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

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l commons-l@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@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&old... 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_caption... 4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours