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
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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 27/029/42207.
Dear Mr. or Ms.,
I thank you for your efforts.
Want to share and discuss your Wikimedia experience with African community? Need to have African volunteers involved in your Wikimedia project? Like to explain useful ideas and knowledge to African wikimedians?
It is time to do that. In fact, you can easily do that by submitting a proposal to WikiIndaba 2018 in https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. If you need to have a full or partial scholarship to attend this conference, you can apply to it in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Scholarships. Please keep in mind that you have to submit your proposal and apply for the conference scholarship before or in January 15th, 2018.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki
Hello all,
On January 9th, Wikidata will be moved to a dedicated server, in order to
allow more resources for the project, due to its growth. (ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181645>)
In order to do this move in good conditions, Wikidata will be in *read-only
mode on January 9th, from 06:00 UTC to 06:30 UTC*. (For some places in the
world, it will be January 8th: you can check with your time zone here
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20180109T060000&p…>).
During approximately half an hour, humans and bots will be able to read
Wikidata, but not to edit it.
Thanks for your understanding,
--
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,
[sorry for cross-posting!]
The first international conference dedicated to the Wikidata community took
place in Berlin, in October 2017. The organizing team is very happy to
share with you the report of this event:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMDE/WikidataCon/Report
In this document, we share a brief overview of the conference, its program
and outcomes, our lessons learned, and we focus on two topics that we found
really important for the organization of such an event: inclusiveness and
documentation.
We hope that you enjoy reading this document as much as we enjoyed
preparing it.
You may wonder now, what are the next steps for WikidataCon? As announced
at the end of the 2017 edition, *WikidataCon will return in October 2019*,
scaled up and improved to welcome even more Wikidata enthusiasts to share
knowledge and appreciation.
In 2018, we encourage the local communities who would like to spread the
word about Wikidata to organize their own event for the *6th birthday of
Wikidata*. We would love to see a multilingual, multicultural,
decentralized but connected event happening all around the world for this
occasion. Each local group, chapter or individual willing to organize
something can already write about their project on this page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday
You will also find some examples of event formats, documentation about how
to organize a Wikidata workshop, and how to request funding.
Wikimedia Deutschland will take care of the overall communication, and some
logistical support.
We’re very excited about celebrating a new year of Wikidata all around the
world!
If you have any question or idea, feel free to reach out to me.
For the WikidataCon organizing team,
--
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.
[Apologies for cross-posting.]
Hi all,
The 5th annual Wiki Workshop [1] will take place in Lyon on April 24, 2018
and as part of The Web Conference 2018 (a.k.a. WWW2018) [2]. Please find
the call for papers at the end of this email. A lot of you on this list do
research and development in Wikidata and it would be great to receive your
submissions to the workshop. You have the option of going with proceedings
or no-proceedings when submitting, please check the corresponding dates in
the call for paper.
Best,
Leila, on behalf of the organizers [3]
[1] http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/
[2] https://www2018.thewebconf.org/
[3] http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/#organization
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Leila Zia
Senior Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
Wiki Workshop 2018
Held at *The Web Conference 2018* (a.k.a. WWW 2018) in Lyon, France, on
April 24, 2018
Workshop webpage:
http://wikiworkshop.org/2018
<https://wikiworkshop.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7e5176ab70f01e2a3c…>
KEY DATES
If authors want paper to appear in proceedings:
- Submission deadline: *January 28, 2018*
- Author feedback: February 14, 2018
- Camera-ready version due: March 4, 2018
If authors *do not* want paper to appear in proceedings:
- Submission deadline: *March 11, 2018*
- Author feedback: March 25, 2018
Please see workshop webpage
<https://wikiworkshop.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7e5176ab70f01e2a3c…>
for formatting and submission instructions.
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, a main source of
knowledge for a large fraction of Internet users, and one of the very few
projects that make not only their content but also many activity logs
available to the public. Furthermore, other Wikimedia projects, such as
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, have been created to share other types of
knowledge with the world for free. For a variety of reasons (quality and
quantity of content, reach in many languages, process of content
production, availability of data, etc.) such projects have become important
objects of study for researchers across many subfields of the computational
and social sciences, such as social network analysis, artificial
intelligence, linguistics, natural language processing, social psychology,
education, anthropology, political science, human–computer interaction, and
cognitive science.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers exploring all
aspects of Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Commons.
With members of the Wikimedia Foundation's Research team on the organizing
committee and with the experience of successful workshops in 2015
<https://wikiworkshop.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7e5176ab70f01e2a3c…>,
2016
<https://wikiworkshop.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7e5176ab70f01e2a3c…>,
and 2017
<https://wikiworkshop.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d7e5176ab70f01e2a3c…>,
we aim to continue facilitating a direct pathway for exchanging ideas
between the organization that coordinates Wikimedia projects and the
researchers interested in studying them.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
- new technologies and initiatives to grow content, quality, diversity,
and participation across Wikimedia projects
- use of bots, algorithms, and crowdsourcing strategies to curate,
source, or verify content and structured data
- bias in content and gaps of knowledge
- diversity of Wikimedia editors and users
- detection of low-quality, promotional, or fake content, as well as
fake accounts (e.g., sock puppets)
- questions related to community health (e.g., sentiment analysis,
harassment detection)
- understanding editor motivations, engagement models, and incentives
- Wikimedia consumer motivations and their needs: readers, researchers,
tool/API developers
- innovative uses of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for AI and
NLP applications
- consensus-finding and conflict resolution on editorial issues
- participation in discussions and their dynamics
- dynamics of content reuse across projects and the impact of policies
and community norms on reuse
- privacy
- collaborative content creation (unstructured, semi-structured, or
structured)
- innovative uses of Wikimedia projects' content and consumption
patterns as sensors for real-world events, culture, etc.
- open-source research code, datasets, and tools to support research on
Wikimedia contents and communities
Papers should be 1 to 8 pages long and will be published on the workshop
webpage and optionally (depending on the authors' choice) in the workshop
proceedings. Authors whose papers are accepted to the workshop will have
the opportunity to participate in a poster session.
We explicitly encourage the submission of preliminary work in the form of
extended abstracts (1 or 2 pages).
ORGANIZATION
Robert West, EPFL
Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation
Dario Taraborelli, Wikimedia Foundation
Jure Leskovec, Stanford University
CONTACT
Please direct your questions to wikiworkshop(a)googlegroups.com