Hello everyone!
As some of you may know, several developers are currently working on a
project (funded by a Wikimedia grant) to add Structured Data on Wikimedia
Commons functionalities to OpenRefine. See
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine for more info :-)
We are making good progress on this project. Many people in the Wikimedia
community actively use OpenRefine and are interested in these new features.
Because of this interest, the OpenRefine team starts hosting online,
monthly office hours for OpenRefine users from the Wikimedia community. You
can meet and ask questions to other OpenRefine / Wikimedia users here, and
talk to members of the development team. These office hours are informal,
have no set agenda, are held via Zoom but are not recorded. Registration is
not needed.
For now, we have scheduled office hours until the end of June 2022. Time of
the day alternates to accommodate participants from diverse time zones. If
these office hours prove to be popular, we will plan more of these later!
- Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 9AM UTC
- Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 4PM UTC
- Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 8AM UTC
- Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 4PM UTC
See
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine#Join_OpenRefine_meetu…
where
we will post the Zoom links. Feel free to drop by :-)
Hope to see many of you there!
Sandra (User:Spinster / User:SFauconnier)
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am an artist and I would like to get in contact with Ivar Leidus for a future art project are working on, can I ask you to help to get I contact with Ivar Leidus?
Kind regards,
Vriendelijke groet,
Joep Verhoeven
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Hi all! I have a new announcement to make, this time regarding
MediaSearch:[1] research with the new engine will now be easier, since
now also English synonyms can be used to find results.[2]
MediaSearch already leverages Wikidata items to find images that
depict entities that match the search criteria. Now, MediaSearch will
make another step forward, by including also those items that match
English labels or aliases on Wikidata for the original search term. We
expect this to be helpful in discovering media for subjects known
under multiple names (for example, scientific and common names), as
well as in other languages where we often don’t even have
descriptions.
Just to make an example: when a user searches for “bat”, MediaSearch
will also show media where searchable text includes the word
“Chiroptera” (their scientific name, and also an alias on
{{Q|28425}})[3] - and this even if the text doesn’t include “bat”.
Another example would be a Somali user searching for “fiidmeer” (the
Somali word for “bat”) that will get media, through {{Q|28425}},[2]
that include either “bat” or “Chiroptera” - again, even if the text
doesn’t include “fiidmeer”.
For the time being, the feature will include only English labels and
aliases, because of the possible clash in meanings between words
across languages, increasing the odds of false positives. For the same
reason, the current implementation will be very conservative in its
searches, when using aliases.
I am here in case you have any questions or requests for more information.
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch
[2] Phabricator ticket for reference: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290652
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28425
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Luca Martinelli [Sannita] (he/him)
Community Relation Specialist
Hello everyone,
Reminder: tomorrow (Tuesday, February 22 at 15.00 UTC) you are all welcome
at the online community meetup about OpenRefine's work on Structured Data
on Commons. No need to sign up, you find the Zoom link here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Community_meetup_22_F…
Looking forward!
Sandra (User:Spinster / User:SFauconnier)
Hello everyone!
Over 2021-22, OpenRefine is being extended with Structured Data on
Wikimedia Commons (SDC) support. This project is funded by a Wikimedia
Foundation Project Grant [1].
The OpenRefine team has made quite a bit of progress in the past months. We
warmly invite you to a community meetup [2] with updates and a first demo
of the newly developed SDC editing functionalities in OpenRefine. Bring
your questions!
** When? *Tuesday, February 22, at 15:00-17:00 UTC (check the time in your
timezone) [3].
** For whom?* For anyone who is curious about the current status of SDC
support in OpenRefine!
** Where?* Online, via Zoom. The event's info page [2] has the link.
* The meeting will be recorded and the recording will be published to
Wikimedia Commons afterwards.
Check the event page [2] for more info. We hope to see you there!
Sandra (User:Spinster / User:SFauconnier)
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/CS&S/Structured_Data_on_Wiki…
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Community_meetup_22_F…
[3] https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1645542013
Hello everyone,
Since 2019, it is possible to add structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons [1] (SDC = Structured Data on Commons), but adding structured 'depicts' annotations remains a challenging task, particularly since there is no strong guidance on use of standard controlled vocabularies. Also such vocabularies can't always meet the needs of highly diverse media collections and multi-lingual & multi-cultural contexts.
But there are possible pathways to create more structured and user-friendly workflows for the application of specialist vocabularies, such as Iconclass [2], when it comes to images of fine art in particular.
Myself (a UX designer & experienced Wikidata / Wikibase user), an art historian and DH researcher - Dr Karin de Wild, and the developer of the Iconclass Browser - Etienne Posthumus, have proposed a small new research grant to Wikimedia [3]. Our goal is to research and prototype several routes to make the addition of standard Iconclass terms as structured data on Commons, as well as the reuse of these data statements, an easier and more intuitive task for users of Commons services, GLAM professionals who may have collections described with Iconclass codes already, or DH researchers who want to run queries against the Wiki Commons query service and discover interesting data correlations across works from multiple collections. This is framed as a research endeavor, rather than just a technical project, because we are aware Iconclass is not a perfect vocabulary, but working closely with the Iconclass community, and the international communities of Wikidata / Wiki Commons users, we will research how the vocabulary can better meet the needs of diverse use-cases, rather than just implementing it without effort to respond to justified critiques.
If this is something of interest to you, please review our application and consider leaving some feedback via the form [4]. All feedback is much appreciated and will help us refine our proposal if we get to Stage II of the process, or help us apply for further funding opportunities in the future.
Many thanks and kind regards,
Lozana
(User: Loz.ross<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Loz.ross>)
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
[2] https://test.iconclass.org/
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_Fund/Ima…
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_Fun…
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Dr. Lozana Rossenova
Researcher @ Open Science Lab, TIB Hannover
Wikibase Community Manager @ NFDI4Culture
ORCID: 0000-0002-5190-1867
Kaya
I have created a wishlist for Commons to have all the phabricator
tickets(approximately 900) fixed, the video upload issues to be fixed, tfa
to be added to existing tools. Via a team of Staff and volunteers being
created to focus on Commons.
Two fold fix the existing problems, and then make it possible to bring new
multimedia content to the projects.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Multimedia_a…
Its in your hands now.
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GN.
Hello, I'd like to refer to the original subject of the discussion -
tomorrow is the last day for submitting proposals for the Community
Wishlist Survey 2022.
Apart from that, everyone is welcome to translate, promote, and discuss
proposals:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/01/10/what-improvements-in-wikimedia-platfo…
Best wishes,
Szymon Grabarczuk (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 2:43 PM Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> În mar., 11 ian. 2022 la 08:01, Kunal Mehta <legoktm(a)debian.org> a scris:
> >
> > So I think the status quo can be changed by just about anyone who is
> > motivated to do so, not by trying to convince the WMF to change its
> > prioritization, but just by doing the work. We should be empowering
> > those people rather than continuing to further entrench a WMF technical
> > monopoly.
> >
>
> Counterexample:
>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…
> (this was the situation that I quoted in my first email on this thread
> as the WMF refusing to even do reviews).
>
> Maybe it's just the multimedia part that it's in this desperate
> situation, but I can totally see volunteer developers getting
> discouraged quickly if their patches are outright ignored.
>
> Strainu
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