Hello everyone,
I'm excited to invite you to the 31st edition of the DCW Conversation Hour,
featuring John Cummings, a Wikimedian in Residence and passionate advocate
for open knowledge. John has worked with some of the world’s leading
institutions, including UNESCO and multiple UN agencies, where he helped
make vast amounts of knowledge freely available on Wikimedia platforms. In
this session, we'll explore the scope, impact, and challenges of the WiR
role as well as how it empowers both Wikimedia communities and institutions
to collaborate for the public good.
As the Wikimedia movement thrives on collaboration—not just among
volunteers, but with institutions that hold vast repositories of knowledge.
One powerful bridge between these institutions and the Wikimedia ecosystem
is the Wikimedian-in-Residence (WiR).
The conversation hour is scheduled for Sunday, 27 July 2025, at 14:30 UTC
(8:00 p.m. IST).
We have integrated registration directly into the event page; the link is
provided below.
https://dcwwiki.org/dc-nx
I'm excited to see you participate. Please bring along your questions!
Kind regards,
Ariba
Deoband Community Wikimedia
[Apologies for cross-posting]
Hello everyone,
The Fall 2025 MediaWiki Users & Developers Conference will be held on October 28–30th, and hosted by the TIB Leibniz Centre in Hanover, Germany. The conference location will be the Leibnizhaus Guest house<https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/universitaet/organisation/dezernate/technik/…>.
https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conf…
Everyone is encouraged to attend, to meet and discuss MediaWiki-related topics relating to both the Wikimedia world and uses within companies, organizations, etc.
As the Program Chair, I would like to specifically encourage you all to consider giving a talk, on any topic related to MediaWiki usage, deployment or development, including the MediaWiki extension ecosystem (Wikibase, Semantic MediaWiki, etc). Talks can be given remotely, although priority will be given to in-person attendees if there's an overflow. To propose a talk for this conference, just fill out this form<https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:FormEdit/Talk?Talk%5BConfer…>.
Please submit your contributions until September 5, so we can start to announce an interesting program early!
Thank you, and I hope to see many of you in Hanover!
Lozana Rossenova,
on behalf of the whole conference organization team
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Dr. Lozana Rossenova
Postdoc Researcher
Open Science Lab
TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library
Welfengarten 1 B // 30167 Hannover
lozana.rossenova(a)tib.eu<mailto:xxx.xxx@tib.eu>
www.tib.eu<http://www.tib.eu/>
ORCID: 0000-0002-5190-1867
TIB is a public-law foundation of the Federal State of Lower Saxony. In accordance with Section 1(1) of the “Gesetz über die Stiftung Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)” (TIBstiftG ND), its name is “Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)”. TIB uses the terms “Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology” and “University Library” as additional designations.
Hello,
I would like to present a digital library catalogue built for Wikisource
named Sangkalak <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123617697> (in Bangla
সংকলক), which you can find here - https://sangkalak.toolforge.org . This
tool was primarily built for Bangla Wikisource back in 2023 as a Wikidata's
birthday gift
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Presents> and is
widely used in that project since then. It was previously presented at the GLAM
Wiki Conference 2023
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023/Program/Wikisource_and_Wikid…!>
and Wikisource Conference 2025
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Conference_2025/Submissions/Wiki…!>.
After a presentation at the recent Wikidata and sister projects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_and_Sister_Projects> online
event, it was decided to make this tool available for other languages
Wikisource as well and hence it can be used by any language Wikisource
communities from now on, if they wish. However, as it was primarily built
for the Bangla community, the default interface language shall be Bangla.
Using this tool, you can search the books from Wikisource combining 5
parameters like title, author, translator, editor and publisher and 4
functions i.e. contains, exact match, starts with and ends with along with
and/or operators. You can query as many times as possible using these
parameters, functions and operators by simply adding new lines. After
querying for results, you can sub-filter the results again for authors,
translators, editors, publishers, places of publication, dates of
publication, forms, genres and main subjects at the left sidebar. The tool
provides the option to get permanent links, so that you can use them on
Wikisource and elsewhere. The tool can be accessed from mobile also.
The tool is dependent on Wikidata based query and strictly follows the FRBR
data model described at Wikidata:Books
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books>. So, if any
Wikisource community is correctly storing the descriptive metadata on
Wikidata following this page, their books can be searched in this
catalogue. Please note that, if the data model is not followed properly on
Wikidata, the books may not come in results, for which you can resolve
constraint violations in those relevant items, as necessary.
The tool only queries for those items which use P1957
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1957>. If any item has a sitelink
to Wikisource, the tool links to the corresponding Wikisource main
namespace and gives options to export the books with PDF, Mobi and Epub
formats using the WS-export tool. If the sitelinks have proofread and
validated badges, it displays them. If the item does not have a sitelink to
Wikisource, it links to the index namespaces. The tool also displays QR
codes for mobile users. Support for OPDS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Publication_Distribution_System> is
underway.
The interface languages of the tool are currently Bangla and English.
However, if you want this tool to be available in your language, you can
translate the strings in the json file attached below, save it and send it
back to us, so that we can include them in the code.
I would like to specially thank Mahir Morshed who has been developing this
tool in his volunteer capacity.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
Dear friends,
I’m happy to invite you to the *Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Reflection and
2026 Planning Meetup* at *Wikimania 2025*!
This informal session is a chance for us to reconnect, celebrate the
incredible work done across 29 communities in 2025, and brainstorm together
for the upcoming 2026 campaign.
*Meetup Details:*
🗓️ *Date:* Thursday, 7 August 2025
🕕 *Time:* 18:15 – 19:15 (Kenya local time)
📍 *Venue:* Trademark Hotel – Nyeri, Meeting Room 6
🔗 *Meetup page:*
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Meetups/Wiki_Loves_Ramadan_Commun…
Whether you were part of the 2025 campaign or just interested in joining
for 2026, this meetup is for you! Let’s share our experiences, appreciate
your efforts, and shape the future of Wiki Loves Ramadan together.
Please feel free to sign up on the wiki page or just come by. Looking
forward to seeing you there!
Regards,
Md Zillur Rahman
User:ZI Jony