Hi Wikidatans,
Inspired by the Zika corpus project at WikiCite 2016,[1] I wanted to see if
it was (a) possible and (b) practical to set up an automatically updating
table (ideally for use in Wikipedia but pulling from Wikidata) that would
allow the Black Lunch Table Project initiative on Wikipedia to automate and
customize their Task List -- which is somewhat massive.[2]
Heather Hart from Black Lunch Table holds editathons all over North
America,[3] and I think they will be intersectional with some of the other
Wikipedia initiatives. So for events in places like North Carolina or New
Orleans, it would be helpful for her to be able to pull artists from those
communities. And for Art+Feminism in March, it would be helpful for her to
be able to pull artists who are female-identifying.
We set up some categories as a way to granulate a possible SPARQL query:
- Wikipedia category:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Visual_artists_of_the_African_diaspo…
- Wikimedia Commons category:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Visual_artists_of_the_African_d…
Wikidata item:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28654190
Right now the task list is approaching 1,000 entries, and I assume the task
list will only grow as it is a crowdsourced list. It is understood that
obviously not all entrants are notable, and many are at mid-career levels,
so even a stub might be stretching it to be on Wikipedia. But a solid
percentage are definitely notable and are deserving of pages.
I was also thinking that this sort of functionality would be helpful for
other initiatives -- maybe also Art+Feminism -- so this process might be
transferrable for others too.
Goal: To automate the task list process somewhat.
And at minimum would be a good Wikidata project.
I think that even exploring the possibilities here has been very fruitful
and illustrative of Wikidata's functionality for both myself and
Heather/Black Lunch Table Project. I think it might also provide very
positive outreach for others as well.
Best,
- Erika
[1]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData/Wikidata…
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Lists_of_A…
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Event_Arch…
*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*
Hoi,
A student is going to start some work on Wikidata quality based on a model
of quality that is imho seriously suspect. It is item based and assumes
that the more interwiki links there are, the more statements there are and
the more references there are, the item will be of a higher quality.
I did protest against this approach and I did call into question that this
work will help us achieve better quality at Wikidata. I did indicate what
we should do to approach quality at Wikidata and I was indignantly told
that research shows that I am wrong.
The research is about Wikipedia not Wikidata and the paper quoted does not
mention Wikidata at all. As far as I am concerned we have been quite happy
to only see English Wikipedia based research and consequently I doubt there
is Wikimedia based research that is truly applicable.
At a previous time a student started work on a quality project for
Wikidata; comparisons were to be made with external sources so that we
could deduce quality. The student finished his or her research, I assume
wrote a paper and left us with no working functionality. It is left at
that. So the model were a student can do vital work for Wikidata is also
very much in doubt.
I wrote in an e-mail to user:Epochfail:
Hoi,
You refer to a publication, the basis for quality and it is NOT about
Wikidata but about Wikipedia. What is discussed is quality for Wikidata
where other assumptions are needed. My point to data is that its quality is
in the connections that are made.
To some extend Wikidata reflects Wikipedia but not one Wikipedia, all
Wikipedias. In addition there is a large and growing set of data with no
links to Wikipedia or any of the other Wikimedia projects.
When you consider the current dataset, there are hardly any relevant
sources. They do exist by inference - items based on Wikipedia are likely
to have a source - items on an award are documented on the official website
for the award - etc.
Quality is therefore in statements being the same on items that are
identified as such.
When you consider Wikidata, it often has more items relating to a
university, an award than a Wikipedia does and often it does not link to
items representing articles in a specific Wikipedia. When you consider this
alone you have actionable difference of at least 2%.
Sure enough plenty of scope of looking at Wikidata in its own context and
NOT quoting studies that have nothing to do with Wikidata.
Thanks,
GerardM
My question to both researchers and Wikidata people is: Why would this
Wikipedia model for quality apply to Wikidata? What research is it based
on, is that research applicable and to what extend? Will the alternative
approach to quality for WIKIDATA not provide us with more and better
quality that will also be of relevance to Wikipedia quality?
Thanks,
GerardM
Hello,
As several persons asked about a regular Wikidata meetup in Berlin, let's
create one!
If you're in the area and would like to attend, choose the date of the next
one here: https://framadate.org/xvE4H76lHevJOrGs
Also, next week will start the regular meetup of Ladies that FOSS, event
dedicated to women who want to start coding for Wikidata, Mediawiki or
other open source softwares. More information and registration:
https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/LadiesthatFOSS/Meetup
Reminder: you can find all the events related to Wikidata on the event page
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events Feel free to update and
improve it!
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.
Hello all,
As you know, the Wikimedia hackathon
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017> will take place
on May 19-21 in Vienna.
During this event, we will organize a documentation sprint to help
volunteers to improve the user-level documentation for Wikidata.
During these 3 days, you'll be able to join (IRL or remotely, at any
moment) to work on improving and translating the help pages. We suggest a
focus on these 3 topics:
- Beginner documentation about Wikidata
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159216>
- Lua for Wikimedians <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159217>
- Wikibase installation <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159218>
We will also organize some workshops (translation tools, illustration...)
to help you build a better documentation.
You will find all the information on the related page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Wikidata_documentat…>.
If you're interested, feel free to add yourself in the attendees list.
We're now building a list of simple tasks that volunteers could work on
during the event. If you have any ideas, parts of the documentation that
should really be improved... feel free to add your ideas on the talk page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Wikidata_docum…>,
or if you feel comfortable with Phabricator, directly create subtasks of
the tasks listed above.
Thanks a lot, and maybe see you there!
--
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.
Dear colleagues,
The first ‘Celtic Knot’ – Wikipedia Language Conference<http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/02/17/save-the-date-celtic-knot-confer…> will take place 5 & 6 July 2017 at the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Wikimedia UK.
This Wikimedia event will focus on showcasing innovative approaches to open education, open knowledge and open data that support and grow Celtic and Indigenous language communities.
Please note: the ‘call for proposals’ closes midnight on Friday 17th March 2017.
Following enquiries, the criteria for submissions is that presentations/workshops should be:
* Relevant to Wikimedia<https://www.wikimedia.org/>.
* Address interests in-keeping with Wikimedia’s mission<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement>.
* Be of interest to Wikimedians<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_community> specifically.
Therefore, any proposals should make it very clear how their presentation will be of interest to this audience.
To assist with seeing areas of commonality and links with the Wikimedia projects<http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/03/10/seeing-the-links-at-the-celtic-k…> you can click here<http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/03/10/seeing-the-links-at-the-celtic-k…>.
If you would like to attend as a delegate then we are asking people for expressions of interest and to save the date until booking is open. If you would like to present then we are asking for suggested ideas to be no longer than 100-200 words showcasing the best of your work which both addresses the conference themes and satisfies the above criteria. (Submitted ideas which already explicitly address this criteria need not resubmit.)
To find out more about the conference themes and the format of sessions please visit the Celtic Knot<http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/03/10/seeing-the-links-at-the-celtic-k…> page. Email your session proposal to ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk> indicating the session type, conference theme and how it meets the criteria by no later than Friday 17th March.
Please feel free to forward this event to interested colleagues in your network. If you would like to learn more then please contact me direct at ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk>
Very best regards,
Ewan McAndrew
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Tel: 07719 330076
Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk
Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia(a)mlist.is.ed.ac.uk
My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday.
Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR.
www.ed.ac.uk
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Hi friends,
I was just speaking to Asaf @ WMF about the road to pairing Wikipedia book
articles to copies which are freely available and readable through the
Internet Archive's Open Library.
Open Library has ~16M works and ~25M editions, about 1.8M of these editions
are readable without any login. An additional several hundred thousand
modern works are borrowable with an archive.org account.
I recognize that there are already tens of thousands of books on Wikidata
(maybe more, now!) which have Open Library IDs (olids) -- e.g.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P648. Asaf and I wondered whether a
good first step might be to see how many of the readable works Open Library
has are already on Wikidata.
TL;DR -- The Open Library team would love to help empower more wikipedia
and wikidata users to access readable copies of books related to the
content they're viewing. And we'd love to explore donating metadata to help
improve the quality of Wikidata. What are the community's feelings on this,
what existing efforts may exist (or have existed) which I should be aware
of, and how do you recommend we proceed in a way which respects the
community's policies and goals?
best wishes,
- mek
OpenSym 2017, the 13th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
Call for Papers
August 23-25, 2017 | Galway, Ireland
Research paper submission deadline is April 7th, 2017.
Doctoral Symposium submission deadline is April 30th, 2017
For more information on call for papers and submission details, please see: http://opensym.lero.ie/cfp/<http://opensym.lero.ie/>
The 13th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2017) is the premier conference on open collaboration research and practice, including open source, open data, open science, open policy, open education, wikis and related social media, Wikipedia, and IT-driven open innovation research. OpenSym was the first conference series to bring together the different strands of open collaboration research and practice, seeking to create synergies and inspire new collaborations between people from computer science, information science, software engineering, social science, humanities, and everyone interested in understanding open collaboration and how it is changing the world.
This year’s conference will be held in Galway, Ireland, on August 23-25, 2017. A Doctoral Symposium will take place on August 22, 2017.
Topics
We are looking for submissions on, but is not limited to, the following topics:
Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
Open Data and Open Science
Open Education
Open Innovation
Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media
Open Policy/Open Government
Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research
Important Dates
● Submission deadline: April 7th, 2017
● Reviews sent to authors: June 2nd, 2017
● Response to reviews from authors due: June 30th, 2017
● Decision notification: July 7th, 2017
● Camera-ready papers due: July 21st, 2017
Doctoral Consortium
• Submission deadline: April 30, 2017
• Decision notification: May 15, 2017
The OpenSym Conference Experience
OpenSym 2017 will be held at the National University of Ireland, Galway on August 23-25, 2017. Research and community presentations and performances will be accompanied by keynotes, invited speakers, and a social program in one of the most vibrant cities in Ireland. A Doctoral Symposium will also be held the day before the conference begins - August 22, 2017.
This conference provides a platform for researchers and practitioners from a variety of domains to share insights and ideas relevant to understanding open collaboration in its many forms. The open space track is a key ingredient of the event that distinguishes OpenSym from other conferences. It is an integral part of the program that makes it easy to talk to other researchers and practitioners and to stretch your imagination and conversations beyond the limits of your own discipline, exposing you to the full breadth of open collaboration research. The open space track is entirely participant-organized, is open for everyone, and requires no submission or review.
Conference Organization
The General Chair of the conference is Lorraine Morgan, Lero (the Irish Software Research Centre) and Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway. Feel free to contact us with any questions you might have at lorraine.morgan(a)nuigalway.ie<mailto:lorraine.morgan@nuigalway.ie>.
The Program Co-Chairs are Claudia Müller-Birn (Freie Universität Berlin) and Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington). Associate Chairs and program committee members will be listed as the committee is finalized.
The Doctoral Symposium chairs are Kieran Conboy (NUI Galway), Joe Feller (University College Cork) and Matt Germonprez (University of Omaha-Nebraska.