Hi everyone,
I'm forwarding a message from the WMF Search team about the Wikidata Query
Service (WDQS) User Survey 2021. I hope some of you might find
it interesting!
Hi all,
In the 2021–2022 fiscal year, the WMF Search team is working on scaling up
Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) to handle increasing graph size and queries –
we will be following up shortly with more updates regarding this. In order
to design a querying service that works for most use cases, it is important
for us to understand the needs of WDQS users.
We are trying to cover the diverse use cases of WDQS. Whether you are an
occasional user of the service, running queries regularly, for example for
maintenance purposes, or hitting the WDQS daily with your tools, your
feedback is welcome on this short survey. If you are interested in
providing feedback, please fill out our survey:
https://forms.gle/WzBDGWPUsi43YAhBA
Thanks for your participation!
This survey will be conducted via a third-party service, which may subject
it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling,
see the survey privacy statement
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/WDQS_User_Survey_2021_Privacy_Stateme…>.
For technical issues with the survey, please contact mpham(a)wikimedia.org.
Best,
Mike Pham
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer; GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello!
We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, August 10th at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210810T160000&p…>). The possibilities for hosting Wikidata related edit-a-thons in library and digital humanities contexts are wide-ranging. We will learn about a few that have taken place:
* Boston Rock City Wikidata edit-a-thon on Boston music history with Christine Fernsebner Eslao, Metadata Management, Harvard Library and Dory Klein, Community History Librarian, Boston Public Library
* Wikidata and Comics Edit-a-thon with Kate Topham, Digital Humanities Archivist at Michigan State University
* Wiki-Relays, a concept where Wikidata items are created and edited to facilitate Wikipedia edit-a-thons with a focus on women in STEM with Liz Miraglia, Assistant Program Director & Head of Books & Serials, Metadata Services and Aislinn Sotelo, Program Director, Metadata Services
If you are interested in hosting your own Wikidata edit-a-thon or have hosted or participated in an edit-a-thon before, we hope you will join us for a lively discussion!
Call Details:
Date and Time: Tuesday, August 10th at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210810T160000&p…>)
Zoom link to join meeting: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99064795857?pwd=VGN3ZFFVZFFTMGJZSHpSL29IbisyQT09
Password: 275730
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E7qaIXJi7Nf7mmAvflRse9E-Zazg5vjx247rdA7…
Everyone is welcome to attend. If you aren't able to attend, the meetings are recorded and meeting notes are available on Google Drive<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n>. To receive notifications about upcoming calls and meeting notes you can subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ld4-wikidata>.
Working Hours:
Join us for a collaborative hour of editing and Wikidata practice. We will provide a project for the hour, and you're always welcome to bring your own projects to work on. This is a space for community and skill-building. We welcome your questions and your expertise about all things Wikidata. Subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata> for an announcement of the next working hour.
Upcoming Working Hour dates:
Monday, August 16, 2021 at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC / 8:00pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210816T180000&p…>)
The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the LD4 Community and investigates how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata.
Communication:
Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata
#wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: http://bit.ly/ld4slack
Notes in public LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n
Website: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
On behalf of the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group co-facilitators:
Alex Jung
Open Technology Specialist
University of Toronto Libraries
Hi,
The Wikipedia Library now has a part-time opening for a Partnerships
Specialist to take the lead on the library's partnerships with academic
publishers, aggregators, and other organisations with paywalled reliable
sources.
Please take a look and share in any relevant networks!
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3336311
Best,
Sam
--
Sam Walton
Product Manager, The Wikipedia Library
swalton(a)wikimedia.org
Greetings reliable & underrepresented knowledge sources enthusiasts!
We are Diego de la Hera <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Diegodlh> and
Scann <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Scann>, longtime friends and
collaborators in several open knowledge projects. Recently, the Wikimedia
Foundation awarded us a grant to develop Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid
Web Translators
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Diegodlh/Web2Cit:_Visual_Edi…>.
The product that will be developed through this grant is a visual editor
that allows non-technical users to improve Citoid’s ability to add
references to Wikipedia articles. The aim of the project is to widen the
coverage of underrepresented sources in Wikipedia.
Now, as we start moving with this project, we are putting together an
advisory board that will help us build sustainability and community
involvement for this project. This is an open call for volunteers that want
to help us think through some critical aspects of the project and overall
help us steward it to its current and future success.
Here you can find more information about the current call for members:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Web2Cit/Advisory_Board/Call_for_members
*Deadline for applying is August 9th, 2021. *We're looking forward to
hearing from you!
cheers,
Scann & Diego