Hey folks :)
Here's your quick summary of what was important this week around
Wikidata: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2014_01_17
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager 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 27/681/51985.
All the registered papers will be submitted to IEEE for potential
inclusion to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing
(A&I) databases.
TITLE: The Third International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber
Warfare, and Digital Forensic (CyberSec2014)
EVENT VENUE: Lebanese University, Lebanon
CONFERENCE DATES: Apr. 29 – May 1, 2014
EVENT URL: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/cybersec2014/
OBJECTIVE: To provide a medium for professionals, engineers, academicians,
scientists, and researchers from over the world to present the result of
their research activities in the field of Computer Science, Engineering
and Information Technology. CyberSec2014 provides opportunities for the
delegates to share the knowledge, ideas, innovations and problem solving
techniques. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the technical program
committee of the conference.
KEYWORDS: Cyber Security, Digital Forensics, Information Assurance and
Security Management, Cyber Peacefare and Physical Security, and many
more...
SUBMISSION URL:
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/cybersec2014/openconf/openconf.php
FIRST SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 29, 2014
CONTACT EMAIL: cyb2014(a)sdiwc.net
Hey everyone,
Alexander and I are Bachelor student’s at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam in the Wikidata.lib project.
We started developing an extension [1] to MediaWiki to support the PubSubHubbub [2] protocol (see BugZilla ticket [3]). Currently, the extension publishes all changes to individual articles to a settings-defined hub and everyone can subscribe to specific articles and is then notified of all changes to that article via an HTTP push mechanism.
The next feature on our list is supporting subscriptions to Special:Log and Special:RecentChanges.
For now the extension only works for regular MediaWiki articles, not Wikibase objects. We will start a discussion about what format to use for exchanging the data on wikidata-tech soon.
You can always track our progress in our code repository [4].
BR,
Alexander and Sebastian.
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PubSubHubbub
[2] http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub<http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/>/<http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/>
[3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38970
[4] https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FPubSubHubbub
Hey everyone :)
We just enabled language links for Wikisource via Wikidata. Please
welcome the next sister project in our round.
In case you have any questions
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikisource is the place to be.
Let me know if you encounter any issues.
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager 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 27/681/51985.
Hi, a problem seems (not very surprisingly) to emerge into Wikidata : the
managing of the evolution of how we do things on Wikidata.
Properties are deleted, which made some consumer of the datas sometimes a
little frustrated they are not informed of that and could not take part of
the discussion.
My question is : is it a community problem, a technical problem, or both ?
IMO it is a very serious problem for a project of the size of Wikidata that
just leaving to humans to make notifications to whoever uses te datas could
be a disaster.
We therefore need to have tools to manage that, part of the solution is
from the technical side.
I'll try to do a review of which tools we have now, as tools, to make
notifications from people who want to make a change that imacts other
projects or people, and interestec projects or people:
* Purely human : someone who make a change in a model or delete a property
is responsible to notify every projects he knows would be impacted. This is
tedious and imperfect, and imperfectly pass through language barriers, if
he has to notify every Wikipedias.
* Using watchlists : This is a semi automated process. Every people
involved into a project, model, or property has to follow the relevant
pages. Still imperfect for many reasons.
* Using the notify extensions, like the ping projects or ping user
templates, interproject, this may need software solutions from the
developper of the Echo Mediawiki extensions
Another, and complemnetary solution is to mantain data or models API and
versions, as we do in sotfware API, and manage versioning, parralel
versions, deprecations ... but this is ressource consuming. Any ideas ? I
thing it's an important question we need to give answers, at least partial
ones.
Dear Gerard,
Thank you so much for your kind words about the proposed Multimedia Vision for Wikimedia sites by 2016. (1)
I am glad that our first user stories resonate with you. They intentionally focus on ways that our community may interact through multimedia -- and we view these types of productive collaborations between different user groups as a key objective for our work.
We really appreciate your thoughtful blog post about this vision (2) and fully agree with you that more user stories will be needed to illustrate the scope of possible interactions between different communities around the world -- from schools to professional or personal sites around the world. We aim to identify more user stories like these to inform our next steps.
We are actively working with Lydia, Daniel and the Wikidata team to implement structured data on Commons and integrate it with Wikidata later this year, in collaboration with our community. We expect this work will improve a range of multimedia workflows as a result, from curation to search and beyond. We will definitely address the points you raise.
I would also like to thank all the community members who have joined our discussion about this multimedia vision (3). We are grateful for your feedback, and very glad to see a partnership develop between our community and the foundation around these goals, so we may better serve our users together.
If you haven’t commented yet, please share your feedback here, after viewing the video:
http://ur1.ca/gdljy
You are all invited to join our office hours IRC chat about multimedia this Thursday, January 16 at 19:00 UTC (4) — we look forward to discussing this vision and other media projects with you then. More on this later.
Thanks again for everyone’s wonderful work in helping share free knowledge through multimedia.
All the best,
Fabrice
(1) Multimedia Vision 2016:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Multimedia_Features/Vision_2016
(2) Blog Post by Gerard:
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/01/wikimedia-multimedia-featuresvis…
(3) Discuss the Multimedia Vision:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vision_…
(4) Multimedia Office Hours chat on IRC: Thursday at 19:00 UTC
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
Multimedia Hub:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia
Profile:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
On Jan 10, 2014, at 4:01 AM, wikimedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:33:30 +0100
> From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, WikiData-l
> <wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
> <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List
> <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] A Multimedia Vision for 2016
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>
> Hoi,
> Fabrice, I very much love the two stories described in the vision. It
> describes not only a functionality that is technical, it also describes how
> our community may interact. That is great.
>
> What I missed are the consequences of the planned integration of Commons
> with Wikidata. I blogged about it [1] and I suggest three more stories that
> could be told because they are enabled by this integration. What I do not
> fully understand is how the community aspects will integrate in an
> environment that will be more multi lingual and multi cultural as a
> consequence.
>
> I have confidence that the three stories that I suggest will be realised by
> 2016. Not only that, I am pretty sure that as a consequence the amount of
> traffic that our servers will have to handle will grow enormously to the
> extend that I am convinced that our current capacity will not be able to
> cope. Then again, they are the luxury problems that make us appreciate how
> much room we still have for growth.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
>
> [1]
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/01/wikimedia-multimedia-featuresvis…
>
>
> On 10 January 2014 01:39, Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Happy new year, everyone!
>>
>> Many thanks to all of you who contributed to our multimedia programs last
>> year! Now that we have a new multimedia team at WMF, we look forward to
>> making some good progress together this year.
>>
>> To kick off the new year, here is a proposed multimedia vision for 2016,
>> which was prepared by our multimedia and design teams, with guidance from
>> community members:
>>
>> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/09/multimedia-vision-2016/
>>
>> This possible scenario is intended for discussion purposes, to help us
>> visualize how we could improve our user experience over the next three
>> years. We hope that it will spark useful community feedback on some of the
>> goals we are considering.
>>
>> After you’ve viewed the video, we would be grateful if you could let us
>> know what you think in this discussion:
>>
>>
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vision_…
>>
>> We are looking for feedback from all users who benefit from Commons, even
>> if their work takes place on other sites. This vision explores ways to
>> integrate Wikimedia Commons more closely with Wikipedia and other MediaWiki
>> projects, to help users contribute more easily to our free media repository
>> -- wherever they are.
>>
>> In coming weeks, we will start more focused discussions on some key
>> features outlined in this presentation. If you would like to join those
>> conversations and keep up with our work, we invite you to subscribe to our
>> multimedia mailing list:
>>
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
>>
>> We look forward to more great collaborations in the new year!
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>>
>> Fabrice
>> on behalf of the Multimedia team
>>
>> _______________________________
>>
>> Fabrice Florin
>> Product Manager, Multimedia
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> Wikipedia Profile:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
>>
>> Multimedia Project Hub:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
>
>
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>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:16:01 +0100
> From: Delphine Ménard <notafishz(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement Sarah Stierch
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Oh wow, this is so... well, random.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Delphine
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Frank Schulenburg
> <fschulenburg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm writing to let you know that Sarah Stierch is no longer an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation.
>>
>> The Wikimedia Foundation has recently learned that Sarah has been editing Wikipedia on behalf of paying clients, as recently as a few weeks ago. She did that even though it is widely known that paid editing is frowned upon by many in the editing community and by the Wikimedia Foundation.
>>
>> The Wikimedia Foundation values Sarah a great deal. She has been an active Wikipedian since 2006. She is committed to increasing dialogue between cultural institutions and our projects. She has worked hard to increase the presence and voices of women and other minorities in our projects, and she is a warm welcomer of new Wikipedians. Her work in Program Evaluation has been important and necessary. She is a good friend of many of us.
>>
>> Everybody makes mistakes, and I would like to believe that the Wikimedia movement is a place of forgiveness and compassion. And so I ask you to respect Sarah's privacy at what is surely a difficult time for her, and to join me in wishing her every future success.
>>
>> I sincerely hope that Sarah will continue her important work as a Wikipedian and member of the GLAM community, and I thank her for the commitment and energy and thoughtfulness she has brought to her work at the Foundation.
>>
>> Frank Schulenburg
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Frank Schulenburg
>> Senior Director of Programs
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> Cell: +1 (415) 517-0453
>> Email: frank(a)wikimedia.org
>>
>> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
>>
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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Multimedia creator | Product manager | Social entrepreneur
(415) 388-6688 office
fabriceflorin(a)gmail.com
Flickr | Twitter | Wikipedia
** apologies for cross-posting, please forward to interested people and
lists **
1st DBpedia Community Meeting
====================
Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014
**Submission of presentations open**:
http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014
The DBpedia Project in 2014: from a hosted data set to a public data
infrastructure for the Web of Data. As the DBpedia community has grown
extensively, we think that the time has come to get everybody in one
large room and meet. We hope to get together three major groups involved
in DBpedia: the /DBpedia developers and maintainers/, the communities
of the individual /DBpedia language chapters/ and, of course, the
/DBpedia users/.
Quick Facts
=======
When: January 30th, 2014
Where: VU Amsterdam, Netherlands (behind the high main building, nr 4 on
the map )
Host: Dutch DBpedia Chapter (http://nl.dbpedia.org) and the VU Amsterdam
Call for Contribution: **Submission Open**
http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014
Registration: see http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014
Co-located with the PiLOD 2.0 meeting (http://www.pilod.nl) on January
29th, 2014
Acknowledgements
============
* We would especially like to thank Bibliotheek.nl -- Public Libraries
of the Netherlands (http://bibliotheek.nl/) for supporting the Dutch
DBpedia Chapter.
* Koninklijke Bibliotheek -- National library of the Netherlands
(http://www.kb.nl) for supporting the Dutch DBpedia Chapter and
providing lunch for the meeting.
* VU Amsterdam (http://www.vu.nl/) kindly provided the facilities for
the meeting, with special thanks to Lora Arroyo from Biography Net
(http://www.biographynet.nl/)
* OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com/) for continuous
hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint
Abstract
======
(Please see http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014 for complete
program)
The meeting will be held at VU Amsterdam on Jan 30th and is co-located
with the PiLOD 2.0 (http://www.pilod.nl) meeting one day earlier. The
first session will be a discussion about the DBpedia State-of-Play,
where core members of the DBpedia community present certain aspects of
DBpedia and the audience is invited to give feedback and ask questions.
The second session will be dedicated to users of DBpedia. We would like
to invite companies, organisations and other project to shortly present
their use cases for DBpedia and give input on how we can improve DBpedia
for users. Free slots still available, apply here:
http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014
After the lunch, we plan to have three break-out sessions for the topics
(1) DBpedia and Library, (2) Linking text to LOD entities and (3) What
is wrong with DBpedia? Developers discussion on how to improve our baby.
Finally, the last parallel sessions are planned as: DBpedia tutorial,
DBpedia I18N developers' session and a Local Dutch DBpedia Chapter
Meeting with the additional possibility to continue break out sessions.
-> Note the Local Dutch DBpedia Chapter might be held one day earlier at
the Pilod meeting, please look here for updates in a couple of days (
written Jan 14th) .
==== About DBpedia ====
Source: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj499.pdf
The DBpedia community project extracts structured, multilingual
knowledge from Wikipedia and makes it freely available using Semantic
Web and Linked Data standards. The extracted knowledge, comprising more
than 1.8 billion facts, is structured according to an ontology
maintained by the community. The knowledge is obtained from different
Wikipedia language editions, thus covering more than 100 languages, and
mapped to the community ontology. The resulting data sets are linked to
more than 30 other data sets in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. The
DBpedia project was started in 2006 and has meanwhile attracted large
interest in research and practice. Being a central part of the LOD
cloud, it serves as a connection hub for other data sets. For the
research community, DBpedia provides a testbed serving real world data
spanning many domains and languages. Due to the continuous growth of
Wikipedia, DBpedia also provides an increasing added value for data
acquisition, re-use and integration tasks within organisations. In this
system report, we give an overview over the DBpedia community project,
including its architecture, technical implementation, maintenance,
internationalisation, usage statistics and showcase some popular DBpedia
applications.
Travel Grants / Sponsorship
=================
Some of the DBpedia developers work on DBpedia in their free-time and
will not have institutional funding to come to the meeting. Therefore,
we are still looking for sponsors for travel grants (as well as coffee
and food for the sessions). If you are interested to sponsor this
meeting, please fill out this form to request more information:
http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014
Given we can acquire a sponsor, participants can apply for a travel
grant here: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014 or email Sebastian
(who will then add your request to the form ;) )
These grants will be awarded depending on the standing in the community
and community activity, e.g. Google Summer of Code participation or Git
Commits to DBpedia framework, activity on the mailing lists, etc.
We hope to see you there,
Gerard, Gerald (from Dutch DBpedia), Mariano from the Spanish DBpedia
and Dimitris and Sebastian
--
Sebastian Hellmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Events:
* *30th January, 2014*: 1st DBpedia Community meeting
(http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014)
* *Sept. 2014* MLODE
Venha para a Alemanha como PhD: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/csf
Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org,
http://linguistics.okfn.org, http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary
Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org
Stop asking, it's here:
http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis-summaryhttp://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis
I started
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Property_docume…
suggest that /doc subpages of properties be transcluded onto the
property pages themselves.
John Lewis suggested I was wasting everybody's time, and that it was
already on the development team's list. Could I get a reference or a
pointer to this "list", and to any specification about what exactly is
being worked on, and what the time frame might be?
Thanks!
Chris Maloney (User:Klortho)
Hey everyone :)
Here's your summary of all the good stuff around Wikidata over the
last week: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2014_01_10
This time including a cute new taskforce among other things.
Thanks again to John for putting it together.
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager 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 27/681/51985.
Hoi,
Fabrice, I very much love the two stories described in the vision. It
describes not only a functionality that is technical, it also describes how
our community may interact. That is great.
What I missed are the consequences of the planned integration of Commons
with Wikidata. I blogged about it [1] and I suggest three more stories that
could be told because they are enabled by this integration. What I do not
fully understand is how the community aspects will integrate in an
environment that will be more multi lingual and multi cultural as a
consequence.
I have confidence that the three stories that I suggest will be realised by
2016. Not only that, I am pretty sure that as a consequence the amount of
traffic that our servers will have to handle will grow enormously to the
extend that I am convinced that our current capacity will not be able to
cope. Then again, they are the luxury problems that make us appreciate how
much room we still have for growth.
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/01/wikimedia-multimedia-featuresvis…
On 10 January 2014 01:39, Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Happy new year, everyone!
>
> Many thanks to all of you who contributed to our multimedia programs last
> year! Now that we have a new multimedia team at WMF, we look forward to
> making some good progress together this year.
>
> To kick off the new year, here is a proposed multimedia vision for 2016,
> which was prepared by our multimedia and design teams, with guidance from
> community members:
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/09/multimedia-vision-2016/
>
> This possible scenario is intended for discussion purposes, to help us
> visualize how we could improve our user experience over the next three
> years. We hope that it will spark useful community feedback on some of the
> goals we are considering.
>
> After you’ve viewed the video, we would be grateful if you could let us
> know what you think in this discussion:
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vision_…
>
> We are looking for feedback from all users who benefit from Commons, even
> if their work takes place on other sites. This vision explores ways to
> integrate Wikimedia Commons more closely with Wikipedia and other MediaWiki
> projects, to help users contribute more easily to our free media repository
> -- wherever they are.
>
> In coming weeks, we will start more focused discussions on some key
> features outlined in this presentation. If you would like to join those
> conversations and keep up with our work, we invite you to subscribe to our
> multimedia mailing list:
>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
>
> We look forward to more great collaborations in the new year!
>
> All the best,
>
>
> Fabrice
> on behalf of the Multimedia team
>
> _______________________________
>
> Fabrice Florin
> Product Manager, Multimedia
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> Wikipedia Profile:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
>
> Multimedia Project Hub:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia
> _______________________________________________
> Wikitech-l mailing list
> Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l