Hello everyone!
This Thursday we have a new IRC office hour about Structured Data on
Commons, see Keegan's announcement below. All welcome!
If you want a quick update on where things stand with Structured Commons,
see the new monthly updates in This Month in GLAM:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/June_2019/Contents/Stru…
Cheers, Sandra
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From: Keegan Peterzell <kpeterzell(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 10:52 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] Structured Data on Commons - IRC office hour this week,
18 July
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all,
The Structured Data development team will hold an IRC office hour from
17:00-18:00 UTC on Thursday, 18 July, in #wikimedia-office on the freenode
IRC network. Meta has information on joining the meeting, as well as date
and time conversion [1]. Please join us to discuss forming statements for
structured data, properties that may need to be proposed on Wikidata,
future plans for SDC, or anything else you might want to discuss. I look
forward to seeing you there, I'll post a reminder before the meeting starts.
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
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Hello everyone! Just a quick update on Structured Data on Commons
deployments.
You may have noticed that we haven't deployed Depicts statements yet
yesterday, and this is due to an unrelated bug.
The release has been rescheduled to upcoming Tuesday.
Cheers! Sandra
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From: Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Depicts statements coming to Commons this week (15
April)
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Unfortunately the release was blocked by an unrelated bug [1], and must be
rescheduled. Releases are not done on Fridays, so the team has \rescheduled
for Tuesday, 23 April from 15:00-16:00 UTC [2]. I'll continue to keep the
community posted as release approaches.
1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221368
2.
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#deploycal-item-20190423T1500
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:40 PM Keegan Peterzell <kpeterzell(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> A notice that the team still plans to deploy depicts statements to Commons
> tomorrow, 18 April 2019, between 15:00-16:00 UTC. Feedback post-deployment
> is welcome on the SDC talk page:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 4:39 PM Keegan Peterzell <kpeterzell(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> (This message is also posted at the Commons Village Pump, and the SDC
>> talk page)
>>
>> The Structured Data on Commons [0] team plans to release support for
>> depicts statements this week, on Thursday, 18 April. The community's
>> testing over the past several weeks [1] helped identify and fix issues
>> before launch, and the development team spent time setting up extensive
>> internal testing to make sure the release goes as well as possible.
>>
>> This release is very simple, with only the most basic depicts statements
>> available. There is a significant amount of technological change happening
>> with this project, and this release contains a lot of background change
>> that the team needs to make sure works fine live on Commons before adding
>> further support. More parts to depicts statements, and other statements,
>> will be released within the next few weeks.
>>
>> A page for depicts has been set up at Commons:Depicts [2] As I can't
>> actually write instructive Commons policy or guidelines, I encourage those
>> who have tried out simple depicts tagging add a few lines to the page
>> suggesting proper use of the tool. I also encourage the use to be
>> conservative at first, as we wait for more advanced features within the
>> coming month or two as additional statement support goes live.
>>
>> I'll keep the community updated as the plans progress throughout the
>> week, the team will know better within the next day or two if things are
>> definitely okay to proceed with release.
>>
>> 0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
>> 1.
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
>> 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Depicts
>>
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>> Community Relations Specialist
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>
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I sort of agree, especially about the issue of lack of documentation. I
would also point out that the exact same issues occurred back when Wiki
Commons was young. The rules for contributions to that project were not
easy and obvious for the early birds. That said, we now have a triumverate
for the information you are talking about: WP, COM and D. I guess to set up
the files you describe in the way you describe, you will need to get your
feet wet in Wikidata in order to get a feel for the properties involved.
The functionality is already partially available for the artwork template
on Commons. I just uploaded this image and created an item for it, pointing
to the person depicted. The fact he is depicted as a youth is hard to
capture with the on/off "depicts" property. It would be nice to be able to
specify his age somehow. Also, the suit of armour. It's still early days I
guess.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Justus_Sustermans_(studio)_-_Portra…
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 2:31 AM Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> FWIW, I think there will be much greater take-up if the tool supports
> people identifying the depicted thing by referring to a Wikipedia article
> (and then, under the hood, connecting this back to the Wikidata item).
> There are a lot of Wikipedians who are either not aware of Wikidata, not
> interested in Wikidata, don’t understand Wikidata, or actively hostile
> towards Wikidata. Having a tool on Commons that defaults to their preferred
> Wikipedia (obviously with others selectable as desired) and letting them
> paste in the article title will engage a lot more people. And similarly,
> when viewing a File/Category on Commons, displaying the linked Wikipedia
> article(s) (rather than just displaying the Wikidata) will enable people to
> detect and correct errors more easily. People who contribute to Wikipedia
> and Commons usually do so within their areas of interest where they possess
> some subject knowledge, which we need if we are to have quality data in
> Wikidata.
>
>
>
> One of my ongoing concerns about Wikidata is that a lot of modelling,
> populating and MixNMatching is done by people who are not “subject matter
> experts” (or even “subject matter aware”). This is leading to lots of
> errors in Wikidata because of that lack of subject knowledge. Once Commons
> file/categories get linked to the wrong Wikidata items, it worries me that
> most contributors with the subject matter knowledge won’t be able to detect
> this, or won’t be able to correct this themselves. (My own experience
> suggests it’s pointless to write on a Wikidata talk page as nobody
> responds, possibly because nobody is watching?).
>
>
>
> Also, there are File descriptions that contain links back to Wikipedia
> articles, which are almost always to the depicted thing (if there are
> several links, it’s usually the first one). Similarly many categories have
> links back to Wikipedia articles and generally all the images in such
> categories are depicting that concept. I think having tool support to
> enable this information to be exploited would be beneficial. A human should
> be in the loop to confirm, of course, but at a lot less effort than doing
> the whole task manually.
>
>
>
> Having said that, I am a little uncertain of the range of things that
> might be depicted. As Sandra suggests, it’s fairly obvious when dealing
> with individual people, individual buildings, although less clear when
> discussing group photos, streetscapes etc, where we normally use language
> like “3rd from the left in the back row”.
>
>
>
> But a building exists in a town/suburb/district, so doesn’t the photo also
> depict the town/suburb/district as well as the building. Doesn’t it depict
> the time too?
>
>
>
> Just to illustrate my point, here’s a couple of recent uploads I did:
>
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jupiter_Mosman
>
>
>
> One is pretty obviously depicting the man Jupiter Mosman. But isn’t it
> also depicting an Aboriginal Australian? Isn’t it also depicting a
> prospector? Isn’t it depicting 1945? All of which are Wikidata items. But
> what about the photo of his grave? What is it depicting in Wikidata?
> Jupiter Mosman? A grave? A headstone? A tree? Charters Towers (the place)?
> Again, all of these things are in Wikidata. It seems to me that pretty much
> any category we have in Commons represents a concept and hence could/should
> be a Wikidata item. If that’s true, then we can automate a whole lot of
> “depicts” pretty easily.
>
>
>
> Kerry
>
>
>
> *From:* Libraries [mailto:libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Sandra Fauconnier
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 17 April 2019 4:38 AM
> *To:* Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public] <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>;
> Wikimedia & Libraries <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>; North American
> Cultural Partnerships <glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Subject:* [libraries] Fwd: [Commons-l] Depicts statements coming to
> Commons this week (15 April)
>
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
>
>
> One of the major additions of structured data to Wikimedia Commons is
> arriving later this week: Depicts statements! See Keegan's message below
> for more details and links.
>
>
>
> With regards to visual arts, library and archival documents, and
> specifically faithful representations of two-dimensional works and
> documents: I would advise *not* to use the Depicts statement there, but to
> wait for other statements to become available on Wikimedia Commons in
> several weeks.
>
> A separate property for that purpose has been created on Wikidata some
> time ago: P6243 (digital representation of)
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6243 - and it will only be
> possible to use that in several weeks.
>
> Depicts is probably appropriate for other cases though: in the case of
> photographs of buildings, people, objects...
>
> These are only rough first pointers. Modelling structured data on Commons,
> and establishing best practices in that area, is - just like on Wikidata -
> up to the community.
>
>
>
> Many greetings! Sandra
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: *Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l* <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 11:39 PM
> Subject: [Commons-l] Depicts statements coming to Commons this week (15
> April)
> To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
> wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
>
> Greetings,
>
>
>
> (This message is also posted at the Commons Village Pump, and the SDC talk
> page)
>
>
>
> The Structured Data on Commons [0] team plans to release support for
> depicts statements this week, on Thursday, 18 April. The community's
> testing over the past several weeks [1] helped identify and fix issues
> before launch, and the development team spent time setting up extensive
> internal testing to make sure the release goes as well as possible.
>
> This release is very simple, with only the most basic depicts statements
> available. There is a significant amount of technological change happening
> with this project, and this release contains a lot of background change
> that the team needs to make sure works fine live on Commons before adding
> further support. More parts to depicts statements, and other statements,
> will be released within the next few weeks.
>
> A page for depicts has been set up at Commons:Depicts [2] As I can't
> actually write instructive Commons policy or guidelines, I encourage those
> who have tried out simple depicts tagging add a few lines to the page
> suggesting proper use of the tool. I also encourage the use to be
> conservative at first, as we wait for more advanced features within the
> coming month or two as additional statement support goes live.
>
> I'll keep the community updated as the plans progress throughout the week,
> the team will know better within the next day or two if things are
> definitely okay to proceed with release.
>
> 0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
>
> 1.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
>
> 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Depicts
>
>
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Hello everyone,
One of the major additions of structured data to Wikimedia Commons is
arriving later this week: Depicts statements! See Keegan's message below
for more details and links.
With regards to visual arts, library and archival documents, and
specifically faithful representations of two-dimensional works and
documents: I would advise *not* to use the Depicts statement there, but to
wait for other statements to become available on Wikimedia Commons in
several weeks.
A separate property for that purpose has been created on Wikidata some time
ago: P6243 (digital representation of)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6243 - and it will only be possible
to use that in several weeks.
Depicts is probably appropriate for other cases though: in the case of
photographs of buildings, people, objects...
These are only rough first pointers. Modelling structured data on Commons,
and establishing best practices in that area, is - just like on Wikidata -
up to the community.
Many greetings! Sandra
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 11:39 PM
Subject: [Commons-l] Depicts statements coming to Commons this week (15
April)
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings,
(This message is also posted at the Commons Village Pump, and the SDC talk
page)
The Structured Data on Commons [0] team plans to release support for
depicts statements this week, on Thursday, 18 April. The community's
testing over the past several weeks [1] helped identify and fix issues
before launch, and the development team spent time setting up extensive
internal testing to make sure the release goes as well as possible.
This release is very simple, with only the most basic depicts statements
available. There is a significant amount of technological change happening
with this project, and this release contains a lot of background change
that the team needs to make sure works fine live on Commons before adding
further support. More parts to depicts statements, and other statements,
will be released within the next few weeks.
A page for depicts has been set up at Commons:Depicts [2] As I can't
actually write instructive Commons policy or guidelines, I encourage those
who have tried out simple depicts tagging add a few lines to the page
suggesting proper use of the tool. I also encourage the use to be
conservative at first, as we wait for more advanced features within the
coming month or two as additional statement support goes live.
I'll keep the community updated as the plans progress throughout the week,
the team will know better within the next day or two if things are
definitely okay to proceed with release.
0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Depicts
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Hello everyone,
One of the main features of Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, the
'Depicts' statements, is close to being released on Wikimedia Commons.
It can now be tested on Test-Commons. Please take a look, and leave
feedback! See Keegan's message below for links to more information.
Warmly, Sandra
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Keegan Peterzell <kpeterzell(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 5:34 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] Structured data on Commons - Depicts statements ready
for testing
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings,
Depicts statements are ready for testing before release to Commons.
Detailed testing information is posted on Commons [1]. You can find a more
detailed announcement about testing on Commons as well [2].
Thanks, see you on the wikis.
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data
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FYI, this conversation would greatly benefit from your experience as GLAM
or Libraries outreach leaders and allies. I encourage folks to check it
out.
Cheers,
Alex
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Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:14 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals
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Hi all,
We are writing today to invite you to be a part of a community review on
Wikimedia brand research and strategy.
Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation set out to better understand how the
world sees Wikimedia and Wikimedia projects as brands.[1] We wanted to get
a sense of the general visibility of our different projects, and evaluate
public support of our mission to spread free knowledge.
We launched a global brand study to research these questions, as part of
our planning toward our 2030 strategic goals.[2] The study was commissioned
by the Board, carried out by the brand consultancy Wolff Olins, and
directed by the Foundation’s Communications team.[3][4] It collected
perspectives from the internet users of seven countries (India, China,
Nigeria, Egypt, Germany, Mexico and the US) on Wikimedia projects and
values.
The study revealed some interesting trends:
- Awareness of Wikipedia is above 80% in Western Europe and North America.
- Awareness of Wikipedia averages above 40% in emerging markets,[5] and is
fast growing.
- There is awareness of other projects, but was significantly lower. For
example, awareness of Wikisource was at 30%, Wiktionary at 25%, Wikidata at
20%, and Wikivoyage at 8%.
- There was significant confusion around the name Wikimedia. Respondents
reported they had either not heard of it, or extrapolated its relationship
to Wikipedia.
- In spite of lack of awareness about Wikimedia, respondents showed a high
level of support for our mission.
Following from these research insights, the Wolff Olins team also made a
strategic suggestion to refine the Wikimedia brand system.[6] The
suggestions include:
- Use Wikipedia as the central movement brand rather than Wikimedia.
- Provide clearer connections to the Movement projects from Wikipedia to
drive increased awareness, usage and contributions to smaller projects.
- Retain Wikimedia project names, with the exception of Wikimedia Commons
which is recommended to be shortened to Wikicommons to be consistent with
other projects.
- Explore new naming conventions for the Foundation and affiliate groups
that use Wikipedia rather than Wikimedia.
- Consider expository taglines and other naming conventions to reassert the
connections between projects (e.g. “______ - A Wikipedia project”).
This is not a new idea.[7][8]
By definition, Wikimedia brands are shared among the communities who give
them meaning. So in considering this change, the Wikimedia Foundation is
collecting feedback from across our communities. Our goal is to speak with
more than 80% of affiliates and as many individual contributors as possible
before May 2019, when we will offer the Board of Trustees a summary of
community response.
We invite you to look at a project summary [9], the brand research [10],
and the brand strategy suggestion [11] Wolff Olins prepared working with us.
For feedback, please add comments on the Community Review talk page [12] or
email brandproject(a)wikimedia.org with direct feedback. You can also use
either of these channels to request to join a group meeting.
We know this is big topic and we’re excited to hear from you!
- Zack McCune and the Wikimedia Foundation Communications department
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/02/07/how-does-the-world-see-wikimedia…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20
[3] https://www.wolffolins.com/
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Defining_Emerging_Comm…
[6]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/02/26/leading-with-wikipedia-a-brand-p…
[7] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-May/029991.html
[8]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AStrengthening_and_un…
[9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_resear…
[10]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Global_Wikipedia_and_Wikimedia_Bran…
[11]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Wikimedia_brand_strategy_proposal…
[12]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_r…
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Hello everyone,
Captions can now be added to files on Commons. There's a bug with
abusefilter sending errors to new accounts adding captions, the bug is
being investigated and fixed right now. IRC office hour starts in a few
minutes and the team is ready for your questions!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
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Hello everyone!
Forwarding the latest message from Keegan:
Multilingual captions are scheduled to go live on Wikimedia Commons today,
Thursday 10 January, between 15:00 and 16:00 UTC. The time window may
change at the last minute, and the team may hold the deployment (or roll it
back) if last minute problems occur. Should that happen I will keep you all
informed, and I'll see you all at the IRC office hour today.
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From: Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Structured data - file captions coming this week
(January 2019)
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia Team <Multimedia(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia Mailing List <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all, following up on last month's announcement... [0]
>
> Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either
> Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature
> to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you
> might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:
>
> * Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on
> mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel
> free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons. [1]
> * Test out using captions on Beta Commons. [2]
> * Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you
> have anything you'd like to say prior to release. [3]
>
> Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January
> with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as
> anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as
> well as a link to join, are on Meta. [4]
>
> Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to
> the IRC office hour on Thursday. I'll reply to this post once I confirm
> exactly what day file captions will be released to Commons.
>
> 0.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=…
> 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:File_captions
> 2. https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/
> 3.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data/Beta_captio…
> 4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
>
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Sandra Fauconnier
Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hello everyone!
Some structured data updates are arriving on Wikimedia Commons this week.
There will be an IRC office hour to discuss it. See below!
Cheers and best wishes for the new year, Sandra
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From: Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 9:32 PM
Subject: [Commons-l] Structured data - file captions coming this week
(January 2019)
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all, following up on last month's announcement... [0]
Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday,
9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature to add
short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want
to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:
* Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on
mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel
free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons. [1]
* Test out using captions on Beta Commons. [2]
* Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you have
anything you'd like to say prior to release. [3]
Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January with
the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as anything
else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as well as a
link to join, are on Meta. [4]
Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to the
IRC office hour on Thursday. I'll reply to this post once I confirm exactly
what day file captions will be released to Commons.
0.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=…
1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:File_captions
2. https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/
3.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data/Beta_captio…
4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
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Hello everyone,
Exciting times: the first feature of Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons -
multilingual captions - can now be beta tested. See below for further
explanation.
After the deployment of captions, the other functionalities of Structured
Commons (depicts + other statements from Wikidata) will be added in the
next months.
Looking forward to your tests and feedback! Sandra
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From: Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 9:50 PM
Subject: [Commons-l] Structured data on Commons: Multilingual captions beta
testing
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
The Structured Data on Commons team has begun beta testing of the first
feature, multilingual file captions, and all community members are invited
to test it out. Captions is based on designs discussed with the community
[1][2] and the team is looking forward to hearing about testing.
***If all goes well during testing, captions will be turned on for Commons
around the second week of January, 2019.***
Multilingual captions are plain text fields that provide brief, easily
translatable details of a file in a way that is easy to create, edit, and
curate. Captions are added during the upload process using the
UploadWizard, or they can be added directly on any file page on Commons.
Adding captions in multiple languages is a simple process that requires
only a few steps.
The details:
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There is [[mw:Help:File_captions|a help page available on how to use
multilingual file captions]]
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Testing will take place on Beta Commons. If you don’t yet have an
account set up there, you’ll need one. (direct link:
https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page )
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Beta Commons is a testbed, and not configured exactly like the real
Commons site, so expect to see some discrepancies with UI elements like
search
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Structured Data introduces the potential for many important page changes
to happen at once, which could flood the recent changes list. Because of
this, Enhanced Recent Changes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Help:Enhanced_recent_changes> is enabled
as it currently is at Commons, but with some user interface changes.
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Feedback and commentary on the file caption functionality are welcome
and encouraged on the discussion page for this post:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data/Beta_captio…
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Some testing has already taken place and the team are aware of some
issues. A list of known issues can be seen below
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If you discover a bug/issue that is not covered in the known issues,
please file a ticket on Phabricator and tag it with the “Multimedia” tag.
Use [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=mult…
this link to file a new task] already tagged with "Multimedia."
Known issues:
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Search is not currently working on Beta Commons. Search is not needed
for testing captions, but service should be restored soon.
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Language name display inconsistencies in multilingual file captions -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209380
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Language names for multilingual File captions can run into the caption
value in the mobile view - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209333
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Deleting a caption field that has text that exceeds the limit does not
re-enable the "publish" button -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209329
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"Edit" tab for past revisions should be "restore" -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209187
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When using the back button, recently added captions sometimes don't
display in Chrome - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208894
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File Captions can't be edited on mobile browsers -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208993
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Wrong font weight for some language labels on SDC captions box -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208902
Thanks!
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
2.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
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Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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