Howdy,
A few updates this week from across the Discovery department.
== Highlights ==
*Annual Plan "Collab Jam" took place in the SF offices this week, where
lots of conversations were had on how teams within the Foundation can work
together in the next fiscal year to do cool things.
* ICU Folding is now effective on all English, French, Hebrew and Greek
wikis. [1]
** Note: please consider asking for this feature if you would like to
enable it on a particular language.
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
* The new contentmodel search keyword is now operational on commons. [0]
* ICU Folding is now effective on all English, French, Hebrew and Greek
wikis. [1]
** Note: please consider asking for this feature if you would like to
enable it on a particular language.
=== Portal ===
* Had an issue with a bad caching of an error message which resulted in
text not being displayed on the wikipedia.org page for a very short time.
This will be fixed with a patch. [2]
* Article statistics were updated for wikipedia.org, wikiquote.org and
wikiversity.org [3]
=== Wikidata Query Service ===
* Upgraded to Blazegraph 2.1.5 RC, several bugs fixed.
* POST is now enabled for WDQS queries.
* Started nomination process for federation endpoints. [4]
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156371
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155515
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158782
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_federation_input
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Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or "Volunteer
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[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear Sirs,
I’ve an app for outdoor activities that is "map centered" to geolocate and
refer users. Currently i’m using mapbox tiles, and i was wondering if it is
allowed to make call to maps.wikimedia.org to access map tiles.
I'have the following constrains on the app regarding with map tile access:
I only access to current location;
I cache for 60 days the tiles in the user device.
If you allow me to call your tiles i’ll update my credits page with
wikimedia (like OSM) or with the info you provided me. You can check here:
https://www.udere.com/#credits
You can check my site/app here:
www.udere.com
App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/udere/id1146547257?ls=1&mt=8
Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.udere.app&utm_source=glob…
Thanks for your time,
Miguel
Hello there, seems to me that whenever i get tiles from the tile server the
resolution is lower than https://maps.wikimedia.org
Is there any way to change to higher resolution tiles whenever i get them?
thanks in advance,
miguel
Howdy! I'm excited to share an in-depth breakdown of how Discovery hires
data scientists, now posted on Wikimedia Blog[1]. It covers how we
(responsibly) wrote an inclusive job description to attract diverse
candidates, the approach to designing the take-home task, and our approach
to technical interview questions.
Some of you may already be privy to Discovery's process for hiring me and
Chelsy, but I wanted to share this link anyway. I think there are lessons
that hiring managers can learn for other technical positions (not just
those in DataSci) because parts of the post were motivated by negative
interviewing experiences I and others have had when applying for tech jobs.
I've gotten positive comments from folks at other organizations who are
finding the post informative and useful as they think about their hiring
process. I mention this because I'm glad to be working at an organization
where sharing knowledge and insights with the outside world is not just
allowed, but encouraged.
Cheers,
Mikhail
[1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/02/hiring-data-scientist/