[X-posted announcement]
Hello,
The Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia Foundation has been working
on a tool for easy translation of Wikipedia articles from one language to
another. The Content Translation tool has been in development since early
2014 and in July it was deployed and opened for testing on beta labs. The
tool currently provides an editing interface, limited machine translation
capability, link and reference adaptation and dictionary support. The first
rollout included machine translation support from Spanish to Catalan. Since
then, the tool has been used to create more than 100 new articles for the
Catalan Wikipedia.
On 5 September 2014, the team will be hosting a round-table conversation
with some of the editors from the Catalan Wikipedia who have been using
Content Translation. The online event is scheduled from 1600 UTC to 1700
UTC. We would like to invite everyone to join us (please use the event url
below) and add your questions to know more about this project. The same url
can be used later to view an archived version of the event.
Thank you.
Event Details:
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# Event url - https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ckphmp2shtnc6hadsca95thshp4
# Date: September 5, 2014 (Friday)
# Time: 1600 UTC (check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140905T1600)
Project Details:
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# Project Home: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
# Announcements:
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http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/16/first-look-at-the-content-translation-…
and
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http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/26/content-translation-100-published-arti…
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regards,
Runa
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hey folks :)
We're starting to pick up speed with structured data support for
Commons now. It'd be great to have you all on board for this. Planning
documents are linked below. I hope to see many of you interested in
multimedia at the office hour on September 3rd.
Cheers
Lydia
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:48 AM
Subject: Structured Data on Commons
To: Multimedia Mailing List <multimedia(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings!
We invite you to join a discussion about Structured Data on Commons,
to help us plan our next steps for this project.
The Structured Data initiative proposes to store and retrieve
information for media files in machine-readable data on Wikimedia
Commons, using Wikidata tools and practices, as described on our new
project page (1).
The purpose of this project is to make it easier for users to read and
write file information, and to enable developers to build better tools
to view, search, edit, curate and use media files. To that end, we
propose to investigate this opportunity together through community
discussions and small experiments. If these initial tests are
successful, we would develop new tools and practices for structured
data, then work with our communities to gradually migrate unstructured
data into a machine-readable format over time.
The Multimedia team and the Wikidata team are starting to plan this
project together, in collaboration with many community volunteers
active on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. We had a truly inspiring
roundtable discussion about Structured Data at Wikimania a few weeks
ago, to define a first proposal together (2).
We would now like to extend this discussion to include more community
members that might benefit from this initiative. Please take a moment
to read the project overview on Commons, then let us know what you
think, by answering some of the questions on its talk page (3).
We also invite you to join a Structured Data Q&A on Wednesday
September 3 at 19:00 UTC, so we can discuss some of the details live
in this IRC office hours chat. Please RSVP if you plan to attend (4).
Lastly, we propose to form small workgroups to investigate workflows,
data structure, research, platform, features, migration and other open
issues. If you are interested in contributing to one of these
workgroups, we invite you to sign up on directly on our hub page (5)
-- and help start a sub-page for your workgroup.
We look forward to some productive discussions with you in coming
weeks. In previous roundtables, many of you told us this is the most
important contribution that our team can make to support multimedia in
coming years. We heard you loud and clear and are happy to devote more
resources to bring it to life, with your help.
We are honored to be working with the Wikidata team and talented
community members like you to take on this challenge, improve our
infrastructure and provide a better experience for all our users.
Onward!
Fabrice — for the Structured Data team
(1) Structured Data Hub on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
(2) Structured Data Slides:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Structured_Data_-_Slides.pdf
(3) Structured Data Talk Page:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data
(4) Structured Data Q&A (IRC chat on Sep. 3):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Discussions
(5) Structured Data Workgroups:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data#Workgroups
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
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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.
Hey folks :)
The guys behind Histropedia are pretty awesome and they are making
cool use of Wikidata. I asked them to write a bit about how they use
Wikidata and how they think they can help Wikidata in the future.
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/09/02/why-wikidata-is-so-important-to-histrop…
Cheers
Lydia
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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.
Hey folks :)
Yesterday we deployed new code. This includes among other things bugfixes for:
* auto-comment parameter when creating redirects (bug 69750)
* link to badge items pointing to the wrong site (bug 69758)
In addition you now also get suggestions when adding a qualifier or a reference.
Cheers
Lydia
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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.
Greetings! The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants program is
accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG>
Your idea can improve Wikimedia projects by building a new tool or gadget,
organizing a better process on your wiki, conducting research on an
important issue, or providing other support for community-building. Whether
you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your
own project development time in addition to funding for a team to help you.
The program has a flexible schedule and reporting structure, and
Grantmaking staff are there to support you through all stages of the
process.
Do you have have a good idea, but you are worried that it isn’t developed
enough for a grant? Put it into the IdeaLab, where volunteers and staff
can give you advice and guidance on how to bring it to life. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab> Also, IEG will be hosting
three Hangout Sessions for real-time discussions to help you make your
proposal better - the first will happen on September 16th. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events#Upcoming_events>
For inspiration, you can read more about past projects that received
funding<https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/individual-engagement-grants/> or
review open proposals <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-reviewing>. We are excited
to see some of the new ways your grant ideas can support our community and
make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects.
Submit your proposal in September!
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-apply>
Warm regards,
Ocaasi and the IEG Committee
Hey,
My bot finished initial part of removing all of Link GA, and Link FA
in nl, sv, pl Wikis (and some other wikis). I just removed badges that
are already in Wikidata. My bot cleaned up more than 12/13 of articles
in Ducth Wikipedia. The ratio was not good for sv and pl for some
reasons that I fixed for the next run (e.g. in Polish Wikipedia
usually they use "link FA" instead of "Link FA"). I ran a script in nl
wiki to get the list of remained Link FA templates based on target
language (to see what badges are missing)
To see the report these are links:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/dexbot/link_fa_nl.txthttps://tools.wmflabs.org/dexbot/link_ga_nl.txt
In those files "gv": ["Q183"] means in article of Germany in Ducth
Wikipedia this template exists: {{Link FA|gv}} because my bot didn't
remove it.
I managed to sort them based on number of missing badges in target language:
{1: [u'gv', u'am', u'km', u'srn', u'la', u'nah', u'lt', u'frr', u'be',
u'wa', u'fy', u'fa', u'oc', u'sk', u'sw'], 2: [u'th', u'arz', u'yi',
u'ceb', u'bn', u'bat-smg', u'lmo', u'fo', u'ml', u'tt', u'mr'], 3:
[u'af', u'mwl', u'sl', u'ms', u'uz', u'no'], 4: [u'sco', u'az', u'lv',
u'ast', u'kl'], 5: [u'cs', u'nap', u'bg', u'fi', u'zh-classical',
u'ka', u'bar'], 6: [u'sr'], 7: [u'zh', u'simple', u'el', u'hy', u'sq',
u'hr'], 8: [u'tr'], 10: [u'vi', u'eu', u'sh', u'hu', u'sa'], 11:
[u'gl', u'ko'], 13: [u'ca'], 14: [u'zh-yue', u'uk'], 15: [u'nds-nl'],
16: [u'bs', u'als', u'ar'], 19: [u'ro', u'be-x-old'], 22: [u'pt',
u'vls'], 23: [u'ja'], 24: [u'ru', u'ur'], 25: [u'eo'], 29: [u'sv'],
32: [u'en'], 35: [u'de'], 41: [u'mk'], 43: [u'id'], 46: [u'scn'], 52:
[u'it'], 65: [u'he'], 79: [u'es'], 80: [u'pl'], 95: [u'fr']}
For a wiki with more than 1335 featured article 95 missing badge seems
normal (Don't get me wrong A missing badge in this case doesn't mean
we should add the badge to Wikidata, It can be caused for a former
featured article, vandalism, or lots of other things)
But for some Wiki the number isn't normal and I checked these
languages carefully and added badges that are missing from Wikidata:
*ur, vls, be-x-old, nds-nl, zh-yue, zh-classical, nap, bat-smg
Overall about 300 badges are added to Wikidata today.
For cleaning up Wikis from former featured articles and former good
articles I wrote a feature in featured.py about four years ago but
some Wikis use it (like nl, and pl) and some of them don't (like sv).
I need to talk to them about this, If your Wiki have similar situation
just command this:
python pwb.py featured -fromall -former
(or python featured.py ... in compat)
I fixed some other issues and I'm rerunning them in lots of Wikis. I
can get this report for English Wikipedia and Persian Wikipedia by
tomorrow.
If anything else needs to be done, a Wiki is missing or anything,
please share here.
Best
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Amir