Hi Everyone,
We’re happy to announce the April 2021 edition of the Technical Community
Newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2021/April>
is now available. The newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Developer
Advocacy Team. It aims to share highlights, news, and information of
interest from and about the Wikimedia technical community.
Check it out, and learn about what technical contributors have been up to
this past quarter, upcoming conferences & calls for papers, and how to get
involved.
The Wikimedia Technical Community is large and diverse, and we know we
can't capture everything perfectly. We welcome your ideas for future
newsletters. Let us know what you would like to see or highlights you would
like us to include.
Subscribe to the Technical Community Newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Technical_Community_Newsletter>,
if you'd like to keep up with essential updates and information
Kindly,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
Hi Everyone,
We’re happy to announce the January 2021 edition of the Technical Community
Newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2021/January>
is now available. The newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Developer
Advocacy Team. It aims to share highlights, news, and information of
interest from and about the Wikimedia technical community.
Check it out, and learn about what technical contributors have been up to
this past quarter, upcoming conferences & calls for papers, and how to get
involved.
The Wikimedia Technical Community is large and diverse, and we know we
can't capture everything perfectly. We welcome your ideas for future
newsletters. Let us know what you would like to see or highlights you would
like us to include.
Subscribe to the Technical Community Newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Technical_Community_Newsletter>,
if you'd like to keep up with essential updates and information
Kindly,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
Dear Community Member,
We are pleased to invite you to the first-ever Ghana Histo-Cita-thon on
Friday 27th November 2020, at the SSNIT Guest House. The evenT will
be happening from 9am to 2pm.
The Ghana Histo-Cita-Thon is a Wikicite event aimed at educating and
exposing members within the Wikimedia Movement to the benefits of using
books, journals, and newspapers in creating and improving Wikipedia
articles and Wikidata items.
The workshop will be followed by a month-long online contest that is
specifically focused on personalities and events that have significantly
contributed to the Ghanaian Independence story.
All participants attending the event will be given a certificate of
participation.
Kindly make your reservation by signing up here to join in person. [1] or
here to join virtually. [2]
Visit the link [3] below to learn more.
Regards,
Stephen Dakyi,
Project Lead, Ghana Histo Cita-thon
[1]- forms.gle/7dFbbdHa9xfCHpH38
[2]- forms.gle/8BUn6P7NvVA4VdMg6
[3]- meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ghana_Histo_Cita-thon
Dear friends,
Apologies for cross-posting.
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*Yes, we can!*
Hello friends,
Wikidata is becoming too big to monitor individual data points
continuously. Additionally, keeping Wikidata’s data in sync with external
databases is hard and existing workflows are haphazard and one-off.
The Wikidata development team is interested in making it easier to compare
Wikidata’s data with other databases in order to flag mismatches so that
editors can more easily find and work on them.
We would love to talk to interested persons who've had some experience
working on reconciling mismatches between Wikidata and other databases, to
learn how you discover inconsistencies and the process you take to fix
them, to enable us to understand your needs in the context of your work. The
discussion will happen in English at a time depending on your availability.
If you’re interested in participating, please let me know and I will
contact you as soon as possible with the next steps. In case a call may be
difficult, we're also happy to receive your responses via text (I'll paste
the questions below).
Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Thank you so much for your support,
--
*Questions:*
1. Would you like to give us an overview on how you work with the data
on Wikidata, specifically with a focus around comparing the data with other
databases?
2. How do you precisely detect the mismatches? Can you guide us through
the process? What kind of tools are you mainly using for comparing the data
or supporting your work in this area?
3. What are the valuable lessons that you learned or that you think we
should know about?
4. Given that there are many databases out there, how would you suggest
we prioritize and focus and why?
5. Is there any additional information (links, documentation, articles)
that you would like to share? Are there people/organizations that you would
suggest we reach out to?
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Hi Everyone,
We’re happy to announce the October 2020 edition of the Technical Community
Newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2020/October>
is now available. The newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Developer
Advocacy Team. It aims to share highlights, news, and information of
interest from and about the Wikimedia technical community.
Check it out, and learn about what technical contributors have been up to
this past quarter, upcoming conferences & calls for papers, and how to get
involved.
The Wikimedia Technical Community is large and diverse, and we know we
can't capture everything perfectly. We welcome your ideas for future
newsletters. Let us know what you would like to see or highlights you would
like us to include.
Subscribe to the Technical Community Newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Technical_Community_Newsletter>,
if you'd like to keep up with essential updates and information
Kindly,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
Hi Everyone,
We’re happy to announce the July 2020 edition of the Technical Community
Newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2020/July>
is now available. The newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Developer
Advocacy Team. It aims to share highlights, news, and information of
interest from and about the Wikimedia technical community.
Check it out, and learn about what technical contributors have been up to
this past quarter, upcoming conferences & calls for papers, and how to get
involved.
The Wikimedia Technical Community is large and diverse, and we know we
can't capture everything perfectly. We welcome your ideas for future
newsletters. Let us know what you would like to see or highlights you would
like us to include.
Subscribe to the Technical Community Newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Technical_Community_Newsletter>,
if you'd like to keep up with essential updates and information.
Kindly,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
Hello friends,
Wikimedia Germany software department is currently working on possibly
improving Wikidata’s API and other means of data access, and would like to
talk to people who might be interested in using Wikidata’s data or maybe
even did use it already.
If you'd like to talk to us, or perhaps you simply want to know more, then
please reach out to me or Jan directly. (also cc'd here).
Attached is a message from Jan that should provide some more insight.
Best Regards,
-Mohammed
---
We would like to learn how we can improve the data access for the open
community project Wikidata, a sibling to Wikipedia.
Wikidata (www.wikidata.org) is a database storing general statements, e.g.
"[Michael Müller] is [head of government] of [Berlin]". Everyone can edit
these statements and improve them. Using stored data about other cities,
you can get answers to “give me all people who are head-of-government of
cities in Germany”.
It thus is similar to Wikipedia, but instead of an article about something,
there is a list of statements on a concept or thing, which makes
Wikidata’s data easier to use in computer programs: It is hard to parse an
article text but it is relatively easy to process Wikidata’s data and
people already do this, e.g. Histropedia for showing timelines like this
one: http://histropedia.com/timeline/466wbb666m/Discoveries-in-mathematics
– based on Wikidata’s data.
We are interested in making it easier for programmers and tool-creators to
use Wikidata’s data in their own applications.
If this is something that sounds interesting to you and if you have some
(even minor) experience with using data from other sources e.g. via APIs,
MySQL dumps, CSV… in your code, we would love to hear from you.
If possible, we would like to talk to you via an audio or video chat,
since this makes it easier to explain and demonstrate what you did or want
to do. This usually takes 20min-1h, depending on your time and interest in
the topic.
If you match the criteria and are interested in participating, please write
a mail to jan.dittrich(a)wikimedia.de
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de