Wikidata July 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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Weekly Summary #271
by Léa Lacroix 31 Jul '17

31 Jul '17

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/ Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Upcoming: Wikimania <https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania> is coming! Check out all the things related to Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2017> - Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon during Repository Fringe 2017 <http://rfringe17.blogs.edina.ac.uk/programme/>, in Edinburgh, August 4th - Data Partnerships with Wikidata: beaTunes <https://blog.wikimedia.de/2017/07/25/data-partnerships-with-wikidata-beatun…> (version in German <https://blog.wikimedia.de/2017/07/25/datenpartnerschaften-mit-wikidata-beat…> ) - Wikidata visualizes SMILES strings with John Mayfield's CDK Depict <http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.nl/2017/07/wikidata-visualizes-smiles-strings-…> - Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#July_2017> WikidataCon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017> - Today is the very last day to submit projects in the program <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program>! (deadline: July 31th) - You can also subscribe to the existing submissions <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program/Submissions> to show your interest and support your favorites Other Noteworthy Stuff - wbsearchentities with ElasticSearch test <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#wbsearchentities_with_E…> - Quantities with units are now supported <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D723> in the new QuickStatements <https://tools.wmflabs.org/quickstatements>. - Property talk pages now include queries for items with the property and most sitelinks, statements or identifiers. - We now have Q34000000 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34000000> - Wikidata Constraint Violations <https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-constraint-violations/> tool visualizes changes in constraint violations for last few weeks. Some of constraints produce millions of violations (marked as red). Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: maximum age <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4135>, WIGOS station ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4136> - Query examples: - Which White House chief of staff had the shortest tenure? <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Which%20White%20House%20chief%20of%20staf…> (source <https://twitter.com/wikimediadc/status/891131373293113349>) - Total number of sister city statements per country <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20total%20number%20of%20sister%20cities%20p…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/889883321546805248>) - Pictures of tube stations in London <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fstatio…> (source <https://twitter.com/betatim/status/889857451658444805>) - Works created with the software Maya <https://query.wikidata.org/#%0ASELECT%20%3Fwork%20%3FworkLabel%20%0AWHERE%2…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikiDigi/status/890961633165684737>) - Do I cite works from Nobel Prize winners? <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcited%20%3FcitedLabel%20…> (source <https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/890151632469708801>) - ...or do Nobel prize winners cite me? <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcited%20%3FcitedLabel%20…> (source <https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/890151906957553669>) - Timeline of Humanitarian personality of the year <https://query.wikidata.org/#%0A%23Humanitarian%20personality%20of%20the%20y…> (source <https://twitter.com/K_rho/status/889480611215405057>) - New feature/gadget requests: Gadget for changing property <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Gadget_for_changing_pro…> Development - Added Special:NewItem to Special:SpecialPages <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages> (phab:T169456 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169456>) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek - Making possible to check constraints on qualifiers and references ( phab:T168532 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168532>) - Working on showing non-mandatory and mandatory constraints differently (phab:T164254 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164254>) - Improving Special:PagesWithProp <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:PagesWithProp> for Wikidata use cases (phab:T66950 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66950>) - Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania - Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to delays <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:DispatchStats> in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes 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> -- 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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lib.reviews: Review anything with a Wikidata entry
by Erik Moeller 29 Jul '17

29 Jul '17

Hi there, As of yesterday, lib.reviews supports searching Wikidata, so you can quickly write a review (think "1-5 stars") of anything with a Wikidata entry. See more here: https://lib.reviews/team/developers/post/b2245981-0e59-427f-a7fe-8e685b8276… lib.reviews is an open source, free content, multilingual, nonprofit platform for reviewing anything (except living people). Registration still needs invite codes (until we have better anti-spam and moderation tools) -- feel free to email me offlist if you want one. == Implementation == Autocompletion is done via the wbsearchentities API, and individual entries are looked up via wbgetentities. We perform client-side filtering to remove results that include phrases such as "Wikimedia disambiguation page", which are not relevant in this context. (This is done via a regex blacklist that can be different for each language.) The client performs a "shallow" lookup for only the information the user cares about, while upon save, the server performs a "deep" lookup, e.g., it gets descriptions in languages the user doesn't care about. Each review is associated with a "thing" (similar to an item in Wikidata), and when you review via Wikidata, labels and descriptions in all supported lib.reviews languages are loaded automatically. We don't "sync" this data regularly yet -- that's an upcoming feature. You can either use the search box, or put a Wikidata URL directly into the URL input field -- the information is looked up either way. And if you don't have JavaScript enabled, we still fetch all the item metadata server-side for any Wikidata URL. == What's Next == In addition to automatic synchronization, we'll provide increasing support for metadata that's relevant to reviews. These features are intricately linked: as much as possible, we want to avoid duplicating work, so pulling from free/open databases and keeping that information up to date is our preferred way of handling review subject metadata. The system we use for plugging into Wikidata is meant to evolve into a generic "adapter" architecture. The next adapter will likely be OpenStreetMap, so it's possible to select an object on a map (e.g., a restaurant) and use that as a starting point for a review. OSM has a lot of data that Wikidata doesn't, e.g., opening times for shops and restaurants. If more people start using it, it may also make sense to write a bot to back-link from Wikidata to lib.reviews (there's already a property for this: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3308 ). == Questions and Notes == - Is there a better way to exclude disambiguation pages and similar meta-content from an autocompletion than what I'm currently doing (client-side filtering)? I didn't find a way to restrict wbsearchentities results by claim, for example. - Progress on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97566 would help a lot to clean up descriptions on some items. For applications like this one, items with descriptions like "for the best-known species, see Q10757112; for the genus, see Q8666090" are really problematic. == Getting Involved == The most important thing for the success of the project right now is slowly growing the community of reviewers. So, if you want to review books, movies, etc., please ask me for a code and get involved! If you've written reviews on sites like IMDB or Goodreads, I wrote a browser extension called https://freeyourstuff.cc/ a while ago that lets you export these -- there's no automatic import feature for lib.reviews yet, but it should still save some time when copying things over. Besides, FYS provides online backup to a community-mirrored database, so it's a good way to liberate your content either way. As for development, the project is fully open and there are lots of areas that any motivated person can work on. For example, improving the rich-text editor component, improving file uploads, adding image thumbnail generation, etc. Find us here: - Main site: https://lib.reviews/ - GitHub: https://github.com/eloquence/lib.reviews - IRC: #lib.reviews on irc.freenode.net (also a fine place to ask for an invite code) This is all still in early development & bug reports are always welcome. Cheers :) Erik

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Fwd: [Analytics] Research Showcase Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC
by Jonathan Morgan 25 Jul '17

25 Jul '17

Just a heads up that this week's Wikimedia Research Showcase will focus on structured data in OpenStreetMap. Details below. Cheers, Jonathan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sarah R <srodlund(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:38 AM Subject: [Analytics] Research Showcase Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi Everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC1jgK8C8aQ As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And, you can watch our past research showcases here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#July_2017>. This month's presentation: Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production CommunityBy *Andrew Hall*In addition to encyclopedia articles and software, peer production communities produce *structured data*, e.g., Wikidata and OpenStreetMap’s metadata. Structured data from peer production communities has become increasingly important due to its use by computational applications, such as CartoCSS, MapBox, and Wikipedia infoboxes. However, this structured data is usable by applications only if it follows *standards.* We did an interview study focused on OpenStreetMap’s knowledge production processes to investigate how – and how successfully – this community creates and applies its data standards. Our study revealed a fundamental tension between the need to produce structured data in a standardized way and OpenStreetMap’s tradition of contributor freedom. We extracted six themes that manifested this tension and three overarching concepts, *correctness, community,* and *code,* which help make sense of and synthesize the themes. We also offer suggestions for improving OpenStreetMap’s knowledge production processes, including new data models, sociotechnical tools, and community practices. Kindly, Sarah R. Rodlund Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation srodlund(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>

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wbsearchentities with Elastic test
by Stas Malyshev 25 Jul '17

25 Jul '17

Hi! In the course of work on improving search in Wikidata, we now have an implementation of entity prefix search (wbsearchentities API) using ElasticSearch via CirrusSearch extension. This search mode can be used via useCirrus=1 parameter on wbsearchentities API (without the parameter, the API works as before). Example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=Green&for… The results format is the same as before, but the search is driven not by SQL but by ElasticSearch. We've created a test page to test newly developed search of Wikidata entities via wbsearchentities here: http://elastic-wikidata.wmflabs.org/wb.html Please use this page to test the search and if there's something broken please tell us. Please note the following: - ElasticSearch parameters are not fully tuned yet, so there might be weird results, wrong ordering, etc. The purpose of this test phase is to discover and weed out such occurrences and figure out the best tuning parameters. As such, discussions of ideas and things that are not working right are welcome. If you plan to make a lot of tests - which is great! - please summarize. You can post feedback on the list, or on the talk page here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Smalyshev_(WMF)/Wikidata_search or anywhere on the wiki, please send me a link :) - The test page UI is kind of rough, so it relies on language and type parameters to be accurate and does not have any error control. It's just a test :) Suggestion on improving it are welcome though. More details available in: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125500 Thanks, -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org

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Weekly Summary #270
by Léa Lacroix 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/ Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Upcoming: Wikidata SPARQL workshop, July 25th in Rennes (France) - Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS <https://www.meetup.com/LadiesthatFoss/events/241326586/>, July 26th in Berlin - Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Montreal, August 14th (in French) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Atelier_Wikidata_%C3%A0_Montr…>. We're looking for trainers! - Using Wikidata as an open, community-maintained database of biomedical knowledge <https://www.slideshare.net/andrewsu/bosc2017-using-wikidata-as-an-open-comm…>, by Andrew Su WikidataCon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017> - You can submit projects for the program until July 31st. See the list of ideas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program/Ideas>, existing submissions <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program/Submissions>, and submit <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program/Submit>! - Special tickets for scholarship recipients will be released on July 25th. The last 50 tickets will be released on September 1st. Other Noteworthy Stuff - wbEntity config variable will be deprecated <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Tools#wbEntity_config_variable_…> - Scores in ORES will be more accurate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Scores_in_ORES_will_be_…> - A new version of the Query Helper will be deployed <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Improvements_for_the_Qu…> - Sitelinks for the new Dinka Wikipedia (dinwiki) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q32012187> have been added <https://din.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UnconnectedPages?namespace=0&uselang…> - On Wikidata:Usability and usefulness <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Usability_and_usefulness> you can see an overview of the work done by the UX people in the Wikidata team on usability - There's a brand new newsletter about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Structured_Data_on_Commons/Newsletter/2017-…>. You can subscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Structured_…> to receive next updates. - Ma Commune Wikipédia <https://macommune.wikipedia.fr/> is a website developed by Wikimedia France to give information about the state of the Wikipedia articles for every French municipality and encourage people to edit the Wikimedia projects. It uses Wikidata to identify the communes. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Patrimonioculturale-ER ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4133>, linguistic typology <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4132>, annual energy output <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4131>, USHMM person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4130>, Cinema Treasures ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4129> - Query examples: - Properties with most “statement disputed by” qualifiers <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20properties%20with%20most%20%E2%80%9Cstate…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/888787899029884928>) - Last meals of people <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20last%20meals%20of%20people%0ASELECT%20%3F…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/888789207950520321>) - Colors on national flags <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20distinct%20%3FcolorLabel%20%3Fhexa%20W…> (source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/888756671278927872>) - images of all winners of Free Software Foundation's Free Software Awards <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%20%3Fper…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikiDigi/status/888041091211177984>) - lib.reviews now allows <https://lib.reviews/team/developers/post/b2245981-0e59-427f-a7fe-8e685b8276…> searching Wikidata directly to choose subjects to review. (more info <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2017-July/010961.html>) Development - The wbEntity JavaScript variable will not miss elements any more but contain empty arrays instead (gerrit:365604 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/365604>). Please check if this affects your scripts, and have a look at the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWBA/browse/master/repo/resourc…> as a possible replacement. - Fire-fighting dispatch backlog: phab:T171263 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171263>. - Slowly making progress on wb_terms migration to full entity IDs: phab:T114903 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114903>. - Constraint statements have been enabled (announcement <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Constraint_statements_u…> ). - Distinguish between non-mandatory and mandatory constraints: phab:T164254 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164254>. - Work on supporting unit conversion for more units: phab:T168582 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168582> 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> -- 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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Last days to submit a project for the WikidataCon
by Léa Lacroix 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

Hello all, Since the WikidataCon is an event designed for and by the Wikidata community, the program of the conference <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program> is open and all the attendees can suggest ideas, talks and workshops to be included. The deadline for proposing projects is *July 31st*, next Monday. After that, the program committee will review, select and organize the projects to fit in the schedule, and announce the final program around September 1st. If you want to participate to the program and make sure that the WikidataCon contains the topics you want, it's time to submit one or several proposals! A lot of different formats are possible: talk, workshop, demo, lightening talk, round table, discussion, request for comment, meetup, hackathon, sprint... You can find a list of ideas here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program/Ideas#List_…>. You're welcome to choose one of these topics and make it yours. We have for example: - demo all the useful tools for Wikidata, - an overview on how Wikidata is used in Wikipedia, - some thoughts about the community (how do you deal with vandalism?), - discussions about ontologies and data model, - showcase of a successful project, - meetups for thematic projects... and many more. Thanks in advance for making the program of the WikidataCon amazing :) -- 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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High dispatch lag
by Sjoerd de Bruin 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

Hello everyone, There has been a higher dispatch lag[1] since the end of last month, see https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-dispatch. The English Wikipedia is now three days behind Wikidata, according to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:DispatchStats. I would like to ask everyone to keep mass edits to items with sitelinks to a minimum low until the dispatch lag is on a reasonable level. Greetings, Sjoerd de Bruin sjoerddebruin(a)me.com

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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter, July 19, 2017
by Sandra Fauconnier 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can subscribe to this newsletter <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Structured_…> on-wiki as well. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project! Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons? The millions of files on Wikimedia Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/> are described with a lot of information or (meta)data. With the project Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data>, this data is structured more, and is made machine-readable. This will make it easier to view, search (also multilingually), edit, organize and re-use the files on Commons. In early 2017, the Sloan Foundation funded this project (see documentation <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Sloan_Grant>). Development takes place in 2017–2020. It involves staff from the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) and many volunteers. To achieve this, Wikibase <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase> support is added to Wikimedia Commons. Wikibase is the technology that is also used for Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/>. Recent developments: groundwork - A new and crucial technical step (federation) <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data#New_step_to…> now makes it possible to reference data from one Wikibase website in another. Because of this, it will be possible to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Commons. - Another important piece of groundwork is under development: so-called Multi-Content Revisions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Multi-Content_Revisions>. This feature allows structured data to be stored alongside wiki text, so that one wiki page can contain several types of content. Team updates - Amanda Bittaker <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Abittaker_(WMF)> was hired as Program Manager for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. Amanda will take care of the overall management of the project. - Sandra Fauconnier <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SandraF_(WMF)> (known as Spinster <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Spinster> in her volunteer capacity) is the new Community Liaison. She will support the collaboration between the communities (Commons, Wikidata, GLAM) and the product development teams at the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland. - We have open positions for a UX designer <https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/673916> and a Product Manager <https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/609403>! Talking with communities and allies - Long-term feedback from GLAMs. Besides the Wikimedia community, many external cultural and knowledge institutions (GLAMs - Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) are interested in Structured Data on Commons and are willing to provide feedback on the long-term plans for the project. Alex Stinson <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Astinson_(WMF)>, GLAM strategist at the Wikimedia Foundation, is currently in contact with Europeana, DPLA, the Smithsonian and the National Archives of the United States. Alex is also looking for other GLAM institutions who might be able to advise on the long term. If you know of an institution or partner that may be appropriate for consultation, do get in touch with Alex. - Jonathan Morgan <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JMorgan_(WMF)>, design researcher, is starting to work on two projects: - Researching batch upload workflows <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Supporting_Commons_contribution_by…> by interviewing GLAM institutions - Researching the enrichment, organization and improvement tasks on already uploaded media files by engaging with active Commons contributors. This research follows up on existing research by Wikimedia Deutschland <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/file:HeavyCommonsUserQualitativeResearch…> on heavy Commons users. What comes next? - The Structured Data on Commons team meets in the week after Wikimania to lay the groundwork for the next steps. This includes new backend development and design work, for better and more clear integration of the structured data in pages on Wikimedia Commons. - The project's information pages on Wikimedia Commons will receive a long overdue update in the upcoming months. The team will also work on more and better communication channels. Feedback, wishes and tips are welcome at the project's general talk page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data>. Get involved - Join us at Wikimania <https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania>! We are present at the hackathon, and there will be a session on Saturday, August 12: Structured Commons: what changes are coming? <https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Structured_Commons:_wh…> - Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/ <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/> - Subscribe to this newsletter <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Structured_…> to receive it on a talk page of your own choice. - Do you want to help out translating messages about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Structured_Data_on_Commons/Newsletter/Trans…> . - Stay tuned for requests for input, discussion and participation as soon as the info portal is refreshed (see above). These will also be announced via this newsletter. -- Sandra Fauconnier Community Liaison for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data>, Wikimedia Foundation sfauconnier(a)wikimedia.org

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Wikidata I/O showcase at Repository Fringe 2017
by MCANDREW Ewan 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

*Apologies for cross posting* Dear Colleagues, With only three weeks to go until Repository Fringe 2017 takes place at the John McIntyre Centre at the University of Edinburgh on 3 & 4 August, registrations are filling up fast and we have a packed programme which will hopefully pique your interest! Registration closes on 28 July so make sure you register now at: http://www.epay.ed.ac.uk/conferences-events/information-services/informatio… We have a really exciting programme lined up this year with a range of topics including: · Kathleen Shearer, COAR - Raising our game - repositioning repositories as the foundation for sustainable scholarly communication · Paul Ayris, UCL - The Empires of the Future are the Empires of the Mind’ [Winston Churchill]: Defining the Role of Libraries in the Open Science Landscape · Chris Banks, Imperial College - Focusing upstream: supporting scholarly communication by academics · Ewan McAndrew, University of Edinburgh & Navino Evans, Histropedia - Wikidata I/O Showcase Programme Hot Pick - Wikidata Showcase This Wikidata event at Repo Fringe is scheduled for 1pm to 3.15pm on Friday 4th August. It will be split into two main segments. Part 1: Adding data to Wikidata: the Wikidata hackathon The first session, from 1pm to 2.30pm, will focus on how to add data to Wikidata so this will include a short intro to what Wikidata is before looking at how individual items of data can be added to and, importantly, backed up with references as part of a data hackathon. Part 2: Querying and visualising Wikidata The second session, 2.30pm to 3.15pm, will look at how the data in Wikidata can be consumed, queried and visualised; whether it’s Voltaire’s works, the collections of the National Library of Wales, an analysis of MPs’ occupations or the 3 million linked citations visualised using the new Scholia tool. In addition to these sessions we are also running a SPARQL workshop from 9.30am-10.30am on Friday morning. Find out more about our programme at: http://rfringe17.blogs.edina.ac.uk/programme/ 2017 marks the 10th Repo Fringe where we will be celebrating progress we have made over the last 10 years in sharing content beyond borders and debating future trends and challenges. We look forward to seeing you in August! Kind regards, 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.

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