Dear all,
The idea of ingesting heritage data into Wikidata on a large scale is getting more and more traction.
To get an overview of what has already been done, have a look at: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Cultural_heritage
Several further projects are under way.
In 2017 members of the "Wikidata + GLAM" Community are planning to attend various international conferences and hackathons.
I think it would be nice to have a couple of dedicated meet-ups where we can discuss hot issues related to Wikidata + GLAM, where we can exchange experiences, and where the non-initiated can meet those among us who have been sticking around on Wikidata for a while.
>From a casual enquiry on the Wikidata + GLAM Facebook group I have gathered the following conferences/hackathons that might be of interest:
· Wikimedia Hackathon, Vienna - 19-21 May 2017<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017>
· LODLAM Summit, Venice - 28-29 June 2017<https://summit2017.lodlam.net/>
· Wikimania Hackathon, Montreal - 9-10 August 2017<https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania>
· Wikimania Conference, Montreal - 11-13 August 2017<https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania>
· GLAM+Wikidata Gathering, Lausanne - 14 September 2017<http://make.opendata.ch/wiki/event:2017-09> (proposal)
· Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon, Lausanne - 15/16 September 2017<http://make.opendata.ch/wiki/event:2017-09>
· WikidataCon, Berlin - 28/29 October 2017<https://www.facebook.com/events/1358386070859989/>
If you are interested in issues related to the ingestion of heritage data on Wikidata, please indicate which events you are planning to attend this year by filling in the following Doodle:
http://doodle.com/poll/h4yxihtpcwgmyux6
If you are aware of any further events of relevance in this context, please let me know and I will add them to the poll.
Kind regards,
Beat Estermann
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Coordinator OpenGLAM CH Working Group
http://openglam.ch<http://openglam.ch/>
Berne University of Applied Sciences
E-Government Institute
Brückenstrasse 73
CH-3005 Bern
beat.estermann(a)openglam.ch<mailto:beat.estermann@openglam.ch>
Phone +41 31 848 34 38
Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon, Lausanne, 15-16 September 2017 - Save the date!
Personally, I welcome this change. Some trainees just do not pick up that they are changing the live version of the site, even after lengthy explanations and demonstrations: it just goes against their experience of how the web works. Some very, very popular sites have this Save/ Publish distinction. I see that there can be some confusion about "Publish" in draft space, but I think people need to be reminded that creating or altering a draft is making something visible to the public, unlike other platforms in which you can create a "draft".
Thanks for the explanation, Sherry.
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:50:52 +0000
From: "Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder" <ssnyder(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
"glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [GLAM] Changes to the 'Save' button
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*Nutshell: The big, blue button will soon say "Publish page" instead of "Save page", because when you click it, the contents get published on the
internet.*
I apologize for cross-posting this to the GLAM and Education lists:
A long-requested change to the "Save" button may finally happen towards the end of March. This is a button that anyone leading a workshop about editing is going to talk about, so I wanted to make sure that you didn't get surprised by this change.
Last year, the WMF looked into an old request to clarify the language on the "Save" button, which confuses some new contributors. The main problem is that it is unclear whether "Save" means "save a private copy" (as it does on most websites these days) or "irrevocably post this to the internet". This confusion apparently explains a few unwanted behaviors, such as editors who save the page ("just to be safe") before previewing their changes.
There are some other reasons behind to do this: It creates some inconsistency in the interface, as some things (e.g., Special:Preferences) get saved but kept private, while other things (e.g., normal wiki pages) get saved and immediately published. It is also difficult to translate the label into some languages, as the word has multiple possible translations in some languages.
The plan, therefore, is to change "Save" to "Publish". Instead of the big blue[1] button saying "Save page" (for a new page) or "Save changes" (when you edit an existing page), the button will instead say "Publish page" or "Publish changes".
The upside to this small change is that new contributors will understand that all of their edits go to the public immediately.[2] The downside is that all of the documentation and help pages is going to be out of date.
This plan was announced on the wikis last August, and is tentatively scheduled for sometime in March. I hope that this extra note will keep you from getting surprised in front of a group and give you enough time to update any handouts that you might be using in the future.
Relevant links:
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131132 – main task (best place to
figure out if this gets postponed again)
- Special:Translations&message=Publishpage
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&namespace=8&me…>
(translation
status)
- Special:Translations&message=Publishchanges
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&namespace=8&me…>
(translation
status)
[1] The color of this button in all of the older wikitext editors will be changing this week. It's going to be big and blue.
[2] This is true even when the wiki is using FlaggedRevisions or PendingChanges, because the un-accepted changes can be seen by the general public from the history page or from &oldid URLs, regardless of whether the revision has been accepted.
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Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing)
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
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*Nutshell: The big, blue button will soon say "Publish page" instead of
"Save page", because when you click it, the contents get published on the
internet.*
I apologize for cross-posting this to the GLAM and Education lists:
A long-requested change to the "Save" button may finally happen towards the
end of March. This is a button that anyone leading a workshop about
editing is going to talk about, so I wanted to make sure that you didn't
get surprised by this change.
Last year, the WMF looked into an old request to clarify the language on
the "Save" button, which confuses some new contributors. The main problem
is that it is unclear whether "Save" means "save a private copy" (as it
does on most websites these days) or "irrevocably post this to the
internet". This confusion apparently explains a few unwanted behaviors,
such as editors who save the page ("just to be safe") before previewing
their changes.
There are some other reasons behind to do this: It creates some
inconsistency in the interface, as some things (e.g., Special:Preferences)
get saved but kept private, while other things (e.g., normal wiki pages)
get saved and immediately published. It is also difficult to translate the
label into some languages, as the word has multiple possible translations
in some languages.
The plan, therefore, is to change "Save" to "Publish". Instead of the big
blue[1] button saying "Save page" (for a new page) or "Save changes" (when
you edit an existing page), the button will instead say "Publish page" or
"Publish changes".
The upside to this small change is that new contributors will understand
that all of their edits go to the public immediately.[2] The downside is
that all of the documentation and help pages is going to be out of date.
This plan was announced on the wikis last August, and is tentatively
scheduled for sometime in March. I hope that this extra note will keep you
from getting surprised in front of a group and give you enough time to
update any handouts that you might be using in the future.
Relevant links:
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131132 – main task (best place to
figure out if this gets postponed again)
- Special:Translations&message=Publishpage
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&namespace=8&me…>
(translation
status)
- Special:Translations&message=Publishchanges
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&namespace=8&me…>
(translation
status)
[1] The color of this button in all of the older wikitext editors will be
changing this week. It's going to be big and blue.
[2] This is true even when the wiki is using FlaggedRevisions or
PendingChanges, because the un-accepted changes can be seen by the general
public from the history page or from &oldid URLs, regardless of whether the
revision has been accepted.
--
Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing)
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
Forwarding a WiR job posting. Quoting from the grants page: "The
overarching goal of the project is to enhance the bioscientific coverage in
Wikidata so it becomes a visible and used resource both for Wikipedians and
in general scientific research and discourse." The WiR position includes
work with the Cambridge University Library.
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Thomas Arrow <tom(a)contentmine.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 2:00 AM
Subject: [Wikidata] WikiFactMine Project is Advertising for a Wikimedian in
Residence
To: wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi,
ContentMine is currently looking to hire a Wikimedian in Residence for
the WikiFactMine Project (see:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ContentMine/WikiFactMine).
It's a six month long position and we're looking for someone who could
spend around half their time in Cambridge, UK. We expect it to have
quite a lot of Wikidata related work.
If you're interested or know someone who might be then the advert can
be seen at: http://contentmine.org/jobs
Cheers,
Tom
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Hi All,
I just wanted to send a reminder for the new GLAM-Strategist role at the
Wikimedia Foundation. Especially if you have experience with the GLAM-Wiki
community, this would be a good fit: https://boards.
greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/584916
We are particularly looking for folks that can help us develop partnership
models and community capacity within our existing community around Wikidata
and Structured Data on Commons.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
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Alex Stinson
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
For Wikicite, which is taking a serious look at the structured Citation
Data in Wikimedia projects.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
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From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 6:44 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] Applications open now: WikiCite 2017 • Vienna, May
23-25, 2017
To: wikicite-discuss <wikicite-discuss(a)wikimedia.org>, "Discussion list for
the Wikidata project." <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing
List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
I am happy to announce that applications to attend WikiCite ‘17 officially open
today <https://goo.gl/forms/Kb9Wl6Xfw2EmFqEr2>.
About the event
WikiCite 2017 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017> is a 3-day
conference, summit and hack day to be hosted in Vienna, Austria, on May
23-25, 2017. It expands on efforts started last year at WikiCite 2016
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Report> to design a central
bibliographic repository, as well as tools and strategies to improve
information quality and verifiability in Wikimedia projects.
Our goal is to bring together Wikimedia contributors, data modelers,
information and library science experts, software engineers, designers and
academic researchers who have experience working with Wikipedia's citations
and bibliographic data.
WikiCite 2017 will be a venue to:
-
Day 1. (Conference) – present progress on existing work and initiatives
for citations and bibliographic data across Wikimedia projects
-
Day 2. (Summit) – discuss technical, social, outreach and policy
directions
-
Day 3. (Hack) – get together to build, based on new ideas and
applications
More information on the event can be found here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017>:
How to apply
Participation for this year's event is limited to 100 individuals. In order
to be considered for participation, please fill out the following form
<https://goo.gl/forms/Kb9Wl6Xfw2EmFqEr2> and provide us with some
information about yourself, your interests, and expected contribution.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT THE FINAL REGISTRATION FORM. Your application will
be reviewed and the organizing committee will extend an invitation by March
10, 2017. This application form is to determine the best mix of attendees.
Not everyone who applies will receive an invitation, but there will be a
waitlist.
Important dates
-
February 9, 2017: applications open
-
February 27, 2017: applications close, waitlist opens
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March 10, 2017: all final notifications of acceptance are issued,
waitlist processing begins
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March 31, 2017: attendee list is finalized
Travel support
Like last year, limited funding to cover travel costs of prospective
participants will be available. Requests for travel support should be
submitted via the application form <https://goo.gl/forms/Kb9Wl6Xfw2EmFqEr2>.
We will confirm by March 10, if we can provide you with travel support.
Contact
For any question, you can contact the organizing committee via:
wikicite(a)wikimedia.org
We look forward to seeing you in Vienna!
The WikiCite 2017 organizing committee
Dario Taraborelli
Jonathan Dugan
Lydia Pintscher
Daniel Mietchen
Cameron Neylon
*Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter
<http://twitter.com/readermeter>
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Alex Stinson
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
Hi all,
I wanted to point you towards several job openings at the Wikimedia
Foundation.
First, related to the Sloan grant:
*Another GLAM-Wiki strategist focus on structured data, GLAM-Wiki
experience is a huge bonus for this role:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/584916
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/584916?gh_src=3clhx61#.WJpnpYgr…>
*Program Manager -- whose main responsibilities will include coordinating
efforts among various participants and stakeholders in the project and
reporting to Sloan about our progress:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/584922
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/584922?gh_src=dgao5e1#.WJouEIgr…>
Both of these would be well suite for someone with experience in working
with GLAMs on tech projects, especially within the Wikimedia Community.
Secondly, the Programs team, which includes the Education Program, The
Wikipedia Library and GLAM-Wiki is looking for a Lead Manager. The job
description is at https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/553572
We would greatly appreciate any recommendations, applications from
community members who think they are a good fit for the roles, or sharing
the applications with your network:
Cheers,
Alex
--
Alex Stinson
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