Dear colleagues,
Please join us for the next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…>
When: Mon. 13 February 2023, 1PM Eastern (time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20230213T180000&p…>)
Registration: Please follow this link to register: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrdO-prTsvGtVEblXS0d_…<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/reg…>
The February Working Hour will feature a presentation by Steve Baskauf on using VanderBot with Wikibase:
The Wikibase API provides a mechanism for programmatic control of uploads, and its behavior is consistent across instances (Wikidata, Structured Data in Commons, and those that are established privately). In this session, I will discuss basic interactions with the API and demonstrate using the VanderBot Python application to rapidly upload tabular data to a wikibase.cloud instance. After performing a mass deletion, I’ll conclude by describing how I’ve used the Wikibase API to facilitate addition of structured data to Commons.
Steve Baskauf is a Data Science and Data Curation Specialist at the Vanderbilt University Heard Libraries. He has had a long-term interest in Linked Data and for the past several years has been experimenting with ways to streamline uploads to Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.
About the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour:
The LD4 Wikibase Working Hour<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> is part of the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> and seeks to create a space for GLAM professionals experimenting with Wikibase/WBStack implementation, the software that Wikidata is based on, to learn collaboratively and share tips, tools, and resources. For more details, see the project page<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…>. Sign up via this link<https://groups.google.com/g/ld4-wikidata> for LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group, Wikidata Working Hour, and Wikibase Working Hour announcements.
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Hilary Thorsen
Resource Sharing Librarian
Stanford Libraries
thorsenh(a)stanford.edu
650-285-9429
Hello everyone!
REMINDER: last days to complete the GLAM Wiki Conference Engagement
Survey! Link to the survey: https://forms.gle/Xac29Uow1oMiU6C99
Wikimedistas de Uruguay is planning to organize the GLAM Wiki Conference in
November 2023 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
In order to present our grant application to the Wikimedia Foundation, we
need to conduct an engagement survey to understand better how we can build
a useful program that makes a good use for our in-person time.
Please fill in the survey no later than *January 15* and help us by
spreading the word among your communities. Link to the survey:
https://forms.gle/Xac29Uow1oMiU6C99
Interested, but not sure what GLAM Wiki means? Check here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
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Evelin Heidel
Encargada de Programas
Wikimedistas de Uruguay
Hi everyone,
I'm forwarding this message by Franziska Putz to the GLAM mailing list, as
I believe this conference might be of great interest to many of you.
If you have any questions, please, feel free to email me, Franziska, or
Douglas.
Best,
Giovanna
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer; GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Franziska Putz <fputz(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 3:45 PM
Subject: [Jan 23 - 27] Free & remote event on the Right to Research in
South Africa
To: <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Douglas Scott <Douglas.I.Scott(a)gmail.com>, Giovanna Fontenelle <
gfontenelle(a)wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
I hope this email finds you settling back in after the holidays (or
ideally, still on vacation).
I'm sharing an opportunity to join what should be a great event at the end
of this month!
You are warmly invited to register for the *free and hybrid* conference, "A
Right to Research in Africa?" which is hosted by ReCreate from January 23 -
27. Information about the conference is here [1] and you can still register
to attend virtually [2]. The conference will cover a week of debates on
copyright and access to knowledge, with discussions that range from
digitising heritage to accessing African Data on health and the
environment. Wikimedians will be hosting some of the sessions, including
Douglas Scott from Wikimedia South Africa and Wikimedia Deutschland will
also share some of their work around "public money - public good" [3].
Tune in for one or more sessions & please feel free to share with others
who you think might be interested.
All the best,
Ziski
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[1] https://www.re-createza.org/
[2]
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9O1HKKOt9M9PFklJaXRo9eGyIbIBAcRR…
[3] https://www.wikimedia.de/2019/en/themen/public-money-public-good/
Franziska Putz (she/her)
Movement Advocacy Manager, Global Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
Fputz(a)wikimedia.org
*UTC timezone