIndaba 2018 is the 3rd conference of African Wikimedia movement and will give to participants the opportunity to share their Wikimedia-related experience and skills with a wide and active African Wikimedia audience. The conference will be held in Tunisia from 16 to 18 March 2018. If you want to participate to WikiIndaba and share your works and thoughts with African Wikimedians, feel free to submit your proposal in https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. The deadline for giving proposals will be January 15th, 2018.
If you need a scholarship to attend WikiIndaba 2018, you can apply to it in https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJJ2I0FBqp4SuiW5ypj-9lnLaAidUmhMs….
Looking forward to seeing you in Tunis next March.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki
Felix Nartey
Isla Haddow-Flood
Dear Users,
I have the great honour to inform you that the Call for Proposals for WikiIndaba 2018 is now open. WikiIndaba 2018 is the 3rd conference of African Wikimedia movement and will give to participants the opportunity to share their Wikimedia-related experience and skills with a wide and active African Wikimedia audience. The conference will be held in Tunisia from 16 to 18 March 2018. If you want to participate to WikiIndaba and share your works and thoughts with African Wikimedians, feel free to submit your proposal in https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. The deadline for giving proposals will be January 15th, 2018.
If you need a scholarship to attend WikiIndaba 2018, you can apply to it in https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJJ2I0FBqp4SuiW5ypj-9lnLaAidUmhMs….
Looking forward to seeing you in Tunis next March.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki
Felix Nartey
Isla Haddow-Flood
I'm looking for two Wikidata-related statistics that I'm having trouble
finding. Hoping someone can help.
First, I'd like to find monthly edit counts comparing Wikidata to other
Wikimedia projects, ultimately to make the statement that "Wikidata was the
x-th most edited WMF site in November 2017". I've scanned
stats.wikimedia.org but can't find that summarized. This link [1] seems to
say that there were 18726 WD edits in Nov 2017, but that seems
exceptionally small (and also I can't put that in context short of visiting
the similar table for all other WMF projects).
Second, are there any stats on the uptime of the WDQS SPARQL endpoint? I'd
like to make the case that WDQS is among the most stable SPARQL endpoints
available (and this site [2] seems to suggest that the bar is pretty low).
(is it worth trying to get wikidata directly added to that list? Hmm,
seems like it was previously suggested here [3]...)
Pointers appreciated!
thanks,
-andrew
[1]: https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaWIKIDATA.htm#
editor_activity_levels
[2]: http://sparqles.ai.wu.ac.at/availability
[3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85444
Hello all,
The so-called “term box” is the part of the item page where the labels, descriptions and aliases are displayed in different languages. We are currently working on improving the interface for editing this section, especially regarding adding new languages.
We just published a prototype <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Usability_and_usefulness/Feedback_ro…>, and we would really like your input so we make sure that our changes will fulfill your needs. You can have a look at the prototype, and answer a few questions on the input page. It will take you about 10 minutes, and will really help us to understand how you expect to edit the labels in multiple languages. We will collect the answers until January 11th.
If you have any question or suggestion, feel free to write on the talk page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Usability_and_usefulness/Feedba…>. Thank you very much!
—
Hanna Petruschat
UX & Interaction Design
"Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment."
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Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
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Dear all,
I just released a new version (0.8) of the Wikidata Toolkit [1]. Wikidata
Toolkit is a Java library allowing to easily reuse Wikidata content using
dumps or the API but also providing helpers for editing.
This release mainly adds several fixes that are needed to keep Wikidata
Toolkit working with the changes done on Wikidata provides support for JDK
9.
It also provides two features related to the Wikibase API: it is now
possible to edit labels, descriptions and aliases using the
WikibaseDataEditor (this is a work in progress that is likely to change)
and there is now a wrapper for the wbEntitySearch API action.
We have created a short survey to help doing technical choices for the
future versions of the Wikidata Toolkit, especially related to Java 7
support and the RDF converter. Please fill it if you are using Wikidata
Toolkit (it should take less than a minute):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdN25X2sTv2wQe-y56d0hC4QmU06s6crr1…
Best,
Thomas (Tpt)
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit
Hi folks !
So we at Schema.org like the idea of your new Panorama View property as
noted here and gaining interest...
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1768
We also thought a bit about that and are also thinking of an additional
property (a subtype for us) to hold a 360 panoramic view (a complete
spherical projection view, also known as photo bubbles, photo spheres, etc).
Any seasoned Wikidata folks that can create that 360 panoramic view
property proposal for us ? :)
Thad
+ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>
Hello everyone
I'm excited to announce that the National Library of Wales will be hosting the Celtic Knot Conference in 2018 following the success of the first conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh last year.
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2018
Please save the date (5-6th of July 2018) and consider attending. The main objective for Celtic Knot 2018 is the coming together of people working to support language communities in the same room at same time; strengthening the bonds into a 'knot' and leading into action. Attendees can expect to learn about and discuss innovative approaches to open education, open knowledge and open data that support and grow language communities.
Please share. And look out for more information on attending and contributing in the new year.
--
Jason Evans
Wicimediwr Cenedlaethol/ National Wikimedian
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales
jason.evans(a)llgc.org.uk
Ffon/Tel: +44 (0)1970 632405
Hi all,
I understand this is probably outside the scope of Wikidata-l, but I am
looking for advice in what I am noticing is a somewhat re-occuring issue
with VIAF identifiers.
For a lot of items, I am finding 2 or more VIAF numbers for BLP subjects.
Recently I've found up to 4 VIAF numbers:
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45311838
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45311745
Is there coordination between Wikidata and VIAF that is automated and fixes
things like this.
I don't want to remove some of these VIAF numbers as they are tied to
"legit" authority bodies. I understand there is often a "main" VIAF
number...
Thanks in advance for any assistance and/or advice with this.
- Erika
*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*