Wikidata December 2017

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Wiki PageID
by Gintautas Sulskus 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

Hi, I have a couple of questions regarding the Wiki Page ID. Does it always stay unique for the page, where the page itself is just a placeholder for any kind of information that might change over time? Consider the following cases: 1. The first time someone creates page "Moon" it is assigned ID=1. If at some point the page is renamed to "The_Moon", the ID=1 remains intact. Is this correct? 2. What if we have page "Moon" with ID=1. Someone creates a second-page "The_Moon" with ID=2. Is it possible that page "Moon" is transformed into a redirect? Then, "Moon" would be redirecting to page "The_Moon"? 3. Is it possible for page "Moon" to become a category "Category:Moon" with the same ID=1? Thanks, Gintas

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Wikidata HDT dump
by Laura Morales 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hello everyone, I'd like to ask if Wikidata could please offer a HDT [1] dump along with the already available Turtle dump [2]. HDT is a binary format to store RDF data, which is pretty useful because it can be queried from command line, it can be used as a Jena/Fuseki source, and it also uses orders-of-magnitude less space to store the same data. The problem is that it's very impractical to generate a HDT, because the current implementation requires a lot of RAM processing to convert a file. For Wikidata it will probably require a machine with 100-200GB of RAM. This is unfeasible for me because I don't have such a machine, but if you guys have one to share, I can help setup the rdf2hdt software required to convert Wikidata Turtle to HDT. Thank you. [1] http://www.rdfhdt.org/ [2] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/

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FactGrid workshop in Berlin
by Lydia Pintscher 08 Jan '18

08 Jan '18

Hey everyone :) We are working with researchers from the University of Erfurt on a project called FactGrid. The goal is to build a wiki for researchers to collect data related to their research. It will use Wikibase as the underlying technology, just like Wikidata. We'll start with data related to the Illuminati based on the Gothaer Illuminati Research Database. You can find blog posts with more details and musings here: https://blog.factgrid.de I started a page on Wikidata about it here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:FactGrid My hope is that this will be one of the many Wikibase installations in Wikidata's ecosystem in the future that is highly connected with Wikidata and that Wikidata can partially import data from where wanted and needed. There will be a kick-off workshop at Wikimedia Deutschland's office in Berlin on the 1st and 2nd of December. It'd be great if we have a few more people there who want to drive this project forward and can help with their experience on Wikidata. If you'd like to attend please let me know. Details about the workshop are here: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/159 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 27/029/42207.

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ISWC 2018 - Important Dates and Keynote Speakers
by Maribel Acosta 30 Dec '17

30 Dec '17

While wishing you a happy and prosperous new year, we would like to add some important dates to your calendar for the new year. Get ready for the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018)! Monterey, California (USA), from October 8-12, 2018 ISWC is the premier venue for presenting innovative systems and research results related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data, attracting a large number of high quality submissions every year and participants from both industry and academia. ISWC brings together researchers from different areas, such as artificial intelligence, databases, natural language processing, information systems, human computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate, develop and use novel methods and technologies for accessing, interpreting and using information on the Web in a more effective way. Website: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/InternationalSemanticWebConference Twitter: @iswc2018 (https://twitter.com/iswc2018) In this announcement: 1. Keynote Speakers 2. Important Dates 1.Keynote Speakers ========================================== ISWC 2018 is delighted to confirm the following keynote speakers: * Jennifer Golbeck (University of Maryland, USA) * Natasha Noy (Google, USA) * Vanessa Evers (University of Twente, Netherlands) More information coming soon: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/speakers/ 2. Important Dates ========================================== Workshop & Tutorial proposals January 21, 2018 Workshop & Tutorial proposals notifications February 15, 2018 Abstracts (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) March 30, 2018 Papers (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) April 6, 2018 Doctoral Consortium submissions April 13, 2018 Author rebuttal phase (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) May 7-11, 2018 Doctoral Consortium notifications May 14, 2018 Paper notifications (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) May 25, 2018 Doctoral Consortium camera-ready submissions May 28, 2018 Industry papers June 1, 2018 Workshop papers June 1, 2018 End of Early Registration period June 1, 2018 Poster & Demo submissions June 8, 2018 Camera-ready papers (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) June 15, 2018 Industry papers notifications June 22, 2018 Poster & Demo notifications sent July 13, 2018 Workshop papers notifications July 13, 2018 End of Standard Registration period July 15, 2018 Industry camera-ready papers July 20, 2018 Poster & Demo camera-ready submissions July 24, 2018 Workshops & Tutorials October 8-9, 2018 Conference October 10-12, 2018 Happy holidays! The ISWC Organising Committee (http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/organization/)

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Wikidata fulltext search prototype
by Stas Malyshev 28 Dec '17

28 Dec '17

Hi! Search Platform team would like to present a prototype test site of new and improved Wikidata fulltext search: http://wikidata-wdsearch.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Search Please try your favorite searches on it and report whether it looks good and which problems you notice. Important to note for this prototype: - The data in the search is imported from Wikidata index but not updated from it after import, so it may be slightly out of date - The search is in English by default but you can try other languages by using uselang parameter, e.g.: http://wikidata-wdsearch.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?search=Wien&title=Special:… Note that since it's a test site, this is probably the best way to test non-English searches as logins etc. may not work there properly. - Search would work properly only for main & property namespace (0 and 120). What kind of problems we are looking for? - Ranking and retrieval problems, i.e. result X appears too low or too high in specific search, or does not appear at all (please tell us specific search query and expected result) - UI problems - i.e. the ranking is fine but highlighting or label or description is broken or look bad, or not highlighting the result that should be highlighted Of course, if some search result worked spectacularly better for you, it would be nice to know too :) What should work? Any search in Special:Search in main namespace and Property namespace should produce sensible result. Searches without advanced syntax should have better results than before, and search with advanced syntax (+, -, *, quotes, etc.) should work no worse than before. Please note that this is a test wiki, so nothing else but search is expected to work, including clicking on other links, editing, browsing to other pages, etc. This is also a test site, so short disruptions might be possible when we update or change things or fix bugs reported by you :) How to provide feedback? Several ways are possible: - Reply to this list or personally to me if you prefer - On-wiki message on my talk page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Smalyshev_(WMF) - Talk to us on IRC: #wikimedia-discovery Thanks! -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org

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weekly summary #292
by Lydia Pintscher 26 Dec '17

26 Dec '17

Hey folks :) Happy holidays! Here is your summary of what's been going on around Wikidata over the past week. No stopping Wikidata even over the holidays it seems ;-) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/ Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_at_the_34th_Chaos_Communica…> - WikiCite 2018 <https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forum/#!topic/wikicite-discuss/1N…> - Get your vocabularies in Wikidata... so Europeana and others can get them <https://pro.europeana.eu/page/get-your-vocabularies-in-wikidata> - Moths and me <https://siobhanleachman.tumblr.com/post/168445789476/moths-and-me> - Quality and collaboration in Wikidata <https://www.slideshare.net/elenasimperl/quality-and-collaboration-in-wikida…> - The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata <https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2017/12/19/the-tom-longboat-awards-as-wik…> - GLOWing the extra mile <https://www.mysociety.org/2017/12/18/glowing-the-extra-mile/> - Seven translation tools you can use to work in multiple languages across Wikimedia projects <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/12/19/wikimedia-translation-tools/> Other Noteworthy Stuff - New tool by YMS to help with vandalism fighting. <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Counter-Vandalism#Y…> Give it a try and catch some vandals? - Version 0.8.0 <https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/releases/tag/v0.8.0> of the Wikidata Toolkit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit> have been released. There is a short survey <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdN25X2sTv2wQe-y56d0hC4QmU06s6crr1…> to figure out in which directions to move the library. - You can try the Wikidata fulltext search prototype <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_fulltext_searc…> and give feedback - You can also tell us what could be improved with the entity suggester <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Suggester_ranking_input> - The Geo dashboard <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_dashboard_on_the_Wi…> shows a map on the most used items in Wikipedia and co in a given category - Consultation on Blocking tools and improvements <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/Blocking_tools_…> - New documentation page with information about publishing open data <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Open_data_publishing> that we can use when talking to institutions about why they should publish their data openly - Cou can try the prototype to improve the term box and give feedback <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Usability_and_usefulness/Feedback_ro…> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: OpenSecrets organization ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4691>, Oireachtas member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4690>, Environmental Register code (Estonia) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4689>, geomorphological unit <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4688>, Dictionnaire des peintres belges ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4687>, Carnegie Museum of Art ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4686>, Nintendo Game Store ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4685>, National Gallery of Victoria artwork ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4684>, National Gallery of Art artwork ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4683>, Eldoblaje original actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4682>, Eldoblaje dubbing actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4681>, constraint scope <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4680>, MAVISE company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4679>, MAVISE competent authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4678>, MAVISE on-demand audiovisual service ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4677>, MAVISE TV channel ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4676>, appears in the form of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4675>, Indianapolis Museum of Art artwork ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4674>, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston object ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4673>, EMLO location ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4672>, Hall of Light Amiga database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4671>, Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4670>, tabular software version <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4669>, USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4668>, Buenos Aires legislator ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4667>, Cinemagia actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4666>, Cinemagia film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4665> - Query examples: - Map with radio telescopes around the world <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20%3Fbuilding%20%…> (source <https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/944107429041762305>) - People born on the same day their mother died <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20people%20who%20were%20born%20on%20the%20s…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/943995728413757440>) - Largest first-level administrative subdivision by country <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fentity%20%3FcountryLab…> (source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/943598249281310720>) - Data sets released under a Creative Commons NoDerivatives license <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20data%20sets%20released%20under%20a%20Crea…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/943187773787385857>) - Type foundries and their typefaces <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23typeface%20to%20foundry%20links%0A%23default…> (source <https://twitter.com/ReaderMeter/status/942446764337934336>) - Map of Christmas traditions <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ftradition%20…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/944970771067219971>) - Movies that are Christmas traditions <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3FchristmasTraditionMovie%…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/944969496619634688>) - Newest database reports: list of Christmas films <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/lists/films_by_ge…> Development - Due to the Christmas and New Year's Eve holidays, no deployment will happen before January 3rd. - Monolingual language codes for Old French (fro) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35222> and Middle French (frm) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1473289> added (phabricator:T181823 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181823>) - Finishing touches on storing statements on Forms - No longer checking constraints on the property example statements ( phabricator:T183267 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183267>) - More work on caching constraint check results so we can roll out constraint checking for all logged in users You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. Monthly Tasks - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Suggested and open tasks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks> ! - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> . - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> Anything to add? Please share! :) 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 27/029/42207.

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[CfP] ISWC 2018 - Call for Papers and Proposals
by Maribel Acosta 24 Dec '17

24 Dec '17

This is an announcement of the ISWC 2018 call for papers and proposals Website: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/InternationalSemanticWebConference Twitter: @iswc2018 (https://twitter.com/iswc2018) Important dates: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/important-dates/ In this announcement: 1. Call for Papers 2. Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals 1. Call for Papers ========================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Research Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Semantic Web Conference is the premier venue for presenting fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications concerning semantics, data, and the Web. In this track of ISWC 2018, we are looking for novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical and empirical aspects of the Semantic Web. While we welcome work that relates to the W3C Semantic Web recommendations (e.g., RDF, OWL, SPARQL, etc.), we also encourage contributions to research at the intersection of Semantic Web and other scientific disciplines. Submissions to the research track should describe original, significant, and replicable research on the Semantic Web. All papers must include method evaluations that are rigorous, repeatable and reproducible. This will be one of the key paper reviewing criteria. We also strongly encourage papers that provide links to the data sets, source code, queries used to evaluate their approach, and/or live deployments. All papers will be assessed by a program committee. Each paper will be reviewed by at least four committee members, including one senior member. The review criteria used are outlined below. Before submitting, authors are asked to consult the calls of the other tracks featured at ISWC 2018 and to choose the track that best suits their contribution. The submission of the same work to multiple tracks is not allowed and may result in a rejection of the work across all tracks without a review. Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-research-track-papers/ Program Chairs * Denny Vrandecic, Google, USA * Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for In-Use Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since their debut in the scientific community at the break of the millennium, Semantic Web technologies have moved from being adopted in small-scale academic prototypes to being employed in real-world settings in industry and governments at different scales. The “In Use” Track at ISWC’18 continues the tradition of demonstrating and learning from the increasing adoption of Semantic Web technologies outside the boundaries of research institutions, by providing a forum for the community to explore the benefits and challenges of applying these technologies in concrete, practical applications, in contexts ranging from industry to government and science. Therefore, we are looking for descriptions of applied and validated solutions such as software tools, systems or architectures that benefit from the use of Semantic Web technologies (including, but not limited to, ontologies, Linked Data, knowledge representation languages). Importantly, submitted papers should provide convincing evidence that there is use of the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group that conducted the development. A main focus of the submissions should be on the benefits of Semantics Web technologies for the intended use case, as well as, if relevant, on the added challenges they introduce. Before submitting to the In-Use Track, authors are asked to consult the calls of the other tracks featured at ISWC 2018 and to choose the track that best suits their contribution. The submission of the same work to multiple tracks is not allowed and may result in a rejection of the work across all tracks without a review. Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-in-use-track-papers/ Program Chairs * Irene Celino, Cefriel, Italy * Marta Sabou, Technical University of Vienna, Austria -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Resources Track Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resources are of paramount importance as they foster scientific advancement. For example, the DBpedia resource had a major influence on the Semantic Web community by enabling the Linked (Open) Data movement. Validating a research hypothesis or providing answers to a research question often goes together with developing new resources that support these achievements. These resources include, among others, datasets, benchmarks, workflows, and software. Sharing them is key to allow other researchers to compare new results, reproduce experimental settings and explore new lines of research, in accordance with the FAIR principles for scientific data management. Yet, resources themselves rarely get the same recognition as the scientific advances they facilitate. The ISWC 2018 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources including, but not restricted to: datasets, ontologies, vocabularies, ontology design patterns, evaluation benchmarks or methods, services, APIs and software frameworks, workflows, crowdsourcing task designs, protocols and metrics, that have contributed to the generation of novel scientific work. In particular, we encourage the sharing of such resources following best and well established practices within the Semantic Web community. This track calls for contributions that provide a concise and clear description of a resource and its usage. A typical Resource track paper has its focus set on reporting on one of the following categories of resources: * Datasets produced: to support specific evaluation tasks; to support novel research methods; by novel algorithms; * Ontologies, vocabularies and ontology design patterns, with a focus on describing the modelling process underlying their creation; * Benchmarking activities focusing on datasets and algorithms for comprehensible and systematic evaluation of existing and future systems; * Reusable research prototypes / services supporting a given research hypothesis; * Community shared software frameworks that can be extended or adapted to support scientific study and experimentation; * Scientific and experimental workflows used and reused in practical studies; * Crowdsourcing task designs that have been used and can be (re)used for building resources such as gold standards and the like; * Protocols for conducting experiments and studies; * Novel evaluation methodologies and metrics, and their demonstration in an experimental study. Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-resources-track-papers/ Program Chairs * Valentina Presutti, STLab-ISTC, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Rome, Italy * Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, OEG (Ontology Engineering Group), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates for Paper Submissions -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts due March 30, 2018 Full papers due April 6, 2018 Author rebuttals May 7-11, 2018 Notifications May 25, 2018 Camera-ready papers due June 15, 2018 Conference October 10-12, 2018 All deadlines are midnight Hawaii time. 2. Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals ================================= In addition to the regular research program, ISWC 2018 will feature a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse interests of its audience. We hereby invite you to submit a tutorial proposal on a topic relevant to the ISWC 2018 audience. Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-tutorial-proposals/ Besides tutorials, ISWC will host a number of workshops on topics related to the general theme of the conference. The role of the workshops is to provide a context for a focused and intensive scientific exchange among researchers interested in a particular topic. As such, workshops are the primary venues for the exploration of emerging ideas as well as for the discussion of novel aspects of established research topics. We invite you to submit a proposal for workshops on a topic of interest to ISWC attendees. Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-workshop-proposals/ Workshops & Tutorials Chairs * Amrapali Zaveri, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands * Elena Demidova, L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates for Workshops and Tutorials -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop & Tutorial proposals January 21, 2018 Workshop & Tutorial proposals notifications February 15, 2018 Workshop paper submissions due June 1, 2018 Workshop paper notifications sent July 13, 2018 Workshops & Tutorials October 8-9, 2018 Conference October 10-12, 2018 All deadlines are midnight Hawaii time. The ISWC Organising Committee (http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/organization/)

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New dashboard on the Wikidata Concept Monitor: Geo dashboard
by Léa Lacroix 23 Dec '17

23 Dec '17

Hello all, You may have heard about the Wikidata Concept Monitor <http://wdcm.wmflabs.org/> (WDCM) website, a tool full of statistics about Wikidata's content and usage. It was released for the 5th birthday <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fifth_Birthday> by Goran <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:GoranSM>, data scientist in the Wikidata team. A new board is now available on the platform: the Geo Dashboard <http://wdcm.wmflabs.org/WDCM_GeoDashboard/>. It creates a map of the 1000 most used items in several semantic categories: museums, libraries, art galleries, universities, botanical gardens, etc. The usage of the items being the count of the number of pages in the Wikimedia projects where the Wikidata item is used. [image: Inline images 1] *Example: Map of the 1000 libraries in Wikidata that are most used in the Wikimedia projects* Feel free to have a look at this board and the others, check the documentation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Concepts_Monitor> and ask any questions if you have some. You can also suggest other categories that you would like to see represented on the Geo Dashboard. 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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Submit your proposals to WikiIndaba 2018 until January 15th
by abdelwaheb turki 23 Dec '17

23 Dec '17

Dear Users, I thank you for your efforts. The Call for proposals for WikiIndaba 2018, the 3rd African Wikimedia community conference is now open. If you want to participate and share your experience, tools, skills, knowledge, opinions or ideas with mostly active African wikimedians, please submit your proposals to https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. The deadline for that is January 15th. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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CfP EASST 2018 After Data Activism: reactions to civil society's engagement with data
by Katja Mayer 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

Sorry for x-posting! Please consider submitting a paper to our session E07 until midnight CET on February 14th, 2018. https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6257 Happy holidays! Katja, Guillén, Stefania After Data Activism: reactions to civil society's engagement with data Convenors * Guillén Torres (University of Amsterdam) * Katja Mayer (Technical University Munich) * Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam) Short abstract This panel focuses on data practices that hinder rather than foster civil society's political engagement. We invite you to discuss how data governance, data science and social technologies are co-producing asymmetries of power. Long abstract By foregrounding the constitutive power of information to shape social reality (Braman, 2006), recent approaches to datafication have highlighted data's active role in configuring new ways of engaging politically with -while dissolving the barriers between- public policy, economy, science, nature and culture (Milan & van der Velden, 2016). Thus, the term data activism has been used to study practices in which data plays a crucial role in shaping civil society's agenda, in particular when taking action against governmental or corporate practices of injustice or misinformation. Today, various actors embrace the "data as new oil" metaphor and we even witness multiple forms of "open-washing" of politics and economies (e.g. transparency). Other actors however, have lately shown reluctance to support civic engagement with data, implementing strategies of information control at different scales: from the enactment of government-wide policies that make difficult access to data, to recurrent denials of information requests, passing by the wilful production of the opaqueness of Automated Decision Making or scoring systems. This panel focuses on how certain actors are taking advantage of information's capacity to shape social reality, with a special focus on data practices that resist rather than foster citizens' political engagement. We invite you to discuss how mechanisms of information control produce and sustain asymmetries of power, often in complicity with data science and social technologies. We further welcome contributions focused on experiences with data activism through the mobilisation of open data and public sector information, or dealing with the political aftermath of data-driven projects. Dr. Katja Mayer Post-doctoral research fellow ------------------------- Computational Social Science and Big Data Bavarian School of Public Policy Technical University of Munich Richard-Wagner-Str. 1 80333 Munich GERMANY http://www.katjamayer.net/ ------------------------- Newly published: Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval 2nd ed. (M. Lupu, K. Mayer, N.Kando, A. Trippe) Springer Information Retrieval Series

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