Hi everyone,
There is a new feedback request up on Wikimedia Commons, regarding
Structured Data on Commons. The topic is a very important discussion:
between wikitext-in-Mediawiki, Wikibase on Commons, and Wikibase on
Wikidata, what file metadata gets store where?
I would like to invite everyone involved in GLAM projects on Commons to
help us think about file metadata that is especially important for, and
sometimes unique to, media files that have been provided/uploaded by
GLAM institutions.
Feedback on GLAM metadata is collected here on the page:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
This consultation will formally run for two weeks, closing on 1 March.
There will not be decisions made at that time; this is a part of the
information-gathering process in order to make the informed decisions.
Thank you for your time, see you on the wiki!
Sandra
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Sandra Fauconnier
GLAM-Wiki Strategist, Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @glamwiki
How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Dear GLAMers,
2 quick (but important!) updates regarding the GLAMWiki Conference in Tel
Aviv later this year:
*1) Conference dates change - *
Originally, the conference was planned to take place between October 13-15,
2018.
We have pushed the dates to *November 03-05, 2018, *in order to accommodate
Katherine's schedule, so she can attend as well.
This is the final date and will not change in the future. We apologize for
any inconvenience due to this change.
*2) Call for candidates for the program committee - *
I've been asked to serve as the chair of the program committee for the
conference and am *looking for qualified **candidates to serve with me on
the Program Committee. **The main agenda of the committee will be to ensure
that we end up with a well-balanced, well-organized, diverse and
high-quality program, which best represents the needs of our global GLAM
community. *
*The content submissions for the conference will open mid March and close
at the end of April. *
*Members of the committee will be expected to read and evaluate the
submissions during May and determine which submissions are accepted. *
*The committee will then notify presenters and will await final approval
from them (by the end of June), after which there will be a shorter,
2-weeks second round of changes to the program according presenters'
replies beginning to till Mid July. *
*More details regarding the complete timeline, including deadlines for
scholarships submissions and registrations, will be send out at the
beginning of March (including a link to the conference website on Meta,
which we are working on).*
*In the meantime, if you are a GLAM enthusiast, have experience leading
GLAM projects, involved in the global GLAM community and are excited to
take part in determining what the conference will offer to its
participants, please send an email my way to - shani.even(a)gmail.com
<shani.even(a)gmail.com> by March 14th. *
*Your mail should then describe your GLAM experience (shortly :)) and why
you believe you will be a good candidate for the conference program
committee. *
* Please state "Candidate for the GLAMWiki Program Committee" in the
subject line. *
*Cheers, *
*Shani. *
Hi everyone!
As promised by the Wikipedia Library <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TWL>
team at the inception of the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WLUG>, we are conducting an *open-election
for the steering committee* with 5 to 8 positions.
Nominations are open now and will remain open until the *9th*. If you are
interested in being a part of this committee, you can nominate yourself
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Library_User_Group/Steering_commi…>!
This position should attract Wikipedians and librarians with dedication and
time to lead the user group in its first year.
The elections will happen following the nominations phase starting from *10
January 2018 to 23 January 2018*. Please forward your queries to
libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org, and for private correspondence, please get
in touch with one of the founding members
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Library_User_Group/Contact_list>.
And finally, wishing you a prosperous and happy new year on behalf of the
user group founding members!
On behalf of the user group founding members,
Aaron (UY Scuti)
Kaya
I like to announce the development of a new QR code creator. The original
idea for the upgrade came from Wikimedia Australia and its work with
Toodyay WikiTown project.
Wikimedia Australia has setup out to create two new independent resources
for the Qrpedia project with the support of Wikimedia UK who first
developed the QRpedia concept back 2011 and presented it to the community
in 2012.
The two concepts are;
- a new qr code creator that uses the stable Wikidata item url.
- the reason for for this was to firstly avoid what turned out to be a
costly exercise for Toodyay when some articles were renamed in a
couple of
instances just breaking the qr link to wikipedia, in another instance
sending the reader to an unrelated article
- this also gives us the opportunity to link directly to the other
projects
- and connect all of that in a two way exchange of knowledge with the
numerous 3rd GLAM's through their unique identifiers
- the concept is now to create a qr reader thats based within the
Wikimedia Foundation family
- this first and foremost will ensure that our readers aren't being
directed to third party services that capture user data, and use
it to spam
them with usual set internet advertising, scams, and phishing
- a feature that is significant to GLAMs, Education institutions,
and ourselves
- this reader will enable user to connect with all of our information
whether be Wikipedia articles, Quotes, diaries & journals(Wikisource), or
Wikivoyage and its itineraries.
- I think there is also the potential for Education/Wikiversity to
develop learning programs connecting real life observations to
WMF content.
- For GLAMs it'll be able to provide a safe reliable way for links to
and from their collections
- all of this within a multi lingual environment free from
advertising
I'd like to thank Dave for his efforts in turning a discussion at a Perth
meetup into reality. I also acknowledge the WMF & WMAU for supporting me
on a detour post WMCONF 2017 to discuss the concept with the WMUK and the
some of the people involved in the development of the original project,
those discussion were invaluable getting to this point.
I looked forward to the next part of the project and hope that people will
come forward with suggestions, requests, and help so that as a community we
take an even bigger step in sharing the sum of all knowledge
Regards
Gideon Digby(Gnangarra)
Vice President Wikimedia Australia
Noongarpedia: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nys/Main_Page
WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
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From: Meta <wiki(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 10 February 2018 at 17:43
Subject: Meta email from user "Evad37" - Free Knowledge Portal
To: Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com>
Hi, can you please forward the following to Wikimedia-l and other places of
interest, per our discussion this afternoon.
Thanks, David (User:Evad37)
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New tool "The Free Knowledge Portal"
Hi all,
I've created a new tool, The Free Knowledge Portal,[0] that is a solution to
the Community Wishlist Survey proposal "Qr codes for all items".[1]
The basic idea is to provide stable urls that showcase a Wikidata item's
sitelinks, and related items.
The tool also lets you generate QR codes that link to those urls, and so is
like a successor to QRpedia: proving easy access our projects' pages via QR
codes, but for all Wikimedia projects, not just Wikipedia.
And it is multi-lingual - it will detect the device language and serve
sitelinks for that language (i.e. enwiki if the langauge is English, frwiki
if
the language is French, etc).
Also, it designed to be backwards-compatible with existing QRpedia codes, by
using a page title and site to determine the relevant Wikidata item id. (But
of course its up to the QRpedia people to redirect the codes to these urls)
Examples:
*Boston (Q100), using your devices language:
** https://tools.wmflabs.org/portal/Q100
*Boston (Q100), using French:
** https://tools.wmflabs.org/portal/Q100/fr
*Boston (Q100), using Spanish:
** https://tools.wmflabs.org/portal/Q100/es
*Backwards-compatible url for Boston on English Wikipedia
** https://tools.wmflabs.org/portal/?title=Boston&site=enwiki
The following features already work:
*QR code generator
*Portal page with
**Item label
**Item description
**Wikimedia sitelinks
**Related items (from 'What links here')
**Neary items (if the item has coordinates)
I'm also planning to show links to external identifiers, if the item has
any.
Another feature that would be nice would be to keep a record page visits,
which could then be visualised into graphs and the like. I'm not entirely
sure how this should be done, so any advice or help people could offer would
be appreciated.
(I'm thinking of making a mysql table with just a couple of
columns for item id and date-timestamp of visit, where each visit would be
recorded in a row. Then you could get page visits by doing a query that
counts the number of rows with a matching item and a date-timestamp within
a given range.)
I could also use some help with i18n/translations (what I've got at the
moment
has come from Wikidata labels and Google translate, which is far from ideal)
Anyway, suggestion, other feedback, and code patches would be appreciated:
either directly on Github[2], or on the Meta page which I've just recently
created.[3]
Cheers, David (User:Evad37)
-- Links --
[0] https://tools.wmflabs.org/portal
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_
Survey/Wikidata/Qr_codes_for_all_items
[2] https://github.com/evad37/wm-portal
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Knowledge_Portal
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This email was sent by Evad37 to Gnangarra by the "Email this user"
function at Meta. If you reply to this email, your email will be sent
directly to the original sender, revealing your email address to them.
FYI,
Cheers,
Alex
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From: Keegan Peterzell <kpeterzell(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:30 PM
Subject: [Commons-l] IRC office hours - Structured Commons - Tuesday 13
February
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, WikiData-l <
wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings,
As the subject line says, there will be a Wikimedia Foundation-hosted IRC
office hours [0] this coming Tuesday, 13 February 2018, from 18:00-19:00
UTC [1]. The topic is Structured Data on Commons, and the subjects are
mainly whatever those who attend would like to discuss. The Structured Data
hub has information about what the development team has been up this past
year as well as upcoming plans [2] for those who might like to prepare or
find interesting things to talk about.
The Structured Data team also issues a newsletter every few months. You can
subscribe to have it delivered to a talk page, receive a notification
instead delivery, and read past issues. Find out more on Meta [3].
I'll be sending out a reminder email a few hours before this occurs in one
week's time.
Thank you for your time, I hope to see you there.
0. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
1. To check your local date and time for the office hours <
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?
hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=13&month=02&year=2018 >
2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Development
3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/
Targets/Structured_Data_on_Commons
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
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See below for submissions to Wikimania, an important gathering to help the
Wikimedia community learn about how to collaborate with heritage
institutions to fill knowledge gaps!
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From: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 10:21 PM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2018 Call for Submissions
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Program committee list <wikimania-program(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedia community,
We are pleased to announce that Wikimania 2018 is now accepting proposals
for workshops, discussions, presentations, or research posters to give
during the conference. To read the full instructions visit the event wiki
and click on the link provided there to make your proposal:
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
The deadline for submissions is 23:59 UTC on *Sunday March 18, 2018*.
This is approximately 6 weeks away. Whether you are a community member of
one of the Wikimedia projects, or a fellow open content creator or
consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session.
*Theme*
This year, the conference will be taking place in Cape Town, South Africa,
where the organisers are giving this Wikimania a unique flavor — an
explicit theme based in African philosophy:
“Bridging knowledge gaps, the *ubuntu* way forward.”
Read more about this theme, why it was chosen, and what it means for the
conference program at the Wikimedia blog:
*https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu/
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu/>*
Throughout the conference program, this theme will be tightly held, but
loosely defined - in order to encourage a diverse range of responses to the
theme. It is our hope that this theme will give us the opportunity to
further our goal of creating the “sum of human knowledge”, by encouraging
greater diversity and inclusion in who participates and what we discuss at
Wikimania.
To learn more, and to make a proposal for the conference, please visit:
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
Please forward this announcement to other lists and groups across the
Wikimedia movement.
<https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions>
We look forward to reading your submissions. Sincerely,
*Program committee co-chairs Emna Mizouni, Felix Nartey, and Liam Wyatt.*
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GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://glamwiki.org