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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Dear all,
I'm forwarding a request from Natalia Mileszyk re participating in Public
Domain Day.
We hope you can spread the word in your local communities and join the
celebrations around the world!
Cheers,
Shani.
----------------------------------------
*JOIN COMMUNIA FOR THE PUBLIC DOMAIN WEEK *
On New Year’s Day, as every year, there is the Public Domain Day celebrated
– works of many great artists and scientists will come into the public
domain and will be available for access, use and re-distribute. You can
check the list of them at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_in_public_domain. But 2019 is also a
unique year (see below).
Therefore, we want to invite all organizations working for openness and
commons to celebrate with us Public Domain Week (January, 21-25). Some of
our partners will organize events this week (including Creative Commons in
the US, Centrum Cyfrowe in Poland), but we would love also to see other
things happening - your imagination is the limit. Maybe you want to
organise something? An event, a hackathon, a concert, a contest? Maybe you
want to help with internet outreach on the public domain? Publish something
on your blogs (Why public domain is important to you? How your readers can
contribute from the public domain?), give some love to the topic on social
media?
*We are not planning to coordinate this action too much (there won’t be any
new website etc., but cross-referencing is more than welcome!) nevertheless
please let us know (nmileszyk(a)centrumcyfrowe.pl
<nmileszyk(a)centrumcyfrowe.pl>) by January 16th if you’ll participate so we
can put you in touch with other contributors to the Public Domain Week.*
*Materials for the Public Domain Week:*
- graphics -
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mCHyDQ6MCgmmkW93690hoLwQBpHwox_A?us…
- #publicdomain
- relaunching of the webpage with Public Domain Manifesto by January 21st
(we’re well aware that it looks really outdated) + all of the 24
translations of the manifesto (that are available at
http://publicdomainmanifesto.org/translations.html) will also be published
- check if your language is available!
*Why 2019 is so special? *
- We’ll celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Public Domain Manifesto (
http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org/manifesto.html) endorsed by many
international organizations;
- In the US, ever since the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, no
published works have entered the public domain (well, none due to copyright
expiration). But for the first time in 20 years this January, tens of
thousands of books, films, visual art, sheet music, and plays published in
1923 will be free of intellectual property restrictions (
https://creativecommons.org/2018/12/05/join-us-for-a-grand-re-opening-of-th…
)
- There is a chance that the public domain will be granted legal
protection in the new copyright directive, which is debated right now in
the EU (
https://www.communia-association.org/2018/12/21/copyright-reform-still-stal…
).
Best,
Natalia
Natalia Mileszyk
Centrum Cyfrowe | centrumcyfrowe.pl/
public policy expert
@nmileszyk
(+48) 668440136
ALSO:
Creative Commons Polska | creativecommons.pl
Communia Association | communia-association.
<http://communia-association.org/>
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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communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Do you organize wiki events? Would you like to have a convenient tool that provides metrics about the impact of your events? Then you are a potential user of Event Metrics [1], a new tool under development. I’m writing now to find event organizes who can help us test the usability of this new metrics program, to make sure people such as yourself can understand and easily use its functions.
The test will involve a videoconference session with a design researcher, who will lead you through a series of tasks on the program and talk to you about how well the tool's user interface works for you and how it could be improved. Sessions will take place the second and third weeks of January.
If you’d like to help out, please email Daisy Chen, dchen(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:dchen@wikimedia.org>, and let her know:
* The email address where you prefer to be reached.
* Your time zone
* General times when you prefer to meet (evenings, mornings, etc.)
Daisy will follow up to schedule a time. Thanks for helping to make Event Metrics a tool that event organizers will find easy and empowering!
Joe
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Event_Metrics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Event_Metrics>
________________
Joe Matazzoni
Product Manager, Community Tech
Wikimedia Foundation
Thank you all for your kind words and excitement!
@Gnangarra, Ben:
Indeed one of the exciting possibilities working with audio is oral
histories. That our team now will be able to think, discuss and prepare for how
audio files best can be included on the Wikimedia projects should give us
relevant insights for future work.
I am also very much looking forward to see how the *Wikipeech Speech Data
Collector* (WSDC) tools might contribute to the collection of oral
histories.[1]
If funded we aim for WSDC to have a set of tools to crowdsource CC0
licensed speech data for the Wikimedia platforms and to become a service to
the entire FOSS community and to many others working with accessibility
online. Over time WSDC should allow us to add more languages to Wikispeech
and improve diversity on all platforms using MediaWiki. The same WSDC tools
could potentially also be useful for collecting, annotating and
disseminating e.g. oral histories or historical recordings.
To develop WSDC in 2019-2021 Wikimedia Sverige, together with a large
number of GLAM and university partners (with wonderful support from our
friends at Wikimedia Deutschland[2]), have recently sent in a major grant
application of 440,000 USD. We should get an answer about the funding in
February next year. (We are now among the last teams competing for the
funds and it looks very promising.) Please send positive thoughts!
[1] For the 75 page application detailing the project, see here (in
Swedish): https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikispeech_2019/Ansökan
[2] WMDE's and WMSE's tech teams will share knowledge and insights
ongoingly as part of the project - I am very excited about more
inter-affiliate cooperation.
Kind regards and happy holidays,
John
PS. If funded we will be looking to hire at least one new developer with
expertise in speech data or other relevant skills. Drop me an email if you
are interested or if you know some great person.
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> As some who is working with oral histories this sounds interesting,
>
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 00:08, Sailesh Patnaik <
> sailesh.patnaik007(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Congratulations, John!
> > It's really nice to see that Wikimedia Sweden is bringing such amazing
> > initiatives to the movement.
> >
> > Regards!
> >
> > *Sailesh Patnaik *"*ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ**"*
> > *Community Advocate, The Centre for Internet and Society*
> > https://www.linkedin.com/in/sailesh-patnaik-551a10b4
> > *Twitter*: @saileshpat
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:09 PM John Andersson <
> > john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se> wrote:
> >
> >> Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of $55,000 in support
> from
> >> the grant-giving organization Kulturbryggan (Culture Bridge) for a
> project
> >> investigating how to best include audio files on Wikimedia Commons.
> >>
> >> Our work will focus on batch uploading audio files onto Wikimedia
> Commons
> >> (with a focus on music recordings). In preparations for this, we will
> >> investigate how the metadata can be included in a way that is best
> suited
> >> for Structured Data once it gets deployed. This is a pilot project where
> >> we
> >> aim to discuss with the community what to include and what to exclude.
> The
> >> discussions and the requests from the community will form our planning
> >> around future work with uploading audio files onto Wikimedia Commons. We
> >> look forward working with the community and with the Structured Data
> team
> >> at Wikimedia Foundation on how metadata about audio files can be
> included
> >> in a well-structured and useful way.
> >>
> >> This project will connect very closely to the FindingGLAMs project[1]
> and
> >> will form one of the case studies included in it. In the case study we
> >> will
> >> provide guidance for other GLAMs and Wikimedia affiliates who want to
> >> upload audio files in the future.
> >>
> >> The project also connects closely to Wikimedia Sverige’s planned project
> >> aimed at building tools to collect speech recordings. The recordings,
> >> illustrating how words are pronounced etc., will then be used to improve
> >> the quality of Wikispeech[2], a text-to-speech (TTS) system that
> converts
> >> written text into speech. We want to see what type of speech recordings
> >> can
> >> and should be stored on Wikimedia Commons and what kind of metadata
> should
> >> be included there; this project will help us clarify the needs.
> >>
> >> Please contact John Andersson (john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se) if you have
> >> any
> >> questions.
> >>
> >> As always, you can find the full application available on our wiki (in
> >> Swedish).[3]
> >>
> >> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs
> >>
> >> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikispeech
> >>
> >> [3]
> >>
> >>
> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Fri_musik_p%C3%A5_Wikipedia_2019/Ans%…
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >> - - - -
> >>
> >> John Andersson
> >>
> >> Executive Director
> >>
> >> Wikimedia Sverige
> >>
> >> Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
> >>
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> >>
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Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of $55,000 in support from
the grant-giving organization Kulturbryggan (Culture Bridge) for a project
investigating how to best include audio files on Wikimedia Commons.
Our work will focus on batch uploading audio files onto Wikimedia Commons
(with a focus on music recordings). In preparations for this, we will
investigate how the metadata can be included in a way that is best suited
for Structured Data once it gets deployed. This is a pilot project where we
aim to discuss with the community what to include and what to exclude. The
discussions and the requests from the community will form our planning
around future work with uploading audio files onto Wikimedia Commons. We
look forward working with the community and with the Structured Data team
at Wikimedia Foundation on how metadata about audio files can be included
in a well-structured and useful way.
This project will connect very closely to the FindingGLAMs project[1] and
will form one of the case studies included in it. In the case study we will
provide guidance for other GLAMs and Wikimedia affiliates who want to
upload audio files in the future.
The project also connects closely to Wikimedia Sverige’s planned project
aimed at building tools to collect speech recordings. The recordings,
illustrating how words are pronounced etc., will then be used to improve
the quality of Wikispeech[2], a text-to-speech (TTS) system that converts
written text into speech. We want to see what type of speech recordings can
and should be stored on Wikimedia Commons and what kind of metadata should
be included there; this project will help us clarify the needs.
Please contact John Andersson (john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se) if you have any
questions.
As always, you can find the full application available on our wiki (in
Swedish).[3]
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikispeech
[3]
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Fri_musik_p%C3%A5_Wikipedia_2019/Ans%…
Best,
John
- - - -
John Andersson
Executive Director
Wikimedia Sverige
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm