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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English & Hebrew! The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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WikidataCon application, program submission and scholarship processes are now open
by Léa Lacroix 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

Hello all, As you may know, the *WikidataCon 2019 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019>* will take place on October 25th-26th 2019 in Berlin. The conference will host 250 people from the Wikidata community, but also the emerging Wikibase community, as well as partners, organizations and companies the organizations who may be interested in *using Wikidata and Wikibase*, or contributing in various ways to the evolution of Wikidata. The event will be focused on networking and strategic discussions around Wikidata and Wikibase, with a special focus on *languages and Wikidata*. Because the number of seats is limited and in order to make sure that the access to the conference is fair, we decided to set up a selection process. People who wish to attend the conference can now apply by filling in the application form <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Apply>. A committee equally composed of volunteers and staff will evaluate the applications against criteria that are already published onwiki <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend>. This application form aims to gather all of the useful information at once, that’s why it also contains the program submissions (limited to 3 per person) and the scholarship application if needed. You can find more information about the content of the form on this page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Apply>. Part of the attendees will be also invited directly by the organizing team, based on the connections we want to build with organizations during this conference, and the input they can bring to Wikidata’s strategy. The deadline to fill out the application form is April 26th. No application can be considered after this date. Over the following month, the committee will evaluate the applications, and the applicants will receive an answer latest on June 12th. Here are a few tips to help you prepare your application: - Read the description of the conference <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019> and the page describing the process and the criteria <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend> carefully. - Plan 20 to 30 minutes to fill out the form. - Don’t do it at the last minute :) it will be less stressful for you, as well as for the committee. - Prepare all your program submissions, as they will be requested in the same form (no submission can be done later). On this page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Program> you can check the formats and questions. - Read the Friendly Space Policy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Policy> that will apply to the entire event. - Look at the visa information <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Visa> to check if you need a visa to Germany and what actions you need to take. You can find a lot of information regarding the conference on Wikidata:WikidataCon 2019 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019>. If you have any question or issue, feel free to share it on the talk page onwiki or to reach the organizing team at info(a)wikidatacon.org Finally, feel free to share this message with your local community, networks, or projects you’re working in! We want to make sure that everyone who’s involved in Wikidata or Wikibase has a chance to apply. We're looking forward to receiving your applications! Thanks for your attention, -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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[Breaking change] "wbcheckconstraints" API new result status
by Léa Lacroix 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

Hello all, This is an announcement for a breaking change to the output format of the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API, to go live on 6 May 2019 (most likely around 12:00 UTC). It affects all clients that use the *wbcheckconstraints* API action. We are adding a new status for constraints <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012910.html>, in addition to regular constraints and mandatory constraints: suggestion constraints indicate possible improvements to a statement, but are not inherently problematic like other constraint violations. This implies a new status for constraint results as well: in addition to 'violation' for violations of mandatory constraints and 'warning' for violations of regular constraints, as well as several statuses that are not violations, there is now 'suggestion' for violations of suggestion constraints. The default value of the status API parameter is changed to include this status as well (from violation|warning|bad-parameters to violation|warning|suggestion|bad-parameters), and it can appear as the "status" of a result in the response. API consumers that are not interested in suggestion constraints can specify a non-default value for the status API parameter, e. g. the old default violation|warning|bad-parameters, to avoid getting responses including this status. Others should decide how to handle it, and update their code accordingly if necessary. According to our stable interface policy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Stable_Interface_Policy>, the change will be enabled 4 weeks after this announcement, on May 6th, and a test system will be set up latest on April 17th on test.wikidata.org. If you have any question or issue, let us know in the related ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204439>. Cheers, -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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Public Domain Ontology for Portuguese
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 13 Apr '19

13 Apr '19

Dear all, I thank you for your efforts. As Dr. David Abian asked me if there are public domain WordNets, I found that there is a public domain ontology for Portuguese. It is available in http://ontopt.dei.uc.pt. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki (he/him) Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36 GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group Member, WikiResearch Tunisia Member, Wiki Project Med Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb Founder, TunSci ____________________ +21629499418

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Integrating WordNet in Wikidata Lexicographical Data
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 13 Apr '19

13 Apr '19

Dear all, I thank you for your efforts. I saw with a lot of interest the work that has been done to ameliorate the quality and the quality of the Lexicographical Data. However, I know that most of the added data already exists in WordNets. It seems that we are just reinventing the wheel. I ask why we cannot have an automated method to integrate WordNets in Wikidata. Concerning the copyright issues, they are solved by putting the WordNets as references of the added statements. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki (he/him) Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36 GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group Member, WikiResearch Tunisia Member, Wiki Project Med Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb Founder, TunSci ____________________ +21629499418

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Helping request to have an own copy of WikiBase
by Ke Xu 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Hello developers at WikiData, This is Ke from Information Sciences Institute of USC. We find WikiData really easy to use, and it may be a great help to our research. Thus we want to keep a whole copy of your services locally. But here’re some problems. Hope you can address these for us. First, we need to upload our own data, so that we need the whole services from you. How can we download and implement the whole bundle including GUI, Triple Store, WikiBase and ES as well. Second, we found you provided an API (https://github.com/filbertkm/WikibaseImport) to load data from Wikidata.org<http://Wikidata.org>. But it seems the script queries one item once and upload it into our WikiBase. It’s really time consuming. So that do you provide any method to load the dumps and upload them into our WikiBase (not Triple Store)? Also, we want our database auto updated with yours. Thank you for reading this letter. Hope to hear from you. Best Regards, Ke Xu

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, Persian, Hindi & Kannada! ⏰ Please note: due to European summer time change the meetings now start at 3 pm UTC! ⏰ The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **(Wednesday) 4-5 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, German & Romanian. ⏰ Please note: due to summer time change this week will be the last meeting at 4 pm UTC. Beginning with next week the meeting will start at 3 pm! ⏰ The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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Fw: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata now officially has more total edits than English language Wikipedia
by 80hnhtv4agou＠bk.ru 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

I found a 404 on 5000 Q pages, because the data base was turned off, it should have been fixed, but all they did was to deprecate the entry. I contacted the 2 main creators, editors. the one told me not to talk to her on her page, or she would have me blocked and to put it on the wikidata discussion page which she did not go to to answer me, the other one contacted a bot owner who changed all the URL’s to the wayback URL.but when wayback took down some of the last entry's, and i tried to talk to that bot direct he refused to talk to me. this all makes me feel like a whistle-blower. SEE: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs From: Caroline Becker Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 4:51 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata now officially has more total edits than English language Wikipedia But... bots are operated, written, and reviewed by real humans ? Like if I spend 2 hours adding "painting by Vincent van Gogh" manually on every relevant item by hand, how is that more valuable than spending 20 minutes to write a bot that does that for me (and can be used for similar tasks) ? Caroline Le mer. 20 mars 2019 à 10:45, Gabriel Thullen < gabriel(a)thullen.com > a écrit : > Sorry about this mail, I hate to rain on somebody's parade but: > Ever since Wikidata was set up, there have been more edit made by bots than > by humans (registered contributor + anonymous contributor), except for a > few periods in 2017 and 2018. On the other hand, the activity of the bots > on the English Wikipedia has almost always been lower than the activity of > anonymous contributors, and that activity has always been well below that > of registered contributors. There was one exception, in 2013 where there > was a spike of bot activity. > We could also talk about the average number of edits per contributor which > appears to be around 100 on the English Wikipedia and 1,200 on Wikidata > (these numbers are after removing the estimated edits done by bots). Quite > a difference. > The different Wikimedia projects rely on the community to police and curate > the content of these encyclopedias and data collections. I am therefore a > bit wary of what is happening with Wikidata where more edits are still > being done by bots than by real humans (by "real" I mean "real" not like > "real" as in the TV series "real humans") > > Best regards > Gabe > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:25 AM Olushola Olaniyan < > olaniyanshola15(a)gmail.com > > wrote: > > > This is a good news. > > > > Cheers!!! > > > > Olaniyan Olushola > > CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd > > President, Wikimedia Nigeria > > Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia Foundation) > > Co-director Wiki Women Radio > > www.wikimedia.org.ng > > shola(a)wikimedia.org.ng > > olaniyanshola15(a)gmail.com > > +2348167352512 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 08:52 Ziko van Dijk < zvandijk(a)gmail.com wrote: > > > > > Hello Ariel Glenn, > > > Thanks for the notification, very interesting. Well, we all know that > > > making a lot of edits on Wikidata is "easier" or happens quicker than > on > > > Wikipedia, for various reasons. But still it is a nice milestone to > > > congratulate to Wikidata. Hereby. :-) > > > Kind regards > > > Ziko > > > > > > > > > Am Mi., 20. März 2019 um 07:58 Uhr schrieb Gerard Meijssen < > > > gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com >: > > > > > > > Hoi, > > > > So in stead of calling us all Wikipedia, let us be known as > Wikidata... > > > > HUUUUU > > > > Thanks, > > > > GerardM > > > > > > > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 07:48, Ariel Glenn WMF < ariel(a)wikimedia.org > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Wikidata surpassed the English language Wikipedia in the number of > > > > > revisions in the database, about 45 minutes ago today.I was tipped > > off > > > > by a > > > > > tweet [1] a few day ago and have been watching via a script that > > > displays > > > > > the largest revision id and its timestamp. Here's the point where > > > > Wikidata > > > > > overtakes English Wikipedia (times in UTC): > > > > > > > > > > [ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./get_revid_info.py -d > > > > > www.wikidata.org -r 888603998 ,888603999,888604000 > > > > > revid 888603998 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z > > > > > revid 888603999 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z > > > > > revid 888604000 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z > > > > > [ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./get_revid_info.py -d > > > > > en.wikipedia.org -r 888603998 ,888603999,888604000 > > > > > revid 888603998 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z > > > > > revid 888603999 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z > > > > > revid 888604000 at 2019-03-20T06:01:00Z > > > > > > > > > > Only 45 minutes later, the gap is already over 2000 revsions: > > > > > > > > > > [ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./compare_sizes.py > > > > > Last enwiki revid is 888606979 and last wikidata revid is 888629401 > > > > > 2019-03-20 06:46:03: diff is 22422 > > > > > > > > > > Have a nice day! > > > > > > > > > > Ariel > > > > > > > > > > [1] https://twitter.com/MonsieurAZ/status/1106565116508729345 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > > > Unsubscribe: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l , > > > > > <mailto: wikimedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > ?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l , > > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l , > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l , > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l , > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l , <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Johanna Strodt 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

// Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Questions can be asked in English and German! The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Johanna (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew)

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