Hello Commons-l,
The Wikimedia Foundation, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, is
currently exploring an opportunity to potentially secure additional
resources to expedite development work on Structured Data for Commons [1].
In light of this, we would like feedback on a 3 year plan that potentially
accelerates software development for both Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata if
these resources should become available. We would like to invite you to
participate in a conversation about the plan [2] and look forward to your
comments and thoughts.
--
Joseph Seddon & Alex Stinson
*Advancement Associate & **GLAM-Wiki Strategist*
*Wikimedia Foundation*
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Overview
Just wondering: would tighter integration between Wikidata and OSM help
with this situation, for example, if a set of coordinates is adjusted in
Wikidata then it is automatically adjusted in OSM and vice versa? Would
that be a good idea?
Pine
On Oct 4, 2016 22:17, "Sam Klein" <sjklein(a)hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Joseph Seddon <jseddon(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > currently there is no clear indication within Wikipedia articles
> > and as far as I can tell within Wikidata as to both what *datum* and what
> > *version* any particular coordinate relates to, there is no guarantee
> that
> > any particular coordinate would be any more correct than it was before.
> >
>
> This definitely should be fixed on the wikidata side. Whether article
> editors are savvy enough to know and enter this data is another question;
> but at least the geotemplates should have fields for it and you can assume
> that if those are empty some {person/bot hybrid} that understands that
> nuance should fill them in.
>
> ~S
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G'day
This story raises an interesting question
http://www.sciencealert.com/turns-out-australia-isn-t-where-you-think-it-is
In short the GPS location of Australia is about to be adjusted 1.5m or
about 5feet I know its not as significant as the change of 1994 when it was
adjusted 200m. This shift that will alter all the GPS data held in
Wikidata and alter the positioning of media files which have been
geolocated.
The question is are there any plans to bulk update all of this information,
or will it rely on individual changes to be made to each piece of data. As
a secondary question do we even change the location of media files as that
data is accurate to when the media was created.
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G
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